Chapter Summaries

Ye Yuan planned to install the Space Gate on Dragon Tomb Island, but first needed to solve the island’s access and storage problems. He bought an Engineering Robot and an Energy Compressor, then left early the next morning to deliver medicine to Li Shiyun and tell her he could not stay on the island that day.

• Ye Yuan decided Fishing Bay Island was unsuitable for the Space Gate and considered leasing Dragon Tomb Island instead.
• Ye Yuan identified the need to open a safe route through the reefs and create accessible storage inside the island’s tomb.
• Ye Yuan searched the store, bought an Engineering Robot for 200,000 points, and bought an Energy Compressor for 500,000 points.
• Ye Yuan delivered traditional Chinese medicine to Li Shiyun the next morning and explained that he could not stay on the island that day.

Ye Yuan brought Ding Er to Pinghai County to lease Dragon Tomb Island, then learned from Zhang Jingkuan that a dinosaur fossil cluster had been discovered offshore. Zhang Jingkuan began explaining that a fossil researcher’s wife had found a stone inside a giant grouper, leaving Ye Yuan astonished by the accidental discovery.

• Ye Yuan took Ding Er to meet Zhang Jingkuan and requested help leasing Dragon Tomb Island for an immersive adventure island.
• Zhang Jingkuan sent Ding Er with his secretary to the Natural Resources Bureau to handle the lease, then told Ye Yuan he knew about the two zodiac heads he had recovered.
• Zhang Jingkuan relayed Old Xu’s reminder about Ye Yuan’s promise, and Xu Hang confirmed by speakerphone that Zhang Jingkuan was one of their own.
• Zhang Jingkuan showed Ye Yuan a map and revealed that a dinosaur fossil cluster had been discovered on the seabed southwest of Fishing Bay Island.
• Zhang Jingkuan explained that a fossil researcher’s wife had found a thumb-sized stone inside a twenty-pound giant grouper.

A dinosaur fossil cluster was discovered in the sea off Pinghai County, and Zhang Jingkuan proposed building an underwater exhibition hall to attract tourists. Ye Yuan supported the idea but warned that it would cost at least 1.5 billion and depend on government approval for a joint venture.

• A researcher found a dinosaur fossil fragment inside a fish, and investigators traced the fish to Pinghai County's waters, where they confirmed a dinosaur fossil cluster.
• Ye Yuan questioned whether the discovery could benefit Pinghai County beyond a small exhibition hall.
• Zhang Jingkuan revealed his plan to build an underwater exhibition hall that would let visitors view the fossils through a giant glass enclosure.
• Ye Yuan explained that the project would require major construction and cost at least 1.5 billion.
• Ye Yuan proposed forming a joint venture with Pinghai County, but said the plan depended on whether higher authorities would approve private-government cooperation.

Ye Yuan secured a twenty-year lease on Dragon Tomb Island and set robots to build a secret base there. He then took Li Shiyun out to sea to visit the vegetable-growing base, leaving her wondering whether it was on an island.

• Ye Yuan arranged favorable lease terms through Zhang Jingkuan, and Ding Er secured Dragon Tomb Island's twenty-year usage rights.
• Ye Yuan deployed an Engineering Robot and a work robot on Dragon Tomb Island, supplying energy so they could begin clearing a navigation channel.
• Ye Yuan told Zhang Wujin to cooperate if the county mayor approached him, then Zhang Wujin left with Zhang Xueshan for Nanlin Island.
• Ye Yuan visited Brother-in-law's mother at the hospital, secretly added Space Water to her drink, and restocked his father's shop before visiting his grandmother.
• Li Shiyun asked about starting a premium vegetable shop, and the next morning Ye Yuan took her by boat with Ding Er toward the vegetable-growing base.
• Li Shiyun asked Ye Yuan whether the base they were visiting was on an island.

Ye Yuan secretly brought Li Shiyun into his space, where she toured an island filled with enormous crops and rare timber. After returning to Fishing Bay Island, Li Shiyun wondered if she could find the island again, while Ye Yuan resolved to keep the space’s secret hidden.

• Ye Yuan arranged a switch between two identical yachts, bringing Li Shiyun and Ding Er into the space while Ding Yi took over the yacht outside.
• Ye Yuan removed Li Shiyun’s blindfold after they reached the space, and she toured the island with him and Ding Er.
• Li Shiyun saw giant vegetables and learned that the island held more than a dozen rare tree species, then asked whether the timber was for sale.
• Ding Er told Li Shiyun that they only sold agricultural products, but promised to give her priority if they ever sold timber.
• After the yacht returned to Fishing Bay Island, Li Shiyun asked Ye Yuan whether they could find the island again, and he warned her not to investigate.

After securing Dragon Tomb Island and receiving coffee seeds from the system, Ye Yuan was summoned by Xu Hang to investigate deadly fish attacks in the Qing River. Experts identified the attackers as Black Violet Piranhas, and Ye Yuan learned the threat had caused several casualties.

• Zhang Xueshan celebrated Li Shiyun’s recovery and gave her a twenty-million check and a valuable painting to return to Ye Yuan.
• Ye Yuan explored the expanded tomb on Dragon Tomb Island, found a bronze vessel, and installed a Space Gate that let Ding Er enter the space directly.
• The system rewarded Ye Yuan with Yunshan Coffee seeds and assigned him a mission to catch 300 tons of fish after the fishing ban ended.
• Ye Yuan stationed six robot guards on Dragon Tomb Island, arranged for Tiger’s Orcas to protect its waters, and prepared to buy a transport ship.
• Xu Hang called Ye Yuan to investigate attacks on swimmers in the Qing River, where a school of Black Violet Piranhas had killed one child and injured others.

Ye Yuan joined Xu Hang and Professor Su Weiguo at the Qing River to catch black piranhas, while Su Weiguo explained that Blue Island’s cold winters would prevent them from becoming an invasive species. As the fishing boat headed upstream, Ye Yuan extended his perception through the river and discovered more than a dozen strange black fish circling a sunken ship.

• Xu Hang brought Ye Yuan to the Qing River, where Professor Su Weiguo and local fishermen had gathered after reports of piranhas.
• Su Weiguo told Ye Yuan that the piranhas were unlikely to survive Blue Island’s cold winters and teased him about catching them.
• Ye Yuan refused Su Weiguo’s request to share any piranhas he caught and headed to Xu Hang’s fishing boat.
• Ye Yuan extended his perception through the river and found more than a dozen black fish swimming around a sunken ship.

Ye Yuan recovered an ancient shipwreck and unusually large piranhas from the Qing River, then arranged for Su Weiguo to examine one of the fish. After returning to Blue Island, Ye Yuan learned Li Shiyun was back from Shangjing with a friend who wanted to meet him.

• Ye Yuan found an ancient cargo shipwreck surrounded by piranhas and collected its crates and strange stones into his space.
• Ye Yuan captured seven piranhas, kept the largest for investigation, and discovered that some of the stones were low-grade Energy Sources.
• Ye Yuan returned to shore with the fish and teased Su Weiguo before leaving one for him through Su Mei to study.
• Ye Yuan went to his family's seafood shop, where Li Shiyun called to say she had returned from Shangjing with a friend.
• Li Shiyun asked Ye Yuan to meet her and her friend after he finished his business in Blue Island.

Ye Yuan met Li Shiyun on Blue Island and learned that her friend Jing Yu was a former soldier whose reaction to Xu Hang suggested she knew him. Li Shiyun outlined plans to sell President Ding’s produce as a high-end brand and asked Ye Yuan to help secure exclusive distribution rights.

• Ye Yuan arrived at Li Shiyun’s hotel and met Jing Yu, whose presence reminded him of Xu Hang.
• Jing Yu shuddered when Ye Yuan mentioned Xu Hang, then returned to her own room.
• Li Shiyun told Ye Yuan that Jing Yu was a formidable former soldier who had been injured.
• Li Shiyun explained her plan to open a shop on Blue Island and expand into the high-end fruit and vegetable market.
• Li Shiyun asked Ye Yuan to secure exclusive distribution rights from President Ding while she handled testing and operations.

Jing Yu reconnected with her former instructor Xu Hang and learned he was working on Blue Island with Ye Yuan, while Xu Hang warned her to keep Ye Yuan’s secrets. Back on Fishing Bay Island, Ye Yuan examined newly developed medicines and discovered that the bronze vessel he had found was a Warring States-era refrigerator.

• Jing Yu called Xu Hang, revealed her code name Huo Luan, and learned that he and former military teammates were working on Blue Island.
• Jing Yu asked Xu Hang about Ye Yuan and described how she had met him; Xu Hang told her to ask nothing, hear nothing, and say nothing about Ye Yuan.
• Ye Yuan left Li Shiyun’s home with the Lady Painting and ten ETA 7750 watch movements, but returned Zhang Xueshan’s twenty-million check.
• Ye Yuan returned to Fishing Bay Island and reviewed the Yang-Boosting Wine and Beauty Nourishing Pills that his robots had developed.
• Ye Yuan searched for information about the bronze vessel from Dragon Tomb Island and learned it was a Bronze Ice Mirror, an early refrigerator from the Warring States period.

Ye Yuan opened the chests he had salvaged from the Qing River, identified a pair of Kirin Horns, and ate Thumb Eels that seemed to improve his Mental Power. After spending five days working in his courtyard, he answered a call from Su Weiguo, who asked why he sounded angry.

• Ye Yuan opened the salvaged chests, finding silver, gold, and a bamboo-slip list that identified the horns as one pair of Kirin Horns, though the list recorded two pairs.
• Ye Yuan stored the sycees and steamed twenty mature Thumb Eels, whose delicious meat left him feeling clear-headed.
• Ye Yuan stayed inside his courtyard for five days, working while Li Hui brought him meals.
• Ye Yuan angrily answered a repeated call from an unfamiliar Blue Island number and learned that Su Weiguo was on the line.

Ye Yuan refused Su Weiguo's request for more fast-growing piranhas, prompting an investigation that uncovered a sunken ship but failed to implicate him. Meanwhile, Ye Yuan finished a collection of elaborate handmade watches, including a special one for Li Shiyun, and admired the watch he made for himself.

• Ye Yuan told Su Weiguo that he had eaten all the piranhas, so Su Weiguo's team decided to dissect their remaining specimen and investigate where they had been found.
• The investigation uncovered a worthless sunken ship, and officials who considered questioning Ye Yuan were stopped by Lan Xianghui, Zhang Jingkuan, and Xu Hang, who provided evidence that Ye Yuan could not have salvaged it.
• Ye Yuan spent days making watches in his courtyard house, keeping Li Hui, Mother Ye, and Niuniu from finding out what he was doing.
• Ye Yuan completed an ornate watch for Li Shiyun, using Kinan Agarwood, a diamond dial, sapphire crystal, gold zodiac hour markers, and sea cowhide.
• Ye Yuan put away the other watches, strapped on his own watch with a carved divine dragon, and saw his unshaven reflection after five days of work.

After finishing a handmade watch for his mother, Ye Yuan rushed to Blue Island when he heard Li Shiyun and Jing Yu had encountered trouble. He found Jing Yu had beaten a group of men, and Li Shiyun worried that he might get hurt.

• Ye Yuan gave Mother Ye a handmade watch, and she happily put it on while Niuniu asked for one too.
• Ye Yuan drove to Blue Island to check on Li Shiyun and surprise her with a watch he had made.
• Li Shiyun told Ye Yuan over the phone that she and Jing Yu had encountered a minor accident, so he hurried to their location.
• Ye Yuan arrived at a shop and saw more than a dozen men down on the floor while Jing Yu confronted the man surnamed Qu.
• Jing Yu knocked Qu unconscious with a kick, and Li Shiyun rushed over to warn Ye Yuan that the men might have hurt him.

Ye Yuan stopped a gang from attacking Jing Yu and learned they had been harassing Li Shiyun over renovation noise. While he waited for Xu Hang, a swarm of oversized bees stung the gang unconscious, and Xu Hang arrived to find the crowd blaming the bees.

• Ye Yuan caught a bat aimed at Jing Yu and knocked the attacker unconscious with a controlled kick.
• Li Shiyun told Ye Yuan that the gang had demanded 100,000 yuan over renovation noise and that Jing Yu had fought them after their lewd remarks.
• Ye Yuan called Xu Hang, sent Li Shiyun and Jing Yu to wait in his car, and stayed outside while the gang regrouped inside.
• A swarm of oversized bees chased and stung the gang, leaving its members sprawled on the ground.
• Xu Hang arrived with two uniformed officers, and witnesses told him that bees had stung the gang.

Ye Yuan and Xu Hang investigated Qu Bo’s disturbance at the shop, and Xu Hang revealed that Qu Bo was Qu Xiao’s younger brother and connected to Lan Xin. Qu Bo apologized to Ye Yuan, while Qu Xiao considered having him detained for extorting people.

• Xu Hang questioned Ye Yuan and took statements from the shop’s witnesses while Ye Yuan pointed out a surveillance camera.
• Li Shiyun showed Xu Hang a phone recording of Qu Bo’s group causing trouble, and Xu Hang explained that Qu Bo had powerful connections.
• Xu Hang told Ye Yuan that Qu Bo was the younger brother of the woman who had helped Ye Yuan with his license plates.
• Ye Yuan left the decision to Xu Hang, who called Qu Xiao to settle the dispute.
• Qu Xiao dragged her injured, bee-stung brother over to Xu Hang and revealed that she considered Ye Yuan her future brother-in-law.
• Qu Bo learned the shop was connected to Lan Xin, apologized to Ye Yuan, and begged him for leniency.

Ye Yuan dealt with Qu Bo’s attack on Li Shiyun’s store, then gave Li Shiyun a handmade watch and delivered produce samples. After preparing supplies, he left Fishing Bay Island with his crew for distant waters, still in a sour mood.

• Qu Xiao insisted that Qu Bo be jailed and warned him not to provoke Ye Yuan or Xu Hang again; she then called her father about the incident.
• Ye Yuan gave Li Shiyun a valuable handmade watch bearing her portrait, and she happily accepted it as a couple’s gift.
• Li Shiyun treated Ye Yuan and Jing Yu to dinner, and Ye Yuan later gave Li Shiyun fruit and vegetable samples for her business.
• Ye Yuan visited his father’s Antique Shop, delivered a watch and more goods, then bought thick ropes for island preparations ahead of typhoon season.
• Li Shiyun saw Ye Yuan off as he sailed from Fishing Bay Island with the crew, and Ye Yuan sent Ma Hua to repaint the deck while the crew avoided his bad mood.

As the Yushui Hao sailed through the Sea of Japan, Ye Yuan spotted signs of a dangerous storm and changed course for Nagasaki Port. During the worsening weather, the ship received a distress signal from a nearby vessel, and Ding Yi established contact.

• Ye Yuan reviewed the voyage route and watched the weather as the Yushui Hao entered the Sea of Japan.
• Ding Yi reported that the air pressure was dropping, and Ye Yuan ordered the ship to head for Nagasaki Port to avoid the approaching storm.
• The wind, rain, and waves intensified, so the crew secured the deck and gathered in the cabin and bridge.
• Wang Husheng served tea and coffee while Ye Yuan, Yu Hongbo, and the others waited out the rough weather.
• The GDSS distress indicator lit up, and Ding Yi used the control panel to contact the vessel in trouble.

Ye Yuan and the Yushui Hao crew rescued eight men from a disabled Huaxia fishing boat in a violent storm using a rope-and-pulley zipline. As Ye Yuan made the final crossing, a wave drove the distressed boat toward capsizing and threatened to pull the Yushui Hao over.

• Ye Yuan ordered the Yushui Hao to locate and approach the distressed Huaxia fishing boat, which had lost power and was taking on water.
• Ye Yuan and the crew rigged a rope between the vessels and used a pulley and life ring to transfer the fishing boat's crew.
• Ye Yuan took charge of the rescue and insisted that the fishing boat's captain and crew leave before him.
• The captain finally crossed to the Yushui Hao, leaving Ye Yuan as the last person on the distressed vessel.
• A wave sharply accelerated the fishing boat's capsizing as Ye Yuan neared the Yushui Hao, so he cut the connecting rope to prevent the two vessels from being dragged under together.

Ye Yuan was injured after cutting the rope to save the Yushui Hao, while Qu Bo remained hospitalized with unexplained bee stings. Qu Xiao blamed her brother’s troubles on his attempt to extort a shop and said he had become infamous across Blue Island.

• Ye Yuan cut the rope to protect the Yushui Hao, was slammed against its railing, and was pulled back aboard by the crew.
• Ma Hua kicked the middle-aged man who had delayed helping, while Yu Hongbo ordered the crew to carry Ye Yuan to his cabin.
• The middle-aged man apologized to Ye Yuan, who told him the accident was not intentional and asked Fatty to prepare ginger soup.
• Qu Bo complained that the hospital could not identify the venom, and the doctor said the bees appeared to be an undocumented species.
• Qu Xiao told Qu Bo and their mother that Xu Hang could not locate the doctor and challenged her mother for excusing Qu Bo’s attempt to extort a shop.

The Xu family warned Lan Xianghui that they would support Ye Yuan if anyone harmed Li Shiyun, while Ye Yuan continued his journey by boat after rescuing another crew. The chapter ended with Ye Yuan watching the rescued fishermen leave, resolved that he would have saved them even without gratitude.

• Online videos of Qu Bo being stung by bees spread, drawing attention to his family and putting his father Qu Wenyuan in an awkward position.
• Xu Hang told Lan Xianghui that Qu Bo had caused trouble at Li Shiyun’s shop and warned that the Xu family would back Ye Yuan if she were harmed.
• Lan Xin asked Xu Hang whether someone should protect Li Shiyun, and he said an expert was already with her.
• Ye Yuan rested aboard the Yushui Hao, which reached Nagasaki Harbor before dawn, and sent Yu Hongbo to arrange a buyer for their small catch.
• Ye Yuan parted from the rescued fishermen at the harbor, and Ma Hua complained that their captain had shown little gratitude.
• Ye Yuan accepted that the captain had not thanked them properly but said he would have rescued them regardless.