Vol. 3Umbrella’s Expanding Reach

Wang Yi expanded Umbrella’s technology and businesses while confronting outbreaks and spirits in Seoul and Japan. The volume leaves him in Taiz, where Cheng Xue’s livestream exposes the K virus outbreak and Kesi’s team faces CIA agents.

  • Jayce demonstrated the Red Queen’s creative tools and gaming prowess, and presented evidence challenging the work of Piero, Haruko Obokata, and Elizabeth Holmes.
  • Wang Yi exposed Hua Nuo’s role in a patient’s death, advanced high-density batteries, and helped launch shared electric vehicles that sparked speculation about autonomous bikes.
  • Wang Yi developed a dry DUV lithography machine and traveled to Seoul for the World Mathematicians Conference, where a zombie-like outbreak trapped him and the attendees.
  • Wang Yi and Kim Yeon-hyun helped defend the auditorium until KNP868 squads arrived, and Wang Yi later discovered a burned female student spirit in a dormitory storage room.
  • Wang Yi helped Song Jin-yeon take revenge and expanded Umbrella’s phone, chip, and ship businesses while protecting Big Ship Heavy Industry from a suspected trap.
  • Wang Yi traveled to Japan as Quan Yong-en, investigated spirits with Gu Qianqian, and intercepted a masked attacker who survived what seemed to be a fatal blow.
  • Wang Yi helped establish Anxon, dealt with Japanese spirits, and supported Umbrella’s expansion as World Company launched delivery and ride-hailing services.
  • Wang Yi joined Umbrella’s Yemen operation, where Cheng Xue’s livestream revealed the K virus outbreak and Kesi’s team confronted CIA agents in Taiz.
Chapters 203–302 Read from ch. 203

Arc 9The Red Queen and New Frontiers

Umbrella Corporation unveiled the Red Queen, expanded its medical and gaming ventures, and weathered a smear campaign over a patient’s death before exposing Hua Nuo’s role. Wang Yi advanced high-density batteries and shared electric vehicles, leaving the story with Umbrella’s autonomous bikes fueling public speculation.

  • Jayce demonstrated the Red Queen’s creative tools and gaming prowess, then presented evidence challenging the work of Piero, Haruko Obokata, and Elizabeth Holmes.
  • Umbrella offered rapid hematopoietic stem-cell cultivation and hospital training, giving patients such as A Xiang and Duoduo new hope.
  • World Company launched the Starry Sky World closed beta, where streamers and players explored its immersive setting and AI-driven NPCs.
  • After a nineteen-year-old patient died during a transplant process, Wang Yi investigated as online accusations spread and Hua Nuo CEO Bob confessed that the company had arranged the medical accident.
  • Authorities arrested those involved, Wang Yi and World Company pursued rumor-spreading influencers, and Umbrella denied the slander after evidence exposed the plot.
  • Wang Yi developed a high-energy lithium battery, advised university robotics teams, and prepared Umbrella’s factories for mass production.
  • Wang Yi’s battery advances led Umbrella and World Company to pilot shared electric vehicles, and Jiang Bo’s long-distance ride sparked speculation when a bike appeared to park and recharge itself autonomously.
Chapters 203–227 Summaries Read

Arc 10The Seoul Outbreak

Umbrella expanded its battery, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor businesses while Wang Yi attended an international mathematics conference in Seoul. A magical zombie-like virus trapped him and the other attendees on campus, and after the immediate crisis passed, Wang Yi encountered a burned female spirit in the dormitory.

  • Umbrella announced its Li-Ag battery breakthrough, acquired a controlling stake in Ningya, and used its security teams to track stolen batteries and rescue captives from a criminal compound in Myanmar.
  • Starry Sky became a box-office success as Umbrella promoted its office software, painkiller research, holographic lenses, and lithium-silver alloy batteries.
  • Wang Yi developed a dry DUV lithography machine that surpassed ASML’s yields at 14nm and 10nm, then attended Ma Dong’s wedding, where Qian Yayan helped end Manager Liu’s attempt to force Ma Dong into a new contract.
  • Wang Yi traveled to Seoul for the World Mathematicians Conference, where Lee Jin-hee welcomed him and Lin Shiqin showed him evidence of a concealed virus outbreak in Africa.
  • Bosen Sackler showed Wang Yi a purple magical plant linked to Abyss entrances, but Wang Yi refused his offer and left after asking for samples and information about its growing environment.
  • Maka became infected and attacked her roommate, and South Korean forces announced a zombie-like outbreak at the conference before the infected assaulted the auditorium.
  • Wang Yi and Kim Yeon-hyun took control of the auditorium’s defense and shot infected attackers until KNP868 squads arrived, after which South Korea quarantined the survivors and concealed the zombie outbreak from the public.
  • Wang Yi learned that the virus was vulnerable to sunlight, discussed Umbrella’s battery orders and acquisitions, and sensed a Resentful Spirit in the dormitory before finding a burned female student spirit hanging in a storage room.
Chapters 228–252 Summaries Read

Arc 11Umbrella’s Rise and Yuriko’s Case

Wang Yi helped Song Jin-yeon take revenge, expanded Umbrella’s phone, chip, map, and ship businesses, and helped avert a trap against Big Ship Heavy Industry. In Japan, he investigated spirits with Gu Qianqian and encountered a masked attacker tied to a revived serial murder case.

  • Wang Yi gave Song Jin-yeon a new body, and she confronted Park Hye-kyo before Four Star’s intervention brought down Park Hye-kyo’s family and followers.
  • Umbrella launched the Red Queen phone, whose features and durability drew widespread attention, then introduced the White Queen chip after Qualcomm denied it more Snapdragon 801 capacity.
  • Wang Yi visited Qian Yayan’s family in Shanghai, where he warned Gu Nan that the Norwegian Ship King’s contract could be a scheme to bankrupt Big Ship Heavy Industry and Daewoo Shipbuilding.
  • Wang Yi and Umbrella seized maritime assets from John Fredriksen’s holding company and negotiated ship modifications and port shares, while Big Ship Heavy Industry secured a larger deposit.
  • Umbrella’s chip success led EDA firms and chipmakers to fund its optimization services and Red Queen connectivity, as Wang Yi directed Lin Shiqin to keep expanding research and ship investments.
  • Wang Yi created Bone Kun and a Bone Dragon from whale remains, improved the researchers’ Li-Ag alloy production method, and flew to Japan under the identity Quan Yong-en.
  • Wang Yi met Gu Qianqian and helped Murakami Yuriko gain a Silver vessel, then planned to investigate the spirits listed on Gu Qianqian’s map.
  • After Gu Qianqian learned Detective Kinda had died, Mori Ryuichi spotted a masked attacker approaching her apartment, and Wang Yi intercepted the attacker but realized he had survived a seemingly fatal blow.
Chapters 253–277 Summaries Read

Arc 12Anxon, Spirits, and Taiz

Wang Yi helped Umbrella establish Anxon and expand its influence, while dealing with Japanese spirits and returning to China as World Company entered delivery and ride-hailing. He then joined Umbrella’s Yemen operation, where Cheng Xue’s livestream exposed the K virus outbreak and Kesi’s team confronted CIA agents in Taiz.

  • Umbrella’s Anxon won approval and widespread attention for relieving pain and helping with sleep, while Wang Yi recruited Yura and Xiuming and learned about the sealed spirits at Mount Fuji and Suno.
  • Wang Yi captured the demon fox inside the Killing Stone, cleared Tokyo shrines of Grass Head Gods, and helped negotiate the transfer of Panasonic battery businesses and Toshiba wafer fabs to Umbrella.
  • World Company launched food delivery and ride-hailing with social insurance for its workers, while public criticism of Kangaroo Takeout’s treatment of an injured rider pushed both companies to adjust their policies.
  • After Dog Tycoon asked Umbrella to investigate alleged biological weapons in Yemen, Wang Yi flew toward the country and disrupted an attack by two unmarked F-14s on Umbrella’s charter flight.
  • Cheng Xue and Umbrella’s personnel landed in Taiz, began livestreaming their operation, and showed viewers that infected people had become zombies.
  • Cheng Xue’s teams entered Taiz, fought infected people, and rescued Isa and his sister after Isa’s mother stayed behind to hold off the attackers.
  • Kesi’s task force confronted two CIA agents at Taiz Hospital, exposed their prior knowledge of the infection during the livestream, and refused to yield to their demands for restraint.
Chapters 278–302 Summaries Read
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