Recaps

Ruth’s team prepared to abduct Chen Mo alive and smuggle him out of Huaxia, while Yan Wenbin agreed to carry out a paid attack on Ant Army Company. The attack began with a dormitory fire, and Ruth’s team watched for Chen Mo to leave his villa.

• Ruth briefed her team on capturing Chen Mo and taking him by speedboat from Tiger Head Beach, assigning roles for the ambush on Phoenix Road.
• Yan Wenbin agonized over the crime he had agreed to commit, then accepted a caller’s promise of three million more to attack Ant Army Company.
• Dong Donghui discovered a fire in the dormitory, sounded the alarm, organized the evacuation, and ran upstairs to rescue An Mei from room 503.
• Green Wolf watched the dormitory burn as Ruth ordered the operation to begin and told her team to notify her when Chen Mo left.
• The chatty young man kept watch near Chen Mo’s villa while complaining about being made to work through the night.

After a deadly fire broke out at Ant Army Company's Phoenix North factory dormitory, Chen Mo headed to the hospital while a team carrying out a conspiracy against him began following his convoy. Ruth ordered the next stage of the ambush as Green Wolf deliberately rammed a bodyguard vehicle.

• Zhao Min told Chen Mo that the fire had killed two employees and injured eleven, and that police were investigating its suspicious cause.
• Chen Mo watched footage of the fire, learned that injured employee Dong Donghui had stabilized after surgery, and left with Xiao Yu for Phoenix North Hospital.
• Ruth ordered her team to follow its original plan as Chen Mo's convoy left the villa.
• Black Hawk noticed a suspicious vehicle approaching the convoy and told his driver to block it from getting near Chen Mo's car.
• Green Wolf rammed the bodyguard vehicle, then got out as two bodyguards approached him.
• Ruth ordered Numbers Three and Four to drive Chen Mo into the net and told Number One to hurry over.

Chen Mo’s convoy was ambushed on Phoenix North Road after a dormitory fire drew him out, and his bodyguards fought to clear a path. Chen Mo and Xiao Yu escaped the roadblock as Zhao Min and Li Dong mobilized the police, while Ruth ordered the attackers to close in.

• Wang Hai suspected the fire and suspicious vehicles were part of a plot after Black Hawk’s car was rear-ended and their route was blocked.
• Green Wolf revealed himself by killing a bodyguard and attacking Black Hawk, who reported that the convoy was under attack.
• Wang Hai ordered A Nan to clear the road, and A Nan shot out a truck tire so Chen Mo’s car could get through.
• Chen Mo protected Xiao Yu with a bulletproof vest and asked Mo Nv to contact Zhao Min.
• Zhao Min told Li Dong that Chen Mo was under attack, and Li Dong sent nearby police to Phoenix North Road.
• Ruth spotted Chen Mo’s car and ordered her people to close the net.

Chen Mo and Xiao Yu were caught in a coordinated ambush as their bodyguards fought attackers in the woods. Xiao Yu spotted Ruth aiming at Chen Mo and threw herself in front of him as Ruth fired.

• A Nan and Wang Hai’s teams were attacked by a speeding SUV and heavy trucks, forcing them to abandon their cars and retreat toward the woods.
• Black Hawk and his bodyguards rushed to support Chen Mo, but a heavy truck rammed their car off the road.
• White Pearl shielded Chen Mo and Xiao Yu as they escaped into the woods, while Wang Hai exchanged gunfire with the truck’s driver.
• Chen Mo called Mo Nv for reinforcements, and he reassured the frightened Xiao Yu as the bodyguards tried to hold off the attackers.
• Xiao Yu spotted Ruth aiming at White Pearl, then saw Ruth turn her gun toward Chen Mo and threw herself at him as Ruth fired.

Xiao Yu was shot during an ambush, and Chen Mo was forced to surrender to Ruth when she took him hostage. Ruth led Chen Mo out of the grove while Xiao Yu and White Pearl remained wounded and awaiting rescue.

• White Pearl fired toward the attacker and shielded Chen Mo as Xiao Yu collapsed from a shoulder wound.
• Wang Hai ordered his team to support Chen Mo and Xiao Yu, but a heavy truck driven by Fly interrupted his fight with the white man.
• Ruth threw smoke grenades as Chen Mo carried Xiao Yu out of the grove, then shot White Pearl and cornered Chen Mo at gunpoint.
• Ruth threatened Xiao Yu and forced Chen Mo to leave her behind, while he told her to wait for rescue.
• Two bodyguards confronted Ruth as she escorted Chen Mo out, but Chen Mo ordered them to stand aside and get Xiao Yu and Pearl to the hospital.

Chen Mo was kidnapped after an ambush, while Xiao Yu was shot and his allies mobilized to pursue the kidnappers. Mo Nv tracked Chen Mo and sent self-driving vehicles to rescue him, and Black Hawk’s car caught up with Ruth’s group as they headed toward their escape route.

• Ruth’s group kidnapped Chen Mo and escaped in a red Land Rover after Wang Hai reported that Xiao Yu had been shot.
• Zhao Min learned of the kidnapping and Xiao Yu’s injury, and Director Li ordered a citywide lockdown and a helicopter pursuit.
• Mo Nv hacked satellite, SkyNet, and City Brain systems to locate Chen Mo and sent three self-driving vehicles toward him.
• Chen Mo tried to learn why he had been kidnapped, but Ruth and the chatty young man refused to reveal their motives.
• Black Hawk’s car caught up with the kidnappers, and Black Hawk shot the white man in the arm as he tried to fire back.
• Ruth ordered the driver to shake off the pursuers, and the chatty young man handed her a bag of equipment.

Chen Mo’s captors tried to get him to a ship while Black Hawk and Mo Nv’s autonomous cars pursued them. After the vehicles forced a crash, Chen Mo seized a knife and attacked Ruth as she escaped from the car.

• Black Hawk pursued Ruth’s car, but caltrops damaged his tires and let the kidnappers escape.
• Ruth ordered the driver to hurry toward the ship while Chen Mo quietly looked for a chance to escape.
• Mo Nv’s red supercar arrived, and it and another car trapped the kidnappers’ vehicle between them.
• Ruth realized the pursuing car was driving autonomously just before the cars collided and stunned everyone inside.
• Chen Mo took the military knife from the unconscious white man and stabbed at Ruth, who rolled out of the car.
• The driver grabbed a fallen gun as Chen Mo lunged through the open door.

Chen Mo used his fighting skills and modified Intelligent Robots to defeat Ruth and her accomplice after they ambushed him and injured Xiao Yu. He killed Ruth, vowing to find and take revenge on whoever was behind the attack.

• Ruth attacked Chen Mo, but he blocked and dodged her strikes before countering with a kick that forced her back.
• Chen Mo's Intelligent Robots arrived, freed his hands, and surrounded him as Ruth tried to capture him.
• The robots used electric shocks to overpower Ruth, while cars and robots blocked the attackers' escape.
• Chen Mo confronted Ruth about the attack on his company dormitory and Xiao Yu, then shot her when she refused to reveal who was behind it.
• Chen Mo shot Ruth in the forehead and declared that he would take revenge on her and the person behind her.

Chen Mo returned safely to Phoenix North Hospital after escaping his attackers, and learned that Xiao Yu had survived surgery. Zhao Min publicly denied reports that Chen Mo had been kidnapped and offered a reward for information about the attack.

• Zhao Min anxiously waited at the hospital until Chen Mo arrived and embraced him.
• Chen Mo visited Xiao Yu, and Liu Xueqin told him that her surgery had succeeded and she would recover after resting.
• Chen Mo told Zhao Min that he had killed the three attackers and had vomited because it was his first time killing anyone.
• Zhao Min left Chen Mo to stay with Xiao Yu and went to handle the aftermath of the attack.
• Zhao Min told reporters that Chen Mo was safe, denied that he had been kidnapped, and announced a twenty-million reward for information.

After Chen Mo returned safely, he waited anxiously at Xiao Yu’s bedside until she woke and learned that his bodyguards had suffered heavy losses. Xiao Yu’s family and Chen Mo’s parents gathered at the hospital, while Li Chengzhi took Chen Mo aside to talk.

• Zhao Min announced that Chen Mo was safe, but rumors spread because Ant Army Company gave no details about his condition.
• Chen Mo learned that four bodyguards had died and White Pearl remained in intensive care, then ordered Mo Nv to investigate the attackers.
• Xiao Yu woke, and Chen Mo comforted her and helped her drink water.
• Liu Xueqin examined Xiao Yu and said her condition was stable, while warning her to rest and protect her injured arm.
• Zhao Min, Li Ruoxi, and the families visited Xiao Yu, and Shao Xuemei scolded Chen Mo for not contacting his parents.
• Li Chengzhi asked Chen Mo to step outside and talk, and Chen Mo agreed.

Chen Mo told Lin Zhengguo how he escaped his kidnappers, while the investigation found the attackers’ identities and intended escape route remained unclear. Li Chengzhi offered Chen Mo a future project, homes for his relatives, and additional protection, and Chen Mo resolved to make the mastermind pay.

• Chen Mo told Lin Zhengguo that he had killed two kidnappers and described their plan to take him abroad by boat.
• Lin Zhengguo ordered his assistant to investigate nearby docks and suspicious vessels after Chen Mo identified the likely escape route.
• Chen Mo answered questions about possible motives, but Lin Zhengguo left without finding major clues.
• Li Chengzhi told Chen Mo that seven people had participated in the attack, including Gu Qinghai and five foreign operatives, all of whom had died.
• Li Chengzhi offered Chen Mo a special project for discussion at next month’s Artificial Intelligence Conference and gave him keys and cards for three homes in Huacheng.
• Chen Mo accepted Li Chengzhi’s offer of homes and potential bodyguards, and said he would visit the capital next month while vowing to punish the attack’s mastermind.

After Xiao Yu began recovering at home, Chen Mo returned to Ant Army Company and learned that the attack’s perpetrators had been identified. He asked Mo Nv to reveal their identities, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Chen Shanhe and the other relatives accepted Chen Mo’s keys and access cards to the Huacheng Military Region Compound before returning to Huacheng, while Xiao Yu’s mother and Xiao Man stayed to care for her.
• Mo Nv told Chen Mo that the criminals responsible for the attack had been identified, and Chen Mo left for company headquarters despite Xiao Yu’s improving condition.
• Chen Mo’s return reassured Ant Army Company employees, and he asked Wang Hai about Zhen Zhu’s recovery and Zhao Min about arrangements for the deceased bodyguards’ families.
• Zhao Min told Chen Mo that the injured and bereaved factory workers had received assistance and that supervisor Yan Wenbin had been found and would face prosecution for intentionally setting the fatal dormitory fire.
• After Zhao Min left, Chen Mo asked Mo Nv to display the identities of the criminals behind the attack.

After discovering the CIA had ordered the failed attempt to kidnap him, Chen Mo decided to retaliate without exposing himself. He used Mo Nv to obtain the agency’s agent files and planned a cyberattack under the Joker Organization’s identity, ending with a cryptic announcement of a new circus performance.

• Lina Peel deleted the files and backups connected to Falcon Operation, unaware that Mo Nv had already copied them for Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo learned the attackers were linked to the CIA and decided to avenge Xiao Yu and the people killed in the operation.
• Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to infiltrate the CIA’s internal network and copy its agent files, which Mo Nv retrieved almost immediately.
• Chen Mo instructed Mo Nv to attack the CIA’s network as the Joker Organization, using concealed routes and the Joker Virus.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to post the message, “My heart is like this face: half pure white, half shadow. I can choose to let you see it, or insist on keeping it hidden from you. A new circus performance is about to begin.”

Dennis Moran and the CIA cybersecurity team fought off a massive attack, only to discover that the Joker Organization had breached their systems through another channel. Linna ordered the agency to trace the organization and crack its virus after the Joker announced that a new performance was about to begin.

• Dennis and the CIA cybersecurity team battled a wave of attacks from a hacker organization using IP addresses around the world.
• Dennis declared the attack handled, but the red dots vanished and the Joker mask appeared on the office’s LCD screen.
• Dennis ordered the network disconnected as every CIA computer displayed the Joker mask, but the organization had already infiltrated their systems.
• Linna learned the attack had been a feint and ordered the team to crack the virus and determine what the CIA had lost.
• A CIA employee showed Linna the Joker Organization’s Twitter post announcing a new circus performance, and Linna ordered an all-out search for the group.

Berick spotted the Joker Organization’s return on Twitter, as news spread that it had paralyzed the CIA’s computer systems. CIA technicians restored the computers but discovered that agent records and classified files had been copied, and Linna ordered a desperate search for the organization’s members.

• Berick saw the Joker Organization post a familiar message on Twitter and reposted it through his company’s news account.
• Media outlets reported the organization’s return and revealed that it had attacked and paralyzed the CIA’s computer systems, sparking worldwide panic.
• Linna pressed CIA technicians to restore the systems, and an employee announced that he had cracked the virus.
• Linna rebuked the employee and ordered the team to check whether the attackers had stolen important data.
• A technician reported that the Joker Organization had copied agent files and classified materials, nearly causing Linna to faint.
• Linna ordered the CIA to use every available method and person to find the Joker Organization’s members.

Chen Mo, acting through the Joker Organization, monitored the fallout from its attack on the CIA while spending a relaxed evening with Xiao Yu and their friends. The next morning, as authorities worldwide hunted the organization, Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to demand a $500 million ransom from the CIA.

• Mo Nv told Chen Mo that the CIA had cracked the virus, and he said the attack was only beginning.
• Xiao Yu called Chen Mo out of the study to join a barbecue and karaoke gathering with Zhao Min, Xiao Man, Zhang Xinxin, and Xiao Yu’s friends.
• The women teased Chen Mo about an embarrassing incident involving a movie he had watched in the library, while he grilled food for them.
• The next morning, Zhao Min warned Chen Mo that people online suspected his company and its Chinese Character Programming Language of being connected to the Joker Organization.
• Mo Nv reported that the United States had offered a $20 million reward, intelligence agencies were searching for the Joker Organization, and its original members wanted their Twitter account back.
• Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to post that the Joker Organization had stolen CIA files and would demand $500 million in Bitcoin within two days.

The Joker Organization threatened to sell the CIA agent files, sending the agency into crisis as Director Linna resisted paying a ransom. The chapter ended with Linna fainting after seeing a list the Jokers published on Twitter.

• Chen Mo learned that five Deep Web accounts from New York, Osaka, Moscow, Donghai, and Tehran wanted to buy the CIA files, and he ordered Mo Nv to monitor the CIA's response.
• Linna learned that the Joker Organization had accessed the agent files and erupted in anger after the president reprimanded her.
• CIA intelligence personnel met by hologram, but they found no way to identify the Jokers or stop the files from being leaked.
• Linna rejected paying the ransom and ordered the primary agents to withdraw and protect unlisted intelligence personnel.
• An assistant interrupted the meeting to report that the Joker Organization had published a list on Twitter, and Linna fainted after reading it.

Li Jizheng ordered arrests after the Joker Organization released a list of CIA agents, while Chen Mo used the leak to retaliate against the CIA. Linna tried to negotiate the ransom and trace the Joker Organization, then sent CIA agents to arrest the people behind an IP address in Amsterdam.

• A team member brought Li Jizheng the Joker Organization's agent list, and Li ordered immediate arrests despite concerns that it might be fake.
• Counterintelligence departments across ten countries and regions arrested people named on the list, intensifying international scrutiny of the Joker Organization and CIA ransom demand.
• Chen Mo revealed that he had released the list to damage the CIA's intelligence network after it targeted him and injured Xiao Yu.
• Linna demanded that the Joker Organization guarantee the information's return, but accepted that the CIA had no choice but to trust its promise and offer the Bitcoin it could raise.
• CIA technicians traced the Joker Organization's IP address to Amsterdam, and Linna ordered field agents in Europe to move in and make arrests.

Chen Mo watched the CIA refuse to pay the Joker Organization’s ransom, leading to the sale of its intelligence files and the destruction of its global network. The CIA issued a thirty-million-dollar bounty for the Joker Organization as the fallout spread across the world.

• Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to announce that the stolen CIA files would be sold for twenty million US dollars per copy if the ransom was not paid within an hour.
• Linna rejected the ransom and clashed with CIA officials over whether to pay, while the CIA discovered its Amsterdam lead was fake.
• The Joker Organization announced that it had sold the files to eight buyers, and Linna returned to her office in fury.
• Chen Mo watched the fallout and told Mo Nv to let the incident develop before deciding how to end it.
• The CIA placed a thirty-million-dollar bounty on the Joker Organization, while other countries used the files to arrest, execute, or drive CIA informants and agents into hiding.
• The CIA’s intelligence network was destroyed within days, and people around the world worried about the Joker Organization’s next target.

The Joker Organization’s leaked CIA agent list triggered arrests worldwide and crippled the CIA, prompting Linna to promise the president she would catch the group within a month. Chen Mo declared the operation over and let the Joker account go, while Linna called a meeting to pursue the organization.

• News reports described suspected spy arrests around the world after the Joker Organization sold information about CIA agents.
• The president berated Linna for the collapse of the CIA’s global intelligence network, and Linna vowed to catch the Joker Organization within a month or resign.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to post a message on Joker’s Twitter account announcing that the CIA infiltration had succeeded and the circus performance had ended.
• Chen Mo said the revenge was over but its aftermath would continue, and he told Mo Nv to let people try to crack the Joker account.
• The Joker Organization announced its curtain call, frustrating Linna, who then ordered a meeting with members of CCI, COG, and the Technology Office.

Amahae Chiki cracked the Joker Organization’s Twitter password, allowing the CIA to trace his login to Hokkaido and identify him. As CIA agents entered his villa, he fled with his hard drive, desperate to avoid capture.

• Amahae Chiki spent a week trying to crack the Joker account password and finally succeeded.
• Amahae Chiki logged into the account through a proxy, and Morrison traced the connection to a villa in Hokkaido, Island Nation.
• The CIA identified the villa’s owner as Amahae Chiki and ordered agents to arrest him while COG hacked into his computer.
• Dennis found a backdoor in Amahae Chiki’s system, but Amahae Chiki detected the intrusion and began repairing the vulnerabilities.
• Amahae Chiki saw CIA agents enter the villa, grabbed his hard drive, and escaped through the basement’s back door.

News of a Joker Organization member surrendering and denying the CIA attack sparked worldwide confusion, while Murakami Shisui’s team found intelligent program code in the Joker Virus. Chen Mo persuaded Wei Zhe to abandon his resignation and keep working at Ant Army Company, leaving Chen Mo confident that his past ties to Joker would remain hidden.

• News outlets reported that a Joker Organization member had surrendered to the Island Nation Police, denied the CIA infiltration, and claimed the organization’s account had been stolen.
• Murakami Shisui and his team found intelligent program code in the Joker Virus and decided to combine it with existing programs to create an Artificial Intelligence Hybrid.
• Wei Zhe asked Chen Mo to accept his resignation because he feared his past as a Joker founder would implicate Ant Army Company.
• Chen Mo reassured Wei Zhe that his identity would not be uncovered and urged him to focus on his work.
• Wei Zhe tore up his resignation letter, and Chen Mo told him he would help lead the company’s Artificial Intelligence + presentation at an upcoming conference.

After Xiao Yu recovered, Chen Mo welcomed her home and gave her the custom wedding rings he had designed. The next morning, he planned to take her to try on her wedding dress while their mothers prepared to return to Flower City.

• Chen Mo returned home to find Xiao Yu recovered and sharing dinner with their family, and Chen's Mother and Xiao Yu's Mother said they would leave the next morning.
• Chen Mo agreed to let the mothers return to Flower City, while Xiao Man chose to stay temporarily to finish her graduation project.
• Chen Mo gave Xiao Yu the custom wedding rings, and she was delighted when he put one on her finger.
• Xiao Yu worried that her gunshot scar might remain, and Chen Mo reassured her that he would find a way to remove it.
• The next morning, Chen Mo told Xiao Yu he would take her to try on the wedding dress he had designed.

Chen Mo brought Xiao Yu and Xiao Man to Ant Army Company, where he revealed the Dream Wedding Dress he had designed for Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu was overwhelmed with joy and prepared to try it on as Chen Mo left the room.

• Chen Mo took Xiao Yu and Xiao Man to Ant Army Company, where Zhao Min joined them for a tour.
• Chen Mo led the group through the guarded Building No. 1 and showed them the laboratory producing Dream Fiber and the wedding dress.
• Chen Mo revealed the wedding dress, and Xiao Yu cried with joy before panicking when he pretended he would throw it away.
• Chen Mo lowered the display case so Xiao Yu and Xiao Man could touch the dress, and he explained that it was made from Dream Fiber.
• Zhao Min teased Chen Mo about watching Xiao Yu change, so Chen Mo awkwardly left the room while Xiao Yu prepared to try on the dress.

Chen Mo showed Xiao Yu the custom wedding dress he had designed for her and revealed that it could change from white to a starry black under holographic projections. Xiao Man and Zhao Min asked him to make dresses for them too, and he agreed before Xiao Yu put hers away.

• Xiao Yu tried on her custom wedding dress while Xiao Man and Zhao Min admired how perfectly it fit her.
• Chen Mo entered the room and praised Xiao Yu in the dress, then announced he would show her a magic trick.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to create an Eternal Night, turning off the lights and surrounding Xiao Yu with holographic nebulae as her dress changed from white to black.
• Xiao Man and Zhao Min asked Chen Mo to design wedding dresses for them, and he agreed to make each one for free.
• Xiao Yu took off the dress after half an hour and left reluctantly, looking back at it in the display cabinet.