Recaps

Du Mu, a player trapped in the full-dive Marvel World game, completed a S.H.I.E.L.D. theft mission and returned to headquarters. Nick Fury assigned him the main storyline mission to find Tony Stark in Afghanistan and bring him back safely.

• Du Mu stole intelligence from a secluded estate, killed its owner, and escaped by teleporting to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters before the C4 bomb exploded.
• Du Mu learned that a game bug had removed the exit option, but he chose to keep playing for the ten-million-dollar prize.
• Nick Fury reprimanded Du Mu for his dog mask and unusual outfit after Du Mu questioned suspicious expenses in a S.H.I.E.L.D. budget report.
• Nick Fury told Du Mu that Tony Stark had disappeared after an attack in the Middle East and ordered him to investigate in Afghanistan and bring Stark back if he was alive.
• Du Mu received the main storyline mission, Birth of Iron Man, and became excited that the game’s main quest had finally begun.

Du Mu jumped from a Quinjet into the desert and tracked Tony Stark to a terrorist camp, where Tony and Dr. Yinsen were preparing to escape in a suit of armor. The chapter ended as Du Mu emerged from a square hole in the cave floor and found Tony.

• Coulson briefed Du Mu on the discreet search for Tony Stark, but Du Mu jumped from the Quinjet without a parachute and used his Leap of Faith skill to land safely in a haystack.
• Du Mu used the system to mark Tony's location and followed the marker to a guarded camp hidden in a valley.
• Tony and Dr. Yinsen worked in a cave to finish assembling Tony's armor and planned to escape before the terrorists grew more suspicious.
• A strange digging sound came from beneath the cave floor, and Du Mu popped his head out of a square pit and announced that he had found Tony.

Du Mu encountered Tony Stark and Yinsen in the cave where Tony was building his armor, then accepted a quest to save Yinsen as terrorists attacked. He headed out to intervene, leaving Tony to start the unfinished armor’s power system.

• Du Mu climbed out of a pit and introduced himself to Tony as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, after accidentally presenting several wrong business cards.
• Tony and Yinsen prepared to defend the cave when terrorists approached, and their entrance bombs killed several attackers.
• Tony ordered Yinsen to start the unfinished armor while Yinsen rushed outside to hold off the terrorists.
• Du Mu watched casually until Tony asked him to stop Yinsen, and the system issued a quest to ensure Yinsen survived.
• Du Mu accepted the quest for its rewards and declared that he would save Yinsen.

Du Mu rushed to save Yinsen and fought through the terrorists using his Eye of Death skill. He rescued Yinsen from an ambush, then killed the bearded man holding him hostage with a pistol drawn from storage.

• Du Mu saw that Yinsen was near death and ran toward his marked location.
• Du Mu activated Eye of Death and shot terrorists blocking his way through the passage.
• Du Mu reached Yinsen, who warned him of an ambush, and used the minimap to shoot the hidden terrorists.
• A bearded terrorist took Yinsen hostage and demanded that Du Mu drop his pistol.
• Du Mu tossed away his pistol, drew another from storage, and shot the bearded terrorist.

Du Mu healed Yinsen and joined Tony Stark in fighting their way out of the cave. Tony became pinned down by heavy gunfire, and Du Mu produced a Gatling gun as the battle escalated.

• Du Mu used biochemical hand sanitizer to heal Yinsen, completing the side quest and receiving rewards.
• Tony emerged in his rough Steel Armor, saw the dead terrorists, and went outside to confront the remaining attackers.
• The terrorists opened fire on Tony, and he used the armor’s flamethrowers to drive them back.
• Heavy machine-gun fire broke the Steel Armor’s right-leg track, leaving Tony pinned down as a terrorist aimed an anti-tank rocket at him.
• Du Mu shot the rocket launcher’s carrier, then summoned a six-barreled Gatling gun, leaving Tony stunned.

Du Mu rescued Tony Stark from the terrorists, destroyed the camp’s Stark Industries weapons, and completed the main quest. After receiving a huge reward, he told Coulson he could no longer return to S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Du Mu used his Gatling gun to kill the terrorists and free Tony Stark and Yinsen.
• Tony asked Du Mu to destroy the Stark Industries weapons, and Du Mu planted a remote-controlled bomb among the Jericho Missiles.
• Du Mu detonated the weapons after Tony and Yinsen ran clear, then Coulson arrived to take Tony back.
• Du Mu received 10,000 experience points and several rewards for completing the main quest.
• Du Mu told Coulson to inform Nick Fury that he could not return.

After receiving a day off from Nick Fury, Du Mu explored S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters and stumbled into a meeting with Alexander Pierce, who revealed that Du Mu was a Hydra sleeper agent. Pierce activated him and assigned him to monitor Nick Fury.

• Nick Fury gave Du Mu a day off after agreeing to stop assigning him low-value missions.
• Du Mu explored S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters and entered Pierce's office, where Agent Sitwell was reporting to him.
• Du Mu stole Sitwell's wallet, and Pierce recognized Du Mu as a capable S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• Pierce revealed that he was Hydra and that Du Mu was a Hydra sleeper agent planted in S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Pierce activated Du Mu and assigned him to report details of Nick Fury's assignments and unusual movements.

Du Mu met lawyers Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock in a Hell’s Kitchen restaurant and realized Matt was far more perceptive than an ordinary blind man. After Du Mu asked about Joseph Harro, Matt identified him as Hammerhead, a dangerous Maggia boss, and Du Mu left to pursue his business.

• Du Mu watched Tony Stark announce that Stark Industries would shut down its weapons division while angry shareholders complained in a restaurant.
• Du Mu noticed Matt Murdock catch a falling cup despite being blind and joined Matt and Foggy Nelson at their table.
• Du Mu paid Foggy for friendship, asked whether a pregnant woman carrying twins counted as a brawl, and tried to pickpocket Matt before Matt caught him.
• Matt asked why Du Mu had come to Hell’s Kitchen, and Du Mu said he was looking for a man called Iron Head.
• Matt identified the man as Joseph Harro, the Maggia boss known as Hammerhead, and warned Du Mu that he was extremely dangerous.
• Du Mu left the restaurant, and Foggy pointed out that he had not paid for his food.

Du Mu used his gambling skill to win millions at a Maggia club in Hell’s Kitchen, then robbed the casino when its men tried to move him to a private room. Inside the club, Hammerhead learned of the robbery just after boasting that nobody could threaten the Maggia.

• Du Mu passed the club’s security check and sat down at a casino table, where he persuaded the dealer to play high or low.
• Du Mu used his gambling skill to win repeatedly, amassing hundreds of thousands of dollars in chips before winning tens of millions on a three-of-a-kind bet.
• A Maggia enforcer tried to escort Du Mu to the VIP room, but Du Mu demanded a hundred million dollars and declared a robbery with his Golden Desert Eagle.
• Wesley urged Hammerhead to cooperate with Kingpin and offered help against the Demon Gang, but Hammerhead refused and insisted the Maggia could not be challenged.
• One of Hammerhead’s men burst into the private room and reported that someone was robbing the club.

Du Mu confronted Hammerhead in a Maggia hideout and defeated his gang with his shooting skills. After discovering that Hammerhead’s alloy skull resisted bullets, Du Mu shot him in the leg instead and left him incapacitated.

• Hammerhead learned that one intruder had taken on the Maggia and killed more than thirty of his men, then ordered his remaining gangsters to attack Du Mu.
• Du Mu burst into Hammerhead’s room, revealed that he had come to arrest him, and shot down the gangsters while Wesley hid.
• Hammerhead charged Du Mu and boasted that bullets could not hurt his alloy-reinforced head.
• Du Mu shot Hammerhead in the leg, explaining that he had no reason to keep shooting someone called Iron Head in the head.

Du Mu dragged the defeated Hammerhead through an alley, dismissing the lives of his victims as mere data. Daredevil confronted him, and Du Mu killed Hammerhead in front of him, leaving the vigilante horrified.

• Du Mu shot Hammerhead’s legs until he collapsed, while Wesley hid beneath a sofa and watched.
• After Du Mu dragged Hammerhead away, Wesley called Kingpin and reported that a lone man had destroyed the Maggia and claimed to be with the NYPD.
• Du Mu complained that the system’s map teleportation could not carry living beings or heavy objects, then considered cutting Hammerhead into pieces to transport him.
• Daredevil attacked Du Mu with a baton, but Du Mu shot it out of the air and refused to hand Hammerhead over.
• Daredevil accused Du Mu of being no real cop and asked how many people he had killed; Du Mu said they were just data.
• Du Mu shot Hammerhead dead to avoid the trouble of dragging him, leaving Daredevil frozen in shock.

Du Mu fought Daredevil, revealed that he knew Matt Murdock’s secret identity, and argued with him about whether criminals should face the law. The chapter ended with Du Mu beheading Hammerhead and teleporting away with his head, leaving Matt beside the corpse.

• Daredevil attacked Du Mu, but Du Mu injured him with a Muay Thai strike and forced him to retreat.
• Du Mu identified Daredevil as Matt Murdock from the name above his head, and Matt admitted that his heightened senses let him navigate despite being blind.
• Matt accused Du Mu of murdering Hammerhead, while Du Mu defended killing crime bosses instead of trusting the legal system.
• Du Mu asked Matt what he would do if Hammerhead had killed Foggy, then implied he might kill Foggy himself.
• Du Mu beheaded Hammerhead and vanished with the head, leaving Matt alone in the alley.

Du Mu accepted Nick Fury’s mission to monitor Tony Stark and chose to approach him by applying for a bodyguard job. He broke into Tony’s Malibu laboratory, where Tony recognized him as the man who had attacked Happy.

• Nick Fury assigned Du Mu to go undercover near Tony Stark and report on his actions.
• Du Mu decided to skip the conventional route through Stark Industries and make himself Tony’s bodyguard instead.
• Tony worked on the Mark III armor and learned that Happy was in the hospital after an attack by a man matching Du Mu’s description.
• Du Mu entered Tony’s laboratory through the ceiling, and Tony recognized him as Happy’s attacker.
• Du Mu told Tony he was there to apply for a bodyguard job.

Du Mu became Tony Stark’s bodyguard after Tony’s other guards were hospitalized, then drove him to a high-profile event at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The chapter ended with Du Mu trading an awkward joke with a blonde woman who approached him at the party.

• Du Mu denied attacking Happy, but Jarvis reported that Tony’s twelve other bodyguards had also been hospitalized by someone matching Du Mu’s description.
• Du Mu warned Tony that hostile investors might target him, and Tony reluctantly hired him as a bodyguard.
• Du Mu drove Tony at extreme speed to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where reporters swarmed Tony on the red carpet.
• Obadiah Stane met Tony and asked about Du Mu, whom Tony introduced as his new bodyguard.
• Tony went to flirt with his assistant, Potts, while Du Mu stayed at the party.
• A blonde woman approached Du Mu and asked if he had come alone, and he replied that a half-man would scare her to death.

Du Mu continued guarding Tony and accepted a mission to uncover a weapons leak inside Stark Industries. He disguised himself as Stane to enter headquarters, then ordered the employees to work overtime as he headed toward Tony’s restricted office.

• Du Mu told Coulson that the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who had posed as crazed stockholders were gone, and continued lounging at Tony’s mansion.
• Tony finished the Mark III and asked Du Mu to infiltrate Stark Industries, hack Tony’s computer, and copy recent weapons manifests.
• Du Mu entered Stark Industries headquarters but found the security and crowds made it difficult to reach the restricted top floor unnoticed.
• Du Mu used a Disguise Mask to take Stane’s face and a voice changer to imitate his voice.
• The employees greeted Du Mu as Stane, and he told them they could stay late and work overtime of their own free will.

Du Mu uncovered evidence that Stane had arranged Tony’s kidnapping and was building the Iron Monger, then rescued Tony after Stane stole his reactor. As Tony prepared to fight back, the system announced a BOSS event targeting Iron Monger Stane.

• Du Mu used Stane’s identity to access Tony’s office, found evidence of Stane’s crimes and Iron Monger project, and reported it to Nick Fury.
• Du Mu copied the files, diverted a fifty-million-dollar research budget to his own account, and evaded Stane’s assistant, who was also Stane’s daughter.
• Du Mu broke into Tony’s mansion and replaced the reactor in Tony’s chest after Stane stole Tony’s new one.
• Du Mu gave Tony the evidence, completed the mission, and watched Tony head to the lab to put on his Mark III armor.
• The system announced a BOSS event, tasking Du Mu with defeating Iron Monger Obadiah Stane.

Stane attacked Tony in the Iron Monger, overpowering his low-energy Mark III and preparing to finish him with a missile. Du Mu intervened by batting the missile away with a Frying Pan and stood unharmed in front of Tony.

• Coulson and his S.H.I.E.L.D. agents searched Stane's secret facility, but Stane escaped in the Iron Monger after injuring an agent and smashing through a wall.
• Stane rampaged onto the road, where Tony arrived in the Mark III and collided with him.
• Stane taunted Tony and attacked with a Gatling gun, while Tony's energy fell to 18%.
• Stane knocked Tony down, stomped him, and threw the Mark III into a bus before aiming an anti-tank missile at him.
• Du Mu appeared in front of Tony and destroyed the missile with a Frying Pan, emerging unharmed.

Du Mu and Tony fought Stane in the Iron Monger armor, which proved too durable for their attacks. Du Mu lured Stane to a prepared location and used an RPG to drop him into a chamber packed with TNT.

• Stane attacked Du Mu, but Du Mu dodged the Iron Monger's blows and Gatling fire while Tony's missiles failed to damage the armor.
• Du Mu told Tony to keep Stane busy and lure him to a location outside the city, then left to prepare his plan.
• Stane battered Tony's Mark III until its energy was nearly depleted, then pursued him to the designated location.
• Stane grabbed Tony and nearly crushed him, but Tony escaped with his thrusters as his armor's emergency power activated.
• Du Mu fired an RPG at the ground beneath Stane, sending the Iron Monger into an underground chamber filled with blocks labeled TNT.

Du Mu killed Obadiah Stane after the Iron Monger survived a massive explosion, then received a Vanguard-class Titan as a reward. After Tony Stark revealed he was Iron Man and Du Mu completed his surveillance assignment, Nick Fury sent him to investigate more than a hundred disappearances in the Bronx.

• Du Mu and Tony escaped the explosion, but Stane emerged from the crater in his damaged Iron Monger Armor.
• When Stane threatened them, Du Mu shot him in the forehead and claimed the rewards for defeating the Iron Monger, including a BT-7274 Vanguard-class Titan.
• Tony mourned Stane, and Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D. team arrived; they discovered the Reactor was missing from the Iron Monger's chest, though Du Mu denied stealing it.
• The next day, Tony announced that he was Iron Man, and Nick Fury ended Du Mu's surveillance assignment.
• Nick Fury assigned Du Mu to investigate more than a hundred missing people in the Bronx.

Du Mu followed a mission clue to an underground bar, where a red-haired woman revealed herself to be a vampire and attacked him. He beat her down and demanded answers, leaving her pleading to talk.

• Du Mu followed a brown-haired man and a rune-covered girl to a members-only underground bar.
• Du Mu entered the bar, where a red-haired woman flirted with him and led him into a restroom stall.
• The red-haired woman revealed her fangs and lunged at Du Mu.
• Du Mu struck the vampire with an elbow, then repeatedly beat her until she cried out that she was a vampire and promised to talk.

Du Mu learned that vampires were behind the Bronx disappearances and received a quest to eliminate them across New York. When vampires attacked a bar, he discovered his Watermelon Knife could kill them with a single slash.

• Du Mu questioned a red-haired vampire, who revealed that Frost had authorized vampires to hunt humans and that the disappearances were connected to their attacks.
• The system completed Du Mu’s missing-persons quest, rewarded him with a Nichirin Blade, and assigned him the Vampire Sweep quest.
• Du Mu asked the red-haired vampire to prove Goldbach’s conjecture, then left the restroom without her.
• Vampires erupted across the bar, attacking and killing the humans inside.
• A vampire charged Du Mu, and he decapitated it with his Watermelon Knife, causing it to burn to ashes and stunning the others.

Du Mu slaughtered vampires across New York, earning the name Vampire Slayer, until he met Blade outside a guarded nightclub. Blade proposed working together to find Deacon Frost’s subordinate in exchange for more vampire hideout locations, and Du Mu agreed.

• Du Mu killed the vampires in an underground bar, then used information from a captive to mark vampire gathering places across New York.
• Du Mu spent three days and nights raiding more than ten hideouts, killing over four hundred vampires without drawing ordinary people’s attention.
• Du Mu found that security at a nightclub had increased and met Blade, who introduced himself as a vampire hunter seeking Deacon Frost’s subordinate.
• Blade offered Du Mu the vampires inside the hideout and information about more locations in return for help finding Frost’s subordinate, and Du Mu accepted.

Du Mu and Blade raided a vampire nightclub, where they fought through the club’s vampires and confronted Quinn. Blade ran out of silver buckshot because it cost too much, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Du Mu and Blade agreed that Du Mu would get all the heads, then entered the nightclub and killed or subdued the vampires guarding it.
• The two infiltrated the club, where they found vampires dancing beneath sprinklers that poured blood.
• The vampires recognized Blade and Du Mu, panicked, and attacked after the pair blocked their escape.
• Blade and Du Mu fought through the vampires until Quinn emerged with more than a dozen armed followers.
• Blade fired silver buckshot at the attackers, then stopped when he realized the bullets cost too much.

Du Mu and Blade defeated Quinn’s vampires, then teamed up so Blade could search for Frost while Du Mu hunted vampires. Du Mu discovered that raising an NPC’s affinity could let him take their equipment, and promptly became eager to help Blade.

• Du Mu bought Blade’s shotgun and used it, grenades, and precise shots to kill the vampires, while wounding Quinn and leaving him for Blade.
• Du Mu finished another vampire, then killed Quinn to bring his vampire kill count to 666.
• Blade revealed that Frost had killed his biological mother and planned to search Frost’s territory; he accepted Du Mu’s offer to team up.
• The system formed a party between Du Mu and Eric Brooks, and Du Mu discovered that sufficient NPC affinity could let him remove their equipment.
• After arranging to meet again, Blade recovered his silver shells and sold Du Mu specialized vampire-fighting gear for cash.

Du Mu completed the Vampire Sweep quest and joined Blade to infiltrate Deacon Frost’s heavily fortified base. After fighting through the building, Du Mu found no sign of Frost, while Blade reported that his dead mother had come back to life.

• Du Mu and Blade’s vampire-killing spree earned them the nickname Black and White Duo, and Du Mu completed the Vampire Sweep quest with 1,234 kills.
• Du Mu accepted the Blood God Ritual quest to stop Deacon Frost and teamed up with Blade to attack Frost’s base.
• Du Mu used his Gravity Boots to climb the building’s wall, then ambushed vampires at a rooftop party with flashbangs and silver bullets.
• Du Mu fought through an armed vampire unit using a Concentrated Garlic Grenade, then searched the upper floors but could not find Deacon Frost.
• Blade told Du Mu over the communicator that his dead mother had come back to life.