Chapter Summaries

Gao Gong cooperated with Kermos to defeat the Black Bannerman, take control of her biological-computer abilities, and help the Electronic Leech complete its breakthrough. As Trilobite rallied the mixed-blood warriors to revive Kermos, Gao Gong completed a data connection inside the Eye of the Ocean and prepared to start it up.

• Kermos turned the Ocean Knights against their former allies, and they attacked the Knights and scientists around the submarine while the flesh-mechanical knights fought back.
• Gao Gong drained and replenished the Black Bannerman through Flesh Fusion and Reverse Symbiosis, taking her form and extracting her memories of the Knights' secret bases.
• Gao Gong received the Eradicate the Bases mission and used the Black Bannerman's biological-computer capabilities to locate the Knights' bases and contact the Little Woman.
• Gao Gong and the Little Woman combined their area networks to help Kermos complete its breakthrough, and the Electronic Leech gained a humanoid form resembling the Water Monkey Scientist.
• Ten days later, Trilobite lit the final Sacred Tree, rallied the mixed-blood warriors, and ordered them to set out to revive Kermos.
• Gao Gong sensed that the data connection was complete and said he would start it up.

Gao Gong and Little Woman transformed Kermos into a powerful large biological computer and completed their ocean-organ and biological-experiment missions, while Kermos agreed to help evolve the radiation beasts. As Gao Gong prepared to investigate the Knights' Order's ancient-lifeform plans and visit Bluewater Technology's ruins, the Skeleton Society began evaluating Dugo Technology and spotted its reverse-engineering of the Continental Plate Impactor.

• Gao Gong used Little Woman and the Brain in a Vat to modify the hybrid knights and their Cloudwing Beasts while biological lithography machines built Kermos into a large biological computer.
• The hybrids defeated the pureblood knights, and Gao Gong completed several missions, advanced his classes, and gained the knowledge Biological Code and Mutated Genome Cloud.
• Kermos emerged as an S-rank large biological computer with over forty million biological energy, agreed to help Little Woman transform radiation beasts, and invited Gao Gong to visit the ruins of Bluewater Technology.
• Gao Gong discovered a mission to bury ancient lifeform remains and learned that Banner Officers Empty, Fire, and Dark were jointly advancing the Knights' Order's revival plan.
• A bionic toy from Fairy-Tale Toy Paradise, Bandai, infiltrated Dugo Technology's island and began a remote Skeleton Society evaluation of its machines and research.
• The Skeleton Society's members mocked Dugo Technology's equipment and noticed that its researchers were dismantling and studying Mars Edge's Continental Plate Impactor.

The Skull and Bones Society investigated Du Gao Technology’s apparent copying of Mars Edge’s weapons and discovered that the company was building a Mechanical Hub and developing its own advanced industrial AI. After Director Du caught Bandai spying, Gao Yuanyuan and Bird of Paradise hacked the Society’s systems, leaving every member with a warning.

• Mars Edge acknowledged that Du Gao Technology had nearly copied the Continental Plate Impactor, prompting the Skull and Bones Society to investigate.
• Bandai possessed Dong Gang, a neurologist, and learned that Du Gao Technology was developing neural connections for mecha and openly supplying colonial insurgents.
• Bandai entered the undersea laboratory and saw a half-built Mechanical Hub before mechanical claw-men and web-spitting spider-people attacked him.
• Director Du’s industrial AI tracked Bandai across Fuqing Island, severing his connection, while Mars Edge concluded that Du Gao Technology had developed its AI independently.
• Gao Yuanyuan asked Bird of Paradise to act, and every member of the Skull and Bones Society received a warning that their systems had been hacked.

Gao Yuanyuan and Du Zhaodi uncovered the Skull Society’s connection to the Dark Kingdom and prepared to use former mechanical superminds to control the mechanical nexus. Meanwhile, the High Artificer explored Laboratory Three and discovered that Ruined Entity No. 3 was the Turing God.

• Gao Yuanyuan told Du Zhaodi that Heaven's Bird could not locate the hidden forces behind the companies, though she had traced them to the Dark Kingdom.
• Heaven's Bird identified the Dark Kingdom as the world’s largest brainware cracking center, and Du Zhaodi linked it to the Skull Society.
• Du Zhaodi asked Gao Yuanyuan to deliver a newly developed item to a hands-off shopkeeper, then took her to meet the Uncouncilor and Machine God about controlling the mechanical nexus.
• The High Artificer entered Laboratory Three with Kermos and examined old biological research data about digital immortality, the Super Lingua Franca, and Isaian.
• The High Artificer realized that Ruined Entity No. 3 was the Turing God.

Highsmith learned that Subject Three was an evolutionary program tied to the Turing God, then gained new professional knowledge and blueprints. The chapter ended when Heaven's Bird appeared and the rod-shaped entertainment device asked why it was there.

• Highsmith watched ancient records identifying Subject Three as an evolutionary program connected to Isaiah, Grayling Thought, and Worm.
• Highsmith realized Kelmos had likely gained intelligence and a worldview from remnants of the program.
• Kelmos helped Highsmith obtain the Tier-Two knowledge Information Frenzy and Turing Language, completing much of the Electronic Doctrine chain.
• Highsmith merged his Biologist and Radiation Masseuse knowledge into the Life Technology and Cybernetic Technology chains.
• Highsmith opened blueprints for Tier-One Mechanical Body and Exoskeleton Manufacturing Plants and a Tier-Two Laser Weapon Research and Development Center.
• Heaven's Bird appeared before Highsmith, and the rod-shaped entertainment device asked why it was there.

Gao Gong visited the Heart of the Ocean and agreed to let Kermos modify his body into a biological computer. The chapter ended with the Genetic Ecological Beast absorbing him and dividing his eight major body systems for modification.

• Paradise Bird showed Gao Gong what had happened on Fuqing Island and proposed retaliating against the Skull and Bones Society by targeting the Global Brainware Center.
• Paradise Bird returned to Gao Gong’s brain disk and put Ah Hong and Ai Duolu through rigorous training.
• Gao Gong infiltrated the Heart of the Ocean and examined the second-order Genetic Ecological Beast that Kermos and the Brain in a Vat had developed into a vast gene factory.
• Gao Gong realized that helping the Brain in a Vat enter the sea had made his conflict with the Knights' Order irreconcilable.
• Kermos’s tendrils drew Gao Gong into the Genetic Ecological Beast and divided his eight major body systems for modification into a biological computer.

High Engineer completed his transformation into a biological computer, gaining rapid autonomous body editing and enhanced energy conversion. As his expanded brain disk absorbed his companions, Bird of Paradise resisted while High Engineer analyzed her combat data.

• High Engineer and the Brain in a Vat used the Kermos Large Biological Computer to restructure his body’s eight systems.
• High Engineer recycled several obsolete bloodlines, completed his biological modifications, and gained Biological Computer mode and an Advanced Energy Symbiote bloodline.
• High Engineer’s brain disk expanded, and holographic displays began tracking his bodily functions and other data.
• A-Hong and Aiduo Lou were converted into small programs within High Engineer’s systems and explored their new surroundings.
• Bird of Paradise resisted the transformation as High Engineer displayed combat data analyzing and predicting her.

Qin Hu awoke in the body of an exiled marquis and realized powerful enemies had framed him and were trying to kill him in the army. Facing a freezing night on the frontier with his frail page Qin An, he decided to seek help from Centurion Li Xiaokun.

• Qin Hu remembered how Chen Ruoli had accused him of crimes, leading to his exile to the front lines after the supposed assault on Princess Chang'an.
• Qin Hu and Qin An went out to stand guard in a snowstorm, and the soldiers they relieved extinguished their warming fire before retreating to their tent.
• Qin Hu recognized that the camp's harsh treatment was meant to finish him off and vowed to survive and return to the capital to settle accounts.
• Qin Hu asked Qin An how much money they had, learned he carried only twenty taels of silver, and decided to use it to save Qin An by approaching Centurion Li Xiaokun.

Qin Hu awoke in the body of a disgraced young marquis exiled to the army, where powerful enemies had arranged for him to die. Facing a freezing night patrol with his frail page Qin An, he resolved to survive and considered approaching Centurion Li Xiaokun for help.

• Qin Hu woke in a military tent and learned he had transmigrated into the body of the Champion Marquis, who had been framed and exiled to the front lines.
• Qin Hu recalled how Chen Ruoli had impeached him, the court had sent him to Youzhou, and factions had reasons to covet his death and family wealth.
• Qin Hu and Qin An were forced to patrol in a violent snowstorm, while sentries extinguished their warming fire and left them exposed.
• Qin Hu realized the camp's soldiers were helping torment him and that Qin An might die if conditions continued.
• Qin Hu asked Qin An for their remaining money and decided to seek help from Centurion Li Xiaokun.

After transmigrating into the disgraced Champion Marquis Qin Hu, a modern soldier realized he had been framed and sent to the frontier, where the camp was trying to freeze him and his attendant Qin An to death. He decided to use Qin An’s remaining silver to bribe Centurion Li Xiaokun, the camp’s highest-ranking officer.

• Qin Hu woke in a military camp as the young marquis and recovered memories of being framed by Chen Ruoli and Princess Chang'an before being exiled to serve in the army.
• Qin Hu understood that powerful factions wanted him dead and vowed to survive, return to the capital, and settle the score.
• Qin Hu and Qin An were forced to patrol through a blizzard while sentries extinguished their warming fire and left them exposed.
• Qin An told Qin Hu that they had only twenty taels of silver left, and Qin Hu decided to use it to save them by bribing Li Xiaokun.

Gao Gong entered an ice cavern and sensed that its radiation field was unusually concentrated. The chapter ended as he realized the drifting snowflakes were solid radiation energy, showing that the field had transformed from energy into matter.

• Gao Gong entered the ice layer and sensed the radiation field growing stronger.
• Gao Gong recognized that the snowflakes drifting through the cavern were solid radiation energy.
• Gao Gong realized the radiation field in the region had transformed from energy into matter.

Gao Gong explored Liangzhou City with A-Q, studied its advanced technology, and secretly activated the biological signal network built into the city’s 4D buildings. Balance Technology detected a high-level biological entity and ordered it eliminated, and its network appeared to absorb Gao Gong’s biological signal—though A-Q witnessed the aftermath and was left stunned.

• A-Q used a signal station to request leave, then met Gao Gong, who explained that another version of A-Q had made an agreement with him.
• Gao Gong took A-Q around Liangzhou City and examined the advanced implants at a cybernetic-implant shop, but left without buying the Biological Lander.
• Zhang Yu learned that a high-level biological entity had appeared in Liangzhou City and ordered it dealt with after confirming it was neither a competitor nor Mother City personnel.
• Gao Gong bought a custom suit and told A-Q he had a gift for him, then sent a fluid-like fragment into A-Q’s skin.
• Gao Gong activated the biological signals in Liangzhou City’s 4D buildings, and the city’s network absorbed a biological signal containing his target, leaving his mechanical skeleton behind.
• A-Q stared in shock as a neural editor declared the processing complete.

Q was controlled by Highsmith while working in Doctor Liang’s underground laboratory, where he discovered that the company was developing biological-signal weapons for Marubeni. Highsmith then contacted Supervisor Zhang Yu and claimed he had a message from the Winter General.

• Highsmith’s biological body was drained inside the Cyber Test Site, but his mechanical skeleton survived and forced Q to pay for a customized suit.
• Q returned to work at Balance Technology and was assigned to repair equipment in Doctor Liang’s underground experimental base.
• Doctor Liang argued with a Marubeni representative, who demanded controllable artificial-soul warriors without artificial intelligence or emotions.
• Q entered the Biological Signal Tower, suffered a biological signal rampage, and overheard references to revising a plan involving brain beams and signals.
• After leaving the base, Q’s memories were deleted, but a voice from his body revealed that the test site was being used to develop a weapon.
• Highsmith connected to Supervisor Zhang Yu and said the Winter General had sent him a message.

Gao Gong joined Balance Technology’s Throne Division under a forged corporate identity and entered its heavily fortified training base, where biological augmentations and hostility toward mechanical life dominated. He assessed the division’s elite warriors and resolved to acquire its biological prosthetic technology for his faction.

• Han Tong rejected the order to accept a mechanically augmented transfer until the secretary offered him a place in the joint super-soldier project with Marubeni.
• The secretary gave Gao Gong forged credentials and warned him to keep a low profile in the Throne Division.
• Gao Gong traveled through Balance Technology’s fortress-like branch and sensed his own aura, which he connected to the biological computer he needed to restart.
• Gao Gong entered the Throne Division’s training base and saw its warriors replace biological limbs with industrially produced prosthetics.
• Gao Gong ignored the warriors’ insults, assessed their combat strength, and decided to obtain the division’s biological technology for his faction.

Gao Gong confronted Jin Ba and impressed her by diagnosing flaws in her biological implants, earning a place in the radiation department as a cybernetic doctor. While Han Tong destroyed a hostile corporation’s agent, he learned Gao Gong had already been taken on a mission with Jin Ba.

• Jin Ba landed through the reinforced floor, insulted Gao Gong, and lifted him by the neck, but she could not damage his mechanical body.
• Gao Gong identified problems with Jin Ba’s implants and used his species pressure to make her release him before introducing himself as a cybernetic doctor.
• Han Tong defeated and killed a Level-55 agent from a rival corporation, then left his subordinates to clean up the scene.
• Han Tong contacted his department and learned Jin Ba had taken Gao Gong on a mission after beating several colleagues to claim him.
• Han Tong’s subordinate explained that Gao Gong was a highly skilled biological cybernetic doctor, and Han Tong ordered them to keep an eye on him.

High Engineer joined Goldenbloom’s squad and traveled with her to Liangzhou City, where its mechanical mainframe, Kaibao, reported a strange biological information incident. People were vanishing without warning, and Goldenbloom began investigating the unprecedented disappearances.

• High Engineer gave Goldenbloom an excuse for being in a mechanical body, and she welcomed him as an official member of her squad.
• Goldenbloom carried High Engineer through Liangzhou City on their way to Biological Zone 104.
• High Engineer observed that Liangzhou City’s biological signals disrupted ordinary electronic equipment and cybernetic implants.
• Kaibao introduced himself as the city’s mechanical mainframe and told Goldenbloom that people were suddenly disappearing.
• Kaibao showed projections of people vanishing, and Goldenbloom recognized that the incident was unlike the biological phenomena her division usually handled.

Gao Gong discovered that Liangzhou City's districts formed a system modeled on radiation beasts, then Jinba fought a giant mass of flesh that attacked them. The chapter ended with Jinba facing the creature and preparing to battle.

• Jinba found Matsumoto Satoshi's diary, which contained records about Water Sprite biological signals but no clues to his disappearance.
• Gao Gong realized Liangzhou City's districts resembled radiation beasts and that the information stations organized biological signals into an artificial system.
• Gao Gong activated his permanent Fear of the Radiation Water Sprite status while riding the elevator with Jinba and the two Kaibaos.
• A giant mass of flesh attacked the elevator, and Jinba rescued Gao Gong and the Kaibaos before confronting it.

Gao Gong used acupuncture to restore Jinba’s failing biological prosthetics and boost her power, allowing her to tear open the bioelectric cloud and disperse the Water Sprites. Jinba collapsed after the corporate warriors arrived, and Han Tong turned a stern gaze toward Gao Gong.

• Jinba destroyed the flesh-clad Water Sprite with a powerful attack, while Gao Gong and Kaibao sensed a strange biological signal.
• More than a hundred Water Sprites appeared beneath darkening clouds, and Jinba fought them until her biological prosthetics began to reject her body.
• Gao Gong brought Jinba down and used his Radiation Massage skill to stimulate her biological potential and help her prosthetics fuse with her body.
• Jinba tore open the bioelectric cloud layer, causing the Water Sprites to disperse and revealing daylight.
• The corporate warriors arrived, and Jinba collapsed into Han Tong’s arms as he stared sternly at Gao Gong.

After the mass incident at Biological Zone 104, Gao Gong cared for Jin Ba and helped her choose replacement implants. At the branch’s implant center, he discovered that its Gene Space could resurrect people with their memories intact, and became determined to obtain it.

• Gao Gong reflected that Jin Ba’s power during the battle had surpassed her abilities and suspected the experimental facility was responsible for the radiation beasts’ disappearance.
• Muscular men visited Jin Ba and tried to curry favor with Gao Gong, while Jin Ba began calling him Daddy.
• Jin Ba took Gao Gong to the implant processing center, where he examined the facility’s biological implants and production buildings.
• Gao Gong watched Matsumoto Tetsu emerge from the Gene Space, resurrected with his memories, and learned that the technology could restore people below Level Thirty.
• Gao Gong stared greedily at the Gene Space and decided it was what he truly wanted.

Gaogong used advanced biological prosthetics surgery to transform Jinba, who then demonstrated power beyond her previous limits. He asked Han Tong about the unresolved Biological Disappearance Incident and made clear that he had no intention of joining Balance Technology’s core.

• Gaogong selected and implanted several different biological prosthetics in Jinba, and the experts watched in disbelief as her rejection decreased.
• Jinba emerged with a changed appearance, manifested a crimson armor-like blood garment, and unleashed a powerful burst of energy that wrecked the processing center.
• After the experts took Jinba for testing, Han Tong asked Gaogong how he had improved her; Gaogong explained that compatible implants could promote one another and that cellular assimilation reduced wasted modification capacity.
• Han Tong told Gaogong that investigators had found no clues about the Biological Disappearance Incident and feared it could spread beyond one biological district.
• Gaogong told Han Tong he had joined the Throne Division only to seek a way to resurrect biological organisms, then rejected Han Tong’s unspoken hope of receiving the same treatment as Jinba.