Recaps

Umbrella exposed the Yemen experiments, weathered Beautiful Country’s sanctions by launching the Red Queen Band and lithography machines, and expanded its operations in Japan. In Tokyo, Wang Yi recruited retired assassin Sakaguchi Taku to turn against Dark while the Annam F4 arrived for their assignment.

• Kesi’s team uncovered records showing that Laka had been Specimen 079 and that CIA agents had praised the Yemen experiments as a potential weapon.
• Wang Yi captured Tamamo-no-Mae’s remaining Grass Head Gods, including Yamata no Orochi, while Umbrella pushed ahead with its Seastead plans.
• Umbrella released research on K virus and immunoglobulins, prompting Beautiful Country to threaten sanctions and media figures to attack Umbrella.
• Red Queen unveiled the wristband, and Beautiful Country banned high-end chip supplies to Umbrella as Xu Silong and Xue Chuan urged people to leave.
• Umbrella’s wristbands sold out, and it announced its own lithography machines and chips, prompting manufacturers and wafer fabs to seek its technology.
• In Japan, Yamada escaped custody and killed Mori Ryuichi, while investigators linked the organization behind him to a laboratory studying mutated K virus subjects.
• Wang Yi met retired assassin Sakaguchi Taku and offered support in exchange for his open break with Dark and sabotage of its locations.
• Sakaguchi Taku killed Dark’s Boss, and Wang Yi supplied the Annam F4 with money, target information, and phones containing Sakaguchi Taku’s number.

Wang Yi and Umbrella emerged from the Tokyo outbreak with new leverage over Japan, while expanding their work in Mexico and launching artificial-organ treatments. The stretch ended with hospitals reporting promising results from Umbrella’s artificial heart and kidney implants, alongside concerns about their use to enhance performance.

• Dark placed a massive bounty on Sakaguchi Taku, who joined Annam F4 in attacking the organization’s Japan branch and sabotaging its laboratory, triggering a Tokyo outbreak as test subjects escaped.
• Sakaguchi Taku posted recordings exposing the organization, while Japan’s authorities and the Beautiful Country military struggled to contain the outbreak and survivors fled the Bay Area.
• Wang Yi rescued Sakaguchi Taku, Ito Chiyo, and Yamada, recruited Ito and Sakaguchi, and made Yamada Mori Ryuichi’s vessel as the outbreak killed tens of thousands.
• The Tokyo incident exposed Mitsubishi and Kawasaki to international pressure and asset seizures, while Umbrella used the upheaval and its Hong Kong connections to pursue Japanese military-industrial equipment.
• Umbrella faced demands to disclose its K-virus culture medium, countered by calling for pharmaceutical patent transparency, and gained approval for its artificial heart and kidney in domestic and overseas markets.
• Wang Yi met Li Hao and secured the Li Group’s agreement to represent Umbrella, then attended a cruise where he rebuked Jiang Sheng’s attacks on Zhou Xingxing and drew attention to his computing research.
• Wang Yi traveled to Mexico, where Umbrella sought to replace Western capital, stabilize conditions, and register its planned seastead, while he arranged artificial-kidney treatment for Simpson in return for publicity cooperation.
• Umbrella’s artificial organs produced encouraging early reports from hospitals, though specialists warned that artificial hearts could harm healthy users and called for limits on their use in sports.

Umbrella transformed Mexico’s water and resource sectors, revealed Magic Power, and assembled its massive seastead, Penglai City. As Wang Yi prepared the city’s defenses and expanded Umbrella’s technology and business reach, the story left Penglai beginning patrols and major companies seeking cooperation.

• Umbrella’s water-filtration technology won public support in Mexico, and the water companies offered to transfer their local assets and buy its membranes.
• Umbrella published research identifying Magic Power’s interaction with patterned silver, then expanded its hold over Mexican water, farms, and mineral resources amid political violence and Chen Feng’s desperate migration.
• Wang Yi and his team completed a high-performance turbofan engine and achieved a roughly 1:10 energy output ratio with the fusion reactor, which he named the Solar Furnace.
• Umbrella’s artificial hearts attracted widespread attention, while streamers followed its platforms into the Pacific and watched them assemble into Penglai City.
• Wang Yi reviewed Penglai’s construction and defenses as Umbrella promoted the city, bought aircraft, and secured ten Ka-28 helicopters from the northern bears.
• Wang Yi ignited Penglai’s Solar Furnace, restoring power to the city’s machinery, and left Lin Shiqin to oversee the third-generation Mage Tower.
• Wang Yi expanded Umbrella’s technology partnerships and prepared Red Queen+ licensing as major appliance companies approached World Company.
• Wang Yi completed electromagnetic cannon design adjustments, and after Lin Shiqin reported the Ka-28s had arrived, he ordered them to patrol in groups of three.

Wang Yi uncovered an alien threat at sea, then faced a confrontation with Beautiful Country that brought sanctions and public scrutiny to Umbrella. As Penglai’s defenses advanced, a Blue Ocean attack and a missile strike by Kangaroo Country escalated the crisis, leaving a modified Ka-28 launching missiles toward the approaching warships.

• Wang Yi boarded the stricken Hu Rong Yu 038, identified the Abyssal Magic-Eating Worm, learned that Earth had been contacted before, and escaped with Mo Bin as the creature’s ship began to flood.
• Wang Yi recorded Beautiful Country Marines boarding The Mermaid and attacking him, then Umbrella published footage that fueled public backlash and led Beautiful Country to sanction World Company and Umbrella.
• Researchers studied the alien organism, while Wang Yi ordered military upgrades and used the Mage Tower’s Magic Power to produce silver hydride for Lin Shiqin’s capabilities.
• Blue Ocean activists protested Penglai and attacked Hai Zai’s fishing boat, but Umbrella helicopters fired on them and rescued Hai Zai and his crewmates.
• Kangaroo Country’s captain launched sixteen Harpoon missiles at Penglai, whose lasers and rapid-fire defenses destroyed all of them.
• A modified Ka-28 appeared over Penglai and launched two unusual missiles toward the Kangaroo warships.