Chapter Summaries

After more than a month in Universe Two, Chen Mu and Xu Jia encountered Deadpool in Hong Kong after his failed suicide attempt. Deadpool begged Chen Mu to travel back in time and save Vanessa, and Chen Mu agreed to help in exchange for Deadpool finding rare mutants in America for him to study.

• Chen Mu and Xu Jia spent more than a month traveling around Universe Two while China there traded resources and technology with World Zero and began producing Adamantium.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia went shopping in Hong Kong and found Deadpool alive after he had jumped from a building.
• Deadpool told Chen Mu that Vanessa had died and that he had tried several ways to kill himself, then asked Chen Mu to rewind time and save her.
• Chen Mu refused Deadpool's offers of money and donations, then asked him to find rare or interesting mutants in America for Chen Mu to study.
• Deadpool agreed to find the mutants, saying he would do anything if Chen Mu brought Vanessa back.

Chen Mu, Xu Jia, and Deadpool traveled to America to find mutants at a youth containment center, where Chen Mu hoped to acquire mutant abilities. On the way, Deadpool admired Xu Jia’s military bracelet and asked how he could get one, then considered joining China when he learned the price.

• Deadpool used his friend Weasel to locate a youth mutant containment center in their city, and Xu Jia opened a portal so the three could travel there.
• Deadpool asked Xu Jia how she could open portals, and she explained that her Chinese military bracelet had portal and storage functions.
• Deadpool asked whether Chinese soldiers kept their bracelets after retiring and whether China recruited foreign soldiers, but Xu Jia said he was too weak.
• Chen Mu confirmed they had reached the containment center and explained that outsiders could only buy separate devices for billions of dollars.
• Deadpool asked whether he could join China and become a Chinese citizen instead.

Chen Mu, Xu Jia, and Deadpool entered a heavily guarded American shelter for young mutants to look for useful abilities, with Chen Mu concealing them using illusion magic. Deadpool wanted to learn the spell, but Chen Mu said he was too old and had to be Chinese, leaving him asking readers how to get a Chinese ID card.

• Deadpool brought Chen Mu and Xu Jia to a guarded school-like shelter for young mutants and explained why American families sent their children there.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia questioned whether the shelter was necessary, while Deadpool admitted he had chosen it because he thought young mutants might be useful for research.
• Chen Mu decided to inspect the shelter and said he might send the mutants to the X-Men if they needed rescuing.
• Chen Mu used illusion magic, learned from Loki's teachings, to make the guards fail to notice the three of them entering.
• Deadpool asked to learn illusion magic, but Chen Mu said he could only attend a class for middle-aged and elderly people and had to be Chinese, so Deadpool asked readers how to get a Chinese ID card.

Deadpool, Chen Mu, and Xu Jia discovered a facility torturing mutant children, and Deadpool rescued Russell before turning the principal’s own methods against him. The chapter left the principal suffering on the operating table while Russell thanked Deadpool and Chen Mu and Xu Jia walked away in disgust.

• Deadpool saw researchers torturing a chubby boy in a laboratory and stepped in to stop them.
• Deadpool defeated the principal’s men, freed the boy, and tied the principal to the operating table.
• The boy introduced himself as Russell and said he had been sent to the facility for money by people he hated.
• Deadpool tortured the principal with electric shocks and a rectal dilator while Russell watched.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia left the laboratory, disgusted by Deadpool’s actions.

Chen Mu and Xu Jia returned to find Deadpool protecting Russell from Cable, a soldier from the future who wanted to kill the boy before he became a villain. Colossus arrived and praised Deadpool for standing up for Russell, while Cable remained ready to attack.

• Chen Mu and Xu Jia left the institute's laboratory and found Deadpool shielding Russell from an armed man.
• Cable introduced himself as a time traveler and said he planned to kill Russell because the boy would become a murderous villain.
• Chen Mu said he believed minors who committed evil should not be protected, leaving Deadpool uncertain whether Chen Mu would help him.
• Deadpool argued that Russell had not yet committed any crimes and could still change, and Colossus entered and praised Deadpool for his heroic stance.

Deadpool and Colossus defended Russell from Cable, who wanted to kill the child to prevent the future deaths of his wife and daughter. After Colossus fought Cable, Chen Mu learned Russell’s name and analyzed his Firefist ability.

• Deadpool claimed he was an X-Men and insisted that Cable could not hurt Russell.
• Cable accused the X-Men of helping destroy the future and argued that Russell’s actions showed he would become a murderer.
• Russell blamed Deadpool for the old headmaster’s torture and death, and Deadpool decided to keep protecting him.
• Colossus refused to let Cable act as judge and executioner, so Cable opened fire and the two began fighting.
• Deadpool asked Chen Mu whether he believed Cable came from the future, and Chen Mu asked Russell his name and analyzed his Firefist ability.

Colossus defeated Cable and decided to send Russell to Icebox Prison for killing someone, despite Deadpool's objections. Colossus put an ability-suppressing collar on Russell, and Chen Mu noted how tense relations between ordinary people and mutants had become.

• Deadpool laughed at Russell's self-chosen name, Firefist, while Colossus subdued Cable.
• Deadpool argued that Russell could still be saved, but Colossus insisted that he had to go to Icebox Prison.
• Colossus subdued Deadpool when he tried to interfere, then told him not to obstruct the X-Men's law enforcement.
• Colossus put a collar that suppressed mutant abilities around Russell's neck.
• Chen Mu examined the collar and remarked that ordinary people and mutants in America were already in tense conflict.

Chen Mu obtained the Mutant Ability Suppression Device analysis and refused to help Deadpool save Russell, arguing that Russell was dangerous and that changing the past would not save this version of him. Deadpool decided to form X-Force and break Russell out of Icebox Prison himself.

• Chen Mu completed his analysis of America's Mutant Ability Suppression Device and prepared to leave with Russell.
• Deadpool told Colossus he would return to rescue Russell, then asked Cable why he wanted to kill the boy.
• Cable said Russell would become a mass murderer and kill his family, while Deadpool insisted Russell deserved a chance at redemption.
• Deadpool asked Chen Mu to turn back time and prevent the headmaster's death, but Chen Mu refused to intervene.
• Deadpool resolved to assemble X-Force and break Russell out of Icebox Prison.

Chen Mu asked to study Cable’s time-travel device and agreed to Cable’s condition that Russell must die. Deadpool objected to killing a teenager, while Xu Jia defended Chen Mu and insisted Deadpool could not interfere.

• Deadpool questioned whether killing Russell could save Cable’s future, but Cable insisted he would keep trying and vowed to kill Russell.
• Deadpool said he would form X-Force to protect Russell, and Xu Jia pointed out that he had revealed his plan to Cable.
• Chen Mu asked Cable to let him examine the time-travel device, explaining that he wanted to study its ability to affect the future.
• Cable agreed to let Chen Mu examine the device if Chen Mu agreed that Russell must die, and Chen Mu accepted the condition.
• Deadpool protested that they were plotting to kill a fourteen-year-old, but Xu Jia stepped between him and Chen Mu and told him not to interfere.

Chen Mu analyzed Cable’s time-travel device at a glance and agreed to help kill Russell if Cable could not do it himself. After learning that humans in Cable’s future had nearly wiped out mutants with Sentinel Robots and a mutant cure, Chen Mu grew interested in visiting that world.

• Xu Jia offered to kill Russell herself and asked Chen Mu for help if she had no other choice.
• Cable gave Chen Mu his time-travel device, which Chen Mu analyzed and understood immediately before returning it.
• Chen Mu promised to help Cable kill Russell if necessary, while Deadpool condemned their plan.
• Cable explained that mutants in his era were nearly extinct because humans had created Sentinel Robots and a cure that removed mutant powers.
• Chen Mu became interested in visiting Cable’s world.

Chen Mu agreed to help Cable save his wife and daughter after Cable tried to kill Russell, and planned to visit Cable’s future world to investigate the Sentinel Robots. After Chen Mu and Xu Jia left, Deadpool defeated the soldiers who attacked him and set out to recruit members for X-Force before the prison break.

• Chen Mu told Cable that killing Russell might not change the future and offered to help him save his family in his world; Cable planned to kill Russell first and accepted Chen Mu’s offer of later help.
• Chen Mu explained how Sentinel Robots could copy Mystique’s powers and use collected mutant abilities, making them powerful and easy to mass-produce.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia left through a portal as soldiers rushed in, leaving Deadpool behind to face them.
• Deadpool pretended to surrender, then killed the soldier who approached him, took his gun, and defeated the remaining soldiers.
• Deadpool headed to Weasel’s bar to recruit X-Force members for a jailbreak at Icebox Prison the next day.

Chen Mu and Xu Jia arrived at Icebox Prison to acquire the mutants’ abilities before leaving America, while Chen Mu prepared to bring a Chinese special operations squad to Cable’s future world. They spotted an incoming transport plane that Xu Jia believed carried Deadpool and his X-Force.

• Chen Mu and Xu Jia reached Icebox Prison after China provided its location.
• Chen Mu reviewed plans to travel to Cable’s world with a ten-person squad of evolved ordinary soldiers equipped with Kirin Armor and Thor’s Spears.
• Chen Mu organized his acquired technology, including a device that could remotely suppress mutant abilities and an upgraded time travel device powered by Arc Reactors.
• Xu Jia reported that satellite surveillance detected a transport plane approaching Icebox Prison, likely carrying Deadpool and his X-Force.
• Chen Mu said he wanted to see what kind of team Deadpool had assembled.

Deadpool led his hastily assembled X-Force toward Icebox Prison to rescue Russell, boasting that they would enter through the front gate. The team jumped from their transport plane over a snowy mountain, leaving their first mission about to begin.

• Chen Mu and Xu Jia spotted Deadpool's transport plane and went to see what his X-Force was like.
• Deadpool explained his plan to walk into Icebox Prison through the main gate and introduced the team's strange recruits, including Domino, Shatterstar, Vanisher, Ruckus, and Peter.
• Deadpool privately regarded most of the recruits as expendable, while Peter grew frightened and tried to back out.
• Deadpool reassured Peter, ordered the team to jump, and X-Force leaped from the plane into the freezing air.

Deadpool’s X-Force parachuted toward a snowy destination while Chen Mu and Xu Jia appeared aboard their aircraft. Chen Mu analyzed Vanisher’s disappearance and Domino’s probability manipulation, gaining Domino’s ability before she suggested she had joined X-Force to meet him.

• Spitter, Shatterstar, and Ruckus jumped from the aircraft after Deadpool ordered them out.
• Chen Mu arrived with Xu Jia in Kirin Armor, and Deadpool argued with him about being mistaken for Doctor Strange or Iron Man.
• Chen Mu detected and analyzed Vanisher’s powerful Disappearance Ability.
• Domino introduced herself and explained that her power was luck, while Chen Mu analyzed and acquired her Probability Manipulation.
• Domino told Chen Mu that she might have joined X-Force so she could meet him.

Domino asked Chen Mu to introduce her and other persecuted mutants to China, and he agreed to make the introduction while warning that China would decide for itself. As Deadpool’s team jumped toward Icebox Prison to rescue Russell, Vanisher was thrown out without a parachute and a fierce gust swept the jumpers upward.

• Domino told Chen Mu she hoped to bring persecuted mutants to China, and Chen Mu agreed to introduce her to China’s authorities while disclosing her probability-altering ability.
• Domino jumped from the aircraft, followed by Peter under Deadpool’s threat.
• Deadpool found Vanisher hiding in the cabin and threw him out, then realized he had accidentally taken Vanisher’s parachute.
• Deadpool announced the X-Force rescue of Russell and jumped from the aircraft.
• A fierce gust blew the jumpers upward and sent them tumbling through the air.

Deadpool’s new X-Force members died in a series of parachuting mishaps while descending toward the prison. Deadpool and Domino survived and set off to rescue Russell, while Chen Mu and Xu Jia watched and discussed the dangers of online job scams.

• Spitter lost control of his parachute, and Shatterstar cut it before grabbing him; Spitter vomited corrosive acid onto Shatterstar, who then chopped him in half.
• Ruckus fell onto ice spikes and died, while Vanisher was flattened when he hit the ground.
• Peter landed safely, but Spitter’s corpse fell onto him and killed him; Shatterstar later died from the acid burns.
• Deadpool declared that only he and Domino had ever belonged to X-Force, then headed with Domino toward the prison to rescue Russell.
• Chen Mu and Xu Jia watched the deaths and discussed cleaning up online recruitment to prevent people like Deadpool from scamming job seekers.

Chen Mu and Xu Jia entered Icebox Prison while Deadpool and Domino fought the guards, and Chen Mu collected the abilities of the imprisoned mutants. Cable arrived and confronted Deadpool over Russell’s whereabouts, and the chapter ended with Deadpool’s attempt to deflect Cable’s bullets mostly failing.

• Chen Mu told Xu Jia to ignore X-Force and focus on their goal as they descended to Icebox Prison.
• Deadpool and Domino entered the prison and fought the guards, with Deadpool taking bullets while defeating them.
• Chen Mu threatened Deadpool through Xu Jia and then collected the abilities of the mutants in the prison.
• Deadpool searched the cells for Russell but could not find him.
• Cable blasted through a wall, demanded to know where Russell was, and threatened anyone who stood in his way.
• Deadpool challenged Cable to a fight and deflected one bullet before Cable’s remaining shots hit him.

Chen Mu watched Cable and Deadpool fight until Red Tank broke out of prison with Russell and turned on them. Red Tank tore Deadpool in half, while Cable retreated and Deadpool continued talking from the ground.

• Cable took out a powerful future weapon and fought Deadpool, while Chen Mu and Xu Jia watched.
• Red Tank burst through a prison wall, and Chen Mu considered using his power to create tireless factory workers.
• Russell emerged beside Red Tank, taunted Cable, and asked Red Tank to kill him.
• Cable fired his energy cannon at Red Tank, but the blast only slowed him slightly.
• Red Tank grabbed Deadpool and tore him in half, and Deadpool kept muttering on the ground.

Chen Mu confronted Red Tank after Russell ordered him to attack, and learned that Red Tank's power came from the God of Mischief Ruby hidden in his helmet. Chen Mu used a portal to turn Red Tank's punch against him, knocking off the helmet and revealing the ruby.

• Red Tank tore Deadpool in half and crushed his arms while Russell mocked him and ordered Red Tank to attack Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu stopped pregnant Xu Jia from fighting and faced Red Tank himself, while the system began analyzing the nearby God of Mischief Ruby.
• Chen Mu asked Red Tank about the ruby, and Deadpool blurted out what he knew before Red Tank crushed his remaining hand.
• Red Tank attacked Chen Mu to protect his secret, but Chen Mu redirected the punch through a portal into Red Tank's own head.
• Red Tank's helmet flew off, and the God of Mischief Ruby fell out.

Chen Mu analyzed the God of Mischief Ruby, took it from the Red Tank, and severed the magic sustaining him. After the Red Tank died, Russell tried to escape Chen Mu’s attention.

• Chen Mu analyzed the ruby and learned it drew power from the dimensional demon god Cyttorak in exchange for a follower.
• Chen Mu explained the ruby’s nature to Xu Jia and said he could use Kamar-Taj magic to draw power from it without alerting the God of Mischief.
• The Red Tank demanded his ruby back, but Chen Mu cut off its connection to him and stored it in his bracelet.
• The Red Tank rapidly weakened and died from accumulated hunger and exhaustion, leaving Deadpool stunned.
• Chen Mu confronted Russell about his threat, and Russell awkwardly tried to back away and leave.