Recaps

Qu Jianlei escaped Planet Three’s restrictions and confronted the forces targeting him over Kushnier’s death and the suspected super AI. After Daisyth’s murder and a massacre intensified the pressure, he exposed the Anti-Smuggling Department’s conduct and forced Camille to reconsider Briz’s commission.

• Qu Jianlei escaped Planet Three disguised as a City Garrison soldier, but a Great War Zone Restriction Order later blocked his departure until Baldy and Fang Cao helped him leave.
• Anti-Smuggling officers tried to confiscate Qu Jianlei’s Vortex aboard a starship, but Heroic Sister and his Special Advisor credentials forced them to return it.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Daisyth had arranged the starship inspection and pressured him, then followed Daisyth until Daisyth was killed by Sharpness.
• The Fourth Boss apologized for killing Daisyth and told Qu Jianlei that his group had hired the sniper who attacked him, while Qu Jianlei asked him to investigate the original order behind the inspection.
• After Daisyth’s family and their guards were massacred, Qu Jianlei obtained footage of the killers and learned that Cleaners from Briz were responsible.
• Qu Jianlei released footage of the Anti-Smuggling Squad searching his starship, turning public opinion against the department as Xiao Hu traced Briz’s contacts to Bida Freight and other companies.
• At Adventurer’s Home, Camille admitted that Bida Freight had commissioned Briz to obtain Qu Jianlei’s suspected super AI and had bribed Daisyth to trouble him.
• Qu Jianlei warned Camille that Bida was using Briz as a shield and that mistreating Heltman could provoke a wider conflict, prompting Camille to agree to abandon the commission.

Qu Jianlei retaliated against Bida Freight and the Qingfeng Merchant Guild after they abducted Xiang Xue and pursued information tied to Kushnier. He poisoned Supreme Fahim during an attempted capture, then escaped as Fahim’s condition became critical.

• Qu Jianlei forced Camille to provide compensation and intelligence, then enlisted Heltman to pressure Bida Freight over its role in the Daisyth affair.
• Qu Jianlei captured Aaron’s and McGillern’s families, but Xiang Xue was kidnapped in retaliation, leading him to join the Grave Robbers in attacking Bida’s cargo ships.
• Bida released Xiang Xue after the attacks disrupted its freight operations, and Aaron met Qu Jianlei, handed him a recorded warning about Kushnier, and self-destructed.
• Camille traced Aaron’s contacts to the Qingfeng Merchant Guild, and Qu Jianlei attacked its Repair Shop, killing Comet and several other fighters before escaping underground.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Supremes Emestina and Fahim were coming to Fourth Star, left the academy, and watched them investigate the guild’s ruined site.
• Fahim entered Qu Jianlei’s courtyard to capture him, but Qu Jianlei poisoned and attacked him before escaping into a river when a Guardian Supreme intervened.
• Bushang and Emestina found Fahim suffering from a toxin that rapidly worsened his condition, while investigators discovered the poison had also damaged plants at Qu Jianlei’s courtyard.

Qu Jianlei pursued Fahim and the Qingfeng Merchant Guild while evading the Anti-Smuggling Department and exposing its ties to Space Pirates. After killing Fahim and returning to Second Star, he refused reconciliation and challenged the Agricultural Academy’s request for his poison formula.

• Bushang backed Panda against Emestina’s demands, while Qu Jianlei emerged from the river and accepted that he must face the consequences of his actions.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Abundance, attacked the Anti-Smuggling Department, stole equipment and a Smart Terminal, and killed officers who had insulted Panda after the department issued a warrant for him.
• Qu Jianlei traced Fahim to Airport Hospital, infiltrated the ward, poisoned and fatally wounded him, then killed a Qingfeng Awakened One before escaping.
• Emestina refused to let Fourth Star take Fahim’s body, while Xiang Xue and investigators uncovered evidence that Erwin, formerly Bassam, had colluded with Space Pirates.
• Xiao Hu spread posts exposing Erwin’s ties, and the Anti-Smuggling Department struggled to suppress them before making its wanted order internal and targeting Panda alone.
• Qu Jianlei continued striking Qingfeng’s remaining groups, killed an Anti-Smuggling Department deputy who planned to report him, and rejected an easy reconciliation despite Bida’s offer of money.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Second Star, visited the Old City Library, and told Old Lady Jia that he had taken Kushnier’s Qi Gathering Array.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Bida Freight’s invitation and Qingfeng’s overtures, then demanded to know why the Agricultural Academy expected him to hand over his poison formula and production details.

Qu Jianlei fled a crackdown in the Hope Star Region, struck at the Qingfeng Merchant Guild and its allies, and escaped to Tianrui Star. There, he took a false identity and joined the Luo Family’s defense, where he revealed his skill against enemy mechas.

• Qu Jianlei negotiated a pesticide research deal with Green Water Academy, met its Old Dean, and agreed to consider supervising students on a Mineral Star internship.
• After Camille warned that Hoyer’s arrest put Qu Jianlei and his companions in danger, Qu Jianlei prepared to leave while arranging toxin deliveries for Xiang Xue and the Grave Robbers.
• Qu Jianlei attacked Qingfeng Merchant Guild sites in Jiuchuan, killed several members, and learned that one of the dead had been a Space Pirate officially presumed dead decades earlier.
• As Supremes and authorities searched for him, Qu Jianlei retaliated against Tomorrow Company, then hid in Jiuchuan Academy until he could slip away with an internship group headed for the Skyhook Star Region.
• Qu Jianlei stowed away aboard a starship, reached Tianrui Star, and learned how Ability Warriors used roadside signals to find work.
• Qu Jianlei took a bodyguard job with the Luo Family under the alias Burst Arrow, then joined Rein and Shi Zhu at a fortified industrial district protecting a tainted witness.
• When enemy mechas attacked from the south and northeast, Qu Jianlei held his fire until he could destroy two mechas with his Anti-Mecha Sniper Rifle.