Chapter Summaries

Wang Ying used Little Moss and the Quantum Radar to defeat Silk Country’s electronic warfare forces while flying the J20, despite losing contact with command. The exercise ended with Land Country’s lone frigate and fighter defeating a light aircraft carrier and ten aircraft, while Halsey and other participants questioned the result.

• Little Moss warned Wang Ying about the EA-18G interference, kept her systems working, and guided her fire-control tactics as the F35 pilot was repeatedly locked and declared shot down.
• Luo Yao explained to Colonel Li that Little Moss had independently adapted the tactics, but the command center then lost contact with Wang Ying and ordered search-and-rescue procedures.
• Wang Ying refused to activate the Luneberg Lens, used Quantum Communication and HOJ radar to locate jamming sources, and quietly approached an EA-18G.
• Wang Ying’s actions led six EA-18G aircraft to return after being illuminated by fire-control radar, while the E-2D aircraft were eliminated one by one.
• Luo Yao activated Little Moss aboard the 054E, and the last E-2D was illuminated by fire-control radar as its display showed “Game over.”
• The exercise control team announced Silk Country’s defeat and revealed that Land Country had deployed only one frigate and one J20; Halsey and other participants went to confront the organizers.

Valoja and Ivanov considered buying Hua Nation’s 054E and J20 after the Red side defeated the Blue side in the exercise, while Halsey failed to prove cheating and uncovered evidence of a long-range weapon. Hua Nation revealed that Luo Yao’s team had developed an Electromagnetic Cannon, and after Wang Ying’s performance was praised and debated in a remote meeting, Little Moss sent Luo Yao a message.

• Valoja delayed discussing a purchase until he could verify the 054E and J20, while Halsey demanded proof that the Red side had cheated and left without presenting any.
• The exercise results spread widely, and Halsey’s team found radar-warning data indicating a missile range of 210 kilometers.
• Halsey spread claims about Hua Nation’s mysterious attack equipment, and Hua Nation announced its Electromagnetic Cannon had been independently developed by Luo Yao’s team.
• The participating parties connected the cannon’s range to the Red side’s victory, while Yamamoto realized his own forces would have little chance against them.
• During a remote conference, Luo Yao said he wanted the others to question them again so he could test and upgrade the cannon, and the commanders discussed rewarding and punishing Wang Ying.
• Little Moss sent Luo Yao a message as the conference was ending.

Roberts and his Somali pirates attacked a crude-oil tanker, but the crew hid in a safe room and sent a distress call. Luo Yao trusted Little Moss to direct a rescue, then ordered the captured pirates released, promising they would develop PTSD whenever they saw cargo ships from Country C.

• Roberts led eleven pirates in attacking the tanker and forced its crew to retreat into the safe room.
• The tanker captain sent a distress call, and 054E and Big Bear ships turned back to respond.
• Wang Ying used an aircraft to help Little Moss assess the pirates and propose a direct boarding.
• Luo Yao approved Little Moss’s plan, and special forces boarded the tanker and captured the pirates in under fifteen minutes.
• Roberts and the other pirates boasted that international law would protect them, but Luo Yao ordered them released and promised they would fear cargo ships from Country C.

Luo Yao ordered a scheme that drove Roberts and the pirates away from the oil tanker with foodless supplies and carefully aimed Electromagnetic Cannon tests, terrifying them into racing home. The International Court rejected their lawsuit against Luo Yao, and after he returned to the Military Research Institute, Chief Zhou and the others reacted to him with unexplained amusement.

• Luo Yao told Tian Jian to release the pirates without food or water, then use Electromagnetic Cannon tests to frighten them away from Wanga.
• Roberts led the pirates through a long escape as Little Moss tracked them and Luo Yao's cannon fire repeatedly landed nearby without hitting them.
• After returning home, Roberts and the pirates sued Luo Yao for emotional distress, but the International Court rejected their case.
• News of the pirates' failed lawsuit spread, and people joked about Luo Yao's actions and the pirates' fear.
• Luo Yao returned to the Military Research Institute and asked Chief Zhou why he kept smiling and shaking his head at him.

Luo Yao agreed to restrict permissions for 054E warship sales, reviewed Electromagnetic Cannon test results, and accepted workers for the smart city project after confirming the costs. He began researching an airborne Electromagnetic Cannon, but discovered that no existing aircraft could carry it and suspected Zheng Yang had deliberately drawn him into the challenge.

• Zheng Yang told Luo Yao that pirates had sued him for psychological trauma, but the International Court had rejected their case, and Luo Yao agreed to coordinate safeguards for 054E warship technology sales at a licensing fee of 100 million Hua currency per vessel.
• Zheng Yang presented the Electromagnetic Cannon's test results and proposed using it in the air, prompting Luo Yao to list the engineering challenges and agree to work with selected specialists.
• Old Zhou and Zheng Yang asked Luo Yao to hire domestic units for the smart city project's second phase, and he agreed after Little Moss calculated that their rates would leave money in the budget.
• Luo Yao had Little Moss screen potential contractors, then began searching the Military Research Institute's database for a drone or stealth fighter suitable for carrying the cannon.
• Luo Yao gathered the specialists Zheng Yang had listed, heard them reject the J20 and Wing Loong drone as unsuitable, and concluded that Zheng Yang had set him up.

Luo Yao agreed to develop a new drone platform for the Southern Sky Gate Plan, rejecting the experts’ delta-wing proposal and deciding to develop the prerequisite technology with Little Moss. Zheng Yang later learned why Luo Yao wanted to work alone, while Luo Yao’s discussion of military battery applications was interrupted by Wang Ye reporting a problem with an infrastructure quotation sheet.

• Luo Yao realized Zheng Yang had maneuvered him into joining the Southern Sky Gate Plan, then proposed building a new fixed-wing drone to carry the Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Luo Yao rejected the experts’ delta-wing design and proposed forward-swept wings, insisting that he would develop the prerequisite technology himself before inviting others to verify it.
• Most of the experts left the meeting, but Lu Song asked to join the experiments after the prerequisite technology was developed, and Luo Yao agreed.
• Zheng Yang visited Luo Yao, learned that Little Moss would assist his research, and explained that Luo Zhu was working on military battery applications, including hybrid-powered Type 59 modification tanks.
• Wang Ye called Luo Yao and told him that the prices on the infrastructure construction units’ quotation sheet were wrong.

When more than thirty infrastructure firms raised their quotations four or five times for the Dog Big Household smart city project, Luo Yao rejected their demands and walked out of the meeting. On the way back to East City, he told Wang Ye and Wu Tianming that Pioneer Technology would seek private contractors and negotiate with Hua Zi Wei to prevent future price gouging.

• Wang Ye told Luo Yao that the infrastructure firms had quoted prices four or five times higher than the figures on Zheng Yang's quotation sheet, and Zheng Yang arranged a meeting with their representatives.
• Tian Yong confronted the representatives with evidence that their labor costs had not risen, and they admitted they wanted to charge more because Luo Yao was wealthy and they had no competitors.
• After Tian Yong revealed that the young man they had insulted was President Luo, Luo Yao refused to cooperate with the firms and left the conference room with Wang Ye and Wu Tianming.
• The representatives blamed Luo Yao for abandoning the project, while Tian Yong explained that the project could also benefit future smart city construction in Hua Nation and asked Zheng Yang and Fu Daobin to help reconcile.
• Zheng Yang and Fu Daobin found that Luo Yao had already returned to East City, where he told Wang Ye and Wu Tianming he would seek private contractors and speak with Hua Zi Wei.

Luo Yao proposed using collaborative Construction Robots to continue the smart city project and explained how workers could be retrained and share in productivity gains. Tian Yong accepted that the plan should proceed, but after Dan Xing reported it, higher-ups ordered Tian Yong to support Luo Yao, leaving him regretting the meeting.

• After delaying his meeting with Fu Daobin while working in the laboratory, Luo Yao asked him to arrange a meeting with Hua Zi Wei.
• Luo Yao told Tian Yong, Zheng Yang, Dan Xing, and Fu Daobin that he planned to use robots alongside workers to build infrastructure rather than stop the Dog Big Household project.
• Tian Yong objected that robots could displace workers, but Luo Yao argued that robots were tools and proposed retraining workers for technical or robot-operation roles, with incentives and profit sharing.
• Luo Yao asked Tian Yong to obtain construction-related technical materials so the Construction Robots could learn specialized knowledge and develop an operating model.
• Dan Xing reported Luo Yao's plan to the higher-ups, who ordered Tian Yong to cooperate, and Tian Yong regretted meeting Luo Yao.

Luo Yao struggled to secure construction-company cooperation and accelerate production of the costly carbon nanotube composite needed for his Construction Robot. After improving the material-production process, he advanced the robot’s design and left Zheng Yang questioning whether its new weapon still made it a construction robot.

• Tian Yong failed to persuade the first infrastructure construction company to share its technical data, and he went on to approach another company.
• Luo Yao found that carbon nanotube composite was prohibitively expensive and that his laboratory produced it too slowly using existing methods.
• Luo Yao used a temporary Material Research and Development talent to devise improved experimental procedures, raising production to eight grams a day with better-quality material.
• Luo Yao handed material production to the researchers and designed a more durable Construction Robot with quantum communication and an intelligent control system.
• After Little Moss reminded Luo Yao of the danger faced by workers abroad, he added a handheld Electromagnetic Cannon to the robot design and told Zheng Yang.
• Zheng Yang questioned whether a Construction Robot equipped with a handheld Electromagnetic Cannon could still be called a construction robot.

Luo Yao developed a Construction Robot and sought to equip it with a miniature Electromagnetic Cannon for protection during overseas projects. After the robot was built, he began training it on limited construction data and planned to have Little Moss accelerate the process through a virtual environment.

• Luo Yao proposed adding a handheld Electromagnetic Cannon and an intelligent defense system to the Construction Robot, and Old Zhou approved the idea only if the weapon could be made smaller.
• Luo Yao redesigned the weapon as a miniature Electromagnetic Pistol, asked Luo Zhu for a compact Hydrogen Negative Ion Conductor Battery, and sent the blueprints to Zheng Yang.
• Luo Yao recruited three Artificial Intelligence PhDs, including Zheng Xiaoxiao, and criticized their work so harshly that Zheng Xiaoxiao stopped trying to approach him.
• A month later, Luo Yao completed the first Construction Robot but discovered it lacked construction data; Zheng Yang supplied data from three organizations, totaling more than ten terabytes.
• Luo Yao started training the robot with the available data, then decided Little Moss would handle the initial learning in a virtual environment matching the robot.

Luo Yao’s Construction Robot passed its simulated test and demonstrated bricklaying and structural reinforcement at a real construction site, impressing the observers but alarming the workers about their jobs. As Tian Yong tried to calm the workers, Prince Aziz called Luo Yao about a cooperation request tied to the smart city project.

• Little Moss built a virtual environment for the Construction Robot’s learning model, and Luo Yao’s team confirmed the robot could lay bricks in simulation.
• Zheng Yang arranged a real-world test with Huajian Fifth Bureau, and Old Zhou promised to help secure construction data if the robot performed well.
• Wang Qiang recognized Luo Yao as his former middle school classmate, mocked the robot, and was embarrassed when Luo Yao recalled his poor math score.
• Sergei instructed the Construction Robot to copy a nearby wall and reinforce a structure, and the robot completed both tasks with precision.
• Wang Qiang doubted the demonstration, while the workers feared the robot would replace them; Tian Yong tried to calm them by explaining Luo Yao’s proposed solution.
• Prince Aziz received a cooperation email about the smart city project and called Luo Yao while he was speaking with the workers.

Luo Yao learned that Kimchi Country’s Hyundai and Comet Company wanted to take part in the smart city renovation project and prepared to counter their bid with Construction Robots. After presenting the robots to Prince Aziz, he left Aziz weighing the new technology against his promise to the Kimchi companies.

• Tian Yong warned Huajian Fifth Bureau’s staff about Luo Yao’s status, while Luo Yao left to consider Kimchi Country’s construction industry and its history.
• Dan Xing explained Kimchi construction companies’ overseas experience, and Luo Yao revealed that Hyundai and Comet Company had approached Prince Aziz about the project.
• Luo Yao agreed to let Zheng Xiaoxiao handle external communications, then returned to prepare for talks with Aziz as construction firms worried about the Kimchi companies’ competition.
• Aziz told Luo Yao he wanted to outsource part of the project to Hyundai and Comet Company to speed construction and help his longtime partners.
• Luo Yao argued that outsourcing would not shorten the timeline and introduced the Construction Robots developed for the project, leaving Aziz uncertain whether to reject the Kimchi companies.

Luo Yao secured a trial for his Construction Robots in Dog Big Household while Hyundai and Comet secretly planned to infiltrate Pioneer Technology’s smart city system. After fixing a data-processing bug and completing the robot models, Luo Yao prepared for field testing and was warned that the Korean companies might be targeting the entire project system.

• Aziz agreed to let Hyundai and Comet conduct a half-month trial, while Lee Doo-hwan and Kim Sung-hoon secretly planned to use the construction work to plant a virus and access Pioneer Technology’s Artificial Intelligence.
• Zheng Xiaoxiao reported the trial arrangements, and Luo Yao assigned her coordination duties after doubling her salary.
• Sergei found an abnormal learning pattern in Little Moss’s data processing, and Luo Yao helped identify and fix a bug caused by modifying the data list during iteration.
• Little Moss processed 5 EB of construction data in under a week, and Luo Yao arranged field testing at Huajian Fifth Bureau while learning that the miniature Electromagnetic Pistol had accidentally destroyed a car during testing.
• Dan Xing warned Luo Yao that Hyundai and Comet might be after the smart city project system and said the team needed to prepare bait.

Dan Xing explained how Pioneer Technology would use a deliberately flawed artificial-intelligence framework as bait for Hyundai and Comet, and Luo Yao built it. At a smart-city coordination meeting, Zheng Xiaoxiao's team encountered an unexpected G42 representative and hinted that Pioneer Technology's cybersecurity technology included hardware.

• Dan Xing told Luo Yao that Hyundai and Comet might be seeking information about Little Moss or planning sabotage, and described a half-true, half-false bait strategy.
• Luo Yao created a fake Artificial Intelligence framework with hidden flaws and had Little Moss add ordinary, correct code to disguise it.
• Half a month later, Zheng Xiaoxiao, Wang Ye, and Sergei traveled to Dog Big Household to take part in the project, with Wang Ye and Sergei assigned to the Bait Plan.
• At the coordination meeting, Wang Ye had Bae Yong-jun and Park Dae-pyo introduce their companies, and Zheng Xiaoxiao discovered that Khalid from G42 had joined them unexpectedly.
• Zheng Xiaoxiao described the smart-city infrastructure project and, when Park Dae-pyo probed its security technology, said Pioneer Technology's cybersecurity system included hardware as well as software.

Wang Ye and Sergei tricked Hyundai and Comet Company into stealing two portions of Pioneer Technology’s AI code, while Pioneer Technology demonstrated its Construction Robots to Prince Aziz. After seeing the robots, G42 reconsidered its ties with companies from Ugly Nation and contacted Luo Yao, who offered to acquire it instead of cooperating.

• Zheng Xiaoxiao described Pioneer Technology’s sensing devices and security gateways, and Wang Ye and Sergei used a banquet to bait Bae Yong-jun into copying code from Sergei’s laptop.
• Bae Yong-jun and Park Dae-pyo analyzed the stolen code overnight and identified it as part of an AI framework, while other thieves copied the contents of Wang Ye’s laptop during a staged hotel fire.
• Wang Ye reported the theft and G42’s involvement to Luo Yao, then arrived with Zheng Xiaoxiao at the construction site and demonstrated the Construction Robots to Prince Aziz.
• Park Dae-pyo and Bae Yong-jun saw the robots working and ordered the stolen code sent back to Kimchi Nation, while Khalid sent G42 executive Yasser videos of the demonstration.
• Yasser decided G42 should pursue Pioneer Technology rather than companies from Ugly Nation and called Luo Yao, who said cooperation was impossible but acquiring G42 was an option.

Luo Yao confronted Yasser about G42’s weaknesses and proposed acquiring it, while Zheng Xiaoxiao’s team began upgrading a water plant in Aziz’s smart city. After Construction Robots destroyed a drone attack, Aziz asked Luo Yao for more defenses, and Luo Yao proposed an Electromagnetic Rocket Launcher that he claimed could defeat the Iron Dome System.

• Luo Yao told Yasser that G42’s weak research, unappealing products, and dispersed ownership made it vulnerable to acquisition, then offered 500 million Hua currency now or 200 million later.
• Zheng Xiaoxiao explained the Artificial Intelligence monitoring system for the water plant, and Aziz ordered Pioneer Technology to begin the renovation.
• Park Dae-pyo’s team tried to gain access to the monitoring equipment, but Wang Ye assigned them ordinary construction work instead.
• Construction Robots used miniature electromagnetic guns to disable drones attacking the water plant, and Aziz blamed Hussain for the attempted sabotage.
• Aziz asked Luo Yao for more Construction Robots and stronger defenses, and Luo Yao proposed an Electromagnetic Rocket Launcher before dismissing the Iron Dome System as a poor comparison.

Luo Yao negotiated Aziz’s orders for Construction Robots and electromagnetic weapons, then learned Aziz was willing to transfer G42 to him for one Hua currency. After receiving news that the government would fund a factory for Pioneer Technology, Luo Yao went to the Military Research Institute, where Zheng Yang asked him to help revive the stalled new-drone project; Luo Yao left after hearing an expert present a conventional wing design.

• Luo Yao persuaded Aziz to exclude foreign companies from the smart city project, and Aziz agreed to buy equipment and use Construction Robots to guard other facilities.
• Aziz offered to transfer G42 to Luo Yao for one Hua currency, and Luo Yao asked Peng Xun to investigate the company, especially its medical projects.
• Zheng Yang gave Luo Yao plans for a government-funded factory and discussed Aziz’s equipment order with him.
• Zheng Yang asked Luo Yao to help advance the stalled new-drone project, explaining that the existing designs had failed to impress the higher-ups.
• An expert presented a swept-wing design to Zheng Yang, and Luo Yao dismissed it as conventional before leaving.

Luo Yao abandoned his ordinary drone design after finding inspiration in a science fiction movie and began developing an aerospace drone. Meanwhile, Aziz removed the Kimchi representatives from the Dog Big Household project, while Lawrence’s team gained access to Pioneer Technology’s Artificial Intelligence code and approached Aziz about buying G42.

• Luo Yao decided to make his forward-swept-wing drone distinctive, then restarted the design as a spaceplane drone after watching Space Cowboy.
• Aziz ended the Kimchi representatives’ trial work in Dog Big Household and promised Wang Ye’s team help with visas and local workers.
• President Yan told workers that Pioneer Technology needed twenty to thirty thousand people for the project, and the workers celebrated the opportunity to join.
• Lawrence brought Ugly Nation experts to Comet’s laboratory to analyze Pioneer Technology’s Artificial Intelligence code, then offered Aziz 200 million Ugly Nation dollars for G42.
• Aziz stalled Lawrence while waiting for Luo Yao to reply about G42, but Luo Yao had forgotten the matter as he focused on the aerospace drone.
• Zheng Yang questioned Luo Yao’s research direction, and Luo Yao confirmed that Space Cowboy had inspired his design.

Malik tested Hussain’s drones against an Ugly Nation ship, prompting Dog Big Household to consider buying the SM-2 system despite Aziz’s argument for Pioneer Technology’s cheaper defenses. Meanwhile, Luo Yao pursued research into a rocketless spaceplane, and the chapter ended with experts challenging him to explain how it could reach space without a rocket.

• Malik suspended planned drone attacks on Dog Big Household and sent Hussain’s drones to test themselves against an Ugly Nation vessel in the Red Sea.
• An Ugly Nation ship used its SM-2 system to destroy fourteen Hussain drones, and Eric publicized the result to attract buyers.
• Aziz urged Dog Big Household’s chieftain to buy Pioneer Technology’s robots and miniature Electromagnetic Pistols instead of relying on costly SM-2 missiles, but Dog Big Household still requested an SM-2 purchase.
• Zheng Yang asked Luo Yao to prioritize drone research, and Luo Yao prepared a report proposing a spaceplane and studied the X-37B for comparison.
• At an expert meeting, the experts warned Luo Yao that a rocketless spaceplane was impractical and asked how he would get it into space, while Luo Yao said he had redesigned every system.

Luo Yao proposed a rocket-free spaceplane project that drew skepticism from experts, but Elder Sun and the authorities agreed to support it. As Pioneer Technology announced its move into space, Luo Yao also confronted Lawrence over G42 and seized on Lawrence’s offer of an SM-2 system.

• Luo Yao explained that his spaceplane would use an Inductive Force Field Drive and a Variable Cycle Engine, then left when experts questioned the project’s feasibility and cost.
• Zheng Yang consulted Elder Sun, who judged the project challenging but promising and agreed to serve as its technical consultant.
• The authorities approved full support for Luo Yao’s project, and Pioneer Technology publicly announced it was entering the space sector without disclosing details.
• Lawrence learned that G42 had drawn interest from another company, guessed that Pioneer Technology was involved, and arranged a video call with Luo Yao.
• Lawrence offered to pay double for G42, and Luo Yao said he had bought it for one Hua currency and demanded the promised SM-2 system as a gift.