Chapter Summaries

After Su Na caught Yang Hao sneaking into the Homestead dockyard after skipping class, she forced him to test the Space Iron Ball prototype. Yang Hao survived the dangerous mission and agreed to stop skipping class, while persuading Su Na to let him continue attending school.

• Su Na caught Yang Hao in the restricted dockyard, and he falsely claimed Yang Yi had sent him on a mission.
• Su Na assigned Yang Hao to pilot the unfinished Space Iron Ball, warning him that its fuel and engine problems could leave him stranded in space.
• Yang Hao checked the craft, noticed its fuel and ammunition shortages, and requested adjustments before launch.
• Yang Hao's classmates watched the Space Iron Ball launch as he completed its test mission and returned with only 3% fuel remaining.
• Yang Hao vowed not to skip class again and convinced Su Na to let him keep attending school, provided he completed her assignments and stopped causing trouble.

Yang Yi encountered a hostile fleet and destroyed more than a hundred ships before discovering humans oppressed by plant-like aliens on a nearby planet. He freed a village from its tax collectors, learned about the world by reading an alien’s memories, and began arranging help for the humans before heading toward the capital.

• Yang Yi examined the assembled fleet and left its ships to Su Na, who planned to gather combat and spatial-jump data.
• Yang Yi vanished from the Homestead and sliced more than a hundred enemy ships apart in a single attack.
• Yang Yi flew to a planet where plant-like rulers confined humans to villages and demanded population taxes.
• Yang Yi landed in the village, killed the leading tree person, and withstood the squad’s gunfire without injury.
• Yang Yi learned the tree people’s language, read one alien’s memories, and killed the tax collectors while preserving their fruits.
• Yang Yi contacted Shen Guanquan about helping the villagers, then departed for the planet’s capital.