Chapter Summaries

Miao Lun joined the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as a genetic warrior and stunned the world by winning the 100-meter final in 5.49 seconds. He claimed the gold medal while Beautiful Country’s spectators accused him of cheating and demanded that he give it back.

• After arriving in Los Angeles, Miao Lun surveyed the Olympic Village and venues while the genetic warriors prepared to disrupt Beautiful Country’s Games.
• Miao Lun watched Lester Thompson boast that he would win the 100-meter gold, then waited a week for the Olympics to begin.
• Miao Lun advanced through the 100-meter rounds by barely qualifying, while Lester Thompson dominated the semifinals and entered the final as the favorite.
• Miao Lun sprinted past Lester and the other finalists to win in 5.49 seconds, setting an apparently unsurpassable world record.
• Miao Lun called his victory the result of genetic technology, and Beautiful Country’s spectators accused him of cheating and demanded the gold medal back.

Miao Lun and other gene warriors dominated the Los Angeles Olympics, prompting the International Olympic Committee to ban them from future Games while letting their medals stand. After Miao Lun suggested gene warriors might play in the World Cup, FIFA barred them from its competitions, and the Olympic closing ceremony arrived.

• Miao Lun won the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 400-meter races, drawing protests from people in Beautiful Country.
• Sura defeated Yamada Ichiki in a boxing match, breaking his arm and revealing scales on his own arm as the crowd watched.
• Twenty gene warriors won medals and broke records across Olympic events, while many opponents forfeited rather than face them.
• On July 29, the International Olympic Committee banned gene warriors from future Olympics but allowed their Los Angeles gold medals to stand and invalidated their world records.
• Miao Lun told reporters that gene warriors might compete in the World Cup, prompting FIFA to ban them from its competitions.
• The Los Angeles Olympics reached their closing ceremony on July 30.

At the Los Angeles Olympics closing ceremony, Miao Lun humiliated Mayor Franco and threatened him, prompting Franco to vow revenge. As the gene warriors prepared to leave, California Governor Turt Prada ignored President Lawrence’s order to cancel a military operation and sent forces toward the Olympic Village.

• Miao Lun accepted the Best Sportsman Award, then mocked the Olympic medal Franco presented and threatened him after Franco angrily confronted him.
• Franco fell in fear before the cameras, then secretly resolved to make Miao Lun pay the next day.
• A gene warrior told Miao Lun that the National Guard’s 40th Mechanized Division was moving into Los Angeles, and Miao Lun ordered his team to prepare for a fight.
• Armed troops arrived near the Olympic Village as reporters and influencers tried to livestream the deployment before soldiers drove them away and confiscated their devices.
• Governor Turt told Franco that President Lawrence had ordered the operation canceled, but he ignored the order and instructed the forces to proceed.

President Lawrence learned that the California Consortium had pushed Governor Turt to mobilize the National Guard against Jieko Group’s gene warriors, and sent CIA director Judien to stop him. In Los Angeles, the National Guard stormed the Olympic Village building, but the gene warriors turned the assault into a massacre, leaving the troops outside terrified.

• Lawrence learned from Judien that the California Consortium was behind Turt’s deployment of the National Guard and ordered Judien to California to take control of Turt.
• The National Guard surrounded the gene warriors’ Olympic Village building, ordered Miao Lun and the others to surrender, and shot people who tried to flee.
• Miao Lun warned that the attack would mean opposing Jieko Group, then disappeared from the window before the officer ordered the troops to storm the building.
• Gene warriors hiding in the building’s vents ambushed the National Guard, with a wall-climbing fighter killing soldiers on the fifth floor and an armored fighter slaughtering troops on the third.
• Miao Lun and the other gene warriors overwhelmed the remaining National Guard soldiers inside, prompting some to flee or jump from windows as the troops outside listened in terror.

The twenty gene warriors escaped the dormitory and attacked the National Guard, while Miao Lun revealed the Steel Battalion’s second-generation biological life-armored suit. The suit turned him into a heavily armed combatant, and the gene warriors routed the troops as they fought their way toward the Olympic Village entrance.

• The National Guard soldiers refused the major’s order to enter the dormitory, and the twenty gene warriors killed everyone inside before the rear command center approved tanks and armed helicopters.
• The gene warriors leaped from the dormitory windows as National Guard forces opened fire, and Miao Lun activated his second-generation Life-Armored Suit.
• Miao Lun used the suit’s shifting armor and blades to cut through the surrounding soldiers, then evaded cannon fire and destroyed an armored vehicle with a rocket launcher.
• Miao Lun absorbed weapons into the suit and used mercury arms, Gatling guns, heavy machine guns, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers to attack the National Guard.
• Miao Lun and the other nineteen gene warriors overwhelmed the troops and pursued them from the Olympic Village toward its entrance.

Miao Lun and the gene warriors massacred National Guard troops around the Olympic Village, while livestreams carried the battle to millions of viewers. The National Guard’s heavy forces stalled outside the buildings as looting, fires, and gun violence spread across Los Angeles.

• Jimmy livestreamed the battle and watched as National Guard soldiers fled the Olympic Village, where machine-gun fire destroyed a packed Humvee.
• Miao Lun ordered the gene warriors to move freely, then led their assault through the streets, using his Life-Armored Suit to kill National Guard troops.
• Miao Lun climbed into a high-rise and attacked soldiers inside, while sparing a frightened family in an upper-floor apartment.
• Jimmy nearly fled after Miao Lun noticed him, but he stayed to livestream after viewers’ tips surged and the broadcast attracted millions.
• The National Guard deployed tanks, howitzers, and attack helicopters, but hesitated to fire on the high-rises occupied by the Jieko Group.
• Looters and armed residents ransacked shops, set fires, and spread gun violence as Los Angeles descended into citywide chaos.

Miao Lun explained the second-generation Life-Armored Suit and gave a live interview defending the gene warriors’ actions in Olympic Village Street. Meanwhile, Judien arrested Mayor Franco and Governor Turt, but they were taken away by helicopter before he could secure them.

• Miao Lun fed his Life-Armored Suit spiritual liquid, then told Su Jie that the suit performed well and the gene warriors would withdraw after dark.
• Miao Lun allowed Blanca to interview him live and denied that his group had attacked the National Guard or taken hostages.
• Judien stormed Mayor Franco’s office and arrested Franco and Governor Turt as they tried to flee.
• Judien’s CIA agents clashed with state police and the FBI outside the administrative building while taking Franco and Turt away.
• Judien learned that Franco and Turt had already been transported by armed helicopter, leaving his efforts unsuccessful.

Miao Lun led the gene warriors through an underground smuggling tunnel from Los Angeles to Moguo, where they waited in Camp Town. Turt ordered Kulin to invade Moguo with an armored regiment to capture them, but the regiment met twenty Spider Mechs and the battle turned against Beautiful Country.

• Miao Lun led the gene warriors out of Los Angeles through a Jieko Group tunnel and into Moguo, while National Guard troops found the Olympic Village empty.
• Turt ordered Kulin to send an armored regiment into Camp Town, and Kulin agreed to lead the operation to restore his standing.
• Miao Lun received a message at 2:21 a.m. and ordered the gene warriors to prepare for Beautiful Country's approaching forces.
• Kulin led the Seventh Cavalry Regiment into Camp Town, where residents fled and police abandoned their posts.
• Hao Guyu's two mech companies emerged from a logistics warehouse and confronted the advancing tanks and infantry.
• A Spider Mech destroyed an M1A2 tank, and Hao Guyu ordered the mechs to hunt the regiment's vehicles and helicopters.

Hao Guyu and the Jieko Group’s mechs and gene warriors annihilated the National Guard forces attacking Camp Town. By dawn, fewer than fifteen of the 2,819 National Guard soldiers who entered Moguo remained alive, while the Jieko forces withdrew into the night.

• Kulin sent reconnaissance vehicles and helicopters to investigate artillery fire as Spider Main Battle Mechs entered Camp Town undetected.
• Hao Guyu attacked the cavalry armored battalion with his Spider Main Battle Mech, destroying tanks and armored vehicles while gene warriors hunted enemy infantry.
• Bee-type Anti-aircraft Mechs shot down Apache helicopters, a Scorpion Flamethrower Mech burned trapped soldiers, and two Fly-type Rocket Mechs launched 96 rockets at forces outside town.
• Kulin ordered a retreat after learning the Seventh Cavalry Regiment was collapsing, but the rocket bombardment destroyed the force outside town and killed him.
• The mechs and gene warriors withdrew after the fighting, and a dawn count found fewer than fifteen survivors among the 2,819 National Guard soldiers who had entered Moguo.

After the Camp Town ambush, Moguo refused the Beautiful Country’s demands to hand over genetic warriors and outlaw Tijuana Group, prompting sanctions and a flood of migrants into the Beautiful Country. The sanctions ended after a month, and the Beautiful Country turned its attention to Jieko Group.

• News of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment’s destruction and the death of the 40th Mechanized Infantry Division’s commander sparked worldwide debate, while President Manuel condemned the Beautiful Country’s incursion into Moguo.
• President Lawrence disavowed authorizing the military operation, demanded Moguo hand over the genetic warriors and outlaw Tijuana Group, and threatened severe sanctions.
• The cartel boss bribed Manuel and other Moguo officials, and Moguo’s parliament overwhelmingly rejected the proposal to comply with Lawrence’s demands.
• After Moguo refused to surrender the genetic warriors or outlaw Tijuana Group, Lawrence imposed sanctions, and Manuel publicly defied him.
• Tijuana Group smuggled migrants into the Beautiful Country and helped deportees return, while the Beautiful Country’s sanctions damaged its own companies and trade.
• The Beautiful Country ended the sanctions after a month and shifted its attention to Jieko Group, hoping to cut off Tijuana Group’s support.

Su Jie reached the sixth level of the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art and the pinnacle of the fifth Secret Treasure Realm, then began planning how to enter the Dao Platform Realm. After Jesmin Holland won the Beautiful Country election, Jieko Group opened the Kra Isthmus Canal, provoking questions from foreign reporters and drawing regional powers’ attention.

• Su Jie advanced the Blood Sea Devouring Heaven Demonic Art to its sixth level and cultivated all five Inner Gods, reaching the fifth level’s pinnacle of the Secret Treasure Realm.
• Su Jie considered which of his seven apertures to open first on the path to the Dao Platform Realm, then learned from Liu Yingying that Jesmin Holland had won the Beautiful Country election.
• Jieko Group announced the Kra Isthmus Canal’s completion on Jesmin’s inauguration day, and Su Jie opened it to navigation at a ceremony attended by regional leaders and foreign representatives.
• Naval fleets from the five Indochina Peninsula countries became the first ships to pass through the canal, linking the Sea of Amandala and the Gulf of Siam without using the Strait of Malacca.
• Su Jie defended the canal against a Beautiful Country reporter and told a Sakura Country reporter that passage fees would vary by country, with higher rates for unfriendly nations.
• News of the canal’s opening spread, prompting Country A, Southeast Asian island nations, and other interested countries to begin probes and maneuvers.

Beautiful Country’s new president, Jesmin, welcomed the Kra Isthmus Canal’s opening as a chance to preserve the Strait of Malacca’s traffic after the Jieko Group imposed double fees on unfriendly countries. As shipping companies boycotted the canal and Tamasek prematurely celebrated, an unmarked ship entered the Strait of Malacca, setting up an unknown threat.

• Jesmin learned from Judien that the Jieko Group had completed the Kra Isthmus Canal on inauguration day and listed Beautiful Country and its allies as unfriendly countries, charging them double transit fees.
• Jesmin and Judien discussed using the CIA’s Thousand Island Strategy Alliance operations to contain the Jieko Group, while Jesmin presented a military white paper that proposed arms expansion but did not commit Beautiful Country to war.
• Captain Shiga Junpei rejected the canal’s $1.63 million transit fee and additional charges, then chose to return to the Strait of Malacca.
• European and American shipping companies condemned the Jieko Group’s unequal pricing and largely stayed away from the canal, while friendly-country shippers benefited from cheaper, faster passage.
• Tamasek’s National Post declared victory in the canal battle, and Tamasek’s citizens celebrated despite the Strait of Malacca’s uncertain future.
• Three days later, an unflagged ship with no apparent country of ownership entered the Strait of Malacca at its narrowest point.

Lou Zongcheng and the Jieko Group's genetic soldiers seeded the Strait of Malacca with engineered kelp that rapidly grew tough enough to disable ships and close the waterway. Tamasek blamed the Jieko Group, which denied responsibility and applied military pressure, while stranded shipping companies turned to the Kra Isthmus Canal.

• Lou Zongcheng ordered genetic soldiers to spread expanded bacterial mud and kelp seedlings through the Strait of Malacca.
• Three days later, the kelp wrapped around the Almeida's propeller, disabling the freighter, and divers failed to cut it free.
• More vessels became trapped as the kelp spread, and Tamasek shut the strait after more than a hundred ships were stranded.
• Tamasek accused the Jieko Group of cultivating the kelp, while the Jieko Group denied involvement and sent warships and fighters to pressure Tamasek.
• Shipping companies unable to wait for the strait to reopen began requesting passage through the Kra Isthmus Canal.

Shiga Junpei paid an inflated toll to take the Hongxin Maru through the Kra Isthmus Canal after seaweed blocked the Strait of Malacca, while the blockade devastated Tamasek and prompted Beautiful Country to mobilize against the Jieko Group. As carrier groups approached, Country A unexpectedly demanded a $7.823 billion fine and threatened to block the canal, leaving the Jieko Group’s response uncertain.

• Shiga Junpei paid the Jieko Group’s increased canal toll and guided the Hongxin Maru through the Kra Isthmus Canal under the pilot’s direction.
• The Malacca blockade crippled Tamasek’s economy, sparked protests and defections, and brought a new government to power that aligned with Beautiful Country and condemned the Jieko Group.
• Beautiful Country mobilized two carrier battle groups and troops in Southeast Asia while Jesmin accused the Jieko Group of controlling a strategic waterway.
• Country A demanded that the Jieko Group pay a $7.823 billion fine within ten days and threatened to close the Kra Isthmus Canal’s western entrance.
• The world focused on the waters between the Andaman Islands and the canal as observers speculated whether the Jieko Group would yield or use force.

Su Jie inspected the Jieko Group’s six completed Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers and ordered the First Fleet to punish Country A for threatening the group. Several days later, the cruisers left their secret base and disappeared beneath the sea as they headed toward their targets.

• Su Jie traveled to the Jieko Group’s First Fleet base while Liu Yingying briefed him on Country A’s demand for a fine and its threat to blockade the Kra Isthmus Canal.
• Peng Hongtai showed Su Jie and Liu Yingying the Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruiser and described its weapons, defenses, and capabilities.
• Su Jie assigned the First Fleet a mission to break Country A’s navy and seize the Andaman Islands.
• Several days later, six Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers departed the underground harbor and submerged, heading toward their respective targets.

After Country A declared war in response to Jieko Group’s declaration, Jieko Group launched a surprise missile attack on Country A’s Andaman Sea naval base. The chapter ends as missiles struck the base’s warships, with the INS Vikramaditya badly damaged and more attacks underway.

• Singh and Country A’s cabinet decided to intimidate Jieko Group over the Kra Isthmus Canal, but the Foreign Minister delivered Su Jie’s formal declaration of war.
• Country A answered with its own declaration of war, and the two sides entered a state of war on February 26, 2029.
• At 4:20 a.m., Captain Tufengpu ordered Irawaddy and Salween to attack Country A’s Andaman Sea naval base with more than a hundred anti-ship missiles.
• Pami spotted the incoming missiles as the base’s air-raid siren sounded, but the unprepared sailors struggled to respond.
• A Swordfish missile struck the INS Vikramaditya, tearing open its hull, causing a major explosion, and flooding the carrier as additional missiles reached the harbor.

The Jieko Group’s missile attack devastated Country A’s Andaman Islands base, sinking much of its Far Eastern fleet and destroying key military facilities. In Deli City, Singh ordered a nationwide alert and a search for the suspected stealth warships, while seeking the Beautiful Country’s help.

• Anti-ship missiles sank the Jordi supply ship, the Mumbai and Mansur destroyers, the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, and other vessels at the Andaman base.
• The Salween Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruiser launched a second wave of cruise missiles that devastated the island’s airfields and military facilities.
• At dawn, the attack ended with Country A’s Andaman base burning and its Far Eastern naval fleet largely destroyed.
• Campos and Vip informed Singh of the catastrophe, and Singh collapsed after seeing that the Vikramaditya had sunk.
• Vip reported that the attack may have come from nearby warships, and Campos suggested they were stealth destroyers.
• Singh ordered a nationwide military alert and a fleet search, then directed Campos to ask the Beautiful Country for reconnaissance support.

After the Jieko Group destroyed Country A’s Andaman Sea air and naval base, Country A mobilized to hunt for the attackers while the submerged Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers evaded detection. Shao Meng secured an agreement with Dai Ahong to help establish an independent state in the Six Eastern States, leaving the Jieko Group poised to target the Siliguri Corridor.

• Country A mobilized its forces and searched the Bengal Bay for the Jieko Group’s supposed stealth destroyer, unaware that the Devourer-class Deep Submergence Cruisers were hidden underwater.
• Shao Meng met Dai Ahong, leader of the Sassu Anti-Government Armed Forces, and offered Jieko Group support for independence in exchange for extensive rights and concessions.
• Dai Ahong hesitated over the unequal treaty, but signed it after Shao Meng threatened to support another anti-government group.
• Shao Meng told his aide that Dai Ahong’s ambition made him easy to control and said the Jieko Group had learned from Beautiful Country’s methods.
• Shao Meng left the village, noting that the Intelligence Department’s work was done and that the army would next strike the Siliguri Corridor.

Steel Battalion gene warriors seized the Siliguri Corridor after Jieko Group's Demon Bird Fighters crushed Country A's air defenses and escorted their drop. Miao Lun's force captured thousands of soldiers with few casualties, leaving Country A's troops routed across the corridor.

• Miao Lun led more than a hundred Steel Battalion gene warriors aboard transport planes bound for the Siliguri Corridor as Jieko Group's Demon Bird Fighters attacked Country A's airfields and defeated its fighters.
• The Demon Bird Fighters destroyed or disabled Country A's radar and antiaircraft defenses, then escorted the transport planes to the drop zone.
• Miao Lun landed apart from the main force, killed pursuing Country A soldiers, and persuaded the remaining hundreds to surrender and lead him to their camp.
• Jawaharlal guided Miao Lun and organized the prisoners, and the soldiers guarding the camp surrendered along with its tanks and armored vehicles.
• Miao Lun contacted the other Steel Battalion gene warriors and learned they had captured more than ten thousand Country A soldiers across the Siliguri Corridor, with fewer than five hundred dead or wounded.

The Jieko Group repelled Country A’s attempts to retake the Siliguri Corridor, then began a devastating assault on the Six Eastern States. Country A’s forces collapsed rapidly, and the Jieko Group advanced into the region’s heart within three days.

• Miao Lun ordered the Jieko Group to let Country A’s first thirty-thousand-man force enter the Siliguri Corridor, where mines and breakdowns drove its initial regiment-sized advance into retreat.
• Country A’s second attack was broken by Jieko Group gunfire and five Spider Main Battle Mechs, which routed the troops and devastated their artillery positions.
• The Jieko Group sealed the Siliguri Corridor, struck supply depots and military targets across the Six Eastern States, and launched a full-scale offensive.
• Country A’s troops frequently surrendered before the Jieko Group attacked, while Sikh soldiers mounted determined but costly resistance.
• The Jieko Group advanced through the Six Eastern States, occupying cities and villages and reaching the region’s heart in three days.