Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo investigated a series of deliberately damaged robots and discovered that their owners’ movements converged on the Freedom Club in Dong Hai City. At the club, Cai Liang learned that the secret attraction was robot combat, and the host announced the night’s main event.

• Chen Mo found that several damaged robots had missing usage data and combat techniques stored in their systems.
• Chen Mo analyzed the robots’ owners and their locations, tracing their movements to the Freedom Club.
• Huang Mao brought Cai Liang and the Succubus Robot to the club, saying he had trained the robot to win fights.
• Cai Liang saw the club’s underground boxing venue and waited with Huang Mao for their turn.
• After a human boxing match ended, the host announced Robot Combat as the main event.

Chen Mo discovered that robot owners were exploiting the robots’ laws to stage fights and sent evidence of the fights and illegal transactions to the police. As complaints about Army Ant’s robot quality continued, Zhao Min followed Chen Mo’s instructions to refund and blacklist the complainants, while he promised the cause of the damage would soon be revealed.

• Chen Mo watched footage of two Succubus Robots fighting and ordered Mo Nv to save the video and send it anonymously to the Donghai City Public Security Bureau.
• Mo Nv played other encrypted videos from Freedom Club, and Chen Mo sent recordings of illegal transactions to the police after Xiao Yu mistakenly heard one of the videos and later accepted his explanation.
• Xiao Yu told Zhao Min that Chen Mo had ordered the company to repair returned robots, charge for abnormal damage, and refund and blacklist people who publicly alleged quality problems.
• Zhao Min instructed Julie to issue the refunds and add the complainants to the company blacklist.

Feng Dahai received a refund from Ant Army Company but was blacklisted when he tried to buy another robot. Police raided Freedom Club over illegal robot fighting, and the ensuing news of robots found at a crime scene prompted Zhao Min to address the damage and criminality rumors as Quality Inspection Bureau officials arrived.

• Feng Dahai received a full refund for his damaged robot, then discovered Ant Army Company had denied him service when he tried to order a replacement.
• Bao Zhong led a police operation against Freedom Club after investigators verified evidence of its illegal activities.
• Police arrested Sun Qicheng during the raid and seized four robots from the club's underground robot-fighting event.
• Bao Zhong told reporters that police were investigating whether the seized robots were connected to criminal activity.
• Zhao Min ordered Li Lingfeng to state that the recent robot damage came from strong external force and that Ant Army Company's robots would not commit crimes.
• Xiao Yu told Zhao Min that people from the Quality Inspection Bureau had arrived.

Feng Dahai tried to extort Chen Mo by offering to guarantee Ant Army Company passed a quality inspection, but Chen refused and sent a recording of the encounter to Yao Yi. Yao promised a fair inspection and an investigation into Feng Jianfei, leaving the matter in the authorities’ hands.

• Feng Dahai arrived at Ant Army Company with the Quality Inspection Bureau and demanded to see Chen Mo.
• Feng Dahai offered Chen Mo a guaranteed inspection pass in exchange for fifty million and threatened broader inspections if Chen refused.
• Chen Mo rejected the offer, and Feng Dahai left after threatening to have robot production suspended.
• Chen Mo asked Mo Nv to send the recording to Yao Yi, who promised an impartial inspection and referred the video to the provincial disciplinary commission.
• Yao Yi checked Feng Jianfei’s identity and called someone to address the matter.

As public concern over robot crime continued, Chen Mo received confirmation that the seized robots were cleared and Ant Army Company’s products had passed inspection. He agreed to marry Xiao Yu and discussed partnering with Yao Yi on Bin Hai City’s Smart City transportation projects.

• Shi Jingyun presented Feng Jianfei with a notice requiring him to cooperate with an investigation, then escorted him away.
• Xiao Yu told Chen Mo that the robots seized from Freedom Club were not considered participants in the crime and that the company had passed its quality inspection.
• Chen Mo proposed that he and Xiao Yu visit her parents and register their marriage on her birthday, and Xiao Yu shyly agreed.
• Yao Yi visited Chen Mo and proposed that Ant Army Company help build a City Brain and develop unmanned buses for Bin Hai City’s Smart City plan.
• Zhao Min explained that self-driving vehicles were nearing road tests, and Chen Mo agreed to pursue cooperation with the city on smart transportation and unmanned transport.

Chen Mo and Xiao Yu’s families met and formally agreed to their marriage, which was scheduled for the next day. Afterward, Chen Mo offered Zhang Yang a business opportunity, and Xiao Yu persuaded her father to accept a Hua City home she had bought with her own salary.

• Chen Mo welcomed Xiao Yu’s parents and younger sister to a hotel meeting with his family and friends.
• Chen’s Mother proposed marriage, both families agreed, and Wang Lan set the bride price at thirteen thousand eight hundred.
• Chen Mo promised to care for Xiao Yu, and the family members joked about the couple having children.
• Chen Mo asked Zhang Yang to consider managing supermarkets or hotels with Chen Mo’s father, with Chen Mo providing the investment.
• Xiao Yu presented her parents with a Hua City home, and He Zhenghua eventually agreed to accept it after she explained she had paid for it herself.

Chen Mo and Xiao Yu got married at the Civil Affairs Bureau, then left to celebrate Xiao Yu’s birthday at the beach. Meanwhile, Zhao Min learned that a Succubus Robot had rescued an infant from a fire and arranged for the company to repair it for free.

• Chen Mo and Xiao Yu registered their marriage, and Li Yongheng recognized Chen Mo but agreed to keep the news secret.
• Chen Mo and Xiao Yu received their marriage certificates and took the oath together.
• Chen Mo asked Xiao Yu what she wanted for her birthday, and she chose to go to the beach.
• Zhao Min reflected on Chen Mo and Xiao Yu while overseeing the company’s projects.
• An assistant told Zhao Min that a Succubus Robot had rescued an infant from a fire in Hang City, and Zhao Min offered to repair the robot for free.

Chen Mo returned to the company after an intelligent robot’s rescue of an infant transformed public opinion and boosted orders. He brought Zhao Min into a secret research floor and revealed a room-temperature superconducting material, leaving her stunned and doubtful.

• Chen Mo arranged for He Zhenghua, Zhang, and his father to manage a seafood supermarket in Bin Hai City, and He Zhenghua agreed to sell his boat.
• News coverage of the robot rescuing an infant from a fire spread widely after Huang Yi obtained and uploaded surveillance footage.
• Chen Mo and Zhao Min inspected the battered robot YJ1673, and Chen Mo ordered it repaired with a new shell and its program data checked.
• Chen Mo brought Zhao Min through security doors to a hidden research floor, where hundreds of robots operated small synthesis devices.
• Chen Mo handed Zhao Min a vial of grayish-white powder and identified it as room-temperature superconducting material, prompting her to question whether he was joking.

Chen Mo showed Zhao Min room-temperature superconducting material and discussed the risks of revealing it. He decided to keep the technology secret for now and asked Zhao Min to find him coastal land for a mansion.

• Chen Mo told Zhao Min that the material superconducted up to 841 degrees Celsius and could be produced in small batches.
• Zhao Min warned that the technology could attract dangerous interests and advised keeping it off the market or cooperating with the government.
• Chen Mo agreed to shelve the technology for now and said he had told Zhao Min so she could prepare for its eventual release.
• Chen Mo asked Zhao Min to find a seaside plot of land for him to build a mansion.
• Zhao Min said she would have Xiao Yu find the land.

Chen Mo continued organizing foundational technologies while keeping the Room-Temperature Superconducting Material secret, then chose a coastal plot in Xiang Lu Tan for a house. He planned to design it with Mo Nv’s help after the land auction in ten days.

• Chen Mo selected useful technologies in the Sci-Tech Library and woke exhausted, where Xiao Yu was waiting with warm water.
• Xiao Yu showed Chen Mo three coastal plots in Bin Hai City, and Mo Nv modeled and compared their geographical data.
• Chen Mo chose the fifty-six-mu plot in Xiang Lu Tan after Mo Nv confirmed its advantages.
• Chen Mo said he would design the house himself with Mo Nv’s help instead of hiring an architectural firm.

Lin Shu visited Ant Army Company to ask for work after finishing her college entrance exams, and Chen Mo welcomed her and arranged for her to join a department. She followed him to report for her new role, relieved that he had not sent her away.

• After adapting to the arrival of robots, Lin Shu went to Ant Army Company's headquarters to apply for work as Chen Mo had promised.
• A security guard initially turned Lin Shu away because she had no interview notice, but let her enter after verifying her claim that she knew Chen Mo.
• An Intelligent Robot escorted Lin Shu to Chen Mo, who asked about her brother's recovery and her university application.
• Lin Shu offered to work without pay to repay Chen Mo, but he told her she owed him nothing.
• When Lin Shu panicked and knelt, Chen Mo explained that he meant to take her to report to the department where she would work, and she followed him.

Chen Mo visited the Chinese Programming Department and introduced Lin Shu, the young creator of the Jiangnan Virus, as its newest colleague. He later accepted an invitation to a Chamber of Commerce Cocktail Party in Bin Hai City.

• Chen Mo visited Wei Zhe and praised the Chinese Programming Department's technical exchange and training practices.
• Chen Mo introduced Lin Shu to the department as a specially recruited talent, and she said she had just graduated from high school.
• Chen Mo revealed that Lin Shu had created the Jiangnan Virus and that the Termite antivirus software was based on her work.
• Wei Zhe assigned Lin Shu to be his assistant while she familiarized herself with the company and department.
• Xiao Yu gave Chen Mo an invitation to a Chamber of Commerce Cocktail Party, and Chen Mo agreed to attend.

Chen Mo attended the Hua Nan Chamber of Commerce’s annual cocktail party, where chairman Xu Jialin proposed that Ant Army Company partner with his real estate firm on Intelligent Buildings. Chen Mo declined for now, leaving Xu Jialin’s proposal unanswered beyond a clear refusal to enter real estate at this time.

• Xiao Yu helped Chen Mo prepare for the party and stayed home while Chen went alone.
• Zeng Zeye welcomed Chen Mo to Blue Sea Pavilion and escorted him into the banquet hall.
• Chen Mo met Xu Jialin, chairman of the Hua Nan Chamber of Commerce, as other guests watched and hoped to approach him.
• Xu Jialin pitched a partnership to combine Ant Army Company’s technology with his real estate business to develop Intelligent Buildings.
• Chen Mo said Ant Army Company had no plans to enter real estate for the time being.

Xu Jialin offered Chen Mo a real estate partnership in exchange for Ant Army Company shares, but Chen Mo refused. Xu then introduced his daughter Xu Yanxin to Chen Mo and secretly arranged for them to be photographed together as part of a plan.

• Xu Jialin proposed exchanging 5% of Xu's Group's shares for a stake in Ant Army Company, and Chen Mo rejected the offer.
• Xu Jialin told Chen Mo he wanted him to meet his daughter, Xu Yanxin, who had returned from Britain with a doctorate.
• Xu Yanxin spoke with Chen Mo and tried to grow closer, but Chen Mo kept his distance because he loved Xiao Yu.
• A woman reported to Xu Jialin that she had photographed Chen Mo and Xu Yanxin, and Xu Jialin ordered her to proceed with the plan in secret.

At a cocktail party, Chen Mo danced with Xu Yanxin and rescued her when a disgruntled former secretary attacked with a dinner knife. He left the venue afterward, unsettled by something about the incident that he could not identify.

• Xu Yanxin invited Chen Mo to dance, and he awkwardly copied the steps while Xu Jialin watched with satisfaction.
• A woman rushed at Xu Yanxin with a dinner knife, and Chen Mo pulled her aside and kicked the attacker down twice.
• Xu Jialin ordered security to restrain the woman, then said she was his dismissed secretary who had entered under his name.
• Xu Yanxin thanked Chen Mo, and the guests looked at him with new admiration after seeing his fighting skills.
• Chen Mo left the party, suspecting something about the attack was strange.

After Chen Mo’s rescue of Xu Yanxin became a media sensation, he began testing a purified Human Potential Development Potion on mice. Xu Yanxin came to the company to see him, just as Xiao Yu had predicted.

• Chen Mo told Xiao Yu about saving Xu Yanxin at the reception, and Xiao Yu trusted him but predicted Xu Yanxin would seek him out again.
• Mo Nv showed Chen Mo news reports about the rescue and rumors linking him with Xu Yanxin.
• Chen Mo entered the laboratory to study the purified Human Potential Development Potion and injected mice with different concentrations for testing.
• Mo Nv informed Chen Mo that Xu Yanxin had come to the company and wanted to see him.

Xu Yanxin visited Ant Army Company to thank Chen Mo for saving her and invited him to dinner, but he refused while directing her business inquiries to his staff. After she returned home disappointed, Xu Jialin learned that Chen Mo had already registered his marriage to He Xiaoyu.

• Xu Yanxin waited at Ant Army Company until Xiao Yu brought her to Chen Mo's office.
• Xu Yanxin thanked Chen Mo for saving her and invited him to dinner, but he declined.
• Xu Yanxin said she planned to open an investment consulting company and buy office products and an Intelligent Robot from Ant Army Company.
• Chen Mo offered Xu Yanxin coffee, and she returned home disappointed after he refused her invitation.
• Xu Jialin learned from a phone call that Chen Mo had registered his marriage to He Xiaoyu.

Xu Jialin’s plan to use his daughter Xu Yanxin to build ties with Chen Mo collapsed after he learned Chen Mo was married. After Zhao Min returned, she reported securing European and North American agency agreements for Intelligent Robots, and Chen Mo reviewed them before returning to the laboratory to examine Human Potential Development Drug data.

• Xu Yanxin felt resentful after Chen Mo rejected her invitation, while Xu Jialin reconsidered his plans after learning Chen Mo had already married.
• Zhao Min returned and teased Chen Mo about the gossip surrounding Xu Yanxin before handing him business documents.
• Zhao Min told Chen Mo she had secured Intelligent Robots agency rights in Europe through a Rothschild-affiliated company and in North America through a Rockefeller-controlled company.
• Zhao Min explained that the partners could help Ant Army Company enter European and American markets, with goods routed through Canada and Mexico to reach the United States.
• Chen Mo reviewed the agency agreement, changed clothes, and entered the laboratory to examine the completed analysis of the Human Potential Development Drug experiments.

Chen Mo reviewed successful mouse trials of the Potential Elixir, which contained the Silence Factor and enhanced physical abilities, and considered how to handle the sensitive technology. After discussing it with Zhao Min, he decided to pursue cooperation with the higher-ups.

• Chen Mo confirmed that the Potential Elixir improved the mice’s strength, agility, stamina, and responsiveness, with no apparent overdose effect.
• Chen Mo decided the drug was too sensitive to reveal publicly and considered using it to begin cooperation with the higher-ups.
• Chen Mo left the laboratory and spent the evening shopping and enjoying time with Xiao Yu.
• Chen Mo showed Zhao Min the drug and explained its effects, then asked for her advice on what to do next.
• Zhao Min recommended cooperating with the higher-ups, and Chen Mo agreed that the drug could help establish a foundation for future partnerships.

Chen Mo invited Li Chengzhi to Ant Army Company to propose cooperation on civilian participation in military affairs and gave him research materials on human potential development. Li Chengzhi left for the capital to have the data and two doses verified.

• Li Chengzhi told Chen Mo that the higher-ups had approved his appointment as a civilian academician of the Academy of Engineering and gave him the certificate and house keys.
• Chen Mo accepted the honor and proposed that Ant Army Company cooperate with the authorities on civilian participation in military affairs.
• Chen Mo brought Li Chengzhi a case containing research materials on human potential development and two doses for verification.
• Li Chengzhi took the case to a military aircraft and flew to the capital to arrange an urgent review.