Chapter Summaries

Lisa Fei brought Liu Di to the Mad Dragon Gang headquarters to investigate and recruit him, but they found the gang defeated and its members terrified of Liu Di. The chapter ended with the thugs fleeing as Liu Di asked Lisa Fei whether the person she was seeking was there.

• Lisa Fei called Officer Duan and said she planned to enlist Liu Di's help, then got into Liu Di's car when he arrived.
• Lisa Fei teased Liu Di on the drive and directed him to the Mad Dragon Gang headquarters at Pegasus KTV.
• Lisa Fei and Liu Di found the KTV closed and its injured gang members gathered inside.
• The Mad Dragon lackeys told Lisa Fei that their boss Chang Long and the gang had been defeated by a demon.
• The lackeys recognized Liu Di as the white-clad fighter who had beaten their gang and fled from Pegasus KTV.
• Liu Di asked Lisa Fei whether the person she was looking for was there.

Lisa Fei investigated Liu Di and took him to the Black Fox Gang, where her charm won her a hall-master position. As they left, Heidina and Nan Ruoyi confronted them with obvious jealousy, and Lisa Fei admitted she was deeply attracted to Liu Di.

• Lisa Fei secretly asked her organization to investigate Liu Di, while Magic Child fabricated a flamboyant personal profile for him.
• Lisa Fei took Liu Di to the Black Fox Gang and charmed Black Fox into offering her a position.
• Liu Di silently signaled Black Fox to appoint Lisa Fei as a hall master and let her publicly reveal the appointment.
• Heidina and Nan Ruoyi met Liu Di and Lisa Fei outside, but held back their displeasure at Liu Di's signal.
• Lisa Fei told Liu Di that she had fallen for him, and he asked her for her real name.

Lisa Fei recruited Gemini CEO Zhang Tianjia to help find children with HR-negative blood, while her charm left her increasingly fixated on Liu Di, who remained unmoved. The chapter ended with a stranger signaling “5:9” to Liu Di before disappearing into an alley.

• Lisa Fei asked Zhang Tianjia, posing as Fangfei, to search Gemini’s database for children aged five to ten with HR-negative blood, and he agreed to take two days.
• Lisa Fei bragged to Liu Di about winning over powerful men and said she was now interested only in him, while Liu Di privately explained that her enhanced charm barely affected him or his allies.
• A man carrying a metal baseball bat appeared in the distance, signaled “5:9” to Liu Di, and disappeared into an alley.
• Lisa Fei asked Liu Di whether he knew the stranger, and Liu Di dismissed him as a lunatic.

Liu Di supported Lisa Fei’s investigation into the Infant-Eating Ghost while preparing to eliminate the Poker Club assassins. As the Poker Club deployed killers in Sea City, Wu Jiang and Chain Bridge arrived, and Wu Jiang killed Zhu Mingtian.

• Lisa Fei told Duan Hua she had obtained the Black Fox Gang identities and the children’s files, then planned to meet the Infant-Eating Ghost in three days.
• Liu Di inferred Lisa Fei intended to pose as a seller and learned that missing children with HR-negative blood had been transported to the imperial capital.
• Mr. Box learned that eight Poker Club killers had vanished and sent twenty-six more killers, including Chain Bridge and Wu Jiang, to attack Emperor San at midnight.
• Enke assured Zhu Mingtian that Golden Shield Security could protect him, but a flying fork killed Enke.
• Wu Jiang and his duplicates killed Zhu Mingtian’s bodyguards, then Wu Jiang beheaded Zhu Mingtian.

Poker Club killers and Chain Bridge members prepared to compete over who would kill Emperor San, while Liu Di discovered their attack plans and began a contest with Kun Sang to hunt them. Duan Hua mobilized the special police after receiving Liu Di’s message, and the chapter left the killers’ hunt about to begin.

• Wu Jiang fought off the bodyguards and clashed with the three Chain Bridge triplets over their rival missions to kill Emperor San.
• Kun Sang told Liu Di that the Poker Club planned a midnight attack with twenty-six killers, and Liu Di revealed that thirty killers were in Sea City.
• Liu Di used his combat awareness and Magic Child’s tracking to locate the killers and gave Kun Sang a watch displaying their positions.
• Liu Di challenged Kun Sang to compete in killing the killers, appointed Little Xia as referee, and left the rooftop before Kun Sang followed.
• Duan Hua received Liu Di’s message about a bumper harvest and ordered the special police to prepare.

Lisa Fei received an SS Alert reporting 30 international cyborgs in Sea City and urged Duan Hua to prepare for a major threat. Duan Hua remained confident that Liu Di could handle them and focused instead on capturing the Infant-Eating Ghost.

• Lisa Fei received an SS Alert warning that 25 A5+ cyborgs and five B+ cyborgs had gathered in Sea City.
• Lisa Fei told Duan Hua about the alert and urged him to coordinate a response.
• Duan Hua revealed that he believed the cyborgs belonged to the Poker Club and said they were no match for the god he trusted.
• Duan Hua ordered Team Leader Wei to ready five teams, ambulances, stretchers, and 30 cells.
• Duan Hua dismissed Lisa Fei's concerns and told her to focus on catching the Infant-Eating Ghost that night.

Liu Di and Kun Sang hunted Poker Club killers across Sea City, while A Jia tried to keep Creator employees from witnessing Liu Di's fight. The chapter ended with the killers dead or disabled and A Jia fleeing after promising his coworkers a dance.

• Liu Di killed Poker Club Five of Diamonds by plunging into a hotel pool from above.
• Kun Sang smashed a black sedan with his metal bat, killing Spade Three.
• Liu Di climbed the Witnesses Headquarters and confronted a Poker Club killer spying on Creator Headquarters.
• The killer fired at Liu Di, and A Jia diverted Creator employees' attention by announcing that he would dance.
• Liu Di dodged the bullets and punched the killer into a corner, disabling Club Jack.
• A Jia told the employees the incident had been an illusion, then ran off in embarrassment.

Kun Sang and Liu Di eliminated Poker Club members during the assault, while Duan Hua and Lisa Fei discovered that Liu Di had already stopped an attempted prison break at headquarters. Kun Sang finished his targets but trailed Liu Di’s score, and all 26 assassins were dead or incapacitated.

• Kun Sang killed Diamond 10, then hit a grenade into a house and killed Heart 6 before Liu Di reset his score to zero for endangering civilians.
• Duan Hua realized Poker Club members were attacking headquarters to free their comrades from the augmented-human prison and ordered a level-one alert.
• Three attackers flew into the headquarters entrance, incapacitated, and Duan Hua received Liu Di’s message telling him to put the damage on his tab.
• Duan Hua reassured Lisa Fei that everything was under Liu Di’s control, and they returned to discussing the case.
• Kun Sang used shot puts to eliminate his remaining targets, finishing with seven points while Liu Di had eighteen; all 26 Poker Club assassins were dead or injured.

Duan Hua and Lisa Fei discussed the mysterious fighter who had defeated twenty-six A-Class modified humans, while Liu Di relaxed at a bonfire with Little Xia after returning from the Experimental Graveyard. Kun Sang arrived exhausted and dejected, and Liu Di said his heart was merely broken.

• Duan Hua told Lisa Fei that the Chinese fighter was beyond the known ranks, calling his level the twenty-seventh letter, “Ande.”
• Lisa Fei reported the fighter to FIC under the codename “That God” and estimated his level as “&.”
• Duan Hua told Lisa Fei she could meet That God only during a mission because he was busy.
• Liu Di cooked fish, steak, and corn over a bonfire and shared beer with Little Xia.
• Kun Sang returned, dropped his baseball bat, and collapsed on the ground; Liu Di told Little Xia that Kun Sang was fine and had only suffered a broken heart.

Liu Di questioned Kun Sang about the Poker Club and learned how its intermediaries relayed information, while Magic Child prepared to track their radio transmissions. Kun Sang warned Liu Di that the club’s four Aces and two near-godlike Jokers remained a threat.

• Liu Di invited Kun Sang to eat and drink, then told him none of the eighteen fighters he had defeated had Joker tattoos.
• Kun Sang explained that the Poker Club’s unseen Box commanded its fifty-four cards through intermediaries, with orders relayed by Mr. Coffee.
• Kun Sang recounted tracing a chain of intermediaries to a poisoned man and a wireless telegraph in De Ke State, but said he could not decipher the machine.
• Magic Child explained how Doppler radar could narrow down the source of the Poker Club’s radio transmissions and said he needed a few hours to track them.
• Kun Sang warned Liu Di that thirteen Poker Club Killers remained, including four unseen Aces and the feared Black and White Joker and Color Joker, who had once defeated a thousand-person Eagle Nation special operations squad in seconds.

A hacker using the signature DISI hijacked De Ke State’s radar network, prompting its commander to alert national security agencies. At the camp, Little Xia’s strength surged after drinking, but he soon passed out, leaving Liu Di and Kun Sang to face the approaching A-Class fighters without knowing what the change meant.

• A hacker shut down De Ke State’s radar controls and turned its receivers into a scanning network, leaving the commander’s forces unable to regain access.
• The commander’s technicians found the message that the hacker was only borrowing the system and saw the signature DISI, prompting the commander to mobilize national security agencies.
• Liu Di proposed betting with Kun Sang over which of them could defeat more of the four approaching A-Class fighters, with their collected Metal Poker at stake.
• Little Xia’s strength suddenly increased after drinking, and Magic Child linked the change to his special genes and the effects of alcohol.
• Little Xia crushed Kun Sang’s alloy bat with one hand, then toppled over and fell asleep drunk before Liu Di could intervene.

Liu Di faced Wu Jiang and Chain Bridge at the Experimental Graveyard, while Kun Sang struggled against the trio’s magnetic powers. Little Xia woke and shattered their attack, killing all three members of Chain Bridge and leaving Kun Sang stunned.

• Wu Jiang and Chain Bridge arrived at the Experimental Graveyard and confronted Liu Di and Kun Sang.
• Wu Jiang used hallucinogenic smoke and apparent clones to attack Liu Di, but Liu Di saw through the illusions.
• Chain Bridge used their shared magnetic-field ability to pin Kun Sang’s metal bat and hurl metal fragments at him.
• Chain Bridge’s magnetic force pulled alloy-armed Little Xia across the ground, waking him.
• Little Xia punched through the magnetic field and blasted apart Heart A, Diamond A, and Spade A, while Kun Sang stared at him in shock.

Little Xia’s alcohol-fueled strength overwhelmed Kun Sang, while Liu Di defeated Wu Jiang and tested Little Xia’s power by enduring his punches. Kun Sang accepted the vast gap between them and turned to beer to drown his sorrows.

• Little Xia charged Kun Sang and battered him until Kun Sang could barely defend himself.
• Liu Di crushed Wu Jiang’s katana, forced him to inhale his own hallucinogenic drug, and left him trapped in his hallucinations.
• Liu Di redirected Little Xia to fight him, and Little Xia obeyed while drunk.
• Little Xia struck Liu Di with increasingly powerful punches, but Liu Di remained unharmed as Magic Child estimated Little Xia’s enhanced strength.
• Kun Sang gave up on competing with Liu Di and Little Xia, then opened a can of beer by the campfire.

Liu Di returned Diamond 2 to Kun Sang and studied the strange substance coating the Metal Poker cards. Magic Child revealed that Liu Di might one day replicate enhanced humans’ abilities through gene editing, leaving him with the prospect of acquiring Chain Bridge’s magnetic-field power.

• Liu Di realized Kun Sang wore Diamond 2 in memory of his wife, whom a Joker had killed, and returned the card to him.
• Liu Di asked Kun Sang to look after the sleeping Little Xia, while Wu Jiang continued stumbling into an invisible wall.
• Liu Di used an instrument designed by Magic Child to strip a black substance from forty Metal Poker cards and collect it in a test tube.
• Magic Child explained that the substance came from an illegal North African mine and could change shape, withstand damage, and pass through gaps.
• Magic Child said he could store Chain Bridge’s gene chains and that Liu Di could edit his genes to replicate enhanced humans’ abilities after reaching New Human Stage Two.

Duan Hua and Lisa Fei arrived at the Experimental Graveyard and found that Liu Di had defeated the Poker Club’s four B+-enhanced humans, leaving three dead and Null crippled. Lisa learned that the sleepy child Little Xia was Liu Di’s younger brother, and that even the formidable Kun Sang feared him.

• Duan Hua and Lisa Fei reached the Experimental Graveyard with the special operations team and found the four enhanced humans in a bizarre scene.
• Duan Hua questioned Kun Sang, who said Little Xia had defeated the triplets before Emperor San subdued him, while Emperor San had crippled Null.
• Lisa Fei confirmed the men were the Poker Club’s B+-enhanced humans, then told FIC headquarters that Chain Bridge was dead and Null was crippled by China's God.
• Duan Hua told Lisa that Liu Di did not welcome visitors and warned her not to force her way in because Little Xia could be dangerous.
• Lisa mistook Kun Sang for Little Xia until the sleeping child woke and Kun Sang fled in terror; Duan Hua explained that Little Xia was Liu Di’s younger brother.

Mr. Box learned that Emperor San had wiped out the Poker Club’s 26 A-Class killers, while Chain Bridge and Wu Jiang remained at large. In Texas, Emperor Four released control of the missile defense system, and European Nation leaders planned a hacker alliance to attack China and lure him out.

• Mr. Box watched the killer rankings as Poker Club members vanished, then learned from Kofi that the surviving killers had been arrested and their assault had been detected before they could gather.
• Mr. Box ordered Kofi to contact the factory for fresh Poker Club members but refused to involve the two Jokers.
• Commander Trollope’s team regained control of the missile defense system after Emperor Four left a message thanking them.
• A national-level official told Commander Trollope that DISI meant Emperor Four and revealed plans to assemble 168 hackers for an anonymous attack on China’s network.
• Commander Trollope asked to lead the effort to capture Emperor Four if his location was confirmed.

Lisa Fei began her undercover mission to infiltrate the child-trafficking ring, traveling to Kyoto to meet its liaison, but Liu Di unexpectedly joined her. The two entered the welfare institute together, leaving Lisa Fei worried about his safety.

• The Black Fox Gang announced Qin Fei as the head of its new external affairs branch, while investigators delivered a list of ten HR-negative children to Special Operations Headquarters.
• Lisa Fei told Duan Hua she would pose as a seller and investigate the Infant-Eating Ghost, then left Sea City for Kyoto.
• Duan Hua spotted Liu Di watching Lisa Fei's car depart and realized he was quietly keeping an eye on the operation.
• Lisa Fei arrived at Sunshine Children's International Welfare Institute and recognized it as the meeting place arranged by the trafficking ring's liaison.
• Liu Di appeared and insisted on accompanying Lisa Fei inside, and she introduced him as a trusted associate to the liaison.

Liu Di and Lisa Fei infiltrated the Infant-Eating Ghost’s orphanage, where Hong Ying exposed Lisa as an undercover officer and mistook Liu Di for the underworld leader Emperor Er. Liu Di forced Hong Ying to reveal that the trafficked children were being sent to Binni Fort Medical College, then overwhelmed the room and knocked her unconscious.

• Lisa Fei waited for the Infant-Eating Ghost while using her Charm on the men in the reception room, but Hong Ying arrived and revealed that she knew Lisa was an undercover officer.
• A thug identified Lisa as an agent, but Hong Ying shot him after he mistook Lisa for the real boss and threatened to claim her as a reward.
• Hong Ying recognized Liu Di as Emperor Er and asked whether Lisa was his ally, while Liu Di questioned her about where the children were being sent.
• Liu Di used his Hegemon’s Aura to make Hong Ying disclose that the children were being transported to Binni Fort Medical College in the European Nation.
• Liu Di used the Zippo’s reflected light to disrupt a sniper, then defeated the armed men and slapped Hong Ying unconscious while Lisa remained unharmed.

Liu Di uncovered Infant-Eating Ghost’s child-trafficking records and stopped Lisa Fei from killing her, while vowing to pursue the European Nation accomplices. After Nail Sniper arrived to protect them, he revealed his real name, Tie San, and hinted that Liu Di belonged to a secret unit.

• Liu Di deduced how Infant-Eating Ghost, Binni Fort Medical College, and the Poker Club formed a modified-human pipeline, then tore open a safe and took its records while Lisa Fei fought the gang members.
• Liu Di and Lisa Fei discovered that Infant-Eating Ghost had abducted thirty-four children over three years and shipped them frozen to European Nation, where none had returned alive.
• Liu Di stopped himself from crushing Infant-Eating Ghost’s head after Lisa Fei insisted she face the law, but vowed to kill the European Nation accomplices.
• Nail Sniper arrived and said he had killed the four snipers after Liu Di helped reveal their positions with a reflected flash from his Zippo.
• Nail Sniper told Liu Di to call him Tie San and said his brothers had described Liu Di as a member of a secret unit.

Liu Di headed for European Nation with Lisa Fei after stopping a sniper attack and leaving Tie San to handle the child trafficking case. On the way, he searched for hidden enhancement groups, grew wary of the forces behind them, and decided to develop his own enhanced-human technology.

• Liu Di revealed that he had intercepted a sniper’s bullet aimed at Lisa Fei and told Tie San to stay behind and destroy the child trafficking chain in China.
• Lisa Fei insisted on joining Liu Di for the trip to European Nation, and he agreed to take her aboard his private helicopter.
• Lisa Fei discovered that the helicopter belonged to Creator Group and realized Liu Di was Emperor San, the wealthy programming genius behind a vast business empire.
• Liu Di and Magic Child searched for enhanced-human organizations online but found only rumors beyond the known M-069 project and Binni Fort Medical College.
• Liu Di received updates on Beiming Hall’s growing network and worried that hidden enhancement groups could threaten his plans and businesses.
• Liu Di decided that he needed to strengthen himself and ordered Magic Child to develop their own enhanced-human technology based on the M-069 project.