Chapter Summaries

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.

Chen Mo diagnosed and repaired Ke’er's modified Bluebird Battle Armor by rewriting its Flight Control System, earning twenty thousand star credits. Ke’er returned to the dormitory and told Huan about Chen Mo and the malfunction, and Huan prepared to test the armor before confronting Lou Zhi.

• Chen Mo inspected Ke’er's Bluebird Battle Armor and found that its modified Flight Control System had crashed because the added engines caused program conflicts.
• With Ke’er's permission, Chen Mo rewrote the engine-control program and restored the battle armor, then accepted twenty thousand star credits from her.
• Ke’er returned to the dormitory and told Huan that Chen Mo had repaired the armor and that Lou Zhi had charged her over two hundred thousand credits for the faulty modification.
• Huan teased Ke’er about her interest in Chen Mo, then borrowed the repaired armor to test it before they went to confront Lou Zhi.

Chen Mo bought materials to develop a profitable battle armor material, while Huan tested Ke’er's modified Bluebird Battle Armor and discovered how dramatically its performance had improved. Huan asked Ke’er to contact Chen Mo about modifying armor for her, but Ke’er said he had no contact number.

• Chen Mo reflected on the Three-Eyed Civilization's experiments on Green Water Star and bought more than twenty-three thousand star coins' worth of materials to pursue a materials-based business.
• Huan tested Ke’er's Bluebird Battle Armor at Green Water Academy's combat training grounds while Lan Xiang challenged her to a match.
• The Bluebird's responsive controls and agility helped Huan evade every obstacle and finish with a score of 91, while Lan Xiang scored 83 after five collisions.
• Huan asked Ke’er to sell her the Bluebird, but Ke’er refused and told her to modify her own armor.
• Huan asked Ke’er to contact Chen Mo about modifying battle armor for her, but Ke’er said Chen Mo had no contact number.

Chen Mo began preparing materials to earn money while Mo Nv successfully extracted dark matter on Mars and Zhao Min launched plans for humanity’s superluminal ships and spatial jump points. Meanwhile, Zi Yun’s group searched near Origin City for a suspected Small Universe but could not yet confirm its location.

• Chen Mo returned to Jia’s repair shop, entered Jia’s private laboratory, and began preparing materials to sell.
• Mo Nv completed the dark matter extraction machine on Mars and successfully extracted dark matter.
• Zhao Min learned that extraction had succeeded and confirmed that conditions were ready for the next stage of development.
• Zi Yun’s group reviewed their search data and found no abnormal spatial fluctuations at the locations they had visited.
• Zi Mu warned that outsiders in Origin City might have heard rumors, but Zi Yun ordered the group to follow their plan while keeping the suspected Small Universe secret.

The Three-Eyed King suspected Ziwei Civilization’s visit to Origin City had a hidden purpose and ordered San Wen to observe the envoys. Meanwhile, Chen Mo brought his newly developed armor material to Free Market in Star Zero City, where he hoped to sell its formula and smelting process.

• The Three-Eyed King questioned San Wen about the route Zi Yun's spaceship had taken, then ordered him to keep watching the envoys and remember anything unusual.
• Chen Mo showed Jia a lightweight, durable armor material and said he wanted to sell its formula and smelting process.
• Jia warned Chen Mo that armor companies might cheat or threaten him and directed him to Free Market.
• Chen Mo traveled to Star Zero City and learned that Free Market was a gathering place for Free People, descendants of captured lifeforms who lacked legal identities and sought to escape Green Water Star.
• Chen Mo disguised himself, rented a stall in Free Market, and advertised the material formula and smelting process for sale.

Chen Mo sold an exclusive material formula and smelting process to Qi Shang for twenty million star coins, giving him funds to plan his escape from Green Water Star. He then bought a silver-gray little beast, which stayed in his apartment as he began programming an Artificial Intelligence.

• Chen Mo showed Qi Shang the material data, and Qi Shang paid twenty million star coins for the formula and smelting process after testing them.
• Chen Mo decided to use his new funds to build a Light-Speed Spaceship and escape Green Water Star.
• Chen Mo bought a caged silver-gray little beast for fifty thousand star coins after hearing its calls.
• Chen Mo brought the little beast to his apartment and opened its cage, but it stayed in the room and ate his fruit.
• Chen Mo discovered the little beast was female, and after he teased her, she ran to the door and cried angrily.
• Chen Mo began programming an Artificial Intelligence to help with his future technical development.

Chen Mo agreed to write a Flight Control System for Huan’s Pink Memories battle armor in exchange for its design blueprint. After finishing the system, he prepared to test the armor, leaving Huan with a newly functional concept suit and Chen Mo with a design he could modify for himself.

• Chen Mo refused Huan’s offer of five hundred thousand star coins, but agreed to help after Huan promised Ke’er would give herself to him.
• Huan and Ke’er took Chen Mo to a battle armor workshop, where a yellow-skinned modifier showed them Pink Memories, a suit designed by Huan.
• Chen Mo examined Pink Memories’ unusual engines and flexible design, then asked to use its blueprint as payment for writing its Flight Control System.
• Chen Mo spent two hours writing the system while Huan, Ke’er, and the modifier watched in amazement.
• After completing the program and holographic calibration, Chen Mo told Huan to try the battle armor.

Huan tested her custom pink battle armor during an aerial football match, while Chen Mo left Green Water Academy with Little Beast and began preparing to escape Green Water Star. He moved into a house in Clearwater City and set out to start building armor and planning his escape.

• Huan activated her newly made battle armor and joined an aerial football match with Ke'er and other armored students.
• Chen Mo left the match and returned to his apartment, where he fed fried egg to the Little Beast.
• Chen Mo packed to leave Green Water Academy, and the Little Beast followed him into his hover car.
• San Ya told his monitoring team to let Chen Mo leave and focus on unusual activity around the satellites.
• Chen Mo bought a house in Clearwater City, brought the Little Beast inside, and left to begin work on his battle armor and escape plan.

Chen Mo modified Huan's armor at Jia's workshop while considering how to build weapons capable of resisting the Three-Eyed Civilization. A spatial fluctuation drew Zi Yun and the Ziwei Civilization emissaries to Green Water Star, where they shut down surveillance and began investigating.

• Chen Mo moved out of Green Water Academy and asked Jia to use the workshop and optical computer to modify Huan's Pink Memories armor.
• Jia told Chen Mo he would not have a child in what he considered a cage, and Chen Mo reflected on the need for stronger weapons against the Three-Eyed Civilization.
• Zi Yun and Ze Qi detected a spatial fluctuation near Origin City's Asteroid Belt, but it disappeared before they arrived.
• Zi Yun learned that Green Water Star was a Three-Eyed Civilization planet used for evolutionary experiments and ordered the group to investigate it.
• The Three-Eyed King told San Wen not to pursue Zi Yun's sudden departure, then learned that the Ziwei Civilization emissaries had landed on Green Water Star and disabled its surveillance systems.

Chen Mo recognized the mysterious visitors on Green Water Star as members of the Ziwei Civilization and learned that they had come seeking a possible Small Universe. The revelation spread through Origin City, leaving the planet’s peaceful surface at odds with the uproar below.

• Zi Yun and her attendants surveyed Star Zero City and discussed searching for a suspected Small Universe without destroying the planet or drawing the other God-level Civilizations’ attention.
• Chen Mo met Zi Yun in the free market, recognized the Crape Myrtle Flower emblem on her armor, and left without revealing what he knew.
• Chen Mo asked Jia about God-level Civilizations, and Jia described the Seven Great God-Level Civilizations and the Ziwei Civilization’s distinctive appearance and origins.
• Chen Mo confirmed that the visitors belonged to the Ziwei Civilization and returned to processing materials for his armor.
• News spread through Origin City that a spatial fluctuation near the city might indicate a Small Universe and that the Ziwei Civilization was searching for it.

After news of a Small Universe spread through Origin City, Zi Yun had the Ziwei Civilization requisition an asteroid belt and deploy spatial detection instruments, drawing every Advanced Civilization into a tense standoff. Meanwhile, on Green Water Star, Chen Mo completed and named his new armor Hunter, then took it for its first flight.

• Zi Yun rejected Ze Qi's suggestion to destroy Origin City and ordered the Ziwei delegation to requisition the asteroid belt and deploy forty million spatial detection instruments.
• Advanced Civilizations secretly aimed their own detection instruments at the area, while the Three-Eyed King advised San Wen to wait for someone else to act first.
• An unidentified Owl-headed Man shut off his Quantum Communicator, concealed his identity, and vanished from a shadowed corner.
• Chen Mo completed Hunter's armor in Jia's workshop, calibrated its flight and weapon systems, and told Little Beast to stay behind.
• Chen Mo put on Hunter, activated its engine, and flew out of the workshop into the sky.