Chapter Summaries

A Chinese girl and her younger brother were imprisoned in a secret European laboratory where doctors tested drugs on captives and disposed of those who failed screening. Xiao Kui was burned alive after his blood test, while his sister qualified for an experiment and was anesthetized as doctors began cutting into her skull.

• The girl comforted Xiao Kui in their cell and urged him to eat the food thrown inside so they could survive until their parents came.
• A burly man in camouflage entered and tried to take the children for an experiment; the girl recognized him as the man who had killed her family.
• The man slammed Xiao Kui's head against a wall, and the siblings were taken to separate laboratories.
• A doctor found that Xiao Kui was not HR-negative and ordered his body sent to the incinerator, where he was burned alive as his sister watched.
• Doctors confirmed that the girl's blood qualified her for testing, anesthetized her, and began cutting into her skull with an electric saw.

Liu Di and Lisa Fei discovered a secret underground laboratory beneath Petersburg Medical College, where researchers were mutilating adults and children. Enraged by the sight of the child victims, Liu Di killed the Sergeant with a single punch.

• Liu Di used Magic Child's scans to identify a hidden laboratory beneath a red-brick building and detected smoke from burning human remains.
• Liu Di knocked out the guard, broke through the floor into an elevator shaft, and Lisa Fei followed him underground.
• Liu Di fought past two Black-Clad guards and entered a hidden base filled with operating rooms and mutilated patients.
• Liu Di and Lisa Fei found severely injured children, including a girl labeled as a student from Hengzhou City Sunflower Primary School.
• The Sergeant attacked Liu Di, who exploded the Sergeant's upper body with a single punch.

Liu Di slaughtered the researchers in the underground base after discovering its atrocities against children, while Lisa Fei watched in horror. As armed guards activated a limiter and confronted him beside the dying little girl, Liu Di rejected their assumption that he was a modified human.

• Liu Di triggered the base alarm and killed nearly a hundred fleeing researchers, driven by rage over the children they had harmed.
• Lisa Fei watched Liu Di’s violent rampage and retched, though she knew the researchers deserved punishment.
• Professor Sack ordered Captain and ten armed men to confront the intruder and activate the genetic limiter.
• The limiter weakened Lisa Fei, but the masked guards emerged able to resist its effects.
• Liu Di held the dying Chinese girl’s hand as her heart monitor neared zero, then challenged the guards’ claim that he was a modified human.

Liu Di defeated the ten enhanced humans guarding the underground laboratory and condemned them to die in its incinerator. As the laboratory burned, he confirmed that all the children were dead and mourned arriving too late to save them.

• Liu Di accused the ten former soldiers of helping abduct and torture Chinese children, then confronted them despite their belief that the limiter had weakened him.
• Liu Di smashed Captain with a headbutt and broke the limbs of the other enhanced humans, leaving all ten unable to fight or escape.
• Liu Di dragged the men to the incinerator and threw them into the flames in pairs, while stopping one from killing himself.
• One enhanced human escaped the furnace briefly before collapsing and dying, and the fire spread through the underground laboratory.
• Liu Di confirmed that all the children were dead, watched the laboratory burn, and lamented that he had arrived too late.

Lisa Fei realized that Liu Di was the God of Huaxia as he destroyed the modified humans guarding the experimental base. Carrying her through the base, Liu Di explained how overwhelming strength left him without reservations, then broke through the steel wall to confront Professor Sack and the surviving modified humans.

• Lisa Fei watched Liu Di burn the modified humans and recognized him as the God of Huaxia, the expert who had defeated twenty-six A-Class modified humans as well as Wu Jiang and Chain Bridge.
• Liu Di carried Lisa Fei and told her that the truly strong could destroy evil without hesitation or guilt.
• Liu Di reached a fifty-centimeter-thick steel wall and dented it with his first kick.
• Professor Sack panicked as the wall buckled and ordered the three surviving modified humans to protect him.
• Liu Di kicked the wall down with a second blow and emerged through the flames, holding Lisa Fei as he faced Professor Sack and the others.

Liu Di killed Professor Sack and the remaining staff at the Petersburg Human Augmentation Base, then uncovered records revealing the scale and cruelty of human augmentation. The chapter ended with Lisa Fei identifying her organization as Medusa, linked to a wider network of groups operating under the Apocalypse Treaty.

• Liu Di killed the three augmented humans, then confronted Professor Sack and left him to die in the flames after slicing off the top of his skull.
• Liu Di regained control of his emotions and searched the base computer, finding records that showed a 9% success rate and the use of homeless people and trafficked children as test subjects.
• Liu Di found Yan Yiwen, Qiu Beiming, and Poker Club assassins among the successful augmentation cases.
• Magic Child explained that the base was called Hercules and that organizations creating augmented humans followed the Apocalypse Treaty to keep related information off the internet.
• Liu Di asked Lisa Fei for her organization's name, and she told him it was Medusa.

Liu Di uncovered the cancer-based flaws in the Americas’ human modification program and found Yan Yiwen’s young son, Innate God, hidden in the base. As Liu Di played chess with the child amid the burning building, Lisa Fei discovered a dying prisoner bearing a Poker Club tattoo.

• Magic Child analyzed the modification technology and found that it used cancer cells, causing genetic damage and shortening the modified humans’ lives.
• Magic Child discovered that Yan Yiwen had given birth to an unmodified child, codenamed Innate God, and opened a hidden room where he was staying.
• Liu Di recognized that Innate God was playing chess with improvised pieces and sat down to join him, while Lisa Fei realized the child was not intellectually disabled.
• Liu Di and Innate God continued playing chess as fire and smoke filled the building, and Lisa Fei watched over them.
• Lisa Fei found a severely rotted man dying in an iron cage, removed the restraining device’s power supply, and failed to notice the Joker tattoo on his arm.

After defeating the gifted boy at chess, Liu Di rescued him from the burning laboratory and named him Liu Little Brother. They escaped the underground base, while Liu Di left Lisa Fei to manage the aftermath and a regenerating man secretly watched her.

• The boy told Liu Di that he would go with him after Liu Di beat him thirteen times at chess, and Liu Di learned from the files that the child had modified genes and regenerative cancer cells.
• The boy said the organization had named him Magic Child, and Liu Di called him Liu Little Brother, despite the child criticizing the name.
• Liu Di bent a metal wall into a shelter, and he, Lisa Fei, and the boy crossed the burning laboratory before escaping to the surface just before an explosion.
• Liu Di asked Lisa Fei to handle the aftermath and seal off the news, then left to meet a friend he had never met.
• A badly burned man crawled out of the smoking laboratory, watched Lisa Fei, and regenerated his tongue, skin, and body as his Joker tattoo reappeared.

Liu Di traveled to De Ke State and infiltrated a hospital to confront Kofi, the Poker Club’s first Interloper. Kofi killed himself after warning Liu Di that Joker would appear, and Liu Di replied to a telegram pretending that Chain Bridge and Wu Jiang were coming to see him.

• Liu Di traveled by taxi across European Nation and arrived at De Ke State Coma Recovery Hospital.
• Liu Di killed the Poker Club guards on the first three floors and took a Heart 5 Metal Poker from one of them.
• Liu Di confronted the terminally ill Kofi in a fourth-floor ward and revealed that he had traced the telegraph location.
• Liu Di decoded a message from Mr. Box asking about Wu Jiang and Chain Bridge, then Kofi warned that Joker would avenge the Poker Club.
• Kofi tore out his life-support equipment and died, and Liu Di sent a Morse code reply claiming that Wu Jiang and Chain Bridge were on their way.

Liu Di found Mr. Box in Luo'ou River Town and confronted him after foiling his assassination attempts and killing Mr. Coffee. Mr. Box died after Liu Di stopped him from taking a poison capsule, while Liu Di anticipated finding the two remaining Jokers.

• Mr. Box prepared to kill his neighbors during a bridge game, but Liu Di arrived before he could shoot them.
• Mr. Box fired all three bullets at Liu Di, who remained unharmed, and the frightened neighbors fled.
• Liu Di laid out cards that recalled his encounters with Mr. Box's assassins and confirmed that Mr. Coffee was dead.
• Mr. Box revealed his loyalty to the Poker Club and tried to kill himself with poison hidden in a false tooth.
• Liu Di struck Mr. Box beneath the chin, making him swallow the capsule; Mr. Box died, and Liu Di looked forward to finding the two remaining Jokers.

Kofi died and took over the body of Lennard, then began killing people with a Joker tattoo. At Petersburg Medical College, Lisa Fei left with Captain Robbins and Little Liu after the FIC covered up the massacre, while a burned figure pursued their convoy.

• Kofi opened his eyes after dying, entered the room of a vegetative patient, and collapsed after declaring that the man's body would do.
• Ten minutes later, Kofi awakened in Lennard's body, chose Lennard as his new name, and got a Joker tattoo.
• Lennard killed the tattoo artist with a gesture and walked away from the parlor.
• Captain Robbins confirmed that 130 ordinary corpses and 13 modified human remains were found beneath the genetics laboratory, but dismissed Lisa Fei's account of the Chinese man's power.
• Robbins ordered the scene burned and buried under the cover story of a natural gas explosion, then took Lisa Fei and Little Liu toward FIC headquarters.
• A burned figure ran on all fours behind the convoy, keeping pace with its speeding SUVs.

Lisa Fei and Little Liu arrived at FIC, where Captain Robbins planned to examine her and capture Liu Di if he proved powerful. Before Liu Di arrived, the supposedly dead Planarian attacked FIC, and teams of modified humans confronted him in the corridor.

• Lisa Fei and Little Liu entered FIC with Captain Robbins, who ordered her to undergo a full examination while he waited for Liu Di.
• Robbins told Lisa Fei that he would use FIC to keep Liu Di and obtain research data if Liu Di showed remarkable strength.
• A beastlike intruder killed guards and rushed into the building, prompting FIC to sound an alarm.
• Lisa Fei recognized the intruder as Planarian, who had escaped from an underground experimental base and regained his strength.
• Planarian smashed through an alloy door, was shot repeatedly by guards, and faced FIC Teams One and Two in the corridor.

A rampaging Beast tore through FIC headquarters, defeating its guards and overpowering Robbins and Lisa Fei. When he called Lisa Fei his queen, Little Liu identified him as Planarian and warned him that Violent Bear was coming.

• Robbins saw that the Beast had overwhelmed Teams One and Two, then ordered more teams to intercept him as he advanced through the floors.
• Falcon returned to fight the Beast but was torn apart before Robbins could stop him.
• The Beast broke into Robbins's room, walked through his flames while regenerating, crushed his flamethrowers, and threw him aside.
• Lisa Fei broke out of the examination chamber and tried to protect Little Liu, but the Beast caught and injured her before kissing her ankle.
• Little Liu called the Beast Planarian and warned him that Violent Bear would beat him to pieces.

Liu Di arrived to save Lisa Fei and Little Liu from Beast, the Black and White Joker, and destroyed him after he repeatedly regenerated. Robbins burned away Beast’s remains, while Liu Di left the scene without completing his intended target.

• Beast threatened Lisa Fei and Little Liu while Robbins watched helplessly from the ruins.
• Liu Di burst through the glass wall and recognized Beast as the Black and White Joker.
• Liu Di crushed Beast’s hand with one punch, but Beast regenerated it and then recovered from another devastating blow.
• Liu Di waited for Beast to heal, then unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks that reduced him to blood and flesh.
• Robbins repaired his flamethrower and burned Beast’s remains, while Little Liu reminded Liu Di that she had predicted Beast would be blown apart.

After defeating the beast, Liu Di accepted a place in FIC’s Hero Group as Hero Number Six, using the codename Di Liu. He left with Little Liu and Lisa Fei, while Robbins discovered that the new hero had blocked the badge’s tracking and communications.

• Liu Di gave Little Liu a hamburger and told Lisa Fei he had been watching while she was in danger.
• Robbins asked Liu Di to join FIC’s Hero Group and take the place of Falcon, who had died fighting the beast.
• Liu Di agreed to join as Hero Number Six under the codename Di Liu and accepted a gold badge from Robbins.
• Magic Child blocked the badge’s GPS tracking, and Liu Di left with Little Liu as Lisa Fei followed them.
• Robbins checked the badge and realized he could neither track Liu Di nor reach him.

Liu Di brought Little Liu to the Experimental Graveyard and introduced him to Little Xia and Kun Sang as a new member of their family. He gave Kun Sang the severed hand of his wife’s killer, prompting Kun Sang to break down in gratitude as Liu Di led Little Liu inside.

• Lisa Fei and Liu Di arrived by helicopter at the Experimental Graveyard with Little Liu.
• Liu Di introduced Little Liu to Little Xia, who welcomed him, and asked whether Little Xia had HR-negative blood.
• Kun Sang joked about challenging Little Liu, who refused his roasted chicken and called him crazy.
• Liu Di showed Kun Sang a severed hand bearing the Joker tattoo and told him it belonged to the man who killed his wife.
• Kun Sang recognized his enemy’s hand and sobbed with gratitude as Liu Di led Little Liu toward their new home.

Liu Di showed Little Liu the Experimental Graveyard and demonstrated his automated business equipment to Nan Ruoyi, then ordered her to buy suitable factories outright. The chapter ended with his mother calling to complain that Aunt Zhao had said Liu Di could not find a wife.

• Little Liu explored the Experimental Graveyard, and Liu Di told him he could use the production line only after repairing a damaged Gundam Robot.
• Lisa Fei arrived and said she had a duty to protect Liu Di as his comrade in FIC.
• Nan Ruoyi visited, and Liu Di demonstrated his unmanned hotel check-in system and automated equipment for other businesses.
• Nan Ruoyi offered to contact technology factories, and Liu Di told her to buy any suitable factories outright.
• Liu Di's mother called after winning 180 yuan at mahjong and complained that Aunt Zhao had said her son could not find a wife.

Liu Di returned to River Town with Lisa Fei, Nan Ruoyi, and Little Liu to visit his mother and ease her worries about his future. He bought her workplace, Yongfu Ceramics Factory, as a surprise, while the missing arm of Black and White Joker began regenerating somewhere nearby.

• Liu Di told his mother he would visit River Town, and Lisa Fei and Nan Ruoyi insisted on coming with him along with Little Liu.
• Kun Sang discovered that the hand he had buried for Pola had vanished, and Magic Child identified the culprit as a regenerating Planarian-like creature resembling Black and White Joker.
• Liu Di took the group to Yongfu Ceramics Factory and watched his mother work before meeting factory director Li Yongfu.
• Liu Di paid three million in cash and added Lisa Fei's bag of gold to buy the factory for his mother, but stopped Li Yongfu from changing the business license so she could accept the surprise gradually.
• Lisa Fei protested that the gold had been her gift for Liu Di's mother, and Liu Di insisted that buying the factory was the better present.

Liu Di brought Lisa Fei, Nan Ruoyi, and Little Liu home to meet his mother, who proudly showed them off to her mahjong-playing friends. Their family gathering was interrupted when Dazhuang arrived and confronted Liu Di, asking about the people who had blinded him.

• Lu Shuyun arrived home and was delighted to see Liu Di, Lisa Fei, Nan Ruoyi, and the boy he planned to adopt, Little Liu.
• Nan Ruoyi and Lisa Fei gave Lu Shuyun gifts, and Lu Shuyun rushed off to invite her friends to play mahjong and show off her son’s guests.
• Liu Di cooked dinner while Little Liu advised Lu Shuyun on the other players’ mahjong hands, though she lost 180 yuan.
• Dazhuang arrived carrying roast chicken and baijiu, sat down rudely, and challenged Liu Di for not telling him he had returned.
• Dazhuang mocked Liu Di and asked him for the address of the people who had stabbed out his eye so he could deal with them.

Liu Di shared a lively meal and drinking contest with his childhood friends in his hometown courtyard, surprising Zhang Qisheng with his son and two beautiful friends. By night, Dazhuang and Zhang Qisheng were drunk while Liu Di remained sober, and Nan Ruoyi and Lisa Fei glimpsed his ordinary, happy side.

• Dazhuang and Liu Di joked about fighting and prepared to drink together when Zhang Qisheng arrived in a flashy BMW.
• Zhang Qisheng teased Liu Di about returning from Sea City and offered him a job, housing, and help finding a girlfriend.
• Nan Ruoyi and Lisa Fei served food, and Zhang Qisheng was stunned to learn they were Liu Di's friends and that Little Liu was his son.
• Liu Di's family and friends gathered for a home-cooked meal, and Zhang Qisheng praised Liu Di's cooking before challenging him to drink.
• After an hour, Dazhuang was vomiting under the table and Zhang Qisheng was sprawled in Liu Di's arms, while Liu Di remained composed.