Recaps

Jiang Yan Hai exposed a CIA operation, arranged for the captured agents and their vehicle to be taken over by the Buffalo Assault Team, and secured a meeting with one of Nuo Ka’s top men. He planned to use the meeting to capture the man and locate Nuo Ka.

• Fang Xinwu emerged from the woods and silently hugged Jiang Yan Hai after Zhan Peng was killed.
• Gao Gang’s team arrived with two captured foreigners, and Jiang Yan Hai identified them as likely CIA agents and ordered their vehicle’s signals jammed.
• Jiang Yan Hai briefed General Staff, which sent Director Yu’s people and the Buffalo Assault Team to take the prisoners and vehicle away.
• Mr. Sha told Jiang Yan Hai that Nuo Ka would send one of his top men to meet him the next day, and Jiang Yan Hai claimed he could buy Nuo Ka’s entire stock.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Gao Gang about the meeting and ordered everyone to keep their disguises and prepare to move the next day.

Jiang Yan Hai met Yida and Natu at the mall, where he demanded to buy Nuo Ka’s goods at half the price offered to the Ma Family. After Jiang Yan Hai identified Natu and insisted on speaking with his father, Natu drew a pistol, but Jiang Yan Hai stopped it from firing.

• Jiang Yan Hai coordinated with Gao Gang and his men to surround the mall, then warned them about two suspected child soldiers.
• Jiang Yan Hai spotted Sang Ji among the crowd and saw Yida arrive with Pierre and two bodyguards, one of whom he suspected was Natu.
• Jiang Yan Hai demanded all seventeen tons of goods at half the price offered to the Ma Family, and Yida hesitated over the deal.
• Jiang Yan Hai identified Natu and said he would speak only with Nuo Ka, prompting Natu to draw a pistol under the table.
• Jiang Yan Hai grabbed the pistol’s slide before it could fire.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team quickly captured Natu, Yida, and Sang Ji at the mall and withdrew before local forces arrived. After handing the captives to Gao Gang’s group, Jiang Yan Hai warned the team that the next day’s operation against Nuo Ka would involve many child soldiers and demanded they stay alert.

• Jiang Yan Hai subdued Natu and shot two nearby thugs while Old Cannon and Qiang Zi incapacitated Yida and another bodyguard.
• Jiang Yan Hai directed his teammates to take down targets throughout the mall, and the team captured Yida, Natu, and Sang Ji in under ten minutes.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s group left the other thugs for the police, then escaped with the three captives and withdrew toward a concealed location.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team handed the captives over to Gao Gang’s group and prepared for the operation against Nuo Ka.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned the team that they could face dozens or hundreds of child soldiers during the next day’s operation and told them not to lower their guard.
• The team answered Jiang Yan Hai that they understood.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team arrived in the rainforest for an operation against Brother Song’s forces. While the others began advancing, Jiang Yan Hai moved alone to prepare traps and survey the terrain.

• Jiang Yan Hai assigned the groups their infiltration routes and told them where to leave grenades, mines, and other supplies.
• He Chen Guang offered to accompany Jiang Yan Hai, but Jiang Yan Hai refused because he could not match his stamina.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent the team forward and headed in the opposite direction to scout likely enemy routes.
• He placed linked grenade traps, jungle traps, and four infrared thermal-sensing mines along routes the enemy might use to outflank them.
• Jiang Yan Hai erased his tracks, added makeshift traps coated with poisonous plant sap, and used the Intermediate Scanning System to map the hills around the enemy base.

Jiang Yan Hai captured Nuo Ka and withdrew with his team after discovering that someone had triggered a booby trap near the base. He set an ambush for the professional soldiers approaching to reach Nuo Ka’s hidden treasury, aiming to capture Brother Song alive.

• Jiang Yan Hai disarmed Nuo Ka, threatened him, and ordered Chen Shan Ming and Song Kai Fei to take him away.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Captain Gao’s group to leave by helicopter and led the remaining team into the forest to deal with whoever had triggered his booby trap.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s group found that the surviving bandits and child soldiers had fled, then took up concealed positions along the routes from the explosion site.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the approaching enemies were likely tied to Nuo Ka’s hidden treasury and ordered his team to wait for them.
• He Chen Guang spotted an approaching group, and Jiang Yan Hai identified the unmasked Brother Song as their capture target and prepared the ambush.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team transported Nuo Ka’s hidden fortune to safety, then captured one of Ma Yun Fei’s key subordinates near the border. After handing the prisoners to the border Armed Police, Jiang Yan Hai’s mission ended as authorities prepared to close in on the rest of the network.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Chen Shan Ming arranged extra helicopter trips to carry away Nuo Ka’s cash and gold, while Gao Gang sent additional helicopters.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Gao Gang he would pursue a separate arrest mission, then parted ways with Gao Gang and sent He Lu and the other two to escort the criminals back to China.
• Jiang Yan Hai led He Chen Guang and the others to a border town where Ma Yun Fei’s subordinate had arrived, and they waited in ambush before making their move.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team arrested Ma Yun Fei’s subordinate and two people living next door, then secretly crossed the border with the prisoners.
• Jiang Yan Hai handed the prisoners to the border Armed Police and concluded his mission as the provincial department prepared to round up the remaining suspects.

At the military airport, Jiang Yan Hai learned that one of Ma Yun Fei’s men had vanished and warned Ma Yun Fei to investigate and kill the man if he had fallen into enemy hands. Jiang Yan Hai and his comrades boarded a Yun-20 to return home, while he reflected on the suffering he had witnessed in the Golden Triangle and the duty of protecting the country.

• Ma Yun Fei told Jiang Yan Hai that a trusted man and two companions had disappeared after taking over one of Nuo Ka’s strongholds, and feared they might be captured by the Chu Family.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Ma Yun Fei to investigate quickly and said the missing man must die if he was in enemy hands.
• Jiang Yan Hai ended the call, and Song Kai Fei joked with him and the others while they waited for their transport.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his comrades boarded the Yun-20 after the cargo operations and formalities were completed.
• As the plane prepared for takeoff, Jiang Yan Hai remembered the child soldiers and reflected on the responsibility of protecting the people at home.

Jiang Yan Hai and his comrades returned to the Wolf Fang Special Forces base after their harrowing mission, where He Zhi Jun and hundreds of soldiers welcomed them as heroes. He Zhi Jun praised them for bringing justice to thirteen Chinese citizens and protecting Chinese people abroad.

• During the flight home, Jiang Yan Hai tried to process the mission, while Chen Shan Ming worried about how the team, especially Li Er Niu, was handling it.
• After landing, Fan Tian Lei took the team by helicopter to the Wolf Fang Special Forces Brigade base and discussed coordinating the operation's conclusion with Jiang Yan Hai.
• At the base, He Zhi Jun and hundreds of soldiers saluted Jiang Yan Hai, Chen Shan Ming, and the returning team.
• He Zhi Jun thanked the team for seeking justice for thirteen Chinese citizens, and Jiang Yan Hai and his comrades returned the salute with tears in their eyes.

Jiang Yan Hai and his comrades returned to base after a dangerous mission, where Li Er Niu broke down in tears and was comforted by his fellow soldiers. After washing and changing, Jiang Yan Hai was pulled away from his reading by Gong Jian and the Red Blood Cell Squad to spend time with them.

• He Zhi Jun welcomed Fan Tian Lei and the returning soldiers, ordering extra dishes for the mess hall.
• Li Er Niu rushed to hug Gong Jian and cried, while Chen Shan Ming explained that Jiang Yan Hai had shot a grenade thrown by a child soldier and then killed another child soldier.
• He Zhi Jun told the others to let Li Er Niu cry now that he was home, and the comrades shared in their emotion.
• Jiang Yan Hai slipped away to his barracks, showered, changed, and settled down to read a book about fighter jet engine manufacturing.
• Gong Jian found Jiang Yan Hai, and the Red Blood Cell Squad crowded into the barracks and coaxed him to leave with them.

Jiang Yan Hai wrote an application to join the Party and unexpectedly relived the battlefield where the group captured Nuo Ka, gaining relief from seeing what he had missed. The group went to the base hospital for psychological intervention, where Jiang Yan Hai tested Song Kai Fei’s reflexes and made him freeze mid-defense.

• Gong Jian gave Jiang Yan Hai a reference and told him to write an application to join the Party, which Jiang Yan Hai completed and handed back.
• Gong Jian said he would take the group to swear their oaths the next afternoon, and the cafeteria prepared a feast for their return.
• That night, Jiang Yan Hai relived the battle where they captured Nuo Ka and saw his comrades’ reactions, including Li Er Niu’s and Nezha’s.
• Gong Jian told Jiang Yan Hai that the group would go to the base hospital for psychological intervention before taking the oath.
• At the hospital, Jiang Yan Hai reached for Song Kai Fei’s neck, prompting Song Kai Fei to react defensively before stopping and freezing mid-movement.

Jiang Yan Hai recounted his battlefield experiences to Lu Yu during psychological intervention, and she judged that he had no major psychological issues. Fan Tian Lei learned that Jiang Yan Hai was an orphan and planned to let him relax while Lu Yu continued treating the others.

• The soldiers took turns receiving psychological treatment, and Jiang Yan Hai went in last.
• Jiang Yan Hai described the battlefield in vivid detail, and Lu Yu noticed that he had already made sense of what he had done to save others.
• Lu Yu told Jiang Yan Hai he was in good condition and advised him to spend his upcoming leave doing something he enjoyed.
• Lu Yu told Fan Tian Lei that Jiang Yan Hai needed little guidance and would benefit from time with his family.
• Fan Tian Lei revealed that Jiang Yan Hai was an orphan, then thanked Lu Yu for treating the other soldiers.

Jiang Yan Hai received orders from Fan Tian Lei to travel to the provincial capital to assist with the cases involving Tang Ming and Cai Xu Peng. Fan Tian Lei secretly used Jiang Yan Hai’s phone to ask Li Ruo Bai out, leaving Jiang Yan Hai to honor the invitation before heading to his mission.

• After a doctor found no problem, Fan Tian Lei visited Jiang Yan Hai and ordered him to prepare for an oath and a trip to the provincial capital.
• Fan Tian Lei told Jiang Yan Hai that Tang Ming and Cai Xu Peng had been arrested and that he would learn the details when he arrived.
• Jiang Yan Hai discovered that Fan Tian Lei had used his phone to invite Li Ruo Bai to dinner and a movie, and he agreed to meet her.
• Jiang Yan Hai exchanged messages with Li Ruo Bai about repaying the meals he owed her and let her choose where to eat.
• Miao Lang drove Jiang Yan Hai to the oath-taking ceremony and then back to change before taking him to the provincial capital.
• When Miao Lang asked about his outfit, Jiang Yan Hai joked that he was going on a date and said Fan Tian Lei had given him time off.

Jiang Yan Hai examined a photograph linked to Cai Xu Peng’s spy network and concluded it had not been taken in Yichang. He went to interrogate Cai Xu Peng, who seemed delighted when he saw him.

• Yu Dong brought Jiang Yan Hai to the command center, where Old Wen and General Staff leaders explained that Cai Xu Peng had met an unidentified person and recruited others to obtain classified materials.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the photograph’s owner, a student Cai Xu Peng had coerced, had died in an accidental car crash after arguing with him.
• Jiang Yan Hai studied the photograph and questioned why the spy had allowed it to remain on the student’s phone; Old Wen explained that it had synced automatically from a camera before Cai Xu Peng destroyed the memory card.
• After hearing Cai Xu Peng had claimed the photograph was taken in Yichang, Jiang Yan Hai said it had been taken elsewhere and asked to question him.
• Jiang Yan Hai entered the interrogation room, and Cai Xu Peng froze before showing a flash of delight.

Jiang Yan Hai pressured Cai Xu Peng into confessing by revealing that he knew the photo was taken in Yinchuan, not Yichang. After Cai Xu Peng began cooperating with a young officer, Jiang Yan Hai explained how the stars and landscape in the photo pinpointed its location.

• Jiang Yan Hai switched off the interrogation-room cameras and offered Cai Xu Peng a chance to reduce his sentence in exchange for information about the photo.
• Cai Xu Peng claimed he had met the person giving him orders only once in Yichang, but Jiang Yan Hai said the photo was clearly taken in Yinchuan.
• Jiang Yan Hai threatened to leave, prompting Cai Xu Peng to agree to confess everything to a young police officer.
• Jiang Yan Hai instructed the young officer, who restored the surveillance cameras and told Cai Xu Peng to speak because his father was Director Qiao.
• Cai Xu Peng began confessing, while Jiang Yan Hai explained that Polaris, the city lights, vegetation, and nearby mountains identified the location as Yinchuan.

Jiang Yan Hai finished helping the provincial department solve its case and left to meet Li Ruo Bai. On the way, Yu Dong encouraged him to pursue a relationship despite the demands of military life, and Jiang Yan Hai arrived early at the Western restaurant she had chosen.

• Jiang Yan Hai declined the General Staff leaders’ offer of a car and left after they discussed his intelligence-analysis skills.
• Yu Dong picked Jiang Yan Hai up outside the provincial department and asked who he was meeting.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that he was meeting the person who had provided Yu Dong’s outfit, and Yu Dong urged him to date her despite the long missions that could strain their relationship.
• Jiang Yan Hai argued that he would also suffer if the relationship ended, then got out of Yu Dong’s car and headed to the restaurant.
• Jiang Yan Hai arrived early at the Western restaurant Li Ruo Bai had chosen and reflected that he was not worried about buying a house.

Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai met for dinner, talked, and went to a movie, where they held hands. Afterward, Li Ruo Bai invited Jiang Yan Hai to stay with her at Hongya Pavilion, and he agreed.

• Jiang Yan Hai met Li Ruo Bai at a restaurant and insisted on treating her to dinner.
• Li Ruo Bai ordered steak and other dishes for them, then described destroying her old phone and memory card to protect secrets.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai chatted over dinner and went to see a romance movie.
• Li Ruo Bai slipped her hand into Jiang Yan Hai's during the movie, and their fingers intertwined.
• Li Ruo Bai invited Jiang Yan Hai to stay at Hongya Pavilion instead of a hotel, and he agreed.

Jiang Yan Hai told Li Ruo Bai why he feared they were unsuitable, citing his dangerous work, long absences, and their young ages. Li Ruo Bai firmly defended her choice to be with him, but his warning that he might die or disappear left her stunned.

• Jiang Yan Hai noticed the extra men's slippers in Li Ruo Bai's room before they sat down to talk.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he liked Li Ruo Bai but worried that his dangerous work and months without contact would make a relationship unfair to her.
• Li Ruo Bai argued that she understood his responsibilities and was willing to wait and support him.
• Jiang Yan Hai reminded Li Ruo Bai that they were only nineteen and eighteen and said she might one day receive his photograph, will, or urn—or never learn what happened to him.
• Li Ruo Bai froze as Jiang Yan Hai directly raised the possibility that he might die or disappear.

Jiang Yan Hai explained the deadly risks of his military missions to Li Ruo Bai and said he could not accept her love because he might not survive. He stayed the night at her insistence, while Li Ruo Bai retrieved the only photograph she had kept of them.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Li Ruo Bai about the bandits, gunfire, explosives, and landmines he faced on missions, and said future missions could be even more dangerous.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he could not accept Li Ruo Bai's love because his work meant he might die, then tried to leave.
• Li Ruo Bai stopped Jiang Yan Hai by reminding him he had promised to stay and still owed her meals, and he agreed to sleep on the living room floor.
• Li Ruo Bai prepared quilts and a pillow for Jiang Yan Hai, who washed up and went to sleep in the living room.
• Li Ruo Bai opened a hidden vault and took out the only photograph she had kept of herself and Jiang Yan Hai.

Li Ruo Bai and Jiang Yan Hai shared a quiet night together before he left, carrying her note and photograph with him. Her parents watched him go and decided to let their grown daughter choose her own path.

• Li Ruo Bai joined Jiang Yan Hai on the living-room floor and fell asleep in his arms.
• Jiang Yan Hai woke to Li Ruo Bai’s note, which described how safe she had felt and reminded him that he owed her nine meals.
• Li Ruo Bai explained that the photograph showed her on her seventeenth birthday, when she had wished to find a love that would last a lifetime.
• Jiang Yan Hai pocketed the note and photograph, then left while Li Ruo Bai cried behind her bedroom door.
• Li Ruo Bai’s parents watched Jiang Yan Hai leave and agreed to support their daughter’s choices.

Jiang Yan Hai returned to the Wolf Fang base and challenged five Red Cell soldiers to combat training. He fought them until all six men were exhausted and bruised.

• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the base, leaving Fan Tian Lei to wonder where he had spent the night.
• Jiang Yan Hai dragged He Chen Guang and the other Red Cell soldiers onto the training field and challenged them to fight him.
• Jiang Yan Hai taunted the group until Song Kai Fei and the others agreed to fight, with He Chen Guang and Xu Tian Long leading the attack.
• Jiang Yan Hai defended himself against He Chen Guang and Xu Tian Long, then struck Song Kai Fei and maneuvered around all five opponents.
• Jiang Yan Hai and the five Red Cell soldiers fought until they were panting and covered in bruises.

Jiang Yan Hai challenged five members of Red Cell and was pinned down and beaten after they teamed up, then agreed to do their laundry for a week. The next afternoon, he and the others arrived at a meeting that appeared to be a commendation ceremony, still bruised from their fight.

• Jiang Yan Hai taunted Song Kai Fei and the others after fighting them, so Song Kai Fei charged him and all five men tackled and beat him.
• Gong Jian interrupted the fight, told the men to go to the infirmary, and warned Jiang Yan Hai that the others should rush him together if he challenged five people again.
• Song Kai Fei demanded a meal as compensation, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to do the group's laundry for a week instead.
• The next afternoon, Jiang Yan Hai and the others entered the meeting hall in their regular uniforms and realized they were likely there to be commended.

Jiang Yan Hai received a personal First Class Merit and was promoted to major during a ceremony honoring several Wolf Fang soldiers. Afterward, he met with the Lone Wolf Commando Unit, where they discussed bringing Zhuang Yan into the reserves, before Gong Jian called him back for a meeting with the chief of staff.

• He Zhi Jun awarded collective First Class Merit to members of the Lone Wolf Commando Unit, Fire Phoenix, and the Red Cell Special Operations Group.
• He Zhi Jun gave Jiang Yan Hai a personal First Class Merit and promoted him to major, then presented his new insignia.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that Li Er Niu and Wang Yan Bing had also been promoted to Second Lieutenants, and his friends teased him about his new rank.
• Jiang Yan Hai spoke with Old Cannon and the Lone Wolf Commando Unit about finding a role for Zhuang Yan, and Old Gao said they planned to have him join the reserves.
• Gong Jian called Jiang Yan Hai back and reminded him to meet with the chief of staff at noon.

Jiang Yan Hai was ordered to go to South America to protect Wang Qing Shan, an undercover agent embedded with drug traffickers for ten years. Before leaving, he arranged for Chu Ying’s safety and planned to test his assault rifle designs while preparations were underway.

• Fan Tian Lei told Jiang Yan Hai that he had been promoted to major and assigned a mission in South America.
• Fan Tian Lei explained that Wang Qing Shan, Wang Yan Bing’s father, had infiltrated the Shang Ming Group, whose mercenaries were heading to South America.
• Jiang Yan Hai accepted the mission and learned he would travel under a new identity as an ordinary special forces captain.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Fan Tian Lei to protect Chu Ying if the Chu Family came under attack, and Fan Tian Lei agreed to give her safety special attention.
• Jiang Yan Hai left to visit his newly completed lab and test his assault rifle designs.

Jiang Yan Hai took over and tested his new laboratory equipment, then became absorbed in designing rifle components. After Red Cell pulled him away for dinner, Gong Jian briefed the team on their upcoming training at Warrior School in Argentina.

• Jiang Yan Hai inspected, started up, and accepted the laboratory equipment, which the state had provided as compensation for his classified engineering plastics formula.
• Jiang Yan Hai began making rifle components based on his own designs and worked until evening without assembling a complete rifle.
• Gong Jian and Red Cell found Jiang Yan Hai at the laboratory and took him to dinner after he apologized for missing their invitation.
• Gong Jian told Red Cell that they would represent China at Warrior School and warned them to maintain their training and uphold the country's image.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that Warrior School was in Argentina and that trainees had to sign a waiver accepting that the school would not be responsible for deaths during training.

Jiang Yan Hai reflected on how his old world had begun to feel distant before entering the Illusion Simulation Combat System again. He evaded and destroyed several Man-Portable Air-Defense Missiles, then dove toward the forest with the remaining missiles pursuing him.

• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the barracks after a lively evening, washed up, and lay awake reflecting on how much more real his current world felt than his former one.
• Jiang Yan Hai woke inside the Illusion Simulation Combat System and took off immediately when the base ordered him to launch.
• Jiang Yan Hai dodged an RPG fired from beside the airfield and destroyed its launch point with a rocket before flying toward the frontline.
• Jiang Yan Hai anticipated the ten Man-Portable Air-Defense Missiles and evaded the first attack, then shot one missile down with his 25mm cannon.
• Jiang Yan Hai released infrared decoys to draw away five missiles, used their explosion to conceal his movement, and dove toward the forest as the remaining missiles reacquired him.