Chapter Summaries

Chen Mengchuan visited the gravity suit project team and met Easton, the inventor of its consciousness-control system. Easton explained how his team used Artificial Intelligence Achen to develop a headband that collected neural signals, and the project’s work continued.

• Chen Mengchuan asked Zhao Wanyu about the Manned Gravity Sphere, and she explained that it helped employees travel around the expanding campus.
• Chen Mengchuan watched four mini mechs fly steadily and learned that professional performers from Hai Province were testing them.
• Chen Mengchuan examined Su Xiaowei’s gravity suit design and recognized how its seventeen electronic levels helped maintain balance.
• Zhao Wanyu introduced Easton to Chen Mengchuan as the inventor of the consciousness-control system used in the helmet.
• Chen Mengchuan praised Easton’s brainwave-controlled mechanical arm, and Easton described how his team used Artificial Intelligence Achen to develop a neural-signal headband for the gravity suit.

Chen Mengchuan reviewed the SOR brainwave motion data headband and gravity suit, then proposed developing the technology into equipment for robotic police officers. After seeing Su Xiaowei’s Little White Dragon mech design, he learned that the team had already built and tested a prototype and ordered it brought out for A-Chen to recalibrate.

• Easton explained how A-Chen classified more than a hundred thousand SOR brainwaves into signal features that let people control gravity suits.
• Chen Mengchuan proposed working with Su Province’s public security department on a pilot program and providing Su City with two hundred improved gravity suits.
• Zhao Wanyu questioned whether the military and other countries would react to the robotic police project, and Chen Mengchuan said China could handle the preparations.
• Su Xiaowei showed Chen Mengchuan several mech designs, including the lightweight silver-white Little White Dragon.
• Su Xiaowei revealed that the team had built and tested the Little White Dragon prototype, and Chen Mengchuan ordered it brought out for A-Chen to recalibrate.

Chen Mengchuan inspected the Little White Dragon mecha and directed Achen and the laboratory staff as they upgraded its power, gravity, cooling, and control systems. The pilot entered the completed mecha to begin a test flight.

• Su Xiaowei activated the Little White Dragon, and Chen Mengchuan used Achen to scan its data and identify needed improvements.
• A pilot attempted an initial flight, but the mecha wobbled because its gravity parameters were uncalibrated.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered the staff to replace the gravity nodes and power supply, adjust the mecha, and add a temperature-regulating suit and improved headset.
• Achen completed the upgrades, including the automated multidirectional gravity system and enhanced SOR Consciousness Control System.
• Chen Mengchuan explained the controls to the pilot, who climbed into the Little White Dragon as its compartment sealed around him.

Fu Guoyi tested the Little White Dragon mech, learning to control it by thought and flying to 3,200 meters before returning safely. Videos of the flight went viral, and Chen Mengchuan concluded that the mech needed redesigning and better batteries to extend its range.

• Fu Guoyi donned the new flight suit and activated the Little White Dragon mech under Chen Mengchuan’s supervision.
• Fu Guoyi practiced controlling the mech, then flew upward as Chen Mengchuan monitored its flight data.
• Fu Guoyi reached 3,200 meters, followed Little White Dragon’s warning to turn back, and landed safely.
• Videos of the mech flying near the Super Tenzhi Building spread across Douyin and drew shocked reactions.
• Fu Guoyi described the test to Chen Mengchuan and the researchers, and Chen Mengchuan called for a redesign with graphene silicon krypton-gold batteries.

Tenzhi Technology demonstrated the Little White Dragon armor to Su Province officials and secured approval for a 200-unit public security pilot in Su City. As the project drew national and international attention, Chen Mengchuan learned that Andre’s team had completed its first graphene chip.

• Zhao Wanyu told Second Uncle about Tenzhi Technology’s plan, and he brought provincial public security leaders to Su City to inspect the armor.
• Fu Guoyi demonstrated the Little White Dragon armor’s flight, while Chen Mengchuan explained its protective features and proposed donating 200 sets in exchange for usage and flight data.
• Su Province accepted Tenzhi Technology’s terms and granted the company a two-billion-Huaxia-Yuan tax reduction.
• Su Province and Su City announced the Gravity Mechanical Police pilot, prompting widespread media coverage and public excitement over the 200 Little White Dragon armors.
• Andre told Chen Mengchuan that his team had completed a three-transistor graphene chip, and Chen congratulated the researchers on the breakthrough.

Chen Mengchuan celebrated the graphene team’s first miniature graphene photonic quantum computer and learned that limited production could support the Tiansuo. He revealed the spacecraft project to Andre and Pisfu and set a two-month deadline for a supercomputer that would power the Tiansuo’s AI as it prepared for a Mars mission.

• Pisfu and Andre showed Chen Mengchuan their graphene tri-transistor CPU and described its capabilities and the challenges of developing it.
• The graphene team activated Tenzhi Technology’s first miniature graphene photonic quantum computer, and Chen Mengchuan learned that two months of small-scale production could meet the Tiansuo’s needs.
• Chen Mengchuan celebrated with the team, got drunk, and woke the next morning to flee with Zhao Wanyu after Mother Chen nagged him.
• Chen Mengchuan and Gu Xiaoxiao met with Andre and Pisfu to plan small-scale production and establish the Graphene Photonic Quantum Supercomputer Project.
• Chen Mengchuan told Andre and Pisfu about the Tiansuo and the Martian base plan, and tasked them with building its supercomputer within two months.
• Chen Mengchuan’s plan called for the Tiansuo to travel to Mars, deploy more than two thousand Multi-Arm Crabs, and eventually bring the first human colonists to the planet.

The first fifty improved Little White Dragon mechas began flight testing at Tenzhi Technology Industrial Park as public security guards trained to operate them. Chen Mengchuan said China’s new strength would be fleeting compared with humanity’s future in space, while the Tiansuo continued its rapid construction toward a Mars colonization mission.

• Fu Guoyi demonstrated the Little White Dragon mecha and explained the flight-test limits and safety rules to the 1,200 public security guards.
• The first group of guards boarded fifty mechas and took off as reporters and onlookers broadcast the test across China.
• Chen Mengchuan and the Tenzhi Technology executives watched the flight test from a laboratory rooftop.
• Toni worried that the mechas would change the global military balance, and Chen Mengchuan said humanity’s true goal was the stars and the sea.
• The chapter noted that the Tiansuo was under construction and that Tenzhi Technology planned to send it to Mars for a colonists program.

Chen Mengchuan inspected Zhao Wanyu’s Manned Gravity Sphere, approved its design, and ordered the development of sealed models for outer space. After Zhao Wanyu took him on a nerve-racking flight to the Tenzhi Building, the two were alone in his office.

• Zhao Wanyu showed Chen Mengchuan the 2.5-meter Manned Gravity Sphere and explained its design, power systems, and autonomous driving features.
• Chen Mengchuan reviewed the four sphere models and raised the standards for future designs, authorizing cooperation with the Biological Cycle Conversion Project Department on versions for outer space.
• Zhao Wanyu invited Chen Mengchuan to ride in the sphere, and she piloted it from the laboratory toward the Super Tenzhi Building.
• Chen Mengchuan grew nervous as Zhao Wanyu accelerated and the sphere swayed, but she docked it securely at the Tenzhi Building’s top-floor office area.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu entered the office, and he told A-Chen to lock the floor and prevent disturbances.

Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu discussed a transportation partnership and the slow progress of Source Point Ring technology. Zhao launched a global recruitment and acquisition drive for graphene expertise, while Chen joined Toni’s team to accelerate the work on Independent Energy Storage Technology.

• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that China's transportation department wanted Gravity Trains, Urban Gravity Transportation, Multi-Arm Crabs, and an Artificial Intelligence system, and Chen approved some cooperation but rejected selling the crabs or high-spec AI.
• Chen explained that the Source Point Rings still lacked sufficient size and Independent Energy Storage Technology, while Space Folding and Space-time Traversal remained limited.
• Zhao agreed to recruit graphene researchers and acquire companies with advanced graphene technology to support new photonic quantum supercomputers.
• Chen met Toni, promised the Space-time Traversal department the first batch of new supercomputers, and agreed to work with him on Independent Energy Storage Technology.
• Toni asked Chen to transfer Simba and Su Ruifeng or Tang Lingling to his team, and Chen argued with him over the requests.

Chen Mengchuan’s team remained unable to verify their source point ring energy storage technology, so Zhao Wanyu persuaded them to take a break. She then took Chen Mengchuan on a fast gravity sphere trip to visit Miss Sonoko, reminding him how much time had passed and bringing the threat of alien spacecraft back to his mind.

• Chen Mengchuan reviewed Toni’s stalled energy storage project, whose source point ring collapsed whenever they disconnected it for testing.
• After the team made no progress for another week, Zhao Wanyu urged Chen Mengchuan and Toni to give everyone a break.
• Chen Mengchuan sent the project team away to relax, and Zhao Wanyu revealed that she had modified her gravity sphere for extreme speed.
• Zhao Wanyu flew with Chen Mengchuan toward Wutumeiren Township at 459 kilometers per hour to visit Miss Sonoko and deliver supplies.
• Zhao Wanyu reminded Chen Mengchuan that two years had passed since they met and that their daughter Chen Zhihui was seven and a half months old, causing him to remember the alien spacecraft.

Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu learned that the Gravity Mechas had become a hit after their first day protecting Su City, then traveled to Balagetu Village to bring school supplies. They discovered Ayase Sonoko had returned to Island Nation, and the chapter ended with Zhao Wanyu and Chen Mengchuan spending the night at the Xu family's home.

• Two hundred Little White Dragon Gravity Mechas began serving as mechanical police in Su City, where they rescued people and gained widespread public praise.
• Sun Zhongyong received requests from other cities for mechas, and Zhao Wanyu told him to sell them for twelve million Huaxia Yuan each and arrange pilot training.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu arrived at Balagetu Village and brought school supplies to the elementary school.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu learned that Ayase Sonoko had been transferred back to Island Nation a year earlier.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu stayed overnight with the Xu family, and Zhao Wanyu teased him after he fell asleep.

Chen Mengchuan found a new way to store energy in source-point circles after an insight sparked by a compass, allowing the Tiansuo’s traversal technology to advance. The chapter ended as his team activated the first source-point circle and watched blue rings form in the void.

• Chen Mengchuan taught the village children plane geometry and realized a compass could help him solve the source-point energy-storage problem.
• Chen Mengchuan spent four days developing his theory, then returned to Tenzhi Technology with Zhao Wanyu and his research materials.
• Chen Mengchuan proposed using the circle’s core source point to calculate its radius and guide a moving energy-storage point around the ring.
• Chen Mengchuan and the project team verified the energy-storage theory over sixteen days, completing a key step toward enabling the Tiansuo to enter the universe.
• Chen Mengchuan led the Particle Shuttle test, and the team successfully activated its initial source-point circle and began energy storage.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu watched two blue radiant rings form in the void.

Chen Mengchuan and his team completed the source point ring’s Independent Energy Storage Technology, enabling stable spatial portals to remain open for a limited time. Huaxia’s media celebrated the breakthrough, while experts speculated that Tenzhi Technology could soon send spacecraft to Mars.

• Chen Mengchuan oversaw a successful test that kept two source point rings stable after the Particle Shuttle stopped operating.
• Chen Mengchuan’s team tested the stored energy’s duration and recorded a theoretical source point ring lifetime of 39.15 seconds.
• Over the following half month, Chen Mengchuan, Toni, and Chisako refined the tests and calculated the final energy supply formula.
• Huaxia Official TV reported Tenzhi Technology’s breakthrough, and Huaxia media described the source point ring as a gateway to space exploration.
• Elder Ge told Huaxia Official TV that Tenzhi Technology could reach Mars in about two months, prompting widespread public discussion.

Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu prepared Tenzhi Technology’s unmanned Tenzhi 1 spacecraft to explore the Moon, while the company advanced its space-folding and communications projects. At the launch ceremony, Chen Mengchuan discovered that Zhao Wanyu had also arranged a manned flight with Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying; the chapter ended with Huaxia’s successful landing on the Moon’s far side.

• Chen Mengchuan advised Zhao Wanyu to explore the Moon before considering Mars, and she agreed to begin the project.
• Tenzhi Technology announced Tenzhi 1, a lunar exploration spacecraft carrying eighteen Multi-Arm Crabs, and declared its goal of finding worlds suitable for human habitation.
• Chen Mengchuan organized the next stages of Space Folding research, while Toni’s team worked on longer straight-line Space-time Traversal and Xu Shuwei’s team prepared communications for the lunar mission.
• Zhao Wanyu wanted to include a crew, but Chen Mengchuan opposed risking a manned flight, and she initially agreed to keep the mission unmanned.
• Seven days later, Chen Mengchuan noticed two larger mechs at Tenzhi 1’s launch ceremony and learned that Zhao Wanyu had arranged a manned flight with Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying.
• Huaxia successfully landed on the far side of the Moon.

Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying prepared to pilot Tenzhi 1 on humanity’s first anti-gravity manned lunar landing, while Chen Mengchuan overcame his doubts and authorized the launch. The ship began its countdown, leaving the mission poised for takeoff.

• Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying boarded Tenzhi 1 after embracing Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu and securing their astronaut mechs.
• More than 120 internet celebrities and media outlets broadcast Tenzhi Technology’s lunar landing program to audiences around the world.
• Chen Mengchuan admitted to Zhao Wanyu that she had shown greater courage, then renewed his resolve to protect humanity from the approaching alien civilization.
• A researcher announced that preparations were complete, and Chen Mengchuan pressed the launch button.
• Tenzhi 1 began its activation sequence as the gravity drive came online and the countdown started.

Tenzhi 1 launched successfully with Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying aboard as people around the world watched. After enduring turbulence and falling temperatures while crossing the troposphere, the spacecraft reached the stratosphere, where A-Yu warned the crew to prepare for gravitational fluctuations.

• Chen Mengchuan announced Tenzhi 1's launch as the spacecraft rose steadily into the sky.
• Zhao Wanyu activated Tenzhi 1's cameras, while Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying held hands inside the cabin and managed their nerves.
• A-Yu briefed Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying on the temperature drop and other conditions they would face in the troposphere.
• Chen Mengchuan announced that Tenzhi 1 had entered the troposphere as experts explained the atmospheric layer to the audience.
• Tenzhi 1 shook in the tropospheric air currents but continued climbing as its gravity system made adjustments.
• A-Yu announced that Tenzhi 1 had reached the stratosphere and warned Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying about upcoming gravitational fluctuations.

Tenzhi 1 carried Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying through Earth's atmospheric layers and into the exosphere, where it stabilized on its journey to the Moon. As people around the world watched and cheered, Zhang Ying looked back at Earth and said goodbye.

• Tenzhi 1 entered the mesosphere and accelerated as Chen Mengchuan explained the atmosphere to Sun Zhongyong.
• Ayu warned Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying about entering the thermosphere, and Tenzhi 1 shut off its external cameras and shot toward space.
• Ayu showed Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying messages from more than two billion viewers, and they thanked people on Earth through a broadcast.
• Tenzhi 1 passed through the thermosphere and entered the exosphere, then stabilized at 1,500 kilometers per hour on its way to the Moon.
• Zhang Ying approached the observation window, gazed at Earth through her tears, and said, “Hello, Earth...”

Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying adjusted to life aboard Tenzhi 1 as its lunar mission continued, while Zhao Wanyu and Li Zhongxia announced Lingkong 3.0 and plans to make Su City a Wireless City. Zhao Wanyu then turned to mass-producing tricrystalline graphene chips and developing a new graphene photonic quantum supercomputer for Tiansuo.

• Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying worked with A-Chen and researchers on the ground to complete Tenzhi 1's dual-gravity system and began preparing for lunar exploration.
• Zhao Wanyu received the completed Lingkong 3.0 test data and called Li Zhongxia to share the news that it could transmit power over 23,333 meters.
• Li Zhongxia brought Huaxia Electric Grid engineers to Su City, where they worked with Tenzhi Technology to plan a wireless network using sixteen Lingkong 3.0 power distribution centers.
• Zhao Wanyu and Li Zhongxia announced that Su City would soon become a Wireless City and that sixty more cities would begin wireless power upgrades.
• Zhao Wanyu turned to the graphene project, reorganized personnel with A-Chen, and began developing graphene photonic quantum supercomputers, with the first planned system designated as Tiansuo's core system.

Zhao Wanyu launched a project to build a new Seahorse graphene photonic quantum supercomputer while Chen Mengchuan concentrated on improving the Source Point Ring. Chen visited the Communications Department to check on Tenzhi 1 as it reached the Moon and prepared to deploy the Multi-Arm Crabs.

• Zhao Wanyu met with A-Chen, Gu Xiaoxiao, and the graphene department’s core members to plan a new supercomputer based on Seahorse.
• A-Chen helped the team produce and refine the design, and Zhao Wanyu launched the New Seahorse Graphene Photonic Quantum Supercomputer Project four days after the Lingkong 3.0 press conference.
• Chen Mengchuan continued testing the Source Point Ring with A-Chen and his team to improve its energy storage and prevent failures during spatial traversal.
• Zhao Wanyu told Chen Mengchuan that Tenzhi 1 had reached the Moon after eleven days and would begin deploying the Multi-Arm Crabs.
• Chen Mengchuan visited the Communications Department, where Xu Shuwei reported that astronauts Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying were in good condition and remained in frequent contact with ground staff.
• Chen Mengchuan met the communications team and greeted Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying over a video feed from Tenzhi 1.

Chen Mengchuan watched Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying begin deploying Multi-Arm Crabs around the Moon while discussing Tenzhi Technology’s plans with Xu Shuwei and Zhao Wanyu. He predicted that advances in wireless power transmission and Tiansuo would reshape Earth’s order.

• Chen Mengchuan spoke with Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying as Tenzhi 1 approached the Moon, and they described their preparations for deploying eighteen Multi-Arm Crabs.
• Xu Zhenglin and Zhang Ying opened the deployment chamber and released the first Multi-Arm Crab toward the lunar surface.
• Chen Mengchuan and Xu Shuwei left the communications group, and Xu Shuwei said he had lost weight to meet a woman’s condition for becoming his girlfriend.
• Zhao Wanyu described Su City’s wireless power network renovations and Huaxia Electric Grid’s cooperation with Tenzhi Technology.
• Chen Mengchuan outlined future Lingkong 4.0 power-transmission advances and said Tiansuo would rewrite Earth’s order.