Recaps

Huang Ji persuaded Old Wang to let Lin Li join them by revealing Lin Li’s cancer and arguing that the Illuminati would target him anyway. He recounted Messiah’s rise and destruction under the Illuminati, then declared that he had refused to join before because he believed Messiah would never amount to anything.

• Old Wang questioned Lin Li’s loyalty, but Huang Ji vouched for him, and Lin Li eagerly asked to join their fight against the Illuminati.
• Huang Ji argued that Old Wang’s Golden Core Dance had exposed Lin Li to danger, then told Lin Li that he suspected he had cancer.
• After Huang Ji said Lin Li’s tumor could be treated, Lin Li asked why Messiah did not appeal to the government, and Old Wang explained the lack of evidence and the Illuminati’s global influence.
• Huang Ji recounted how Messiah helped John Kennedy become president, how Kennedy challenged the Illuminati, and how his assassination and betrayals nearly destroyed Messiah.
• Old Wang warned Huang Ji that Messiah could not match the Illuminati, but Huang Ji said he had refused to join before because he knew Messiah would never amount to anything.

Huang Ji agreed to assist Messiah while assessing its members and resources, then uncovered a local gang’s unauthorized attempt to capture Old Wang. He led Old Wang and Lin Li toward Zhang Junwei, leaving the two thugs terrified and ready to cooperate under Lin Li’s supposed authority.

• Huang Ji offered Messiah funding and assistance but said he wanted to meet its other members before deciding whether to join.
• Old Wang found that the two men sent to his home were hired thugs, and Huang Ji tortured Xiao Zha until he revealed that Zhang Junwei had ordered them to capture Old Wang for a promised reward.
• Huang Ji realized Zhang Junwei had not reported Old Wang’s location to the Illuminati, so the group could stay hidden by taking control of the local boss.
• Huang Ji had the two thugs lead them to Zhang Junwei and threatened them with a supposed acupuncture castration to ensure their cooperation.
• Huang Ji told the thugs that Lin Li would be the boss of the area, leaving Lin Li confused.

Huang Ji entered Zhang Junwei’s warehouse with Old Wang and Lin Li, then defeated Zhang Junwei and took him hostage. He discovered that Zhang Junwei’s gun was a fake after one of the underlings fired it, leaving the gang’s loyalty and control in question.

• Huang Ji, Old Wang, and Lin Li arrived at the warehouse where Zhang Junwei’s men had gathered.
• Zhang Junwei questioned Old Wang about the million offered for his capture, and Huang Ji warned him before attacking.
• Huang Ji struck Zhang Junwei down, disarmed him, and held a dagger to his neck while reading his phone.
• An underling grabbed Zhang Junwei’s imitation gun and fired three shots at Huang Ji and Zhang Junwei.
• Huang Ji revealed that the gun was fake and asked the shooter if he wanted to become the boss.

Huang Ji warned Zhang Junwei that his client would retaliate if he reported finding them, but Zhang Junwei and his men attacked anyway. Huang Ji used the warehouse darkness and his Information Sense to defeat them, leaving Zhang Junwei, Old Wang, and Lin Li amid the fallen men.

• Huang Ji revealed that Zhang Junwei’s client, saved as “666,” was powerful and warned him not to report their whereabouts.
• Huang Ji deleted the client’s number and call records, then released Zhang Junwei after he promised not to contact the client.
• Zhang Junwei slid away from Huang Ji and signaled his underlings to attack, while Old Wang and Lin Li joined the brawl.
• Huang Ji evaded the attackers and reached the warehouse entrance, where he switched off the lights.
• Using his Information Sense in the darkness, Huang Ji beat down the men in just over twenty seconds.

Huang Ji defeated Zhang Junwei’s gang and used a hidden memory card to make Zhang Junwei trust him and agree to conceal the job from their client. Zhang Junwei accepted Huang Ji as his boss, while Huang Ji identified a disloyal subordinate and left the gang to deal with him.

• Huang Ji beat Zhang Junwei and his men, then discovered Zhang Junwei’s secret memory card by reading his reactions.
• Huang Ji inspected the card, promised not to expose its contents, and warned Zhang Junwei that the client’s people posed a danger to him and his family.
• Zhang Junwei submitted to Huang Ji, named him his boss, and agreed that the gang would tell anyone asking about the job that they had found nothing.
• Huang Ji named Lin Li as his representative and promised to pay Zhang Junwei’s five-hundred-thousand-yuan reward himself.
• Huang Ji identified the armed subordinate as a likely traitor, and Zhang Junwei arranged to have the man sent to a mental hospital.
• Zhang Junwei told his men that the card contained evidence of murder, while Old Wang suspected Huang Ji had uncovered a different secret through Cold Reading.

Huang Ji gave Lin Li money and detailed instructions for winning Zhang Junwei’s trust while procuring medical equipment and medicines. After Lin Li carried them out, Huang Ji reassured Old Wang that he could manage the group and said he might be ready to go to London within four months.

• Huang Ji gave Lin Li 2.4 million and coached him to pass money and a procurement list to Zhang Junwei while acting cold and following a fabricated backstory.
• Lin Li gave Zhang Junwei 500,000 for his men, added 100,000 of his own, and delivered Huang Ji’s list of equipment and medicines.
• Zhang Junwei spent the day using his connections to obtain the listed items, though some medicines were beyond his reach.
• Huang Ji scolded Lin Li for trying to steal medicines, then told Zhang Junwei to forget the items he could not obtain.
• Zhang Junwei came to see Lin Li as loyal and trustworthy, easing Old Wang’s concern about Lin Li managing him.
• Huang Ji told Old Wang he could leave for London in at most four months, or as soon as one month if his plans went smoothly.

Huang Ji infiltrated a cancer treatment seminar as a substitute assistant and impressed Vice President Lü Qinggong with his preparation. He left Lü stunned by arguing that cancer could be a form of evolution and should be guided toward beneficial mutation rather than simply suppressed or removed.

• Huang Ji posed as Hua Xu, a student of Yang Qizhong, and distributed prepared patient records at Lü Qinggong's seminar.
• Huang Ji smoothly operated the projector and supplied materials as Lü Qinggong and the other doctors discussed a Lymphatic Cancer treatment plan.
• Lü Qinggong praised Huang Ji's work and asked about his cancer research.
• Huang Ji explained that he was studying drugs targeting immune T cells and PD-L1, then challenged the idea that immune-based treatment was the best approach.
• Huang Ji proposed that cancer could be a form of species evolution and argued for guiding it toward beneficial mutation, leaving Lü Qinggong angry and astonished.

Huang Ji spent the morning discussing medicine with Lü Qinggong, who tried to recruit him as a student. After Huang Ji left, Lü discovered that the student had used the false name Hua Xu and could not be identified.

• Huang Ji and Lü Qinggong discussed medical research for hours until Lü regarded Huang Ji as an equal and offered him a stipend to join his institute.
• Huang Ji left without giving Lü his contact information, and Lü called Professor Yang Qizhong to ask about Hua Xu.
• Xiao Qian told Lü that she had not asked anyone to cover for her and did not know Hua Xu, while Yang confirmed Hua Xu was not his student.
• Lü and Xiao Qian searched surveillance footage and found Hua Xu leaving with his face hidden, but could not identify him at the university.
• Lü wondered who Hua Xu really was and regretted letting him leave.

Huang Ji interviewed at Tongji Hospital under the name Hua Xu and explained his research connecting respiratory illness with the digestive system, impressing Dean Hong despite his poorly written paper. Dean Hong arranged for him to pursue a doctorate at Tongji University with Lin Tao, leaving Huang Ji on track to gain further medical knowledge.

• Dean Hong received Lü Qinggong’s recommendation for Hua Xu and, after learning Hua Xu was already waiting, invited him into his office.
• Hua Xu explained his research linking respiratory diseases to digestive function, while privately withholding his theory about gut bacteria and traditional Chinese medicine.
• Dean Hong downloaded and read Hua Xu’s paper as they spoke, then recognized that Hua Xu’s reasoning was strong despite the paper’s poor writing and his hesitant delivery.
• Dean Hong asked Hua Xu to pursue a doctorate and offered to arrange a place at Tongji University.
• Dean Hong called his former student Lin Tao and directed Hua Xu to the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, where Lin Tao would guide him.

Huang Ji used forged identities and social engineering to infiltrate Tongji University laboratories and the Academy of Sciences’ Human Genome Research Laboratory, where he gained access to leading experts and their knowledge. Meanwhile, Old Wang intercepted the real Li Wensi and drove him away, secretly blocking Director Zhao’s number on his phone.

• Huang Ji used Lü Qinggong’s email and recommendation to meet Dean Hong, who introduced him to Professor Lin Tao and other Tongji University researchers.
• Huang Ji spent several days entering laboratories and hospitals, gathering medical knowledge and clinical experience while posing as Professor Lin’s student.
• Huang Ji impersonated Li Wensi to enter the Academy of Sciences research institute, then used a staged phone call to get Liu Xin to escort him into the experimental building.
• Huang Ji convinced Academician Pan that they had met years earlier at UBC, securing his place among the institute’s experts.
• Old Wang met the real Li Wensi outside the institute, lured him into a car under the pretense of changing the interview location, and added Director Zhao’s number to Li’s blacklist.

Huang Ji completed his studies with Academician Pan, bringing his expertise in medicine, chemistry, and biology to the international forefront. Meanwhile, the doctors and professors he had deceived compared stories and tried to uncover his identity, but he left them with only a mysterious nickname and no clear explanation.

• Huang Ji spent four hours with Academician Pan and reached the international forefront in medicine, chemistry, and biology.
• On April 29, Huang Ji went to Hua Shan Hospital, realized Doctor Li had uncovered his false identity, and left.
• At an exchange meeting, Lü Qinggong, Dean Hong, Yang Qizhong, and other professors discovered that Hua Xu had given each of them conflicting identities and credentials.
• The professors mobilized to find Hua Xu and shared stories of how he had fooled doctors, professors, and Academician Pan without taking money or causing harm.
• The medical community recognized Hua Xu as a highly knowledgeable all-rounder and dubbed him the “Mysterious Graduate Student,” but failed to learn his purpose or find a clear photograph of him.

Huang Ji discovered that a highly contagious new virus had infected Tang Yan, a taxi driver, and took steps to contain the danger. He brought Tang Yan to his warehouse, quarantined him, and ordered the group to disinfect and prepare another building.

• Huang Ji sensed that Tang Yan carried a level-six virus and realized that Tang Yan could become a superspreader if treated for an ordinary cold.
• Huang Ji gave Tang Yan a mask and money, then had him disinfect his taxi before driving to the West Suburbs used-car market.
• Huang Ji brought Tang Yan into the warehouse, where Zhang Junwei and the others initially threatened him over the unpaid fare.
• Huang Ji sprayed Tang Yan with disinfectant, warned the group that his illness could kill people, and ordered them to wear masks and keep Tang Yan contained.
• Huang Ji told Zhang Junwei to clear out a nearby warehouse and move their equipment into it.

Huang Ji held Tang Yan captive and began studying the H1N1 virus, using Tang Yan as a test subject while promising to develop a special medicine within twenty days. The chapter ended with Huang Ji concluding that the best treatment might be to fuse with the virus rather than kill it.

• Huang Ji ordered Zhang Junwei to smash Tang Yan’s phone and offered Tang Yan money for staying captive, then charged him for a bed, food, and water.
• Huang Ji confronted Tang Yan about a hit-and-run six years earlier, and Tang Yan agreed to cooperate with his experiments, believing Huang Ji was the victim.
• Huang Ji drew Tang Yan’s blood and pricked his Hidden Acupoint to strengthen his immunity before taking the sample to the warehouse laboratory.
• Huang Ji realized Tang Yan had only hit a plastic mannequin, but he let Tang Yan believe otherwise so he would cooperate and find relief from his guilt.
• Huang Ji examined Tang Yan’s blood, determined that he was in the H1N1 incubation period, and set himself twenty days to develop a special medicine.
• Huang Ji considered the role of viruses in evolution and concluded that treatment should aim to fuse with a virus rather than kill it.

Huang Ji developed a staged method to tame viruses and use them to accelerate genetic evolution, then deliberately infected himself with H1N1 and began treatment. The process was expected to take about three months, and his predicted lifespan after evolution reached 178 years.

• Huang Ji developed an 86-percent-effective influenza medicine in seventeen cumulative hours, then spent two more days trying unsuccessfully to improve it.
• Huang Ji concluded that perfect genetic fusion required repeatedly suppressing a virus while allowing it to adapt, rather than simply eradicating it with medicine.
• Huang Ji combined low-efficiency medicines into a personalized treatment plan with 99-percent efficiency and determined that each person required a tailored genetic medicine.
• Huang Ji chose H1N1 for its high human compatibility, deliberately infected himself, and injected a targeted medicine and adaptation agent.
• Huang Ji outlined three stages of adaptation over roughly three months, and his predicted post-evolution lifespan rose to 178 years.

Huang Ji cured Tang Yan with medicine he had developed and kept his H1N1 infection secret to protect his warehouse and associates. He then published his research under the name Messiah and sent it to medical experts, aiming to make Messiah known as he considered the Illuminati’s influence.

• Huang Ji cured Tang Yan with the medicine, told him he had forgiven him, and sent him away without revealing that he had carried a level-six virus.
• Tang Yan left after pressing money into Zhang Junwei’s hand, while Huang Ji kept his infection and cure secret to protect the warehouse from scrutiny.
• Huang Ji wrote a detailed paper on H1N1 research, including prevention, testing, and treatment, and uploaded it from an internet café.
• Huang Ji emailed the paper to medical experts in several cities under the codename Messiah.
• Huang Ji reflected on how the Illuminati used rumors and its reputation to expand its influence, and decided that making Messiah known mattered more than whether people trusted it.

Professor Lu tested a paper sent by the mysterious Messiah and confirmed its H1N1 detection reagent worked. At the Magic City Institute of Drug Research, experts found that the special medicine rapidly induced antibodies, but each patient’s bacteria produced a different enzyme, leaving its mechanism unresolved.

• Professor Lu received Messiah’s paper, made the detection reagent, and confirmed H1N1 in one of twenty-four patients.
• Professor Lu brought the paper to the Magic City Institute of Drug Research and learned that several institutions had received and published the same work.
• Old Zhu claimed the special medicine was ineffective, but Dean Hong explained it had to act through gut bacteria and connected its approach to Hua Xu’s ideas.
• The institute’s tests showed that the medicine induced antibodies against H1N1 within four hours.
• The deputy director revealed that the bacteria in different patients had secreted different enzymes after receiving the same medicine.

Huang Ji explained how the special medicine used bacterial adaptation to help the immune system eliminate H1N1, then predicted the Illuminati would search for him and prepared to disguise his distinctive eyes. With Zhang Junwei’s group short on money, Huang Ji led them to a KTV, where he used a message and an orange peel to unlock a car and take a case of cash.

• Experts realized the medicine prompted each person’s bacteria to produce individualized enzymes that stimulated antibodies against H1N1, and they recognized its potential to stop a pandemic.
• Huang Ji sensed that the Illuminati would search for Hua Xu and altered his face, while noting that colored contacts could hide his double pupils.
• Zhang Junwei told Huang Ji that his group was nearly broke and two million short on the equipment purchase, so Huang Ji promised to take them to withdraw money.
• Huang Ji brought Zhang Junwei, Lin Li, Xiao Zha, and Old Wang to a KTV where a group had arrived to make a deal.
• Huang Ji drew on an orange peel, sent a warning text that lured the burly guard inside, then used the peel to unlock the group’s car and take its cash case.

Huang Ji orchestrated a second theft by provoking suspicion between the suited man and Cao Jing, then using a fake police warning to make them abandon the drug deal and chase the cash case. The suited man took the case from Huang Ji, unaware it contained bricks and rags.

• Huang Ji explained how he used orange peel marked with the suited man's fingerprint to unlock the cash case, and the group discussed how the first theft would make the suited man suspect Cao Jing.
• Huang Ji predicted the suited man would return with more money, replaced the cash with bricks and rags, and set up a fake warning and police siren while his companions guarded Cao Jing's room.
• The suited man returned with six subordinates and exchanged money for White Powder with Cao Jing, while A Lei retrieved the drugs from a hollow Guan Yu Statue.
• A text warned Cao Jing that the police were coming, and a siren blaring from Old Wang's dumpster convinced both sides that a raid was imminent.
• Cao Jing smashed the statue and flushed the drugs while the suited man abandoned the deal and rushed to recover the cash case.
• Huang Ji posed as someone carrying the case, and the suited man and his men seized it from him.

Huang Ji tricked Cao Jing’s men into mistaking him for a trusted subordinate and redirecting their hidden cash. He escaped with Lin Li and Xiao Zha as Old Wang collected the money, while Cao Jing remained unaware that his crew had thrown the fortune away.

• Huang Ji let the suited man mistake a brick-filled case for his stolen cash, and the man fled with it during the power outage.
• Cao Jing ordered his men to retrieve sixteen slabs of cash hidden in the sofas while Lin Li and Xiao Zha slipped into the room.
• Huang Ji followed Cao Jing into the office, took the suited man’s real cash case, and returned to the private room.
• Huang Ji convinced the gathered men that Ma Ye’s people were downstairs and ordered them to throw all sixteen slabs of money out the window.
• Old Wang collected the eight million yuan in a trash bin and wheeled it away.
• Huang Ji led Lin Li and Xiao Zha out through a dark shortcut and the back door.

Huang Ji’s group tricked Cao Jing’s men into destroying their drug stock and handing over nine million, then escaped without being identified. Cao Jing realized the police warning was false, but when he tried to recover the money, he learned his men had thrown it to a supposed Ma Ye contact who had vanished.

• Huang Ji’s group celebrated taking the money and destroying Cao Jing’s drugs, while Zhang Junwei revealed his old grudge against Cao Jing.
• Cao Jing discovered there were no police and found A Lei had already destroyed the drug stock while obeying the false warning.
• Cao Jing prepared to take responsibility with Ma Ye, but Ma Ye denied sending any text message.
• Cao Jing’s men returned without the cash and said they had thrown it downstairs to the contact Cao Jing supposedly sent.
• Cao Jing realized the money had been taken by an unknown person and angrily confronted his men.

Cao Jing’s men realized that eight million had disappeared during a blackout, and A Lei concluded that Wang Siwen had orchestrated the theft. Cao Jing confronted Wang Siwen, but both men accused each other of stealing money, and Wang Siwen struck Cao Jing with a baseball bat.

• Cao Jing’s men argued over who had impersonated him and ordered them to throw the money downstairs, but no one could identify the culprit.
• A Lei realized the money case had vanished during the blackout and suspected Cao Jing had mistaken an outsider for one of his men.
• A Lei accused Wang Siwen of using guards, a power cut, and the blackout to steal the money, and Cao Jing gathered his men to confront him.
• Wang Siwen arrived with dozens of armed men and accused Cao Jing of replacing his money case with bricks and rags.
• Cao Jing demanded to know who had sent Wang Siwen a text, and Wang Siwen struck him in the head with a baseball bat.

Ma Ye suspected that someone had manipulated Cao Jing’s arrest to make him distrust his men, and ordered Tie Long to test Cao Jing. Meanwhile, Huang Ji directed his group to invest in a crude game and planned to exploit Ma Ye’s need to restock.

• Ma Ye questioned Cao Jing, concluded a mole had helped set him up, and told him to take responsibility only for the crimes he had committed.
• Tie Long warned that Cao Jing might be the mole, prompting Ma Ye to order Cao Jing released and tested with fake goods.
• Huang Ji’s group debated how to spend their seven million yuan, while Old Wang suggested chartering a ship to London.
• Huang Ji chose to invest in the game Minecraft, telling Zhang Junwei to contact its creator in Sweden and negotiate a fifty-percent profit share within twenty days.
• Huang Ji set a two-million-yuan budget for the game deal and said the remaining money could be used to trade with Ma Ye while his supply was cut off.

After reading Tie Long and Cao Jing’s plans, Huang Ji arranged a scheme to exchange the money and obtain Cao Jing’s keys, while intending to use Ma Ye’s investigation to prevent Old Wang’s whereabouts from being exposed. Xiao Zha successfully swapped the cash and handed the real key ring to the arriving driver, who verified it and departed without suspecting the deception.

• Cao Jing met Tie Long after his release on bail and agreed to conduct a fake deal while Tie Long handled another transaction.
• Huang Ji read Tie Long’s and Cao Jing’s lips, then instructed Xiao Zha to swap their keys and cash and collect the money from the second driver.
• Huang Ji explained that he wanted Ma Ye to investigate widely, hoping the investigation would eventually put Ma Ye in prison before he uncovered Old Wang’s location.
• A staged traffic jam delayed the driver carrying four million, while Cao Jing met Xiao Zha at the garage and drove away in Xiao Zha’s car with the cash.
• Xiao Zha waited for the late driver, gave him the real key ring, and watched him verify the hidden SIM card before leaving.

Huang Ji and Old Wang replaced the money in Cao Jing’s car with blank paper while Cao Jing carefully prepared for a secret deal with A Lei. Huang Ji revealed that the transaction was a setup and sent Zhang Junwei to pass the location to Lin Li, while Cao Jing remained unaware that his money was gone.

• Huang Ji made Old Wang wait until Cao Jing returned for his forgotten phone, then had him take the money from Cao Jing’s trunk and replace it with identical cases of blank paper.
• Cao Jing met A Lei away from the car and had him break his phone before telling him about the planned operation.
• Old Wang realized Cao Jing was guarding against a possible traitor among his subordinates, while Huang Ji explained that Cao Jing’s transaction was fake and the contact would bring no goods.
• Zhang Junwei reported that Ma Ye and four cars had entered SJ District, and Huang Ji told him to leave the location and inform Lin Li.

Lin Li’s phone call alerted Golden Tooth that Ma Ye was heading to Zhongshan, and Golden Tooth worked out that the destination was Di Feng Park. On the way there, Ma Ye and Tie Long discovered a mole in their convoy, while Tie Long revealed he had prepared a plan to expose Golden Tooth’s sabotage.

• Lin Li mentioned Ma Ye’s job in Zhongshan while speaking on the phone, and two of Golden Tooth’s men overheard him and reported it.
• Golden Tooth confirmed that Ma Ye had left and deduced from the travel time that he was going to Di Feng Park, so he set out with his men.
• Tie Long noticed an old car following Ma Ye’s convoy and concluded that someone had tipped Golden Tooth off about their route.
• Ma Ye realized the mole had to be among the six men in the three cars ahead and told Tie Long not to lose the trailing car.
• Tie Long revealed that he had warned the real supplier about the sabotage and arranged a decoy deal so they could expose Golden Tooth.