Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yang assembled an aerospace project team for Xuan Nü, but the researchers stalled on the Inductive Force Field Drive until Luo Yao arrived and supplied a working design and explanation. Luo Yao then asked whether someone named Lu Song was at the institute.

• Zheng Yang announced that Luo Yao would lead the Xuan Nü aerospace unmanned aircraft project, with Elder Sun and Hua Aviation personnel assisting, and the assembled experts agreed to join.
• The researchers studied Boeing's X-37B and struggled to begin work on the Inductive Force Field Drive, while Luo Yao learned that the project team needed his guidance.
• Lawrence objected to Luo Yao acquiring G42's shares for one Hua currency, but Luo Yao insulted him and ended the call.
• Zheng Yang asked Luo Yao to come to the institute, and Luo Yao used Little Moss to calculate and prepare the drive's design before heading there.
• Luo Yao identified flaws in the team's magnetic field adjustment device, presented a design, and explained how the Inductive Force Field Drive worked.
• Director Gu learned that Luo Yao had resolved the team's problems, offered to handle the Variable Cycle Engine research, and heard Luo Yao ask whether Lu Song was there.

Luo Yao insisted on bringing the allegedly unlucky Lu Song into the Xuan Nü project while a failed aerodynamic design unsettled the team. Meanwhile, his trap in stolen AI code sparked a fight between foreign experts, and Ivanov asked to discuss a smart-city upgrade; Luo Yao proposed a trade, leaving Ivanov unsure what he wanted.

• Director Gu warned Luo Yao that Lu Song's past project teams had all failed, but Luo Yao ordered him to join the Xuan Nü project and said he would take responsibility.
• Lu Song joined the aircraft design team, whose first aerodynamic model failed to meet the payload requirement; the team then refused his offer to help with a new design.
• Lawrence ordered experts in Kimchi to build an AI from stolen code, but Luo Yao's hidden trap caused the program to stall and the experts to blame one another and fight.
• Ivanov called Luo Yao about a smart-city upgrade for Big Bear, but Luo Yao questioned whether they could pay and refused to discuss installments.
• Luo Yao proposed that Ivanov trade something from his country for the project, and Ivanov wondered what Luo Yao wanted.

Luo Yao negotiated with Bear Country over access to its military technologies in exchange for Pioneer Technology’s AI monitoring system. Valoja agreed to offer one technology first, but Luo Yao rejected missile defense technology, leaving the exchange unresolved.

• Luo Yao dismissed Bear Country’s technological leverage and pressed Ivanov to propose something valuable for cooperation.
• Valoja concluded Luo Yao wanted Bear Country’s missile defense, aircraft engine, and nuclear submarine technologies, and decided to test the waters by trading one of them for AI monitoring technology.
• Luo Yao demonstrated the AI city monitoring system to Valoja and Ivanov, describing its surveillance, prediction, coordination, and identification functions before overwhelming them with technical details.
• Valoja interrupted Luo Yao and redirected the discussion to the technology exchange, and Ivanov proposed missile defense system technology.
• Luo Yao rejected the missile defense technology because Hua Nation already had it.

Luo Yao secured Bear Country’s Anti-missile System Database in exchange for Artificial Intelligence monitoring technology, astonishing the negotiation team that had failed to obtain it after eight attempts. He then confronted aerodynamic researchers blaming Lu Song for their faulty model calculations and examined their design.

• Luo Yao asked Ivanov for Bear Country’s Anti-missile System Database, and Ivanov requested a day to consider the exchange.
• Valoja and Bear Country’s leaders agreed to provide the database, and Ivanov arranged the exchange with Luo Yao.
• Luo Yao told Zheng Yang how the deal came about, and Zheng brought in specialists to handle and verify the transaction.
• Zheng Yang’s secretary told Director Wei’s negotiation team that their ninth meeting was unnecessary because Luo Yao had secured the database.
• Director Wei met Zheng Yang, learned Bear Country had agreed to the exchange, and prepared to join the transaction discussions.
• When researchers blamed Lu Song for the aerodynamic model’s errors, Luo Yao challenged them and took their design to inspect it.

Luo Yao corrected Xuan Nü’s flawed aerodynamic design with Little Moss’s simulations, then developed holographic projection technology. At the contract meeting with Big Bear, he used the new technology to demonstrate the artificial intelligence monitoring system, astonishing everyone in the room.

• Luo Yao identified the project team’s reliance on the Su-47 as the source of Xuan Nü’s design problems and redesigned its aerodynamic layout with Little Moss’s help.
• Little Moss ran millions of wind tunnel simulations and produced an optimized forward-swept-wing design, while the project team began planning the aircraft’s internal structure.
• Luo Yao bought holographic projection technology from the system, had Zheng Yang procure parts, and assembled the equipment with Little Moss in the East City laboratory.
• Little Moss projected a lifelike catgirl, and Luo Yao confirmed that the holographic image was clear and three-dimensional.
• Ivanov arrived to sign the agreement with Hua Nation, and Luo Yao joined the meeting by video call after Ivanov explained that he had been promoted and received cosmetic treatment.
• Luo Yao had Little Moss project the artificial intelligence monitoring system’s data as a hologram, leaving Ivanov, Dan Xing, Director Wei, and the others amazed.

Luo Yao demonstrated a physical-medium-free holographic projection system, signed an agreement for Pioneer Technology to provide Big Bear with its AI monitoring system, and helped repel a cyberattack with Sergei. After inspecting the aerodynamics project in the capital, Luo Yao was approached by police officers and asked to go with them.

• Luo Yao demonstrated his holographic projection technology, and Ivanov signed the agreement with Director Wei for the Anti-missile System Database and AI monitoring cooperation.
• Big Bear announced a trial of Pioneer Technology's AI monitoring system, and an unidentified hacker attacked Pioneer Technology's network that night.
• Sergei recognized the attacker's coding style as that of a Big Bear hacker and sent a virus back, ending the intrusion.
• Ivanov ordered the hacker alliances not to sabotage the cooperation with Pioneer Technology and threatened violators with severe punishment.
• Luo Yao inspected the aerodynamics team's designs in the capital and suggested an adjustment to the thruster area.
• Police officers arrived at the laboratory and asked Luo Yao to come with them as the researchers watched.

Luo Yao agreed to provide an AI surveillance system to the Criminal Investigation Team after officials secured pilot surveillance permissions for three cities and promised support against cyberattacks. Back at the laboratory, he began planning privacy safeguards and training, while Lu Song revealed he had feared Luo Yao was in trouble and gathered people who could help him.

• Director Fang introduced Fu Lei, who admired Luo Yao, and asked him to help provide an AI surveillance system for domestic use.
• Luo Yao explained that the system required surveillance access permissions and could face attacks; Director Fang said approvals covered Haishi, Yu Prefecture, and Chuanzhou, with cyber authorities ready to respond to sabotage.
• Luo Yao accepted the proposed fee of two million Hua currency per province per year and outlined remote deployment, staff training, and technical support.
• As Zheng Yang escorted him back, Luo Yao planned privacy protections, permission tiers, anonymization, audits, and online and offline training.
• At the laboratory, Lu Song showed Luo Yao a list of people who could help him, explaining that he had feared the fierce-looking officer had taken him into trouble.
• When Luo Yao asked whether everyone had finished their research, the laboratory staff quickly dispersed.

Luo Yao’s Xuan Nü design impressed Chuanfei’s engineers, while he pushed the Inductive Force Field Drive and a new factory forward. After the Artificial Intelligence monitoring system launched amid public backlash, Fu Lei tried to use it on a decades-old cold case but found no clues until Luo Yao hinted that AI could see what humans could not.

• Hao Feipeng and Chuanfei’s experts examined Luo Yao’s Xuan Nü blueprints, praised their unprecedented design, and approved the aerospace drone for production.
• Luo Yao questioned the Inductive Force Field Drive team’s slow progress, prompting Xiao Zhuang to call Director Gu, who ordered the researchers to work overtime.
• Luo Yao told Zheng Yang to transfer Construction Robots from Dog Big Household to the new factory and required a workshop fitted with mechanical arms of different lengths.
• The Artificial Intelligence monitoring system went online, drawing both praise and privacy concerns as anti-AI groups and the Old Mirror Daily stirred public suspicion.
• Director Fang assigned Fu Lei a missing-girls case linked to a thirty-year-old unsolved crime, and Fu Lei searched the new system but found no relevant surveillance footage or clues.
• Fu Lei called Luo Yao for help, and Luo Yao told him he had made one mistake because artificial intelligence could see things humans could not.

Luo Yao showed Fu Lei and the criminal investigation team how Little Moss used surveillance and behavioral data to uncover leads in the serial murder case. He left the officers to verify the analysis while he returned to the Inductive Force Field Drive development team.

• Fu Lei asked Luo Yao how to use the new Artificial Intelligence surveillance system, and Luo Yao called a meeting with everyone handling the serial killer case.
• Luo Yao explained how Little Moss analyzed changes in household spending and other behavioral data to infer that one victim had visited the crime scene twice and may have arranged to meet someone there.
• Little Moss identified fifteen vehicles and thirty-seven people who appeared near the crime scene during the days of the murders, giving the officers leads to investigate.
• Luo Yao cautioned the officers that Artificial Intelligence was an auxiliary tool and that human judgment and fieldwork remained necessary to verify its results.
• Luo Yao went offline to check on the Inductive Force Field Drive research, while Fu Lei organized teams to investigate Little Moss's leads.

After Fu Lei’s team used the Artificial Intelligence surveillance system to solve a murder and a thirty-year-old cold case, public support for the system grew. Lawrence organized an AI alliance to challenge Pioneer Technology and tried to block Interpol’s cooperation with it, while Luo Yao’s meeting with Interpol was barred and his AI Little Moss greeted the delegation instead; Luo Yao also agreed to attend a G42 meeting after learning Huaji representatives had arrived.

• Fu Lei’s team identified and interrogated the murder suspect using Artificial Intelligence analysis, and news of the solved murder and linked cold case shifted public opinion in favor of the surveillance system.
• Lawrence gathered technology companies and universities in New York to form an Artificial Intelligence alliance, criticizing Pioneer Technology and proposing a review of its technology.
• Bilar told Lawrence that Interpol had approached Pioneer Technology, and Lawrence ordered him to prevent the organizations from meeting.
• Lyon flew to Hua Nation to meet Pioneer Technology, but Advisor Mick tried to dissuade him from cooperating and Lyon ended the call after Mick mentioned Aurelie.
• Zheng Yang told Luo Yao not to meet the Interpol delegation, so Little Moss appeared in his place and teased Lyon as a projection.
• Aziz invited Luo Yao to a G42 internal meeting where Huaji representatives would be present, and Luo Yao agreed to attend.

Lyon discussed deploying Little Moss’s surveillance system through Interpol, while Luo Yao’s carbon nanotube composite material won industry recognition and disrupted foreign suppliers. After Little Moss attended a meeting in Luo Yao’s place and revealed he was asleep, the chapter ended with Luo Yao considering an AI medical project after hearing Huaji and G42 debate healthcare applications.

• Lyon proposed testing Little Moss’s surveillance system in Gaul and Bullfighting Country, and Luo Yao agreed to charge 300 million yuan per country annually.
• Chuanfei tested Luo Yao’s carbon nanotube composite material, found it exceeded international standards, and learned his laboratory could produce it at high volume.
• Zheng Yang urged domestic units to cancel foreign material orders, prompting Lawrence to investigate whether Hua Nation had solved its production problem.
• Luo Yao received 32,000 system points for Little Moss’s recognition and considered future aerospace, medical AI, and genetic modification tasks.
• Little Moss attended Luo Yao’s meeting with G42 and Huaji representatives, announced that Luo Yao was sleeping, and revealed herself as an AI.
• After waking, Luo Yao heard Yasser reject AI healthcare projects because earlier efforts had failed, and he recalled the system’s AI Medical Pods task.

Luo Yao proposed that G42 develop AI Medical Pods, examined its unfinished medical analysis model, and assigned Little Moss to build a better one from G42’s data. The chapter ended with Richard arguing that Luo Yao deserved the A.M. Turing Award, despite the chairman’s concerns about nominating someone from Hua Nation.

• Luo Yao challenged Huaji’s focus on medical diagnosis and treatment, proposing AI Medical Pods, but Zou Qi declined to participate.
• Luo Yao asked Yasser about G42’s medical analysis model, then had Little Moss access the company server after its operations staff could not be reached.
• Luo Yao tested G42’s model, identified weaknesses, and tasked Little Moss with building a new model while Yasser gathered data from more hospitals.
• Luo Yao replied to an email from Richard, saying Hua Nation wanted humanity to live happier lives, then went to sleep.
• Richard submitted a proposal to nominate Luo Yao for the A.M. Turing Award and insisted that no one else was more deserving.

Luo Yao investigated the Inductive Force Field Drive’s intermittent failure before Xuan Nü’s test and decided to add Little Moss as an insurance measure. As the trial approached, Chuanfei’s staff and government officials worried about the project’s low odds of success and its implications for future fighters.

• Richard persuaded the chairman to nominate Luo Yao for recognition, arguing that Luo Yao deserved to be known by more people.
• Luo Yao considered adding a sleep-acceleration function to AI Medical Pods, then agreed to attend Xuan Nü’s trial run.
• Cai Bo reported that Xuan Nü’s Variable Cycle Engine performed strongly and its Electromagnetic Cannon had achieved a 300-kilometer range, but the Inductive Force Field Drive failed intermittently.
• Zheng Yang learned that the drive’s failure meant Xuan Nü could not enter space, while the Refined Man explained to Old Zhou that the project could serve as a technology demonstrator despite its 15% chance of success.
• Luo Yao used Little Moss to rule out abnormal electromagnetic interference and suspected the flight-control system instead.
• Luo Yao began giving Little Moss control of Xuan Nü as an insurance policy, and Zheng Yang reluctantly agreed to let him proceed.

Luo Yao used Little Moss to take control of the Xuan Nü during its full-aircraft test, and the aircraft climbed past the Karman Line into space. The control tower and aerospace center watched its first view from space as Elder Sun reacted with excitement.

• Luo Yao found that Xuan Nü's old computer setup could not support Little Moss, so he proposed remote control through wireless and satellite communications.
• Cai Bo began Xuan Nü's full-aircraft test, and its Inductive Force Field Drive lifted it into the air before its engines carried it to Mach 2.5.
• The test pilot fired Xuan Nü's Electromagnetic Cannon at simulated targets, and the weapon performed without abnormal aircraft readings.
• Luo Yao told Little Moss to take over Xuan Nü, and it climbed above thirty thousand meters as Cai Bo contacted the aerospace center for help monitoring it.
• Little Moss activated automatic cruise before Xuan Nü entered the communications blackout zone, then the aircraft passed through the Karman Line and sent back its first view from space.
• Elder Sun stood before the screen and watched Xuan Nü's view of space with disbelief and excitement.

Luo Yao tested Xuan Nü in space, steered it toward the International Space Station to frighten its astronauts, and returned safely to Blue Planet. The experiment succeeded, while officials and aerospace workers began reacting to the flight and its possible diplomatic fallout.

• Luo Yao rejected the aerospace center's request to return immediately and had Little Moss continue Xuan Nü's flight while reserving fuel for the return.
• Luo Yao calculated the International Space Station's movement and directed Xuan Nü toward it, then told Little Moss to fly over the station and return after its astronauts mistook the drone for an alien craft.
• Xuan Nü descended through Earth's atmosphere and landed safely, prompting the engineers at Chuanfei to cheer and inspect the aircraft.
• The Refined Man told Old Zhou that the experiment had succeeded and explained that Luo Yao had taken Xuan Nü to the International Space Station, prompting him to arrange a psychological evaluation.
• Shengfei employees discussed competing with Chuanfei for future projects, while workers at the aerospace center debated whether the station crew had identified Xuan Nü and faced a ringing external liaison phone.

After the Xuan Nü drone frightened astronauts aboard the International Space Station, foreign space agencies suspected it was an alien craft and struggled to explain its arrival. Luo Yao learned that Big Bear wanted Hua Nation’s help investigating, and proposed using the panic to announce a space-defense plan that could eventually provide cover for Xuan Nü.

• The space center played dumb when Big Bear and NASA asked whether its astronauts had seen anything unusual, while Big Bear publicly described the mysterious aircraft as unlike anything made on Blue Star.
• NASA and other International Space Station representatives examined the aircraft’s image, debated whether humans or Artificial Intelligence could build it, and found no rocket launches that could explain its appearance.
• Alexander urged the representatives to involve Hua Nation, then sought Ivanov’s support after NASA refused to include other countries in its investigation.
• Luo Yao returned to the capital and told Zheng Yang that Little Moss would handle a surveillance project with Lyon while he continued discussing Xuan Nü’s technology.
• Dan Xing reported that Ivanov wanted Hua Nation to investigate the aircraft with Big Bear, and Zheng Yang worried that cooperation could expose Xuan Nü.
• Luo Yao proposed announcing a space-hazard defense plan, reasoning that others could dismiss it as a joke while it gave Hua Nation a plausible reason to develop Xuan Nü.

Luo Yao recruited Director Guo to make a sci-fi promotional film about humanity’s defenses against extraterrestrial threats, using Little Moss to generate special effects. After the film was completed, Hua Nation announced the Southern Sky Gate Plan, leaving Director Guo shocked that the project was real.

• Luo Yao used Little Moss to predict what Lyon’s missing younger sister looked like as an adult, and Lyon sought authorization to search surveillance data for her.
• Dan Xing presented Ivanov with a proposal for joint research into space-capable weapons and vehicles, despite Ivanov and Alexander doubting its feasibility.
• Luo Yao asked Director Guo to produce a promotional film featuring advanced technologies and gave him a script and concept art for the Xuan Nü aerospace drone.
• Director Guo visited Pioneer Technology, where Little Moss rapidly learned special-effects software and generated a short sci-fi film for him.
• Director Guo and Luo Yao’s team completed the promotional video after three days of revisions, and Hua Nation announced the Southern Sky Gate Plan.
• Director Guo realized the plan he had treated as science fiction had been officially announced.

Hua Nation’s Southern Sky Gate Plan video sparked disbelief abroad and at home, while an aerospace forum announced new technologies and honored Luo Yao. The chapter ended as Old Zhou asked Luo Yao to advise on developing a power source for manned aerospace aircraft.

• NASA’s Bill concluded that the alien craft’s technology far surpassed humanity’s, then dismissed Hua Nation’s Southern Sky Gate Plan video as fictional after checking its source.
• Dan Xing told Professor Zhang that the plan had been announced while he was on leave and advised him to stay out of the public eye; both Professor Zhang and Luo Yao were summoned to an aerospace forum.
• Elder Sun announced the Artificial Intelligence-assisted operating system, airborne Electromagnetic Cannon, and Variable Cycle Engine, then awarded Luo Yao the Special Contribution Award for Aerospace Engineering.
• Luo Yao questioned whether he had received the award by mistake, leaving the venue stunned, and the attendees agreed to prioritize drones and swarm technology for applications of the new systems.
• Old Zhou told Luo Yao that tactical mechs were genuinely part of the Southern Sky Gate Plan and identified power systems as the key challenge for future manned aerospace aircraft; he then asked Luo Yao for his thoughts.

Luo Yao chose nuclear fusion for the aerospace plane and began developing AI Medical Pods, while his AI surveillance system drew praise and was approved for nationwide deployment. Meanwhile, Alexander discovered an attack on the Bear’s Space Administration was aimed at Quantum Satellites, as Bill and Tanaka waited to see whether their probe would lure Xuan Nü into action.

• Luo Yao told Old Zhou that nuclear fusion offered the best power source for long-duration aerospace missions, then proposed AI Medical Pods to improve medical care in remote and extreme environments.
• Old Zhou approved the AI Medical Pods project and assigned Zheng Yang to provide Luo Yao with resources; afterward, Peng Gang asked Luo Yao to consider applying AI assistance systems to new energy vehicles, and Luo Yao requested his materials.
• Luo Yao learned that the AI surveillance system had helped locate 190 missing children and numerous wanted criminals, and he agreed to its nationwide deployment before activating the AI Medical Pods mission and studying medical knowledge.
• Alexander warned Valoja that the Southern Sky Gate Plan might be real, then rushed to the Space Administration after a cyberattack cut contact with Satellite 747; investigators traced the commands to the location of Quantum Satellites.
• Bill and Tanaka discussed using the satellite incident to draw Xuan Nü out, believing that its response could reveal whether the aircraft in the Southern Sky Gate Plan was real.

A hacked Big Bear satellite threatened to collide with Pioneer Technology’s quantum communications satellite, prompting Luo Yao and Director Ma to seek a way to avert disaster. After Little Moss ruled out moving the target satellite and a plan to use Hong’s mechanical arms proved too slow, Luo Yao decided to deploy Xuan Nü while keeping it undetected.

• Alexander discovered that a hacked satellite was following a command that could send it toward a quantum satellite, and he alerted Valoja.
• Director Ma learned that Pioneer Technology’s satellite was threatened and organized an emergency response at the Space Center.
• Luo Yao used Little Moss to calculate a safe adjustment, but it recommended leaving the target satellite in place because moving it could cause more collisions.
• Luo Yao and Director Ma identified He Hong’s satellite Hong as a possible way to interfere with the hacked satellite, but Hong could not catch up quickly enough.
• After learning Anonymous had claimed responsibility and threatened to bring down a satellite, Luo Yao proposed using Xuan Nü’s Electromagnetic Cannon, but Director Ma warned against an aggressive response.
• Luo Yao concluded that Xuan Nü had to appear, but resolved to conceal every trace of its deployment.