Recaps

Xia Xu helped expose Andra’s Bat-Men experiments, recruited Gu Haiming, and defeated the mutated Yu Zhengqing. He returned to Star City, pursued university and research opportunities, and helped Tang Youxin find a path toward the International Scientific Research University.

• Xia Xu learned that Yao Fu’s new plot connected him to Yu Zhengqing and the Bat-Men, then allowed Yu Zhengqing to escape so he could lead the Special Department to the hidden laboratory.
• Xia Xu helped the Special Operations Team and SWAT identify and arrest the Bat-Men, then traced the experiments to Xinyuan Pharmaceuticals and the Andra Group.
• Xia Xu found Gu Haiming, uncovered his research into werewolves and Bat-Men, and recruited him to lead research for Star Sea Biopharmaceuticals.
• Yu Zhengqing returned as a grotesquely mutated attacker, but Xia Xu, A Tuo, and Yao Fu fought him until he collapsed and disintegrated.
• Xia Xu took Yao Fu to reunite with his parents, then asked Luo Hongyun to help secure the Xinyuan Building laboratory and support his and Tang Youxin’s university applications.
• Back in Star City, Xia Xu reunited with Tang Youxin, reassured her about their future, and hired her as an investigator at the Consulting Company.
• Xia Xu and Tang Youxin spent the day together before he returned to Star Sea Venture Capital, where Chen Leyao challenged him to explain his accusation that she had broken company rules.

Xia Xu strengthened Xinghai Biopharmaceuticals, while his investigation into Yunfan Group’s canceled brain-control project led him to Pan Long and a deadly attack by armed drones. He sought Huichuang High-Tech’s help to counter the drones and pursue Duan Zhiyi’s technology.

• Xia Xu persuaded Jiang Hai to sell his remaining shares in Tonghe Pharmaceuticals by revealing a valuable controlled-release technology, then turned the company into Xinghai Biopharmaceuticals and assigned Wu Hang to develop the tablets.
• Xia Xu learned that Yunfan Group had abandoned its brainwave-control project and that board member Duan Zhiyi was trying to restart it, while news of Xia Xu and Tang Youxin’s exam results brought widespread attention to Xia’s business success.
• After Dong Changhe was shot dead and attacks targeted his family, Xia Xu investigated at Nanya Hospital, where he found Dong Shasha and encountered Pan Long, the Thrower, as armed drones attacked them.
• Xia Xu, A Tuo, and Pan Long destroyed the drones and escaped the hospital, while Xia Xu arranged to work with Pan Long and investigate his connections to the attacks and Duan Zhiyi.
• Xia Xu visited Pan Long’s warehouse, learned about his superhero investigations and Vector Addition ability, and took him to seek technology that could counter the drones.
• At Huichuang High-Tech, Xia Xu explained to owner Zhou Xiaodong that he needed help countering Duan Zhiyi’s armed drones.

Xia Xu uncovers the connection between Pan Long’s father, Duan Zhiyi, and brain-control technology, then helps the Special Department locate and capture Duan. The arc ends with Xia Xu visiting his companies with Tang Youxin and pushing Xinghai Biopharmaceuticals toward a new controlled-release drug.

• Xia Xu bought Huichuang High-Tech from Zhou Xiaodong and learned that its Drone Jamming Gun could disrupt Duan Zhiyi’s armed drones.
• Xia Xu and his team decoded Pan Yuanhang’s hidden letter, which revealed that Pan and Duan had developed brain-control technology to save Pan Long’s mother before Dong Changhe pushed them out of Yunfan Group.
• Xia Xu and Pan Long found Pan Yuanhang’s underground workshop, where Xia Xu discovered the Smart Glasses and Mechanical Centipede, then bought the technology from Pan Long.
• Xia Xu brought Tang Youxin and Meng Bochao to work with the Special Department, and he offered Luo Hongyun a supply of Werewolf Enhancement Serum in exchange for the Xinyuan Building.
• Duan Zhiyi’s drones killed Dong Changhe’s mistress and son, then attacked the Special Operations Team, but Xia Xu used the Drone Jamming Gun to silence the sniper rifles.
• Tang Youxin traced Duan Zhiyi through the drones’ navigation data, leading Luo Hongyun and the Special Operations Team to his hidden sewer workshop.
• Luo Hongyun captured Duan Zhiyi, and Xia Xu showed him Pan Yuanhang’s brain-control technology, revealing that Pan had been working to save the same woman Duan hoped to cure.
• Xia Xu comforted Tang Youxin after the operation, introduced her to Chen Leyao, and asked Wu Hang to develop controlled-release Superbrain Drug tablets.

Xia Xu expanded his technology projects, survived an assassination attempt, and fought werewolves who targeted Louise. After the battle brought Beastmen into public view, he negotiated with the Special Department and prepared to confront Andra Group while Griffin Jones faced a new threat.

• Xia Xu approved Gu Haiming’s Second Heart project, developed the Spider-Shaped Predator with Tang Youxin, and searched for a surgeon to support the research.
• Griffin Jones’s patent lawsuit failed when Zhang San represented Xinghai Biopharmaceuticals, and Griffin’s plan to profit from the dispute collapsed.
• After learning Griffin had hired assassins, Xia Xu armed himself and A Tuo, lured the attackers into the wilderness, and killed them before police cleared him as the victim.
• Xia Xu accompanied Louise and Olivia to a martial arts tournament, where werewolves attacked after Uncle Luo was drawn away on an urgent mission.
• Xia Xu, A Tuo, Olivia, and the Spider-Shaped Predators fought the werewolves, while Louise rescued Weiwei, and the battle left casualties and drew widespread media attention.
• The General Bureau chose not to suppress reports of Beastmen, and Xia Xu rejected selling A Tuo while offering to discuss mass-producing enhanced dogs with the Special Department.
• Xia Xu negotiated for the Xinyuan Building, military-industrial qualifications, and a surgeon, while identifying Andra Group’s Transcendence Project as a target, and Star Tranquility launched and Griffin was released from police custody.
• Hogwa Nar followed Griffin Jones home, held a fruit knife to his throat, and demanded the goods.