Chapter Summaries

Liu Di was held hostage by Gote Galo, who demanded the Golden Eye of the Pharaoh and threatened to detonate four tons of TNT beneath Yatai Jewelry Building. As police, Dragon Might, and the Punisher gathered at the scene, Duan Hua admitted that the robber’s true motives were unclear.

• Liu Di identified the robber’s codename as Gote Galo from his hand tattoo, startling the robber.
• Gote Galo demanded the Golden Eye of the Pharaoh and revealed that four tons of TNT had been planted beneath the jewelry building.
• A demolition expert warned the commander that the explosives could ignite a major natural gas pipeline and endanger all of Sea City.
• Police called in Dragon Might, the Punisher, and senior official Duan Hua as they prepared for a terrorist attack.
• Duan Hua saw Liu Di held at gunpoint and told the commander that the situation was not obvious because nobody knew what the robber really wanted.

Liu Di stopped the robbers at the Yatai Jewelry Building and contained their bombs, then questioned Duan Hua about strange differences in his life. After Mo Yu told him he had found a man who traveled across the timeline, Liu Di’s suspicions turned toward a new mystery.

• Liu Di sent the robber holding a hostage flying through a high-rise building after the man threatened to kill civilians.
• Liu Di entered the Yatai Jewelry Building, killed the remaining robbers, and sealed the explosives with Fluid Metal until they detonated harmlessly underground.
• Liu Di asked Duan Hua why he was drinking coffee and whether he had a daughter; Duan Hua explained that his daughter Duan Xiao Jie had brought him the coffee.
• Jian Xu, Tu Yuan, and the other Punishers stopped reporters from pursuing Liu Di as he left the scene.
• Mo Yu called Liu Di and said he had found a man who traveled across the timeline, making Liu Di’s right eye stop reddening.

Liu Di tracked Mo Yu to a restricted crash site outside Kyoto, where he bypassed a hypnotist and uncovered a seemingly intact aircraft from decades earlier. The plane’s impossible arrival suggested a time-traveling incident, but its origin and the force that protected it remained unexplained.

• Mo Yu teased Liu Di about a secret location, but Liu Di traced him through surveillance footage and headed for Kyoto.
• Liu Di arrived at a kilometer-long crash site and landed inside its restricted perimeter, alarming the crowd and Mo Yu.
• A hypnotist named Song Yu tried to control Liu Di, but he hypnotized her in return and ordered her to clear the way.
• Liu Di scanned the aircraft and identified it as a Tachikawa Type 99 Advanced Trainer, a rare plane from around 1945.
• Liu Di found the old aircraft intact at the end of a kilometer-long trench and questioned how it had appeared in modern China and survived the impact.

Liu Di examined the plane that had appeared in the park and found a 1948 Marriage Certificate naming its pilot, Qin Changhe. Convinced the plane had traveled through time, Liu Di exposed the crash site to the onlookers and set out to find the missing pilot.

• Liu Di reviewed surveillance footage showing the plane appear in the park after a distortion, and Magic Child suggested a black hole or wormhole could explain it.
• Liu Di questioned Mo Yu about investigating the plane, but Mo Yu admitted he had only set up a tent and was waiting for professional equipment.
• Liu Di entered the cockpit despite Mo Yu's protests and found a 1948 Marriage Certificate naming pilot Qin Changhe and his wife, Zhao Lan.
• Liu Di concluded the plane had come from the past and kept the certificate from Mo Yu.
• Liu Di severed the tent's metal supports, exposing the crash site, and announced that he was looking for the pilot.

Liu Di recognized the time-displaced pilot Qin Changhe and brought him to Kyoto, where he learned that he had been presumed dead for seventy-two years. Liu Di introduced him to Air Force pilot Qin Guang, who looked exactly like him, and said Qin Changhe was likely Qin Guang’s grandfather.

• Liu Di stopped the raincoat-clad Qin Changhe from fleeing and returned the red bundle he had been carrying.
• Qin Changhe revealed his identity as a pilot from the founding era and learned that he had arrived in 2021.
• Liu Di took Qin Changhe and Mo Yu to a Kyoto teahouse, where Qin Changhe marveled at modern technology and learned he had been declared dead in a plane crash.
• A robot identified Qin Changhe as a martyr, while Mo Yu objected to being called “Mo Yu Weakling.”
• Qin Guang arrived and stared in shock at Qin Changhe’s striking resemblance to him.
• Liu Di told Qin Guang that Qin Changhe was likely his grandfather, leaving both men stunned.

Liu Di explained how a time-traveling Qin Changhe might have reached the future, where Qin Changhe and Qin Guang discovered they were grandfather and grandson. The chapter ended with Qin Changhe learning his descendants had become engineers rather than pilots, while the others recognized that his disappearance had left Zhao Lan waiting for him in the past.

• Liu Di proposed that Qin Changhe had traveled through a wormhole and used time dilation to explain how he might have crossed timelines.
• Qin Changhe accidentally sprayed coffee over Qin Guang's uniform, then described being struck by lightning after flying through a thundercloud and colorful cloud.
• Qin Changhe identified his pregnant wife as Zhao Lan and said he had named their unborn son Qin Lantian.
• Qin Guang revealed that Zhao Lan was his grandmother and that his father was Qin Panggui, confirming that Qin Changhe was his grandfather.
• Qin Changhe challenged Qin Guang for becoming an aviation engineer instead of a pilot, and Qin Guang prepared to fight him.
• Liu Di and Mo Yu realized Qin Changhe's sudden disappearance had left Zhao Lan waiting for her missing husband in the past.

After Liu Di promised to help Qin Changhe return to his own world, he asked Qin Guang to host him while the plane was studied. As Qin Guang showed Qin Changhe around Kyoto, Qin Changhe attacked a Japanese visitor and challenged Qin Guang to remember the wartime sacrifices behind modern life.

• Qin Changhe asked when his plane would be repaired, and Liu Di told him to cooperate with research while they worked on it.
• Liu Di asked Qin Guang to show Qin Changhe around, then ordered Mo Yu to send the plane and soil samples to his Experimental Graveyard.
• Qin Guang and Qin Changhe walked through Kyoto, where Qin Changhe asked about Qin Guang's father and learned that he had died two years earlier.
• Qin Changhe tried to kick a Japanese visitor who asked for directions, but Qin Guang restrained him and sent the visitor away.
• Qin Changhe argued that modern people had no right to forgive Japan on behalf of wartime victims, showed his bayonet scars, and left Qin Guang stunned by his sacrifice.

Qin Guang and Qin Changhe bonded over their shared patriotism before Qin Changhe beat an Island Nation client who was harassing a woman. Liu Di then admitted Qin Changhe could not return to his own time, and Qin Guang revealed that his ninety-three-year-old grandmother Xiao Lan had spent seventy years wanting to see him.

• Qin Guang saluted Qin Changhe and promised to defend the country, and Qin Changhe forgave him.
• Qin Guang took Qin Changhe to the Jinghai Grand Hotel, where they saw an Island Nation client abusing a woman over a business order.
• Qin Guang kept watch while Qin Changhe beat the client in an alley.
• Liu Di told Mo Yu he had given Qin Changhe false hope about returning because he did not want Qin Changhe to face his loneliness without first bonding with Qin Guang.
• Qin Changhe returned and asked Liu Di whether he could go home; Liu Di confirmed he could not.
• Qin Guang told Qin Changhe that Xiao Lan was ninety-three and had spent seventy years wanting to see him, while Qin Changhe insisted he did not want to meet an old Xiao Lan.

Qin Changhe reunited with his wife, Zhao Lan, after awakening decades after he last saw her, and helped her put on the embroidered shoes she had made. Zhao Lan briefly woke and mistook him for their grandson, leaving Qin Changhe to try to make her recognize him through their shared memories.

• Qin Changhe hesitated outside Zhao Lan's hospital room until Liu Di urged him to go in.
• Qin Changhe recognized the Bellflower embroidery on Zhao Lan's shoes and explained that she had once used the flowers as a signal for his unit to find her.
• Qin Changhe reached Zhao Lan's bedside, recognized his aged wife, and took her hand as she woke after seven days unconscious.
• Zhao Lan mistook Qin Changhe for Qin Guang and insisted that her husband had gone on a mission and would not return.
• Qin Changhe picked up Zhao Lan's embroidered shoes and recalled how he used to help her put them on and massage her bound feet.

Zhao Lan died after reuniting with Qin Changhe, who grieved for her and laid her to rest beneath a red bean tree. He chose to stay near her grave as its keeper while agreeing to cooperate with research that might send him back to the past.

• Zhao Lan briefly regained her clarity and spoke with Qin Changhe before her heart stopped, and Qin Guang and Liu Di arrived as she died.
• Qin Changhe mourned Zhao Lan, recalled their shared memories, and said he wanted to be buried beside her.
• At Zhao Lan's funeral, Qin Changhe refused to accept the crowded cemetery until Qin Guang explained that Zhao Lan had chosen a grave beneath a red bean tree.
• Qin Changhe agreed to cooperate with Liu Di's research but said he wanted to remain with Zhao Lan, and he took a cemetery job posting to become her gravekeeper.
• Qin Changhe asked about modern aircraft and told Liu Di that love could cross time and space.

Liu Di wrote “Space-Time Love” as Gemini’s theme song, drawing inspiration from Qin Changhe’s devotion across time. The song became a worldwide hit, while Liu Di finished analyzing the time-travelers’ samples and found no unusual data before falling asleep.

• Liu Di told Mo Yu that he had bought the cemetery, giving Qin Changhe an identity in the real world.
• A Jia sent Liu Di candidate songs for Gemini’s international promotion, but Liu Di wrote “Empty Love” and then renamed it “Space-Time Love.”
• Three days later, Dasha released the song, which quickly topped charts and drew attention to Gemini’s stranger-matching feature.
• Liu Di realized Dasha’s own experiences of crossing through time and space helped her sing the song with deep resonance.
• Liu Di finished analyzing Qin Changhe’s and Jiu Jiu Gao Lian’s samples, found their data normal apart from their being from another era, and fell asleep.

Heidina was abducted from the Witnesses Building by armed men seeking the Golden Eye of the Pharaoh. At the Pyramid of Khufu, Mubarak’s men killed the site administrators and prepared to bring a mysterious crate into the pyramid on the anniversary of Tutankhamun’s rise to power.

• Heidina watched a video of Dasha when masked men broke into her office and shot her with a tranquilizer dart.
• The armed men abducted Heidina and escaped before Witnesses’ security personnel arrived.
• The chapter described the Pyramid of Khufu’s precise measurements, mysterious tunnel, and connection to Tutankhamun.
• After Tutankhamun’s Golden Sarcophagus and mummy were stolen, Mubarak arranged exclusive access to the pyramid for three days.
• Mubarak’s men unloaded a large wooden crate and prepared to carry it into the pyramid’s tunnel.
• Mubarak killed the pyramid administrator, and his gunmen killed the other administrators nearby.

Mubarak prepared Tutankhamun’s Golden Sarcophagus and the incomplete Hansemu staff for a ceremony, while Heidina was held captive and tortured for the missing Golden Eye of the Pharaoh. After seeing Heidina’s abduction in a vision, Liu Di ignored the agents sent to assist him and departed in a mysterious silver craft.

• Mubarak received the stolen Golden Sarcophagus and arranged it in a corridor for sunlight to illuminate it.
• A scar-faced man delivered the Hansemu staff to Mubarak but admitted he had not found the Golden Eye of the Pharaoh.
• The scar-faced man brought the injured Heidina to Mubarak, who demanded that she reveal where the diamond was before the sunlight arrived.
• Liu Di woke after seeing criminals abduct Heidina and found Song Yu, Guanyin, and Liu Yi waiting to help him.
• Liu Di rejected their offer of assistance and left in a massive silver object that descended from the sky.

Mubarak and his followers performed the sunlight ritual at the Pyramid of Khufu, awakening Pharaoh Tutankhamun from his thousand-year sleep. Tutankhamun emerged too weak to stand, leaving the worshippers unsure what to do next.

• Mubarak gave the scar-faced brute two minutes to find the diamond before the sunlight ritual began.
• Sunlight entered the Pyramid of Khufu, and Mubarak welcomed the Pharaoh King as a streak of silver light flashed across the sky.
• Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus shook, and he slowly forced its lid open after nearly ten minutes.
• Tutankhamun rose from the sarcophagus, but a faint breeze shattered his leg joints and left him leaning against the wall.
• Mubarak and his followers hesitated, uncertain how to help Tutankhamun or fulfill the ancient prophecy.

Tutankhamun revived from his 2,600-year imprisonment and revealed the truth behind the Miro Scripture and mummification. He reclaimed his scepter and declared his intention to rebuild royal power, killing Scarface when he attacked him.

• Tutankhamun transferred the Nether Scarabs into a burly man, emerged from the pyramid, and regained his living form in the sunlight.
• Mubarak presented Tutankhamun with a crown and robe, then explained that Northern Egypt had fallen under the control of rulers he considered villains.
• Tutankhamun revealed that his brother had imprisoned him with Nether Scarabs 2,600 years earlier after he sought to kill 60,000 slaves, and that he had written the Miro Scripture himself.
• Tutankhamun took back his Hanse Scepter and demanded his missing Eye of the Pharaoh, while Mubarak promised to find it.
• Tutankhamun challenged Scarface to attack him, then vaporized Scarface’s bullet and killed him with a golden beam from the scepter.

The Pharaoh King discovered that the powder he scattered had awakened a colony of enormous Blind Serpents, while Liu Yi and his companions were caught in their attack. Guanyin rescued Song Yu from one of the beasts, but the group remained surrounded by the monsters.

• Mubarak failed to produce the kidnapped rich woman, and the Pharaoh King threatened him before learning he was a D-rank modified human.
• Liu Yi arrived with Song Yu and Guanyin, then attacked the Pharaoh King as Mubarak moved to fight him.
• The Pharaoh King opened an old canister, scattered its black powder, and mourned that his servants had died.
• More than a dozen enormous Blind Serpents burst from the sand, and the Pharaoh King celebrated their descendants.
• The Blind Serpents knocked Liu Yi and Mubarak away, while Song Yu identified the creatures and guessed the powder controlled them.
• A Blind Serpent attacked Guanyin and Song Yu, but Guanyin shifted them out of its reach.

Liu Yi and his companions were overwhelmed by Pharaoh King’s Blind Serpents until Liu Di arrived with Heidina and confronted the rebel leader. Liu Di revealed that he had destroyed the Northern Egypt rebel forces’ five branch bases and charged at Mubarak to avenge Heidina.

• Blind Serpents surrounded Liu Yi, Guanyin, and Song Yu, while Pharaoh King summoned hundreds more around the Pyramid of Khufu.
• Liu Yi broke through the serpents and attacked Pharaoh King, but Pharaoh King seized him by the throat and hurled him toward the snakes.
• The Blind Serpents froze as Liu Di arrived in the Silver Shuttle carrying an unconscious Heidina.
• Liu Di told Mubarak that he had destroyed the rebel forces’ five branch bases, then leaned Heidina against the shuttle.
• After Heidina woke and saw the giant serpents, Liu Di promised to get justice for her and charged at Mubarak.

Liu Di fought the Pharaoh King, who used Blind Serpents and light-based attacks to challenge him. After surviving repeated shots through rapid healing, Liu Di defeated the fleeing Pharaoh King, who died admitting the world was stronger than he had expected.

• Liu Di cut through hundreds of Blind Serpents and slapped Mubarak’s head apart.
• The Pharaoh King revealed that he was Northern Egypt’s ruler from 2,600 years ago and shot Liu Di through the chest with a beam of light.
• Liu Di healed with his Black and White Joker DNA and struck the Pharaoh King with enough force to send him crashing into the ground near the Pyramid of Khufu.
• The Pharaoh King crushed Liu Di’s hands and escaped into the sky on a winged Blind Serpent, but Liu Di leaped after him and knocked them both down.
• The Pharaoh King died with nearly every bone shattered, and Liu Di said that he had simply been unlucky.

After Liu Di rescued Heidina, Song Yu tried to bring him in for research, but he left and hinted that she should ask her father about his identity. Song Yu called her father, a national leader, to ask him to investigate Liu Di.

• Liu Yi warned Liu Di about the Punishers, while Song Yu and Guanyin approached him after the rescue.
• Liu Di matched their faces to an old photograph of the Monster Circus and suspected it was connected to the Supernatural Research Association.
• Song Yu demanded that Liu Di accompany them for research, but he thanked the group and flew away with Heidina.
• Liu Di told Song Yu to ask her father about his identity, leaving Liu Yi and Guanyin startled when they learned her father worked at South Sea Villa.
• Song Yu called her father, argued with him about her work, and asked him to investigate someone.

Song Yu tried to investigate Liu Di, but her father warned her that he could not be investigated and ordered her to leave her post. A mysterious barefoot man arrived at Pharaoh King's corpse, overpowered Liu Yi and Guanyin, searched Song Yu's memories for information about Liu Di, and vanished with the corpse.

• Song Yu asked her father to investigate Liu Di, but he refused, warned her not to antagonize him, and ordered her to transfer out within seven days.
• Song Yu spotted a white-clad man approaching Pharaoh King's corpse and mistook him for Liu Di before realizing he was someone else.
• The barefoot man ignored Liu Yi's warning and sent him flying with a punch, then knocked Guanyin away with a wave.
• The barefoot man seized Song Yu and instantly searched her memories for information about Liu Di, leaving her in pain and unable to move.
• The barefoot man dragged away Pharaoh King's corpse while discussing photon control, spacetime fluctuations, and a wormhole, then disappeared into the desert.
• Song Yu found Liu Yi and Guanyin unconscious and severely injured, then called her boss to report that two disaster-class supernatural humans had appeared.