Chapter Summaries

Du Mu defeated two Life-Model Decoys, obtained the second Darkhold Fragment, and learned from Skye how Aida was replacing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. After accepting Skye’s quest to eliminate the impostors, he joined her in hunting them and reached an isolation room filled with Skye lookalikes.

• Du Mu incapacitated Fake Coulson and Fake Mace, stored the Life-Model Decoys, and received the second Darkhold Fragment from a Shadow Soldier.
• Skye attacked Du Mu with shock waves, but he restrained her with black tentacles and made her explain Aida’s plan to replace S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with Life-Model Decoys.
• Du Mu shot fake Mack after identifying him as a robot, then accepted Skye’s quest to eliminate the impostors.
• Du Mu told Skye he came from a parallel time, showed her his Level 9 S.H.I.E.L.D. badge, and agreed to help her hunt the robots.
• Du Mu and Skye fought their way deeper into S.H.I.E.L.D. and found an isolation room full of robots resembling Skye.

Du Mu uncovered the Framework plot and learned that replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were trapped in a virtual world, then volunteered to help rescue them. When Skye said he had no virtual copy to enter the Framework, Du Mu introduced his AI, Ultron, as a way to create an account.

• Du Mu sent Shadow Soldiers to destroy the remaining Life-Model Decoys and assigned all eight free attribute points to Constitution and Speed, unlocking the Godlike skill.
• Skye returned with Simmons, who explained that Aida had uploaded the replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. agents’ consciousnesses into the Framework and blocked their real-world memories.
• Du Mu received the T-800 reward for completing “Find the Impostors” and accepted the next mission, “The Matrix,” to rescue the trapped agents.
• Skye proposed entering the Framework to guide the agents through a backdoor, but warned that dying inside could kill them in reality.
• Du Mu offered to enter the Framework, and when Skye said he lacked a virtual copy, he introduced his AI, Ultron.

Du Mu entered the Framework World with Skye and Simmons to investigate Aida’s altered reality, where Hydra ruled and S.H.I.E.L.D. was forbidden. He began trying to convince Coulson that his life was a simulation, but Coulson panicked when Hydra came to arrest him and failed to escape through a twelfth-floor window.

• Simmons showed Du Mu and Skye a robotic impostor of Fitz, then helped them use the equipment to enter the Framework World.
• Ultron created a basic body for Du Mu and unlocked peak-human strength, while Du Mu stole a loader to reach Skye and Simmons.
• Skye and Simmons told Du Mu that Hydra ruled the Framework World and that Coulson and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had forgotten their real identities.
• Du Mu messaged Coulson, warned him that Hydra would arrest him, and showed him a video of his real S.H.I.E.L.D. self.
• When Hydra agents stormed Coulson’s home, he tried to follow Du Mu’s advice to escape through the window but ended up crouching on the floor with his hands over his head.

Du Mu rescued Coulson from a Hydra convoy, then convinced him that their world was a virtual prison and offered him a choice between staying or returning to reality. After a news bulletin identified them as wanted criminals, Coulson chose to leave with Du Mu, who said they first had to rescue other trapped S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from Hydra headquarters.

• Hydra agents arrested Coulson as a suspected S.H.I.E.L.D. spy and escorted him toward headquarters.
• Du Mu ambushed the convoy, killed its Hydra escort, and led Coulson to a safe house.
• Du Mu told Coulson that his memories had been altered and that their world was virtual, but Coulson initially chose the Blue Pill and rejected the story.
• After a broadcast named Du Mu and Coulson as wanted criminals, Coulson swallowed the Red Pill and agreed to leave with Du Mu.
• Du Mu revealed that the pills were candy and said they needed to rescue other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents trapped in the virtual world before returning to reality.
• When Coulson warned that Hydra headquarters would be difficult to enter, Du Mu proposed that the two of them fight their way in together.

Du Mu reunited with Skye and Simmons, learned about the surviving S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the virtual world, and planned to gather them and retrieve Fitz and the others. Although he claimed his abilities were sealed, Ultron’s cheats let him wipe out Hydra forces, restore Skye’s powers, and equip the group with combat enhancements.

• Skye told Du Mu and Coulson that Ward was a S.H.I.E.L.D. mole in Hydra and that Director Mace led the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. forces.
• Du Mu told Skye and Simmons to gather the scattered S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and send them back to reality while he and Coulson retrieved Fitz and the others.
• Hydra agents raided the hideout, but Du Mu used Ultron’s auto-blocking and combat assistance to defeat them and the reinforcements outside.
• Du Mu restored Skye’s quake powers and gave Skye, Simmons, and Coulson auto-headshot, infinite-ammo, and enhanced physical abilities.

Du Mu and the others escaped Hydra’s attack with Ultron’s bizarre navigation, then hid in an underground garage. With their identities exposed, Du Mu changed their character models so they could disguise themselves before their next move.

• Coulson and Simmons scored automatic headshots, Skye used the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and Du Mu deflected bullets as they overwhelmed Hydra’s squad and destroyed a rooftop sniper with an RPG.
• When Hydra reinforcements arrived, Du Mu drove the group away in an armed vehicle, following Ultron’s navigation through dangerous back roads that caused many pursuing vehicles to crash.
• Trapped by rush-hour traffic and Hydra agents, Du Mu drove onto the sidewalk and escaped through the crowd, then reached an underground parking garage.
• Du Mu warned that Hydra could identify them again and demonstrated how he could alter his character model, transforming himself into Steve Rogers.
• Du Mu made minor changes to Skye and Simmons’s appearances and gave Coulson a thick head of black hair so the group could go unrecognized.

Du Mu and Coulson stormed Hydra Headquarters to rescue their allies, while Skye and Simmons recruited S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to escape the Framework. After Aida sent May and two powerful men to stop them, Du Mu faced the attackers and revealed that he could block a blade with his bare hand.

• Skye and Simmons convinced Director Mace that the Framework was a virtual world, and he joined their effort to send S.H.I.E.L.D. agents back to reality.
• Du Mu and Coulson crashed a bomb-laden garbage truck into Hydra Headquarters and fought their way through its agents.
• Aida ordered May and two men with unusual code structures to eliminate Du Mu and Coulson.
• The burly man and the fire-wielding man pressured Du Mu while May grappled with Coulson.
• The burly man transformed his fist into a blade and thrust at Du Mu, but Du Mu stopped it with his bare palm and called for Ultron to add points.