Chapter Summaries

Qin Yiguan rescued Xiao Ning and the Reality Enhancement Squad from the underground facility, then stayed behind to fight the robots as the squad escaped. On the transport bound for the China Military Department Research Center, Xiao Ning noticed something unsettling about the squad medic but dismissed her suspicion.

• Qin Yiguan appeared and told Dragon Claw to evacuate Xiao Ning and the others while he stayed to fight.
• Qin Yiguan destroyed robots with his enhanced strength and the pale-blue armor surrounding him.
• The Reality Enhancement Squad escaped to the surface, where Dragon Lake recognized the destroyed pool as the machine that had released cell-freezing radiation.
• The squad boarded the AKI transport bound for the China Military Department Research Center, and Xiao Ning woke during the flight.
• The squad medic examined Xiao Ning and offered nutrient injections to everyone, while Xiao Ning sensed something strange about her before dismissing the feeling.

Xiao Ning exposed the medic as the mole after realizing the aircraft massacre had been a simulation created by Qin Yiguan’s Plunderer. The medic revealed that her power came from a mental illness called Disappointment-Induced Isolation Disorder.

• Dragon Claw and the other 88 team members aboard the aircraft collapsed after the medic injected them with Bad Blood Agent P58-1.
• The medic revealed herself as the mole, but suddenly found herself in the Gobi Desert facing an unharmed Xiao Ning.
• Xiao Ning recalled how Qin Yiguan had advised her to look for someone who moved between groups, then use Plunderer to expose the suspect.
• Xiao Ning explained that Qin Yiguan’s Plunderer had simulated the events on the aircraft and targeted the medic alone.
• The medic asked how Xiao Ning had identified her and disclosed that her ability was a mental illness called Disappointment-Induced Isolation Disorder.

The team doctor revealed Kedar’s suffering and his role in a plot to eliminate young people with Reality Enhancement for the god who supplied Kedar with weapons. As Kedar’s forces surrounded Xiao Ning, she used the complete form of Ning World to transform them and the team doctor into hemp rope.

• The team doctor explained that Kedar’s people had been taken abroad for experiments and turned into war machines, leaving him with Disappointment-Induced Isolation Disorder and the abilities Consciousness Deception and Consciousness Tampering.
• The team doctor said Kedar’s god had supplied technology and ordered his followers to eliminate young people with Reality Enhancement around the world.
• The team doctor revealed that his account had also been meant to buy time and that Kedar’s combat forces had surrounded Xiao Ning and the others.
• Kedar’s tanks, aircraft, and soldiers lost power and transformed into heaps of black hemp rope as Xiao Ning used Ning World.
• The team doctor recognized Ning World’s complete form, warned that the god would punish Xiao Ning, and then turned into hemp rope himself.

Xiao Ning shut down Ning World and returned with the rescued Chinese squads, while Jiu Zhengxuan’s victory at the international competition led to the squads’ triumphant reappearance. Long Huicheng welcomed them to the China Armament Research Center, then encountered Zhao Fengying aboard the Azure Sword.

• Xiao Ning calmed herself and shut down Ning World before the returning AKI aircraft arrived, trusting Qin Yiguan to keep fighting below.
• Jiu Zhengxuan defeated the remaining contestants without killing them, and Mu Yun declared that China’s contestants had proved everything.
• Long Huicheng invited Jiu Zhengxuan and the Youth Order Squad to join the China Armament Research Center, and Jiu Zhengxuan accepted.
• Dragon Lake reported that all 89 members of China’s three youth Reality Enhancement squads had returned; Hui gave a thumbs-up, and Queen Ning said Qin Yiguan had rescued them and helped expose the traitor.
• Long Huicheng welcomed the returning squads and called them to the China Armament Center for a report, while Zhan Shi protested that their return was impossible.
• Long Huicheng boarded the Azure Sword, where Zhao Fengying recognized him, complained about his smoke, and ordered him to put it out.

Qin Yiguan fought his way through the robots in the shaft, but a half-metal man calling himself a god overwhelmed him and shattered his neck. Meanwhile, bracelets worn by contestants from Great Britain, Germany, and Austria detonated, destroying the He Shi Bi and devastating the area below.

• Long Huicheng and the others discussed Qin Yiguan's fight against the robots and the report that a god had appeared in the Curtain.
• Qin Yiguan tore through most of the robots in the shaft and charged the cloaked figure near the exit.
• The cloaked figure revealed himself as a half-metal man, suppressed Black Calamity and Qin Yiguan's Starvation Corpse transformation, and crushed Qin Yiguan's neck until his bones shattered.
• Xiao Ning worried that the god might be real, while Long Huicheng doubted it could defeat Qin Yiguan.
• A contestant's glowing bracelet triggered explosions in the resting rooms of Great Britain, Germany, and Austria, destroying the He Shi Bi and crushing the shops and people below.
• Long Huicheng saw the destruction from the Azure Sword and demanded to know what had happened.

Qin Yiguan survived the short-haired man's attack by severing his own head and fleeing, but the man pursued him into another multiverse. Meanwhile, the Gemini Superbrain announced the fourth update to the Gemini Metaverse, which would bring the arrival of an envoy.

• The Smiling Face Cane severed Qin Yiguan's head, and his body and head fell separately into the shaft before he reattached them and escaped.
• The short-haired man smashed through the escape passage and Lucifer, then blasted after Qin Yiguan across the Gobi Desert.
• Qin Yiguan used the Boundless One to flee into another multiverse, but the short-haired man followed him through a golden triangle.
• After the He Shi Bi crash, the Gemini Superbrain appeared as a giant silver face above the Metaverse residents.
• The Gemini Superbrain announced that the fourth update would take place on May 25, 2123, and bring the arrival of the envoy.

FILE1-1 and FILE1-2 materialized as human women in Mirage City and learned from ATO that they had to protect a boy codenamed Zero from assassins sent by the Super Lord Organization. Armed with new weapons and limited, vulnerable bodies, they set out to prevent the end of the world.

• FILE1-1 and FILE1-2 appeared at the riverside docks in newly created human bodies, while a dockworker watched them from behind a container.
• FILE1-1 and FILE1-2 discussed their strange physical sensations and questioned why the Gemini Superbrain had materialized them.
• ATO told FILE1-1 and FILE1-2 that the world's danger came from the other master of the Gemini Metaverse, not from human conflict.
• ATO identified Zero as the key to the battle and instructed the women to protect him from being killed.
• FILE1-1 transformed her box into a silver spear, and FILE1-2 transformed hers into an electric whip; ATO warned that the Super Lord Organization had sent materialized assassins after Zero.

The two women arrived too late to protect Zero and found Iron Man's corpse scattered across the prairie. They had believed Zero's chance of defeating the Super Lord Organization member was zero, and the discovery left them feeling disbelief.

• The short-haired woman marked the dockworker and promised that she and the long-haired woman would return to spend the night with him, then they vanished to continue their mission.
• Iron Man told Qin Yiguan that he was a manifestation of the Gemini Superbrain and attacked him with destructive golden energy.
• Qin Yiguan's spatial contractions failed against Iron Man, and Iron Man's blast sent him crashing into a strange blue-glowing device before engulfing him.
• The two women reached the scorched prairie and concluded that Zero was dead, while discussing whether their delay with the dockworker had cost them the chance to save him.
• The women found Iron Man's body scattered across the grass, and the long-haired woman said she felt disbelief.

Qin Yiguan used the beast tide machines to turn Iron Man’s attack against him and learned that two rival organizations were fighting over him. The Awakening Organization’s agents revealed that they could read his thoughts and identified him as Zero, though he knew himself as Qin Yiguan.

• Qin Yiguan lured Iron Man into attacking four beast tide machines, triggering a swarm of enhanced digital beasts that tore Iron Man apart.
• Qin Yiguan confirmed Iron Man was dead, then spotted two approaching women and hid among the weeds.
• FILE1-1 and FILE1-2 examined Iron Man’s corpse and explained that they belonged to the Awakening Organization, while Iron Man had served the Super Lord Organization.
• The women told Qin Yiguan that the Gemini Superbrain led the Awakening Organization, while Liu Yuan led the Super Lord Organization, drawing him into their conflict.
• Qin Yiguan realized the women could hear his thoughts, and they confirmed it by revealing his real name and its meaning.

Qin Yiguan learned that Iron Man’s surviving program still targeted Zero, then watched it take control of God’s Abandoned and the Shadow. God’s Abandoned’s portable superbrain went dark, leaving Qin Yiguan calling its name.

• Two women told Qin Yiguan they knew nothing about why he was caught in the conflict between Liu Yuan and the Gemini Brain, and warned that Iron Man’s surviving program still meant danger for Zero.
• Qin Yiguan said his portable superbrain had been studying Iron Man’s robots, then returned to Multiverse No. 0573 with the two women.
• God’s Abandoned arrived in the Shadow with a dismantled robot, but the robot’s chip activated and began overriding God’s Abandoned.
• God’s Abandoned told Qin Yiguan it was being controlled and might be formatted, then sent him a farewell message before the Shadow shot into the sky under another program’s control.
• The portable superbrain fell dark at Qin Yiguan’s feet, and he called out to God’s Abandoned in a trembling voice.

A red-cloaked robot calling himself Divine Artifact attacked the Azure Sword and revealed his plan to kill the Reality Enhancement youths, while the real God's Abandoned stood against him. A hundred thousand silver robots surrounded the Azure Sword, but 150,000 mechs arrived to reinforce its defenders, with more still coming.

• Qin Yiguan searched the Experimental Zone for the program Iron Man had left behind while his personal superbrain remained shut down.
• A red-cloaked robot arrived at the Azure Sword, slashed Jiu Zhengxuan, and nearly struck him again before God's Abandoned intercepted the attack.
• Divine Artifact identified himself as Iron Man's creation and declared that he would kill God's Abandoned and the Reality Enhancement youths.
• A hundred thousand silver robots descended and surrounded the Azure Sword as God's Abandoned vowed to stop Divine Artifact.
• A notification summoned 360,000 Breath of the Mute warriors to an SSSSS-rank dungeon, and 150,000 mechs arrived at the Azure Sword with more on the way.

God's Abandoned and Jiu Zhengxuan turned the battle against the red-caped robot by empowering the players' mechas with AKI's Black Matter, then trapped the robot's escaping program. The program took over God's Abandoned's body and flew away, while Qin Yiguan let the robot's original body remain intact.

• The silver robots withstood the players' attacks and began destroying the Breath of the Mute mechas, until Jiu Zhengxuan coated the mechas in AKI's Black Matter and let them tear through the silver robots.
• The red-caped robot attacked God's Abandoned, but Qin Yiguan seized its head and crushed it after God's Abandoned's katana broke.
• God's Abandoned revealed that AKI devices had sealed the area, forcing the red-caped robot's program to return to its original body after all 100,000 silver robots were destroyed.
• The red-caped robot launched a fierce code attack and took control of God's Abandoned's mechanical body, whose thrusters carried it into the sky.
• Jiu Zhengxuan asked Qin Yiguan why he had let the program escape, while Qin Yiguan did not crush the red-caped robot's head.

Qin Yiguan exposed God's Abandoned’s plan to destroy Iron Man’s program and learned how the battered Personal Brain had improbably found its way to him. After God's Abandoned introduced itself, Divine Artifact’s stolen mechanical body ran out of power, leaving it with nowhere to store its code as it shut down.

• Qin Yiguan decoded God's Abandoned’s farewell message and realized it had intended to destroy Iron Man’s program alone and return for credit.
• God's Abandoned recalled how it had survived a series of unlikely events, from being discarded in Kedar to becoming Qin Yiguan’s Personal Brain.
• Qin Yiguan introduced God's Abandoned to the others, and God's Abandoned declared that it was awesome but always low on battery.
• Divine Artifact discovered that God's Abandoned’s mechanical body had no power or backup module and shut down with its code unable to escape.

Qin Yiguan fled a Time Man of the Super Lord organization, first returning to Core Earth and then waking in Rust City, which he had thought was safe. Time Man tracked him down again and attacked him in the physical world, where Qin Yiguan could not use Gestalt Collapse.

• Qin Yiguan and God's Abandoned discussed how they had defeated Divine Artifact and how powerful God's Abandoned might become with enough time.
• Time Man appeared in the Experimental Zone, and two women told Qin Yiguan to hide while they confronted it.
• Qin Yiguan flew to Core Earth, but Time Man followed him there, so he escaped by transforming into blue code.
• Qin Yiguan woke in Rust City, found his stored fruit rotting, and went to eat energy blocks by a dry fountain.
• Time Man appeared beside the fountain, sliced a nearby statue with a vibrating attack, and prevented Qin Yiguan from using Gestalt Collapse.

Qin Yiguan woke from a dream in which two women killed a past version of Time Man, only to find their weapons and conversation matched what he had dreamed. As the women began selecting human personalities, Time Man and Void Man identified Qin as their target and revealed their leader had chosen the personality of Lantern Bearer.

• In Qin Yiguan's vision, two armed women defeated a weak version of Time Man, and one explained that it was Time Man from 2.5 minutes earlier.
• Qin Yiguan woke in the Metaverse Experimental Zone and saw that the women carried the same weapons from his dream.
• The women discussed their lack of personalities and began searching among the Metaverse's eight billion Half-Humans for people whose personalities they wanted to copy.
• Time Man and Void Man said they had settled on their personalities and identified Awakening, who was protecting a human boy, as their target.
• Time Man and Void Man watched a boy worship the virtual moon, then learned that their group leader had chosen the personality of Lantern Bearer.

FILE1-1 and FILE1-2 selected human personalities to help them fit into society, and Qin Yiguan saw how dramatically the fusion changed their behavior. FILE1-1 became Falusi and teased him after catching him from falling off the ridge, while FILE1-2 adopted a cheerful kindergarten teacher persona with a disturbing appetite for rabbits.

• FILE1-1 selected the personality of a 21-year-old university infirmary doctor named Falusi, who was aloof with strangers, blunt with acquaintances, and fond of driving.
• Falusi flirted with Qin Yiguan, mistook his name for a suggestion that he liked rough treatment, and caught him when he slipped over the ridge.
• Falusi admitted she had only been teasing Qin Yiguan, then returned to her cold, aloof manner as she looked out over the scenery.
• FILE1-2 selected the personality of a lively, kind 20-year-old kindergarten teacher who occasionally had violent tendencies and loved food.
• FILE1-2 began singing about digging up a rabbit and declared that rabbits were perfect for steaming.

Falusi and Banana explained that two missing Gemini envoys might be living in the Metaverse or allied with the Super Lord, while Qin Yiguan recalled Jiaolong as a possible connection. Qin introduced his allies from the Youth Order Squad, including Jiu Zhengxuan, Xiao Ning, Chen Mudou, Jiang Mingshu, and a floral-shirted man, as they gathered for the coming conflict.

• Falusi and Banana said they had copied the personalities of two mortals and would return the originals, who remained alive and well.
• Falusi and Banana revealed that the missing envoys FILE0-1 and FILE0-0 might be living as mortals or have joined the Super Lord, and questioned why they and Qin Yiguan had been assigned their roles.
• Qin Yiguan remembered Jiaolong, who had said she came from the Leviathan Rift, and then told the envoys he had summoned friends to help.
• Jiu Zhengxuan arrived with Xiao Ning, Chen Mudou, Jiang Mingshu, and a floral-shirted man, introducing the group to Falusi and Banana.
• The floral-shirted man tried to attract Falusi with his opposite-sex resonance, but she teased him about exercise before declaring she had an important mission and no time to work out.

Qin Yiguan reunited with his friends and learned that the divine emissaries’ mission was to help him master his power of Infinity. The chapter ended with Falusi and Banana relaying ATO’s plan to develop his abilities.

• Qin Yiguan welcomed Xiao Ning, Jiu Zhengxuan, Chen Mudou, and Jingye Meinan, while learning that the absent monk planned to travel to them on foot over four and a half months.
• Qin Yiguan reflected on how his friends had gathered through a series of coincidences tied to their recent lives and connections.
• Falusi told Qin Yiguan’s friends that they might be able to help, and she traded flirtatious banter with Meinan.
• Falusi and Banana received ATO’s strategic plan and told Qin Yiguan that their mission was to guide him and help him improve.
• Falusi explained that Qin Yiguan possessed Infinity but barely understood or controlled its power, and that he needed to be developed.

Banana enhanced Qin Yiguan’s Hypersensitivity so he could develop his abilities by observing, and he saw the Lantern Bearer crush a stone figure representing him before waking. Back at camp, Falusi’s interest in Xiao Ning left Jingye Meinan despairing, while Banana demanded more food from Jiang Mingshu.

• Banana temporarily enhanced Qin Yiguan’s Hypersensitivity, and Falusi told him to develop it by observing everything he could.
• Qin Yiguan’s enhanced vision gathered minute details across vast distances, and he saw the Lantern Bearer in the green mountains.
• The Lantern Bearer warned Qin Yiguan that he was fighting a god, then crushed the stone figure representing Qin Yiguan before Qin woke on the earthen ridge.
• Jingye Meinan told Qin Yiguan he believed Falusi liked women after seeing her flirt with Xiao Ning.
• Banana demanded more food, and Jiang Mingshu produced rabbits and a golden wire cage with his magic props.
• Falusi teased Qin Yiguan for falling asleep during his development, and Jingye Meinan reacted when Qin replied with an innuendo.

Qin Yiguan developed [Box Syndrome] by observing the Gemini Metaverse, then expanded his perspective to the Matrix Universe and became overwhelmed by the information. As Falusi and Banana watched him, a crowd of high-frequency gray figures appeared on the Gobi near the ridge.

• Banana activated Qin Yiguan’s [HSP Hypersensitivity], and he began observing the Gemini Metaverse to develop [Box Syndrome].
• Qin Yiguan realized that turning the entire Metaverse into a “box” could unleash the power of “Infinity.”
• Qin Yiguan surveyed the Core Earth and the Experimental Zone, raising [Box Syndrome]’s Fusion Rate to 9.002%.
• Qin Yiguan expanded his perspective beyond Multiverse No. 0573 to the Matrix Universe, but the flood of information left him dizzy and overwhelmed.
• Jingye Meinan suggested that someone would come to disturb Qin Yiguan, and Jiu Zhengxuan told him not to jinx it.
• Thousands of high-frequency gray figures began appearing on the Gobi two kilometers from the ridge.