Vol. 2Umbrella’s Global Expansion

Wang Yi expanded Umbrella and World Company through medicines, software, research, and international deals while confronting supernatural dangers and the Sackler family. The stretch ended with Red Queen’s launch and Cheng Xue shooting Piero as Umbrella faced a public dispute over academic fraud.

  • Wang Yi expanded Little Broken Station into livestreaming, resisted Ali’s takeover bid, and prepared a short-video launch while ordering silver for his Mage Tower.
  • Wang Yi rescued captives in Siam, defeated mercenaries targeting him, and helped make A1 contact lenses a sensation through tests and livestream demonstrations.
  • Wang Yi launched TT, expanded Umbrella’s medicines into hospitals, and submitted a major proof that drew unprecedented academic scrutiny.
  • In Hong Kong, Wang Yi confronted the spirit Cheng Xue, recruited her, and put Qian Yayan in charge of company reforms as experts prepared to demonstrate Umbrella’s stone medicines.
  • Wang Yi expanded Umbrella’s medicines and technology, proved the Zero Point Conjecture, and faced legal and public disputes while Medicine God succeeded at the box office.
  • After an Umbrella team went missing in Africa, Wang Yi traveled to Somalia under an alias, where suspected Sackler operatives kidnapped him and two reporters.
  • Wang Yi uncovered the Sacklers’ experiments in Somalia, fought forces pursuing Alpha team, and enslaved Antoine as an informant.
  • Wang Yi expanded Umbrella’s medical and technology ventures in Japan, while Umbrella exposed Piero’s alleged research fraud and Cheng Xue shot Piero before Red Queen’s press conference.
Chapters 103–202 Read from ch. 103

Arc 5The A1 Lens Breakthrough

Wang Yi expanded Little Broken Station into livestreaming while secretly navigating threats in Siam and preparing a new short-video platform. His company’s A1 contact lenses became a sensation after users and experts verified their unusual properties, leaving Wang Yi readying the next launch and gathering silver for a Mage Tower.

  • Wang Yi made Little Broken Station a wholly owned subsidiary, and Chen Jie and Xu Mao joined World Company to develop livestreaming and strengthen the platform’s technology.
  • Little Broken Station attracted streamers and viewers, while Wang Yi refused Ali’s bid for control and instead pursued livestream shopping with Penguin and Jingdong.
  • Wang Yi traveled to Siam with company staff, rescued captives from Liu Hua’s gang, and arranged for Tang Zhuo to serve Kata Adani as a bodyguard.
  • Scorpion and Hyena mercenaries tried to abduct Wang Yi, but he defeated the attackers and learned that the Sackler family likely wanted his mathematical expertise.
  • Umbrella Pharmaceutical’s A1 contact lenses drew attention through livestream demonstrations, and Ma Dong and Liu Xiaoke’s chili-oil test helped drive orders.
  • Professor Chen confirmed the lenses’ remarkable performance, and Wang Yi released test evidence that quieted critics as livestream shopping spread to rival platforms.
  • Wang Yi prepared Little Broken Station’s short-video launch, ordered silver shipped in batches, and planned a film project and the first Mage Tower.
  • Jay tried A1 lenses, praised their comfort in videos after returning to Maple Leaf Country, and convinced skeptical friends and viewers of their effects.
Chapters 103–127 Summaries Read

Arc 6The Resentful Spirit and New Ventures

Wang Yi expanded his businesses, brought Umbrella’s stone medicines into hospitals, launched TT, and submitted a major mathematical proof while pursuing supernatural trouble in Hong Kong. He recruited Cheng Xue, entrusted Qian Yayan with company reforms, and left the medical experts preparing to demonstrate the medicines’ effects.

  • Wang Yi established a Mana Pool in the underground Mage Tower, expanded Umbrella’s businesses, and helped its contact lenses and new medicines gain attention.
  • Wang Yi arranged hospital trials of Umbrella’s gallstone and kidney-stone medicines, whose dramatic results convinced doctors to consider adopting them.
  • Wang Yi backed Little Broken Station’s Minecraft contest and launched the short-video app TT, which rapidly gained users and helped spread his music overseas.
  • Wang Yi submitted a proof that Landau-Siegel zeros did not exist, prompting an unprecedented peer review and a planned academic conference.
  • Wang Yi traveled to Hong Kong with Qian Yayan, where Xuan Yangzi introduced him to the Li family’s haunting and Wang Yi confronted the spirit Cheng Xue.
  • Cheng Xue accepted thirty million Xiang currency as compensation and agreed to work for Wang Yi, who removed the Yin-gathering property at the Li family’s estate.
  • Wang Yi put Qian Yayan in charge of company reforms, developed a method to strengthen Hepatitis B immunoglobulins, and spent time with Liu Xiaoke and Ma Dong.
  • Song Tianming gathered medical experts and prepared to demonstrate the stone medicines’ effects on patients as the World and Ali alliances continued competing.
Chapters 128–152 Summaries Read

Arc 7Umbrella’s Expanding Reach

Wang Yi’s medicines, software, research, and films brought Umbrella and World Company growing influence and scrutiny. After learning that an Umbrella team had gone missing in Africa, Wang Yi traveled toward Somalia, where suspected Sackler operatives kidnapped him and two reporters.

  • Director Song Tianming and Director Hu presented scans and test results showing that Umbrella’s medicine had dissolved patients’ stones, prompting specialists to seek supplies.
  • Wang Yi and Lin Shiqin expanded World Company and Umbrella’s reach as TT faced a ban in the Beautiful Country, Umbrella Security swept Brazilian gangs, and Synchronized Translation launched worldwide.
  • Patients and doctors publicized the stone medicines’ effects, demand surged, and Wang Yi authorized research teams to develop Umbrella’s vaccines and other treatments.
  • Wang Yi exposed Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin scandal, defended Umbrella’s refusal to share its technology, and proved the Zero Point Conjecture to the mathematicians at the Science Institute.
  • Wang Yi’s dispute with Ya Ya brought tax investigations and legal action, while his criticism of The Lancet’s rejection of domestic research fueled a public backlash.
  • Umbrella announced its thirteen-valent cervical cancer vaccine, and Wang Yi published an AI algorithms paper that drew interest from Google and Apple.
  • Wang Yi helped release Medicine God, which earned over 200 million on its opening day, then left for Africa after an Umbrella team reported losses and monsters.
  • Wang Yi traveled under the identity Liu Zuo toward Somaliland, but suspected Sackler operatives drugged and kidnapped him and two reporters in Mogadishu.
Chapters 153–177 Summaries Read

Arc 8Umbrella’s Expanding Reach

Wang Yi uncovered the Sacklers’ experiments in Somalia, then expanded Umbrella’s influence through medicine, technology deals, and supernatural investigations in Japan. The arc ended with Umbrella exposing academic fraud and launching Red Queen as Piero’s public feud with the company turned violent.

  • Wang Yi defeated the armed team in Somalia, learned that the Sacklers were studying the rainforest plant and stolen culture medium, and enslaved Antoine as an informant.
  • Wang Yi joined Yellow Sand III in disguise, then attacked the force pursuing Alpha team and helped the survivors escape after killing the Biochemical Hyenas and Giant God Soldiers.
  • Umbrella launched its hepatitis B treatment and resisted pressure to disclose its technology, while Wang Yi announced that his AI had been integrated with the company’s system.
  • Wang Yi traveled to Japan, negotiated with Nikon over lithography equipment, and recruited Gu Qianqian and Inoue Junichiro while capturing spirits and purifying an abandoned hospital.
  • Wang Yi collected supernatural entities from Tokyo shrines, secured a deal with Nikon, and left Toyota without an agreement on hydrogen fuel cells.
  • Umbrella accused Piero’s research center of falsifying stem-cell data, and Piero fought back publicly by accusing Umbrella of slander and monopolizing its culture medium.
  • Junichiro protected Piero from an assassin, but Cheng Xue shot Piero from a rooftop before escaping, while surveillance helped clear Umbrella in the public eye.
  • Jayce opened Umbrella’s Red Queen press conference by condemning academic fraud and presenting the system as a fairer way to review initial research.
Chapters 178–202 Summaries Read
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