Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo’s plan brought all twelve Jehovah Council members together by using Brandt’s arrest to make the Resistance Organization seem like an urgent threat. The chapter ended as two armed clerics entered the Council chamber and aimed pistols at Dupont and the other members.

• Chen Mo’s group framed Brandt with banned items and evidence of Resistance Organization ties, prompting Dupont to convene a Council meeting.
• Chen Mo and two other High Priests searched residences and brought four High Priests in for emotional tests.
• Dupont warned the Council that the Resistance Organization had infiltrated Church departments and proposed a major purge.
• Two clerics entered the Council chamber despite the guards and pointed four pistols at Dupont and the Council members.

John Preston and Erebus Partidge killed the Council while Chen Mo moved to confront the Pope, Libya’s true ruler. Chen Mo reached the Pope’s heavily guarded residence and had J.A.R.V.I.S. secure the floors before opening the elevator onto the Pope’s Guard.

• Brandt’s final claims made the unnamed speaker realize that three High Priests had betrayed the Church and that the Gray Robe Cleric had been framed.
• John Preston and Erebus Partidge left the Council chamber after killing all twelve Council members.
• Chen Mo had secretly recruited the soldiers guarding the Council chamber into the Resistance Organization by restoring their emotions and guiding them to oppose the Church.
• Chen Mo took the elevator to the 121st floor, where J.A.R.V.I.S. locked down the Pope’s residence, cut communications, and seized surveillance.
• Chen Mo drew two pistols and ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to open the elevator doors onto the waiting Pope’s Guard.

Chen Mo fought through more than a hundred elite soldiers guarding the Pope, using the battle to master Gun Fu before killing them all. He reached the Pope’s residence and entered its grand circular hall without encountering an ambush.

• Chen Mo burst from the elevator and shot the soldiers closest to it before fighting the guards surrounding him.
• As reinforcements poured in, Chen Mo deliberately prolonged the fight to train his Gun Fu, eventually handling more than thirty soldiers at once.
• Chen Mo shot the soldiers in the legs as his Gun Fu improved, then killed the remaining guards when the training no longer helped him.
• Chen Mo crossed the blood-covered battlefield and reached the doors to the Pope’s residence.
• Chen Mo entered the magnificent circular hall and found no attack or ambush waiting inside.

Chen Mo challenged the Pope, creator of Gun Fu, and discovered that the Pope’s skill and enhanced speed surpassed his own. Protected by his Vibranium Nanotech Combat Suit, Chen Mo continued fighting to improve his Gun Fu.

• The Pope invited Chen Mo to demonstrate his mastery of Gun Fu and showed no concern about the guards Chen Mo had killed.
• Chen Mo opened fire, but the Pope predicted his attacks and dodged every shot before counterattacking with two pistols.
• When the Pope’s bullets covered every escape route toward Chen Mo’s head, Chen Mo activated his Vibranium Nanotech Combat Suit to block them.
• Chen Mo and the Pope resumed their battle, and Chen Mo used his suit’s protection to study the Pope’s movements.
• Chen Mo realized the Pope’s reactions and speed were far beyond an ordinary person’s, raised his own speed to match, and still remained at a disadvantage.

Chen Mo learned the Pope’s upgraded Gun Fu during their battle and began gaining the upper hand in a close-quarters gunfight. The Pope switched to twin Katanas, and Chen Mo barely blocked his first sword attack with his pistols.

• Chen Mo matched the Pope’s reactions, learned his refined Gun Fu, and fought him to a standstill at range.
• The Pope charged Chen Mo and began a dangerous close-quarters gunfight, but Chen Mo adapted and gradually incorporated the Pope’s techniques into his own style.
• Chen Mo started suppressing the Pope, who retreated to his desk and switched from pistols to twin Katanas.
• The Pope slashed at Chen Mo’s arms, and Chen Mo barely deflected both blades with his pistol barrels, which were left deeply grooved.

Chen Mo defeated Pope after adapting from guns to katanas, learning his swordsmanship and exhausting his combat techniques. As Chen Mo reached to bag Pope’s corpse, he sensed something was wrong.

• Pope predicted Chen Mo’s shots and blocked the bullets with his twin blades, forcing Chen Mo to switch tactics.
• Chen Mo summoned two katanas and firmly blocked Pope’s attack, then learned Pope’s swordsmanship during their duel.
• Chen Mo put away the katanas and overwhelmed Pope in hand-to-hand combat, killing him with a punch to the throat.
• Chen Mo noted that the Church’s upper ranks had been wiped out and Libya’s ruling class left in a vacuum, unknown to outsiders.
• Chen Mo touched Pope’s chest while preparing to put the corpse in a body bag and realized something was wrong.

Chen Mo discovered that the Pope's abilities came from a mutation caused by nuclear radiation, then used J.A.R.V.I.S. to impersonate him and announce that DuPont and the Council had been executed. John Preston and Erebus Partidge retrieved the Pope's body, but four High Priests demanded to see the Pope, still unsure whom to trust.

• Chen Mo found purple scabs and damaged flesh on the Pope's body and concluded that nuclear radiation had caused his mutation and shortened his life.
• Chen Mo stored the Pope's corpse and used J.A.R.V.I.S. to broadcast a speech in the Pope's likeness, claiming DuPont and the Council had been executed and dissolving the Council.
• Libyans accepted the Pope's announcement without unrest, while John Preston and Erebus Partidge led Resistance soldiers into the Pope's Palace.
• John Preston ordered the Pope's Guard corpses removed, and Erebus Partidge carried the Pope's body down in a body bag.
• Four High Priests confronted John Preston and Erebus Partidge, demanding to see the Pope and confirm he was safe.

Chen Mo ordered John Preston to let four High Priests visit the Pope while Erebus Partidge escorted the bodies for incineration. The High Priests entered the Pope’s office and knelt before Chen Mo, greeting him as Your Holiness.

• Four High Priests demanded to see the Pope, and John Preston and Erebus Partidge feared they would discover the Pope’s body.
• Chen Mo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to hear the situation and ordered the High Priests to come up while Partidge took the bodies away.
• Preston led the four men to the 121st floor, where blood covered the floor outside the Pope’s office.
• The four entered the office, walked to Chen Mo, and knelt, greeting him as Your Holiness.

Chen Mo impersonated the Pope to secure control of Libya, then abolished emotion crimes and Bosean use while imposing strict public security laws. After the country’s leadership and institutions were reshaped, public order gradually improved under the new regime.

• John Preston watched the Pope dismiss the four High Priests, then saw the Pope transform into Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo decided to remain for several days to help the Resistance Organization handle the aftermath of the coup.
• Chen Mo appointed Jurgen to lead the government, John Preston to lead the Church, and Erebus Partidge to command the military, while Resistance Organization members took key posts.
• Chen Mo announced the abolition of emotion crimes, the closure of the Bosean factory, and the end of Bosean use, replacing them with strict public security laws.
• Soldiers punished public order offenders with public lashes and sent serious criminals to the incineration chambers, and street order improved.

Chen Mo left Libya after helping establish its new society and flew through the wilderness beyond Nithers District, where he discovered a family living by a lake. He scanned the area for carnivorous animals, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Chen Mo had the airship announce Libya’s new policies across Nithers District and opened the gates to new citizens, while emotion detectors screened out serious criminals.
• Chen Mo left video and voice-processing software from J.A.R.V.I.S. behind, put on the Iron Man suit, and flew out of Libya.
• Chen Mo scanned the house of the middle-aged couple and found it empty because they had gone to Libya.
• Chen Mo flew over wilderness where humans survived by hunting and farming, then found a family of three living in a cabin beside a lake.
• Chen Mo discovered that the family had only three rounds left for their hunting rifle and ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to scan for carnivorous animals within ten kilometers.

Chen Mo left weapons and ammunition for a family surviving in the wilderness, then examined a vast nuclear crater and reflected on his vulnerability to nuclear weapons. He returned to his real-world underground laboratory hoping his next world would help him grow stronger.

• Chen Mo counted the predators near a lakeside cabin and left two rifles, ammunition, pistols, and katanas outside the door.
• The cabin's parents cautiously opened the door and discovered the weapons Chen Mo had left for them.
• Chen Mo flew across the overgrown Earth and found a huge crater created by a nuclear explosion.
• Chen Mo considered how nuclear weapons could kill him despite his advanced armor and decided his personal strength remained inadequate.
• Chen Mo returned to his underground laboratory and stepped out of his Iron Man armor.

After Chen Mo left the film crew, the crew members discussed the Knight SUV and Chen Mo’s reputation and driving. A veteran stunt driver said Chen Mo drove far better than even a top racing driver.

• Chen Mo hurried back to prepare for his crossing, leaving An Ran and the crew behind.
• Jim admired the Knight SUV’s armor, off-road ability, and speed, while Lisa told him to look up videos of the manor attack online.
• Jim realized the Knight was the same model used by the tycoon who had survived the manor attack, then became distracted by thoughts of owning one.
• The UCLA students praised Chen Mo’s looks and driving skills as the crew packed up.
• A veteran stunt driver who had raced against Chen Mo told the students that Chen Mo’s driving surpassed that of a top racing driver.

After An Ran and her classmates finished the advertisement, a masked spy broke into S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company to steal its technical data. J.A.R.V.I.S. detected him and showed Chen Mo footage of the intruder climbing the office building.

• Carlos Sainz and the other drivers recognized Chen Mo’s extraordinary driving and admired the Knight’s performance before leaving the set.
• An Ran hurried the students back to school, where she and her classmates completed the advertisement that night.
• After the students returned to their dormitories, a masked intruder climbed over the company wall and avoided visible security cameras.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. warned Chen Mo that someone had illegally entered the company and projected footage of the spy approaching the office building.
• The spy began climbing the building with tools from his backpack as Chen Mo watched the hidden cameras’ feed.

Chen Mo flew to S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company after spotting a spy breaking into its research department to steal the "Knight" materials. He landed behind the still-unaware intruder, who finally saw Chen Mo hovering in the Iron Man suit behind him.

• Chen Mo watched a spy climb to the fifth floor of Castle and prepare to break into the R&D department, then left to intercept him.
• Chen Mo put on the Iron Man suit in the garage, flew out of Castle, and activated its cloaking device.
• Su Wan heard the suit's engines from her bedroom, checked the window, and returned to her work without seeing Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo reached S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company, located the spy cutting through its bulletproof window, and had J.A.R.V.I.S. take control of the surveillance cameras.
• Chen Mo descended behind the spy, who saw his reflection and discovered the Iron Man figure hovering in midair.

Chen Mo captured a spy sent by Fūtián to steal Knight’s technical data, learned who had hired him, and killed him before returning to Castle. There, he ran into Su Wan, who had been roused by the sound of his return.

• Chen Mo seized the spy outside the R&D department and flew him to the roof in his Iron Man suit.
• The spy confessed that Fūtián had sent him to steal Knight’s technical data and blueprints.
• Chen Mo killed the spy with an energy beam and used his storage space to stow the energy pistol.
• Chen Mo flew home, where Su Wan came out after hearing a whistling sound and greeted him on the stairs.

Chen Mo dismissed Su Wan’s report about the strange whistle, urged her to rest, and went to sleep after finding she was still working. Meanwhile, Fukuda Kosuke and his executives waited in Tokyo for spies to steal S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company’s technology, confident they could use it to dominate the automotive market.

• Su Wan told Chen Mo about the strange whistling sound, and he casually explained his absence before reminding her not to overwork.
• Su Wan realized she had gone out in her pajamas, then decided to seek trustworthy people to help with her workload.
• Chen Mo found Su Wan working late, considered whether to give her the Super Soldier Serum, and fell asleep.
• Fukuda Kosuke asked Yada Hideo whether the spies had reported back, and Yada said the theft might be taking time.
• Tsukamoto Jiro assured Fukuda Kosuke that the R&D department was ready to process the stolen data, and Fukuda imagined the Fūtián Group ruling the automotive market.

Fukuda Kosuke planned to use S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company's Knight technology to launch a Fūtián luxury car, but the spy sent to steal the data vanished without completing the mission. Fukuda suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized, while Yada Hideo investigated and concluded that the spy had been eliminated before entering the building.

• Fukuda Kosuke decided the Fūtián Group should use Knight's technology to develop an openly available luxury car at a price wealthy buyers could afford.
• After receiving no news overnight, Yada Hideo called his American contacts and learned that the spy had not returned and no documents appeared to have been stolen.
• Fukuda Kosuke became enraged at the failure, suffered a heart attack, and was taken to the hospital.
• Fukuda Kosuke ordered Yada Hideo to obtain Knight's technical data by any means necessary, even from his hospital bed.
• Yada Hideo investigated the spy's disappearance and found that S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company had replaced a fifth-floor window with incomplete cutting marks.
• Yada Hideo concluded that the spy had been eliminated before entering the building and that Chen Mo's defenses were far stronger than they appeared.

Chen Mo continued building S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company’s influence while Fūtián Group planned another attempt to steal the Knight’s technology. Su Wan told him her Stanford classmate Anna was willing to join the company and help with her workload.

• Fukuda Kosuke ordered Fūtián Group to keep pursuing the Knight’s technical data despite the failed espionage operation.
• Chen Mo drove his bullet-riddled Knight to the company and noticed someone spying from the woods, but ignored them.
• Chen Mo asked Su Wan to arrange repairs for his Knight and keep the other filming car after it was fixed.
• Su Wan showed Chen Mo the completed advertisement, and he approved it for release that night.
• Chen Mo told Su Wan to find help with her workload, and she said her Stanford classmate Anna had agreed to join her.

Chen Mo reviewed Su Wan’s candidate for an administrative assistant and hired Anna without an interview after J.A.R.V.I.S. confirmed her abilities and background. He then met rally driver Carlos Sainz, who wanted to discuss an idea for promoting the Knight and S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company.

• Su Wan recommended her former classmate Anna to help with her workload, and Chen Mo agreed to consider her for the role.
• Chen Mo ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to investigate Anna, and it reported that she was capable, decisive, and had no questionable history.
• Chen Mo told Su Wan to have Anna resign and start work without an interview.
• Su Wan informed Chen Mo that Carlos Sainz wanted to discuss an idea for promoting the Knight and the company.
• Chen Mo invited Carlos Sainz into his office, where Carlos recognized him as the skilled driver from the commercial shoot.

Carlos Sainz asked Chen Mo to sponsor his Dakar Rally entry with a Knight, but Chen rejected a loan and instead invited him to join S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company's racing team. Chen revealed that the Dakar Rally was the team's first target, and Sainz's experience made him a strong candidate.

• Carlos Sainz proposed that Chen Mo provide him with a Knight for the Dakar Rally while he covered the race support and logistics.
• Sainz argued that the rally could showcase the Knight's performance and boost its fame, but Chen refused to loan out the vehicle.
• Chen invited Sainz to join S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company's racing team and said the company planned to compete in various events.
• Chen revealed that the Dakar Rally was the team's first target, and Sainz realized their plans aligned.
• Chen considered Sainz's racing record and the Knight a powerful combination, while noting the Dakar Rally's extreme endurance and off-road demands.