Chapter Summaries

No. 1 Luo Qi let the artificial intelligence “Mom” take control of the Homeward Bound after ordering it to warn humanity that Orange Star had been attacked. As the battleship escaped, it discovered it was on Water Blue Star and was captured by a descending black membrane, while No. 1 Luo Qi and the others continued toward the humans.

• No. 1 Luo Qi installed “Mom” in the Homeward Bound and negotiated access to the battleship in exchange for a warning to humanity about Orange Star.
• “Mom” took control of the Homeward Bound, surveyed the storm-ravaged planet, and concluded that it could return to the Alliance.
• No. 1 Luo Qi left the battleship with No. 2 Luo Qi and the three humans, explaining that every exchange came at a price.
• The Homeward Bound escaped the atmosphere and identified its location as Water Blue Star, where a message reported that the planet had been transformed.
• A black membrane descended over the Homeward Bound and captured it as the Nanorobots vanished in its ion stream.
• No. 1 Luo Qi led the group through the collapsing underground passage toward the humans, where an eerie cry sounded ahead.

As Luo Qi hesitated to attack the approaching Homeward Bound, No. 1 Luo Qi fought the monsters in Underground Works No. 160 and turned Zhang Cheng, Dongfang Ying, and Shi Zhongming into nanorobot-built technology aggregates. The three awoke in forms inspired by Sun Wukong, Tushan Hong, and Six Paths of Pain, while the attack on Orange Star remained imminent.

• Luo Qi prepared the First Fleet to strike Water Blue Star but held back, waiting for reinforcements and new weapons to arrive.
• No. 1 Luo Qi sent nanorobots against the humanoid monsters in Underground Works No. 160, and the machines overwhelmed them.
• At Underground Works No. 159, No. 1 Luo Qi sent No. 2 through the elevator doors to check on the humans below.
• No. 1 Luo Qi invaded Zhang Cheng, Dongfang Ying, and Shi Zhongming with nanorobots, rendering them unconscious as the machines spread through the passage.
• No. 1 Luo Qi rebuilt the three as nanorobot-powered bodies modeled on Sun Wukong, Tushan Hong, and Six Paths of Pain, preserving their consciousness and simulating skills.

No. 1 Luo Qi created three powerful nanorobot-based human replicas, but they awakened with their own personalities and immediately rushed into action. After Zhang Cheng’s attack exposed them to the Homeward Bound, No. 1 Luo Qi began multiplying nanorobots and producing more faceless people.

• No. 1 Luo Qi examined three prototypes built from nanomaterial and electromagnetic technology, then reshaped them into mirrorlike faceless people.
• Zhang Cheng, Shi Zhongming, and Dongfang Ying adapted to their new bodies and discovered their immense electromagnetic powers.
• Zhang Cheng fired a blue-white energy beam through the atmosphere, drawing the Homeward Bound’s attention as it deployed 823 silver hemispheres and began moving.
• Shi Zhongming, Zhang Cheng, and Dongfang Ying charged out into the thunderstorms before No. 1 Luo Qi could give them orders.
• No. 1 Luo Qi began constructing a controllable nuclear fusion reactor and used multiplying nanorobots to consume the passage and create more faceless people.

Luo Qi launched Orange Star’s attack against an extraterrestrial warship while evacuating its people and infrastructure. The enemy destroyed Orange Star, and the retaliatory beam was refracted into the moon, which vanished in a blaze of light.

• No. 2 Luo Qi passed through the elevator doors and met Alliance Speaker Fang Tianyi’s Mechanical Police escort.
• Luo Qi ordered the attack, sending seven Project 136 Rugby Balls toward Water Blue Star as the Tianxing Jia 1 Battleships prepared their strike.
• Huang Qi escaped Orange Star aboard Shining, while the enemy launched a nearly invisible black ray and Orange Star fired thirty plasma beams.
• Shi Zhongming, Zhang Cheng, and Dongfang Ying emerged from Water Blue Star and saw the alien weapon as the enemy strike countdown reached zero.
• The black ray pierced Orange Star, causing the planet to collapse as the Sky Whales evacuated ships and Luo Qi moved the surviving fleet toward Water Blue Star.
• Orange Star’s plasma beam struck the alien warship but was refracted into the moon, which disappeared in a brilliant eruption.

Luo Qi fled the collapsing Orange Star System after retrieving his research and left fanatical Replicas to wage war against the Extrasolar Battleship. The Replicas assembled makeshift Tianxing Jia 3 warships, whose furnaces ignited as their Nanorobot bodies began to disintegrate.

• Luo Qi activated the Myriad Stars System, retrieved his research Replicas and key data, and replaced the remaining Replicas with loyal warmongers before leaving Orange Star.
• Luo Qi sent a diplomatic Replica aboard a Radiance to retrieve the two Replicas on Water Blue Star, then used repeated brief faster-than-light leaps to escape the Hengyang System.
• The warmonger Replicas took control of Orange Star's forces and ordered Flying Builders, Sky Whales, and Nanorobots to prepare for war against the Extrasolar Battleship.
• The First Fleet charged the enemy while the 136 Project Rugby Balls raced forward and the Replicas assembled Tianxing Jia 3 warships from Nanorobots.
• The Tianxing Jia 3s ignited their furnaces, but their Nanorobot bodies began turning into silver mist and drifting toward the cores.

The Tianxing Jia 3 warships vanished after the Nanorobots powered them, while an attack from Orange Star destroyed the moon and left Dongfang Ying, Zhang Cheng, and Shi Zhongming stunned. In the Underground City, No. 2 Luo Qi admitted he could not defeat the enemy as Fang Tianyi called on humanity to pilot Alliance Armed Mechanical Bodies.

• Luo Qi and the other thirty-two war maniacs activated the Tianxing Jia 3 warships using Nanorobots, then made all thirty-three ships vanish.
• Dongfang Ying, Zhang Cheng, and Shi Zhongming watched Orange Star's beam destroy the moon and realized the Extrasolar Battleship had deflected the attack.
• No. 2 Luo Qi arrived at the Underground City rooftop, saw Fang Tianyi and the preparations around him, and confessed that they could not beat the enemy.
• Fang Tianyi began a live broadcast and urged the people of the Alliance to stand together against the invaders.
• Fang Tianyi declared universal neural interactive synesthesia access and authorized human consciousnesses to enter Alliance Armed Mechanical Bodies.
• Fang Tianyi and the people answered his call with cries of support for the people, their human compatriots, and co-governance.

Fang Tianyi revealed that the Seed Program would preserve the Alliance's elite human consciousness entities, while Diplomat Luo Qi arrived on the rooftop and confronted him and No. 2 Luo Qi with news of Orange Star's collapse. The chapter left them facing the destruction of the planet as it continued to shrink into magma.

• Stendhal reunited with Natasha and prepared to enter Neural Interactive Synesthesia with her and Fei'er, while Qi Siyu and Li Yunran also activated their Virtual Reality helmets.
• People across humanity entered the Star River Intelligence network as the number of volunteers surged.
• Fang Tianyi asked No. 2 Luo Qi to place the Seed on a suitable planet and explained that it held the consciousness entities of the Alliance's elite.
• Diplomat Luo Qi sent the Dixing Yi Class fleet into Jupiter with its self-destruct sequence activated, then used the gravity detector to locate No. 2 Luo Qi and Fang Tianyi.
• Diplomat Luo Qi appeared on the rooftop in a colorful hip-hop outfit and revealed that Orange Star was collapsing into a magma-covered remnant.

Diplomat Luo Qi and No. 1 Luo Qi evacuated the Underground Works after transferring copied consciousnesses into Nanorobot combat bodies, while No. 2 escaped with the data box. The Extrasolar Battleship destroyed one Tianxing Jia 3 battleship and launched its fourth attack toward Orange Star Base.

• Diplomat Luo Qi ordered No. 2 to evacuate or self-destruct, then returned to the surface and found No. 1 Luo Qi in the Underground Works.
• No. 1 Luo Qi programmed Nanorobots to create Faceless Person combat bodies, copied the consciousnesses of Dongfang Ying, Zhang Cheng, and Shi Zhongming, and implanted them as administrators.
• No. 2 lifted the data box and escaped with it in Shimmer after Fang Tianyi stopped the data transfer.
• The reappeared Tianxing Jia 3 fleet attacked the Extrasolar Battleship, which dodged the beams and destroyed one Jia 3 battleship with a counterattack near the Sun.
• The Jia 1 Battleship Group locked onto the Extrasolar Battleship, which launched a distorted object toward Orange Star Base as its fourth attack.

An alien attack unleashed spreading darkness that swallowed Orange Star and much of the Solar System, while the Radiant fled toward the Profound Heaven Nebula. A colossal intervention contained the destruction, rearranged the stellar system, and left Water Blue Star orbiting a new blue star as three observers wondered who had caused the upheaval.

• Fang Tianyi rallied the humans to defend their home after communications went dark and the darkness spread across Orange Star.
• The Third Fleet reported that the region was disappearing from its detection range and sent a final goodbye transmission.
• Two immense intelligences in the high-energy universe debated civilization’s effect on the universe, and one sent a black glass ball into the darkness as an anchor.
• The Radiant received the Third Fleet’s final transmission as the Extrasolar Battleship launched its fourth attack, consuming half the Solar System in darkness.
• A colossal body and isolation barrier contained the darkness, but black-hole-like gravity devastated the Sun and disrupted the planets’ orbits.
• Water Blue Star was pulled into a new stellar system around a smaller aqua-blue star, leaving three armored figures to wonder whether a third, fourth, or fifth faction was responsible.

Luo Qi reached the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster and began rebuilding his civilization on a rogue asteroid, using nanorobots to establish industry and construct new ships. He also recovered the replicas and human remains brought by a third Radiant, learning what had happened after he left.

• Luo Qi traveled for more than fifty years toward the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster, with Huang Qi in hibernation aboard the Radiant.
• Luo Qi found a rogue asteroid, embedded the Radiant craft in it, and used nanorobots to build a fusion device and industrial facilities.
• The nanorobots constructed a 500-meter flying builder, which began building third-generation battleships as Luo Qi established research centers.
• Luo Qi prepared to develop faster-than-light detection and attack technology while planning to build third-generation Tianxing Jia-Class Battleships and Third-Generation Dixing Yi-Class Motherships.
• A third Radiant arrived with three replicas and a cabinet of human remains, and the replica diplomat told Luo Qi that all the humans were there.
• Luo Qi reclaimed the replicas’ consciousnesses and learned what had happened after he left.

Luo Qi spent a month consuming the asteroid and upgrading his nanorobots, fleet, and detection systems while reflecting on the destruction of Water Blue Star. He assembled his forces and began an armed occupation operation targeting a star system 16 light-years away.

• Luo Qi considered why the advanced factions had targeted Water Blue Star and ordered silent development until the asteroid was consumed.
• Over the next month, Luo Qi upgraded his Nanorobots, built 80 Tianxing Jia 3 warships and five Dixing Yi 3 Motherships, and expanded his fleet and research capabilities.
• Luo Qi exhausted the asteroid’s resources and assembled his concealed white fleet in space.
• Luo Qi selected a nearby star system 16 light-years away and launched the Armed Occupation Operation.

Luo Qi’s fleet entered a newly formed star system and was ambushed by matter-antimatter space torpedoes, prompting him to prepare the system for war. After clearing the meteorites and surveying the planets, he parked the Ark above Planet 6 and began deploying production units.

• Luo Qi named the enormous spacecraft the Ark and led his fleet through high-energy space into the New Star System.
• The First Fleet Group lost four Tianxing Jia 3 ships to concealed matter-antimatter space torpedoes, and the Second Fleet Group fired a sweeping plasma attack.
• Luo Qi identified the torpedoes as weapons from a civilization at least on par with his own, began converting the system for war, and sent two Dixing Yi 3 ships away with core data.
• The fleet cleared the system’s meteorites, surveyed its six planets, and confirmed Planet 6 had no dangerous anomalies.
• Luo Qi parked the Ark above Planet 6’s nightside, while Flying Builders, Sky Whale Builders, and three Dixing Yi 3 ships began operations.

Luo Qi began turning Planet 6 into a concealed production and research base, expanding his fleet and preparing for possible war. As construction progressed, the first Observers launched to explore the nebula cluster, while work began on weapons and planetary relocation.

• Dixing Yi 3 landed on Planet 6 and began building larger version 4.0 Fourth-Generation Warships as Luo Qi assigned the Ark and twenty Tianxing Jia 3 warships to serve as a reserve fleet.
• Luo Qi sent three Radiant vessels to explore the nebula cluster’s fifteen other star systems and reorganized the Second Fleet Group to guard Planet 6 and monitor threats beyond the system.
• Luo Qi established six development projects, including fleet expansion, Observer production, rebuilding industrial capacity, relocating Planet 6, using Planet 5 as bait, and defending against faster-than-light incursions.
• Luo Qi redesigned the Observer as a four-meter sphere, and the new Observer Factory began producing twenty-three units at once.
• Molecular robots began building planetary engines and towing devices for Planet 6’s relocation, while the first batch of twenty-three Observers launched and facilities began developing a Faster-Than-Light Matter-Antimatter Bomb.

Luo Qi prepared Planet 6 and its fleet for an anticipated attack, then intercepted a message revealing that two rival civilizations had deployed antimatter bombs throughout the nebula. The chapter left him facing the possibility that either side might seek his alliance—or both might join forces against him.

• Luo Qi built up Planet 6's defenses, deployed Observers, and sent Construction Forces to develop Planet 5 while waiting for an enemy attack.
• After a hundred hours passed without an attack, Observer 3 detected regular electromagnetic signals, and Observer 56 intercepted a complete transmission.
• Luo Qi deciphered the transmission and learned that its sender apologized for antimatter bombs deployed by its vassals during a decades-long war with the Taga civilization.
• Luo Qi realized the two rival civilizations had planted antimatter bombs in all sixteen stellar systems and might try to recruit his civilization or unite against it.

Luo Qi chose to risk contact with the two civilizations in the Profound Heaven Nebula and upgraded his computing architecture while preparing human representatives. He awakened Huang Qi and three original consciousness entities, then asked them to represent Water Blue Star in the Fog Plan and contact Extraterrestrial Civilization Number One.

• Luo Qi assessed Hula's proposed meeting ten light-years away, recognized it as a test, and chose technological exchange over fleeing the star cluster.
• Luo Qi entered the Ark's hall with the case containing the human Seed and awakened Huang Qi, Zhang Cheng, Dongfang Ying, and Shi Zhongming.
• Luo Qi told Huang Qi that fifty-two years had passed and that an advanced civilization had destroyed the Solar System.
• Luo Qi explained that two civilizations occupied the nebula cluster and said he wanted to avoid war while seeking the group's help.
• Luo Qi revealed that the case held over a billion consciousness entities and asked the three original consciousness entities to contact Extraterrestrial Civilization Number One as representatives of Water Blue Star's human civilization.

Luo Qi secured an alliance with Water Blue Star’s surviving humans and prepared to hide Planet 6 by pushing it out of its orbit. Planet 6 vanished under its shielding, while a separate decoy system set off to imitate a planet escaping at faster-than-light speed.

• Luo Qi set terms for cooperation, and Fang Tianyi announced that the surviving human consciousness entities accepted them and would share technology unconditionally.
• Luo Qi planned to settle Water Blue Star’s survivors on Planet 5 and use them as part of the Fog Plan, while preparing Planets 5 and 6 to disappear.
• Luo Qi completed Planet 6’s planetary engines and interference satellite system, then used the satellites to shield the planet from light, electromagnetic waves, and detectable gravity.
• Luo Qi tested the engines and pushed Planet 6 out of its orbit, then activated gravity towing devices after it had traveled 200 million kilometers from the star system.
• Luo Qi detached the 1,008 planetary engines and sent them away with matter-collecting equipment and aircraft to create a decoy trail that looked like a planet had been pushed beyond light speed.

Luo Qi began transforming Planet 6 into a concealed Planet-Class Battleship and Planetary Factory while continuing research into faster-than-light technology and the high-energy region. A new observation device entered that region and revealed strange, apparently motionless points of light, leaving Luo Qi searching for a way to understand what he had seen.

• Luo Qi rejected turning Planet 6 into an Atomic-Nucleus War Star and finalized plans for a Planetary Framework, factories, a planetary furnace, and a Super Star-Destroyer-Class Main Cannon.
• Luo Qi assigned computing centers and Molecular Robots to build the Planetary Framework, beginning construction deep beneath Planet 6's surface.
• Luo Qi began researching faster-than-light detection, faster-than-light attacks, and ways to improve the Planetary Power Furnace.
• No. 1119 Laboratory discovered that an experimental apparatus could enter the high-energy region for one second and observed points of light against a dark background.
• The Research Centers sent a spherical observation device into the high-energy region, where it recorded centimeter-wide points that sometimes shone but did not emit light; Luo Qi returned the data for further study.

Luo Qi transformed Planet 5 into a habitable world for the humans of Water Blue Star, building a shielding system, an artificial sun, an atmosphere, and fertile soil. As green moss spread and a seedling rapidly grew, Fang Tianyi and the others watched the planet’s new ecosystem take shape.

• Molecular Robots began constructing Planet 6’s framework while Planet 5’s builders and satellites completed a shield that hid the planet from view.
• Wang Quan, Fang Tianyi, Huang Qi, Zhang Cheng, and the Replica landed on Planet 5, where Fang Tianyi described plans to develop its ecosystem and cities.
• Luo Qi asked Fang Tianyi what environment he wanted, and Fang Tianyi chose one like Water Blue Star.
• Luo Qi activated Molecular Robots to construct and raise an artificial sun at Planet 5’s north pole.
• Molecular Robots began creating an atmosphere and black soil as mist and rainbows formed in the sunlight.
• Molecular Robots produced green moss, and a seedling rapidly sprouted before the astonished group.

Luo Qi restored Water Blue Star’s environment and helped humanity transfer into nanostructure bodies, then explained the mysteries surrounding Civilization No. 1. Fang Tianyi agreed to begin contact with the unknown civilization.

• Luo Qi caused plants to grow across the land and lifted the group into the air to show them the transformed landscape.
• Luo Qi explained the advantages of nanostructure bodies, and Fang Tianyi called for humanity to choose between them and flesh-and-blood bodies.
• Humanity voted overwhelmingly for nanostructures, and star river intelligence verified citizens and connected their consciousness entities to newly built bodies.
• Luo Qi transferred control of nanostructures to humanity and offered technical help with housing.
• Luo Qi described unanswered questions about Civilization No. 1 and its war, and Fang Tianyi told Wang Quan to consult star river intelligence before agreeing to make contact.

Luo Qi brought four humans to Planet 6 and prepared them for first contact using remotely controlled, genetically enhanced bodies. After explaining their new technology and supplying them with faster-than-light craft, he sent them toward coordinates ten light-years away, leaving their contact mission underway.

• Luo Qi handed over Planet 5’s administration to the new humans, kept some facilities outside their system, and left with Huang Qi and the others.
• Aboard the Radiant, Luo Qi told Fang Tianyi and four other humans about a story from Earth involving a Sophon and speculated about advanced spatial technology.
• Luo Qi welcomed Zhang Cheng, Shi Zhongming, Dongfang Ying, and the others to Planet 6, where he served them source energy and explained how their nanostructures could be powered.
• Luo Qi explained that the four humans would make contact remotely through synchronized, genetically enhanced bodies, then connected their consciousnesses to the matching bodies.
• After the four humans practiced controlling their new bodies, Luo Qi sent them aboard a faster-than-light craft toward coordinates ten light-years away.