Chapter Summaries

After Japan made concessions to Umbrella, Wang Yi discovered an underwater team trying to reach his beach and let Enzo eliminate them. The attackers’ allies later discussed the failed operation and feared Umbrella’s advanced technology, while Wang Yi prepared to visit Japan and South Korea.

• Japanese companies reopened business with Umbrella as Japan tried to preserve its automobile industry, and Wang Yi noted that South Korea might follow suit.
• Wang Yi spotted divers approaching his private beach and went toward the rocks, where he let Enzo dive into the water.
• Enzo dragged the underwater operatives into the sea and returned to Wang Yi with a fish, showing that he could restrain his destructive urges.
• The attackers’ allies debated the failed operation, Japan’s defection, and the possibility that Umbrella’s electromagnetic weapons relied on superconductors or exceptionally powerful batteries.
• Wang Yi planned to visit Japan and South Korea after finishing his lectures.

Cheng Xue assassinated the conspirators in Paris, while Wang Yi revealed that the alien remains could be sending signals across space and warned that Earth might have been detected. As Umbrella prepared to expand into space, Masra planned to fill low-Earth orbit with Starlink satellites before Umbrella could launch its own.

• Cheng Xue used an Electromagnetic gun to kill the conspirators in Paris, then escaped after Lin Shiqin told her the attack was retaliation for an attempted kidnapping of Boss.
• Gaul authorities blamed the Paris deaths on meteorite debris, but a sightseeing couple released clear footage of the scene after returning home.
• At a lecture, Wang Yi said the alien organism's remains retained activity and emitted faint signals, so another creature of its kind might already have detected Earth.
• Wang Yi reassured the audience that an alien fleet was unlikely to arrive soon and used the revelation to prepare people for Umbrella's future expansion into space.
• At NASA, Professor William supported Wang Yi's assessment, while Masra reported that reusable rocket tests were nearing success.
• Masra warned that Umbrella might be developing reusable rockets and resolved to fill low-Earth orbit with Starlink satellites before it could catch up.

Wang Yi returned to Japan and visited Inaichi Shrine with Gu Qianqian, where Tamamo-no-Mae blessed believers and learned that one man’s hot spring inn had caused a public health scandal. Enzo detected a faint Abyssal aura on the man, prompting Wang Yi to suspect a trace K-virus infection as the chapter ended with him considering how Japan might respond to a wider outbreak.

• Wang Yi arrived in Tokyo with Enzo and met Gu Qianqian, who described her efforts to capture Resentful Spirits and brought him to Inaichi Shrine.
• Wang Yi and Gu Qianqian found believers waiting outside the shrine, where Yura announced Tamamo-no-Mae’s chosen visitors and welcomed Wang Yi.
• Tamamo-no-Mae blessed two visitors and listened as Yamada Shinichi explained that his family’s hot spring inn was facing ruin after its failure to change the water was exposed.
• Enzo sensed a faint Abyssal aura on Yamada, and Wang Yi questioned him about the inn’s hot springs before Tamamo-no-Mae calmed him and sent him home.
• Wang Yi considered whether Yamada carried a small, dormant K-virus infection and speculated that a Japanese outbreak could benefit Umbrella.
• Gu Qianqian enjoyed Youji’s cooking at Inaichi Shrine, while Wang Yi noted that Youji had developed spiritual sight through meditation and his support.

Wang Yi rejected two arrogant FBI agents who came to the shrine, and a snake bite killed them after their threats were recorded and posted online. As the footage ignited public anger in Japan, the FBI planned to arrest Wang Yi and capture him for the organization.

• Gu Qianqian left for class, while Youji sent Yura out to buy ingredients and then served Wang Yi at the shrine.
• Youji told Wang Yi that the Grand Shrine had asked her and Yura to join a gathering of onmyodo Masters, and that it had repeatedly asked about him.
• An elderly Grand Shrine priest brought two FBI agents to meet Wang Yi, but Little Black ogled Youji and insulted Wang Yi, who ordered them to leave.
• The agents refused to go, threatened Wang Yi with a gun, and tried to seize his Holographic Bracelet after he recorded their remarks; a snake bit both men, and a Samoyed knocked them down.
• Wang Yi uploaded footage of the confrontation, prompting widespread condemnation in Japan, while the elderly priest warned him that the incident could bring trouble.
• FBI agents in Tokyo decided to arrest Wang Yi, and a Japanese American agent who belonged to the organization sought to capture him for his extraordinary abilities.

Wang Yi and Umbrella exposed Beautiful Country’s attempt to seize people at Inaichi Shrine, provoking protests in Japan and international condemnation. The chapter ended with Beautiful Country offering compensation and an apology to contain the backlash while leaving its troops stationed in Japan.

• Lin Shiqin used personalized videos to intensify Japanese anger, and Gu Qianqian joined students protesting outside the Beautiful Country Embassy.
• A snake killed FBI agents in an alley, while Wang Yi arranged a wired livestream from Inaichi Shrine as Marines flew toward it.
• The Marines arrived at the shrine, where Cheng Xue confronted them; snakes incapacitated the squad, and a spirit caused their helicopter to crash into an apartment building.
• Gu Qianqian showed the livestream to protesters, who surged into the embassy grounds, where a Marine opened fire and wounded and killed Japanese students.
• Kangaroo, Gaul, and international media condemned Beautiful Country, which apologized for the shooting and offered compensation to the victims’ families.

Wang Yi and Gu Qianqian discovered that researchers were using experimental equipment to track Resentful Spirits and planned to investigate their methods. After the researchers captured K-virus hosts infused with spiritual entities, their team followed a strong signal into Mihua Park, where Wang Yi learned a dangerous spirit had already been active.

• Two Tokyo University students mourned their classmate and despaired over Japan’s inability to resist the Beautiful Country’s influence.
• A Resentful Spirit warned Gu Qianqian and Wang Yi that researchers with spirit-detecting instruments had searched nearby, so Wang Yi contracted the spirits and examined the images they had recorded.
• Researchers at an abandoned residence detected a powerful Resentful Spirit and called for reinforcements and a Type Two catcher.
• A project leader learned that researchers had become ill after earlier spirit encounters and examined K-virus hosts whose brains had been taken over by new consciousnesses formed from the virus and spiritual entities.
• The research team followed a strong signal into Mihua Park, and Wang Yi learned from Gu Qianqian that a vicious Resentful Spirit there had escaped after she wounded it.

Wang Yi subdued two Resentful Spirits, Xiong Er and Ling Mei, and learned that their deaths and resentment stemmed from a malfunctioning transparent public restroom. After they attacked a reinforcement squad, he studied the researchers’ equipment and accepted a visit from Lucia, whose organization began reconsidering how to deal with him.

• Two Resentful Spirits possessed researchers and chased the remaining researcher and two Onmyoji through the park after the researchers dismissed the danger and one stabbed his colleague with a syringe.
• Wang Yi arrived, calmed the scene, seized both spirits, and bound them by contract; they revealed that Xiong Er and Ling Mei had become resentful after dying in a transparent restroom malfunction exposed them to public view.
• Wang Yi let Xiong Er and Ling Mei attack the arriving reinforcements, whose soldiers killed one another amid spirit-induced illusions, and then collected the abandoned equipment.
• Wang Yi dismantled and studied the equipment before Youji told him that the Imperial Shrine had arranged a visit from people seeking to apologize and offer compensation.
• Lucia apologized on behalf of her company and asked to redeem the equipment; Wang Yi returned it and asked only that they stop bothering him.
• After hearing that Wang Yi had returned the equipment and reviewing the squad’s deaths, the laboratory director ordered hostile actions canceled and urged the organization to recruit or cooperate with him.

Wang Yi learned that the Indian scholar’s room-temperature superconductivity claim was fraudulent, while Umbrella used the attention to promote its carbon fiber and recruit researchers. As Wang Yi let the organization believe he opposed Umbrella, its leaders prepared an infected outbreak in Japan, which began spreading from Kyushu.

• An Indian scholar announced a room-temperature superconductor, and Umbrella used the ensuing attention to promote its high-strength carbon fiber and invite researchers to cooperate.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that tests showed the scholar’s superconductivity claim was likely fabricated, and Wang Yi decided Umbrella would keep its own material announcement in place.
• Wang Yi told Lucia that he disliked Umbrella’s efforts to turn supernatural abilities into technology, leading her to believe he shared the organization’s goals.
• The organization’s laboratory head planned to let an outbreak endanger Wang Yi so the organization could rescue him, and he also ordered infections to spread through Japan.
• Yamada Shinichi at a Fukuoka hot spring inn developed signs of infection and attacked a cashier, as outbreaks spread from Kyushu and appeared elsewhere.

A zombie outbreak traced to Fukuoka’s century-old brine spread through Japan and overseas, with China containing infections quickly while the Beautiful Country concealed the danger and suffered widespread chaos. Japan struggled to contain a massive outbreak in Akihabara, and its defense minister left the chapter begging the Beautiful Country for help after its representative demanded an apology and compensation.

• A masked streamer in the Little Broken Station livestream began showing signs of zombie infection after visiting Fukuoka, attacked his father, and prompted an emergency alert for travelers to Japan.
• The K virus spread from Fukuoka, and China rapidly mobilized to contain scattered infections while news and warnings circulated through TT.
• In Philadelphia, infected people attacked others in a neighborhood where onlookers initially dismissed the violence as ordinary drug-related disorder.
• The Beautiful Country delayed revealing its outbreaks while officials and investors profited, and the infection later became public as zombies overwhelmed residents and cities.
• Japanese agents trapped survivors leaving an Akihabara anime convention and opened fire on people trying to escape, then faced a mass of infected without the promised Beautiful Country soldiers.
• The Japanese defense minister apologized to the Beautiful Country representative and offered compensation, and the representative said he would seek approval to deploy help.

Wang Yi let Lucia’s team approach Inaichi Shrine while Umbrella negotiated Japan’s authorization to contain the zombie outbreaks and investigate their source. At Tokyo University, Gu Qianqian and Yoko sheltered with other students as an Umbrella cleanup announcement offered them hope, though Teacher Yutaro doubted the company could rescue them.

• Wang Yi told Lucia he was safe at Inaichi Shrine and agreed to let her small team come, while zombies overwhelmed areas across Japan and the Beautiful Country demanded compensation.
• Cheng Xue told Japanese representatives that Umbrella could investigate the deliberate virus release, and Japan authorized Umbrella’s armed forces in exchange for help containing the infection.
• Lucia’s helicopter team saw zombies surrounding Inaichi Shrine but none crossing its torii gate, where Wang Yi and others were grilling barbecue.
• At Tokyo University, Gu Qianqian sheltered with Yoko and other students in a barricaded lecture hall while four Resentful Spirits stayed nearby.
• Yoko showed the students the Beautiful Country’s condemnation of Japan, and Teacher Yutaro urged them to apologize and offer compensation before someone kicked him down.
• Umbrella announced that it had been authorized to carry out cleanup operations, exciting the students, while Yutaro questioned whether Umbrella could rescue them.

As Beautiful Country condemned Japan and prepared to seize its assets, Umbrella sent ten aircraft to begin a cleanup mission despite Beautiful Country's objections. Umbrella's network-linked Hive drones then swept through Tokyo University, demonstrating an automated rescue operation that left survivors stunned.

• Beautiful Country condemned Japan, threatened to claim its overseas assets, and initially objected when Umbrella announced it would intervene at Japan's invitation.
• Umbrella deployed ten black 747s, prompting the Beautiful Country fleet to leave Yokosuka and the Beautiful Country spokesperson to acknowledge Umbrella's cleanup mission.
• Xiong Tai heard Umbrella's aircraft overhead and watched them drop crates that transformed into signal towers, while survivors wondered what the crates were for.
• At Tokyo University, Professor Yutaro dismissed the crates as useless until Umbrella connected the local network to Red Queen and released swarms of Hive drones.
• The drones identified zombies and survivors, cleared Tokyo University's campus in a minute, and flew into nearby buildings to continue the cleanup.

Umbrella’s AI-directed Hive drones rapidly cleared Japan’s infected zones, while the Beautiful Country pushed ahead with compensation demands and other powers sought ways to counter or acquire the technology. Wang Yi hinted to Lucia that he could influence infected creatures, and Masra announced a reusable-rocket-backed Starlink satellite network as Bai Bing watched.

• Yuta called for help from his apartment, and a Hive drone responded, helped him open his door, and cleared the zombies in his hallway.
• Umbrella’s drones swept through Japan, astonishing observers and prompting the Beautiful Country, the Organization, and weapons researchers to assess the threat and consider countermeasures.
• The Beautiful Country’s House of Representatives passed the Japan Compensation Act, enraging Japanese survivors as the West prepared to pursue Japan’s overseas assets.
• At Inaichi Shrine, Wang Yi hinted to Lucia that the people behind the K virus might know how it had been made, and Lucia suspected he could influence the infected.
• Bai Bing asked her AI butler for news, then watched Masra announce successful reusable-rocket tests and a planned Starlink network of directly connected satellites.

The Falcon Rocket’s reusable launch of thirty satellites fueled praise for SX Company and alarmed Umbrella, which lacked its own satellite network. After SX Company invited Umbrella to negotiate launch cooperation, Umbrella congratulated it and announced an application for twenty thousand low-Earth orbital slots.

• Bai Bing and online commenters praised SX Company’s Falcon Rocket, while science bloggers explained the importance of its reusable design and satellite laser links.
• Google, SX Company, Microsoft, Intel, and Apple praised Wang Yi’s influence on satellite communication technology, and Wang Yi’s account confirmed Umbrella had satellite plans of its own.
• NASA leaders watched Penglai’s construction, concluded Umbrella was preparing a satellite network, and accelerated plans to occupy orbital slots before it could launch.
• Umbrella condemned the concentration of orbital resources, while Beautiful Country defended its first-come, first-served approach and SX Company prepared to launch thirty satellites.
• Masra launched the Falcon Rocket, recovered its booster, and confirmed all thirty satellites had entered their designated orbits.
• Umbrella congratulated SX Company and announced that it would apply for twenty thousand low-Earth orbital slots.

The Beautiful Country weighed Umbrella’s announcement that it would apply for orbital slots for twenty thousand satellites, while public debate swirled over whether Umbrella had reusable rocket technology. As crowds and reporters gathered near Penglai for Umbrella’s launch, a powerful flash of electricity ended the chapter with a projectile blasting skyward.

• The Beautiful Country’s officials and advisers discussed whether Umbrella could launch rockets, then planned to delay space regulations while preparing to speed up SX Company’s launches.
• The Beautiful Country’s spokesperson supported talks on new space rules, but its satellite forced an Umbrella-leased communications satellite to change orbit, provoking public accusations of hypocrisy.
• Umbrella responded calmly to the satellite incident and announced a launch for noon the next day, drawing worldwide attention and ships toward Penglai.
• A CNN reporter broadcast from a cruise ship near Penglai, criticizing Umbrella’s plans as viewers debated SX Company’s successful launch of fifty satellites.
• Chen Feng watched the livestream as a covered structure on Penglai was uncovered; at the announced launch time, it flashed with electricity and fired a streak of light into the sky.

Umbrella demonstrated that its mass driver could launch satellites into orbit every two minutes, stunning rival space agencies and prompting Beautiful Country to seek international restrictions. At negotiations, Li Yao refused to accept limits on Umbrella’s future satellite allocation, leaving the parties to continue discussing how orbital resources should be divided.

• Umbrella announced that its test satellite had entered orbit, then began launching satellites with its mass driver every two minutes using power from a controllable fusion reactor.
• Umbrella destroyed a Beautiful Country satellite and described the collision as an accident, while Beautiful Country demanded compensation and asked Umbrella to slow its launches.
• Umbrella continued launching satellites and sent Li Yao to join Beautiful Country, Rabbit Country, Bear Country, Europe, and SX Company in discussions about space rules.
• Beautiful Country and a European Aviation Safety Agency representative proposed restrictions on mass drivers and satellite allocation, but Li Yao challenged them by pointing out that Umbrella could shoot down satellites.
• Beautiful Country accepted Umbrella’s stated target of twenty thousand satellites and proposed dividing the remaining orbital resources, but Li Yao insisted that any later agreement would also govern Umbrella’s allocation.
• Beautiful Country’s representative agreed to discuss how orbital resources should be divided after failing to stop Umbrella’s launches or secure a limit on its future share.

Umbrella’s satellite launches and a Tracker’s dramatic rescue revealed how its expanding space network could support global communications and emergency assistance. Wang Yi learned that the satellites were performing as calculated, completing the initial infrastructure for his Magic Power network.

• Umbrella’s twenty thousand satellite launches prompted a joint aerospace declaration that recognized its interests and set future launch rules.
• Robin’s Tracker automatically reversed away from a dump truck crash, and the rescue video went viral; Yang Feng watched it and wondered if a Tracker could have prevented his own disability.
• Umbrella clarified that the Tracker’s maneuver was assisted driving, while users discovered its satellite data connection helped power the system.
• Researchers in Beautiful Country detected signals from cultivated alien biological material and worried about its risks, but their superiors ordered it moved to a better-equipped laboratory.
• Wang Yi surveyed Japan’s recovery as Lin Shiqin reported that the satellites met expectations, enabling broad Magic Power signal coverage and remote control of summoned creatures.

Wang Yi collected spirits and soul fragments while Japan struggled with the aftermath of the zombie disaster and the return of the Beautiful Country's soldiers. At a bar, manager Nanako fought back against soldiers who harassed her, and Yoko and Gu Qianqian arrived as the employees were being beaten.

• Wang Yi accepted the organization's location data, advised them about the Magic-Eating Beast flesh, and memorized dozens of spirit sites.
• Wang Yi traveled through Shibuya, collected six Resentful Spirits, and discussed the disaster's man-made origins with a Japanese Onmyoji.
• Beautiful Country soldiers returned to Yokosuka and drove through devastated streets, dismissing the suffering around them as they searched for a bar.
• Nanako told the soldiers her bar was closed, but they pushed inside and the Black soldier grabbed her.
• Nanako kicked the Black soldier in the groin and struck him with a bottle before the other soldiers restrained her and attacked the staff.
• Yoko and Gu Qianqian arrived outside the bar, and Yoko began recording as Gu Qianqian prepared to fight.

Umbrella drones intervened after Beautiful Country soldiers attacked staff at a Japanese bar, forcing the soldiers through a humiliating infection screening and escorting them to local agents. As the footage spread online, the Beautiful Country prepared a hearing to demand compensation from Japan, while Wang Yi flew to New York under a new identity.

• Yoko recorded the confrontation as Little John showed footage of the bar fight and argued that the soldiers had acted in self-defense.
• Gu Qianqian called for help, and Umbrella patrol drones arrived, disarmed the soldiers, and ordered them to remove their clothes for infection screening.
• The drones questioned and screened the four soldiers, then escorted them to a Japanese security office after they admitted to harassing and assaulting people at the bar.
• Videos of the incident spread online, and the Beautiful Country Defense Department discussed Umbrella's drone patrols and the risk of Japan cooperating more closely with Umbrella.
• The Beautiful Country held a livestreamed hearing where Watanabe was pressed to answer yes or no and told Japan owed compensation for the worldwide outbreak.
• Wang Yi, under a new identity, flew to New York and read a magazine aboard a passenger plane.

Wang Yi arrived in New York as Umbrella instructor Carter to signal support for Japan, then located a secret laboratory cloning Abyssal creatures and strengthened its coordinates. As researchers struggled with strange signals from the experiments, Wang Yi left the lab untouched, expecting its human trials to bring disaster while Enzo prepared to capture the coordinates.

• Wang Yi arrived in New York as Carter, confronted a Fobol agent, and made clear that Umbrella backed Japan.
• Yin Sheng drove Wang Yi to the Waldorf Hotel while boasting about his past and blaming his troubles on his birthplace; after Wang Yi left, Yin Sheng collapsed and was taken to a hospital.
• Wang Yi checked into a presidential suite, used Distortion to conceal himself, and traced a transport route to the secret laboratory beneath Ethan Clinic.
• Wang Yi crushed a Void Crystal above the clinic, strengthening the coordinates linked to the abyss and the future arrival from the Starry Sky.
• Researchers at the laboratory detected rising, abnormal signals from cloned Abyssal flesh and increased their containment precautions.
• Wang Yi bought Jianbing Guozi outside the clinic, advised a young vendor to return home sooner, and left the laboratory's experiments to run their course.

Wang Yi attended the third hearing and presented Umbrella’s evidence that Japan’s outbreak involved two distinct K virus strains, suggesting another force had released one of them. His evidence challenged the claim that Japan alone was responsible, leaving the Beautiful Country to decide how to respond.

• Fobol agents and a separate organization monitored Wang Yi near Ethan Clinic, while he strengthened the Abyss Crystal’s location marker and warned the hotel to stop the surveillance.
• The hotel informed Wang Yi that a third hearing would include an evidence presentation, and Lin Shiqin confirmed Japan had asked Umbrella to testify.
• Fox tried to approach Wang Yi outside the hearing, but Wang Yi warned him not to speak nonsense and threatened to kill him.
• Wang Yi arrived at the hearing, where Japan’s representative welcomed him and the assembled attendees focused their attention on him.
• Wang Yi presented infection maps and virus data showing that the outbreak included K virus Alpha strains 1.1 and 1.7, then offered video records and frozen samples for international inspection.