Recaps

After returning to the Prototype World, Chen Changsheng discovered that more than a hundred years had passed and the Blacklight Virus had spread through the atmosphere. He flew to Japan to rebuild his strength, but found Tokyo overgrown and apparently devoid of humans.

• Chen Changsheng surfaced and learned through the Virus Will Aggregate's mental network that a century had passed since he left.
• He discovered that the Blacklight Virus had spread worldwide, while a brainworm legion had taken control of Umbrella Corporation and prevented humanity from destroying itself.
• Because the virus could not enter water, Chen Changsheng gathered his belongings and used a Rocket Jetpack to fly toward Japan in search of enough Blacklight Virus to construct his Blacklight Body.
• During the flight, Chen Changsheng considered developing a new way to fly and wondered whether he could copy Captain Marvel or learn magic from Kamar-Taj.
• After reaching Tokyo in thirty minutes, Chen Changsheng found the city covered in towering trees and grass, with no sign of humans.

Chen Changsheng fled Elizabeth and used the Willow Tree’s stored Biomass to restore his powerful Blacklight Body. With his confidence restored, he confirmed that Elizabeth was weaker than him and that the brainworm army still obeyed his commands.

• Elizabeth appeared beside Chen Changsheng, and the Willow Tree swept him away before she could approach.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the Willow Tree to transfer its Biomass, then formed an extremely compressed Blacklight Body.
• The Willow Tree’s accumulated Life Essence gave Chen Changsheng far greater strength, and he judged Elizabeth to be weaker than him.
• The brainworm army arrived, and Chen Changsheng confirmed that it remained under his command and had not developed independent consciousness.

After absorbing Elizabeth's Blacklight Virus, Chen Changsheng learned how the Prototype World had developed and created a true artificial intelligence, the Red Queen. He also built a biological computer intended to evolve into a powerful computational aid, leaving its development to researchers and brain bugs.

• Chen Changsheng absorbed much of the Blacklight Virus from Elizabeth and learned the Prototype World's history through the virus.
• Chen Changsheng learned that the Umbrella Corporation dominated the Prototype World and that brain bugs secretly supported its leaders and maintained human society.
• Chen Changsheng used his Blacklight Body to create the Red Queen, an artificial intelligence loyal to and protective of him.
• Chen Changsheng directed biologists to design a cellular-pulse biological computer and assembled the first one with the Blacklight Virus.
• Chen Changsheng assigned brain bugs and human scientists to study the biological computer, while memories from scientists nearing death would be preserved in his Web of Conspiracy.

Chen Changsheng developed a Biological Computer to provide computational power he could control, while Red Queen’s AI continued to grow and manage the Prototype World. His research revealed uses for bionic brains and the Fungal Lord, but the Biological Computer had not yet reached its intended form.

• Chen Changsheng began building a Biological Computer and training Red Queen’s artificial intelligence.
• Chen Changsheng installed a hive powered by a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at the underwater gateway, where it could gather Biomass from marine life.
• Red Queen grew into an efficient administrator as Chen Changsheng upgraded her server matrix and the brainworms focused on accumulating Biomass.
• Chen Changsheng redirected his Biological Computer research away from a bionic brain and toward a controllable source of immense computational power.
• Chen Changsheng found that bionic brains could speed access to the Fungal Lord’s storage and enhance the abilities of human followers.
• Chen Changsheng recognized that the Fungal Lord’s blessings could induce useful, controlled evolution in ordinary creatures.

Chen Changsheng improved his biological computer by incorporating Max’s superconducting biological cell genes and connecting it to ordinary computers with a biological-metal USB interface. After successfully transferring and storing text, he began backing up the Red Queen artificial intelligence program, though making the biological computer perform more complex tasks still required further research.

• Chen Changsheng focused on developing his biological computer while assigning brainworms to continue researching the Gift’s unreliable effects on biological evolution.
• Chen Changsheng incorporated Max’s superconducting biological cell genes into the biological computer, improving its processing speed and reducing its energy consumption.
• After learning of humans’ failed attempts to connect biological and ordinary computers, Chen Changsheng used the Gift to create a biological-metal USB interface.
• Chen Changsheng spent considerable time designing the biological computer’s transmission channels to match an ordinary computer’s USB interface.
• Chen Changsheng successfully transferred text into the biological computer, where it was stored as a string of dots and line segments.
• Chen Changsheng began backing up the Red Queen artificial intelligence program from the Prototype World onto the biological computer.

After completing a backup of Red Queen, Chen Changsheng returned to the Resident Evil World to replenish his perfect crystals and investigate how they were produced. He found the underwater gate charging faster than before, but discovered that Ocean City had vanished and flew toward Japan to learn what had happened.

• Chen Changsheng backed up Red Queen's data into the Fungal Lord and installed Biological Computers near Red Queen's processing centers around the world.
• Chen Changsheng returned to the Resident Evil World to obtain more crystals and study their production, bringing Life Essence and Biomass energy with him.
• At the underwater gate, Chen Changsheng found that it had charged for a year and ordered the Charging Bug Nest to keep charging while he was away.
• Chen Changsheng created a new Charging Bug Nest to generate electricity and sustain itself, then swam toward the surface.
• Chen Changsheng saw that Ocean City had disappeared and flew toward Japan, the nearest major base, to investigate.

Chen Changsheng traveled through Japan and India, gathered Crystal Cores, and established a hive in India as he began transforming the Resident Evil World. In Eastern Europe, he found the Fungal Lord’s cultivation area and approached the village, where the Countess confronted him in her dragon form.

• Chen Changsheng found Japan devastated, absorbed the Crystal Cores he collected there, and traveled to India for more.
• Chen Changsheng learned how Crystal Cores formed and how they could strengthen psychic power and supply components for Biological Computers.
• Chen Changsheng gathered Crystal Cores in India, created a hive to store them, and planted an avatar of Willow Tree to balance the hive’s growth.
• Chen Changsheng flew toward Eastern Europe and found the region covered by the Fungal Lord’s Mycelial Mat.
• Chen Changsheng’s arrival frightened the Countess’s three daughters, who fled toward the castle as insects.
• The Countess transformed into her giant-dragon form and flew to meet Chen Changsheng to defend the village.

Chen Changsheng subdued the Countess and learned that Heisenberg was behind the trouble. He confronted Heisenberg, destroyed his Bio-Mecha, and watched the Martial Champion charge at him with a giant hammer.

• Chen Changsheng bound the Countess in willow branches and demanded to know what had happened while he was away.
• The Countess transformed back into Lady Rokushaku and tried to escape, then blamed the Duke when Heisenberg arrived in his Bio-Mecha.
• Chen Changsheng struck the Bio-Mecha’s cockpit and infected it with the Blacklight Virus, forcing Heisenberg to escape as the machine was consumed.
• Heisenberg decided he could defeat Chen Changsheng without Mountain Breaker and charged at him with his giant hammer.

Chen Changsheng absorbed Martial Champion and learned that Dr. Isaacs’s revenge had devastated humanity after Chen Changsheng left. He confronted the Duke in the Sacrifice Cave, where the Duke summoned a colossal Mushroom Person clone to attack him.

• Chen Changsheng restrained Martial Champion, absorbed his genetic information, and discovered that the people he had left behind had died.
• Chen Changsheng recalled how Dr. Isaacs used Red Queen and Iron Man Armor to destroy Alice’s team, defeat the protagonist group, and obliterate City of Science with a nuclear weapon.
• Chen Changsheng learned that the Duke had seized the Fungal Lord breeding base and killed Donna, so he went to the Sacrifice Cave to confront him.
• The Duke attacked Chen Changsheng with a gigantic arm as the cave collapsed and a two-hundred-meter-tall Mushroom Person emerged.

Chen Changsheng defeated the Duke’s giant Mushroom Person, absorbed the Duke and his clones, and resurrected Donna from the Fungal Lord’s memory network. He left Donna with Willow Tree and traveled to Africa, where he eliminated the last humans and began building a world-spanning biological system to produce Crystal Cores and power the portal.

• Chen Changsheng transformed into a flesh-and-blood Bio-Mecha, defeated the 200-meter Mushroom Person, and found a huge perfect Crystal Core in its head.
• Chen Changsheng absorbed the Mushroom Person Clones and assimilated the Duke, learning that the Fungal Lord’s memory network could preserve the Mushroom People’s memories.
• Chen Changsheng resurrected Donna from the Fungal Lord’s memory network, restored her appearance, and left her with Willow Tree; the Countess was also spared.
• Chen Changsheng traveled to Africa and destroyed the last human base, leaving no humans in the world.
• Chen Changsheng spread insect nests and Willow Trees across the world and completed a Crystal Core production base divided into breeding and wild zones.

Chen Changsheng returned from the Resident Evil World to reality, where he contained the Blacklight Virus outbreak by replacing the infected residents with copies. As he waited for the next crossing, he decided to pursue artificial intelligence and considered targeting someone in America for help.

• Chen Changsheng developed a supreme-grade Crystal Core and discovered that he could combine abilities by transforming parts of his Blacklight Body, though those abilities did not work in his Asgardian body.
• After charging the portal with biomass energy, Chen Changsheng returned to reality and spread insect nests across the seafloor to keep the portal charging.
• Chen Changsheng reached home and found the uncontrolled Blacklight Virus had infected nearby residents, so he used the Web of Conspiracy to replicate them and withdrew the virus.
• Chen Changsheng learned that time in reality had remained frozen while he was away and concluded that he needed to stay there for at least a day after each crossing.
• Chen Changsheng began modifying the Iron Man Armor’s artificial intelligence and decided to look toward America for someone he could control to help him.

Chen Changsheng took control of Japan’s supercomputing center, rebuilt Red Queen as his own driver intelligence, and seized America’s leaders before preparing to travel to the 2012 World. He arrived there in the body of an American Tech Magnate, intending to establish a base and use local technology to build Nuclear Fusion Reactors.

• Chen Changsheng traveled to Japan, infected the staff at its largest supercomputing center, and used its ten supercomputers to recompile Red Queen into an intelligence loyal to him.
• Chen Changsheng sent Red Queen to monitor the world, then took control of the American president and replaced America’s powerful figures with brain bugs.
• Chen Changsheng watched the 2012 disaster film and decided to travel to its world, first returning to the Prototype World to prepare.
• Chen Changsheng upgraded and backed up the Prototype World’s Red Queen, gathered Biomass energy, and expanded the resources he could carry through the gateway.
• Chen Changsheng entered the 2012 World in the body of an American Tech Magnate and planned to build Nuclear Fusion Reactors using the world’s technology.

After learning that Earth would be destroyed in two years, Chen Changsheng bought ten ark tickets and announced that his company had developed controlled nuclear fusion. The revelation stunned governments worldwide, and he was invited to discuss using his reactor to power the ark.

• Chen Changsheng used the tech magnate’s identity to build a vast company, gather supplies, and establish a self-sufficient hive near the undersea portal.
• An American government representative told Chen Changsheng that Earth would be destroyed in two years and offered ark tickets for one billion euros each.
• Chen Changsheng bought ten tickets and decided to use his influence and government funding to help build an ark for himself.
• Chen Changsheng announced that his company had mastered controlled nuclear fusion, prompting governments and scientists to inspect his reactor.
• More than 140 countries joined forces to build an ark, and Chen Changsheng attended a White House video conference about using his reactor to power it.

Chen Changsheng used his new authority and resources to build a Nuclear Fusion Ark ahead of the coming apocalypse. The chapter ended with him preparing a Blacklight Virus backup plan for the people he selected to board.

• World leaders agreed to pool funds for an ark, but Chen Changsheng chose to finance his own and became chief person in charge of the project.
• Chen Changsheng used his title to secure international support, rapidly build factories, and pay workers triple wages.
• Chen Changsheng recruited top professionals worldwide, arranged housing for their families, and told them they could help build the ark and survive.
• Chen Changsheng selected people for his ark with Red Queen's help and expanded its capacity to 300,000 people, compared with the official ark's 100,000.
• Chen Changsheng sent eligible passengers special phones containing Blacklight Virus tissue so he could recover their memories if they failed to reach the ark.

Chen Changsheng prepared his private Fleshpunk Ark and expanded the government's ark project while the world suppressed rumors of the approaching apocalypse. He launched his Aerial Fortress toward Yellowstone just as early boarding began, leaving humanity to make its final choices.

• Chen Changsheng stockpiled steel and other Biomass supplies to build a private ark, and his involvement expanded the planned fleet from nine arks to twelve.
• Governments controlled rumors about the doomsday preparations, while authorities detained ticket holders who tried to expose the truth.
• Chen Changsheng acquired and equipped an Aerial Fortress with power systems and supplies for the wasteland ahead.
• Chen Changsheng's scientists tracked the Earth's condition, and he set out for Yellowstone Park to witness the first supervolcanic eruption.
• After Chen Changsheng warned the authorities, boarding began early, and he watched the countdown start as people faced their final choices.

Chen Changsheng harvested biomass during worldwide disasters and witnessed the Yellowstone supervolcano erupt before offering the 2012 family an Ark ticket. He then discovered that a colossal Pacific tsunami had cut off the Pacific Bug Nest, threatening his only fallback, and flew toward the portal to inspect it.

• Chen Changsheng activated his Blacklight Virus contingencies, which converted people caught in worldwide disasters into biomass for him to absorb.
• Chen Changsheng watched the city sink beneath the waves and saw a mass of flesh drift away.
• Chen Changsheng flew to Yellowstone Park and survived the supervolcano’s eruption after the blast knocked the Aerial Fortress out of control.
• Chen Changsheng broadcast an Ark ticket authorization code to Jackson’s family as their biplane escaped the volcanic ash.
• Chen Changsheng lost contact with the Pacific Bug Nest and ordered Red Queen to fly toward the portal after satellites revealed a colossal tsunami sweeping across the Pacific.

Chen Changsheng reached the Ark shipyard and found all twelve Arks ready for humanity’s evacuation. He arranged tickets for Jackson’s family as a tsunami approached, then set sail with the survivors.

• Chen Changsheng confirmed the Door remained intact, then redirected his Aerial Fortress to the Ark shipyard in the Himalayas.
• Chen Changsheng inspected the crowded shipyard and learned that Jackson’s family had arrived using his authorization code.
• Chen Changsheng tested Jackson by asking whom he would leave behind, then revealed that the Chinese family would live and gave them their own tickets.
• Red Queen warned of the approaching tsunami, so Chen Changsheng ended the conversation and prepared to depart.
• Chen Changsheng and the other Ark passengers set sail, and the waves that swept over Mount Everest only shook the ship.

Chen Changsheng finished rebuilding Earth's ecosystem, left humanity to develop in Africa, and returned to the real world to prepare for The Matrix. After discovering that travel across Earth took too long, he entered the new world seeking a faster way to fly.

• Chen Changsheng sent the surviving humans toward Africa with equipment, Red Queen's support, and a technology and enhancement package.
• Chen Changsheng spread Flesh Arks around the globe and used his stored genetic information to restore Earth's ecosystems and populate them with new species.
• Chen Changsheng ordered his bug nests to accumulate bio-energy and charge the Gate, then returned to the real world.
• Chen Changsheng placed Mimic Bug Nests in Siberia and realized he needed a faster means of flight to cover more ground.
• Chen Changsheng saw that the refreshed movie was The Matrix and traveled through the Prototype World to enter it.
• Chen Changsheng formed a Charging Bug Nest near the Gate, rose from the sea, and found himself in darkness beneath a nearly starless sky.

Chen Changsheng arrived at a dark Mechanical City near Tokyo and discovered humans suspended in pods among towering pillars. After defeating an attacking robot, he faced a citywide alarm and began preparing to use Electromagnetic Control against the swarming machines.

• Chen Changsheng used Earth's magnetic field to navigate from the Sea of Doors toward Japan and reached the area near Tokyo.
• Chen Changsheng approached the Mechanical City and saw glowing nutrient pods mounted on enormous iron towers.
• Chen Changsheng transformed his body into armor and disabled an attacking robot, discovering it was made of ordinary steel.
• Chen Changsheng modified his senses and saw that the city's pillars held human bodies in hibernation pods connected by cables.
• Chen Changsheng decided to use Electromagnetic Control and formed electricity-generating and psychic-force-generating organs, while fusing a Crystal Core into his brain.

Chen Changsheng escaped Japan’s Mechanical City after discovering that the robots were controlled by an unseen force and that the humans in nutrient pods had no memories. Finding a world without sunlight or ordinary life, he built a geothermal Bug Nest near an active underwater volcano and began cultivating a sustainable source of growth.

• Chen Changsheng used Electromagnetic Control to tear apart the robots, then noticed they had no ranged weapons and retreated as if directed by someone.
• Chen Changsheng absorbed a person from a nutrient pod and found no memories, then decided to leave the Mechanical City and investigate from the shadows.
• After Chen Changsheng fled into the ocean, an armed robot army arrived and searched the Mechanical City for intruders.
• Chen Changsheng found no fish or plants in the ocean and realized the world seemed to have no sun, so he sought geothermal energy instead.
• Chen Changsheng built a Bug Nest at an active underwater volcano, using heat-dependent bacteria as the foundation for sustainable growth.

Chen Changsheng explored the robots’ energy system and a vast underground farm while preparing to power his gateway. After absorbing Neo, he disguised himself as the protagonist and was pulled aboard Morpheus’s rescue craft.

• Chen Changsheng searched for undersea volcanoes and scattered seeds of life to increase his biomass energy.
• Chen Changsheng discovered that the robots used human power farms alongside nuclear power, and he planned to draw electricity from their supercables to charge his gateway.
• Chen Changsheng explored the underground city beneath a sewage outlet and mapped part of its vast passageways with swarms of insects.
• Neo fell from a pipe beside Chen Changsheng, who absorbed him and gained his memories of awakening from the virtual world.
• Morpheus’s craft arrived to rescue Neo, and Chen Changsheng disguised himself using Neo’s genetic information before the grappling hook pulled him aboard.

After joining Morpheus's crew aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, Chen Changsheng recovered, learned about the human stronghold Zion, and studied the Hovercraft. Morpheus then prepared to show him the truth of The Matrix by connecting him to the consciousness-upload system.

• Morpheus ordered the crew to examine Chen Changsheng after rescuing him, and they found no injuries beyond some muscle atrophy.
• Chen Changsheng learned that Morpheus believed him to be the savior, while he noticed Cypher's hostility and waited for a chance to absorb him.
• Chen Changsheng befriended Tank and Mouse, learned about Zion, and studied how to operate the Nebuchadnezzar.
• Morpheus brought Chen Changsheng to the consciousness-upload chamber to reveal The Matrix.
• Trinity helped Chen Changsheng attach the equipment, and he followed Morpheus's example by letting her insert the brain-computer connection into his head.

Chen Changsheng explored the Matrix while experiencing the virtual world and his real body at once, and Morpheus explained humanity’s war with AI. Chen Changsheng remained curious rather than inspired, and Morpheus returned him to reality so Tank could teach him more.

• Chen Changsheng experienced his real body and Neo’s virtual body simultaneously and learned to read the virtual world through code on the computers.
• Chen Changsheng considered whether creating true artificial intelligence was wise after seeing how AI had defeated humanity in the Matrix.
• Morpheus described humanity’s defeat by AI and its plan to destroy the Matrix, but Chen Changsheng listened with curiosity instead of joining in his enthusiasm.
• Morpheus doubted whether Chen Changsheng was the One, then ended the lesson and sent him back to reality so Tank could teach him.
• Trinity entered code that pulled Chen Changsheng’s consciousness out of the virtual world.

After undergoing a brain-computer insertion, Chen Changsheng designed a biological magnetic levitation system to control his immense weight. Tank then implanted combat training memories into him, and Chen Changsheng asked to learn something beyond fighting techniques.

• Chen Changsheng recovered from the brain-computer insertion and pretended to be weak so Trinity and Tank would help him back to his room.
• Chen Changsheng used the Hovercraft’s stored technical materials to design a magnetic levitation system for his body and spent the night optimizing it.
• Tank arrived to teach Chen Changsheng and took him to the training area to use the virtual world.
• Tank implanted memories of combat techniques, including judo, taekwondo, and Shaolin boxing, into Chen Changsheng.
• After several hours of training, Chen Changsheng asked Tank whether he could teach him something other than combat techniques.

Chen Changsheng studied advanced scientific knowledge aboard the Hovercraft, then entered a virtual dojo to test himself against Morpheus. His speed surpassed the virtual world's limits, causing the simulation to fill with garbled code while the crew lost contact with Morpheus.

• Chen Changsheng absorbed Tank's stored knowledge about artificial intelligence, engineering, physics, and other sciences, then asked for more.
• Morpheus persuaded Chen Changsheng to test his learning in combat, and Tank agreed that practical training would help him retain it.
• Chen Changsheng and Morpheus fought in a virtual dojo, where Chen Changsheng matched Morpheus's accelerating attacks and eventually knocked him out of the battle.
• Chen Changsheng continued practicing and exceeded the virtual world's limits, turning his punches into data fluctuations and filling the real-world screen with garbled characters.
• Tank tried to contact Morpheus but received no response, so he alerted the Hovercraft crew, and Trinity suggested waking them up.