Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen founded Yanhuang Robotics Company and met with more than a hundred robotics experts in Magic City, bringing Lin Xiaoqian along to encourage her interest in robots. After the experts demonstrated their creations, Lin Chen played with the robots with her and began improving his Robotics Technology.

• Zhang Yang gathered robotics experts who had joined Lin Chen’s new company, and Lin Chen arrived at the hotel under heavy National Security protection with Lin Xiaoqian.
• Lin Chen introduced the company as Yanhuang Robotics Company and outlined his vision for the robotics industry and the company’s employee benefits.
• The experts demonstrated their robots, and Lin Xiaoqian watched with growing interest.
• Lin Chen played with the robots alongside Lin Xiaoqian, prompting the system to report that his Robotics Technology was improving.
• Lin Chen asked to take the demonstrated robots home for Lin Xiaoqian, and the experts agreed.

Lin Chen designed a mechanical leopard for Kawad’s new robot venture and oversaw the construction of a prototype at Yanhuang Robotics Company. With the prototype built, Lin Chen prepared to remotely install its control system.

• Kawad asked Lin Chen to develop large, capable robots and offered a $500 million deposit, which Lin Chen accepted.
• Lin Chen used his robotics technology and other skills to design a mechanical leopard and sent the plans to Zhang Yang for manufacturing.
• Zhang Yang organized the staff to study the design and build a prototype, while warning them to protect the confidential information.
• Zhang Yang told Lin Chen that the prototype was complete but lacked a control system, and Lin Chen asked him to take it somewhere secluded for activation and remote installation.

Lin Chen activated and tested the Mechanical Leopard, then showed four completed units to the public and described their capabilities to Kawad. Kawad eagerly accepted Lin Chen’s price of two hundred thousand dollars per unit and even asked him to raise it.

• Lin Chen uploaded the control system to the Mechanical Leopard and tested its smooth, quiet movement and speed with Zhang Yang and the company experts.
• Lin Chen told Zhang Yang to optimize the remaining issues, hand-build a few units, and wait to decide on mass production until they had been tested.
• Three days later, Lin Chen received four Mechanical Leopards, let Lin Xiaoqian and nearby children ride them, and told onlookers they would not be sold to ordinary customers.
• After seeing a video of the Mechanical Leopards, Kawad asked when they could be delivered, and Lin Chen explained their speed, range, battery life, and protective capabilities.
• Lin Chen quoted Kawad two hundred thousand dollars per Mechanical Leopard, and Kawad agreed while asking him to raise the price so competitors could not afford them.

Lin Chen sold Yang Jianghong’s Counter-Terrorism Reinforcement Battalion a hundred Mechanical Leopards and delivered them after mass production began. The Leopards arrived as the battalion faced a difficult exercise against the Blue Team, and Lin Chen ordered them to enter the camp.

• Yang Jianghong asked Lin Chen to sell his battalion a hundred Mechanical Leopards, and Lin Chen agreed to prioritize the order once production started.
• Lin Chen’s Production Lines began mass-producing Mechanical Leopards, and the hundred units were finished shortly afterward.
• Yang Jianghong told Lin Chen that the Blue Team had beaten his battalion in an exercise using Poison Gas Bombs and Bacterial Bombs, and Lin Chen said the Leopards would not be affected by them or controlled by the enemy.
• Lin Chen and his companions brought the hundred Mechanical Leopards to Yang Jianghong’s camp, where Yang Jianghong and Zhou Hao welcomed them.
• Lin Chen commanded the Mechanical Leopards to leave the trucks, form up, and enter the military camp.

Lin Chen introduced the Mechanical Leopards to Yang Jianghong’s soldiers and demonstrated their battlefield capabilities. He then sparred with Yan Donghu, leaving the soldiers stunned by his speed and strength.

• Lin Chen explained how the Mechanical Leopards could be commanded and described their armor, carrying capacity, weapons, communications, and intelligence to the assembled soldiers.
• Lin Chen reassured the soldiers that enemies could not control the Mechanical Leopards and answered questions about using them to evacuate injured people.
• Yan Donghu challenged Lin Chen to spar, and Lin Chen accepted despite Yang Jianghong’s concern.
• Lin Chen dodged Yan Donghu’s attacks for a full minute, then struck his fist and left him clutching his injured hand.
• The soldiers stared in disbelief at Lin Chen’s combat ability.

Lin Chen demonstrated his martial and shooting skills to military personnel, then sent the Stealth Ion Shield Technology to Xu Xiangyang. As Xu Mengyao worried about other women and the family moved to the Imperial Capital, Old Man Li invited them to dinner.

• Yan Donghu conceded to Lin Chen in a fistfight, and Lin Chen later defeated Yan Feng in a shooting competition.
• Lin Chen sent Xu Xiangyang the Stealth Ion Shield Technology materials, which could be installed on aircraft.
• Xu Mengyao voiced worries about beautiful women moving into their community, and Lin Chen reassured her and agreed to take the family to the Imperial Capital.
• The system upgraded Lin Chen's System Space to five thousand cubic meters and explained how future upgrades would depend on his children.
• Lin Chen and his family moved to the Imperial Capital villa, where Old Man Li arrived and invited them to dinner.

Lin Chen's family settled into their new home in the Imperial Capital, then he learned that a crowd was threatening one of his ports in the eastern Mediterranean. After deciding to involve the World Police, Lin Chen unleashed a network virus that slowed the United States' internet, leaving its Internet Department scrambling to find the cause.

• Old Man Li invited Lin Chen and his family to dinner, and Lin Hai and Chen Mei agreed to treat him as an ordinary neighbor.
• Chen Mei bathed Lin Xiaoqian while Lin Chen promised to tell her a story, and the family grew comfortable in their new neighborhood over several days.
• Luo Zhang told Lin Chen that an incited crowd was trying to rush a port in the eastern Mediterranean, apparently to force down its sale price.
• Lin Chen told Xu Xiangyang that he would handle the crisis and suggested calling the World Police rather than confronting the civilians directly.
• Lin Chen uploaded a virus that spread only within the United States and caused widespread network lag without damaging computer systems.
• A senior figure in the United States' Internet Department ordered an investigation after the department's own network slowed down.

As the United States struggled to identify the cause of its crippled internet, officials suspected Black Emperor and asked Solina to seek Lin Chen’s help. Xu Xiangyang later told Lin Chen that the port dispute was resolved and the United States had been implicated in the unrest; the internet problem remained unresolved.

• American network experts investigated the sluggish internet but found no cause, and Auston suspected Black Emperor was responsible.
• Auston and Robert discussed the United States’ secret role in stirring unrest near a port and worried that attacking China could worsen the damage.
• Auston decided the United States needed Lin Chen’s help, and Solina called Lin Chen to ask him to contact his hacker fan.
• Lin Chen agreed to pass along the request if his fan contacted him, while warning Solina that the help would probably not be free.
• Xu Xiangyang told Lin Chen that the port matter had been resolved and that investigators had found traces of the United States behind the incident.

Lin Chen negotiated with Robert over the price for Black Emperor to resolve the cyber crisis threatening the United States. As the stock market approached opening, Lin Chen told Robert that Black Emperor had raised his demand to twenty billion US dollars.

• Lin Chen asked Xu Xiangyang to accelerate the state team's research into Stealth Ion Shield Technology and said he expected to develop Force Field Shield Technology himself.
• Lin Chen told Solina to pass his contact information to the Americans handling the crisis, and Robert from the Intelligence Agency called him.
• Lin Chen rejected Robert's request to publicly summon Black Emperor and suggested a reward, then offered to try negotiating Black Emperor's demand down to five or six billion US dollars.
• The United States announced a one-billion-dollar reward, but the crisis continued, and Robert warned officials that Black Emperor might threaten their satellite and missile systems.
• Lin Chen called Robert and said Black Emperor was demanding twenty billion US dollars instead of ten billion.

Lin Chen used Black Emperor’s network attack and the collapsing US stock market to force American consortiums to pay him $80 billion. The network was restored after payment, but the market’s losses and doubts about the stability of the US financial system remained.

• Lin Chen told Robert that Black Emperor demanded at least $10 billion and warned that a war could cripple US networks and banking, while claiming he and Black Emperor belonged to China’s Conservative Faction.
• Robert reported Lin Chen’s demands to the consortium leaders, who refused to pay as the US market opened down three percent and kept falling.
• After the Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and bank stocks plunged, the consortiums agreed to pay $80 billion to stop the damage.
• Robert arranged for the money to be transferred to Lin Chen’s account, and Lin Chen alerted Minister Xu Xiangyang before Black Emperor restored the US network five minutes later.
• The stock market began to rebound, but the lost capital did not return and the attack exposed doubts about the US financial system.

After Skull and Bones counted its enormous losses from targeting Lin Chen, Lin Chen declined a state reward and explained his hidden martial strength to Old Man Li. Old Man Li agreed to keep the secret, then informed several other powerful figures about Lin Chen.

• Furnell told Albert that the operation had cost Skull and Bones at least Fifty Billion US Dollars, and Albert ordered its leaders to avoid rash action while they recovered.
• Xu Xiangyang offered Lin Chen Five Hundred Million from the state's gains, but Lin Chen proposed using it for student aid instead.
• Old Man Li asked whether Lin Chen would enter politics and warned that his immense wealth could attract dangerous attention.
• Lin Chen revealed that he could fly, withstand sniper fire, evade missiles, and live far longer than ordinary people, explaining that his strength—not the Xu Family's backing—had allowed him to reveal himself.
• Old Man Li agreed to keep Lin Chen's abilities secret and told him to use the Five Hundred Million for student aid.
• The next day, Old Man Li told several big shots about Lin Chen, and they remarked that Lin Chen had likely hidden even more.

Lin Chen donated five billion yuan to fund education for outstanding children from poor families, and the charity foundation began publicizing how students could apply. The news gave a poor girl in a northwestern county hope that she could continue her studies.

• Several Chinese officials discussed Lin Chen's strength and agreed that the country should continue protecting him.
• Lin Chen transferred five billion yuan to the Qian Qian Charity Foundation and told Meng Qingsong to use it for poor students' education.
• Lin Chen and Meng Qingsong discussed eligibility for aid, which would cover schooling expenses and support students with strong grades.
• A girl in an impoverished northwestern county told her parents she had scored 113 on her math exam, but worried that her family's finances would prevent her from attending high school.
• After seeing news about Lin Chen's Student Aid Fund, the girl told her father she still wanted to study.

Lin Chen’s Student Aid Fund rapidly approved thousands of applications, while he guided Xu Mengyao and Lin Xiaoqian in their training and studies. The chapter ended with Lin Xiaoqian solving advanced mathematics problems with perfect accuracy, showing the extraordinary talent Lin Chen had cultivated in her.

• Wang Xin’s mother learned that the Qian Qian Charity Foundation had approved twelve thousand yuan per year for Wang Xin’s high school education.
• The foundation quickly approved thousands of struggling students’ applications, and news of the aid spread online.
• Lin Chen received invitations from neighbors after donating five billion yuan to student aid.
• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao to switch to yoga as her pregnancy progressed and told Lin Xiaoqian to practice Ancient Martial Arts Tai Chi instead.
• Lin Chen reminded Lin Xiaoqian to protect herself and her brother without bullying others, then helped her study mathematics.
• Lin Xiaoqian finished difficult mathematics problems with one hundred percent accuracy, and Lin Chen estimated she could master Olympiad-level mathematics before kindergarten.

Lin Xiaoqian began tutoring neighborhood children in math, impressing students from middle school through high school. Lin Chen then learned from Xu Xiangyang that unexplained disappearances in East Sakura Country might be connected to human experiments and a Super Ninja Project targeting him.

• Lin Xiaoqian taught Chen Xiaoran middle-school math problems, and Chen Xiaoran asked to bring her future questions to Qian Qian.
• Word spread that Lin Xiaoqian was exceptionally good at math, and neighborhood children began attending Qian Qin's Little Classroom.
• Lin Xiaoqian solved high-school math problems for students, including difficult questions that stumped a top student’s teachers.
• Xu Xiangyang told Lin Chen that disappearances in East Sakura Country had sharply increased and investigators had found no clues.
• Xu Xiangyang said they suspected East Sakura Country was conducting human experiments for a Super Ninja Project that might target Lin Chen.

Lin Chen used his Artificial Intelligence Little Bei to investigate East Sakura Country’s Super Ninja Project and uncovered two likely underground experiment bases. He planned to draw public attention to the sites by spreading a rumor about ancient tombs filled with gold.

• Lin Chen authorized Little Bei to search East Sakura Country’s networks and found evidence of a human experimentation project to create Super Ninjas.
• Little Bei compared missing-person records and found a sharp recent increase, especially among foreigners living alone, then identified three possible locations linked to the disappearances.
• Lin Chen gave the three addresses to Xu Xiangyang, who arranged for intelligence operatives to collect water samples near each site.
• Xu Xiangyang reported abnormal water quality at the first and second locations, and Lin Chen concluded they could be the main and backup experiment bases.
• Lin Chen proposed that Black Emperor spread a rumor about Golden Ancient Tombs beneath both sites to attract public scrutiny and hinder the bases.

Lin Chen used fabricated images and online rumors about a golden ancient tomb to draw attention to two Secret Bases in East Sakura Country. General Aso escaped with research materials and Agent Zero, while Professor Miyazaki stayed behind as crowds began gathering near the secret passage.

• Lin Chen used Little Bei to create a convincing image of a golden ancient tomb, drawing experts and citizens to East Sakura Country.
• Professor Miyazaki and General Aso discussed the exposed tomb rumor and their First Generation Gene Agent, then learned that the two rumored locations matched their Secret Bases.
• Professor Miyazaki warned that the bases were at risk, gave General Aso a USB Drive and vials of Agent Zero, and explained the agent's effects and mutations.
• General Aso left through a secret passage while Professor Miyazaki stayed behind to continue his research.
• Little Bei identified the area where General Aso had emerged, and Lin Chen spread a rumor that the area held an entrance to the Golden Ancient Tomb.
• A crowd gathered near the passage, leaving General Aso worried that Professor Miyazaki and the others would be unable to escape.

General Kamijima ordered Base One destroyed to conceal East Sakura Country’s human experiments, killing those still inside. Days later, two East Sakura Country operatives arrived in Magic City with Genetic Potion and began preparing to assassinate Lin Chen.

• General Aso warned General Kamijima that the bases’ secret passages and altered wastewater could expose their experiments, while the people inside were running low on supplies.
• General Kamijima received orders to protect the secret and had Base One destroyed despite General Aso’s plea to rescue Professor Miyazaki and the others.
• East Sakura Country blamed an underground collapse on explosives and imposed martial law around the suspected tomb sites.
• Lin Chen discussed the base’s destruction and the likely side effects of East Sakura Country’s Genetic Potion with Xu Xiangyang.
• Two East Sakura Country operatives arrived in Magic City and prepared to use Genetic Potion to strengthen themselves for an assassination attempt on Lin Chen.
• Fujita Maki bound Kagagawa and injected him with the Genetic Potion.

Kagagawa survived the Genetic Potion and gained enhanced abilities, while Fujita Maki died during the procedure. The next day, Kagagawa ambushed Lin Chen’s convoy, but Lin Chen shot him through the eye and continued to his private kitchen.

• Kagagawa endured the Genetic Potion’s painful effects and developed scales on his face, chest, and back as his strength and speed increased.
• Fujita Maki took the Genetic Potion but died when his genes collapsed, and Kagagawa buried him before preparing to kill Lin Chen.
• Kagagawa used thick smoke and an Armor-Piercing Round to attack Lin Chen’s convoy as it traveled to the private kitchen.
• Lin Chen shot Kagagawa through his exposed eye before he could use the Armor-Piercing Round, and the round fell without detonating.
• Lin Chen ordered the agents not to touch Kagagawa’s body and continued to the private kitchen despite Liu Feng’s concerns.

After surviving an attack, Lin Chen reassured Xu Mengyao and waited to see how East Sakura Country would respond. At his private kitchen, he offered to cure Wilfred’s Alzheimer’s Disease in exchange for the Arman family selling him some of its Important Ports.

• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyao he was safe, asked her not to tell Qian Qian about the attack, and said he would return the next day.
• East Sakura Country’s leaders debated whether to retaliate against Lin Chen or compromise, then decided to wait for his next move.
• Arman brought his father Wilfred to Lin Chen’s private kitchen and asked Lin Chen to treat his late-stage Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Wilfred began eating eagerly after tasting Lin Chen’s food, astonishing Arman and the butler.
• After checking Wilfred’s pulse, Lin Chen said he could restore Wilfred to normal within one or two months, then asked Arman to sell him some of the family’s Important Ports.

Lin Chen examined an East Sakura Country ninja and learned its crude Genetic Potion greatly increased strength at the cost of a short lifespan and animal-like changes. He urged Liang Jingtian to expose the danger, then reassured the Xu family and said his humanoid robot project was nearly ready.

• Arman agreed to sign a port-sale agreement after Lin Chen promised to treat his father with acupuncture and help restore his clarity.
• Lin Chen reassured Liang Jingtian that the failed screening before the attack was not his fault, then examined Kagagawa's body and learned it contained fused Animal Genes.
• Lin Chen explained that East Sakura Country's Genetic Potion could make a High-Level Ninja as strong as six or seven ninjas, but users died quickly and remained vulnerable to bullets.
• Lin Chen refused to develop a similar potion, warned that Gene Fusion could threaten humanity's gene pool, and urged Liang Jingtian to report the matter for public exposure.
• Lin Chen visited the Xu Family, reassured Yang Qingyue and Xu Guofeng after the attack, and said his humanoid robot would be ready soon.