Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo passed the emotion and aptitude tests, joined the Jehovah Church as an apprentice cleric, and began studying Gun Fu. He learned that its true power depended on complex battlefield calculations and a superbrain, a combination possessed by only six High Priests.

• Chen Mo deceived the emotion test and deliberately restrained his performance during the aptitude tests while still earning straight A's in Gun Fu aptitude.
• Vice Chairman Dupont reviewed Chen Mo's results, ordered focused training, and approved his entry into the Jehovah Church as an apprentice cleric.
• Chen Mo quickly mastered Gun Fu's basic shooting, swordsmanship, and hand-to-hand combat techniques.
• Chen Mo studied Gun Fu's extensive theoretical materials and learned how its mathematical models analyzed battles and predicted enemy actions.
• Chen Mo discovered that fully using Gun Fu required exceptional mathematical ability and computer-like processing speed, which only six High Priests possessed.

Chen Mo studied the advanced mathematics and related subjects needed to master Gun Fu, quickly surpassing the Church’s usual training approach. After mastering the theory, he found that the highest-level knowledge made his calculations and predictions even more accurate.

• The chapter explained why only a few people could become High Priests, while less gifted trainees could at most become Gray Robe Clerics.
• Chen Mo found that his existing knowledge was insufficient to continue studying Gun Fu, so he began reading the library’s books on mathematics and related subjects.
• Chen Mo mastered the foundational, intermediate, and advanced material far faster than ordinary learners, taking extra time only with the most difficult theories.
• Chen Mo applied the advanced theories to Gun Fu and improved the accuracy and efficiency of his analysis, deductions, and predictions.

Chen Mo completed Gun Fu training and passed the assessment to become a Gray Robe Cleric, drawing the Church’s attention and Brandt’s hostility. He discovered that Brandt was secretly an emotional criminal, though Brandt wanted power rather than the Church’s overthrow.

• Chen Mo finished the core Gun Fu theory in seven days and mastered the discipline in less than half a month, impressing Vice Chairman Dupont with his talent.
• Chen Mo passed the cleric promotion assessment and became a Gray Robe Cleric, while Brandt also passed and resented the attention Chen Mo received.
• Chen Mo chose to remain with the Church to improve his Gun Fu, assist the Resistance Organization, and seek a meeting with the Pope.
• Chen Mo recognized Brandt as a power-hungry figure from the movie and decided to keep him around rather than deal with him immediately.
• Chen Mo used his perception to confirm that Brandt was an emotional criminal who wanted to rise within the Church instead of helping overthrow it.

After the Church paired Chen Mo and Brandt with High Priests John Preston and Erebus Partidge, Chen Mo trained his Gun Fu on missions with John while keeping his full strength hidden. The chapter leaves Chen Mo and John leading a larger force toward the Nithers District to pursue a contraband organization.

• The Church assigned Chen Mo to partner with John Preston and Brandt to partner with Erebus Partidge, prompting Chen Mo to worry that Brandt might uncover Erebus's secrets.
• Chen Mo took the initiative on missions with John and defeated most of their enemies, rapidly improving his Gun Fu through combat.
• John recognized Chen Mo's extraordinary talent and predicted he could soon reach or surpass a High Priest's strength and earn a place as the Church's seventh High Priest.
• Chen Mo continued limiting his physical abilities so he could use missions to turn his Gun Fu calculations and techniques into instinctive reactions.
• Chen Mo and John led twice as many soldiers toward the outskirts of the Nithers District to hunt a contraband organization that had escaped another Church squad.

Chen Mo advanced alone to locate and eliminate the armed group's sentries before the Cleansing Squad moved in. He caught the rooftop sentry Murray by surprise and held a sharp weapon against the back of his head.

• Chen Mo ordered the Cleansing Squad to wait while he went ahead alone to scout the armed group's hideout.
• Chen Mo used his heightened senses to spot a sentry hiding on the rooftop of a half-collapsed building.
• Chen Mo approached the building without entering the sentry's line of sight.
• Murray watched the road, confident that the locked rooftop entrance protected him from anyone sneaking up behind him.
• Chen Mo pressed a sharp weapon to the back of Murray's head, leaving him afraid to move.

Chen Mo captured and interrogated Murray, a rooftop sentry, then located the armed gang’s hideout in an abandoned shopping mall. After learning the gang had nearly a hundred members and spotting its escape routes, Chen Mo called in the Cleansing Squad and ordered an armored assault.

• Chen Mo reached the roof by climbing through the collapsed building and subdued Murray with a katana to question him.
• Chen Mo learned the armed gang had nearly a hundred members and killed Murray after extracting information.
• Chen Mo found the gang concealed inside a large shopping mall and realized its multiple exits made a solo attack impractical.
• Chen Mo summoned the Cleansing Squad, whose six armored cars surrounded the mall and sealed every exit.
• The gang members spotted the approaching vehicles and sounded the alarm, but their escape routes were already blocked.

Chen Mo attacked the armed group occupying a mall after Church forces surrounded the building. He entered the mall and dropped from the fourth floor into the armed men on the third, opening fire as he fell.

• The bearded leader ordered his men to gather and prepare to fight the encircling Church forces.
• Chen Mo approached the mall alone, and the bearded leader ordered his men to shoot him from the windows.
• Chen Mo dodged their bullets and killed more than a dozen attackers with his pistols before entering the building.
• The bearded leader rallied his remaining subordinates and positioned them to target the escalator on the third floor.
• Chen Mo vaulted over the fourth-floor railing and dropped into the armed men, firing both pistols as he fell.

Chen Mo fought his way through dozens of armed men on the third floor, using speed, battlefield awareness, and twin pistols to evade their fire and pick them off. Though the siege remained intense, his Gun Fu continued to improve as the battle went on.

• Chen Mo landed among the crowd and shot down the armed men on the perimeter while using nearby enemies as cover.
• The bearded leader ordered his men to spread out, prompting the attackers near Chen Mo to retreat.
• Chen Mo escaped their encirclement and moved through the chaotic crowd, evading bullets and shooting armed men from unexpected angles.
• Chen Mo killed a gunman who was reloading after reading the battlefield and recognizing that the man had run out of ammunition.
• Chen Mo continued fighting under pressure as his Gun Fu improved.

After wiping out nearly a hundred armed men, Chen Mo spotted a hidden couple and a vegetable garden in a distant building. The couple feared the Church had found them, while Chen Mo left with John Preston without revealing what he planned to do about them.

• John Preston praised Chen Mo for clearing the abandoned mall so quickly, and Chen Mo said he needed stronger opponents to continue improving.
• Chen Mo noticed a vegetable garden and a middle-aged couple watching from a building more than a thousand meters away.
• The man realized Chen Mo had seen them and feared they could not escape the Church’s pursuit.
• The couple accepted what they believed was their coming death and held each other in silence.
• Chen Mo left with John Preston while the soldiers stayed behind to clean up the battlefield.

Chen Mo let a persecuted couple go, continued building the Resistance Organization’s influence inside the government and military, and then received orders to arrest John Preston’s wife. He led the search team to Preston’s home, where Preston attacked the soldiers trying to seize her.

• A middle-aged man and his wife realized Chen Mo had seen them but chosen to drive away.
• Chen Mo reflected on the need to overthrow the Church without plunging the city into chaos and on the Resistance Organization’s growing network within the government and military.
• Chen Mo eliminated another armed gang near Libya City and received J.A.R.V.I.S.’s report that John Preston’s wife had been accused of the crime of emotion.
• The Church ordered Chen Mo to lead the arrest of John Preston’s wife, and he took the search team to Preston’s apartment.
• Soldiers broke into the apartment and grabbed Preston’s wife, prompting John Preston to charge at them.

John Preston’s wife was arrested for Emotion Crime and later incinerated, leaving him increasingly distant from Chen Mo. During a raid, John Preston discovered a hidden room of contraband and entered it alone, driven by unfamiliar curiosity.

• John Preston disarmed a soldier, but lowered his rifle when he learned soldiers had come to arrest his wife for Emotion Crime.
• John Preston’s wife kissed him goodbye before soldiers dragged her away, while their two children watched in silence.
• Chen Mo gave John Preston an injector, which he accepted and pocketed without using.
• After John Preston’s wife was incinerated, he and Chen Mo went on a mission to raid a contraband organization, but John Preston wandered off instead of joining the fight.
• John Preston noticed a bullet hole leading into a secret room filled with contraband and entered it alone.

John Preston discovered Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in a hidden room, and its music brought his grief over his wife’s death to the surface. When Chen Mo found him, Chen Mo unexpectedly left without arresting him and asked him to go somewhere that night.

• John Preston explored the room of prohibited items and played a record labeled Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
• John Preston listened to the music, became overwhelmed by its vision of resistance and freedom, and shattered a crystal ball as he broke down sobbing.
• Chen Mo entered the secret room and found John Preston kneeling in grief.
• John Preston expected Chen Mo to arrest or kill him, but Chen Mo left and told him to come somewhere that night.
• John Preston rose, confused by Chen Mo’s unexpected decision.

John Preston considered whether Chen Mo was also an emotion criminal and concluded that the Church was responsible for his wife's death. Chen Mo brought him to the Resistance Organization's underground base, where John saw that Chen had joined the resistance.

• John Preston reflected on his wife's death and decided that Chen Mo had only followed the Church's orders, while the Church itself was to blame.
• Chen Mo picked up John Preston that night and drove him to the Free Reading Room in District 48.
• A middle-aged man opened a hidden entrance in the bookshelf, and John followed Chen Mo down a concealed passage.
• Chen Mo welcomed John to the underground world and identified it as the Resistance Organization's base.
• Jurgen greeted Chen Mo as Cleric Kevin James, and Chen asked whether everything had been arranged.

John Preston discovered that his former partner Erebus Partidge and his wife Vivian were alive and working with the Resistance Organization. After learning Chen Mo had faked Vivian’s execution to save her, Preston resolved to help overthrow the Church.

• Jurgen led Chen Mo and John Preston to meet Erebus Partidge, revealing that Preston’s former partner had joined the Resistance Organization.
• Vivian rushed into Preston’s arms, and he realized his wife—whom he had watched enter the incinerator—was alive.
• Vivian and Jurgen explained that Chen Mo had helped the Resistance take control of the incineration department and had staged Vivian’s execution using a fake display.
• Preston learned that the incinerator had never been ignited and that Chen Mo had secretly rescued Vivian after the staged execution.
• Preston felt grateful to Chen Mo, renewed his determination to overthrow the Church, and joined his allies in opposing it.

Chen Mo used J.A.R.V.I.S. and his spatial ability to recruit military and government personnel into the Resistance Organization, including John Preston, and prepared to move against the Church. After Vice Chairman Dupont summoned Chen Mo based on Preston’s glowing report, Chen Mo entered the center of Libya’s power to meet him.

• Chen Mo secretly replaced selected officials’ Bosean injectors, and the Resistance Organization recruited them after confirming their reliability.
• Chen Mo replaced Preston’s final Bosean dose so Preston regained his emotions after Vivian’s execution.
• Chen Mo, Preston, and another High Priest prepared to draw their expanding network inside the government and military into action.
• John Preston reported that Chen Mo had surpassed him in strength and killed over a thousand armed emotional criminals.
• Vice Chairman Dupont read Preston’s report and summoned Chen Mo to his office.
• Chen Mo entered Dupont’s imposing office, where twelve armed soldiers stood guard.

Chen Mo discovered that Vice Chairman Dupont was secretly an Emotion Criminal, then passed the strength assessment and became Libya’s seventh High Priest. As Brandt struggled with jealousy over Chen Mo’s promotion, he noticed something unusual in Erebus Partidge’s pocket.

• Chen Mo sensed that Dupont possessed emotions, though the Church’s highest rulers were exempt from Emotion Crime laws.
• Dupont questioned Chen Mo, praised his record, and confirmed his loyalty before sending him for a strength assessment.
• Chen Mo passed the assessment, met the promotion requirements, and received the black robes of a High Priest.
• Brandt saw Chen Mo’s new rank and burned with jealousy, while Erebus Partidge told him they could not compare themselves to a genius.
• Brandt noticed Erebus Partidge’s unusual tone and spotted something inside the opening of his pocket.

Brandt reported High Priest Erebus Partidge as an Emotion Criminal after discovering a contraband book, and Vice Chairman Dupont ordered a search of Erebus Partidge's home. Chen Mo and John Preston arrived to assist, frustrating Brandt's plans to claim the arrest's glory, and the soldiers forced open the door.

• Brandt found a contraband book in Erebus Partidge's pocket and concluded that the High Priest was an Emotion Criminal.
• Brandt reported Erebus Partidge to Vice Chairman Dupont, who ordered a search of the High Priest's home.
• Dupont sent Chen Mo and John Preston to join Brandt because Erebus Partidge was powerful and Brandt's report had not been verified.
• Brandt resented Chen Mo and John Preston's arrival and abandoned his plan to provoke Erebus Partidge into resisting so he could kill him himself.
• Brandt ordered the soldiers to break down Erebus Partidge's door, and Chen Mo and John Preston entered after the room fell quiet.

Chen Mo led a search of Erebus Partidge's home after Brandt accused him of hiding contraband, but the search found nothing. Chen Mo then discovered a book in Brandt's pocket and arrested him, bringing him before Vice Chairman Dupont.

• Chen Mo ordered soldiers to search Erebus Partidge's residence while John Preston conducted the inspection and Brandt was kept out of the rooms.
• The search found no contraband, and Brandt loudly demanded to search the residence again.
• Chen Mo suspected Brandt had emotions and ordered him to cooperate with an inspection.
• Chen Mo found a palm-sized book in Brandt's pocket and arrested him.
• Chen Mo, John Preston, and Erebus Partidge appeared before Vice Chairman Dupont with Brandt in handcuffs, and Chen Mo reported that the search had found nothing but Brandt had acted abnormally.

Chen Mo exposed Brandt’s attempt to frame Erebus Partidge with a prohibited book, then accused Brandt of being a Resistance Organization infiltrator. DuPont accepted the accusation and called for clerics to undergo emotion tests and searches, beginning with those present.

• Chen Mo told DuPont that Brandt had insisted on joining the search and had been out of the soldiers’ sight, then presented the prohibited book found in Brandt’s pocket.
• Chen Mo accused Brandt of trying to plant the book in Erebus Partidge’s home, and John Preston testified that Chen had no chance to put it in Brandt’s pocket unnoticed.
• Brandt claimed Chen and the others had conspired against him, but Chen agreed they were united as loyal clerics and accused Brandt of belonging to the Resistance Organization.
• Brandt angrily called Chen’s accusation false, and DuPont judged him to be an emotional criminal and suspected he was a Resistance Organization member.
• Chen Mo requested emotion tests for all clerics and searches of their residences, and DuPont agreed to begin with those present.

Chen Mo and Erebus Partidge set up Brandt as a Resistance member, and DuPont ordered him sent to the incinerator after emotional testing and searches confirmed the evidence against him. DuPont then began arranging a broader purge of the Church, government, and military, while Brandt realized Chen Mo and the others had framed him.

• DuPont agreed to Chen Mo’s proposal to test the Clerics and search their homes for Resistance members.
• Chen Mo, Brandt, John Preston, and Erebus Partidge underwent emotional testing, and Brandt alone was identified as possessing emotions.
• Searchers found contraband and sensitive government and military documents in Brandt’s home, while the other three homes were clear.
• DuPont ordered Brandt taken to the incinerator and called for searches and tests of the remaining High Priests.
• DuPont summoned the Church Council to approve a purge across the Church, government, and military.
• As soldiers dragged Brandt away, he realized Chen Mo and the others had framed him and struggled to escape.