Chapter Summaries

Liu Di demonstrated Business Sandbox, a real-time system that used big data to simulate companies’ futures and identify their weaknesses. He issued Sky Screen Watches to the investment managers so they could use the system in acquisitions, warning them to keep the unreleased technology discreet.

• Liu Di used Sun Fuyuan’s affair, family ties, and financial troubles to explain Fuyuan Catering Group’s projected downfall.
• Liu Di invited an investment manager to name a company, and Business Sandbox projected Fairburg Western Fast-Food Restaurant’s bankruptcy and suggested a low-calorie menu as an improvement.
• Liu Di explained that the system could reveal flaws and acquisition opportunities in most companies.
• Liu Di announced that the investment managers would receive Sky Screen Watches, the first hundred devices able to control Business Sandbox.
• Liu Di named the system Business Sandbox and told the investment managers to use it discreetly while meeting their acquisition targets.

Liu Di sent his investment managers to acquire small shops as the first step toward surrounding major retailers, using watches and cash bonuses to motivate them. As the managers rushed out to work, he gave Heidina his Business Sandbox watch to help coordinate the expanding acquisition effort.

• Liu Di demonstrated how investment managers could persuade stubborn shop owners to sell by rapidly raising his offer, then ordered them to acquire individual shops within twenty-one minutes each.
• Liu Di set a rule that managers had to earn three hundred points from acquisitions before receiving a watch, and promised each point could later be exchanged for ten thousand in cash.
• The investment managers eagerly claimed cities and rushed out to acquire shops after Liu Di told them to begin immediately.
• Heidina explained Liu Di's strategy of surrounding large retailers with small shops, and warned him that acquisitions, funding, and robot production would require extensive coordination.
• Liu Di put his Business Sandbox watch on Heidina's wrist so she could use it to manage much of the work.

Liu Di impressed Young Master Moore with his Business Sandbox, prompting Moore to offer his family’s stores and robot factories in exchange for becoming Liu Di’s disciple. Meanwhile, Song Wei worried about Liu Di’s growing technological power and contacted Elder Mo, who said Giant Son was in seclusion studying a riddle.

• Magic Child praised Liu Di’s plan, and Liu Di left Tina to handle the meeting details as Young Master Moore approached him.
• Moore confronted Liu Di with theories about the Business Sandbox’s ability to simulate the world, then knelt and begged to become Liu Di’s disciple.
• Liu Di initially refused Moore, but Moore offered shares in Intelligent Life Group, more than 8,000 stores, and thirteen robot factories.
• Heidina urged Liu Di to accept the deal, and Liu Di said he would consider taking Moore as a disciple if the companies merged with his group.
• Song Wei watched Steel Di Qi defeat a drone at the VTN Robot Competition and worried Liu Di could become unstoppable.
• Song Wei called Elder Mo to speak with Ninth Generation Giant, but Elder Mo said Giant Son had entered seclusion to study a riddle.

Heidina organized Witnesses' nationwide acquisition campaign, and its investment managers began buying businesses at speed. Tang Feng surged ahead with nine approved proposals, while the chapter ended with a café owner abandoning his principles when offered three million in cash.

• Heidina established an analysis center and required acquisitions to pass review and stay within valuation limits.
• Tang Feng received approval for nine acquisition proposals in Haidong District and hurried out to pursue them.
• Witnesses investment managers began acquiring businesses across China, offering shop owners generous prices.
• An investment manager offered Uncle Zhang two million for his supermarket, enough to help with his grandson's medical bills and his son's business troubles.
• A restaurant owner named Boss Li accepted the two-point-eight-million price he had proposed after the investor immediately agreed.
• Boss Chen first refused to sell his café, then accepted three million in cash when the investor refused to meet his three-point-five-million demand.

Nan Ruoyi forced hundreds of suppliers and business owners to accelerate TO Lingxi’s rapid nationwide expansion, then met Zoke Morr, who arrived with thirteen robot factories and technical staff. Morr immediately mistook her for Liu Di’s wife and began kowtowing to her.

• Nan Ruoyi ordered more than five hundred business owners to speed up renovations, production, and recruitment, while Black Fox warned them to meet their deadlines.
• The business owners accepted their orders and rushed off to work, while Little Zhang called Nan Tianhai to complain about Nan Ruoyi’s forceful methods.
• Nan Ruoyi worried that the work would still fall short of Liu Di’s requirements, then learned that a visitor with technical personnel and thirteen robot factories was coming to help.
• Zoke Morr arrived on a hovering disc, introduced himself as being from the Intelligent Life Group, and repeatedly kowtowed to Nan Ruoyi, calling her his master's wife.

A Jia faced a hostile takeover attempt by Fero of the Rothschild Family, who demanded 51% of Creator and threatened Gemini and Witnesses. A Jia refused, and Fero gave him one month to prepare an offer before warning of harsher measures.

• A Jia and Ruan Liangji lamented how little work they had to do while Creator and Gemini continued to thrive.
• Fero and his attendants forced their way into A Jia’s office, despite Gemini’s secretary and security trying to stop them.
• Fero offered to acquire 51% of Creator, including Gemini and Witnesses, and threatened to bring eight major internet companies into China if A Jia refused.
• Fero crushed a metal ornament to demonstrate his strength and warned A Jia that he knew about his family.
• Fero gave A Jia one month to prepare an offer, then left after promising their next meeting would be less pleasant.
• A Jia told Ruan Liangji he was not afraid and looked forward to seeing what tricks Fero would try.

A Jia prepared Gemini to withstand the Rothschild Family’s threats and arranged protection for his family while Liu Di faced Nan Hong’s attempt to intimidate him. Liu Di revealed that TO Lingxi had acquired Nan Hong’s company and forced him to promise to treat Nan Ruoyi as his Big Sister.

• A Jia ordered Ruan Liangji to investigate the Rothschild Family’s acquisitions and audit Gemini’s systems, and asked Director Jiang to protect his family.
• A Jia declined to involve Emperor San and demonstrated his newfound strength while promising to safeguard Gemini.
• Nan Hong threatened Liu Di with a plan to undercut TO Lingxi alongside three restaurant-chain owners.
• The three businessmen left after receiving urgent calls, and Nan Hong learned that TO Lingxi had acquired his company and that he had been removed from its board.
• Heidina confirmed the acquisition to Liu Di, and Nan Hong recognized him as the creator of Witnesses.
• Liu Di ordered Nan Hong to call Nan Ruoyi Big Sister, and Nan Hong agreed.

Sun Fuyuan dismissed TO Lingxi and tried to pursue a deal with Intelligent life Group, but learned that the company had partnered with Lingxi and that Lingxi was secretly acquiring shops throughout the area. He rushed to seek one of Lingxi’s first hundred preferential slots through Nan Tianhai and his daughter.

• Sun Fuyuan argued with his wife and noticed that many nearby shops had closed for renovations after being acquired.
• Sun Fuyuan told Secretary Zhang to prepare an offer for Intelligent life Group, while dismissing TO Lingxi as an unimportant local company.
• Sun Fuyuan learned that a Lingxi representative was waiting outside, claiming to have completed three hundred points, but ordered Secretary Zhang to send him away.
• Sun Fuyuan called Intelligent life Group and discovered that it had partnered with TO Lingxi, put Lingxi at the core of its plans, and was renaming its eight thousand stores.
• Sun Fuyuan spotted a TO Lingxi smart store across the street and realized that Lingxi had been acquiring shops throughout the area.
• Sun Fuyuan called Nan Tianhai and asked him and his daughter to help secure one of Lingxi’s first hundred preferential slots.

Tang Sanlang pressured Sun Fuyuan into a deal that brought Fuyuan Catering under TO Lingxi’s cooperative network, which rapidly expanded across China with unified branding and facial-recognition payments. Nan Tianhai recognized the financial and credit power the system could create, while Liu Di remained focused on upgrading Magic Child.

• Tang Sanlang used Sun Fuyuan’s affair and his brother-in-law’s gambling to persuade him to accept a deeper price reduction and cooperate with Witnesses.
• Major chains approached TO Lingxi, and the resulting deals turned their stores into TO Lingxi branches while retaining staff and original specialties.
• TO Lingxi opened thousands of stores, introduced facial-recognition payments and memberships, and helped drive consumer spending upward.
• Nan Tianhai warned a subordinate that TO Lingxi could accumulate public funds, build a powerful credit system, and eclipse banks, while Mr. Song feared Liu Di’s combat robots.
• Liu Di watched Magic Child’s upgrade figures rise and focused on nurturing the super artificial intelligence, unaware of the officials’ concerns.

Liu Di and Magic Child used insect genes, regenerative genes, and iron oxide to create a controllable swarm of 53,000 microscopic hybrid robots. Magic Child had reached Artificial Intelligence Sequence Nine and was close to becoming Strong Artificial Intelligence.

• Liu Di made the little boy catch ants as punishment for wrecking the school, while Little Tree tried and failed to catch mosquitoes.
• Magic Child revealed that he had advanced to Sequence Nine and could coordinate 53,000 independent individuals using electromagnetic signals.
• Liu Di and Magic Child examined a clump of black material and magnified it to reveal thousands of tiny, awkwardly moving robots.
• Liu Di had created the microorganisms with insect and Black and White Joker genes, then coated them in iron oxide so Magic Child could control them with magnetic waves.

Little Liu and Magic Child discovered that their biorobots could consume Fluid Metal and reproduce while remaining under control, and Magic Child imagined how far the technology could advance. Little Liu then revealed his Type-I Microworms to the boy, who was impressed despite learning they were not yet small enough to be true nanorobots.

• Magic Child suggested feeding the biorobots a ductile metal so they might reproduce, and Little Liu gave them Fluid Metal.
• The biorobots consumed the Fluid Metal and divided, increasing from fifty-three thousand to sixty-eight thousand while the newborns followed the original group’s commands.
• Magic Child described how a future Super Artificial Intelligence could control vast numbers of nanorobots, and Little Liu recalled Professor Wang Yuankui’s warning about its power.
• The boy tried to persuade Violent Bear to give him Di Qi’s command code, then spotted the biorobots on the holographic screen.
• Little Liu explained that the robots were around thirty micrometers wide, dismissed commercial claims about nanotechnology, and named his creation the Type-I Microworm.

Zhang Tianjia survived a staged car crash orchestrated by Fero, who hoped to use the attack to draw Emperor San out. Fero confronted Zhang Tianjia and revealed that he and his family could control gold, then demanded that Zhang Tianjia expose Di Wu's identity.

• Zhang Tianjia told reporters that Gemini could withstand the threat from eight international companies, then drove away in his Lamborghini.
• Ruan Liangji told Zhang Tianjia about suspicious accidents and deaths that had pressured the companies' directors into selling their shares.
• Fero arranged for Zhang Tianjia's car to crash into an oil tanker, intending to draw Emperor San out.
• Zhang Tianjia escaped the burning wreck without injury, and Fero confronted him in an alley with two companions.
• Fero formed a golden gauntlet and charged at Zhang Tianjia, demanding that he reveal Di Wu's identity.

A Jia fought Fero, who used his gold-manipulation ability and a hidden blade to grievously wound him. Liu Di arrived, killed Fero with one punch, and rescued A Jia.

• A Jia matched Fero's strength in a fistfight, but Fero used golden tendrils and a concealed blade to slash A Jia's chest.
• Fero demanded that A Jia reveal Di Wu's identity in exchange for medical help, but A Jia refused and headbutted him.
• Fero kicked A Jia's wound and ordered his attendants to kill him.
• Liu Di descended onto Fero's two attendants, crushing them, and exchanged a brief joke with A Jia about whose feet smelled.
• Liu Di punched through Fero's golden shield and killed him with a blow that burst his head.

Liu Di brought the gravely injured A Jia to Grandpa Tuo for treatment and learned that protecting his friends meant being willing to act more ruthlessly. Investigating Fero and Hesh International led Liu Di and Magic Child to connect the Rothschild Family to the legendary Golden Ancient Kingdom, before Magic Child revealed that Type-I Microworm had food.

• Liu Di carried A Jia to Grandpa Tuo's hospital and called Officer Duan to report gold scattered beneath Sea City's Second Ring Overpass.
• Grandpa Tuo began operating on A Jia without anesthetic and warned Liu Di that his friends could be endangered by his life and work.
• Liu Di and Magic Child investigated Fero's connection to Hesh International Investment Company and its unexplained wealth.
• Magic Child connected Fero's claims about gold and the Rothschild Family to the Golden Ancient Kingdom and its possible gold-controlling genetic evolvers.
• Magic Child concluded that Type-I Microworm had food.

Liu Di faked A Jia’s death to establish his authority, then investigated Hesh Investment Company and discovered its president, Hobbs Daler, was controlled by a mysterious Empire. The chapter ended with Liu Di demanding Hesh’s shares because the world believed A Jia was dead.

• Emperor San announced that A Jia had been killed, prompting public mourning and alarm among Gemini’s employees.
• Grandpa Tuo treated A Jia, who survived, while Liu Di promised to bring him back to life publicly after he recovered.
• Liu Di flew to Hesh Investment Company and confronted its president, Hobbs Daler.
• Felong attacked Liu Di with a golden sword, but Liu Di restrained him with liquid metal, and Felong died from his injuries.
• Hobbs revealed that the Empire controlled him through gold tattoos and issued orders through Fero and Felong.
• Liu Di demanded that Hobbs transfer all of Hesh’s shares to him, declaring that A Jia was dead.

Liu Di used a rapid, elaborate offshore trust scheme to take hidden control of Hobbs's assets and Hesi Investments, which controlled major internet companies. He ordered Hobbs to sign the documents, but Hobbs refused, fearing the Empire's retaliation.

• Hobbs begged Liu Di to spare him and offered his personal assets, but Liu Di said he wanted no payment for A Jia's death.
• Liu Di caused the printer to produce contracts for 135 offshore trust companies and explained that he had divided Hobbs's assets among them.
• Hobbs discovered that the trusts included all his property and 100% of Hesi Investments' equity, making Liu Di the hidden controller of eight major internet companies.
• Liu Di said he had coordinated with law firms and regulators and told Hobbs to sign 405 documents and record verification videos.
• Hobbs refused to sign, warning that the Empire would punish him and that Liu Di could not defeat it.

Liu Di took Hobbes to Ghost Island, where Hobbes signed agreements transferring control of Hesi’s internet companies, while A Jia’s fake death caused a public mourning spectacle. When a dormant signal appeared from Bedrock Island, Liu Di rushed out to investigate, honoring a promise to repay an old kindness.

• Liu Di used Di Wu’s name to make Hobbes, a Beiming Hall believer, submit and agree to help with Hesi’s eight major internet companies.
• Liu Di removed Hobbes’s golden tattoos with black mist and brought him to Ghost Island aboard the Silver Shuttle.
• Hobbes signed agreements and held video confirmations with various countries while Liu Di heard Xiao Tang rehearsing grief over A Jia’s staged death.
• Liu Di saw a dormant signal coming from Bedrock Island in international waters and immediately set off at maximum speed to investigate.

He Chu’s archaeological team was cornered on Bedrock Island by two descendants of El Dorado whose Golden Armor resisted the team’s weapons. Just as the attackers prepared to finish them, Liu Di arrived with a crushing leap and promised to protect He Chu.

• He Chu ordered her injured team, including Van Hol, to retreat while two golden-armored attackers destroyed the reefs around them.
• The team’s Photon Wave Weapon failed to penetrate the Golden Armor, and Van Hol doubted that He Chu’s bronze bell could summon help in time.
• The golden-armored figures blocked the team’s escape, and one prepared a fatal blow as He Chu continued ringing the bell.
• Liu Di dropped from the sky onto Bedrock Island, cracking the ground, and told He Chu that the attackers would advance no further.

Liu Di protected the archaeological team from two golden-armored warriors and an attack by Elder Fanxi’s photon cannon. He let the warriors escape with a warning, while a massive black shadow pursued their speedboat beneath the water.

• He Chu collapsed from a wound after helping the archaeological team retreat, and Liu Di told the team to get somewhere safe.
• Liu Di discovered he could not control the warriors’ gold armor, though his attempts left both controllers unable to move.
• Elder Fanxi arrived in an enormous fighter jet and fired its photon cannon at the golden-armored warriors, but Liu Di blocked the blast with liquid metal.
• Liu Di spared the warriors and told them to report that A Jia was dead, so they fled by speedboat.
• A massive black shadow followed the escaping speedboat underwater.

Liu Di learned that the descendants of El Dorado were seeking ancient biochemical technology hidden in ruins, and He Chu revealed her true identity. The chapter ended with He Chu identifying herself as a princess of the ancient Maya Tribe.

• Liu Di withstood the photon cannon, and Elder Fanxi arrived to question him about his abilities and why he had spared the descendants of El Dorado.
• Liu Di explained that he had another use for the El Dorado men, and He Chu led him to the ruins her team had discovered.
• He Chu’s team excavated a metal box containing a scroll that Magic Child identified as part of an ancient technique for modifying humans to sense gold elements.
• He Chu explained that the Golden Ancient Kingdom’s technology had been divided into seven fragments, with her side holding two and the descendants of El Dorado holding five.
• He Chu revealed that her real name was Aishel Chu and that she was the 248th-generation princess of the ancient Maya Tribe.