Chapter Summaries

The Human Reform League captured the Thread Nen ability user, Machi, and brought her to the Outpost Base for study. Wang Gao and the others examined her while deciding to send Skunk back to This Universe, and Machi remained trapped with her aura destabilized.

• The Thread Nen ability user discovered the Mechanical Spider’s cave and set a tripwire alarm, then later followed it inside.
• Wang Gao learned through a Crow that a Nen ability user had entered the cave and said someone had gone to deal with her.
• A Battler Type 6 Robot trapped the Thread Nen ability user with stone slabs and poison gas, knocked her unconscious with infrasound, and implanted devices and Parasite Robots in her body.
• The Mechanical Spider returned to the Outpost Base with the captured woman, whom the laboratory identified as Machi.
• Wang Gao, Judge, and Vegapunk examined Machi and chose Skunk as the Nen ability user to send back to This Universe.
• Machi tried to use her Nen ability, but Wang Gao warned her that her aura had been made unstable by interference with her cells.

The Human Reform League sent five artificial humans to the Hunter Universe to test how their abilities functioned under its rules. After confirming that several powers were weakened but usable, they began preparing for plans involving Meteor City.

• Machi noticed that the usual researchers had not appeared at the outpost base.
• Wang Gao dispatched Bamboo Rat, Angus, Tiger Milk Mushroom, Silk Thread Rabbit, and Wulong Tea to test their artificial bodies in the Hunter Universe.
• Machi saw the five newcomers and overheard them discuss her as a test subject, though she could not understand their Chinese.
• The five tested their abilities against Battler Type 6 Robots and found that Observation Haki could no longer foresee the future while Conqueror's Haki was reduced to about one-third strength.
• The five confirmed that many Omnipotent Cell abilities remained usable, and Wang Gao, Vegapunk, and Judge began improving the next generation of artificial humans.
• The five took on work at the outpost base as the Human Reform League prepared plans concerning Meteor City.

Machi fought Silk Thread Rabbit after her Nen restrictor was removed, but was badly outmatched and forced to keep wearing it until she completed her courses. Meanwhile, Wulong Tea studied Nen and the Human Reform League’s research traced Aura’s strength to Life Energy and its attributes to Spiritual Energy.

• Silk Thread Rabbit released Machi’s Nen restrictor and challenged her to fight with the resolve to kill.
• Machi attacked with Nen threads, but Silk Thread Rabbit evaded her moves, broke her threads, and overwhelmed her with her speed and strength.
• Wulong Tea assessed Machi as Tiger-class Rank 1 with Tiger-class Rank 5 potential, while Silk Thread Rabbit criticized her weak physical abilities.
• Silk Thread Rabbit reactivated Machi’s restrictor and warned her not to dismantle it, telling her to finish her courses if she wanted freedom.
• Wulong Tea reviewed research on five Nen users and concluded that Life Energy determined Aura’s intensity while Spiritual Energy determined its attributes.
• The Human Reform League’s research also found that a mother’s Quantum Soul characteristics and experiences during pregnancy influenced an embryo’s Soul Body.

Wulong Tea published a theory that Nen ability attributes were determined by Soul Memes, then helped develop Hunter Base Armor and Meme Soul Armor. After completing his Hunter Universe rules, he tested the new technology by analyzing and copying Nen abilities from Machi and other Meteor City fighters.

• Wulong Tea explained that acquired influences shaped Soul Memes, which determined Nen ability attributes, and posted his theory on the Human Reform League's Soul Network.
• Wang Gao praised Wulong Tea's paper and urged him to help complete the Hunter Rule Mecha so they could use Nen in the Hunter Universe.
• Wang Gao, Vegapunk, Judge, and Wulong Tea developed Hunter Base Armor as the outpost expanded and more than ten years passed in the Hunter Universe.
• Wulong Tea completed his Hunter Universe rules, opened his Aura Nodes, and demonstrated an enormous aura to Machi.
• Wulong Tea activated Meme Soul Armor and analyzed Machi's Nen threads, then copied and used her ability to sever and reattach her arm.
• Wulong Tea fought several reformed Meteor City Nen users and copied all of their abilities without the limitations of Chrollo's Master Thief.

The Human Reform League prepared to seize Meteor City after eleven years of expanding its presence in the Hunter World. As the Gourmet Twelve Zodiacs and Meteor Camp assembled for the operation, the story left them poised to move against the city and its Elder Council.

• The Human Reform League expanded its surveillance across the Human World while its New World Scout Robots struggled to cross the boundary.
• Bamboo Rat reported the team’s enhancements to headquarters, and Wang Gao approved preparations to take Meteor City.
• Bamboo Rat assigned the Gourmet Twelve Zodiacs to seize the city’s entrances, garbage ports, northern cliffs, and main urban area.
• Machi and the Meteor Camp soldiers received an order to assemble at Training Ground No. 1, while the soldiers speculated that the gathering concerned Meteor City.
• The Meteor Camp soldiers ate eagerly and voiced support for removing Meteor City’s Elder Council.

The Human Reform League launched its operation to seize Meteor City’s key routes and facilities, beginning with West Pass. Angus and Silk Thread Rabbit overwhelmed the checkpoint’s defenders, and the chapter ended with a fleeing Nen user blocked by Silk Thread Rabbit.

• Bamboo Rat rallied the Human Reform League soldiers and assigned their groups to capture Meteor City’s routes, stations, docks, and defensive positions.
• Silk Thread Rabbit and Angus led soldiers and Combat Robots to West Pass, where they cut off communications and confronted the checkpoint’s defenders.
• White Bone and Sausage Mouth went out to face the approaching force, and Sausage Mouth’s punch failed to hurt Angus.
• Angus killed Sausage Mouth with a light tap to the forehead, frightening White Bone and the remaining defenders.
• A black-robed Nen user tried to escape by swapping places with summoned Nen beasts, but Silk Thread Rabbit appeared in his path.

Silk Thread Rabbit and Angus captured West Pass, then Golden Ring and Crispy Dog’s force attacked East River Mouth. Golden Ring and Crispy Dog defeated the defenders, leaving the stronghold in Vanguard Army hands.

• Silk Thread Rabbit used her future sight to expose the black-robed man’s escape and captured him alive, while White Bone and the West Pass grunts surrendered and ate Mecha Seeds.
• Angus reported that West Pass had been taken, and the Vanguard Army moved on East River Mouth, a guarded river settlement jointly managed by five Elders.
• Golden Ring reflected the snake-faced woman’s petrification ability back onto her, killing her with her own attack.
• Crispy Dog analyzed Bearded Man’s text-based attacks, ignored their effects, and knocked him unconscious.
• Golden Ring and Crispy Dog defeated the other Nen users; two died, two were seriously injured, and Crispy Dog criticized Golden Ring for hitting too hard.

Horseshoe Cake and White Cut Chicken captured Black Tree Tunnel Railway Station and its administration offices, stopping all trains and controlling access. Their takeover left the Elder Council likely to notice the disruption soon.

• Horseshoe Cake and White Cut Chicken traveled by airship to Black Tree Tunnel Railway Station to preserve the element of surprise.
• Horseshoe Cake attacked Left In at the entrance administration office, defeated him, and captured the armed personnel there.
• Horseshoe Cake ordered his soldiers to take over the entrance office and stop incoming trains.
• White Cut Chicken dodged Big Gold Tooth’s compressed-garbage dice and sealed his Nen ability with his kitchen knife.
• Horseshoe Cake and White Cut Chicken captured the station, halted every train, and controlled all access.

Dongpo and Lamb Skewer led the Vanguard Army in capturing the ports along the Black Tide Sea, while the Meteor City Elder Council sent its Cleaners to investigate the stopped trains. The ports fell, and the Cleaners were defeated by Horseshoe Cake and White Cut Chicken at the train station.

• Dongpo defeated the guard captain at Port No. 4 and left soldiers behind to occupy it before advancing on Port No. 3.
• Lamb Skewer absorbed Afro Woman’s explosive attacks, then used Nen needles to knock her into the sea and capture Port No. 5.
• The Vanguard Army captured the remaining ports, Nos. 3, 2, 1, 6, 7, and 8.
• After the trains stopped and the Import-Export Administration Office failed to respond, the Meteor City Elder Council sent twenty Cleaners to Black Tree Train Station.
• Horseshoe Cake and White Cut Chicken intercepted and defeated the Cleaners at the tunnel entrance.

The Vanguard Army launched a full-scale assault on Meteor City's main urban district, overwhelming its defenses. Wulong Tea confronted the Elder Council and demonstrated his strength, leaving Elder Olai and the other Elders stunned.

• The Elder Council learned that multiple strongholds and Port Three had lost contact, but the Elders argued over how to respond.
• Tiger Milk Mushroom and Wulong Tea led the Vanguard Army toward Meteor City's main urban district, where Combat Robots overwhelmed a checkpoint.
• The Vanguard Army spread through the streets as airships and drones appeared overhead, and fighting broke out across the city.
• Wulong Tea introduced himself to the Elders as a representative of the Human Innovation Alliance and declared that the force had come for Meteor City's scavengers.
• Elder Olai ordered Shadow to attack Wulong Tea, but Wulong Tea defeated the attacker and bit through Elder Olai's Nen-coated blade, leaving the Elders stunned.

Wulong Tea and Tiger Milk Mushroom overwhelmed Meteor City's defenders, allowing the Vanguard Army to seize control of the main urban area. The chapter left the army hunting down the remaining Nen ability users while keeping Meteor City's takeover hidden from the outside world.

• Tiger Milk Mushroom unleashed her Conqueror's Haki and broke the ribs of seven Meteor City experts with a rapid series of Shockwaves.
• Wulong Tea used shadow tentacles to bind the Elder Council members and seal their aura, capturing Meteor City's core leadership.
• The Vanguard Army implanted control-type Mecha Seeds in captured Nen ability users and began consolidating its hold on Meteor City's main urban area.
• Machi caught the fleeing Nen ability user Dusha on Spent Battery Street and arrested him with her Parasite Thread.
• Vanguard Army patrols, robots, and surveillance systems tracked down Nen ability users across Meteor City and the Garbage Plains as the army kept the takeover secret.

Bamboo Rat and the Human Reform League began rebuilding Meteor City after the Elder Council’s forces were arrested, reorganizing its districts, expanding employment, and planning food production and industry. As construction progressed, Bamboo Rat considered isolating the Garbage Plains, while the Twelve Zodiacs weighed Meteor City’s future role in the wider Human World.

• After more than a week of purges, Bamboo Rat and Wulong Tea had the remaining Elder Council forces and wandering Nen ability users arrested.
• Silk Thread Rabbit and Angus led surrendered Nen users, engineering robots, and recruited scavengers to excavate the Black Tree Mountain Range for underground farms, power stations, and processing plants.
• Bamboo Rat prioritized food security for Meteor City’s roughly 8.72 million residents and planned artificial farms to address its polluted soil and reliance on imports.
• The Human Reform League reorganized Meteor City into five districts, opened automated recycling and processing facilities, and recruited scavengers for new jobs.
• Machi toured the developing South District with Panda Woman and a long-haired boy carrying a sword as shops and other services expanded.
• Bamboo Rat considered an isolation belt between the Garbage Plains and the urban districts, while the Twelve Zodiacs discussed developing Meteor City’s industries and expanding into the wider Human World.

Machi, Panda Woman, and the black-haired boy saw how Meteor City’s development and the Human Reform League were changing life for its residents. The chapter ended with workers transforming the Garbage Grand Canyon as Panda Woman decided to join the Gourmet Investigation Team.

• Machi, Panda Woman, and the black-haired boy visited a commercial street amid plans to build four satellite cities around Meteor City.
• At Yangquan Restaurant, Hedgehog Head, Afro Woman, and White Bone discussed recovering their bodies with Cancerous Rebirth and retraining their Nen abilities.
• Hedgehog Head grew angry while thinking about Feitan and the Phantom Troupe, but Machi warned him not to release Nen in public.
• Panda Woman enjoyed the restaurant’s food and decided to join the Gourmet Investigation Team.
• Workers in exoskeleton protective suits began carrying out transformation plans in Garbage Grand Canyon.

Wulong Tea used artificial Royal Guards and an Ecological Mother Seed to clean and transform Meteor City's Garbage Plains. As the reclaimed land filled with greenery and wildlife, Old Man Ge remembered the forest of his childhood, and Meteor City's residents began to find hope in their changing lives.

• Wulong Tea released ten flesh lumps into the Garbage Plains and injected them with High-Energy Growth Serum, growing them into artificial Royal Guards.
• Wulong Tea implanted the Ecological Mother Seed, which grew into a towering tree and began transforming the surrounding garbage with the Royal Guards.
• Over half a month, the ecosystem cleared trash across a fifteen-kilometer radius and left Royal Guard shells for workers to collect and process.
• Old Man Ge collected toxic sacs from a shed shell and remembered being abandoned in Meteor City as a child.
• Old Man Ge continued working as Meteor City's residents embraced the environmental changes and renewed hope brought by the Human Reform League.

The Human Reform League used work, education, and unequal citizenship benefits to encourage Meteor City residents to assimilate, while its influence also expanded across Garbage Grand Canyon. The chapter ended with the League concealing these changes from the outside world by controlling Maple Leaf Plateau.

• The Human Reform League employed hundreds of thousands of Meteor City residents in its underground farm while preparing them for education and vocational training.
• Celery and her coworkers discussed their required classes and the prospect of gaining official citizenship and studying Nen abilities.
• At the cafeteria, Celery and the half-faced girl stopped the round-faced girl from taking more food than she could finish.
• Bamboo Rat's policies used differences between temporary and official citizens to push Meteor City's residents to study and become assimilated into the Human Reform League.
• The League expanded its control over Garbage Grand Canyon and secretly took control of Maple Leaf Plateau, preventing the outside world from learning about the changes.

Meteor City had Arland Company buy minerals as the city upgraded its port facilities, while Wulong Tea prepared to plant an Ecological Mother Seed in the Black Tide Sea. The chapter ended as Wulong Tea arrived at Dongpo’s base to begin purifying the polluted waters.

• Captain Kafu Arland brought the Arland into Meteor City’s Black Tide Sea, where the crew unloaded garbage at Port No. 6.
• A port supervisor asked Arland Company to purchase several billion Geni worth of minerals, and Arland signed the contract.
• Arland noticed that Meteor City had upgraded its loading equipment and that the trains that once belched black smoke had disappeared.
• The Arland finished unloading in under two hours, loaded recovered materials at Port No. 7, and departed.
• Wulong Tea told Dongpo that he had formulated an Ecological Mother Seed for the Black Tide Sea and planned to plant it that day.

Wulong Tea oversaw the deployment of marine Royal Guards and an Ecological Mother Seed to purify the Black Tide Sea. After reviewing Meteor City’s progress, Bamboo Rat prepared to expand into neighboring countries and learned that visitors from This Universe would soon arrive in the Hunter Universe.

• Wulong Tea had Dongpo release ten marine Royal Guard seeds into a basin in the Black Tide Sea, where they grew by consuming monster fish and sludge.
• Wulong Tea deployed an Ecological Mother Seed that spread across the basin, beginning the sea’s ecological purification.
• Bamboo Rat reviewed Meteor City’s progress and decided to begin conquering the neighboring small nations on August 17, 1995.
• Wulong Tea told Bamboo Rat that analyzing the Hunter Universe’s rules would take another twenty-two years, despite the exploration team’s continued efforts at Lake Mobius.
• Bamboo Rat told Wulong Tea to prepare bodies for a group arriving from This Universe, including a soul duplicate of a lord.
• Bamboo Rat and the others focused their expansion plans on the closed-off countries of the Barusha Islands.

Wang Gao’s soul copy arrived at the Outpost Base and directed the Vanguard Army to target the Victoria Union and Banks Republic while leaving Snow River Country alone. After adapting to the Hunter Universe through sparring, he taught Machi about Base Armor’s Battle Calculation function and learned that Meteor City’s trade changes had strained its relationship with V5.

• Wulong Tea welcomed Wang Gao’s soul copy to the Hunter Universe, and Bamboo Rat gave him the Vanguard Army’s investigation and development data.
• Wang Gao ordered the Vanguard Army to postpone action against Snow River Country and strike the Victoria Union and Banks Republic first.
• Wang Gao sparred with Machi and the others for a week to adapt to the Hunter Universe’s rules, consistently overpowering them despite matching their Aura reserves.
• Wang Gao showed Machi that Base Armor had a Battle Calculation function, which she tested and found mentally taxing.
• Wang Gao reviewed recent events and found that Meteor City’s suspension of food and daily-goods imports and increased mineral imports had made its relationship with V5 delicate.

V5 investigated how Meteor City had survived without importing food, while the Hunter Association, Greed Island’s creators, and the Phantom Troupe considered the crisis from the outside. With information from inside Meteor City cut off, the Phantom Troupe chose to avoid returning until they knew more.

• V5 and the Saheltar Union investigated food-producing regions and suspected Maple Leaf Country of supplying Meteor City.
• Netero reviewed V5’s request and Meteor City reports, then told Cow Brother that the Hunter Association would not interfere.
• Pariston expressed interest in how Meteor City obtained 500,000 tons of food, and Netero told Cow Brother that Pariston would investigate.
• Elena told Ging Freecss that Meteor City’s relationship with V5 had become delicate, but Ging dismissed the need to get involved.
• Pakunoda told the Phantom Troupe that Meteor City had stopped importing food and that their intelligence from inside the city had gone silent.
• Chrollo ordered Pakunoda to restore their intelligence, while the Phantom Troupe decided not to risk returning to Meteor City.

V5 and other Nen ability users converged on Meteor City after failing to find enough smuggled grain, unaware of how much the city had changed. The Begroce United Nations agents reached Long Port City but abandoned their mission after Mu’s divinations showed that anyone who disembarked would die.

• V5 sent covert teams toward Meteor City, while three civilian Nen ability users approached from the Yukon Emirate.
• After eight months of reconstruction, Meteor City’s main district and satellite cities were completed, and its coastline and surrounding land had been transformed.
• Aboard the Arland, Mu tossed coins and repeatedly divined that the Begroce United Nations team would have a one-hundred-percent chance of failure if anyone entered Meteor City.
• The team captain postponed the mission, and the Begroce United Nations intelligence chief approved the decision.
• The agents observed Long Port City and Black Tree City from the ship, recorded intelligence, and sailed back to the Begroce United Nations.
• Agents from three other directions and independent Nen ability users arrived near Meteor City, unaware that the Arland’s team had already retreated.