Chapter Summaries

Jiang Miao discussed four matters with He Jintang: separating He Youwei from her suspicious boyfriend, arranging a shipborne fusion reactor deal, responding to South Asian radioactive contamination, and using energy markets to pressure Lucia and America. He agreed to the proposed measures as the plan to drive down oil prices took shape.

• Jiang Miao approved Wang He Ming's 10 billion research funding application after reviewing Star Ring 28's test report.
• He Jintang asked Jiang Miao to send He Youwei to Malaysia for six months while he investigated her boyfriend, and Jiang Miao agreed.
• He Jintang proposed that Star Ring Energy design a nuclear fusion unit for ships, and Jiang Miao agreed to arrange talks with Dalian Shipyard.
• He Jintang explained that dirty bombs had contaminated land near the Ganges and suspected Lucia and America of joining forces; Jiang Miao agreed to help cultivate algae that would accumulate radioactive elements.
• He Jintang outlined a plan to expand North African and West Asian oil production and push prices down, and Jiang Miao recognized that Hai Lu Feng Company would help carry it out.

Blue Whale Airship’s helium costs and weak performance made its passenger business uncompetitive, but Jiang Miao continued investing in airships. During a Spring Festival livestream, Wan Gaofeng unveiled the giant Gravity airship while the chapter revealed that its tourism project concealed secret plans involving a deep helium-rich well, independent-environment living tests, and development of Venus.

• Blue Whale Airship’s White Whale 001 struggled to compete with aircraft because its helium was expensive, its flights were slow, and it could make at most two trips daily.
• Jiang Miao told Wan Gaofeng to keep increasing investment in airships despite the passenger-airship business’s poor prospects.
• Wan Gaofeng unveiled Gravity, a 15-billion-yuan super-large airship designed to carry 500 guests on extended trips.
• The chapter revealed that Gravity concealed three classified projects: the Ta 005 natural gas well, the Human Independent Environment Living Test Project, and the Venus Development Plan.
• The Ta 005 well reached 27,149 meters and produced helium rich in Helium-3, which Hai Lu Feng secretly routed to Star Ring Energy for fusion research.

During a Spring Festival visit to Hai Lu Feng Company’s Diannan Branch, Jiang Miao reviewed its mushroom production and rejected deep research cooperation with Yunnan University. He left planning to investigate the Hongshavadi Branch after learning it had sought to divert coffee planting quotas and hinder Diannan’s work.

• Fang Zhiqiang reported that the Diannan Branch cultivated thirteen core edible fungi, with Termitomyces among its largest outputs, and introduced its mushroom products to Jiang Miao and Shu Ya.
• Jiang Miao told Fang Zhiqiang that Hai Lu Feng Company could support Yunnan University through investment and recruitment but should not pursue joint projects or ventures with it.
• Fang Zhiqiang reported that the branch produced about 340,000 tons of fresh edible fungi in January, and Jiang Miao warned him to monitor demand and avoid excess capacity.
• Fang Zhiqiang told Jiang Miao that the Hongshavadi Branch had asked for part of Diannan’s coffee planting quota, and Jiang Miao refused and decided to investigate Southeast Asian branch management.

Jiang Miao reviewed reports on the Diannan Branch’s booming integrated-housing business and reflected on the country’s economic and demographic challenges. He and Shu Ya planned to visit the completed Seed Project near Jade Dragon Snow Mountain the next day.

• Jiang Miao read reports showing that the Diannan Branch had accumulated nearly 397,000 integrated-home orders as the industry expanded across the country.
• Jiang Miao considered how housing reforms, rural development, and the growth of manufacturing, agriculture, and services were reshaping the economy.
• Jiang Miao watched the lively food street from the balcony and told Shu Ya that technology changed daily life.
• Shu Ya suggested visiting the food street, but Jiang Miao declined because of security concerns.
• Jiang Miao told Shu Ya they would visit Jade Dragon Snow Mountain the next day to see the completed Seed Project.

Jiang Miao and Shu Ya toured Hai Lu Feng Company's Jade Dragon Seed Vault, learning about its emergency facilities, research programs, and maternity recuperation center. After inspecting the Gel Trees cultivated nearby, they reunited and Shu Ya told Jiang Miao that some employees missed having their families close by.

• Li Ou showed Jiang Miao and Shu Ya the Jade Dragon Seed Vault and explained its staff, emergency provisions, and maternity recuperation center.
• Shu Ya went with Wang Li Yun to visit the pregnant and recovering employees while Jiang Miao toured the vault with Li Ou.
• Jiang Miao reviewed the vault's facilities and its research into Qing He Hormone and biological hibernation pods.
• Li Ou showed Jiang Miao the valley's Gel Trees and explained their uses in construction materials and adhesives.
• Shu Ya told Jiang Miao that the employees were satisfied with the recuperation center but sometimes found it inconvenient to be away from their families, and Jiang Miao said they had to accept that trade-off.

Blue Whale Aerospace successfully launched its Blue Star 1 rocket from Sky City and placed the Universe Observer 1 scientific satellite into low Earth orbit. The team celebrated the milestone and discussed improving the rocket, mass-producing it, and eventually replacing solid-fuel launches with electromagnetic launch technology.

• Blue Whale Aerospace modified a Long March 11 into Blue Star 1 and launched it from Sky City's spaceport, where the high-altitude launch greatly increased its payload capacity.
• Blue Star 1 entered low Earth orbit, deployed its solar film wings, and used its Electromagnetic Particle Engine to complete its orbital maneuvers.
• Wan Gaofeng, Dai Yunfei, Hou Xin, Hong Tiansheng, and the control-center staff celebrated the successful launch, which Blue Whale Aerospace announced online.
• Hong Tiansheng and Dai Yunfei discussed finalizing and mass-producing the solid-fuel rocket while Blue Whale Aerospace pursued electromagnetic launch technology as its next stage.
• Jiang Miao saw the launch news from southern Yunnan and sent congratulations to Blue Whale Aerospace employees as a major event elsewhere in the world continued brewing in secret.

Rick learned that the Morgan family and other North American conglomerates would provide 2,000 tons of gold to ease the reserve crisis, while a flood in the Amazon released mosquitoes carrying genetically modified Wolbachia. Jiang Miao inspected new tunnel technology, agreed to Star Island’s real estate proposal, and learned that dirty bombs had been detonated in India as his energy strategy against North America and Lucia advanced.

• Rick was told that the European Union would leave its gold stored in America, and Morgan promised 2,000 tons from major families to meet withdrawal demands.
• Flooding destroyed two Amazon research bases and released mosquitoes carrying genetically modified Wolbachia into the rainforest, where they could not be reliably eradicated.
• Jiang Miao visited the Gaoligong Mountains First Tunnel and examined its new construction methods and electromagnetic particle technology.
• Jiang Miao bought jade jewelry for his family and agreed that Hai Lu Feng Company would develop 2,000 mu of land on Star Island within three years.
• Jiang Haibo reported that hidden forces had detonated more than a dozen dirty bombs in inland India after Hai Lu Feng Company purchased nuclear materials.
• Jiang Miao confirmed that West Asian oil producers would expand output and lower prices, aiming to damage North America's and Lucia's energy revenues.

After returning to Shanmei, Jiang Miao resumed his research into non-rejection organs, adapting tumor cells and genetically modified cloned organs to enable transplants and future human enhancement. He also treated the technology as preparation against Strong AI, arguing that humanity needed safeguards, enhanced bodies, and a possible escape route to Venus.

• Jiang Miao returned to headquarters after traveling through the southwest and handed wheat and corn breeding research to other researchers.
• Jiang Miao restarted his non-rejection organ project, using cancer cells’ ability to evade the immune system as a model for creating benign, long-lived tumor cysts.
• Jiang Miao adjusted his approach by planning to genetically modify cloned organs for specific functions so they could coexist with the cysts and replace human organs.
• Jiang Miao connected non-rejection organs to human enhancement, proposing that people could gain useful abilities by transplanting organs modeled on other organisms.
• Jiang Miao warned that Strong AI could emerge around 2040 to 2050 and called for restrictions, human enhancement research, and preparations to immigrate to Venus if Earth became unsafe.

Lu Weibin toured Hai Lu Feng Company's farms and towns in Northern Desert, where mechanized agriculture, new railways, and growing industries were transforming the region. In Potash Town, he saw how the developing towns were attracting workers and young people seeking alternatives to crowded inland cities.

• Lu Weibin reviewed Hai Lu Feng Company's fifteen East Gobi farms and told Wu Bo to plant soybeans according to plan, explaining that most farms lacked the water needed for Rubber Grass.
• Lu Weibin traveled by high-speed rail from Wild Duck Lake Town to Potash Town, where he learned about local potash and lithium mining and saw a new Delicious Mushroom Factory.
• Lu Weibin and his colleagues ate at Lao Xiang Ji, ordering local dishes and Delicious Mushrooms produced by the nearby factory.
• At a neighboring table, Ah Hua told another college student that he planned to work in Northern Desert after graduation because the region offered good pay and less competition.
• Lu Weibin observed the growing town as workers, business owners, families, and tourists filled the restaurant amid improved transportation and living conditions across Northern Desert.

Lu Weibin inspected Hai Lu Feng Company’s cherry farms and Hai Lu Tong Express’s reusable, cooled courier boxes, which reduced shipping costs and fruit damage. He warned Fan Guangye about unstable spring weather and said global climate control might become possible in twenty or thirty years.

• Lu Weibin toured Bohai 14 Farm, where Fan Guangye reported that its April harvest of large cherries was expected to yield about 20,000 tons.
• Lu Weibin inspected Hai Lu Tong’s standardized courier boxes, and Fan Guangye explained how reusable boxes and cooling bags kept cherries fresh during delivery.
• Lu Weibin reviewed company data showing that the courier boxes had reduced operating costs and cargo losses while supporting Hai Lu Tong’s growing overseas business.
• Lu Weibin warned Fan Guangye that sudden temperature swings threatened spring agriculture.
• Fan Guangye asked whether the Antarctic solar development project could control the global climate, and Lu Weibin said that capability might arrive in twenty or thirty years.

Great City prospered as the starting point of the Ceylon Ocean route, while the Asian Union planned undersea cables and resource development amid tense relations with Australia. Su Ya and her daughter Dana shopped in the city, revealing how its jobs, low-cost goods, and education expenses shaped ordinary families’ lives.

• A transport airship carrying cargo docked at Great City, whose population and urban area had grown rapidly as the Ceylon Ocean route brought projects and jobs.
• The Asian Union pursued an undersea cable route that bypassed Australia, whose leaders feared the region’s overwhelming power but avoided provoking it.
• Su Ya took Dana shopping and bought three discounted silk-like dresses after a clerk persuaded her with a free-underwear offer.
• Su Ya met her neighbor Lu Si, then bought discounted frozen lamb after haggling with the market stall owner.
• Su Ya spent nearly 500 yuan on clothes, food, and daily necessities, while her family’s main financial burden remained educating their three children.

Jiang Miao began human trials of genetically modified artificial eyeballs after securing approval and successfully matched the organs with custom cysts. The first transplant restored some sight to Wang Bingdong without obvious rejection, leaving Jiang Miao hopeful as the research continued.

• Jiang Miao reviewed the successful animal tests and ordered recruitment for the human trials after Shan Yi Jun delivered the permits and reported that fifty subjects had been recruited.
• Jiang Miao and Hai confirmed that the twelfth batch of artificial eyeballs functioned normally in the custom cysts, and testing showed no obvious rejection in animals.
• Jiang Miao's team and Hai Lu Feng Hospital's ophthalmic surgeons performed a successful left-eye transplant on Wang Bingdong.
• Jiang Miao monitored Wang Bingdong as his visual nerves fused with the cyst, and on the sixth day Wang Bingdong reported that he could see something.
• Jiang Miao returned home and told Shu Ya that Wang Bingdong had regained some sight and showed no obvious rejection reactions.

Jiang Miao’s successful artificial eyeball transplant drew public attention and prompted wealthy people to seek access to Hai Lu Feng’s artificial-organ technology. Jiang Dahe recognized that Hong Kong tycoons were cultivating ties with him for medical treatment, while Jiang Miao shared information about the technology but kept details about superhumans secret.

• Huang Debiao and Huang Yihao discussed buying a home in the area with Zhang Xingwen, who recommended new developments in nearby towns.
• A television report announced Jiang Miao’s artificial eyeball transplant, its expected availability, and its estimated cost, prompting inquiries from patients and wealthy people.
• Boss Liu arranged dinner with Jiang Dahe and planned to bring his grandson Bo Shi so he could build connections and seek medical help.
• Jiang Dahe connected the tycoons’ calls to Jiang Miao’s artificial-organ breakthrough and invited Jiang Feng and Xiao Jun to dinner.
• Jiang Miao answered inquiries about artificial organs and transplantation while withholding information about superhumans.

Jiang Miao explained his proposed bio-based armor to Wang Lifeng, who weighed its advantages against existing exoskeletons and left to seek funding. He then told He Jintang about Hai Lu Feng Group’s plan to develop a long-term human settlement above Venus, and He Jintang agreed to approach the Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.

• Wang Lifeng asked Jiang Miao whether non-human organs could be transplanted, and Jiang Miao described auxiliary organs that could provide enhanced senses, protection, and combat functions.
• Jiang Miao estimated that developing a deployable auxiliary organ system would cost ten to twenty billion yuan and take two to three years; Wang Lifeng judged the project difficult to fund because its role overlapped with the Wei Wu Zu exoskeletons.
• Wang Lifeng considered bio-based armor’s endurance, survivability, broad capabilities, and potential low production cost, then left for Beijing to seek support.
• He Jintang told Jiang Miao that You Wei had broken up with her boyfriend after He Jintang arranged for her to discover the man had secretly fathered a child with his ex-girlfriend.
• Jiang Miao told He Jintang that Blue Whale Aerospace would launch a Venus probe in August and that Hai Lu Feng Group planned to invest 500 billion yuan over ten years in a Venus development plan.
• He Jintang agreed to contact the Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation about joining the Venus project, while Jiang Miao said Hai Lu Feng Group would proceed regardless.

Jiang Miao advanced Hai Lu Feng Group’s aerospace and agricultural plans while continuing research into non-rejection organs and superhuman external organs. At a new indoor agricultural base, he inspected Super Chloroplast-enhanced Victoria Water Lilies and considered their potential—and risks—as high-efficiency food and carbon-capture systems.

• Jiang Miao agreed that Hai Lu Feng Group would fund joint Venus Development Plan research with Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, which would provide technical personnel, and ordered a large indoor agricultural base built near Shanmei.
• Jiang Miao began kidney non-rejection research, prepared the Nine Li Project for developing superhuman external organs, and monitored new staple-crop varieties while waiting for Wang Lifeng to secure support.
• Zhang Chengdong reported the group’s first-half research spending and results, while the finance report showed 1.5 trillion yuan in revenue and 776.1 billion yuan in net profits; Jiang Miao approved the Venus Development Plan.
• Companies across the Asian Union began seeking Venus project contracts as Hai Lu Feng Group maintained strict supplier requirements, while Wang Lifeng told Jiang Miao he had gained some support for the Nine Li Project but not decisive backing.
• Jiang Miao visited the indoor agricultural base in Jiexi County, where A Hai explained that Super Chloroplast-enhanced Victoria Water Lilies required elevated carbon dioxide and substantial nutrients.
• Jiang Miao assessed the water lilies’ potential to produce food and capture atmospheric carbon, but decided not to promote the technology yet because widespread use could deplete atmospheric carbon and cause global cooling.

Jiang Miao inspected artificial plants designed to produce fuel, sugar, starch, and protein, then considered how they could support Venus development and how infrared-absorbing photosynthesis might improve yields. After returning to Xinxiang, he walked with Shu Ya and their daughter, discussed Shu Ya’s work on ham fermentation strains, and ran into Fang Yi near the feed factory.

• Jiang Miao learned that mature Reaching Heaven Lotuses could produce enough oil to help replace Seres’s petroleum and coal fuels.
• Jiang Miao inspected the Umbrella Wood Cane, Umbrella Wood Papaya, and Umbrella Wood Bean, which were designed to produce sugar, starch, and protein.
• Jiang Miao considered using artificial plants and carbon materials in a future Venus development plan, while identifying water supply and Venus’s harsh surface as major challenges.
• Jiang Miao instructed A Hai and decided to study algae’s near-infrared photosynthesis mechanisms to improve artificial plant yields.
• Jiang Miao walked with Shu Ya and their daughter, and Shu Ya told him she had completed research on fifteen fermentation strains for the country’s four main ham varieties.
• Jiang Miao encountered Fang Yi near the Yandun Mountain Feed Factory before heading home with his family.

The Haitan Island-Baisha Jia Cross-Sea Bridge reached its final stage as workers positioned the last floating platform, while Ai Zhefu and Xia Yanxin discussed the economics and routes of future cross-sea bridges. The final platform was connected successfully, and the crew celebrated as the bridge prepared to enter operation.

• Jiang WeiGuo urged the barges to move Hai Bai No. 13 carefully into place while Ai Zhefu and Xia Yanxin discussed their upcoming Ryukyu Islands Cross-Sea Bridge contract.
• Ai Zhefu explained that the Ryukyu Islands line would use a Vacuum Tube Maglev Railway with only two stations because the route was long and the islands had a small, dispersed population.
• The final floating platform settled into its designated position, and its cable-stayed bridge decks joined the spans on both sides as the workers applauded.
• Ai Zhefu and the crew held a celebratory banquet aboard Hai Bai No. 12, where service and maintenance facilities had already been installed.
• A ship sounded its horn nearby as the floating island lighthouse and maritime authorities helped guide passing vessels safely beneath the bridge.

Sky City 2 arrived above Chasing Sun City and was anchored in place as workers and researchers prepared to continue building the equatorial launch facility. The chapter ended with Gu Linyu, Zhou Xiyi, and the research team descending to the city to stay while they waited for equipment.

• Ali Santoso saw Sky City overhead and learned from Zhang Siming that their team would remain in Chasing Sun City to build and maintain it.
• Ali decided to bring his wife and children to the city, while Yokota Kyo considered bringing his parents from Japan.
• Workers secured Sky City 2’s anchoring cables above Chasing Sun City, and Wei Wentian ordered staff to begin rotations and reported its arrival to headquarters.
• Gu Linyu asked Wei Wentian when aerospace-zone equipment would arrive, and Wei said it was expected from the mainland in about half a month.
• Gu Linyu, Zhou Xiyi, and the other researchers took the cable-car elevator down to the Tower of Babel in Chasing Sun City.

Gu Linyu, Zhou Xiyi, and their colleagues arrived in Chasing Sun City and settled into the tropical aerospace town. While exploring the coast, Gu Linyu and Zhou Xiyi discussed rapid sea-level rise, future settlement plans, and whether Non-Rejection Organs could enable animal-organ transplants.

• Li Qin guided Gu Linyu, Zhou Xiyi, and the others from the Tower of Babel to their dormitory area and explained Chasing Sun City's climate, layout, and aerospace-focused population.
• Gu Linyu and his colleagues bought daily necessities and food before exploring the city on shared electric scooters.
• At the eastern dock district, Gu Linyu and Zhou Xiyi observed mangroves submerged by rising seawater and discussed how quickly the Antarctic Solar Energy Development Plan could respond.
• Zhou Xiyi asked about bringing his wife and child to Chasing Sun City, and Gu Linyu suggested that his wife might find work as a teacher.
• Zhou Xiyi speculated that Non-Rejection Organs might allow animal organs to be transplanted into humans, and Gu Linyu considered the idea while noting that Jiang Miao might have already examined it.

Jiang Miao reviewed successful animal trials of artificial blood made from Blood Wood Cane and arranged for Hai Lu Feng Company to provide medical aid and conduct trials in East Africa. At the research base, he inspected brainless Plant-Human clones intended as test subjects for high-risk medical experiments and ordered more to be cultivated.

• A Hai reported that artificial blood performed as well as or better than natural blood in animal trials, and Jiang Miao ordered two thousand more trials within two months.
• He Jintang asked Hai Lu Feng Company to join an Asian Alliance medical mission to East Africa, and Jiang Miao agreed to test medical products and provide passenger airships to transport the teams and supplies.
• Jiang Miao instructed Li Zixuan to arrange the company's participation and resumed work at the Jiexi County research base.
• Jiang Miao and A Hai inspected sixteen brainless Plant-Human clones, and A Hai explained that each cost around 2.8 million yuan and took about half a year to cultivate.
• Jiang Miao ordered more dedicated cultivation rooms and told A Hai to tightly screen researchers and protect the clones' secrecy.