Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng explored Block X’s underground fighting business and watched Bone Crusher kill Razor in the first match. On his way out, Steven Harris threatened to destroy Lin Feng’s businesses and warned that prison would not protect him, while Lin Feng remained calm and left with Davis.

• Davis explained Block X’s underground fights, betting, and other ways the prison profited from prisoners, and Lin Feng agreed to attend the evening event.
• Davis led Lin Feng to a private box, where Lin Feng reviewed the fighters’ profiles and betting odds without placing a wager.
• Calvin “Bone Crusher” defeated Dupree “Razor” in the cage and killed him as the spectators cheered.
• Lin Feng left the arena with Davis after watching the first fight without showing any emotion.
• Steven Harris confronted Lin Feng, claimed his associates were taking over Lin Feng’s businesses, and threatened him with violence in prison.
• Lin Feng stayed composed, said nothing in response, and continued toward the exit with Davis.

After humiliating a Great Easterner, Steven Harris was ambushed, abducted, and killed in a steel mill furnace. His captors erased his body and evidence, while the people controlling the operation continued their plans.

• Steven Harris left the prison in an armored convoy, pleased after mocking the Great Easterner.
• Attackers disabled the convoy, jammed Steven Harris's phone, and loaded his Escalade into a truck's cargo box.
• The captors transported Steven Harris to a steel mill and carried his vehicle to the furnace.
• Steven Harris pleaded for his life as the Escalade slid into the furnace, where he died and was reduced to ash.
• A worker restarted steel production, and a man outside the factory reported the operation complete to an unseen contact.

K appeared to accept Robert Hines's deal and planned to leave the United States, but he secretly used the transferred assets as bait to trace their beneficiaries. He drove away after sending a coded message, beginning his real mission to uncover the people behind the conspiracy.

• K met Robert Hines and reviewed the promised asset transfer and Swiss bank deposit.
• K asked for help leaving the United States and claimed he wanted to live quietly on a remote island.
• Robert told K that Lin Feng was imprisoned and could no longer cause trouble, while K answered ambiguously.
• After leaving the office, K checked for surveillance and sent a coded message saying the bait had been cast and the fishing line was being tracked.
• K's supposed concessions and documents contained clues designed to trace the flow of assets back to the hidden beneficiaries behind them.

Warden James Horton told Lin Feng that someone had offered $500,000 to have him transferred to Block C, where an attack could be easier to arrange. Lin Feng agreed to the transfer as a ruse, sending Wang Dao'an in his place with four mercenaries assigned to protect him and identify the plotters; Wang settled into cell seventeen and prepared for the expected threat.

• James Horton reported that an intermediary had offered $500,000 to move Lin Feng to cell seventeen in Block C within three days.
• Lin Feng ordered Horton to accept the deal and send a look-alike stand-in to Block C instead of him.
• Lin Feng instructed Horton to place four trusted men in Block C to protect the stand-in and watch for anyone planning an attack.
• Horton selected Wang Dao'an, a loyal former special forces soldier whose appearance resembled Lin Feng's.
• Two days later, Wang Dao'an arrived at Block C under Lin Feng's identity, with his prison records altered by Horton.
• Wang Dao'an entered cell seventeen while four of Lin Feng's mercenaries took nearby cells and prepared to watch for the enemy.

Wang Dao'an arrived at cell C-23 and confronted his Latino cellmate, who had claimed his bed and racially insulted him. Wang Dao'an beat him severely, then named him Xiahou Dun.

• Wang Dao'an entered cell C-23 and found his Latino cellmate occupying the bed he was supposed to use.
• Wang Dao'an dumped the cellmate’s belongings onto the floor and refused to accept his claim that Wang should sleep by the toilet.
• The Latino cellmate shoved and taunted Wang Dao'an with racist insults, so Wang Dao'an punched him and beat him while nearby prisoners shouted from their cells.
• Wang Dao'an forced the injured man to bite the bed frame, struck the back of his head, and slammed his face into the metal corner, badly damaging his eye.
• Wang Dao'an forced flesh from the man’s wound into his mouth, then told him he would be called Xiahou Dun from then on.

Wang Dao'an ate lunch under the wary stares of Block C prisoners while Viktor Kovac’s Bad Boys gang tried to identify him from a vague sketch. When a feared Latino prisoner and his four men attacked him, Wang Dao'an swiftly incapacitated all five, leaving the cafeteria in stunned silence.

• Wang Dao'an’s morning fight spread through Block C, and prisoners avoided him while guards left him in the general population.
• Wang Dao'an chose a corner seat in the cafeteria and ate as Viktor Kovac studied him and questioned whether he was really the target, Lin Feng.
• A dreadlocked Latino prisoner mocked Wang Dao'an, spat into his sandwich, and patted his head.
• Wang Dao'an broke the man’s wrist and knocked him unconscious with an uppercut.
• The dreadlocked man’s four lackeys charged, and Wang Dao'an knocked all four down in less than ten seconds.

Wang Dao'an was protected from a prison cafeteria attack by four armed mercenaries while Warden James Horton’s guards arrested the attackers and a poisoned-ring guard. After the interrogations exposed a contract on the target but not its source, Lin Feng ordered K to trace the Bad Boys gang up to whoever was directing them.

• Wang Dao'an faced a second wave of Latino inmates as Viktor Kovac’s men approached from behind with a sharpened toothbrush and a guard secretly reached for a poisoned ring.
• A mercenary shot the man with the toothbrush, then ordered the cafeteria to the floor and shot another inmate in the leg when he tried to flee.
• Warden James Horton arrived with armed guards, had Viktor Kovac and the Latino attackers arrested, and seized the guard carrying the poisoned ring.
• The tattooed gang member confessed that the Bad Boys had been ordered to kill the newly imprisoned Asian man, while the guard said an anonymous blackmailer had recruited him to use the poisoned ring.
• Horton gave Lin Feng the interrogation report, and Lin Feng told K to investigate the Bad Boys’ leadership and identify who was directing them.