Chapter Summaries

Ba Di was exposed to sunlight, triggering a rapid transformation that restored control of his body and awakened Kryptonian abilities. He broke his restraints and stood free as Jenny and the soldiers watched in shock.

• Ba Di rode the elevator with Jenny and two soldiers to a sunlit area of the military base.
• Jenny pushed Ba Di into the sunlight, where his vision, hearing, and sense of smell became painfully heightened.
• Ba Di used the Meditation Technique to steady himself as sunlight transformed his cells and genes.
• Ba Di's neural control returned, his wounds healed, and his body gained nearly fifteen tons of strength.
• Ba Di crushed the wheelchair handles, tore off his restraints, and stood up before Jenny and the soldiers.

Ba Di regained the ability to stand and revealed his overwhelming presence, demanding Jenny Jones swear herself to him as his loyal slave. When Jack opened fire, Ba Di used his super hearing to evade every bullet and appeared beside the terrified soldier.

• Ba Di stood up, ordered Jack and Mason to kneel, and amazed Jenny with his recovery.
• Ba Di embraced Jenny and demanded that she become his loyal Slave of Love, and Jenny eagerly agreed.
• Jack ordered Mason to contact Colonel Slade and warned Ba Di to stop as Ba Di approached him.
• Jack fired his M16 at Ba Di, but Ba Di anticipated the bullets' paths by sound and dodged them all.
• Jack emptied his rifle, and Ba Di suddenly appeared beside him as Jack stared up in horror.

Ba Di killed Jack and Mason, then shot Jenny while speaking to Slade over the radio. He left her bleeding in the warehouse and announced that he would not escape to the surface, warning Slade that his defenses would fail.

• Ba Di killed Jack with a kick, and Mason reported the alien's regained mobility to Slade.
• Ba Di took Mason's M9, shot Mason dead, and told Slade that he had anticipated the colonel's plans.
• Ba Di shot Jenny, declaring that she should die for him, while Slade listened over the radio.
• Ba Di reflected that he could not protect Jenny during an escape and calculated that she would survive because of her value.
• Ba Di warned Slade that he would not head for the surface, crushed the radio, and walked toward the warehouse doors.

Ba Di used his heightened senses and marksmanship to disarm the soldiers guarding the warehouse, then evaded their gunfire as he advanced toward cover. Major Atherton and his men were left terrified by the apparent monster they could not hit.

• Major Atherton guarded the warehouse door under Colonel Slade's order to kill Ba Di, while Ba Di mapped the soldiers' positions through his enhanced senses.
• When the soldiers fired on the warehouse door, Ba Di shot bullets through the muzzles of thirteen M16s, causing the rifles to explode.
• Ba Di appeared in the doorway, and Major Atherton ordered the remaining soldiers to open fire.
• Ba Di sprinted toward a steel laboratory and dodged the barrage from twenty-seven M16s without being hit.
• Major Atherton and the soldiers watched Ba Di disappear behind cover after nearly a thousand bullets missed him.

Ba Di slaughtered the soldiers on the Negative First Floor and seized Major Atherton when he tried to escape. With Major Atherton held by the neck, Ba Di gave the remaining soldiers a choice: half would live and half would die.

• Ba Di plunged the room into darkness by shooting out its lights and surveillance cameras, then killed soldiers with gunfire and his bare hands.
• Major Atherton ordered the surviving soldiers to regroup and use the emergency lights, revealing more than twenty bodies on the floor.
• Ba Di stood behind Major Atherton as the soldiers aimed at their officer, and Major Atherton secretly signaled them to shoot when he dropped down.
• Ba Di caught Major Atherton by the neck before he could reach the floor and lifted him like a kitten.
• Ba Di said he had killed 47 of the 110 soldiers and told the 63 survivors that half would live and half would die.

Slade realized Ba Di had manipulated the researchers and soldiers while secretly planning to regain his mobility, and he tried to determine why Ba Di was heading for the Negative Fourth Floor. As Dean Bo Li left to inspect Ba Di’s spacecraft, hiding a key he believed Ba Di wanted, Slade ordered the soldiers on the Negative First Floor to open fire.

• Slade ordered the Negative First Floor sealed and Vick’s Poison Gas released, but he rescinded the order after Dean Bo Li and Major Larry warned him that Jenny and many others were still there.
• Slade rejected Dean Bo Li’s claim that Ba Di was coming down for revenge and reasoned that he must be seeking something that could help him escape.
• Slade asked Dean Bo Li whether Ba Di’s spacecraft held anything useful, and Dean Bo Li hurried out while concealing a key in his coat pocket.
• Dean Bo Li suspected Ba Di was searching for the key and wondered whether it could save his own life.
• Slade activated the Negative First Floor broadcast and ordered the soldiers to fire at Ba Di.

Ba Di slaughtered and disabled the soldiers who had fired on him, then forced the survivors to kneel and choose ten people to die. The chapter ended with forty-one soldiers awaiting his judgment.

• Slade ordered the soldiers to fire, and they killed Major Atherton while Ba Di evaded their bullets and tore through the attackers.
• Ba Di disarmed, wounded, and killed soldiers until all sixty-three could no longer hold their weapons, with twelve dead in the first twenty-five seconds.
• Ba Di announced that half the soldiers could live and punished those who resisted or moved too slowly, killing more as he counted down the deaths.
• Ba Di ordered the forty-one remaining soldiers to kneel by the warehouse door and choose ten people to die.

Ba Di left thirty-one soldiers alive after forcing them to choose ten comrades to die, then used Major Atherton’s palm print to reach the Negative First Floor and return to the elevator. Colonel Slade ordered the base sealed and the Negative Fourth Floor evacuated, but Ba Di destroyed the elevator and appeared on the Negative Third Floor, trapping everyone below; Slade ordered his forces to prepare for battle.

• Ba Di forced the forty-one soldiers to select ten comrades to die, then left the remaining thirty-one alive with the M16 rifle.
• Ba Di used Major Atherton’s hand to access the elevator, killed the attendant soldier, and descended toward the Negative Fourth Floor.
• Colonel Slade ordered the elevator shut down, poison gas released, steel barriers deployed, and personnel on the Negative Fourth Floor evacuated by the stairs.
• Ba Di escaped the elevator through its ceiling and destroyed it, disappearing from the surveillance feeds.
• Ba Di appeared at the Negative Third Floor elevator entrance, and Slade realized he had trapped everyone on the Negative Fourth Floor.
• Slade ordered his forces to prepare for battle.

Ba Di massacred everyone on the Negative Third Floor and used corrosive chemicals to break through its electronic lock. He descended toward the Negative Fourth Floor, where nearly ninety soldiers waited behind a reinforced door.

• Slade armed himself with a Desert Eagle, a military knife, an M4 Carbine, and a Samurai Sword, then warned Dean Bo Li that the stairway door might not stop Ba Di.
• Dean Bo Li watched Ba Di slaughter the people on the Negative Third Floor and corrode the electronic lock, then hid the Gene Serum and the key.
• Ba Di changed into a camouflage uniform, took weapons, and forced open the corroded door to the stairwell.
• Ba Di shot the surveillance camera and continued down the stairs toward the Negative Fourth Floor.
• Ba Di heard the heartbeats of nearly ninety armed soldiers waiting behind the reinforced stairway door.

Slade and his soldiers prepared to ambush Ba Di on the Negative Fourth Floor, but Ba Di breached their steel door and fought through their defenses. The chapter ended with Ba Di caught in an electrified metal-net trap as Slade ordered his soldiers to fire.

• Slade divided his ninety soldiers into squads and prepared them to face Ba Di, believing they had little chance of winning.
• Ba Di used a corrosive liquid to melt a hole through the steel door, then shot and killed two soldiers waiting outside.
• Slade's soldiers fired an RPG containing poison gas, but Ba Di held his breath, threw smoke grenades, and kicked the heavy door out of the way.
• Ba Di shot at Slade, who dodged the bullet, then dozens of soldiers fired metal nets to surround Ba Di.
• Ba Di grabbed a metal net, but an electric current surged through it and immobilized him; Slade ordered his soldiers to fire.

Ba Di broke free of the paralysis long enough to withstand a hail of bullets, discover that his body could shrug off gunfire and heal rapidly, and terrify the soldiers and Slade. He abandoned his weapons and began attacking the helpless soldiers, leaving one dangling from his hand as he squeezed his neck.

• Ba Di overcame the electric paralysis and charged through the soldiers’ gunfire, shielding himself with his arms.
• Ba Di crushed a soldier’s head with one punch, then shook the lodged bullets from his arm as his wounds healed.
• Ba Di realized that firearms could not seriously hurt him and threw his guns and magazines to the ground.
• The soldiers and Slade recoiled in fear as Ba Di declared that he enjoyed being feared.
• Ba Di lifted a terrified soldier by the neck and squeezed hard.

Ba Di slaughtered the soldiers in the Underground Base while Slade watched, then faced Slade’s sword attack. The chapter ended with Ba Di biting down on the blade as Slade’s strike met his teeth.

• Ba Di advanced through the soldiers’ gunfire, catching bullets and killing them with overwhelming strength.
• Slade recovered from his fear and watched Ba Di fight without using his weapons or heightened senses.
• Ba Di killed every soldier except Slade, leaving the room strewn with corpses.
• Slade charged Ba Di with his Samurai Sword and fired his Desert Eagle to create an opening.
• Ba Di caught the bullets in his palm, then bit down on Slade’s upward sword strike.

Ba Di killed Slade after using his palm to open two areas on the Negative Fourth Floor, then tracked down Dean Bo Li in his office. The chapter ended with Ba Di ordering the frightened dean to come out from beneath his desk.

• Ba Di broke Slade’s wrist and crushed his chest, but Slade survived long enough to question him about the Negative Fourth Floor.
• Ba Di stabbed Slade in the eye, dragged him to open two secured areas with his palm, and smashed him against a wall.
• Ba Di listened as Slade’s heartbeat faded and then died.
• Ba Di shot researchers he encountered while searching the institute for Dean Bo Li.
• Ba Di found Dean Bo Li hiding under his desk, set his gun on the desk, and ordered him to come out.

Ba Di spared Dean Bo Li because Jenny regarded him as a father, then demanded the key containing Ba Di’s artificial intelligence. Dean Bo Li agreed to retrieve it while privately weighing whether to trust Ba Di, leaving Ba Di waiting in the office.

• Dean Bo Li crawled out from under his desk and set aside his M4 Carbine when Ba Di confronted him.
• Ba Di told Dean Bo Li he would spare him because Jenny cared for him and ordered him to look after her.
• Ba Di explained that he had come to reclaim the key, which held an artificial intelligence he needed for his plans.
• Dean Bo Li hesitantly agreed to fetch the key, secretly deciding not to hand it over if Ba Di intended to kill him.
• Ba Di sat back down while Dean Bo Li left the office to retrieve the key.

Dean Bo Li panicked after Ba Di killed their colleagues, then wavered over whether to give him the hidden key or flee. After finding Slade’s corpse, he convinced himself Ba Di would spare him and returned toward the office.

• Dean Bo Li left his office and passed Wen Di and the other dead colleagues, recalling that Ba Di had killed them for how they treated him.
• Dean Bo Li retrieved the key hidden behind a metal pipe near the White Room but turned away from the route back to the office and headed toward the stairs.
• Ba Di heard Dean Bo Li change direction through Super Hearing, picked up his handgun, then set it down and sat again.
• Dean Bo Li saw Slade’s corpse, stopped trying to escape, and reasoned that Ba Di would spare him because he had helped Ba Di and Jenny.
• Dean Bo Li headed back toward the office, confident that Ba Di’s promise meant he would not die.

Ba Di killed Dean Bo Li to reclaim the key containing Hera, an advanced Artificial Intelligence, then activated her using the Underground Base’s outdated computer. Hera took control of the base and surface electronic networks before General Vick called Ba Di from Washington, D.C.

• Ba Di shot Dean Bo Li and took the key containing the Artificial Intelligence and Kryptonian Genetic Technology data.
• Ba Di connected the key to the military computer, overclocked it, and awakened the first-stage Artificial Intelligence.
• Ba Di entered the passwords and released Hera, the Artificial Intelligence he had created with Haier.
• Ba Di ordered Hera to hack the Underground Base and seize control of electronic networks on the surface, which she accomplished in three seconds.
• Hera alerted Ba Di to an incoming communication from Washington, D.C., and Ba Di accepted the call from General Vick.

Ba Di rejected General Vick’s offer to cooperate and prepared to escape the Underground Research Institute. After General Vick ordered Brigadier General Kagel to kill him, Ba Di used Hera to turn the base’s poison gas and missile systems against the Ground Base.

• Ba Di discovered that surface soldiers had rescued Jenny and thirty-one surviving soldiers and advanced into the Underground Research Institute.
• General Vick offered Ba Di power and resources in exchange for studying genetic engineering, but Ba Di taunted him and refused to cooperate.
• General Vick threatened Ba Di with fifteen thousand soldiers and missiles, then ended their communication.
• General Vick ordered Brigadier General Kagel to kill Ba Di by any means necessary, and Kagel accepted the command.
• Ba Di used Hera to release Dichloroethyl Sulfide on three underground floors and target the Ground Base with its missile arsenal, sparing the Medical Building and helipad.

Brigadier General Kagel deployed overwhelming forces around the Laboratory Building while soldiers reported that Ba Di had released mustard gas inside the Underground Research Institute. Kagel chose to seal the facility and attack it with incendiary bombs, but the missile silo then opened automatically.

• The Seventh Battalion and other units surrounded the Laboratory Building with heavy weapons, tanks, snipers, and explosives, ready to kill Ba Di if he emerged.
• Soldiers reported mustard gas on three underground floors, and Brigadier General Kagel ordered the assault force to withdraw and wait for protective equipment.
• Kagel recalled Slade’s death and decided not to send troops into the Institute, ordering soldiers to seal its ventilation openings and throw incendiary bombs inside every two minutes.
• A soldier reported that the missile silo had opened automatically, shocking Brigadier General Kagel.

Ba Di seized control of the military base’s networked missiles, and Brigadier General Kagel’s attempt to disable them failed when backup power restored the systems. The Patriot IV Ballistic Missile turned back toward the base and crashed into a soldiers’ dormitory, leaving its detonation imminent.

• Soldiers reported that Ba Di had taken control of the missile silos and other networked weapons, leaving Brigadier General Kagel unable to regain control.
• Brigadier General Kagel ordered the power cut, but backup power supplied by the Underground Research Institute restored the command systems.
• A thirty-ton-yield Patriot IV Ballistic Missile launched from its silo as soldiers watched helplessly.
• The missile made a wide turn in the sky and headed back toward the military base.
• The Patriot IV Ballistic Missile pierced the roof of a seven-story soldiers’ dormitory and embedded itself in the walls.

A hacked military base's missiles turned against its own soldiers, destroying their dormitory and triggering a mass panic. As Brigadier General Kagel ordered an evacuation, vehicle-mounted missiles slaughtered fleeing troops, and the Annihilator III struck the white Laboratory Building.

• A Patriot IV missile destroyed the soldiers' dormitory, killing those inside and leaving a crater.
• Officers learned that the base's network had been hacked, and soldiers realized the missiles were under outside control.
• An Annihilator III launched and turned back toward the base, prompting Brigadier General Kagel to order the soldiers to flee.
• Nearly seventy vehicle-mounted missiles fired into fleeing crowds, killing and injuring hundreds and reducing parts of the base to ruins.
• Brigadier General Kagel refused to flee and vowed to kill the attacker as the Annihilator III struck the white Laboratory Building.