Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng sent his Armor Puppet to follow Mu Chengen and Xu Mei while he returned home with his family, then met Yan Ze, who invited him to join a plan to seize a modern warship near the Great Ocean Graveyard. The chapter ended with Wenren Sheng agreeing to hear the details and following Yan Ze down a Road of Sin.

• Wenren Sheng used his Armor Puppet to follow the couple while he flew home with his family, who discussed their gains from the trip and Ouyang Ling's coming advancement to Mystery Expert.
• Wenren Sheng used the local Public Security Bureau's surveillance network to find that Mu Chengen and Xu Mei had gone out to sea toward the Great Ocean Graveyard.
• Yan Ze contacted Wenren Sheng and told him that foreign warships and unmanned reconnaissance planes had arrived near the Great Ocean Graveyard.
• Yan Ze explained that he and four others planned to use Stealth Art and disguises to seize a warship and make its disappearance seem like a Mysterious Disaster.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to join Yan Ze's plan, and the two left the café to discuss it further.

Wenren Sheng joined Yan Ze’s crew to seize John Bull’s Electronic Reconnaissance Ship, but objected to killing its crew without cause. After reaching the Great Ocean Graveyard, he spotted the ship and received orders to begin the operation.

• Wenren Sheng met Yan Ze’s crew, including Old Man Lian, Brother Zu, a Golden Haired Dog, and a budgerigar, and learned their target was an Electronic Reconnaissance Ship.
• Yan Ze explained the plan to seize the ship and its technology, and the group split into two teams.
• On the seaplane, Wenren Sheng refused the budgerigar’s demand to kill all the ordinary soldiers and tied its wings together when it challenged him.
• Yan Ze located the target near the Great Ocean Graveyard, and Wenren Sheng spotted the ship escorted by two destroyers.
• Wenren Sheng reported the ship’s location, and Yan Ze ordered the team to create fog.

Wenren Sheng seized Colonel Carroll’s Electronic Reconnaissance Ship but spared its crew, while Yan Ze and the budgerigar revealed that they planned to sell it to a Patrol Division research institute. As the Great Ocean Graveyard’s fog returned, the captured ship vanished.

• Colonel Carroll’s formation entered the fog, and Wenren Sheng boarded the Electronic Reconnaissance Ship after the dog disabled its crew.
• Wenren Sheng tied up the 221 sailors and placed them in lifeboats while the dog sailed the ship out of the fog.
• Wenren Sheng refused the budgerigar’s demand to kill the crew, insisting that theft did not justify killing innocents.
• The budgerigar reported Wenren Sheng’s refusal to Yan Ze, who said he had arranged a buyer for the ship through a Patrol Division research institute.
• The budgerigar and Yan Ze realized that fog from the Great Ocean Graveyard had surrounded them, and the captured ship disappeared.

Wenren Sheng lost contact with the Armor Puppet and discussed the approaching Great Cataclysm and disaster transfer with Wenren De. At the Patrol Division, he used Master Level Sniping to confirm that a missing alloy process formula existed, leaving the researchers ready to investigate it with Prophecy Art.

• Wenren Sheng awoke on the jet after losing contact with the Armor Puppet and wondered whether its death was connected to his unresolved incidents.
• Wenren De told Wenren Sheng that another Great Cataclysm was expected in about a century, and Wenren Sheng explained how disasters could be transferred to backward regions.
• Wenren Sheng promised to keep the family safe and advised Wenren De to study specialized cooking techniques.
• After returning home, Wenren Sheng went to the Patrol Division to address Hand in the Well and test whether Sniping could resolve Schrödinger's Cat.
• Wenren Sheng used Master Level Sniping on a missing alloy process formula, confirmed that it existed, and told the researchers to use Prophecy Art.

Wenren Sheng helped the Patrol Division turn his solution to Schrödinger’s Cat into a practical source of scientific inspiration and discussed the future of automated warfare with Director An. Inspector Liu later revealed the century-old conspiracy behind Inoue Yoko, and Wenren Sheng received confirmation that the mysterious event had been completed.

• Researchers used Alien Power and their existing technical materials to receive inspiration for solving Schrödinger’s Cat, then began testing their ideas.
• Director An praised Wenren Sheng’s contribution, and Wenren Sheng argued that using puppets and machines on the battlefield followed the natural development of warfare.
• Three days later, Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that the American-backed Heaven's Mandate Society had worked for over a century to pull East Island away from Divine Land’s influence, with Inoue Yoko as one of its pawns.
• Wenren Sheng received notice that Hand in the Well was complete and that his Mystery Points had increased.

Wenren Sheng sought materials for replacement puppet armor and learned about a piece of Humanoid Locust Wood owned by Mr. Yu. Mr. Yu agreed to give him the wood if Wenren Sheng investigated his wife’s murder, and the chapter ended with Wenren Sheng setting out with Zhao Han and Wu Shanshan.

• Wenren Sheng discussed his growing Mystery Points and the cost of gathering materials for more puppets with Wu Shanshan.
• Zhao Han asked about predicting college entrance exam questions, and Wenren Sheng warned her to respect ethical boundaries.
• Wenren Sheng asked Wang Wenwen to help locate special collections suitable for puppet-making.
• Wang Wenwen learned that Mr. Yu owned a piece of Humanoid Locust Wood, and Wenren Sheng contacted him.
• Mr. Yu offered Wenren Sheng the wood in exchange for help finding his wife’s murderer, triggering a 25-point incident prompt.
• Wenren Sheng asked Zhao Han and Wu Shanshan to accompany him as he began investigating the murder.

Wenren Sheng and his companions investigated the ten-year-old murder of Mr. Yu’s wife, whose old blog posts suggested she had confronted him over his obsession with a Humanoid Locust Wood carving. The case files showed Mr. Yu had an alibi, and Wenren Sheng continued probing as he formed a theory about what had really happened.

• Mr. Yu told Wenren Sheng and the others that his wife had been buried alive in their backyard ten years earlier, and Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen began investigating with their abilities.
• Wenren Sheng and Wu Shanshan examined Madam Yu’s belongings and found blog posts describing Mr. Yu’s growing obsession with carving the Humanoid Locust Wood.
• Wu Shanshan accused Mr. Yu of murdering his wife after reading Madam Yu’s final posts, but Wenren Sheng cautioned that the records alone did not prove his guilt.
• Wenren Sheng obtained the old case files, which showed that Mr. Yu had a surveillance-backed alibi and that the other two suspects had been cleared.
• Wenren Sheng continued investigating, saying nothing more as a rough outline of the truth formed in his mind.

Wenren Sheng exposed the Humanoid Locust Wood as the killer of Madam Yu and later bought the confiscated wood. Back home, he taught his family Puppet Manipulation, and Wang Wenwen’s first puppet failed to obey her.

• Zhao Han reported that the prophecy identified the Humanoid Wood as a perfect disguise, and Wenren Sheng used Master Level Sniping to reveal Mr. Yu’s face beneath its illusion.
• The Humanoid Wood admitted it had impersonated Mr. Yu and asked to be taken away, and Wenren Sheng exposed its true form before the Patrol Division handled the case.
• Five days later, Wenren Sheng bought the confiscated Humanoid Locust Wood, and he began teaching his family Puppet Manipulation.
• Wang Wenwen carved a chubby naked doll from the wood but could not animate it, so Wenren Sheng infused it with Alien Power and made it dance.
• Wang Wenwen called the dancing doll her child and asked it to call her Mom, but it ignored her and turned its backside toward her.

Wenren Sheng resumed controlling the Armor Puppet and discovered it was overseeing the construction of a pier on one of three islands in a long-term development-and-war scenario. He learned that Huang Feng and Xu Mei planned to exploit the local natives and build their island’s strength for a decisive battle twenty years later.

• Wenren Sheng returned to his room and found that the Armor Puppet had survived and was working as a pier foreman.
• Wenren Sheng saw Huang Feng and Xu Mei arrive at the construction site and recognized Xu Mei from the earlier Simps Must Die incident.
• Huang Feng explained that the three islands were competing to develop resources and build strength before a decisive battle in twenty years.
• Xu Mei advised Huang Feng to reward diligent natives and offer them incentives, and Huang Feng ordered Old Tang to follow her advice.
• Huang Feng inspected the pier, praised the Armor Puppet’s loyalty, and described his plans to expand trade, accumulate supplies, and eventually build an army.

Wenren Sheng’s foremen debated how to motivate the slave natives, exposing their own conflicting interests as they planned to pursue personal gain. Huang Feng and the others watched through Illusion Art and realized that victory depended on balancing incentives for their people with the island lords’ own rewards.

• Wenren Sheng gathered the foremen and relayed Xu Mei’s instructions to reward diligence, punish laziness, and offer points toward registered status.
• Liu Gang proposed underfunding rewards and keeping the difference, and the other foremen supported his plan.
• Wenren Sheng argued that the foremen should serve the island lords’ cause, but Liu Gang insisted they should protect themselves in case their side lost.
• The oldest foreman calmed the argument and the foremen agreed to report their measures to the island lords.
• Huang Feng and the others watched the foremen through Illusion Art and discussed how to motivate both NPCs and natives without giving away all their wealth.
• Huang Feng concluded that the scenario’s hardest problem was distributing interests while preserving the personal wealth tied to their final rewards.

Huang Feng established an island-wide shareholding system and urged the islanders to unite against their foreign rivals. After the meeting, the scenario fast-forwarded five years, revealing a thriving industrial colony and showing Wenren Sheng how the system advanced in stages until new problems arose.

• Huang Feng argued that the islanders had to prioritize victory and proposed distributing shares according to work and production.
• Wenren Sheng, the NPC foremen, and the island’s 235 official citizens attended a meeting where Huang Feng announced the shareholding system and warned against surrendering to the enemy.
• After the meeting, Wenren Sheng and the others saw thick fog blanket the island, and a prompt announced that five years had passed.
• The fog cleared to reveal expanded docks, a coal-and-iron industrial district, and orderly housing for roughly a hundred thousand people.
• Wenren Sheng realized the scenario fast-forwarded according to the island’s decisions and would pause when development produced new conflicts.

Wenren Sheng attended a meeting where island residents proposed splitting the island’s vast company into smaller firms to address growing laziness and management problems. He passed their proposal to Huang Feng, whose group was separately planning how to prepare the island for the decisive war fifteen years away.

• Wenren Sheng learned that he had become Wharf Supervisor and joined a meeting about residents who relied on dividends instead of working.
• Wenren Sheng suggested withdrawing shares from lazy workers, but another resident warned that judging diligence could lead to false accusations.
• A middle-aged man proposed dividing the island’s company into smaller firms and assigning different contribution coefficients to industries, and he asked Wenren Sheng to deliver the plan to the island masters.
• Wenren Sheng left the outline with a guard after learning Huang Feng was in a meeting.
• Xu Mei summarized the island’s problems for Huang Feng, including declining motivation, growing management demands, and the need for intelligence and Soldier training.
• Huang Feng read Wenren Sheng’s outline and praised it as evidence that some residents had accepted the island as their home.

Wenren Sheng gave Huang Feng a professional strategy for developing the island’s military, but Huang Feng was killed soon afterward and Wenren Sheng suspected the other Vice Island Lords had arranged it. When the island’s officials refused to investigate, Wenren Sheng decided to seize control of the island himself.

• Wenren Sheng copied expert military advice from a forum and submitted it to Huang Feng, who appointed him Vice Island Lord.
• Three days later, Wenren Sheng learned that Huang Feng had been killed and noticed the Vice Island Lords showed excitement rather than grief at the funeral.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Vice Island Lords had assassinated Huang Feng after learning the strategy could secure victory without him.
• Wenren Sheng decided to become island lord and asked several scenario NPCs to help investigate Huang Feng’s death, but they refused to challenge the new leadership.
• Wenren Sheng realized the NPCs preferred to let the Vice Island Lords carry out his strategy and claim victory, so he resolved to act against them himself.

Wenren Sheng investigated Huang Feng’s apparent death and suspected that he had faked it to manipulate the other islands. Meanwhile, white and black leaders prepared rival plans to attack, leaving Divine Land Island’s true strategy uncertain.

• Wenren Sheng dismissed the others, then assigned his subordinates investigations and preparations.
• A duke on a neighboring island heard that Huang Feng was dead and considered attacking the black people before turning against Divine Land Island.
• A black leader chose to attack White Person Island first and ordered more boats and warriors prepared.
• Wenren Sheng found that no one had seen Huang Feng’s body and suspected his sea burial had been staged.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Vice Island Lords’ orderly cooperation suggested someone was directing them from behind the scenes.

Wenren Sheng destroyed the other two islands in the scene, winning automatically, then regrouped with the Tiger-skin Parrot and Golden Haired Dog aboard the stolen ship. As the ship sailed away from the graveyard zone, he argued that technology and society could not be kept from changing.

• Wenren Sheng sped up the scene, destroyed White Person Island and Black Person Island, and secured an automatic win for Island No. 1.
• Huang Feng learned that his island had won, reached an apparent moment of enlightenment, and advanced before running off.
• Wenren Sheng reviewed his increased skill progress aboard the Electronic Reconnaissance Ship and discovered that the Tiger-skin Parrot and Golden Haired Dog were safe.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot learned Wenren Sheng had destroyed the other islands, and Wenren Sheng defended his actions by saying the participants had chosen to enter the battlefield.
• Wenren Sheng argued that technology could not be restrained without inviting disaster, while the Tiger-skin Parrot complained about his arguing.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot asked whether Wenren Sheng wanted enough power to repeat his feat in the current era, and Wenren Sheng refused because the offer reminded him of being scammed out of one hundred thousand yuan.

Wenren Sheng learned that the Sole Supremacy Society planned to weaken modern technology by bringing the Inner World into the present, but he rejected the plan because it would leave Ordinary People vulnerable. The Tiger-skin Parrot reported his refusal to Yan Ze and decided that tempting Wenren Sheng would be safer than trying to eliminate him.

• The Tiger-skin Parrot told Wenren Sheng that the Society wanted to weaken modern weapons by guiding the Inner World’s descent into the present world.
• Wenren Sheng refused to support the plan, saying that a world without restraints would let the strong indulge themselves at Ordinary People’s expense.
• Wenren Sheng pinched the Tiger-skin Parrot’s beak shut after it dismissed his concern for mortals.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot returned to the bridge and told Yan Ze that Wenren Sheng had rejected the Society’s goal.
• Yan Ze believed Wenren Sheng was cautious rather than unmoved, while the Tiger-skin Parrot recognized his sincerity and decided to tempt him instead of trying to remove him.

Wenren Sheng learned that the Sole Supremacy Society’s plan to bring the mysterious world into reality was already known to the Patrol Division. Later, he used his newly acquired Healing Art to revive Mu Chengen, gaining a Healing Art near Master Level.

• Wenren Sheng told Inspector Liu about the Sole Supremacy Society’s plan, but Liu said the Patrol Division already knew and dismissed it as recruitment propaganda.
• Wenren Sheng resumed controlling the Armor Puppet and spotted Mu Chengen drifting across the sea on a wooden plank.
• Wenren Sheng brought Mu Chengen aboard and found a note saying the bottle of Beauty Water would prove his courage and love for Mei.
• Wenren Sheng searched online for drowning treatment and used Purple Mist to restore Mu Chengen’s failing organs while the budgerigar tried to interfere.
• After more than two hours, Wenren Sheng flooded Mu Chengen’s body with mist, revived him, and acquired Mysterious Healing Art near Master Level.

Wenren Sheng and the Tiger-skin Parrot rescued Mu Chengen, but the damage to his brain left him with amnesia and no life skills. They reached a secret harbor to deliver the ship and divide the expected profits, leaving Mu Chengen in the parrot’s care with instructions to return him to Xu Mei.

• Mu Chengen woke with severe memory and cognitive loss, and Wenren Sheng concluded that he had become an idiot despite the brain cells Wenren Sheng had restored.
• Wenren Sheng made the Tiger-skin Parrot care for Mu Chengen as redemption for trying to kill him.
• The ship reached a remote harbor, where Wenren Sheng told the Tiger-skin Parrot that it had forfeited its share of the deal’s profits.
• Yan Ze, the Middle-aged Man Zu, and Old Man Lian inspected the ship and agreed on how to divide the proceeds, while Wenren Sheng claimed the parrot’s share.
• Yan Ze noticed the Beauty Water Mu Chengen carried, but the Tiger-skin Parrot stopped him from taking it.
• Mu Chengen kept following the Tiger-skin Parrot, so Wenren Sheng gave it information about Mu Chengen and Xu Mei and asked it to send him home.

The Tiger-skin Parrot returned the brain-damaged Mu Chengen to his father and explained how he had been revived. Father Mu accepted his son’s condition and planned to raise him again, while the parrot arranged to receive half the profits from two plantations.

• The Tiger-skin Parrot fed Mu Chengen, who offered it a chicken leg before eating several kilograms of food himself.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot located Mu Chengen’s family and flew with him to his home in the Southeast Islands.
• Father Mu recognized that Mu Chengen had changed, and the Tiger-skin Parrot explained that he had drowned and suffered brain death before being revived.
• Father Mu blamed Mu Chengen’s girlfriend Xu Mei for leading him into danger, while the Tiger-skin Parrot criticized Father Mu for not teaching his son to judge people.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot agreed to let Father Mu keep managing his rubber and rice plantations in exchange for half their profits.
• Father Mu accepted that he would need to raise Mu Chengen again and decided against having another child.

Wenren Sheng carved a growth-type Fat Doll from Humanoid Wood for Wang Wenwen, who planned to use it to fool her parents. Later, the Armor Puppet alerted Wenren Sheng that a man he had rescued remembered Xu Mei, and Wenren Sheng went to arrange their reunion despite hearing she might be arriving with a Mystery Expert to break up with him.

• Wenren Sheng agreed to carve a growth-type puppet after Wang Wenwen suggested making a doll she could raise.
• Wenren Sheng carved a chubby Fat Doll from Humanoid Wood and infused it with purple mist, bringing it to life.
• Wang Wenwen took the Fat Doll and its Sleeveless Fat Doll companion, planning to buy it clothes and keep it secret from her parents.
• The Armor Puppet alerted Wenren Sheng that someone had called it, and the Tiger-skin Parrot told him the rescued man remembered Xu Mei.
• Wenren Sheng learned Xu Mei was near the man's home with a Mystery Expert and headed to the nearby five-star hotel to arrange their meeting.