Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo returned home to celebrate Xiao Wushuang clearly saying “dada,” while an anonymous dossier exposed RS Organization members behind Angola’s upheaval and drew furious reactions from intelligence agencies. The United States, Britain, France, and other countries agreed to begin a quiet investigation and manhunt for Reedman.

• Xiao Wushuang clearly called Chen Mo “dada,” and he thanked Xiao Yu for caring for her before the family went to dinner.
• Linna received an anonymous dossier identifying Neto, Mbo, Makani, and Murmi as RS Organization members and linking them to the overthrow of Vasoren.
• Linna classified the dossier as top secret after concluding its evidence was likely genuine and realizing the CIA had helped RS Organization members seize power in Angola.
• Lieov and Russian Security Bureau officials celebrated the revelations, then ordered surveillance and considered sending the dossier to the Americans and Europeans.
• Chen Mo’s dossier enraged officials in the United States, Europe, and other countries, who kept the information secret and focused their attention on Reedman.
• The leaders of the United States, Britain, France, and several other countries agreed to prepare a quiet investigation and manhunt for Reedman.

After CIA agent Evan confirmed that Reedman lived on the island, the agency prepared an assassination operation against him. Chen Mo learned that the Angel Sword Operation was scheduled to begin the next morning in Angola.

• Reedman told Poison Rose to wait two months before choosing their next target, while Evan photographed Reedman fishing near the island.
• Evan sent the photographs to CIA headquarters, and Koppe told Director Linna that Reedman had been confirmed at the island.
• Linna ordered the intelligence sent to Washington, where officials prepared the Angel Sword Operation to assassinate Reedman.
• Mo Nv told Chen Mo that the operation was scheduled for eight-thirty the next morning.

Chen Mo watched as an American assault team launched its operation to hunt Reedman, while Washington and the CIA followed the live feed. Grant’s team reached Reedman’s island and began its descent toward the villa.

• Chen Mo left Xiao Yu and went to Building No. 1 to watch the operation with Mo Nv.
• Washington officials and CIA director Linna watched the assault team’s live feed and awaited the mission’s outcome.
• Grant prepared his team aboard the aircraft after reviewing their plan to capture Reedman on the island.
• The helicopters reached the island, and Grant spotted the villa beneath them.
• After the pilot brought the helicopter to a hover above the villa, Grant ordered the team to move and fast-roped into the courtyard.

Sea Leopard Commando launched a helicopter assault on Reedman’s villa, while Reedman ordered Lirik to activate the Death God Plan before the call was cut off. Chen Mo and the CIA traced the signal to another island and suspected it was connected to the biological research facility.

• Tu Men spotted a Stealth Black Hawk overhead and warned the guards of an enemy attack, but Sea Leopard Commando killed him and stormed the villa.
• Grant led the assault toward the villa’s main entrance as explosions and gunfire erupted.
• Poison Rose told Reedman that Sea Leopard Commando had attacked, and Reedman concluded they could not escape.
• Reedman called Lirik and ordered him to activate the Death God Plan before Chen Mo cut off the satellite signal.
• Chen Mo traced the signal to another island and suspected the Death God Plan was connected to a biological terror plot.
• Linna ordered the CIA to investigate the signal’s exact location after it vanished before they could pinpoint it.

Grant’s assault team killed Reedman, who detonated explosives rather than surrendering, while Chen Mo feared the consequences of Reedman’s final order. Lirik began the Death God Plan by taking a blood-red bacterial strain from the underground institute and destroying the facility with its researchers inside.

• Grant’s team suffered injuries from suicide-vest blasts but reached Reedman and Poison Rose; Reedman detonated his explosives, killing himself, while the assault team took no fatalities.
• After the Angel Sword Operation ended, Chen Mo told Mo Nv to monitor the enemy and alert him to any new infectious disease.
• Lirik received a message ordering him to initiate the Death God Plan and decided to act, believing Reedman had likely died.
• Lirik retrieved a blood-red bacterial strain from the underground research institute and had his team place explosives and incendiary bombs throughout it.
• Lirik and his team left for a yacht, then detonated the institute, burying the researchers in the fire and explosions.

Chen Mo warned Zhao Min to stay put while he prepared Electron-based Ink, and global revelations about Reedman’s network upended Angola and embarrassed the United States. As the aftermath unfolded, Lirik and other operatives injected themselves with red liquid and began traveling toward destinations around the world.

• Chen Mo warned Zhao Min not to travel for the next month or two, then began preparing Electron-based Ink to advance his 3D printer.
• The United States announced that the Sea Leopard Commando had killed Reedman, but revelations about his influence over Angola and Western support for the rebels sparked global outrage and confusion.
• The United States issued wanted notices for Mbo, Murmi, Makani, and Lirik, then announced the capture of Mbo, Murmi, and Makani.
• A dossier Chen Mo had sent to other countries spread online, exposing the CIA’s actions and intensifying criticism of the United States.
• Vasoren returned with the military’s support, Ansky resumed command, and Angola began purging people linked to Mbo and his associates.
• Lirik watched news of Reedman’s death, while men in several locations injected red liquid and set out by plane, ship, and other transport as Death’s Scythe began to take shape.

Chen Mo took Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, Xiao Wushuang, and Mo Nv shopping, where Mo Nv embarrassed him by revealing why she chose a dress. After warning several countries about the RS Organization’s revenge plan and seeing its members arrested, Chen Mo grew uneasy at the group’s silence until a video of Reedman appeared online.

• Chen Mo and his group visited a luxury clothing store, where Xiao Yu and Zhao Min persuaded Mo Nv to try on several outfits.
• Mo Nv chose a dress because Chen Mo had looked at her longest in it, embarrassing him in front of Xiao Yu and Zhao Min.
• After two days of shopping and relaxation, Chen Mo returned his attention to the 3D printer project and had Mo Nv warn several countries about the RS Organization’s possible revenge plan.
• Zhao Min canceled her overseas plans, while Angola continued arresting people connected to Mbo, Makani, and the other RS members.
• Nearly a month passed as the RS Organization fell silent and its influence was dismantled, leaving Chen Mo uneasy before a video of Reedman appeared online.

Reedman’s posthumous video announced that the RS Organization’s Death God Plan had begun, triggering worldwide panic and renewed preparations for bioterrorism. Chen Mo warned Xiao Yu to take Wushuang to their hometown while he stayed behind to prepare for the coming threat.

• Stanley watched Reedman’s video, in which Reedman blamed war and revenge for his actions and announced the start of the Death God Plan.
• Stanley feared another viral attack and urged his family to flee to a sparsely populated area as the video spread and people began seeking shelter.
• Chen Mo watched the video and told Xiao Yu to take Wushuang to their hometown and avoid crowds while he remained in Bin Hai City.
• Chen Mo entered the Sci-Tech Library to review medical knowledge and prepare to help stop the impending disaster.
• Health authorities and hospitals around the world issued warnings, prepared isolation facilities, and restarted vaccine and drug development efforts.

Violent crimes and bizarre deaths erupted around the world as people experienced terrifying hallucinations and mental breakdowns. In Paris, Dr. Bean discovered a new virus in the blood of several suspects and feared it was connected to the RS Organization’s Death God Plan.

• Li Yan hallucinated that his friends were bloodied and attacking him, then fought them in an Ottawa bar.
• Aisha was shot by her boyfriend David, who left the apartment as gunfire sounded outside.
• Nino witnessed a terrified woman jump from a building in Marseille after screaming that she had seen a ghost.
• Reports of violent incidents, hallucinations, and bizarre suicides spread across Europe and North America.
• Dr. Bean announced that he had found a new virus in five suspects’ blood and suspected it was the cause of the global mental disturbances and part of the Death God Plan.

The Reedman Virus outbreak spread worldwide, causing violent episodes, deaths, and widespread panic as governments struggled to contain it. At Hughes Medical Institute, Judson reported that the virus had a long incubation period and caused fatal hemorrhaging, while researchers still had no test, treatment, or vaccine.

• The WHO named the RS Organization's virus the Reedman Virus and issued a Level 6 warning as cases and deaths climbed across dozens of cities and countries.
• Governments suspended flights, tightened inspections, and imposed quarantines and closures, while public anger and fear grew.
• Blake saw a patient in Isolation Room 35 convulse, bleed from the nose and mouth, and stop breathing, then ran to alert a doctor.
• At Hughes Medical Institute, Judson briefed researchers that the virus caused hallucinations and heightened strength and violence before fatal internal bleeding, and that no test or treatment was available.

Chen Mo and the medical team developed an improved HX3 Agent that temporarily suppressed the Reedman Virus, and a patient regained consciousness after receiving it. The formula was licensed for global production, but the virus still lacked a cure or vaccine.

• After the Reedman Virus killed every patient in its first batch, Chen Mo and the medical team prepared a human trial of the improved HX3 Agent.
• The patient, Zhou Chengming, received the agent and gradually stopped struggling as the virus entered temporary dormancy.
• Zhou Chengming regained consciousness, spoke with the medical worker, and learned that he was infected and still needed treatment.
• Wu Bing, Shi Hongtu, and the medical team thanked Chen Mo, who warned that the agent's effect would fade and urged them to find a specific drug or vaccine.
• The Huaxia Center for Disease Control announced the team's results, and Starfish Company licensed the improved formula to twenty pharmaceutical companies for production.
• People around the world praised Chen Mo and the medical workers, but the Reedman Virus crisis continued because the agent only delayed the disease.

After the Nanoscale 3D Printer succeeded, Chen Mo entered the Sci-Tech Library seeking a way to stop the Reedman Virus. He obtained the Customized Vaccine System, a technology that could generate vaccines for different viruses.

• Wu Bing worried that the improved HX3 Agent would only delay Reedman Virus deaths for about a month.
• Mo Nv told Chen Mo that the Nanoscale 3D Printer had been assembled and showed him a successful test print.
• Chen Mo instructed Mo Nv to assemble more printers and decided to begin his biomedicine project.
• Chen Mo entered the Sci-Tech Library and reached for the glowing biomedicine book.
• Chen Mo received the Customized Vaccine System, which used adjustable genetic sequences to create immunity against different viruses.

Chen Mo chose to pursue Customized Vaccine Technology as a treatment for the Reedman Virus, despite the other experts’ doubts. He formed a research group with Wu Bing, while the rest of the team continued work on Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, as the first patients treated with improved HX3 approached the end of its one-month effect.

• Chen Mo insisted that Customized Vaccine Technology was his most promising research direction, arguing that improved HX3 could suppress the Reedman Virus but could not eliminate it.
• Wu Bing proposed splitting the medical team, with Chen Mo’s group studying customized vaccines and the others researching Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; Shi Hongtu accepted her plan.
• Wu Bing and her six researchers joined Chen Mo’s group, and Chen Mo assigned one trio to identify the virus’s protective antigen genes and another to build a customized-vaccine system platform.
• Chen Mo explained that successful customized vaccines could enable rapid production of targeted and mixed vaccines.
• As the first patients treated with improved HX3 neared the end of the drug’s effect, the medical community still had no breakthrough, and concern grew about the consequences.

The improved HX3 Agent failed on its first users, triggering relapses and deaths around the world as the Reedman Virus crisis worsened. With no cure available, governments established centralized isolation zones, and the chapter ends with the death toll still rising despite the virus’s spread slowing somewhat.

• Lindsay watched Mode relapse in their Belgian isolation room and realized the HX3 Agent might not protect patients for long.
• Tiven confirmed that the HX3 Agent had failed on a patient in Los Angeles and ordered staff to keep him restrained and monitor other rooms.
• Patients relapsed worldwide, and 227 people died in one day, sending infected people and medical workers into panic.
• Roche and Matt discussed the shortages at Victoria Hospital, and Matt proposed centralized isolation zones to reduce the strain on hospitals.
• The United Kingdom and other hard-hit regions established centralized isolation sites, while confirmed cases reached 70,000 and deaths continued to rise.

At Capital Tangshan Hospital, Chen Mo and Wu Bing’s custom vaccine partially improved a Reedman Virus patient’s condition, but testing revealed that toxic proteins in the vaccine could kill him. The team began preparing to identify and replace the toxic genes, leaving them hopeful that the vaccine could be made safe.

• At Hughes Medical Institute, researchers’ thirty-second drug trial failed as the Reedman Virus continued to spread and cause deaths worldwide.
• Chen Mo, Wu Bing, and their team rushed to examine a patient who had received their custom vaccine three days earlier and found him conscious enough to describe his pain, though his skin was covered in bruises.
• Chen Mo and Wu Bing reported that the patient’s improved mental state suggested the vaccine had an effect, but they could not tell whether his bruising came from an allergic reaction or poisoning.
• Chen Mo’s team tested the patient’s blood and found viral antibodies that could eliminate the virus, along with two toxic proteins linked to the vaccine’s mRNA.
• Chen Mo said the team had to find and replace the two toxic protein genes, and Shi Hongtu offered to bring in more genetic engineering experts to help.

As the Reedman Virus vaccine effort in Tangshan made progress, genomics experts from across the country gathered to help. Chen Mo told them a patient had died from two toxic proteins linked to the vaccine’s mRNA, and tasked them with finding and removing the genes responsible.

• Wang Haoyi agreed to join the urgent Tangshan effort after Director Liu told him the Reedman Virus vaccine project needed genomics experts.
• Yang Yunjia brought Yu Jun and Mi Shuangli to Tangshan to analyze the vaccine’s genes, while experts and researchers from across the country were called in.
• Chen Mo and Wu Bing entered a conference room with thirty-three genomics experts and researchers assembled to support the project.
• Chen Mo explained that the patient’s antibodies had increased and the viral count had fallen, but the patient had died before developing resistance because two toxic proteins had risen in his body.
• Chen Mo said the toxic proteins likely came from latent genes in the vaccine’s mRNA platform and asked the assembled researchers to locate and knock out those gene segments.

Chen Mo’s expanded team identified the gene sequences for both toxic proteins in the Reedman Virus and began testing multiple ways to restrict their expression in the vaccine. He arranged for infected patients to be sent to the hospital for vaccine trials as the six research groups started modifying the vaccine platform.

• Chen Mo and Wu Bing discussed the experts’ work, and Chen Mo admitted he planned to use the researchers’ help to accelerate vaccine development.
• The T1 group found its protein’s gene sequence, and two days later Yang Yunjia’s T3 group found the other sequence.
• Chen Mo assigned academicians to lead parallel experiments testing different methods of restricting the two genes’ expression.
• Chen Mo asked Shi Hongtu to send virus-infected patients to the hospital for trials, and Shi agreed.
• Chen Mo guided the six groups as they began modifying the vaccine platform.

Chen Mo’s team tested five modified vaccines on fifteen patients infected with the Reedman Virus, hoping to find a treatment before they died. Lin Junjun awakened after receiving Vaccine No. 2, and Chen Mo confirmed it had succeeded, leaving the team with a proven vaccine against the virus.

• Evan interrogated Lirik about the antidote, but Lirik said none existed and then died by taking poison.
• Chen Mo ordered five modified vaccines administered to fifteen patients whose infections had resisted the improved HX3 Agent.
• Four days later, Lin Junjun awakened after receiving Vaccine No. 2 and learned that the doctors had been treating her for Reedman Virus.
• Chen Mo examined Lin Junjun and found sufficient antibodies, no signs of poisoning or allergy, and no vaccine side effects.
• Chen Mo announced to the waiting researchers that Vaccine No. 2 had succeeded.

Reporters and people around the world gathered around live broadcasts as news spread that the Huaxia medical team might have made a breakthrough in a specific treatment for the Reedman Virus. The chapter ended with patients in quarantine zones watching the upcoming press conference in tense, hopeful silence.

• Fei Nan, Li Tiejun, and reporters from around the world hurried to the press conference after learning of the medical team's major announcement.
• Reporters and media outlets speculated that the team had made progress on a specific treatment for the Reedman Virus and prepared to broadcast the event worldwide.
• Sun Yanyu and her colleagues watched the coverage, while Yang Qingguo and his wife hoped the news could save their infected son, Yang Yang.
• People across Huaxia and America reacted with renewed hope as the press conference was broadcast, including Nison in Times Square and Frank in the Paris quarantine zone.
• Frank ordered soldiers to project the news for patients, and people in quarantine zones gathered silently to watch the press conference coverage.

At a global press conference, Chen Mo announced that the medical team had cured the first Reedman Virus patient and succeeded in developing a vaccine. The news brought relief and joy to people around the world, and Chen Mo declared that they had defeated death.

• Chen Mo and the medical team took the stage at the Capital International Convention Center as people worldwide watched in hope.
• Xiao Yu, Chen's Mother, Chen's Father, Zhao Min, company employees, families, and infected patients watched the livestream and waited for Chen Mo's announcement.
• Chen Mo announced that the first Reedman Virus patient had recovered, developed resistance, and confirmed that the vaccine project had succeeded.
• People across the world celebrated, while infected patients, their families, and frontline medical staff wept with relief.
• Chen Mo applauded the joyful reporters and said history would remember the day they defeated death.