Chapter Summaries

Zhang Meng and Lü Dong recognized Xu in a video fighting a real Werewolf Giant while wearing the Graphene Combat Uniform they had built, and they speculated that he worked for a secret organization. Meanwhile, Xia Xu struggled to evade the monster’s barrage of projectiles until an engine’s roar sounded in the empty street.

• Zhang Meng showed Lü Dong footage of a black-clad fighter in their Graphene Combat Uniform cutting down a Werewolf Giant.
• Zhang Meng and Lü Dong realized the footage was likely real and concluded that Xu had gone out after receiving a phone call.
• Zhang Meng and Lü Dong marveled that Xu’s speed and strength far exceeded what their Passive Exoskeleton could provide.
• Zhang Meng and Lü Dong speculated that Xu might handle supernatural incidents for a secret organization, then Zhang Meng received another video.
• The Werewolf Giant hurled stone bollards and spheres at Xia Xu, who dodged and sliced through them with his Thermal Single-Edged Saber.
• The Werewolf Giant charged while Xia Xu appeared trapped, but the roar of an engine echoed through the street.

Xia Xu used the Venom Car and twelve Mechanical Spiders to stop the Werewolf Giant. The creature was left immobilized just short of reaching him.

• Xia Xu sent the Venom Car crashing into the Werewolf Giant, which survived the impact and charged at him again.
• Xia Xu baited the Werewolf Giant toward the Venom Car as twelve Mechanical Spiders deployed along the street.
• Six Web Weavers sprayed variant spider silk protein across the Werewolf Giant and its path, slowing its charge.
• Six Spider-Shaped Predators fired grappling cables and anchored themselves, helping the setting silk restrain the Werewolf Giant.
• The Werewolf Giant struggled within arm’s reach of Xia Xu but could not reach him.

Xia Xu captured the Werewolf Giant, severed its limbs, and took them for experiments into beastman transformation. As he fled the scene, he identified Gardner’s hidden team and spotted a truck approaching the unconscious Hong Yan.

• The Web Weavers cocooned the struggling Werewolf Giant, and Xia Xu cut off its limbs with his heated saber before having the bleeding sealed.
• Xia Xu secured the cocoon on the Venom Car and collected the limbs, noting that they had not disintegrated like ordinary beastman remains.
• Xia Xu ordered the Venom Car to leave before authorities and the victims’ families could complicate his escape.
• Xia Xu used his visor and hacked surveillance feeds to identify suspicious figures as Gardner’s team or people seeking Hong Yan.
• Xia Xu saw a box truck moving toward the unconscious Hong Yan while the other suspected operatives withdrew.

Xia Xu stopped the armed squad that had taken Hong Yan and fought through their gunfire using his Graphene Combat Uniform. After rejecting the brown-haired man's bribe and offer to cooperate, he attacked the group, leaving their fate unresolved.

• A six-man armed squad loaded the unconscious Hong Yan into a cargo van and tried to escape.
• Xia Xu jumped onto the van, killed the driver with his Thermal Single-Edged Saber, and caused the van to crash.
• The six armed men fired submachine guns at Xia Xu, but his Graphene Combat Uniform stopped the bullets.
• Xia Xu found the brown-haired man, a Black woman, and additional personnel inside the van, and the brown-haired man offered him money and a job.
• Xia Xu rejected the offer and swept his saber across the brown-haired man's neck.

Xia Xu stopped a Gardner operative from using Hong Yan and the café customers as hostages, then subdued her and rescued Hong Yan. He left the café carrying Hong Yan and the unconscious woman after signaling Victor Spot to keep his identity secret.

• A Gardner operative threatened Xia Xu with Hong Yan’s life, but Xia Xu advanced and drove her into a café.
• The woman tried to threaten the hiding customers, but Xia Xu cut off her arm with the Thermal Single-Edged Saber.
• Xia Xu caught Hong Yan and knocked the woman unconscious, then assured the café customers that they were safe.
• Xia Xu recognized Victor Spot in the crowd and silently asked him to keep his identity secret.
• Xia Xu left the café carrying Hong Yan and the woman.

After Xia Xu subdued the Werewolf Giant, videos of the incident spread online and drew attention to the attack, its origins, and the identity of the hero. Xia Xu handed a surviving suspect to the authorities and left in their vehicle, helping the Special Department share the public credit for the response.

• Zhang Meng and Lü Dong watched footage of Xia Xu defeating the Werewolf Giant as eyewitness accounts and videos of the incident spread across the internet.
• Xia Xu stayed near the scene with Hong Yan and the Black woman until armed police arrived and secured the area.
• Xia Xu handed the Black woman to Zhang Zeyang, head of the Magic City Special Logistics Team, identifying her as a remnant of Gardner Psychiatric Hospital.
• Xia Xu asked Zhang Zeyang for a ride back, and Zhang arranged for a police vehicle to take him away.
• Zhang Zeyang explained to his officers that Xia Xu's departure in their vehicle would associate him with the authorities and reduce public pressure on the department.

Xia Xu brought the captured Werewolf Giant to Nine Suns Consulting’s villa and had Yang Bowen’s team track Gardner’s withdrawing forces. Their routes converged at a suspected hideout, but Xia Xu waited rather than risk losing the Giants Gland data or walking into a trap.

• Xia Xu arrived at the villa with the bound Werewolf Giant, and Meng Bochao feared the creature would be left with them.
• Xia Xu assured Meng Bochao that Xinghai Security would take the Werewolf Giant to a laboratory in De City, then asked whether Yang Bowen’s team had reported back.
• Meng Bochao showed Xia Xu the team’s tracking routes, which followed Gardner’s forces as they withdrew through the city.
• Xia Xu rested after fighting the Werewolf Giant and waited for news from Yang Bowen’s team.
• At around one in the afternoon, Yang Bowen and the others reported that their routes converged at one location, but Xia Xu held back because Gardner’s hideout could be trapped and its Giants Gland data might be destroyed.

Xia Xu assembled five elite Xinghai Security squads and equipped them with advanced combat gear. He sent two squads to transport the captured Werewolf Giants and prepared the three S-rank squads to raid an illegal organization's base.

• Five Xinghai Security squads arrived at Xia Xu's villa and reported for duty.
• Xia Xu inspected their Star Sea I combat uniforms, tactical goggles, smartwatches, and encrypted earpieces.
• Xia Xu ordered A1 and A2 to transport the exhausted Werewolf Giants to Star Sea Biotech.
• Zhou Mingjie, Meng Ji, and Cheng Hui asked for their assignment, and Xia Xu told their S-rank squads to join him in attacking an illegal organization's base.
• Xia Xu warned the three enhancers that the base held elite desperadoes and might contain biotechnology-created monsters, but they eagerly accepted the mission.

Xia Xu and Yang Bowen traced a Gardner research base to a hidden section of a residential complex’s third-level underground garage. Xia Xu prepared to raid it while ordering Yang Bowen, He Qing, and Pan Long to leave, but Pan Long pleaded to stay and help.

• Yang Bowen explained that he had followed Gardner’s people to a concealed research base beneath the complex and had stopped short of going inside.
• Xia Xu said Meng Bochao had hacked the complex’s surveillance network and told Yang Bowen’s group to stay out of the operation.
• Xia Xu explained that Pan Long lacked the combat experience and physical durability to safely join the raid.
• After meeting He Qing and Pan Long in the garage, Yang Bowen told them to leave, and Pan Long pleaded with Xia Xu to let him help.

Xia Xu led Pan Long and three Xinghai Security squads in an assault on Gardner's underground research base, using Spider Robots and Meng Bochao's hacking to disable its surveillance and open its security doors. The team broke through the entrance and pushed inside, with Xia Xu taking point as the base's defenders assembled.

• Pan Long persuaded Xia Xu to let him join the operation, and Xia Xu gave him a bulletproof vest and Smart Glasses.
• Xia Xu sent Spider Robots into the base, and Meng Bochao hacked its network to seize security controls and retrieve the building plans.
• Xia Xu briefed the squads and ordered them to begin their assault after thirty seconds.
• Zhou Mingjie, Cheng Hui, and Meng Ji led their squads in coordinated Three-Three Tactics, killing the guards at the entrance and advancing into the base.
• The base's alarms sounded and its security forces mustered, but the security doors opened automatically as the attackers advanced.
• Xia Xu took a pistol from Zhou Mingjie and charged to the front in his Graphene Combat Uniform.

Xia Xu used his exceptional physical abilities and gun skills to rout the Andra Special Security Force troops, while Xinghai Security advanced into the base. Zhou Mingjie and the others joined the assault, and Xia Xu concluded that guns were far more effective than blades.

• Xia Xu charged through the Andra Special Security Force troops, combining rapid pistol fire with close-combat moves and stolen weapons.
• The troops’ morale collapsed under Xia Xu’s assault and the covering fire from Meng Ji, Cheng Hui, and the others.
• Xinghai Security members watched Xia Xu’s fighting style in amazement and concluded it suited his abilities rather than ordinary fighters.
• Zhou Mingjie rushed forward with an Eight-Faceted Han Sword and cut through the demoralized troops.
• Meng Ji and Cheng Hui led their teams forward in groups of three, covering one another as they advanced through the enemy ranks.
• Xia Xu stopped to admire the guns and decided they worked much better than blades.

Xia Xu and Xinghai Security seized Gardner's underground base, overcoming its forces and failed biochemical creations. He decided to take the researchers back under guard and discovered valuable research files, including materials on the Giants Gland, Epiphysis Reactivation Technology, and monster modification blueprints.

• Meng Bochao and the Spider-Shaped Predators disabled the base's security systems, allowing Xia Xu and Xinghai Security to advance into the facility.
• Zhou Mingjie, Meng Ji, Cheng Hui, and their squads defeated Gardner's armed forces and malformed biochemical creations, while Meng Bochao prevented the base's self-destruct system from being activated.
• Xia Xu considered the detained researchers' talents, crimes, and uncertain loyalty, then decided to bring them back under guard for background checks and possible selection.
• Xia Xu searched the archive room and found research materials on the Giants Gland, Epiphysis Reactivation Technology, Werewolf Giants, Hong Yan, and Andra's Beastmen research.

Xia Xu studied Andra’s research into Beastmen and uncovered how their transformation worked, along with its links to Werewolf Giants and other projects. He concluded that the ability could have broad uses if developed into a temporary drug or serum.

• Xia Xu read Andra’s reports on Beastmen’s genetic encryption and transformation, learning that Gleipnir Biotech and Dr. Z were involved in the research.
• Xia Xu found that Beastmen transformations drew energy from specialized fat and trace-element stores, and that the process involved cellular enhancement followed by rapid tissue growth and differentiation.
• Xia Xu suspected that K protein was connected to the transformation process and realized that Epiphysis Reactivation and Steel Bone technology might have originated from Werewolves.
• Xia Xu learned that Werewolves returned to human form when unstable proliferated cells disintegrated, while Gardner’s inhibitory enzyme prevented the Werewolf Giants from reversing their transformations.
• Xia Xu considered adapting the transformation ability into a temporary drug or serum.

After withdrawing from Gardner's base, Xia Xu returned to Nine Suns Consulting and had Meng Bochao use the super database to investigate the captive researchers. He planned to recruit a suitable research team, then learned that Hong Yan had awakened and wanted to see him.

• Xia Xu arranged for the Gardner base's documents, personnel, and equipment to be moved to Star Sea Biotech Headquarters, then asked the Special Department to take over the base.
• Xia Xu returned to Nine Suns Consulting and gave Meng Bochao a list of captured researchers to investigate through social engineering and the super database.
• Meng Bochao began compiling the researchers' personal information, relationships, preferences, and online activity.
• Xia Xu told Meng Bochao to screen the researchers for serious misconduct and provide information that could help Xia Xu recruit or pressure them.
• He Qing told Xia Xu that Hong Yan had awakened and wanted to see him.

Xia Xu met the wary Hong Yan and tried to convince him that he was not working for Gardner. Hong Yan began to trust the situation when Xia Xu told him that Cui Xinghua was alive and working for him.

• Xia Xu visited Hong Yan, who questioned how an ordinary person could have stopped the Werewolf Giant.
• Xia Xu introduced himself as the owner of Star Sea Group and demonstrated his Thermal Single-Edged Saber to explain how technology could defeat biological creations.
• Xia Xu gave Hong Yan his phone and told him that Cui Xinghua was working for him.
• Hong Yan recognized Cui Xinghua's name, took the phone, and hurriedly called him.

After learning that the authorities knew about extraordinary incidents and that Star Sea Group worked with the Special Department, Hong Yan accepted Xia Xu’s plan for his future. Xia Xu placed him under Cui Xinghua’s care and arranged for him to work with Star Sea Group’s security company as a Special Department combat auxiliary, while Hong Yan’s status panel revealed his hatred of Gardner and Andra Group.

• After speaking with Cui Xinghua, Hong Yan learned about the Special Department and Star Sea Group, then apologized to Xia Xu for suspecting him.
• Hong Yan admitted he had nowhere safe to go and feared that the authorities would treat him as a monster.
• Xia Xu told Hong Yan that he had destroyed another Gardner base and revealed that Andra Group stood behind Gardner.
• Xia Xu offered Hong Yan examinations with Cui Xinghua, a position at Star Sea Group’s security company, and a role as non-staff combat personnel for the Special Department.
• Hong Yan accepted the arrangement, and Xia Xu left after checking his status panel and learning that his obsession targeted Gardner and Andra Group.

Online investigators identified Xia Xu as the mysterious hero who stopped the werewolf giants in Magic City, linking him to an earlier werewolf incident in Star City. The revelation sparked fierce debate and left readers stunned by the range of Xia Xu’s achievements.

• Reports of the Magic City werewolf giant incident spread across the internet, and people debated whether the footage and creatures were real.
• A post analyzed the hero’s equipment and his departure in an official vehicle, then connected him to the Star City Werewolf Incident.
• A Star City netizen identified the hero as Xia Xu, citing his Miao Dao, Spider Robot, and past battles with werewolves.
• Commenters argued over whether Xia Xu could really be a powerful fighter as well as a top student and entrepreneur.
• More people looked into Xia Xu and discovered his perfect Gaokao score, Star Sea Group, scientific inventions, and combat reputation.

After the Werewolf Giant incident, Xia Xu returned to campus amid intense media attention and prepared to make a public statement in coordination with the authorities. At the Xinghai Research Group, he arranged for his team to optimize the Graphene Combat Uniform and indirectly confirmed to Yang Xiaoshuang that he had used the Web Weaver during the incident.

• Reporters surrounded Xia Xu's car at the university gates, and he told them he would make a public statement later.
• Xia Xu considered the authorities' plans to gradually disclose advanced technology and unusual threats to the public.
• Zhang Meng and the others questioned Xia Xu about his enhanced abilities, and he joked that the treatment cost thirty million before asking them to analyze the Graphene Combat Uniform's combat data.
• Xia Xu reassured Chen Leyao that he was unhurt and instructed her and his colleagues to direct reporters to a future press conference.
• Yang Xiaoshuang visited the Xinghai Research Group and asked whether Xia Xu had stopped the Werewolf Giants; he indirectly admitted it by pointing to footage of the Web Weaver.

Xia Xu persuaded Yang Xiaoshuang to join Star Sea Biotech and lead its K protein research, then reunited with Tang Youxin and the others, who celebrated his fight against the Giant Werewolf and asked him to pose in the Graphene Combat Uniform. The chapter ended with Xia Xu agreeing to take photos as the newly famous “Mechanic.”

• Yang Xiaoshuang jokingly offered herself to Xia Xu, and he offered her a position at Star Sea Biotech to research K protein.
• Yang Xiaoshuang accepted Xia Xu’s business card after he demonstrated his strength, and she said she was eager to see the company’s projects.
• Yang Xiaoshuang left the Xinghai Research Group’s clubroom, and Song Yu, Luo Lin, and Ge Qingyan arrived to see Tang Youxin and Xia Xu.
• Song Yu asked Xia Xu whether the viral footage of him fighting a Giant Werewolf in the Graphene Combat Uniform was real, and Xia Xu confirmed it.
• Ge Qingyan and Song Yu asked Xia Xu to wear the Combat Uniform for photos, and he agreed after hearing they had good news prepared for him.

Tang Youxin, Song Yu, Luo Lin, and Ge Qingyan finished reverse-engineering the human behavior algorithm behind the Mechanical Centipede Spine, opening the way for Star Sea Industrial to manufacture and develop the technology. Xia Xu celebrated by kissing Tang Youxin, then kept her from returning to work to deliver more “rewards.”

• Song Yu and the others told Xia Xu that they had finished reverse-engineering the human behavior algorithm.
• Tang Youxin explained how the team used a virtual platform and collected and analyzed the Centipede Spine's outputs to derive general-purpose formulas.
• Xia Xu praised Tang Youxin's work and kissed her cheek, while Song Yu and the others teased them and asked for rewards too.
• Xia Xu sent the others back to work, then stopped Tang Youxin from leaving and said she would pass his rewards on to everyone.