Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo discovered an illegally modified Transport Ship at the landing field and disabled it before it could escape. The military officers realized he understood the ship’s systems and watched as he approached its hatch.

• Yang Bo headed to the Transport Ship landing field, while military officers debated the risks of attacking the Four Seas Company base and worried about hostages and the missing Alarm Cannons.
• Yang Bo noticed a Transport Ship in standby mode inside a hangar but initially continued past it.
• Military officers recognized that the ship appeared modified and warned that Red Earl's Faction might use it to flee.
• Yang Bo turned back, struck an energy-transmission node with his Energy Weapon, and stopped the ship's turrets and shield from activating.
• Yang Bo fired at the Transport Ship's engines, prompting the Colonel to explain that inactive engines were vulnerable.
• Yang Bo moved toward the Transport Ship's hatch as the military officers wondered who was aboard and what he would do next.

Yang Bo used the Transport Ship’s cooling system to trigger its rescue system and eject more than a hundred people, including prominent Pado Star officials. After the military celebrated the arrests, Yang Bo took a large canister from the ship’s maintenance area, leaving the military higher-ups wondering what he planned to do with it.

• Yang Bo damaged the Laser Turret and connected its base to the engine cooling system, causing the rescue system to activate.
• The Transport Ship’s hatch opened and more than a hundred people slid out onto an air cushion.
• Yang Bo shot and killed one person who tried to flee, then approached the rescued group.
• The military higher-ups identified Pado Star’s Chief Executive and Minister of Finance among the hostages and prepared video evidence for the Chief Justice and Speaker.
• Yang Bo received two revival chances for rescuing important hostages, then went to the maintenance area and took a large canister from a cabinet.

Yang Bo used an Energy Engine Fire Extinguisher to disable the enemy mechas’ radar and break into the rebels’ hidden base, where he killed armed personnel and rescued hostages. After his rapid assault drew attention from military observers, the game transferred him to another area.

• Yang Bo threw an opened Energy Engine Fire Extinguisher toward the building, and its Flame-retardant Fiber blocked the entrance and disrupted the enemy mechas.
• Yang Bo charged through the entrance, cut down enemy mechas, and entered a warehouse leading to a hidden experimental base.
• Yang Bo used the mecha’s Laser Cannon to destroy the base’s Alarm Cannons and attack the people and open-cockpit mechas inside.
• Yang Bo searched the rooms, found collared hostages, and killed more than a dozen armed people resting in another room.
• The military bigwigs praised Yang Bo’s combat skill but worried that killing armed people unable to resist would anger the hostages.
• Yang Bo confirmed the prompt to proceed to another area, and the game displayed a transfer screen.

Yang Bo found his mech trapped under the military base’s superior radar and laser defenses, then used a metal sheet to expose enemy positions. He dug a shallow platform and fired from a sideways position, scoring a hit as teammates and officers watched in disbelief.

• Yang Bo realized the enemy base’s radar and automated Laser Cannons could target his mech whenever it exposed itself.
• Yang Bo used a shiny metal sheet as a mirror, and the base’s Laser Cannon fired at it; he told his teammates they could use the same trick to observe the enemy.
• Yang Bo studied the base’s defenses and concluded that his side’s weapons could not safely attack its broad firing coverage.
• Yang Bo dug a shallow platform, lay his mech in it, and rolled onto its side to expose only one shoulder and the Laser Cannon barrel.
• Yang Bo fired from the sideways position and hit the base, drawing an excited shout over the public channel.

Yang Bo led the players through the base’s defenses, using a risky maneuver to destroy an Alarm Cannon before being taken out by a sniper. After reviving in another part of the battlefield, he found the cannons shielded and headed away from the fight to seek easier targets, leaving the military observers puzzled.

• Yang Bo dodged an Alarm Cannon’s attack, damaged it, and charged toward the base, inspiring dozens of players to follow.
• Yang Bo’s group destroyed the outer Alarm Cannons and advanced until two sniper mechas crippled two players’ mechas.
• Yang Bo launched himself toward the hangar but was killed by a sniper, confirming his suspicion that more snipers guarded the approach.
• Yang Bo revived outside the base, found the Alarm Cannons protected by Energy Shields, and decided to look elsewhere for easier targets.
• The military bigwigs watched Yang Bo move away from the fighting and wondered whether he was abandoning the battle.

Yang Bo discovered a Transport Ship repair factory but found its complex layout and defenders made it a poor place to hunt. He used a discarded Transport Ship Energy Furnace Shield to protect his mecha and slowly approached the military base, where its Alarm Cannons failed to stop him.

• Yang Bo identified the factory as a Transport Ship repair facility and judged its crowded steel interior too difficult to navigate.
• After a defender shot at him from a gap, Yang Bo recognized a discarded object as a Transport Ship Energy Furnace Shield.
• Yang Bo covered his mecha with the shield, which blocked radar and forced him to walk slowly toward the military base.
• The players and military officers watched in confusion as Yang Bo approached the base beneath the blackened shield.
• The base's Alarm Cannons fired repeatedly, but the shield withstood their attacks as Yang Bo kept advancing toward the gate.

Yang Bo used an improvised shield and a Firewall Door to storm the military base’s command tower, where his mecha killed many defenders and Red Earl officials. He reached the third floor and attacked a group descending under mecha protection, leaving the military to report that eleven New Government council members had died.

• Yang Bo carried a Spaceship Engine Energy Reactor Shield through the base’s main gate, surviving the Alarm Cannons and sniper fire.
• Yang Bo burst into the command tower, threw the shield, and let his mecha’s Laser Cannon fire on the people installing Alarm Cannons.
• Yang Bo evaded enemy mechas, destroyed one, and rushed upstairs while his automatic attacks killed defenders on the lower floors.
• Yang Bo used a Firewall Door as a shield and battering ram to break through the third floor, killing dozens of people there.
• Yang Bo attacked a group descending the stairs under the protection of four mechas, and the Colonel reported that eleven Red Earl New Government council members had been killed.

Yang Bo pursued Red Earl's Faction through the military base, damaged equipment on the underground level, and discovered an open Ammunition Depot. He loaded Shockwave Bombs onto his mecha, while the military higher-ups debated whether to cut off his remote control.

• Yang Bo retreated from four enemy mechas, entered an elevator, and descended to the fifth underground level.
• Yang Bo killed people fleeing through the lower floors and headed toward the Main Energy Chamber as military officials praised his tactics and questioned his familiarity with the layout.
• Yang Bo damaged a fiber-optic cable and a vacuum line, causing the equipment level's lights to go out before emergency power activated.
• Yang Bo found the open Ammunition Depot and loaded Shockwave Bombs from the mecha ammunition store.
• The military higher-ups decided to watch Yang Bo's actions and cut off his remote control only if he used the bombs recklessly, while Yang Bo worried that they might disconnect him.

Yang Bo disabled parts of the military base and uncovered a hidden group of hostages while searching its levels. The military personnel identified the captives, while the female captain continued connecting Yang Bo to earlier suspicious events.

• The female captain recalled Yang Bo’s mecha movements and privately linked them to events on Pado Star, the Transport Ship, the battleship, and March Star.
• Yang Bo sealed the Ammunition Depot, locked its control system, and destroyed the control panel.
• With the base’s Alarm Cannons inactive, dozens or perhaps hundreds of mechas charged into the military base.
• Yang Bo inspected a level with a long underground passage and closed warehouses, then realized the shut warehouse doors were suspicious.
• Yang Bo forced open a warehouse and discovered five or six hundred people inside, whom the military identified as hostages.

Yang Bo rescued thousands of hostages before spotting Red Earl's Faction members disguised among them and fighting them off. The military then invited him to pursue an important enemy target through an underground transit passage, and he accepted.

• Yang Bo opened four warehouses and found nearly 2,000 hostages, then questioned the roughly 200 people in the fifth warehouse after noticing signs that they were impostors.
• The disguised Red Earl's Faction members attacked, and Yang Bo's mecha opened fire as the military confirmed that dozens had no Alliance or immigration records.
• Yang Bo fought the attackers inside the warehouse, gaining skills from the defeated enemies while the military praised his judgment and marked Robert as a candidate for cultivation.
• Yang Bo saw other mechas treating the remaining hostages carefully and wondered if the game was over, but a message asked him to join the pursuit of enemy members still at large.
• Yang Bo accepted the mission and recognized the Underground High-Speed Transportation Network, preparing to track the enemy through it.

Yang Bo discovered that he could use his own energy to imitate photoelectric signals and infiltrate the network while controlling a mecha. After spending an hour practicing in the Underground Passage, he resumed the game and came under fire from several mechas.

• The military rescued more than two thousand hostages from the retaken military base and credited Yang Bo's mecha with playing a crucial role.
• Yang Bo sensed the control device's photoelectric signals and successfully imitated one, sending a signal through the network and making his mecha move.
• Yang Bo practiced simulating different signals in the Underground Passage for more than an hour while the military personnel watched.
• Yang Bo planned to exploit Robert's account to buy a mecha for Tie Niu and to find Robert's superior.
• A laser struck toward Yang Bo, and he raised his Energy Shield after spotting several mechas in the distance.

Yang Bo escaped a group of pursuing mechas by spiraling through an underground tunnel, then collided with Red Earl members and gained three A-grade skills. After exiting the game, he tested his ability to sense electronic signals and located someone nearby who had opened his email.

• Yang Bo evaded five or six enemy mechas by dropping low and spiraling through the tunnel at high speed.
• Yang Bo collided with a group ahead, and the crash killed several high-level Gene Evolvers while granting him Potion Mastery, Forging, and Art skills.
• Military officers calculated that Yang Bo's 120-ton mecha had reached nine mach before it was wrecked.
• Yang Bo chose not to revive and realized he had controlled the mecha by simulating Photoelectric Signals with his energy.
• Yang Bo emailed an association and sensed someone in the city, less than two kilometers away, open the message.

Yang Bo traced an Ash Organization email to a server on March Star’s West Continent, then practiced sensing network signals and used Robert’s game account to deliver expensive mechas to Tie Niu. After exhausting Robert’s credit, Yang Bo discovered Robert had died by suicide and disposed of his body.

• Yang Bo emailed Robert’s upstream contact in Ash Organization code, traced the email’s signal to the West Continent, and decided to practice reading other devices’ data.
• Yang Bo learned the Mecha Game had resumed with a new expansion, found that Robert’s account was at Base Number Nine, and used a Generation 13 Mecha to study its control signals.
• Yang Bo traveled through the Underground World and let Tie Niu destroy mechas, delivering four to him after using his resurrection chance and Robert’s borrowed funds.
• Yang Bo returned home, found Robert dead from apparent poison, placed his body in a bag, and later left it in a cave inhabited by bone-devouring ants.

Yang Bo reviewed the skills and gains he had acquired through Robert, while the military investigated Robert’s disappearance and the evidence at his yacht and villa. He visited Tie Niu in the game, then planned his next steps, including preparing potions and investigating Robert’s superior.

• Yang Bo confirmed he had removed Robert’s belongings and found that Potion Mastery and Mecha Mastery had reached the master level.
• The military investigated Robert, recovered his deleted emails, and discovered irregularities at his villa and yacht, but could not decipher the Ash Organization’s code before Robert vanished.
• Yang Bo watched news coverage of the military operation on Pado Star, then received an email from Fatty Boss asking him to visit the company in three days.
• Yang Bo entered the Underground World in a Ninth Generation Mecha and reunited with Tie Niu, who had kept the mecha fragments untouched.
• Yang Bo returned to the surface, saw that Robert’s yacht had been towed away, and planned to prepare potions, find a mate for the Invisibility Rat, investigate Robert’s superior, and test his superpower on a local network.

Yang Bo studied serum production and successfully made a Four-Star D-Class Gene Evolution Serum on his first attempt. Fatty Boss explained the serum market and the risks and uncertainties of Gene Evolution, while Yang Bo offered to keep producing serums in return for his guidance.

• Yang Bo bought high-end devices and built a secure Local Area Network in his basement, intending to crack their Safety Systems.
• Fatty Boss gave Yang Bo a material-purification method, a D-Class Gene Serum formula, and enough supplies for ten batches.
• Yang Bo studied the production video and followed its steps to compound and seal a D-Class Gene Serum.
• Fatty Boss tested the serum and discovered it was Four-Star quality, worth far more than the cost of the materials.
• Fatty Boss explained how serum quality affected Gene Evolution success rates and described the scarcity, side effects, and unpredictable outcomes of Gene Serums.
• Yang Bo thanked Fatty Boss and offered to make another serum as payment for his guidance.

Yang Bo produced more high-quality Gene Serums for Fatty Boss, then studied material purification and experimented with heating Tie Niu Saliva to examine its energy particles. The chapter left Yang Bo considering how to advance his Potion Mastery skill while planning a trip inland to find a wife for the Invisibility Rat.

• Yang Bo made another batch of Four-Star Gene Serums, and he and Fatty Boss agreed to split the profits after costs at five times the usual price.
• Fatty Boss warned Yang Bo about dangers on March Star and explained that making stronger Gene Serums required greater superpower strength because failed batches could cause toxic injuries.
• Yang Bo studied material purification procedures and watched videos explaining how to separate useful energy from impurities in animal and plant materials.
• Yang Bo heated Tie Niu Saliva and observed white energy particles turning red while the black particles disappeared, leading him to wonder what each color represented.
• Yang Bo read news about Robert's disappearance and the political fallout from the Pado Star incident, including the news that Four Seas Pharmaceutical Company had been implicated.
• Yang Bo wondered whether Fatty Boss's company might have missions that would let him improve his Potion Mastery skill.

Yang Bo explored March Star’s Gobi Desert, tested the red liquid from Tie Niu’s saliva on a local animal, and captured Sand Rats for research. After returning to the Red Stone Mountain Range, he found a fungus with faint energy in its underground rhizome and wondered whether an Energy Mine lay beneath the area.

• Yang Bo surveyed the Gobi Desert and found faint Energy Fluctuations in only three of eleven pangolin-like animals.
• Yang Bo injected one pangolin-like animal with red liquid; it swelled and died, so he burned its body and ended the experiment.
• Yang Bo caught seven Sand Rats, collected local plants to feed them, and stored them in his mecha.
• Yang Bo returned to the Red Stone Mountain Range and dug up a flatbread-like fungus with a football-sized rhizome that contained faint energy.
• Yang Bo wondered whether an Energy Mine lay beneath the Red Stone Mountain area.

While collecting plants near Red Stone Mountain, Yang Bo was ambushed by members of the Bounty Hunter Guild and fought his way into their hidden base. He learned the guild had mistaken him for a government agent, then secretly explored the base as its members prepared to leave and suspend operations.

• Yang Bo collected a fungus and tree fruits, then headed toward a mountain crack to store his specimens in his mecha.
• Two people fired Electromagnetic Guns at Yang Bo, so he used Gravity Control to reach them and killed one before entering their concealed tunnel.
• A surviving gunman told Yang Bo the site belonged to the Bounty Hunter Guild, and the guild's Bald Head president explained that they were testing recruits and operating outside the Alliance's recognition.
• After Yang Bo left and returned under Stealth, the guild members discussed his strength, speculated about his identity, and decided to pause missions and online contact.
• Yang Bo explored the underground base, spotted its Alarm Cannon and three Ninth Generation Mechas, and overheard the president order everyone to leave.

Yang Bo followed Bald Head to a hidden Bounty Hunter Guild base, where Bald Head transformed into a woman and reported his intrusion to her father, the guild’s chairman. Yang Bo returned home, began preparing purification experiments, and tested his Optoelectric Superpower on a computer, but the Safety System’s alarm remained a problem.

• Yang Bo followed Bald Head over 2,200 kilometers to a hidden base near Hot Spring City and watched him transform into a woman with Gene Serums.
• The woman told her father that Yang Bo had breached their base and defeated their sentries; her father ordered the guild to investigate Yang Bo and sent his voice recording to headquarters.
• Yang Bo returned home, placed the Sand Rats in the Underground Fortress, and learned that the Bounty Hunter Guild operated a farm supplying a vegetable brand he knew.
• Yang Bo collected purification materials and equipment from Fatty Boss to experiment at home.
• Yang Bo tested his Optoelectric Superpower on a nearby computer, triggering its alarm, and struggled to find a way past the Safety System without alerting it.

Yang Bo explored Black Market products and discovered that his Optoelectric Superpower could bypass some computer safety systems by simulating their signals. As a severe windstorm began, he reviewed news about Pado Star and the upcoming Mecha Game instance while Fatty Boss considered recruiting government and corporate insiders.

• Yang Bo searched the Black Market for camouflage equipment and Gene Serums, then found an eight-million-Credit-Point Superpower Gene Serum with at least a fifty percent chance of granting fire powers.
• Yang Bo used his Optoelectric Superpower to disable a computer's safety system and learned to bypass password verification by reproducing its Photoelectric Signal, though biometric systems and device encryption remained obstacles.
• Yang Bo saw a government warning about a severe windstorm, stayed in his fortress-grade home, and told Fatty Boss he was watching videos about purifying materials.
• Yang Bo read news about Pado Star's suppressed rebellion and the planned Apocalypse Crisis Mecha Game instance, and wondered whether it might involve the Anti-Government Armed Forces.
• Fatty Boss considered recruiting intelligence personnel from government departments and companies by offering Four-Star Gene Serums to citizens who needed them for their descendants.