Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo learned more about the social rules that governed the Second World while the Alliance turned him into a political symbol, despite his contempt for its system. After logging into the Doomsday Dungeon, he received a new Bionic Human and discovered that its equipment did not match what the game said he had purchased.

• Yang Bo studied noble etiquette with Hantel and criticized the Alliance’s news coverage for claiming its system had made him successful.
• Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin celebrated Yang Bo’s newfound fame, while Zhang Bozhen, Liu Zhijie, Zhou Rui, and Wang Muxue each reacted to his sudden rise.
• Yang Bo logged into the Doomsday Dungeon and examined the more advanced Bionic Human with his Optoelectric Superpower.
• The game offered Yang Bo a mine-exploration mission and a Super City mission to find the planet’s Civilization Spark, and he chose the latter.
• Yang Bo noticed the Bionic Human taking different weapons from the ones he had selected, and suspected that the experimental robot had a data-transmission bug.

Yang Bo used a military mech in a zombie-survival game to harvest skills while failing to reach the shelter. After logging out, he realized the bugged Bionic Human might let him infiltrate the military’s internal system without exposing his own powers.

• Yang Bo controlled the mech to lure zombie hordes away from the shelter, killing hundreds of high-level zombies and several Super Zombies as he gained skills.
• Yang Bo found another horde pouring from an Underground Parking Lot and fought while retreating, drawing in the zombies he had shaken off earlier.
• Yang Bo depleted most of the mech’s energy, ammunition, and missiles, and the colonel concluded that the mission had failed.
• Yang Bo logged out and considered how to exploit the bugged Bionic Human, then realized he might use it to infiltrate the military’s internal system.

Yang Bo studied hacking and considered planting backdoors in Bionic Humans and military systems, then weighed his growing public attention and continued training in Second World. He returned to the Doomsday Dungeon game intending to exploit a Bionic Human bug and found one at the mission location.

• Yang Bo studied hacking, planned to test a backdoor in the Bionic Human, and considered targeting the military's changing login-key algorithm.
• Yang Bo read reactions to his match, decided against cultivating a fanbase, and received comforting messages from acquaintances the next morning.
• Yang Bo passed his Second World etiquette assessment without Intelligent System prompts, then polished Stone Balls and put away his Game Helmet.
• Yang Bo logged into the Doomsday Dungeon game, found that yesterday's mission had refreshed, and decided to inspect the mission area before completing it.
• Yang Bo operated the Bionic Human's mech at the mission location and discovered that a bug had appeared.

Yang Bo discovered that his Bionic Human and mecha systems were connected, giving him a chance to plant backdoors in military systems. He lured the zombies away from the shelter and entered it, leaving the mecha behind with timed bombs as he wondered what lay deeper inside.

• Yang Bo discovered that commands to the Bionic Human were reaching the mecha, and the game backend staff noticed the systems’ connection before restoring normal status and letting him continue.
• Yang Bo realized his backdoors could spread through related military systems and considered how to ensure the mecha would be recovered.
• Yang Bo fired missiles and gunfire to lure the zombies away from the shelter, using the mountain terrain to slow them while he killed high-level zombies and gained skills.
• Yang Bo left timed bombs, fled to the shelter entrance, and rushed inside after most of the zombies had followed the horde away.
• Yang Bo descended through the underground passage and noticed signs of water leakage, prompting him to wonder whether the shelter had other entrances.

Yang Bo discovered sealed biological samples from a lost civilization in an underground shelter and returned with them for the military to study. After logging out, he learned that the girl he had been monitoring was under someone’s control, and Zhang Bozhen hired Ninth Mister to confront the suspected Soul Killers.

• Yang Bo found resin-like containers holding biological samples in a stone chamber, triggering a mission to retrieve them, and carried one back to the mech’s recovery point.
• The game’s military recovered the mech and sample, while the R&D staff found no issue in the Bionic Human’s recorded data.
• Yang Bo discovered that the girl he had taken from the Pirate Alliance meeting was following someone without awareness, then used a storm to approach unnoticed.
• Butler Niu told Zhang Bozhen that the girl’s guards had vanished, and Zhang Bozhen asked Ninth Mister to intervene against the suspected Soul Killers.
• Zhang Bozhen authorized Ninth Mister to use heavy weapons and promised to reveal his family’s secret treasure as payment.

Yang Bo tracked the kidnappers to a bar, where they took hostages and livestreamed threats to pressure the authorities into freeing their people. As the police surrounded the bar, the kidnappers singled Yang Bo out from the crowd.

• Yang Bo watched through the kidnapped woman's eyes as masked Superpower Users planned to seize Swordplay Association members and use them as bargaining chips.
• Yang Bo rushed to the bar, tricked his way inside, and was captured after the kidnappers opened fire near his feet.
• Old K gathered the hostages, announced their demands, and began livestreaming as the kidnappers revealed the identities of prominent captives, including singer Li Aido.
• Police surrounded the bar while Zhang Bozhen left the crisis to the Police Station, and the kidnappers threatened to kill a hostage every five minutes if their demands were refused.
• A kidnapper with a flower on his mask pointed his Laser Gun at Yang Bo and ordered him to come forward.

Yang Bo revealed himself as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and attacked the kidnappers during the livestream, accusing the Aquamarine Empire’s emperor of orchestrating the crisis. He killed several attackers, gained Soul Control skills, and left the Alliance and Aquamarine Empire reeling from his public accusations.

• Yang Bo distracted Masked Flower Bandit while explosions and raids across March Star revealed that the kidnappings were meant to pressure the Alliance over Soul Killer.
• After Masked Flower Bandit called Yang Bo out, Yang Bo taunted the kidnappers, then exposed himself as the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and accused the Aquamarine Empire’s emperor of targeting him.
• Yang Bo overpowered and killed several kidnappers, cursed the emperor on livestream, and claimed the Aquamarine Empire had secretly supported the Pirate Alliance and killed the families of its Death Warriors.
• One kidnapper offered to defect to the Alliance, so Yang Bo knocked him unconscious and suggested the Alliance verify his family background.
• Yang Bo continued killing attackers and gaining Soul Control skills as viewers in the Alliance and Aquamarine Empire reacted to his claims and public insults.

Yang Bo exposed the Soul Killers and accused the Aquamarine Empire and Pirate Alliance Council of manipulating pirates during a chaotic livestream. He escaped after destroying the bar, while the Empire denied the accusations and placed a massive bounty on him.

• Yang Bo killed most of the Soul Killers, told viewers that the Aquamarine Empire could control people through chips, and accused it of backing the Pirate Alliance Council.
• The Aquamarine Empire Emperor watched the livestream and laughed at Yang Bo's insults while considering the political threat posed by the powerful officials behind the mission.
• Yang Bo accused the Pirate Alliance Council and powerful Alliance families of profiting from pirate raids, then exposed Soul Killers hidden in the crowd and defeated their attackers with Mental Power.
• Yang Bo revealed his suspicions that the Pirate Alliance Council had destroyed his pirate group and used pirate equipment to test weapons, then announced that bombs were planted and urged the crowd to flee.
• The bar exploded as Yang Bo disappeared; an hour later, the Aquamarine Empire denied any ties to the Soul Killers or Pirate Alliance and issued a 20-billion-Credit-Point bounty for him.
• Yang Bo settled his payment with Zhang Bozhen and returned home, reflecting that the Soul Killers had sent more people than he expected.

Yang Bo exploited the uproar over the Soul Killers to protect his identity, then arranged with Zhang Bozhen to hunt down the people behind the attacks on March Star. He prepared to target the Aquamarine Empire agents among them while letting Zhang Bozhen claim the public credit.

• Yang Bo reviewed the backlash against the Aquamarine Empire and the record-breaking livestream, where viewers speculated wildly about the Soul Killers and called him the Courageous Cowboy.
• Yang Bo left his villa under Stealth after learning that the Soul Killers’ accomplices had arrived on March Star.
• Zhang Bozhen dealt with bombings at the Police Station and government council, the rescue of kidnapped children, and the planet’s damaged reputation.
• Butler Niu brought Zhang Bozhen a message from Ninth Mister saying his people had found sixty-seven suspects behind the sabotage, with more possibly still at large.
• Yang Bo agreed to lead the operation with a police mech, robots, and drones, while Zhang Bozhen asked him to change identities and arranged the equipment and a police statement.

Yang Bo used a police mecha, robots, and drones to hunt down the suspects behind the March Star Planetary Explosion Case. After eliminating the demolition teams, he stormed a hotel to confront the remaining Pirate Alliance terrorists, and footage of his charge through an explosion later moved people across the Alliance.

• Yang Bo watched the Pirate Alliance Council argue over Soul Killer and the compensation owed to the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander.
• Zhang Bozhen arranged a police operation, and Yang Bo took control of an Eleventh Generation police mecha, Police Robots, and Police Drones.
• Yang Bo remotely attacked a hotel where five demolition-team suspects were hiding, killing them and gaining several mastery boosts.
• Yang Bo eliminated the ten demolition teams and then led fifty Police Robots to confront twelve Pirate Alliance terrorists at a hotel.
• Yang Bo kicked a bomb back at the terrorists, charged through the explosion with an Energy Weapon, and fought them as they fired at him.

Yang Bo defeated the terrorists, then tracked down five Aquamarine Empire agents and captured them before they could seize Li Aido. After learning more about the Soul Killers and their mission, he wondered whether the Empire could use its remote soul techniques against the Mental Seeds he had planted.

• Yang Bo used his Energy Weapon to kill the terrorists, earning several combat skills while Zhang Bozhen watched the operation on a livestream.
• The five Aquamarine Empire agents learned that the Grand Steward had resigned and discussed leaving the country after their mission failed.
• Yang Bo received Soul Control skill messages and suspected the Empire had remotely killed agents who had failed their mission.
• Yang Bo found Li Aido and her bodyguards outside an apartment, then broke into a nearby room and used Electromagnetic Bombs to incapacitate five agents.
• Yang Bo planted a Mental Seed in the agents' leader, knocked the group unconscious, and sent Zhang Bozhen a message to clean up the scene.
• Yang Bo read the agents' memories, discovered their mission targeted the Potion Grandmaster he had impersonated, and worried that the Empire's remote soul techniques might affect his Mental Seeds.

Yang Bo recorded secrets from a Soul Killer’s memories, then dispersed the Mental Seeds in five captives aboard a Ninth Fleet ship. He entered Second World to begin a trial period with gardening mentor Bob, while anticipating the upcoming trip to Sky Cloud Star.

• Yang Bo recorded royal scandals and details about the Aquamarine Empire’s Soul Killers, and planned to use the secrets for blackmail.
• Yang Bo dispersed the Mental Seeds in five people aboard a Transport Ship, causing them to convulse before specialists subdued them.
• Yang Bo learned the Swordplay Association would leave March Star for Sky Cloud Star in seven days after compressing the competition schedule.
• Yang Bo entered Second World and reported to Eddie, who introduced him to Bob as a prospective gardening student.
• Bob agreed to test Yang Bo before accepting him as a student.

Yang Bo joined Bob and Adam on a trial job tending Baron Cook’s garden, where Adam sold him tobacco to help secure a permanent apprenticeship. After working alongside them, Yang Bo became Bob’s student, though he received no pay for the trial, and planned to practice carving the next day.

• Bob took Yang Bo to the academy carriage, where Adam taught him the names of the gardening tools and privately offered to sell him tobacco.
• Yang Bo bought Adam’s tobacco and gave it to Bob when they arrived at Baron Cook’s garden.
• Yang Bo hauled weeds and branches, spread fertilizer, and helped Bob and Adam tend a flower bed for three hours.
• The baroness’s butler rewarded Bob with Silver Coins and biscuits and invited him back to trim the lawn the following month.
• Bob accepted Yang Bo as his student, gave him biscuits instead of wages, and told him to return to the academy entrance the day after tomorrow.

Yang Bo accepted a Doomsday Game mission to explore possible ruins beneath the North Pole Ice Field and used his observations to locate a hidden underground site. He discovered a person preserved in a container, but the game ended the mission before he could inspect them, leaving him eager to investigate further.

• Yang Bo returned to the academy, earned Dean's praise, and logged into the Doomsday Game to accept an exploration mission beneath the North Pole Ice Field.
• Yang Bo rode a Spider Mecha across the dangerous ice and reasoned that any preserved civilization remnants would most likely lie near the ice field's center and beneath a rocky rise.
• Yang Bo found unusual ice formations and frozen machinery, then located an artificially excavated tunnel nearly 400 meters below the surface.
• Yang Bo cleared snow from a stone chamber beside the tunnel and discovered a person inside a container.
• The game declared Yang Bo's mission complete and pulled him away before he could examine the person, so he resolved to arrange a meeting with Little Sun.

Yang Bo completed a virtual monster-killing quota while the military excavated a tunnel containing hundreds of preserved people and other biological samples. He arranged to meet Little Sun later, prepared to travel to the Aquamarine Empire for a competition, and met Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui before leaving.

• Yang Bo finished his monster-killing mission while the military removed more than three hundred people from containers found in five hundred stone chambers.
• The colonel discussed the discovery with his staff and planned to remain in charge as the department gained status and his subordinates earned promotions.
• Yang Bo messaged Little Sun, agreed to visit her in District 31 in at least half a month, and then visited Annie and Siya to discuss his upcoming trip.
• Yang Bo arranged farewell meetings with Zhang Bozhen, Fatty Boss, Zhou Rui, and Wang Muxue, then met Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui, who asked him to prepare Gene Serum and warned him about the Aquamarine Empire.

Yang Bo prepared to leave for the Aquamarine Empire while managing his hidden animals and beginning sculpting lessons in Second World. After March Star released footage of his raid on terrorists, Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu discussed sending him to steal Energy Metal from the family company's Central Reserve.

• Liu Zhijie and Zhou Rui warned Yang Bo to avoid interviews, freedom talk, and contracts in the Aquamarine Empire, and told him to seek help from the guilds if needed.
• Yang Bo prepared more than four hundred doses of Gene Serum, and Wang Muxue left with the serum after telling him she would wait for him to return.
• Yang Bo treated and organized the Sand Rats, bought them supplies, and checked on the other creatures and mechas in his basement.
• Yang Bo began sculpting lessons under Andy, did preliminary material-processing work, and encountered Adam at Andy's farm workshop.
• After the authorities released footage of Yang Bo's assault on the terrorists, he contacted Zhang Bozhen, who agreed to Butler Niu's proposal to have him target the company's Central Reserve for Energy Metal.

Yang Bo prepared for the Swordplay Association’s trip to Sky Cloud Star while Zhang Bozhen introduced him to a potential client and learned of a new Mutated Animal. The chapter ended with Yang Bo boarding the association’s luxurious spaceship, where Liu Jingxiang, Zhou Kexin, and their girlfriends arrived at his room.

• Yang Bo agreed to help Zhang Bozhen’s friend and shared the location of a pangolin-like animal with weak Energy Fluctuation.
• Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu discussed Yang Bo’s prospects and whether to introduce him to a suitable woman.
• Yang Bo learned the Swordplay Association would depart in three days, prepared weapons and supplies, and continued his Second World training.
• Yang Bo joined Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin to board the Swordplay Association’s private spaceship for the trip to Sky Cloud Star.
• Yang Bo explored his luxurious quarters, then let Liu Jingxiang, Zhou Kexin, and their girlfriends into his room.

Yang Bo fended off the Swordplay Association women’s invitations aboard the spaceship, then entered Second World and visited the Sunday market. Adam offered to guide him around the Banshee Circus, whose five tents promised performances ranging from animal acts to noble-only entertainment.

• Liu Jingxiang introduced Yang Bo to Liu Ying, Zhang Ziruo, Liya, and Li Aido, and they questioned him and invited him out before he refused to exchange contact information.
• After the women left, Yang Bo posted a do-not-disturb sign and boarded the spaceship, where he avoided logging into his other games and social media accounts.
• Yang Bo entered Second World on Sunday and headed to the market after hearing that the Banshee Circus had arrived.
• Adam offered to guide Yang Bo around the market, and they agreed Yang Bo would buy him one Honey Sugar Cake.
• Adam explained the Banshee Circus’s five tents, including its animal, acrobatic, magic, and talent performances, and said the final tent was reserved for nobles.

Yang Bo explored the market and Banshee Circus with Adam, then logged out and considered ways to earn money in the game. Meanwhile, his actions left both the Aquamarine Empire and the Alliance Task Force mistaken about the five captured Soul Killers, while the March Star Swordsmanship Association discussed his growing reputation.

• Yang Bo and Adam sampled Honey Sugar Cake, discussed honey prices, and visited the Banshee Circus to see a caged Ferocious Beast.
• Adam showed Yang Bo his garden and complained about how difficult it was to cultivate new ornamental plants for profit.
• After logging out, Yang Bo wondered why the five captured Soul Killers had not died, unaware that his Mental Seed had left them as idiots and disrupted the Empire’s remote killing method.
• The Alliance Task Force took the Soul Killers’ condition as evidence that its protections against soul control worked and considered using them to draw out spies.
• Yang Bo considered earning game currency through gathering honey, hunting, and weaving fish traps, while the pirates continued plotting against the Pirate Alliance Council.
• The March Star Swordsmanship Association president and his assistant discussed Yang Bo’s refusal to entertain visitors and wondered who Adam was.

The chairman and a young man discussed Yang Bo’s traumatic past, his fighting style, and Mike before Yang Bo investigated his controlled creatures and learned the Brotherhood had taken an Aquamarine Empire contract. After entering the game, Yang Bo went to the Banshee Circus and entered its magic show tent.

• The chairman explained how repeated attacks and captivity had made Yang Bo wary and shaped his habit of ending fights quickly.
• The chairman analyzed Mike’s performance-based swordsmanship and weakness, while he and the young man discussed Yang Bo’s game professions and the Alliance’s gender rules.
• Yang Bo used a Mental Seed-controlled juvenile Interstellar Creature to inspect the Sand Rats and considered how a sample of a powerful creature could help him imitate one.
• Yang Bo learned that a Brotherhood assassin had accepted the Aquamarine Empire’s assignment against the Silver Moon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander and pieced together the gang’s history from controlled pirates’ memories.
• Yang Bo entered the game, visited the Banshee Circus, bought roast chicken, and paid to enter the magic show tent.