Chapter Summaries

Su Mo fought Feng Long aboard the train, learned part of Feng Long’s evolved Su Family Spear during their bout, and drank Moon Creek Treasure Water that revealed its enhanced healing power. Feng Long suspected Su Mo might be connected to the missing director and to Su Youzong, and the chapter ended with Su Mo asking how he could obtain more treasure water.

• Su Mo realized Feng Long’s improved Su Family Spear countered his original moves, but adapted during their continued fight and learned roughly one-fifth of Feng Long’s techniques.
• Su Mo stopped the match and admitted defeat, but Feng Long praised his talent and offered him command of a thousand-man unit in the Third Army; Su Mo declined.
• Feng Long brought out Moon Creek Treasure Water and poured Su Mo the largest share, saying it could repair hidden injuries and deficiencies in his innate foundation.
• Su Mo drank the treasure water, noticed its healing effects and increased potency, and calmly studied its effects while Feng Long and Wang Quan watched in astonishment.
• Feng Long wondered whether Su Mo was connected to the missing director and thought about protecting Su Youzong, then heard Su Mo ask how many points more treasure water would cost.

Su Mo rejected Feng Long’s offer to join the army and chose to enter Tian Yuan Territory under his purchased Free Market Electronic Worker identity, despite its dangerous history. After the game warned him against revealing who he was, Su Mo and Feng Long spent the evening refining the Su Family Spear, and Feng Long said he hoped they would become brothers.

• Feng Long explained the territory’s Moon Creek Treasure Water grades and offered Su Mo a place in his command with a path toward higher talent ratings.
• Su Mo declined military service and considered Feng Long’s offer to recommend him to the Research Institute, but learned he would need to work there for a year before qualifying to lead a project.
• Su Mo nearly asked Feng Long about Su God, triggering a game warning that forbade him from revealing his identity or influencing natives to change theirs.
• Su Mo chose to enter Tian Yuan Territory as a Free Market Electronic Worker, an identity with a perilous history, and Feng Long arranged to suppress the train incident and help him leave Hope City discreetly.
• Su Mo and Feng Long discussed and refined the Su Family Spear, improving Feng Long’s technique and allowing Su Mo to learn his version.
• Feng Long praised Su Mo as a genius and said he hoped they would become close friends, perhaps even brothers.

Su Mo traveled toward the Tian Yuan Territory, sparred with Feng Long, and learned that the territory had fractured into factions while Su Chan struggled to maintain control. The Green Train reached Hope City, where Su Mo’s former fellow passengers saw the prosperous city before continuing onward without him.

• Su Mo spent the night in Wang Quan’s conductor’s room, then trained with Feng Long and improved his spear skills until Feng Long admitted Su Mo was becoming his equal.
• Over dinner, Su Mo mentioned the Demon Soul Race and treants, prompting Feng Long to ask how he knew about them; Su Mo said he could not explain and asked Feng Long to find him again in half a year.
• Feng Long promised to give Su Mo his seal and warned him that the Tian Yuan Territory was divided into factions, advising him to choose a side when pursuing his ambitions.
• Su Mo realized that Su Chan had likely lost absolute control of the territory as its population and competing factions grew, though the resources he had left behind and the possibility of his return had restrained its ambitious residents.
• After three days and two nights, the Green Train reached Hope City, where travelers saw its developed streets, factories, high-rises, and powerful companies.
• Gong Liang, Huang Qing, and Chen Yongkang failed to find Su Mo or Huang Xiaojuan after disembarking and continued onward, knowing they could not remain in Hope City without identity cards.

Su Mo arrived in the prosperous Tian Yuan Territory and traveled from Hope Station to Ming Yue Town, where he learned how costly life was for residents and newcomers. He entered the town determined to find a way to develop despite the expenses and his one-year deadline.

• Su Mo left Hope Station with Huang Xiaojuan and Oreo, then hired Yang Wu to drive them to Ming Yue Town.
• Su Mo bought a large watermelon for the group, and Oreo ate most of it while Yang Wu warned Su Mo about the territory’s many expenses and strict identity rules.
• Yang Wu dropped Su Mo, Huang Xiaojuan, and Oreo at Ming Yue Town and gave Su Mo his business card.
• Huang Xiaojuan worried about finding a place to rent, but Su Mo chose to look around town first and entered while considering the challenge of building his way to control of the city within a year.

After researching Tian Yuan Territory’s policies and living costs, Su Mo decided to seek a free-market job in a town rather than work in Hope City. He reported to the Free Market Center and reviewed openings, with jobs in Sang Tian Town drawing his interest because they could offer Huang Xiaojuan work and give him a chance to develop agricultural machinery.

• Su Mo compared the towns with Hope City and decided that city work would cost too much and restrict his freedom, so he would look for a free-market job.
• Su Mo reassured Huang Xiaojuan that he would not move to the city, transferred her 100 points, and traveled to Hope City to report for work.
• Su Mo reached the Free Market Center and completed an employment form listing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a limited set of his skills.
• A staff member gave Su Mo job listings for Ming Yue Town and Sang Tian Town, including openings in repair, manufacturing, and research and development.
• Su Mo read the listings and considered Sang Tian Town a promising place to develop machinery for harvesting its fragile crops.

Su Mo narrowed his job search to four shops and went to Sang Tian Town to investigate, where he learned how fierce the harvest-season competition had become. At Carefree Good Workshop, Zhang Min and Zhang Da plotted to recruit electricians and sabotage their tools to avoid ruinous crop-contract penalties.

• Su Mo rejected unsuitable listings, selected Zero Manufacturing, Carefree Good Workshop, Ruyi Machinery Factory, and Qiankun Grain Store, and requested their recruitment brochures before visiting Sang Tian Town.
• Su Mo saw that Qiankun Grain Store and Zero Manufacturing had attracted workers by using Energy Stone Tools that made harvesting easier, while Carefree Good Workshop struggled to recruit anyone.
• Zhang Min urged her father, Zhang Da, to hire electricians and secretly tamper with their experimental tools so a fire would destroy the contracted crops and spare the family the breach penalty.
• Zhang Da agreed to the scheme, staged a head injury, and Zhang Min replaced the shop's advanced-electrician notice with a broader advertisement seeking fifteen electricians.

Su Mo brought Huang Xiaojuan to Sang Tian Town, where the massive summer harvest and grain-store competition revealed a promising market for his skills and plans. After learning that Qiankun Grain Store was poised to dominate with energy stone sickles, Su Mo decided to investigate whether he could join it.

• Su Mo told Huang Xiaojuan he had found a job in Sang Tian Town, and she collected her three days' wages before they prepared to leave.
• Su Mo reflected on Tian Yuan Territory's inequality and weak public morale while Oreo returned from an unsuccessful search for Su Chan and Moore.
• Su Mo and Huang Xiaojuan traveled to Sang Tian Town, where a fellow passenger described the territory's enormous farmland and the changing fortunes of harvest contractors and grain stores.
• The passenger explained that only Carefree Good Workshop and Qiankun Grain Store remained, and showed Su Mo a leaflet advertising Qiankun Grain Store's energy stone sickles.
• Su Mo tested a sickle and considered joining Qiankun Grain Store, while keeping Zero Manufacturing as an alternative if he could not get in.

Su Mo arrived in Sang Tian Town, rented a quiet house, and sought work as an electrician at Qiankun Grain Store. After Senior Engineer Gao rejected him despite his answers and abilities, Su Mo went to Carefree Good Workshop, where he found a recruitment offer that suited his research plans.

• Su Mo rented a remote courtyard house for himself, Huang Xiaojuan, and Oreo, planning to use one room as a workshop.
• Su Mo applied to Qiankun Grain Store, where Senior Engineer Gao dismissed other applicants with bizarre questions and then rejected Su Mo over his claimed development timeline.
• Su Mo left without confronting Senior Engineer Gao and went to Carefree Good Workshop, where he encountered Sun Quan again.
• Su Mo noticed that Carefree Good Workshop had increased its openings from one to fifteen and offered electricians separate workshops and research tools based on their contributions.

Su Mo passed Carefree Good Workshop’s unusual interview and became a development electrician, realizing the workshop was deliberately hiring people with personal flaws rather than prioritizing technical skill. Zhang Min prepared to equip the new hires’ independent workshops as Carefree Good Workshop geared up for a desperate fight.

• Sun Quan explained that Carefree Good Workshop was recruiting fifteen electricians to work independently, with strict limits on job changes and a fifteen-day deadline to produce a result.
• Zhang Min dismissed most applicants under the hiring restrictions, then interviewed the remaining candidates and hired several people whose personalities seemed flawed, including Qi Yi and Sun Quan.
• Su Mo suspected the workshop was selecting for unusual personalities, then described his escape from Green Fruit Territory after killing someone and secured a job despite admitting his technical skills were poor.
• Zhang Min hired Su Mo because his free-market identity made him liable for problems with products he developed, even after leaving the workshop.
• Zhang Min gathered the new employees, invited them to list the equipment they needed for their independent workshops, and said they would begin work once the workshops were ready.

Su Mo joined Carefree Good Workshop as an electronic worker and learned that its feud with Qiankun Grain Store could make the workshop’s recruitment drive a smokescreen. On his first day of work, he found a Micro Development Platform waiting in his workshop, giving him confidence that he could develop a useful tool.

• Zhang Min approved the workers’ equipment requests, including Su Mo’s request for a Micro Development Platform, and dismissed them until work began the next day.
• After the meeting, the workers split into hostile factions, and Sun Quan warned Su Mo that Qiankun Grain Store might sabotage Carefree Good Workshop’s development efforts.
• Sun Quan explained the territory’s Sin Value rules, and Su Mo discovered that his Green Fruit Territory bond carried a Sin Value of 3,870.
• Su Mo returned to Huang Xiaojuan and felt reassured by their life together, while she later began work at an agricultural plantation and Oreo continued searching for Moore and Su Chan.
• Zhang Min gathered the workers for a brainstorming session, accepted several mundane suggestions, and eagerly agreed when Su Mo proposed adding a punching bag.
• Su Mo entered Workshop Number Six and found the Micro Development Platform crate, while Sun Quan took the neighboring Workshop Number Seven.

Su Mo inspected the Micro Electronic Machinery Integrated Development Platform while Feng Long returned to Tian Yuan Territory with news of a gifted man named Su Youzong, whom he suspected was the missing Director. Feng Tianmin ordered the brothers to protect Su Youzong discreetly, then revealed photographs that showed how deeply their conflict with Chen Shen had hardened.

• Su Mo unpacked the Micro Electronic Machinery Integrated Development Platform and tested its seven specialized machines, concluding that he needed to obtain the territory’s research on energy stones.
• Feng Long returned early to the Northern Theater Command and told Feng Tianmin that he had found traces of the Director.
• Feng Tianmin took Feng Long into a hidden underground chamber and explained that Chen Shen had seized power, displaced the Director’s family, and weakened the brothers’ authority.
• Feng Long described meeting Su Youzong, who had used the original Su Family Spear and displayed remarkable talent, then reported his investigation into Su Youzong’s past in Green Fruit Territory.
• Feng Tianmin ordered Feng Long to keep a low profile and arranged for agents to protect Su Youzong and Huang Xiaojuan while he planned to contact Su Youzong.
• Feng Tianmin declared that their ideological dispute with Chen Shen left no room for reconciliation, and Feng Long saw rows of black-and-white photographs on the chamber wall.

Su Mo realized that powerful forces were monitoring him and began planning equipment to protect himself. After a worker spilled hot soup on his clothes, he conceived a powered armor suit and resolved to build one within half a month.

• Sun Quan told Su Mo that Qiankun Grain Store was preparing another tool exhibition and speculated that Yao Zhe was secretly developing something.
• Su Mo returned home and discovered six hidden watchers nearby, then sensed that he was being monitored on his way to Carefree Good Workshop the next morning.
• Su Mo decided he needed defensive, mobile equipment with offensive capabilities, but struggled to combine those functions without making his plans obvious.
• A worker accidentally spilled hot soup on Su Mo, prompting him to realize wearable armor could protect his whole body while integrating power and weapon modules.
• Su Mo resolved to use Zhang Min's materials and the Micro Development Platform to build powered armor within half a month.

Su Mo persuaded Zhang Min to fund more materials for his armor project by promising to produce a useful tool within seven days, while Zhang Bowen began learning manufacturing from him. After planning the armor’s shell, weapons, and power system, Su Mo locked himself in the workshop to draft a design for the system to upgrade.

• Su Mo warned Zhang Min that the Qiankun Grain Store was drawing workers away and requested more materials, but she initially doubted he could produce a tool in seven days.
• Zhang Bowen supported Su Mo, and Zhang Min agreed to provide forty thousand points’ worth of materials while assigning Bowen to study with him.
• Zhang Bowen asked to learn appliance manufacturing, and Su Mo showed him that a rice cooker would cost 390 points to make in the wasteland.
• After learning the Territory Academy of Sciences’ entrance requirements, Zhang Bowen asked Su Mo to teach him to make a high-scoring technological item, and Su Mo planned to train him on Energy Stone Tools.
• Su Mo chose Level 3 Flexible Alloy for the armor shell and planned its weapons and mobility system.
• Su Mo sent word to Huang Xiaojuan, returned to the workshop, and locked the door to draft the armor design for the system to upgrade.

After four days of torrential rain halted fieldwork in Sang Tian Town, Su Mo learned that his new neighbors were monitoring him and profited from selling raincoats with Sun Quan. At Carefree Good Workshop, the Inspection Team arrived to ensure the summer harvest would be delivered, while Su Mo prepared to finish an Energy Stone Sickle and worked on a much larger blueprint.

• Four days of rain flooded the streets and stopped most planting work, so Su Mo cleared water from his courtyard and spoke with the new neighbors monitoring him.
• Su Mo reassured Huang Xiaojuan that the neighbors had only asked to buy her meals, and she eagerly calculated her possible earnings from cooking for them.
• Su Mo and Sun Quan discussed stocking up on cheap grain, but they saw the Inspection Team at Carefree Good Workshop and realized the workshop could face severe consequences if it failed to deliver the harvest.
• Su Mo told Sun Quan not to flee and went to his studio, where Zhang Bowen's Energy Stone Sickle was nearly complete and Su Mo examined a large, complex blueprint.

Su Mo examined a powered armor blueprint and used the Doomsday Survival System to upgrade it into a Combat Armor blueprint, choosing the option he could afford to manufacture. He named the finished design Sun Chaser Type-1.

• Su Mo reviewed the original blueprint and recognized that his own scientific knowledge could not resolve its design limits without the system’s help.
• The system offered Exploratory Armor, Support Mecha, and Combat Armor upgrades, while Psionic Armor remained locked until Su Mo obtained a Psionic Crystal.
• Su Mo compared the costs and manufacturing requirements, decided Combat Armor best suited his immediate needs, and spent 25,980 Survival Points to upgrade the blueprint.
• Su Mo experienced a vision of countless versions of himself completing the design, then returned to the workshop to inspect the upgraded blueprint and its manufacturing instructions.
• Su Mo named the upgraded design Sun Chaser Type-1.

Su Mo completed the Sun Chaser Type-1 blueprint while Zhang Min sought help in Fishmen City and Zhang Bowen worked with Su Mo at Carefree Good Workshop. The inspection team announced a sharply shortened summer harvest schedule, and Zhang Min learned that the prince she hoped would support her was away.

• Su Mo recorded the Sun Chaser Type-1 blueprint and began studying how to build it with substitute materials.
• Zhang Min left for Fishmen City to seek support for the Zhang family, leaving Zhang Bowen in charge of Carefree Good Workshop.
• Zhang Bowen brought Su Mo rare parts and worked on assigned energy-tool modules while Su Mo continued developing his plans.
• The inspection team told Zhang Bowen and Su Mo that the summer harvest had to begin by June 16 and finish within ten days.
• Zhang Min found that Second Prince Yu Chenghui had left Fishmen City and might not return for days, then resolved to endure the crisis for her family.

After the Inspectorate warned Carefree Good Workshop to move the summer harvest forward, Su Mo and Sun Quan feared an approaching Food Disaster and bought grain. Yu Zhou then brought his suspicion of an interesting person to the Inspectorate’s Threat Assessment Department and began searching its surveillance records.

• The Inspectorate told Zhang Bowen to prepare for an early summer harvest, and Su Mo suspected a major disaster would follow.
• Su Mo told Sun Quan the harvest would run from June 15 for ten days, leading Sun Quan to fear another Food Disaster and urge them to stockpile grain.
• Su Mo and Sun Quan bought flour and rice, and Su Mo carried both bags while helping Sun Quan home.
• Su Mo decided Sun Quan might become an ally in his plans to test the game’s limits and investigate its origins.
• Yu Zhou entered the Tian Yuan Territory Central Inspectorate and began searching surveillance footage for the person who had caught his interest.

Yu Zhou and the Supervisory Team investigated Su Youzong, but their threat-analysis system locked his data under orders from Feng Tianmin and blocked its deletion under Chen Shen’s authority. Suspecting that Su Youzong’s presence was connected to the escalating conflict between the territory’s factions, Yu Zhou went to report to Pei Shao.

• Yu Zhou used surveillance and the Supervisory Team’s database to investigate Su Youzong, whose threat level rose from green to yellow during the initial analysis.
• The system’s review dropped Su Youzong’s threat level to gray-black and locked his information under Northern Theater Command Commander Feng Tianmin’s authority.
• The surveillance showed Su Youzong carrying grain with ease and leaping between buildings, while Yu Zhou acknowledged his exceptional strength and shut off the footage.
• Yu Zhou failed to delete the sealed footage because Hope City Mayor Chen Shen’s level-nine authority protected it, and the researchers hurried away.
• Yu Zhou told his two team members to return and went to find Pei Shao, worried that Su Youzong was tied to the growing power struggle between the territory’s factions.

As Sang Tian Town reopened after five days of rain, rising food prices and unemployment fueled unrest, while Su Mo worked on a faster way to harvest Starfire No. 3 Wheat. At lunch, he discovered that the new chef, Pei Zhao, was actually Pei Shao, and both men recognized each other.

• Su Mo left Huang Xiaojuan at home and encountered three men trying to rob him, then met Sun Quan, who reported that the Guard Team had arrested hundreds of people.
• At Carefree Good Workshop, Su Mo set aside the armor blueprints and began designing a machine to harvest fragile Starfire No. 3 Wheat before the summer harvest.
• Su Mo and Sun Quan noticed workers reacting strongly to the aroma of the cafeteria's food, which Su Mo suspected contained Psionic Water.
• Zhang Bowen introduced the new chef, Pei Zhao, to Su Mo, and the two recognized one another as Pei Shao and Su Mo despite their disguises.

Su Mo and Sun Quan discussed the Tian Yuan Territory’s turmoil and the suspected absence of its lord while Su Mo continued preparing for the Summer Harvest. Zhang Bowen completed an Energy Stone Sickle, and Su Mo tested his developing Sun Chasing Armor before deciding to take the initiative and make Pei Shao contribute to his plans.

• Sun Quan told Su Mo rumors that Mayor Chen was pushing new policies now that Su Chan had stopped appearing at public conferences.
• Su Mo concluded that the territory had changed greatly and continued researching while Pei Shao kept up his cover as the workshop’s head chef.
• Zhang Bowen successfully developed an Energy Stone Sickle, and Su Mo gave him a blueprint for a mass-production version to take to a factory.
• Su Mo tested the nearly finished armor mask, found it costly and not yet strong enough, and estimated that a full suit would require at least one million points of materials.
• Su Mo decided to use Pei Shao to help secure the resources he needed for the Sun Chasing Armor.