Chapter Summaries

As the teams prepared for a dangerous raid, Christopher explained how the Ivy League Student Aid Fund and American credit systems had pushed him into homelessness after he awakened a Mutant Gene. Sing Sing promised that the country would protect Mutants and said the armies would march across the ocean on four fronts the following night.

• Director Wang ordered every team to prepare and assemble at Number One Square at seven thirty the next evening.
• Jiang Si handed out sabers while Da Vinci distributed improvised self-defense thermoses and tonic pills, warning everyone about their effects.
• Christopher told Sing Sing and the others that elite-school scholarships depended more on family background and ZIP code than test scores, and that the Ivy League Student Aid Fund targeted students excluded from aid.
• Christopher recounted how an anonymous report about his Mutant Gene cost him his internship, credit, home, and access to legitimate work.
• Lin Xiaoyu described how debt, medical costs, employment-based insurance, and credit scoring could strip ordinary people of their livelihoods, while Christopher said Mutants faced even worse treatment.
• Sing Sing assured Christopher that the country would shield him and declared that the armies would set out across the ocean on four fronts the next night.

The 749 Bureau sent several teams through portals to North America to attack their targets. Cao Dahua, Storm, and Ueda Kenji entered an abandoned Michigan salt mine, where a trap sealed them in and left Storm overwhelmed by a hallucinogen that revived her childhood trauma.

• At 749 Bureau headquarters, Sing Sing handed out protective talismans, while Director Wang urged the teams to fight the vampires and call for extraction if necessary.
• Jacqueline dragged Gambit Remy into a portal, and Ling Ling'er, Ling Ling Liu, and Ling Ling Qi led their teams through separate passages.
• Cao Dahua, Storm, and Ueda Kenji entered an abandoned salt mine near Detroit, where Cao Dahua bragged about his experience leading raids.
• Heavy gates sealed the mine chamber, poison mist poured in, and the walls began closing around the team.
• Ueda Kenji braced against a moving wall as Storm inhaled the hallucinogen and collapsed, reliving the memory of her parents' deaths.

Cao Dahua and Ueda Kenji tried to protect the powerless Storm from Ghoul as the walls closed in around them. A thermos explosion opened a hole to the outside and helped Storm recover, leaving her ready to fight Ghoul.

• Ghoul revealed himself as the Mutant killer and attacked Storm with X-Ray Shockwaves.
• Ueda Kenji transformed his arm into biomechanical armor and shielded Storm, but Ghoul teleported behind him and blasted him into a wall.
• Cao Dahua dragged Storm away, then emptied his gun at Ghoul before hurling a thermos packed with explosive fermented sour bamboo shoot concentrate.
• Ghoul's shockwave detonated the thermos, coating him in scalding sour bamboo shoot broth and blasting a hole through the ceiling.
• Cold Michigan air and the stench jolted Storm out of her fear, and she thanked Cao Dahua before saying she would take over.

Storm, Ueda Kenji, and Cao Dahua defeated Ghoul in the mine and prepared to investigate what lay below. At the Silver Peak Consortium’s secret dock, Dust Angel, Riptide, and Li Hongqi broke through the mercenary defenses, but Dust Angel was left vulnerable to a poisoned harpoon.

• Storm trapped Ghoul’s teleportation with help from Ueda Kenji and struck him with lightning until he fell charred and unconscious.
• Cao Dahua took credit for the victory and urged Ueda Kenji to praise his command in the report.
• Storm blasted apart the mine walls so the group could investigate the secrets below.
• Dust Angel, Riptide, and Li Hongqi overwhelmed the mercenaries at the smuggling dock and broke into the freighter.
• A red-haired Inuit man threw a harpoon at Dust Angel, and Riptide failed to deflect it before it came within three meters of her.

Li Hongqi, Dust Angel, and Riptide defeated eight Clone Stingers at an East Coast dock, but Ma Jun urgently called for reinforcements in Chicago, where a feline beast-woman had overpowered Colossus. The chapter left the Chicago team facing the still-standing attacker.

• Li Hongqi saved Dust Angel from a Disintegration Harpoon and gave her a ginseng tonic pill.
• Riptide unleashed a supersonic storm of bone shards that disrupted the eight Clone Stingers’ attack.
• Li Hongqi boarded the radar tower and disabled all eight clones in close combat.
• Dust Angel broke the tower in half, sending it and the clones crashing into the Atlantic.
• Li Hongqi began reporting the dock base’s clearance, but Ma Jun interrupted to call for reinforcements in Chicago.
• In an abandoned Chicago cathedral, a feline beast-woman stood over the wounded Colossus while Deadpool struggled with his twisted neck.

Ma Jun, Deadpool, and Colossus fought Anise inside a ruined church, where her speed and claws overwhelmed them until Ma Jun caught her and nearly restrained her. Anise broke free and injured Ma Jun and Colossus, but Deadpool finally knocked her out with a powerful electric stunner.

• Anise wounded Colossus and taunted the group while Deadpool tried to distract her with jokes.
• Ma Jun anticipated Anise's leap, struck her with a knee, and used close-range strikes and a shoulder throw to break her forearm and pin her.
• Anise tore her shoulder free to escape, slashed Ma Jun, and severed Colossus's mechanical arm as he tried to stop her.
• Ma Jun shot Anise several times and prepared to fight her again after she recovered and charged.
• Deadpool stunned Anise with a Ten-Thousand-Volt Electric Fish Stunner, leaving her charred and unconscious.

Ma Jun and his companions faced the Game Master, whose psychic powers overwhelmed Colossus and attacked Deadpool. Deadpool’s chaotic mind reversed the psychic link and began destroying the Game Master, leaving him unable to escape the flood of internet comments and memes.

• Ma Jun tried to cuff Anise, but the Game Master appeared in the church and announced his power over humanity’s thoughts.
• Ma Jun shot at the Game Master and warned Colossus to search for a signal box, but the Game Master’s psychic attack made Colossus strike Ma Jun.
• The Game Master poured a torrent of thoughts into Deadpool’s mind, believing he had destroyed Deadpool’s consciousness.
• Deadpool recovered, mocked the attack, and revealed that his mind was already crowded with commentators and readers’ bullet comments.
• The Game Master tried to read Deadpool’s memories, but the psychic connection reversed and flooded his own mind with chaotic memes, comments, and nonsense.

Ma Jun and Colossus defeated the Game Master's mental control at the Chicago Cathedral base, while Deadpool remained behind to taunt the villain. In New Orleans, Jacqueline, Gambit, and Yang Jianhua confronted Bloodlust, who revealed the preserved skin of Jacqueline's former identity and provoked her into transforming.

• Deadpool overwhelmed the Game Master's mind with bizarre taunts, allowing Ma Jun to regain control and locate the signal amplifier.
• Ma Jun destroyed the amplifier, making the Game Master vanish, and Colossus recovered his senses as they captured Deadpool.
• Yang Jianhua, Gambit, and Jacqueline entered the Silver Peak Consortium's underground plant, where Jacqueline fought to manage her traumatic memories.
• Bloodlust mocked Jacqueline about her torture and claimed that Jacqueline was still the same person despite her new body.
• Bloodlust knocked over a specimen rack, revealing the preserved skin of Jacob's face, and Jacqueline's muscles began to swell as she stared at it.

Jacqueline, Yang Jianhua, and Gambit defeated Bloodlust, but the wrecked vault door revealed Bora, who unleashed an Arctic storm on them. Jacqueline was frozen in ice as Bora trapped the group in her deadly performance.

• Jacqueline smashed Bloodlust's claws with her bare fist, while Yang Jianhua cut Bloodlust's tendons and disabled her legs.
• Gambit hurled explosive kinetic cards at Bloodlust, and Jacqueline slammed her through the vault door, killing her.
• Yang Jianhua warned the others that something was wrong beyond the door, and Bora emerged from the darkness.
• Gambit identified Bora as Angela Fedorova and warned that she could open a spatial gate to the Arctic during polar night.
• Bora opened a rift to the Arctic and filled the underground cavern with freezing wind and ice blades, freezing Jacqueline solid.

Yang Jianhua, Jacqueline, and Gambit defeated Bora after she unleashed an Arctic storm, then restrained her and prepared to move on. Jacqueline kept a jar containing her severed body part as a memento while the team hurried toward the other locations.

• Bora attacked Gambit and Jacqueline with ice blades, explaining that her awakened X-Gene had ended her ballet career and driven her to freeze the world.
• Yang Jianhua deflected Bora’s attacks while Jacqueline broke free from the ice, then provoked Bora into escalating her assault.
• Yang Jianhua used Tai Chi to gather Bora’s ice storm into a vortex and send its blades back at her.
• Gambit propelled Jacqueline into the air, and she struck Bora down, closing the spatial rift to the Arctic Circle.
• Yang Jianhua gave Gambit handcuffs to restrain Bora, while Jacqueline retrieved the jar and said she would keep it as a memento.
• Yang Jianhua led Gambit and Jacqueline into the darkness, warning that the bureau had likely closed the net at the other locations.

Chan Ka-kui, David, Hong Wubi, and Hua Xinwu breached the Silver Peak Consortium’s underground military workshop in the New Mexico desert and confronted its leader, John Greycrow, known as the Killer. The Killer activated a squad of Fourth-Generation Cleaners, leaving the four intruders facing an imminent fight.

• Chan Ka-kui planted Da Vinci’s explosives in the ventilation shaft, and the four agents descended into the workshop through the blasted opening.
• The group discovered a huge manufacturing facility filled with mechanical weapons and biological tissue, along with 120 mechanically modified humans.
• John Greycrow introduced himself as the Killer from the second-floor command platform, while Chan Ka-kui ordered him to surrender and joked about a sewing machine championship.
• David, Hua Xinwu, and Hong Wubi discussed how they would take down the Killer and questioned him about the Zero Gene Furnace.
• The Killer activated the Fourth-Generation Cleaners, and the modified humans rose from standby.

Chan Ka-kui, David, Hong Wubi, and Hua Xinwu destroyed the Killer’s 120 cyborg soldiers on the assembly line. The Killer then assembled a massive weapon from the wreckage and aimed it at Chan Ka-kui.

• Chan Ka-kui, David, Hong Wubi, and Hua Xinwu fought the mechanical soldiers with improvised tools and martial arts.
• Hong Wubi smashed several soldiers with a workbench, while David and Hua Xinwu disabled others with wrenches and precise strikes.
• Chan Ka-kui used a fire hose and industrial tape to bind fourteen soldiers into a bundle.
• The four fighters defeated all 120 mechanical soldiers within five minutes.
• The Killer combined scattered weapons and machine parts into a giant exoskeletal cannon and locked its aim on Chan Ka-kui.

Chan Ka-kui, Hua Xinwu, David, and Hong Wubi fought the Killer in the Zero Furnace workshop, suffering injuries as they tried to counter his magnetic control and heavy weapons. After Hua Xinwu identified the weakness in the Killer’s cannon support, the wounded group planned a final coordinated attack.

• Hua Xinwu pulled the Killer’s cannon off target, saving Chan Ka-kui from the thermobaric round, but the magnetic field snapped his cables and wounded him.
• The Killer turned a hydraulic wrench into blades that cut David’s leg, then assembled more weapons from scattered machine parts.
• Hong Wubi spilled insulating resin across the floor to trap the parts, but the Killer shot him with armor-piercing rounds as he charged.
• Chan Ka-kui dragged Hong Wubi into cover while David and Hua Xinwu took stock of their injuries and discussed the Killer’s heavy cannon.
• Hua Xinwu pointed out that disabling the exoskeleton’s right knee would stop the cannon from turning, and the four planned to draw the Killer toward the punch press for a combined attack.

Chan Ka-kui and his injured teammates used teamwork to trap and crush Killer beneath a stamping ram in the arms workshop outside Roswell. Chan Ka-kui reported the workshop secured and requested urgent medical help for the four incapacitated agents.

• Chan Ka-kui and Hua Xinwu used insulated crane cables to redirect Killer’s cannon, but the blast threw Chan Ka-kui into steel plates and Hua Xinwu onto a conveyor belt.
• David jammed a hydraulic jack into Killer’s knee gears, and Hong Wubi struck Killer into the base of a punch press.
• Chan Ka-kui reset his dislocated shoulder, bound Killer beneath the press with a conveyor belt, and activated the continuous stamping ram.
• The stamping ram repeatedly crushed Killer’s armor and body until he became scrap metal embedded in flesh.
• Chan Ka-kui contacted command to report the workshop secured and request medical teams for himself, Hua Xinwu, David, and Hong Wubi.

At the Silver Peak Consortium’s Roswell base, Duan Shuiliu dismissed the clone guards and ignored Yan Shuangying’s warning not to enter the hall. The Mind Stone Amplification Matrix seized on Duan Shuiliu’s arrogance and turned him against his teammates.

• Duan Shuiliu defeated a group of clone guards and boasted that the consortium’s forces were weak.
• Duan Shuiliu argued with Tony and insisted that he would handle the hall alone, while Yan Shuangying let him scout ahead.
• Yan Shuangying sensed a threat inside the hall and warned Duan Shuiliu to stop, but Duan Shuiliu crossed the threshold.
• The Mind Stone Amplification Matrix overwhelmed Duan Shuiliu with psychic whispers that fed his jealousy and arrogance.
• Duan Shuiliu turned on his teammates and swung his hand at Yang Liqing, vowing to kill them all.

Duan Shuiliu attacked Yang Liqing after revealing his plan to kill the team and seize control of the 749 Bureau, but Tony knocked him unconscious and Yang Liqing cuffed him. The Game Master appeared on the control room screens and threatened them with a beast tide, so Yan Shuangying bet his life against a silver coin and fired at the camera.

• Duan Shuiliu launched a series of lethal attacks on Yang Liqing and confessed he planned to blame the Silver Peak Consortium for killing the team and claim the bureau’s top seat.
• Tony ambushed Duan Shuiliu, battered him, and put him unconscious with an armbar and triangle choke.
• Yang Liqing cuffed Duan Shuiliu while Tony argued that he had held back and acted in self-defense.
• The Game Master appeared on the control room screens, threatened the group with a beast tide, and mocked Yan Shuangying for lacking an X-Gene.
• Yan Shuangying wagered that his gun could shoot through the screen and kill the Game Master, then drew his handgun and fired at the camera.

Yan Shuangying killed the Game Master by firing a high-energy pulse through the satellite connection, while Tony and Yang Liqing planned to disguise their colleague’s injuries in a report. At Yellowstone, Sing Sing and his team reached the central laboratory’s waste passage and were attacked by Miss Sinister’s Stitched Monster.

• Yan Shuangying’s experimental weapon sent an electric pulse through the camera’s satellite link and killed the Game Master in his Swiss fortress.
• Yang Liqing and Tony discussed how to explain their injured senior brother’s condition, and Yan Shuangying urged them to move on as the central mainframe went down.
• Sing Sing received updates that Jiaju and the others had dismantled the Death Valley workshops and Yan Shuangying had cut off the base’s remote brainwave source.
• Shi Xiaoyan explained that the passage behind the biohazard door led directly to the central laboratory, and Xu Xi pulled open the heavy titanium gate.
• A Stitched Monster charged the team and attacked with bone spears, claws, extreme cold, and corrosive venom.

Sing Sing, Xu Xi, Li Ding'an, and Shi Xiaoyan defeated a stitched biological watchdog in the waste disposal passage and learned that Miss Sinister had committed her main forces deeper inside. After confirming that the Game Master's true body had been killed, they approached a room filled with cultivation pods to confront Miss Sinister.

• Xu Xi deflected the monster's bone spears, while Li Ding'an cut off its acid-covered claws and Shi Xiaoyan shielded the group from its venom.
• Sing Sing used pungent medicinal cooling oil to disrupt the monster's freezing vapor and venom sprays, then shattered its three hearts with the Finger Snapping Skill.
• Sing Sing found a Silver Peak Consortium chip in the remains and inferred that the disposable watchdog was only three days old and that Miss Sinister's main forces were farther inside.
• Shi Xiaoyan reported that Yan Shuangying's side had confirmed the Game Master's true body was killed, leaving Miss Sinister without remote mental support.
• The four stepped through the ajar isolation door toward dozens of cultivation pods and prepared to confront Miss Sinister.

Xu Xi and his companions discovered Miss Sinister’s vast underground clone laboratory and confronted her beside a nearly complete genetic experiment. After Sing Sing mocked her costs and mental attack, Miss Sinister unleashed twelve rapidly mutating clones on the group.

• Xu Xi, Sing Sing, Shi Xiaoyan, and Li Ding'an entered a laboratory filled with clone pods and found a central incubation device at 91% genetic integration.
• Shi Xiaoyan checked the terminal while Sing Sing warned the others to avoid the fluid tubes, and Xu Xi spotted Miss Sinister atop the platform.
• Miss Sinister attacked the group with mental pressure, but Shi Xiaoyan’s umbrella and Sing Sing’s defenses helped them withstand it.
• Sing Sing mocked Miss Sinister’s attack and calculated the laboratory’s operating costs, arguing that her operation was a financial failure.
• Miss Sinister activated twelve incubation pods, releasing unfinished clones that mutated into monsters, then disappeared as they closed in.
• Sing Sing drew the Pig Butchering Knife and told his companions to get to work.

Xu Xi, Sing Sing, Shi Xiaoyan, and Li Ding'an defeated the clones in the Hive and learned to destroy their artificial cores. After the teams reported victories across the other sites, Yan Shuangying revealed that Miss Sinister remained above, and Sing Sing chose to lead everyone up the spiral staircase together.

• Xu Xi, Shi Xiaoyan, Li Ding'an, and Sing Sing fought the clones and discovered that breaking the artificial cores made them collapse.
• Yan Shuangying arrived with Tony, who had captured the gagged and battered Duan Shuiliu.
• Yang Liqing reported that the other teams had cleared their sites, killed or captured their targets, and sent their wounded back for treatment.
• Yan Shuangying said Miss Sinister had appeared on the top level and offered a direct attack or a flanking route.
• Sing Sing rejected the flanking route and led the group toward the spiral staircase, while ordering Duan Shuiliu sent back.