Vol. 5Machines and Rising Threats

Lin Chen expanded his business and military influence, protected his growing family, and used advanced technology to answer threats at home and abroad. After a Genetic Soldier outbreak devastated East Sakura Country, he joined negotiations to lease it Mechanical Leopards, but its representative rejected his terms.

  • Lin Chen killed Wu Bin, uncovered the Fuuma Ninja Organization’s role in the attack on him, and pressed East Sakura Country’s tycoons for revenge and compensation.
  • Lin Chen released an affordable Type V Influenza medicine, expanded his investments, prepared for his son’s birth, and reopened his private kitchen to build influential connections.
  • Lin Chen developed new technologies and companies, secured overseas business and military contracts, and moved his family into an Imperial Capital villa.
  • After a US-backed attempt disrupted his port deal, Lin Chen used Black Emperor to force US consortiums to pay 80 billion dollars, then restored their network as the financial damage remained.
  • Lin Chen funded student aid, exposed East Sakura Country’s human experiments, retaliated against the Aso Family, and developed advanced Mechanical Leopards.
  • Lin Chen fortified his family’s villa, warned Count Barlow against Europe opposing Huaxia, and considered how to recover Chinese cultural relics held abroad.
  • Lin Chen welcomed his son Lin Dongyao, protected his family and border forces with Mechanical Leopards, and warned of a Genetic Soldier outbreak.
  • As infection spread through East Sakura Country, Lin Chen joined negotiations and proposed leasing it thirty thousand Mechanical Leopards for twenty years, but Takashima-gawa rejected the terms.
Chapters 401–500 Read from ch. 401

Arc 17Bounties, Medicine, and Family

Lin Chen stopped the assassins targeting him, developed an affordable flu medicine, and negotiated an end to the bounty campaign. As his family prepared for a new baby, he expanded his investments, treated relatives, and reopened his private kitchen to build influential connections.

  • Wu Bin held residents hostage while demanding Hu Jing’s release, and Lin Chen went to Jiayuan Residential Community and shot him dead.
  • Lin Chen identified the poison used by the East Sakura Country ninjas and gave Sirius an antidote, then uncovered the Fuuma Ninja Organization’s role in the attack.
  • Lin Chen placed bounties on East Sakura Country’s tycoons, and after several deaths he demanded Aso Yuu’s death, the Ishihara Family’s destruction, and ten billion US dollars in compensation.
  • Lin Chen developed and released an affordable medicine for Type V Influenza, then forced Joseph to admit he had funded a campaign to discredit it.
  • Lin Chen arranged a 150-billion-yuan loan and transferred 200 billion yuan to Xu Xiangyang for overseas ports and mines, while also offering the state patents for medicines he had developed.
  • Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao and Lin Xiaoqian that the baby was a boy, and Xu Mengyao’s family and Lin Hai began meridian-expansion treatments with him.
  • Lin Chen set a five-million-dollar price for meals at his reopened private kitchen, and Ye Hong collected requests from wealthy callers for him to review.
  • Lin Chen added influential prospects to his Contacts and confirmed a reservation with McQuill, who sought help for an illness hospitals could not treat.
Chapters 401–425 Summaries Read

Arc 18The Black Emperor Crisis

Lin Chen expanded his influence through new technologies, business deals, and military contracts while building a life with his family in the Imperial Capital. After a US-backed attempt to disrupt his port deal, he used Black Emperor to force the American consortiums to pay, leaving the US network restored but its financial system shaken.

  • McQuill visited Lin Chen, who promised to cure him and negotiated Australian mining rights worth 460 billion yuan, while giving China a new lightweight alloy and beginning work on Stealth Ion Shield Technology.
  • Lin Chen rejected Jared’s offer to join Skull and Bones, warned the group after Joseph threatened his family, and helped secure the Australian mining deal by threatening a hacker attack on the US banking system.
  • Lin Chen established Yanhuang Security Company with plans for ten thousand recruits and arranged weapons and equipment, while Hayel agreed to buy a Camel Country port and discussed cooperation.
  • Lin Chen taught Xu Mengyao meditation and yoga, founded Yanhuang Robotics Company, and designed Mechanical Leopards that he tested before selling them to Kawad and Yang Jianghong’s battalion.
  • Lin Chen demonstrated his martial arts and shooting abilities to soldiers, sent Stealth Ion Shield Technology to Xu Xiangyang, and moved his family into the Imperial Capital villa.
  • After a crowd tried to rush Lin Chen’s eastern Mediterranean port, he slowed US networks with a virus, and Xu Xiangyang reported evidence of US involvement in the unrest.
  • Lin Chen negotiated with Robert as Black Emperor demanded payment, and the US consortiums agreed to pay 80 billion dollars after major stock market losses.
  • Lin Chen alerted Xu Xiangyang before Black Emperor restored the US network, but the market’s lost capital remained and confidence in the US financial system was damaged.
Chapters 426–450 Summaries Read

Arc 19A Hidden Fortress and New Threats

Lin Chen used his wealth and technology to support students, disrupt East Sakura Country’s human experiments, and build a heavily defended home while developing advanced robots. The arc left him warning Europe against opposing Huaxia and considering how to recover Chinese cultural relics held abroad.

  • Lin Chen revealed his extraordinary abilities to Old Man Li, donated five billion yuan to student aid, and helped struggling students continue their education.
  • Lin Chen and Little Bei exposed East Sakura Country’s human experimentation sites, prompting the destruction of one base, while Lin Chen killed an attacker enhanced by Genetic Potion.
  • Lin Chen retaliated against the Aso Family by taking its members’ personal deposits and forcing Aso Taiko to die, then began investing the recovered money through Little Bei.
  • Lin Chen acquired and stored a heavily armed submarine, advanced his Robotics Technology, and tested New Model Mechanical Leopards that helped police kill six criminals.
  • Lin Chen moved his family into a fortified villa, equipped it with drones and Mechanical Leopards, and activated Housework Robots for household chores.
  • Professor Fukuyama’s Genetic Potion Zero experiments created blood-dependent subjects with enhanced strength, but the test subjects suffered severe mutations and died.
  • Arman and Count Barlow offered Lin Chen a ten-billion-dollar settlement and antique gifts, and Lin Chen accepted the settlement against the port purchase agreement.
  • Lin Chen warned Count Barlow that Europe should not oppose Huaxia, then appraised the antiques and considered improving his skill to help recover Chinese cultural relics from overseas.
Chapters 451–475 Summaries Read

Arc 20Birth, Outbreak, and Negotiations

Lin Chen welcomed Lin Dongyao, equipped his family and border forces with Mechanical Leopards, and dealt with threats at home and abroad. As a deadly infection ravaged East Sakura Country, Lin Chen joined negotiations over Chinese aid and a proposed Mechanical Leopard lease.

  • Lin Chen and Xu Mengyao named their newborn son Lin Dongyao, while Lin Chen learned that caring for him could generate Enhancement Value.
  • After intelligence revealed secret research and disappearances in East Sakura Country, Lin Chen warned of Genetic Soldiers and a possible outbreak, then brought Mechanical Leopards home for protection.
  • Lin Chen supplied Luo Xuanrui with jungle-camouflaged Mechanical Leopards, and four units killed or captured all forty-seven armed drug traffickers at a border ambush.
  • Lin Chen’s daughter Lin Xiaoqian started kindergarten, and after Shasha’s mother refused to apologize for her daughter’s bullying, the Song Family and its allies moved against the He Family.
  • Lin Chen’s Tai Chi reached Mythical level, while Lin Dongyao began speaking, and soon afterward, escaped Genetic Soldiers triggered a spreading infection in East Sakura Country.
  • China evacuated its citizens as Lin Chen advised Xu Xiangyang on stock trades and explained that bites spread the infection, while warning that East Sakura Country could lose one to two million people.
  • East Sakura Country accepted costly US assistance, but infected attackers breached an understaffed US base and killed more than a hundred people.
  • Lin Chen joined Chen Guoxiang’s negotiating team and proposed leasing East Sakura Country thirty thousand Mechanical Leopards for twenty years, but Takashima-gawa rejected the terms.
Chapters 476–500 Summaries Read
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