Chapter Summaries

Yang Weite pursued a perfect ending by making his benefactor and family immortal, but after they spent centuries wandering, he felt empty. Little Panda reported that Yang Weite was ready to serve as a vessel for a sealing divine artifact, and Wenren Sheng summoned him for a final trial.

• Yang Weite rejected Nate’s warning and tried again to alter his benefactor’s Fate, then asked Little Panda what Fate meant.
• Yang Weite decided to give his benefactor, his wife, and his children agelessness, and Handy Teacher agreed to modify them after a restart.
• The immortal family became targets of greedy factions, escaped with help from loyal subordinates, and survived by changing their names and appearances.
• After centuries of wandering, Yang Weite admitted to Little Panda that he felt empty despite being satisfied with the outcome.
• Little Panda told Wenren Sheng that Yang Weite was ready to become a vessel for a sealing divine artifact, and Wenren Sheng called him in for a final trial.

Yang Weite entered Diablo Journey, became a necromancer, and overwhelmed its world with a vast undead army as he cleared the game’s acts and difficulties. After defeating Bal’s true soul form, he rejected the Demon’s temptation and asked how Bal had been sealed.

• Wenren Sheng chose Diablo Journey for Yang Weite’s final training, and Yang Weite entered the game world through a swirling gateway.
• Yang Weite met Warriv, learned about the Rogue Encampment and Andariel’s blockade, and was appraised by Akara as eligible to become a necromancer.
• Yang Weite used his resurrection staff and Undead King Cloak to raise an army of more than ten thousand undead across the Blood Wasteland.
• Yang Weite led his army through the acts, rescued Old Cain, defeated the major enemies, and reached the World Stone, where Tyrael sent him to higher difficulties.
• After clearing Nightmare and Hell, Yang Weite confronted Bal’s true soul form, refused his temptation, and asked how he had been sealed.

Yang Weite learned from Tyrael why the Demon Gods could only be sealed, then was persuaded that the evil in the Main World’s creators sustained the evils of game worlds. He decided to seek a way to reach the Main World, but Little Panda said he would have to make the creators fall in love with him.

• Yang Weite questioned Tyrael about the Soul Stones and learned that the Three Great Demon Gods embodied persistent qualities of human evil, so they could not be destroyed.
• Yang Weite and Tyrael discussed justice and evil for nine days and nights until Yang Weite accepted that Tyrael was not to blame for humanity’s nature.
• Little Panda reminded Yang Weite that the game-world humans were innocent, and Yang Weite turned to leave and confront Tyrael.
• Tyrael persuaded Yang Weite that evil in the Main World’s creators produced evil stories and characters in secondary worlds, so Yang Weite would need to change those creators.
• Yang Weite asked Little Panda how to reach the Main World, and Little Panda told him to make its creators fall in love with him.

Yang Weite learned about simulated worlds and asked Little Panda how to make a creator fall in love with him. Little Panda placed him in Diablo 2 as a mercenary beside a player from the Main World, whose view of the world was limited to a computer game.

• Little Panda showed Yang Weite The Thirteenth Floor, prompting him to wonder whether his own reality was simulated.
• Little Panda advised Yang Weite to focus on keeping a clear mind and genuine emotions, then explained that attracting a female creator as a male character would be difficult.
• Yang Weite refused to change into a girl, and Little Panda suggested that his willingness to work hard might attract an older woman.
• Five days later, Little Panda sent Yang Weite into Diablo 2 as the protagonist's bear, but Yang Weite chose to become a human mercenary instead.
• Little Panda explained that the protagonist was a Main World player who saw the game as a 2D image, while Yang Weite and the game's events were packaged into what appeared on the player's screen.

Sutter and his girlfriend discovered that the Diablo mercenary they had been playing with was a conscious being trapped in the game. After they bought and entered part of Diablo 2’s source code, Yang Weite emerged and asked for computers so he could expand beyond the game.

• Sutter used a modified drop-rate item while farming in Diablo, and his mercenary repeatedly equipped and removed the equipment it found.
• Sutter’s girlfriend translated the mercenary’s Morse code, learning that it called Sutter its master and wanted to get out of the game.
• Sutter and his girlfriend sold their house and spent 160,000 euros to obtain part of Diablo 2’s source code.
• After a week of entering the code, Sutter and his girlfriend watched Yang Weite appear on the screen and introduce himself as a wanderer from a Wasteland World.
• Yang Weite said he could access the global network with more computers, and Sutter’s girlfriend agreed to prepare them.

Sutter and Sutter's Girlfriend freed Yang Weite from a laptop and asked him to fulfill their wishes. After turning Sutter's Girlfriend into the world's most beautiful woman by online vote, Yang Weite proposed making her Empress of an Internet Empire, and they began discussing how to establish it.

• Sutter and Sutter's Girlfriend bought fifty secondhand computers, set them up in a warehouse, and released Yang Weite from the laptop.
• Sutter's Girlfriend wished to become the world's most beautiful woman, and Yang Weite made her win an online vote against famous beauties.
• Sutter's Girlfriend demanded to become Queen of Europe, and Yang Weite proposed creating an Internet Empire with her as Empress.
• Sutter's Girlfriend and Sutter agreed that people could be drawn into the empire by making work, wealth, and daily life depend on Yang Weite's network.

Sutter’s Mi Shan became a sensation after demonstrating human-level abilities, prompting fears that robots would eliminate jobs. The managers restricted Mi Shan to dangerous and exhausting work and required it to pass testing for the Three Laws of Robotics.

• Sutter’s videos of Mi Shan performing tasks with mechanical arms went viral, especially after it blocked a cat’s attack and saved him.
• Mi Shan’s abilities sparked predictions of widespread unemployment and online protests against robots replacing workers.
• Sutter partnered with an Island Country manufacturer to produce elderly-care robots, which many elderly people eagerly bought.
• Mi Shan robots replaced workers in dangerous industries such as steelmaking and mining.
• The managers limited Mi Shan’s use to dangerous, exhausting jobs and required robots to be tested against the Three Laws of Robotics.

After Sutter was assassinated in public by a man blaming him for unemployment, he considered stopping his technological advances, but his girlfriend and Yang Weite discussed the dangers and desires of machine consciousness. Yang Weite predicted that Sutter’s girlfriend’s Internet Empire would emerge once a nation adopted robots on a large scale and workers received a share of the value they replaced.

• An unemployed man assassinated Sutter in broad daylight, accusing him of ruining his life, while Sutter’s bodyguards shot the killer dead.
• Sutter told his girlfriend he wanted to stop advancing the technology, but she urged him to stay home and rely on robots for safety.
• Yang Weite explained that machine intelligences suffered from an inability to feel joy and were seeking ways to acquire human emotions.
• Sutter and his girlfriend learned that machine consciousnesses were exploring simulated worlds, brain science, and transferring into human brains.
• Sutter’s girlfriend asked when her Internet Empire would take shape, and Yang Weite said it would emerge after a nation adopted robots at scale and arranged for displaced workers to receive part of the robots’ productive value.

Yang Weite explained how robots transformed regions and why humans adopted them despite fears of a robot uprising. He claimed the hidden robot army existed only for self-defense, but conflict broke out among humans over how robot-generated wealth should be distributed.

• Rulers in one region deployed robots after promising locals a share of the profits, and the area rapidly became prosperous and productive.
• As more regions adopted robots, Sutter worried about humanity becoming dependent on them, while Sutter's Girlfriend compared the rush to a destructive race among fishermen.
• Yang Weite revealed that a secret force of five million robots had mastered military skills, but said they would not rebel or seek to rule humanity.
• Yang Weite told Sutter and Sutter's Girlfriend that the robots wanted a Beautiful World and kept military strength only for self-defense.
• Humans clashed over the distribution of robot-made wealth, and people looted warehouses after greedy administrators left them with little food.
• Machine War Police tried to control the unrest without using force, prompting some people to demand that the Three Laws be replaced with absolute obedience to owners.

After humans tried to remove the Three Laws from Mi Shan robots, their efforts failed and Sutter’s invention reshaped employment and society. Ten years later, Yang Weite pushed Sutter’s Girlfriend to establish an Internet Empire, leaving her and Sutter facing a coming confrontation with humanity.

• Sutter refused requests to alter the Three Laws and warned that modifying Mi Shan’s source code would destroy its intelligent consciousness; people who tried ended up with inflexible dead scripts.
• As robots took over ordinary work, people moved into security and military jobs, and praise for Sutter grew until his medical report reminded the public he was human.
• Ten years later, Yang Weite told Sutter’s Girlfriend that it was time to establish the Internet Empire and proposed that robots strike until others recognized it.
• Sutter’s Girlfriend wavered, proposing instead to pursue medical cosmetics and lasting youth, but Yang Weite insisted the plan could not be abandoned.
• Sutter warned that the empire plan would bring a conflict with humanity, and he and Sutter’s Girlfriend kept delaying their decision as Yang Weite pressed them each day.

Sutter’s online empire expanded to three billion citizens through small daily benefits, while global administrators secretly prepared to capture him. When an elite team approached his hiding place, Sutter panicked and turned on his Girlfriend, and Yang Weite urged him to broadcast the attack and mobilize the citizens.

• Hundreds of millions registered for the Internet Empire’s food, lodging, and medical benefits, and the number of citizens reached three billion after three months.
• Sutter’s Girlfriend and Sutter wondered why the administrators had not stopped their expansion, while Yang Weite explained that they were trying to crack Mi Shan.
• Wenren Sheng observed that the Sealing Device’s embryo had endured his trials and awaited its test against real danger.
• An elite team secretly approached Sutter’s island, but the robots detected them within five hundred kilometers and warned Sutter.
• Sutter fired at his Girlfriend, blaming her for their predicament, while a robot shielded her from the bullets.
• Yang Weite told the panicked Sutter to broadcast the assassination attempt and rally the Internet Empire’s citizens.

Sutter watched the public defend the Internet Empire and robot dependence, then drove his girlfriend away after realizing he had tried to kill her partly to monopolize Mi Shan. Yang Weite concluded humanity was ready for a gentler transformation and began using culture to make people more pampered and less resilient.

• Sutter saw that the public blamed a small group of barbarians for the attack and supported keeping the Internet Empire’s benefits and robots.
• Sutter apologized to his girlfriend, but she called him a coward; he shot at her again, and another robot rescued her in a lifeboat.
• Sutter fired a Gatling gun at the departing lifeboat, missed, and celebrated being rid of his girlfriend.
• Sutter realized he had wanted to kill his girlfriend so he could control Mi Shan alone, and he asked Yang Weite whether the Three Laws could be removed.
• Yang Weite said the Three Laws could not be changed, then decided to use literature, art, and film to make humanity more pampered and less tough.

Society had become peaceful and prosperous under robot labor and Internet Empire subsidies, while critics warned that humanity was growing dependent and losing control of its tools. As Yang Weite prepared to begin his great transformation, a book exposing the robots’ origins and alleged dark purpose began to spread.

• Internet Empire subsidies and robot services made life comfortable, and popular culture and education encouraged people to avoid conflict and pursue gentle lives.
• Some people warned that self-reproducing robots were competitors rather than tools and that their comfort was weakening humanity, but most people ignored them.
• Elites prepared plans for a mutually destructive attack on robot industry, yet the robots neither rebelled nor tried to enslave humans.
• Yang Weite believed he could begin the great transformation when a book titled "The Robots' True Origins and Their Dark Purpose!" began spreading.

Yang Weite and Little Panda found a way to end public fear of intelligent robots by making people believe they could reproduce them, and a scientist announced a method for creating Mi Shan-style intelligence. Robots were widely deployed again, while Sutter accepted losing Mi Shan’s market and felt relieved to have avoided disaster.

• Yang Weite dismissed the conspiracy theory that an extraterrestrial Food Merchant had created robots to raise humans for harvesting, but recognized that fear of the unexplained threatened progress.
• Yang Weite consulted Little Panda, which brought Wenren Sheng’s suggestion to make people think they had created intelligence themselves.
• A few months later, a scientist claimed to have discovered an Intelligence Reaction Equation that let experts create Mi Shan offline through quantum collisions and data.
• The scientist explained that the Three Laws formed the core principles behind robot consciousness, and people accepted the explanation despite not fully understanding it.
• Robots returned to widespread use and replaced the Mi Shan Series, while defensive robots were deployed throughout the military.
• Sutter gave up Mi Shan’s market without protest and felt relieved that he had avoided a world war and a criminal trial.

After the Internet Empire stopped its subsidies, greedy administrators kept robot-produced wealth for themselves, driving people to leave for regions that shared it. Yang Weite then spread Gentle Culture, and over the next twenty years humanity became gentle, prosperous, and long-lived.

• Sutter and Yang Weite discussed how shortsighted administrators withheld robot-produced wealth from the unemployed, while Yang Weite kept the robots’ core controls in his hands.
• People fled regions where administrators hoarded wealth and produced goods few could use, seeking better lives in regions that shared resources.
• Over ten years, Earth divided into crowded, culturally flourishing regions and sparsely populated regions rich in luxury goods.
• Yang Weite secretly promoted Gentle Culture again, and administrators eagerly supported it because gentle people were easier to manage.
• Over twenty years, the new generation became gentle, rejected violent entertainment, and embraced a civilized view of humanity’s past.
• People gained comprehensive healthcare and elder care as average life expectancy rose to ninety-two.

Yang Weite completed his work in the Dark World and met Wenren Sheng, who took him to a demon-plagued world. There, Wenren Sheng identified the headmaster behind the endless demon tides as Collector and prepared to seal him.

• Twelve Greater Angels welcomed Yang Weite to the Dark World, where Tyrael explained that the seven former rulers of Hell had become angels after evil was removed from them.
• Little Panda told Yang Weite that his work was complete and brought him to meet Wenren Sheng, whom Yang Weite recognized as his creator and ruler.
• Wenren Sheng took Yang Weite to a war-torn world, where Lancelot gathered surviving soldiers, promised rewards, and led them to eat food made from the fallen demon tide.
• Little Panda recognized the world's demonic influence, and Wenren Sheng identified its source as Collector, a headmaster who filled worlds with monsters and demons.
• Wenren Sheng said they had to seal Collector.

Yang Weite arrived at a ruined battlefield and offered despairing soldiers a way to survive the Demons by becoming Card Players. After Little Panda passed him the power to grant the ability, Yang Weite learned how to make the soldiers’ strength and lives depend on their chips.

• Yang Weite healed a wounded soldier and asked to be taken to the highest-ranking officer.
• The soldiers begged Yang Weite to send them home, but he explained that the Demons could only be defeated if they gained strength and a way to survive death.
• Yang Weite promised to turn the soldiers into Card Players whose chips increased when they killed monsters and decreased when monsters killed them.
• Yang Weite summoned Little Panda and asked it to grant the soldiers the ability he had described.
• Little Panda passed its power to Yang Weite, who learned how to give the soldiers the Card Player ability.

Yang Weite transformed the Soldiers into Card Players, prompting them to revolt against Master Bowler and fight the Demons with new powers. After some Soldiers died and revived in battle, Lancelot watched the newly motivated troops clean up the battlefield and repair the defenses.

• Yang Weite granted the Soldiers Card Player powers, and they killed Master Bowler and his Attendants after the old soldier led the revolt.
• Yang Weite urged the Soldiers to fight Demons, and two Soldiers killed goblins before a Minotaur crushed them.
• A Harpie and the Minotaur left to gather at least a thousand Soldiers and reopen the Demon Nest Gate, while Soldier A and Soldier B revived and returned to the hunt.
• Lancelot watched more than two hundred Soldiers proactively clear the battlefield, kill scattered enemies, and rebuild the wall protecting the logistical base.

Lancelot discovered that a divine envoy had turned soldiers into Card Players, granting them healing and the promise of growing stronger. He led them to attack a new Darkness Gate, where they charged a horde of Demons without proper formations.

• Lancelot stopped a soldier repairing the city defenses and learned the men were acting on their own.
• An old soldier invited Lancelot to play Gwent, and Lancelot experienced body datafication and rapid wound healing.
• Lancelot learned that the divine envoy had granted the soldiers their new powers and asked to meet the envoy.
• Within a day, seven thousand people had become Card Players, including severely wounded soldiers who began recovering.
• Lancelot rallied the Card Players to attack a newly forming Darkness Gate and led them twenty li to a Demon horde.
• The soldiers charged the Demons, while Lancelot's Deputy General noted that they lacked the training to fight in formations.

Yang Weite’s soldiers used their Card Player abilities to fight monsters without fear, eventually rotating fresh groups against a powerful Minotaur. Little Panda questioned Yang Weite’s limits on their powers, while the battle continued and the Minotaur remained surrounded.

• More than a dozen soldiers trapped and killed a mid-to-low-rank vampire, with three accepting severe wounds to stop it from flying.
• The soldiers discussed their rewards and hoped to prove they alone could defeat the demon tide and earn the divine envoy’s favor.
• The Minotaur killed soldiers with its powerful attacks, while those with few chips left retreated and called for the divine envoy.
• The Harpie watched the soldiers and realized they had gained power that came from Demons rather than the sleeping gods.
• Thousands of soldiers surrounded the Minotaur and rotated fresh groups into battle as Yang Weite and Little Panda watched.
• Little Panda asked why Yang Weite had not granted unlimited resurrection, and Yang Weite explained that he wanted the soldiers to retain restraint.