Chapter Summaries

Ba Di spared Leon from a deadly confrontation and brought the beaten Drunkard home to question him about Metropolis. There, Ba Di learned Drunkard was Lionel Luthor and glimpsed the abused boy hiding behind a door.

• Ba Di threatened Leon with a revolver, but Leon refused to take it and left after warning Drunkard to repay his debt.
• Ba Di told Mike to keep an eye on Leon and sent him to recruit Leon while Ba Di spoke with Drunkard.
• Drunkard led Ba Di to his home and explained that the Family was a gang formed by Metropolis's upper class.
• Drunkard beat his son and ordered him into a small room before inviting Ba Di inside.
• Ba Di offered Drunkard money or a place serving under him in exchange for information about Metropolis.
• Drunkard introduced himself as Lionel Luthor, and Ba Di noticed the boy watching them through a crack in the door.

Ba Di learned about the criminal organizations controlling Suicide Slum and Metropolis, then decided to begin consolidating power. He ordered Lionel Luthor to gather trusted people and make Suicide Slum obey him within a month.

• Lionel described the gangs and major criminal organizations operating in Suicide Slum.
• Lionel explained that five powerful forces controlled Metropolis's underworld: the Family Gang, International Gang, Organization One Hundred, Gambino Mafia, and Scarlet Angels.
• Ba Di judged the local International Gang and Organization One Hundred to be his main obstacles, while planning to handle the other forces later.
• Ba Di outlined plans to unify Suicide Slum, establish a biotech company, and pursue advanced scientific research.
• Ba Di ordered Lionel Luthor to gather trusted people and bring Suicide Slum under his command within one month.

Ba Di, Mike, and Leon entered Brother's Nightclub to confront the Brotherhood, whose guards grew suspicious of the outsiders. Mike knocked out the guards and led the group deeper into the gang's headquarters, leaving Leon thrilled and anxious as they advanced.

• Mike paid the entrance fee, and Ba Di entered Brother's Nightclub with Mike and Leon as two guards watched them suspiciously.
• The guards decided to alert Boss Jett Li, the Brotherhood's youngest and cleverest leader.
• Leon recalled that he and his companions had joined Ba Di's ranks after losing their money and had each received a thousand-dollar settling-in allowance.
• At the stairs, Mike knocked out a guard after claiming they were looking for the boss.
• Mike led Ba Di and Leon upstairs, knocking unconscious everyone who tried to stop them while Leon followed, excited by their dangerous advance through Brotherhood territory.

Ba Di took control of the Brotherhood by killing its boss and forcing Leon to prove his loyalty. Leon carried out the order and followed Ba Di and Mike from the nightclub.

• Mike fought his way to the Brotherhood boss's room with Ba Di directing him.
• The Brotherhood boss fired at Ba Di, who caught the bullets between his fingers and asked whether the man wanted power.
• When the boss kept firing, Ba Di killed him by flicking bullets through his chest.
• Ba Di ordered Leon to cut off the boss's head and told Mike to kill Leon if he refused within a minute.
• Leon struggled but charged into the room and returned carrying the head, and Mike led him after Ba Di.

Jett Li and Mai Li rushed to Brother's Nightclub after sensing that something was wrong and found Ba Di had killed their eldest brother, Sai Mu. As Mai Li attacked Ba Di, a green Military Dagger blocked his strike, and someone told them to put Sai Mu's head back on because it might still have a heartbeat.

• Jett Li learned that Ba Di, Mike, and Leon had entered Brother's Nightclub and felt an unexplained sense of dread.
• Jett Li and Mai Li gathered Brotherhood men and entered the nightclub through a side entrance as terrified patrons fled.
• Mike threw Sai Mu's severed head onto the stage, while Ba Di watched the crowd panic and Leon trembled beside him.
• Mai Li recognized Sai Mu's head, shouted his brother's name, and attacked Ba Di with a dagger.
• A green Military Dagger intercepted Mai Li's strike, and its wielder told them to put Sai Mu's head back on because it might still have a heartbeat.

Mike subdued Mai Li after Mai Li attacked Ba Di, but Ba Di ordered Mike to kill him, then used bullets to force the Brotherhood to submit. Ba Di killed Jett Li as well, leaving himself in control of the gang.

• Mike stopped Mai Li from reaching Ba Di and subdued him by cutting his wrist and pinning him down.
• Ba Di ordered Mai Li killed, and Mike cut his throat before taking cover with Leon as the Brotherhood opened fire.
• Jett Li held Mai Li as he died, grieving while Mai Li tried to speak his final words.
• Ba Di killed Brotherhood members by flicking bullets at them and made the survivors kneel and submit.
• Jett Li pretended to surrender and offered to help Ba Di control the Brotherhood, but Ba Di shot him.

Ba Di took control of the Brotherhood’s streets, imposed strict rules, and renamed the gang Ba Miu Luo Di. At a rally in the Brotherhood Nightclub, Mike, Leon, and the former gang members pledged themselves to him, while Ba Di embraced their fervor.

• Ba Di seized the Brotherhood’s territory, killed resisting leaders, improved members’ benefits, and outlawed organ trafficking and child abduction while restricting extortion and gang behavior.
• Ba Di killed members who openly challenged his rules, and Mike recognized his ambition to rule through both protection and fear.
• At the Brotherhood Nightclub, Mike proclaimed “For Ba Miu Luo Di!” and Leon joined him, discovering his excitement at being watched by the crowd.
• Leon’s friends and then the former Brotherhood members joined the chant, raising their fists and pledging themselves to Ba Di.
• Ba Di laughed, punched the air, and led the roaring crowd in a renewed cry of “For Ba Miu Luo Di!”

Ba Di and Ba Miu Luo Di attacked the Underground Trading Company, completing their conquest of the Suicide Slum. At dawn, Ba Di absorbed the sun’s energy and unleashed Heat Vision before his followers, who regarded him as a god.

• Ba Miu Luo Di’s fighters destroyed the Underground Trading Company’s surface buildings and stormed inside, shouting, “For Ba Miu Luo Di!”
• Ba Di watched the attack from the Tower of Babel as the gunfire at the Underground Trading Company ceased before dawn.
• As sunlight reached him, Ba Di absorbed its energy while his eyes reddened and burned with pain.
• Ba Miu Luo Di members gathered beneath the tower as Ba Di fired two beams of Heat Vision into the sky.
• Ba Di stopped firing and looked over his fervent followers, who regarded him as a god.

Sam Lane learned that the powerful gang leader Ba Di was the escaped Biological Warrior sample and saw General Vick’s troubles as a chance to advance. He ordered an investigation and set out to meet Vick.

• Sam Lane’s adjutant reported that General Vick had deployed elite forces and that Ba Di, leader of the Ba Miu Luo Di gang, displayed extraordinary strength, durability, and eye lasers.
• Sam Lane questioned whether Ba Di could truly have been created by General Vick and ordered an investigation into Vick’s movements and visits to the military base.
• Sam Lane recognized that the deaths and injuries from the military base disaster could cost Vick his position and create an opening for his own promotion.
• Sam Lane prepared to visit Vick, paused to tuck in and kiss his sleeping daughter Louis, then left the room and resumed his stern bearing.

Sam Lane confronted General Vick about the monstrous Ba Di and the unauthorized military deployment, while Slade Wilson refused to keep serving Vick. Slade left to find Ba Di and settle their differences, promising that Vick could collect the loser’s corpse.

• Sam Lane arrived at General Vick’s deployment site and was horrified by the enormous monster locked in a reinforced-steel cage.
• Sam Lane demanded that General Vick explain Ba Di and report his weapons and troops to military headquarters, but Vick ordered him out.
• Sam Lane recognized Slade Wilson, who had been declared dead, entering Vick’s command tent.
• General Vick ordered Slade to kill Sam Lane, but Slade refused to remain Vick’s subordinate and accused him of holding him back.
• Slade said he would locate Ba Di and fight him, telling General Vick to collect the corpse of whoever lost.

After consolidating control of Suicide Slum, Ba Di prepared to begin conquering Metropolis while reflecting on the limits of his powers and keeping watch on the Kent family. He agreed to meet Lex Luthor, who had come to see him.

• Ba Di woke in a luxurious Suicide Slum residence and recalled surviving another assassination attempt after unifying the slum.
• Ba Di considered how Clark achieved such precise control of his powers, then turned his attention to conquering Metropolis and monitoring the Kent Couple and their farm.
• Ba Di told the former leader of Rose Blood that she should remain in Suicide Slum for now and prepare to become a public relations professional for his future companies.
• The former leader told Ba Di that Lionel Luther's son wanted to see him, and Ba Di ordered her to let Lex Luthor in.

Lex Luthor joined Ba Miu Luo Di after Ba Di exposed his plans to use recordings and evidence of the organization’s crimes as leverage. Ba Di left Suicide Slum for Metropolis, placing Mike in charge and ordering him to expand Ba Miu Luo Di’s control.

• Lex Luthor entered Ba Di’s room and asked to join Ba Miu Luo Di.
• Ba Di revealed that he had found Lex Luthor’s recordings and intercepted the evidence he planned to send to the Family.
• Ba Di told Lex Luthor to pack for a trip to Central City, and Lex Luthor left Suicide Slum relieved to have escaped.
• Ba Di watched Lex Luthor leave, then summoned Mike and handed him control of Suicide Slum.
• Ba Di ordered Mike to destroy the Gambino Mafia, expand their territory, recruit mercenaries, and guard the slum while Ba Di dealt with the Family and approached the International Gang and Organization One Hundred.

Ba Di watched Lex Luthor negotiate the purchase of Nuo Yi Biological Research Company in Metropolis, while the city’s powerful figures reacted to Ba Di’s growing influence over Suicide Slum. The chapter ended with Tobias Whale killing his father and the Family deciding to hire the League of Assassins to target Ba Di’s gang leader.

• Ba Di brought Lex Luthor to Metropolis and let him negotiate the acquisition of Nuo Yi Biological Research Company.
• Lex Luthor exposed the company’s debts and missing equipment, then secured the purchase for nine and a half million dollars.
• Tobias Whale rejected Doug Hui Er’s refusal to attend Ba Di’s banquet, killed his father, and took the invitation.
• Mosesman Heim decided to send his son to Ba Di’s banquet instead of going himself.
• Yada Edge told the Family to avoid conspicuous action in Suicide Slum and announced he would hire the League of Assassins to kill Ba Di’s gang leader.

Ba Di spent nearly all his money launching Cosmic Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and assured Luther that his new drugs would succeed. He then brought Tobias Whale under his command, gaining control of another major gang and the means to pay the hotel bill.

• Ba Di renamed Nuo Yi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Cosmic Biotechnology Co., Ltd., paid its debts and wages, advertised the company, and bought laboratory equipment and computer parts.
• Luther worried that the company had spent twenty-three million dollars, taken on five million in debt, and risked bankruptcy or prison before its drugs passed clinical trials.
• Ba Di took Luther to the Galaxy Grand Hotel, where he said someone would join him that night and might bring two gangs under his control.
• Tobias Whale arrived and asked Ba Di what he could offer him; Ba Di promised to restore his health and give him strength, while warning that he would soon take over Metropolis's underworld.
• Tobias recognized that resisting Ba Di would mean death, surrendered, and declared Ba Di his boss, leaving Luther stunned and reassured that they could pay the bill.

Ba Di demonstrated his force-field control by leaping from a skyscraper balcony with Bruno Mannheim and Tobias, then surviving the fall and launching them skyward again. Bruno and Tobias were left terrified as Ba Di showed them he could withstand a fall that would have killed an ordinary person.

• Bruno Mannheim arrived at the banquet hall and challenged Tobias and Ba Di over Organization One Hundred's territory.
• Ba Di revealed his strength by pushing Tobias and restraining Bruno, then led them onto the balcony as Bruno's men drew their guns.
• Ba Di told Bruno and Tobias they would jump from the forty-story building, and Tobias agreed to trust him when Ba Di promised he would not die.
• Ba Di leaped from the balcony with Bruno and Tobias, using his force field to hold them steady as they plunged toward the ground.
• Ba Di landed with a blast that cracked the pavement and ruptured a fire hydrant, then used his force field to launch the three of them back into the sky.

Death Knell tortured Andy for Ba Di’s whereabouts, but Leon intervened and revealed that Ba Di was in Metropolis acquiring Nuo Yi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Death Knell left to confront him, while Lieutenant General Sam Lane arrived in Ston Town.

• Death Knell, now wearing a two-toned mask, tortured Andy in Suicide Slum and demanded Ba Di’s location.
• Andy refused to betray Ba Di, declaring his faith in him, until Leon arrived and stopped Death Knell from killing him.
• Leon rebuked Andy for risking his life instead of following Ba Di’s instructions, then told Death Knell that Ba Di was in the Noah Industrial Zone acquiring Nuo Yi Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
• Death Knell left, promising to hang Ba Di’s head in Suicide Slum, and Leon blamed their weakness for leaving Ba Di unprotected.
• Lieutenant General Sam Lane arrived by helicopter in Ston Town as a madman ran past claiming he had won the Pulitzer Prize.

Sam Lane investigated the site where a supposed meteorite had fallen near Ston Town two years earlier, hoping to find evidence that General Vick had acquired alien technology. He found Mike’s camera but no film, and left convinced Vick was responsible for creating Ba Miu Luo Di, unaware that Ba Di was an alien.

• Sam Lane arrived in Ston Town and heard that General Vick had unexpectedly led troops to fight a forest fire after a meteorite fell two years earlier.
• Sam Lane reviewed the town’s records, learned the military had removed all meteorite fragments, and searched the overgrown impact site with his soldiers.
• Sam Lane ordered his men to collect wood and soil samples from the damaged sequoia and the impact crater for testing.
• The mayor explained that Mike had gone mad after falling while chasing a story about the meteorite, and Sam Lane asked whether he had taken photographs.
• Sam Lane discovered a camera hidden beneath the mud on Mike’s back, but its film was missing, and Mike reclaimed the camera.
• Sam Lane concluded that General Vick had taken the film and obtained alien biological technology, mistakenly believing Vick had created Ba Miu Luo Di.

Ba Di took over Nuo Yi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., hired a new staff, and installed a Crystal CPU in a huge computer mainframe while Little Luther worried about the company’s loose contracts and research security. After Ba Di ordered that disloyal researchers be captured for human experiments, Little Luther warned him that Death Knell was coming to take revenge, and Ba Di recognized the name.

• Ba Di acquired Nuo Yi Biotechnology Co., Ltd., settled the staff’s unpaid wages, dismissed the remaining loafers, and recruited more than seventy employees.
• Little Luther objected that Ba Di had hired inexperienced researchers under lax contracts, leaving the company’s future drug formulas vulnerable to theft.
• Ba Di installed a Crystal CPU in an enormous computer mainframe and told Little Luther to follow the proposal and keep learning.
• Little Luther reported that some researchers wanted to leave after seeing formulas for the Diabetes Miracle Drug, Heart Disease Miracle Drug, and Sildenafil.
• Ba Di said to kill the defectors, then changed his order to capture them alive for experiments in his underground laboratory.
• Little Luther warned Ba Di that Death Knell was coming from Suicide Slum to take revenge, and Ba Di stiffened at the name.

Ba Di deduced that General Vick had kept his alien identity from the American Upper Class and decided to eliminate everyone who knew the truth. As he left the server room, Death Knell ambushed him with the dagger that had once taken his eye.

• Ba Di ordered Little Luther to secure the server room and capture any researchers who tried to escape.
• Ba Di reasoned that Death Knell was Colonel Slade and that Jenny had helped him, while General Vick had concealed Ba Di's alien identity from the American Upper Class.
• Ba Di concluded that delaying the exposure of his identity would give him time to prepare, then decided to eliminate those who knew it.
• Ba Di left the server room at dusk, and Death Knell appeared at the window and threw a green Military Dagger at him.
• Ba Di caught the dagger between his hands as Death Knell said it had once taken his eye.

Ba Di defeated Death Knell, who had come seeking revenge, and dragged the unconscious attacker back into the Biological Laboratory Building. Death Knell’s attempt to escape ended with him badly injured and captured.

• Death Knell attacked Ba Di with his Samurai Sword, but Ba Di caught the blade between two fingers.
• Shocked by Ba Di’s strength, Death Knell abandoned his sword, fled through the window, and threw Biological Anesthetic Nerve Gas grenades into the corridor.
• Ba Di emerged unharmed from the gas and stomped Death Knell out of the air and into the pavement.
• Ba Di knocked away the guards’ concern, ordered them back to the entrance, and dragged the unconscious Death Knell into the Laboratory Building.