Chapter Summaries

Gu Qianqian learned that her neighbor Mori Ryuichi had been murdered by the escaped serial killer and returned to the apartment building with Yuriko. She found Mori Ryuichi’s spirit still clinging to the scene and brought him into her room, where he remained tied up as a Resentful Spirit.

• Gu Qianqian received a call from an investigator informing her that the serial killer had escaped and killed Mori Ryuichi.
• Gu Qianqian and Yuriko returned to the apartment building, where investigators were examining the scene and questioning the three people who had found the body.
• Gu Qianqian saw Mori Ryuichi’s spirit attacking evidence technicians and used a magical rope to drag him away from the sunlit corridor into her room.
• An investigator warned Gu Qianqian to stay home while police guarded the building, and Gu Qianqian agreed.
• Gu Qianqian looked at the bound Mori Ryuichi and wondered whether his murder had left him fortunate or unfortunate, since his obsession had made him a Resentful Spirit.

Gu Qianqian learned that Mori Ryuichi had died before he could meet his idol or finish filming, while Yamada was taken to a secret laboratory to resume serving as an experimental subject. The organization planned to study his enhanced abilities and refine its methods for producing stronger soldiers.

• Mori Ryuichi begged Gu Qianqian to burn his collection, then mourned that he had died before filming an appreciation festival and meeting his idol.
• Gu Qianqian said she had already passed Tokyo University's independent admissions assessment and recognized that an actress she had seen earlier filmed adult material.
• A lawyer berated Yamada for botching the scene and wasting the organization's resources, while Yamada blamed Mori Ryuichi's strength and resistance.
• The lawyer drove Yamada to a concealed laboratory beneath a parking garage, using several button sequences to access it.
• A researcher said Yamada needed a full-body examination and explained that the lab was studying hormone treatments to make enhanced soldiers more controllable and easier to mass-produce.

Wang Yi learned that Dark, an assassin organization under the Japan branch of a powerful organization, had marked a Gold Medalist assassin for elimination after he sought to retire. He decided to meet the assassin and let the conflict help expose the organization’s secrets.

• Wang Yi arrived in Tokyo, where Xiuming told him they had found a biological laboratory in a Mitsubishi Electric office building conducting experiments on mutated K virus subjects.
• Lin Shiqin advised Wang Yi not to expose the laboratory directly and revealed that Dark, an assassin organization, operated under the Japan branch.
• Lin Shiqin explained that Dark planned to eliminate a retired Gold Medalist assassin who knew sensitive information and wanted to travel the world.
• Lin Shiqin traced Dark’s outsourced assassination contract to four assassins from Jiaozhi known as Annam F4, who had completed 473 jobs without a failure.
• Wang Yi asked Lin Shiqin to send him the Gold Medalist assassin’s information so he could meet him.

Wang Yi approached retired Gold Medalist Sakaguchi Taku and persuaded him that Dark might target him through Annam F4. Sakaguchi agreed to work with Wang Yi, leaving the story with a plan for him to turn against Dark and sabotage its locations.

• Sakaguchi Taku tried to adjust to retirement by visiting a public bathhouse, where Wang Yi sat down beside him.
• Wang Yi mentioned Annam F4, prompting Sakaguchi Taku to consider that Dark might have hired them to kill him.
• Sakaguchi Taku took Wang Yi to a sauna and asked whether he was an enemy of Dark and what he wanted.
• Wang Yi offered intelligence and possible force support in exchange for Sakaguchi Taku openly breaking with Dark and sabotaging its designated locations.

Sakaguchi Taku returned to Dark and killed its Boss before leaving the company without raising suspicion. Meanwhile, Wang Yi recruited the Annam F4 to target the man identified as a traitor and gave them Sakaguchi Taku’s contact information.

• Ruan Da led the Annam F4 from the airport to their hotel while a disguised observer watched them leave.
• Sakaguchi Taku visited Dark’s office, passed its security inspection, and met with the Boss.
• Sakaguchi Taku killed the Boss with the pen he had received as a retirement gift, then dealt with the bodyguards.
• Sakaguchi Taku left Dark’s office and drove away as the employees wished him well.
• Wang Yi gave the Annam F4 money, target information, and a phone containing Sakaguchi Taku’s number, and instructed them to cut off outside contact.
• Ruan Da and his brothers asked for extra phones and wristbands, which Wang Yi provided.

After defecting, Sakaguchi Taku fought off assassins sent after him while Umbrella guided his movements and Annam F4 attacked the organization’s Japan branch. As Sakaguchi approached a suspected key location, Umbrella told him help had arrived, and he found a smiling Samoyed in the alley.

• Dark placed a one-hundred-million-dollar bounty on Sakaguchi Taku, sending assassins across Tokyo to hunt him down.
• Following Umbrella’s precise intelligence, Sakaguchi Taku killed three assassins in Shibuya and gave Annam F4 the signal to begin their mission.
• Annam F4 followed a target in Arakawa District and shot everyone inside his car at a red light.
• Sakaguchi Taku and Annam F4 attacked the organization’s Japan branch on multiple fronts, prompting it to shift its focus toward Arakawa District.
• Sakaguchi Taku followed clues toward the organization’s suspected laboratory in the Bay Area and recorded videos for a future release.
• When Sakaguchi Taku asked Umbrella for help near the Mitsubishi Electric office building, it told him to look down, where he saw a Samoyed.

Sakaguchi Taku sabotaged the power systems and infected the facility’s computer network, plunging the laboratory into chaos. As containment failed and test subjects began attacking staff, Yamada and Ito Chiyo barricaded themselves inside a room.

• Tamamo-no-Mae gave Sakaguchi Taku equipment and instructions to disrupt the facility’s power and security systems.
• Sakaguchi Taku triggered an explosion at the substation, killed two guards, and destroyed the office building’s generators.
• Sakaguchi Taku attached a device to an elevator camera’s data cable as his computer virus invaded the facility’s systems.
• Yamada’s treatment with Anxon eased his destructive urges while researcher Ito Chiyo monitored him.
• The power failure and computer virus caused the laboratory’s doors and systems to malfunction, allowing test subjects to escape and attack staff.
• Yamada and Ito Chiyo piled equipment against their room’s malfunctioning doorway as screams and gunfire spread through the laboratory.

Sakaguchi Taku escaped the organization’s stronghold and exposed its crimes in a viral video, but the footage also revealed a fast-moving zombie outbreak in Tokyo. As Japan officials resigned over the response, the outbreak’s containment remained uncertain.

• Lin Shiqin warned Sakaguchi Taku to flee, and he escaped infected attackers by barricading a fire door with a fire axe.
• Lin Shiqin told Sakaguchi Taku to post his recordings and fake his death, and he embraced the chance to take revenge on the organization.
• Sakaguchi Taku posted a video detailing his past and the organization’s stronghold, buying over ten million US Dollars in traffic to spread it widely.
• Viewers saw infected burst into the street and attack bystanders, triggering panic as people realized the Tokyo outbreak was fast and dangerous.
• Japan officials responsible for the rapid response bowed and resigned as questions mounted over whether Tokyo could contain the outbreak.

As the zombie outbreak plunged Tokyo into chaos, Japan bombed roads and mobilized forces while appealing to the United States for help. Sakaguchi Taku fled toward Tokyo Bay with Tamamo-no-Mae, whose attack changed his face, and ended up facing two other survivors beside a lit bank.

• Tokyo residents panicked and clogged the streets as the outbreak spread through the Bay Area, while people posted videos of the destruction online.
• Japan bombed roads around the Bay Area, ordered residents to shelter indoors, and mobilized police and military forces as it sought help from the United States.
• Sakaguchi Taku abandoned his phone beside a corpse, followed Tamamo-no-Mae, and stole a motorcycle to escape toward Tokyo Bay.
• When traffic wreckage blocked their route, Tamamo-no-Mae struck Sakaguchi Taku's face, transforming his appearance and helping disguise him.
• Yamada and Ito Chiyo arrived on a motorcycle and asked Sakaguchi Taku what to do as the monsters approached; he pointed toward a bank that still had power.

As a zombie outbreak erupted in Tokyo, Wang Yi watched the city descend into chaos and learned that Lin Shiqin had found a promising researcher among the people involved in the virus experiments. Meanwhile, Yamada led survivors sheltering in a bank, where his brutal decisions kept them behind cover as infected attacked people outside.

• Gu Qianqian panicked over the news, and Wang Yi told her to stay indoors while the Beautiful Country's forces arrived in Tokyo Bay.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that she had found Sakaguchi Taku, Yamada, and a talented researcher, prompting Wang Yi to head down from Tokyo Tower to meet them.
• Yamada forced a security guard to close the bank entrance and threw a woman outside when she argued that people fleeing the infected should be let in.
• Sakaguchi Taku noticed Yamada's unusual strength and signs of training, but helped him barricade the entrance.
• When infected attacked survivors outside the bank, Yamada ordered everyone behind the teller counter and beat a woman who screamed.
• The infected eventually left the bank entrance and began attacking nearby buildings as the survivors watched in terror.

Wang Yi arrived at a Tokyo bank amid the outbreak as Beautiful Country’s Marines began responding to the crisis. He rescued the people inside from infected attackers and entered the bank, where Sakaguchi Taku recognized his overwhelming strength.

• Wang Yi and Lin Shiqin discussed the outbreak’s spread, the Marines’ response, and the global economic fallout as Wang Yi approached the bank.
• Ito Chiyo and Yamada hid inside the bank with Sakaguchi Taku, who recognized Wang Yi from the bathhouse and learned that he had come for Ito Chiyo, an outstanding researcher.
• Sakaguchi Taku opened the bank door despite Yamada’s protest, then restrained Yamada with fishing line as infected rushed toward them.
• Wang Yi killed three infected with a baseball bat and a kick, entered the bank, and closed the door.
• Sakaguchi Taku released Yamada and apologized as he realized Wang Yi’s strength demonstrated Umbrella’s frightening biological enhancement technology.

Wang Yi’s group met Ito Chiyo and Yamada in a bank as Beautiful Country Marines swept through Tokyo’s Bay Area, killing infected and ordering civilians to remain indoors. The Marines reached the bank and told its staff to shelter another group of survivors.

• Wang Yi recruited Ito Chiyo to work elsewhere, and Ito agreed because he believed the organization had sent people to retrieve the researchers.
• Yamada recovered from Sakaguchi Taku’s restraint and accepted the group as friendly, while other survivors stayed hidden behind the counter.
• A Marine tactical squad advanced through the streets, using coordinated gunfire to kill infected and loudspeakers to warn civilians to stay inside.
• Wang Yi assessed the Marines’ training and the scale of the Beautiful Country military deployment as the squad approached the bank.
• A Marine ordered the bank staff to open the door and make room for survivors rescued along the way, and an employee hurried to obey.

Wang Yi led his companions out of the bank and used his powers to fight through infected in a high-rise before summoning a Bone Dragon to carry them out of Tokyo’s Bay Area. As Beautiful Country reinforcements parachuted into the city, the group flew toward brightly lit Chuo Ward.

• A group of bedraggled survivors entered the bank, and Wang Yi warned that some might be carrying latent infection before leaving with Sakaguchi Taku, Ito Chiyo, Yamada, and Tamamo-no-Mae.
• Wang Yi led the group through a high-rise stairwell, where he crushed three mutated infected against a wall with a Distortion air-field.
• Wang Yi revealed a Bone Dragon on the rooftop and used Distortion to conceal the group as they climbed aboard.
• The Bone Dragon carried Wang Yi and his companions beyond the Bay Area while gunfire and darkness filled the streets below.
• A Globemaster C17 and the 82nd Airborne Division arrived over Tokyo, and Wang Yi flew toward brightly lit Chuo Ward.

Wang Yi arranged for Mori Ryuichi to possess Yamada and recruited Ito Chiyo and Sakaguchi Taku to work for him. Meanwhile, the Tokyo Bay Area outbreak caused tens of thousands of casualties and shocked the world with footage showing how easily an outbreak could reach ordinary people.

• Yamada pledged himself to Wang Yi, while Ito Chiyo and Sakaguchi Taku struggled to process what had happened.
• Gu Qianqian and Mori Ryuichi arrived, and Wang Yi used Spirit Sight to let Yamada see Mori.
• Wang Yi empowered Mori and made Yamada his vessel, allowing Mori to possess the man who had killed him.
• Ito Chiyo begged for his life, but Wang Yi told him to continue his research, then Sakaguchi Taku agreed to work for them.
• The Tokyo Bay Area outbreak killed tens of thousands and left 463 Beautiful Country garrison troops dead during containment and cleanup.
• Survivor footage spread worldwide and made people realize that a zombie outbreak could affect ordinary people anywhere.

Wang Yi discussed turning the Tokyo outbreak into a film as the disaster’s fallout shifted toward global financial and political upheaval. Mitsubishi Group and Kawasaki Heavy Industries faced being dismantled, while Japan sought to retain their military-industrial assets and Umbrella moved to buy them.

• Wang Yi told Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke that he planned to buy the story of Tokyo and have World make a film about it.
• Global attention and leaked claims tied the organization behind the outbreak to Mitsubishi and Kawasaki, making the conglomerates targets for punishment and seizure.
• Authorities moved to blame Mitsubishi Electric and the Mitsubishi financial conglomerate, while Kawasaki Heavy Industries was also exposed as a target for dismantling.
• Beautiful Country’s House of Representatives proposed sanctions and compensation, while Japan reluctantly negotiated for looser military restrictions.
• Japan tried to retain Mitsubishi’s and Kawasaki’s military-industrial assets, and Umbrella used its shipbuilding contracts to press for a chance to buy them.

Wang Yi returned to public view, reviewed World Company’s growth and approved a major fund for young directors. While vacationing in Qiongzhou, he received Li Hao’s invitation to a Hong Kong cruise and learned that Beautiful Country was again pressuring Umbrella to open access to its culture medium.

• Qian Yayan told Wang Yi that TT and Kangaroo Takeout had attracted different kinds of riders, whose contrasting conduct was drawing online comparisons.
• Qian Yayan presented Ning Mu’s proposal for a fund to support young directors, and Wang Yi raised its annual budget from thirty million to three hundred million.
• Qian Yayan told Wang Yi that Chen Mi had joined the company and wanted to give him a private work report.
• Wang Yi vacationed in Qiongzhou and accepted Li Hao’s invitation to a cruise featuring Hong Kong stars.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Beautiful Country was using the Tokyo incident to pressure Umbrella to reopen access to its K virus culture medium.

Umbrella turned calls to reveal its culture medium into a demand that pharmaceutical companies abandon all patents and disclose their processes, then released its hepatitis B immunoglobulin techniques as proof of sincerity. The major drug companies backed down and argued that making the K-virus culture medium public would risk creating infections, while online defenders of the companies were mocked for their reversal.

• Beautiful Country’s spokesperson blamed Umbrella for soldiers’ deaths and called for its life-saving culture medium to be made public.
• Umbrella answered that it would disclose the culture medium only if pharmaceutical companies opened all their patents and production processes, and it published figures on deaths linked to unaffordable medicines.
• Umbrella released its hepatitis B immunoglobulin patents and production techniques, even though it had already discontinued the medicine after widespread use had nearly eradicated hepatitis B.
• Major pharmaceutical companies published research claiming that producing K-virus immunoglobulin was too difficult and risky, then supported Umbrella against government interference.
• Beautiful Country fanboys continued defending the pharmaceutical companies after their stance changed, and netizens mocked them for being contradicted.

Umbrella secured approval for its implantable artificial heart and kidney, while Wang Yi arrived in Hong Kong with Qian Yayan. The chapter ended with Li Hao and his wife welcoming them, and Qian Yayan viewing the Li Group with newfound confidence in World Company’s status.

• Umbrella used the uproar over pharmaceutical patents to pressure regulators, and its applications for artificial organs and lifted chip restrictions gained attention.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that approval had passed for Umbrella’s artificial heart and artificial kidney in both overseas and domestic markets.
• Wang Yi’s team had developed implantable, modular organs made from memory-alloy mesh, designed to expand inside patients and operate with rechargeable batteries.
• Wang Yi’s plane arrived at Hong Kong Airport, where Qian Yayan accompanied him while Liu Xiaoke went to join the film crew.
• Li Hao and his wife personally welcomed Wang Yi and Qian Yayan, and Qian Yayan felt satisfied by World Company’s standing relative to the Li Group.

Wang Yi met Li Hao in Hong Kong and offered to connect the Li family with Umbrella, which was seeking Hong Kong business partners. Li Hao recognized the opportunity and promised to consult his father, leaving the potential partnership awaiting the Lis’ response.

• Li Hao welcomed Wang Yi and reflected on how World Company’s growth had transformed his view of him.
• Wang Yi and Qian Yayan rode with Li Hao and his wife, while Mrs. Li chatted with Qian Yayan about her appearance.
• Wang Yi asked whether Li Hao was interested in connecting with Umbrella, prompting Li Hao to consider the company’s reach and the opportunity it represented.
• Li Hao said he needed his father’s approval and promised to give Wang Yi an answer that day.
• Wang Yi had offered the introduction to help Umbrella use Hong Kong capital to pursue sensitive Japanese assets amid the upheaval in Japan.

Li Group accepted Umbrella’s offer of regional agency rights, and Li Vida accompanied Wang Yi to a luxury cruise ship in Hong Kong. Wang Yi declined to attend the Turing Award ceremony abroad, while his research on computing models continued to develop.

• Li Group agreed to accept Umbrella’s offer of agency rights after receiving approval from its old family head.
• Li Vida was assigned to accompany Wang Yi, whose ties to the Li family gained importance.
• Li Vida drove Wang Yi and Qian Yayan to the docks and reminisced about meeting Wang Yi before his success.
• Qian Yayan asked whether Wang Yi would accept the Turing Award, and Wang Yi said he would skip the ceremony in the Beautiful Country.
• Wang Yi discussed his ongoing research on converting between quantum and classical computing before arriving at the Shangri-La cruise ship.
• Wang Yi asked Li Vida whether anything illegal was happening aboard, and Li Vida assured him that the ship’s activities were legal once it reached international waters.