Chapter Summaries

Zhao Yiyi and the others inspected the completed Alien Zoo, which had been built ahead of schedule and equipped with extensive facilities. After the handover, the staff explored the empty enclosures and discovered a surprising assortment of intelligence toys awaiting the first monkeys.

• Zhao Yiyi studied gorillas, monkeys, and their sign language while Song He revealed that he understood the signs and joked that she had lost her first month's bonus.
• Zhao Yiyi reduced her construction-site visits to focus on studying, and Phase One of the Alien Zoo was completed a week before the college entrance examination.
• Song He, Zhao Yiyi, and their colleagues attended the handover ceremony, where Zhao Yiyi offered incense and Song He helped unveil the zoo sign and enclosure entrances.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong inspected the sixty enclosures and more than a hundred Monkey Mountains, along with the zoo's observation paths and animal-care facilities.
• Zhao Yiyi, Ding Yangze, Ning Mo, and Zhang Zhilei stayed behind to explore the zoo and found boxes filled with toys such as puzzles, Rubik's Cubes, LEGO bricks, and a whack-a-mole machine.

Song He arrived at Jinghai University, studied the university’s failed Engineered Bacteria strains, and became confident he could improve them. That night, four members of the Biology Team challenged him to compete in studying and laboratory work.

• Yi Chunxiao recognized Song He and agreed to ask the dean whether the students could visit the First Laboratory.
• Song He arrived at Jinghai University, received his dormitory supplies, and settled into Room 101.
• Song He read about the university’s malformed Engineered Bacteria strains and realized he might be able to repair them with his special tools.
• After the lights went out, Song He met Wei Huai, Du Lai, Lang Gaoge, and Su Xueduan in the corridor, where they challenged his laboratory skills and all-night studying.
• Song He accepted the study challenge and vowed to finish reading the Engineered Bacteria materials that night.

Antonio signed a fifty-million-dollar wager after agreeing to a clause that would require him to work at the Chenghuang Evolution Research Institute for ten years if he could not pay. At a New Year’s Eve hotpot dinner, Song He revealed that he had set the wager up to lure Antonio into working for him, just as Xiang Xiaotong predicted Antonio would refuse to sign.

• Antonio and his wife finished reviewing the wager contract and asked their legal advisers to check a clause offering ten years of work at the Chenghuang Evolution Research Institute as repayment.
• Antonio questioned the other side about its purpose, received the reply that it intended to win, and agreed to sign the wager.
• At a hotpot dinner in Yemo City, Xiang Xiaotong gave gold red-haired gorilla statues to the zoo staff and a gold egg to Song He.
• Xiang Xiaotong reminded the staff to train the gorillas for the upcoming New Product Launch Event, where Durian would perform.
• Song He told the group that he had arranged the wager to trap Antonio into working for him, while Xiang Xiaotong insisted Antonio would never take the bait.
• Song He's phone vibrated just after Xiang Xiaotong made her prediction.

Song He learned that top universities were eager to admit him, then Professor Ma introduced a new private university in Ruoqiang built to train elite technology specialists. The second document about Frontier Technology University left Song He stunned.

• Song He explained the dangers of poisonous plants to Fan Tao by comparing them to diluted Botulinum Toxin in Slimming Injection.
• Professor Ma arrived at the laboratory standing on his new legs and joked that he planned to use a spare pair to run a marathon.
• Professor Ma told Song He that he had been named one of the country’s outstanding Project Leaders and could choose a place at any top university.
• Professor Ma showed Song He confidential plans for Frontier Technology University, a private school in Ruoqiang intended to challenge the world’s top research universities.
• Song He opened the second document and straightened in shock.

Song He learned that Lou Jinghui might be selected for the first trip to the Moon Laboratory and recommended him, while Song He’s own request to go was rejected. After congratulating Lou, Song He returned to reading about Reincarnated Children, then received an email from Ilima.

• Song He appealed to the Moon Laboratory Jiuquan Office after his application to become a resident scientist was rejected, then discussed the selection and a possible Reincarnated Child case with Xiang Xiaotong.
• Lou Jinghui called Song He excitedly to say his superiors had contacted him about going to the moon.
• The Jiuquan Office called Song He to verify Lou Jinghui’s work situation and said it was still considering his selection.
• Song He urged the office to let him go too, but the caller said he was not suitable for the first batch and might not qualify for the next one.
• Song He recommended Lou Jinghui for the mission, congratulated him, and returned to reading papers about Reincarnated Children.
• An email from Ilima arrived while Song He was reading.

Song He replied to letters from Zhao Yiyi and Leng Xiangwen, advising Zhao about her studies and sending Chu Long a story to help with his despair over a rival. Five days later, military vehicles delivered Song He's requested materials to the Experiment Building, where he began a major effort.

• Zhao Yiyi told Song He about her classmates, her upcoming study trip, and her plans to pursue a Biology Competition and choose a university.
• Song He encouraged Zhao Yiyi to focus on her studies and described Frontier Technology University as a demanding research school where she could become his student.
• Leng Xiangwen told Song He that the Leng and Zhuang Families were building a raw-material supply chain for Chenghuang, that Veronica was investigating the company, and that Chu Long was struggling with the gap between himself and his rival.
• Song He wrote Leng Xiangwen a story about Zen Master Huiyin and a novice monk, asking him to tell it to Chu Long.
• Five days later, military vehicles delivered Song He's requested materials to the Experiment Building, which blazed with light as his hard battle began.

Song He followed reports on the clinical trials for Chenghuang and Ilima stomach cancer drugs as hospitals were overwhelmed by patients competing for volunteer slots. When the drugs were finally on their way, nearly every applicant had chosen Chenghuang’s drug, leaving the post’s author wondering what the hospital would do with Ilima’s.

• Song He learned from Wei Liqun that media coverage of Chenghuang’s drug had spread without much company marketing.
• A verified doctor known online as Lei Pi Ge described patients flooding trial hospitals and using money, threats, and desperate pleas to secure volunteer slots.
• Song He followed and bookmarked Lei Pi Ge’s forum post to track the situation at the hospitals.
• On Thursday, Lei Pi Ge reported that the trial drugs were due to arrive within hours and that almost all applicants had chosen Chenghuang’s drug over Ilima’s.

Song He and Xiang Xiaotong explained the exam standards and discussed how artificial organs, energy research, and intelligent robots could shape humanity’s future. After warning that population growth could outpace resources and describing the costs and risks of Teacher Bai robots, they collected the students’ exam papers.

• Song He outlined the exam’s score thresholds and said students scoring above 900 would be capable of leading an R&D team, though he considered that unlikely.
• Song He estimated that developing major artificial organs could take up to ten years with the Genius Institute students and said widespread production might raise average life expectancy to 140 globally and 165 domestically.
• Song He warned General Wang that population growth could exceed Earth’s carrying capacity, while General Wang argued that technological progress might raise that limit.
• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong explained that Teacher Bai depended on costly, potentially unsafe brain-mimicking computing, making each robot’s projected commercial price close to two million yuan.
• Song He described possible consequences of robots replacing human workers, ranging from widespread leisure and guaranteed income to a drastic reduction in the human population.
• Song He, Xiang Xiaotong, and General Wang finished talking and collected the students’ exam papers.

Song He watched Lu Geng’s video as the School of Pharmacy’s lavish arrival arrangements impressed new students and their families. The chapter left the students flying toward campus aboard the school’s fleet of passenger cars, eager to see what awaited them there.

• Song He watched comments react with envy to the School of Pharmacy reimbursing freshmen’s flight tickets.
• Lu Geng arrived at the airport and found School of Pharmacy staff offering free rides to campus.
• The driver led Lu Geng and other passengers past ordinary coaches to the School of Pharmacy’s Flying Passenger Cars, then admitted five students from other institutes.
• The Flying Passenger Car took off, and the driver explained that the school owned its fleet and offered inexpensive shuttle reservations to students.
• The driver praised the School of Pharmacy’s extravagant campus and said Dean Song spent freely to build its reputation.

Song He's new stomach cancer drug entered testing at the same time as Ilima's, sparking a media frenzy and drawing crowds to his classes. With the early test data showing little difference, he tried to evade the students who kept filling his classroom, but they tracked down his changing schedule.

• Song He and Ilima discovered that their stomach cancer drugs had entered testing simultaneously, though neither had seriously tested their drug yet.
• Media reports and online discussions made Chenghuang's drug a trending topic, boosted interest in the Lunar City Project, and fueled a public rivalry between Chenghuang and Ilima.
• Song He continued teaching and shared the drugs' early efficacy data, which showed no significant changes and appeared roughly equal during the first week.
• More students crowded into Song He's classes to watch the data, disrupting his lectures and secretly photographing him.
• Song He repeatedly changed his class schedule to shake the crowds, but students found him again, so he wrote an announcement.

Song He learned about the competition teams’ rewards, including study phones, while his teachers fought over which team he should join. Their argument earned him 900 Resentment Value, and the chapter ended with someone confronting him about a lie.

• Song He admired the competition teams’ past rewards and learned that the top fifty Biology and Math Team students would receive study phones after a test.
• A fellow student told Song He that some of the old phones supposedly contained exciting leftovers, making him determined to win one.
• Ye Lianghan told Ban Jianye and Liu Lu to choose between them because they had both selected Song He for their teams, but the teachers argued over his potential in math and biology.
• Ban Jianye and Liu Lu presented Song He’s test papers to Ye Lianghan, who began reviewing them and threatened to revoke their monthly award for arguing.
• Song He received 300 Resentment Value each from Ban Jianye, Liu Lu, and Ye Lianghan, then walked toward the dormitory after evening self-study.
• Someone grabbed Song He’s shoulder and resentfully asked why he had lied.

Zhuang Qiyan searched for Song He in both Senior Elite Class 2 and Sophomore Elite Class 2 but came up empty, while her search generated a flood of Resentment Value from jealous students. At the competition-team inauguration ceremony, Song He joined the Biology Team and learned that it was locked in a fierce rivalry with the Math Team.

• Zhuang Qiyan went to Sophomore Elite Class 2 to find Song He, but the class monitor said nobody there had that name.
• Students in the corridor speculated about why Zhuang Qiyan was looking for Song He and grew jealous of him.
• Song He arrived at the competition-team inauguration ceremony and sat with the Biology Team because he had been selected for both teams.
• Song He received a surge of Resentment Value after learning that Zhuang Qiyan's search had stirred up gossip and jealousy.
• Wu Xiao introduced herself to Song He and explained that the Biology Team and Math Team competed for limited school resources.
• The Biology Team students chanted against the Math Team and declared them mortal enemies.

Song He and Xiang Xiaotong finished a day of problem-solving, planned scholarships funded by the Dream Control Helmet’s tax savings, and prepared the server prototype for a visit from Ju Factory’s President Tian. The chapter ended with President Tian mistaking Song He for President Song’s son because he could not believe the young man was the famous mathematician and biotech company founder.

• Song He and Xiang Xiaotong solved 10 major problems and 20 minor ones, then decided to use the Brain-like Chip Company’s tax savings to support medical students training as Hibernation Doctors.
• Xiang Xiaotong went to oversee server production while Song He stayed at school to work on the more complicated caching program.
• Xiang Xiaotong returned early Saturday with a server prototype and told Song He that President Tian of Ju Factory would arrive soon.
• Song He showered, went to the laboratory, and helped the engineers adjust the assembled server after Xiang Xiaotong confirmed it could process Dream Control Helmet signals.
• Xiang Xiaotong introduced Song He to President Tian, who mistook him for President Song’s son and struggled to believe he was the famous founder himself.

Xie Yuanxun explained his radical plan for a private electromagnetic rocket company to Song He over breakfast. Song He agreed to invest five billion, leaving Xie Yuanxun stunned as he prepared to start the venture.

• Song He found Xie Yuanxun dressed in a suit after a sleepless night spent seeking investors for his rocket company.
• Xie Yuanxun described plans to transport supplies to the moon and offer space tourism using a rocket accelerated through an electromagnetic shaft.
• Xie Yuanxun explained that the system would use cheap off-peak electricity and a reusable launch shaft to reduce costs.
• Song He declared that he would invest five billion in Xie Yuanxun's project.
• Song He asked Xie Yuanxun for an account number before leaving for the airport, while Xie Yuanxun struggled to believe the offer.

Ice Cream Sister warned that the Dream Helmet had been linked to more than fifty deaths and described users’ growing dependence on it. Song He called the unfolding controversy the beginning of a historic technological disaster, then ordered Wei Liqun to abandon Data Center projects in the Baltic States and India after they demanded a larger share of profits.

• Ice Cream Sister said the Dream Helmet could prevent users from waking even when their bodies were in danger, and reported more than fifty deaths associated with it.
• Ice Cream Sister described classmates’ growing addiction to the Dream Helmet and said she planned to reduce her use and lower its settings.
• Xiang Xiaotong called the controversy a bomb beginning to detonate, but Song He said it was only a fuse and predicted a landmark technological disaster.
• Wei Liqun told Song He that the Baltic States and India had demanded an additional thirty percent of Data Center profits while hinting they would approve Dream Helmet imports.
• Song He ordered Wei Liqun to withdraw the Data Center projects before construction began, and Wei Liqun agreed.

Song He proved his exceptional memory to Xie Yuanxun, then studied through the night and gained a deeper understanding of the Hive’s operating programs. At seven in the morning, he finally collapsed onto his bed, while Xie Yuanxun woke to realize he had lost their endurance contest.

• Song He recited technical material and formulas from memory while Xie Yuanxun tested him and grew increasingly discouraged.
• After dinner, Xie Yuanxun tried to compete with Song He by studying through the night, but fell asleep at the table.
• Song He studied the Hive’s Brain-Mimicking Programs, gradually learned to predict their combat data, and advanced his Mathematics Progress to Master Level 38.
• At seven in the morning, Song He closed his laptop and collapsed onto his bed, waking Xie Yuanxun, who asked if he had finished memorizing the material.

Song He insisted that his bacterial research would aim for a Major Sub-Journal at minimum, shocking his collaborators with his ambition. Meanwhile, Zhao Yiyi studied to improve her grades and heard that Zhang Zhilei had startling gossip about Song He.

• Song He told Zuo Gaoming and Fan Tao that he planned to improve the remaining bacteria and target a Major Sub-Journal, refusing to settle for less.
• Zuo Gaoming and Fan Tao warned Song He that even a Minor Sub-Journal would be an extraordinary achievement, but Song He remained confident he could finish the experiments before midterms.
• After leaving the dormitory, Zuo Gaoming told Professor Lu Chengen about Song He's goal, and Lu said a Major Sub-Journal was possible if more than nine of the remaining thirty-nine Engineered Bacteria were successfully improved.
• Zhao Yiyi studied mathematics late at night because sitting beside Song He had made her feel guilty about not studying, and she wanted to raise her scores to prove him wrong.
• Zhang Zhilei told Zhao Yiyi she had heard explosive gossip about Song He and teased her about whether to share it.

Song He learned from Lao Zhao how British traffic data could reveal activity at important facilities, then sought the Information Technology Institute’s help investigating the farmland attack. Dean Gu refused to support hacking but quietly pointed Song He toward a way to proceed, leaving Song ready to follow his instructions.

• Lao Zhao explained that surges in traffic around important sites could expose major activity, helping Song He understand the value of the British traffic database.
• Song He said the Chenghuang Oasis Company’s farmland had been sabotaged with pests and Actinomycetes and asked Dean Gu for network experts to investigate the attackers.
• Dean Gu refused to openly help with hacking, so Song He offered to have the Brain Institute buy a costly supercomputer and hire the Information Technology Institute to maintain it.
• Dean Gu wrote instructions on a sheet of paper and warned Song He not to exploit the institute’s loopholes, and Song He agreed to follow them.

Song He and Xiang Xiaotong announced Dream Control Helmet 3’s price and production plans before unveiling Second Generation Teacher Bai at the press conference. They revealed that the robot would cost 460,000 yuan, and Song He said the most important announcement was still to come.

• Song He announced Dream Control Helmet 3 would cost 98,000 yuan, Childhood Drug would cost 1,600 yuan, and the company planned to expand helmet production with robots.
• Song He introduced two Second Generation Teacher Bais and highlighted their Olympic achievements and volunteers’ reports that each could earn an average of 1,012 yuan per day.
• Xiang Xiaotong showed the costly reagents used to cultivate artificial brain cells, while Song He presented production equipment priced from 50 million to 3.5 billion yuan.
• Song He announced that an ordinary Second Generation Teacher Bai would cost 460,000 yuan, prompting stunned cheers and applause from the audience.
• Xiang Xiaotong confirmed the price, and Song He said the next announcement mattered even more.

After exposing widespread academic fraud, Song He used the backlash to promote the Interstellar Scientific Research Platform and received a list of 50,000 overseas scientists to recruit. He instructed Xi Yanfan to organize multilingual teachers to contact them with generous offers and threats of fraud investigations, leaving a recruitment campaign ready to begin.

• Song He read the enormous wave of Resentment Value notifications after exposing scientists and students for academic fraud, then posted on the Interstellar Scientific Research Platform as users praised the crackdown.
• Song He received a file containing names and contact details for 50,000 overseas scientists and forwarded it to Xi Yanfan.
• Song He explained that universities and research institutes had compiled the list of internationally outstanding scientists they hoped to recruit.
• Song He told Xi Yanfan to recruit reliable, multilingual teachers to divide the list and call the scientists, offering high salaries and Hibernation Quotas for them and their immediate families.
• Song He instructed the callers to persuade interested scientists patiently, but threaten to investigate their papers and their students' papers if they responded with hostility.
• Song He promised teachers a 20,000-yuan bonus for every scientist they recruited, with no upper limit, and Xi Yanfan prepared to rally them.