Recaps

He-El fell into the Indian Ocean in an ordinary adult body and struggled to swim toward a distant cargo ship as the cold and exhaustion took their toll. The ship’s crew spotted him and sent a speedboat to rescue him, intending to keep him alive because they considered him valuable cargo.

• He-El plunged into the sea and surfaced, realizing he was stranded in the Indian Ocean with only an ordinary adult body.
• He-El spotted a distant vessel and began swimming toward it, using what he knew to conserve energy and regulate his breathing.
• After an hour, He-El was dehydrated, injured, and exhausted, but he continued toward the vessel, which he recognized as a cargo ship.
• A scout on the cargo ship spotted He-El swimming and reported him to the captain.
• The captain ordered a speedboat to rescue He-El and told the crew to keep him alive.

He-El was rescued from the sea by Somali pirates who mistook him for valuable salvage. Deputy Commander Kundi ordered the crew to feed him and question him about his family’s assets, leaving He-El captive aboard their freighter.

• He-El stopped paddling when a speedboat approached, and the pirates hauled him aboard after he grabbed a life ring.
• He-El recognized the armed rescuers as Somali pirates and identified their weapons and language while pretending to be near death.
• Bao Mo slapped He-El, but another pirate warned him that the captain wanted the hostage kept alive.
• The pirates returned He-El to their modified freighter, warmed him with hot water, and gave him water to drink.
• Deputy Commander Kundi ordered the crew to feed He-El and later interrogate him about his family’s wealth.

He-El was locked in a foul-smelling cabin aboard a pirate ship, where he pretended to be weak while recovering from an hour in the seawater. He understood the Somali guards discussing his value as a hostage and their feud with the Merka faction, and quietly analyzed his situation.

• Two armed soldiers shoved He-El into a cabin and warned him to stay there.
• The soldiers tossed He-El two compressed ration biscuits, locked the door, and assumed he could not understand Somali.
• He-El ate the ration while regulating his breathing and muscles to recover his strength.
• The guards discussed how Young Marshal Kundi considered He-El valuable and how they might ransom or sell him.
• One guard complained that the Merka faction had stolen a fishing boat and extorted a 1.5 million dollar ransom.
• He-El listened to the guards and analyzed what he had learned about the pirates and their rival factions.

He-El was held captive by Somali pirates and tried to understand where he had landed, while the pirates demanded a ransom. He-El claimed his family controlled vast wealth and power, leaving the finance officer and translator stunned.

• He-El considered whether the universe had discovered his entry and sent him far from anything familiar.
• Yi Bao arrived with Bao Mo and ordered the terrified female university student to ask He-El whether his family could pay a ransom.
• He-El calmly claimed his family owned trillions in assets, had powerful government and military connections, and commanded a mercenary corps with cruise missiles.
• The female university student translated He-El’s claims, and Yi Bao and the others reacted in shock.

After He-El claimed to belong to a powerful, wealthy family, Bao Mo became fixated on the potential ransom while Finance Officer Yi Bao feared the pirates would face retaliation. Yi Bao went to seek Kundi’s instructions, and the chapter ended with Kundi arriving as Bao Mo brought He-El clean clothes.

• He-El’s claims about his family’s wealth and armed forces shocked Finance Officer Yi Bao and made Bao Mo imagine a huge ransom and commission.
• Finance Officer Yi Bao considered how the family or Somalia’s warlords could destroy the pirates and decided to ask Kundi what to do.
• Bao Mo asked He-El when he could pay the ransom, and He-El instead demanded clean clothes.
• Bao Mo fetched He-El a green field uniform, while Banner remained with He-El in the room.
• Finance Officer Yi Bao returned with Kundi.

He-El convinced Young Marshal Kundi that his family was powerful and agreed to pay the pirates’ demanded ten million dollars. As Bao Mo handed him a satellite phone, He-El snatched Bao Mo’s Browning HP pistol and prepared to kill.

• He-El put on the clothes Bao Mo had brought while Young Marshal Kundi arrived to question him.
• He-El asked Kundi how much money he wanted in exchange for better service.
• Young Marshal Kundi demanded ten million dollars, and He-El calmly agreed to pay.
• Kundi ordered payment arranged and Bao Mo handed He-El a satellite phone.
• He-El grabbed Bao Mo’s Browning HP pistol and aimed it at him.

He-El killed Bao Mo, Yi Bao, Young Marshal Kundi, and two soldiers, then armed himself with their weapons. He left the terrified girl alive and ordered her to pick up Bao Mo’s AK47.

• He-El shot Bao Mo and Yi Bao, then killed two soldiers who came to investigate the gunfire.
• He-El shot Young Marshal Kundi in the wrist and, after Kundi pleaded and offered ransom, killed him.
• He-El took the soldiers’ AK47s and a combat knife, preparing for more soldiers to arrive.
• He-El kicked Bao Mo’s AK47 toward the screaming girl and ordered her to pick it up.

He-El tried to turn a terrified captive into an armed ally as he fought through the Somali pirates’ cargo ship. The girl began suppressing the pirates with frantic gunfire while He-El dragged her onward.

• He-El ordered the shit-faced girl to take an AK47 and help free the hostages, but she was too terrified to move.
• He-El left her behind and killed six pirates who rushed around a corridor corner.
• When more pirates approached from behind, the girl blindly fired an empty magazine, frightening them into retreating while He-El shot them down.
• He-El gave the girl another AK47 and directed her to suppress pirates around the next bend.
• The girl screamed and sprayed gunfire at approaching pirates, driving them into cover as He-El killed enemies ahead and dragged her onward.

He-El rescued Zhang Huihui from the armed soldiers aboard the tanker and led her through the corridors. After she remembered where the other captives were held, they set out to fight their way back and save them.

• He-El used Zhang Huihui and an empty AK47 to lure soldiers around a corner, then killed six soldiers and asked her name.
• Zhang Huihui introduced herself, and He-El threw grenades at the soldiers gathering near the room where Young Marshal Kundi and Yi Bao had died.
• He-El led Zhang Huihui through the tanker while avoiding more armed soldiers, then stopped to ask where the hostages were being held.
• Zhang Huihui recalled the route to The Jail and told He-El that her friends and the fishermen were in the third cargo hold.
• He-El ordered Zhang Huihui to watch his back and shoot when needed, then led her toward the captives.

He-El and Zhang Huihui fought through the oil tanker’s corridors, killing armed men and reaching the cargo hold jail. Zhang Huihui armed the prisoners and her fellow students, then led them in battle, but recognized they had to retreat into the corridors to avoid being overwhelmed.

• He-El and Zhang Huihui fought through armed men in the corridors, collecting weapons and grenades as they advanced toward the cargo hold.
• Zhang Huihui reunited with Liao Chaomin and the imprisoned fishermen and students, then ordered them to take up AK47s.
• He-El and Zhang Huihui’s group suppressed the pirates with gunfire and grenades, while He-El killed attackers and destroyed a machine gun position.
• Zhang Huihui judged that their exposed position and limited ammunition would leave them vulnerable, and urged the group to fight from the narrow corridors instead.

He-El used a walkie-talkie and an altered voice to trick Somali soldiers into gathering at the cargo hold, then attacked them with an RPG-7 and grenades. Zhang Huihui led the hostages through the residential corridors, and they regrouped with He-El after driving off the remaining soldiers.

• He-El led Zhang Huihui and the others into the residential deck corridors while suppressing soldiers in the cargo hold.
• He-El took weapons and a walkie-talkie, imitated an armed commander, and ordered soldiers from across the ship to gather at the cargo hold.
• He-El fired an RPG-7 into the gathered soldiers, finished off several with his AK47s, and threw grenades at soldiers approaching from other directions.
• He-El used the walkie-talkie to imitate a terrified retreating commander and smashed it after issuing the order.
• Zhang Huihui and her group fought the soldiers they encountered, chased them off, and returned to He-El after running out of bullets.

After driving the Somali pirates from the tanker, He-El helped the survivors seize the bridge and steer away from Somalia while they contacted the national coast guard. He-El armed the ship and set up defenses, but then woke in the sea and wondered if he had returned to the moment he first arrived.

• Zhang Huihui reported that they were out of bullets, and He-El led the group toward the control room to take the tanker.
• He-El and the others reached the bridge, killed two pirates, and had a fisherman steer the tanker away from Somalia.
• The fishermen contacted the national coast guard, and Zhang Huihui stayed on the bridge while He-El searched for the armory.
• He-El found weapons and ammunition, set up machine guns and grenade defenses, then watched the stars from atop the cargo hold.
• He-El suddenly woke choking on seawater and wondered if he had returned to when he first arrived.

He-El realized that time had looped back to the beginning and suspected the universe was trapping him to expose his presence. He killed Bao Mo and two pirates to change the loop’s events, then deliberately attacked the oil tanker and was shot dead.

• He-El woke in the Indian Ocean at the same point as before and reasoned through possible causes of the time loop.
• He-El shouted toward the sky, received no reply, and swam toward the Somali pirates’ oil tanker.
• After the pirates rescued him, He-El took Bao Mo’s knife and killed Bao Mo when he tried to slap him.
• He-El took Bao Mo’s pistol, killed the two other pirates, and stole their rations and speedboat.
• He-El approached the oil tanker, opened fire on its armed soldiers, and was shot full of holes.

He-El tested more than twenty-seven outcomes in the time loop and concluded that only he changed, while the universe showed no sign of noticing him. He then used a laptop to transfer vast sums of money to the Somali pirates, ending with a bet that a United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would reach the Indian Ocean within two hours.

• He-El tried different endings, including killing Junior Commander Kundi and other pirates, and discovered that everyone besides him repeated their original actions.
• After at least twenty-seven loops, He-El decided the universe did not change and had not contacted him.
• He-El stopped Bao Mo from handing over a satellite phone and demanded a laptop with internet access instead.
• He-El coded on the laptop and deposited ten million United States dollars into Junior Commander Kundi's account.
• When Junior Commander Kundi demanded more money at gunpoint, He-El began transferring the United States Government's seventy trillion dollars in the Federal Reserve to the pirates' accounts.
• He-El bet that a United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would reach the Indian Ocean within two hours.

He-El transferred more than seventy trillion dollars from the Federal Reserve into Somali warlords’ and pirates’ accounts, prompting a U.S. military mobilization toward Somalia. Young Marshal Kundi discovered one hundred billion dollars in his account and, terrified by He-El’s power, demanded to know who he was.

• Diego Garcia’s air and naval bases mobilized as U.S. bombers, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and three nuclear submarines headed toward Somalia.
• The White House discovered that more than seventy trillion dollars had been transferred into Somali accounts and that it could not recover the money.
• Young Marshal Kundi, Yi Bao, and Bao Mo found enormous sums in their accounts, including one hundred billion dollars for Kundi.
• He-El calmly turned to research databases, and Young Marshal Kundi seized his laptop and asked who he was.

He-El repeated the time loop and investigated the world’s 2014 research while earning Young Marshal Kundi’s trust. He found no unusual developments until papers by Samuel Norman suggested that humanity could unlock extraordinary abilities by developing the brain, leaving He-El to suspect the universe was centered on brain development.

• He-El recalled how the United States military had captured him after he demonstrated his ability to access protected networks and move seventy trillion dollars, but the loop continued before they could take him away.
• He-El boarded Young Marshal Kundi’s oil tanker again and used small, frequent transfers to keep Kundi pleased while he searched online for information about the world.
• He-El reviewed 2014 developments in aviation, science, and medicine, finding no major anomaly in the first fields he examined.
• He-El discovered papers by Sorbonne University professor Samuel Norman claiming that humans used less than ten percent of their brain’s potential and that further development could enable control over the body, other people, and matter.
• He-El wondered whether the universe centered on the development of the human brain.

He-El reflected on Lucy’s brain-unlocking universe and how its time loop challenged his understanding of existence. He concluded that the brain created the universe each person experienced, leaving him to consider whether his own foundation was the universe itself.

• He-El stopped typing after remembering Lucy, while Kundi, Yi Bao, and Bao Mo continued receiving their deposits.
• He-El recalled Lucy’s transformation after CPH4 entered her body and considered how the film’s events might have been hallucinations.
• He-El reasoned that the time loop had shown his usual understanding of other universes could not explain the Lucy universe.
• He-El considered how the brain constructs a world from electrical impulses despite never directly experiencing the outside world.
• He-El concluded that the brain was the self and that people created the universe they experienced.

He-El paid Academi Company to rescue him and the hostages from the pirates’ oil tanker, then tested whether he could travel freely between locations. After several cycles brought him back to his starting point, he named Taipei City as his next destination.

• Junior Commander Kundi and armed soldier Bao Mo demanded more money from He-El, while Finance Officer Yi Bao watched expectantly.
• Academi Company’s black-clad troops stormed the room, killed Junior Commander Kundi, Finance Officer Yi Bao, and armed soldier Bao Mo, and protected He-El.
• Jack introduced himself as captain of the special security team, and He-El sent Academi Company the second-tier payment.
• He-El ordered Jack to return the hostages to their countries, then left the tanker with the mercenaries as a United States Navy warship waited nearby.
• He-El tested several destinations and returned to his starting point before choosing Taiwan Province, Taipei City, Jinghua Hotel.

He-El met Lucy in Taipei and offered to be an anchor if she ever lost her purpose, then returned to Jinghua Hotel to wait for her to absorb CPH4. Lucy went to meet Richard, who tried to persuade her to deliver a silver briefcase, and left her with a claim about the first human named Lucy.

• He-El arrived at Songshan Airport and ordered his guards to stay back while he traveled toward Jinghua Hotel.
• He-El spotted Lucy on the street, told her she could find him if she ever needed an anchor, and left without giving her his contact information.
• Lucy felt intrigued by He-El but went on to meet Richard, who asked her to carry a silver briefcase into a hotel.
• Lucy questioned why Richard would not deliver the briefcase himself and said she needed to handle her own responsibilities.
• Richard ignored Lucy's objections and told her that the first human to evolve from an ape had been called Lucy.

Richard forced Lucy to deliver a locked case to Mr. Zhang at a hotel, where armed men seized her after Richard was shot dead. He-El watched the events unfold on the hotel’s surveillance cameras.

• Richard asked Lucy to take a locked case to Mr. Zhang and offered to split the thousand-dollar payment with her.
• Lucy refused to get involved, but Richard handcuffed her to the case and made her enter the hotel.
• Lucy asked the receptionist for Mr. Zhang, who instructed her to stay in place.
• Several men in black suits came out of the elevators as Richard was shot dead outside the hotel.
• The men restrained Lucy and forced her into an elevator while He-El watched through the surveillance cameras.

He-El watched Lucy being captured by Mr. Zhang’s men and considered why the omnipresent Lucy had guided him to witness her human past. After Jack offered to kill gang leaders for him, He-El denied that he treated human lives lightly, leaving Jack to wonder at his motives.

• He-El watched security footage of Lucy being escorted toward Mr. Zhang’s suite and reflected on how she had become an omnipresent existence.
• He-El reviewed Mr. Zhang’s power as the South Korean branch representative of the Four Seas Gang and learned that Mr. Zhang had killed Richard over a drug deal.
• Jack offered to have his teams eliminate gang leaders, suggesting they could handle any retaliation.
• He-El told Jack that he had misunderstood him and denied treating human lives like grass.
• Jack accepted that He-El had not come to protect Lucy and remarked that He-El possessed great love through great lovelessness.

He-El watched Mr. Zhang’s gang confirm the drugs in Lucy’s briefcase, then abduct her for a forced drug-smuggling operation. Jack urged He-El to intervene, but He-El refused, saying Lucy’s future was beyond their control.

• Mr. Zhang interrogated Lucy, had her open the briefcase, and confirmed the blue granules were a potent drug by testing them on an addict.
• Mr. Zhang shot the addict and ordered his men to knock Lucy unconscious after she refused his offer of a job.
• He-El watched the gang take Lucy away, knowing they planned to implant CPH4 in her abdomen so she could smuggle drugs to Europe.
• Jack urged He-El to rescue Lucy before the gang took her out of their reach, but He-El declined and said her future was not theirs to control.

Lucy was forced to carry CPH4 implanted in her abdomen as part of a drug-smuggling operation. After her captors injured her and ruptured the package, the drug transformed her and left her in control of her body as she began accessing more of her brain’s potential.

• Lucy woke after surgery and learned that a package of CPH4 had been stitched into her abdomen.
• The European doctor gave Lucy and three other couriers passports and tickets, warning them not to contact the authorities before they delivered the drug.
• Mr. Zhang’s men took Lucy to a secret room and left her cuffed with two local men until her flight the next morning.
• When one man tried to violate her, Lucy bit his finger, and he kicked her abdomen until the CPH4 package ruptured.
• CPH4 entered Lucy’s body, triggered violent changes, and gave her control of herself as she began advancing toward using 20% of her brain’s potential.

As CPH4 pushed Lucy toward 20% brain capacity, she escaped captivity, killed Mr. Zhang’s guards, and had the remaining drug removed at a hospital. With her emotions fading and her memories laid bare, she decided to find He-El, believing he might explain what was happening to her.

• Lucy trapped her captor’s hand, knocked him unconscious, and used his keys and pistol to escape.
• Lucy shot Mr. Zhang’s five guards, survived a shoulder wound, and stole supplies before leaving the hideout.
• Lucy forced an English-speaking taxi driver to take her to a hospital and displayed an extraordinary awareness of her surroundings and memories.
• Lucy shot a terminally ill patient, then forced a surgeon to remove the leaking CPH4 from her abdomen.
• Lucy called her mother while she still felt emotions, learned about the CPH4, and resolved to find He-El for answers.

After leaving the hospital, Lucy used her enhanced perception and memory to deduce that He-El was at Jinghua Hotel, where he had watched her ordeal. Armed with two pistols, she reached the hotel and learned he was in the 502 luxury suite, leaving her angry and intent on confronting him.

• Lucy realized that the CPH4 in her body had accelerated her cellular development and left her about twenty-four hours to live.
• Lucy reconstructed He-El’s route from her memories and deduced that he had gone to Jinghua Hotel.
• Lucy took a taxi to Jinghua Hotel while checking two pistols, frightening the driver.
• Lucy threatened the receptionist with a pistol and demanded to know where He-El was.
• The receptionist told Lucy that He-El was in the 502 luxury suite, two rooms from where Mr. Zhang’s men had held her.
• Lucy concluded that He-El had watched her all along and treated him as an anchor for her anger and grief.