Chapter Summaries

The Lieutenant Colonel privately ordered his Game Department staff to find Yang Bo’s real identity, offering each of them a favor in return. After testing Feign Death and discovering that it fooled the mecha’s sensors but distorted his sense of elapsed time, Yang Bo began considering how to experiment with Energy Absorption.

• The Lieutenant Colonel warned his staff that Yang Bo was important to their careers and privately offered a favor to anyone who uncovered his identity.
• The Game Department staff discussed ways to identify Yang Bo, including using connections and possibly placing an undercover teammate in the game.
• Yang Bo activated Feign Death in his basement and found that the mecha recorded him as a corpse, although his sense of elapsed time was badly distorted.
• Yang Bo repeated the test and found that three hours had passed outside while he believed only an hour had passed.
• Yang Bo hesitated to test Energy Absorption with unfamiliar energy and wondered whether he could use the ability to merge or grant energy.

Yang Bo experimented with Energy Imbue, but every ordinary alloy he tried shattered, leaving him to consider testing energy-bearing materials instead. He then joined Tie Niu in the Mecha Game, found a location to trap the Justice Gang with a flood, and returned to his laboratory to prepare new experiments with Gene Serum Materials and test subjects.

• Yang Bo absorbed energy from a Life Energy Stone to learn how Energy Absorption worked, then tried imbuing ordinary alloys with Light Energy and shattered every sample.
• Yang Bo concluded that ordinary alloys were unsuitable and suspected Energy Metal or other energy-bearing materials might work better.
• Yang Bo entered the Mecha Game, met Tie Niu, and chose an Underground Reservoir and narrow downstream passage for a plan to disable the Justice Gang’s mechas with a flood.
• Yang Bo blocked the reservoir’s outlets and began cutting a weakened section in the planned water route before returning to base with Tie Niu.
• After logging out, Yang Bo went to his Underground Laboratory and prepared Gene Serum Materials, considering whether he could imbue energy into them or his test subjects.

Yang Bo tested Energy Imbue on Gene Serum Materials and a Mutated Plant, discovering that incompatible energies caused violent reactions while Light Energy seemed to strengthen the plant. He then tried the experiment on a Mutant Leech, which burned itself on his glowing hand before he began imbuing it with energy.

• Yang Bo infused a Fire Energy-attribute Gene Serum Material with energy, causing it to burst into flames, and realized the material’s purified energy might be incompatible with his own.
• Yang Bo imbued a Mutated Plant with Light Energy; its leaves suffered a brief energy conflict, but afterward the plant glowed more brightly without further reaction.
• Yang Bo considered whether the plant’s energy had fused with Light Energy or merely conflicted with it, and recorded questions for future experiments.
• Yang Bo put on combat armor and took a Mutant Leech to test Light Energy Imbue, but the leech sprang onto his hand and began sizzling in its glow.
• Yang Bo gently touched the curled-up Mutant Leech and started imbuing it with energy.

Yang Bo successfully used Energy Imbue to turn two Sand Rats into Mutated Animals and planned to monitor them for side effects. He then met Zhang Bozhen, Zhou Rui, and Fatty Boss, where a discussion about mechas led to revelations about Neural Networks and the dangers ordinary people faced in other countries.

• Yang Bo found that the Mutant Leech absorbed his energy, then successfully imbued two Sand Rats, turning one into a Mutated Animal and the other into a Mutant Stealth Sand Rat.
• Yang Bo placed both Sand Rats under observation and decided not to continue experimenting until he had more data.
• Yang Bo messaged Zhou Rui for Energy Metal ore and went to meet her, Zhang Bozhen, and Fatty Boss.
• Yang Bo asked about advanced and civilian mechas, and Zhang Bozhen explained that Neural Networks were banned in the Alliance but researched elsewhere and vulnerable to exploitation.
• Zhang Bozhen described how terrorist organizations used Neural Networks to alter memories and control abducted ordinary people, while Zhou Rui and Fatty Boss discussed the treatment of ordinary citizens in the Alliance, Federation, and Aquamarine Empire.

Yang Bo, Zhang Bozhen, Fatty Boss, and Zhou Rui discussed advanced mechas, corporate power struggles, and the suspicions surrounding Zhang Letian’s robbery. Zhang Bozhen then sought Zhou Rui’s support and asked about her father’s work as a Forging Master.

• Yang Bo asked Zhang Bozhen about high-end mechas, and Zhang Bozhen described experimental Space Jump mechas and costly Space Mechas developed by Dimensional Modification Company.
• Zhang Bozhen said wealthy buyers wanted Space Mechas as protection after Good Guy Bro’s robbery and explained how Peace Technology Company had invested in Dimensional Modification Company.
• Zhang Bozhen described Golden Shield Company’s collapse as a result of its shareholders abandoning it and said Zhang Letian’s insurance claim was stalled because the case had not been officially closed.
• Yang Bo asked about the robbery, and Zhang Bozhen said authorities suspected insurance fraud because the robbers had quickly found Zhang Letian’s hidden Safe Cabin, while the family suspected he might have colluded with outsiders.
• Zhang Bozhen said he intended to control the council and was ready to break with his family; Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui offered their support.
• Zhang Bozhen asked whether Zhou Rui’s father was a Forging Master, and Yang Bo realized Zhang Bozhen had come to talk to Zhou Sen.

Zhang Bozhen explained how forging masters could create advanced equipment and why their dangerous research brought them under Alliance supervision. He also discussed Yang Bo’s unusual discoveries and personal secrets, then turned the conversation to Fatty Boss’s family and the effects of the Liu Family’s ancient martial arts.

• Zhou Rui agreed to tell her father that Zhang Bozhen wanted to discuss forging techniques with him.
• Zhang Bozhen explained that forgers could make mech hardware, while master and Grandmaster forgers could create optical computers and even reproduce technology-defying products.
• Zhang Bozhen and Zhou Rui described the rare, powerful forging masters, their extreme experimental mindset, and the Guild’s Council of Elders.
• Zhang Bozhen offered to introduce Yang Bo to potential girlfriends, but Yang Bo declined and Zhang Bozhen acknowledged that Yang Bo had private secrets.
• Zhang Bozhen explained his social circle’s strict expectations around marriage, while Fatty Boss described his disappointing blind dates and recent family visit.
• Zhang Bozhen noted that training in the Liu Family’s ancient martial arts affected Fatty Boss’s emotions and suggested he had often been beaten when he was younger.

Yang Bo listened as Zhang Bozhen and Fatty Boss discussed the family’s attempt to take back Fatty Boss’s company and the political alliances shaping March Star. After receiving safer Energy Metal samples from Zhou Rui, Yang Bo checked Ninth Mister’s communicator and found Zhang Bozhen’s requests to rob a smuggled cargo ship and deal with incoming Zhang Family members.

• Fatty Boss told Zhang Bozhen that his family planned to reclaim control of the Anzhi Jie Branch Company on March Star, and Zhang Bozhen advised him on public image and political strategy.
• Zhang Bozhen offered Yang Bo a valuable set of Energy Metal ore and Energy Stone samples, but Yang Bo declined, so Zhou Rui later gave him safer samples instead.
• Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui warned Yang Bo that Zhang Bozhen’s political position could be uncertain, while explaining their own alliance with him and Yang Bo’s importance to their plans.
• After returning home, Yang Bo used Stealth to reach a cave and check Ninth Mister’s communicator, where he found Zhang Bozhen’s request to rob a cargo ship carrying smuggled Energy Metal worth more than twenty billion Credit Points.
• Yang Bo also learned that members of the Zhang Family were secretly coming to March Star, including at least five Rank A Superpower Users, and he requested more information before deciding how to handle them.

Yang Bo negotiated with Zhang Bozhen for a mission to intercept a passenger-cargo spaceship, trading his services for information about valuable items held by Zhang Bozhen’s former friends. He set his timetable, tested how his energy affected Energy Metal ore, and prepared to check the game, unaware that its backend staff feared he had died after logging out without claiming his reward.

• Zhang Bozhen asked Ninth Mister to act before the passenger-cargo spaceship entered March Star’s star domain, and Yang Bo demanded more money and Space Jump Mecha information.
• Zhang Bozhen admitted he lacked access to the laboratory’s details and offered information about valuable possessions belonging to former friends; Yang Bo accepted on the condition that the items could be sold on the Black Market.
• Yang Bo calculated that he had eight days before he needed to act and planned to strike at the spaceship’s first stop outside March Star.
• Yang Bo infused Light Attribute and Fire Energy Metal ore with energy, observed increases in their energy content, and checked that his Sand Rat test subjects remained well.
• Yang Bo decided to focus on farming skills in the game, while the game’s backend staff worried that he had died after logging out without claiming his mission reward.

Yang Bo chose a Super Backpack fragment that required four more high-difficulty missions, while the Game Department grew eager to identify him and profit from his future achievements. When a Female Player approached him, Yang Bo suspected she might be a military probe and began considering how to use the contact to his advantage.

• The Game Department worried about Yang Bo’s long absence, then celebrated when he logged in and offered twenty million Credit Points to anyone who found his identity first.
• Yang Bo weighed the mission rewards and chose the Super Backpack fragment, committing himself to four more high-difficulty missions.
• The Game Department celebrated his choice and discussed its hopes for promotions, as well as the unresolved search for the Mecha Pilot from the Pado Star Incident.
• A Female Player asked Yang Bo to let her join his team, and he suspected the military might be using her to probe his identity.
• Yang Bo answered that he was a solo player, then considered communicating under one of his fake identities and exploiting the contact for benefits.

Yang Bo suspected the Game Department was trying to investigate him, while its staff believed their Female Player had successfully approached him. He accepted a Relic Exploration Mission, reached an island of ruined city beneath a dead volcano, and discovered that the mission had switched him back to controlling the Bionic Human.

• A Female Player followed her boyfriend's instructions to probe Yang Bo, but Yang Bo suspected her motives and exchanged Social Media Accounts with her.
• The Game Department's Lieutenant Colonel concluded that Yang Bo could be handled once they identified his real identity, while Yang Bo suspected the military Game Department was behind the approach.
• Yang Bo accepted the Relic Exploration Mission, traveled by fighter to an island, and parachuted onto its beach.
• Yang Bo regained control of the Bionic Human as human zombies emerged from the sand, and he killed one with his pistol.
• Yang Bo gained Forging +4 from the zombie and wondered whether the relic was a factory.

Yang Bo explored the island ruins, killed zombies to gain skills, and discovered a cave beneath the dead volcano that led toward the mountaintop. After sensing energy fluctuations inside, he left leaves at the entrance and climbed the mountain instead.

• Yang Bo killed twenty-six zombies and gained Forging Skills while surveying the island and its volcanic mountain.
• Yang Bo shot more zombies emerging from the beach and received the unexpected Ship Repair skill, which made him suspect the zombies might not be native to the planet.
• Yang Bo crossed into the ruined stone city and deliberately drew out zombies, gaining Forging, Blade, and Cooking Skills as he cleared the ruins.
• Yang Bo found a cave at the volcano’s base and used his superpower and sonic detection to determine that it led toward the mountaintop, though parts of it showed energy fluctuations.
• Yang Bo tossed leaves into the cave to mislead the Game Department’s backend, then left the entrance and began climbing the mountain.

Yang Bo avoided the dangerous cave entrance below and found a hidden tunnel at the summit of the Dead Volcano. He blasted a channel between the lake and the tunnel, flooding it with water, then ran to see whether the torrent would reach the cave’s lower exit.

• Yang Bo climbed the mountain and searched the crater instead of entering the cave from below.
• Yang Bo found the concealed tunnel after noticing wind blowing from its entrance.
• Yang Bo carved the blocking rock into Stone Balls and dug a channel from the cave entrance toward the lake.
• Yang Bo planted timed Shockwave Bombs in the remaining rock and retreated before they detonated.
• Yang Bo threw Stone Balls into the flooded tunnel and ran to check whether the water reached the exit at the mountain’s foot.

Yang Bo flooded the cave and killed zombies that emerged, gaining several skills and discovering a garment marked with the Aquamarine Empire Royal Family's emblem. The Game Department recognized the find as a major clue and prepared to report it while the origins of the garment remained unknown.

• The Game Department debated why Yang Bo had flooded the cave, and the Lieutenant Colonel hoped his unconventional approach could help the military investigate dangerous places.
• Yang Bo waited near the volcanic crater as water and Stone Balls flowed through the cave, then used his sniper rifle to kill emerging zombies and gained Forging and Spaceship Repair skills.
• Yang Bo descended to the cave entrance, killed the remaining zombies, and used a stick to remove and clean the distinctive garment of a zombie that had granted him Spaceship Repair.
• Yang Bo carried the garment to the shore and scraped away grime until an emblem appeared on its chest.
• Yang Bo recognized the emblem as belonging to the Aquamarine Empire Royal Family, and the Game Department's image analysis confirmed the match.
• The Game Department staff speculated about the garment's origins, and the Lieutenant Colonel said he would report the discovery immediately.

Yang Bo explored the flooded cave while the Game Department investigated a royal insignia and clues linking the site to the Aquamarine Empire. After an unknown defense system warned him of extreme danger, his flashbangs exposed a swarm of Bionic Shadow Spiders, revealing what had wiped out the previous team.

• Yang Bo scraped at royal-family clothing on the beach as the military secretly retrieved it and the Game Department awaited a laboratory analysis.
• Yang Bo climbed through the cave, used Sonic Detection to map its tunnels, and skipped passages that interfered with his scans.
• Yang Bo found Crystalline Uranium Ore and a residue-filled chamber that the Game Department identified as a likely facility for manufacturing second generation Nuclear Fusion Engines.
• Yang Bo explored farther into the cave, triggered an extreme-danger warning, and sensed an unknown energy scan.
• Yang Bo fled and threw a Shockwave Bomb and Flashbangs, exposing more than a hundred Stealth Bionic Spiders that the Game Department recognized as Aquamarine Empire Bionic Shadow Spiders.

Yang Bo escaped the Dead Volcano passage by using Shockwave Bombs and flight to evade Aquamarine Empire Bionic Spiders, then discovered that they moved slowly underwater. The Game Department identified vulnerabilities in the Mecha Killers and decided to find Yang Bo.

• Yang Bo fled from more than a hundred Bionic Spiders, using Shockwave Bombs and the Bionic Human’s flight ability to escape the passage.
• The Game Department personnel recognized the spiders as Aquamarine Empire Mecha Killers and marveled at Yang Bo’s piloting skill.
• After an invisible attacker pursued him outside the cave, Yang Bo leapt into the lake and noticed the spiders moved slowly underwater.
• Yang Bo spotted the spiders’ faint tracks in the lakebed and prepared to attack with a cold weapon.
• The Game Department personnel discussed how water and Flashbangs could disrupt the spiders’ camouflage and considered ways to exploit those weaknesses.
• The Game Department chief decided to find Yang Bo after realizing his discovery could help counter the Mecha Killers.

Yang Bo exposed and destroyed the hidden Bionic Spiders with an underwater Shockwave Bomb, completing the game’s exploration mission and earning many skill points. After he logged out, a military team entered the cave, destroyed more spiders, and lost contact with its forces in an unexplored passage.

• Yang Bo misled the Bionic Spiders with a cold weapon, then detonated a Shockwave Bomb underwater and revealed them to the Game Department.
• The Lieutenant Colonel ordered the mission ended and Yang Bo switched to the Virtual Game; the game declared the mission complete and told him to reach the coastal extraction point.
• Yang Bo received numerous skill notifications while running, chose the second fragment of the Super Backpack as his reward, and logged out.
• Yang Bo searched online for the Bionic Spiders, then went to his basement to inspect the empowered Energy Metal ore and Sand Rats.
• The military sent fighter aircraft, twenty Bionic Humans, and two Self-Propelled Laser Cannon Robots into the cave; they destroyed the Bionic Spiders and found Energy Stones.
• When the military team reached the fourth branching passage, the Bionic Humans and Self-Propelled Laser Cannon Robots lost contact, leaving the Game Department uncertain what to do next.

The Game Department decided to delay taking the mission while trying to identify the exceptional player, and Yang Bo reflected on his game performance and plans for the Bionic Human. He logged in as the Pirate Boss to investigate a Female Player who had given him her social media account, then found her public profile and photos.

• The Game Department's Lieutenant Colonel agreed to let other departments handle the mission first and focused on tracing the player's identity.
• Yang Bo reviewed his experimental subjects and concluded that his manual control of the Bionic Human had improved, while planning to complete more missions before possibly taking it.
• Yang Bo logged in as the Pirate Boss and contacted Zhou Rui for a convincing fake identity and an old social media account.
• Yang Bo used the fake account to open the Female Player's public profile and found that she was beautiful.

Yang Bo suspected that Lazy Little Sun was trying to investigate him and used their chat to test her while tracing her location. After he cut off contact and returned to his villa, Fatty Boss warned him that people from the Ash Organization had infiltrated March Star.

• Yang Bo changed his Social Media Account name to Crazy Goat, added Lazy Little Sun, and suspected she had an agenda because her account never mentioned games.
• Lazy Little Sun messaged her boyfriend Carter, who reported the contact to the Game Department Lieutenant Colonel and was instructed to help uncover Yang Bo’s identity or lure him to their planet.
• Yang Bo flirted with Lazy Little Sun, tested how much familiarity she would tolerate, and used his remote Optoelectric Superpower to trace her location through the communications network.
• Yang Bo ended the chat, stowed his communicator in the Space Box, and decided to contact her later from outside March Star.
• Yang Bo returned to his villa and found Fatty Boss’s warning not to go out because a group from an illegal organization, likely the Ash Organization, had infiltrated March Star.

Yang Bo discovered that the Ash Organization had sent people to investigate survivors of Green Devil Star, and intruders began breaking into his villa with a metal-chewing creature. He called Zhou Rui and persuaded her to turn the break-in into a political opportunity, then captured the creature and fled as the intruders shouted in anger.

• Yang Bo learned that the Ash Organization was investigating people who had returned alive from Green Devil Star, but he initially dismissed the threat to himself.
• Yang Bo woke to find an insect chewing through the rooftop door of his villa and decided to wait for it rather than confront the intruders directly.
• Yang Bo called Zhou Rui and urged her to organize volunteers to catch the intruders, using the incident to build support for her political ambitions.
• Zhou Sen encouraged Zhou Rui to act, and Zhou Rui gathered her people to go to Yang Bo's villa.
• Yang Bo placed another Battleship Armor plate behind the door, then removed it, trapped the insect in an Energy Stone box, and ran as someone outside yelled in fury.

Yang Bo trapped three Ash Organization members inside his armored villa, where they had come to recover an S-rank Mutated Crawler, and Zhou Rui’s group arrived to confront them. Missiles killed or scattered the attackers, while Yang Bo planned to use the incident to help Zhou Rui and investigate the escaped member.

• Yang Bo fled through his fortress and sealed a Battleship Armor door behind him, trapping three gray-armored intruders on the third floor.
• Zhou Rui brought fifteen combat-armored people to Yang Bo’s villa after reporting her plan to Fatty Boss and Zhang Bozhen.
• The three intruders charged out, but Fatty Boss’s group scattered, allowing them to flee into the storm.
• Missiles struck two of the gray-armored people, while the third escaped despite being pursued.
• Yang Bo met Fatty Boss and Zhou Rui, agreed to stage evidence of the attack, and said he would go to the Company Dormitory to look for the escapee.