Recaps

Chen Mengchuan issued Tenzhi Technology’s final statement, affirming the company’s commitment to peaceful space exploration while its industrial park remained locked down. He then spoke with senior officials, reaffirmed Tenzhi’s plans to explore Mars and establish a human survival base, and left the authorities to consider their response.

• Chen Mengchuan sent a statement to Tenzhi Technology’s employees and partners declaring that the company opposed Earth’s conflicts and was dedicated to exploring space.
• Tenzhi employees shared the statement online and voiced their support for the company’s mission.
• Tenzhi Technology locked down its industrial park and activated its high-intensity anti-gravity defense field while a massive craft hovered nearby.
• Zhao Wanyu connected Chen Mengchuan with military and administrative senior officials after Xu Shuwei urged him to hear them out.
• Chen Mengchuan reaffirmed his opposition to war and described Tenzhi’s long-term plans for Mars exploration and a human survival base.
• After the call ended, the elderly official at the Xiajīng City command center sighed and became resolute.

Sailors aboard the USS Styx learned that Tenzhi Technology’s enormous anti-gravity ship, the Tiansuo, had launched, then watched it emerge from a blue portal in front of the Seventh Fleet. Captain Hannifin received orders from American Parent Donald TLP to negotiate while preparing for war, and the fleet aimed its weapons at the Tiansuo.

• Noel told Kevin and the other sailors that Tenzhi Technology’s Tiansuo was reportedly hundreds of times larger than the Styx.
• The fleet received word that the Tiansuo had taken off, and a vast blue aperture appeared in the sky ahead of the Styx.
• The Tiansuo passed through the aperture and appeared above the sea in front of the Seventh Fleet.
• Captain Hannifin ordered the fleet to hold fire without orders and contacted American Parent Donald TLP for instructions.
• Donald TLP told Hannifin to seek negotiations while preparing for war and authorized all attack methods, including nuclear weapons, if the Tiansuo showed aggression.
• Hannifin put the fleet on combat alert, and its ships and submarines locked missiles and weapons onto the Tiansuo.

Aboard the Tiansuo, Zhao Wanyu ordered the Seventh Fleet to withdraw or face detention, but its commanders ignored the warning and attacked. After the Tiansuo effortlessly intercepted the first missiles, the fleet ordered every vessel to open fire, leaving the confrontation underway.

• The Tiansuo appeared above the high seas near the Seventh Fleet, and Zhao Wanyu ordered the fleet to withdraw within ten minutes or be detained.
• The Seventh Fleet’s commanders rejected the warning and launched aircraft to reconnoiter and probe the Tiansuo.
• Zhao Wanyu issued a second warning, giving the fleet four minutes to withdraw.
• Night Hawk helicopters fired missiles at the Tiansuo, but the missiles exploded in midair without reaching it.
• The Seventh Fleet’s commanders ordered all vessels to open fire on the Tiansuo.

The Tiansuo repelled the fleet’s attacks without taking damage, and Chen Mengchuan demanded the fleet surrender or face destruction. The fleet lowered white flags, ending its resistance.

• The fleet fired missiles and shells at the Tiansuo, but its defensive field intercepted every attack before it came within 800 meters.
• The commander aboard the Lanling ordered fighter jets and helicopters to attack from multiple angles, but the Tiansuo remained unharmed.
• After the ten-minute deadline expired, Chen Mengchuan authorized a devastating strike unless the fleet surrendered.
• The Tiansuo broadcast its demand for surrender, prompting a fierce argument among the Lanling’s commanders.
• The lieutenant general aboard the Lanling called headquarters to report their defeat, and ten minutes later every ship raised a white flag.

On the ninth day of the Tiansuo’s journey to Mars, Chen Mengchuan learned the ship was expected to arrive in about six days and followed Tenzhi Technology’s work on Earth. The chapter left the company beginning trial treatments for ten leukemia patients using two newly developed plans.

• After America gave up resisting, Tenzhi Technology negotiated with multiple parties and departed Earth aboard the Tiansuo, leaving Zhao Wanyu, Sun Zhongyong, Gu Xiaoxiao, and others behind.
• Chen Mengchuan shared raspberries with Toni and asked how long the Tiansuo would take to reach Mars; Toni estimated another six days.
• Chen Mengchuan checked on the graphene biological device department, where Andre and the two Island Nation men’s team were developing treatments for leukemia.
• Zhao Wanyu coordinated experts who refined eleven proposals into two non-bone-marrow-transplant treatment plans using DNA recombination editing technology.
• With the patients’ families’ consent and approval from Huaxia medical authorities, Tenzhi Technology began trial treatments for ten leukemia patients in Su City.

Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed the successful first phase of trial treatment and progress toward Lingkong 4.0, which would enable Huaxia to replace conventional power transmission. They also discussed plans for Mars and interstellar immigration, leaving Chen favoring the search for habitable planets over transforming barren Mars.

• Zhao Wanyu reported that all ten trial surgeries had gone smoothly and that Xu Mingsheng had requested approval for further research; Chen Mengchuan agreed to let the team continue.
• Zhao Wanyu reported that Lingkong 4.0 was nearing its first sample production test and that Huaxia Electric Grid was preparing to expand wireless power transmission nationwide.
• Zhao Wanyu said Huaxia Electric Grid was recalling overseas workers and planned to dismantle redundant transmission towers, which Tianzhi would recycle for materials useful to the Mars development plan.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed bringing family and colleagues to Mars, while acknowledging the planet's harsh conditions and the challenges of making it habitable.
• Chen Mengchuan said Mars could potentially be transformed but argued that finding more suitable habitable planets was more important for true interstellar immigration.

Chen Mengchuan led experts aboard the Tiansuo in developing a rapid Mars terraforming plan, using technology and cyanobacteria to warm the planet, retain its atmosphere, and prepare it for human settlement. After Yue'er calculated the plan's components, Chen ordered a comprehensive simulation, which would take about seven hours.

• Chen Mengchuan invited Xu Shuwei, Toni, and the experts to discuss terraforming Mars.
• Bordeaux proposed using cyanobacteria to absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, while Toni warned that a magnetic shield was needed to protect Mars's atmosphere from the Solar Wind.
• The group outlined a plan to block the Solar Wind, use Solar Reflectors to raise Mars's average temperature to 11 degrees Celsius, install 108 Giant Gravity Systems, thaw polar ice, and introduce cyanobacteria, Sand-fixing Fungi, and plants.
• Simba suggested using Gravity Thrusters to move Mars closer to the Sun, but the group rejected the idea because it could destabilize the Solar System's planetary orbits.
• With Yue'er's calculations, the group completed detailed designs and material estimates for the terraforming plan.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered Yue'er to devote 50% of her computing capacity to simulating the plan, and Yue'er estimated that the simulation would take seven hours.

As the Tiansuo approached Mars, Chen Mengchuan explained the robots and industrial systems prepared to survey and develop the planet. He left the group ready to begin a detailed Mars exploration and search for resources, including uranium for nuclear power.

• Chen Mengchuan and Xu Shuwei discussed the thirty-three-year terraforming estimate as the Tiansuo neared Mars.
• Chen Mengchuan introduced 128 L7332 Multi-Arm Crabs that would weave across Mars to map its surface in three dimensions.
• Chen Mengchuan explained that QS10086 mining robots would identify minerals and excavate promising sites, while the mission also sought uranium deposits for nuclear plants.
• Chen Mengchuan described the prepared electrothermal smelting technology and the JS001 gravity-accelerated drill bits, which Toni said could likely drill through Mars.

Chen Mengchuan and the Tiansuo crew discussed Huaxia’s new spatial transport network and Sun Zhongyong’s coastal cleanup program with Tenzhi’s executives. As the ship reached Mars’s outer orbit, Chen Mengchuan greeted the planet, leaving the expedition at the start of its journey beyond Earth.

• Chen Mengchuan met with Toni, Xu Shuwei, and Tenzhi’s executives in the Tiansuo’s main control room and discussed life aboard the ship and Mars’s harsh climate.
• Zhao Wanyu reported that Huaxia had approved six pilot sites for the Plan: Gate of Another Dimension, with a broader network of 119 spatial transit stations planned before the Spring Festival travel rush.
• Zhao Wanyu praised Sun Zhongyong for arranging coastal waste cleanup with Gravity Multi-Arm Crabs, a project expected to clear 99% of offshore waste in four months.
• Möbius served breakfast, and the group talked about Earth, Mars, the Solar System, and aliens while Chen Mengchuan considered the coming battle against alien forces.
• A staff member announced that the Tiansuo would reach Mars’s outer orbit in five minutes, and Chen Mengchuan greeted Mars as it appeared on the screen.

Chen Mengchuan and the crew arrived in Mars orbit, deployed 128 Exploration-type L7332 Multi-Arm Crabs to survey the planet, and organized the work for building their first Martian base. After two days of planning, the crew prepared for a months-long mission to establish a foothold on Mars.

• Chen Mengchuan ordered the observation window opened, and the crew gazed at Mars from orbit.
• Chen Mengchuan directed the deployment of the Exploration-type L7332 Multi-Arm Crabs, which spread out to map Mars from 128 orbital positions.
• Chen Mengchuan said the crew would remain in orbit for three days while the Crabs gathered data to help select a crater for the first base.
• Chen Mengchuan outlined a seven-zone base design with a central management area, three living zones, and three research zones.
• Chen Mengchuan assigned teams to the nuclear power plant, mineral exploration, metal smelting, asteroid capture, and glacier capture projects.
• After two days of meetings, the crew completed its initial Mars work plan and prepared for a mission lasting several months.

Zhao Wanyu reviewed A-Chen’s Mars exploration system and arranged for Ji Dong and Sun Zhongyong to integrate it into Tenzhi’s network, where Ji discovered a hidden Earth setting. That evening, game reviewer Li Tao tried the system and was stunned to learn its Mars environment had a maximum realism level of 32%.

• A-Chen showed Zhao Wanyu the completed web and mobile versions of the Mars planetary exploration system, which let users explore areas mapped by the Exploration Multi-Arm Crabs.
• Zhao Wanyu asked Ji Dong and Sun Zhongyong to prepare the system for integration into Tenzhi’s network and promotion.
• Ji Dong found a hidden setting that could switch the viewpoint to Earth and lock it there.
• Li Tao opened an email from Chen Mengchuan, logged into Tenzhi’s Future Exploration site, and entered a Mars exploration scene.
• Li Tao saw a prompt stating that the full-scale six-dimensional 3D Mars environment had a maximum adjustable realism level of 32%.

Li Tao explored Tenzhi Mars, a realistic Mars-development game that ended with a hostile spaceship destroying everything after ten years. As players discovered multiplayer rooms and joined forces, they still could not survive the attack.

• Li Tao asked Achen about the game's realism settings, learned it could reach 95%, and burned his mouth on a spicy fish tail.
• Li Tao explored Mars's fog-of-war map and learned to use resources, blueprints, mining, and time acceleration to develop the planet.
• Li Tao repeatedly reached the tenth year, when a giant spaceship destroyed his buildings and ended the game.
• Reports about Tenzhi Mars spread online, and players discovered they could create multiplayer rooms and cooperate on Mars's development.
• Hundreds of players joined forces to build weapons and structures, but the spaceship still defeated every group at the ten-year mark.

Chen Mengchuan and the Tiansuo crew selected Luoyu Crater and built a sealed, Earthlike primary base on Mars. After the first crew members arrived, supplies and several thousand people began transferring from the Tiansuo to the base.

• Yue'er identified more than a hundred possible Martian base sites, and Chen Mengchuan and the others chose Luoyu Crater.
• The Multi-Arm Crabs surveyed the crater, prepared a site southeast of its center, and rapidly built the base’s foundations, structure, and roof.
• The crew installed planting areas and sealed chambers, adjusted the base’s air and gravity, and confirmed it met basic conditions for human survival.
• Chen Mengchuan invited the Tiansuo crew to go to Mars, then ordered Yue'er to switch the ship to automatic control and dock with the base.
• Chen Mengchuan and a small group entered the base and toured it, while the Multi-Arm Crabs began transporting plants, food, equipment, and supplies.
• The remaining researchers and several thousand people transferred from the Tiansuo, becoming the first group of humans to set foot on Mars.

Tenzhi Technology revealed its completed Martian base, Six Flames Palace, and NASA confirmed the landing. At the base, Chen Mengchuan argued that humanity would have to destroy any extraterrestrial civilization it discovered if that was necessary for survival.

• Tenzhi Technology announced it had built a Martian survival base and released footage of its construction and crew entering it.
• NASA compared a new orbital photograph of Mars with an image from seven months earlier and confirmed the base was real.
• Tenzhi Technology released further images and data, naming the hexagonal base Six Flames Palace.
• Toni asked Chen Mengchuan whether players had solved the Mars exploration system’s war game, and Chen said no one had cleared its first level or left the Solar System.
• Toni and Xu Shuwei questioned Chen Mengchuan about humanity’s weapons and its response to extraterrestrial civilizations, and Chen said humans should strike first to protect themselves.
• Chen Mengchuan recalled a dreamlike vision of mechanical lifeforms exterminating humanity as casually as people killing flies.

Chen Mengchuan proposed establishing an armed division to defend humanity, directing Xu Shuwei to build a far-reaching early-warning system and Toni and Simba to advance source-point ring displacement technology for spatial-cutting weapons. He then told Zhao Wanyu about the plan, and she questioned whether it was too early to form the division before the technology was achieved.

• Chen Mengchuan told Xu Shuwei, Toni, and Simba that Tiansuo needed an armed division to protect humanity from potential alien threats.
• Chen Mengchuan tasked Xu Shuwei with forming an independent team to develop an early-warning defense system, beginning with coverage of the Solar System and eventually extending across the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Chen Mengchuan assigned Toni and Simba to join research into source-point ring displacement technology, which he hoped to turn into giant spatial-cutting weapons.
• Chen Mengchuan called Zhao Wanyu and explained that he planned to establish an armed division and begin developing giant spatial-cutting rings.
• Zhao Wanyu questioned whether it was too early to establish the division before source-point ring displacement technology had been achieved, and Chen Mengchuan said humanity was running out of time.

Zhao Wanyu began recruiting scientists for Tenzhi Technology’s new weapons division and organized a Mars research gathering. Braz learned that he had been invited, giving him a chance to return to scientific work.

• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan she would launch all the weapons projects and recruit the researchers needed for them.
• Zhao Wanyu ordered Achen to find leading scientists and invite them to a forty-two-day academic trip to the Martian base.
• Braz returned home from his waste-treatment job and learned that Kamik had called him about Tenzhi Technology’s Mars invitation.
• Kamik urged Braz to check his email, and Braz found an invitation from Tenzhi Technology that brought him to tears.

Chen Mengchuan reviewed Mars projects with his colleagues and learned that mineral exploration and metal smelter construction were progressing more slowly than expected. He agreed to arrange Tiansuo’s return to Earth so researchers could travel to Mars for a science summit, while teams continued working through the obstacles.

• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that Tiansuo could return to Earth and bring 18,000 researchers to Mars, and Chen agreed to arrange the trip.
• Simba told Chen Mengchuan that the Space Folding department had completed 124 folds across 80 kilometers and was close to reaching 120 kilometers.
• Xu Shuwei reported that exploration Multi-Arm Crabs had surveyed 72% of Mars, but mineral prospecting remained difficult because Earth’s geological methods did not apply well there.
• Chen Mengchuan learned that Xu Shuwei’s team had contacted geologists from various countries, some of whom planned to attend the Martian Science Summit.
• Möbius told Chen Mengchuan that seven metal smelter sites were under construction, while four additional sites lacked enough ultra-large gravity working platforms for construction.

Chen Mengchuan reviewed the progress of the Martian metal smelting and nuclear power projects, then described plans to supply the plant with glacier ice and capture asteroids for resources. The asteroid survey had identified sixty-two candidates, and the team was targeting valuable M-type metallic asteroids in the main belt.

• Chen Mengchuan urged Möbius to maintain progress so trained metal smelting employees could return to Mars aboard the next Tiansuo trip.
• Toni reported that the nuclear plant site surveys were incomplete and that choosing a suitable location would take time.
• Chen Mengchuan showed Toni and Puslin a glacier already cut free and said it could be delivered once the nuclear plant site was confirmed.
• Chen Mengchuan said the team had preliminarily detected sixty-two asteroids, including C-type, S-type, and M-type candidates.
• Chen Mengchuan explained that the team aimed to capture M-type metallic asteroids in the main belt and described how vast and sparsely populated the belt was.

Chen Mengchuan explained the asteroid survey and capture plans, while Xu Shuwei announced that a Mars mining robot had found signs of radioactive minerals. The group suspected the southern equatorial region held a pitchblende uranium deposit.

• Chen Mengchuan said their telescopes had identified sixty-two target asteroids, and capture ships were already heading toward them.
• Chen Mengchuan explained that the largest target was about 350 kilometers wide and described plans to develop Spatial Source Point Circle technology for extracting asteroid resources.
• Xu Shuwei received a message and announced that a QS10086 multifunctional Multi-Arm Crab had detected abundant alpha particles in rocks in Mars's southern equatorial region.
• Puslin explained that the readings most likely indicated a pitchblende uranium mine.

Chen Mengchuan and his team discussed a pitchblende deposit on Mars and decided to prioritize further exploration over mining it for now. As Tenzhi Technology’s Mars Science Summit approached, Earth’s scientific community eagerly anticipated the event despite resistance from many governments.

• Puslin explained pitchblende’s composition and history, and suggested it might contain technetium useful for nuclear batteries.
• Xu Shuwei asked Chen Mengchuan whether to send mining-exploration QS10086 multifunctional Multi-Arm Crabs to survey the deposit more thoroughly.
• Chen Mengchuan decided to keep searching for Mars’s mineral deposits and postpone extracting the uranium until it was needed.
• Tenzhi Technology’s upcoming Mars Science Summit stirred controversy among governments while invited experts and scientists looked forward to attending.
• Tenzhi Technology’s scientific resources, advanced technology, and expanding wireless-power services had made it increasingly influential and attractive to people around the world.

As the Mars Science Exchange Summit invitees toured Tenzhi Technology, Zhao Wanyu showed them the company’s work and Mars projects. Meanwhile, Chen Mengchuan and the others planned a vast power and smelting network on Mars and tested a method for cutting transported ice.

• Zhao Wanyu guided the summit invitees around Tenzhi Technology and described its humanitarian work, environmental projects, and plans for Mars.
• Chen Mengchuan and the others directed Martian operations aboard the returning Tiansuo, which was on track to reach Earth in about three days.
• Toni and the others selected a stepped crater 190 kilometers from the Martian base as the site for a 24-unit nuclear power plant and planned 60 relay stations across a region 2,000 kilometers wide.
• Chen Mengchuan and the asteroid capture division transported a large polar ice block to the power plant site for a cutting test.
• The team pushed the ice block through a source-point ring, then severed the ring and split the ice into two pieces with smooth cut surfaces.

The crew successfully used the Source Point Ring to cut a Martian iceberg into cubes and began forming an artificial lake while planning the construction of a nuclear power plant. After sixty hours of travel, the Tiansuo reached Earth, and Chen Mengchuan led the crew through a final Space-time Traversal toward home.

• Xu Shuwei announced the first large-scale Source Point Ring cutting experiment had succeeded, and gravity swarms stabilized the two halves of the iceberg.
• The crew spent a day cutting the glacier into forty-eight-meter cubes, which melted into a prepared basin and began forming an artificial lake.
• Toni explained that heating rods would melt the ice quickly, while Puslin described the Rankine cycle and said the nuclear power plant would take over twenty days to begin testing.
• After sixty hours of travel, the Tiansuo slowed as Earth came into view.
• Chen Mengchuan said it was time to go home, and the Tiansuo entered a pale-blue Source Point Ring.

The Tiansuo returned from Mars and landed above Tenzhi Technology Industrial Park in Su City, drawing worldwide attention. Huaxia resolved to support and cooperate with Tenzhi Technology, while other nations debated how to respond and the public speculated about Mars.

• The Tiansuo passed through the Source Point Circle and arrived over the East China Sea, and Chen Mengchuan ordered Huaxia and Tenzhi headquarters to be notified.
• Tenzhi cleared its facilities, and the Tiansuo emerged above Tenzhi Technology Industrial Park and returned to Earth.
• Media around the world reported the Tiansuo's return as Huaxia officials, including Li Zhongxia and Second Uncle Zhao, discussed how to respond.
• Huaxia adopted resolutions to support Tenzhi Technology, encourage its development, expand cooperation, and put its advances to public benefit.
• American officials split over whether to destroy, cooperate with, or guard against Tenzhi Technology, while other nations also began planning responses.
• People worldwide speculated about the Tiansuo's discoveries on Mars and the prospects for Martian settlement.

The Tiansuo returned to Earth, and Zhao Wanyu welcomed Chen Mengchuan and the crew back to Tenzhi Technology. After discussing their family and the leukemia treatment’s promising results, Chen Mengchuan reaffirmed his support for research into precise DNA sequencing and hinted at his ambitions for DNA editing.

• Zhao Wanyu watched the Tiansuo arrive at Tenzhi Technology Industrial Park and flew to meet it in a gravity sphere.
• Achen connected with Yue'er, guided Zhao Wanyu to Chen Mengchuan and the others, and the group returned to the industrial park for a welcoming gathering.
• Zhao Wanyu gave the returning crew time off and scheduled the Tiansuo to depart for Mars again in five days.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed their daughter Zhihui and his regret over spending so little time with his family.
• Zhao Wanyu reported that the leukemia patients were recovering well, and Chen Mengchuan promised to support precise DNA sequencing research once the treatment’s success was confirmed.

Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed supporting human evolution and recruiting scientists for Tenzhi Technology. Chen revealed a future treatment that cured Alzheimer's disease and could extend human lifespans, and Zhao Wanyu asked whether he had already mastered it.

• Chen Mengchuan told Zhao Wanyu he wanted to support precise DNA sequencing research to improve humanity's abilities and prepare for space and alien threats.
• Zhao Wanyu explained that most of the invited experts and scholars had attended the science summit and that Tenzhi Technology planned to recruit senior theoretical scholars to strengthen its research foundation.
• Chen Mengchuan asked Zhao Wanyu to arrange a meeting with Xu Mingsheng and asked whether Tenzhi Technology had medical research institutions studying Alzheimer's disease.
• Chen Mengchuan described a future treatment that cured Alzheimer's disease and extended elderly people's lifespans by one to thirty years.
• Zhao Wanyu asked Chen Mengchuan in astonishment whether he had mastered the treatment technology.