Chapter Summaries

As the ship’s monotonous voyage continued, Li Xiang comforted Watermelon after he asked where people went when they died. She took his hand and led him back to bed, leaving him with the idea that lost loved ones might watch over them as stars.

• Gen and Li Xiang complained about the dull days at sea, and Chrome asked Senku for a phone after hearing Li Xiang describe one.
• Senku told Chrome that making electronics was beyond their current industrial capabilities and that rebuilding civilization had to come first.
• Francois mixed a Negroni for Li Xiang, who praised its balanced flavors.
• Li Xiang found Watermelon gazing at the stars late at night and warned him that staying up would keep him from growing tall.
• Watermelon asked where people went after death and repeated Ruri’s belief that kind people became stars.
• Li Xiang said no one could know for certain, then encouraged Watermelon to live well and be there for others as she walked him back to bed.

After reaching the Americas, Li Xiang and the others landed in a swamp, defeated a group of crocodiles, and planned their first scouting expedition to find corn. Their camp was interrupted by the appearance of a fighter jet in the sky.

• The crew spotted the lush new continent, and Li Xiang explained that she had dealt with seasickness by asking Kohaku to knock her unconscious.
• The group anchored their ship offshore, traveled by speedboat into a swamp, and defeated the crocodiles they encountered.
• The group caught fish, camped for the night, and Li Xiang assigned Senku, Tsukasa, and Ukyo to scout for Yellow Horse-Tooth Corn and their key resource.
• Gen, Chrome, and Li Xiang discussed the possibilities of building a Corn Kingdom and using corn to support their revival plans.
• A fighter jet roared across the sky, shocking Li Xiang and the others.

Li Xiang’s group was attacked by a fighter jet after landing on the New Continent, revealing that a technologically advanced force controlled the area. After the attack, they agreed to avoid direct combat and prepare to rely on tactics, while Stanley and a silver-haired man planned to capture them.

• Li Xiang warned the group to take cover as a fighter jet strafed their ship, and Ryusui started the vessel and escaped its firing range.
• Senku, Tsukasa, and Ukyo returned safely from searching for corn, and Li Xiang told them about the attack.
• Li Xiang ordered everyone to stay together, find the yellow horse-tooth corn, and avoid fighting unless they had no choice.
• At a distant base, Stanley reported that Li Xiang had reacted quickly, and a silver-haired man proposed capturing the newcomers rather than killing them if they would submit.
• Li Xiang said the group could not win a head-on fight and would need tactics and coordination, with her and Senku taking command when the other was absent.

Gen Asagiri was captured by Stanley’s squad and deceived Xeno into believing he had defected. Luna infiltrated the Ishigami Squad’s ship, where she met Senku and then unexpectedly approached Li Xiang.

• Gen Asagiri stayed behind after a patrol, allowing Stanley and his men to capture him and take him to their base.
• Gen pretended his team had mistreated him and passed Xeno’s saltwater lie-detection test by concealing his reactions.
• Gen told Xeno that Dr. Taiju led his team, and Xeno sent Stanley to investigate with Luna, Max, and Carlos.
• Luna pretended Ukyo had found her abandoned in the forest, and Ukyo brought her aboard the Ishigami Squad’s ship.
• Senku introduced himself to Luna and demanded that she share everything she knew.
• Li Xiang entered with survey data, and Luna immediately took her hand.

Luna met Li Xiang and, overwhelmed by her admiration for the doctor, forgot her undercover mission and accepted her help. Meanwhile, Stanley watched from the woods, lost sight of his target after Luna changed clothes, and wondered whether she had switched sides.

• Luna recognized Li Xiang as her medical idol and praised her achievements, while Li Xiang encouraged Luna to keep studying medicine.
• Chrome reminded Li Xiang that Luna came from the enemy camp, so Li Xiang asked Luna to explain her real purpose.
• Luna claimed her team had abandoned her in the woods, and Yuzuriha and Ukyo sympathized with her as Li Xiang saw through the act.
• Li Xiang advised Luna to wear more suitable clothes for the woods, and Yuzuriha altered a dress while Li Xiang made her flat sandals.
• Stanley watched from a tree, failed to identify his target after Luna changed outfits, and cursed as he wondered if she had switched sides.

Luna struggled with her undercover mission as Senku and Li Xiang discussed Xeno, while Taiju announced they had found traces of corn. Xeno contacted the ship by radio and asked to speak with Dr. Taiju.

• Stanley watched the ship from a concealed position in the treetops as Luna spotted him and wrestled with her undercover mission.
• Nikki noticed Luna looked pale, but Luna said she was only distracted by her thoughts.
• Taiju brought Senku a corncob and reported that the group had found traces of corn.
• Senku told Luna that Xeno had once answered his questions about building a rocket when Senku was a child.
• Li Xiang reassured Luna and offered to bring her hot water after they finished on deck.
• Xeno contacted the ship by radio, switched to English at Li Xiang's request, and asked whether Dr. Taiju was aboard.

Li Xiang rejected Xeno’s offer to rule as dictators and tried to conceal Senku’s identity, but Senku’s voice exposed him. Xeno sent Stanley to watch the ship, while Li Xiang warned Senku that a sniper was hidden in the forest.

• Xeno contacted Li Xiang and invited her to join him in using science to seize power and rule as dictators.
• Li Xiang criticized Xeno’s plan and refused his invitation, arguing that leaders needed the support of ordinary people.
• Senku spoke over the receiver, revealing his identity to Xeno, and Li Xiang struck him for ruining her bluff.
• Xeno told Stanley that Senku was the real leader aboard the ship, and Stanley agreed he was ready to carry out the mission.
• Stanley watched the ship through his rifle scope as Li Xiang stopped Senku from turning toward the hidden sniper.

Stanley shot Senku, leaving him seriously wounded, and Li Xiang led a successful surgery to remove the shrapnel. After learning from Luna that Stanley fired the shot, Li Xiang stood alone by the ship’s rail, considering her response.

• Stanley identified Senku and shot at him, but Senku’s use of flour and water blunted the bullet before shrapnel wounded his chest.
• Li Xiang assessed Senku’s injuries and organized an emergency operation, with Luna assisting her.
• Li Xiang operated on Senku for two hours and removed the shrapnel, stopping the internal bleeding.
• After Senku’s companions learned the surgery had gone smoothly, Li Xiang confronted Luna and asked who had fired the shot.
• Luna named Stanley, and Li Xiang went alone to the ship’s rail to consider what to do next.

Li Xiang’s group destroyed Stanley’s attacking planes and captured Xeno while rescuing Gen during a night raid. The chapter ended with Stanley returning to an empty headquarters and finding Xeno missing.

• Ryusui and Li Xiang used a flour-and-ethane explosion and a sharp speedboat turn to bring down both planes attacking the coastal camp.
• Two days earlier, Li Xiang ordered Kohaku, Tsukasa, and Hyoga to capture Xeno, Homura to rescue Gen, and Chrome to support their retreat.
• Xeno detected the infiltrators and ordered his guards to surround them, but Tsukasa and Hyoga defeated the guards in his room.
• Homura freed Gen and brought him to Chrome at the base perimeter while Kohaku, Tsukasa, and Hyoga subdued Xeno.
• Kohaku carried the bound Xeno away, and Stanley returned to headquarters to find him gone.

Li Xiang’s team escaped by sea with Xeno and Gen, while Stanley launched a warship in pursuit. Aboard the boat, Li Xiang confronted Xeno about his orders and asked him to stop Stanley, then left Senku to speak with him.

• Stanley ordered his forces to pursue Xeno, but they reached the shore too late to catch the boat carrying Xeno and Gen.
• Stanley boarded Xeno’s ocean-going warship and pursued the Science Kingdom’s boat.
• Li Xiang told Xeno that she had deceived him over the radio and revealed her identity.
• Li Xiang accused Xeno of authorizing Stanley’s attack on Senku and demanded that he stop further pursuit and assassination attempts.
• Li Xiang left the cabin, and Senku entered to speak with Xeno.

Senku and Xeno calculated that the Petrification Beam first struck deep in South America's Amazon Rainforest, and Xeno agreed to help investigate the extraterrestrial enemy. Li Xiang brought them lunch, and Xeno discovered he enjoyed her cooking.

• Senku told the bound Xeno that his goal was to revive everyone and explained his theory that an extraterrestrial civilization had fired the Petrification Beam at Earth.
• Xeno found Senku's deductions convincing and agreed that he might help him investigate.
• Senku and Xeno used frothy bubbles and calculations to identify the Amazon Rainforest in South America as the beam's initial target, and Chrome joined them and followed their reasoning.
• Li Xiang brought lunch, told Chrome to wash his hands, and introduced Xeno to meat-stuffed flatbread, sweet-and-sour pork, and hot-and-sour shredded potatoes.
• Xeno enjoyed Li Xiang's cooking and praised her skills as a physician and cook.

During the long voyage to the Amazon, Li Xiang invented card games to entertain the crew and secretly cheated to help her team win a chemistry-themed match. Afterward, she had Grandpa Fossil make a Mahjong set while the ship continued toward its destination.

• Li Xiang invented playing cards, and the crew gathered to play Dou Dizhu aboard the ship.
• Li Xiang created Chemistry Element Playing Cards for Senku, Xeno, and Chrome, then teamed up with Chrome against Senku and Xeno.
• Chrome accidentally played an SOS card instead of SO₂, and Xeno played F₂, leaving Li Xiang's team apparently on the verge of losing.
• Li Xiang revealed four oxygen cards as a bomb, played Br₂ to finish the game, and celebrated the win with Chrome.
• Gen realized Li Xiang had secretly swapped cards in Chrome's hand, while Tsukasa, Gen, and Shrike watched.
• Li Xiang asked Grandpa Fossil to make a Mahjong set, and the ship continued sailing toward the Amazon.

Gen overcame his feelings of uselessness by becoming the ship’s teacher, while Li Xiang prepared the crew for the Amazon and resumed the Viewing System’s story. The viewing ended with the Harem infiltrators obtaining and sending out the platinum.

• Gen felt like a burden until Francois reminded him that his empathy and communication skills could help save his companions, then cheered him with a chocolate cake.
• Gen decided to teach the post-petrification villagers to read, and Li Xiang supported him as he became Teacher Gen aboard the ship.
• Li Xiang prepared insect repellents and first-aid kits with help from Yuzuriha before the crew reached the Amazon Rainforest.
• Li Xiang resumed the Viewing System and watched Senku use Mechanical Mice to deliver intelligence to Chrome and the others inside the Harem.
• Kohaku discovered something strange while on patrol, and Li Xiang and Ginro successfully obtained the platinum and sent it outside the Harem.

The group reached South America and found Chelsea stranded in the rainforest. After bringing her to the ship, Li Xiang wondered whether revival might help with Chelsea’s congenital nearsightedness.

• Senku and Grandpa Fossil produced Revival Fluid, and the group revived their companions and recovered their petrified fragments from the seabed.
• After reuniting with Kohaku and the others, they noticed Li Xiang was missing from the group shown on the Viewing Screen.
• Li Xiang closed the Viewing Screen, and the ship reached the coast of South America.
• Li Xiang distributed insect repellent and warned the group to stay together as they traveled into the rainforest.
• The group found Chelsea in a clearing, recognized her through Xeno, and brought her back to the ship to recover.
• Li Xiang learned that Chelsea had been born nearsighted and wondered whether revival could help her.

Chelsea guided the group into the Amazon Rainforest after helping them make rubber boots, but Li Xiang and Xeno became separated from everyone. They stayed where they were and waited to be found.

• Chelsea explained how to tap rubber trees, and Senku described how to make boots from the sap.
• The group made rubber boots together while Li Xiang wandered off to catch a rhinoceros beetle, which escaped after Chrome called to her.
• Everyone followed Chelsea deeper into the rainforest, where she warned them to stay together and keep moving.
• Xeno tripped, and Li Xiang tried to catch him; they both fell and discovered the group had gone on without them.
• Li Xiang and Xeno agreed to wait in place rather than risk getting more lost.

Li Xiang and Xeno discussed why he pursued dictatorship and his ambitious Hydrogen-3 Project, then compared his energy vision with Li Xiang’s desire to cure cancer. They left the clearing together to find food while waiting for the others.

• Li Xiang asked Xeno why he had chosen dictatorship, and he explained that rejected proposals had led him to seek direct control.
• Xeno described his Hydrogen-3 Project to develop liquid hydrogen fuel and mine helium-3 from the moon, while Li Xiang challenged its cost and feasibility.
• Xeno asked Li Xiang whether she could save terminal cancer patients, and she shared her determination to help people despite the odds.
• Xeno said Li Xiang’s ideal of conquering disease was possible and greater than his own vision.
• Li Xiang and Xeno stood up and went to look for food as they waited for the group.

Li Xiang and Xeno ate poisonous wild berries in the Amazon rainforest, and Xeno wandered off in a hallucination and fell from a cliff. Li Xiang saved him with an elastic cord, but after reaching the valley floor she found him feverish and severely ill.

• Li Xiang and Xeno ate wild berries that made Li Xiang vomit and left Xeno hallucinating.
• Xeno wandered deeper into the forest and fell from a cliff while Li Xiang chased after him.
• Li Xiang jumped after Xeno, caught him, and used an elastic cord from her system inventory to stop their fall.
• Li Xiang guided Xeno down the cord to the valley floor, then climbed down herself and collapsed from exhaustion and arm pain.
• Li Xiang found Xeno vomiting with a high fever and decided to find shelter and bring his temperature down.

Li Xiang found shelter for the feverish Xeno, cared for him, and helped him recover enough to eat. As evening fell, she wondered whether Senku, Kohaku, Ryusui, and Gen had noticed she was missing.

• Li Xiang found a hollow tree and made a dry bed inside it for Xeno.
• Li Xiang cooled Xeno's fever with a wet cloth and removed his outer layers, stabilizing his condition.
• Li Xiang caught and grilled fish, boiled water, and prepared a fire beside their shelter.
• Xeno woke, drank warm water, and ate grilled fish while Li Xiang planned to search for herbs.
• Li Xiang watched the sun set and wondered whether Senku, Kohaku, Ryusui, and Gen had noticed her absence.

Li Xiang kept Xeno alive through a cold, rainy night after his fever returned, and he awoke recovered enough to thank her. They discussed their temporary alliance and their personal ambitions, leaving Li Xiang reflecting on her wish for an ordinary, peaceful life.

• Li Xiang tended to Xeno's returning fever, built a fire, and used heated stones to warm him until the rain extinguished the flames.
• Li Xiang sealed the hollow against the rain, gave Xeno her jacket, and spent the night shielding him from the wind.
• At dawn, Li Xiang found Xeno's fever had subsided and went searching for dry firewood while he awoke and realized she had covered him with her jacket.
• Xeno thanked Li Xiang, and she admitted she blamed herself for letting him eat the poisonous wild fruits.
• Li Xiang and Xeno ate leftover grilled fish and agreed their unity was temporary because they still disagreed over dictatorial rule.
• Xeno asked about Li Xiang's dream, and she described wanting a peaceful life with a home, loved ones, travel, and a quiet retirement.

Li Xiang and Xeno survived a python attack while following the river and reunited with Homura, who led them back to the group. Li Xiang collapsed from a high fever after returning, and Shrike and Gen stayed to care for her.

• Xeno spotted a python hidden in the grass, and Li Xiang cut its neck to save him before they fled along the riverbank.
• Li Xiang cleaned her knife and bandaged a cut on her wrist, then continued upstream with Xeno until they reached the river’s source.
• Homura found Li Xiang and Xeno and told them the group was gathering materials to build motorcycles and search for Why-Man.
• Homura supported the feverish Xeno as the three returned to the group, while Li Xiang grew pale and unsteady.
• Li Xiang collapsed into Shrike’s arms, and Senku sent Shrike to carry her to shelter while Gen brought fever medicine.
• Gen gave Li Xiang medicine as Shrike stayed beside her to watch over her.