Chapter Summaries

Andrew, Matt, and Steve argued over whether to confront the Bloody Chariot Gang peacefully or use their telekinesis to kill, until Babulo woke and shot Andrew and Matt. Steve disarmed Babulo with telekinesis, and Chen Hai arrived with Babulo’s pistol and asked what had happened.

• Matt argued that they could explain their innocence to the Bloody Chariot Gang, while Steve doubted the gang would let them go.
• Andrew proposed killing the gang members with telekinetically controlled knives and declared that they could act as superheroes, but Matt objected and Steve found Andrew too extreme.
• Babulo woke, drew a Colt M1911 semi-automatic pistol, and shot Matt in the right shoulder and Andrew in the right thigh as Steve dodged.
• Andrew hurled Babulo into a hemlock tree with telekinesis, and Steve then struck him with turf and soil, knocking the pistol from his hand.
• Chen Hai picked up the Colt M1911 semi-automatic pistol and asked what had happened.

Chen Hai reunited with Andrew, Matt, and Steve after his transformation and learned that the Bloody Chariot Gang had come after them. He killed the gang members who remained and promised to handle the gang, while wondering whether his system had made him fluent in their language.

• Chen Hai arrived with a Colt M1911 and asked Andrew, Matt, and Steve what had happened, surprising them with how much his appearance had changed.
• Andrew blamed Chen Hai for bringing the Bloody Chariot Gang after them, but Chen Hai argued that they were even because their car had hit him before they saved him.
• Steve explained that Babulo and the other gang member had attacked them after the gang came looking for Matt.
• Chen Hai shot and killed Babulo, then fired three shots to kill the other gang member lying on the ground.
• Chen Hai promised to deal with the Bloody Chariot Gang and wondered whether the system had granted him fluency in their language.

Chen Hai killed two members of the Bloody Chariot Gang and told the three students he would handle the gang’s retaliation while they fled to a safe place. After searching the bodies for money and ammunition, he accepted Steve’s offer to take him along, and the system detected Steve’s abnormal ability.

• Chen Hai realized he could understand languages when people spoke to him and attributed the ability to the system.
• Chen Hai reassured Andrew, Matt, and Steve that he had killed the Bloody Chariot Gang members because they had tried to kill him.
• Chen Hai urged Steve to get the injured Matt and Andrew to safety, and Steve flew north with them.
• Chen Hai searched the two gang members’ bodies and took their money and bullets, discarding their necklaces.
• Steve returned for Chen Hai, who took his hand, prompting the system to offer to analyze and teach him the abnormal ability.

Chen Hai discovered he could use Energy Points to learn Steve’s telekinetic ability, but he had none and resolved to eat more. After Steve brought him to the students’ hideout, Chen Hai treated Andrew’s wound while Steve prepared to remove Matt’s bullet, and Chen Hai planned to eliminate the Bloody Chariot Gang once he gained power.

• Chen Hai checked his status and learned that he needed Energy Points to analyze and learn Steve’s abnormal ability, but he had none.
• Steve used telekinesis to carry Chen Hai high over Seattle to an abandoned parking lot where the students were hiding.
• Chen Hai disinfected and bandaged Andrew’s grazed wound.
• Steve said he would use telekinesis to remove Matt’s bullet, and Chen Hai prepared alcohol, cotton, and gauze for the treatment.
• Chen Hai decided he would eat enough to gain Energy Points, then kill the Bloody Chariot Gang and get the students to a hospital.

Chen Hai helped Steve remove the bullet from Matt and revealed that he could restore his body by eating high-energy food. After Steve explained how he, Andrew, and Matt gained telekinesis, Chen Hai realized they were the three students from a familiar story.

• Steve used telekinesis to pull the bullet from Matt's chest, and Chen Hai disinfected and bandaged the wound.
• Chen Hai gave Steve money and asked him to buy glucose and food for Matt and Andrew, along with a large supply of high-energy food for himself.
• Chen Hai showed the others that his chest wound had healed and explained that eating high-energy food restored and strengthened his body.
• Steve told Chen Hai that he, Andrew, and Matt gained telekinesis after being irradiated by a crystal in a cave in Black Pikachu.
• Chen Hai recognized Steve, Andrew, and Matt and realized he had encountered the only three superpowered people in the world.

Chen Hai recognized that Andrew, Matt, and Steve had not yet begun the events that would lead to their ruin, and he warned them that the crystal behind their telekinesis could reshape humanity. He left Matt questioning his belief that giving the United States military these powers would bring peace.

• Chen Hai sent Steve to buy a large amount of high-energy food while Andrew asked what Chen Hai knew about the source of their abilities.
• Chen Hai told Andrew and Matt to keep their powers secret and focus on school, and said he would search for the crystal.
• Matt asked what Chen Hai planned to do with the crystal, and Chen Hai said it might need to be destroyed or controlled to prevent a Third World War.
• Matt insisted that telekinesis in the hands of the United States military would make the world peaceful, but Chen Hai challenged him about history, nuclear weapons, and human desire.
• Steve returned carrying huge bags of food as Matt fell silent under Chen Hai's questions.

Chen Hai ate Steve’s discounted food to build Energy Points, then spent one to learn telekinesis from Andrew. He left the chapter with the new ability and increased Spirit, sensing telekinetic force spread from his thoughts.

• Steve returned with a large supply of discounted food and gave glucose to Matt and Andrew.
• Chen Hai ate the cooked food until he had 1.42 Energy Points, while the sky over Seattle turned crimson.
• Chen Hai touched Andrew and chose to learn telekinesis, spending one Energy Point.
• The system added telekinesis under Soul and raised Chen Hai’s Spirit from 0.9 to 1.3.
• Chen Hai felt his thoughts condense into telekinetic force and spread outward.

Chen Hai explored his newly awakened telekinetic powers, discovering that he could manipulate objects and perceive his surroundings over a long range, though extended sensing left him dizzy. After gaining an energy point from eating the remaining food, he considered whether to strengthen his Spirit or improve his Telekinesis skill.

• Chen Hai tested his telekinesis by shaping dust and airflow, then discovered he could scan nearby surroundings within twenty meters or extend his perception in a narrow line up to two thousand meters.
• Chen Hai recognized that his telekinesis had physical and perceptive modes, and that prolonged mental scanning overwhelmed him with information and caused dizziness.
• Andrew suspected Chen Hai had gained telekinetic power after noticing familiar signs of exhaustion, while Steve and Matt wondered why Chen Hai was acting strangely.
• Chen Hai ate the rest of Steve's food and gained an energy point, then weighed whether to add it to Spirit or Telekinesis.

Chen Hai spent an energy point to improve his telekinesis, enduring repeated deaths in the system’s training space before gaining much greater control and strength. After briefly testing whether he could fly, he asked Steve to take him back to confront the Bloody Chariot Gang.

• Chen Hai decided to put his energy point into the Telekinesis skill rather than Spirit.
• The system sent Chen Hai into a training space where a duplicate repeatedly killed him with telekinesis as he learned to fight back.
• After more than thirty deaths, Chen Hai completed the training and improved Telekinesis to Minor Accomplishment.
• Chen Hai found that his telekinetic line could reach farther and exert up to fifty kilograms of force, making it more effective at piercing a person’s head.
• Chen Hai tried to lift himself with telekinesis but could only hover briefly before dropping back down.
• Chen Hai returned to the house and asked Steve to take him to deal with the Bloody Chariot Gang.

Chen Hai decided to confront the Bloody Chariot Gang, dismissing the others’ objections and warning that the gang might target their families. Steve flew him back to the alley where their conflict began, and a sedan approached as Chen Hai confirmed he planned to kill.

• Chen Hai told Steve he would deal with the Bloody Chariot Gang, alarming Matt, Andrew, and Steve with his blunt intention to kill them.
• Chen Hai rejected the others’ suggestions to gather evidence or make a plan, insisting the gang’s members deserved to die.
• Chen Hai warned that the gang might target their families if it could not find them, leaving Matt, Andrew, and Steve distressed.
• Chen Hai promised to resolve the conflict and protect their families, then left with Steve, carrying his Colt M1911.
• Steve flew Chen Hai back to the alley where they had encountered him the previous night, and Chen Hai confirmed he planned to kill as a sedan approached.

Chen Hai forced Dandy Pierce to drive him to the Bloody Chariot Gang headquarters so he could kill its members, while Dandy planned to loot the boss’s vault. They headed for the gang’s headquarters, with Dandy expecting to contact Chen Hai afterward and split the loot.

• Steve urged Chen Hai not to become as evil as the Bloody Chariot Gang, then left after Chen Hai told him to look after Matt and Andrew.
• Chen Hai stopped a sedan and shot three passengers after they mocked him and one tried to reach for a gun.
• Chen Hai made the surviving driver, Dandy Pierce, identify the gang’s boss and explain where the Bloody Chariot Gang members gathered.
• Chen Hai ordered Dandy to drive him to the gang’s headquarters and said he intended to kill everyone there.
• Dandy offered to loot the boss’s vault and agreed to give Chen Hai nine-tenths of the money; Chen Hai gave him a phone and told him to call afterward.

Chen Hai massacred the Bloody Chariot Gang, grew powerful by consuming vast amounts of food, and defeated police forces sent to capture him. As the military encircled Seattle and Dandy was arrested, Chen Hai remained hidden and went to find the cave that had given Steve, Matt, and Andrew their abilities.

• Chen Hai killed more than twenty Bloody Chariot Gang members while Dandy robbed the gang’s vault, and the deputy chief began hunting Chen Hai after seeing him on camera.
• Chen Hai spent his stolen money on energy-rich food, increased his Spirit and Telekinesis, and killed the deputy chief and more than ten officers when they found his warehouse.
• After consuming more food and advancing his Telekinesis to Mastery, Chen Hai slaughtered a force of more than a hundred police and SWAT officers.
• Footage of Chen Hai’s powers spread across the country, prompting public protests as the government labeled him an A-level super-criminal and the military moved to surround Seattle.
• After Dandy was captured, Chen Hai used telekinetic camouflage to evade the search and went to find Black Pikachu at the cave that had empowered Steve, Matt, and Andrew.

Chen Hai uncovered and absorbed the purple crystal that had given Steve, Matt, and Andrew their telekinetic abilities, gaining a huge store of energy. He spent it to raise his telekinesis and Spirit, then ascended into the sky with power he believed could make him ruler of the world.

• Chen Hai dug up the purple crystal beneath the collapsed cave and sensed that it emitted a signal-like frequency.
• Chen Hai absorbed the crystal’s energy, and the crystal shattered, revealing a transparent inner shard that burned away.
• Chen Hai saw that he had gained 532.66 Energy Points and spent points to raise his telekinesis to A Thought Like a God.
• Chen Hai reached the system’s telekinesis limit, so he invested 100 points in Spirit and increased his Spirit to 113.3.
• Chen Hai perceived the world at a molecular level, spread his arms, and rose into the sky.

Chen Hai conquered Earth through overwhelming telekinetic power, mass killings, and a mental network that let him rule humanity. Just as he believed the story was over, his system began scanning the universe’s underlying logic.

• A transparent alien vessel entered the Solar System after losing the coordinates of the planet whose Guide Crystal it had destroyed.
• Chen Hai killed the United States forces sent against him, withstood repeated missile attacks, and challenged anyone with extraordinary abilities to stop him.
• Steve, Matt, and Andrew confronted Chen Hai, but he defeated them and disintegrated Matt when he refused to yield.
• Chen Hai linked humanity through telekinetic contagion and survived a nuclear strike before declaring himself Earth's ruler and demanding the submission of world leaders and billionaires.
• Chen Hai purged resistance, seized property, and established a centralized administration, transforming Earth into his domain within two months.
• After Chen Hai thought the plot had ended, the system announced an external master scan of the universe's underlying logic.

He-El examined Chen Hai’s conquest of Earth and discovered that the Chronicle universe’s superpower-granting crystal came from an alien civilization searching the Solar System. He ordered The Three-Body Problem universe’s research and logistics bases moved to Chronicle, then returned to the He-El Universe as Lucy arrived.

• He-El reviewed Chen Hai’s completed Chronicle story and took over Chen Hai’s body, erasing his will.
• He-El observed that many people on Earth supported Chen Hai’s brutal rule and redistribution of resources, and recognized Chen Hai’s methods as much like his own.
• He-El traced the crystal that granted Steve, Matt, and Andrew their powers to a scouting machine from the Crystal Civilization, which was searching near the Solar System for Earth.
• He-El ordered the Universe System to control Chen Hai’s body and connect to Zero so it could relocate The Three-Body Problem universe’s research and logistics bases to Chronicle.
• He-El left Chen Hai’s body and returned to the He-El Universe, where Lucy also arrived from the Lucy universe.

Lucy brought the Lucy Universe’s operating logic to He-El, who integrated it into his universe and appointed her its chief steward while preparing New Krypton to conquer the Lucy Universe. He-El then showed Lucy how he sent the spark of a clone who drowned after fighting Akainu Sakazuki and Aokiji Kuzan into another Traversal Vortex.

• Lucy reported that she had found and imprinted the Lucy Universe’s underlying operating logic, and He-El copied it into his universe.
• He-El ordered Lucy to prepare the Lucy Universe for New Krypton’s conquest and appointed her chief steward of the He-El Universe.
• He-El showed Lucy the memories of a clone who had trained using half an Iron Body journal in the One Piece world.
• The clone fought Akainu Sakazuki and Aokiji Kuzan for twelve days and nights, but drowned after they were rescued and he was left alone.
• He-El declared that unfinished clones should be sent to another world and tossed the clone’s spark into a different Traversal Vortex.

He-El explained to Lucy how his clones explored universes and triggered invasions, then reviewed a clone’s conquest of the Jumper Universe. He named it a construction target and left for Zero’s lunar command room.

• He-El explained that clones could identify a universe’s story, survive until safe, or evolve foreign traits to overcome a universe’s resistance and enable invasion.
• He-El showed Lucy a clone’s memories from an unfamiliar New York, where the clone used its system to gain strength through fighting.
• The clone discovered it was in the Jumper world, gained teleportation, and built a political and religious organization to wage war on every nation.
• After a century of conflict and more than a hundred nuclear launches, the clone shattered the planet, killed over five billion people, and unified the remains.
• He-El named the world the Jumper Universe, told Lucy to add it to the construction targets, and went to Zero’s command room on the moon.

He-El reviewed Zeus’s failed efforts to reach Heavenly Blood and directed New Krypton’s expansion across several universes. As the Monitors began merging the Parallel Universes, Doctor Manhattan warned He-El of the change.

• Zero reported that Zeus had made no progress crossing the universal boundary, and He-El concluded that the presence within Zeus was not in a hurry.
• Zero said no database or surveillance records matched the handsome man in the black suit who had replaced Trigon inside Raven.
• Zero reported that 1,321 civilizations from the The Three-Body Problem universe had joined New Krypton while others continued preparations to restart their universe.
• He-El ordered the newcomers and evacuated resources distributed among the Chronicle, Jumper, and Lucy universes, with Lucy serving as a new logistics and research hub.
• Doctor Manhattan appeared across the universe and warned He-El that the Monitors had begun merging the Parallel Universes.

As Parallel Universes began merging, Zero mobilized New Krypton to defend the Solar System and ordered its citizens to kill their newly appearing counterparts rather than risk losing their identities. The chapter ended with a brutal-looking counterpart confronting his original body, whom he had found using the Cosmic Wish Machine.

• Zero activated New Krypton's preparations, transferring citizens and forces into the Solar System as its planets were transformed to stabilize and defend it.
• New Krypton moved citizens from other galaxies into the Milky Way while Doctor Manhattan watched the universe's increasingly violent tremors from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• When the Parallel Universes merged, counterparts appeared beside New Krypton's citizens, and Zero ordered the citizens to kill them to preserve their identities.
• New Krypton's forces engaged the Norse Pantheon and counterparts of the Guardians of the Universe, with Athena and assigned stellar-class personnel leading the response.
• A hulking, spike-covered counterpart announced that the Cosmic Wish Machine had helped him find his original body.

Doomsday He-El arrived on Earth after sacrificing his universe to find and devour the original He-El. He-El trapped him in a sphere of space-time as the Parallel Universe merger ended, while an ominous Ancient Krypton Doomsday warship appeared in the GN-z11 galaxy.

• Doomsday He-El attacked Earth and crushed the arm of a Stellar-level powerhouse before He-El blocked his Heat Vision.
• Doomsday He-El explained that he had survived three Parallel Universe mergers, killed and absorbed three alternate He-Els, and used the Cosmic Wish Machine to find the original He-El.
• He-El explained that he had created the Parallel Universes to anchor himself and other things to his universe, then asked Doomsday He-El about the mergers.
• Doomsday He-El admitted he did not know what caused the mergers and attacked He-El to devour him.
• He-El contracted space-time around Doomsday He-El, trapped him in a glass sphere, and ended the merger.
• A decayed Ancient Krypton Doomsday warship emerged from the void in the GN-z11 galaxy.