Recaps

Chen Mo expanded Ant Army Company into pharmaceuticals, advanced its operating system, and released a Chinese-character programming language while dealing with foreign spies targeting the company. The arc left Ant Army promoting the new language and Chen Mo building up company security and robotics.

• Chen Mo refused Altice Group’s demand for a 10% stake, and after European carriers blocked Ant Army Company, he shifted focus to domestic development.
• When Samsung cut off OLED supplies and high-end Butterfly Eye phones sold out, Chen Mo kept making the lower-spec model and directed Zhao Min to acquire pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies.
• Chen Mo acquired Jianghe Company and Lanhong Pharmaceutical, gave their research leaders a formula to study, and then completed a thousand-book task to enter the Sci-Tech Library as a Sci-Tech Apprentice.
• Old Shu gave Chen Mo seismograph technology and eight technologies to develop in sequence, while Chen Mo returned to work on the company and its research.
• Chen Mo donated twenty million to Binhai University, established the Ant Scholarship, and spoke to students about pursuing what they enjoyed and persisting at it.
• Chen Mo met Xiao Yu’s family, defended his thesis, and helped Ant Army Company develop a stable computer operating system before optimizing it himself.
• Mieko and Noda tried to steal Ant Army Company’s Intelligent Assistant, but Li Jizheng’s team arrested them and White Rat after tracking their operation.
• Chen Mo released the Chinese Character Programming Language and its free materials and compiler, asked developers to learn it, and recruited security staff as media and experts debated the language.

Chen Mo developed seismographs based on his earthquake early-warning research and tested them across the ocean, where one detected a major earthquake and drew international attention. The device’s success brought requests for deployment and sales, while the U.S. military and Island Nation sought to recover the remaining instruments.

• Chen Mo and Xiao Yu became lovers, while Chen Mo launched a Chinese Character Programming Language competition and began studying room-temperature superconducting silicon carbide.
• Chen Mo traveled to Yanjing for the China Internet Conference, showcased Ant Army Company’s robot, delivered a keynote on AI, and agreed to join the Academy of Engineering.
• Chen Mo assembled a seismograph and published an earthquake early-warning paper, but experts and media criticized it after international and domestic journals rejected it.
• Chen Mo arranged for seismographs to be tested in snowy regions and the West Pacific, and Wu Zhen joined the research effort as the team prepared six instruments for the Mariana Trench.
• Shi Tengchuan Ying’s crew salvaged one seismograph, and Chen Mo learned that the device’s chip had been destroyed before Mo Nv detected signs of an impending earthquake.
• Chen Mo posted a warning predicting a magnitude 6.0 earthquake, but a magnitude 7.9 quake struck the West Pacific, prompting media and netizens to retract their attacks and apologize.
• Carter’s U.S. warship recovered a seismograph, while Chen Mo demanded its return and agreed to provide twenty units for Chinese test zones.
• Chen Mo gave Wu Zhen the complete research paper as production began, and Zhao Min reported that earthquake-prone countries were asking about the device’s accuracy and price.

Chen Mo’s company capitalized on the earthquake warning, traded seismographs for EUV lithography machines, and faced a spreading virus that led to the Joker Organization’s attacks. The Joker crisis boosted Ant Army’s Termite System but left the company under suspicion, while Chen Mo began investigating Wei Zhe.

• Chen Mo warned the public about an impending West Pacific earthquake, then the magnitude 8.9 quake and tsunami devastated the Island Nation.
• Ant Army Company publicized the Island Nation’s return of its salvaged seismograph, and Chen Mo revealed that the device had been taken near the earthquake’s epicenter.
• Chen Mo learned that the United States had salvaged another seismograph, while Zhao Min arranged trades of detectors for EUV lithography machines from Intel and Samsung.
• Lin Shu’s antivirus program accidentally became a virus, and Chen Mo corrected it, helped her avoid criminal charges, and offered her money and a job.
• After hackers copied the virus code, the Joker Organization crippled London’s networks and demanded ransom, then named New York and Tokyo as targets.
• Zhao Min launched Ant Army’s Termite System with an Intelligent Firewall that could block the Joker Virus, drawing strong interest despite accusations that Ant Army had created the crisis.
• Chen Mo learned that someone linked to Microsoft had paid Joker to post a message thanking Ant Army, but he refused to accuse Microsoft without concrete evidence and asked Mo Nv to investigate Wei Zhe.

Chen Mo helped launch the earthquake warning network, proposed to Xiao Yu, and moved Ant Army Company into its new headquarters as its technology advanced. The company launched the Succubus Robot and secured a Middle Eastern distributor, but a growing backlash against robots and a coordinated smear campaign left the controversy unresolved.

• Chen Mo recruited Wei Zhe into Ant Army Company, denied any connection to the Joker Organization, and attended the launch of the Huaxia Earthquake Early Warning Network with the Chief.
• Chen Mo proposed to Xiao Yu, and after visiting her family and spending New Year with both families, they returned to Bin Hai City as Ant Army moved into its new headquarters.
• Zhao Min reorganized the company under Marching Ant Holding Company, while Chen Mo developed Intelligent Robot Chips and advanced the Superconducting Computer.
• Ant Army Company introduced the Succubus Robot for 4.88 million yuan, prompting debate about its price and the effect of robots on employment.
• Chen Mo refused Walid’s offer to buy company shares but agreed to let Kingdom Holding Group distribute Succubus Robots exclusively in the Middle East.
• Walid and Chen Mo announced their robot partnership, and Walid ordered two hundred robots for himself as regional interest in the product grew.
• Customers began using the robots, while online debate intensified over whether robots could endanger or control people.
• After foreign media and paid posters attacked Ant Army Company, Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to act, and the computers and accounts of five publicity companies were wiped out as the controversy continued.