Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo triggered a raid on a Pirate Alliance Council stronghold, prompting nearly twenty assassins and a Greyhound Pirate Gang squad to attack his guesthouse. He fought back with superpowers, but the battle left attackers scattered across the area as city forces rushed to respond.

• Yang Bo hid the unfamiliar woman in the guesthouse basement, sent Zhang Bozhen information identifying the Pirate Alliance Council's bar staff, and prepared for an attack.
• Zhang Bozhen sent police drones and robots to raid the bar, capturing the Council's core members and provoking the Council to order its assassins to kill Yang Bo.
• Assassins and Greyhound Pirate Gang members equipped their armor and converged on Yang Bo's guesthouse, where coordinated explosions shattered the windows and entrance.
• Yang Bo blasted six assassins away with his Fire Superpower, and police electromagnetic drones struck and electrocuted them.
• Yang Bo used an invisible force to slam the eight assassins entering through the front door into a wall, while one was hurled three kilometers into a yacht.
• The yacht owner called the police after an armored attacker crashed into the yacht, and Police Drones arrived.

Yang Bo slaughtered the Pirate Alliance Council’s assassins and the Greyhound Pirate Gang members who attacked his rented guesthouse, then used their deaths to expose the Council and win a major bounty auction. He escaped in police armor and headed for the second wave of killers, intent on taking their equipment.

• Yang Bo killed or incapacitated the attackers at his guesthouse, leaving one assassin alive to keep the livestream running and taunting the Pirate Alliance Council’s Standing Directors.
• Yang Bo ambushed the Greyhound Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander and his men, killed the gang members, and used a Mental Seed to learn their identities and memories.
• Yang Bo ended the livestream, killed the remaining assassin, and sent Zhang Bozhen photos and information identifying the Greyhound Pirate Gang members and the Council’s Death Warriors.
• Zhang Bozhen gave the captured pirates’ information to Butler Niu, who auctioned the merit for capturing the Greyhound Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander; Liu Zhijie tried to borrow money to bid on a manager.
• Yang Bo escaped through the streets in Police Combat Armor and flew into an Underground Parking Lot to pursue the second wave of killers.

Yang Bo ambushed the second wave of eight killers in an underground garage, killed them, and stole their equipment before escaping unseen. He returned to his villa with five Space Mechas, two Space Box buttons, and eight First Generation Sky Splitters.

• Yang Bo entered the Underground Garage as the eight killers prepared to flee, and they attacked him with Laser Guns and Electromagnetic Bombs.
• Yang Bo threw an Electromagnetic Bomb at the four killers deploying Space Mechas, stunning them and sending them crashing into a wall.
• The other four killers charged Yang Bo with Electromagnetic Bombs, plunging the garage into darkness and disabling its alarms and surveillance.
• Yang Bo used the blackout to steal the four Space Mechas and two Space Box buttons, then escaped into the stairwell under Stealth.
• Police Drones found all eight killers dead, but could not locate the mechas or buttons, while Yang Bo gained skills from the defeated men.
• More than two hours later, Yang Bo returned to his villa and displayed his haul of five Space Mechas, two Space Box buttons, and eight First Generation Sky Splitters.

Yang Bo uncovered the valuable weapons and Space Mechas taken from the assassins, while the Pirate Alliance Council argued over its devastating losses and plotted to find him. After Alliance officials claimed credit for killing the attackers, Zhang Bozhen reported the proceeds from selling their bodies and asked whether Yang Bo wanted a commission.

• Yang Bo unlocked five Space Mechas and searched the Space Boxes, finding an Electromagnetic Bomb, a Micro Missile arsenal, and a High-Energy Laser Cannon.
• Yang Bo read March Star’s reports and watched footage of the attack, then observed the Pirate Alliance Council’s Standing Directors quarrel over their losses and fear that their secrets would be exposed.
• The Council estimated losses of at least sixty billion Credit Points, faced demands from pirate groups to renegotiate channel fees, and decided to search for Yang Bo and kill him.
• Yang Bo decided to conceal the captured equipment and his abilities, planning to let White and his associates alter the Mechas for his loyal subordinates.
• Yang Bo saw reports crediting Liu Zhijie, Zhou Rui, and Alliance personnel with killing the attackers, then messaged Zhang Bozhen about the sale of the bodies.
• Zhang Bozhen reported earning billions of Credit Points from the auctions and bounties and asked Yang Bo whether he wanted a commission.

Yang Bo secured his share of the March Star spoils while Zhang Bozhen took public credit for the operation, and Yang Bo continued hiding what he knew about the Pirate Alliance. He returned to swordsmanship training and learned that a competition preliminary would be held on their planet in two months, though he suspected a catch.

• Yang Bo told Zhang Bozhen to convert his share of the proceeds into Energy Metal, declined help for the woman who had accompanied his companion, and withheld further information about the Pirate Alliance Council.
• Yang Bo contacted Zhou Rui and the Free Mercenary Guild, then returned to his villa and observed the Mental Seeds planted in Ninth Elder, Lucas, and Paul as they feared the fallout from the failed operation.
• Yang Bo praised Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui for their roles in the publicized March Star operation, while Liu Zhijie warned him not to discuss its confidential details.
• Yang Bo trained against the Advanced Training Robot with one sword against its two, losing eighteen bouts over two hours.
• Liu Jingxiang told Yang Bo that their planet would host a swordsmanship preliminary in two months, and Yang Bo suspected something was wrong.

Yang Bo learned that the Swordplay Association had chosen March Star for its competition and grew suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the event and a restricted virtual game. After a head scan for the game helmet gave him reason to suspect a connection to mental influence, he returned home eager to investigate further.

• Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Rui told Yang Bo that the Swordplay Association had selected March Star for its swordsmanship competition, while Liu Zhijie revealed that hundreds of Pirate Alliance representatives had secretly gathered on the planet.
• Yang Bo discussed competition rewards and the difficulty of visiting the Aquamarine Empire with Liu Jingxiang, Zhou Kexin, Liu Zhijie, and Zhou Rui over takeout.
• After Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui left, Liu Jingxiang offered Yang Bo access to a restricted game recommended by the Swordsman Association, and Yang Bo agreed to have his head scanned for a custom helmet.
• Yang Bo sensed that the scanner's energy resembled his Mental Power and wondered whether the game or its equipment could influence thoughts and reveal information about March Star.
• Yang Bo returned to his villa, considered whether Zhou Kexin's remarks had been influenced, and became eager to try the virtual game helmet.

Yang Bo investigated the Swordplay Association and March Star’s political fallout while preparing to improve his Mental Power and earn his monthly bonus. Meanwhile, Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu worried that pirates might target their Energy Metal shipment and decided to rely less on Ninth Mister after the current payment.

• Yang Bo found that the Swordplay Association’s membership had barely grown despite open entry, and that several Alliance winners had immigrated to the Aquamarine Empire, leading him to suspect the association was influencing them.
• Yang Bo read reports of pirate threats against March Star, investment withdrawals, and protests over the treatment of criminals, while learning that pirate groups were preparing to raid the weakened Greyhound Pirate Gang.
• Yang Bo recorded the conditions of his experimental test subjects and decided to enter the Doomsday Instance game to strengthen his Mental Power and secure his monthly bonus.
• Zhang Bozhen told Butler Niu that the Energy Metal order had been approved and paid for, but Butler Niu warned that pirates might learn about the shipment through forces inside the Alliance.
• Zhang Bozhen agreed to pay Ninth Mister for the current mission but said he would try not to hire him again, while Butler Niu urged him to keep a safer distance from Ninth Mister’s people.

Zhang Bozhen consolidated his political standing while Yang Bo tested his new weapons and returned to the Doomsday Game, where the Game Department tried to lure him into missions and uncover his identity. The chapter left Yang Bo firing a Machine Gun at a swarm of zombies, unaware that the department had prepared another trap.

• Zhang Bozhen told Butler Niu that his reputation after the deaths on March Star gave him a political foundation and that he could withstand plots against him.
• Yang Bo familiarized himself with the Laser Cannon and Micro Missile Backpack in his basement without testing them.
• After a replacement player damaged Yang Bo's Bionic Human, the Game Department blamed its troubles on the player and arranged celebrity promotions to draw Yang Bo back into the game.
• Yang Bo logged in, saw that his Bionic Human had been patched, bought ammunition and a Machine Gun, and set out to grind monsters instead of taking missions.
• The Game Department colonel ordered more missions and efforts to identify Yang Bo, then explained to his staff that genuine Military Merit came from killing enemies.
• Yang Bo flew to a small town, fired his Machine Gun at approaching zombies, and gained several skills as the horde charged toward him.

Yang Bo spent a week farming zombies, then joined the game’s female-singer event at Annie and Siya’s urging. After testing Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin’s views on the Aquamarine Empire, he logged in to find more than a hundred event missions waiting for him.

• Yang Bo collected zombie materials and earned first place on the monster-kill leaderboard after a week of daily farming.
• Annie asked Yang Bo to do missions so she could meet Alice, and Siya wanted to meet the singer Amili as well.
• Yang Bo questioned Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin about the Aquamarine Empire’s nobles and suspected the women had been influenced by the game.
• Yang Bo joined the event and chose missions involving Alice and Amili, prompting the Game Department to focus on him and plan ways to contact him.
• Yang Bo found more than a hundred missions in his mailbox and wondered whether they were connected to what he had discovered during his previous mission.

Yang Bo suspected the game event was a trap but chose a high-difficulty mission to explore an old space laboratory, while he monitored Pirate Alliance elders planning their next moves. He discovered signs of a past disaster and found an intact strange ball as the mission neared its end.

• Yang Bo investigated the celebrity event, decided to stay wary of the game backend, and accepted a high-difficulty mission to clear an unknown laboratory.
• Ninth Elder met with Third Elder and Fourth Elder, who discussed blaming their failed operation on the weakness of their assassins and plotting to replace some Pirate Groups.
• Yang Bo entered a damaged, centuries-old space laboratory and cautiously explored its silent, vacuum-filled corridors while the Game Department realized its mission information was 115 years out of date.
• Yang Bo found energy scorch marks and holes in a laboratory wall, and suspected an Interstellar Creature might still be inside the ship.
• After exploring most of the laboratory, Yang Bo noticed an intact thirty-centimeter ball and prepared to investigate it while planning to scrap the Cargo Robot following him.

Yang Bo completed a dangerous exploration mission by secretly collecting a dormant Interstellar Creature, then entered the Virtual Game while authorities investigated the lost Cargo Robot. After receiving the mission reward, he was invited to dinner by Young Master Zhang and asked what Fourth Brother wanted to discuss.

• Yang Bo used the Cargo Robot to collect the ball-like object, then hurried through the laboratory and completed the mission as the robot lost contact.
• The colonel let Yang Bo submit the mission and transferred him to the Virtual Game, while the higher department sent Reconnaissance Robots that also vanished inside the laboratory.
• The higher department suspected the ball-like object was an Interstellar Creature, punished the Game Department, and left the colonel to plan easier missions for Yang Bo.
• The colonel decided the department would send Yang Bo the top-tier mission reward and replace the lost Cargo Robot.
• Yang Bo logged out without collecting his rewards, then messaged Young Master Zhang to ask what Fourth Brother wanted to discuss over dinner.

Yang Bo met Zhang Bozhen, learned that the Mutated Animal from his land had passed another drug-trial phase, and then entered the game to take a mission investigating Mutated Creatures in a sea cave. The chapter left him hiding from giant spiny creatures whose spikes could fire faster than rifle bullets, unsure whether they were the mission’s target.

• Yang Bo visited Zhang Bozhen, who congratulated him on the successful second phase of drug trials and warned him to consider the risks of joining the Liu Family through Liu Jingxiang.
• Yang Bo logged into the game, collected high-difficulty mission rewards, and chose to investigate Mutated Creatures in a seaside cave.
• Yang Bo reached the cave at low tide and built a small raft from deadwood to explore the water.
• When something bit the raft, Yang Bo threw bombs into the water and gained Swimming, Excavation, and Shooting skills.
• Yang Bo saw giant black sea urchin-like creatures launch spikes into his raft and retreated into the cave, where he realized their spikes traveled faster than 1,500 meters per second.

Yang Bo explored a cave, fought the mutated animals living in its reservoir, and concealed their escape route while submitting the mission. The Game Department approved his completion and passed the baffling footage to higher-ups for investigation.

• Yang Bo found that the cave’s sea urchins reacted to sound, then used a shockwave bomb to map the passages and locate a group of mutated animals.
• Yang Bo shot one of the scale-covered animals, but the others launched explosive sea urchins at him and chased him through the cave.
• Yang Bo used bombs and gunfire to fight the pursuing animals and drive them upstream, where they escaped through a hidden passage.
• Yang Bo obscured the water around the passage with a bomb, leaving the Cargo Robot’s recording without evidence of where the animals had gone.
• The Game Department found no abnormalities in the footage, let Yang Bo complete the mission, and ordered the video sent to higher-ups while requesting new investigations of the mission information.

Yang Bo destroyed the Cargo Robot while escaping a cave full of Mutated Sea Urchins, then logged out and discovered that Black Market bounties had been placed on him. Liu Zhijie, Liu Jingxiang, and Zhou Kexin warned him to stay cautious while Liu Zhijie tried to resolve the threat.

• Yang Bo used up the Cargo Robot's ammunition, climbed into a rock crevice, and lured the Mutated Sea Urchins into attacking the robot.
• Yang Bo struck the Cargo Robot with his Laser Sword, escaped underwater, flew to a distant reef, and returned to the resurrection point.
• The Game Department switched Yang Bo to a virtual display and ordered the Bionic Human retrieved for maintenance, while Yang Bo logged out and checked his Shooting skill.
• Liu Zhijie told Yang Bo that his family and Zhou Kexin's fiancé's family had placed bounties on him after seeing him with Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin.
• Liu Jingxiang and Liu Zhijie warned Yang Bo about criminals who might target him, and Liu Zhijie said he was trying to settle matters with Zhou Kexin's fiancé's military family.

After Liu Zhijie warned Yang Bo that the Lu Family had placed a bounty on him, Yang Bo investigated the First Fleet and asked Zhang Bozhen for information on its families. He waited for the information while chatting with Little Sun, still curious about the person behind it.

• Liu Zhijie warned Yang Bo to avoid public places because the Lu Family had put him under a bounty, and Yang Bo learned that Zhou Kexin's fiancé belonged to the First Fleet's Lu Family.
• Yang Bo returned to his villa and researched the First Fleet, focusing on the Lu Family and its place among the fleet's powerful families.
• Yang Bo used Stealth to approach Zhang Bozhen and requested information about the First Fleet's family members, claiming he had accepted a job.
• Zhang Bozhen agreed to provide information on the families' direct-line members for fifty million Credit Points and instructed Butler Niu to arrange it.
• Yang Bo waited for the information and chatted with Little Sun, wondering which military figure was behind the account.

Yang Bo provoked the Pirate Alliance Council while investigating powerful families and suspected that Li Yong was connected to the game. As he accepted another game mission, Swordplay Club officials identified his unusual training data and decided to give him an A-Class Game Helmet.

• Yang Bo refused the elders’ requests to recover their equipment and taunted them after learning they were discussing hiring assassins to kill him.
• The Pirate Alliance Council argued over funding a contract, then agreed to hire mysterious assassins from the Aquamarine Empire.
• Yang Bo reviewed Zhang Bozhen’s information and focused on Lu Haodong and Li Yong, whose military promotion seemed to coincide with Yang Bo’s discovery of a strange game plant.
• Yang Bo learned that the Swordplay Competition had drawn thousands of entrants across the Alliance and resolved to pursue more game missions while testing his theory about Li Yong.
• Swordplay Club officials linked unusual training data to Yang Bo and ordered that he receive an A-Class Game Helmet while they examined him further.

Zhang Bozhen rejected the Swordplay Association’s overtures and dealt with the family’s attempts to block his recruitment and investment plans. After completing a game mission, Yang Bo discovered his shooting had reached Grandmaster level and tested its special attribute, Aiming Time: 0, by accurately throwing objects without aiming.

• The Curly-Haired Middle-Aged Man and the yellow-skinned young man discussed Zhang Bozhen’s refusal to meet them and decided to watch the Zhang Family challenge him.
• Zhang Bozhen explained to Butler Niu why he had refused the Swordplay Association’s visit, then increased the budget for recruiting Medicine Crafters after learning the family had interfered.
• Butler Niu warned Zhang Bozhen that the family was sending investors to harm the planet financially, and Zhang Bozhen said they could invest at their own risk.
• Yang Bo completed an underground shelter mission, killed around twenty thousand Mutated Rats, and discovered that his Dynamic Vision was still strengthening and his shooting had reached Grandmaster level.
• Yang Bo entered his Mechanic state and saw it had reached 60%, then tested Aiming Time: 0 by tossing a fork into a trash can without looking directly at it.
• Yang Bo threw more than twenty stones at once and hit a group of fleeing lobster-like creatures, realizing the special attribute let him strike targets without aiming.

Yang Bo survived a laser attack on his villa and learned that Liu Zhijie's family had hired assassins, while the Lu Family might also be involved. Zhang Bozhen intervened on Yang Bo's behalf, then learned the Lu Family could complicate matters and planned to use the scandal to pressure them.

• Yang Bo tested his improved throwing accuracy on the beach, spotted a suspicious yacht, and called the police rather than investigate it himself.
• The yacht destroyed the police drones and fired a laser at Yang Bo's villa, but the Planetary Alarm System destroyed the yacht before Yang Bo was hit.
• Liu Zhijie, Zhou Rui, Liu Jingxiang, and Zhou Kexin visited Yang Bo, who told them he had called the police after noticing the yacht acting strangely.
• Butler Niu reported that Brotherhood assassins had taken a bounty on Yang Bo from Liu Zhijie's family, so Zhang Bozhen ordered wanted notices and promised to protect Yang Bo.
• Liu Zhijie told Zhang Bozhen that the Lu Family might also have ordered a bounty because Zhou Kexin had fled her arranged marriage, and Zhang Bozhen proposed inflaming suspicion against the Lu Family.

Zhang Bozhen instructed Liu Zhijie to pressure the Liu and Lu Families into settling their bounty against Yang Bo. Liu Zhijie arranged negotiations with the Liu Family and persuaded Yang Bo to help stage an attack that would expose the Lu Family to public scrutiny.

• Zhang Bozhen told Liu Zhijie to name criminal suspects in the Liu Family and explained how to pressure the Lu Family without implicating himself.
• Liu Zhijie returned to the dormitory and told Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin that the Liu Family would have to settle, while he sought a way to handle the Lu Family.
• Liu Zhijie visited Yang Bo and explained that the Liu Family was already under pressure after March Star identified its suspected role in the attack.
• Liu Zhijie proposed staging an attack on Yang Bo and Zhou Kexin during a shopping trip to portray the Lu Family as targeting an ordinary resident.
• Yang Bo agreed to the plan but asked to wear glasses and a mask, and Liu Zhijie left to arrange it.

Yang Bo continued completing exploration missions while the Game Department debated his unusual abilities and possible identity. When Liu Zhijie’s staged assassination plan began at a shopping mall, Yang Bo sensed a real attack and pulled Zhou Kexin toward safety as disguised assailants launched their assault.

• Yang Bo completed an exploration mission in a tunnel data center infested with Mutated Spiders, but the spiders gave him no skills.
• The Game Department discussed Yang Bo’s accuracy, suspected he was an expert or a spy, and resolved to make use of his abilities.
• Yang Bo warned Annie and Siya that he would appear in the news, then learned Liu Zhijie had found an accepted Black Market bounty and planned to stage an attack with Zhou Kexin.
• Yang Bo and Zhou Kexin arrived at a Shopping Mall for the staged assassination, while Liu Zhijie took up his hidden position and Zhang Bozhen watched the surveillance feed.
• Yang Bo detected suspicious attackers near the elevator and pulled Zhou Kexin into the stairwell as disguised assailants with Laser Swords attacked and a Mechanical Spider bomb exploded in the parking lot.