Recaps

The first Mars survival experiment ended after all volunteers passed their examinations, while Chen Mo awaited the Sci-Tech Library’s judgment on the terraforming project. He returned home to relax with Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and Mo Nv as plans began for the next volunteer trial.

• Pei Jie and the other Mars volunteers completed their final physical examinations without any abnormalities.
• Chen Mo reviewed Wushuang’s progress on the first-generation Brain-Controlled Virtual Helmet while awaiting the Sci-Tech Library’s assessment of the Mars project.
• After Mo Nv reported that the volunteers had passed their examinations, Chen Mo ordered continued terraforming and preparations for the second phase of volunteer trials.
• Chen Mo returned to the villa, where Xiao Yu and Zhao Min discussed Xiao Yu’s inability to conceive because Chen Mo’s evolution had caused reproductive isolation.
• Chen Mo explained that the first phase of the Mars survival project was complete and relaxed with Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and Mo Nv.

Chen Mo entered the Sci-Tech Library to unlock the next stage and endured a transformation that spread golden threads through his body. After he lost consciousness, the Sci-Tech Ball turned purple, while Xiao Yu and Mo Nv remained with him, unsure what would happen next.

• Chen Mo warned Mo Nv not to take him to a hospital or treat him, then touched the Sci-Tech Ball to unlock the next stage.
• Golden threads spread from Chen Mo’s palm through his body, causing unbearable pain as his cells and bones transformed.
• Mo Nv alerted Xiao Yu, who found Chen Mo struggling and took him to their home’s medical room despite his earlier warning.
• Mo Nv found Chen Mo’s vital signs stable and strengthening, and she and Xiao Yu suspected his body was evolving.
• Chen Mo’s body became filled with golden liquid, and he eventually lost consciousness and fell away from the Sci-Tech Ball.
• The Sci-Tech Ball turned purple as the golden light beneath Chen Mo’s skin faded and his complexion returned to normal.

After waking from a painful evolution, Chen Mo discovered that his blood had turned golden and his body had become far stronger. He gained Purple-Gold Authority in the Sci-Tech Library, learned of its faster-than-light spaceship mission and superpower research, then told Xiao Yu the truth about his evolution and the secrets he had kept from her.

• Chen Mo woke after thirty-four hours unconscious, comforted Xiao Yu, and learned she had kept watch without eating or drinking.
• Chen Mo tested his evolved body, saw golden threads appear across it, and damaged a steel force meter with a punch.
• Chen Mo entered the Sci-Tech Library, received Purple-Gold Authority, and found its mission was to manufacture a space-time curvature hyperspeed spaceship, including research on superpower awakening.
• Xiao Yu woke the next morning, clung to Chen Mo, and cried with relief as he comforted her and made her breakfast.
• Chen Mo showed Xiao Yu his golden blood, explained that his body and brain were evolving, and told her how the process began.
• Xiao Yu believed him, then scolded him for hiding the truth and recalled his promise not to make her cry.

Chen Mo began developing Dark Matter technology on Mars for a Space Curvature Spaceship while Mo Nv asked to spend the night with him. Elsewhere, Torrell’s team captured an alien species facing extinction, and Wushuang presented Chen Mo with a working brain-controlled virtual reality helmet.

• Chen Mo transferred Sci-Tech Library materials to Mo Nv and began building Mars factories to detect and extract Dark Matter for the Space Curvature Engine.
• Mo Nv shyly asked Chen Mo to sleep with her, and he considered trying to have a child with her.
• Lan Shi and Torrell identified a nitrogen-based Beastkin civilization fleeing its dying star, and Torrell ordered containers to capture some of its members for research.
• Torrell chose the Local Interstellar Cloud Region as the team’s next destination.
• Wushuang showed Chen Mo her first-generation brain-controlled virtual helmet, which Lin Zhiyuan had tested with several games.

Chen Wushuang’s Brain-Controlled Virtual Helmet impressed Zhao Min and Chen Mo, who approved an exclusive product launch with Wushuang presenting it. Wushuang brought the helmet to Ant Army’s Consumer Software Department to enlist Lin Zhiyuan’s team in testing and preparing promotional materials.

• Zhao Min praised Wushuang’s helmet and proposed an exclusive product launch, and Chen Mo approved it.
• Wushuang entered Ant Army’s headquarters and development area without an appointment, surprising security guard Lu Jiyuan and employee Zhou Xiaofeng.
• Wushuang told Lin Zhiyuan that Zhao Min wanted her to present the helmet and asked him to organize testing, user feedback, a presentation, and a video.
• Lin Zhiyuan agreed to help and revealed to the researchers that Wushuang was Chen Mo’s daughter and the helmet was a confidential first-generation virtual reality product.

Bai Liu learned that he had been invited to Ant Army Group’s gaming hardware launch and offered his viewers a chance to attend. The event centered on Wushuang’s newly developed Brain-Controlled Virtual Helmet, and Zhao Min’s promotional campaign drew the attention of gaming fans worldwide.

• Bai Liu won a match, then learned that Ant Army Group had invited him to its gaming hardware launch.
• Bai Liu announced the invitation on his stream and offered twenty fan slots for the event.
• Xiao Man confronted Wushuang for not telling her about the Brain-Controlled Virtual Helmet, then accepted Wushuang’s explanation and asked to try it.
• Ant Army Group invited prominent gaming streamers and professional esports players to the launch.
• Zhao Min promoted the confidential launch as an unveiling of “epoch-making gaming hardware,” attracting attention across gaming circles.

Mu Yanxin attended the Ant Army Group launch event, where Chen Wushuang revealed that she had designed the company’s new gaming product. The chapter ended as Wushuang unveiled the First Generation Brain-Controlled Virtual Reality Terminal, codenamed Pisces.

• Mu Yanxin arrived at the launch event and chatted with her fans while they wondered what product would be announced.
• Chen Mo and his colleagues encouraged Wushuang backstage before she prepared to present the new product.
• Wushuang took the stage as the product’s chief designer, surprising the audience with her age and confirming she was Chen Mo’s daughter.
• Wushuang explained that the product came from an independent research project she had pursued with her father’s approval.
• Wushuang revealed the First Generation Brain-Controlled Virtual Reality Terminal, codenamed Pisces.

Wushuang unveiled Pisces, a brain-controlled virtual reality headset, and explained its technologies and features at a launch event. Mu Yanxin was selected for a live King of Glory demonstration and put on the headset as the hero-selection screen appeared.

• Wushuang presented the Pisces headset and described its brain-control, visual-tracking, and wide-angle display technologies.
• Wushuang announced a live King of Glory trial featuring He Xiaoman and four randomly selected audience members.
• Mu Yanxin was selected as one of the trial participants and followed Ant Army Company staff to the experience area.
• A technician explained the first-person gameplay and warned that new users might feel dizzy or need time to adapt.
• Mu Yanxin sat down, put on the headset with staff assistance, and saw the King of Glory hero-selection screen.

Wushuang launched the first-generation brain-controlled virtual reality headset, and Jiang He and other guests tried its immersive version of King's Canyon. The launch ended with a huge preorder surge, while Wushuang asked Chen Mo for a little brother or sister as her reward.

• Jiang He entered King's Canyon in the virtual reality headset and experienced its lifelike first-person view as the match began.
• Wushuang showed the audience the players’ first-person feeds and explained how the perspective enabled new combat tactics.
• Xiao Man demonstrated her practiced skills by defeating Demon Seed Cheetahs, then led the players to victory against the simple AI match.
• Wushuang revealed the headset’s three prices, and the audience cheered and began placing preorders.
• Wushuang reunited with Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and Chen Mo backstage, then asked Chen Mo for a little brother or sister as her reward.
• Chen Mo received news that global preorders exceeded two million units in one hour, bringing presales to 50 billion.

Kong Xinyu received an immersive brain-controlled virtual reality headset as the technology transformed gaming and esports worldwide, while Wushuang rose to fame. Back at home, Xiao Yu discovered she was pregnant with Chen Mo’s second child, and he eagerly began making plans to care for her.

• Kong Xinyu received his deluxe virtual reality headset and eagerly tried the brain-controlled gaming experience.
• Major game companies launched virtual reality games and partnered with Ant Army Company, while esports leagues added virtual reality competitions.
• Wushuang became a celebrated figure in esports, and virtual reality gaming displaced traditional screen-based gaming over three months.
• Chen Mo trained against sparring robots, then joined Xiao Yu for breakfast at home.
• Xiao Yu became nauseated by the smell of porridge, took a pregnancy test, and told Chen Mo she was pregnant.
• Chen Mo celebrated the news, settled Xiao Yu on the sofa, and said he would arrange for his mother to help care for her.

Xiao Yu struggled with severe morning sickness, while Chen Mo cared for her and took her home after a shopping trip. Beyond the Solar System, Lan Shi and Torrell arrived safely after a dangerous space jump and set their spacecraft toward Earth.

• Chen Mo helped Xiao Yu rest and brought her cold grapes and yogurt, which she managed to eat without vomiting.
• Xiao Yu went with Chen Mo and Mo Nv to a mall, where she declined a parenting seminar activity asking Chen Mo to experience childbirth pain.
• Xiao Yu became nauseated again, so Chen Mo supported her and took her home, worried about her worsening morning sickness.
• Lan Shi and Torrell survived an unstable space jump and observed that the Solar System was small and remote.
• Lan Shi ordered the spacecraft to travel toward the Solar System's third planet.

Kong Cheng spotted an unknown object from the space station, while Chen Mo and Xiao Yu learned that visitors had arrived near Earth. The visitors were an alien expedition team preparing to capture human specimens, and Lan Shi asked Torrell what they should do next.

• Kong Cheng saw a strange object in space and froze when he examined it through an observation scope.
• Xiao Yu shared her unease with Chen Mo, made wishes for their baby and her husband, and joked that she was hungry.
• Mo Nv spotted visitors in the sky and showed Chen Mo and Xiao Yu a holographic image that shocked them.
• Lan Shi, Torrell, and their expedition team arrived near Earth and used Quantum Radar to assess human civilization.
• Torrell proposed capturing fifty thousand human specimens, and Lan Shi asked whether they should observe Earth or begin capturing specimens.

Chen Mo and world leaders watched an unidentified alien spacecraft and agreed to coordinate while trying to learn its intentions. The spacecraft’s crew captured the Space Station and stopped its escape pods, leaving Kong Cheng and the others trapped.

• Chen Mo told Li Chengzhi and the elderly leader that the spacecraft was not his and was likely extraterrestrial, and he agreed to help if the visitors proved hostile.
• The elderly leader contacted Eva, and they agreed to send a message to the visitors and prepare to face them together.
• Lizard Head and Torre found that they could not decipher Earth’s message and decided to capture Humanoid Race members from the Space Station.
• A small craft from the carrot spacecraft seized the Space Station and dragged it toward the larger vessel.
• A robot urged the Space Station personnel to escape in safety pods, but mechanical arms caught the pods and prevented them from getting away.

Chen Mo and Earth’s authorities reacted to an alien spacecraft capturing the Space Station, while the aliens used astronaut Kong Cheng to translate Earth’s messages. The aliens dismissed Earth as a low-level civilization and began sending craft down to collect biological samples and information.

• Chen Mo activated weapons and aircraft across his facilities, ordered Mo Nv to prepare a Safe House for Xiao Yu, Wushuang, and his parents, and told Zhao Min that aliens had captured the Space Station.
• Chen Mo sent footage of the capture to the authorities of every country, and the old man at the capital’s secret underground base ordered preparations for the worst while inquiry signals continued unanswered.
• The aliens placed a neural translator on Kong Cheng and used him to recite Earth’s welcome messages.
• Lizard Head explained that the aliens had captured the Space Station and humans to translate Earth’s language, while Torrell and Lan Shi discussed studying the planet and its people.
• Torrell launched thousands of capture craft toward Earth to collect biological samples and information about the civilization.

As alien devices descended across Earth and abducted people, Chen Mo secured Xiao Yu and Wushuang in a Safe House and prepared to confront two machines heading for his villa. Zhao Min arrived to help but Chen Mo sent her into the Safe House, leaving him and Mo Nv ready for battle.

• Chen Mo moved Xiao Yu and Wushuang into a fortified Safe House and left them there while he investigated the falling alien objects.
• Chao Yun spotted something in the distant scenery from a mountain summit, while an alien machine abducted Tomilia from her car.
• Zhao Min arrived at Chen Mo's villa and learned that alien machines were capturing people around the world.
• Mo Nv warned that two alien machines were approaching the villa, and Chen Mo ordered her to send Zhao Min to the Safe House.
• Chen Mo sealed his Nano Armor and told Mo Nv to prepare for battle as an alien machine neared the villa.

Chen Mo and Mo Nv destroyed an alien capture device, drawing the attention of the aliens aboard the spacecraft. After they identified Chen Mo as a possible Civilization Pioneer, Torrell sent two stronger capture devices toward Earth, and Chen Mo prepared to fight back.

• Chen Mo evaded an alien capture device and, with Mo Nv and nearby armored suits, destroyed it above his villa.
• Torrell examined the destroyed device and watched footage of Chen Mo and Mo Nv in their armored suits.
• Lizard Head explained how armored suits had helped the Ziwei Civilization rise, while Blue Master connected Chen Mo's emblem to the Martian city and suggested Chen Mo was a Civilization Pioneer.
• Torrell decided to use better capture devices and launched two toward Earth to capture Chen Mo for his biological research.
• Mo Nv warned Chen Mo about the new machines, and he ordered Planet Bombs, Nanobots, and other spacecraft to be sent up before flying toward the sea.

Chen Mo fought alien capture devices but could neither damage them nor escape, while the aliens prepared to capture him as their last target. The chapter left Chen Mo facing a sudden assault over the Atlantic Ocean, with dozens of capture ropes shooting toward him.

• Lizard Head ordered the spacecraft to destroy the Nano-bugs corroding its hull and disable their controller.
• Chen Mo and Mo Nv battled two alien capture devices above the Congo Rainforest, but their weapons could not harm them.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to protect Xiao Yu and the others and continue developing technology if he was captured.
• Governments suppressed public panic by passing off reports of alien abductions as rumors and special effects.
• Torrell identified Chen Mo as the Civilization Pioneer and decided to reel him in after Lan Shi finished recording.
• Over the Atlantic Ocean, an alien capture device suddenly charged Chen Mo and fired dozens of ropes at him.

After aliens abducted Chen Mo, his family and the authorities struggled with his disappearance while Zhao Min took charge of the Ant Army Group. The world’s powers began consolidating and accelerating their development in response to the alien threat.

• Mo Nv returned to the Safe House badly damaged and told Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and Wushuang that the aliens had captured Chen Mo; Xiao Yu collapsed and was taken to the hospital.
• Officials learned that Chen Mo had disappeared after an object struck his villa, and the old man feared his capture would set back human technological progress.
• Xiao Yu regained some resolve with Zhao Min’s help and asked Zhao Min and Mo Nv to manage the company while she recovered and prepared for the baby.
• The Xitu Armed Forces, backed by the Ant Army Group under Zhao Min, rapidly occupied the African Continent and began building up its industry and defenses.
• The Eastern nation, North American Group, Europe, and India also pursued consolidation and accelerated technological development as global priorities shifted toward the alien threat.

Chen Mo woke in captivity among one hundred thousand lifeforms captured by the Three-Eyed Civilization and learned that he had been selected for study because of his unusual intelligence and biology. He was transported to Green Water Star, where San Ya warned the captives to obey the planet’s rules.

• Chen Mo woke inside a hibernation pod surrounded by armored aliens and put on a consciousness-language translator.
• Torrell identified Chen Mo as an unusually evolved Civilization Pioneer and ordered San Ya to send him and several other lifeforms to Green Water Academy.
• San Ya agreed to arrange the transfer after Torrell explained that Chen Mo would enter the academy’s research class.
• San Ya brought the captives to Green Water Star and warned them to follow the planet’s rules or risk being killed.
• Chen Mo emerged from his pod and saw the unfamiliar, futuristic alien world.

After being released from hibernation, Chen Mo was taken to Green Water Academy and began learning how to survive on Green Water Star while planning to escape and return to Earth. Torrell decided to observe him closely but let him remain free, believing he could be a valuable research subject.

• San Ya opened the hibernation pods, and armored Three-Eyed People killed several captives who tried to flee before distributing Wrist Devices containing ten thousand star coins.
• San Ya took Chen Mo to Green Water Academy, gave him a vaccine, and told him to register within five hours.
• Chen Mo resolved to learn about the planet and plan his escape, then quickly mastered the academy's antigravity hover bike.
• Torrell and San Ya watched Chen Mo ride the hover bike and agreed to make him a priority observation target.
• Torrell said he was studying Chen Mo's genes and ordered San Ya to protect him while allowing him freedom.

Chen Mo enrolled at Green Water Academy and began learning the Universe Alliance's common language while concealing his plans to escape Three-Eyed Civilization's control. Meanwhile, Torrell learned that Ziwei Civilization had sent envoys to inspect Origin City, prompting the King to warn the Three-Eyed People not to interfere with them.

• Chen Mo entered Green Water Academy, registered as a student, and found his class in the R&D Department.
• Chen Mo attended Keri's physics lesson, then asked where he could study the universal common language.
• Keri directed Chen Mo to introductory language books in the library, where Chen Mo began studying with a text translator.
• Torrell learned that Ziwei Civilization had sent envoys to inspect Origin City.
• A Three-Eyed Person told Torrell that the King had prepared top-level identity cards for the envoys and ordered the Three-Eyed People not to investigate or offend them.

Chen Mo learned about the universe’s civilization hierarchy and the importance of battle armor, then left the library to pursue money and strength. Meanwhile, Zi Yun arrived in Origin City and secretly began investigating an unknown spatial fluctuation.

• Chen Mo read about the Universe Alliance, battle armor, and Battle Warriors, and realized he needed money and powerful armor to become strong and escape.
• A spacecraft bearing Ziwei Civilization’s emblem bypassed security and brought Zi Yun to Origin City.
• The kings of Origin City’s ten strongest civilizations welcomed Zi Yun and offered her territorial passes and guides.
• Zi Yun chose the Three-Eyed Civilization to provide a guide and departed with her attendants.
• Zi Yun learned that the spatial fluctuation’s location remained uncertain and ordered her attendants to conceal their investigation as a routine inspection.

Chen Mo sought work in Green Water Star’s battle armor industry and was hired as an apprentice by Jia, hoping to learn the technology he needed to escape. Meanwhile, Zi Yun’s team investigated spatial fluctuations near Origin City, and San Wen arrived to guide her around the city.

• The Three-Eyed King told San Wen to guide the Ziwei Civilization’s envoys and discreetly discover what they were seeking.
• Chen Mo explored Green Water Star’s commercial district and was rejected by more than a dozen battle armor repair shops because he lacked experience.
• Jia hired Chen Mo for two hundred star coins a day and told him to study technical books and practice dismantling old battle armor.
• Ze Qi reported that spatial fluctuations had appeared near Origin City, and Zi Yun ordered her team to narrow the search without drawing attention.
• San Wen introduced himself to Zi Yun and began guiding her around Origin City.

Xiao Yu gave birth to a son whose reddish-gold umbilical cord blood revealed that Chen Mo’s blood had changed during his periodic evolution. As Xiao Yu and Zhao Min planned to search for Chen Mo with advanced spaceships, he sensed the birth on Green Water Star and became more determined to escape.

• Xiao Yu gave birth to a healthy boy, and the doctors discovered that his umbilical cord blood was reddish gold.
• Zhao Min made the doctor and nurses sign confidentiality agreements and paid them to keep the blood secret.
• Xiao Yu told Zhao Min that Chen Mo’s body and brain periodically evolved, and that his blood had turned golden during his last episode.
• Mo Nv said she was working to extract dark matter and antimatter so they could build light-speed and superluminal spaceships to search for Chen Mo.
• Xiao Yu decided to wait for Chen Mo to name their son, while Mo Nv promised to keep developing the ships.
• Chen Mo felt an inexplicable joy, guessed that Xiao Yu had given birth, and resolved to escape sooner as Jia told him about his long life on Green Water Star.

Zi Yun toured the space around Origin City while Zhao Min ordered Army Ant to prepare for interstellar exploration and search for Chen Mo. On Green Water Star, Chen Mo’s repair skills led him to help Ke’er with her broken Bluebird battle armor.

• Zi Yun asked San Wen about Origin City’s sights and decided to visit its Asteroid Belt.
• Zhao Min told Army Ant’s leaders to prepare the Xitu Armed Forces for interstellar warfare, saying they would explore space within three years to find Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo left Jia’s repair shop after gaining enough battle armor repair experience to work independently, though he still lacked money for his own armor.
• Ke’er’s Bluebird battle armor broke down, and she called Huan for help while waiting by the roadside.
• Chen Mo stopped when Ke’er called out and agreed to inspect her battle armor’s faulty flight system.