Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao brought Zhou Xinyan home, where his family welcomed her warmly, and Jiang He learned he had scored 652 on the college entrance exam. The next morning, relatives gathered to help the family move into the villa and celebrate Jiang He's admission, while Mom Jiang proudly showed off Zhou Xinyan.

• Zhou Xinyan gave Jiang He a Huawei phone and later impressed Mom Jiang with stories of her education and career.
• Jiang Hao and Zhou Xinyan visited the new villa, and Jiang Yan returned home, received her gift, and quickly bonded with Zhou Xinyan.
• Mom Jiang urged Jiang Hao to marry Zhou Xinyan soon, while Jiang Hao arranged to move the family into the villa the next day.
• Jiang Hao checked Jiang He's college entrance exam score, which was 652 in the science track, and Zhou Xinyan revealed that she had scored 688.
• Jiang Hao's relatives gathered to help with the move and celebrate Jiang He's result, and Mom Jiang proudly introduced Zhou Xinyan as her accomplished future daughter-in-law.

After moving his family into their new villa and beginning to live with Zhou Xinyan, Jiang Hao received a mission to defeat at least three Predators. He studied the films, found ways to counter their abilities, and decided to prepare before visiting Tie Yuxiang and entering the mission world.

• Jiang Hao performed a ritual to protect the Jiang family’s new villa, and the family moved in and celebrated.
• Jiang Hao and Zhou Xinyan returned to Binhai, decided to live at her apartment, and began their life together.
• Two days later, Jiang Hao received a mission to defeat at least three Predators, with greater rewards for defeating more.
• Jiang Hao watched the Predator films and identified the Predators’ vulnerabilities, including ways to counter their infrared vision and invisibility.
• Jiang Hao decided to prepare for combat and visit Tie Yuxiang before entering the new world.

Jiang Hao traveled back to Tie Yuxiang, reunited with her, and set up a training ground to practice martial arts. After demonstrating his spearwork, he asked Zhu Houcong for Imperial Guards to spar with and continued teaching him about economics.

• Jiang Hao traveled to Tie Yuxiang and reunited with her in his study.
• Jiang Hao bought weapons and equipment to establish a training ground, then absorbed gold and silver into Golden Space to expand it slightly.
• Jiang Hao practiced the army's long-spear Fierce Killing Technique while Tie Yuxiang, Min'er, and Mu Xue watched.
• Zhu Houcong arrived, and Jiang Hao asked to borrow two Imperial Guards for sparring.
• Zhu Houcong asked Jiang Hao to continue teaching him, so Jiang Hao began explaining capital operations.

Jiang Hao trained in combat, studied medicine and acupuncture, and learned grass weaving as he prepared for a dangerous mission. He continued building his skills while enjoying time with Tie Yuxiang, Min'er, and Mu Xue.

• Jiang Hao sparred with Guard Yan using spears and sabers, then practiced archery.
• Jiang Hao asked Yuan Jing to teach him medicine and acupuncture, and Yuan Jing gave him medical books and warned him not to use spiritual power to kill through Death Acupoints.
• Jiang Hao memorized medical classics and learned about poisonous herbs and dangerous acupoints.
• Jiang Hao took Tie Yuxiang, Min'er, and Mu Xue on a boat outing and hired an old reed weaver to teach him Grass Weaving.
• The old man taught Jiang Hao grass-weaving techniques at the Tie Family residence, and Jiang Hao mastered them in three days before rewarding him with twenty taels of silver.

Jiang Hao accepted the mission to enter the “Predator” world and defeat at least three Predators after spending time preparing himself and enjoying life with Zhou Xinyan. He arrived aboard a helicopter as a newly inserted member of Dutch’s special forces team, just as the squad prepared to fight.

• Jiang Hao demonstrated a trick to Zhu Houcong and told him that people became gods through the reverence of others, not through immortality or magic.
• After returning home, Jiang Hao hesitated over the dangerous Predator mission, then spent time with Zhou Xinyan and heard that Jiang He had been admitted to Xiamen University.
• Jiang Hao accepted the mission and was transported into the Predator world aboard a helicopter with Dutch’s team.
• Jiang Hao recognized Ramirez, Blaine, Hawkins, Billy, Dillon, Mac, and Dutch, then learned the system had made him a Chinese American sniper and the squad’s seventh member.
• Dutch announced that the team had arrived and told everyone to prepare to go down and fight.

Jiang Hao and Dutch’s squad investigated a downed reconnaissance helicopter and found skinned soldiers, while Jiang Hao recognized signs that a nonhuman hunter might be responsible. The chapter ended with Jiang Hao telling Dutch that the massacre may not have been done by humans.

• Jiang Hao checked his weapons and gear before Dutch led the squad into the jungle.
• Jiang Hao warned Billy of a snake, and Billy cut it down with his machete.
• The squad found a wrecked reconnaissance helicopter; Ramirez reported that it had been hit by a heat-seeking missile and stripped of its equipment and radio.
• Billy tracked six men in U.S. Marine boots, then found three skinned corpses hanging from trees.
• After the squad buried the soldiers, Jiang Hao told Dutch that the massacre might not have been done by humans.

Jiang Hao warned Dutch’s team that an invisible alien Predator might be hunting them, hoping to keep the soldiers alive and enlist their help. When Jiang Hao and Billy sensed danger in the jungle, Dutch ordered the team to take the threat seriously, and Jiang Hao began explaining the Predators’ abilities and weaknesses.

• Jiang Hao told Dutch that a legendary alien race called the Predators hunted humans, and Billy confirmed that the Delta Force soldiers had been killed without visible weapons or tracks.
• Dillon dismissed Jiang Hao’s explanation, but Dutch chose to continue the mission while the team tracked the guerrillas through the jungle.
• Jiang Hao collected poisonous Devil’s Trap plants and stored them in his space before rejoining the team.
• Jiang Hao and Billy sensed a powerful danger in the rainforest and alerted Dutch’s team.
• Dutch defended Jiang Hao’s instincts, and Jiang Hao described the Predators’ strength, technology, invisibility, and vulnerability.

Jiang Hao warned Dutch's team about the Predator and fashioned a grass-and-leaf camouflage suit to hide his body heat. The team reached a guerrilla base and launched an attack, leaving the battle underway.

• Jiang Hao explained how his tribe had avoided and killed Predators, and Dutch decided the team would continue the mission while staying alert.
• Jiang Hao wove palm leaves into a hat, cape, and skirt to make a camouflage suit that could conceal his heat from the Predator.
• The Governor spotted a guerrilla base and assigned the team their positions for an attack.
• Jiang Hao took cover on a ridge while Mac and Bray killed the machine gunners at the bunker.
• The Governor planted a bomb in a car and sent it crashing into a building, then ordered the team to attack.

Jiang Hao and Dutch’s squad wiped out the base, discovered that Dillon had deceived them, and chose to stay and prepare for the Predator rather than risk the jungle. Jiang Hao organized their defenses, and Dutch vowed to fight the creature.

• Dutch’s squad killed everyone at the base, and Mac reported that the supposed hostages were dead CIA investigators rather than congressmen.
• Dutch confronted Dillon for using the squad, then learned that a helicopter would not pick them up until they crossed the border.
• Jiang Hao and Billy sensed the Predator nearby, and Jiang Hao persuaded Dutch to stay at the base and prepare instead of entering the jungle.
• Jiang Hao ordered the squad to lay mines and traps, set fires, and cover themselves in mud to counter the Predator.
• Dutch asked Jiang Hao whether he knew the creature from more than legend, then vowed to show the Predator who the real Predator was.

Jiang Hao and the guerrillas laid traps and waited for the Predator, but their first target was a wild boar. When Dillon tried to recapture the fleeing guerrilla woman, an unseen Predator killed him with a blue plasma blast, confirming the danger was real.

• Jiang Hao helped the guerrillas set explosives and hid in the jungle, where he coated his revolver bullets with poisonous plants.
• While waiting, Jiang Hao connected his many skills with his sniper memories and concluded that he was the world's best sniper.
• Jiang Hao sensed danger as the jungle fell silent, and Billy told the Governor that he felt the same threat.
• A huge wild boar charged into the trap field, where the special forces shot it and an explosive trap blew it apart.
• Dillon dismissed the threat and chased the escaping guerrilla woman, but an unseen blue plasma blast killed him.
• The Governor ordered the squad to fight after they witnessed the attack, and the soldiers accepted Jiang Hao's warning about the Predator.

Governor’s team tried to use fire and mud to hide from the Predator, but its advanced weapons and stealth let it kill them one by one. Jiang Hao realized the movie’s supposed defenses against the Predator were useless as Blaine was struck down.

• Governor ordered the team to fire at the unseen Predator, but their gunfire hit nothing and the woman escaped into the jungle.
• Governor ordered Hawkins to contact headquarters, but signal interference prevented the team from getting help.
• Governor told the team to cover themselves in mud and set the base buildings on fire, but the Predator killed Hawkins while he tried the radio.
• The Predator used three red targeting dots to make Mac’s head explode, then killed Ben with a thrown disc as Ben fired his grenade launcher wildly.
• Blaine swept the forest with the Vulcan Cannon, but the Predator pierced his chest with a spear while Jiang Hao realized their preparations had failed.

Jiang Hao and the Governor fought a Predator after it destroyed their traps, but the Governor died and Jiang Hao was mortally wounded. Jiang Hao killed the Predator with a revolver, then succumbed to his injuries.

• The Predator blasted apart Jiang Hao and the others’ traps, revealed itself, and killed the Governor by throwing the spear through him.
• Jiang Hao shot the Predator with a sniper rifle, but its armor stopped the round and its plasma cannon blast knocked him aside.
• Jiang Hao dropped a huge stone on the Predator and wounded it with shotgun blasts, but the Predator struck him and severely injured him.
• Jiang Hao seized the Predator’s spear and stabbed it in the abdomen, while the Predator impaled him with its Wrist Blades.
• The Predator lifted Jiang Hao and declared that it would make his skull a trophy, but Jiang Hao shot it six times in the unmasked head with a revolver.
• Jiang Hao fell beside the dead Predator and died from his wounds.

Jiang Hao returned alive after abandoning the Predator mission, losing his watch but retaining special forces knowledge. When Zhou Xinyan faced trouble interpreting for Colombian clients, Jiang Hao offered to help, and she called on him to save her.

• Jiang Hao woke after returning from the failed mission, learned that he had lost a previous reward and received a one-star review calling him an idiot.
• Jiang Hao discovered that his watch had been taken but realized he had retained valuable special forces sniper knowledge from the Predator world.
• Jiang Hao told Zhou Xinyan that he knew Spanish and offered to help with her work problem.
• Zhou Xinyan learned that her company could not get a technical Spanish interpreter until the next afternoon, delaying negotiations with a major client.
• Zhou Xinyan proposed that Jiang Hao interpret for the Colombian guests, then messaged him, “Hubby, save me!”

Jiang Hao stepped in to interpret for Xinlan Technology’s Colombian visitors after the company’s interpreter struggled with technical terms. His fluent Spanish impressed the guests and his colleagues, and the chapter ended as Manager Tao invited everyone to dinner.

• Zhou Xinyan asked Jiang Hao to come to Xinlan Technology because its Spanish interpreter could not handle an important meeting.
• Jiang Hao arrived, rapidly memorized the product materials, and took over from the struggling interpreter.
• Jiang Hao fluently explained the company’s technical products in Spanish, winning the Colombian visitors’ approval.
• President Zhang praised Jiang Hao’s Spanish, while Zhou Xinyan told him Jiang Hao had studied economics and had claimed to know several languages.
• Manager Tao and President Yu arrived, learned Jiang Hao had solved the interpretation problem, and Manager Tao invited the visitors to dinner.

Jiang Hao helped Xinlan Technology negotiate with Colombian clients, earning a 300,000-yuan bonus after the sides signed a preliminary letter of intent. After celebrating with Zhou Xinyan, he wondered what career to pursue and concluded that he was still an ordinary person in the real world.

• Jiang Hao agreed to help Manager Tao secure the Colombian industrial-control deal in exchange for a sales commission.
• Jiang Hao studied Xinlan Technology’s product materials overnight while Zhou Xinyan fell asleep beside him.
• Jiang Hao interpreted and negotiated for five days, helping Xinlan Technology and the Colombians sign a preliminary letter of intent worth 34 million yuan.
• Jiang Hao received a 300,000-yuan bonus, and he and Zhou Xinyan celebrated with a day at the seaside.
• Jiang Hao considered several possible careers, including translation and running a pet store, then decided he was still an ordinary person outside the movie worlds.

Jiang Hao accepted a mission to enter the world of The Thirteen Daughters of Jinling, kill Japanese soldiers, and earn lifespan by collecting Slaughter Value. After preparing through a month of historical study, he arrived in war-torn Nanjing and killed two soldiers, but found the woman they had assaulted had taken her own life; he armed himself and set out to kill more.

• The system offered Jiang Hao an open-ended mission in which each point of Slaughter Value could be exchanged for a day of life, and he accepted.
• Jiang Hao rewatched The Thirteen Daughters of Jinling and spent a month reading about the Nanjing Massacre and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
• Jiang Hao entered the film world in his own clothes and found himself amid the ruins of Nanjing, where a woman screamed for help.
• Jiang Hao killed two Japanese soldiers who had attacked the woman, but she stabbed herself with a bayonet and died.
• Jiang Hao took the soldiers' uniforms, weapons, and supplies, set fire to the house, and vowed to kill Japanese soldiers.

Jiang Hao disguised himself as a Japanese soldier and killed a squad carrying out a civilian massacre in Nanjing. After seeing the devastation around him, he headed toward distant gunfire and signs of resistance.

• Jiang Hao saw the massacre’s civilian victims and used his Kumamoto-accented Japanese to convince five soldiers he had become separated from his squad.
• When the squad leader ordered his men to kill any survivors, Jiang Hao ambushed and killed all five soldiers.
• Jiang Hao hid the bodies, took Sasaki Nishi’s uniform and equipment, and collapsed a ruined house over the corpses.
• Jiang Hao heard gunfire and artillery in the distance and moved toward the fighting, passing more bodies along the way.

Jiang Hao killed four Japanese soldiers who were attacking two girls, then gathered arsenic from a Chinese medicine shop and continued toward the gunfire. From a rooftop, he saw Japanese troops executing unarmed Nationalist soldiers and aimed his rifle at their captain.

• Jiang Hao rushed to the girls’ aid and killed the four Japanese soldiers with his bayonet.
• Jiang Hao urged the girls to flee toward a church or Jinling University, where they might find safety.
• Jiang Hao searched Taiping Hall Chinese Medicine Shop and stored ten packets of arsenic trioxide in his space.
• Jiang Hao climbed onto a rooftop and saw Japanese soldiers executing groups of unarmed Nationalist soldiers.
• Jiang Hao fixed his aim on the Japanese captain overseeing the executions.

Jiang Hao attacked Japanese troops from rooftops, killing soldiers with his rifle and grenades while evading their bombardment. After wiping out the remaining pursuers and collecting supplies, he fled as more soldiers approached.

• Jiang Hao shot the Japanese captain, a sergeant, and another soldier from a rooftop before Japanese troops fired grenade launchers at him.
• Jiang Hao escaped the bombardment by leaping across rooftops, then shot two grenade launcher soldiers as Japanese troops charged his position.
• Jiang Hao rigged ten Type 91 hand grenades into a booby trap that killed or wounded many of the pursuing Japanese soldiers.
• Jiang Hao threw more grenades at the survivors, then disguised himself in a Japanese uniform and killed three soldiers who had been pretending to be dead.
• Jiang Hao collected ammunition, grenades, and a Type 96 light machine gun before fleeing as more Japanese soldiers approached.

Jiang Hao tried to rescue captured Nationalist soldiers as Japanese troops prepared to execute them, but the prisoners were killed despite his attack. He laid more traps and fled as Japanese soldiers pursued him.

• Jiang Hao lured Japanese soldiers away with a gunshot and killed another with a rifle, while his earlier traps killed twelve more.
• The Japanese deputy company commander ordered the captured Nationalist soldiers executed, and they charged the Japanese as the troops opened fire.
• Jiang Hao attacked with a machine gun, killed Japanese soldiers and grenade discharger operators, and gave the Nationalist soldiers a chance to fight back.
• Japanese machine-gun and grenade fire forced Jiang Hao to retreat across rooftops, but the Nationalist soldiers were killed in the square.
• The Japanese commander ordered his remaining soldiers to pursue Jiang Hao, who laid more grenade traps and ran; explosions behind him raised his Slaughter Value.