Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo recruited Carlos Sainz to lead the S.H.I.E.L.D. team in the Dakar Rally with an unmodified Knight, while the Knight’s lavish action-packed advertisement launched across the United States. Viewers marveled at the car’s capabilities and began noticing that the commercial appeared to be filmed in one continuous shot.

• Chen Mo formally invited Carlos Sainz to drive a production-model Knight for the S.H.I.E.L.D. team in the upcoming Dakar Rally, and Carlos accepted.
• Chen Mo promised Carlos Sainz unlimited funding to recruit top engineers, technicians, and support staff, while Anna would take over the team's administration when she arrived.
• The Knight's three-minute commercial began airing widely across television, online platforms, and city screens in the United States.
• Viewers reacted to the commercial's gunfight, chase, and the Knight's apparent bullet resistance, speculating that it was a movie trailer or that the car was a real five-million-dollar armored vehicle.
• Some viewers noticed that the camera seemed to follow the Knight without any cuts and wondered how the continuous action shot had been made.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s nationwide advertising campaign revealed the Knight’s extraordinary real-world capabilities and made the vehicle famous across the United States. Chen Mo’s Twitter following passed five million as demand drove Knight orders out to a year in advance.

• The Knight commercial ended with the S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto emblem, surprising viewers who had mistaken the ad for a movie trailer.
• As the advertisements spread nationwide, Chen Mo’s older driving videos resurfaced and his Twitter following quickly surpassed five million.
• The Knight became famous across the United States, and wealthy buyers rushed to place orders despite its five-million-dollar price.
• The Los Angeles Knight test drive center filled up again, while orders from domestic and foreign buyers pushed the wait time to a year.
• After half a month, new Knight orders began to slow despite the ongoing advertising campaign.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company’s new production line sharply shortened Knight delivery times, sales surged past ten thousand orders. Chen Mo rewarded the advertising crew and gave An Ran a Knight, then handed Su Wan research materials for a new model to develop before the production line became idle.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company completed and started its automated production line, increasing Knight output to more than three hundred vehicles a day and reigniting sales.
• Su Wan reported that Knight orders had exceeded ten thousand, and Chen Mo approved of the advertising campaign’s results.
• Chen Mo told Su Wan to prepare bonuses for the advertising crew and give An Ran the repaired Knight used during filming.
• Chen Mo gave Su Wan research materials for a new model and instructed the R&D department to finish development before the production line became idle.

Chen Mo gave Su Wan the completed designs for a luxury sedan and supercar to expand S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s lineup and make use of its new production line. He also agreed to meet Anna, the administrative assistant who had spent half a month at the company without seeing him.

• Chen Mo explained that the new production line would outstrip demand for the Knight and revealed that he had prepared designs for a luxury sedan and a supercar.
• Chen Mo handed Su Wan a hard drive containing the new models’ key designs and development documents.
• Su Wan told Chen Mo that Anna and Sains had assembled the company fleet and asked whether he would meet Anna.
• Chen Mo agreed, and Su Wan informed Anna that the company president wanted to see her.
• Anna reflected on S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s extensive manufacturing and technological capabilities as she prepared to meet Chen Mo.

Anna saw the potential of S.H.I.E.L.D. Industrial Park and met Chen Mo, who approved her work forming the racing team. Chen Mo assigned her to continue overseeing the team and help Su Wan, leaving Anna eager to build her future at the company.

• Anna studied the industrial park blueprint and concluded that Chen Mo intended to build a vast technology conglomerate.
• Anna met Chen Mo in his office and introduced herself.
• Anna reported that the racing team was assembled, registered for the Dakar Rally, and training for next month’s event.
• Chen Mo praised Anna’s progress and told her to oversee the racing team and assist Su Wan with the industrial park.
• Anna accepted Chen Mo’s instructions and committed herself to her work.

An Ran drove the Knight Chen Mo had given her onto the UCLA campus, where students marveled at the gift and learned how she had earned it. Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D. Industrial Park’s first phase was nearly complete, bringing the company closer to producing its core car components in-house.

• An Ran arrived at UCLA in the Knight, drawing attention from students who recognized her as the director of its commercial.
• A student explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company had given An Ran the damaged five-million-dollar Knight after her commercial helped sell cars.
• An Ran recalled how Su Wan persuaded her to accept the vehicle and sign the transfer documents by framing it as useful publicity and preparation for future collaborations.
• Su Wan reflected that she had only been following the boss’s order to give An Ran the car and had gone to great lengths to make the gift stick.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Industrial Park’s first phase was nearly complete, with separate workshops for vehicle components and a new transmission production workshop.

Chen Mo established S.H.I.E.L.D. Mechanical Company to produce industrial equipment using technical blueprints he had obtained from HYDRA, while S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company became self-sufficient in its core automotive components. After inspecting the companies, he heard reports that sales of the "Knight" remained strong.

• Chen Mo outsourced low-tech automotive parts while ensuring S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company controlled its core components and production stages.
• Chen Mo transferred veteran employees and new hires to establish S.H.I.E.L.D. Mechanical Company, which began producing basic industrial equipment.
• Chen Mo planned to use HYDRA blueprints to develop increasingly advanced machinery gradually, while keeping the equipment he had brought back from HYDRA in Castle's basement.
• Chen Mo assigned Anna to manage S.H.I.E.L.D. Mechanical Company, and she quickly advanced its establishment.
• Chen Mo inspected the company and heard that nearly a hundred new orders for the "Knight" continued to arrive each day.

Chen Mo reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D. Company’s progress and set a tight deadline for a new production line. He then drove home through the first rain he had encountered in Los Angeles, listening to music as the story left him traveling along Highway 1.

• The R&D head reported that prototypes of two new models were expected within a week, while Michael said production could soon shift toward the new cars.
• Anna reported that S.H.I.E.L.D. Machinery had begun production and successfully trial-produced its first stamping and forging equipment.
• Chen Mo ordered Anna to build a new automated automobile production line within twenty days, and Anna agreed.
• Chen Mo told Su Wan to keep the industrial park’s second phase on schedule and arrange for An Ran to prepare advertising for the new models.
• Chen Mo left the company and drove home through heavy rain, asking J.A.R.V.I.S. to play music as he traveled along Highway 1.

As autumn rain stirred loneliness in Chen Mo and An Ran, An Ran grieved over the possibility that Chen Mo had died in a plane crash, while an unexplained warmth and the same song playing in both their cars comforted them. Chen Mo returned to his Castle and prepared to travel through time and space again.

• Chen Mo drove through the rain to his estate and briefly felt lonely before resolving to rest after his next journey.
• An Ran pulled over and, after nearly four months without news of Chen Mo since his plane crashed, feared he was dead and began to cry.
• Warm air and soothing music unexpectedly turned on in An Ran's car, calming her without her realizing Chen Mo's car was playing the same song.
• Chen Mo entered the underground laboratory and prepared to begin his next journey through time and space.

Chen Mo chose a long-awaited world to enter and bought Gerard Manor to establish himself there. After learning the era and location, he realized he might have arrived more than a century before the story’s events.

• J.A.R.V.I.S. continued protecting An Ran and Chen Mo’s other loved ones without reporting routine interventions to him.
• Chen Mo checked his equipment and waited in the underground laboratory for the crossing to begin.
• Chen Mo rejected the first two worlds and chose the third after recognizing a familiar figure in its projection.
• Chen Mo arrived in a forest and soon bought Gerard Manor from Gerard with gold.
• Chen Mo learned his location and era from the steward and worried that he had arrived over a hundred years too early.

Chen Mo arrived in Alberta in 1845 and realized he would need to wait for his target, who lived at John Howlett’s manor. He studied the era and planned carefully, deciding not to interfere until the right moment so he would not disrupt the events he needed.

• Chen Mo reflected on how immortality and preparations in earlier worlds had helped him obtain what he wanted.
• Chen Mo settled at his manor in Alberta, where John Howlett’s estate stood nearby and held his target.
• Chen Mo studied Canada and the United States, noting the growing conflict over slavery and the approaching Civil War.
• Chen Mo compared current events with history and the film plot, formed a plan, and waited rather than risk changing key events too soon.

Chen Mo monitored Howlett Manor and watched the events surrounding James Howlett’s illness unfold, waiting for the moment that would let him intervene. As John Howlett tended to his sick son, a man arrived at the manor at night, pounding on the door and calling for Elizabeth.

• Chen Mo had J.A.R.V.I.S. install hidden cameras and listening devices throughout Howlett Manor.
• A month later, J.A.R.V.I.S. told Chen Mo that James Howlett was ill and Victor Logan was keeping him company.
• Victor lit lamps for James, then trimmed his unusually sharp fingernails while talking with him.
• John Howlett entered, praised Victor, and comforted James as he complained of a fever.
• A man pounded on the door downstairs and shouted Elizabeth’s name.

John Howlett confronted Thomas Logan after Thomas came to the manor and harassed Elizabeth, while Victor refused to take his abusive father home. Thomas shot John, who died beside James, and then told James there were things he did not understand.

• John Howlett told Victor to take his drunken father, Thomas Logan, home, but Victor refused because Thomas had abused him throughout his life.
• John went downstairs to confront Thomas, and Victor followed, leaving James alone in the bedroom.
• James heard John order Thomas never to return, followed by a gunshot, and ran downstairs.
• James found Thomas dragging Elizabeth toward the door with a hunting rifle and John lying wounded on the floor.
• John gripped James's clothes, called his name, and died; Thomas then told James there were things he did not understand.

After Thomas shot John Howlett, James’s grief and rage awakened bone claws in his hands, and he charged Thomas. The dying Thomas revealed that John was not James’s biological father, leaving James stunned by the truth and Thomas’s final call to him as his son.

• Thomas shot and killed John Howlett, while Elizabeth tried to stop him from revealing the truth.
• James’s arms changed, and six sharp bone claws emerged from his fists as Victor watched in shock.
• James charged at Thomas, and Elizabeth shoved the rifle barrel aside to keep Thomas from shooting him.
• James pierced Thomas’s chest with his claws and pinned him against the wooden door.
• Thomas told James that John was not his father, and Elizabeth’s silence confirmed the revelation.
• Thomas called James his son before James staggered back, pulling the claws from Thomas’s chest.

After James killed Thomas, Elizabeth rejected him as a monster, shattering his last sense of belonging and driving him to flee into the woods. Victor caught up with him and insisted that Thomas deserved his death and James had done nothing wrong.

• James killed Thomas with his claws and reeled after learning Thomas was likely his biological father.
• Elizabeth condemned James and revealed her deep attachment to Thomas, leaving James feeling hated and alone.
• James ran barefoot from the estate and deeper into the nearby forest, desperate to escape.
• Victor chased James down and tackled him in the woods.
• James cried that he had not meant to kill Thomas, and Victor told him Thomas had deserved it.

After learning that James was his half-brother, Victor refused to abandon him and fled with him into the woods as pursuers closed in. They reached a road and spotted a fast-moving carriage, and Victor stepped in front of it to stop it.

• Victor realized James was his half-brother and caught up with him in the woods, promising they would stay together.
• James said he wanted to go home, but Victor insisted they had to escape and encouraged him to become strong.
• Torch-bearing pursuers approached, so Victor grabbed James and ran deeper into the woods despite James's bleeding, injured feet.
• The brothers heard hoofbeats and carriage wheels ahead and ran out of the woods toward the road.
• Victor saw an enclosed carriage rushing toward them, ran into its path, and spread his arms to stop it.

Victor and James escaped their pursuers after a mysterious young man named Chen Mo rescued Victor from a speeding carriage and took the boys with him. They arrived at his manor, where a butler greeted him as “Master,” revealing that he owned the estate.

• James warned Victor as a carriage charged toward him, but Chen Mo leaped out and pulled Victor clear.
• Victor asked Chen Mo to help them escape the pursuers, and Chen Mo told the boys to get into the carriage.
• Chen Mo ordered the driver to speed away, leaving the pursuers behind as Victor and James rode through the night.
• Victor and James discovered that their rescuer was a handsome young Asian man whose name was Chen Mo.
• The carriage reached a manor, where a butler greeted Chen Mo as “Master,” revealing that he owned the estate.

Chen Mo brought James and Victor to his manor after secretly manipulating their pursuers and confirmed that James had awakened his bone-claw ability. After hearing the brothers recount what happened, Chen Mo examined James’s claws and asked Victor whether his unusual nails were his ability.

• Chen Mo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to watch Elizabeth dismiss the servants searching for James and Victor.
• Chen Mo reflected that his plan had brought James and Victor under his control, while the brothers remained unaware that he had guided their pursuers.
• The butler brought James and Victor to Chen Mo’s study the next day, where Chen Mo asked what had happened the night before.
• Victor recounted Thomas’s death, James’s claws, and their flight from the manor.
• James struggled to extend his bone claws, and Chen Mo then pointed out Victor’s unusual nails and asked if they were his ability.

Victor learned from Chen Mo that his unusual, sharp nails were a born extraordinary ability rather than a deformity. Chen Mo explained how Victor’s claws could become deadly like a tiger’s, leaving Victor to reconsider the trait he had always hated.

• Victor hid his unusual nails when Chen Mo noticed them, then admitted he thought they were deformed.
• Chen Mo told Victor that his nails were a natural ability like James’s, but Victor doubted they could be useful.
• Chen Mo asked Victor about brown bears and described how their claws wounded prey and gouged trees.
• Chen Mo described the tiger’s powerful claws and told Victor his own claws could tear skin and, with enough strength, pierce and shred an enemy’s organs.

Chen Mo decided Victor and James could no longer stay near Howlett Manor and invited them to leave Canada with him for the United States. They agreed, and the three set out together, traveling through the countryside toward their destination.

• Chen Mo explained that Victor’s sharp, curved nails were suited to slashing and told him not to trim them again.
• Chen Mo warned Victor and James that they would eventually be discovered if they stayed at the manor, then offered to take them to the United States.
• Victor agreed to go with Chen Mo, and James overcame his hesitation and nodded as well.
• Before dawn the next morning, Chen Mo, Victor, and James departed the manor in a carriage without bringing any servants.
• Victor and James took turns driving as the group traveled by day and rested at inns, farmhouses, or tents in the wilderness.