Chapter Summaries

Song He and Xiang Xiaotong introduced their ten-volume book series, Future Economics, during a highly watched livestream. After outlining its scope and warning that its predictions were provisional, Song He prepared to begin presenting the books’ contents.

• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong began their livestream as its global audience surpassed 800 million viewers.
• Song He displayed the ten-volume Future Economics series, explaining that nine books contained the main text and the last held references and a glossary.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong described their self-taught approach, the experts they consulted, and the mathematical material in the books.
• Xiang Xiaotong explained that the books’ predictions and discussions of technologies such as synthesized meat did not express support for any particular viewpoint.
• Song He used Asimov’s elevator effect to warn that unforeseen inventions could overturn their forecasts, then announced that they would formally introduce the books’ contents.

Song He announced that Chenghuang’s next research target would be Alzheimer’s Disease and chose cephalopods as the focus, then received a mysterious outline for studying their nervous system. At the Alien Zoo, Director Zhao prepared the Octopus Pool and ordered the octopuses to enter.

• Song He revealed that he had bought Huang Family Cuisine Grand Restaurant for eight hundred million and said future celebration banquets would be held there.
• Song He explained that the team would pursue Alzheimer’s Disease research by investigating cephalopods and their complex nervous systems.
• The Wishing Well produced a Cephalopod Nervous System Elementary Outline that listed experimental directions and promised an advanced outline after the initial research was completed.
• Song He told Xiang Xiaotong that he had suddenly found inspiration for beginning cephalopod research.
• At the Alien Zoo, Director Zhao filled the Oceanarium tank to its marked level, waited for the water to clear, and ordered the octopuses to enter.

Song He and Xiang Xiaotong tested Hormone No. 5 on more octopuses, but their varied behaviors left the researchers unable to interpret the brain activity. They cautiously tried the hormone on an Experimental Monkey, whose reaction was still unknown at the chapter’s end.

• Xiang Xiaotong injected the crazed octopus with Artificial Brain Worms and Hormone No. 5, and its main brain showed intense activity as it spun in Gyro Mode.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong tested ten more octopuses, which reacted in three different ways: two spun, three repeatedly stretched and curled their tentacles, and five crawled around while imitating other creatures.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong decided to test Hormone No. 5 on monkeys before risking the talking Red-haired Gorillas Durian and Mango.
• The researchers restrained an Experimental Monkey, monitored its brain, and injected Hormone No. 5, but its unexpected reaction was not revealed.

Song He agreed to publish his neuropeptide paper back-to-back with Jin Shunlu's after Cell chose Jin Shunlu's team to appear first. As the papers became a flashpoint in international scientific rivalry, Song He prepared to finish verifying his results and study his rival's calculations.

• Song He accepted Cell's offer to publish his paper back-to-back with Jin Shunlu's team and challenged the editors' decision to place their paper first.
• Four days later, Cell released its new issue, and media outlets reported on the nearly identical papers and their competing neuropeptide models.
• Song He continued leading his team through the final stage of verification, worried that small calculation errors might accumulate.
• Professor Ma warned Song He that the Lunar City Project and the New Apollo Project had turned the papers into an international technological flashpoint.
• Song He told Professor Ma that his team expected to finish verifying their results that night and agreed to examine Jin Shunlu's paper afterward.

Song He traveled to Banxia City as public concern mounted over Dewitt and Deng Puhe’s deteriorating health and the reputation of hibernation technology. He arrived at the Hibernation Center determined to prove the skeptics wrong, then dismissed its leaders and ordered them to return to work.

• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong marveled at the crowded aerial roads over Banxia City as their Flying Car approached the Hibernation Center.
• Song He read online reports that Dewitt and Deng Puhe had lost much of their mobility, completed long-term waiting procedures, and might soon enter hibernation again.
• Public opinion divided between people accusing Chenghuang Company of false advertising and people defending hibernation technology’s life-extending effects.
• Song He reasoned that Dewitt and Deng Puhe’s recovery would greatly improve Chenghuang’s reputation.
• Hibernation Center leaders gathered to welcome Song He, who ordered most of them to disperse and handwrite self-criticisms.

Song He introduced the Extraterrestrial Life Museum project, arguing that vivid stories and realistic alien exhibits could keep future generations committed to exploring space. He offered students substantial bonuses for scientifically rigorous alien-creature designs, then displayed a price list.

• Song He compared the Space Age to the Age of Exploration and warned that high costs could make humanity abandon space exploration, as Zheng He's voyages and the Lighthouse's lunar program had ended.
• Song He said he wanted to use stories to inspire children to explore the universe and revealed plans to donate Extraterrestrial Life Museums across the country over the next ten years.
• Song He explained that the museums would display scientifically grounded Alien Creature specimens and asked students to create them as rigorously deduced scientific art.
• Song He promised substantial bonuses to the students whose creations appeared in the museums and clicked to reveal a price list.

Orange Juice confessed that it and its accomplices had cracked AI video software, run an illicit website, and spread Trojan emails, leading Song He and the authorities to arrest them. The gorillas were sentenced to two and a half years in the Alien Zoo Internal Prison, while Song He ordered Zhao Yiyi to write a five-thousand-word self-criticism.

• Orange Juice described how it, Yellow Peach, and Sausage cracked AI video software, operated a website with overseas payments, and used Trojan emails to attract users.
• Zhao Yiyi, Song He, Director Shang, and Officer Liu photographed the evidence and brought Yellow Peach and Sausage in to join Orange Juice.
• Director Shang announced that the three gorillas would lose their equipment and illegal earnings, pay fines, and serve two and a half years in the Alien Zoo Internal Prison.
• Orange Juice was locked in a small cell and regretted its actions as it faced its sentence.
• Director Shang and Officer Liu signed Confidentiality Agreements and left the zoo after discussing its intelligent animals and plans to import more red-haired gorillas.
• Song He told Zhao Yiyi to write a five-thousand-word self-criticism for failing in her duty.

Song He and Xie Yuanxun discussed the Dream Control Helmet, the dangers of North Carolina Blue’s Dream Maniac, and the limits of the new-generation Rejuvenation Drug. They left a very tall student with hope of fitting into future space settlements, then answered questions from the audience.

• Song He explained that the Dream Control Helmet was exceptionally difficult to replicate and regretted not warning the public more forcefully about the dangers of Dream Maniac.
• Xie Yuanxun condemned North Carolina Blue and Wei Rui Pharmaceutical for evading responsibility for the Dream Maniac tragedy.
• A 2.19-meter-tall student asked whether the new-generation Rejuvenation Drug could make her shorter, and Song He explained that it could only slow aging rather than reverse it.
• Xiang Xiaotong and Song He said a height-reducing drug would be medically risky and impractical, while Xie Yuanxun noted that few people would buy one.
• Song He encouraged the student by predicting that many tall people might live in space settlements in the future, where she would fit in.
• Xie Yuanxun and Song He answered a question about making money, describing how difficult fundraising had been and advising people to pursue work they could bear doing.

Song He studied the slow deaths of connected-brain mice and received incomplete data for a brain-boosting beverage from the Wishing Well. He discovered that the beverage required a substance from Ben Bo'er Ba-form mice and could greatly increase gorilla intelligence, but the chapter ended as he noticed a problem in the data.

• Song He assigned researchers to study Ben Bo'er Ba-form mice and analyzed how their brains partially shut down as they slowly died.
• Xiang Xiaotong prepared extremely difficult final exams while Song He stayed in the laboratory, earning him a large amount of Resentment Value from students.
• Song He invested his accumulated Resentment Value in the Wishing Well and received incomplete data for a brain-boosting beverage.
• Song He learned that the beverage's core ingredient came from the brains of Ben Bo'er Ba-form mice and could promote neuron growth.
• Song He discovered that gorillas could gain enough intelligence from long-term consumption to build treehouses and learn simple writing, then found a problem while reviewing the data.

Ding Yangze and Ji Tianhe discovered that the sea monster used focused ultrasound to control animals, while Song He and Xiang Xiaotong explained the research behind sound genetics. Song He then tried to communicate with the hostile sea monster, which insisted it had given birth to itself and demanded to go home.

• Ding Yangze explained that the sea monster's ultrasound could activate proteins in its targets, and that mirrors might let it locate a monkey it could not see directly.
• Song He described sound genetics and ultrasound-sensitive proteins, while Xiang Xiaotong encouraged Ding Yangze to study the sea monster's unusual abilities.
• Song He, Xiang Xiaotong, Ding Yangze, and Ji Tianhe wore helmets made by Durian to protect themselves from the sea monster's ultrasound and approached its tank.
• Song He greeted the sea monster on a whiteboard, but it ignored him until Ding Yangze reminded it that Song He and Xiang Xiaotong were the kings of Sea Monster Pavilion.
• The sea monster wrote that it wanted to go home and threatened to kill them, while Song He demanded that it speak properly.
• Song He explained how mother octopuses care for their eggs and die after their young hatch, but the sea monster claimed it was not an octopus, had no mother, and had given birth to itself.

Song He completed several research papers and was assigned to compete in the Six School Joint Exam against third-year students, then struggled through the first round of midterms. His score report arrived that evening, leaving him shocked by its contents.

• Lu Chengen, Lu Gaoming, and Fan Tao rewrote Song He's biology papers in Chinese while Song He, Chu Long, and Qiu Lingshan finished a mathematics paper for submission to Algebra & Number Theory.
• Song He and Lu Chengen planned to submit three Chinese-language biology papers to Nature, Science, and Cell, while Song He turned his attention to his weaker school subjects.
• Ban Jianye announced two rounds of midterms and revealed that Song He alone had been selected from the first year to compete for the Six School Joint Exam's top 100 against five thousand third-year students.
• Song He took third-year exams, struggling with Chinese, English, and physics, doing well in mathematics and biology, and feeling more confident about chemistry.
• Song He skipped the first-year politics, history, and geography exams, studied in his dormitory, and was startled when his score report arrived.

Ajaya explained that Song He's attacks on the Seven Giants were shifting global capital toward Asia and genuine value investing. As panic spread, Song He found a growing list of deaths and violent incidents tied to the market collapse.

• Ajaya predicted that Song He's third strike would deepen the Seven Giants' losses and reshape the global economic order, shifting prosperity toward Asia.
• The financial program abruptly ended after Ajaya saw someone apparently fall from a window.
• Song He searched for news and found reports of more than thirty deaths and violent incidents linked to losses and bets involving the Seven Giants.
• Online commenters described the panic, including a hedge-fund worker's suicide, and wondered whether Song He would make another move.

Song He confronted Chenghuang’s shareholders after a sweeping purge uncovered extensive theft and corruption, forcing three companies to surrender their shares and proceeds. The meeting continued as he ordered another set of documents distributed.

• A weeklong investigation swept through Chenghuang, replacing many senior executives while Grandma Yun’s research team continued its new-drug work undisturbed.
• Song He arrived at the shareholders meeting and had evidence of wrongdoing distributed, with the largest files going to representatives of Shouting Pharmaceutical, Guichao Pharmaceutical, and Lengcui Technology.
• Song He condemned shareholders who had stolen from Chenghuang and said the documents detailed the evidence against them.
• Song He ordered Shouting Pharmaceutical, Guichao Pharmaceutical, and Lengcui Technology to surrender their shares and the money they had earned in exchange for avoiding prison and being forced to jump from a building.
• Leng Xiangwen accepted responsibility for his family’s business dealings, and representatives of the three companies signed the share-transfer documents and left.
• Song He ordered the secretary to distribute another set of documents.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Deodoro explained that Song He's company writing program launched his literary career, then revealed his dream of writing a detailed biography of Song He. Song He and Xiang Xiaotong reacted to Deodoro's fervent praise before Song He resumed teaching the Child Prodigies and learned that the Nobel Peace Prize announcement was imminent.

• Deodoro told a television host that Song He's company writing campaign helped him move from violent stories to science fiction and eventually publish the book that brought him fame.
• Deodoro said he wanted to visit Chenghuang's headquarters and write a Veritable Record and ten-volume biography of Song He.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong watched Deodoro's interview and marveled at his intense admiration for Song He.
• Song He lectured the Child Prodigies about the Dream Control Helmet and said he and Xiang Xiaotong would return to Yemo City on the fifteenth to support Yuan Tiangang.
• A student announced that the Nobel Peace Prize would be announced two hours earlier than usual, and Song He reacted with surprise.

Song He joined a group of high school students for an engineered-bacteria experiment at Jinghai University, where his confidence and ease annoyed and impressed his classmates. Yi Chunxiao announced that only the student who cultivated the most successful bacteria and produced the greatest quantity would earn a visit to the First Laboratory.

• Song He explained that he had memorized the Engineered Bacteria materials overnight while the four boys who competed with him woke up with stiff necks.
• Song He volunteered to carry supplies, but Yi Chunxiao assigned him to fill out the inventory forms instead, and he calmly recorded everything as the others moved the equipment and materials.
• Fan Tao mocked Yi Chunxiao for leading high school students, and Song He claimed he would publish a paper in Cell and make Fan Tao grovel.
• Song He teamed up with Xu Tingfeng, leaving Wu Xiao upset after she had expected to partner with Xu Tingfeng.
• Yi Chunxiao told the students to prepare Petri Dishes and announced that whoever cultivated the most successful Engineered Bacteria in the greatest quantity within a week would win the sole visit to the First Laboratory.

Song He completed an eighteen-thousand-word continuation of the You Deyi School, extending it into a method that could predict detonation data for similar explosive formulas. He presented the theory to You Deyi and Yu Anbang, who began reviewing it in disbelief.

• Song He realized that his explosive-analysis program failed because the You Deyi School theory it relied on was incomplete.
• Inspired by an X-shaped house of cards, Song He developed an inverted-pyramid extension that could potentially predict detonation data for similar formulas.
• Song He stayed up all night writing eighteen thousand words of theoretical derivations and named the expanded method the Song He School.
• You Deyi and Yu Anbang discussed explosive development and agreed that Song He’s projects, including continuing the You Deyi School, seemed unrealistic.
• Song He arrived at the cafeteria and told You Deyi he had completed the theory; You Deyi and Yu Anbang began reading as Song He prepared to fill in the steps.

After learning that Zheda's Moon Brain No. 2 would be tested soon, Song He and Xiang Xiaotong spent the week revising their supercomputer design. Moon Brain No. 2 then posted a staggering benchmark score, leaving Li Gong's engineers convinced they were headed for defeat.

• General Wang told Song He that supercomputer support technology could allow the machine to double in size and weight while quadrupling its power consumption, and warned him that Zheda's Moon Brain No. 2 would be far more powerful than No. 1.
• Song He urged Xiang Xiaotong to work overtime with him on a stronger design, and she joined him in the dark room despite still wanting to hit him with a pillow.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong worked day and night revising the design, with Xiang Xiaotong drafting it and Song He making corrections that she gradually learned to understand.
• Song He wondered whether Grandmaster Level 99 was the highest rank after his knowledge level remained unchanged despite continued study and returned knowledge.
• Li Gong and his engineers watched Moon Brain No. 2 complete its benchmark with ease, then stared at its enormous score and feared Zheda had already won.

Song He memorized the entire CET-4 Vocabulary book in one morning, rapidly advancing his English level despite severe mental fatigue. After astonishing Qiu Lingshan and Chu Long by answering questions from the book, he went to find a Gaokao English exam paper to test his score.

• Song He took a Memory Capsule and memorized vocabulary, advancing from Bronze Level 10 to Bronze Level 12 before pausing from nausea and a headache.
• Teacher Liu Lu spoke with Song He about the Six School Joint Exam and asked him to take her on as a graduate student if he became a professor.
• Song He resumed memorizing and finished all 372 pages of CET-4 Vocabulary by noon, reaching English Bronze Level 56.
• Qiu Lingshan tested Song's recall from the book, and he answered instantly, leaving her and Chu Long stunned.
• Song He stood up to find a Gaokao English exam paper and see whether he could get a perfect score.

Song He pressured Xiang Xiaotong to marry him, but she agreed only to start dating and asked for more time before marriage. Song He left the dormitory, confident their relationship would progress, then reacted to a message on his phone.

• Song He proposed getting a marriage certificate that day, but Xiang Xiaotong refused and asked him to leave her alone.
• Song He proposed dating instead, and Xiang Xiaotong accepted while insisting that a one-month trial was too short.
• Song He teased Xiang Xiaotong by asking for a kiss and for her to call him “husband,” then called her “wife” before leaving.
• Song He left the dormitory, reflected on their future, and saw a phone notification that changed his expression.
• The author noted that feeling unwell meant there would be one fewer chapter that night.

Song He’s new Space Window-Cleaning Bug improved overall performance by 17%, and he taught the students how he combined three mathematical methods. After discussing a mathematics paper and returning to the Biology Laboratory, he chose to prioritize the Chinese Song He Su paper over a faster route to the Lunar City Project.

• Song He revealed a 17% performance increase, then explained how he fused Professor Wang’s Mortise and Tenon Method, Xie Kefu’s topology, and his Gene Program Method.
• Professor Wang proposed listing Song He as First Author and himself as Corresponding Author, while Xie Kefu agreed to write the mathematics paper that afternoon.
• Song He joined Zuo Gaoming and Fan Tao at the Biology Laboratory, where Zuo Gaoming explained that journals would wait for the major Song He Su paper before publishing its related studies.
• Song He refused to switch to an English version of the Song He Su paper, choosing to preserve the Chinese paper’s international influence even if it delayed his Lunar City Project prospects.
• Song He began studying mathematics books in the laboratory while Zuo Gaoming and Fan Tao watched.