Chapter Summaries

Luo Yao’s car partnerships and vehicle ratings sparked a backlash from Fong Tian and the Artificial Intelligence Alliance, so he retaliated by supplying combat robots to Big Bear. After the Army sought to deploy his Door frame robots, Luo Yao agreed to modify their controls and began assembling a team for AI Medical Pods.

• Five automakers launched Luo Yao collaboration cars, and Little Moss’s ratings drew public attention after Fong Tian received a low score.
• Akio and other Nihon automakers condemned Luo Yao’s ratings, while the Artificial Intelligence Alliance accused his vehicles of collecting private data and threatened to block cooperation with Pioneer Technology.
• Luo Yao dismissed the accusations, defended his work, and saw Hua Nation citizens and foreign supporters rally behind him.
• A video showed Construction Robots and Door frame robots fighting in Big Bear, and Zheng Yang traced the machines to Luo Yao’s work at Santou Industrial Park.
• Luo Yao admitted he had sent Big Bear five Construction Robots and five Door frame robots, and Zheng Yang told him the higher-ups wanted to deploy the latter.
• Luo Yao agreed to replace remote control with motion-sensing operation, then asked Zheng Yang to find medical experts for the AI Medical Pods project.

Valoja sought Hua Nation’s help after foreign-funded factories withdrew from Big Bear, and Dan Xing organized factories to work through the New Year to supply the market. Meanwhile, officials arranged a half-month academic exchange to force Luo Yao to rest, but he went hoping to enlist the scholars and academicians in his research.

• Valoja decided Big Bear should open its market to Hua Nation’s goods, and Ivanov contacted Dan Xing to ask for help finding suppliers.
• Dan Xing and Old Zhou mobilized factories to work overtime over the Spring Festival, and 131 companies agreed to keep operating for Big Bear.
• Luo Yao ordered Pioneer Technology to skip its New Year holiday, while assigning Edra to arrange the company’s annual meeting and a three-day team outing.
• Old Zhou arranged a half-month exchange event for Changjiang Scholar nominees so Luo Yao would have to rest, and Luo Yao agreed to attend after learning prominent researchers would be there.
• Luo Yao spent two days with Sun Xiulan and Luo Jianguo before traveling with Dan Xing to the exchange, where he asked about collaborating with the scholars and academicians.

Luo Yao used the Changjiang Scholar exchange event to recruit Academician Xue Mingyuan for his AI medical project. When Teacher Ma arrived seeking cooperation, Luo Yao revealed that he wanted to develop AI medical pods for use in outer space.

• Dan Xing took Luo Yao to the resort, where Luo dismissed the staff’s claims that scenic inspiration could spur scientific breakthroughs.
• Luo Yao discussed AI medicine with professors and found Xue Mingyuan’s view on practical implementation convincing, so he invited Xue to join his project.
• Xue Mingyuan agreed to join after Dan Xing explained that the project was promising and confidential, then invited Ant Group’s Lin Kun to meet Luo Yao.
• Lin Kun arrived with Teacher Ma, who sought cooperation with Luo on a projected Ant Forest and an AI medical project.
• Luo Yao limited the collaboration to two projects and announced that he wanted to develop AI medical pods for outer space, catching Teacher Ma and Xue Mingyuan’s interest.

Luo Yao’s team made a breakthrough in the AI Medical Pods and recruited volunteers for human trials, while foreign agents tried to infiltrate the experiment. Li Jun entered the trial group to spy for Kim Gak-hwan, but he grew frightened when he saw the equipment and questioned its safety.

• Teacher Ma and Xue Mingyuan joined Luo Yao’s AI Medical Pods project, and Ant Group supplied medical data for the research.
• Luo Yao’s team developed the pods’ diagnostic and treatment functions and issued a public notice recruiting volunteers for trials.
• General Arthur and Kim Gak-hwan arranged for agents to infiltrate the experiment, but Little Moss exposed Kim Won and Tong Fang had him taken away for investigation.
• Li Jun passed the interview and reported to Minister Jin that he had entered the experimental group.
• At the laboratory, Li Jun activated a hidden camera, listened to the safety briefing, and challenged the experiment leader over the risks of the machines.

Luo Yao oversaw the AI Medical Pods’ first human trial, which briefly distressed a volunteer before leaving him refreshed. He traced the reaction to settings based on his own physiology, while Li Jun’s attempted leak failed and his identity and motives were exposed.

• Luo Yao offered skeptical volunteers the chance to leave, but Li Jun stayed and signed the trial forms while Dan Xing questioned allowing him to participate.
• A volunteer tested the deep-sleep device, suffered alarming symptoms, then awoke feeling refreshed after the medical workers removed the helmet.
• Luo Yao realized Little Moss had used simulated settings based on his own brain and ordered it to use the lowest frequency for future treatments.
• Li Jun secretly recorded the incident and tried to send the footage, but Luo Yao revealed that the industrial park’s Quantum Communication network prevented the transmission and identified Li Jun as being from Kimchi.
• Dan Xing called the Cyberspace Administration and sent Tong Fang to arrest Li Jun, who admitted that he resented Luo Yao over lost shipbuilding orders and threatened consequences.

Luo Yao exposed Li Jun’s infiltration and Kim Gak-hwan’s edited smear attempt by having Little Moss spread the full AI Medical Pods experiment online. Richard and Vasily announced they would stay in Hua Nation and asked to join Luo Yao’s research, while Frank moved to restrict scientists from leaving the Ugly Nation; the chapter ended with Luo Yao noticing the meteorite sphere had shifted in his dormitory.

• The volunteers beat Li Jun after Tong Fang and National Security personnel separated the crowd, and Luo Yao revealed he had anticipated the infiltration and used the recruitment to identify people like him.
• Kim Gak-hwan ordered Park In-yong to edit the experiment video and release it as propaganda, but Little Moss had already spread hundreds of thousands of posts showing the full experiment, drawing public attention to the AI Medical Pods.
• Dan Xing told Luo Yao that the Ministry of Health was eager for the project, and Luo Yao said Academician Xue Mingyuan would handle its next stage while he returned to researching a new car.
• Edra gave Luo Yao a meteorite she had bought for 998 yuan, and Luo Yao later returned to the capital and met Richard and Vasily.
• Richard and Vasily announced that they would stay in Hua Nation, prompting Frank to convene the Science Committee and draft rules to control scientists’ departures.
• Richard and Vasily asked to join Luo Yao’s AI Medical Pods project, but he required them to pass a test; back in his dormitory, Luo Yao noticed the meteorite sphere had changed positions.

Luo Yao gave Little Moss a holographic projection watch and met with automotive experts to discuss a new flying-car design. The experts examined the concept and its proposed technology, but Old Qi remained unsure whether it could actually fly.

• Luo Yao found the meteorite sphere had moved without explanation, installed a camera, and saw that it stayed still overnight.
• Luo Yao made Little Moss a watch that projected her cat-eared girl form, then agreed to meet Zheng Yang's automotive experts the next morning.
• Luo Yao introduced Little Moss to the experts, who mistook her for his girlfriend before learning she was an Artificial Intelligence projection.
• Luo Yao explained that his new vehicle would combine holographic technology and Artificial Intelligence to create a flying car with an advanced HUD and assisted flight controls.
• The experts examined the winged car blueprint and heard that it could travel on roads and fly, while Old Qi questioned whether it could really fly.

Luo Yao led experts in developing a flying car while an international automotive alliance failed to uncover weaknesses in his new batteries and considered restricting electric vehicles. Old Zhou then asked Luo Yao to help with the White Emperor Aerospace Fighter, whose team had stalled on a difficult problem.

• Luo Yao assigned experts to develop a flying car and began designing its airframe and flight-control systems.
• Automakers that had withdrawn from an earlier battery experiment sought Luo Yao's cooperation, but Edra relayed that he had no time for them.
• Kim Gak-hwan and the Automotive Alliance tested Hydrogen Negative Ion Conductor Batteries with heat, needle punctures, and gunfire, but found no apparent failure; the Fong Tian representative also reported that a Hua Nation car hit by rocket artillery had not caught fire or exploded.
• The Automotive Alliance representatives agreed that restricting electric vehicle sales could hurt Hua Nation automakers more than their own struggling companies.
• Old Zhou asked Zheng Yang to bring Luo Yao into the White Emperor Aerospace Fighter research after the team encountered a difficult problem.
• Luo Yao questioned why the team could not apply Xuan Nü technology, while Zheng Yang explained that the fighter's technology and applications were more complicated.

Luo Yao agreed to guide the Baidi Project and arranged a promotional partnership with Director Guo, who wanted to feature his Door frame robot and AI Medical Pods in a science-fiction film. After learning the Automobile Alliance planned to restrict electric vehicles, Luo Yao visited the flying electric car team and left them under pressure to produce results, while General Jad reviewed information about Pioneer Technology.

• Luo Yao learned that Zheng Yang's Baidi Project team was stuck on Ion Weapons and defensive equipment, and agreed to visit the team the next morning.
• Director Guo and his Deputy Director met Luo Yao at Santou Industrial Park and discovered that Luo Yao had developed the Door frame robot.
• Luo Yao agreed to lend the Door frame robot and AI Medical Pods to Director Guo's film, provided that professional staff operated them and they received substantial screen time.
• Little Moss informed Luo Yao that the Automobile Alliance planned to limit electric vehicles, so Luo Yao went to inspect the flying electric car research team.
• Luo Yao criticized the team for making promises without producing a vehicle and stayed to find faults with their work.
• General Jad reviewed information about Pioneer Technology in Yiguo.

General Jad sought Pioneer Technology’s help in transforming Yiguo through smart cities, and Luo Yao agreed to pursue a project despite political risks. Luo also proposed talks between Jad and Prince Aziz to ease tensions with Dog Big Household, leaving Jad to consider cooperation with his longtime rival.

• After investigating Pioneer Technology’s role in Dog Big Household’s development, General Jad asked Ivanov to connect him with President Luo.
• Jad told Ivanov that he wanted to use smart-city development to improve ordinary people’s lives and head off unrest in Yiguo.
• Luo agreed to discuss a smart-city project with Jad, saying Yiguo’s demand offered work for domestic workers and a new market.
• Jad worried that Dog Big Household and other powers would obstruct the project, so Luo proposed arranging a meeting with Prince Aziz.
• Luo argued that Dog Big Household had reasons to avoid conflict while undertaking major infrastructure projects, and Jad accepted the case for seeking cooperation.
• After the call, Jad asked Lal about cooperating with Dog Big Household, and Lal warned him about their past actions and ties to Ugly Nation.

Luo Yao helped Jade and Aziz recognize that Ugly Nation had stoked their conflict, leading Yiguo and Dog Big Household to reconcile. Their leaders publicly thanked him as a “Peace Ambassador,” surprising both Ugly Nation officials and Hua Nation officials, while Luo Yao insisted he had accepted no conditions.

• Luo Yao urged Aziz to question whether Ugly Nation had deliberately kept Yiguo and Dog Big Household at odds, and arranged an online meeting between Aziz and Jade.
• Jade and Aziz exchanged accusations before recognizing that Ugly Nation may have blamed each side for attacks to provoke war; Aziz agreed to consider cooperation after consulting the Old Chieftain.
• The Old Chieftain agreed to reconciliation if the Hussain stopped launching sneak attacks, while Jade said the Hussain could be used as leverage; a week later, Yiguo and Dog Big Household announced their reconciliation.
• Jade and Aziz publicly thanked Luo Yao as a “Peace Ambassador,” prompting Ugly Nation officials to hold an emergency meeting and plan pressure on the Hussain.
• Professor Zhang and Old Zhou learned of the reconciliation and worried that Luo Yao might have accepted conditions; Luo Yao told them he had agreed to nothing.

Luo Yao’s diplomatic success in Yiguo reassured officials and opened the way for a major smart city project, while he spent New Year’s with his family before pursuing Ion Weapon research. At the chapter’s end, exhausted researchers’ mistake destabilized a plasma experiment, and Qiu Lu shouted as Luo Yao reached toward the equipment.

• Old Zhou and the officials credited Luo Yao with arranging a meeting between Jad and Aziz, then prepared workers and security for Yiguo’s smart city project.
• Luo Yao celebrated New Year’s with his family, who saw his Spring Festival Gala interview reveal his catgirl-form Artificial Intelligence.
• Luo Yao used a deep sleep helmet, then designed an ion cannon and began working with Little Moss to improve its energy efficiency and materials.
• Luo Yao asked Luo Zhu to prepare multi-walled carbon nanotubes and developed an idea for a plasma energy shield against Ion Weapons.
• Luo Yao went to the Military Research Institute to test plasma and microwaves, but the sleep-deprived researchers mishandled the equipment and destabilized the plasma.
• Luo Yao stopped the reaction and told the researchers to rest, then reached toward the equipment as Qiu Lu cried out that he could not touch it.

Luo Yao moved his Energy Shield research to Huake University after the initial laboratory could not provide enough power for his experiment. The chapter ended with more than a hundred specialists gathered to work on the project, trusting Luo Yao to lead them despite their doubts.

• Luo Yao set the high-frequency electromagnetic test bench to an unprecedented power level, so Qiu Lu stopped the experiment and contacted Zheng Yang for help.
• Zheng Yang arranged for Luo Yao to conduct the experiment at Huake University, while Leo asked Luo Yao to accept him as a student and was rejected.
• Luo Yao took a detour around the Second Ring Road before arriving at Huake University’s pulsed power laser laboratory.
• Luo Yao told Director Zhong and Zheng Yang that he wanted to study how plasma could shield against high-power microwaves and create an Energy Shield.
• Luo Yao asked Director Zhong to collect all relevant materials so Little Moss could compile them, and three days later Zheng Yang introduced the project to more than a hundred specialists.
• The specialists admitted they lacked confidence in the project but said they trusted Luo Yao to lead it.

Hussain forces attacked Ugly Nation and Kimchi ships while allowing a Hua Nation cargo ship to pass safely, and Ugly Nation’s warships later suffered heavy losses in a counterattack. Meanwhile, Luo Yao’s team revealed a working flying electric vehicle, and as its launch demonstration began, Akio’s sabotage plan threatened to make it crash.

• Jad ordered Ezzi to support Hussain’s response to Ugly Nation and Kimchi ships while ensuring Hua Nation vessels were not touched.
• Hussain forces attacked Ugly Nation and Kimchi cargo ships, while a Hua Nation ship sailed through the battle zone unharmed.
• Ugly Nation sent warships to fight Hussain, but drones and unmanned surface vessels attacked the fleet and the battle spread across the world.
• Hua Nation announced that Luo Yao’s team had developed flying electric vehicles, prompting Kim Gak-hwan to restrict ordinary people from buying them.
• Luo Yao announced a flying-car event, where the vehicle rose into the air and flew around the stadium as Akio planned to make it crash.

Luo Yao's Flying Dragon survived a deliberate midair malfunction with the help of his Inductive Force Field Device, prompting plans to expand public AI security and negotiate flying-car regulations. Later, he investigated a mysteriously toppled plant, then was summoned by traditional factory owners seeking help adapting to his new technologies.

• The Flying Dragon began falling during its demonstration, but Luo Yao's Inductive Force Field Device stopped it above the ground, while Akio watched the failed sabotage plan unfold.
• Zheng Yang and Luo Yao confirmed that the incident was not a design flaw, and the group discussed investigating tampering and connecting Little Moss to public places for security.
• Luo Yao explained that Flying Dragon deliveries depended on new regional traffic laws, so Peng Gang and the others planned pilot programs with cooperative local governments.
• Luo Yao found that an asparagus fern pot had fallen without anyone nearby, tested the room for airflow and uneven flooring, and rejected Little Moss's suggestion that ghosts were responsible.
• Luo Yao went to Huake University's National Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology, then received Edra's call about factory owners asking him to delay the spread of his new technologies.
• Luo Yao refused to claim that the Hydrogen Negative Ion Conductor Battery and flying cars would take years to spread, but offered the factory owners a different path forward.

Luo Yao refused battery and automobile manufacturers’ demands for subsidies, exposed their weak research records, and secured their agreement to cooperate with Pioneer Technology. Months later, he led a successful Energy Shield test in the desert, proving the shield could protect equipment from an ion cannon and declaring that they would make the rules in the field.

• Luo Yao told manufacturers there would be no subsidies and offered technology through equity-based cooperation, then showed their poor R&D results and criticized their use of past subsidies.
• The manufacturers agreed to cooperate with Pioneer Technology, while Dan Xing and Du Rui decided to drop plans for new-energy subsidies.
• Luo Yao and the researchers gathered in the northwestern desert to begin the Energy Shield test after a ten-second countdown.
• Luo Yao ordered an ion cannon to attack the shield, and researchers confirmed that the instruments inside remained unaffected.
• Zheng Yang celebrated the successful test, and Luo Yao said they would make the rules in the field.

Luo Yao oversaw the White Emperor fighter’s energy shield tests at Shengfei, then insisted on testing its top speed that night. When the aircraft reached Mach 8, Minister Jin and the radar personnel struggled to identify it and feared it might be a missile.

• After half a month of desert testing, the energy shield proved successful, and Old Zhou told Chief Qi that Luo Yao was being considered for election as an academician.
• Luo Yao, Zheng Yang, and Du Rui went to Shengfei, where Hong Liangwen showed them the White Emperor fighter with its energy shield installed.
• The White Emperor’s shield withstood EMP and ion cannon attacks without damage, delighting the researchers and officials.
• Luo Yao refused to stop for the night and asked Hong Liangwen to test the White Emperor’s speed; Zheng Yang agreed to stay with him.
• The White Emperor accelerated past Mach 6 and reached Mach 8, alarming Minister Jin and the radar personnel, who wondered whether it was a missile.

Minister Jin and Wan Mian investigated a mysterious Mach 8 object and learned it was Shengfei’s White Emperor fighter, whose unfiled test had caused alarm. Zheng Yang handled the fallout after Luo Yao left to rest, and Wan Mian saw the fighter’s capabilities the next morning; the chapter ended with the need to train pilots for it.

• Minister Jin suspected the Mach 8 object was a missile, but Wan Mian discovered that no missile test had been scheduled and traced the flight to Shengfei.
• Hong Liangwen admitted to Wan Mian that Shengfei had conducted a last-minute White Emperor speed test without updating its filing.
• Luo Yao refused to wait for Wan Mian and left to rest, so Zheng Yang promised to explain the situation on his behalf.
• Zheng Yang told Wan Mian that Shengfei had completed the final experiment for a sixth-generation fighter, crediting Luo Yao with making the White Emperor possible.
• Wan Mian saw the White Emperor’s electromagnetic and ion-cannon defenses and learned that Shengfei needed to train pilots, even though the fighter could also fly unmanned.

Luo Yao insisted on becoming a White Emperor pilot, despite Zheng Yang and the other officials worrying about his safety. After the officials required him to pass Air Force selection, Luo Yao trained intensely and arrived at the base as the pilots prepared to compete alongside him.

• Wan Mian showed the gathered officials White Emperor's test data, and Zhong Sheng pushed to equip it despite its price of 2.6 billion Hua currency per aircraft.
• Zheng Yang told Luo Yao that White Emperor would debut at the Zhushi Air Show, and Luo Yao insisted on training to pilot it himself.
• Old Zhou and the officials decided that Luo Yao would have to pass Air Force pilot selection before he could fly White Emperor.
• Luo Yao built a spinning device and practiced anti-vertigo training, enduring severe dizziness and vomiting as Little Moss watched.
• Luo Yao arrived at the Air Force base for selection, where Commander Luo announced that the pilots would be judged against him.

Luo Yao faced the first stages of Bai Di’s pilot selection, surprising the pilots with his fitness and turning his psychological evaluation into a reverse interrogation of the psychologists. He appeared to handle the vestibular test until a sudden wave of nausea struck, leaving him wondering whether the officials had tampered with the test.

• Luo Yao learned that only twenty of the fifty candidates would be selected and resolved to pass despite his lack of professional pilot training.
• Luo Yao passed the physical examination with 13% body fat and 75% muscle mass, impressing the other pilots.
• Luo Yao redirected the psychologists’ questions, then used Little Moss to draw out their fears until Commander Luo halted the evaluation.
• Commander Luo ordered the vestibular testing system inspected, disconnected from the network, and closely supervised to prevent Luo Yao from altering its results.
• Luo Yao endured the cabin’s rotations without apparent trouble until Commander Luo’s plan caused him to feel suddenly nauseous and suspect the officials had interfered.