Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing led the group up the spiral staircase while they avoided psychic interference devices, and Chan Ka-kui unexpectedly rejoined them after leaving the hospital. The team reached the second-floor platform, with Chan Ka-kui staggering up behind them despite the mental interference.

• Tony took Duan Shuiliu through a portal, and Yang Liqing followed to keep an eye on them.
• Shi Xiaoyan detected psychic interference, and Yan Shuangying destroyed the concealed emitters he could reach.
• Sing Sing used his Heavenly Eye to guide the group through the interference waves’ blind spots while Yan Shuangying shot the devices blocking their path.
• Chan Ka-kui contacted Sing Sing through the tactical earpieces and said he had discharged himself from the hospital and used Magik’s portal to get there.
• Chan Ka-kui staggered up the stairs against the psychic interference and rejoined the team on the second-floor platform.

Shi Xiaoyan confirmed that Chan Ka-kui had recovered enough to fight, and the team reached the cultivation platform where Miss Sinister confronted them. Sing Sing challenged her experiments and defended the bureau’s treatment of Mutants, ending by asking whether she had provided her workers with insurance.

• Shi Xiaoyan examined Chan Ka-kui and found that his self-repair was about three times faster than an ordinary person’s, while he insisted he could still fight.
• Sing Sing led the now eight-person team up the final staircase to the core platform, where they found Miss Sinister beside the main cultivation apparatus and guarded by two armored brutes.
• Miss Sinister accused the bureau of confining recruited Mutants in a different kind of cage, while Sing Sing cited Jacqueline’s stolen gene and Bora’s broken promise as evidence of her abuses.
• Miss Sinister argued that Mutants should not be judged by ordinary human morality and that genetic evolution mattered more than paychecks or pensions.
• Sing Sing defended the bureau’s benefits, including Five Insurances and One Housing Fund, and asked Miss Sinister whether she had paid medical or work-injury insurance for her workers.

Sing Sing confronted Miss Sinister over the Silver Peak Consortium’s exploitation of Mutants while his allies fought off her guards. Miss Sinister started the ultimate living weapon’s activation, leaving the group with ninety seconds before it emerged.

• Sing Sing accused Miss Sinister and the Silver Peak Consortium of exploiting Christopher Muse and other Mutants.
• Miss Sinister unleashed a powerful psychic shockwave, and Shi Xiaoyan, Xu Xi, and Li Ding'an struggled to resist it.
• Yan Shuangying and Yang Jianhua killed one armored guard, while Chan Ka-kui and Ma Jun killed the other.
• Miss Sinister activated the ultimate living weapon, and a ninety-second countdown began as the nutrient fluid drained from its cultivation device.

Miss Sinister tried to escape while the group attacked her and discovered that Sing Sing had locked down the space. Yang Jianhua identified a brief weakness in Miss Sinister’s ability to use multiple powers, and the group prepared to exploit it.

• Chan Ka-kui mocked Miss Sinister while Lao Zhou threw a talisman that spread crimson-gold light across the platform.
• Sing Sing blocked Miss Sinister’s teleportation, and Shi Xiaoyan, Yan Shuangying, Ma Jun, and Li Ding'an attacked her.
• Miss Sinister softened her body to withstand Ma Jun and Li Ding'an’s attacks, then struck back with psychic shockwaves.
• Yang Jianhua redirected Miss Sinister’s metal projectiles, while Sing Sing protected the group from her wide-area blast.
• Yang Jianhua noticed that the red mark on Miss Sinister’s forehead dimmed when she used psychic control and telekinesis together.
• Sing Sing told the group to focus and drew his Pig Butchering Knife so they could cut Miss Sinister’s power.

Yang Jianhua's team coordinated attacks to overwhelm Miss Sinister, using Sing Sing's glue to disrupt her defenses and let Li Ding'an wound her. As Li Ding'an moved in to finish her, a giant figure emerged from the shattered metal sphere and seized his blade.

• Yang Jianhua explained that the team needed to force Miss Sinister to use her liquefaction, telekinesis, and psychic blast at the same time, and the fighters launched a coordinated assault.
• Xu Xi tore open Miss Sinister's electric net while Ma Jun, Li Ding'an, Yan Shuangying, Shi Xiaoyan, and Yang Jianhua attacked from different directions.
• Sing Sing threw Wenxi-brand super 502 glue onto Miss Sinister's face, forcing her to divert most of her psychic storm to blast him away.
• Xu Xi disrupted Miss Sinister's liquefied form, allowing Li Ding'an to slash her, and Chan Ka-kui struck her into the incubation device.
• Li Ding'an charged to finish Miss Sinister, but the metal sphere burst open and a barefoot giant emerged from the mist, grabbing and cracking his broken blade.

Yan Shuangying identified the test subject’s chest core as the key to controlling its fused abilities and used a curving bullet to wound it. As the test subject attacked the group, Xu Xi deflected its bone blade, leaving the fatal bullet hole exposed to Yan Shuangying.

• Miss Sinister introduced the Silver Peak Consortium’s test subject, which had twelve fused mutant abilities, and ordered it to attack the group.
• Yan Shuangying noticed that the test subject’s chest core and Miss Sinister’s forehead mark dimmed whenever its abilities changed, and he shot through a gap in its shifting bone armor.
• Sing Sing used his Heavenly Eye to locate Ling Ling’er’s bullet lodged beside the test subject’s third thoracic vertebra, revealing the core’s control pathway.
• Miss Sinister ordered the test subject to kill everyone, and it transformed its arms into a vibrating bone blade and a plasma cannon while she blocked escape routes with telekinetic chains.
• Xu Xi deflected the test subject’s bone blade away from Yang Jianhua and Shi Xiaoyan, injuring his palms but exposing the fatal bullet hole in its back to Yan Shuangying.

Yan Shuangying, Sing Sing, and the others defeated the test subject and destroyed its core, triggering a struggle between Miss Sinister and the personality within her. As Miss Sinister tried to escape, Sing Sing sealed the rift and struck her with the Tathagata Divine Palm.

• Yan Shuangying overwhelmed the test subject with an endless barrage of bullets, severing its main nerve trunk and shutting down its core.
• Sing Sing and Li Ding'an carved up the fallen test subject, while Yang Jianhua deflected Miss Sinister's metal attacks despite being wounded.
• Sing Sing tore the artificial core from the test subject's chest and crushed it, causing Miss Sinister to collapse as the personality inside her taunted her.
• Miss Sinister tried to escape through a spatial rift, but Sing Sing used his last Space-Sealing Talisman to close it and severed her right hand.
• Sing Sing unleashed the Tathagata Divine Palm, Heavenly Buddha's Descent, engulfing Miss Sinister in a giant golden palm.

Sing Sing and the others defeated Miss Sinister after their combined attacks disrupted her psychic assault, and Hu Yingying arrived with emergency responders to treat the wounded. Fourth Master then emerged from the portal, where Sing Sing greeted him while lying on the ground.

• Miss Sinister unleashed her remaining power in a purple-black pillar and sent a psychic spike at Sing Sing.
• Li Ding'an, Yang Jianhua, Xu Xi, Chan Ka-kui, Ma Jun, and Yan Shuangying attacked Miss Sinister, distracting her and causing the red crystal on her forehead to go dark.
• Sing Sing crushed Miss Sinister's pillar with his palm imprint, shattered the crystal, and stabbed her through the heart with the Pig Butchering Knife.
• Miss Sinister disintegrated into ashes as Sing Sing and the other seven survivors collapsed and joked about their work-injury compensation.
• Hu Yingying arrived with emergency responders and ordered them to treat the wounded.
• Fourth Master walked through the portal, and Sing Sing greeted him from the ground.

Ling Ling Si and Christopher treated the injured members of the 749 Bureau with traditional medicine and healing energy at the bureau hospital. After repairing Sing Sing’s damaged meridians, they left him recovering while he complained about the bitter medicine.

• Ling Ling Si arrived at the injured team and used medicinal vapors to ease their pain before Hu Yingying arranged their transfer to the bureau hospital.
• Christopher scolded Chan Ka-kui for leaving the hospital with broken ribs, but Ling Ling Si gave Christopher a pill to prepare for the patients.
• Ling Ling Si and Christopher treated Xu Xi’s injuries together, then repaired the wounds and internal damage of the other injured team members.
• Ling Ling Si examined Sing Sing and explained that his meridians had been damaged when he used Heavenly Buddha's Descent.
• Ling Ling Si forced Sing Sing to swallow a Marrow-Washing Bitter Gall Pill, and Christopher helped its medicinal power restore Sing Sing’s meridians.
• Sing Sing recovered and asked Christopher to help persuade Ling Ling Si to make his pills sweeter.

After the overseas operation, Uncle Biao approved generous compensation and leave for the injured team, while Da Vinci and Jiang Si argued over a recovered neural core and equipment repairs. The captives and field teams returned safely, and Cao Dahua’s exaggerated account of the battle ended with Sing Sing confiscating his cigarettes for the injured heroes.

• Uncle Biao signed off on special-class injury compensation, doubled hospital meal allowances, and seven days of paid leave for the overseas team.
• Da Vinci and Jiang Si fought over who would get the neural core until Sing Sing divided its biological and mechanical components between Wenxi and Jiang Si.
• Jiang Si and Da Vinci proposed upgrades for Li Ding'an's saber, Big Bear's mechanical arm, and Shi Xiaoyan's umbrella.
• Hu Yingying announced that the field teams had cleared the scene and returned the captives safely, as Cao Dahua and Ueda Kenji arrived at the ward.
• Chan Ka-kui exposed Cao Dahua's boast about the Detroit battle, and Ueda Kenji humorously described Cao's fall and thermos as part of a tactical maneuver.
• Sing Sing told Cao Dahua to submit a polished report for a possible second-class merit, then confiscated his two packs of Zhonghua for the injured team.

News reports blamed Park Gukchang for Silver Peak Biotechnology’s destruction and announced the collapse of its empire, while people harmed by the consortium learned they were finally free of it. The chapter ended with Polaris turning her thoughts toward Stryker and the agency’s allies preparing to welcome Director Zhou and his team home.

• The news reported that Silver Peak’s research bases had been destroyed, its assets frozen, and its subsidiaries had lost over 235 billion dollars in market value; Sing Sing objected when Park Gukchang was named as the criminal leader.
• Marcus told Leo that Silver Peak had been wiped out, and the two celebrated that nobody could lock bomb collars on them again.
• Riptide told Anton that Silver Peak was gone and invited him to climb the Great Wall, while Anton worried about what would happen next.
• Soft Serve Amy told Polaris that Director Zhou and his team had destroyed Silver Peak’s underground nerve center, and Polaris thought that only Stryker remained before heading to the cafeteria with Amy.
• Lao Mo and Sand Rat Miguel celebrated Silver Peak’s downfall, while Geggebu and Baobao planned to catch free-range chickens to make Director Zhou and his team a nourishing meal.

Sing Sing dressed himself as a battle-worn grandmaster for Snowbird’s call, only to be startled by Sasquatch, who described Alpha Flight’s deadly assault on Silver Peak’s Calgary bunker. Snowbird appeared on the call, and Sing Sing asked whether anyone had been captured and whether Logan and Silver Fox had joined her.

• Sing Sing put on a red robe and aviator sunglasses and answered Snowbird’s video call, but Sasquatch’s face filled the screen and startled him.
• Sasquatch told Sing Sing that Alpha Flight had fought three hunter mechs, laser-cannon corridors, and twenty-three Weapon X berserk subjects in Silver Peak’s Calgary bunker.
• Sasquatch said Snowbird had frozen the tunnel to save James and the team from being overwhelmed.
• Snowbird took the phone and spoke with Sing Sing, who asked if Alpha Flight had captured anyone alive and whether Logan and Silver Fox had met up with her.

Snowbird and Silver Fox reported that Alpha Flight and Logan had intercepted Silver Peak’s fleeing convoy and recovered vital data after the supervisor killed himself. With Calgary quarantined and Silver Peak’s network dismantled, Snowbird thanked Sing Sing and agreed to visit Beijing.

• Snowbird showed Sing Sing that Logan and Silver Fox had helped her team, and Silver Fox explained that they had intercepted three armored vehicles fleeing Calgary.
• Logan described tearing open one vehicle, while Sasquatch said the bald supervisor had bitten through a poison capsule and died before they could question him.
• Snowbird froze the case’s electronic lock to stop its self-destruct device, preserving three hard drives, and the team copied forty percent of the server’s outgoing data for the 749 Bureau.
• Sing Sing praised Daken’s border work and teased Logan about his son’s growing commitment to the 749 Bureau.
• Snowbird told Sing Sing that Calgary’s quarantine and cleanup would take months, thanked the 749 Bureau for its cooperation, and agreed to visit Beijing.

On his first day of paid leave, Sing Sing enjoyed his courtyard until Saeko Busujima arrived to check his injuries and tried to examine him. Their struggle was interrupted by Polaris, who entered the courtyard in a fury and aimed floating tools at Sing Sing.

• Sing Sing relaxed in his courtyard, celebrating his injury benefits and paid leave.
• Saeko Busujima arrived with food and explained that A Le had arranged her bureau pass.
• Saeko Busujima insisted on inspecting Sing Sing's injuries, and he tried to stop her from removing his bathrobe.
• Sing Sing and Saeko Busujima grappled in the rocking chair, disturbing objects with his alarmed reaction.
• Polaris entered with food and ginseng, glared at them, and directed a floating spade and watering can at Sing Sing.

Sing Sing tried to explain Saeko Busujima’s presence to Lorna, but the two women’s argument escalated into a clash of magnetic power and sword intent. As they prepared to fight in his courtyard, Sing Sing faked a sudden collapse to stop them.

• Sing Sing dodged Saeko Busujima’s hand and secured his bathrobe before greeting Lorna, who had returned to Beijing and thrown a shovel past his head.
• Lorna accused Sing Sing and Saeko of disguising an intimate encounter as official work, while Saeko defended her care for her master and challenged Lorna’s manners.
• Lorna listed her scientific credentials and accused Saeko of using foreign gifts to corrupt Sing Sing, prompting Saeko to take up her wooden sword.
• Lorna unleashed an electromagnetic storm as Saeko’s sword intent filled the courtyard, threatening to destroy Sing Sing’s home.
• Sing Sing secretly struck his own acupoints, sprayed blood from his mouth, and collapsed while crying that he could not go on.