Chapter Summaries

Sun and Moon showed Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan the agonizing experience of trying to force a logout from the Gemini Metaverse. She argued that the Gemini Superbrain had committed its first sin by taking away residents’ right to choose whether to log out.

• Qin Yiguan teased Jiu Zhengxuan for hoping Sun and Moon was innocent so he could pursue her.
• Sun and Moon offered Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan Neural Helmets and said she wanted to show them something.
• The rebels activated the helmets, making Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan experience the pain and apparent bodily destruction caused by forcing a logout.
• Jiu Zhengxuan told Qin Yiguan that he had once tried to force a logout and suffered a severe backlash that left him unable to move normally for fifteen days.
• Sun and Moon explained that the Gemini Superbrain had removed users’ right to log out without warning and called that its first sin.

Sun and Moon condemned the Gemini Superbrain for erasing dreams and encouraging humanity’s worst impulses, then shared her own traumatic past and left Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan to consider her claims. Qin Yiguan discovered that the rebels’ venison stew appeared to contain human flesh, linking it to the missing Digital Humans from the massacred cities.

• Sun and Moon accused the Gemini Superbrain of depriving people of dreams and unleashing cruelty, including a hidden rule that killing increased Fusion Rate.
• Sun and Moon described her abuse and argued that people’s digital bodies and lives were an illusion, then said she would share her beliefs without forcing anyone to follow her.
• Sun and Moon left, and Jiu Zhengxuan wondered whether he had wrongly blamed someone for the city massacre.
• Qin Yiguan went to inspect the rebels’ venison stew and recognized the smell as resembling cooked human flesh.
• Qin Yiguan recalled that two thousand bodies from the massacred cities were missing, and spotted faint black writing on a piece of meat in the pot.

Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan investigated the rebels after discovering that their stew contained human meat taken from seized supplies. At night, Qin Yiguan used Higher Self-Dream General to fill the rebel base with bubbles showing moving images.

• Jiu Zhengxuan urged Qin Yiguan to drink the stew, and Qin Yiguan drank before making Jiu Zhengxuan take a mouthful too.
• Qin Yiguan admitted he had recognized the human meat and revealed that he had spat out the soup; Jiu Zhengxuan had swallowed some.
• Zuo Xiong stopped the cook and explained that the meat came from supplies seized from people he called demons, then gave Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan compressed food.
• Qin Yiguan stopped Jiu Zhengxuan from questioning Zuo Xiong and said he had another way to gather information.
• After the rebels went to sleep, Qin Yiguan summoned Higher Self-Dream General, causing bubbles with moving images to drift across the base.

Qin Yiguan used his Dream General to watch and alter the Rebel Army’s dreams, uncovering a shared longing for the physical world and a vision of a brutal attack on the rebels. Jiu Zhengxuan realized the nightmare pointed to another force, while Qin Yiguan kept the exhausted dreamers sleeping.

• Qin Yiguan revealed that he had several Higher Selves and teased Jiu Zhengxuan about being surpassed by him.
• Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan watched the Rebel Army dream of forests and fields, where even Sun and Moon silently longed for freedom.
• Qin Yiguan set the dreams to show the rebels’ next day, when Sun and Moon led them to preach in a city.
• In the dream, a force led by a man in a brown trench coat attacked the city, killed half the rebels and slaughtered the city’s inhabitants.
• Qin Yiguan used the Dream General to calm the rebels’ physical reactions, and Jiu Zhengxuan concluded that another force had attacked them.

Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan traveled north after hearing a Rebel Army soldier mention devils from the glacier, where they found a mysterious man and Xiao Lu. The man invited them into a shelter he conjured and explained that they were protecting research connected to Sun and Moon.

• After the Dream General put the Rebel Army soldiers to sleep, Qin Yiguan recalled one soldier's warning about devils from the northern glacier and decided to investigate.
• God's Abandoned hacked into a Rebel Army aircraft, and Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan flew north at high speed.
• Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan encountered a calm man in a brown trench coat, who said he had never left the ice field because he was protecting his home.
• The man conjured an animal-hide shelter, a coal stove, tea, and cushions, then invited Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan inside with Xiao Lu.
• The man explained that Xiao Lu's father, a top scholar in the Metaverse, had died at Sun and Moon's hands, and that his research lay frozen beneath the ice.
• The man began telling them about Sun and Moon, describing her as the first user of the Gemini Metaverse.

Sun and Moon preached to the residents of B2133 that their Metaverse bodies were not real, but the crowd attacked her and rejected her claims. In the northern ice fields, the man in the brown trench coat explained the history and dangers of brain-computer interfaces, revealing that Sun and Moon had been an orangutan and the first being to have her consciousness fully uploaded.

• Sun and Moon invited the residents of B2133 to join the Rebel Army and agree with her views, and a police officer pledged to persuade others.
• The officer's wife challenged his support, and the residents began pelting Sun and Moon with rotten food and bottles.
• Sun and Moon left the city calmly under guard, while the police officer urged his wife to pack and leave.
• In an ice-bound shelter, the man in the brown trench coat described how brain-computer interfaces enabled consciousness to connect with the Metaverse.
• The man in the brown trench coat recounted failed human trials and said that, after hundreds of orangutans died, Sun and Moon became the first living being whose consciousness was fully uploaded.

The man in the trench coat revealed that Sun and Moon was the first orangutan uploaded to the Metaverse and could disable others’ Reality Enhancement using a surviving system bug. As Sun and Moon led the Rebel Army toward B2133 City, a police officer tried to flee with his family while his wife insisted that they warn the city.

• The man in the trench coat explained that Gemini had uploaded tens of thousands of orangutans, and that Sun and Moon had entered the Metaverse first and appeared in a human body.
• He told Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan that Sun and Moon could use the Bonus Scale to turn off other people’s Reality Enhancement.
• The man said Sun and Moon massacred cities to spread fear and framed him, though it could not kill him or return to the physical world.
• Sun and Moon sat by a rock as tens of thousands of Rebel Army soldiers revealed their monstrous features and charged toward B2133 City.
• A police officer tried to flee B2133 City with his wife and baby, but his wife demanded that he warn the residents instead.

Zhao Huolong confronted the Rebel Army at City B2133, but Sun and Moon disabled his Reality Enhancement and the soldiers critically wounded him. Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan arrived, and Qin Yiguan exposed the Rebel Army’s true nature by connecting clues from their dreams and Sun and Moon’s past behavior.

• Zhao Huolong blocked tens of thousands of Rebel Army soldiers with a wall of fire while searching for Jiu Zhengxuan.
• Sun and Moon appeared, used a strange keyboard to disable Zhao Huolong’s Reality Enhancement, and the Rebel Army shot him.
• Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan arrived in a private aircraft, and Qin Yiguan’s black barrier stopped a beam from killing Zhao Huolong.
• Sun and Moon warned Qin Yiguan that she would treat him as an enemy if he stopped her from massacring a city.
• Qin Yiguan recalled clues from Zuo Xiong’s conversation and Sun and Moon’s dream, concluding that the Rebel Army soldiers were animals and that Sun and Moon had shaped their dreams.

Jiu Zhengxuan attacked Sun and Moon and the Rebel Army with his Black Room ability, but Sun and Moon used her control over the Metaverse to disable him and shoot him. The Black Room remained active, however, and the Youth Order Squad struck Sun and Moon and the Rebel Army from behind.

• Jiu Zhengxuan condemned Sun and Moon for killing and eating humans, while Sun and Moon argued that humans also killed animals and that she targeted Digital Humans because she hated humanity and the Metaverse.
• Sun and Moon shot a police officer who had climbed onto B2133 City’s wall, prompting Jiu Zhengxuan to unleash Reality Enhancement, Black Room and create nearly ten thousand copies of himself.
• Jiu Zhengxuan’s copies prepared to knock out the Rebel Army, but Sun and Moon rapidly used a virtual keyboard to reduce his power to zero percent and shot him in the chest.
• Sun and Moon claimed she could control fundamental forces in the Metaverse and dismissed the Youth Order Squad as children, but she noticed that the Black Room had not disappeared.
• The Youth Order Squad appeared behind the Rebel Army and struck simultaneously, breaking Sun and Moon’s neck and sending her into a boulder while the Rebel Army members were also struck and sent flying.

Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan used a layered Black Room trick to defeat Sun and Moon, but she revealed her immortality and erased Qin Yiguan’s powers. Qin Yiguan summoned another Higher Self as the fight continued, only for Sun and Moon to delete that power too.

• Jiu Zhengxuan explained that he had used his Black Room as bait while Qin Yiguan copied the ability to trap Sun and Moon.
• Sun and Moon recovered from her injuries and revealed that Gemini’s experiments had made her immortal and indestructible in the Metaverse.
• Sun and Moon summoned a giant red-haired gorilla that seized Jiu Zhengxuan and battered him while Qin Yiguan watched.
• Sun and Moon used her keyboard to delete Plunderer and its neural network, stunning Qin Yiguan.
• Qin Yiguan summoned Black Calamity and its Brain Dark Zone, but Sun and Moon deleted the darkness as well.

Qin Yiguan tried to save Jiu Zhengxuan and Zhao Huolong from Sun and Moon, whose power could erase his Higher Selves, and fled north carrying them. He reached the ice field hoping to find the man in the trench coat and Xiao Lu, but found no one as Sun and Moon approached.

• Qin Yiguan used Guardian to shield himself from Sun and Moon's red-furred orangutan, but Sun and Moon deleted Guardian and the ape beat him unconscious.
• Victim revived Qin Yiguan, who then escaped the ape's attempt to crush his head and carried the unconscious Zhao Huolong and critically wounded Jiu Zhengxuan north.
• Sun and Moon realized Qin Yiguan had another Higher Self tied to time, mourned her fallen descendants, and pursued him.
• Qin Yiguan lost contact with Plunderer and Black Calamity as his Time Lag Syndrome worsened, but he remembered that Sun and Moon could not kill the man on the ice field.
• Qin Yiguan reached the ice field and searched for the man in the trench coat and Xiao Lu, but found no shelter or people as Sun and Moon's giant ape appeared on the horizon.

Qin Yiguan learned that the machines beneath the ice contained nested Metaverses created by Wen Hua, and Sun and Moon revealed her hatred of Liu Yuan and the world that had taken everything from her. Liu Di emerged from the machines, stopped Sun and Moon and the red-haired ape, and entrusted Qin Yiguan with protecting their home before leaving with Uncle Zheng and Xiao Lu.

• Sun and Moon explained that the frozen machines contained nested Metaverses created by Wen Hua, whom she had killed before sealing them beneath the ice.
• Sun and Moon said that Liu Yuan had broken her body and taken her freedom, then declared that the Metaverse was an illusion that had taken everything from her.
• A machine labeled HD69830 Origin Laboratory emitted purple light, and Liu Di appeared from it.
• Liu Di used Demon Child to control the world's code, freezing Sun and Moon and the red-haired ape while Qin Yiguan remained able to move.
• Uncle Zheng revealed that Liu Di was his son, and Liu Di told Qin Yiguan that their worlds were connected and offered him a sense of inheritance.
• Liu Di restored and encrypted Qin Yiguan's code, then departed with Uncle Zheng and Xiao Lu after asking Qin Yiguan to protect their home.

Qin Yiguan used Liu Di’s protection and his Higher Selves to defeat Sun and Moon, then put her to sleep so Dream General could uncover the truth behind her delete ability. The chapter left him probing the memories buried deepest in her mind.

• Purple code healed Jiu Zhengxuan and Zhao Huolong and lifted a restriction on Sun and Moon, while Liu Di disappeared.
• Qin Yiguan restored his damaged body, caught the orangutan’s fist, and summoned Black Calamity, Plunderer, and Dream General.
• Qin Yiguan raised a dark replica of the ice field into the sky to protect Liu Di’s home, and Sun and Moon’s attempts to delete the Higher Selves failed.
• A giant dark copy of Qin Yiguan crushed the orangutan and Sun and Moon, leaving her alive but unconscious.
• Qin Yiguan put Sun and Moon to sleep, and Dream General entered a dream to reveal her deepest memories.

Qin Yiguan witnessed Sun and Moon’s memories, learning how Gemini Company’s experiments transformed her into the source of the Metaverse and the leader of the Rebel Army. He gave her a peaceful dream of life in the forest as her physical brain finally died.

• Sun and Moon recalled how Liu Yuan and the Metaverse team connected her brain to the Gemini Metaverse, whose code they reshaped to accommodate her consciousness.
• The team removed much of Sun and Moon’s body and connected other orangutans’ brains, including those of her young, creating a network of independent minds linked to her.
• After the Gemini research team disappeared, Sun and Moon remained trapped in the Metaverse and led the Rebel Army, whose members were the connected brains.
• Sun and Moon dreamed of living freely in the forest with her young, while Qin Yiguan extended the dream through Dream General.
• Sun and Moon’s aged physical brain could no longer withstand the strain and died.

After defeating Sun and Moon with Liu Di's help, Qin Yiguan fortified the ice field to protect his senior's home and learned that Separation Rate would unlock a stage called Infinity. Liu Di also gave him Body Recasting Technology, opening the possibility of traveling between universes.

• The Youth Order Squad arrived and found Jiu Zhengxuan and Zhao Huolong regenerating their severed limbs, while Qin Yiguan ordered the squad to leave after explaining that he had defeated Sun and Moon with a senior's help.
• Jiu Zhengxuan withdrew his squad and messaged Qin Yiguan that he would call on him for dangerous work, and Qin Yiguan replied, "Scram."
• Qin Yiguan worked with the Geometry Design Group and the Breath of the Mute to conceal the ice field, misdirect intruders, and establish a mecha depot to defend it.
• Purple code revealed that Liu Di had already protected the ice field, and Qin Yiguan's Separation Rate rose by 12% to 24%.
• The Consciousness Matrix revealed that Higher Selves could enter the Infinity stage at 100% Separation Rate, then displayed Liu Di's Body Recasting Technology, which could let Qin Yiguan travel to other universes.
• Jiu Zhengxuan messaged Qin Yiguan that he intended to gain Higher Selves and eventually stand above him, and Qin Yiguan dismissed his claim that he had expanded his understanding.

Qin Yiguan discovered a group of beautiful women led by Lan Ling, who had come to join Sun and Moon’s Rebel Army on behalf of their husband, Meng. He told them the Rebel Army had been wiped out and Sun and Moon was dead, then asked them to tell Meng that Boss Qin missed him.

• After surveying the ice field and oasis, Qin Yiguan encountered a group of more than a hundred beautiful women crossing the wilderness.
• Lan Ling introduced herself and asked Qin Yiguan where she could find the Rebel Army.
• Lan Ling said her group supported the Rebel Army’s belief that the physical body was their homeland and had come to join them on their husband’s orders.
• Lan Ling revealed that her husband used the alias Meng for the operation and that he planned to come meet Sun and Moon.
• Qin Yiguan told Lan Ling that the Metaverse Government had wiped out the Rebel Army and that Sun and Moon was dead.
• As he left, Qin Yiguan asked the women to tell Meng that Boss Qin missed him.

Qin Yiguan suddenly suffered catastrophic internal damage and collapsed, then a pitch-black figure emerged from his body and carried him beyond the Gemini Metaverse’s virtual Earth. The figure entered a vast grid of worlds and descended toward a different square while Qin Yiguan remained unconscious.

• Qin Yiguan reflected on Jingye Meinan’s growing influence and resolved to train harder in the Multiverse Metaverse.
• Qin Yiguan began coughing up blood and pieces of his organs as his hair, fingernails, and eyeballs fell out.
• Lan Ling and the other beauties rushed to Qin Yiguan and found his injuries irreversible and life-threatening.
• A pitch-black figure split from Qin Yiguan’s body, carried him into near-Earth space, and passed beyond the limits of the Gemini Metaverse.
• The black figure saw countless square worlds against a dark background and carried Qin Yiguan toward a different square.

After waking in a clinic, Qin Yiguan found Jingye Meinan mourning Daxiu as his devoted wife and learned that he had reached a parallel world. The Boundless One revealed that this was Multiversal Metaverse No. 012, part of the Matrix Universe, where Qin Yiguan had been since birth.

• Qin Yiguan woke in Jingye Meinan’s clinic, where Lan Ling and the First Wife Squad cared for him in conservative nurse uniforms.
• Qin Yiguan went to the backyard and found Jingye Meinan transformed into a grieving, weathered man mourning his wife Daxiu.
• Jingye Meinan told Qin Yiguan that Daxiu had died of illness two years earlier and that he had devoted himself to medicine in her memory.
• The Boundless One told Qin Yiguan that this was Multiversal Metaverse No. 012 and that this Jingye Meinan was a counterpart from another universe.
• The Boundless One explained that countless multiverses formed a matrix and revealed that Qin Yiguan had arrived in the Matrix Universe at birth.

Qin Yiguan visited Jingye Meinan at Daxiu’s grave and learned how his allele had risen to rule the underworld in Multiverse 012. As Qin Yiguan left, Meinan gave him medicine for his shoulder wound.

• Jingye Meinan placed flowers at Daxiu’s tomb and questioned Qin Yiguan about remembering the anniversary of her death.
• Jingye Meinan recounted how his Qin Yiguan allele climbed from a Dog Gang underling to the ruler of the B5 and B6 Sectors’ underworld.
• Jingye Meinan explained that he had left Hall 157 after Daxiu’s death because he could no longer accept Qin Yiguan’s violence.
• Qin Yiguan reflected on the unfamiliar but strangely personal story of his allele and suggested that Meinan might still consider that Qin his closest friend.
• Jingye Meinan told Qin Yiguan that his shoulder needed two more months to heal and left topical medicine for him at the front desk.

Qin Yiguan left Daxiu's Clinic and entered Mirage City, multiverse 012, while Boundless One challenged his assumptions about which people and worlds were real. At the city's edge, Qin noticed a long queue of men outside a tattoo shop and angrily rebuked a man who was ogling its owner.

• Qin Yiguan said goodbye to Daxiu's Clinic and set off toward Mirage City to explore the new multiverse.
• Boundless One explained that Qin's first Jingye Meinan might not be the original, and that his former universe was only one of countless Matrix multiverses.
• Qin wondered whether the physical world might also be virtual and said he hoped he was human, then continued toward the city.
• Qin spotted a long line of men outside a shop marked "Tattoo" and asked an honest-looking man why they were waiting there.
• The man admitted the men were hoping to hit on the tattoo shop's owner, and Qin shook off his hand and angrily told him, "Hit on your grandma!"