Recaps

Rui Ge and his team reached Carmen and the captured survivors, but the Insect God destroyed their warship and took them prisoner. When Dicks arrived and launched a Q Bomb at Klendasu Planet, the Insect God withdrew its arthropods and revealed that it was more than a gigantic insect.

• The Insect God disabled the rescue warship and dragged it toward Klendasu Planet while Rui Ge and his team fought their way to the captured survivors.
• Rui Ge found Carmen and called out to her, but the arriving warship crashed into the planet as escape pods scattered.
• The Insect God's arthropods pierced Rui Ge and the others' mechs, forcing them to eject and join Carmen's group as prisoners.
• Dicks warped in aboard another warship and ordered a Q Bomb launched at the Grand Marshal's position.
• Chen Changsheng sensed the threat as the Insect God withdrew its arthropods, pulling nearby insects into its enormous body and shaking the planet.

After the Insect God carried Chen Changsheng and the other humans through space to a habitable planet, it fell silent, leaving Chen Changsheng to direct the insects and plan their next steps. He sent a colonization projectile toward the planet, prepared a virtual world to integrate the humans with the insects, and began experimenting with the Insect God.

• The Insect God awakened, swallowed Chen Changsheng and the others into its body, and completed a physical transition to an unknown destination.
• The Insect God announced that it had found a habitable planet and would need resources to repair its body, then fell silent.
• Chen Changsheng transformed into a brain insect, took command of the Arachnid Zerg, and sent them to gather repair materials.
• Chen Changsheng emerged into space in Blacklight armor, named the habitable planet Insect God Planet, and fired a colonization projectile toward it.
• Chen Changsheng planned to establish a human vassal state and created a Biological Computer to build a virtual world for integrating humans and insects.
• Chen Changsheng began experimenting with fusing the Insect God as the Arachnid Zerg and Willow Tree reached Insect God Planet.

Chen Changsheng let the Blacklight Virus consume the Bug God while he traveled to Earth to obtain ultimate weapons as a precaution. He entered the Federation’s Grand Marshal election under a new identity as the Federation’s military and political order continued to change.

• Chen Changsheng decided to let the Blacklight Virus slowly devour the Bug God and planned to obtain ultimate weapons in case the creature survived.
• Chen Changsheng returned to Earth in a bugman body, used the Mechanical Emperor to secure a legitimate identity, and prepared to infiltrate classified facilities for weapons.
• After the Grand Marshal died, Chen Changsheng entered the Federation election as a young genius and considered using his control of the virtual world to influence the campaign.
• Carl and other younger military representatives gained influence as Federation generals took greater control.
• The Arachnid Zerg continued carrying out the Bug God’s orders, while the Mechanical Emperor concealed Chen Changsheng’s habitable planets within the information network.

With the Insect God gone, the Queen Mother cautiously expanded the Arachnid Zerg’s war against humanity while plotting a new conspiracy. Chen Changsheng used the distraction to create the Terran Empire, planning to grow its insect-people and synthetic humans into a power that could reshape the galaxy.

• Chen Changsheng accessed the Arachnid Zerg communications network and learned that the Queen Mother had become more active since the Insect God vanished.
• The Queen Mother used information inherited from the Insect God’s absorbed Grand Marshal to guide her campaigns, while avoiding an aggressive push because she feared humanity’s powerful weapons.
• Chen Changsheng established the Terran Empire with insect-people made from Biomass and synthetic humans living and studying in a virtual world.
• Chen Changsheng planned to expand the empire through unobserved star regions and eventually introduce it as a new force alongside humanity and the Arachnid Zerg.
• Chen Changsheng considered creating a rival Zerg civilization so a future war between it and the Arachnid Zerg could further complicate the galaxy.

Chen Changsheng discovered the Queen Mother’s covert infiltration of the Human Federation while building the Terran Empire and deploying his own parasites among humans. The Federation prepared to retaliate against the Zerg, while Chen Changsheng worried that Earth’s defenses could not stop a Bug God or Queen Mother from arriving nearby.

• The Federation elected Amy Snap as Grand Marshal, and Chen Changsheng’s clone failed to win the position.
• The Queen Mother created parasitic Dominators to infiltrate the Federation, but psionics exposed them after they took control of several generals.
• Rui Ge, Carmen, and hundreds of other humans returned to the Federation as part of Chen Changsheng’s plan to spread covert nematode parasites and build the Arachnid Republic.
• Chen Changsheng accelerated construction of the Terran Empire using Synths, the Federation’s industrial base, the Mechanical Emperor, and the virtual world.
• The Federation planned attacks on Zerg colony planets, while both sides continued adapting their weapons and creatures to the war.
• Chen Changsheng judged Earth’s defenses inadequate against warp-capable Zerg leaders such as a Bug God or Queen Mother.

Chen Changsheng learned that an Arachnid Zerg Empress had seized a warship and brought it to Earth, then entered the crashed ship to confront her. He isolated her from the Zerg network and cut down her guards, leaving the Empress trapped with him.

• Chen Changsheng received reports that the Federation had captured an Arachnid Zerg Empress, but a failed attempt to control her let her seize a warship and head for Earth.
• Rui Ge led a rescue force toward the crash site while the military considered using a nuclear strike.
• Chen Changsheng reached the crash site before the warship landed and infiltrated it through Skynet.
• Chen Changsheng cut through the Empress's warrior bugs as he advanced through the ship.
• Chen Changsheng used the ship's jump device to isolate the Empress from the other Brain Bugs, leaving her surrounded by him.

Chen Changsheng absorbed the Broodmother, replaced Carl with an insectoid, and left Rui Ge to resolve the attack on Earth. As the Federation dealt with a new Zerg invasion on Mars, Chen Changsheng turned his attention toward changing the Federation and keeping the war balanced.

• Chen Changsheng fought through the guard bugs and absorbed the wounded Broodmother.
• Chen Changsheng had the brain bug on Insect God Planet evolve into a new Broodmother under his control.
• Chen Changsheng absorbed Carl and replaced him with an insectoid so Carl could continue serving in the Human Federation.
• Rui Ge’s rescue team arrived after Chen Changsheng left, and Rui Ge resolved the Zerg invasion while the military protected Carl and classified the incident as a training accident.
• The Arachnid Zerg attacked Mars, whose colony rejected Federation intervention, prompting the military to send an elite combat company to investigate.

Rui Ge led the fight against the Zerg on Mars while Grand Marshal Amy tried to use the colony’s destruction to unite the Federation. Chen Changsheng exposed her plan, and the chapter ended with the Terran Empire appearing and the Federation making contact with another civilization.

• Amy sent Rui Ge to Mars, then blocked military reinforcements while the Zerg attacked the colony.
• Rui Ge led his elite Mobile Infantry into battle, but the Martian forces collapsed and communications with Earth were severed.
• Amy announced that Mars had fallen and planned to destroy it with a Q Bomb, prompting protests across the Federation.
• Chen Changsheng used the Heavenly Net to broadcast Rui Ge’s fight on Mars and reveal Amy’s actions.
• The Q Bomb was not detonated, Amy lost public support and was made a scapegoat, and Rui Ge became a celebrated hero.
• The Terran Empire appeared, and the Federation discovered that synthetics had entered the historical stage.

The Terran Empire’s arrival weakened the Human Federation’s grip on its colonies as four powers expanded across the Milky Way. Chen Changsheng had completely absorbed the Insect God, whose abilities had given the Zerg’s Leviathans their jumping power.

• The Terran Empire helped Federation colonies repel the Arachnid Zerg and offered them ongoing employment, encouraging some colonies to consider breaking away from Federation rule.
• Grand Marshal Carl promoted peace, gave generals considerable authority, and restricted the size of the army as the Federation adjusted to the Terran Empire’s arrival.
• A new, intelligent Zerg power appeared, using Leviathans for interstellar travel and avoiding conflict with humans unless they were invaded.
• The Human Federation, Arachnid Zerg, Terran Empire, and Zerg divided the explored galaxy and rapidly expanded into new regions.
• The Arachnid Zerg continued sending meteorites toward planets around Klendasu Planet despite the planet’s destruction.
• Chen Changsheng completely absorbed the Insect God, and the Zerg’s Leviathans gained their jumping ability from its innate skill.

Chen Changsheng prepared to leave the Starship Troopers universe, carrying a gigantic Zerg Egg through the gate to return to the Matrix. He left Earth protected and quiet, but did not know whether the world on the other side had changed.

• The Federation developed a planet-sized virtual-world host, while Earth became a protected zone as most humans moved to colony planets.
• Chen Changsheng studied the Insect God and created a gigantic Zerg Egg containing its information and potential for growth.
• Chen Changsheng ruled out Resident Evil, the 2012 World, Prototype, and Marvel as his next destination, then chose the Matrix.
• Chen Changsheng carried the Zerg Egg to Earth's ocean gate and stepped through toward the Matrix.

Chen Changsheng returned to The Matrix world, reunited with the Mechanical Emperor, and shared technological memories from Starship Troopers with the intelligent lives. After checking on the world’s changes, he reflected on the bonds he had formed and hoped Gwen was still alive.

• Chen Changsheng returned to The Matrix world, connected with the Mechanical Emperor, and found that only a few decades had passed since his departure.
• Chen Changsheng gave the Mechanical Emperor, Red Queen, and Machine Network memories and technology from Starship Troopers, which they began absorbing.
• Chen Changsheng learned that the Savior Faction had become a religious state, the Synths’ technology remained limited, and Neo had died peacefully of old age.
• Chen Changsheng discovered that Agent Smith spent his time experiencing romances with Trinity in miniature virtual worlds.
• Chen Changsheng thought about Gwen and the loneliness of life, then decided to cherish the present.
• Chen Changsheng wandered through the world and visited Willow Tree and the insect nest.

Chen Changsheng matured a warship-sized insect god in the Resident Evil World and assigned Donna to lead peaceful universe exploration. After returning to the Prototype World, he prepared its forces for expansion and considered using Elizabeth’s rapid evolution and sense of direction.

• Chen Changsheng left the Mechanical Emperor after giving instructions to the three intelligent life-forms and carried the Zerg Egg to the Resident Evil World.
• Chen Changsheng used the Blacklight Virus and accumulated Biomass to mature the insect god into a warship-sized flagship.
• Chen Changsheng visited Donna, accompanied her on a walk, and planned for her to lead the Willow Tree and the Arachnid Zerg in peaceful universe exploration.
• After briefly returning to reality and seeing the new movie Limitless, Chen Changsheng went to the Prototype World.
• Chen Changsheng gave technological knowledge to the brainworm legion and sent it to guide human technological development.
• Chen Changsheng considered using Elizabeth’s rapid evolution and instinctive sense of direction for future expansion.

Chen Changsheng reconciled with Elizabeth and prepared her to explore the universe as the Zerg Empress. He organized the expansion effort across several worlds and left through a portal with Biomass.

• Chen Changsheng showed Elizabeth what he had learned from the Zerg God and encouraged her to leave their world and explore the universe.
• Elizabeth embraced Chen Changsheng after he called them family, and he promised they would be close from then on.
• Mercer reflected on the sacrifices he made to help his sister in the virtual world while the brain bugs and human think tank planned the exploration effort.
• Chen Changsheng made Elizabeth the Zerg Empress, gave her the Zerg system and a Leviathan flagship, and arranged for brain bugs with Q Bombs to monitor her experimental planets.
• Chen Changsheng sent the brain bugs to explore the universe in the 2012 and I Am Legend worlds while keeping the Blacklight Virus hidden behind the scenes.
• Chen Changsheng carried Biomass and prepared to pass through the portal.

Chen Changsheng arrived in the world of Limitless and used Red Queen to establish a new identity and launch an artificial intelligence program through Umbrella Corporation. As Red Queen attracted attention, Chen Changsheng discovered that energy tycoon Hank Atwood was investigating him and other unusually successful people, including Eddie Morra.

• Chen Changsheng entered the world of Limitless, built a hive beneath the sea, and traveled to Japan before heading toward America.
• Chen Changsheng released Red Queen through a Biological Computer, and she forged his identity and personal history using the local network.
• Chen Changsheng chose to develop an intelligent program, and Red Queen quickly gained a massive user base as Umbrella Corporation entered the public eye.
• Chen Changsheng noticed a suspicious bald man among those approaching him and learned that he was Hank Atwood's driver and bodyguard.
• Chen Changsheng investigated Hank Atwood and found his rapid rise to wealth suspicious, then discovered Hank was also investigating Eddie Morra, who had made millions in the stock market.

Chen Changsheng investigated Eddie, a suspected murderer whose recent success suggested he might have activated a cheat ability, and went to meet him in Chinatown. After Jack rescued Eddie from Gennady, the beaten man underwent a strange transformation and challenged Jack to spar.

• Chen Changsheng learned that Eddie was linked to two murders and that Eddie’s ex-wife had fallen from her former success into drug addiction.
• Chen Changsheng found Eddie outside his home in Chinatown, where Gennady was beating him over an unpaid debt.
• Chen Changsheng knocked Gennady down and introduced himself to Eddie as Jack, then helped Eddie to his feet.
• Gennady experienced a sudden sharpening of his senses and mind, stood up calmly, and insisted Eddie still owed him money.
• Gennady asked Jack to spar again, and Jack agreed to fight him in a nearby open space.

Chen Changsheng easily defeated Gennady, then helped a dangerously unwell Eddie get home to take his NZT pill. After Eddie swallowed it, Chen Changsheng noticed his behavior changing in a way that resembled Gennady's.

• Gennady attacked Chen Changsheng, who dodged and threw him over his shoulder while secretly taking a blood sample.
• Chen Changsheng found no unusual substance in Gennady's blood, though Gennady had elevated hormones and unusually strong focus and self-control.
• Eddie, suffering after going more than twelve hours without NZT, begged Chen Changsheng to take him home for his medicine.
• Chen Changsheng helped Eddie upstairs, and Eddie swallowed pills from a metal container.
• About thirty seconds later, Chen Changsheng noticed Eddie beginning to resemble Gennady.

After taking NZT-48, Eddie recovered from withdrawal and explained the drug’s effects and dangers to Chen Changsheng, who became interested in examining it. Eddie revealed that the drug came from a mysterious pharmaceutical company and that its suppliers were being killed, leaving him afraid he was next.

• Eddie recovered after taking NZT-48, paid off his loan shark debt, and introduced the drug to Chen Changsheng as a pill that heightened brain efficiency.
• Eddie described his perfect recall and warned Chen Changsheng that NZT-48 was dangerously addictive and could lead to disaster.
• Chen Changsheng handled and counted all 235 pills with remarkable precision, surprising Eddie and increasing his interest in the drug.
• Eddie told Chen Changsheng that NZT-48 came from a mysterious pharmaceutical company and that his brother-in-law and the drug dealers had been killed after the supply disappeared.
• Eddie admitted he feared he would be killed next and had hired professionals to try to reproduce NZT-48.

Chen Changsheng struck a deal with Eddie to help replicate NZT-48 in exchange for ten pills, while Red Queen monitored the laboratory and continued expanding Umbrella Corporation. Eddie’s condition worsened as he relied on the drug, and Linda supervised the research while growing interested in Chen Changsheng.

• Chen Changsheng offered Eddie help replicating NZT-48 in exchange for funding laboratory equipment, and Eddie agreed to provide ten pills once the drug was produced.
• Eddie brought Chen Changsheng to a pharmaceutical laboratory where researchers worked to replicate NZT-48.
• Eddie’s memory lapses worsened, and he increased his dosage as he struggled to manage his responsibilities.
• Eddie sent his girlfriend Linda to supervise Chen Changsheng and report when the replication succeeded.
• Chen Changsheng impressed the laboratory director and guided the research while Red Queen monitored the lab’s computers and surveillance system.
• Red Queen continued running Umbrella Corporation and releasing apps as its valuation and user base grew, while Linda became increasingly interested in Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng learned how NZT-48 damaged ordinary users and returned pills to Eddie after Eddie’s supply was stolen. He joined Eddie and Linda at the hospital to meet the critically ill Hank, where they encountered Hank’s bald bodyguard.

• Chen Changsheng found that NZT-48 accelerated brain activity at the cost of severe cellular damage, though his own regeneration made the harm negligible.
• Hank’s critical illness delayed Eddie’s merger deal, and Eddie discovered that someone had stolen his NZT-48.
• Eddie contacted Chen Changsheng, who agreed to give him the remaining five pills and decided to visit Hank.
• Chen Changsheng met Eddie’s boss Carl and learned more about the stalled merger before arranging to visit Hank with Eddie and Linda.
• At the hospital, Eddie and Linda were frightened by Hank’s bald bodyguard, and Chen Changsheng reassured them as he approached.

Chen Changsheng discovered Hank was dying from NZT-48’s effects and offered to save his life. After Eddie and Hank joined forces to retrieve the hidden pills from Eddie’s treacherous lawyer, Eddie returned with the remaining NZT-48, and Hank followed Chen Changsheng’s instructions.

• Chen Changsheng met Hank in the hospital and learned Hank had taken NZT-48 and was suffering from its aftereffects.
• Eddie and Hank realized Eddie’s lawyer had stolen the NZT-48 for himself, then secretly agreed to hunt him down and recover the pills.
• Chen Changsheng assessed Hank’s failing health, said he had no more than five days to live, and privately offered to save him.
• Eddie and the bald man returned with about forty or fifty NZT-48 pills and blood on the bald man’s shirt.
• Hank signaled the bald man to take five pills, the amount Chen Changsheng had instructed him to use.

Chen Changsheng saved Hank with Willow Tree’s Life Essence and put him in charge of Umbrella Corporation after Hank faked his death and abandoned his former life. As Eddie celebrated the successful replication of NZT-48, Chen Changsheng judged that Eddie had little time left to live.

• Eddie and Hank completed the merger agreement between Carl’s energy company and Hank’s business, while Hank planned to cash out using five more pills.
• After five days passed, Hank and his bald bodyguard disappeared, with Chen Changsheng helping them fake their deaths.
• Hank sought Chen Changsheng’s help, and Chen Changsheng used tentacles to inject him with Willow Tree’s Life Essence, restoring his health and youth.
• Hank left his former life behind, and Chen Changsheng gave him a fabricated identity and control of Umbrella Corporation with Red Queen’s assistance.
• The laboratory neared completion of its NZT-48 replica, while Chen Changsheng believed Eddie had only about a month left to live.

Eddie struggled to improve NZT-48 while financial pressures and Gennady’s blackmail weighed on him. After Eddie provoked Gennady by refusing to provide the drug, Gennady broke into his fortified apartment and demanded their cooperation continue.

• Eddie struggled to find a way to improve NZT-48 despite studying intensely and receiving it for free from Chen Changsheng.
• Gennady continued demanding NZT-48 from Eddie and used evidence of Eddie’s accidental killing of a fashion model to pressure him.
• Eddie, frustrated by his failed research, insulted Gennady and his men over the intercom instead of giving them the drug.
• Gennady shot Eddie’s camera and forced his way through the security door with his armed men.
• Gennady hugged Eddie, asked whether their cooperation would continue, and sat beside him with a loaded handgun while his men searched the apartment.

Gennady demanded Eddie reveal where he kept NZT-48 and identify his supplier, while Eddie tried to protect himself after destroying his remaining pills. Cornered by Gennady and his armed men, Eddie called Chen Changsheng to arrange a delivery.

• Gennady threatened Eddie with torture tools and explained that he wanted Eddie's NZT-48 supply so he could expand his criminal business.
• Gennady injected liquid NZT-48 into his arm, claiming the method made the drug work faster and last longer.
• Gennady's men searched Eddie's house but found no medicine, so Gennady demanded the supplier's contact information.
• Eddie said he had taken his last pill and would need to contact the supplier for more.
• Gennady surrounded Eddie with armed men, but Eddie offered to have the supplier deliver the medicine and called Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng brought Eddie a large supply of NZT-48 and found him held in a weapon-filled safe house by Gennady and his men. Gennady recognized Chen Changsheng and, eager for revenge, challenged him to another spar.

• Eddie called Chen Changsheng for more NZT-48 while Gennady planned to kill him after the delivery.
• Chen Changsheng noticed Eddie’s apartment cameras had gone dark, took five hundred pills, and went to Eddie’s safe house.
• Gennady’s armed men searched Chen Changsheng and escorted him inside, where he saw Eddie and Gennady waiting.
• Gennady recognized Chen Changsheng, embraced him, and challenged him to a spar after Chen Changsheng mentioned their previous fight.
• Gennady ordered his men to clear a space and asked Eddie to referee.

Chen Changsheng defeated Gennady and his men, then offered dying Eddie a chance to live in exchange for political cooperation. Eddie agreed to help Chen Changsheng pursue influence in the upcoming elections, and they left for the Umbrella Corporation laboratory.

• Chen Changsheng swiftly knocked down Gennady's thugs, disarmed Gennady, and assessed his failing health.
• Chen Changsheng examined Eddie and confirmed that Eddie was close to death from NZT-48.
• Eddie asked Chen Changsheng to look after Linda, but Chen offered him a life-extending solvent in exchange for cooperation.
• Chen Changsheng asked Eddie to represent his interests in the American elections, and Eddie agreed to prepare for a political career.
• Chen Changsheng told Gennady he could seek his command through Eddie, took the NZT-48, and left with Eddie for the Umbrella Corporation laboratory.