Chapter Summaries

Liu Di stopped Starweave’s representatives from taking over his land and demonstrated that Iron Fist could not challenge him. He then watched Starweave CEO Bertram Gary announce a breakthrough in human enhancement and declare the beginning of the Superhumanism Era.

• Liu Di rejected the black-suited foreigner’s demand to buy his wasteland for five trillion and approached Iron Fist in the Mercedes-Benz.
• Liu Di pinned Iron Fist in the car, bursting all four tires, and warned Starweave not to provoke him.
• Kun Sang struck the damaged car with a baseball bat, helping it leave with Starweave’s retreating convoy.
• Liu Di invited Kun Sang and Little Xia inside to bathe, eat, and rest, then watched Starweave’s press conference on the Sky Screen.
• Bertram Gary announced that Starweave could enhance ordinary people’s genes and physiques, sometimes granting special abilities, and proclaimed the Superhumanism Era.

At a press conference, Bertram introduced Starweave’s superhuman heroes and presented the FIC as their overseer. The heroes’ dramatic appearances thrilled the audience, while Liu Di watched with skepticism.

• Electric Arc appeared at the press conference, and Bertram introduced him as a Starweave hero.
• Iron Mask emerged from beneath the stage, and Bertram revealed his identity to the cheering audience.
• Bertram showed Iron Rhino’s airport rescue footage and announced that Starweave had deployed heroes to protect China.
• Bertram introduced the FIC as the heroes’ overseer, and Robbins presented the organization’s strength.
• Skywalker flew into the stadium and landed onstage, prompting the audience to marvel at his appearance.
• Kun Sang teased Liu Di about having no fans, and Liu Di dismissed the heroes as attention-seekers.

After Starweave Group’s superhero plans stirred up a national craze, Duan Hua urged Liu Di to help China gain prestige, but Liu Di refused and left when A Jia called about Gemini’s branding. Liu Di offered to create heroes for the company instead of signing Starweave’s new celebrities.

• Starweave Group announced plans for a superhero economy and Hero Training Bases, igniting widespread excitement across China.
• Duan Hua gave Liu Di the Sea City Courageous Citizen Award and Medal of Courage for helping solve an international child trafficking case.
• Duan Hua explained that countries were developing cyborg heroes under an international agreement, while China’s enhancement technology lagged behind.
• Duan Hua asked Liu Di to step forward for China, but Liu Di refused and reminded him that the month for their research had not yet passed.
• A Jia told Liu Di that Penguin had hired Skywalker as an endorser and asked what Gemini should do about superhero endorsements.
• Liu Di told A Jia not to sign with the heroes because he could create a few for Gemini, but she dismissed his offer as nonsense.

Liu Di kept Gemini’s expansion on hold while Witnesses secretly invested across the internet industry, then watched nations unveil their engineered heroes. He turned his attention to technology that supported everyday livelihoods and arrived at the Black Fox Gang’s headquarters, where Little Liu was instructing its members on smart machines.

• Gemini’s user base and revenue continued to soar while Liu Di refrained from expanding it, and Heidina led Witnesses in confidential investments and acquisitions.
• After Liu Di persuaded A Jia to wait, countries around the world announced their own human-evolution programs and heroes, while China made no announcement.
• Liu Di reflected that people’s livelihoods depended on practical foundations, not heroism, and drove to the Black Fox Gang’s headquarters.
• At Misa Hall, Liu Di found Little Liu teaching Crazy Bull and other gang members how to use machines that required fingerprint verification.
• Liu Di questioned Little Liu’s gang-style leather vest and sticker tattoo, then raised an eyebrow when Crazy Bull called him “little bro.”

Liu Di gathered the Black Fox Gang, Heidina’s technicians, and Sea City gang bosses to launch a legitimate business built around intelligent hotels and restaurants. He revealed that the machines were only a pilot for Attendant, a learning Artificial Intelligence, leaving the group stunned by the scale of his plan.

• Liu Di found that his four-year-old son had named himself Little Brother and become a gang boss, then ordered Crazy Bull to take him away until he removed his tattoo.
• Nan Ruoyi told Liu Di that the factory had produced Intelligent Store prototypes and that Little Brother had trained the staff to use them.
• Liu Di held a meeting with Nan Ruoyi, Heidina’s technicians, Black Fox Gang members, and Sea City gang bosses to put his intelligent physical business plan into action.
• Liu Di showed the group robot prototypes for hotels and restaurants, including automated check-in, cleaning, cooking, delivery, and room service machines.
• Liu Di explained that the machines were controlled by Attendant, a service-focused Artificial Intelligence that would learn from collected data and improve over time.

Liu Di explained that the Attendant was an independent offshoot of Magic Child's Internet of Everything capability, created to gather behavioral data and help it advance toward Strong Artificial Intelligence. He recruited Lin Yi to lead the technical side of Pioneer, then launched a mysterious rollout of more than eight hundred stores across Sea City, drawing public attention and Duan Hua's wary admiration.

• Liu Di told Heidina and the others that the Attendant would gather data through intelligent industry, while he planned for Pioneer to expand beyond its initial stores.
• Heidina suggested Liu Di recruit talent from Gemini, but he declined to keep the intelligent industry separate for the time being.
• Sun Dongming called Liu Di about Lin Yi, China's number one beautiful hacker, and Liu Di invited them to meet at Misa Hall.
• Liu Di explained the Attendant and Pioneer's business plan to Lin Yi and the group, and Lin Yi joined the company as its technical expert.
• Pioneer and Sea City's twelve gangs began renovating more than eight hundred storefronts, placing mysterious signs that sparked widespread speculation.
• Duan Hua recognized that Liu Di was behind the store rollout and remarked on the danger of an educated thug leader.

Liu appointed Nan Ruoyi to lead Pioneer's preparations, and her detailed plans impressed the gang bosses and Lin Yi. He then ordered Heidina to give Ruoyi unlimited access to funds and confronted a boy who was trying to avoid going to school.

• Liu named Nan Ruoyi Pioneer's overall person in charge, despite the gang bosses' doubts about entrusting the job to a maid.
• Nan Ruoyi listed more than a hundred tasks for the stores' opening, and Lin Yi recorded them and organized them into a schedule.
• Heidina admired Nan Ruoyi, while Liu told her Ruoyi could withdraw unlimited money without his approval.
• Liu took the boy to a private office and showed him information about five schools, but the boy insisted he wanted to study machinery instead.
• Liu explained that the boy needed to attend school and took away the Metamizole pill the boy had planned to use to fake a fever.

Liu Di learned that Starweave Group had opened a Hero Academy and discovered that his missing father, Liu Zhengqing, had once worked as a genetic expert and Starweave consultant. After his mother urged him to prove himself, Liu Di agreed to visit the academy and investigate it from within.

• Liu Di told Little Liu that his company had become the largest shareholder of Sea City Yingjie Primary School, so the boy could not be expelled.
• Liu Di's mother told him that Starweave Group had opened a Hero Academy and revealed that his missing father was a renowned genetics and brain neuroscience expert.
• Liu Di used Magic Child to find that Liu Zhengqing had disappeared in 1998 after claiming to uncover secrets of the human brain, and had later served as a Starweave genetics consultant.
• Liu Di's mother urged him to take the academy test and show others how outstanding he was, so Liu Di promised to visit Starweave Group.
• Liu Di reviewed the academy's elimination process and decided to infiltrate it to uncover Starweave's secrets, while Little Liu mocked him about being sent to school.

Liu Di took Little Liu to buy school supplies and enrolled him in Yingjie Primary School despite his young age. After Little Liu entered class with Teacher Ji Anyi, Liu Di joined the parents’ chat and worried about how his son would fare at school.

• Liu Di and Little Liu encountered Starweave hero advertisements everywhere, including a giant poster of Skywalker.
• Liu Di bought Little Liu a full set of Skywalker school supplies after the boy teased him about being jealous of the heroes.
• Liu Di brought Little Liu to Yingjie Primary School, where Teacher Ji Anyi warned that the four-year-old was much younger than his classmates.
• Little Liu assured Ji Anyi he would hold back and protect the other children’s self-esteem, then entered campus with her.
• Liu Di accepted Gardener Anyi’s friend request, joined the Class 3 parents’ group, and apologized in advance in case Little Liu offended anyone.

Liu Di arrived at Starweave Hero Academy to take its entrance exam, where applicants faced scams and a sudden increase in the strength requirement. After Magic Child altered the registration system to rank Liu Di first, the staff member called his name to begin testing.

• Liu Di reached the crowded academy and rejected a scammer's fake strength pill and a fat man's overpriced test slot.
• A rich heir outbid Liu Di for the slot, and Liu Di let him take it before the heir bought pills from the scammer.
• Magic Child told Liu Di it had changed the registration system so he ranked first and that testing would begin in five minutes.
• Liu Di found the test delayed for equipment calibration, while applicants learned the punch requirement had risen from 150 to 230 kilograms.
• A staff member announced that testing could begin and called Liu Di first.

Liu Di entered the reserve hero selection strength test and tried to keep his extraordinary power hidden. After his first punch fell just short of the requirement, he secretly forced the machine’s reading over the threshold, drawing Purple Moon’s attention.

• Liu Di refused the blood test, and the foreign doctor marked his form as ineligible for special treatment.
• Liu Di used Magic Child’s calculations to try to limit his punch to the required strength.
• Liu Di struck the machine and produced a reading of 223.8 kilograms, just below the passing mark.
• Liu Di created a small sonic boom without hitting the machine, causing its reading to rise to 230.2 kilograms and register a pass.
• Purple Moon watched Liu Di closely and wondered whether she had witnessed a physical sonic boom.

Liu Di passed Starweave’s physical tests and discovered that China had placed War Department personnel inside the company to supervise its work. After refusing Starweave’s contract requirements, he followed Purple Moon to inspect a mysterious medication, and Magic Child suspected it contained living microorganisms.

• Liu Di passed the 400-meter sprint and agility tests after barely meeting their requirements.
• Liu Di learned that Purple Moon was Ji Baiwei, a former War Department member linked to Cao Chenghe and the secret Dragon Might research center.
• Liu Di refused to sign Starweave’s contract or live in its dormitories, while Purple Moon intervened and took responsibility for him.
• Purple Moon brought Liu Di to a laboratory, where he examined a vial of blue AP4 medication.
• Magic Child suspected the medication contained living microorganisms, and a streak of black light touched it when Liu Di briefly removed the vial’s stopper.

Liu Di passed Starweave’s entry test but rejected Purple Moon’s rules and potion, then discovered the potion contained a dangerous mutated enzyme that could let Starweave control modified humans. The chapter ended with Ji Anyi and Ji Baiwei discussing the gifted new child in Anyi’s class and the unruly trainee Baiwei had recruited, unaware that both stories involved Liu Di’s family.

• Liu Di refused to drink Starweave’s potion, told Purple Moon he would not live at the base, and left after passing the entry test.
• The applicants saw the pass count rise to six and watched Liu Di leave, while the British-suited heir vowed to make him regret provoking him at Hero Academy.
• Liu Di examined a stolen sample with Magic Child and learned that its mutated DNA hydrolase could cause deadly or monstrous mutations without suppressing drugs.
• Liu Di resumed researching a way to neutralize the enzyme, then drove to Yingjie Primary School and saw a small boy leave amid the older children’s respect.
• Ji Anyi told her sister Ji Baiwei about the brilliant young child who had won over her class, while Ji Baiwei described her difficult new trainee and promised to introduce him to Anyi.

Liu Di developed a Rubik’s Cube-based method for combining advantageous human DNA traits while avoiding genetic flaws and rejection. After completing plans for 180 DNA types, he moved on to feasibility testing, confident that Starweave could soon be defeated.

• Liu Di returned to the Experimental Graveyard with Magic Child, who befriended the puppy, named it Redback, and claimed he was preparing for arts and crafts class.
• Liu Di finished developing medicine for Starweave, then began studying DNA samples to make cyborg results more controllable.
• Liu Di used virtual Rubik’s Cubes of increasing sizes to model combinations of DNA strengths and identify harmful traits.
• Little Liu watched Liu Di simulate the cubes at high speed, recognized the computational challenge, and returned to his room.
• Liu Di worked without rest as he completed the 3×3, 4×4, and 5×5 plans, covering 180 DNA types.
• Magic Child gathered enough data to build a simulation program, and Liu Di prepared to test whether the plans were feasible.

Liu Di attended Little Liu’s Handmade Invention Awards Day at Yingjie Primary School, where Little Liu partnered with Pang Bo and presented a supposedly revolutionary carbon-fiber coat. The audience was astonished by the claims about its durability and protection, while Liu Di proudly watched from the crowd.

• Liu Di went to Yingjie Primary School to support Little Liu at the school’s invention awards and met Pang Bo, whose parents had not attended.
• Little Liu told Liu Di that he had added Pang Bo’s name to his invention so they could present it together.
• After several children displayed their projects, Little Liu and Pang Bo brought a cloth-covered rack onto the stage.
• Little Liu described their coat, named 100Years, as carbon-fiber clothing that could withstand extreme heat, resist wear, and block handgun bullets.
• The judges and parents reacted with astonishment and looked toward Liu Di, who proudly waved at them.

Liu Di realized that the armed takeover of Yingjie Primary School was a staged rescue meant to give the approaching heroes a spotlight. He chose to stay seated and let the performance unfold, while his presence frightened off a bandit who approached him.

• As an explosion and armed raid disrupted the school event, Liu Di swept the two children onto the stage and assessed the attackers and the sealed auditorium.
• Liu Di calculated that he could eliminate the bandits in seven seconds, but detected Electric Arc, Skywalker, and Iron Rhino approaching and concluded the crisis was staged by Starweave.
• Liu Di sat down instead of intervening, while Little Liu and Pang Bo argued about whether Violent Bear should act.
• A patrolling bandit approached Liu Di, met his gaze, and turned away in terror without confronting him.

Starweave’s three heroes rescued 240 hostages from armed kidnappers in under two minutes, winning public praise. At Starweave headquarters, CEO Bertram prepared another staged disaster at a bridge and accepted that people might die to advance the company’s expansion.

• Skywalker and the other two Starweave Heroes stormed Yingjie Auditorium, subdued nearly thirty kidnappers, and freed the hostages as police and reporters entered.
• Liu Di told Little Liu that the heroes were using the rescue to regain public support, while Little Liu accused Liu Di of hiding his own abilities.
• Pang Bo offered to help pack up the exhibition and asked Little Liu to have his father drive him home.
• CEO Bertram celebrated the heroes’ popularity and instructed Lawson to accelerate preparations for an operation at a bridge.
• Bertram said the bridge disaster could kill people and called their deaths a sacrifice that would help Starweave expand.

Liu Di drove Pang Bo and another child across Huihai Bridge, where a resonance-induced collapse trapped drivers and triggered a rescue response. The Starweave Heroes reached the bridge and began rescuing people while Liu Di watched from more than two kilometers away.

• Liu Di left Yingjie Primary School with Pang Bo and another child, driving toward Pang Bo's home in Haitang District.
• Two devices beneath Huihai Bridge generated vibrations that intensified until cracks spread across the bridge deck and part of it collapsed.
• Drivers fled amid collisions and trapped occupants as a news helicopter broadcast the disaster live, and Sea City police and reporters rushed to the scene.
• Skywalker rescued an elderly man, Electric Arc carried several people to safety, and Iron Rhino pulled a driver from a crushed car.
• Liu Di noticed the panicked crowd from the edge of the bridge and saw red dots approaching from Yingjie Primary School.

As Huihai Bridge collapsed under the weight of trapped civilians, Liu Di disguised himself in a black trench coat and rushed to the disaster site. He reached the center of the collapsing bridge, leaving Pang Bo and Little Liu stunned as the rescue effort continued.

• The bridge’s central pier shattered, tilting a hundred-meter section and trapping thousands of people as Starweave’s three heroes struggled to rescue them.
• CEO Bertram watched the disaster footage and joked with Assistant Lawson about preparing an apology while secretly celebrating.
• Little Liu brought out a black trench coat he had prepared for Liu Di, who put it on before heading toward the bridge.
• Liu Di ordered Little Liu and Pang Bo to stay in SS454, which locked itself and began backing up on its own.
• Liu Di leaped hundreds of meters at a time and reached the center of the disaster, while Pang Bo stared in shock.

Liu Di used extraordinary strength to stop a collapsing bridge and buy time for people to escape. After the cameras captured his mysterious heroics, he disappeared into traffic and reappeared in a white shirt with his black windbreaker bundled in his arms.

• Liu Di caught the snapping steel cable and held back the collapsing bridge deck, then handed the cable to Iron Rhino, who was immediately pulled into the air.
• Liu Di cut and collapsed the intact section of the bridge, then threw vehicles and debris into the water to create a mound beneath the falling deck.
• Liu Di steadied the tilted bridge long enough for the rescue efforts and evacuations to continue while cameras filmed him.
• Liu Di vanished into traffic after confirming there was no immediate danger, then emerged in a white shirt carrying his folded windbreaker and got into an antique car.
• Little Liu excitedly watched Liu Di, while Pang Bo asked if he could become Liu Di’s son.