Chapter Summaries

Ye Jin read computer science books at extraordinary speed until he acquired AI humanlike artificial intelligence technology programming. He then began writing code for an artificial intelligence in the library management room, while viewers dismissed his work as gibberish.

• Ye Jin settled into the librarian’s chair and began rapidly reading computer books to earn Talent Points.
• Ye Jin’s reading speed increased as he worked through dozens of books, and more than 120 command-system lights appeared in his mind’s warship.
• After finishing his sixtieth book, Ye Jin received the key technology for AI humanlike artificial intelligence programming.
• Ye Jin decided to create an artificial intelligence and began typing code at a computer in the library management room.
• Viewers watched Ye Jin’s code and assumed he was writing gibberish, while host Brian announced that the rankings would be revealed at eight the next morning.

Eighteen confidential commentators gathered to score the first day of Humanity's Future, but national loyalties shaped their debate over the contestants. Dong Wending challenged them to recognize Ye Jin's superior performance, leaving the commentators unable to answer.

• James welcomed the eighteen special guest commentators and told each to award one point to the contestant they recognized.
• Daniel supported Duke, while the Sea Eagle Country commentator insulted Duke and defended Andrew's conduct and his country's military strength.
• Qie'erfu opposed pressure to vote for Andrew and praised Yige'er for building a house.
• Dong Wending challenged the commentators for ignoring Ye Jin and listed Ye Jin's accomplishments across the day's activities.
• Dong Wending demanded that the other countries identify their contestants' strengths and declared that Ye Jin was number one if they could not.

Brandon and Dong Wending argued over whether Andrew or Ye Jin deserved first place, and the representatives’ votes gave Andrew the lead. The leader of Nine Domains Nation vetoed the result, invalidating the vote and leaving the ranking unresolved.

• Brandon criticized Ye Jin’s dangerous sports and argued that Andrew deserved first place, while Dong Wending defended Ye Jin and challenged the fairness of the process.
• Brandon cast his vote for Andrew, and Qie'erfu voted for Yige'er; other representatives also tried to support contestants from their own countries before Brandon pressured them to stop.
• Dong Wending voted for Ye Jin, and all eighteen votes were cast: Andrew received nine, Ye Jin four, Yige'er three, and Duke two.
• Brandon celebrated Andrew’s apparent victory and asked Director James to confirm the result.
• The leader of Nine Domains Nation pressed the red button, and James announced that one vote could veto the outcome, making the vote invalid.

Repeated vetoes by Nine Domains Nation’s Mr. Liang blocked Sea Eagle Country’s attempts to secure first place in the scoring round, forcing the program to pause while officials escalated the dispute. At the Human Destiny Alliance talks, Nine Domains Nation’s leader defended Ye Jin’s performance and refused to accept manipulation of the competition.

• Brandon canvassed for votes again, but Nine Domains Nation’s official vetoed Sea Eagle Country’s first-place result twice more.
• Sea Eagle Country’s official proposed abolishing Nine Domains Nation’s veto, and Mr. Liang vetoed that proposal as well.
• Mr. Liang said he would accept a reasonable result but would keep exercising his veto if the outcome was unreasonable.
• Sea Eagle Country’s representative suspended the scoring round, and the commentators were cut off from the officials’ discussion and warned to keep it secret.
• The five top decision-makers began talks, where Nine Domains Nation’s leader argued that Ye Jin had performed best and condemned efforts to manipulate the competition.

The top decision-makers uncovered the truth behind Humanity’s Future: it was a secret project to find a gene-serum-compatible winner and create a controllable god. Madison backed down from manipulating Ye Jin’s result, and the nations agreed to revise the scoring system while keeping the decision within their control.

• Madison denied directing Brandon and claimed he respected the show, but the Nine Domains Nation’s chief person in charge accused him of manipulating it and insisted Ye Jin should take first place.
• The decision-makers recalled how Pioneer 11 had found and returned a crashed alien spacecraft, which the Sea Eagle Country researched at Area 51 with the other major nations.
• The nations discovered gene serums aboard the spacecraft, then identified Divinity as the human genetic trait compatible with them after the serums caused disastrous effects in test subjects.
• The decision-makers revealed that Humanity’s Future was the God-Making Project, designed to select a God's Chosen Son and implant a chip to keep the winner under control.
• Madison argued that Ye Jin should be spared the chip, but the Nine Domains Nation’s chief person in charge said Ye Jin would decide for himself and demanded that his victory be respected.
• Madison agreed to change the scoring system, and the other top decision-makers accepted the agreement.

After the five decision-makers settled the dispute over the competition, voting resumed under revised rules, and Ye Jin won overwhelming support. The Rose of Sharon Country and Night Cherry Country commentators accused the show of vote manipulation, but Sea Eagle Country's representative silenced them and warned them against leaking secrets.

• The five decision-makers reached an agreement, and the organizers restarted voting with eighteen individual votes determining the day's best performer.
• Brandon of Sea Eagle Country voted for Ye Jin, prompting other countries that had followed his earlier lead to cast their votes for Ye Jin as well.
• The Rose of Sharon Country and East Night Cherry Country commentators urged voters to support their contestants, but Brandon ignored them and the remaining fence-sitting countries voted for Ye Jin.
• Ye Jin received sixteen votes, and the two commentators accused the show of manipulating the results.
• The person in charge of Sea Eagle Country rejected their accusations, told them to submit written complaints or quit, and warned that leaking information would bring a joint strike from the Human Destiny Alliance.

Ye Jin spent over an hour typing code that viewers and experts dismissed as gibberish. He completed a function for transmitting information from an advanced civilization’s code into Blue Water Planet code, then pressed the completion key.

• The Night Cherry Country commentator apologized for his earlier remarks and voted for Ye Jin, while the Rose of Sharon Country commentator also backed down.
• Ye Jin typed rapidly in the library as viewers debated whether his apparent gibberish had any purpose.
• A Microsoft Corporation software developer declared that Ye Jin’s screen contained meaningless, illogical text typed without conscious thought.
• Ye Jin finished converting advanced-civilization code into Blue Water Planet code for an information-transmission function and pressed the completion key.