Chapter Summaries

Inspectors Zhou Cheng and Su Xiaotian questioned Ling Yi about the bank robbery, but he gave them a carefully altered account and directed suspicion toward Guan Qiang. After Ling Yi’s evidence helped force Guan Qiang’s arrest, Ling Feng warned his father that danger remained, and Ling Qiqi arrived at Ling Yi’s door.

• Zhou Cheng and Su Xiaotian questioned Ling Yi about the robbers, the missing bullets, and reports that he had given witnesses pills.
• Ling Yi denied the extraordinary claims and told the inspectors his edited version of how he had recognized and stopped the suspected robbers.
• Ling Yi used incomplete evidence from Ling Weiwei to pressure powerful people into acting against Guan Qiang without exposing the full investigation.
• A week later, Guan Qiang was arrested at the airport along with numerous associates, while official reports focused mainly on him.
• Ling Feng called Ling Yi to warn him that people unaffected by Guan Qiang’s arrest might still target him, and Ling Yi dismissed his concern.
• Ling Qiqi called Ling Yi and then appeared at his door, bundled up against the cold.

Ling Yi warned Little Qi away from exploitative entertainment work, then learned that his fishing friend Wu Zhichen had become a level 7 coerced accomplice with evidence of a crime. At Sihai Fishery, Ling Yi noticed Wu Zhichen acting nervously while using foul-smelling bait that quickly attracted fish.

• Little Qi visited Ling Yi’s detective agency, and he told her to withdraw from Go Run Run Run and fire her manager, Liu Yue.
• Ling Yi learned Liu Yue had embezzled more than forty million and ordered Ling Weiwei to send the evidence anonymously to investigators.
• Wu Zhichen invited Ling Yi to fish at Sihai Fishery, where Ling Yi saw a warning identifying him as a level 7 coerced accomplice with important crime evidence.
• Ling Yi suspected Wu Zhichen’s tackle bag might hide evidence and watched him open a bait box that smelled foul.
• Wu Zhichen’s hands trembled as he used the bait, which quickly drew large numbers of fish, and he stopped Ling Yi from examining the box.

Ling Yi investigated Old Wu and his son Wu Miao after suspecting their fishing bait was connected to a crime, and reported Song Lili’s murder to the inspectors. After buying several new skills, he encountered a corpse that seemed to have fallen from the sky.

• Ling Yi secretly investigated Old Wu’s suspicious bait, preserved two fish as possible evidence, and asked Ling Weiwei to research Wu Zhichen and Wu Miao.
• Ling Weiwei’s records showed that Song Lili had vanished after returning to her home, and that Wu Zhichen and Wu Miao later carried large bags from the house; Ling Yi concluded they had killed and dismembered her.
• Ling Yi reported the case to Zhou Cheng and handed over the fish, while noticing Su Xiaotian closely studying his face.
• Ling Yi bought several skills from the System Shop, including expertise in microexpressions and psychology.
• As Ling Yi arrived at Yunyun Pig Trotter Rice, a corpse crashed to the ground nearby, and he looked toward a commercial building more than two hundred meters away.

Ling Yi investigated Guo Ming’s death at the Five-Seven Commercial Building, identified Lin Yanfei and Cheng Zhihai as suspects, and suspected the chairman’s office was the crime scene. After Zhou Cheng arrived, Ling Yi agreed to meet Cheng Zhihai, then learned something about a disrespectful young inspector that made his face turn pale.

• Ling Yi identified the dead man as Guo Ming and noticed fishing line on his shoes, while Ling Weiwei revealed that Guo Ming’s video software could remove mosaics and expose private information.
• Ling Weiwei identified Lin Yanfei, Guo Ming’s ex-girlfriend, and Cheng Zhihai, the company chairman, as suspects; Ling Yi suspected Guo Ming had been attacked in room 1904.
• Ling Yi spotted a rooftop camera across the street and asked Ling Weiwei to check its footage, then received a system reward for assisting with the Wu Zhichen case.
• Zhou Cheng arrived with Su Xiaotian and other inspectors, and Ling Yi shared his findings before agreeing to meet Cheng Zhihai with him.
• A young inspector objected to involving Ling Yi, but after Ling Weiwei disclosed the inspector’s other identity, Ling Yi approached him and made his face turn pale.

Ling Yi helped Zhou Cheng expose Cheng Zhihai as Guo Ming’s murderer and learned the method he used to dispose of the body. After discovering that a dark-web kill order threatened his family, Ling Yi bought concealed camera drones to improve their security.

• Li Rui attacked Ling Yi, and Zhou Cheng kicked him down and ordered his arrest.
• Ling Yi raised the dark-web bounty on himself to one billion US dollars while hiding information about Ling Zhan and the others.
• Ling Yi and Su Xiaotian provoked Cheng Zhihai into revealing his guilt, while Zhou Cheng found fishing line, gloves, and a mask in the wastebasket.
• Ling Yi identified scrape marks on the window, and Zhou Cheng deduced that Cheng Zhihai had drugged Guo Ming and swung him out with fishing line.
• Cheng Zhihai confessed that he killed Guo Ming to stop him from disabling Ten Thousand Solutions’ feature permissions.
• Ling Yi discovered that supernatural products were locked in the Points Store and spent his points on twenty-two RS2 Concealment Unmanned Camera Balls for family security.

Ling Yi prepared to defend his family from a dark-web bounty and accepted his detective agency’s first commission: recovering a missing forty-million diamond before Hundred Blessings Jewelry’s auction. He suspected Jinxin Jewelry had arranged the switch and promised Qin Yuyan he would have news by afternoon.

• Ling Yi assigned the invisible RS2 spheres to protect Ling Zhan, Ling Feng, and Ling Qiqi, then stayed home while Ling Weiwei explained that her reports on online influencers were still being investigated.
• Ling Yi met Old Wu in the Investigation Bureau holding room, where Old Wu complained about Song Lili and learned he faced a lengthy sentence.
• Zhou Cheng told Ling Yi that Guan Qiang had placed a billion-dollar bounty on him and asked him to cooperate with a protection order; Ling Yi deployed RS2s to monitor the assassins and mercenaries who accepted the job.
• Ling Yi reassured Ling Zhan, Ling Feng, and Ling Qiqi, and let Ling Qiqi keep her concert plans while investigators assigned guards to the family.
• Qin Yuyan commissioned Ling Yi to recover a forty-million diamond that had been replaced with a synthetic imitation before Hundred Blessings Jewelry’s auction, and named Jinxin Jewelry as a suspect.

Robert Witt, a hitman known as Fruit Knife, was brutally incapacitated by a mysterious attacker after arriving in the Ancient Country to pursue the bounty on Guan Qiang. Meanwhile, Ling Yi identified Yu Jin as a thief and secretly transferred the contents of his wristwatch into his System Space.

• Robert followed a text message into an alley, where an unseen attacker pierced his limbs with a hovering, droplet-like object.
• Zhou Cheng and Feng Dajiang investigated Robert’s injuries and questioned him, while Su Xiaotian sketched the strange weapon he described.
• Su Xiaotian warned Zhou Cheng that Robert’s memories might have been altered, or that the attacker possessed an extraordinary ability.
• Ling Yi visited Jinxin Jewelry City and found a red exclamation mark above Yu Jin, whom the system identified as a Level 5 thief.
• Ling Yi shook Yu Jin’s hand and used his System Space to take the contents of Yu Jin’s wristwatch.

Ling Yi attended Ling Qiqi’s concert, but learned that Liu Qiang had been kidnapped and Ling Qiqi was at risk of being abducted. He helped the authorities arrest sixteen suspects and learned that a mercenary force had been subdued and hundreds of other hired attackers remained.

• Qin Yuyan thanked Ling Yi for saving Hundred Blessings Jewelry and warned him that Yu Jin might suspect him.
• Ling Yi went to Ling Qiqi’s concert while Zhou Cheng and Su Xiaotian followed him, and Su Xiaotian suspected Ling Weiwei was a robot.
• Ling Weiwei told Ling Yi that Liu Qiang had been kidnapped and that local thugs planned to abduct Ling Qiqi during the concert.
• Ling Yi shielded Ling Qiqi with RS2 units, identified sixteen suspects with the Eye of Intelligence, and directed Zhou Cheng to have them arrested.
• Ling Weiwei reported that the RS2 units had rescued Liu Qiang and subdued his kidnappers, then revealed that 237 assassins and a mercenary squad still remained.

After Ling Yi ended the dark-web threat and revealed Ling Weiwei’s identity to his family, he received a new commission from Mu Nianyun, who said his grandfather and relatives were being possessed. Ling Yi traveled to White City to investigate and found an orange exclamation mark flashing above a shrine in Mu Disheng’s room.

• Ling Yi told Zhou Cheng to track every target without geographical limits, then asked him to withdraw the protection order.
• Ling Yi reassured Ling Zhan, Ling Feng, and Little Qi, revealed that Ling Weiwei was an intelligent robot, and warned them to keep it secret.
• The dark web withdrew its billion-dollar commission, the assassins and mercenaries who had accepted it were crippled, and North Leaf Province became a forbidden zone for them.
• Mu Nianyun told Ling Yi that Mu Disheng and other family members danced and sang uncontrollably after entering Mu Disheng’s room around three in the morning.
• Ling Yi went with Mu Nianyun to White City and saw an orange exclamation mark flashing above a shrine in Mu Disheng’s room.

Ling Yi exposed the Deva Shrine’s hallucinogenic spores and learned how Mu Disheng had been tricked into believing it could cure his terminal illness. He secretly sent Mu Disheng a fragment of a Healing Pill and headed to Golden Summit Temple to confront Xuansheng.

• Ling Yi questioned Mu Disheng about the shrine, and Mu Disheng explained how Xuansheng had promised it would cure his brain tumor and extend his life.
• Ling Yi identified the shrine’s contents as temperature-sensitive Deva Spores and used them to show Mu Disheng that its apparent rejuvenation was an illusion.
• Ling Yi took the shrine and, after reflecting on Mu Disheng’s fate, decided to save him by secretly sending him a fragment of a Healing Pill with an RS2.
• Ling Yi learned that Mu Disheng had visited Golden Summit Temple two months earlier and drove there to investigate Xuansheng, finding the temple crowded with worshippers and livestreamers.

Ling Yi exposed Master Xuansheng’s scam at Golden Summit Temple by identifying the Deva Spores behind his tricks and calling the inspectors. After the inspectors arrested Xuansheng, Old Mu called Ling Yi and summoned him to a barbecue in White City.

• Ling Yi met streamer Meng Erdai at Golden Summit Temple and offered to expose Master Xuansheng’s fraud on her livestream.
• Ling Yi explained that Xuansheng used Deva Spores to fake supernatural feats, then called the inspectors and waited so Xuansheng could not destroy evidence.
• The inspectors arrived, confirmed Ling Yi’s explanation, and arrested Xuansheng while Meng Erdai’s livestream drew a large audience.
• Ling Yi and Meng Erdai discussed misconduct by streamers and the recent investigations spurred by Ling Weiwei’s reports.
• Old Mu called Ling Yi and ordered him to join him for barbecue in White City; when Ling Yi arrived, he saw that the Healing Pill had worked better than he had expected.

Ling Yi met Song Wanzhu, agreed to fund her independent domestic chip company, and saved her from an attack by her ex-husband, Gao Liang. After leaving White City, Ling Yi drove toward Baihai City, where an RPG struck his car and sent it plunging off a cliff.

• Old Man Mu told Ling Yi that his brain tumor had disappeared and asked him to help Song Wanzhu, a former technology-company founder who now ran a barbecue restaurant.
• Ling Yi offered Song Wanzhu one billion in initial funding and promised her autonomy so she could pursue domestic chip development.
• Gao Liang attacked Song Wanzhu with a knife, but Ling Yi kicked him away, treated his injuries with a Healing Pill, and had the inspectors take him into custody.
• Ling Yi left White City for Baihai City and learned that Ling Weiwei had arranged arrests after entertainment companies tried to target the Ling Group and Miss Qiqi.
• An attacker fired an RPG at Ling Yi's car on a mountainside expressway, causing it to explode and tumble off a cliff.

After surviving an assassination attempt, Ling Yi used the system’s temporary unsealing of advanced technology to strike back at the Dark Web and ordered Ling Weiwei to hunt its members. Back in Baihai City, he heard that Zhang Cheng might seek revenge for his brother and asked officials to treat him as an ordinary person, then arranged for Song Wanzhu to receive Ling Weiwei’s core data.

• Ling Yi recovered from the burning car, crippled the two assassins, and used the system to raise his attributes before threatening it into temporarily unsealing advanced products.
• Ling Yi bought Nano Sophons, used them to kill the assassins, and ordered Ling Weiwei to expose the Dark Web and send RS2 units after its members worldwide.
• Ling Yi returned to Baihai City and told Ling Weiwei to protect Little Qi and the others while she coordinated the response against the Dark Web.
• Song Wanzhu arrived to establish her company headquarters in Baihai City, and Ling Yi told her to make her own decisions and seek help from his associates if needed.
• Zhou Cheng warned Ling Yi that Guan Qiang’s confession linked Zhang Yi to his brother Zhang Cheng, a regional warlord, and asked Ling Yi to wait until Zhang Cheng entered North Leaf Province before acting.
• After Zhou Cheng left, Ling Yi told Ling Weiwei to send Song Wanzhu her core data so Song Wanzhu could begin working in artificial intelligence.

Yin Wanqing confronted Uncle Reincarnation over the Ling Realm’s declining popularity and argued with him about whether Boundary Breaking could reach the real world. While she secretly prepared a machine that only Ling Yi could activate, Ling Yi restored his memories, left a Clone behind, and transmigrated to another world.

• Yin Wanqing asked Uncle Reincarnation how to improve the Ling Realm’s popularity, and he angrily blamed Ling Yi and her interference for destroying his planned story.
• Uncle Reincarnation argued that Boundary Breaking could never take the Ling Realm beyond the novel, but Yin Wanqing insisted they still had to try and told him to write worlds he knew well.
• Yin Wanqing sent Uncle Reincarnation back and secretly used a vast machine, hoping Ling Yi would soon understand how to activate it.
• At the Baihai City Inspection Bureau, Zhou Cheng worried that Ling Weiwei’s identity would attract dangerous attention, while Su Xiaotian said the old master would handle it.
• Ling Yi, now remembering his past, left an ordinary human Clone behind, reset his case-solving cheat, and transmigrated from the detective world.

Ling Yi arrived in the Marvel Universe in the desert, where he discovered the great prison system and encountered Tony Stark after his escape from captivity. With Tony free of the armor but both of them weakened by the heat, Ling Yi saw that Tony qualified for capture but hesitated to act.

• Ling Yi found himself in a scorching desert and realized he had arrived in the Marvel Universe when Tony Stark crashed nearby in his Mark I armor.
• Ling Yi received the great prison system’s instructions, learning about M0 Prison, its equipment, its ability to capture offenders, and its standards for good and evil.
• Tony asked Ling Yi for help escaping the armor, and Ling Yi spent over half an hour freeing him while Tony gave directions.
• Ling Yi and Tony struggled with exhaustion and dehydration after Tony escaped, and Ling Yi saw that Tony’s good-evil value qualified him for capture.
• Ling Yi considered capturing Tony and taking his vital essence to strengthen himself, but hesitated because he judged Tony by more than the system’s numbers.

After leaving Tony Stark, Ling Yi used the documents and money Tony gave him to start over, then vanished from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s surveillance. Three days later, Coulson found him opening a storefront in Hell's Kitchen called the Shop of Serendipity, though what Ling Yi planned to sell remained unknown.

• Ling Yi told Tony that he came from a separate parallel world and said he planned to learn about this world and survive on his own.
• Tony gave Ling Yi identity documents, a bank card containing ten million dollars, and a personal communicator before leaving the hotel.
• Ling Yi disappeared from his hotel room, and Coulson reported the disappearance to a one-eyed, bald Black man, who ordered him to keep Ling Yi in sight rather than arrest him.
• Coulson located Ling Yi three days later and found that he had bought a storefront in Hell's Kitchen and named it Shop of Serendipity in Chinese and Nothing Shop in English.

Ling Yi captured more than a hundred gang members in Hell’s Kitchen and encountered Daredevil, whom he considered recruiting as M0 Prison’s first guard. After discussing Kingpin and the limits of fighting darkness, Ling Yi declared Daredevil guilty and prepared to imprison him.

• Ling Yi reflected on how capturing twenty-three criminals had strengthened him and planned to use inmates as laborers in M0 Prison.
• After gunfire broke out at a waterfront dock, Ling Yi found Daredevil surrounded by more than a hundred gunmen and captured them all.
• Ling Yi noticed Daredevil’s negative good-and-evil value and decided he would make a suitable prison guard.
• Daredevil warned Ling Yi that destroying Kingpin’s criminal forces would not eliminate darkness, but Ling Yi remained focused on recruiting him.
• Ling Yi told Daredevil, “You are guilty!” and declared that all sinners had to be imprisoned.

Ling Yi captured Daredevil and Punisher, then turned both into M0 Prison jailers. After absorbing the life essence stripped from more than a hundred prisoners, Ling Yi began undergoing a profound change as a memory awakened within him.

• Ling Yi defeated Daredevil and sent him to M0 Prison, then caught Punisher's dagger, knocked him out, and captured him as well.
• Hawkeye and Black Widow watched Ling Yi from a nearby building, and Hawkeye admitted he could not target him before Black Widow sent him to report to Fury.
• Ling Yi explained M0 Prison to Daredevil, made him a jailer against his will, and gave him equipment before sending him out.
• Ling Yi turned Punisher, Frank, into a jailer and gathered the life essence stripped from more than a hundred prisoners.
• Ling Yi absorbed the life essence, strengthening his cells as his DNA began to change and a memory awakened in his mind.

After evolving through Life Essence Qi, Ling Yi hired Natasha and sent Mark and Frank to clear Hell’s Kitchen, while Kingpin’s losses pushed him into a violent rampage. Natasha later told Nick Fury that the missing criminals were imprisoned in Ling Yi’s vast, separate world, M0 Prison.

• Ling Yi awakened after absorbing Life Essence Qi and discovered that his strength and speed had greatly increased.
• Natasha visited Ling Yi’s empty shop, accepted a job with room and board, and began working there.
• Matt Murdock and Frank arrived at the shop, then went out with Mark and Ling Yi to arrest Hell’s Kitchen criminals; Mark and Frank captured hundreds and filled M0 Prison.
• Ling Yi gave Mark and Frank Life Essence Qi to unlock their first Gene Lock and awaken abilities.
• Kingpin mobilized his forces after Frank imprisoned his son Richard, and Vanessa was accidentally killed amid the escalating violence.
• Natasha briefed Nick Fury, Barton, and Coulson on M0 Prison and revealed that it was a separate world holding roughly twenty thousand people.

Ling Yi’s prison guards cleared out Hell’s Kitchen and discussed waiting for major events while they trained. When Nick Fury asked to buy Ling Yi’s life essence, Ling Yi revealed Hydra’s deep infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and offered to help build a superpowered team under his prison system, leaving Natasha ready to accept an awakening enhancement.

• Nick Fury learned that Ling Yi had empowered Mark and Frank and asked whether the process had side effects or could strengthen S.H.I.E.L.D.’s agents.
• Ling Yi’s guards discussed Hell’s Kitchen, and Ling Yi said their goal was to capture evildoers rather than take territory while they waited for major events.
• Natasha asked whether Ling Yi would sell his life essence, and Ling Yi told her to bring Nick Fury to speak with him.
• Ling Yi claimed that Hydra controlled most of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s personnel and had infiltrated the Council of Elders and the legislature.
• Ling Yi offered Nick a superpowered team managed by S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for sending captured criminals to M0 Prison, and Natasha agreed to become a prison guard and receive an awakening enhancement.