Recaps

Xia Xu diverted Carroll Medical Laboratory's pursuit, secured major contracts and military-industrial qualifications, and consolidated his companies into Star Sea Group. He recruited Zou Jin and Feng Wenbin while turning rival factions' infiltration attempts into a source of personnel.

• Xia Xu planted clues that helped Griffin Jones's interrogation clear him of suspicion while Carroll Medical Laboratory recovered Superbrain Drug samples.
• Tang Youxin showed Xia Xu how her Bai Ze System could warn him of approaching threats and recognize gun-firing movements.
• Gu Haiming demonstrated the Second Heart's success, and Xia Xu requested an organ grown from his own stem cells for transplantation after clinical trials.
• Xia Xu cut Star Tranquility's procurement price to 100 yuan, obtained advance payment, and gained widespread online attention.
• Xia Xu secured military-industrial qualifications, consolidated his companies into Star Sea Group, and received a billion in advance for the Special Department's Werewolf Enhancement Serum order.
• Xia Xu hired Zou Jin after Tang Youxin found him in distress and promised to cover his family's medical expenses.
• Xia Xu exposed Feng Wenbin's connection to Carroll Pharmaceuticals and recruited him to lead the Molecular Drug Laboratory with access to Superbrain Drug research.
• Xia Xu placed the suspected infiltrators under Zou Jin in Team Two and assigned them training across company facilities, leaving their handlers struggling to withdraw them.

Xia Xu equips Security Group Two, expands Star Sea’s business, and begins university life with Tang Youxin while investigating Gardner Psychiatric Hospital and Andra’s Transcendence Project. In Magic City, he recruits promising students and discovers Victor Spot, the protagonist of “Mechanical Age,” among them.

• Xia Xu approved Feng Wenbin’s dopamine receptor sensitizer research with strict safeguards, then demonstrated his equipment-assisted fighting ability to Security Group Two and helped Zou Jin defeat Zhou Mingjie.
• Xia Xu traveled to Star City with Tang Youxin, agreed to help the Special Department publicize Enhanced Dogs, collected his Venom-inspired supercar, and entrusted Hong Bo with running Star Sea Network Technology.
• Xia Xu took Tang Youxin to Magic City, visited Gardner Psychiatric Hospital, and found that Cui Xinghua had five-star surgical medicine talent and a connection to the “Giant” plot.
• Xia Xu and Tang Youxin settled into the university, where he met her talented roommates and his own roommates, including Grant, who revealed that Andra had captured him for experiments connected to the Transcendence Project.
• Xia Xu connected Grant’s new mechanical-design talent and the Night Owl storyline to Andra’s dangerous research, then considered how the university’s laboratories and funding could help him recruit talent.
• At the recruitment fair, Xia Xu offered to invest in Yang Xiaoshuang’s spider-silk research after learning about her proteomics talent, and he noticed the name Victor while turning down the Excavator Group.
• Xia Xu found Victor Spot, identified him as the protagonist of “Mechanical Age” with five-star mechanical engineering and physics talents, and wondered what his arrival would mean.

Xia Xu recruited talented researchers, uncovered Gardner Psychiatric Hospital’s experiments on giants, and rescued Cui Xinghua before the facility was destroyed. After bringing Cui into Star Sea Biotech and expanding his security organization, Xia Xu underwent a successful Second Heart transplant, only to be questioned about his joke of taking another wife.

• Xia Xu outpaced Victor Spot in recruiting research teams and students, winning over Zhou Ji and Walker Houseman with promises of support and advanced technology.
• Xia Xu investigated Gardner Psychiatric Hospital and discovered it was experimenting with giant glands and other human modifications, while escaped test subject Zhao Ming revealed that Cui Xinghua had helped the subjects flee.
• Xia Xu and Grant infiltrated Gardner’s underground laboratory, subdued its staff, rescued Cui Xinghua, and took research materials and a Giants gland sample.
• Xia Xu, Grant, and A Tuo fought an armored giant and escaped Gardner, then Xia Xu reported the facility to Luo Hongyun as the Special Department moved in and Hong Yan remained missing.
• Cui Xinghua agreed to join Star Sea Biotech, while Xia Xu established Star Sea Security Company under Zou Jin and dismissed spies he did not trust.
• Xia Xu returned to Star City and De City, where Cui Xinghua and Gu Haiming proposed a removable Second Heart transplant, and Xia Xu chose to receive it himself.
• Cui Xinghua successfully completed Xia Xu’s Second Heart surgery, and Xia Xu woke about two hours later before a woman asked whom he meant by another wife.

Xia Xu developed new enhancements and equipment, including a graphene combat uniform and thermal saber, while preparing for Gardner’s possible retaliation. When a Gardner experiment rampaged through Magic City, Xia Xu confronted it and discovered it could grow stronger and heal rapidly, while identifying the escaped Hong Yan nearby.

• Xia Xu recovered from surgery, developed Star Sea’s research and security programs, and rejected using an uncertain Giants gland in human experiments.
• Xia Xu arranged the handover of Werewolf Enhancement Serum, pursued epiphysis reactivation research, and expanded Star Sea’s investments and personnel.
• Xia Xu bought Hite alloy and worked with the research group to develop graphene-based protective armor, then built a retractable thermal saber.
• Xia Xu tested Tang Youxin’s shooting module and noticed a growing number of fires and disturbances in Magic City.
• Liu Quande asked Xia Xu to stop a rampaging Giant Werewolf, and Xia Xu agreed to keep its corpse and act against Gardner before putting on the Graphene Combat Uniform.
• A young Gardner escapee transformed into a giant and fought the Werewolf Giant to protect fleeing crowds, while Xia Xu arrived in his combat uniform.
• Xia Xu activated his Berserk State and Mechanical Centipede Spine, attacked the Werewolf Giant with his thermal saber, and found that its wounds healed rapidly as it grew stronger.
• Xia Xu identified the Werewolf Giant as Mogol Harlan and recognized the emaciated escaped test subject Hong Yan, then heated his saber and attacked the Giant’s leg as it hurled debris at him.