Chapter Summaries

Liu Di and Kun Sang returned to Yulia Village after defeating the Apocalypse Association’s fighters, only to find the Heavenly Net Clan and villagers dead. As they prepared to bury them, Liu Di discovered gravestones bearing names and dates that seemed connected to the villagers.

• Liu Di and Kun Sang rushed back to Heavenly Net after realizing Little Tree was a carnivore, then found the Tian Luo Group members unharmed and Little Tree eating wolves.
• Liu Di and Kun Sang carried 283 Heavenly Net Clan members and 86 Yulia Village residents back to the village, where Liu Di decided to bury them and engrave the dead soldiers’ names on tombstones.
• Liu Di sent one million yuan to each Heavenly Net Clan member’s family, falsely describing the money as a hero’s medal bonus and promising their children would return soon.
• The wounded Gai Jia awakened, found the village dead, and wept as he picked up the villagers’ bodies.
• Liu Di and Kun Sang found gravestones bearing names that seemed to match Chou Daisha, the Village Chief, and Gai Jia, but Gai Jia could only cry in reply to Liu Di’s questions.

After mourning the destroyed village, Liu Di refused to exploit its graves or radioactive materials, choosing to leave the villagers hope. He uncovered a clue connecting the Apocalypse Association to the Tremor Society and set off with Kun Sang for Germany and Italy, while the dead agents’ bodies were mysteriously erased.

• Liu Di and Kun Sang dug graves for the villagers and carved their names onto tombstones, while Gai Jia stayed behind with Saar to guard them.
• Liu Di refused to absorb the radiation buried nearby, telling Magic Child that he wanted to leave hope behind, and vowed to make the Apocalypse Association pay.
• Liu Di examined the agents’ bodies and found that their identities had been erased, then discovered a nail clipper marked “LR” among the blond young man’s ashes.
• Magic Child traced the nail clipper to Lorimer and the Tremor Society, giving Liu Di a lead on the Apocalypse Association.
• Liu Di freed the captured mutated beasts, sent them into the irradiated land, and departed with Kun Sang aboard the Silver Shuttle for Germany and Italy.
• After Liu Di left, the black-suited men’s corpses dissolved into liquid and disappeared into the ground.

The Apocalypse Association’s president introduced Qiu Beiming, a hypnotist who had spread his identity among others and sought biological modification to kill his enemies and reclaim his child. Meanwhile, the Tremor Society prepared to sacrifice a pregnant girl, until a silver aircraft appeared over their castle.

• The president told Magician and Systama that Gallup was dead and criticized them for failing to kill the Savior and stockpile weapons.
• The president introduced Qiu Beiming, who explained that hypnotized people carried his life, thoughts, and plans, allowing him to survive through them.
• Qiu Beiming asked the association to modify him so he could kill his enemies and take back his child.
• The president threatened Systama for questioning the association’s goal of killing everyone, while Magician defended their power to destroy people.
• At a Tremor Society stronghold, the Cult Leader prepared to sacrifice a pregnant girl as believers gathered around her.
• A silver aircraft shattered the castle roof, and the believers mistook it for the aliens they worshipped.

Liu Di raided a Tremor Society cult, learned that its leader received money and the Apocalypse Gospel from a masked Apocalypse Messenger, then killed the cultists. Magic Child traced the Gospel’s rhetoric to twenty-three organizations, and Liu Di set course for Judgment Day’s headquarters near the border of Lusen Nation.

• Liu Di arrived in the Silver Shuttle, disarmed and wounded the Tremor Cult Leader, and freed the pregnant young woman.
• The Tremor Cult Leader said he exchanged the cult’s money for gold with a masked Apocalypse Messenger and gave Liu Di the book Apocalypse Gospel.
• Magic Child found that the Gospel used modern writing and psychological suggestions, and that its apocalypse rhetoric appeared among factions around the world.
• Liu Di spared the pregnant woman, left a liquid-metal sphere that killed the Tremor Society cultists, and departed in the Silver Shuttle.
• Magic Child identified twenty-three organizations using the Gospel’s rhetoric and located the nearest, Judgment Day, near the border of Lusen Nation.
• Liu Di told Magic Child to take him to Lusen Nation so they could uncover the Apocalypse Association.

Liu Di attacked two Apocalypse Association cult outposts with the help of Little Tree, while the association’s leaders dismissed the destruction as unrelated incidents. The chairman concluded that the two attacks could not have come from one person, leaving the association unaware of Liu Di’s campaign.

• Liu Di hypnotized the Judgment Cult’s leader and learned that the cult only collected gold for the Doomsday Association.
• Liu Di summoned Little Tree, sealed the bunker exit, and left the Judgment Cult to be devoured by the beast.
• The Apocalypse Association’s leaders learned that the Tremor Cult’s headquarters had been wiped out by an apparent alien and flying saucer.
• The association learned that the Judgment Cult’s base had also been destroyed and that its members’ bodies had been eaten.
• The chairman dismissed the attacks as the work of separate enemies and ordered his subordinates to handle the matter.

Liu Di decided to eliminate the Apocalypse Association’s cult network, and Magic Child used Leip’s GUK-16 drone fleet to destroy its Worker Ant churches across the Western Hemisphere. The churches were reduced to zero, leaving other underground cults terrified of becoming the next targets.

• Liu Di considered how to destroy the Apocalypse Association’s many cult branches without harming innocents, while Magic Child said an old friend had provided a solution.
• Leip showed three allied generals the GUK-16 armed drones and described their global precision targeting system, which he claimed could evade Emperor Four’s control.
• Before Leip pressed the activation switch, nearly five thousand GUK-16s started up and flew away from the base.
• Over the next three hours, the drones attacked extremist doomsday organizations and destroyed the Apocalypse Association’s Worker Ant churches throughout the Western Hemisphere.
• The Worker Ant churches dwindled to zero, while other evil cults panicked and feared the same Divine Punishment would reach them.

Liu Di’s drone strike destroyed more than five hundred Apocalypse Association branches, but the Chairman abruptly ordered the Association to retreat and stop investigating. With Leip still safe, Liu Di realized his bait had failed and learned that a heavy transport plane was headed toward the Sahara under suspicious conditions.

• Leip watched the returning GUK-16s spell “T.H.A.N.K.S.” on the ground, then learned they had killed more than three thousand people and destroyed fourteen buildings.
• The Magician learned that drones had wiped out five hundred church branches, and the Apocalypse Association Chairman initially vowed to confront Leip and find the mastermind.
• The Chairman abruptly rescinded his threat and ordered the Association to stop seeking revenge or investigating, leaving the Magician resentful and Systama afraid.
• Leip blamed a hacker group he called the “Hand of God” as he traveled between countries, while Liu Di watched from the Silver Shuttle and concluded that Leip was ineffective as bait.
• Magic Child told Liu Di that a “Fat Pigeon” heavy transport plane was bound for the Sahara near Northern Egypt, where a coming monsoon would make landing extremely difficult.

Liu Di confronted a caravan of Apocalypse Association guards in the Saha Desert and defeated them, but a massive sandstorm interrupted his attempt to learn where the organization was based. After the storm, the surviving leader died from a hidden mechanism before he could reveal the association’s secrets.

• Liu Di recognized that the seven caravan members were F-Class modified humans from the Apocalypse Association and exposed their plan to capture him.
• Liu Di killed the caravan leader’s six subordinates and demanded to know where the Apocalypse Association was based.
• A powerful sandstorm swallowed Liu Di and the leader, but Liu Di anchored himself with the Droplet Pendant and prevented the leader from escaping.
• After the storm passed, Liu Di demanded that the leader talk, but the leader died and his body dissolved before he could reveal anything.

Liu Di uncovered the Apocalypse Association’s hidden desert base, but its researchers were killed and the facility self-destructed before he could question anyone. Elsewhere, Magician’s experimental modification produced a powerful M-class cyborg named Qiu Beiming, who escaped toward Sea City to reclaim his child.

• Magic Child told Liu Di that a brain implant had destroyed Bertram’s body and evidence, linking the Apocalypse Association to Starweave.
• Liu Di found the hidden runway, smashed through the underground base’s metal entrance, and discovered the researchers dead from detonated brain implants.
• The base began its self-destruct sequence, and Liu Di watched it collapse beneath the sand.
• Magician oversaw repeated failed modifications of men called Qiu Beiming until one reached M-class and shattered its Modification Pod.
• The successful Qiu Beiming escaped without a Mission Device and raced toward Sea City to take back his child.
• Magician let Qiu Beiming go and killed a researcher who challenged him.

After surviving the explosion at the Saha Desert base, Liu Di uncovered evidence of the Apocalypse Association’s human experiments and its advanced modification technology. He recognized an organ from Starweave CEO Bertram and realized the Association had intersected with him long before.

• Liu Di found the experimental base destroyed and learned from Magic Child that someone had monitored it through a dedicated satellite network.
• Liu Di restored one computer using Arc DNA and copied data showing the base’s advanced DNA optimization experiments on living people.
• Magic Child analyzed the modification data and said it could help unlock the ninth-stage Rubik’s Cube.
• Liu Di found a control device implanted in a dead woman’s brain and concluded that the Apocalypse Association used it to control members and erase evidence.
• Liu Di recognized a preserved arm bearing a ring engraved 'Star' as Bertram’s and realized Bertram had traded organs for modification technology.

A hypnotized cyborg rampaged through Sea City, searching for Qiu Beiming’s child and a place to increase his strength. After he attacked the child he mistook for his own, police and tanks failed to stop him.

• A hypnotized man with Qiu Beiming’s thoughts and commands smashed a rooftop transmitter, an ice cream truck, and Linhai Shopping Center while searching for a white hemispherical building and his child.
• Duan Hua sent his four C-Class cyborg officers into the mall, but they were injured by the attacker, who was stronger than D-Class.
• The attacker fled as Linhai Shopping Center collapsed, then destroyed Sea City’s spherical observatory before entering the Science and Technology Exhibition Hall.
• The attacker walked out holding a little boy, then struck at him after discovering he had no birthmark; a purple-haired woman took the blow and rescued the child.
• Duan Hua ordered the tanks to fire, but their shells left the attacker standing almost unharmed.

Liu Di returned to Sea City just in time to stop Qiu Beiming from reaching the Experimental Graveyard and harming Little Liu. After defeating Qiu Beiming with one punch, Liu Di identified a likely Apocalypse Association lead and departed, while a mysterious man appeared behind a tree near Little Liu.

• Qiu Beiming rampaged toward the Experimental Graveyard, and Duan Hua, Cao Chenghe, and their forces prepared to defend it.
• Liu Di arrived in the Silver Shuttle and killed Qiu Beiming with a single punch before he could reach the defenders.
• Liu Di apologized to Duan Hua and the injured Dragon Might members, then learned from Magic Child that Qiu Beiming had likely come from an Apocalypse Association base in the Takla Makan Desert.
• Liu Di left to pursue urgent matters, and Duan Hua tried to explain his return to Little Liu.
• Little Liu dismissed Duan Hua's story as drunken nonsense, then saw a man in a black tracksuit behind a tree, retching.

The Magician was punished by the Apocalypse Association Chairman for releasing Qiu Beiming, who had already been killed in Sea City. Liu Di searched the Takla Makan Desert for the Association’s base and encountered the Magician, who introduced himself openly.

• The Apocalypse Association Chairman ordered the Magician to punish himself for releasing Qiu Beiming, then showed him footage of Qiu Beiming’s death in Sea City.
• The Chairman told the Magician to leave the base and test whoever came looking for it.
• Liu Di flew the Silver Shuttle over the Takla Makan Desert and jumped down after spotting a bizarre sand-built stage and structures.
• Magic Child identified the mustached man as a fugitive with a history of mental illness and possible special abilities.
• The Magician introduced himself to Liu Di as Hesslet Meruye, chairman of the Apocalypse Association’s Second Branch.

Liu Di faced the Magician, who used a cloth bag to produce weapons and seemingly teleporting objects from beneath the sand. Liu Di discovered that the Magician controlled sand to create his attacks, while Magic Child urged him to obtain the Magician’s DNA.

• The Magician pulled a handgun and then a machine gun from his cloth bag and fired at Liu Di, who dodged the bullets.
• The Magician sent hidden gloves and a dagger out of the sand to trap and attack Liu Di, but Liu Di crushed them and escaped.
• At Magic Child’s suggestion, Liu Di provoked the Magician, who summoned a charging yak from beneath the sand.
• Liu Di knocked down the yak and cut apart more summoned yaks, revealing that their bodies contained only sand and animal hides.
• Magic Child concluded that the Magician controlled sand and asked Liu Di to collect his DNA so they could study the ability.

Liu Di learned that Magician controlled sand, then used DNA analysis and his own abilities to outmatch him. Magician died when Liu Di turned sand into glass crystals and struck him with them.

• Magic Child told Liu Di that Magician could control sand, and Magician attacked him with a grenade hidden in a glove.
• Liu Di wrapped the grenade in liquid metal and sent Magician's bloodstained glove with Little Tree to the Silver Shuttle for DNA analysis.
• Magician summoned more than a hundred sand spikes and launched them at Liu Di, who remained unharmed inside liquid metal armor.
• Liu Di lifted sand and formed towering cones, then heated them until they became glass crystals.
• Magician's sand spikes shattered against Liu Di's crystals, which tore Magician apart.

After Liu Di tracked Magician across the desert, the Apocalypse Association killed Magician remotely to keep its base hidden. Unable to locate the base with Magician’s limited ability, Liu Di headed to Fukushima to increase his strength and vowed to find the association.

• Liu Di followed Magician toward the Apocalypse Association’s base after letting him escape their fight.
• The association’s president triggered a corrosive attack that killed Magician before Liu Di could question him.
• Liu Di found Magician’s body and realized the association had erased him to protect its base.
• Liu Di used Magician’s ability to search beneath the dunes, but its reach was limited to five kilometers.
• Liu Di departed in the Silver Shuttle for the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant to improve his strength.

Liu Di took Little Tree underwater to feed on mutated Killer Crabs, then confronted a giant mutated Electric Catfish. After losing their electrical contest, Liu Di struck the fish with a punch and sent it flying.

• Liu Di discovered radioactive material beneath Fukushima but postponed his plan because workers were still active near the plant.
• Liu Di brought Little Tree and its cubs underwater to hunt for food and attracted a swarm of mutated Killer Crabs.
• Little Tree devoured hundreds of crabs while Liu Di heated the water with Fluid Metal to cook them.
• A colossal mutated Electric Catfish attacked, and Little Tree swam away after Liu Di told it to return to the surface.
• Liu Di fought the Electric Catfish with his Arc DNA, lost their electrical contest, then knocked the fish back with a punch.

Liu Di took control of two mutated sea creatures and entered the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant to absorb radiation from its contaminated wastewater. After five days, his DNA reached 99.9% of the second Gene Lock stage and began transforming toward a new level, leaving him eager to test his stronger abilities in the Takla Makan Desert.

• Liu Di discovered an EGG control device on the mutated Electric Catfish, disabled its neurotoxin system, and ordered it to protect Ghost Island.
• Liu Di intimidated the Overlord Squid, which followed the Electric Catfish away from him.
• Liu Di used Magic Child’s hacked monitoring system to enter Fukushima’s pressure-relief chamber and absorb radiation while oscillators accelerated the reactors’ decay.
• After five days, Liu Di’s DNA reached 99.9% of the second Gene Lock stage and began developing the superhelical structure of third-level DNA.
• Liu Di decided to test his new abilities in the Takla Makan Desert.

Liu Di watched Harada Yoshi announce that the Island Nation would dump its nuclear wastewater into the Pacific, while reporters condemned the decision. After bodyguards dragged away an angry Chinese reporter, Liu Di punctured a storage tank and sprayed Harada Yoshi with wastewater.

• Harada Yoshi announced that the Island Nation would discharge 1.23 million tons of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.
• Reporters protested the plan, and a Chinese reporter accused Harada Yoshi of endangering other nations before bodyguards dragged him away.
• The Chinese reporter lit a cigarette near the pressure-relief chamber, despite a bodyguard warning that the wastewater was flammable.
• Liu Di decided the Island Nation needed a lesson and sent a piece of liquid metal through a storage tank.
• Nuclear wastewater burst from the tank and drenched Harada Yoshi.

Liu Di made nuclear wastewater flood the Island Nation’s water system, then escaped the pressure-relief chamber and departed aboard the Silver Shuttle. Reporter Jiang Wei was left with footage of the saucer but no record of Liu Di’s face or identity.

• Liu Di hacked the Island Nation’s industrial water system, forcing 1.23 million tons of nuclear wastewater into pipelines and sending it through cities as officials and residents failed to respond to the warnings.
• Harada Yoshi called his son Kotaro to urge him indoors, but Kotaro refused to leave his proposal in the fountains and Harada Yoshi fainted.
• Reporter Jiang Wei prepared to throw a cigarette butt near the leaking chamber, but Liu Di cut through its lead wall and emerged.
• Liu Di threw two Black-Clad bodyguards into the chamber, then asked Jiang Wei to film him as he left aboard the Silver Shuttle.
• Jiang Wei checked his recording and found the saucer and Liu Di’s white-clad figure, but the footage of Liu Di speaking and showing his face had disappeared.