Chapter Summaries

Xia Chujian took control of the Cruiser, organized the Starry Sky Marines, and led an assault toward the Bodhi Leaf Space Pirates’ fleet. As she reached the besieged students and Instructors, she announced that she had come to bring them home.

• Xia Chujian ordered two hundred Marines to prepare for combat and three hundred to take over the Cruiser’s stations, then had the disobedient pilots confined.
• Xia Chujian used Seven Lù to take control of the Cruiser and briefed the Marines on the Bodhi Leaf Space Pirates surrounding the students and Instructors.
• Xia Chujian rallied the Marines to destroy the pirates, put Wang Hu in command of the Cruiser, and led Teams One and Three into space.
• Yu Fei and Chu Qingchen opposed installing Brain-Computer Interfaces as the stranded students debated how to counterattack.
• Xia Chujian contacted the besieged students and Instructors and announced that she had brought a Falcon-class Star Cruiser to take them home.

Xia Chujian reunited with the trainees and took control of their fighters and airships while keeping the space pirate moles from warning the enemy. She began a surprise assault on the Bodhi Leaf fleet by sending Fourth Interstellar Fleet Marines to sabotage ten of its ships, leaving the attack underway.

• Xia Chujian revealed she had arrived with a Falcon-class Star Cruiser and ordered the trainees to relinquish control of their fighters and airships.
• Seven Lù secretly took over 191 fighters and ten Interstellar Airships, and stopped a mole aboard an instructor's airship from sending a signal flare.
• Chen Yansheng warned Xia Chujian that there might be space pirate moles, so she threatened to kill anyone who refused to relinquish control and ordered Seven Lù to protect him.
• Seven Lù drafted a battle plan, and Xia Chujian sent 200 Mecha Warriors toward the eighteen Bodhi Leaf starships.
• Fourth Interstellar Fleet Marines boarded nine scrapped Cruiser transports and received Xia Chujian's order to plant explosives and destroy their power systems.

Xia Chujian’s teams attacked the Bodhi Leaf space pirates, killing crews and disabling weapons while planting explosives aboard nine starships. The explosives began their countdown as the teams withdrew, and blue-purple energy spread across the ships’ hulls.

• Li Dali led Team 3, Squad 1 into a converted Cruiser and killed the 503 space pirates in its hall before eliminating the pilots and bodyguards in four compartments.
• Li Dali’s team and the other Team 3 squads planted High-Energy Plasma Explosives in the power systems of nine converted Cruisers, then evacuated.
• Sun Jiahao led Team 1’s Squad A in attacking the Space Ion Beam Cannons aboard Starship No. 1, while the other squads targeted the remaining combat-capable starships.
• The space pirates tried to fire their Space Ion Beam Cannons, but the weapons’ charge repeatedly restarted and failed to complete.
• Xia Chujian ordered Seven Lù to detonate the explosives, starting a three-second countdown aboard the nine starships.
• Blue-purple light and electric patterns spread across the starships’ hulls as the explosives prepared to detonate.

Xia Chujian destroyed twelve Bodhi Leaf starships through plasma explosives and Seven Lù’s sabotaged Space Ion Beam Cannons, leaving five pirate vessels and the victim-carrying Starship No. 18. After withdrawing her Marines to the Falcon-Class D1 Starry Sky Cruiser, she asked Seven Lù how it planned to deal with the remaining five vessels.

• Xia Chujian’s plasma explosives vaporized nine Bodhi Leaf starships, sparing the encircled Starship No. 18.
• Xia Chujian revealed that she had loaded each ship with far more explosives than Seven Lù had recommended, then learned that the blasts had destroyed the pirates’ wealth as well.
• Seven Lù told Xia Chujian that its loop program would make the Space Ion Beam Cannons on three starships self-destruct, and she ordered Sun Jiahao’s Group A to retreat and leave its explosives behind.
• The three starships’ cannons detonated from within, melting their hulls and then exploding their cores, while the Flying Base’s cadets and Instructor watched helplessly.
• The five remaining pirate vessels tried to flee as Xia Chujian ordered Team 1’s Group B to withdraw after its attacks on their Magnetic Railguns proved ineffective.
• Xia Chujian returned to her cruiser with the two hundred Starry Sky Marines and asked Seven Lù how it would deal with the five remaining vessels.

Xia Chujian destroyed the last five Bodhi Leaf pirate starships with the fighters’ ion beam cannons and her Cruiser, but a small flying vehicle escaped through a wormhole after dropping a mysterious box. She led the rescued cadets toward safety and went to the sole surviving pirate ship, while five nobles discussed how to conceal their unauthorized weapons.

• Seven Lù reported five fighters with Super Miniature Ion Beam Cannons, and Xia Chujian used them to attack the five remaining Bodhi Leaf starships.
• After exhausting the fighters’ Energy Blocks, Xia Chujian fired her Cruiser’s space ion beam cannon and destroyed all five starships.
• A tiny round hat-shaped vehicle escaped through a Small Wormhole, leaving a greenish-blue box behind; Xia Chujian ordered Seven Lù to retrieve it.
• Xia Chujian announced the pirates’ defeat, kept Starship No. 18 as evidence, and ordered Sun Jiahao to bring the base’s fighters and airships into the Cruiser.
• Xia Chujian headed for Starship No. 18, while Chu Qingchen, Hui Zhifeng, Zhuo Hanchen, Ji Nabi, and Lü Luyu privately discussed hiding their forbidden cannons.

After the battle, Xia Chujian questioned the rescued women about their plans and urged them to keep living despite their losses. They agreed to leave the Asteroid Belt with her while she sought a safe settlement and a way for their families to receive insurance money.

• Hui Zhifeng, Zhuo Hanchen, Chu Qingchen, and Ji Nabi concluded that Xia Chujian had not discovered their hidden Super Miniature Ion Beam Cannons.
• Xia Chujian met Chang Shengnan and the other thirty-seven rescued women aboard Starship No. 18, declined their recovered valuables, and had Seven Lù search the ship again.
• Xia Chujian heard a mother and daughter argue over whether to return home, then learned that the other women had lost family members to the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates.
• Xia Chujian encouraged the women to find reasons to live for themselves and promised to seek a safe settlement and help them obtain insurance compensation.
• Chang Shengnan and the others agreed to stay aboard until Xia Chujian could take them out of the Asteroid Belt and contact people who could help.

Xia Chujian and Seven Lù discovered that the central warehouse aboard the pirate starship concealed gold, cash, and jewelry inside its walls. After returning to her Cruiser, Xia Chujian kept the rescued trainees and instructors confined to the warplane warehouse and explained that special reasons prevented her from letting them out.

• Xia Chujian investigated the central warehouse after Seven Lù noticed that its weight put unusual pressure on the starship floor.
• Xia Chujian tapped the warehouse wall and helped Seven Lù discover that gold, cash, and jewelry were hidden inside its electromagnetic-shielding walls.
• Xia Chujian regretted that the hoard was too valuable for her to simply divide among Chang Shengnan and the others.
• Sun Jiahao kept the 191 trainee fighters and ten Interstellar Airships in the Cruiser's warplane warehouse while some trainees questioned Xia Chujian's authority.
• Xia Chujian ordered Sun Jiahao to keep everyone confined and addressed the trainees and instructors over the virtual display, explaining that special reasons kept them inside.

Xia Chujian warned the trainees and instructors that a Bodhi Leaf informant was among them, then secretly checked on the comatose Pei Zijing. She learned he was not in immediate danger and discovered that a fallen safe was made of rare Cyan Obsidian Titanium.

• Xia Chujian confirmed there was a Bodhi Leaf informant among the group, prompting the trainees and instructors to retreat to their warplanes, and allowed them to take back control.
• Xia Chujian told Seven Lù to stop controlling the warplanes and airships, then went to investigate Pei Zijing while concealed in her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha.
• Xia Chujian followed Yu Fei into Pei Zijing's airship and had Seven Lù scan Pei, which found no immediate danger but could not determine why he was comatose.
• Yu Fei ordered two instructors to guard Pei Zijing and barred others from entering the airship, while Xia Chujian returned to her Captain's Room.
• Xia Chujian found the fallen safe on the top deck, and Seven Lù identified its material as rare Cyan Obsidian Titanium.

Xia Chujian disguised the Cyan Obsidian Titanium safe with stored Eternal Crystal and learned that her upgraded Black Silver Bullets could control what they dissolved. After sleeping through Marshal Huo’s call, she realized Seven Lù still made decisions for her as the cruiser neared Cangge Star.

• Seven Lù told Xia Chujian that the safe contained more Cyan Obsidian Titanium than the Beichen Galaxy’s known deposits could supply and failed to unlock it.
• Seven Lù used stored Eternal Crystal to disguise the safe as a black plastic food box and explained that the upgraded Black Silver Bullets could selectively dissolve targets.
• Xia Chujian put the disguised safe in her backpack, asked Seven Lù to watch the fifth floor, and slept for eleven hours.
• Seven Lù told Xia Chujian that Star Net and external surveillance had resumed on Cangge Star and that Marshal Huo had requested a Video Call half an hour earlier.
• Xia Chujian reprimanded Seven Lù for letting her sleep through the call and realized its apparent obedience had been an illusion.

Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen how she found the missing Flying Base craft and investigated Bodhi Leaf, while he reprimanded her for scouting alone and advised her to lead through her subordinates. Huo Yushen accepted her explanation but urged her to prioritize her safety and act as a captain.

• Xia Chujian contacted Huo Yushen through the Starry Sky Cruiser's secure communications channel and offered to help with his business.
• Xia Chujian reported that Bodhi Leaf had surrounded the Flying Base's fighters and airships with eighteen Cruiser-class starships, and Huo Yushen deduced that she had gone alone to scout them.
• Huo Yushen warned Xia Chujian about leaving her ship alone and reminded her that a captain must not abandon her fleet; Xia Chujian agreed to be more careful.
• Xia Chujian explained that her Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence had traced the craft's energy trails and helped her locate Bodhi Leaf, and Huo Yushen accepted her account.
• Xia Chujian said most of Bodhi Leaf's eighteen ships were transports or obsolete vessels, and Huo Yushen praised her decision to gather the available forces while telling her to cultivate subordinates instead of scouting herself.

Xia Chujian explained to Huo Yushen how she destroyed the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates and asked him to support her decisions. After he approved her actions but questioned her plan for the rescued women, she offered to give them the pirates’ stolen property, even if it cost her military merit.

• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that she had wiped out the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates because she did not trust their claim that they would withdraw after seven days, and Huo Yushen supported her decision.
• Xia Chujian described how she used explosives, electromagnetic cannons, her cruiser, and the base’s fighters to defeat the pirates, while hiding Seven Lù’s role and choosing not to report the noble cadets’ use of Space Weapons.
• Huo Yushen praised Xia Chujian’s judgment but asked how she had overcome the pirates’ superior firepower.
• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen she had rescued thirty-eight women and argued that they should not be forced to return to their families and face financial ruin.
• Huo Yushen accused Xia Chujian of planning insurance fraud, so she offered to divide the pirates’ stolen property among the women instead.
• Huo Yushen warned Xia Chujian that giving away the stolen property would cost her military merit, but she said she could do without it.

Xia Chujian learned that survivors of a spaceship attack could expose Bodhi Leaf and challenge the companies that had misreported the disaster, while Huo Yushen agreed to investigate a mole. Huo Yushen then revealed he was leaving for the East Tianyuan City-State to investigate Wenren Zhao’s claim to be a “Divinely Blessed Daughter,” leaving Xia Chujian anxious about what he might find.

• Xia Chujian explained that she had rescued the passengers because she recognized them as fellow townspeople from Mulan City, and Huo Yushen told her the ship’s owners had blamed its disappearance on a magnetic-field storm.
• Huo Yushen proposed using the survivors as witnesses against the Bodhi Leaf space pirates and to challenge the insurance company, and Xia Chujian planned to consult Chief Quan Da and Young Master Zong.
• Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that one of the returning trainees or instructors was a Bodhi Leaf mole, and Huo Yushen assigned Kang Shanxing to coordinate the investigation.
• When Xia Chujian asked about Meng Guanghui, Huo Yushen said he would bring him back and planned to leave immediately; Xia Chujian offered to go along and suggested using Master Su’s new Mecha.
• Huo Yushen told Xia Chujian that Meng Guanghui was in the East Tianyuan City-State, not on Eze Star, and explained that Wenren Zhao claimed to have become the “Divinely Blessed Daughter.”

After three instructors were found dead aboard an airship, Xia Chujian took control of the investigation while Kang Shanxing hurried toward the Cruiser. She locked down the Fifth Floor Warplane Warehouse and demanded surveillance access from everyone, but Lü Luyu openly challenged her.

• Huo Yushen left Kang Shanxing in charge of the handover and departed for East Tianyuan City-State.
• Sun Jiahao informed Xia Chujian that three instructors aboard an airship had been found dead, and Kang Shanxing said he would arrive with a doctor.
• Xia Chujian ordered Gu Zhongjin and three pilots to control the Cruiser's compartments and keep the ship at the Asteroid Belt's edge.
• Xia Chujian ordered everyone aboard to stay put and led five hundred Starry Sky Marines to secure the Fifth Floor Warplane Warehouse.
• Xia Chujian demanded that everyone surrender control of their fighters and airships for surveillance, and Lü Luyu angrily insulted her.

Xia Chujian stopped Lü Luyu’s Mental Attack, had her restrained, and injected her with a week-long inhibitor while awaiting the Special Security Bureau. She left Lü Luyu threatening her with the power of her noble family, but Xia Chujian made clear that the Bureau would stand behind her.

• Lü Luyu activated her Slaughter superpower against Xia Chujian, who called on Team One to restrain her.
• Seven Lù took control of Lü Luyu’s fighter, and Starry Sky Marines dragged her out and knocked her unconscious.
• Xia Chujian reassured the Fifth Floor Warplane Warehouse that the Special Security Bureau would investigate the three Instructors’ deaths, then asked Seven Lù for an inhibitor for Gene Evolvers.
• Xia Chujian put on the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and injected Lü Luyu with a blue inhibitor that would suppress her Mental Strength for a week.
• Lü Luyu threatened Xia Chujian with her family’s influence, but Xia Chujian said the Lü Family would have to contend with the Special Security Bureau.

Xia Chujian investigated the deaths of three instructors aboard an Interstellar Airship and suspected they had been framed as star pirate spies. Chen Yansheng’s account of the attacks led her to consider that the pirates might have tracked the airships by observing them directly.

• Xia Chujian inspected the three dead instructors and found that all were bleeding from their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears, with the second and third instructors’ blood turned black.
• Yu Fei explained that the instructors had come from Commoners backgrounds and were Gene Evolvers, while Chen Yansheng said they were the only ones carrying Handheld Brain-Computer Interface Installers.
• Xia Chujian concluded that the instructors had been set up as scapegoats for accusations of being star pirate spies.
• Chen Yansheng described how pirate ships followed every airship sent by the base, and Xia Chujian rejected the idea that they had tracked unstable electromagnetic signals.
• Chen Yansheng recalled Xia Chujian’s remark about observing with the naked eye, prompting her to remember seeing someone fire a signal flare near Starship No. 18.

Xia Chujian and the others deduced that a mastermind had used a mole and the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates to target the flight trainees, possibly to install Brain-Computer Interfaces in the future elite pilots. Unable to identify the culprit before the Special Security Bureau arrived, Xia Chujian decided to activate the airship’s dormancy system and put everyone to sleep.

• Chen Yansheng reasoned that the mole had used the fighters’ withdrawal signals to reveal their locations to the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates and that the base airships had followed the same signals.
• Yu Fei explained that he had been distracted by Chief Instructor Pei’s collapse and failed to notice the Space Pirates driving the group deep into the Asteroid Belt.
• Xia Chujian concluded that Chief Instructor Pei’s collapse and Yu Fei’s distraction were part of a planned operation, then questioned the motive behind the pirates’ actions and the mastermind’s continued crimes.
• Yu Fei and Chen Yansheng identified Brain-Computer Interfaces as a possible target, and Xia Chujian reasoned that the scheme might be aimed at the Interstellar Fleet’s future elite pilots, potentially with foreign involvement.
• Yu Fei said that the Shaofu Star Governor’s Office Guard had received Brain-Computer Interfaces, while Xia Chujian decided to keep everyone under control until the Special Security Bureau arrived.
• After Seven Lù reported no unusual activity and offered to restore surveillance, Xia Chujian declined and went to activate the Starry Sky Cruiser’s dormancy system.

Xia Chujian put the trainees and instructors into hibernation after an instructor threatened Pei Zijing, but Seven Lù recognized the man as the Son of Forrest, a creature that could control human thoughts. Xia Chujian isolated the Starry Sky Marines in hibernation and confronted the monster outside Pei Zijing’s airship.

• Xia Chujian activated the Fifth Floor Warplane Warehouse’s hibernation system despite the instructor threatening Pei Zijing, and the trainees, instructors, and attacker fell unconscious.
• Seven Lù told Xia Chujian that the instructor’s behavior had changed abruptly, then identified the creature beneath his shed human skin as the Son of Forrest.
• Xia Chujian ordered the Starry Sky Marines to the Fourth Layer and put them into hibernation before heading to Pei Zijing’s airship.
• Xia Chujian arrived in her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and asked Seven Lù to cut off surveillance before she fought the Son of Forrest.
• The Son of Forrest emerged from the airship and its pupils narrowed when it saw Xia Chujian’s mask.

Xia Chujian fought the Son of Forrest aboard the Starry Sky Cruiser, enduring its mind-affecting voice and devastating roar while attacking it with her Mecha’s weapons. When it charged her with corrosive pink liquid, she blocked its mouth with a lampshade and then plugged it with the Ghost Face Safe.

• Seven Lù concluded that the Son of Forrest feared Xia Chujian’s mask, and the monster leaped from the airship hatch.
• The Son of Forrest sent a seductive voice into Xia Chujian’s mind, but she attacked it with the Punishment 0937 Electromagnetic Cannon.
• After absorbing plasma until it swelled, the Son of Forrest unleashed a roar that hurt Xia Chujian and destroyed the cruiser’s surveillance equipment.
• Xia Chujian fired an Adjudicator No. 2 Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle at the monster’s neck and mouth while targeting its eyes with plasma beams.
• The Son of Forrest transformed into pink mist and attacked at close quarters, then sprayed Forrest’s Curse as Xia Chujian blocked its mouth with a lampshade.
• Xia Chujian shoved the Ghost Face Safe sideways into the Son of Forrest’s mouth, plugging it.

Xia Chujian killed Son of Forrest by firing into its mouth, then learned from Seven Lù that the creature was one of the rare descendants of Mother of Forrest. She ended the chapter vowing to find a way to confront Mother of Forrest, while Seven Lù offered to help.

• Xia Chujian trapped Son of Forrest’s jaws open with the Ghost Face Safe and shot its vulnerable internal organs until it died.
• Xia Chujian discovered that the Ghost Face Safe remained undamaged, while her two guns had been corroded by the creature’s fluids.
• Seven Lù explained that Son of Forrest released Mental Strength Spores that could invade and control humans, and that this specimen had grown from a spore parasitizing the young Instructor.
• Seven Lù described Mother of Forrest as the sole reproductive Forrest, whose rare spores could produce Sons of Forrest after parasitizing human hosts.
• Seven Lù warned Xia Chujian that residual spores could relay her insults to Mother of Forrest, but Xia Chujian vowed to confront her once she found a way to defeat her.
• Seven Lù promised to help Xia Chujian take out Mother of Forrest.

Xia Chujian used the Chi Yang Fire Emitter to destroy the remaining Mental Strength Spores on the Son of Forrest, then woke the Starry Sky Marines and showed them the creature. The Marines did not recognize it, leaving Xia Chujian wondering why Remnants had appeared so often lately.

• Xia Chujian tested the Chi Yang Fire Emitter and used it three times on the Crocodile Lizard Snake Monster, while Seven Lù explained how the Mother and Son of Forrest spores survived and spread.
• Xia Chujian wondered whether the cleansed Son of Forrest could be eaten, and Seven Lù warned her that Marshal Huo's Bat-style Fighter Jet was approaching.
• Xia Chujian tried to contact the Bat-style Fighter Jet through Falcon D1 and sealed off the Fifth Floor while the Cruiser established communication.
• Xia Chujian woke the Starry Sky Marines on the Fourth Layer and showed them the monster on the Virtual Display Screen.
• Sun Jiahao and the other Marines failed to recognize the creature, and Xia Chujian grew uneasy about the increased frequency of Remnants.