Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo used two B-Class Battleships to drain the Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang fleet’s energy and pressure its commander into withdrawing. He left the pirates free to take their belongings if they surrendered the battleships, while their captains faced pressure from their own crews.

• The Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang Regiment Commander threatened Li John, and Yang Bo answered by warning that he would destroy the fleet and pointing out the gang’s hidden strength and its attack on a Federal Mineral Star.
• Yang Bo kept both battleships firing at maximum frequency to drain enemy shields while positioning them so only a quarter of the gang’s Energy Cannons could return fire.
• Yang Bo taunted the pirates with an offer to take them in, forcing their Regiment Commander to choose between losing ships and personnel or surrendering the ships while preserving the crew.
• After Yang Bo threatened to deny the pirates their personal property, the Regiment Commander ordered a withdrawal and promised compensation.
• Yang Bo then allowed the pirates to take their belongings if they handed over the battleships, leaving the Captains of one B-Class and two C-Class Battleships fearing their crews might kill them if they refused.

Yang Bo, posing as Li John, publicized the capture of a B-Class Battleship and left the Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang facing scrutiny from the Pirate Alliance and the Federation. A week later, the Alliance First Fleet found the gang’s main base, where its Regiment Commander had gone, putting the gang’s hidden backer at risk of exposure.

• Yang Bo added the captured ships to his fleet, returned to Devon Star, and later released a paid recording of Li John capturing a B-Class Battleship with one mecha.
• The Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander faced public ridicule and questions from the Pirate Alliance after the recording revealed the gang’s strength and past attacks on Federation mineral stars.
• Yang Bo told Central State’s intelligence department that he had known about the Pirate Alliance’s attacks earlier, but they had refused to pay for his information.
• The Alliance and Empire issued security warnings, insurers suspended coverage for mineral transports to the Federation, and related companies halted material exports, sending futures and mining stocks into sharp declines.
• One week later, the Alliance announced that its First Fleet had discovered a massive pirate base, where the Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang’s Regiment Commander had gone, and Yang Bo anticipated that the discovery could expose the gang’s backer.

Yang Bo and Su Wei watched an Alliance Military broadcast exposing the Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang’s brutal asteroid base and its treatment of captives. The revelations stirred public outrage, while Yang Bo saw the scandal as a possible reason to pursue the pirates and escape his confinement on March Star.

• An Alliance First Fleet reporter revealed that the pirate base held 13,450 people, including captives forced to reproduce, and that more than 60,000 people had been broken down by an Energy Reverter.
• Yang Bo explained to Su Wei how extraterrestrial bases recycled people and waste into nutrient liquids for cultivating food.
• Li Yong and the First Fleet showcased the captives’ harsh living conditions, while Li Yong rescued vulnerable prisoners from the base.
• The broadcast identified the base as belonging to the Fierce Dragon Pirate Gang, which drew condemnation across the Alliance.
• Yang Bo learned through the Mental Seed that the gang’s Regiment Commander had fainted and its deputy commanders were relieved they had avoided capture.
• Su Wei called the pirates horrible, and Yang Bo said he would pursue them with her once he had the ability, seeing the situation as an opportunity.

Yang Bo considered building up a warship fleet while manufacturing robots and juggling his identities and dealings with the pirates and the Federation. He returned to March Star after Mei Xiaoxiao told him an assassin organization had publicly placed a bounty on his life.

• Yang Bo asked Su Wei to find out whether he could buy a warship, claiming he wanted to raid pirates, while privately planning to acquire ships through his other identities.
• Yang Bo considered how Prince Holden's arranged political marriage might affect his territory and feared the Armed Spaceships and Weather Weapons that could be used against him.
• Yang Bo continued building robots in Bart's laboratory, intending to turn it into an Energy Engine manufacturing plant.
• Yang Bo ignored the Federal Central State's requests for pirate intelligence while the Greyhound Pirate Gang and other Pirate Groups contacted Li John about expanding their strength.
• Mei Xiaoxiao told Yang Bo that an assassin organization had publicly offered a bounty for his assassination, prompting him to return to March Star.

Yang Bo suspected that an unknown enemy was targeting him for his knowledge of ancient martial arts or Interstellar Creatures, and he began writing hacking tools to breach an assassin organization's network. He also told Wang Muxue and Su Wei that he intended to seize pirate warships through hacking, while Su Wei arranged for Zhou Kexin and Liu Jingxiang to visit for dinner.

• Yang Bo considered why someone had sent assassins after him and suspected they wanted information about ancient martial arts or Interstellar Creatures.
• Wang Muxue visited Yang Bo and warned him that hacking into pirate warships would be difficult because their systems relied on embedded hardware security.
• Yang Bo told Wang Muxue he planned to breach an assassin organization's network and began writing custom hacking tools on his warship optical computer.
• Su Wei told Yang Bo that Zhou Kexin and Liu Jingxiang would come to the villa for dinner, and suggested he get closer to them.
• Yang Bo agreed to meet Zhou Kexin and Liu Jingxiang but said he would buy them a separate villa, then insisted he could take pirate ships through hacking.

Yang Bo breached the Propagandist Assassin Organization’s website and stole its backup database, exposing the bounty placed on him and disrupting the organization’s operations. The Alliance authorities began investigating, while Yang Bo left the damaged site’s data scrambled and planned to release a tool that could restore it.

• Yang Bo prepared his hacking tools while investigating the Golden Oak Grand Duke and found no clue connecting him to the Red Earl or the bounty on Yang Bo.
• Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin visited Yang Bo’s villa, and Su Wei later warned Yang Bo not to touch the women for half a month.
• Yang Bo inspected Prince Holden’s Domain, Bart’s laboratory, and Catherine’s condition before returning to March Star.
• Yang Bo used the Propagandist Assassin Organization website’s update cycle to breach its Safety Systems and download its backup database from the Alliance.
• Yang Bo scrambled the organization’s backup data, inserted his White Hat Hacker codename, and submitted evidence to the Alliance Security Department.
• The Alliance’s top officials received an S-class alert as the Propagandist website shut down and reopened as gibberish, leaving its accounts and bounty payments exposed to investigation.

The Alliance froze vast sums linked to the Propagandist Assassin Organization after Yang Bo’s White Hat Hackers breached its website, but the organization abducted thousands of Alliance citizens and demanded the funds back. Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, offered to rescue the hostages in exchange for two A-Class Battleships and threatened to expose Alliance officials if they refused, forcing the House of Representatives to confront the proposal.

• The three Alliance Ministers and three Chief Justices reviewed the hacked files, issued Judge Orders, and froze more than seventy million suspicious accounts holding over 1.9 quadrillion Credit Points.
• The Propagandist Assassin Organization demanded the return of its frozen funds and released footage of abducted Alliance citizens in Gute City, prompting the Alliance to form a temporary special investigation team.
• Yang Bo saw that Li John’s fleet could reach Gutra Province, then disguised himself as Li John and messaged the Alliance Minister of Homeland Security, offering to help rescue the hostages.
• The Senate authorized negotiations over selling A-Class Battleships, and Yang Bo demanded two ships before abruptly ending his video call with Minister Hait.
• Yang Bo threatened Hait that he would expose their communications if the Alliance did not submit the battleship sale proposal, so Hait presented the messages to the House of Representatives and its members realized they too could be blamed if the hostages died.

Yang Bo maneuvered the Alliance into approving an A-Class Battleship sale to Li John while the hostage crisis escalated, then prepared a hack intended to help Li John take control of Gutra Province. The Propagandist Assassin Organization released another hostage-abuse video and demanded the hacker be handed over.

• The Speaker of the House of Representatives held secret votes, and Parliament and the Senate approved selling A-Class Battleships to Li John while legislators mostly abstained or supported the proposal.
• Yang Bo denied that the hostage crisis was connected to the military sale, and the Alliance Minister of Homeland Security moved ahead with contract negotiations.
• The Alliance pressured the Federation, Gutra Province, and Gute City to rescue the hostages, while the Propagandist Assassin Organization released abuse footage and demanded its accounts be unfrozen and its files destroyed.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star, told Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin that he was the White Hat Hacker, and began preparing to hack Gutra Province’s websites and donate the stolen money to the Federal Central State.
• The Propagandist Assassin Organization released another video showing abused hostages and demanded that the hacker be handed over.

Yang Bo used his White Hat Hacker identity to cripple Gutra Province’s network and transfer billions in currency from local accounts into the Federation Ministry of Defense’s donation account. As Li John's fleet arrived near Gutra Province, Yang Bo prepared to strike its Quantum Communication Satellite.

• Yang Bo defended his earlier hack on the Hacker Forum, released tools, and demanded that Gutra Province resolve the hostage crisis or face his intervention.
• After the Propagandist Assassin Organization demanded the release of frozen accounts and a five-trillion-Credit ransom, Yang Bo posted “Set out!!” and warned the Alliance Homeland Security Minister that Gutra Province’s network would collapse.
• Yang Bo published vulnerabilities and opened Gutra Province’s servers to hackers, who flooded the province’s systems while he hijacked communications and transferred money from wealthy residents, companies, and gray-market websites.
• The Federation Ministry of Defense received 5.5 trillion Federation currency and 1.67 trillion Credit Points, which the Federation House of Representatives and Senate quickly divided up.
• Li John's fleet appeared in space near Gutra Province, and Yang Bo prepared to take out the Quantum Communication Satellite.

Yang Bo, disguised as Li John, led a fleet in a surprise assault on Gutra Province and declared military administration while livestreaming the operation. After rescuing all 3,291 kidnapped Alliance citizens, he ended the stream and faced thanks from the Alliance and demands from the Federation President to clean up the aftermath.

• Yang Bo used battleships, fighters, and missiles to destroy Gutra Province's communication and vigilance satellites and strike its defenses and spaceports.
• Disguised as Li John, Yang Bo livestreamed his takeover, dissolved Gutra Province's council, removed its officials, and ordered residents to stay home.
• The Federation Government condemned the kidnapping while welcoming the takeover, since it had already divided up Gutra Province's donated money.
• Li John's forces deployed drones, robots, and Unmanned Mecha across Gute City, suppressed resistance, and raided the Propagandist Assassin Organization's Training Ground.
• Rescue Robots evacuated the Alliance citizens, and Li John announced that all 3,291 hostages had been rescued before declaring the Propagandist Assassin Organization a terrorist group.
• Yang Bo received thanks from the Alliance's Minister of Homeland Security, a message from the Federation President telling him to clean up the mess, and offers from Kalaya Province companies seeking a share of the spoils.

Yang Bo imposed military rule over Gutra Province and arranged for Kalaya Province companies to buy its mortgaged assets, then returned to March Star and drew the Alliance’s attention as the White Hat Hacker who had crippled the planet’s wealthy. After the Ministry of Defense invited him to test military systems, Yang Bo revealed his hacking identity to Wang Muxue and discovered that she and Annie had hacking talent.

• Yang Bo agreed to help Kalaya Province companies acquire Gutra Province’s mortgaged assets, making their arrival a condition for lifting military rule, and asked them to supply equipment for building battleships.
• Yang Bo arrested people linked to the kidnapping and the Propagandist Assassin Organization, while the banks sold Gutra Province’s collateral at deep discounts under his control.
• Yang Bo declined a Homeland Security post and proposed testing military Safety Systems; Alliance leaders discussed his hacking and arranged to provide him with military optical computers.
• Wang Muxue delivered two A-Class Battleship optical computers and learned that Yang Bo was the White Hat Hacker behind Gutra Province’s collapse.
• Yang Bo tested Annie’s hacking ability, confirmed that Wang Muxue also had talent, and offered to teach them hacking techniques.

Yang Bo used Li John's military campaign in Gutra Province to expose two Alliance companies after they challenged the occupation, turning public anger against them. The companies collapsed within hours, while Yang Bo continued arresting people and maintained control of the province.

• Yang Bo and Wang Muxue discussed hacking military systems, while Su Wei reported that Li John had arrested more than fourteen hundred people in Gute City and would continue military control over Gutra Province.
• Annie, Wang Muxue, and Siya concluded that Li John had reached a secret agreement with the Alliance Government, which had passed a bill authorizing warship exports.
• Yang Bo placed Gutra Province under military control, while companies from Kalaya Province bought mortgaged assets and prepared to participate in the province's elections.
• After Four Seasons Network Company and Hanhai Robot Company threatened Li John, Yang Bo livestreamed accusations that their services had enabled the Propagandist Assassin Organization to kidnap Alliance tourists.
• The livestream triggered boycotts, contract cancellations, protests, and lawsuits, driving both Alliance Top 100 companies toward bankruptcy within hours.
• Yang Bo continued arrests in Gutra Province, and banks rushed to sell their mortgaged assets as companies stopped contacting Li John privately.

Yang Bo disguised himself as Bart to finalize the Space Mecha Recall Skill project on Devon Star while following political intrigue in the Empire and expanding Prince Holden's privateering forces. The chapter ended with Yang Bo returning to March Star after learning that Sophie of the Pierre Family was coming to seek his help.

• Yang Bo arrested Gutra Province's former officials, council members, and company shareholders, and arranged for Alliance citizens and criminal leads to be handed over to the Alliance and the New Government.
• Disguised as Bart, Yang Bo signed the Space Technology Forum agreements, announced a further breakthrough, and discussed the Return Device and its safety limits with the attendees.
• Su Ruoxin told Yang Bo that rumors of a hidden Crown Prince were spreading, while Yang Bo kept his suspicions about Yang Tianming to himself.
• Yang Bo authorized two letters of marque for Prince Holden's players, assigned them to two warships, and warned them not to leave evidence behind when raiding.
• Yang Bo returned to March Star after learning that Sophie of the Pierre Family was coming to find him, apparently seeking help with a problem.

Yang Bo weighed the competing factions seeking his help while testing military computers, spending time with his girlfriends, and waiting to see how the Pierre Family would approach him. Meanwhile, Li Qiubai struggled to spy on him, and Yang Bo learned that Li Yong and his father still planned to exploit and kill him.

• Yang Bo received two advanced warship optical computers from the Ministry of Defense, signed a confidential testing agreement, and found two vulnerabilities within two days.
• Su Wei invited Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin to dinner, and the women later joined her, Annie, and Siya in the Second World while Yang Bo cooked at home.
• Yang Bo learned that Sophie and her entourage were secretly heading to March Star, while Li Yong returned to the Alliance with the people rescued from the pirate base.
• Li Qiubai's superior reprimanded her for investigating Yang Bo's company contract and a colleague, ordered her to focus on Yang Bo, and gave her three months to make progress.
• Li Qiubai sent Yang Bo seductive photos, but he did not respond because he was cooking without a wristwatch signal.
• Yang Bo used his Mental Seed to learn that Li Yong and his father planned to exploit him before killing him, and he decided to let them face further pirate attacks while he considered how to mislead Li Qiubai.

Yang Bo expanded his relationships and watched political and military events unfold across several territories. After Sophie threatened to expose his identity, Yang Bo recognized that she was testing him and planned to learn what the Pierre Family wanted.

• Yang Bo invited Liu Jingxiang and Zhou Kexin to stay overnight, and the women later moved in long-term while continuing to work.
• Yang Bo watched players aboard two disguised pirate warships connect with laborers on merchant ships, and considered how the players might react to learning they had been cheated.
• Yang Bo collected wrecked equipment from Gutra Province and brought rare materials to Tie Niu and the others on Green Devil Star, where he noticed the Alliance Eighth Fleet tracking him.
• Wang Muxue secretly visited Yang Bo, and Sophie prepared to arrive on March Star.
• Sophie threatened to reveal Yang Bo's identity as a Super Hacker God unless he met her at a villa, and Yang Bo replied that she could not threaten him.
• After learning through Shirley's Mental Seed that Sophie had been testing his reaction, Yang Bo decided to delay the meeting and investigate the Pierre Family's motives.

Sophie tested Yang Bo’s hacking abilities, then tried to recruit him into the Pierre Family by offering him a case involving drug trials at welfare institutions. Yang Bo agreed to investigate while secretly recording Sophie and tracking the family’s remote surveillance, leaving both sides with leverage against each other.

• After five hours, Sophie summoned Yang Bo from a supermarket parking lot and had her bodyguards bring him to her villa.
• Sophie demanded that Yang Bo hack a game-trading website within ten minutes, and he gained administrator privileges in eight minutes, earning an S-rank evaluation from her family’s hackers.
• Sophie revealed her identity and offered Yang Bo the Pierre Family’s protection if he joined them.
• Sophie presented evidence that a chain of welfare institutions was using children for drug trials, and Yang Bo agreed to investigate its database.
• Yang Bo secretly tracked where Sophie’s team stored its remote recording and captured footage of her ordering him to hack the website.

Yang Bo used the super optical computer Sophie gave him access to in order to uncover the Pierre Family’s ties to the Red Earl and seize control of their systems. After Sophie’s attempt to kill him failed, he offered her family a chance to become his dog, and Sophie accepted while secretly planning a way to discover who would truly control them.

• Yang Bo breached the welfare institution’s database, downloaded its experimental records, and sent them to an address Sophie provided.
• After Sophie threatened to frame him and force him into the Kill Organization, Yang Bo used the restroom to hijack the villa’s network and take control of the super optical computer.
• Yang Bo broke into Sophie’s group website and Rose City’s Safety System, then revealed to Sophie that the Pierre Family was connected to the Red Earl.
• Sophie attacked Yang Bo with her Fire Energy, but he stopped her and showed her that he could expose the family’s secrets and ruin its finances.
• Sophie tried to burn Yang Bo again, but his armor protected him; he then offered her family a chance to be his dog and gave her five minutes to decide.
• Sophie washed and changed, then accepted the proposal while privately planning to find out who would be the dog’s master.

Yang Bo revealed that he had outmaneuvered Sophie and gained control over the Pierre Family, then forced her to submit and bargain for his help. Sophie asked him to deal with her Red Earl-aligned bodyguards, leaving Yang Bo to consider how to manage the faction without exposing his abilities.

• Sophie tried to sway Yang Bo by offering herself, but he mocked her and exposed how thoroughly he had infiltrated her family’s systems.
• Yang Bo told Sophie he knew she was the Red Earl’s Countess and warned that the Red Earl might turn on her and the Pierre Family.
• Fearing for her family, Sophie agreed to obey Yang Bo, who promised that he could help free the family from the Red Earl’s control.
• Yang Bo used his knowledge of Sophie’s preferences to take advantage of her, then told her that future requests would require payment in advance.
• Sophie messaged Yang Bo to ask him to deal with her two personal bodyguards, and he agreed to return in a couple of days.
• Yang Bo considered how to handle the Red Earl’s followers around Sophie without killing them or revealing his capabilities.

Sophie struggled to tell her family that Yang Bo had uncovered the Pierre Family’s secrets, while Yang Bo learned more about the Home Star and planned to investigate Red Earl in the Federal Central State. He arranged to use the Pirate Alliance’s coming cyberattack as cover, leaving his own plans ready to exploit both sides.

• Sophie postponed telling the Pierre Family about Yang Bo because she feared they would not believe her, while Yang Bo learned that the isolated Home Star was viewed warily by the three interstellar nations and considered sending an Unmanned Fighter there.
• Yang Bo prepared to investigate Red Earl through the Federal Central State’s networks and sought a scapegoat by offering the Pirate Alliance security vulnerabilities.
• The Pirate Alliance verified Yang Bo’s vulnerabilities and negotiated with him, eventually agreeing to pay ten billion Credit Points and ten percent of the proceeds.
• Yang Bo sent the Pirate Alliance a set of high-risk vulnerabilities, declined to join its operation, and planned to use its attack as cover to search for information about Red Earl and plant hacker programs.

Yang Bo exploited the Pirate Alliance’s attack on the Federal Central State to destroy the Red Earl Organization’s communication channels and uncover its links to the Empire, the Second World, and longevity research. After the Central State lost contact, Sophie suspected Yang Bo was responsible, and he left to investigate whether her daughter was connected to the Imperial Royal Family.

• Yang Bo watched the Pirate Alliance prepare to attack the Federal Central State while he managed Prince Holden’s Domain and dealt with Sophie’s anxiety about the Red Earl Organization.
• Yang Bo used the Pirate Alliance’s breach to infiltrate its network, plant backdoors, and attack the Red Earl Organization’s relays, uncovering Imperial funding, Second World command channels, and secret longevity research.
• The Pirate Alliance announced it had stolen 2,100 trillion Credit Points, while the Federal Central State cut communications and then officially lost contact.
• Sophie received the Red Earl’s silence order, discovered her liaison and Federation access were gone, and sent Yang Bo hundreds of messages demanding to know whether he caused the attack.
• Yang Bo visited Sophie and admitted the attack was not his, though she suspected he was involved and considered using the crisis to leave the Red Earl Organization.
• Yang Bo went to Sky Cloud Star to investigate whether Sophie’s daughter was connected to the Imperial Royal Family.