Chapter Summaries

Jayce continued Umbrella Corporation’s press conference by demonstrating Red Queen’s AI painting and gaming abilities, while Haruko Obokata and Elizabeth Holmes protested Umbrella’s accusations. The chapter ended with Red Queen decisively defeating professional DOTA and LOL teams, leaving viewers convinced that humans could not compete with AI.

• Haruko Obokata and Elizabeth Holmes issued statements rejecting Umbrella Corporation’s accusations and threatening legal action.
• Nikon publicly backed Umbrella Corporation and said it wanted to see the evidence, while Toyota promoted its own hydrogen fuel cell patent.
• Jayce demonstrated Red Queen’s AI painting by generating illustrations from images and spoken prompts in multiple languages.
• Red Queen challenged three DOTA teams, three LOL teams, and five top Go players in simultaneous livestreamed matches.
• Red Queen used precise predictions, mechanics, and game awareness to defeat all six DOTA and LOL teams without giving them a chance to fight back.

The Red Queen demonstrated its strength in Go, AI art, coding, planning, and direct conversation, while Jayce fielded questions about its limits and Umbrella Corporation’s plans. Jayce then presented evidence of alleged fraud in three prominent research cases, reigniting calls to reform academic review.

• The Red Queen’s demonstrations left the Esports teams crushed and the Go masters apparently overwhelmed, prompting commentators to urge players to learn from the AI.
• Jayce activated direct conversations with the Red Queen, which generated launch-event plans and answered users’ questions with detailed responses, including code and a low-cost lunar rocket blueprint.
• Jayce explained that the Red Queen was a tool without creativity, addressed questions about computing limits and technology sales, and said Umbrella Corporation would not sell its technology.
• Jayce displayed detailed reconstructions and test reports concerning Piero’s stem-cell myocardial repair, Haruko Obokata’s STAP cells, and Elizabeth Holmes’s blood-drop testing.
• Jayce linked the cases to academic discrimination and proposed using the Red Queen for preliminary reviews followed by anonymous peer review.

Red Queen’s launch drew intense public attention and renewed scrutiny of Umbrella Corporation, while Wang Yi received an influx of invitations and continued building his Mage Tower. As scandals involving Piero, Haruko Obokata, and Elizabeth Holmes unfolded, Umbrella Corporation countered Elizabeth’s gender-based defense with Lida and Junichiro, leaving Elizabeth unable to stop the backlash.

• Red Queen’s debut sparked widespread excitement and protests, while Wang Yi received a flood of collaboration offers and continued expanding his Mage Tower.
• Former employees from Piero’s laboratory exposed fraud and misconduct, and public suspicion over his assassination shifted toward demands to clear Umbrella Corporation’s name.
• Researchers challenged Haruko Obokata’s work after Umbrella Corporation released experimental videos, and Haruko resigned without explanation.
• Elizabeth Holmes defended herself by accusing Jayce of targeting women, but Umbrella Corporation sent Lida to counter her and announced Lida’s plan to enter a beauty pageant.
• Lida’s confrontation rallied online support, and Elizabeth realized she could not stop the growing backlash against her device and company.

After academic journals agreed to let the Red Queen review submissions, Umbrella announced a breakthrough in cultivating patients’ own hematopoietic stem cells for leukemia transplants. The technology promised higher success rates without waiting for donors, and Umbrella offered qualified hospitals access to its culture medium and training.

• Nature proposed a transition period in which the Red Queen would review half its submissions, and other leading journals followed its example.
• Lida entered a beauty pageant and passed the preliminary round with a commanding share of the votes, alarming domestic netizens.
• Umbrella announced that it could cultivate enough hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation in under a month and invited qualified hospitals to apply for culture-medium quotas.
• Umbrella submitted its research paper to Nature through the Red Queen, and the announcement caused a major public reaction.
• Umbrella’s offer to supply culture medium and train hospital staff won broad public approval, though it threatened institutions developing targeted leukemia drugs.

Huanuo and other pharmaceutical companies feared that Umbrella’s stem-cell technology would disrupt their businesses, while A Xiang, a leukemia patient, learned that the new treatment could give him hope of a cure.

• Huanuo’s CEO worried that Umbrella’s expanding technologies, especially its hematopoietic stem-cell cultivation system, would threaten the company’s profits from Gleevec.
• Huanuo and other pharmaceutical giants watched Umbrella’s growth with unease, while the Sackler family discussed targeting the mathematician believed to be cooperating with Umbrella.
• A Xiang, a Chronic Myeloid Leukemia patient, reflected on his family’s sacrifices and hoped to stay alive for his wife and daughter.
• A fellow patient urged A Xiang to read Umbrella’s announcement about rapid in vitro stem-cell cultivation and transplant access.
• A Xiang read that qualified hospitals could apply for culture-medium allocations and training, and realized there was hope for his recovery.

A leukemia patient’s family learned that Umbrella’s new stem-cell culture technology could offer another chance, while Wang Yi planned to subsidize its cost through profits from a new game. Wang Yi also prepared to begin closed beta testing and expand his Mage Tower network.

• Duoduo’s parents learned they were not stem-cell matches, and the doctor explained the steep costs and uncertain prospects of finding an unrelated donor.
• A young doctor showed the attending physician Umbrella’s announcement that it had achieved mass in-vitro culture of hematopoietic stem cells, prompting the physician to seek training and tell Duoduo’s father a new opportunity might exist.
• Wang Yi reviewed the completed three-floor Mage Tower and planned additional towers in several locations.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Western countries were cautious about approving the stem-cell treatment, while hospitals in China were already training to use it.
• Wang Yi decided to put half of the new game’s release profits into a fund covering culture-medium costs not paid by medical insurance.
• Wang Yi told Lin Shiqin to start closed beta testing and prepare for VR updates, with AI-powered NPCs using Red Queen service packages.

Four Seas as Home explained how Umbrella’s contact lenses and medical technologies threatened major pharmaceutical companies, while contrasting their costly drugs with Umbrella’s affordable treatments. The chapter left netizens praising Umbrella’s pricing and speculating that the company could become like the one from the game.

• Umbrella Tieba users discussed Red Queen, A1 Glasses, and the damage Umbrella had done to contact lens companies.
• Four Seas as Home posted a video tracing Hua Nuo’s stock troubles and explaining how Gleevec had earned the company enormous profits.
• Four Seas as Home said restrictions in Europe and America were delaying clinical use of Umbrella’s stem cell technology, while China was moving ahead with training and cultivation.
• Four Seas as Home compared Harvoni’s nearly one-hundred-thousand-US-dollar Hepatitis C treatment course with Umbrella’s seven-hundred-yuan Hepatitis B treatment course.
• Netizens concluded that Umbrella’s affordable cures could devastate pharmaceutical giants and praised the company’s strength and pricing.

World Company announced the closed beta of its new Red Queen-powered Starry Sky World, drawing intense interest from players and skepticism from rival game fans. The chapter ended with the company revealing that the game’s NPCs would use AI to manage their own activities and economies.

• Wang Yi said World Company might enter food delivery and ride-hailing once the technology was more mature, while Ali expanded subsidies for Kangaroo Takeout and Mumu Taxi.
• World Company announced closed beta applications for Starry Sky World and reserved some slots for Little Broken Station uploaders and TT video creators.
• Gaming streamers complained after World Company directed them to apply through the same public link, while King of Fierce Gunplay swore he would never play the game.
• World Company described Starry Sky World as a freeform space sandbox featuring stations, ships, planetary landings, and Zerg invasions.
• World Company explained that NPC factions would have AI-driven behavior and that disrupting their factories and transport could affect production and prices.

World Company’s partnership with Umbrella and the coming release of “Starry Sky World” drew widespread attention, while Shark Baby struggled to keep up with World Company’s influence. Xu Wen secured a hundred closed beta accounts and streaming rights, but recognized how far ahead World Company remained.

• Netizens debated Umbrella and World Company’s alliance, Red Queen’s role in improving game NPCs, and Wang Yi’s achievements.
• Shark Baby streamers pressured CEO Xu Wen for closed beta access to “Starry Sky World,” and Qin Xiang asked him to get an account as well.
• Xu Wen agreed to negotiate despite realizing World Company did not regard Shark Baby as a serious competitor.
• Chen Qian provided a hundred closed beta accounts and streaming rights after Xu Wen contacted World Company, asking him to handle the streamers’ requests.
• Xu Wen accepted the costly deal because Shark Baby’s streamers, investors, and the game’s popularity left him no practical choice.

King of Fierce Gunplay began streaming Starry Sky World's closed beta and discovered that its cinematic opening led into a vast, detailed, freely explorable sci-fi city. After exploring the city, he jumped from an overpass, died, and respawned at the hospital.

• King of Fierce Gunplay revealed his closed beta access, while EVE streamer Baozi watched his stream and challenged the game's claims.
• King of Fierce Gunplay entered the game and stunned viewers with its cinematic battle, enormous warships, and seamless transition into playable scenes.
• King of Fierce Gunplay created his character, learned that he was a discharged soldier with damaged memories, and followed the tutorial toward a spaceship home.
• King of Fierce Gunplay took a driverless taxi, discovered its real control console, and got out to explore the city freely.
• King of Fierce Gunplay ran through the streets, jumped from an overpass, and respawned at the hospital after his consciousness was uploaded.

King of Fierce Gunplay and other closed-beta players explored Starry Sky World’s seamless journey from a city to orbital Space City, where NPCs, skills, and spaceship activities drew widespread attention. World Company announced a seven-day closed beta followed by a non-wipe global launch across mobile, PC, and console, while warning against cheating and account abuse.

• King of Fierce Gunplay lost his carried clothes when he died, bought another set, and boarded a maglev train to reach the Space Elevator.
• King of Fierce Gunplay and other players rode the elevator to orbital Space City and encountered NPCs that responded naturally to their actions and speech.
• A power-armored guard invited King of Fierce Gunplay and another player to recover their memories, after which they learned combat skills and players discovered many other training and shipboard activities.
• Players shared videos of Starry Sky World online, and World Company announced that the closed beta would last seven days before a non-wipe beta launched simultaneously on mobile, PC, and console.
• World Company explained the game’s payment options and mobile modes, and prohibited cheats, scripts, multi-boxing, and buying or selling ID Card information.

Jiang Bo recognized Starry Sky World’s potential for large player guilds as the closed beta drew attention and ended, after Qin Xiang lost his assembled ship. World Company pledged half the game’s revenue to help patients receiving cultured stem cell transplants, but after the first transplant succeeded, reports of a nineteen-year-old patient’s death triggered accusations against Umbrella’s new treatment.

• Jiang Bo described how groups of players could pool resources to build and crew spacecraft in Starry Sky World.
• Qin Xiang announced he would buy up beta currency, assembled an armed merchant ship, and lost it during a raid before the closed beta ended.
• World Company announced that half of Starry Sky World’s revenue would fund patient care, while Umbrella launched Red Queen-powered office software.
• Authorities approved cultured hematopoietic stem cell transplants, and the first patient’s transplant succeeded with financial aid from World Company.
• News outlets reported that a nineteen-year-old girl had died, and her family publicly blamed Umbrella’s newly approved transplant procedure.

A patient died from a Vibrio vulnificus infection during a hematopoietic stem cell transplant, and online creators blamed Umbrella Corporation, igniting a public backlash. Wang Yi suspected deliberate sabotage and told Lin Shiqin to investigate and give the family an explanation, while Four Seas as Home tried to clarify that the hospital’s infection-control failure was not Umbrella’s fault.

• Focus Girl posted a video questioning the new transplant technology and implying that corruption or inadequate testing had led to a nineteen-year-old patient’s death.
• Online outrage surged against Umbrella Corporation, and people who explained the transplant process were attacked as capital’s lackeys.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that the patient had died from Vibrio vulnificus infection during marrow ablation, before the stem cells were returned.
• Wang Yi suspected Hua Nuo had arranged the infection and told Lin Shiqin to handle the investigation and provide the family an explanation.
• Four Seas as Home defended Umbrella Corporation by explaining that the death pointed to a serious hospital failure, but enraged netizens attacked him.

Netizens increasingly suspected that the outrage over a fatal transplant infection was a smear campaign against Umbrella Corporation, while Duoduo’s parents and others defended the company and faced abuse. Just as Hua Nuo’s allies seemed close to winning the public-opinion battle, Bob and a series of Hua Nuo executives confessed on video to organizing the attack and provided details investigators could verify.

• Four Seas as Home’s science videos helped some netizens question claims that Umbrella Corporation’s transplant technology caused the death, and they began explaining the suspected smear campaign.
• Duoduo’s parents publicly defended Umbrella Corporation, saying their daughter’s transplant had given her hope, but netizens accused them of being paid and cursed their child.
• Xue Chuan criticized the fast approval process and praised the West’s approach as the anti-Umbrella campaign gained momentum.
• Bob, CEO of Hua Nuo, released a video confessing that the company had arranged the medical accident to damage Umbrella Corporation and protect its medicine sales.
• Hua Nuo claimed Bob had been kidnapped, but a subordinate and other executives released videos confirming the plot with detailed, traceable evidence.

After evidence exposed Hua Nuo’s plot to frame Umbrella Corporation, authorities arrested the domestic accomplices and revealed how the patient had been infected. World Company banned influencers who had fueled the false narrative, while Umbrella and the authorities retaliated against Hua Nuo; the overseas dispute quieted down, though speculation about Umbrella’s role continued.

• Authorities arrested the bribed cleaner, the spy who had bribed him, and the patient’s stepmother, then announced that contaminated antiemetic pills had caused the patient’s fatal infection.
• Wang Yi announced that video creators who spread rumors could face legal action, and World Company permanently banned TT influencers who had blindly fueled the story.
• Banned influencers accused World Company of overstepping, but the company sued them and updated TT’s user agreement to justify its actions.
• Netizens revisited Four Seas as Home’s videos and praised Umbrella Corporation’s comparatively affordable medicines, while some speculated that Umbrella had kidnapped Hua Nuo’s CEO.
• Hua Nuo denied responsibility and distanced itself from the case as authorities added generic Hua Nuo drugs to an imported-drug whitelist.
• Umbrella Corporation issued a stern statement denying the slander and thanking those who had revealed the truth, prompting netizens to joke about its implied retaliation.

Wang Yi struggled to make cultured cardiomyocytes affordable at scale, so he turned to improving lithium batteries with magic circles for mass production. After discussing Umbrella’s film and game plans with Lin Shiqin, he went out to find food.

• Wang Yi found that cardiomyocyte cultivation remained too inefficient for affordable mass production and considered artificial organs as a more practical option for ordinary patients.
• Wang Yi tested a Li-Ag alloy and developed a lithium battery with much higher energy density, then planned a lower-performance version that magic circles could produce at scale.
• Wang Yi noted that Umbrella had acquired manufacturing plants and could begin commercial battery production once the mass-production design was approved.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Liu Xiaoke was reshooting scenes for 'Starry Sky' while Ning Mu was in a meeting.
• Wang Yi and Lin Shiqin discussed having Red Queen handle 'Starry Sky's special effects and use the film to promote Red Queen's business before Wang Yi went out to find food.

Wang Yi arrived in Shanghai, considered buying a private jet, and went to a high-end seafood buffet, where he impressed three fitness livestreamers with how much he could eat. The meal ended with a stylish woman insulting the livestreamers and their appearance.

• Wang Yi agreed to give a lecture at Shanghai University and asked Lin Shiqin to arrange a personal Gulfstream G650 purchase.
• Lin Shiqin chose a seafood buffet and ordered a Mumu Taxi; she discovered the driver was a con man who targeted wealthy female passengers.
• At Cloud Top Seafood Buffet Restaurant, Wang Yi watched three fitness livestreamers eat and ordered the same large spread they had ordered.
• Wang Yi quickly finished the food and kept ordering more while the three men cheered him on and tried to keep pace.
• A woman in a black backless dress passed their table, disparaged the restaurant and the three men’s clothing, and drew Wang Yi’s attention.

Wang Yi left a restaurant after a dispute between Qi Wenwen and three fitness-foodie streamers went viral online. His casual phone call about buying a Gulfstream G650 stunned the restaurant, while Qi Wenwen was summoned to a police station for an undisclosed reason.

• Qi Wenwen criticized the fitness-foodie streamers’ tank tops, posted a selfie disparaging the restaurant, and refused the manager’s attempts to settle the dispute.
• The streamers uploaded a response video with Wang Yi’s face blurred, and Lin Shiqin rapidly boosted both sides’ posts across TT.
• Wang Yi left the restaurant after telling Lin Shiqin to handle a proposed seventy-million-dollar Gulfstream G650 purchase as she saw fit.
• Qi Wenwen tried to post about Wang Yi’s private-jet deal, but her account was temporarily banned before police called her in for questioning.
• Qi Wenwen agreed to go to the police station, while the streamers wondered why she had been summoned.

Wang Yi arrived at Shanghai University, where university leaders and Professor Zhang Yuan welcomed him and asked him to coach their team before a competition. His public lecture on Artificial Intelligence algorithms drew major companies and international teams, while online sleuthing revealed that Wang Yi’s face could not pass TT’s upload review.

• Wang Yi followed online arguments about the fitness trio’s video as commenters speculated about his Gulfstream G650 deal and an account claiming insider knowledge deleted itself.
• The fitness trio tried uploading a private clip showing Wang Yi’s face, discovered that TT’s automatic review blocked it, and decided not to test the restriction again.
• Wang Yi arrived at Shanghai University and reunited with Professor Zhang Yuan, who thanked him for his help in Beautiful Country and for providing useful data.
• Shanghai University’s leaders asked Wang Yi to coach their competition team, and he agreed before giving his public lecture on Artificial Intelligence algorithms.
• Companies and foreign teams crowded into the lecture, while international competitors replaced ordinary team leaders with prominent technical experts to attend.

Wang Yi gave a public lecture on Red Queen’s algorithms that impressed industry engineers and prompted companies to reconsider their AI strategies. He then met the student teams at Shanghai University to review their robotics projects before the competition, leaving them humbled by his achievements despite his modest college entrance exam score.

• Wang Yi demonstrated Red Queen and explained practical aspects of its algorithms during a lecture that ran over an hour as engineers asked questions.
• Google and Apple engineers discussed Red Queen’s advantage, with Google considering further AI investment and Apple leaning toward cooperation with Umbrella Corporation.
• Dean Su brought the four university teams and their advisors to a laboratory, where Wang Yi reviewed their robotics projects and suggested focusing on minor improvements before the competition.
• A Tsinghua student asked Wang Yi about his college entrance exam score, and Wang Yi recalled scoring around 680.
• The Jida University captain reminded the Tsinghua and Peking students that Wang Yi’s accomplishments and honorary professorship mattered more than academic credentials, embarrassing them.