Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo secured approval to expand Flying Ant Aerospace Center into a 120,000-mu base for a Mars development project. The expansion began with a vast fleet of AI-powered construction robots, while satellites around the world watched.

• The Chief and the Head Butler agreed to support Ant Army Group's expansion, viewing Chen Mo's ambitions as beneficial to the country amid growing global tensions.
• Yi Wenshu delivered the approved land documents to Chen Mo and learned that Ant Army Group planned to build a base for its Mars development project.
• Mo Nv generated an expansion plan estimated to take five months and cost about forty billion, and Chen Mo sent the plans and materials list to Zhao Min.
• Chen Mo, Zhao Min, and Yi Wenshu attended the groundbreaking as tens of thousands of construction robots entered the expansion site.
• Chen Mo explained that robots would prepare the foundations and assist construction companies with specialized structures, while satellites from various countries observed the operation.

Chen Mo completed a brainwave-sensing hat and Nerve Consciousness System intended to help Mo Nv develop perceptions and consciousness through interaction with the real world. He transferred Mo Nv's program into a more advanced body and sent her to find Xiao Yu before beginning experiments.

• Chen Mo finished the pink Brainwave Induction Device hat after two months of research and testing.
• Chen Mo brought two hats to the robotics laboratory to prepare for experiments with Mo Nv.
• Chen Mo activated Mo Nv's new body, equipped with a Quantum Chip capable of controlling 1,087 Qubits, and transferred her core program into it.
• Mo Nv asked whether to shut down her old body, and Chen Mo told her to store it away.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to get dressed and find Sister Xiao Yu so he could begin experiments to give her human emotions, thoughts, and consciousness.

Chen Mo activated a brainwave induction system connecting Xiao Yu’s perceptions and emotions to Mo Nv’s Quantum Brain so Mo Nv could begin learning human consciousness. Xiao Yu agreed to guide her through daily experiences, and the three set out to explore Bin Hai City together.

• Chen Mo fitted Xiao Yu with a brainwave induction hat and confirmed that Mo Nv was receiving her sensations and emotions.
• When Chen Mo asked what she was thinking, Mo Nv said she wanted to kiss him, and Chen Mo and Xiao Yu kissed while Mo Nv watched.
• Chen Mo explained that Xiao Yu would teach Mo Nv everyday knowledge and emotions first, followed by academic subjects to help her develop creative thought.
• Xiao Yu planned an outing with Chen Mo and Mo Nv to visit local sights, see a movie, eat dinner, and go shopping.
• After disguising himself, Chen Mo went out with Xiao Yu and Mo Nv, who wore matching outfits and headed into Bin Hai City together.

Chen Mo and Xiao Yu took Mo Nv into crowded public places, where Mo Nv showed the first signs of independent desire and curiosity. Meanwhile, Eva's fusion team achieved a successful simulated net-energy test and prepared to pursue a power station using Ant Army Group's room-temperature superconductors.

• Xiao Yu took Chen Mo and Mo Nv around Ant Paradise, where Mo Nv asked Chen Mo to buy her a teddy bear.
• Chen Mo recognized Mo Nv's request as an early sign of independent consciousness, and he and Xiao Yu encouraged her to express her wishes and questions.
• Chen Mo told Xiao Yu that she could study at the planned Marching Ant University and receive lessons from him at home.
• At Sandia National Laboratories, Mike Cuneo's team used room-temperature superconducting material in a fusion simulation and achieved stable operation with net energy output.
• Eva ordered Cuneo to prepare a budget for a fusion power station and announce the team's success publicly.

After Huaxia approved exports of controlled nuclear fusion power stations, Zhao Min mobilized Ant Army Group to win international orders and prepare to protect its overseas assets. Wang Hai and Zhong Lei were assigned to return to Africa and build an armed force, while Ant Army Group and Huaxia Nuclear Energy Group announced the export decision.

• Zhao Min told Ant Army Group's executives that controlled nuclear fusion power stations could now be exported, and they discussed the opportunity to sell stations and Helium-3.
• Zhao Min ordered the executives to pursue orders across Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, the Arab region, and Africa, accepting mineral veins from underdeveloped countries when needed.
• Zhao Min privately warned Wang Hai and Zhong Lei that overseas assets could become targets as global upheaval approached.
• Zhao Min ordered Wang Hai and Zhong Lei to return to Africa and develop an armed force to protect the company's assets.
• Ant Army Group and Huaxia Nuclear Energy Group announced that Huaxia had permitted exports of controlled nuclear fusion power stations.

Xiao Yu helped Mo Nv learn about love while Chen Mo gathered his trusted team to offer them advanced Potential Development. Around the world, leaders recognized that unlimited clean energy would reshape the balance of power and considered new alliances.

• Xiao Yu described her love for Chen Mo to Mo Nv, who sensed Xiao Yu’s feelings and shared her blissful smile.
• Zhao Min brought Wang Hai and Zhong Lei to Building No. 1, where Chen Mo asked his ten trusted people to confirm their choice and offered them advanced Potential Development.
• Mohammed urged his father to seek cooperation with Huaxia as the Arab Kingdom prepared for the clean-energy era.
• Johnson and Renka Bauer acknowledged that Europe had fallen behind in the technology race and discussed cooperating with India on Artificial Intelligence.

Russia and the Island Nation announced successful controlled nuclear fusion experiments, accelerating the global shift away from coal as Chen Mo began preparing the Ant Army Group for planetary transformation. At home, Xiao Yu presented Chen Mo with an awkward demonstration of Mo Nv’s lesson in becoming a normal woman.

• The Russian president and Medvedev discussed the changing world and the possibility of building a new era as the Kurchatov Institute reported good news.
• An Bei decided to seek a longer term in office while Sato Ryuichi reported that the Island Nation’s fusion technology was nearing its final tests.
• Russia announced a successful controlled nuclear fusion experiment, and the Island Nation announced its own success two weeks later as coal markets collapsed and dependent countries faced unrest.
• Chen Mo collected technologies for the Planetary Transformation project and planned to advance the research in parallel after the base expansion was complete.
• Mo Nv gave Chen Mo goji berry water, and Xiao Yu later called him to their dim bedroom and revealed Mo Nv wearing a Brainwave sensing hat beside her under the covers.

The chapter chronicled five years of global upheaval as controlled nuclear fusion and artificial intelligence reshaped economies, alliances, and technology, while the Ant Army Group expanded into a world-spanning power. After the global order stabilized and technological innovation spread, later generations called the period the Golden Age of Technology.

• Huaxia permitted exports of controlled nuclear fusion power stations, sparking a global contest as major powers developed new technologies and alliances.
• A financial storm dismantled the old oil-dollar system, while the Ant Army Group acquired struggling companies and mineral resources and expanded its reach.
• The Huaxia Nuclear Energy Group won contracts for fifty-one fusion power stations in thirty-seven countries, and the Ant Army Group completed them ahead of schedule with intelligent construction machinery.
• Unrivaled University opened in Bin Hai City with Chen Mo as its first president and announced selective global admissions and advanced science curricula.
• Over five years, the Ant Army Group expanded its headquarters, aerospace base, and laboratories as new technologies spread and Huaxia strengthened its global lead.
• The global technological order settled into a new balance, ushering in an era later known as the Golden Age of Technology.

Chen Mo and Mo Nv completed preparations to begin the Planetary Transformation project, with a simulated habitable Mars ready for implementation. Meanwhile, Shi Dongting departed for the Lunar Base to serve as its commander for a year.

• The Ant Army Group expanded rapidly over five years, building its talent system and advancing technologies developed in Building No. 1.
• Chen Mo and Mo Nv reviewed a simulated Mars transformed into a habitable planet after years of exploration and preparation.
• Mo Nv confirmed that everything was ready, and Chen Mo announced that the Planetary Transformation project was about to begin.
• Shi Dongting boarded the Sky Ant with a scientist to travel to the Lunar Base, where he would oversee operations and assist the stationed researchers and visitors.
• The Sky Ant took off and disappeared beyond the horizon.

Chen Mo began the Mars Transformation Project by launching thousands of Asteroid Thrusters, revealing the scale of his long-prepared plan to the world. The chapter ended with a colossal thruster rising into the sky as observers wondered what Chen Mo would do next.

• Chen Mo confirmed that the required asteroids had been identified and that Plan One would begin in 431 hours and 37 minutes.
• Flying Ant Aerospace staff and intelligence personnel worldwide watched as thousands of Asteroid Thrusters launched from Airport Zone 3.
• Li Ruoxi recognized the rising mechanical columns as the Asteroid Thrusters produced for the Mars Project.
• At March Ant Headquarters, Li Lingfeng asked Zhao Min whether the operation was really part of an ordinary Mars Project, and Zhao Min said it was only the beginning.
• A colossal Asteroid Thruster ignited its engines and shot into the clouds.

The Island Nation prepared its War Robots while Prime Minister An Bei waited for an opportunity to act. Rosen advised Eva that the United States should wait for a fuse to ignite a broader conflict, and the chapter ended with Eva asking what he thought of the Ant Army Group’s massive launch.

• The Ant Army Group launched thousands of mechanical pillars toward the Asteroid Belt and described the operation as a space mineral resource development project.
• Oda Juzo showed An Bei the Island Nation’s Samurai and spider robots, and An Bei ordered him to keep preparing until an opportunity arose.
• Rosen told Eva that war was inevitable and advised her to let the Island Nation act rather than try to control it.
• Rosen predicted that the Island Nation would most likely target the kangaroo or Southeast Asian island nations, with the kangaroo as its greatest target.
• Rosen urged Eva to wait for a fuse that would break the global deadlock, and Eva asked him to assess the Ant Army Group’s launch.

Putin shifted Russia’s focus toward preparing for a possible world war while the Ant Army Group strengthened its covert forces. Xitu consolidated his control of an armed force and received Potential Elixirs from Gan Yu.

• Putin ordered the creation of the Supreme Strategic Center to simulate the Third World War.
• Wang Hai reviewed the tenth batch of elite warriors and told Xian He to support Xitu with Potential Elixirs and help him build powerful confidants.
• Xitu reflected on how he had infiltrated an armed force, killed its former leader, and become its new commander.
• Xitu’s subordinates gathered to receive Gan Yu, whose heavily equipped team impressed them with its professionalism.
• Gan Yu privately presented Xitu with vials of Potential Elixirs, and Xitu reacted with excitement.

Chen Mo began the plan to redirect the asteroids Corn and the Igniter so their collision would send a massive asteroid toward Mars and activate its magnetic field. As the asteroids headed toward their rendezvous, Chen Mo and Zhao Min discussed the plan’s progress and who would control Mars if its transformation succeeded.

• Optimus Prime received authorization, confirmed the positions of Corn and the Igniter, and embedded its mechanical pillars into Corn to accelerate it.
• Chen Mo explained to Zhao Min that he had chosen the asteroid collision method after calculating and simulating millions of possible plans.
• Mo Nv estimated that Corn and the Igniter would collide in 548 hours and 13 minutes, and Chen Mo said they would wait and monitor their progress.
• Zhao Min asked who would own and control Mars if its transformation succeeded, and Chen Mo said he had considered the question.

Wang Hai authorized Xitu to annex territory amid tribal conflict in Africa and gave Xian He and Gan Yu a chance to become stronger. Meanwhile, Chen Mo successfully tested Nanobots that could reshape materials, replicate under strict limits, and assemble armor, then went to check on the asteroid.

• Wang Hai agreed to Xitu’s plan to annex the Anzaka and Xinmen Tribes’ territory and promised equipment and intelligence support.
• Wang Hai brought Xian He and Gan Yu to the underground level and prepared to use Potential Elixir on them.
• Chen Mo tested his brain-controlled Nanobots, which reshaped themselves and replicated by consuming a range of materials.
• Chen Mo confirmed the Nanobots stopped replicating after eighteen generations and tested their ability to assemble an armor model.
• Chen Mo ended the experiment and said he would check on the asteroid.

Na Sa organized tribal armed groups to seize five Ant Army Group mining areas in Africa, prompting Chen Mo to authorize Zhong Lei to deal with the occupiers while keeping the company’s involvement hidden. As other powers watched, Rosen advised Washington to stay out of the crisis for now.

• Na Sa persuaded other tribal armed groups to occupy rare earth mines, while Na Si warned that Ant Army Group might retaliate.
• The armed groups seized five African mining areas and expelled the workers, triggering worldwide attention.
• Li Chengzhi told Chen Mo that local governments were too overwhelmed by unrest to resolve the occupations quickly, and Chen Mo asked to handle the matter himself.
• Zhao Min reported that company employees were safe and would return home, while Wang Hai identified Na Sa as a leader behind the coordinated seizure.
• Chen Mo ordered Zhong Lei to act against the armed groups discreetly and told Wang Hai not to expose his team.
• In Washington, Rosen rejected Tom’s proposal to worsen the crisis and chose to wait and watch Ant Army Group’s response.

The first asteroid collision succeeded, leaving the “Igniter” within the correctable range of Mars’s orbit, and Chen Mo ordered its orbit corrected. Meanwhile, Zhong Lei offered Suo Mu two pieces of special equipment in exchange for an action against the Na Si Brothers, and Suo Mu asked what the equipment was.

• “Corn” collided with “Igniter,” breaking apart and sending fragments flying while damaging three mechanical pillars.
• Chen Mo received the orbital data and found that “Igniter” deviated from Mars’s orbit by 23 minutes and 3 seconds, a correctable amount.
• Chen Mo ordered the “Igniter’s” orbit corrected, and the mechanical pillars embedded themselves in the asteroid and began firing their engines.
• Zhong Lei, disguised as a bearded middle-aged man, met with Suo Mu and offered to help expand his territory.
• Zhong Lei offered to lend Suo Mu two special pieces of equipment for one week if Suo Mu would act against the Na Si Brothers.
• Suo Mu weighed the offer and asked Zhong Lei what equipment he meant.

Na Si’s forces seized an Ant Army Group mine and were wiped out by a terrifying attack using Smart Bullets and War Robots. Back home, Mo Nv told Xiao Yu she had dreamed that aliens took Chen Mo away, leaving Xiao Yu stunned.

• Na Si grew uneasy after his men took the mine without resistance, but an explosion began a one-sided assault that killed more than five hundred of his forces.
• Suo Mu and Duo Si watched the massacre from hiding and waited for the attackers to finish clearing the area.
• Na Si recognized a recovered bullet as a Smart Bullet and realized the Ant Army Group had retaliated; two figures then emerged from the woods.
• Zhong Lei watched the attack end and left with his team.
• Mo Nv woke from a strange dream, read as usual, and told Xiao Yu she had dreamed that aliens took Chen Mo away.

Chen Mo linked Xiao Yu and Mo Nv’s shared dream to telepathy and considered researching faster-than-light communication. Meanwhile, Suo Mu’s forces killed Na Si and destroyed his armed group, prompting other groups to retreat from Ant Army Group mines as Xitu prepared an attack on the Anzaka Armed Forces.

• Chen Mo explained that Xiao Yu and Mo Nv’s shared dream might have resulted from synchronized brainwaves and said Mo Nv’s ability to dream showed mature self-awareness.
• Chen Mo decided telepathy and faster-than-light quantum communication could be research topics, with Mo Nv helping him investigate.
• Suo Mu executed Na Si after his forces defeated the Na Si Brothers armed force, while Zhong Lei denied knowing Suo Mu and left with two robots.
• The Ant Army Group denied involvement in the massacre, but other armed groups withdrew from its mines and returned the sites to its personnel.
• Wang Hai asked Zhong Lei to prepare standard equipment for Blue Eye’s expansion as the region approached chaos.
• Xitu ordered his forces to attack the Anzaka Armed Forces first while they fought the Xinmen Armed Forces.

As wars spread through Africa and South America, people in peaceful regions looked forward to an unusually large Orionid meteor shower and hoped it would bring peace. At the Lunar Base, Shi Dongting discussed observing the shower with Bi Shichen, while Chen Mo and Xiao Yu planned to watch it with Zhao Min as Chen Mo waited to begin his Mars transformation plan.

• Conflicts escalated across Africa as tribal forces annexed or destroyed one another, and unrest spread through South America amid economic collapse and the assassination of Brazil's president.
• Reports announced that a century-scale Orionid meteor shower would arrive on October 13, inspiring people to share hopes for peace on social media.
• At the Lunar Base, Bi Shichen asked Shi Dongting to watch the meteor shower, and they discussed collecting meteorite samples if any fell near the base.
• Chen Mo watched Mars from his villa balcony as he waited to begin the next stage of his Planetary Transformation plan.
• Xiao Yu told Chen Mo she had invited Zhao Min to watch the meteor shower with them, and she said she planned to wish for something personal rather than world peace.

People around the world gathered to watch the record-breaking Orionid meteor shower, while a fierce meteorite storm struck the Moon and a meteorite landed near the Lunar Base. As the first meteors appeared over Earth, a stream containing spacecraft wreckage, cryogenic pods, and strange corpses approached the atmosphere.

• People across Earth gathered to watch the meteor shower, make wishes, and enjoy the peaceful night.
• Shi Dongting and the other Lunar Base scientists monitored the meteorite storm as it bombarded the Moon.
• The base AI reported a meteorite impact in F14 Zone, and Shi Dongting sent No. 7 Transport Robot to retrieve it.
• Chen Mo, Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, Wushuang, and Mo Nv spent the evening together on the lawn, joking and waiting for the meteors.
• The first meteor appeared over Earth, and people everywhere looked up to make wishes.
• A meteorite stream carrying spacecraft wreckage, cryogenic pods, and strange corpses rushed toward Earth's atmosphere.