Recaps

With the Gray Storm approaching, Cheng Qi decided his shack was too unsafe and used his synthesis ability to create the Earth Dragon King, a powerful underground construction machine. He sent it to build a spacious, expandable shelter beneath the shack, promising Xiao Qiong they would soon have the best shelter on Earth.

• Monkey offered to take Cheng Qi with the others to a safe shelter, but Cheng Qi refused and sent them ahead without him.
• The Scavenger Alliance announced that the Gray Storm would sweep through regions B12-B69 in four hours.
• Cheng Qi spotted a blade of grass by the shack and decided to build an underground base to protect his supplies and companions.
• Cheng Qi synthesized Bear's damaged geological detectors into the Earth Dragon King, an expandable underground construction vehicle.
• Cheng Qi ordered the Earth Dragon King to survey the ground and excavate a two-hundred-square-meter space beneath the shack.
• Xiao Qiong woke as the Earth Dragon King began drilling, and Cheng Qi reassured her that they would soon have Earth's best shelter.

Cheng Qi used the Standard Template Construct to create an advanced electronic assistant and connect it to his First-Generation Muon Catalyst, discovering a new way to excavate. With the gray storm approaching and the Earth Dragon King delayed by a deep layer of metal waste, he tested the catalyst on its borehole and found a smooth, scorched passage descending into the ground.

• Cheng Qi synthesized discarded electromagnetic auxiliary modules into an Ink-Blue Marz Edition Superconducting Electronic Assistant.
• The Earth Dragon King encountered a 170-meter-thick metal-waste deposit, increasing its estimated drilling time to seven hours.
• Cheng Qi attached the electronic assistant to the First-Generation Muon Catalyst and unlocked a controlled energy-beam protocol.
• Cheng Qi fired the optimized catalyst into the Earth Dragon King's borehole, triggering a blast of steam and heat.
• Cheng Qi inspected the widened, smoothed passage and wondered whether the catalyst had made the bunker excavation possible.

Cheng Qi discovered that Muon Technology had transformed the underground waste into a glass-lined tunnel leading to a vast, beautiful spherical cavern, which he chose as a shelter from the approaching Gray Storm. He then synthesized a powerful transport platform to move his belongings and prepared to relocate.

• Foolish Boy cooled the tunnel, concealed its entrance with a scrap-covered door, and led Cheng Qi inside to reveal walls of glass encasing technological waste.
• Cheng Qi reached a huge spherical cavern with a smooth metallic dome and found the expanded Earth Dragon King maintaining oxygen and a comfortable temperature.
• Xiao Qiong slid down into the cavern, admired its beauty, and agreed to help Cheng Qi move before the Gray Storm arrived.
• Cheng Qi synthesized his biological-material transport boxes into the K443 Integrated Transport Platform, nicknamed Iron Mom.
• Iron Mom autonomously sorted and loaded Cheng Qi's possessions, including the Quantum Repair Cluster, with remarkable precision.

Cheng Qi moved his supplies into the underground shelter and waited out the Gray Storm while preparing to improve his genes. He synthesized the failed gene serum into a stronger batch, but its success rate remained only 11.23%.

• Iron Mom transported Cheng Qi’s belongings into the shelter, where the Standard Template Construct rejected his underwear as having too little technological content.
• Foolish Boy reinforced the shelter entrance, and Cheng Qi, Xiao Qiong, and Foolish Boy took refuge inside as the Gray Storm swept across B43 Zone.
• The Gray Storm tore through the surface, destroying exposed scavengers, while the shelter remained nearly undisturbed underground.
• Cheng Qi discovered Xiao Qiong had urinated in his teapot, then turned his attention to the seventeen vials of failed Black-Market Gene Serum he had obtained from Mo.
• Cheng Qi synthesized the serum twice, producing eight vials of High-Quality Black-Market Gene Serum with an 11.23% success rate, then four vials of Premium Black-Market Gene Serum.

The Scavenger Alliance’s president chose his eldest daughter, Hongyun, to take a risky black-market gene serum so she could become a D-Level representative for upcoming Galactic Alliance negotiations. As Hongyun prepared for the procedure, she reassured her worried sister Hana and vowed she would succeed.

• During the Gray Storm, the president revealed the Alliance’s top-grade black-market gene serum and announced that Hongyun would receive it instead of Hana.
• The president explained that a Galactic Alliance combat squad would arrive within forty-eight hours and that the Alliance needed a D-Level representative to seek aid.
• Hana protested that she was also an E-Level gene-enhanced human, but the president said she lacked the negotiating skills required.
• Hongyun told Hana she would protect her from danger and promised to fight for her share of any future gene serums.
• When staff called Hongyun to begin the procedure, Hana worried that failure could make her a Defective, but Hongyun reassured her that she would succeed.

Cheng Qi synthesized Valente Fantasy Drug, a gene-optimization medicine with a 99.9% success rate, and drank it to test his potential. After collapsing, he woke as Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong prepared to burn his body, then instinctively dodged the fire without wearing his armor.

• Cheng Qi synthesized Valente Gene Drug and then used the final synthesis to create Valente Fantasy Drug, which replicated advantageous gene segments.
• Cheng Qi drank the drug, felt no immediate effects, and collapsed after spitting blood.
• Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong mistook Cheng Qi for dead and prepared to cremate him with diesel fuel.
• Foolish Boy ignited the fuel, and Cheng Qi instinctively leaped several meters clear of the flames.
• Cheng Qi realized the Extreme Warrior Armor had been removed and that he had dodged without wearing it.

After waking from a forty-eight-hour coma, Cheng Qi discovered that his genes had rapidly advanced to C-Level, transforming his abilities and appearance. He finished cleansing his body of accumulated toxins and marveled at his renewed strength and clarity.

• Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong welcomed Cheng Qi after he woke from the Gray Storm, and Xiao Qiong noticed that his eyes had changed.
• Cheng Qi saw a blue ring in each pupil and realized he had become an E-Level gene bearer.
• Memories of his DNA changing resurfaced, and Cheng Qi's genes advanced first to D-Level and then to C-Level.
• Cheng Qi began expelling black toxins from his body, complained about the process, and showered in the Earth Dragon King's living quarters.
• After the shower, Cheng Qi saw his improved appearance and felt energized as he reflected on the impact of genetic differences.

Cheng Qi received 82 failed batches of Black-Market Gene Serum from Mo and went aboveground to retrieve Mo’s shipping crates after the Gray Storm. His genetic evolution made him so fast that he exceeded the Extreme Warrior Armor’s speed limit, and he realized he had gained an exceptional speed advantage.

• Mo told Cheng Qi that twenty biotech crates were entering Earth’s atmosphere and warned him that the Gray Storm could throw them off course.
• Cheng Qi equipped the Extreme Warrior Armor, whose core performance had increased by 284%, and left the shelter to find the crates.
• Cheng Qi’s reconnaissance system spotted the crates, several of which were veering toward a collision.
• Cheng Qi sprinted toward the crates and discovered that his speed had surpassed the armor’s upper limit.
• Cheng Qi leaped nearly twenty meters to reach the falling crates and concluded that his evolution had given him an extraordinary boost in speed.

Cheng Qi synthesized his failed Black-Market Gene Serums into increasingly rare gene drugs, ultimately creating the Tree of Life - Balanced Sequence Liberation Drug. It offered a 67.7% chance to transform him into a silicon-based lifeform while preserving his human gene sequence, leaving him stunned by the prospect of becoming a dual gene sequence organism.

• Cheng Qi spotted what appeared to be a badly mutilated person crawling through the dust but returned to the underground shelter without investigating.
• Iron Mom arranged the transport crates and failed serums, and Cheng Qi synthesized the serums into High-Quality and Premium Black-Market Gene Serums, Valente Gene Drugs, and Valente Fantasy Drugs.
• Cheng Qi synthesized the Valente Fantasy Drugs into two Life Sprout - Gene Sequence Liberation Drugs, which could transform a carbon-based lifeform into a silicon-based one but carried severe risks.
• Cheng Qi synthesized the two Life Sprout drugs into one Tree of Life - Balanced Sequence Liberation Drug, which raised the success rate to 67.7% and allowed a successful user to retain their original gene sequence.
• Cheng Qi realized the drug could make him a dual gene sequence organism and was astonished.

Hongyun emerged from the failed genetic enhancement gravely injured, but planned to deceive the Interstellar Alliance’s arriving combat team with a biological contact lens to win support for the scavengers. Meanwhile, Cheng Qi drank a mysterious serum and his body shattered into triangles, leaving his fate unknown.

• Hongyun collapsed after the genetic serum failed, and the physician told the president that she was severely weakened and could no longer bear children.
• A Scavenger Alliance member reported that two Hawk-Class transport Starships had arrived with at least two thousand Interstellar Alliance troops.
• Hongyun put on a biological contact lens that imitated a second genetic ring and insisted on using it to seek military support.
• Cheng Qi examined the clear serum, judged its 67.7% success rate worth the risk, and drank the entire dose.
• Cheng Qi saw geometric patterns spread through his eyes and body, then shattered into countless triangles and vanished.

Cheng Qi experienced an explanation of silicon-based life and its inherited genetic information, then returned to awareness as the Genetic Serum entered his mouth. He discovered that his right arm had transformed into a dazzling, crystalline limb.

• Cheng Qi saw human DNA and a larger, rhombic dodecahedral structure identified as silicon-based DNA.
• A silicon-based lifeform appeared and described its crystalline body, electromagnetic senses and communication, and resistance to heat and radiation.
• The voice identified itself as genetic information that passed essential knowledge to each new silicon-based lifeform and told Cheng Qi, "For you."
• Cheng Qi regained awareness in the underground shelter as the Genetic Serum fell into his mouth.
• Cheng Qi saw that his right arm had become a dazzling, diamond-like crystalline arm.

After successfully becoming a silicon-based lifeform, Cheng Qi discovered that he could communicate with and control machines through strange blue connections. The chapter ended with him making Foolish Boy dance against his will.

• Cheng Qi found crystalline armor and spikes growing across his body, while the XXX-01 Extreme Warrior Armor had detached itself.
• Cheng Qi realized that the serum had succeeded and he had become a Dual Gene Sequence bearer.
• Cheng Qi saw blue ribbons connecting him to Iron Mom, the Earth Dragon King Expansion Dock, and Foolish Boy.
• Cheng Qi used his thoughts to move Iron Mom and adjust the Expansion Dock’s lights.
• Cheng Qi concluded that silicon-based lifeforms could resonate with one another and control machines with silicon chips.
• Cheng Qi made Foolish Boy dance while he was playing cards with Xiao Qiong.

Cheng Qi discovered how to switch between his carbon-based and silicon-based forms, then found he could selectively make parts of himself silicon-based. After synthesizing Mo’s biological transport containers into new platforms, he tested an S225 Atomic Transport Platform and wondered what further synthesis would produce.

• Cheng Qi switched back to his human form and realized Xiao Qiong had seen him naked after his armor detached during his transformation.
• Cheng Qi examined the changes in his eyes and concluded that silicon-based genes had levels that could advance.
• Cheng Qi synthesized the twenty biological transport containers into ten biomass material containers, five K443 platforms, and three S255 Atomic Transport Platforms.
• A fragment of silicon-based DNA fused with Cheng Qi’s carbon-based DNA, giving him diamond-like eyes and the ability to make parts of himself silicon-based.
• Cheng Qi used one S225 Atomic Transport Platform to shrink and load another, then wondered what the platform would become if he kept synthesizing.

Cheng Qi discovered that the X14’s removable modules functioned as miniature Directional Star Gates, then detected a slow-acting toxin in the drink Mo had given him. He connected the toxin to a Gene-Completion Agent developed by Song Dayi and decided to travel to Kyoto to search for a way to help Mo’s family.

• Cheng Qi tested the X14’s Directional Transmission Modules and found that they could transmit objects and people between modules while shrinking cargo.
• Cheng Qi scanned the High-Energy Protein Extract Mo had gifted him and learned that it contained a rare, slow-acting toxin designed to kill its victims.
• Cheng Qi realized the poisoned drink might be part of an attempt to eliminate Mo’s family and that Mo was unaware of the danger.
• Cheng Qi recalled that Song Dayi had developed a Gene-Completion Agent that might neutralize cellular fluid toxins, and connected Song Dayi to Professor Huo Linzhong’s recording.
• Cheng Qi decided to travel to Kyoto to search for Song Dayi’s research and help Mo’s family.

After the Gray Storm, Cheng Qi left Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong at the shelter and learned that the Milky Way Interstellar Alliance Combat Squad was searching Garbage Earth for something important. In Kyoto, he tested his silicon-based body against toxic gas and radiation, then prepared to measure his C-Level carbon-based speed against Killer Rats.

• Cheng Qi gave Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong instructions to stay near the shelter and carry a Miniature Directional Stargate when they went out.
• Cheng Qi spotted two Alliance Starships and learned from Crow that their squad was searching for something valuable.
• Cheng Qi traveled with Crow to Kyoto and walked toward Muon Research protected by his armor's life-support system.
• Cheng Qi removed his armor and found that his silicon-based body was unaffected by Kyoto's toxic gas and radiation.
• When Killer Rats appeared, Cheng Qi returned to his carbon-based form, entered his armor, and prepared to test his speed against them.

Cheng Qi tested the Extreme Warrior Armor’s extraordinary speed by killing dozens of Red-Haired Killer Rats, then discovered that some of their stomachs contained amorphous alloy. He realized the rats could be a vast source of valuable materials and turned his attention to the trembling survivors.

• Cheng Qi used the Extreme Warrior Armor’s top speed to evade and slash a Red-Haired Killer Rat, killing it in less than half a second.
• Cheng Qi fought the surrounding Red-Haired Killer Rats at full speed for three minutes and twenty-eight seconds, killing at least fifty before he reached his limit.
• Cheng Qi found a metallic object inside a rat corpse, and the Standard Template Construct identified it as impure amorphous alloy.
• The Standard Template Construct explained that Carrion Rats accumulated alloy in their stomachs after eating garbage, and Cheng Qi found eight pieces among the corpses.
• Cheng Qi recognized the rats as a potential fortune and stared greedily at the survivors, who were overcome by fear.

Cheng Qi searched for Song Dayi's genetic research institute by using the Killer Rats' reactions as a guide. He pinpointed the area they were protecting and prepared to investigate what lay beneath it.

• Cheng Qi recalled that Mo had to survive so he could cash out, then flew toward the former Muon Research Center to search for Song Dayi's institute.
• Cheng Qi realized his C-gene enhancement improved his control of the turbine-powered shoes and considered the limits of his Extreme Warrior Armor and silicon-based body.
• Cheng Qi reasoned that Area 53 was south of Area 52 and flew south, watching the Killer Rats become increasingly agitated as he approached their protected area.
• Cheng Qi moved past the rats' target and backtracked until their frenzy pinpointed the spot they were guarding.
• Cheng Qi prepared to investigate what the Killer Rats were protecting and whether it was connected to the genetic research institute.

Cheng Qi drilled through the garbage using his silicon-based body and gravity gloves, reaching a buried Gene Research Institute. Inside, he discovered thousands of abandoned lab mice that had starved in their jars, and wondered whether humanity might one day be treated the same way by a more advanced civilization.

• Cheng Qi transformed into a crystalline drill and plunged through the garbage heap, escaping the Killer Rats above.
• He landed in an underground office, where he found the remains of a sign and realized he had reached the Gene Research Institute.
• Cheng Qi explored the abandoned facility and entered a sample room containing thousands of jars with tiny skeletons.
• He recognized the remains as lab mice used in Song Dayi's experiments and saw scratches showing they had died trapped and starving.
• Cheng Qi reflected on whether humans might be treated as experimental subjects by an advanced civilization.

Cheng Qi discovered that a tiny white lab mouse had consumed the Gene-Completion Agent and transformed into a silicon-based lifeform capable of controlling the Killer Rats. The mouse declared Cheng Qi an intruder and summoned the Killer Rats to attack him underground.

• Cheng Qi found the Gene-Completion Agent tanks empty and noticed irregular residue suggesting something had drunk their contents.
• Cheng Qi encountered a small white mouse with an exposed brain and pink crystals growing on it.
• The mouse communicated with Cheng Qi through a special exchange and condemned humans as cruel demons.
• The mouse declared that Cheng Qi had trespassed into its territory and signaled the Killer Rats to kill him.
• Killer Rats began digging toward Cheng Qi as the ceiling crumbled, revealing that the transformed mouse was their Rat King.

Cheng Qi befriended the silicon-based mouse Zhi Zhi and received her blood, a powerful serum that could save Boss Mo. As Zhi Zhi’s enormous rat army pledged its service, Cheng Qi left the facility and discovered that the rats reacted to him by vomiting.

• Cheng Qi revealed his silicon-based nature, and the little white mouse recognized their shared origins and asked to become his companion.
• The little white mouse offered Cheng Qi her blood, which the Standard Template Construct identified as a potent serum capable of saving Boss Mo.
• Hundreds of Killer Rats bowed to Cheng Qi after the little white mouse communicated with them, and she told him her subjects numbered over 145 million.
• Cheng Qi named the little white mouse Zhi Zhi and asked her to help recover alloy from the rats’ stomachs.
• On the surface, Zhi Zhi’s rats vomited in batches at the sight of Cheng Qi, leaving him feeling insulted.

Cheng Qi used two third-generation Iron Moms to collect and clean more than fifty thousand pieces of amorphous alloy, then returned to his underground shelter through the miniature stargate. He found that Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong had improved the shelter, while Crow mistakenly believed Cheng Qi had failed.

• Cheng Qi found that roughly one in eight enormous red-furred rats contained alloy, leaving more than fifty thousand pieces scattered across the dump.
• Cheng Qi summoned two third-generation Iron Moms, which cleaned and carefully stored nearly all the amorphous alloy.
• Cheng Qi counted the alloy, Zhizhi, the 140 million Killer Rats, and Boss Mo's antidote among his gains, then returned to his underground shelter through the miniature stargate.
• Crow passed the outskirts of Kyoto for the third time and concluded that Cheng Qi had failed.
• Cheng Qi saw the stairs, platform, walkway, and planted grass that Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong had added to the shelter, and joked that Foolish Boy had prepared him a grave.

Cheng Qi synthesized the Iron Moms' haul into 12,450 blocks of high-entropy alloy before learning that the Standard Template Construct could not synthesize beyond level 3 technology without information fragments. After the Construct revealed its civilization's goal of returning to the pinnacle of the universe, Cheng Qi contacted Mo and announced the enormous alloy shipment, leaving Mo scrambling to send transport crates.

• The Iron Moms returned with 49,803 blocks of impure amorphous alloy, and Cheng Qi synthesized them into 12,450 blocks of high-entropy alloy.
• The Standard Template Construct told Cheng Qi that it could not synthesize items from level 4 and higher civilizations without the corresponding information fragments.
• The Standard Template Construct revealed that its civilization had been scattered after suffering a devastating blow and hoped Cheng Qi would help it return to the pinnacle of the universe.
• Cheng Qi decided the Construct gave him a major technological advantage and called Mo to offer the high-entropy alloy.
• Mo questioned Cheng Qi about his missing tech crates, then reacted with shock when Cheng Qi said he had 12,450 blocks of high-entropy alloy.
• Mo told Cheng Qi to wait because transport crates were on their way and warned him not to drink low-quality Genetic Serums.

Cheng Qi waited for Mo’s delivery while the Interstellar Alliance warships scanned the area, then discovered that Mo had shipped himself inside the oversized Biotechnology Box. Mo doubted Cheng Qi could produce the promised alloy until Cheng Qi revealed all 12,450 ingots, leaving Mo speechless.

• Cheng Qi found the shelter entrance concealed beneath garbage and saw that Foolish Boy had rebuilt his old shack as a decoy.
• Cheng Qi detected scanning beams from the hovering Interstellar Alliance warships and realized they could not reach his underground shelter.
• Cheng Qi heard a faint noise from a garbage heap, then prepared to receive the unusually large Biotechnology Box Mo had sent.
• Cheng Qi opened the box and found Mo wedged inside, then pulled him out.
• Mo questioned whether Cheng Qi could produce 12,450 ingots of high-entropy alloy, and Cheng Qi revealed four towering pyramids of alloy in the shack.

Mo discovered Cheng Qi’s enormous cache of high-entropy alloy and offered him a generous credit line, but Cheng Qi warned that the Mo Family had been poisoned. Cheng Qi gave Mo a rare drop of blood that could neutralize the toxin, leaving Mo to investigate his family and physician.

• Mo counted Cheng Qi’s more than ten thousand pieces of high-entropy alloy and offered him a five-hundred-million-Credit-Point credit line.
• Cheng Qi asked Mo for every failed batch of Black-Market Gene Serum, and Mo guessed that Cheng Qi was trying to refine serum himself.
• Cheng Qi recognized signs of poisoning in Mo, including his aversion to light and golden specks in his pupils, and said the Mo Family had been poisoned through its High-Energy Protein Extract.
• Cheng Qi warned Mo that the family physician might know the truth and be involved in the poisoning.
• Cheng Qi gave Mo a drop of blood that he said could neutralize the toxin, then teased Mo about having suspected him of taking a shipping crate.

Mo warned Cheng Qi that the Interstellar Alliance combat squad had bought weapons beyond its military allotment, suggesting plans outside its orders. As the squad arrived over Garbage Earth, Cheng Qi hid Zhi Zhi and ordered his companions and allies to stay safe before heading alone to the Scavenger Alliance headquarters.

• Mo told Cheng Qi his family descended from Mozi and promised to repay him, then warned that the Interstellar Alliance combat squad had bought extra weapons for an unknown purpose.
• Mo departed Earth in his Biological Transport Box, and Cheng Qi called Foolish Boy and Xiao Qiong back to the Shelter.
• Xiao Qiong welcomed Zhi Zhi as a new pet and made her a straw hat, while Cheng Qi ordered everyone to remain in the Shelter and told Foolish Boy to warn Monkey and the others to stop buying.
• The Scavenger Alliance announced that B24 District’s scavengers had to gather at headquarters to welcome the combat squad.
• Cheng Qi concealed his armor and abilities, left his companions behind, and went to investigate the squad at the headquarters.