Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiao learned that the Zerg had become politically vulnerable after ordinary Zerg gained Brain Worm intelligence by eating them, and that Fate had registered the Heavenly Insects for the Species Ranking Tournament. He decided to send the Zerg a letter asking how to improve their reproductive capacity, and the chapter ended with Driver realizing Lu Xiao might expect him to deliver it.

• The Postman explained that the Zerg's discovery had spread widely, leaving the Supreme Insect Emperor panicked and potentially vulnerable.
• The Postman told Lu Xiao and Gambler that Fate had taken responsibility for the affair and registered the Heavenly Insects for the Species Ranking Tournament.
• Lu Xiao asked how to improve the Zerg's reproductive capacity, and the Postman suggested sending them a letter.
• The Postman filled out a letter for Lu Xiao, who asked him to send it and learned that one of the three would have to deliver it.
• Lu Xiao explained that a letter carrier could return safely after delivery, and Driver asked if Lu Xiao wanted him to go.

Lu Xiao watched Driver accept a dangerous letter-delivery job after Gambler manipulated him into going, then learned from Postman that the commission came from a Zerg member. Lu Xiao asked Postman what gods were and heard that godhood was the peak of three-dimensional life, while beings beyond it belonged to other dimensions.

• Driver refused to deliver the letter until Postman described its recipient as a beautiful Zerg lady, prompting Driver to declare that a qualified driver should handle the job.
• Gambler admitted he had encouraged Driver to go so he would not back out, and Lu Xiao praised him for manipulating people.
• Lu Xiao asked Postman whether the recipient was his friend, and Postman explained that a Zerg member had hired him for the delivery.
• Postman revealed that the commission had earned him a profit and agreed that Lu Xiao and Gambler deserved a share of the benefits.
• Lu Xiao asked what gods were, and Postman explained that godhood was the peak of a life-form's development in three dimensions and that higher existence belonged to another dimension.

Postman explained how Consciousness Worlds, lifespans, and madness were tied to dimensional ascension, then Driver returned shaken after meeting a Zerg creature that wanted to make babies with him. A letter addressed to “Dearest baby” arrived, and Gambler claimed it before reading it, leaving Driver demanding to know what it said.

• Postman explained that Gods’ lifespans depended on their Consciousness Worlds and that dimensional ascension could cause madness.
• Driver returned terrified and described how a human-shaped creature made of bugs chased him after asking to make babies with him.
• Postman announced that a letter addressed to “Dearest baby” had arrived, and Lu Xiao and Gambler stepped back while Driver denied it was his.
• Postman said the letter was from Tina and had not come from the place where Driver delivered his letter.
• Gambler claimed the letter as his, read it, and left Driver urging him to reveal its contents.

Gambler read Tina’s letter to Driver, revealing that the bug-bodied figure Driver met was only a stand-in and that Tina planned to meet him again in Hell. After Postman confirmed Tina could descend and described her as beautiful by Zerg standards, Gambler urged Driver to decide whether to claim the letter and let him handle the next meeting.

• Gambler read Tina’s letter aloud, including her explanation that the bug body was a means of interacting with unfamiliar people and that she would meet Driver again in her true body.
• Driver checked the letter himself and found that its contents matched Gambler’s reading, then questioned whether Tina could descend into Hell.
• Postman said the Zerg could send someone to Hell at little cost because of their unusual biology.
• Gambler offered to take Driver’s place when Tina arrived, while Lu Xiao warned Driver to decide before Gambler changed his mind.
• Driver asked whether Tina’s true body was beautiful, and Postman affirmed that she was beautiful by Zerg standards.
• Gambler urged Driver to make his choice and declared, “Let’s gamble!”

Driver bet that Empress Tina would be beautiful and intellectual, encouraged by his companions and convinced he had seen only her stand-in. Tina arrived at the Logistics Point, where Driver’s excitement turned to horror when he saw her monstrous mouthparts.

• Gambler, Lu Xiao, and Postman urged Driver to bet that Tina was beautiful and intellectual, with Postman offering his race’s accumulated wealth for the chance.
• After smoking a cigarette to think, Driver made the bet that Tina was beautiful and intellectual.
• A postman emerged from a spatial vortex and ordered Luolin to protect Empress Tina at the Logistics Point until the war in Hell ended.
• Luolin celebrated the news that he could return to headquarters after his term in Hell, while Lu Xiao congratulated him and Gambler joined his strange dance.
• Tina stepped through a spatial vortex in a red dress and called Driver her darling baby, but her hideous, split mouthparts made Driver go pale.
• Gambler tried to console Driver by suggesting Tina would seem beautiful and intellectual with the lights off.

Tina reunited with Driver and announced that she would enter Hell’s conflict to win the Heavenly Insect Clan a place in the Species Ranking Tournament. Luolin worried that she would become a target, while Lu Xiao decided to use Driver to persuade her to stay safe.

• Tina rushed to Driver, embraced and kissed him, and called him her baby, prompting the others to realize they had known each other before.
• Luolin explained Hell’s situation to Tina, but she declared that she would take part in the conflict and dismissed his warning that the Lord had ordered him to protect her.
• Luolin feared Tina would be hunted if she left the Logistics Point and asked Lu Xiao to persuade her to stay inside.
• Tina told Driver that she planned to lead the Heavenly Insect Clan into the tournament with him as its Emperor, leaving Driver dreading his future.
• Lu Xiao gave up on confronting Tina directly and sent Driver a mental message asking him to ask his sweetheart a few questions.

Driver questioned Tina under Lu Xiao’s instructions and learned that a powerful being called the King of the Heavenly Worms had promised to protect the Zerg if she helped the Heavenly Insect Clan qualify for the Species Ranking Tournament. Tina planned to use Mother Worms to consume the enemies who attacked her outside the Logistics Point, and she asked Driver to protect her.

• Driver asked Tina why her voice was lovely, and she revealed that a Voice Worm inside her mouth imitated voices.
• Driver asked how Tina kept her figure, and she said she remembered all his preferences.
• Tina transformed her face and grew long hair, delighting Driver and impressing Gambler.
• Tina told Driver that the King of the Heavenly Worms had promised to change the Zerg’s situation and protect them if she helped the Heavenly Insect Clan in the tournament.
• Tina explained that she would send about a thousand Mother Worms to Hell and use enemies who attacked her as nourishment, then asked Driver to protect her.

Tina revealed that the Zerg planned to use Hell’s foreign species to hatch a vast Swarm, and Lu Xiao secured Luolin and Postman’s cooperation for the Species Ranking Tournament. At the Swarm, Tina asserted her authority as Zerg Empress, leaving the thirteen Brain Worm-eating Zerg powerless before her.

• Lu Xiao asked Luolin whether his clan would enter the Species Ranking Tournament, and Luolin agreed to cooperate with him.
• Postman swore to support Lu Xiao, while Lu Xiao gave up looking for Daimon and joined Tina and the others in the Transforming Vehicle.
• Driver teleported the vehicle above the Swarm, and Tina jumped down with Lu Xiao, Gambler, and Luolin following.
• The Swarm gathered beneath Tina to form a throne, and she revealed herself as the Zerg Empress.
• The thirteen new-type Zerg tried to command the Swarm and called for the King of the Heavenly Worms, but Tina confronted them and they could not resist her.

Tina used her authority as the Heavenly Worm Empress to make most of the Heavenly Insect Clan kneel, but Drak refused to submit. Lu Xiao claimed that the King of the Heavenly Worms had appointed him Heavenly Worm Marshal and urged Tina to cooperate, leaving her uncertain about challenging him.

• Tina descended from the Throne and subdued twelve of the thirteen heavenly insects, who knelt before her.
• Drak refused to kneel, declaring that he was the King of the Heavenly Worms' first and most devout Chosen One.
• Lu Xiao and Gambler discussed Tina's claim and feared that Gambler could not safely reveal himself as the King of the Heavenly Worms.
• Lu Xiao arrived beside Tina and claimed the King had appointed him Heavenly Worm Marshal, which Drak's cry appeared to support.
• Lu Xiao warned Tina that killing him could provoke 'Fate' and 'Fantasy', then proposed that they cooperate.

Lu Xiao used Driver to defuse his confrontation with Tina, who took control of the Swarm while the Outsider Clans joined forces to target her. In the Present World, the Warden prepared to mentor Lorne, Augusis’s descendant, who arrived at the base.

• Lu Xiao had Driver intervene in his confrontation with Tina, and Tina agreed to keep working with him while Lu Xiao managed the thirteen Heavenly Worms.
• Tina took command of the Swarm and brought over a thousand Mother Worms, leaving the thirteen Heavenly Worms unable to control any of its worms.
• Amilia told Lu Xiao that the Outsider Clans in Hell had united and were advancing to surround and kill Tina, while Daimon prepared the Demon Clan for a possible battle near the Royal City.
• The Warden learned from Augusis that his descendant had arrived and instructed his assistant to bring Lorne to his office.
• The Warden decided to mentor Lorne and recalled how Artisan had killed his former student Jailer and taken his identity.

Lorn arrived at the Warden’s office and became his student, but his resemblance to the dead Jailer made the Warden suspect that Augusis might have sent him with a hidden purpose. The Warden began testing Lorn while waiting for Augusis to fulfill his promise.

• The Warden was grieving over his inability to bring his student back when Lorn entered and greeted him as his teacher.
• The Warden questioned Lorn about his appearance and race, and Lorn said he was a humanoid, a vassal race of silicon-based life.
• Lorn chose the codename Jailer, prompting the Warden to wonder whether the choice was deliberate.
• The Warden ordered Lorn to memorize the obsolete Warden Regulations as a test, then considered whether Augusis could know about Jailer and his death.
• The Warden called Augusis, praised Lorn’s politeness, and mentioned that he resembled an old acquaintance; Augusis told him not to go easy on the boy.

The Warden inspected C01 Containment Facility, where the Doctor had improved Biological Printing, then visited the Director’s lavish new office in Kyoto. He decided to supervise the Director there and revealed that the number of Doctors had reached two hundred.

• The Warden failed to learn anything useful while probing the Postman, then set the matter aside.
• The Warden found that the Doctor had put C01 Containment Facility in order and corrected Biological Printing, while the Doctor’s first substitute body had been destroyed.
• The Warden visited the Director’s new office and was angered by its extravagant furnishings and the Director’s relaxed manner.
• The Warden ordered another desk for himself and said he would supervise the Director’s work from the office.
• The Director and the Warden discussed the department’s Implementation Plan, and the Warden revealed that the number of Doctors had reached two hundred.

The Warden reassured the Director that the Doctor’s work and humanity’s external threats made him unlikely to turn against humanity. In Hell, Lu Xiao watched Tina’s Swarm multiply at a staggering rate, then learned Luolin was being replaced at the Logistics Point and worried that Lu Xiao’s people might clash with the new Postman.

• The Warden argued that the Doctor’s loyalty and contributions to humanity made him a lesser danger than alien life-forms, and the Director agreed.
• Lu Xiao watched Tina’s Zerg devour an abandoned Outsider race and rapidly reproduce, while his thirteen Heavenly Worm subordinates looked tiny beside her billions.
• Lu Xiao recalled Tina’s view that even deity-level Zerg were cannon fodder, and found her cuddling with Driver inside a Nest Worm.
• Luolin told Lu Xiao that another Postman would take over the Logistics Point, prompting Lu Xiao to tease him about lacking severance pay.
• Luolin asked whether Lu Xiao’s people might clash with the new Postman because they did not know Him.

Lu Xiao explained the human route into Hell to Luolin, who decided to send his clan’s forces through it to protect Tina. Lu Xiao secured his first delivery job, and the arrivals’ presence was likely to reveal the route to other races.

• Luolin asked Lu Xiao to help protect Tina, since he could not intervene directly without risking the rules of the war in Hell.
• Lu Xiao explained how humans sent people into Hell through a Logistics Point in the Present World, and Luolin realized he could use the route to send his own forces.
• Luolin chose to stake his clan’s future on protecting Tina and arranged to send ten gods and an initial million Star-level Life forms into Hell.
• Lu Xiao offered Luolin delivery at cost, charging one tenth of Universe Logistics’ price and offering free delivery for Star-level Life.
• Lu Xiao realized the job would help expand his business, while other races would likely investigate the ten newly arrived gods and discover the human route.

Luolin arranged for a million star-level beings and ten gods from his clan to arrive at the Present World’s Logistics Point as customers bound for a war in Hell. The Warden and the Director prepared Chang'an City’s Planned District to receive them and maximize their spending, while Augusis began buying up the mall.

• Luolin used a Network Communicator to summon his clan’s reinforcements, who would reach the Logistics Point in less than a day through the VIP Passage.
• Lu Xiao informed the Warden of the incoming million star-level beings and ten gods, and the Warden and the Director headed to Chang'an City to prepare for them.
• The Warden coordinated with local authorities as the Planned District’s businesses, hotels, and tourist services rushed to prepare for the visitors.
• The Director and the Warden planned to sell luxury goods and delay the Teleportation Gate setup so the customers would spend their star source before leaving for Hell.
• Augusis went on a spending spree and left the mall with more than a dozen semi-trucks loaded with purchases.

The Warden arranged to spend Star Source through Augusis and welcomed Luolin’s arriving clanspeople. In Hell, Lu Xiao learned that the Zerg reproduce to harvest powerful species’ genes, and Luolin revealed that they possessed Gene Fragments from nearly every living creature in the Universe.

• The Warden told the Director that a charter plane carrying supplies from Northern Europe was already on its way.
• Augusis showed the Warden and the Director his purchases, including three semitrailers of plush toys, then agreed to help the Warden spend Star Source for a one-thousandth commission.
• Luolin’s clanspeople arrived, paid the teleportation fee with a black card, and entered the Planned District.
• Lu Xiao asked Luolin about Driver and Tina, and the Postman explained that Zerg Empresses reproduced with powerful species to obtain their Species Gene Fragments.
• Lu Xiao suspected Tina wanted Driver’s genes because Driver was connected to Fantasy, and Luolin said the Zerg possessed Gene Fragments from every living creature in the Universe.

Lu Xiao heard Luolin’s account of the Zerg’s genetic ambitions, then the Omniscient Mirror warned him that Tina’s arrival in Hell had been inevitable. By piecing together the clues, Lu Xiao suspected Fate had arranged for the Mirror to alert him, but he lacked enough information to learn the full truth.

• Luolin told Lu Xiao that the Zerg sought powerful beings’ genes to strengthen their reproduction, and the Postman warned him not to spread the information.
• The Omniscient Mirror said the Zerg’s genetic ambitions were widely known and that Tina’s appearance in Hell had been inevitable.
• Lu Xiao left Luolin, then demanded an explanation from the Omniscient Mirror, which said he could infer the answer from its clues but could not afford to ask directly.
• Lu Xiao reasoned that the Zerg had entered Hell despite already qualifying for the Species Ranking Tournament because Tina’s deal with Fate served another purpose.
• Lu Xiao suspected Fate had paid the Mirror to warn him and that Luolin had been used as a pawn, but he could not draw a firm conclusion.

Lu Xiao and Driver watched Tina’s Swarm grow to ten billion Zerg while Driver reflected on humanity’s weakness beside the great races. The chapter ended with Lu Xiao asking whether Driver’s despair was personal or spoke for Fantasy.

• Driver told Lu Xiao that he believed Tina was using him, and Lu Xiao repeated Luolin’s words about Driver’s genes.
• Driver advised Lu Xiao to remain with the Swarm because the assembled Outsiders might soon attack it.
• The Swarm stayed calm for more than half a day as its numbers nearly doubled, and Driver flew Lu Xiao over its immense variety of Zerg.
• Driver said the Swarm’s power made humanity’s prospects seem hopeless and suggested humanity might be better off staying hidden.
• Lu Xiao asked Driver whether he was speaking for himself or on behalf of Fantasy.

The Warden and the Director turned the plant people’s demand for carbonated drinks into a profitable business, then sent them through the Triumphal Arch to Hell. Lu Xiao met Luolin’s clansmen at the Group Army Base and delivered Luolin’s message, leaving them to gather around him.

• The Warden and the Director reopened a bottling factory and earned over a hundred million Star Source selling drinks to the plant people.
• The Warden arranged for humanity to make teleportation and support industries its main business, while the Director asked where his father was.
• The plant people entered Hell through the Triumphal Arch in two batches, and the Director hoped they would return safely as customers.
• Luolin received word that his clansmen had arrived above the human Group Army Base, gave Lu Xiao a twig-like token, and asked him to pass on a message.
• Lu Xiao teleported to the base, raised the token to get the plant people’s attention, conveyed Luolin’s message, and walked toward the onlookers.

Lu Xiao approached Weidiya to propose that the Mother Goddess Elves partner with humanity to profit from teleporting people into Hell, but she warned that humanity’s weakness made the plan dangerous. The chapter ended with Lu Xiao arguing that an alliance with her people could protect his race.

• Lu Xiao learned that Yi Hao and Gambler had been harassing Weidiya and her people while claiming to be his good buddies, and Weidiya blamed him for their behavior.
• Lu Xiao apologized for his unsettling look and proposed that humanity and the Mother Goddess Elves work together to teleport people into Hell for the war against the Zerg Empress.
• Weidiya refused, warning that the plan threatened the Universe Logistics Company and could attract hostility from stronger races.
• Lu Xiao explained that 'Space' had tacitly approved humanity’s teleportation, but Weidiya warned that other major races might still target the weak human race.
• Lu Xiao said humanity needed to partner with the Mother Goddess Elves for protection.