Chapter Summaries

Huang Ji accompanied the Village Chief and Officer Wang Meng as they searched for Doctor Liang, who had vanished from her unlocked clinic. Using his unusual ability to perceive hidden traces, Huang Ji identified people connected to her disappearance and said that someone had witnessed what happened.

• The old man prayed for Huang Ji’s health and worried about his grandson’s illnesses and his own declining health.
• The Village Chief told the old man that Doctor Liang had been missing since morning, and Huang Ji admitted he had not visited her clinic as he had claimed.
• Huang Ji went with the Village Chief to search for Doctor Liang, and Officer Wang Meng joined them despite saying the police could not yet open a case.
• The searchers found no sign of Doctor Liang in the village and gathered at her clinic, where Wang Meng refused to break into her locked home.
• Huang Ji perceived a trail linking several people to Doctor Liang’s disappearance and identified Li Fan as a witness.
• Wang Meng tried to send Huang Ji home, but Huang Ji said someone had seen what happened.

Huang Ji’s claim that Li Fan had been near the clinic led the boy to admit that he witnessed Doctor Liang, whose name was Liang Yuan, being kidnapped. The case took a stranger turn when Liang Yuan’s parents fled toward Qilu Province and the kidnappers left a signed note demanding that they be exchanged for her.

• Huang Ji told Wang Meng that Li Fan had been near the old tree, prompting them to question the boy again.
• Li Fan admitted that four armed men had dragged Liang Yuan from the clinic and threatened him into silence.
• Wang Meng reported the kidnapping, while Liang Yuan’s parents packed their valuables and drove toward Qilu Province.
• Wang Meng and his colleague found a note under their police car’s windshield wiper demanding Liang Yuan’s parents in exchange for her.
• The note was signed Lü Zongmin, and Wang Meng reported the brazen ransom demand to the station chief.

After Doctor Liang was kidnapped, Huang Ji comforted his worried grandfather and reflected on how his unusual Information Sense had made him appear intellectually disabled. His intelligence had now returned to normal, but information from civilizations among the stars still overwhelmed his mind.

• Huang Ji told his grandfather that Doctor Liang had been kidnapped, then helped him wash and get into bed.
• Huang Ji looked at the moon and recognized that his mind had awakened after he fainted three days earlier.
• Huang Ji recalled that his Information Sense had flooded him with data since birth, confusing his thoughts and leading doctors to diagnose him with an intellectual disability.
• Huang Ji explained how learning, growing, and practicing control over his ability had gradually let him block more information and recover his intelligence.
• Huang Ji sensed that stars containing civilizations still sent him information he could not fully shield from, leaving his mind under pressure.

Huang Ji realized that the moon was an armed extraterrestrial observation station controlled by the Monitors, who had watched Earth for over twelve thousand years. He learned that they considered humanity delicious and cruel, and resolved to find a way to protect Earth despite being a powerless sixteen-year-old.

• Huang Ji examined the moon's information and inferred that it was an artificial war weapon containing powerful cannons and controlled nuclear weapons.
• He discovered that four Monitors were on the moon, which had monitored Earth for 12,831 years, 4 months, and 19 days.
• Huang Ji learned that the moon's Destroyer Mode had once been activated and had destroyed two intelligent races.
• He identified the aliens as the Monitor Race and found that their evaluation listed humanity's advantage as delicious and its disadvantage as cruel.
• Huang Ji recalled that Doctor Liang had dismissed his claims as signs of mental illness and decided to keep his ability and discoveries secret.
• Huang Ji resolved to act against the threat himself, believing that his information perception might let him change humanity's fate.

Huang Ji used his information perception to reconstruct Doctor Liang’s kidnapping and infer that the kidnappers remained near Huazhuang. After leaving the police a ransom note signed with a kidnapper’s true name, he went to care for Grandpa and prepared to search for Doctor Liang himself if the police failed.

• Huang Ji reasoned that he could learn about people through direct observation, traces they left behind, or exhaustive searches, though the last method was impractical.
• Huang Ji followed the tire tracks and footprints to learn the kidnappers’ names and discover that four people had left the van while the driver continued on as a decoy.
• Huang Ji concluded that the kidnappers were still within Huazhuang’s boundaries and that the police might be misled by surveillance footage of the decoy van.
• Huang Ji slipped the police a ransom note signed with Lü Zongmin’s true name to warn them that Doctor Liang’s kidnappers had not fled far.
• Huang Ji returned to care for Grandpa, then came back out after Grandpa fell asleep, ready to search for Doctor Liang if the police could not find her.

Huang Ji used his ability to identify the kidnappers holding Liang Yuan and uncovered their motives and her brutal interrogation. He disabled the warning traps near their hideout and waited for the police, but feared they would arrive too late to save her.

• Team Leader Chen told Wang Meng that Lü Zongmin was a cybersecurity expert from the capital and that Liang Yuan’s photo had been found in his hotel room.
• Huang Ji recalled Liang Yuan’s history with a cultural relic trafficking gang and learned that the kidnappers were after a stolen Tang Dynasty Golden Buddha.
• Wang Meng and the Village Chief identified possible hiding places, and Huang Ji spotted four people in the abandoned houses near the graveyard hill.
• Huang Ji reached the hideout first, dismantled its warning traps, and identified Lü Zongmin, Wang Zhen, and Hu Feng inside.
• Huang Ji learned that Lü Zongmin had kidnapped Liang Yuan to find the Buddha statue and that her adoptive parents had fled with it.
• Lü Zongmin tortured Liang Yuan for information, but she knew nothing about the stolen items; Huang Ji held back from intervening because the other two kidnappers were stronger than him.

Lü Zongmin and his men tried to kill Liang Yuan, but Huang Ji intervened, disguising his strange fighting skills as foolish movements and radio calisthenics. The police arrived after Huang Ji set off an alarm, rescued Liang Yuan, and arrested the criminals.

• Lü Zongmin learned Liang Yuan knew nothing about the golden Buddha and ordered his men to kill her before leaving.
• Huang Ji triggered an alarm, then pretended to be a village idiot as Hu Feng and Wang Zhen attacked him.
• Huang Ji incapacitated Hu Feng and Wang Zhen with seemingly accidental strikes while Liang Yuan urged him to escape.
• Huang Ji freed Liang Yuan and fought Lü Zongmin at the doorway as she tried to get them out.
• Team Leader Chen and the detectives arrived, subdued the criminals, and heard Liang Yuan explain how Huang Ji had saved her.

Huang Ji’s chance encounter led to the kidnappers’ arrest and Liang Yuan’s rescue, while her confession revealed that her parents had stolen the Tang Dynasty Golden Buddha. After the case was resolved, Huang Ji discovered that Liang Yuan’s parents had hidden three million yuan and decided to keep it as startup capital for his plans.

• Wang Meng and the police accepted that Huang Ji had wandered onto the mountain by chance, while Liang Yuan confessed her involvement in Case 1.07 and revealed that her parents had the stolen Golden Buddha.
• Team Leader Chen took Lü Zongmin and the others into custody, and Liang Yuan thanked Huang Ji for saving her before going to the hospital.
• The police questioned Huang Ji the next morning, and he declined to testify in court after the villagers pointed out that Liang Yuan knew the details.
• Liang Yuan’s parents were caught and brought to the reservoir, where they showed the police where they had buried the Golden Buddha.
• Huang Ji sensed that Liang Yuan’s parents had hidden three million yuan elsewhere, kept quiet about its location, and decided to use the money himself.
• Lü Zongmin claimed he had signed the ransom note with his real name to turn himself in, and Huang Ji reflected that the police accepted his explanation because the case had a satisfying outcome.

Huang Ji discovered that the Buddha statue concealed an extraterrestrial alloy mechanism made with a previously unknown element, then retrieved the hidden three million yuan and resolved to pursue knowledge and technology. He also worried about the toll his information perception took on him and set himself the goal of curing Grandpa, whose health was declining.

• Museum staff recovered the Buddha statue, and experts identified it as a stolen Tang Dynasty relic while mistaking its heavy contents for gold.
• Huang Ji sensed that the statue concealed an artificial alloy mechanism containing a new element, which he named the Keng Element, and traced it to an extraterrestrial civilization.
• After the crowd dispersed, Huang Ji dug up the combination case containing three million yuan and opened it using the information he perceived.
• Huang Ji decided to study existing human knowledge, strengthen his body, and develop technology that could help save humanity.
• Huang Ji realized Grandpa's illness was worsening and feared that Grandpa would die within five years unless he found a cure.

Huang Ji hid some of the money he had found and looked for a way to become independent by convincing his grandfather to let him study in the city. When the Village Chief's daughter returned with Zheng Xuan, Huang Ji discovered Zheng Xuan's many skills and revealed an extraordinary ability to understand and reassemble machinery.

• Huang Ji recognized that his knowledge of human weaknesses could let him find dangerous vital points, then hid ten thousand RMB from the suitcase and decided he needed to become independent.
• Huang Ji searched the village for someone who could accompany him to study in the city, and Fan Lingli's return with her boyfriend Zheng Xuan gave him a promising candidate.
• Huang Ji saw that Zheng Xuan was a skilled hacker with broad technical and language abilities, then joined Zheng Xuan and the Village Chief's family for lunch.
• Huang Ji helped Zheng Xuan reassemble an old television by handing him each part in sequence, impressing him with his memory and mechanical awareness.
• Zheng Xuan tested Huang Ji by dismantling a laptop, and Huang Ji smoothly put it back together, leaving Zheng Xuan convinced that he had exceptional mechanical talent.

Huang Ji demonstrated his mechanical talent and persuaded his grandfather to let him attend a technical school in Magic City. He left the chapter determined to study medicine so he could treat his grandfather’s illness and change the fate he had sensed.

• Huang Ji restored Zheng Xuan’s disassembled computer, impressing the Village Chief and convincing his grandfather that he had a real talent.
• Zheng Xuan proposed a five-year mechanical-repair program in Magic City, but Grandpa worried Huang Ji would struggle far from home and be bullied.
• Huang Ji told Grandpa he would stay by his side forever if Grandpa refused to let him go, prompting Grandpa to reconsider and insist that he pursue a future.
• Huang Ji cried with Grandpa while concealing that his true reason for leaving was to study medicine and find a way to treat Grandpa’s illness.
• Huang Ji reflected that people’s lifespans changed with their health, habits, circumstances, and state of mind, so destiny was not fixed.

Huang Ji arrived in Magic City with Fan Lingli and Zheng Xuan, then secretly left Zheng Xuan’s care to collect his money and set up his own apartment. As he explored the internet, he discovered that he could perceive the hidden information behind online accounts and identify their users and locations.

• Fan Lingli and Zheng Xuan brought Huang Ji to Magic City and arranged for him to stay in a room across the hall from Zheng Xuan.
• Zheng Xuan took Huang Ji to a bookstore, but Huang Ji left alone and rode the subway to the mail transfer station.
• Huang Ji collected his thirty-five-kilogram box of money, rented a four-bedroom apartment, and bought a computer and internet service.
• Huang Ji searched online for information about aliens and discovered that he could access hidden account details, private messages, and users’ real identities and locations.
• Huang Ji realized that his ability to trace online accounts could expose hackers and defeat attempts at anonymity.

Huang Ji tracked down an alien conspiracy poster’s author, Dong An, and discovered that the man’s claims were mostly unfounded speculation. He left the conversation determined to investigate mysteries by visiting places and meeting people directly, while putting aliens aside to focus on his studies.

• Huang Ji found Dong An’s Penguin account, broke into it, and contacted him about aliens.
• Dong An insulted Huang Ji until Huang Ji revealed that he knew Dong An’s game account passwords, prompting Dong An to cooperate.
• Huang Ji learned that he could not obtain a person’s information through a computer video call and questioned Dong An about his alien claims.
• Dong An described conspiracy theories about aliens, Area 51, and a faked moon landing, but Huang Ji confirmed through Information Sense that humans had landed on the moon six times.
• Huang Ji concluded that Dong An’s alien claims were unreliable, ended the call, and decided to investigate mysteries in person while prioritizing his studies.

Huang Ji studied engineering and medicine, using Information Sense to turn learned concepts into precise observations and uncover hidden details of the human body. He mapped a previously unknown meridian linking the brain and internal organs, but was left wondering how to control it without needles.

• Huang Ji bought engineering textbooks and spent the night studying, using Information Sense to perceive precise gravitational data and test what he learned.
• Huang Ji secretly bought medical and traditional Chinese medicine books, then divided his days between engineering studies and nighttime medical study.
• Huang Ji identified known acupoints and found many unnamed feedback points that traditional Chinese medicine had not mapped.
• Huang Ji used meridian theory to map a hidden meridian that carried neural electrochemical signals between the brain and internal organs and influenced bodily functions.
• Huang Ji considered how to coordinate and control the hidden meridian, wondering whether he would need to use needles each time.

Huang Ji experimented with using Hidden Acupoints to enlarge his heart and lungs, but the enhancement sharply shortened his lifespan and strained his other organs. While searching for a safer method, he studied martial arts materials and gained new insight into the body’s electrical pathways.

• Huang Ji stimulated Hidden Acupoints to expand his lungs and accelerate his growth, then woke to discover his heart and lungs had grown while his lifespan had fallen.
• Over ten days, Huang Ji grew five centimeters and strengthened his heart and lungs, but the process cost him thirty years of lifespan and burdened his other organs.
• Huang Ji stopped directly enhancing his Hidden Acupoints and posted online asking how to stimulate acupoints without acupuncture.
• A forum user advised Huang Ji to practice martial arts and Internal Energy, but Huang Ji exposed contradictions in the advice and the user deleted his account.
• Huang Ji found martial arts manuals in the user’s online storage, studied their techniques, and began to understand the body’s countless electrical pathways.

Huang Ji interpreted Internal Energy as the body’s bioelectricity and concluded that existing martial arts cultivation methods used it inefficiently. After combining techniques into a method with 19.89% energy utilization, he realized he needed to create new exercises based on hidden acupoints and bioelectricity.

• Huang Ji sensed the electrical pathways of nearby objects, became overwhelmed by the information, and collapsed.
• Huang Ji downloaded martial arts manuals and found that Tai Chi and Xing Yi were the most effective known methods for guiding bodily energy.
• Huang Ji combined techniques from many boxing styles and devised a cultivation method with a maximum energy utilization rate of 19.89%.
• Huang Ji recognized that existing methods ignored hidden acupoints and decided to create techniques specifically for Electrical Power.

Huang Ji visited Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University to learn respiratory medicine directly from expert Li Wei after reaching a bottleneck in his studies. By the end of the consultation, Huang Ji had absorbed Li Wei’s expertise and surpassed his former peak, while realizing that Zheng Xuan’s skills were also slipping as he neglected his field.

• Huang Ji went to Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University and found that respiratory specialist Li Wei and pathologist Jiang Wan ranked below his own medical skill level.
• Huang Ji used his focused understanding of medicine to absorb Li Wei’s respiratory knowledge during a consultation, rapidly improving his expertise and information-processing ability.
• Li Wei examined Huang Ji, found no apparent respiratory illness, and ordered a chest X-ray and blood test after Huang Ji described his unusually strong breathing and heartbeat.
• Huang Ji concluded that Li Wei’s skills had declined from neglect and a troubled mindset, while Huang Ji himself reached Li Wei’s former peak and rose to 45,000th worldwide.
• Huang Ji noted that Zheng Xuan’s hacker ranking had also fallen as he focused on economics and translation instead of keeping up with new technology.

Huang Ji developed the ability to sense likely future trends, tested it by changing a stranger’s career trajectory, and pushed his foresight to 2045. He saw a second sun-like object appear beside the Sun and wipe out nearly all life on Earth, then fainted from the strain.

• Huang Ji deduced that he could sense how people’s skills would develop and what factors shaped their likely futures.
• Huang Ji insulted a frustrated white-collar worker and saw that the taunt would extend the man’s period of professional growth.
• Huang Ji tested his foresight on physical events and learned that his predictions became less useful over longer spans of time.
• Huang Ji sensed humanity’s future in 2045 and saw a blue sphere of light appear beside the Sun, causing a global extinction event.
• Huang Ji fainted after the vision overwhelmed him.

After discovering that humanity faced different extinction events depending on how it responded, Huang Ji realized that uniting the nations would bring an alien-triggered disaster forward to 2012. He resolved to keep humanity divided for now and use his Future-State Information to develop techniques that could help him grow stronger.

• Huang Ji woke after fainting, warned Lin Li to get a medical checkup, and told him to bring his phone when he went out.
• Huang Ji recalled that a burst of blue light would wipe out life on Earth in 2045 and considered uniting humanity to resist the aliens.
• When Huang Ji imagined uniting the nations, he foresaw a 2012 solar catastrophe that killed half of the world's species, then fainted.
• Huang Ji dismissed the plan to unite humanity and saw the 2045 blue-light apocalypse return, concluding that alien monitors would change their method of destruction in response to humanity.
• Huang Ji decided to keep nations from uniting so the aliens would not attack sooner, and focused on using Future-State Information to develop body techniques and martial arts.

Lin Li met his teacher to deliver Golden Carp, believing he was close to receiving a Golden Elixir, but the teacher revealed himself as a con man when angry creditors arrived. The teacher escaped by using Lin Li as a shield, leaving Lin Li beaten and realizing he had been duped.

• Lin Li gave his teacher two Golden Carp and was told to return after reflecting for three days before receiving the Golden Elixir.
• Li Quan and five other men stormed the room, accusing the old man of taking a hundred thousand yuan and demanding it back.
• The old man claimed he had donated Li Quan’s money to punish his sins, then pretended he would transfer True Qi to Lin Li.
• The old man struck Lin Li into the group, and Lin Li was beaten while the old man escaped through the window.
• Lin Li realized he had spent twelve thousand yuan on materials and had been drawn in by his own desire to believe in Qi refinement.