Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo and the others were trapped aboard a Three-One Company ship, where armed captors revealed they were pirates connected to the company and intended to seize their valuables and silence witnesses. As Fatty Boss’s hidden Energy Stones drew the captors’ attention, Yang Bo noticed a possible opening to act.

• Three-One Company demanded one million Credit Points per person to evacuate the stranded groups, then threatened them with Laser Cannons and forced them to board.
• The ship’s masked crew disarmed the passengers, fitted most with Inhibition Collars, and confined them under armed guard.
• The captors demanded valuables and bank account passwords, and the Bounty Hunter Guild president recognized the operation as piracy tied to Three-One Company’s family and its interest in the planet’s mineral secret.
• Yang Bo detected the captive Anti-Government Armed Forces members and the ship’s crew in nearby compartments, then feared the pirates planned to kill the passengers to conceal the mine.
• The pirates ordered Fatty Boss to surrender his belongings, and Yang Bo found Energy Stones hidden in his shirt, prompting the captors to demand a container.

Yang Bo and the others were robbed and imprisoned aboard the ship, but the Bounty Hunter Guild taught Yang Bo how to unlock their Inhibition Collars. After the group broke out of the Cargo Hold, the guild began sabotaging the ship, leaving Yang Bo and his allies to follow their escape plan.

• The bandits searched Yang Bo and the others, stole their valuables, and locked those with Inhibition Collars in the Cargo Hold.
• A Bounty Hunter Guild member taught Yang Bo how to pierce a collar's internal mechanism with a special animal hair, and Yang Bo freed the captives.
• Yang Bo freed Zhou Zheng, Wu Bing, and Hank, while the Bounty Hunter Guild made the remaining prisoners pay for their collars to be unlocked.
• A Bounty Hunter Guild engineer found a weak point in the Cargo Hold wall, and guild members broke through it using strength and elemental superpowers.
• The Bounty Hunter Guild sealed the bandits' route and began destroying the ship's systems and cargo to force a way out.

The prisoners sabotaged the bandits’ spacecraft and reached the stored fighter craft, where the Bounty Hunter Guild president offered to teach Yang Bo’s group how to unlock them in exchange for a Longevity Energy Stone. After they agreed, an expert began demonstrating the manual-system bypass and promised instructional materials.

• The prisoners wrecked the spacecraft’s systems and jettisoned its cargo, while the bandit leader warned them over the shipwide broadcast.
• Yang Bo and his companions followed the Bounty Hunter Guild members to the fighter craft and watched an expert open one.
• The Bounty Hunter Guild president offered to teach Zhou Zheng’s group the rare unlocking technique in exchange for a Longevity Energy Stone.
• Zhou Zheng and the others agreed to trade one stone under confidential terms, and Yang Bo handed over the smallest one.
• The expert explained how to force a fighter craft to switch to its manual system and began demonstrating the procedure with a strand of silver hair.

Yang Bo learned how to disable a fighter’s sensors and impressed the instructor by unlocking fighters with uncanny ease. His skill opened a passage into the spaceship, where the Bounty Hunter Guild confronted the bandits, while the instructor hinted that Yang Bo might be invited to join a secretive sect.

• The instructor explained how Mutated Animal fur could pierce a fighter’s shell and damage its sensors, allowing the fighter to be switched to manual control.
• Zhou Zheng, Hank, and Wu Bing failed to pierce the fighter’s armor, but Yang Bo easily hit the designated spots and unlocked a fighter.
• The instructor tested Yang Bo with a more complex procedure, and Yang Bo opened the locked passage door by following his instincts.
• A fighter inside the passage fired at the doorway, and the bandit leader demanded to know who had unlocked the fighters.
• The Bounty Hunter Guild president ordered the bandits to surrender and return their equipment, while Zhou Zheng and the others told Yang Bo the instructor might recruit him into the Divine Thief Sect.

Yang Bo gained recognition for his unlocking talent, while the Bounty Hunter Guild seized the spacecraft and Fatty Boss negotiated a profitable deal with them. The group left with their earnings and learned that Three-One Company was facing an Alliance investigation over the Longevity Energy Stone mine.

• Yang Bo accepted an invitation to join an ancient martial arts sect after learning that sects trained the upper classes, and Fatty Boss promised him a raise.
• The bandit leader surrendered to the Bounty Hunter Guild, which restrained the original spacecraft occupants and took control of the ship.
• Fatty Boss sold the Guild exclusive information about the Longevity Energy Stones and traded more information for armor for Yang Bo.
• Yang Bo and his companions studied the sect's unlocking methods for two days, then left by fighter jet after Yang Bo sold his Energy Stones to the Guild president.
• Fatty Boss divided 1.2 billion Credit Points among the group, giving Yang Bo the largest share for his contributions.
• The Alliance news reported Three-One Company's secret mining and alleged sale of Longevity Energy Stones to the Aquamarine Empire, prompting an investigation as the group spotted a passenger spacecraft.

A week after returning to March Star, Yang Bo showed Fatty Boss his undetectable Light Superpower, which he could shape and control with Mental Power to devastating effect. Fatty Boss urged him to keep it secret and develop it for combat, while Yang Bo went home to rest and planned his next steps.

• Yang Bo and the others returned to March Star after Fatty Boss sold the fighter jet through the Black Market, and Fatty Boss gave the group half a month off.
• Fatty Boss asked Yang Bo to demonstrate his superpower, and Yang Bo made his finger and palm glow with light and heat that the Energy Detector could not register.
• Yang Bo formed a Light Orb, controlled it through the air with his eyes, and shattered the laboratory’s ceramic wall with it before tiring after two more shots.
• Fatty Boss warned Yang Bo not to overuse his ability, estimated that it had reached D-Class, and told him to conceal it as a strength-type ability while he searched his family’s library for information.
• Yang Bo checked on the creatures in his Underground Fortress, found the cleanup bill for the storm debris, and planned to visit the Bounty Hunter Guild base and await news from the sect.

Yang Bo planned how to develop his public and hidden identities while preparing to experiment with his abilities and train his mecha. Meanwhile, the Bounty Hunter Guild president sold a captured warship and its occupants to pirates, then continued toward March Star, where he hoped to recruit Yang Bo and Third Master.

• Yang Bo considered using his Optoelectric Superpower to absorb detection waves and shield himself from electronic surveillance.
• The Bounty Hunter Guild president negotiated with a pirate leader and sold him a customized warship, fighter jets, and more than two hundred Superpower Users, including Modified Humans.
• The Bounty Hunter Guild president avoided the pirate leader's planned ambush when a guild spaceship arrived to collect his people.
• Yang Bo mapped out plans to build his Genius Pharmacist and Divine Thief Sect identities and use Third Master's connections to gather resources.
• Yang Bo considered testing Energy Stones as bombs and planned to seek same-origin metal for a storage box, then trained with his mecha while waiting for an Energy Detector.

Yang Bo rejected Zhou Rui’s invitation to join the Bounty Hunter Guild, then asked Fatty Boss for advice on negotiating membership terms. After Fatty Boss agreed to help and contacted Zhou Rui, Yang Bo tested a civilian Energy Shielding Jammer in his Underground Fortress.

• Yang Bo left the Invisibility Rat and Sand Rat together, then went shopping after robots cleaned up the hurricane debris.
• Zhou Rui introduced herself and invited Yang Bo to join the Bounty Hunter Guild, but he refused and criticized her approach.
• Zhou Rui showed Yang Bo the guild’s point-based exchange offerings, but he declined to join and exchanged email addresses with her.
• Yang Bo told Fatty Boss about the invitation, and Fatty Boss advised him to negotiate a discount, avoid mandatory missions, and consider joining.
• Fatty Boss contacted Zhou Rui, while Yang Bo installed a civilian Energy Shielding Jammer in his Underground Fortress.

Yang Bo studied an Energy Jammer and learned to reproduce its interference with his Mechanic form, then explored how he might use electromagnetic waves against the Planetary Alarm System. Fatty Boss joined the Bounty Hunter Guild after negotiating with Zhou Rui, and Yang Bo planned to join as well and test his abilities in the Gobi Desert.

• Yang Bo used an Energy Jammer to study communication frequencies and discovered that his Mechanic form could black out Virtual Communicators by emitting interference.
• Zhou Rui told Fatty Boss that joining the Bounty Hunter Guild would cost one hundred thousand Credit Points per year, while Yang Bo would receive a twenty percent exchange discount.
• Fatty Boss paid ten million Credit Points for a hundred years of membership and received his guild credential.
• Yang Bo detected sixteen satellites emitting electromagnetic waves and considered using interference to evade the Planetary Alarm System.
• Yang Bo received Fatty Boss's message about joining the guild and decided to join too, while planning to test his interference abilities in the Gobi Desert.

Yang Bo joined the Bounty Hunter Guild, honed his ability to sense satellite Energy Waves, and entered the new Doomsday Instance. He discovered that killing a mutated human granted him a Mining skill point, leaving him eager to explore the game's potential.

• Yang Bo agreed to join the Bounty Hunter Guild as a special member, and Zhou Rui gave him an electronic credential and her communication number.
• An elegant woman investigated Yang Bo's identity and suspected he was the disguised fighter she had encountered on Green Devil Star.
• Fatty Boss warned Yang Bo to be cautious around the guild and to keep a low profile after their Mineral Star mission.
• Yang Bo practiced sensing satellite Energy Waves while fishing along his Coastline, learning to distinguish individual satellites and their altitudes.
• Yang Bo read the Doomsday Instance details, completed its character test, and entered the game as Wilderness Swordsman.
• After players drew mutated humans out with a grenade, Yang Bo killed a still-moving one and received Mining +1.

Yang Bo investigated a new game world and discovered that its players controlled Bionic Humans on a desolate, zombie-infested planet. After learning that noise drew huge hordes, he stayed out of the city and planned to search for pharmaceutical buildings to improve his skills.

• Yang Bo examined the game’s costs, terrain, and rules, then concluded that the safe zone and player characters might reflect a real planet rather than a purely virtual world.
• Yang Bo learned that players who died either had to wait a year to return or pay 500,000 Credit Points to revive.
• Yang Bo paid a revived player 5,000 Credit Points and learned that firing weapons attracted zombies, which had overwhelmed and killed the player.
• Yang Bo used his Optoelectric Superpower to confirm that the players and NPCs were Bionic Humans, and that the real planet matched the game’s bleak, gray landscape.
• Yang Bo saw players’ weapons draw enormous numbers of zombies and Mutated Animals out of the city, so he decided to buy a map and look for buildings connected to medicine.

Yang Bo discovered that his game map showed a Level Five City and prepared to search its veterinary drug factory, then noticed someone following him in real life. He joined Fatty Boss at the Company Dormitory, where they found signs of surveillance-system tampering and decided to call the police.

• Yang Bo studied the city map, equipped his game character with leather armor and weapons, and learned from the forum about a player who had captured a valuable Mutated Beast.
• Yang Bo noticed a vehicle following him from the supermarket to his home and sent Fatty Boss its recorded information.
• Fatty Boss traced the vehicle to a rental company but could not identify its renter, so Yang Bo went to the Company Dormitory for safety.
• Yang Bo and Fatty Boss considered whether the Bounty Hunter Guild or Three-One Company was behind the surveillance, but neither knew who was following him.
• Fatty Boss spotted a brief flicker in the parking-lot surveillance footage, suspected someone had infiltrated the system, and said they should call the police.

Yang Bo and Fatty Boss were caught in a violent Ash Organization assault that devastated the city, and Yang Bo escaped by killing an attacker and impersonating him. After burning the attacker’s body and entering the sewers, Yang Bo tracked the enemy forces, determined to confront them and study their specialized armor.

• Fatty Boss called the police, but attackers destroyed Police Drones and struck the building, forcing him and Yang Bo to flee through hidden passages as the city’s defenses came under attack.
• The Ash Organization targeted Yang Bo and a former fleet Captain, while Fatty Boss fought an enemy who used explosions to delay him.
• An attacker tried to collar Yang Bo, but Yang Bo killed him with microwave beams, took his biological sample, and impersonated him to join the attackers’ retreat.
• Yang Bo burned the attacker’s corpse in a crashed fighter jet, then escaped through an underground route into the sewers.
• Yang Bo used vibrations to locate a gathering of attackers and hurried toward them in the stolen armor, intending to kill them and examine their equipment.

Yang Bo infiltrated a Federation mercenary crew that had abducted a woman and escaped by yacht amid attacks by the Ash Organization across the city. As Fatty Boss was released from police custody, he and Zhou Rui suspected the abduction had targeted Yang Bo, and Zhou Rui hurried to meet him.

• Yang Bo disguised himself with a mercenary’s identity and joined the crew as they transported their captive from the city to a yacht.
• The mercenaries revealed they were Free Mercenaries hired through the Ash Organization and celebrated a two-hundred-million bounty for capturing the woman.
• Ash Organization attacks spread through the city as police struggled to respond and detained Fatty Boss during their investigation.
• A lawyer and Zhou Zheng helped Fatty Boss leave the station, but police kept his combat armor as evidence.
• Fatty Boss, Wu Bing, and Zhou Zheng suspected that the attackers had come specifically for Yang Bo and that information about him had leaked.
• Zhou Rui told Fatty Boss that he had received information about the attack and was coming to meet him.

Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui connected Yang Bo’s abduction to the Ash Organization’s desperate search for intelligence, while March Star imposed a planetary lockdown after someone important went missing. Aboard the submersible, Yang Bo stopped the employers from ambushing the mercenaries, leaving both sides to argue over the captive’s identity and their payment.

• Fatty Boss told Zhou Rui that the Ash Organization had suffered major losses and was activating low-level operatives, while Zhou Rui explained its ties to attacks on Green Devil Star and its new terrorist designation.
• A waiter announced March Star’s planetary lockdown, and Zhou Rui suspected the missing person was connected to the military; Fatty Boss decided Yang Bo was probably safe and stayed out of the matter.
• Yang Bo boarded a submersible with Captain A and the other Free Mercenaries, where Fatty inspected their captive, a woman wearing an Inhibition Collar.
• After the mercenaries learned of the lockdown, they accused Fatty of hiding the mission’s danger and demanded a separate cabin to question the captive.
• Fatty lunged for the bag, but Yang Bo resisted him, knocked him unconscious, and ignited flames in his hand while the other attackers subdued the mercenaries.
• Captain A thanked Yang Bo and offered him half the reward, while the mercenaries demanded the captive’s identity and double payment from Fatty’s side.

Yang Bo helped the Free Mercenaries turn their failed Ash Organization mission into a negotiation with Target Number One, an A-rank military Captain. She agreed to pay four billion for the mercenaries to hand over the Ash Organization members, their intelligence, and the mission details, while Yang Bo strengthened his ties with the captain.

• Fatty revealed that Target Number One was an A-rank Captain from a second-tier Alliance family, and the mercenaries demanded greater compensation for the dangerous mission.
• When Fatty failed to offer a secure payment, Yang Bo knocked out his subordinates, ordered the Ash Organization members captured for interrogation, and accepted the mercenary captain's offer to stay in contact.
• The mercenaries searched the submersible, restrained their captives with Inhibition Collars, and gathered intelligence about the Ash Organization.
• Target Number One woke and negotiated with the mercenary captain, offering three billion in exchange for the captives and evidence before agreeing to his four-billion demand.
• The mercenary captain required Target Number One to post a designated mission on the Mercenary Guild platform before they proceeded.

Yang Bo escaped the submersible’s destruction and evaded the Planetary Fleet’s search while the military rescued Target Number One and the surviving Free Mercenaries. He resolved to find the Ash Organization’s headquarters and destroy it.

• Target Number One hired the Free Mercenaries for an S-class mission, and the mercenary captain divided the payment among the crew.
• As Target Number One prepared to leave, Mercenary J leaped into the ocean, and Yang Bo followed after shouting a warning.
• A fighter rescued Target Number One as the submersible exploded; unmanned submersibles rescued J and other mercenaries, while Ash Organization members were killed or injured.
• Target Number One told the March Star fleet commander that Fatty was the Ash Organization’s leader and recommended expanding the search for the missing Yang Bo.
• Yang Bo activated Stealth on the ocean floor, evaded searching unmanned submersibles, and vowed to find and destroy the Ash Organization’s headquarters.

After the attack on March Star, the Free Mercenaries escaped, the military arrested Ash Organization members, and the female officer suspected Yang Bo was connected to Number Nine. Yang Bo resurfaced from the sea and was moved with Fatty Boss to a Mercenary Guild Safe House, where he planned to lie low while the city remained under security lockdown.

• The four Free Mercenaries gave their statements, left March Star, and agreed to report the Ash Organization to the Mercenary Guild.
• Fatty confessed to the attack after returning to his normal appearance, prompting the military to arrest Ash Organization members and protect the female officer.
• The female officer connected Yang Bo to Free Mercenary Number Nine through her Heart Proof and decided to meet Yang Bo and Liu Zhijie.
• Yang Bo escaped the sea search, was found unconscious in a rainwater sewer, and was taken to the hospital, where Fatty Boss prevented the authorities from testing his blood.
• Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui concealed the Ash Organization's involvement from Yang Bo and persuaded him to stay at a Guild Safe House near the Police Station.
• Yang Bo and Fatty Boss moved into the Safe House, and Fatty warned Yang Bo to be careful around Zhou Rui.

Yang Bo learned more about superpowers and prepared to investigate the game’s dangerous city while Zhou Rui and her father discussed recruiting him and pursuing the mysterious Third Master. After logging out, Yang Bo found Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui competing over dinner, and Fatty Boss asked him to judge their cooking.

• Fatty Boss told Yang Bo to hide his light-based superpower from Zhou Rui and explained why most Superpower Users kept their abilities secret and focused on physical training.
• Yang Bo logged into the game, learned that players were luring monsters to kill rivals over valuable items, and headed toward the veterinary drug company.
• Zhou Rui and her father discussed how to win Yang Bo’s trust, investigate the kidnapping, and approach Third Master through a direct exchange of interests.
• Yang Bo practiced controlling a Bionic Human and considered the hazardous routes to the veterinary drug factory before logging out.
• Yang Bo came downstairs and found Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui cooking together, and Fatty Boss asked him to decide whose food tasted better.

Yang Bo watched Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui compete for his trust, while the Female Captain grew curious about his abilities. He then reentered the game and continued scouting the ruined city, where he considered clearing a building to use as a safe zone.

• Yang Bo split the food Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui had cooked, then escaped to the garden to eat as they refused to try each other's dishes.
• The Female Captain watched Yang Bo and Fatty Boss together and suspected Yang Bo had unusual abilities, possibly connected to experimental gene serum.
• Zhou Rui brought Yang Bo food and offered him a device to access the Bounty Hunter Guild's website, while Fatty Boss warned her not to overstep.
• Fatty Boss admitted Yang Bo had a hidden talent, and he and Zhou Rui threatened to expose Yang Bo's abilities if the other tried to claim him.
• Yang Bo returned to the game, saw players arguing after zombies had wiped out most of their groups, and explored the ruined city while searching for a building to clear as a temporary safe zone.