Recaps

Ye Mo, Storm, and Tony defeated all six attacking mutants on Broadway, but Ye Mo suspected an unseen psychic observer had studied their tactics. The chapter ended with Ye Mo finding the serial number MK-9X on the crashed aircraft.

• Tony shot down the black aircraft before it could hit the crowd, while Ye Mo and Storm redirected its attack.
• Ye Mo and Storm combined ice and wind to freeze the electricity controller and rock man as they tried to escape.
• Ye Mo, Storm, and Tony incapacitated the two remaining mutants who were preparing a shock wave.
• The Gene Spiral Tower announced that its twelfth floor had been unlocked, and Ye Mo warned that the psychic observer had withdrawn after studying their teamwork.
• Ye Mo found the aircraft fragment marked with the serial number MK-9X.

After the battle in New York, Ye Mo, Tony, and Storm watched the city recover and celebrated their victory, while the engraved MK-9X fragment suggested someone had deliberately targeted them. As S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived to take over, the three heroes prepared to leave and Tony made plans for dinner.

• Tony examined the MK-9X fragment and said its designation did not match any system he recognized.
• Storm stopped the storm, and New Yorkers emerged to cheer Ye Mo, Iron Man, and Storm as sunlight broke through the clouds.
• Ye Mo, Tony, and Storm shared a celebratory handclasp and joked about dinner while guarding the scene.
• Ye Mo warned that the engraved MK-9X mark was a deliberate provocation and that someone was watching them.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and a medical team arrived, and Tony said they could leave the cleanup to them.
• Tony and Ye Mo agreed to have steak for dinner, sealing the plan with a handshake as Storm stayed beside them.

After the battle, Ye Mo and Tony reviewed how their improved coordination helped them defeat the attackers and realized the fight had been staged to gather data on their tactics. They returned to base to protect their communications and prepare for the newly unlocked thirteenth floor, where Ye Mo felt another ability beginning to awaken.

• Ye Mo told Tony that their timing and coordination, rather than raw power, had helped them counter the attackers, and the system unlocked floor thirteen of the Gene Spiral Tower.
• Ye Mo concluded that the Mutants had deliberately tested their response patterns, while Tony discovered a suspicious logistics worker with access to the MK series’ core controllers.
• Ye Mo and Tony decided not to expose the suspected mole, instead routing real tactical commands through a new channel and leaving false information on the old one.
• On the way back to base, Ye Mo explained how Steel Bone Body had activated during the fight, and he and Tony agreed to keep working together against Taskmaster.
• At the underground garage, Ye Mo felt a sting in his fingertips as they entered the elevator, suggesting another ability was about to awaken.

Ye Mo and Tony fortified the base with ice walls and layered security, and the defense upgrade unlocked the fourteenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower. As Ye Mo rested, an unexplained temperature drop near a ventilation shaft coincided with the return of his nerve pain.

• Ye Mo and Tony isolated the base’s old network and built a ring of ice walls, while Tony installed alarms, laser arrays, and other defenses.
• Ye Mo and Tony tested the defenses against a drone and Tony’s plasma cutter, and the systems held against both attacks.
• Ye Mo collapsed from exhaustion, then learned that fortifying the base had unlocked the fourteenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower.
• Ye Mo and Tony planned to investigate MK-9X the next day and settled in for the night.
• Tony spotted a temperature drop near a southeast ventilation shaft as Ye Mo felt the ice-like pain return in his fingertips and shoot toward his temple.

Ye Mo and Tony reflected on how their complementary tactics and growing trust had unlocked the fifteenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower. They discovered signs that someone had secretly monitored their conversation and suspected the listener was still inside the base.

• Tony and Ye Mo discussed how they had anticipated each other's moves during their defense test and acknowledged their mutual trust.
• Tony described their teamwork as a balance of ice and fire, and Ye Mo agreed that their cooperation was why they kept winning.
• Ye Mo received a notification that increased rapport had unlocked the fifteenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower.
• Ye Mo detected a covert signal resembling Hellfire Club encryption, and he and Tony suspected a listener had been using the temperature drop and ventilation system to conceal a listening node.
• Tony and Ye Mo decided to watch for the eavesdropper rather than immediately search the base, while a faint wisp of white mist seeped beneath the ventilation-shaft door.

Ye Mo and Tony uncovered Hydra’s plan to steal Stark armor technology and Ye Mo’s abilities, then set a trap while securing their real data. When Ye Mo detected that the enemy had changed its plan to a direct assault at four the next morning, Tony decided to attack first.

• Ye Mo sensed a lingering surveillance signal, and Tony traced its data trail to Obadiah’s abandoned underground laboratory.
• Ye Mo foresaw Hydra’s Dual-Core Harvest plan to seize Tony’s armor technology and extract samples of Ye Mo’s abilities.
• Tony planted fake extraction data, and Ye Mo encased the server array in ice to protect its real contents.
• Ye Mo unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower’s sixteenth floor, expanding his ability to detect abnormal energy within three kilometers.
• Ye Mo detected new orders for a direct assault through the Sector B storage room ventilation shaft at four the next morning.
• Tony suited up and decided to move against the attackers before their scheduled assault.

Ye Mo and Tony prepared the base for an expected Hydra assault by setting traps, strengthening security, and simulating the attackers’ approach. As the defenses went on alert and Ye Mo unlocked the seventeenth level of the Gene Spiral Tower, a faint heat source appeared near the Sector B ventilation shaft.

• Ye Mo and Tony learned Hydra had sent new orders by courier and prepared defenses around the Sector B ventilation shaft.
• Ye Mo laid ice spikes and a hidden Sensor Net while Tony installed a thermal camera and upgraded the armor’s cybersecurity.
• During a simulated breach, Ye Mo spotted a blind spot in Sector C and added a diagonal ice barrier to block a flank attack.
• Ye Mo and Tony activated the base’s defenses, and Ye Mo unlocked the seventeenth level of the Gene Spiral Tower, gaining the ability to detect energy fluctuations.
• A faint heat source appeared on the Sector B ventilation shaft’s surveillance feed.

Emma Frost returned to Ye Mo and Tony, and the three trained together until their coordination improved and Ye Mo unlocked the eighteenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower. The chapter ended with them detecting a moving encrypted signal that appeared to be watching their training.

• Emma Frost returned to the base after destroying two trackers and evading a surveillance team, and Ye Mo set up a training ground in Sector B.
• Emma Frost, Ye Mo, and Tony began a combat drill, but Tony's blocked thoughts delayed Emma's warning and led to his simulated defeat.
• Tony agreed to open thirty percent of his neural interface permissions, allowing Emma to coordinate with him and Ye Mo during a second drill.
• The team won the second drill flawlessly, and Ye Mo unlocked the eighteenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower as their coordination improved.
• Emma Frost detected a moving encrypted signal, and Ye Mo and Tony found its source on a map and realized someone was watching them train.

Ye Mo and Tony traced Obadiah's signal to an abandoned Stark Industries research center and learned the enemy planned a fusion procedure in three days to extract Ye Mo's abilities. Ye Mo unlocked the nineteenth floor of his Gene Spiral Tower and launched a microdrone reconnaissance mission, which revealed a Hellfire Club receiver as the chapter ended.

• Ye Mo recognized Obadiah's emotional signature and helped Tony trace the signal to an abandoned Stark Industries research center outside New York.
• Ye Mo overheard fragments of a plan to begin a fusion procedure in three days and extract Mr. X's ability samples while synchronizing an armor core.
• Ye Mo and Tony prepared a reconnaissance plan using microdrones, with Ye Mo set to infiltrate the site if needed and Tony providing support from the perimeter.
• Ye Mo felt the nineteenth floor of his Gene Spiral Tower unlock and suspected it had increased his ability to process signals.
• Ye Mo authorized the microdrone launch, and the first images showed a custom Hellfire Club receiver with a self-destruct function beneath a surveillance camera.

Ye Mo and Tony traced a psychic signal to a mutant surveillance network that was collecting and archiving data through captured mutants. They kept the connection alive to expose the network’s distant master control terminal, while Ye Mo found a designation linked to Emma Frost and resolved to learn whether she was involved.

• Ye Mo activated a simulated psychic signal, and Tony sent stealth drones to monitor a suspected underground node.
• The signal led them to an abandoned Long Island subway tunnel, where Ye Mo identified a hive network using captured mutants as living sensors.
• Ye Mo’s system confirmed a successful trace and began a 24-hour cooldown, so he and Tony concealed their monitoring while feeding the network false mutant signals.
• The network scanned its surroundings, then sent encrypted, timestamped psychic data packets for archival, including target IDs marked with the letter V.
• Ye Mo recognized V as a Hellfire Club designation for high-risk, controllable mutants and recalled that Emma Frost’s file had carried that designation.
• Ye Mo concluded that the subway station was only a relay and kept waiting for the network to expose its master control terminal.

Ye Mo and Tony infiltrated a mutant data-collection base and confronted Ye Mo’s former mentor, who defended using volunteers as living sensors to prepare mutants for human persecution. When the mentor activated copied abilities in the captives, Ye Mo unlocked Consciousness seal and began fighting the replicas.

• Ye Mo and Tony entered the hidden resonance chamber, where dozens of mutants were connected to a psychic system as living sensors.
• Ye Mo recognized his former mentor, who admitted staging crises to gather combat data and targeting Ye Mo to replicate his evolving abilities.
• Under pressure, Ye Mo’s Gene Spiral Tower unlocked Consciousness seal, combining mind resonance and ice manipulation to implant hallucinations while freezing nervous systems.
• Ye Mo refused his mentor’s offer to leave, and the mentor activated the chamber to awaken mutants loaded with copied abilities.
• Ye Mo used Consciousness seal to stop the first Ice Ye Mo replica and prepared to face the remaining opponents as Tony urged him to go all out.

Ye Mo and Tony fought through the clone-filled facility, escaped into a maintenance passage, and adapted their tactics to defeat the pursuing clones. At the passage’s end, Ye Mo unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower’s twenty-first floor and unleashed a storm of ice blades on the operators behind the alloy door.

• Ye Mo and Tony escaped the resonance chamber through a maintenance passage while clones pursued them.
• Ye Mo and Tony combined ice and fire to trap and disable several clones, then destroyed a control panel transmitting their combat records.
• Ye Mo and Tony defeated a stone-bodied, self-healing clone and continued through the passage as their teamwork improved.
• Ye Mo sensed a living commander behind an alloy door and froze the passage to create an enclosed battlefield.
• Ye Mo unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower’s twenty-first floor and used an ice storm to slice through the door and strike three operators before they could sound the alarm.

Ye Mo and Tony fought Oryx, a nano-armored opponent who analyzed and copied Ye Mo’s abilities, and discovered that an electromagnetic pulse could briefly disrupt his powers. As Oryx recovered and attacked again, Ye Mo unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower’s twenty-second floor, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Oryx emerged in dark gray nano-armor and demonstrated that he could analyze and imitate Ye Mo’s abilities while manipulating nearby metal.
• Oryx copied Ye Mo’s techniques and blocked Tony’s attack, but Ye Mo and Tony used an electromagnetic pulse to disrupt his armor and abilities.
• Ye Mo sensed metal fibers shielding Oryx’s brain and deduced that Oryx needed time to reconnect his abilities after each imitation.
• A notification unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower’s twenty-second floor, and Ye Mo felt a new ability forming as Oryx repaired his armor.
• Oryx reshaped the surrounding metal into a forest of spikes and attacked Ye Mo and Tony with a metal spear and ice blast; Ye Mo countered with a spiraling ice blade, and their attacks collided in a cloud of mist.

Ye Mo and Tony defeated Oryx by exploiting the delay in his copied abilities and working together, then learned that Oryx was enforcing a rule to control or eliminate dangerous abilities. As a life-support termination protocol began, Ye Mo headed for a control port, hoping his newly unlocked ability could help them stop it.

• Ye Mo noticed a brief delay after Oryx copied an ability and lured him onto an icy trap while Tony used heat and a concussion grenade to disable him.
• Ye Mo restrained Oryx, and the tower announced that floor twenty-three was unlocked and began generating a new ability-combination protocol.
• Oryx said he was enforcing rules that required powerful abilities to be controlled or eliminated, including Ye Mo and Tony.
• Ye Mo and Tony found that the red button activated a life-support termination protocol, so Ye Mo moved toward a control port to try to reverse it with his new ability.

After defeating Oryx, Ye Mo developed traps that combined Ice Manipulation with Telepathy and used them to reverse the control system’s self-destruct command. The Gene Spiral Tower then detected an unknown signal from a source of the same kind.

• Ye Mo tested his new Ice Mind Trap, which used preset triggers to create ice attacks and briefly disrupt an opponent’s thoughts.
• The Gene Spiral Tower unlocked floor twenty-four and offered new ability combinations, including pre-embedded traps and neural disruption.
• Ye Mo adjusted a heat-triggered defense after it overreacted, then planted a psychic trap above the immobilized Oryx.
• Ye Mo used a preset program to freeze and trace attempts to seize the main control system, then touched the interface and terminated the self-destruct sequence.
• Ye Mo sensed he was being watched when an unactivated protocol warned that a similar signal source was nearby.

Ye Mo refined an ice-and-psychic trap to guard against psychic probing, with Tony helping him test and improve its responses. After successfully integrating abilities and unlocking the twenty-fifth floor of his Gene Spiral Tower, Ye Mo archived the upgrade, and the ice sculpture’s eyes suddenly blinked.

• Ye Mo built an ice sculpture trap that detected heat and mental fluctuations and could freeze intruders while disrupting their thoughts.
• Tony entered the laboratory, and Ye Mo explained the trap; together they adjusted its settings to give intruders a warning before striking.
• Ye Mo and Tony tested the upgraded trap on an armored spider robot, which it froze when it charged past the warning zone.
• Ye Mo received a notification that ability integration had succeeded and unlocked the twenty-fifth floor of his Gene Spiral Tower.
• Ye Mo recorded and uploaded the upgrade data, after which the ice sculpture’s eyes suddenly blinked.

Ye Mo and Tony released evidence that Hydra was conducting human experiments and targeting mutants, triggering widespread public outrage. As they left the press conference, a reporter pressed Ye Mo about Emma Frost, and frost formed on Ye Mo’s glasses as the incriminating recording continued to play.

• Ye Mo and Tony activated a decentralized broadcast to distribute their evidence to media servers around the world.
• Tony and Ye Mo presented footage, financial records, transport routes, and experiment recordings linking Hydra to human-weapon research and a plan to capture Mr. X.
• The evidence spread rapidly online, and Ye Mo unlocked the thirty-first floor of the Gene Spiral Tower and gained the ability Truth Resonance.
• Ye Mo refused to answer a reporter’s question about Emma Frost’s involvement, then left with Tony.
• Ye Mo stopped backstage, looked back at the repeating recording, and removed his glasses as frost formed along their edges.

Ye Mo, Tony, and Emma Frost formed an independent alliance to respond to crises, unlocking a new floor in Ye Mo’s Gene Spiral Tower. When alarming gamma readings appeared in South America, they prepared the alliance’s first operation to find and protect Dr. Banner.

• Emma Frost reported that Hydra’s research continued under new leadership, with test subjects last tracked to the South American jungle.
• Ye Mo, Tony, and Emma Frost agreed to form an alliance with shared authority and Stark Industries support, and Ye Mo’s Gene Spiral Tower unlocked its thirty-second floor.
• A South American monitoring point showed an unstable signal that Tony connected to Dr. Banner’s gamma stabilizer.
• As gamma readings and temperatures surged, Ye Mo ordered an emergency response, and Tony prepared to accompany him while Emma Frost opened a mental channel.
• The alliance members headed toward the helipad as the South American signal flared red across the screen.

Ye Mo, Tony, and Emma Frost launched an alliance mission to find Bruce Banner before he lost control and became Hulk. As the Ghost flew toward South America, Ye Mo unlocked Team Resonance Perception and located Banner, who still remembered them.

• Ye Mo organized the team’s flight and evacuation plans while Emma Frost prepared drones and S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft for support.
• Emma Frost briefly connected to Banner’s mind and saw him hiding in a bunker as his consciousness struggled against Hulk’s destructive urges.
• Ye Mo, Tony, and Emma Frost boarded the Ghost and departed for the South American rainforest, with Emma maintaining a mental channel and emergency recall protocol.
• During the flight, Ye Mo combined Danger Sense and Telepathy as gamma radiation disturbed the atmosphere and Banner’s emotional storm grew stronger.
• Ye Mo unlocked Team Resonance Perception and found Banner’s location, sensing that Banner still remembered them.

Ye Mo and Emma Frost discovered that someone was using psychic equipment beneath Banner’s bunker to scan his emotional traces, and that the equipment had detected Ye Mo in return. They launched a stealth mission to investigate, but during their descent Ye Mo sensed something waking behind an underground psychic barrier.

• Ye Mo traced the interference around Banner’s psychic echoes and found signs of a controlled device collecting his psychic data.
• Emma Frost sent reconnaissance drones and discovered a well-insulated underground facility beneath the bunker.
• Ye Mo’s psychic scan drew a targeted response from the equipment, so he and Emma agreed to sneak in, gather evidence, and avoid fighting.
• The system warned Ye Mo about a high-density psychic contamination field, but he dismissed the warning and continued with the plan.
• Emma Frost launched the glide pod, and as they descended, Ye Mo sensed an icy barrier fifteen meters underground with something waking behind it.

Ye Mo and Emma Frost infiltrated a hidden laboratory and discovered that its operators were extracting Bruce Banner’s memories while preparing a broader crackdown on mutants. As the mechanical subject climbed toward them, Ye Mo realized the facility’s plan was far more dangerous than an attempt to control Hulk.

• Ye Mo and Emma Frost disguised themselves as laboratory inspectors and slipped past the facility’s guards and surveillance.
• Ye Mo and Emma Frost crawled through the ventilation system and found a test subject connected to instruments beneath the laboratory.
• Ye Mo saw that the laboratory was extracting Banner’s memories, and he and Emma Frost detected a dangerous psychic defense and a familiar pulse from the subject.
• A pulse wave struck Ye Mo, and he glimpsed golden light in the mechanical man’s eyes as the technicians searched nearby.
• Ye Mo found a broken syringe labeled X-23 Inhibitor and realized the operation targeted mutants; he then saw the mechanical man climbing the shaft toward them.

Ye Mo unlocked Danger Sensing Ability while escaping Sector B's traps with Emma Frost, but the new skill drained him as the pursuing robots closed in. After their cover was blown, Ye Mo prepared to fight the assembled guards and robots.

• Ye Mo pulled Emma Frost away from a high-voltage grid after his instincts warned him of the trap, and the Gene Spiral Tower unlocked Danger Sensing Ability.
• Ye Mo used his new skill to guide Emma Frost through dangerous vents, dodging a blade-lined shaft and a neck-height laser grid.
• Ye Mo disabled a camera-triggered electromagnetic cage with a signal jammer, but sensed that the pursuing robot's signal had sped up.
• Ye Mo and Emma Frost avoided a floor trap, escaped into a maintenance shaft, and saw three robots lock onto them as guards gathered nearby.
• Ye Mo spread ice along the shaft and sensed the enemies' attack rhythm, moving before the first energy bolt reached him.

Ye Mo abandoned his escape route after sensing Bruce Banner nearing a transformation and found him in an isolation laboratory. As Banner lost control, Ye Mo stayed nearby, prepared to defend himself, and heard Banner tell him not to hold back if he changed.

• Ye Mo sensed that Bruce Banner's emotions were about to erupt and turned away from the ladder to seek him below.
• Ye Mo phased through an abandoned ventilation opening and reached the gamma test-subject isolation laboratory.
• Ye Mo tried to calm Banner telepathically, but Banner's memories and fear violently drove him out of his mind.
• Ye Mo spoke to Banner and urged him to hold on, while Banner's body began deforming and turning green.
• Banner warned Ye Mo not to hold back if he changed, then arched his back and roared.

Ye Mo fought the Hulk in the laboratory, using his abilities and improvised devices to exploit brief openings, but the Hulk grew stronger and overwhelmed him. With Steel Bone Body about to expire, Ye Mo prepared to contact Emma Frost and find a way to contain the Hulk.

• Ye Mo activated Steel Bone Body and dodged the Hulk’s attacks, using the Hulk’s windups and Wall Phasing Technique to maneuver around the laboratory.
• The Hulk detected Ye Mo emerging from the wall, and Ye Mo used a signal jammer to disorient him before a miniature EMP briefly disrupted his nervous system.
• The Hulk took Sedation-B from the storage room, taunted Ye Mo, and attacked with renewed strength.
• Ye Mo modified Ice Mind Trap to briefly freeze the Hulk’s nerve signals, but the Hulk shattered the ice and knocked Ye Mo down.
• As Steel Bone Body neared its expiration, Ye Mo gripped Emma Frost’s emergency communicator and resolved to find a way to lock the Hulk up.

Ye Mo infiltrated the core area through a wall but could not breach its shield, so he waited for Hulk to disrupt it. When Hulk struck the door, Ye Mo saw a figure move behind the shield.

• Ye Mo used Shadowcat's Wall Phasing and Wade's Self-Healing abilities to crawl through a hollow wall and reach the core area's main door.
• Ye Mo tried to hack the door's shield with Tony's data cracker, but the shield blasted him back and destroyed the device.
• Ye Mo recognized the shield's frequency as a neural suppression field and found that the system was running without any life signals.
• Ye Mo waited in the corridor and set a live circuit board near his feet as Hulk approached.
• Hulk kicked the alloy door, making the shield flicker, and Ye Mo spotted a figure moving behind it.