Chapter Summaries

Elder Wang agreed to let Wang Yixue enlist as a mecha pilot, and she accepted special recruitment that evening. Li Guozhong then speculated that Xu Fan had secretly arranged for her to contact him so he could donate the Crimson Sky No. 1 to the country, leaving the officers convinced of Xu Fan’s selflessness.

• Li Guozhong suggested Wang Yixue enlist, and Elder Wang agreed after warning him not to mistreat his granddaughter.
• Wang Yixue enthusiastically agreed to join the military and pilot the mecha, and Li Guozhong arranged her special recruitment for that evening.
• Li Guozhong proposed that Xu Fan had controlled Wang Yixue’s phone to ensure she contacted him and could deliver the mecha to the country anonymously.
• Tong Yao said Xu Fan could easily have manipulated the phone, and the group accepted Li Guozhong’s theory that Xu Fan had intended to donate the mecha.
• Wang Yixue revealed that she had paid Xu Fan three million for the mecha, and Li Guozhong concluded that Xu Fan had built it by borrowing money and charging only enough to repay his debts.

After Xu Fan received an unexpectedly large payment for creating the mecha, Wang Yixue joined the Southern Military Region and was assigned to visit him. The military suppressed reports of the mecha, while Xu Fan went to his blind date and discovered the meeting place was a luxury shopping center.

• Li Guozhong ordered Wang Yixue to transfer Xu Fan ten times the remaining payment, and Xu Fan declined her invitation to meet.
• Li Guozhong and the elders encouraged Wang Yixue to track Xu Fan down, and she decided to find him through her friend at Zhonghai National Defense University.
• Wang Yixue enlisted in the Southern Military Region, and Li Guozhong assigned her to visit Xu Fan and convey the military's regards.
• Videos and reports of the mecha disappeared from the internet, and the Bureau Chief claimed in a livestream that the footage was fabricated.
• Xu Fan went to his blind date at Champs-Élysées No. 2 and wondered why the meeting place was a shopping center.

Xu Fan refused to pay for Liu Li’s luxury shopping on their blind date and clashed with Manager Tan after he pressured Xu to cover the bill. Meanwhile, Wang Yixue and several military and government officials headed to Champs-Élysées No. 2, unaware that Xu Fan was already there.

• Xu Fan met Liu Li at the Hermès counter, where she bought a large number of bags while implying that he should pay for them.
• At the register, Xu Fan told the cashier to ask Liu Li to pay, and he rejected her offer to let him pursue her in exchange for buying the bags.
• Liu Li grabbed Xu Fan’s shirt to stop him from leaving, and Manager Tan arrived and urged Xu to pay while Liu Li apologized.
• Wang Yixue learned Xu Fan was at Champs-Élysées No. 2 and drove there in her Mercedes-Benz G-Class.
• Tong Yao alerted Elder Wang and Elder Hua that Xu Fan and Wang Yixue were heading to the same location, prompting the elders to set out in military jeeps.
• Rumors of an official inspection spread through Zhonghai, and officials hurried toward Champs-Élysées No. 2 while Xu Fan watched Manager Tan from a sofa.

Xu Fan faced Manager Tan and Liu Li after they tried to extort him over a staged shopping incident. Wang Yixue arrived, recognized Xu Fan, and exposed the scam; Manager Tan and Liu Li faced the consequences, though Tan still hoped to evade punishment.

• Manager Tan blocked Xu Fan from leaving and demanded payment for lost working time, while the young salesman and cashier defended Xu Fan and were threatened with dismissal.
• Wang Yixue entered the mall, ignored Manager Tan, and greeted Xu Fan, revealing that they knew each other well.
• Xu Fan recognized Wang Yixue and told her to ask the others what had happened.
• After hearing the staff's account, Wang Yixue accused Manager Tan and Liu Li of fraud and said she would report them to the police and ensure her father's business partners would not hire them.
• Liu Li collapsed and wept, while Manager Tan regretted being caught but privately planned to use his connections to reduce his punishment and continue his schemes.

After Wang Yixue helped expose Manager Tan, Elder Wang, Elder Hua, and military officials arrived to meet Xu Fan and praise his mecha. The authorities arrested Manager Tan and Liu Li, and the chapter ended with Elder Wang asking Xu Fan where his research team was.

• Wang Yixue celebrated Manager Tan's downfall before armed soldiers entered the lobby and said they had come for Xu Fan.
• Elder Wang and Elder Hua arrived, and Xu Fan confirmed that he had developed and built Wang Yixue's mecha.
• Major General Li Guozhong and other high-ranking officials arrived and greeted Xu Fan, leaving Manager Tan terrified and Liu Li devastated.
• Wang Yixue revealed Manager Tan and Liu Li's misdeeds, and the authorities took them away in handcuffs.
• Wang Yixue drove Xu Fan back to Zhonghai Military Research Base, where Elder Wang asked him to introduce his research and development team.

Xu Fan convinced Elder Wang and the researchers that he had built the mecha himself by explaining its advanced materials and weapons. He then freely handed Elder Wang a detailed notebook containing the carbyne alloy synthesis process and formulas.

• Xu Fan told Elder Wang that he had designed and built the mecha alone, and explained how he had made it for Wang Yixue.
• Elder Wang tested Xu Fan by asking about the mecha’s carbyne alloy, and Xu Fan described its strength and temperature-regulating properties.
• Xu Fan explained the shoulder-mounted electromagnetic railgun and its power source, accelerator, and trigger system to the baffled researchers.
• Elder Wang asked Xu Fan for the carbyne alloy synthesis pathway and chemical equations, and Xu Fan wrote them down in a notebook.
• Xu Fan gave the notebook to Elder Wang for free, and Elder Wang recognized its value and became tearful.

Elder Wang and Elder Hua were impressed by Xu Fan’s physics notes, while Tong Yao questioned his programming skills and discovered his phone had extraordinary capabilities. The elders then pressed Xu Fan about how he built and tested the mech, and he revealed that he had test-flown it himself.

• Elder Wang and Elder Hua studied Xu Fan’s notes and were engrossed by them.
• Tong Yao questioned Xu Fan about the Crimson Sky No. 1 central control system, but his explanation left her baffled.
• Tong Yao examined Xu Fan’s phone and was stunned by its Mystic Heaven 1.0 system, immense computing power, and other capabilities.
• Xu Fan explained how the phone’s system worked, and Tong Yao conceded that he had surpassed her in computing expertise.
• Elder Wang asked where Xu Fan had built the mech and who had test-flown it; Xu Fan said he had built it in a rented warehouse and piloted it himself.
• Elder Hua grabbed Xu Fan’s arm in disbelief when Xu Fan confirmed that he had test-flown the mech.

Xu Fan took Wang Yixue aboard Crimson Sky No. 1 for a test flight and switched the mech into King mode, disabling its safety and performance restrictions. The mech surged into the sky at Mach 10.8, and Elder Wang nearly collapsed when he saw the flight data.

• Elder Wang asked Xu Fan to test-fly Crimson Sky No. 1, and Wang Yixue joined him in the cockpit as copilot.
• Xu Fan started the mech with quick startup and selected King mode, prompting Wang Yixue to beg him to let her out.
• Xu Fan launched Crimson Sky No. 1 at full power, scraping its feet across the floor before sending it skyward through a sonic boom.
• Wang Yixue watched the mech reach Mach 10.8 as the researchers checked the live data feed.
• Elder Wang nearly fainted at the readings, but he urged everyone to look back at the screen after Tong Yao brought him oxygen.

Xu Fan took Crimson Sky No. 1 into geosynchronous orbit, stunning Wang Yixue and the researchers with its speed and control. He then decided to fly to the moon with Wang Yixue and activated afterburner mode despite Elder Wang’s warnings.

• Xu Fan used dynamic visual compensation to navigate the darkness of space and brought Crimson Sky No. 1 into a steady orbit facing Earth.
• Wang Yixue admired the view while Elder Wang learned that the mech had reached geosynchronous orbit only twenty minutes after startup.
• Xu Fan told Elder Wang the mech still needed its laser weapons and Dragoon System, and Elder Wang promised him funding to refine it.
• Xu Fan turned the mech toward the moon and told Wang Yixue to hold on as he accelerated away from orbit.
• Elder Wang warned Xu Fan about the dangers and distance of the moon, but Xu Fan activated afterburner mode and sped toward it.

Xu Fan and Wang Yixue reached the moon in Crimson Sky No. 1, enduring extreme acceleration and deceleration before landing near Lunar Sea Base. The mech touched down safely, and Xu Fan eagerly asked Wang Yixue to help him find the lunar landing monument.

• The mech's speed reached Mach 45, shocking Elder Wang and Elder Hua so badly that researchers gave them pills and oxygen.
• Xu Fan flipped Crimson Sky No. 1 around and used maximum engine output to slow down as it approached the moon, while he and Wang Yixue endured crushing G-forces.
• Xu Fan and Wang Yixue saw the moon and headed toward the remains of Lunar Sea Base as Elder Wang and the research team watched the descent on Wang Yixue's phone.
• Elder Wang told Tong Yao they should wait before reporting the landing because Xu Fan and his mech needed protection.
• Xu Fan used the attitude-control nozzles to slow the mech and land safely on the lunar surface near Lunar Sea Base.
• Xu Fan asked Wang Yixue to help him find the lunar landing monument, unaware that she was looking at him strangely.

Xu Fan accidentally destroyed the lunar landing monument during his mecha’s lunar visit, then left a new footprint and message before returning to Earth. Back at the Zhonghai Military Research Base, he overwhelmed Wang Yixue with advanced piloting lessons and accepted a commission from Elder Wang to build another mecha with laser weapons and a Dragoon System.

• Xu Fan realized his mecha had buried the lunar landing monument and erased Arms's footprint, so Elder Hua persuaded the researchers to pretend they had seen nothing.
• Xu Fan stomped a deep footprint into the lunar soil, wrote a message beside it, and hurriedly departed with Wang Yixue.
• Xu Fan taught Wang Yixue the Falling Leaf Drift and Paperclip Maneuver during their return, leaving her bewildered by his piloting skill.
• Xu Fan and Wang Yixue arrived at the Zhonghai Military Research Base, where Elder Wang praised Xu Fan and asked him to teach Yixue again.
• Elder Wang commissioned Xu Fan to build another mecha equipped with laser weapons and a Dragoon System for ten million.

After securing free access to military procurement, Xu Fan began building Crimson Sky No. 2 while the Southern Military Region prepared for an urban military exercise against an enemy equipped with exoskeleton armor. The chapter ended with Crimson Sky No. 2 completed before dawn.

• Elder Wang gave Xu Fan access to Xia Nation's research-base procurement channels, and Xu Fan sent Tong Yao a list of materials for his weapons and Dragoon System.
• Li Guozhong rallied the 8th Marine Armored Combined Arms Division to win the upcoming exercise after three consecutive defeats.
• Staff Officer Yang warned that the Eastern Military Region's Third Mechanized Infantry Division had over a hundred exoskeleton suits, and Li Guozhong hinted that his division had a secret weapon.
• Li Guozhong ordered the troops to move into Southeast Military Exercise City the next morning and said he would issue battle assignments just before the exercise.
• Xu Fan worked through the night in his abandoned factory, and the workbench completed Crimson Sky No. 2 at five in the morning.

Xu Fan completed Crimson Sky No. 1 and Crimson Sky No. 2 by installing their aurora weapons and Dragoon Systems, while Tong Yao test-drove No. 2. He delivered both mechas to the military exercise base, where Li Guozhong and his guards greeted them with excitement.

• Tong Yao arrived with scarce materials, saw Crimson Sky No. 2, and asked Xu Fan to show her the cockpit.
• Xu Fan let Tong Yao test-drive Crimson Sky No. 2, and she quickly learned its controls and practiced driving simulations.
• Xu Fan installed the aurora weapons and Dragoon Systems on both mechas, then woke Tong Yao and delivered them to Zhonghai Military Research Base.
• Li Guozhong led the 8th Marine Armored Combined Arms Division into the exercise city and waited at a secret location for the mechas.
• Crimson Sky No. 1 and Crimson Sky No. 2 descended before Li Guozhong and his guard squad, who were amazed by their new weapons and steel wings.

Li Guozhong prepared a hidden mech counterattack while Kong’s red forces launched a powerful assault on the blue positions. As the blue front faltered and paratroopers infiltrated near headquarters, Kong ordered his exoskeleton regiment to seize Li’s command post within an hour.

• Li Guozhong concealed Wang Yixue and Tong Yao’s mechs near the rear, intending to use them as a surprise attack.
• Kong ordered his exoskeleton regiment to stay silent and await orders as his forces prepared to attack the city.
• Zhu Guodong and Luo Bing predicted that Kong’s red side would overwhelm Li’s blue side in urban combat.
• The exercise began at dawn, and red artillery devastated blue forward positions before red armor advanced toward the city.
• Li refused to pull troops from the rear, reinforced headquarters against infiltrators, and waited for his reconnaissance team to find the red command post.
• Kong ordered the exoskeleton regiment to capture the blue division command post within one hour.

Li Guozhong’s Blue Force was close to defeat until scouts located Red Force’s headquarters and he ordered Wang Yixue and Tong Yao to attack with two secret mechas. Their dramatic launch stunned troops across the battlefield as they flew toward Kong’s command post.

• Red Force’s exoskeleton regiment broke through Blue Force’s tank positions and advanced toward Li Guozhong’s headquarters, while Li waited for news from his reconnaissance team.
• At the observation area, Luo Bing and Zhu Guodong judged Blue Force was nearing defeat and prepared to leave.
• Blue Force’s scouts reported Red Force’s headquarters coordinates, and Li ordered Wang Yixue and Tong Yao to capture everyone there.
• Li connected the pilots’ feeds to headquarters’ display, revealing two mechas that launched into the sky and astonished the staff.
• Wang Yixue and Tong Yao flew at supersonic speed toward Red Force’s headquarters while soldiers on both sides stopped to watch; Kong hummed at his command post, unaware of their approach.

Division Commander Kong’s red-side headquarters was attacked by two giant mechs, forcing his division to surrender to the blue side. When he reported the invasion to the military exercise observation office, Luo Bing and Zhu Guodong saw the mech on a video call and realized Kong had been telling the truth.

• Division Commander Kong’s headquarters was torn apart by a powerful wind, and a red mech crashed down before him.
• A second mech pointed its cannon at Kong and ordered his division to surrender to the blue side.
• Kong ordered his division to surrender and called the military exercise observation office to report the attack.
• Luo Bing accused Kong of inventing an Autobot invasion, then demanded a video call to verify it.
• Luo Bing and Zhu Guodong saw the mech aiming its twin cannons at Kong and were left stunned.

Wang Yixue and Tong Yao revealed themselves as the pilots of the two mecha after winning the military exercise, leaving Division Commander Kong and the chiefs stunned. Li Guozhong discussed the mecha’s power and secrecy with Chief Luo, then Wang Yixue drove Tong Yao, Elder Wang, and Elder Hua to Xu Fan’s workshop.

• Wang Yixue and Tong Yao identified themselves to Division Commander Kong and said the exercise had ended in their victory.
• The two mecha took off and vanished, leaving Division Commander Kong and his staff staring at the wreckage and craters.
• Chief Luo sarcastically praised Li Guozhong for keeping the mecha secret, then asked how powerful they were.
• Li Guozhong described the mecha’s destructive tests, and Chief Luo agreed to maintain secrecy and attend the commendation ceremony in three days.
• Wang Yixue and Tong Yao returned to Zhonghai Military Research Base, and Wang Yixue drove Elder Wang and Elder Hua to Xu Fan’s workshop.

Wang Yixue brought Elder Wang and Elder Hua to Xu Fan’s warehouse, where they discovered the advanced workbench he used to build the mecha. After Xu Fan revealed piles of leftover carbyne alloy and other metal scraps, Elder Wang and Elder Hua gaped at the materials while Xu Fan offered to sell them.

• Wang Yixue drove Tong Yao, Elder Wang, and Elder Hua to Xu Fan’s abandoned industrial warehouse, where Xu Fan was waiting inside.
• Xu Fan switched on the lights, and Elder Wang and Elder Hua marveled at the enormous multifunctional workbench and its advanced components.
• Xu Fan confirmed that he had built the workbench himself and casually revealed that a pile of unused carbyne alloy remained from the mecha’s construction.
• Elder Wang and Elder Hua reacted with shock and resentment at Xu Fan’s apparent disregard for the valuable alloy.
• Xu Fan lifted a tarp with a mechanical arm, revealed more carbyne alloy and other metal scraps, and offered to sell them as Elder Wang exclaimed, “So shiny!”

Xu Fan offered Elder Wang and Elder Hua his Carbyne Alloy for 498 yuan per jin, a price so low that they struggled to believe him. Tong Yao suggested that Xu Fan might be using the bargain price to give the alloy to their research base almost for free.

• Elder Hua and Elder Wang eagerly examined Xu Fan's Carbyne Alloy and agreed to buy as much as he had.
• Xu Fan explained his expenses and offered the alloy for 499 yuan per jin, then lowered the price to 498 yuan per jin.
• Elder Wang, Elder Hua, and Tong Yao were stunned by the price, while Xu Fan assumed they still found it too expensive.
• Elder Wang and Elder Hua left with Tong Yao to get some air and discuss the offer.
• Tong Yao suggested that Xu Fan might be selling the Carbyne Alloy so cheaply to give it to their research base almost for free.

Elder Wang and Elder Hua agreed to buy Xu Fan’s carbyne alloy scrap for 498 yuan per jin, then learned that he also had room-temperature superconducting alloy scrap. Xu Fan offered to sell it at the same price and provide its synthesis method, leaving the elders awed while Tong Yao resolved to follow his example of serving the country.

• Elder Wang and Elder Hua concluded that Xu Fan had asked for only a token price out of concern for the country and agreed to buy his carbyne alloy at 498 yuan per jin.
• Elder Hua found a silvery wire in the scrap pile, and Xu Fan identified it as room-temperature superconducting alloy with nearly a tonne available.
• Xu Fan explained that the alloy could transmit energy without loss in mecha circuits and offered to sell it for 498 yuan per jin.
• Elder Wang agreed to the purchase, and Xu Fan offered to provide the alloy’s synthesis method and chemical formulas.
• Elder Wang hugged Xu Fan and praised him, while Elder Hua was moved by his generosity and Tong Yao resolved to serve the country like him.
• Xu Fan privately decided to sell the elders more scrap materials.