Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• In a recorded adventure, Number Zero finds a chained girl, Little Light of the Firmament, in a Heavy Machinery underground base. Though wary of a trap, he chooses to save her, frees her with his mech’s blade, and gives her chocolate.
• The company’s fourth boss, Logistician, tries to reclaim the girl, explaining that she is a star-based life-form whose heart could explode and kill billions. Number Zero refuses, fights him in his red mech, and defeats him through superior piloting skill.
• Before Number Zero can finish the fight, S-Class Hero Hundred-Ton King appears and sends the mech flying with raw strength. Number Zero tries to use his Substitute ability on him but cannot move his immense soul. The recording cuts off just as a larger battle seems imminent.
• Chen Feng returns to the City World and meets Light of the Firmament, who reveals that she is the girl Number Zero saved. She remembers him as her hero, and their affinity quickly rises to adoration.
• At Light of the Firmament’s agency, Chen Feng sees her manager and staff prioritizing profit, publicity, and appearance over her values and well-being. He stops their meeting, throws them out, and takes charge of the Starlight Agency.
• The system registers Chen Feng as a nine-line Hero and grants him a Merit-based promotion-and-funding reward structure. He realizes those rewards can stack with his existing cashback powers, making him delighted by the prospect of enormous wealth.

Character development and interactions

• Number Zero / Chen Feng: Number Zero’s instinct for self-preservation gives way to his ideal of heroism when the girl looks to him for help. In the present, Chen Feng’s blunt, forceful protectiveness resurfaces as he confronts the agency staff and accepts leadership.
• Light of the Firmament: Once a frightened prisoner, she has become a Hero and agency president. She remains devoted to her rescuer, eagerly welcomes Chen Feng, and seeks his approval—but has allowed others to dictate the agency’s choices.
• Logistician: He presents a seemingly reasonable case for taking the girl back, but treats her as company property and becomes hostile when Number Zero refuses.
• Hundred-Ton King: His arrival reveals a formidable new threat, combining cheerful confidence with overwhelming physical strength.
• Agency staff: Sister Qian, the costume designer, and the nutritionist embody the agency’s exploitative priorities. Chen Feng’s confrontation with them restores Light of the Firmament’s authority, though his methods are deliberately violent and domineering.
• The systems: Their playful commentary and bickering interrupt the recorded action and underline the chapter’s self-aware, comedic tone.

Significant themes

• Heroism means helping someone vulnerable despite personal risk or pressure to abandon them.
• Institutions can betray their ideals when money, publicity, and corporate interests take precedence.
• Genuine care is contrasted with treating a person as property, a product, or a marketing tool.
• The chapter mixes high-stakes science-fiction action with comedy, system mechanics, and satire of commercialized hero culture.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After taking control of the District 13 branch of the Starlight Agency, Chen Feng discovers that it employs more than 500 people but has only one Hero: Light of the Firmament. The rest are analysts, procurement staff, administrators, and support workers. The branch cannot afford its payroll, and its permanent employees would make mass layoffs costly and damaging.
• Chen Feng decides to close the existing branch, pay its staff their wages and severance, and establish a new agency rather than try to reform the bloated organization.
• He asks Light of the Firmament about her past. She reveals that, after being teleported to District 14 as a child, she survived by defeating Fly Gang leaders. She also shares the name she chose for herself: Xing Ruo.
• Chen Feng and Xing Ruo set out to recruit a powerful Hero at a bar. On the way, Chen Feng realizes the danger: Xing Ruo encountered Hundred-Ton King during a Hero assessment, and the surrounding clues suggest that Mikili Heavy Machinery has identified her and is targeting the Starlight Agency.
• The chapter then shifts to Opinion Desire’s earlier activities after a time rewind. Using news reports to locate Chen Feng’s likely destination, he plans to exploit a future-known corporate theft and steal World Technology.
• At a Mikili warehouse, Opinion Desire’s ambush turns out to be a trap. Famous A, an S-Class cyborg Hero working for the company, attacks. A uses extreme speed from the Sandevistan 28.0 system and kills Dosipu; Gulibajiki survives the initial assault but is badly injured.
• Opinion Desire resurrects after being killed and uses abilities taken from the deceased brothers Joy at a Glance and Ear-Hearing Fury. He turns A’s body to gold when A feels happiness, then causes him to explode by provoking anger. Opinion Desire concludes that City World’s powerful fighters have little resistance to supernatural abilities.

Character developments

• Chen Feng confronts the practical burdens of running a Hero agency: payroll, staffing, and reputation. Though he briefly regrets not being a villain, he chooses to keep pursuing Hero work because of the rewards it brings.
• Xing Ruo reveals both her fierce independence and her extraordinary childhood power. Her admiration for Chen Feng is also made explicit when she invites him to go drinking.
• Opinion Desire demonstrates patience, strategic thinking, and confidence in his resurrection ability. The battle gives him a major insight into the weaknesses of City World’s combatants.
• Famous A is established as a formidable but vulnerable opponent: his speed, durability, and stamina are extraordinary, but his protection against unusual abilities is inadequate.

Significant themes

• The cost of responsibility: Heroism requires not only fighting villains but also managing people, money, and institutions.
• Power and survival: Xing Ruo’s harsh upbringing made her formidable, while Opinion Desire survives through resurrection and clever use of others’ powers.
• Strategy over raw strength: Opinion Desire wins not by matching A’s speed or physical power, but by exploiting emotional triggers and weaknesses.
• Institutional corruption and exploitation: Mikili Heavy Machinery’s secret technology and its deployment of A reveal the corporate machinery behind City World’s conflicts.
• Changing fortunes: Chen Feng’s optimism about his growing prospects is immediately undermined by the threat gathering around Xing Ruo.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng clashes with finance manager Rhodes over the agency’s staffing and costs, but ultimately orders him to arrange its closure.
• Chen Feng shows concern for Xing Ruo’s past; she corrects his overly familiar nickname by offering her chosen name, and their affectionate rapport grows as they travel together.
• Opinion Desire manages Dosipu and Gulibajiki as useful allies, while concealing how expendable he considers them because they can be restored through a rewind.
• Opinion Desire and Famous A engage in a battle of tactics: A relies on technology and overwhelming speed, while Opinion Desire uses resurrection and emotional manipulation to defeat him.

Chapter Summary: “Million-Scale Extraction”

Key plot points and events

• In a secret warehouse, Opinion Desire and the special-forces captain destroy A10, one of the robot bodies belonging to the seemingly indestructible Famous A. A9 and the researcher called the Architect—Heavy Machinery’s Third Boss—arrive to collect the remains.
• Opinion Desire resurrects again and discovers that the Architect had staged the trap on God’s warning that someone had locked down time and space. The Architect pretends to cooperate, but Opinion Desire sees through his deception. Just as the Architect’s power appears to turn the fight in his favor, time is rewound, sending Opinion Desire back to an earlier moment.
• In District 13, Chen Feng and Light of the Firmament, Xing Ruo, go to the criminals’ Fame Bar to recruit Baomu and another S-class Hero. Xing Ruo changes out of her Hero uniform, but the encounter turns violent: after Steelman harasses her, she melts him and much of the bar with a heat ray.
• Baomu’s unusual ability causes both Chen Feng and Xing Ruo to urgently need the toilet. Chen Feng is flung away to safety, but Xing Ruo’s resulting bodily explosion releases immense heat, killing tens of millions nearby. Her Hero plans collapse, and Chen Feng comforts her, promising to deal with the consequences.
• Chen Feng then exploits time rewinding and his spending abilities to accumulate money and dominate a Heroes-only auction. He wins Premium Pigment and extracts it, along with Xing Ruo, when he returns to his home world.
• At the Happiness Internet Cafe, Mr. Qipa reproduces the extracted Pure Compound. It is upgraded to guarantee a superpower of tier three or higher, with a 100% success rate. The Savior subjects it to numerous tests before finally allowing Chen Feng to receive an injection.

Character developments and interactions

• Opinion Desire is revealed to be extremely difficult to kill, thanks to Cihang’s powerful resurrection methods. He is perceptive enough to recognize the Architect’s false friendliness, but remains caught in events involving the time-space pursuer and Chen Feng.
• The Architect shows himself to be calculating and capable of concealing his intentions while stalling for time. His confidence reflects the City World’s formidable high-priority abilities.
• Chen Feng demonstrates resourcefulness and opportunism, using time rewinds and his financial powers to maximize gains. He also shows compassion toward Xing Ruo, reassuring her rather than blaming her for the catastrophe.
• Xing Ruo displays astonishing speed and power, but her lack of experience with ordinary bodily functions leads to disaster. The deaths devastate her, leaving her afraid that Chen Feng will see her as a monster; his reassurance strengthens their bond.
• Baomu remains a chaotic, hard-to-kill figure whose ability triggers the chain of events at the bar. Mr. Qipa eagerly replicates the compound, while the Savior is suspicious and rigorously verifies it before permitting its use.

Significant themes

• Power and unintended consequences: Xing Ruo’s immense strength cannot prevent a mundane biological effect from causing mass death.
• Resurrection and time manipulation: Characters’ survival depends not only on combat power but on unusual recovery methods and the ability to rewind events.
• Pragmatism and exploitation: Chen Feng turns disasters, auctions, and repeated timelines into opportunities for money and valuable acquisitions.
• Trust and accountability: Xing Ruo’s guilt contrasts with Chen Feng’s support, while the Savior’s distrust of the compound underscores the need to verify even apparently perfect solutions.

Key plot points and events

• Under pressure from Cihang’s hidden followers, Heavy Machinery, and the looming Black Rank Stairway to Heaven incident, Chen Feng injects the Pure Compound and spends a Merit point, hoping to become stronger.
• He meets someone who looks like Number Zero. They discuss Light of the Firmament: Chen Feng suspects she became a Hero to win their approval and reveals that she killed former employees who had offended him.
• The apparent Number Zero urges Chen Feng to stop trying to protect everyone and argues that his teammates may not be able to survive the dangers ahead.
• Chen Feng realizes the visitor is not Number Zero: he knows details Chen Feng never shared. The stranger identifies himself as an evil version of Chen Feng, created by the compound, and says he embodies the impulses Chen Feng normally suppresses.
• The evil double voices Chen Feng’s insecurity that his teammates have surpassed him and that, without the system, he is powerless.
• Chen Feng wakes to find the Happiness Internet Cafe destroyed and his teammates dead. Equipment Amplification claims Chen Feng went berserk and killed them, though they can be restored by reloading a save.
• His system points remain untouched. Chen Feng is left wondering whether he really defeated all his powerful teammates without using them.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Feng confronts his fear of losing his companions, his unease about Light of the Firmament’s devotion, and his doubts about his own strength. His sharp reasoning lets him identify the impostor, but the compound’s effects remain uncertain.
• Evil Chen Feng acts as both a dangerous manifestation of Chen Feng’s darker impulses and a provocateur, pressing on his insecurities and offering to reveal his true power.
• Number Zero appears only as the impostor’s disguise; the two versions of Chen Feng debate morality, loyalty, and whether protecting others has become a weakness.
• Light of the Firmament is discussed rather than present. Her killing of people to please Chen Feng makes him fear she could become cruel or evil if her need for his approval goes unchecked.
• Chen Feng’s teammates are characterized through the impostor’s harsh assessment, which contrasts with Chen Feng’s instinct to protect them.

Significant themes

• Power and identity: The compound may amplify suppressed traits, raising the question of whether strength comes with a loss of control.
• Protection versus acceptance of risk: Chen Feng wants a perfect outcome in which nobody dies, but the impostor argues he cannot shield his companions forever.
• Approval and morality: Light of the Firmament’s actions expose the danger of confusing devotion with virtue.
• Self-doubt: Chen Feng’s belief that his teammates have outgrown him clashes with the unexplained evidence of his apparent strength.

Key plot points and events

• The Pure Compound triggers an evil personality in Chen Feng. The Savior recognizes the danger, but Chen Feng’s Heaven-and-Earth Net Talisman and superior control of time pull the Savior’s hidden true body into the cafe.
• Evil Chen Feng uses Time Stop and overwhelming speed to disable most of the group. He targets Lü Bu by forcing him to kill the Savior, triggering the Savior’s Heartbreak Blessing and stripping Lü Bu of Divine Drive.
• Chen Feng eliminates the Savior’s many backup clones with Pang Tong’s Chain Link Blessing, preventing the Savior from resurrecting. The Light of the Firmament then kills him and withstands his ultimate attack.
• Evil Chen Feng spares Jia Xu, who understands his intentions and plays along. Chen Feng tests his new Superpower, “Were I Once Cihang’s Chief,” briefly impersonating Number Zero to claim a huge grant of System Points from Cihang.
• The borrowed divine power begins transforming him, so he prepares to switch back. After Chen Feng returns to normal, Great Rage Zhao Yun breaks back from another dimension. Chen Feng uses Load Save to restore the cafe and its occupants, though Lü Bu’s lost Blessing remains gone.
• Chen Feng decides to keep the dangerous Pure Compound for possible future use. He refuses to spend a System Point to watch a replay of his evil self’s rampage.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng learns that the Pure Compound can produce a powerful, ruthless alternate personality. His new Superpower exploits Cihang’s affection for Number Zero, but risks turning him into a genuine God’s Chosen.
• The Savior proves exceptionally capable, with powerful defenses, skills, and backups, but is ultimately defeated because Chen Feng anticipates his resurrection strategy and destroys his clones.
• The Light of the Firmament reveals her intense devotion to Chen Feng, rooted in the trauma of her past and her idolization of the Hero who saved her. She follows his command and overpowers the Savior.
• Jia Xu quickly sees through Evil Chen Feng’s plans and cooperates rather than resist, showing his characteristic pragmatism.
• Lü Bu and Zhao Yun suffer the consequences of the fight: Lü Bu loses a key Blessing, while Zhao Yun’s growing strength with rage makes him a threat even to Evil Chen Feng.
• Normal Chen Feng reassures Lü Bu that he may eventually remove the Heartbreak effect, asks the Light of the Firmament to keep the rewind secret, and cleans up the aftermath with Load Save.

Significant themes

• Power and counterplay: Even seemingly unbeatable abilities can be overcome through preparation, timing, and exploiting specific rules.
• Identity and corruption: Chen Feng’s temporary transformation shows how power can blur the boundary between his ordinary self and a dangerous alternate personality.
• Loyalty shaped by trauma: The Light of the Firmament’s devotion is both a source of strength and a consequence of past abuse.
• Comedic contrast: The chapter pairs catastrophic combat with casual banter, mundane concerns, and Chen Feng’s stinginess about spending a single System Point.

Plot and key events

• Chen Feng returns to City World with Mr. Qipa, Light of the Firmament, Ying, and the Jujutsu Sorcerer. A Golden-Haired Monster attacks District 13, but Light of the Firmament effortlessly destroys it.
• Chen Feng lays out three goals: find and eliminate Cihang’s God’s Chosen, get stronger, and rescue their friends in the Chat Group. With no lead on the Chosen, the group focuses on growth and the looming conflict with Mikili Heavy Machinery.
• Heavy Machinery’s technology could provide powerful weapons and enhancements. The company is also expected to target Light of the Firmament within three months, and its missing oil will trigger the Heaven’s Ladder Incident—a Black Rank disaster Chen Feng hopes to use to meet One-Punch Superwoman.
• Chen Feng considers recruiting powerful Heroes and hires the Ridiculous Agency for a one-trillion job. Its nine members possess bizarre but formidable abilities, from summoning an army to surviving extreme acceleration.
• Impressed by the agency president’s claim that he can withstand 6,000 g—and convinced by his dedication to protein powder—Chen Feng promises to fund his training. The president immediately asks whom Chen Feng wants killed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng takes a more strategic, team-oriented approach: he prioritizes allies’ survival, recognizes that recruiting strength can matter as much as gaining it himself, and plans around future events.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer remains boastful and protective, while Light of the Firmament asserts that Chen Feng already has someone to protect him. Their banter underscores their confidence and rivalry.
• Ying contributes crucial intelligence by hacking the Hero Association and identifying an agency willing to take on the corporations for money.
• Chen Feng meets the Ridiculous Agency’s eccentric roster with escalating disbelief, then quickly adapts by offering the president unlimited protein powder in exchange for support.

Significant themes

• Strength through teamwork: Chen Feng seeks powerful allies rather than relying only on personal advancement.
• Preparation and foresight: His plans connect Heavy Machinery, the missing oil, the coming disaster, and the chance to recruit a top Hero.
• Satire and absurdity: The agency’s exaggerated powers and backstories turn superhero conventions into comedy, while the characters treat the impossible as business as usual.

Plot and key events

• Chen Feng warns the Ridiculous Agency that its new job will involve likely deaths, the Four Great Corporations, and a Black Rank disaster. The department chiefs accept: they must protect someone for three months and stop the disaster.
• Chen reveals that Heavy Machinery will lose 5.1 billion tons of crude oil, triggering the disaster. The agency plans to find the stolen oil and investigate Heavy Machinery, while also seeking information about how to fight the Light of the Firmament.
• The team recruits fixer Thirteen by presenting him with the head of Fly Gang leader Fly. For ten million, Thirteen explains that Heavy Machinery’s District 13 chief secretly uses a passage when hosting chef Uncle Hong. Getting to the chef should provide a way into the company.
• On the way, Chen kills several Fly Gang organ traffickers. Lone Wolf cautions that such criminals are a symptom of City World’s deeper corruption. The car radio then plays a revolutionary speech attributed to Silver, a former activist who reportedly died by suicide.
• At the Familiar Restaurant, Chen provokes Uncle Hong by criticizing a meal made from human meat. When Hong appears, the team discovers he is accompanied by a dangerous former Yellow Rank criminal.
• The agency attacks the restaurant’s cannibalistic patrons. Hacker Shadow kills a customer who insulted her, while Lone Wolf rapidly wipes out the rest. The Deadly Poison Master confronts them with a poison-gas attack—but Lone Wolf dismisses the toxin as weaker than his spit.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng leads with confidence and pragmatism: he warns the agency honestly, pays Thirteen immediately, and uses information and controlled provocation to advance the mission. His casual jokes and apparent indifference to violence contrast with the deadly situations around him.
• Lone Wolf combines combat competence with an unusually clear-eyed view of society. Though the others treat him as the agency’s most rational member, he admits that violence alone cannot end the conditions that produce criminals.
• Ying returns to City World because she needs to see the Holy Land for herself, despite once thinking she would never come back. She also helps handle the agency’s payment to Thirteen.
• Hacker Shadow reacts forcefully to being mocked as a machine, shooting the customer who called her a “tin can.”
• Fixer Thirteen initially resists friendship, but quickly accepts Chen’s money and provides useful intelligence. Their exchange turns a grisly gift into a business partnership.
• Rhodes fears that Chen’s overtime pay means he is about to be implicated in a crime. The group also briefly discusses the politically charged broadcast, though Rhodes is anxious to avoid trouble.

Significant themes

• Honor and professional obligation: In City World, accepted jobs must be completed; reputation and keeping one’s word are essential.
• Systemic corruption: Lone Wolf argues that crimes like organ trafficking will persist unless the society that enables them changes.
• Corporate oppression and division: Silver’s speech claims corporations exploit workers and keep them divided through identity-based conflict.
• Dehumanization and hypocrisy: The wealthy patrons’ refined restaurant serves human flesh, exposing the brutality beneath their polished manners.
• Power and perception: The team faces threats that cannot be judged by rank alone, while Lone Wolf’s extraordinary resilience ends the chapter on a comic, ominous note.

Key plot points and events

• Lone Wolf kills Master Toxic Gas by snapping his neck. Scans confirm he is truly dead, and the Great Benefactor System denies Chen Feng a Hero promotion or Merit reward because he acted outside the law. Chen Feng reflects that overwhelming destructive power does not necessarily mean a durable body.
• The group confronts Chef Uncle Hong, who admits he bought people marked for culling and used them as meat. He sincerely believes he helped their families, making him unmoved by Chen Feng’s moral objections or physical violence.
• Chen Feng bargains with Uncle Hong by proposing an unprecedented dish: Uncle Hong’s own flesh. Intrigued, the chef agrees to help, but Chen Feng also has Shadow attach a remote-controlled bomb to ensure he follows through.
• To conceal the deaths and avoid trouble with Heavy Machinery, Chen Feng orders the restaurant set on fire. Madman unexpectedly appears, explaining that his uncontrollable spatial power can send him wherever it chooses.
• While waiting for the weekend, Chen Feng and the Jujutsu Sorcerer undergo Pigment Surgery. Mr. Qipa’s improved technique can now raise defense and speed to City-Burst Rank as well as attack.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is cautious about whether Master Toxic Gas is truly dead, then adapts to Uncle Hong’s stubbornness by using curiosity and coercion rather than more violence. He also recognizes the limits of simple moral appeals.
• Uncle Hong is revealed as a remorseless but sincere utilitarian: he views exploiting the condemned as a way to save their families. His confidence falters only when Chen Feng threatens to destroy his chance to create and taste his ultimate dish.
• Mr. Qipa demonstrates his unusual scientific talent by dramatically improving an ancient procedure in a short time.
• Madman is shown to have a powerful but unpredictable teleportation ability, which he cannot control.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: A character capable of city-scale destruction can still die from a simple physical attack if their defenses are weak.
• Moral ambiguity and self-justification: Uncle Hong sees himself as helping people, while Chen Feng’s sense of justice struggles to answer someone who sincerely believes wrongdoing is worthwhile.
• Pragmatism and coercion: Chen Feng turns the chef’s obsession into leverage, using both persuasion and a bomb to secure cooperation.
• Specialization versus balance: Chen Feng’s reflections suggest that excellence in one attribute is less reliable than strength across the board.

Character interactions

• Shadow and Lone Wolf verify Master Toxic Gas’s death, while Chen Feng repeatedly questions their findings.
• Chen Feng and Uncle Hong clash over the ethics of the chef’s meat trade; after threats and persuasion fail, Chen Feng wins his cooperation by appealing to Uncle Hong’s culinary ambition and attaching a bomb.
• Lone Wolf offers to find interrogation tools, but Chen Feng rejects further violence.
• Chen Feng gives Shadow, Lone Wolf, and Madman orders to burn the restaurant; Lone Wolf then explains Madman’s unpredictable appearances.
• Chen Feng marvels at Mr. Qipa’s improved surgery, and Mr. Qipa confidently insists biology is his specialty.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng and Light of the Firmament fly over District 13 on a Sunday-night date. They discuss the brightly lit Starlight Agency and whether a life of overtime work is really desirable.
• Light of the Firmament admits she became a Hero to see Chen again and makes a direct romantic advance. Chen awkwardly explains her feelings away as the “suspension-bridge effect,” hurting her. He tries to make amends by offering to buy her chocolate.
• Their date is interrupted when Ying and chef Uncle Hong are summoned to Heavy Machinery’s District 13 tower. Ying must infiltrate the company without Uncle Hong’s help.
• Uncle Hong convinces the branch supervisor that he dealt with the witnesses to a fire at his restaurant. While he cooks, Ying disables the tower’s security and hacks its central computer.
• Ying finds secret files suggesting Light of the Firmament may be JXZG-013, a person who disappeared twenty years earlier. The files also reveal a “Fishing Plan” aimed at a time traveler—Chen Feng—and a “Flight Plan” designed to turn the terror of rising and falling into the Black Rank Monster Paradise. The files imply Heavy Machinery is behind the catastrophe known as Heaven’s Staircase.
• Ying and Uncle Hong escape, but an explosion at the Heavy Machinery branch triggers an alarm. They meet Lone Wolf and Rhodes and head to a villa Chen bought as a safe house.
• A cybernetic agent identifies the group and reports that they stole files on Light of the Firmament and the company’s plans. The four bosses order an “Erasure” operation. Famous A, an S-Class Hero, arrives at the villa to kill them.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng tries to give Light of the Firmament attention, but his joking and overly rational explanation of her feelings show how uncomfortable he is with romance. He remains focused on protecting the team, warning Ying to retreat if needed and arranging backup.
• Light of the Firmament openly confesses her love for Chen and reveals the painful reason she became a Hero: to find him again. Her past also shapes her conflicted view of Hero work—she dislikes its restrictions and remembers being betrayed by someone she saved.
• Ying proves herself a skilled hacker, but the discoveries shake her deeply. Her distraction nearly compromises the mission, and afterward she is stunned by the scale of Heavy Machinery’s crimes.
• Uncle Hong stays composed under the supervisor’s threatening questions, but his priorities are chillingly pragmatic: he says he saved Ying only because she must not interfere with his cooking.
• Rhodes and Lone Wolf respond to the shocking revelations with nervous humor. Their banter briefly relieves the tension, even as they recognize the danger.
• The chapter closes with the group’s exposure turning them from infiltrators into targets, raising the stakes sharply.

Significant themes

• Love and emotional vulnerability: Light of the Firmament’s sincere confession contrasts with Chen Feng’s deflection and uncertainty.
• Exploitation and power: The corporate towers’ respectable appearance hides a system that treats people as disposable, from abusive labor and Hero advertising to murder and mass catastrophe.
• Truth versus control: Heavy Machinery’s plans and the possibility of dismissing evidence as AI-made suggest that powerful institutions can shape public reality.
• Survival and trust: The team relies on secrecy, quick thinking, and one another, but the discovery of the files makes every ally—and every escape—more precarious.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng worries about Shadow’s safety during the infiltration, though he tries to hide his anxiety from Light of the Firmament.
• Their joking conversation ends when the city loses power. A large-scale robot assault begins, accompanied by gunfire and a communications blackout.
• Chen recognizes the attackers as Mikili Heavy Machinery’s combat robots and realizes they have tracked the group. The Starlight Agency’s powerful members fight back: the God of War summons an army, while other captains and heroes attack the robots.
• Hood exposes his face on the company’s screens, causing the robot operators to faint and their machines to fall—but the apparent victory is short-lived. Two S-Class heroes, both called A, arrive and slaughter the defenders. The God of War and Hood die; Nuclear Bomb Man’s repeated nuclear attacks fail to damage A-08, and the Seafloor Man is badly hurt protecting him.
• The Devil Trainer and the Second-in-Command temporarily disable A-08 with brute strength and corrosive saliva. Meanwhile, Light of the Firmament fights A-09, but ordinary attacks barely affect it. Chen freezes time and uses his enhancement ability; against the odds, the attempt succeeds, shattering A-09.
• At the villa, A-07 ambushes the group at light speed. Uncle Hong and Shadow are killed, and Lone Wolf is cut in half before anyone can respond.
• A-07 turns on Rhodes, apparently an ordinary man, but Rhodes blocks its strike with a tempered crimson blade—revealing that he is not as helpless as he seems.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen’s concern for Shadow reveals how deeply he values his allies and how much he fears losing the outcome he has worked toward. His successful gamble against A-09 shows that he can still act decisively despite that anxiety.
• Light of the Firmament offers Chen playful companionship, then takes on A-09 directly. Her confidence and power are clear, though even her attack initially does little damage.
• The Starlight Agency’s team demonstrates loyalty and courage, but the battle exposes the gap between their abilities and the S-Class machines. The God of War, Hood, and Nuclear Bomb Man all fight to protect others; the Seafloor Man risks himself to save Nuclear Bomb Man.
• The Devil Trainer’s strength and the Second-in-Command’s unusual corrosive ability give the heroes a brief opening against A-08.
• Shadow, Lone Wolf, and Uncle Hong are killed in the villa ambush, making the attack personally devastating for Chen and the surviving group.
• Rhodes’s unexpected defense of himself overturns the assumption that he is merely an ordinary bystander and leaves his true capabilities a mystery.

Significant themes

• The cost of seeking a perfect outcome: Chen’s fear of losing allies shows that protecting the plan and protecting people are not the same thing.
• Power and vulnerability: Even celebrated heroes can be overwhelmed by opponents operating at a vastly higher level.
• Technology versus human limits: The robots’ speed, durability, and coordination make conventional strength and tactics nearly useless, though specialized abilities can still create openings.
• The unexpected: Chen’s unlikely success against A-09 and Rhodes’s sudden resistance against A-07 suggest that appearances and calculations can fail.

Key plot points and events

• After Chen Feng and Light of the Firmament destroy Heavy Machinery’s A-09 robot and its forces, Chen worries that stronger A-series units may follow. He wants to return to the villa to rescue the surviving Heroes, but Light of the Firmament urges him to prioritize Mr. Qipa, partly because she hopes Shadow will die and be revived without her memories of Chen.
• Before they can leave, an enormous black Mecha arrives. Hundred-Ton King lands with devastating force, wiping out nearly everyone nearby. He destroys A-08, while the Mecha’s pilot—Logistics Master—captures Light of the Firmament with restraints designed for stellar bodies.
• Hundred-Ton King and Demon Trainer fight in a comically brutal contest of endurance. Demon Trainer’s “Nine Dragons Haul the Coffin” is stopped by Hundred-Ton King’s ultimate technique, “Dimensional Reduction Strike,” which flattens him. Hundred-Ton King then leaves for the bathroom before finishing him off.
• At Chen’s factory, the surviving group assesses the losses: Light of the Firmament is captured; several Heroes are dead; Shadow and Uncle Hong are dead; and others are badly injured. Chen concludes their remaining forces cannot defeat the enemy and considers traveling back in time.
• A courier delivers Shadow’s chip. Chen has Mr. Qipa rebuild her in an A-unit body. Newly revived, Shadow urgently tells Chen to return because of the “Water-Drain Plan.”
• Meanwhile, three robots—A-03, A-04, and A-05—use stored spacetime data to teleport directly to the Happiness Internet Cafe and attack its defenders. A-05 freezes just as it approaches, and Lü Bu notices it.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains alert and practical, but the mounting scale of the threats leaves him shaken and ready to retreat through time. He sees through Light of the Firmament’s jealousy, yet agrees to her plan.
• Light of the Firmament reveals insecurity and possessiveness toward Shadow, even during a crisis. Her fear of Logistics Master suggests a traumatic history with him; she resists his familiar, taunting greeting before he captures her.
• Hundred-Ton King and Demon Trainer form an unlikely, evenly matched pair through their mutual love of straightforward combat. Their childhood memories explain their respective toughness and outlooks; their fight ends with Demon Trainer defeated, though not killed.
• Shadow returns through reconstruction and immediately prioritizes the larger emergency, warning Chen about the Water-Drain Plan.
• Mr. Qipa complains that he is a biologist rather than a physicist, but still helps rebuild Shadow. The Jujutsu Sorcerer’s confidence that he can lead the team contrasts with Chen’s grim assessment of their chances.
• Logistics Master treats Light of the Firmament as a familiar captive, while the arriving robots show that Heavy Machinery has shifted from direct attacks to striking at Chen’s base.

Significant themes

• Escalating danger and power imbalance: Even major victories are quickly eclipsed by stronger enemies and devastating losses.
• Jealousy amid crisis: Light of the Firmament’s concern for Shadow is entangled with her desire to erase Shadow’s feelings and memories of Chen.
• Resilience and identity: Shadow’s return through a new body underscores how characters can be restored, while also raising the stakes around memory and personal bonds.
• Comedy amid catastrophe: Absurdly powerful combat, Hundred-Ton King’s bathroom break, and the characters’ banter offset the chapter’s large-scale destruction and desperation.

Key plot points and events

• In the Farming System’s dark Alternate Dimension, Lü Bu detects an enemy and attacks A05. His Qi Seizure steals its Sandevistan, while Valiant Might resets his Blessings’ cooldowns, letting him repeatedly freeze and strike the machine.
• A03 fires a devastating Stellar Flare at Happiness Internet Cafe. Jia Xu uses Absolute Kill to pull A05 and several people into Inner Space, but the attack still reaches the three left behind: the Swordsman splits the flare, Zhao Yun disperses its other half, and the Savior appears to be incinerated.
• A03’s attacks are repeatedly disrupted. Zhao Yun destroys it with General Slayer, and the Savior—revealed to have immense speed, durability, combat skills, and many powerful Blessings—overwhelms A04. The Swordsman discovers that he can see an enemy’s fate and strike its “main thread,” destroying the chips inside A03, A04, and A05 across multiple locations.
• The chapter then shifts to City World, where Tree Hero is forced to fight monsters and criminals for the entertainment of wealthy nobles. The Consul secretly rigs the arena, intends to poison Tree Hero’s final reward, and orders A-02 to abduct selected heroes. Before those plans can proceed, attacks from another universe disable or destroy many of the A-series machines, including A-02, A06, and others.
• Chen Feng realizes the attack on the cafe was a trap designed to draw him away while the enemy struck his home. He rejects using Load Save to rescue Light of the Firmament, suspecting the enemy can counter it, and reveals a mysterious blue vial for the next step.

Character developments and interactions

• Lü Bu demonstrates how his two Blessings combine: damaging an enemy both steals something from it and refreshes his powers. His assault frees A05 from its initial paralysis, though it remains vulnerable to repeated freezing.
• Jia Xu uses his ability strategically to separate the enemy force from the cafe, showing that he can create an opening for the others despite his limited speed.
• The Swordsman proves capable of casually countering an overwhelming ranged attack, then adapts his swordsmanship by targeting the machines’ fragile chips rather than their armored bodies. His tendency to explain his insights aloud frustrates the Savior.
• Zhao Yun grows stronger through anger and destroys A03, while the Savior’s apparent death is revealed as a deliberate deception enabled by his defensive Blessings.
• Tree Hero sees the corruption behind the Heroes’ public mission: captured criminals and heroes are being used as entertainment. The Consul’s apparent offer of a chance to escape is a sham.
• Chen Feng and Shadow discuss the enemy’s strategy. Chen Feng reads the attack as a coordinated attempt to exploit his time-travel ability and strike the cafe, and he takes charge by refusing an obvious rewind.

Significant themes

• Teamwork and complementary powers: The allies’ varied abilities counter threats that none could manage alone.
• Appearances versus reality: The Savior’s “death,” the Consul’s supposed bargain, and the machines’ apparently reliable combat calculations all conceal the truth.
• Adaptation and insight: The Swordsman wins by understanding the enemy’s vulnerable core rather than relying on brute force.
• Exploitation and spectacle: City World’s elites turn heroes and criminals alike into disposable entertainment.
• Strategic restraint: Chen Feng recognizes that a familiar power may be exactly what the enemy expects him to use.

Plot points and events

• After ten victories in the Heavy Machinery Arena, Tree Hero collapses from poison. The arena disguises his death as exhaustion, then announces a coming spectacle: a Black Rank Monster will be released in District 13.
• Chen Feng and Shadow witness the Holy Land’s brutality firsthand: its powerful arena manager murders a waiter over an innocuous remark. Shadow, now equipped with a greatly enhanced Cybernetic Body and a chip, condemns the Holy Land’s hypocrisy.
• Heavy Machinery controls the news and frames Chen Feng’s group for terrorism and plans to release the Black Rank Monster. In response, Chen Feng has Shadow issue a public threat against District 3, hoping to draw allies and unsettle the corporation.
• Several factions consider exploiting the impending conflict. Flesh Opinion Desire plans to recover a Hero fragment amid the chaos, while the Monster Alliance votes to attack the Holy Land prison and rescue imprisoned members.
• Heavy Machinery assembles a formidable Hero defense force and trusts its new AI, Little Machine. Chen Feng, however, never intended to attack head-on: he strikes the District 13 branch as a diversion, then deliberately delays his assault on headquarters to wear down Heavy Machinery’s confidence.
• Heavy Machinery imprisons Light of the Firmament in a Spatial Prison, which blocks time resets. The Logistics Master tries to pressure her into revealing Chen Feng’s location, but she refuses, remaining loyal despite her fear and isolation.
• On the seventh day, Chen Feng begins his real attack. Rain triggers engineered Ant Ox eggs hidden in the Holy Land’s arena spectators, while oily rain launches the defenders into the air and a further attack leaves them with severe stomach trouble. Chen Feng and his team then enter the base to reach Light of the Firmament.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Feng proves calculating rather than conventionally heroic: he uses deception, timing, and biological and chemical attacks to bypass Heavy Machinery’s superior numbers. His “Cihang” approach is to overwhelm opponents from the start.
• Shadow becomes far more powerful after receiving a new body and chip, and helps Chen Feng by hacking security systems and publicly provoking Heavy Machinery. She shares his disgust at the Holy Land’s cruelty.
• Light of the Firmament endures imprisonment and intimidation without betraying Chen Feng, recalling how he once brought hope while she was trapped.
• The Logistics Master relies on corporate power, a stacked Hero lineup, and Little Machine, but grows frustrated when Chen Feng refuses to attack as expected. His attempt to manipulate Light fails when a telepath exposes his threat—and is immediately killed by Hundred-Ton King.
• Flesh Opinion Desire treats the conflict as an opportunity for personal gain, while the Monster Alliance debates whether to use it to free its prisoners. Their plans show how widely Chen Feng’s threat resonates.
• Chen Feng’s allies—Ying, Baomu, and the Jujutsu Sorcerer—join the assault. Ying takes pride in bypassing inspections, and Mr. Qipa’s expertise makes the Ant Ox attack possible.

Significant themes

• Propaganda and power: Heavy Machinery controls the media and recasts victims as villains, while its elites treat ordinary people as disposable.
• Cruelty beneath the “Holy Land” image: The poisoned Hero, murdered waiter, and imprisoned Light reveal the gap between the district’s polished image and its violence.
• Unconventional resistance: Chen Feng counters overwhelming force with misdirection, patience, technology, and dirty tactics rather than a fair fight.
• Loyalty and hope: Light’s refusal to give in reflects her trust in Chen Feng, while Shadow’s commitment and the emergence of potential allies suggest the corporation may not control the entire city.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• At Heavy Machinery headquarters, Chen Feng’s team prepares to attack. The Madman says Zero Division’s captain will prevent Heavy Machinery from receiving reinforcements. Meanwhile, chaos caused by Ant Ox steaks and the Heaven’s Ladder monsters is expected to keep nearby districts from sending help.
• Chen Feng plans to strike after Baomu’s power triggers an explosion. When no explosion comes, he realizes Heavy Machinery must have a spatial cage that is blocking her ability.
• Chen Feng notices the Jujutsu Sorcerer has gone ahead alone. The Sorcerer enters through the front door, announces his teammates to the enemy, and tells Chen Feng and Shadow to rescue the captives—undermining their stealth plan in several ways.
• Facing more than twenty top-tier Heroes, the Sorcerer introduces his jujutsu and domains in detail. His attacks barely affect them, and a cowboy Hero shoots him.
• The Sorcerer survives by using his Water Domain to repair his body. He then injects a Pure Compound, awakening a Superpower that lets him borrow strength from the future by permanently sacrificing something he values.
• Giving up beef brings only a small boost. When he sacrifices sweets—his true favorite—the next bullet bounces off him. He has risen from City-Burst Rank to Surface-Burst Rank.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is frustrated by the Sorcerer’s reckless, indiscreet approach, but rushes into the building after him.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer goes from seemingly ineffectual and almost absurdly forthcoming to a formidable fighter. His new power rewards meaningful sacrifice, and he discovers that giving up something he genuinely loves produces far greater strength.
• The Heavy Machinery Heroes initially dismiss him as a weakling, then are shocked when his second sacrifice makes him bulletproof.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng questions the Madman about Zero Division and relies on the group’s expected lack of reinforcements.
• The Sorcerer’s public explanations confuse and irritate the Heroes—especially the ninjas, who regard openly sharing intelligence as foolish.
• The cowboy repeatedly shoots the Sorcerer, impatient to use the bathroom; his second shot reveals the Sorcerer’s dramatic increase in strength.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and power: The Sorcerer’s ability turns personal loss into strength, with the value of what he gives up determining the reward.
• Secrecy versus openness: Chen Feng prioritizes stealth, while the Sorcerer openly reveals their identities and tactics.
• Comic subversion: The chapter contrasts the Heroes’ immense power with the Sorcerer’s ridiculous behavior, before turning his seemingly trivial love of sweets into the key to a major transformation.

Key plot points

• Saturn attacks the Jujutsu Sorcerer with earth dragons, but the sorcerer uses his shadow-switching Domain to appear behind him and cuts Saturn and Venus in half with a defense-ignoring Spatial Slash.
• Popeye the Strongman charges after powering up with spinach, but the Domain of Void overwhelms his mind before he can land a punch. The sorcerer then opens a sure-hit Domain of Slashing, cutting every Hero in the building.
• The Heroes survive through regeneration, transformations, and spare bodies. The sorcerer explains Cursed Speech, and Information Ninja identifies its limitation: it is less effective against much stronger targets and causes greater backlash when it inflicts serious harm.
• Amplified by the Pure Compound’s side effect, the sorcerer indulges his prank-loving nature. He makes the Heroes lose control of their bowels, then threatens to order them to eat what is on the floor. They flee before he can finish the command.
• Meanwhile, Chen Feng and Shadow split up: Shadow is to steal Heavy Machinery’s World Technology, while Chen Feng goes to rescue Light of the Firmament.
• Chen Feng encounters Logistics Master beside an eighty-meter Surface-Burst Rank Mecha. Logistics Master mistakes him for Number Zero and reveals that Number Zero has been dead for years.
• Realizing that a dead traveler’s gear is no longer bound to them, Chen Feng activates the abandoned First-Generation Crimson Mecha. It recognizes him, breaks through the base wall, and he climbs into the cockpit.

Character developments and interactions

• The Jujutsu Sorcerer demonstrates overwhelming combat power, but the Pure Compound magnifies his worst traits—especially arrogance and a taste for humiliating pranks. He turns a serious fight into a grotesque joke.
• Saturn and Venus fight together but are swiftly defeated; Popeye’s immense strength is neutralized by the Domain of Void, while Six Paths Ninja’s substitute technique cannot evade the sure-hit attack.
• Information Ninja’s analysis briefly reassures the Heroes about Cursed Speech, but their confidence collapses when the sorcerer uses it for humiliation.
• Chen Feng stays alert to clues in Logistics Master’s mistaken identity and uses what he learns to claim a powerful Mecha. Logistics Master’s desire for revenge appears tied to Number Zero.

Significant themes

• Power and its limits: The sorcerer’s domains and Spatial Slash overwhelm formidable opponents, yet the Heroes’ regeneration and backup bodies keep them alive.
• Information as an advantage: Chen Feng turns an enemy’s mistaken assumption into a vital discovery about Number Zero and the Mecha’s availability.
• Power’s corrupting or comic side: The Pure Compound’s amplification of the sorcerer’s flaws transforms a battle into malicious, humiliating comedy.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng assesses First-Generation Crimson, a powerful mecha with several forms, an energy-draining but nearly invulnerable AT Field, a particle-blade weapon, and multiple combat skills. With only seven percent charge, he needs to conserve power.
• The Logistics Master, who has spent twenty years studying Number Zero’s fighting style to avenge an old defeat, launches an attack—unaware that Chen Feng fights very differently.
• Chen Feng uses Time Stop to slash the Blacklight’s cannon barrel, making it destroy itself when it fires. Although its Memory Metal begins repairing the damage, Chen’s Equipment Amplification system catastrophically shatters the mecha.
• Chen Feng kills the Logistics Master with one efficient strike, recovers an Electronic Chip from his head, and frees Light of the Firmament from her Dimensional Box.
• He kisses Light, privately thinking of the mecha’s remaining six percent charge as a power source.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is revealed as an aggressive, pragmatic fighter who uses powerful abilities immediately rather than probing for weaknesses. His poverty makes him obsess over conserving energy and getting maximum value from every action.
• The Logistics Master is consumed by revenge and overconfident in his twenty years of preparation. His expertise is useless because he studied Number Zero’s tactics, not Chen Feng’s.
• Light of the Firmament appears haggard after imprisonment. Chen Feng drops his rehearsed boast and responds with a kiss instead.

Significant themes

• Preparation versus adaptability: The Logistics Master’s meticulous study fails when his opponent’s style differs from the one he expected.
• Power and resource scarcity: First-Generation Crimson is formidable, but its limited charge forces Chen to treat every use of energy as precious.
• Revenge and persistence: The Logistics Master’s long obsession ends abruptly, while the damaged Blacklight’s repair technology briefly suggests he might recover.
• Comedy through contrast: Grandiose mecha abilities and revenge drama are undercut by Chen’s blunt efficiency, the enhancement system’s failure, and his practical take on the kiss.

Character interactions

• Chen’s exchange with the Logistics Master is largely one-sided: the latter recites his prepared analysis, while Chen ignores the expected script and attacks with Time Stop.
• After the fight, Chen dismisses the Logistics Master’s survival as the result of Number Zero’s insufficiently thorough finish.
• Chen’s reunion with Light is unexpectedly tender: seeing her condition, he abandons his planned taunt and kisses her—though his inner motive remains comically practical.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng rescues Light of the Firmament from Fourth Boss’s Spatial Prison, breaking her power-suppressing Chains and reassuring her with a kiss.
• He confronts her about sabotaging the mission: out of jealousy, she secretly attacked the company branch, helping expose Ying. She admits her mistake and promises not to repeat it.
• Chen Feng responds with chocolate and praise, using positive reinforcement to encourage better behavior. The group then reunites with Ying, who has recovered the Mecha, Cybernetic Body, infinite energy source, and chip.
• On the way out, they find the Jujutsu Sorcerer flattened after a clash with the Hundred-Ton King. He had underestimated the King, tried a Spatial Slash, and was crushed before his ally could save him.
• Chen Feng’s attempt to summon someone to inflate the Jujutsu Sorcerer turns into a joke about having to kiss him. Light of the Firmament and Ying refuse, while Madman enthusiastically agrees, horrifying the Jujutsu Sorcerer.

Character developments and interactions

• Light of the Firmament shifts from terrified captive to remorseful teammate. She confesses her jealousy-driven betrayal and becomes unusually obedient toward Chen Feng, who rewards her improved behavior.
• Chen Feng remains pragmatic and teasing: he comforts Light of the Firmament, holds her accountable without lashing out, and prioritizes retrieving Ying and escaping with their valuable equipment.
• Ying returns with the mission’s key items and reacts with visible disgust to the suggestion of kissing the Jujutsu Sorcerer.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer is humbled physically but keeps boasting that he will win next time; his banter with Chen Feng and the others provides comic relief.
• Madman appears unexpectedly as the only one willing to kiss the Jujutsu Sorcerer, prompting his panicked refusal.

Significant themes

• Trust and accountability: Light of the Firmament’s confession offers a chance to repair the harm her jealousy caused.
• Behavior and control: Chen Feng treats good behavior as something that can be encouraged through rewards, in a deliberately comic “operant conditioning” scheme.
• Overconfidence and consequences: The Jujutsu Sorcerer’s confidence leads him to underestimate the Hundred-Ton King and get flattened.
• Comedy through contrast: Moments of fear, rescue, and serious mission stakes repeatedly give way to absurd banter and slapstick.

Key plot points and events

• Outside Heavy Machinery headquarters, Baomu narrowly avoids Hundred-Ton King’s attacks, partly because of his awkward shoes and socks. Light of the Firmament intervenes, blasting the hero and forcing the group to retreat.
• Hundred-Ton King survives the bombardment and unleashes a devastating punch that liquefies the alloy ground and creates a massive shock wave. Chen Feng uses Time Stop to evacuate everyone before he can strike again.
• The group regroups at a villa in Zone 19. Shadow has stolen five technology chips, including an abandoned AI called Little Machine. The AI claims the Jujutsu Sorcerer could defeat Hundred-Ton King, though Chen Feng remains skeptical.
• Chen Feng gives Mr. Qipa the Infinite Energy chip, hoping to power First-Generation Crimson. The original technology is unusable because its key process—turning the sun into a living being and extracting its heart—was lost.
• After Chen Feng tempts Mr. Qipa with the promise of animal-enhancement technology, the scientist finds another solution: Light of the Firmament can charge First-Generation Crimson by releasing energy into a new chamber for a day. Chen Feng promptly assigns her the role of “power bank.”

Character developments

• Baomu shows surprising courage and usefulness: his Superpower helps lure Hundred-Ton King away and makes the rescue possible, despite his terror and clumsiness.
• Light of the Firmament proves powerful but overconfident, continuing to attack after apparently defeating her opponent. She nevertheless obeys Chen Feng’s warning and helps the group escape.
• Chen Feng recognizes how far City World’s power scale exceeds his expectations and concludes that First-Generation Crimson must be fully charged before they can challenge Hundred-Ton King.
• Mr. Qipa is reluctant to work on machinery, but Chen Feng’s teasing gets him to solve the energy problem after all.
• The Jujutsu Sorcerer takes Little Machine’s prediction as vindication of his belief that skilled fighters can lose an initial encounter and win later.

Significant themes

• The gap between appearance and reality: Heavy bombardment barely slows Hundred-Ton King, and the apparent victory is only a dangerous lull.
• Improvisation and teamwork: Baomu’s distraction, Light’s power, Chen Feng’s timely escape, and Mr. Qipa’s engineering combine to keep the group moving forward.
• Power has practical requirements: Even a formidable Mecha is useless without a reliable energy source.
• Humor amid danger: Chen Feng’s jokes and blunt “power bank” assignment offset the fight’s destruction and the group’s desperate situation.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng directs Light of the Firmament during the battle, warning her to flee when Hundred-Ton King emerges from the smoke.
• Shadow explains the stolen technologies, while Little Machine’s confident assessment sparks the Jujutsu Sorcerer’s boast.
• Chen Feng and Mr. Qipa trade complaints and jokes; Chen Feng persuades him to work by dangling the benefits of animal-enhancement research.
• Chen Feng turns Light’s willingness to provide energy into a practical plan for charging First-Generation Crimson.

Key plot points and events

• Opinion Desire and two officers head to Heavy Machinery’s secret research institute, intending to strike back at the corporations that trapped him and to help rescue the Cosmic Overlord.
• They find the facility already devastated: frontline Heroes are dead, and the company’s experiments reveal that alien flesh can create regenerating monsters whose Red Fog disables electronics and detection powers.
• Opinion Desire hopes to place a Flesh Grape inside the preserved alien flesh and revive the Cosmic Overlord, a Star-Burst Rank fighter.
• A masked woman arrives, carrying the dead Consul, Heavy Machinery’s second-in-command, and demands a share of the prize. Opinion Desire’s planned ambush fails when she kills Dosipu with Psychokinesis.
• Opinion Desire identifies her as the Witch, a top S-Class Hero. He uses Joy at a Glance to turn her to gold, but Red Giant intervenes and sends Gulibajiki flying. The Witch breaks free and regenerates.
• Laughing Band, White Night Queen, and the Artificial Human emerge, revealing that several corporations’ powerful Heroes have converged on the institute.
• Star-Burst Grandpa, a Black Rank Monster, crashes through the ceiling, leaving Opinion Desire facing an even more dangerous and chaotic confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Opinion Desire shifts from amused confidence to grim frustration as his operation encounters increasingly powerful opponents. He remains resourceful, having saved a key ability for the attempt to revive the Cosmic Overlord, but his intended surprise attack fails.
• Dosipu’s confidence in his Psychokinesis proves misplaced: the Witch defeats him with a stronger mental attack.
• The Witch and Red Giant reveal a close sibling bond: Red Giant protects his sister, while she uses Psychokinesis to recover after being turned to gold.
• The other Heroes’ appearance shows that the conflict extends beyond Heavy Machinery and involves multiple corporations. Opinion Desire recognizes several opponents, while the Artificial Human is initially unfamiliar to him.
• Opinion Desire contrasts his own mounting danger with Chen Feng’s apparent freedom from the burden, underscoring his exasperation.

Significant themes

• Escalating conflict and power: Each new arrival raises the stakes, turning a raid into a gathering of elite Heroes and a Black Rank Monster.
• Corporate exploitation and retaliation: The companies’ experiments and schemes drive characters toward revenge and dangerous confrontations.
• Preparation versus unpredictability: Opinion Desire plans carefully, but stronger foes and unexpected arrivals repeatedly undo his plans.
• Burdens of responsibility: Opinion Desire sees himself as sharing the work of rescuing the Cosmic Overlord and protecting people, even as he feels stuck absorbing the consequences.

Key plot points and events

• In Heavy Machinery’s laboratory, Flesh-and-Blood Opinion Desire tries to manipulate the assembled Heroes and Monsters into working together, but the Star-Burst Big Shot attacks him first and knocks his head off. Opinion Desire survives by reattaching it, then refuses to help the Big Shot because Cihang natives hold grudges.
• The Big Shot quickly overwhelms the Heroes: he defeats the Confident Red Giant, incapacitates the Witch, and destroys one of the Artificial Human’s bodies. The Laughing Band is spared because the Big Shot wants to hear the rest of his violent backstory.
• The Big Shot’s fight with the White Night Queen becomes far more dangerous. She reveals several powerful forms and abilities, including an invulnerable shield, reflected damage, body-dissolving attacks, soul extraction, and an Apocalypse Form capable of erasing parts of a target.
• A massive clash destroys Zone Three. The Laughing Band, caught in the blast, takes over the Big Shot after being killed. He then turns on Opinion Desire, who briefly transforms him into gold, but discovers the possession ability still works.
• Opinion Desire realizes the apparent Laughing Band is an impostor when the White Night Queen notices the missing violin. Before the confrontation resolves, time appears to reset: dead characters are alive again, and Opinion Desire’s stolen flesh is gone.
• The chapter ends at the Heavy Machinery Laboratory, where the mass of purple flesh begins swelling—the City World’s flesh-and-blood Overlord has returned.

Character developments and interactions

• Flesh-and-Blood Opinion Desire remains calculating and opportunistic, but his resentment toward the Big Shot makes him withhold help. He also demonstrates Cihang-style survival tactics, including separating a core from the body, and recognizes the danger of the Laughing Band’s possession ability.
• The Star-Burst Big Shot is sadistic and vastly stronger than most of the Heroes present. His confidence turns to panic when the White Night Queen’s Apocalypse Form attacks him, and he accidentally kills Laughing Band in the destruction he causes.
• The White Night Queen shifts from restrained, dryly humorous observer to the chapter’s most formidable fighter, revealing multiple forms and abilities. She remains practical, warning her ally to leave before A arrives.
• The Laughing Band is introduced as a cheerful but brutal performer whose obsession with an audience masks a history of torture. His ability to possess those who kill him makes him especially dangerous, though the identity of the figure posing as him remains uncertain.
• The weaker Heroes’ limitations are exposed: the Confident Red Giant loses his nerve after being injured, the Witch is quickly overwhelmed, and the Artificial Human’s destruction matters little because Biotechnology can clone replacements.
• Opinion Desire’s exchanges with the others are comic amid the violence, especially his complaints about being caught in the Big Shot’s blast and his recognition of the White Night Queen’s powers.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Hero rank alone does not guarantee strength; the gap between individual fighters is immense, and powerful abilities can depend on confidence or have specific counters.
• Survival and adaptation: Opinion Desire’s detached core and repeated resurrection show how Cihang natives turn survival into strategy.
• Cruelty and spectacle: The Big Shot and Laughing Band treat violence as entertainment, while the chapter uses their brutality for dark comedy.
• Uncertainty and reversal: Possession, apparent deaths, and the time reset make identity and consequences unstable, ending on the ominous return of the Overlord.