Chapter Summaries

After receiving Chen Mo’s reply that he was still alive, An Ran’s grief lifted, and she went to film a commercial at Los Angeles International Raceway with Zhang Xin and Xu Qing. The chapter ended as the crew got their first glimpse of the F1 car being unloaded.

• An Ran opened Weibo and read Chen Mo’s reply: “I'm still alive,” then cried with relief.
• The next day, An Ran and her crew prepared a commercial shoot at Los Angeles International Raceway, where her schoolmates noticed her mood had brightened.
• Young Carlos Sainz arrived with the F1 car and the “Thunder” supercar, drawing the crew’s attention.
• Zhang Xin and Xu Qing tugged An Ran over to join the crowd around the delivery truck.
• The truck doors opened, revealing the F1 car and prompting excited comments from the crew.

Young Carlos Sainz drove an unfamiliar white F1 race car off its trailer and noticed its unusual design and powerful engine. He overheard An Ran say it had been built in three days, leaving him doubtful that such a feat was possible.

• An Ran asked Young Carlos Sainz to drive the F1 car off the trailer because no one else knew how to operate it.
• Young Carlos Sainz examined the car, found details unlike any current team’s design, and climbed into the cockpit.
• Two technicians started the engine with an external starter, and Young Carlos Sainz slowly drove the car down the ramp.
• The crew admired the white-liveried car as Young Carlos Sainz listened to An Ran explain that it had been built in only three days.
• Young Carlos Sainz questioned whether a company could manufacture an F1 car so quickly as another girl began to speak.

Young Carlos Sainz learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto had built the F1 car and took it onto the track for a test lap. As he sped away, An Ran spotted the company owner's Knight arriving and wondered if he was the driver Su Wan had arranged for the Thunder.

• Zhang Xin and Xu Qing argued over whether S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto could have built an F1 car in three days, then both grew wistful as they remembered their time on a deserted island.
• Young Carlos Sainz recognized S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto as the car's builder and reasoned that its technology made the feat plausible.
• Young Carlos Sainz asked An Ran to test the car and familiarize himself with the track, and she agreed.
• Young Carlos Sainz drove the white F1 car onto the track and accelerated away as the onlookers watched excitedly.
• An Ran saw a black Knight arrive and recognized it as the one driven by S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto's owner, wondering if he was Su Wan's chosen driver for the Thunder.

An Ran met Su Wan and learned that Bradley, not Chen Mo, would drive the Thunder. Zhang Xin and Xu Qing reunited with Su Wan, whose careful answers left Chen Mo’s connection to the plane crash undisclosed.

• Su Wan arrived with Bradley, and An Ran discovered that Chen Mo had not come and Bradley would drive the Thunder.
• Su Wan introduced Bradley as Chen Mo’s driver and bodyguard, while An Ran accepted that he must be capable of driving the car.
• Zhang Xin and Xu Qing recognized Su Wan and rushed to embrace her.
• An Ran learned that Su Wan knew Zhang Xin and Xu Qing, and Su Wan avoided mentioning their shared plane-crash history.
• Zhang Xin asked why Su Wan had come to the United States, and Su Wan said she had changed jobs.

Bradley discovered the Thunder supercar and drove it onto the track, where its futuristic design and explosive acceleration stunned the filming crew. After the test runs, Young Carlos Sainz admired the car’s appearance but remained confident that his F1 race car would beat it.

• Bradley spotted the Thunder in the truck and went to inspect it while Su Wan, An Ran, Zhang Xin, and Xu Qing talked nearby.
• Bradley drove the Thunder out of the truck and onto the track, where it accelerated even faster than the F1 race car.
• The filming crew realized the Thunder was the commercial’s main attraction after watching its dramatic entrance.
• Young Carlos Sainz found that S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company’s F1 race car matched or slightly exceeded the performance of cars he had driven before.
• Bradley finished his test run thrilled by the Thunder’s speed and handling, and decided he wanted one for himself.
• Young Carlos Sainz saw the Thunder and admired its appearance but expected his F1 race car to defeat it.

Bradley and Young Carlos Sainz raced Thunder against an F1 car for an advertisement, and Thunder’s astonishing speed through a high-speed corner left Sainz wondering whether its driver was a fighter jet pilot. The race was still underway as Sainz watched Thunder pull ahead.

• Bradley learned that his opponent was an F1 race car but remained confident in Thunder’s performance.
• An Ran began filming the advertisement with Bradley in Thunder and Young Carlos Sainz in the F1 car.
• Thunder surged ahead at the start and continued widening the gap as both cars accelerated past two hundred kilometers per hour.
• Young Carlos Sainz expected to overtake Thunder in the corners and slowed to prepare for the first turn.
• Thunder accelerated through the turn at more than two hundred and fifty kilometers per hour, astonishing Young Carlos Sainz with its apparent ability to withstand at least 7G.

Bradley drove Thunder to a crushing lead over Young Carlos Sainz’s F1 car, as Thunder’s advanced suspension and stability let it outcorner the race car. The race’s outcome was settled, and Bradley discovered how much he loved the thrill of high-speed driving.

• Thunder’s aerodynamic design and automatic suspension let it stay stable through corners at speeds that exceeded an F1 car’s capabilities.
• Young Carlos Sainz failed to close the gap after the first turn as Bradley’s Thunder pulled farther ahead.
• The spectators watched in astonishment as Thunder outperformed the F1 car in acceleration and cornering.
• Bradley raced through the track’s corners with growing excitement and realized he enjoyed the speed and intensity.

Bradley raced Chen Mo’s Thunder against Young Carlos Sainz’s F1 car and won decisively, while reflecting on how Chen Mo’s technology let the supercar outperform a regulated race car. Young Carlos Sainz finished the race stunned by the Thunder and eager to drive it himself.

• Bradley drove the Thunder through the course while imagining asking Chen Mo for a Thunder and even a supersonic fighter jet.
• Thunder crossed the finish line first and stopped smoothly, while Young Carlos Sainz’s F1 car finished later and took longer to stop.
• The race showed Thunder beating the F1 car on both straightaways and complex corners.
• Chen Mo’s technical advantages and the restrictions on F1 cars explained why Thunder could dominate the race.
• Young Carlos Sainz climbed out of his car and stared at Thunder, wishing he could drive it himself.

After Bradley won the race against the F1 car, Chen Mo gave him Thunder, and Bradley drove off in it. Young Carlos Sainz approached Su Wan hoping to work with Bradley, and she told him S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto needed racing drivers.

• Young Carlos Sainz admired Bradley's driving after Thunder decisively defeated the F1 race car.
• An Ran announced that the commercial shoot was finished, and Bradley called Chen Mo to ask for Thunder.
• Bradley told An Ran and Su Wan that Chen Mo had given him the car, then drove away in it.
• Crew members discussed Bradley's skill and Chen Mo's generosity, while Young Carlos Sainz decided to seek Bradley's guidance.
• Young Carlos Sainz asked Su Wan whether the company needed drivers, and she replied that it needed racing drivers.

Chen Mo decided to expand his business empire by creating a Formula One team, leaving Anna to handle its formation. Anna found an experienced but struggling team for sale, and Chen Mo acquired it and renamed it the S.H.I.E.L.D. team.

• Chen Mo decided to establish a Formula One team while planning to accelerate the development of his companies.
• Anna researched Formula One teams and recommended acquiring an established team rather than building one from scratch.
• Anna found the Carter team, which had competed in seven consecutive Formula One championships but faced debt and had never earned a championship point.
• Chen Mo approved Anna’s proposal and spent one hundred million dollars to acquire the Carter team, renaming it the S.H.I.E.L.D. team.

Su Wan helped bring Young Carlos Sainz into the not-yet-formed S.H.I.E.L.D. racing team, which already had a powerful new Formula 1 car. Chen Mo then learned An Ran might connect him to the plane crash survivors and expose his identity, but chose to let events unfold.

• The new S.H.I.E.L.D. Formula 1 car had an upgraded engine and H-2 alloy construction, though its performance had been reduced for the advertisement shoot.
• Su Wan brought Young Carlos Sainz into the S.H.I.E.L.D. team and told him to report to S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company the next day.
• Su Wan told Chen Mo that Zhang Xin and Xu Qing had come to the United States and were classmates with An Ran.
• Chen Mo realized An Ran might discover that he and Su Wan survived the plane crash and infer his identity.
• Chen Mo rejected deleting crash-related information or brainwashing An Ran and decided to let nature take its course.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company launched the Lord and Thunder, unveiling their striking designs and screening a commercial that showcased the Lord’s speed, stability, comfort, and armored body. The presentation ended with the Lord reaching a mountain summit, while the cars’ public reception and Thunder’s commercial remained to come.

• Su Wan felt relieved when Chen Mo chose to let events unfold naturally rather than take action over the risk of his identity being exposed.
• An Ran returned to school after filming the Thunder commercial, and her team sent both finished advertisements to Su Wan the next day.
• Chen Mo approved the commercials, and Michael hosted the launch event for the Lord and Thunder without Chen Mo attending.
• The audience admired the Lord’s elegant appearance and Thunder’s powerful design as Michael introduced the Lord commercial instead of revealing its specifications.
• The commercial showed the Lord speeding over three hundred kilometers per hour, keeping its champagne steady on rough roads, and protecting its passengers from gunfire.
• The Lord reached a cliff at the summit of a mountain, where the middle-aged passenger stepped out and looked ahead.

Michael introduced S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s Lord sedan and Thunder supercar, revealing their exceptional performance, safety features, and five-million-dollar prices. The crowd eagerly decided to buy Thunder, convinced it was worth the cost.

• The audience watched commercials showing the Lord sedan driving rugged terrain and Thunder outperforming an F1 race car.
• Michael explained that the Lord had an automatic suspension system, a top speed of 350 kilometers per hour, and VR8 bulletproof protection.
• Michael revealed that Thunder accelerated from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour in 1.6 seconds, reached 500 kilometers per hour, and had VR7 bulletproof protection.
• Michael announced that both models cost five million dollars.
• The wealthy sports-car enthusiasts decided to buy Thunder despite its high price.

Chen Mo priced S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto Company’s Lord, Thunder, and Knight models to capture the luxury-car market, while Thunder’s launch drew huge attention despite its high price. The company’s rising sales still left it operating at a loss on paper, and Chen Mo planned to keep reinvesting rather than pay taxes to the U.S. government.

• Chen Mo judged that the wealthy worldwide could sustain demand for the three supercars, and he set prices that would maximize profits without quickly saturating the market.
• During the launch event’s Q&A, Michael rejected a request for a cheaper, non-bulletproof Thunder, saying the company only made the best.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto released targeted advertisements, and Thunder’s race against an F1 car went viral, prompting a surge in orders, including from China.
• Chen Mo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to create records of inflated H-2 alloy costs and other spending, making S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto appear to be operating at a loss.
• Chen Mo planned to keep spending any profits on the company’s growth and relied on legal tax-avoidance methods to prevent the U.S. government from collecting much revenue.

Chen Mo shifted his plans from expanding S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto into the mass-market car segment to launching electronics through S.H.I.E.L.D. Technology Company. With the second auto production line completed and orders exceeding ten thousand vehicles, he prepared for his sixth traversal.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s success devastated rival luxury automakers, who began secretly plotting against the company.
• Chen Mo chose to pursue phones and computers, assigning Bradley and Su Wan to establish S.H.I.E.L.D. Technology Company.
• Bradley trained Young Carlos Sainz by repeatedly racing him around the track in the Thunder, rapidly improving the driver’s skills.
• Orders for the Knight and the Lord and Thunder exceeded ten thousand, and completion of the second production line doubled S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s capacity.
• Chen Mo looked forward to his sixth traversal after the X-Gene Serum had cured Chen Jingde and helped protect his family.

Chen Mo rejected the Xenomorph and Planet of the Apes worlds before choosing the world of Venom for its valuable technology and symbiotes. He arrived in a forest on Borneo and had J.A.R.V.I.S. investigate the Life Foundation’s spacecraft schedule.

• Chen Mo viewed the Xenomorph world but saw no sign of Predators or advanced technology, so he considered it a poor choice.
• Chen Mo recognized the ruined world of Planet of the Apes and judged its intelligence-enhancing drug to be of limited use.
• Chen Mo saw a motorcyclist use a black tentacle to block a drone attack and recognized the world as one that interested him.
• Chen Mo traveled alone and arrived in a primeval forest on Borneo, where J.A.R.V.I.S. confirmed his location.
• Chen Mo ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to access the Life Foundation’s network and find out when the Life One spacecraft would return.

Chen Mo tracked Life One’s return and waited near the night market where the escaped symbiote was due to cause a massacre. When the spacecraft began its failed atmospheric reentry, he suited up and prepared to intercept it.

• J.A.R.V.I.S. found that Life One was forty-six hours from entering the atmosphere, and Chen Mo teleported to a Chinese night market in Malaysia.
• Chen Mo recognized the local thugs and several residents as people who would be killed by the escaped symbiote, then spent two days waiting.
• Chen Mo returned to the rainforest and listened as Life One reported trouble during atmospheric reentry.
• Chen Mo saw the burning spacecraft approaching and equipped both his Vibranium Nanotech Combat Suit and Iron Man suit.

Chen Mo reached the crashed spacecraft to find the intact escape-pod cockpit and the living astronaut inside. As Chen Mo approached, the astronaut’s arm transformed into a tentacle and attacked him.

• Chen Mo watched the spacecraft crash into the rainforest and explode, while its escape-pod nose section landed largely intact.
• Chen Mo approached the wreckage and entered the cockpit, where he saw dead astronauts and four containment chambers, one of them empty.
• Chen Mo used his telekinesis to locate the sole astronaut still showing signs of life and flew toward him.
• The astronaut suddenly transformed his arm into a metallic tentacle and lunged at Chen Mo’s head.

Chen Mo captured Riot aboard the Life Foundation vessel by restraining the symbiote with telekinesis and separating it from its astronaut host with sonic waves. He then turned his attention to the other sealed symbiote samples, including Venom, while considering Riot’s exceptional abilities.

• Riot attacked Chen Mo with a tentacle, but Chen Mo stopped it with telekinesis.
• Chen Mo ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to use sonic waves, forcing Riot out of the astronaut and into the tentacle Chen Mo had restrained.
• Chen Mo confined the freed Riot in midair and identified it as the movie’s main villain.
• Chen Mo looked toward the remaining sealed chambers, where Venom and two other symbiotes were held.
• Chen Mo considered how Riot could harden its body into metal weapons and armor, making it far stronger than Venom.

Chen Mo erased Riot’s consciousness and secured the symbiote in a briefcase. He left the other three symbiotes behind in the sealed chamber, planning to retrieve them from the Life Foundation later.

• Chen Mo restrained Riot with telekinesis and discovered that its consciousness was distributed throughout its body.
• He used consciousness erasure to wipe Riot’s memories, emotions, and consciousness, leaving it docile.
• Chen Mo placed Riot in a briefcase and confirmed that it remained still after he released his telekinetic control.
• He decided not to take the other three symbiotes because they needed safe storage and he had other matters to handle.
• Chen Mo flew out of the spacecraft and recalled his Iron Man suit, leaving the Vibranium Nanotech Combat Suit in its undersuit form.