Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo used the buildings to outmaneuver and kill a Super Zombie, earning a Super Badge and a new Mental Piercing ability. After returning from the game, he tested the ability on a Sand Rat and discovered he could kill it silently from fifty meters away.

• Yang Bo lured the Super Zombie through several buildings, using the ordinary zombies to obstruct it while he avoided its attacks.
• Yang Bo shot the Super Zombie in its exposed weakness and mouth, killing it and earning Mental Penetration.
• Yang Bo defeated the agile zombies that followed, then escaped as the buildings filled with fire and returned to the Resurrection Point for treatment.
• The Colonel rewarded Yang Bo with a Super Badge that increased all attributes by 30% and unlocked more of the Bionic Human's abilities.
• Yang Bo tested Mental Piercing in his basement and found that it killed a Sand Rat fifty meters away without triggering an energy reading.

Yang Bo went into the mountains during a violent storm to find animals for testing his Mental Power attack and to search for Mutated Creatures. He discovered a hidden cave and captured a Bald Head Naked Man who could use Stealth, then began questioning him about his department.

• Yang Bo disposed of the Sand Rats, told Annie and Siya to keep practicing the Mecha Game, and agreed to teach them cooking later.
• After reading news about pirate attacks and public security, Yang Bo left home under Stealth and traveled into the mountains despite the storm.
• Yang Bo followed a faint blood scent to a concealed cave, found signs of human habitation and an animal carcass, and blocked the entrance with branches.
• Yang Bo used Sonic Detection to locate a person digging inside the cave and struck him with a stone controlled by Mental Power.
• Yang Bo confronted the Bald Head Naked Man with an Energy Weapon and asked which department he belonged to, hoping to obtain the Invisibility Serum formula.

Yang Bo interrogated Naked Pig Man, took a rare energy-lifeform sample, and tested how many creatures he could affect with Mental Piercing. After retrieving a strange plant during a landslide, he hid in a cave and found Naked Pig Man there with three armored men.

• Yang Bo forced Naked Pig Man to recite the Invisibility Serum formula, used Vision Sharing on him, and knocked him unconscious.
• Yang Bo searched Naked Pig Man's hidden belongings, questioned him about five Test Tubes, and traded the sample from a pure energy lifeform for his life.
• Yang Bo removed Naked Pig Man's Inhibition Collar and left, then tested Mental Piercing on beasts, snakes, and lizards, confirming he could target five creatures at once.
• Yang Bo spotted a strange underground plant exposed by a landslide, grabbed it with Anti-Gravity, and fled as the Planetary Alarm System dispatched drones.
• Yang Bo entered a cave to hide from the drones and found Naked Pig Man surrounded by three men in combat armor.

Yang Bo killed three Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team members who attacked him in a cave, then escaped as authorities investigated the gruesome scene. Back in his underground laboratory, he examined the plants he had collected and prepared to test an alleged energy life sample.

• Yang Bo used Mental Piercing and Charge to defeat three armored attackers, killing them and earning Medicine Crafting points.
• Yang Bo fled the cave after warning the surviving acquaintance that the Planetary Alarm System's drones were coming, then hid his plant and left under Stealth.
• Drones and police discovered the bodies, and the March Star Public Security Bureau identified the dead as Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team members and ordered fines and bounties.
• Yang Bo saw news of the deaths and the authorities' penalties, then returned home and went to his Underground Laboratory.
• Yang Bo examined the plant he had collected and took out the alleged energy life sample from SSS Laboratory to test whether it was genuine.

Yang Bo created Invisibility Serum that gave Sand Rats stealth abilities and discovered a strange red energy glimmer in a sample from a supposed energy lifeform. He learned the Pharmacist Guild had sanctioned March Star and sent A+ Enforcement Team members, then met Fatty Boss, who discussed his upcoming mecha, before Zhou Rui joined them.

• Yang Bo made E-Rank Four-Star Invisibility Serum, tested it on Sand Rats, and found that they could turn invisible while his Stealth skill increased by two.
• Yang Bo discovered a red energy spot moving inside the green liquid from a supposed energy lifeform, then sealed the sample away because he did not know how to handle it.
• Yang Bo learned that the Pharmacist Guild had blamed March Star for three Enforcement Team deaths, offered a two-billion-Credit reward, and sent two A+ members to the planet.
• Yang Bo went to the Company Dormitory, where Fatty Boss explained the Guild’s A-Rank forces and said Young Master Zhang would give him a ninth-generation Modified Mecha.
• Yang Bo told Fatty Boss he would lend him a mecha if needed, and Zhou Rui entered and asked what they were celebrating.

Yang Bo agreed to accept a mecha from Zhang Bozhen and crafted two new potions while Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui discussed March Star’s dangers and politics. After lunch, Fatty Boss brought Yang Bo to Zhang Bozhen’s heavily fortified mountain home, where Zhang Bozhen welcomed him in person.

• Zhou Rui warned Yang Bo that March Star would remain chaotic for years, while Fatty Boss explained that mecha training would demand more effort than Yang Bo could spare from Medicine Crafting.
• Yang Bo agreed to take a mecha from Zhang Bozhen and watched instructional videos for a Disguise Potion and a Restoration Serum before successfully making the potions.
• Fatty Boss contacted Butler Niu, who invited Yang Bo to Zhang Bozhen’s home so he could choose a mecha.
• Yang Bo considered his distant territories and the possibility of training Annie and Siya to help protect and manage them.
• After lunch, Zhou Rui left with the potions for Wang Muxue, and Fatty Boss took Yang Bo to Zhang Bozhen’s mountaintop residence.
• Zhang Bozhen greeted Yang Bo at the fortified mountain garage, and Yang Bo respectfully addressed him as Fourth Brother.

Yang Bo visited Zhang Bozhen’s fortress, chose two flying mechas and a seemingly useless Training Mecha, and learned that the Pharmacist Guild had sent an Enforcement Team to March Star. He discovered that Naked Pig Man had escaped aboard a spaceship, while Zhang Bozhen’s aide reported that Liu Zhijie was under their control and assessed Yang Bo’s choices.

• Zhang Bozhen showed Yang Bo and Fatty Boss his mecha collection, and Yang Bo secretly inspected the heavily reinforced Training Mecha.
• Fatty Boss chose a Ninth Generation Mecha, while Yang Bo selected two Eighth Generation flying mechas and asked Zhang Bozhen for the Training Mecha and combat videos.
• Zhang Bozhen warned Yang Bo and Fatty Boss to avoid the wilderness because the Pharmacist Guild had sent more than twenty Enforcement Team members to March Star.
• Yang Bo used Vision Sharing to see that Naked Pig Man had boarded a spaceship and escaped, then left Zhang Bozhen’s fortress with Fatty Boss carrying mechas pending the Alliance’s legislation announcement.
• Zhang Bozhen’s middle-aged aide reported that Liu Zhijie had submitted to them and that Yang Bo’s mecha choices matched his apparent personality.

Yang Bo infiltrated Young Master Zhang’s mountain fortress and left his Ace Mercenary contact on a window, startling Zhang and Butler Niu. After the storm passed, Yang Bo contacted Zhang, hoping to learn what valuable equipment Zhang’s brothers owned.

• Yang Bo considered how to manage his territory and study the mechas he expected to receive, then used the storm to infiltrate Young Master Zhang’s fortress.
• Yang Bo reached a radar blind spot beneath Zhang’s floor-to-ceiling window and wrote his Free Mercenary Guild contact information on the glass before escaping.
• Butler Niu discovered the message and infiltration traces, identified the contact as an Ace Mercenary account, and asked Zhang whether to make contact.
• Yang Bo read reports about the Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team and chatted with Annie and Siya while waiting for the storm to pass.
• Yang Bo discovered his account had become an Ace Mercenary, found Zhang’s message asking about business, and contacted him.

Young Master Zhang and Butler Niu contacted Yang Bo and decided to test his abilities by giving him information about the incoming Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team. Yang Bo experimented with an energy life-form and a plant, then learned Young Master Zhang wanted a Mecha Hangar built near his villa, leaving him wondering what was happening on Young Master Zhang’s side.

• Young Master Zhang and Butler Niu discussed the mysterious Ace Mercenary and worried he might be connected to Young Master Zhang’s brothers.
• Yang Bo offered to gather valuable items in exchange for accurate intelligence, and Young Master Zhang decided to test him with information about the Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team.
• Yang Bo fed a red energy life-form a Fire Attribute Energy Stone and identified the mountain plant’s root as E-Rank Orthodox Water Attribute material.
• Fatty Boss told Yang Bo that Young Master Zhang had requested a Mecha Hangar, and Yang Bo agreed to build one by hollowing out the mountain behind his villa.
• Fatty Boss handed Yang Bo the land certificate and said something seemed to be happening on Young Master Zhang’s side.

Yang Bo inspected the land and Mecha Warehouse Young Master Zhang had paid for, then examined his three mechas and found no hidden devices. After discovering his Mecha Repair ability helped him understand modification, Yang Bo studied Training Mecha designs in a virtual forum and began planning improvements.

• Yang Bo surveyed his new private land and its harbor, lakes, and tax benefits.
• Butler Niu delivered two Eighth Generation Mechas and a Training Mecha, and Yang Bo signed for them.
• Yang Bo inspected the mechas, found no backdoors or suspicious devices, and confirmed that his Mecha Repair ability revealed their condition.
• Yang Bo tested the Training Mecha and decided its slow response needed modification.
• Yang Bo entered a Mecha Modification Forum, examined modification designs and rankings, and spent hours experimenting in the virtual modification room.
• Yang Bo considered modifying his Training Mecha and later improving the two Eighth Generation Mechas, but the forum limited his daily access time.

Yang Bo arranged with Young Master Zhang to demonstrate his strength against the Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team in exchange for information about valuable collectibles. After studying the team’s route and cargo, he secretly boarded a departing spaceship to intercept them in space.

• Yang Bo negotiated for rare collectibles and learned that the Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team was bringing modified mechas and medicine materials to March Star.
• Yang Bo studied modified mechas, prepared to leave March Star, and told Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui he planned to explore the mountains.
• Yang Bo received the Enforcement Team’s declared route, schedule, and cargo, then chose a route that would let him meet their ship in space.
• On October 9th, Yang Bo entered the mountains, hid in an underground river cave, and used Stealth to board the spaceport unnoticed.
• Yang Bo clung to the outside of a passenger-and-cargo spaceship as it departed March Star and spotted Wang Muxue’s warship nearby.

Yang Bo used stealth and a disguised meteorite to board the Pharmacist Guild spaceship Chiyo, then seized control of the vessel. Captain Koizumi agreed to cooperate as Yang Bo locked down key areas and began checking the ship.

• After more than forty hours hidden on the spaceship’s exterior, Yang Bo flew to an asteroid field and pushed a five-meter ice-and-dust meteorite toward the channel, matching its energy signature.
• The Chiyo received a beacon warning about the meteorite, but Captain Koizumi dismissed it as a minor hazard while Deputy Regiment Commander Inoue and the other passengers indulged themselves aboard the ship.
• The Chiyo suffered an unexplained collision, and Yang Bo entered through a maintenance tunnel, subdued two operators, and held Captain Koizumi at knifepoint in the control room.
• Yang Bo took control of the spaceship, locked down the mech bay and cargo hold, and used the surveillance feeds to investigate the ship’s layout and occupants.
• After Yang Bo asked whether Koizumi would cooperate, Koizumi agreed, frightened by how easily the intruder had bypassed the ship’s defenses.

Yang Bo stole the ship’s Quantum Space Communicator and valuable pharmaceutical materials, then livestreamed evidence of the Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team’s abuses across the Alliance. After exposing the ship’s hidden surveillance and its members’ identities, he entered a livestreamed room to confront a whip-wielding Enforcement Team member.

• Yang Bo questioned Koizumi, discovered the ship’s hidden surveillance network, and took its Quantum Space Communicator.
• Yang Bo packed pharmaceutical materials into Escape Pods and dismantled useful mecha components for himself.
• Yang Bo linked the hidden cameras to the ship’s main system and livestreamed evidence of the Pharmacist Guild’s point system and Enforcement Team members’ conduct.
• The Alliance’s Information Security Department boosted the livestream, and news spread across the Alliance and to two other countries.
• Yang Bo entered the room of the whip-wielding man, threw Electromagnetic Bombs, and slammed the man into a wall.

Yang Bo killed the Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team members aboard the spacecraft while broadcasting their crimes and forcing survivors to confess. He left the remaining attendants alive in lifeboats and waited in stealth near Captain Koizumi for Wang Muxue’s fleet patrol ship.

• Yang Bo killed the A+ Level man with an Electromagnetic Bomb, then defeated Inoue with a high-speed Charge and took his Fire-Attribute Sky Rend.
• Yang Bo incapacitated the remaining Enforcement Team members, killed one after he refused to answer, and forced others to confess their murders and the Guild’s abuses on the livestream.
• Eight Enforcement Team members confessed and named crimes involving the Pharmacist Guild and powerful figures; Yang Bo sent them into space in lifeboats as potential witnesses.
• Yang Bo announced that he would eject the spacecraft’s mechs and medicine, then threw the intact mechs into space to conceal the materials he had taken.
• Yang Bo waited in stealth beside Captain Koizumi’s lifeboat for Wang Muxue’s fleet patrol ship, while considering how easily he might access its systems.

After Yang Bo’s attack on the Pharmacist Guild spacecraft, the Alliance blamed the Guild, while the scandal and bounty surrounding Bomb Bro spread across the interstellar world. Yang Bo boarded a Ninth Fleet patrol ship in Stealth and considered his next moves, while Captain Koizumi prepared to conceal how the ship had been taken over.

• The Alliance publicly apologized for its security failure, blamed the Pharmacist Guild spacecraft, wanted its passengers, and restricted the Guild’s spacecraft from navigation missions.
• Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu concluded that Bomb Bro was likely seeking a deal with them and discussed offering treasures and technological support.
• News of the attack spread as the Aquamarine Empire’s Potion Grandmaster’s castle was destroyed, the Emperor moved against the profit faction, and the bounty on Bomb Bro rose to fifty billion.
• Wang Muxue’s Ninth Fleet patrol ship retrieved Lifeboats carrying Pharmacist Guild potion ingredients and detained survivors under Judicial Department supervision.
• Yang Bo boarded the patrol ship in Stealth, inspected its systems, and considered acquiring Energy Metals, Dimensional Boxes, and Space Quantum Communication equipment for a new mecha.
• Captain Koizumi agreed with two colleagues to claim that three intruders had seized the spacecraft, hiding his own negligence and suspecting an insider had carried out the attack.

After returning to March Star from the Patrol Ship operation, Yang Bo slipped past a search party in the mountains and found energy-bearing plants on his private land. He reunited with Zhou Rui and gave the rare plants to Zhang Bozhen, who recognized their value and prepared to claim the naming rights.

• The Patrol Ship returned to March Star with the detained waiters and Pharmacist Guild Enforcement Team members awaiting the Alliance Judicial Department’s investigation.
• Yang Bo found trackers guarding the Underground River, escaped through an unsearched stretch, and returned to the mountains while pretending not to know he was being sought.
• Yang Bo discovered plants with energy-bearing rhizomes on his land and collected several of them before Zhou Rui’s drone located him.
• Yang Bo reunited with Zhou Rui and took her back to the laboratory, where Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui confirmed that the plants’ rhizomes had Energy Fluctuation.
• Yang Bo gave the plants to Zhang Bozhen, and Butler Niu confirmed they were genuine Mutated Materials; Zhang Bozhen accepted them and promised compensation.

After sharing credit with Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui for the mutated plant, Yang Bo learned that the Pharmacist Guild scandal had sparked widespread protests and a huge bounty for Bomb Bro. Back home, he sorted the spoils he had secretly taken and discovered that more than a hundred Brotherhood assassins were heading to March Star.

• Yang Bo declined Zhang Bozhen's offer for the moment, shared potential benefits with Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui, and heard warnings about bandits near March Star.
• Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui told Yang Bo that Bomb Bro's group had robbed a Pharmacist Guild spacecraft, killed two A+ Level Gene Evolvers, and drawn a bounty of one hundred billion Credit Points.
• Yang Bo read about the Points Gate Scandal, which led to protests, resignations, and scrutiny of the Pharmacist Guild, while he reassured Annie and Siya that he was safe.
• Yang Bo sorted the alchemy materials, mecha components, Sky Rends, and other loot he had taken, then considered studying the Space Quantum Communication Module and First Generation Sky Splitter.
• Yang Bo saw reports that more than a hundred Brotherhood gold-medal assassins had accepted contracts and were heading to March Star to pursue the bounty.

Yang Bo watched a ranked mecha battle between Death Shadow and Dual Blade Warrior, studying their designs and tactics as they fought in rugged terrain. Death Shadow won through a surprise attack, and Yang Bo decided to keep watching battles and check out the finals.

• Yang Bo discovered the Mecha Modification Forum’s spectating feature and learned that top-ranked competitors could earn modified mechas.
• Yang Bo watched Death Shadow, a camouflaged beast-shaped mecha, stalk Dual Blade Warrior across a forested island arena.
• Death Shadow sprang from a radar blind spot as Dual Blade Warrior reached a hilltop, then destroyed the humanoid mecha’s rear Laser Cannon with a mouth-fired beam.
• Dual Blade Warrior cut off Death Shadow’s tail and struck its head, but Death Shadow tore open the humanoid mecha’s back, destroying its cockpit and winning the duel.
• Yang Bo reviewed the battle and concluded that the encounter was decided in seconds, then chose to watch more matches and investigate the finals.

Yang Bo studied the First Generation Sky Splitter, learned about the Alliance-wide fallout from the Pharmacist Guild scandal, and arranged with Zhang Bozhen to receive information about assassins and Energy Metal. He then checked Annie and Siya’s progress, explained how he had learned to make serums, and asked about their mecha training.

• Yang Bo examined online models of the First and Second Generation Sky Splitters, downloaded the First Generation design, and concluded it was controlled by Mental Power while the Second Generation relied on remote signals.
• As victims exposed the Pharmacist Guild, Alliance authorities issued hundreds of restriction orders and investigations spread across the Alliance and other nations.
• Yang Bo saw that his combined bounties exceeded one hundred and fifty billion Credit Points and contacted Zhang Bozhen to ask for warnings about assassins targeting March Star.
• Zhang Bozhen agreed to protect March Star but could not provide much Energy Metal, so Yang Bo accepted information about where to obtain it and asked him to gather details about the Dimensional Modification Company.
• Yang Bo visited Annie and Siya, assessed their superpower training, and told them he had learned serum-making from Black Market formulas and videos rather than through the Pharmacist Guild.
• Yang Bo explained that becoming a pharmacist required substantial investment, reassured Annie and Siya about their debt, and asked how their mecha training was going.

Yang Bo offered Annie and Siya long-term service contracts, advanced them a year of salary, and bought them expensive Mecha Simulation Pods so they could train to become pilots. After Siya accepted his earlier proposal and grew intimate with him, Annie shared how deeply Yang Bo had changed their lives and asked him to stay the night.

• Yang Bo offered Annie and Siya twenty-year contracts with high monthly salaries in exchange for future lawful work, and Annie signed.
• Yang Bo advanced them a year's salary and bought two Eighth Generation Mecha Simulation Pods, explaining that he owned two flight-model mechas.
• Siya persuaded Yang Bo to show them the mechas, then accepted his earlier proposal and became intimate with him after he taught her to use the simulator.
• Siya and Annie both showed promise as Mecha Pilots while training in the simulation pods.
• Annie told Yang Bo about the hardship she and Siya had faced before meeting him, said she had been dreaming about him, and asked him to stay that night.