Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo inherited the Sci-Tech Library after the Sci-Tech Ball showed him the history of civilizations and the Library’s evolution. Old Shu disappeared, leaving Chen Mo to explore his new Administrator authority and develop technologies from principles rather than ready-made blueprints.

• The Sci-Tech Ball entered Chen Mo’s body and showed him the universe’s creation, the rise of life and civilization, and the Sci-Tech Library’s transformations across countless civilizations.
• Chen Mo awoke and asked Old Shu about the final door, but Old Shu urged him to explore its meaning himself and reminded him to stay curious.
• Old Shu told Chen Mo that the universe did not pity the weak, then faded away after Chen Mo thanked him as his teacher.
• Chen Mo discovered he could control the Sci-Tech Library and freely research technologies within his Administrator authority, though he found no way to upgrade that authority.
• Chen Mo examined the technologies available to him and learned that most came only as theories and principles, requiring him to design and manufacture them himself.
• Chen Mo accepted the Library’s purpose of teaching its inheritors to create and began considering his next research project, focusing on one particular technology.

Chen Mo began designing steel armor after his new abilities made advanced technology easy to understand. When Li Chengzhi came to investigate Mo Nv, Chen Mo revealed that she was a powerful robot and offered the government a trial unit of another model.

• Chen Mo gathered steel-armor theories and began planning the project with Mo Nv.
• Li Chengzhi visited Chen Mo and asked about Mo Nv, whose identity had eluded investigators.
• Chen Mo revealed that Mo Nv was a robot, and she opened a bomb bay to prove it.
• Chen Mo explained that Mo Nv could defeat an entire company when fully armed and that his arms factories would produce other robots once completed.
• Chen Mo said Mo Nv was not for sale but offered Li Chengzhi a free trial unit of a less refined model, priced at one hundred million per unit.

Chen Mo prepared Soldier Ant Equipment’s Tanzania arms factory for weapons production while Wang Hai and Zhong Lei organized its security and planned a local engineering talent program. Li Chengzhi showed Liu Jianjun evidence of Mo Nv’s capabilities and told him Worker Ant Defense would sell a comparable robot for 100 million each, leaving Liu shocked and amused by the price.

• Chen Mo asked Zhong Lei about the Tanzania factory, sent weapons blueprints and technical information to its database, and instructed him to protect the technology and verify engineers.
• Wang Hai introduced 107 selected security personnel at the Tanzania factory, issued their uniforms, and assigned them to guard the site.
• Zhong Lei proposed partnering with Tanzanian universities to train local military-industry talent, and Wang Hai told him to coordinate with the government.
• Li Chengzhi showed Liu Jianjun Mo Nv’s photograph and explained that Chen Mo claimed she could handle an entire company of soldiers.
• Li Chengzhi told Liu that Worker Ant Defense would sell a comparable robot for 100 million each, and Liu reacted with disbelief at the price.

Chen Mo introduced Mo Nv and No. 003 to Liu Jianjun and demonstrated the robots’ weapons, abilities, and advanced materials. Liu Jianjun was impressed but asked to test the robot before accepting Chen Mo’s claims.

• Li Chengzhi introduced Chen Mo, Zhu He, Mo Nv, and No. 003 to Liu Jianjun, Tang Tian, and Qin Ye at a secret military base.
• Chen Mo showed Mo Nv’s ammunition compartments, then had No. 003 display his mechanical structure for the experts to inspect.
• Chen Mo explained the robots’ normal, guardian, and war modes, along with their weapons, sensors, materials, and power systems.
• Liu Jianjun recognized the potential value of the robot’s technology but remained cautious about whether Chen Mo’s claims were true.
• Liu Jianjun asked whether they could test the robot.

Chen Mo demonstrated No. 003’s speed, strength, and defensive and combat capabilities to Liu Jianjun and the others at the base’s testing ground. Impressed by the robot, Liu Jianjun asked to proceed with a simulated combat exercise.

• Liu Jianjun ordered No. 003 to sprint across the testing ground and retrieve a target, and the robot’s speed and leap stunned everyone.
• Chen Mo explained No. 003’s power source as Tang Tian and Qin Ye reacted in amazement, while Liu Jianjun’s doubts disappeared.
• Liu Jianjun tested No. 003’s strength with a brick, and the robot crushed it in its fist.
• Chen Mo demonstrated No. 003’s electric shock and anesthetic devices and described its armor, sensors, and laser capabilities.
• Chen Mo told Liu Jianjun that each robot cost one hundred million, that weapons had to be purchased separately, and that mass production depended on completion of Worker Ant Defense Company’s workshop.
• Liu Jianjun asked to conduct a simulated combat exercise, and Chen Mo agreed.

At the Dragon Tooth Assault Team base, Chen Mo agreed to test whether No. 003 Robot could defeat the entire unit in a simulated exercise. The robot entered the exercise grounds to hunt the sixty Super Soldier team members, while Chen Mo and the others watched from the command room.

• Lin Qian challenged Chen Mo’s claim that No. 003 could take on a company and led the group to meet the Dragon Tooth Assault Team.
• Lin Qian introduced No. 003 as a robot and provoked the sixty team members into accepting the confrontation.
• Chen Mo explained that No. 003 would hunt down every team member in the exercise grounds using simulated training mode.
• The team equipped itself, and a vehicle carried No. 003 into the exercise grounds as Chen Mo, Lin Qian, and the others went to the command room.

Li Cheng’s team confronted No. 003 and discovered that the robot’s speed and armor made ordinary bullets ineffective. As more squads lost contact, She Ge ordered the remaining groups to gather heavy weapons at B71, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Li Cheng’s team came under attack when No. 003 threw a grenade and charged through the forest at startling speed.
• Li Cheng realized that ordinary bullets could not stop the robot and ordered Superman to switch to a sniper rifle, but No. 003 leapt toward the team with two guns.
• Lin Qian watched the robot’s attack and learned from Chen Mo that it had layered armor, rapid threat detection, and the ability to evade rockets.
• She Ge learned that Red Dragon had lost contact, then Purple Dragon also encountered No. 003 and went silent after reporting that it could not be killed.
• She Ge warned the remaining squads that bullets were ineffective and ordered them to gather their Type 10 sniper rifles, grenades, and mines at B71.

No. 003 approached the abandoned factory, where Dragon Tooth Assault Team had assembled four squads to ambush it. After assessing the defenders, the robot charged at extreme speed, survived a sniper hit, and leapt toward the factory as the battle began.

• She Ge and the other squad captains deployed their teams around the factory and prepared to confront No. 003.
• Lin Qian watched anxiously while Liu Jianjun and the others discussed the robot’s potential and chose to test it without a human commander.
• Chen Mo explained that No. 003 assessed enemy numbers and selected its own tactics when operating independently.
• No. 003 concealed itself at the forest edge, assessed the factory, and then sprinted toward the defenders.
• Zheng Jian spotted No. 003, and She Ge ordered the teams to fire; Meng Bai hit the robot with a sniper round, but it kept running and leapt toward the factory.

After No. 003 defeated the elite assault team, Lin Qian rebuked the team while Liu Jianjun discussed buying the robot and its materials from Chen Mo. Chen Mo left the base, and Liu Jianjun and Li Chengzhi considered how many robots the army might need.

• The defeated Purple Dragon Squad requested another match, but Lin Qian reprimanded them for ignoring the robot’s capabilities and explained that its weapon system had not even been installed.
• Liu Jianjun asked Chen Mo about purchasing the robot’s materials and Graphene Battery, and Chen Mo said Worker Ant Defense could sell the materials while Soldier Ant Equipment Company handled weapons.
• Chen Mo refused to lower the robot’s price, offering a two percent discount only for orders of at least one hundred units.
• Chen Mo left the base by helicopter with Mo Nv and No. 003, while Liu Jianjun and Li Chengzhi departed after bidding Lin Qian farewell.
• Liu Jianjun told Li Chengzhi that the military would study its needs and test the weapon system, but might initially buy at least a company’s worth of robots.

Chen Mo refined the armor design and began deriving the reactor’s theoretical formulas with Mo Nv. Meanwhile, Zhu He explained the War Robots’ controls and battlefield behavior to Liu Jianjun and other officials as weapons testing prepared to begin.

• Chen Mo reviewed the armor’s design, noted the lack of a wind tunnel, and asked Mo Nv to display the reactor formulas.
• Chen Mo connected the formulas in his mind, then worked with Mo Nv to derive the reactor’s mathematical model.
• At a heavy-weapons testing ground, Zhu He explained the War Robots’ control modes and how they behaved when signals were jammed or lost.
• Zhu He described the robots’ rules for avoiding friendly fire, responding to attacks, and identifying allies through clothing, facial data, or Wrist Devices.
• Weapons experts finished loading the robots, and Liu Jianjun told Zhu He and Zhong Lei to begin the tests.

Zhu He and Zhong Lei demonstrated the War Robot’s capabilities and secured a first order from Liu Jianjun for ten robots and three hundred weapon sets. Chen Mo received the order news, then returned to his reactor research and asked Mo Nv to help design it.

• Zhu He and Zhong Lei demonstrated the War Robot’s strength, electric shock and anesthetic attacks, guided ammunition, missiles, and high-energy laser to Liu Jianjun and the weapons experts.
• Liu Jianjun ordered ten robots and three hundred weapon sets, with the robots due within forty days and the ammunition within one week.
• Zhu He and Zhong Lei discussed the order and prepared for the next Military Industry exhibition as they returned from the testing base.
• Chen Mo was surprised by the size of the first order, then resumed developing a reactor for his battle armor.
• After an hour of refining his reactor design, Chen Mo asked Mo Nv to help him design it.

Lu Xin and the research team admired Worker Ant Defense’s War Robot but concluded that its intelligent core would be difficult to reproduce. Liu Jianjun then told Li Chengzhi that the Chief wanted as many War Robots as possible for the upcoming parade, so Li Chengzhi set out to ask Chen Mo about production.

• Lu Xin and the experts inspected the War Robot and learned from Liu Jianjun that it came from Worker Ant Defense, a subsidiary of Ant Army Group.
• Lu Xin said the team could reverse-engineer the robot’s design but would struggle to replicate its intelligent core.
• Liu Jianjun received an urgent notice that the Chief wanted a War Robot formation for the parade.
• Liu Jianjun told Li Chengzhi that the parade was three months away and that Worker Ant Defense had delivered only four robots so far.
• Li Chengzhi agreed to visit Chen Mo and ask whether Worker Ant Defense could produce enough robots in time.

Chen Mo agreed to help fulfill the government’s urgent order for War Robots ahead of the military parade, offering to lease additional units for a low fee. After Li Chengzhi left, Zhao Min arranged the materials Chen Mo needed and learned that the company could afford the project.

• Li Chengzhi and Zhu He told Chen Mo that Worker Ant Defense could produce only fifty robots in time for the parade, though the government wanted one hundred.
• Chen Mo promised to produce one hundred robots and offered to lease extra units for fifty thousand each so the military could stage a larger formation.
• Li Chengzhi requested metallic robots with humanlike metal faces instead of artificial skin or skull-shaped heads, and Chen Mo agreed.
• Chen Mo gave Zhao Min a materials list worth more than a billion and explained that Worker Ant Defense needed help completing the government order.
• Zhao Min said the company had sufficient funds and promised to have the materials delivered within five days.

Chen Mo completed the design for an armor reactor and began manufacturing it, bringing the armor’s power source closer to completion. He delivered 240 robots for the military parade and planned to spend time with his family before returning to research the Ion Engine.

• Chen Mo finished designing a reactor that could convert High-Energy Beta Particles into electrical energy, and Mo Nv confirmed that its materials had been synthesized.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to begin printing the reactor and learned that Li Chengzhi had arrived.
• Li Chengzhi introduced Song Yue to Chen Mo, and Mo Nv raised four containers holding 240 robots for the parade.
• Chen Mo denied Li Chengzhi’s guess that he intended to use the parade as advertising, while Mo Nv explained the rental of 180 robots for half a month at a total cost of nine million.
• Li Chengzhi signed the contract and paid Chen Mo, who declined an invitation to attend the parade as a guest.
• After the convoy left, Chen Mo decided to rest and buy toys for Wushuang while the reactor was being manufactured.

Chen Mo and Xiao Yu brought Wushuang to the capital for the holiday and military parade, with Zhao Min and Mo Nv joining them. Li Chengzhi gave Chen Mo Huaxia’s first special ID card for an Intelligent Robot, allowing Mo Nv to attend the parade.

• Chen Mo, Xiao Yu, and Zhao Min discussed the holiday and Wushuang’s future schooling, and Zhao Min suggested establishing a school for her.
• Chen Mo and his family traveled to the capital with Zhao Min and Mo Nv during the crowded Golden Week holiday.
• Li Chengzhi welcomed the group and explained that he would help them attend the military parade.
• Li Chengzhi gave Chen Mo a special ID card and file for Mo Nv, approved by the higher-ups as Huaxia’s first ID for an Intelligent Robot.
• Chen Mo agreed to provide information for registering the robots guarding him.

Chen Mo and his family attended Huaxia’s eightieth-anniversary military parade as spectators, while the live broadcast briefly showed them and sparked online chatter. As the crowd and viewers eagerly anticipated the display of national defense equipment, the ceremony officially began at ten o’clock.

• Chen Mo, Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, Mo Nv, and Wushuang entered the parade venue with Li Chengzhi and took their seats.
• The live broadcast showed Chen Mo and his family, prompting viewers to discuss his appearance and daughter; Chen Mo waved and shielded Wushuang’s face from the camera.
• Military forums and online platforms filled with speculation about the equipment that would appear in the parade.
• At ten o’clock, the military parade ceremony officially began.

The capital’s eightieth-anniversary assembly began with the national flag-raising ceremony, stirring pride among Huaxia’s citizens and admiration among foreign guests. After speeches honoring the nation’s military and its predecessors, the march-past began, with viewers around the world watching Huaxia’s display of strength.

• Cai Qi opened the assembly, and fifty-six ceremonial guns fired as the National Flag Guard marched from the Heroes' Monument to the flagpole.
• The guards raised the national flag while the national anthem played, moving soldiers, spectators, and viewers to reflect on Huaxia’s past and present.
• After the eight-minute speech, the military parade began, and foreign guests and diplomatic personnel watched Huaxia’s disciplined troops with admiration and strategic interest.
• The hosts described the sacrifices of Huaxia’s predecessors and the soldiers who protected the homeland, prompting emotional reactions from viewers.
• Three helicopters carrying red flags led the march-past, followed by eight helicopters trailing colored smoke and twenty-five arranged in the shape of 80.

Huaxia revealed its War Robot Formation as the final formation in the military parade, stunning spectators and foreign observers. The CIA’s Linna ordered an urgent investigation into the robots after realizing her agency had no intelligence about them.

• The Three Services Guard of Honor and the Three Services Women Soldiers' Formation marched past, drawing admiration and lively online reactions.
• Cheers spread through the square as spectators noticed an unexpected final formation, while Huaxia’s senior officials remained calm.
• Chen Mo identified the approaching formation as War Robots, and CCTV Director Cui Zhi ordered the cameras to show them.
• More than two hundred camouflage-painted robots marched in perfect synchronization and saluted, leaving viewers around the world astonished.
• Linna erupted at the CIA’s lack of intelligence, rejected the suggestion that the robots were a deception, and demanded a complete report within three days.
• Foreign leaders began reconsidering how to develop relations with Huaxia after seeing the War Robots.

Huaxia’s parade unveiled War Robots built by Worker Ant Defense, prompting world powers to investigate their capabilities and speculate that Chen Mo’s rapid research depended on advanced Artificial Intelligence. The robots sparked a global race to fund AI research.

• Huaxia’s parade displayed War Robots alongside new tanks, radars, aircraft, and the Hong-20 stealth bomber, leaving foreign observers uncertain about the robots’ capabilities.
• Experts traced the War Robots to Worker Ant Defense Company and Ant Army Group, strengthening public belief that Chen Mo had designed them.
• The Russian president ordered Olov to ask Huaxia about buying or trading for War Robots, then discussed Chen Mo’s research and Building No. 1 with Yelivivia.
• CIA director Linna ordered Omaha to investigate the robots, but their report offered no specifications, and the US president demanded an explanation for Chen Mo’s rapid progress.
• Russia, the United States, European nations, Japan, and India announced new funding and cooperation for Artificial Intelligence research, setting off a global technology race.

Chen Mo completed the Energy Reactor and discovered a new golden speck in the Sci-Tech Ball, while Zhao Min told him that several major holographic projects were nearing launch. The chapter left the holographic era poised to begin with a movie premiere, a gaming league, Ant Paradise, and the Holographic City Project.

• Omaha told Linna that Soldier Ant Equipment was Ant Army Group’s Tanzanian company for producing weapons and ammunition, and Linna sent him to investigate it for a chance at promotion.
• Evan watched Soldier Ant Equipment’s new headquarters in Mte City and judged it too difficult to infiltrate.
• Zhou Huilin gave Zhang Fengyun the approval notice for his Holographic Movie, and he began arranging promotion and a premiere.
• Chen Mo returned to the laboratory, examined the completed Energy Reactor, and saw a new golden speck appear in the Sci-Tech Ball.
• Zhao Min told Chen Mo that Zhang Fengyun’s Holographic Movie would premiere at Christmas, the holographic Heroes super league would be held on December 31, Ant Paradise would open on New Year’s Day, and the Holographic City Project would launch during the Spring Festival.