Recaps

Jiang Yan Hai stopped to confront Wang Xin Tian, who had been following Li Ruo Bai, but a level-one combat alert interrupted them. He left to respond to an enemy takeover of a secret research base, while Li Ruo Bai promised to wait for him.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai pulled over, and Wang Xin Tian got out of his Bentley to introduce himself as Li Ruo Bai’s pursuer.
• Jiang Yan Hai received a level-one combat alert as Hound, Sparrow, and the other security personnel secured the intersection and ordered Wang Xin Tian back.
• A National Security officer held Wang Xin Tian at gunpoint, while a text warned drivers that the intersection was under temporary military lockdown.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that a secret research base had entered lockdown twenty-two minutes earlier, indicating it might have been captured by enemies.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked for the base’s information and prepared to return to lead the response, while Li Ruo Bai hugged him and said she would wait.

Jiang Yan Hai escaped by helicopter under a sweeping effort to suppress photos and reports about the incident. After he left, Li Ruo Bai beat Wang Xin Tian and warned him to stay away, then asked Sparrow to teach her how to fight.

• Black Hawk ordered his team to block recordings and reports of the incident and erase related online posts and footage.
• Jiang Yan Hai boarded a departing Zhi-20 as two WZ-10 helicopters escorted him toward the nearest military airport.
• After the helicopters left, Li Ruo Bai ordered Sparrow and Hound to drag Wang Xin Tian behind a hedge, where she beat him and threatened him to stay away.
• Sparrow drove Li Ruo Bai away under protection, and Li Ruo Bai asked her to teach her how to fight.

Jiang Yan Hai arrived at Base No. 9, a sealed research facility whose power, communications, and sensors had failed during a lockdown. After learning that seventy-two researchers and twelve logistics personnel were trapped inside, he prepared a Special Operations Regiment team and ordered military units to deploy around the base.

• Jiang Yan Hai reviewed the base’s layout and learned that its only entrances were sealed or heavily protected, while a hidden route connected to an underground river.
• Qiao Fangyuan reported that the base had been locked down for two hours and forty-two minutes, trapping seventy-two researchers and twelve logistics personnel inside with limited air supplies.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the base’s electronics and external power equipment had failed after a sudden surge, and that its research involved material returned from Africa.
• Qiao Fangyuan and Black Hawk explained that infiltration through the underground river was possible but difficult, and that the sensors monitoring it had been destroyed.
• Jiang Yan Hai selected a sixteen-person team to lead into the base and ordered aircraft, drones, the 9th Rapid Reaction Brigade, artillery, and nearby guard units to prepare.

Jiang Yan Hai led a sixteen-man squad into the Qilian Mountains to investigate the sealed base, entering through an abandoned cave passage. The team reached an apparent dead end that Jiang Yan Hai’s Scanning System identified as a secret emergency route, and he prepared to breach its thin rock barrier.

• Jiang Yan Hai assembled an experienced operational squad, while the 9th Rapid Reaction Brigade prepared supplies and transport aircraft.
• Jiang Yan Hai and fifteen men parachuted into the target area, collected their equipment, and followed his assignments for weapons and communications gear.
• Jiang Yan Hai led the team to a cave entrance on the mountainside, and Xu Tian Long set up signal transmission devices as they advanced.
• Jiang Yan Hai guided the team through narrow, twisting passages until they reached a spacious dead end concealing the secret emergency passage.

Jiang Yan Hai led his team through a concealed room and into a supply warehouse inside the base, then cautiously advanced into its corridor. They found damaged cables but no one on their level, leaving the cause of the base’s blackout and the whereabouts of its seventy-four comrades unresolved.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to wear gas masks while Xu Hong set demolition charges to open the hidden room.
• Jiang Yan Hai checked the room’s air and declared it safe, then opened its concealed door into a logistics warehouse.
• He Chen Guang and Yang Rui cleared the warehouse and listened at its doors before reporting the corridor outside was quiet.
• Jiang Yan Hai contacted command and prepared the team to leave the warehouse, warning them to identify unfamiliar people before firing.
• The team advanced through an empty passage lined with warehouses and found increasingly severe damage to cables, but no people on their level.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team forced their way toward the base’s fourth-level control center, suspecting an energy leak had caused the lockdown and system failures. As Xu Tian Long worked on the next door’s independent lock, a sudden impact sounded from below them.

• Jiang Yan Hai concluded that damage to the base’s cables had spread upward from an energy burst during research on the special ore and requested details from command.
• Command confirmed that only one type of research had been conducted, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered Xu Hong to prepare explosives to open the sealed elevator doors.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team blasted open the doors, rappelled down the shaft, and reached the fourth level, where they found the independent locking mechanism intact.
• Xu Tian Long began working on the lock while Song Kai Fei joked about viruses and Resident Evil, drawing teasing replies from the others.
• A dull impact struck the steel security door from below, startling Xu Tian Long, and Jiang Yan Hai caught the laptop he nearly dropped.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team reached the fourth floor and rescued all eighty-four personnel trapped in the main control center. Professor Xu revealed that a silver-gray ore had erupted during an experiment and showed Jiang Yan Hai surveillance footage, leaving the cause and consequences of the incident unclear.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s team reached the fourth floor and found the corridors damaged and empty.
• Jiang Yan Hai detected eighty-four people inside the main control center and ordered Xu Tian Long to report that the personnel were safe.
• Xu Hong used liquid nitrogen and a Shaped Charge to break the blast-resistant glass, allowing the trapped personnel to escape.
• Professor Xu told Jiang Yan Hai that the base’s trouble began during an experiment with an unusual silver-gray ore.
• Professor Xu gave Jiang Yan Hai surveillance footage showing the ore secured in an experimental device before it suddenly erupted.

Jiang Yan Hai watched footage of an unknown ore opening a Teleportation Gate, letting blood-red wolves into the laboratory. He ordered the gate secured and the discovery reported to headquarters as the threat from the other world remained unknown.

• Professor Xu showed Jiang Yan Hai footage of the ore shaking, collapsing, and opening a silver-white ring of light.
• A blood-red wolf crawled through the ring, followed by more wolves as the gate expanded.
• The wolves smashed through the blastproof glass, and Jiang Yan Hai judged that controlling the gate posed a greater threat than fighting the beasts.
• Professor Xu explained that the ore had not supplied enough energy to open the gate and suggested it might have been opened from the other side.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Xu Tian Long to send the video to headquarters and directed that the lower level be cleared and the gate brought under control.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team prepared to enter the sealed lower level and contain the Teleportation Gate, while Professor Xu explained how the base lost power. Far away, Li Ruo Bai worried about Jiang Yan Hai as he and his team opened the sealed door.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle and confirmed that the elevator shaft was the only way to the lowest level.
• Professor Xu explained that the Teleportation Gate had damaged the base’s power system and agreed to help contain it.
• Jiang Yan Hai and three soldiers rappelled down the elevator shaft, while Li Ruo Bai recalled her moments with Jiang Yan Hai and feared he might not return.
• Jiang Yan Hai opened the elevator’s sealed lock, and Tong Li and Song Kai Fei took aim at the doorway as the steel pillars retracted.

Jiang Yan Hai led his team through the base toward the Teleportation Gate, fighting off Blood Wolves and testing how easily they could be killed. After confirming that objects and his hand could pass through the gate safely, he recognized its potential while the team continued defending against the wolves.

• Jiang Yan Hai led his team out of the elevator and advanced toward the Teleportation Gate, leaving Zhuang Yu and Lu Shen to guard the door.
• Jiang Yan Hai tested the Blood Wolves with gunfire and found that shots to the head or brain killed them, while body shots only wounded them.
• Tong Li and Song Kai Fei opened fire on Blood Wolves charging from both sides as the team neared the glowing gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai discovered that his scanning program detected no microorganisms in the wolves and suspected the Teleportation Gate was responsible.
• Jiang Yan Hai touched the gate with a chair, tossed the chair through it, and then passed his hand through without feeling anything unusual.

Jiang Yan Hai received authority to command the response to the Teleportation Gate and led his team in preparing to secure the unknown world beyond it. He crossed through first and felt wind on the other side.

• The Old Commander granted Jiang Yan Hai full authority and approved his plan to establish a defensive line beyond the Teleportation Gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the base level swept, requested the Special Operations Regiment and medical precautions, and had Tong Li, Song Kai Fei, and Xu Tian Long guard the gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai told the assembled soldiers that invisible pathogens could pose a greater danger than the wolves, and his team agreed to cross with him.
• Jiang Yan Hai stepped through the Teleportation Gate and sensed wind on the other side.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team explored the other side of the Teleportation Gate, discovered that ordinary communications could not cross it, and encountered a frightened man being chased by two Blood Wolves. The chapter left the man running toward the team after He Chen Guang shot down both wolves.

• Jiang Yan Hai found that the Teleportation Gate acted like a mirror, allowing people to pass through its back without teleporting between worlds.
• Xu Tian Long reported that radio signals could not reach the other side, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to test a fiber-optic cable.
• He Chen Guang spotted a frightened man approaching from a nearby town with two Blood Wolves chasing him.
• Jiang Yan Hai used the Coffin Board Skill and Er Dan's comparison to determine that the world had lower gravity than Earth.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered He Chen Guang to fire, and He Chen Guang killed both Blood Wolves as the man continued toward the team.

Jiang Yan Hai questioned a man who had fled from an infected wolf and learned that the locals called the Teleportation Gate Ghost Gate Pass, a portal linked to monsters. After reporting his findings, Jiang Yan Hai led a team toward a nearby town while Gong Jian took charge of defending the gate.

• Jiang Yan Hai captured the fleeing man and learned that an infected Wild Wolf was called a Red Mad Wolf and that the portal was known locally as Ghost Gate Pass.
• The man told Jiang Yan Hai that monsters emerged from a much larger Ghost Gate Pass, and that Taoist priests and the military had failed to close it.
• Jiang Yan Hai released the man, then explained to his companions that the country was called Xia Yan Nation and seemed culturally similar to Earth.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the portal, reported his discoveries to command, and requested reinforcements to secure the area and investigate the town.
• Gong Jian led a twelve-man combat team through the portal, took charge of the defensive position, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered his group to resupply before moving out.

Jiang Yan Hai's team entered a blood-soaked town to investigate the Red Mad Wolves and found a child hiding in a cellar beneath a Taoist temple. The chapter left Jiang Yan Hai jumping into the cellar to reach the survivor.

• Jiang Yan Hai's team replenished their supplies and equipped drones, heavy rifles, explosives, and food before setting out on foot.
• Jiang Yan Hai's team reached the walled town and used drone footage to discover it was covered in blood and strewn with hundreds of Red Mad Wolf corpses.
• Jiang Yan Hai led the team into town, where they found signs of a massacre, missing human bodies, and abandoned weapons.
• Jiang Yan Hai's scanning ability detected a survivor beneath a Taoist temple, and the team moved a fallen statue to reveal a cellar entrance.
• Jiang Yan Hai handed his weapon to a teammate and jumped into the cellar after discovering a child inside.

Jiang Yan Hai rescued Dai Yuan from a cellar in the town and comforted her as his team withdrew toward the Teleportation Gate. After seeing how frightened she was, he ordered supplies, heavy weapons, ammunition, and continued drone reconnaissance for the team.

• Jiang Yan Hai found Dai Yuan hiding in the cellar and told her the Dao Ancestor had sent him to save her.
• Dai Yuan gave Jiang Yan Hai her name, and he carried her out of the cellar and up to the rest of the team.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to withdraw, and Gong Jian reported that his group had found no other targets.
• Dai Yuan told Jiang Yan Hai she had already cried and was no longer afraid, though she clung to him as they left town.
• At the Teleportation Gate, Dai Yuan became frightened, so Jiang Yan Hai reassured her and ordered Xu Tian Long to arrange camping gear, heavy weapons, ammunition, and drone reconnaissance.

Jiang Yan Hai questioned Dai Yuan about the Red Mad Wolves before preparing a defensive position around the Teleportation Gate. When hundreds of wolves charged, Jiang Yan Hai and his team opened fire, leaving Yuan Yuan amazed by their weapons.

• Jiang Yan Hai asked Dai Yuan what she knew about Taoist magic and the Red Mad Wolves, and she explained that her father had described them as diseased wild wolves in a country once called Great Qin.
• Xu Tian Long reported that support weapons had arrived, and Jiang Yan Hai and his team built a steel-and-sandbag defense around the Teleportation Gate.
• Zhuang Yu reported a growing wolf pack approaching from the southwest, so Jiang Yan Hai ordered the other teams to withdraw and prepare for the attack.
• The Red Mad Wolves charged over a nearby ridge, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered everyone to open fire.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team cut down the charging wolves with machine guns, while Yuan Yuan watched in amazement.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team drove back the Red Mad Wolves and received new weapons and supplies while awaiting restored power. He comforted Dai Yuan over her father’s death and prepared a meal for her.

• Jiang Yan Hai stopped firing after the Red Mad Wolves retreated, and he assessed the heavy machine guns’ intense use.
• Xu Tian Long reported that new supplies had arrived and power would be restored within twelve hours; Jiang Yan Hai’s team unloaded rotary machine guns and ammunition.
• Jiang Yan Hai assigned Gong Jian’s team to keep watch while everyone else rested, and he reassured Dai Yuan that she would be safe.
• Dai Yuan told Jiang Yan Hai that she missed her father, and he apologized for arriving too late and promised to protect her.
• Jiang Yan Hai noticed Dai Yuan was severely hungry and had Zhuang Yu bring a self-heating meal, then began preparing it for her.

Jiang Yan Hai tested whether Dai Yuan could pass through the Teleportation Gate, then used a medical scan to investigate the microorganisms she carried. Er Dan reported that her immune system was stronger than that of people in the real world and that she carried no lethal or unknown viruses.

• Jiang Yan Hai invited Dai Yuan to try entering the Teleportation Gate, but an invisible barrier stopped her hand while his passed through.
• Jiang Yan Hai led Dai Yuan to eat and scanned her body again with the Battlefield Medical Scanning Program.
• Jiang Yan Hai considered why Red Mad Wolf could pass through the gate while Dai Yuan could not.
• Er Dan reported that Dai Yuan carried common viruses and microorganisms but no lethal or unknown viruses.
• Jiang Yan Hai was surprised that Dai Yuan's immune system was stronger than that of people in the real world.

Jiang Yan Hai cared for Dai Yuan and received confirmation that the Teleportation Gate filtered contaminants, prompting command to build up the defensive position. The camp’s fortifications and early-warning perimeter were being established as supplies and equipment arrived.

• Jiang Yan Hai warmed curry rice and Canned Beef for Dai Yuan, who eagerly ate and grew more reliant on him.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Tong Li to help Dai Yuan change into prepared clothes while Xu Tian Long and the others set up tents.
• Eight hours later, intelligence confirmed the Red Mad Wolf had no microorganisms inside it and that people could pass through the Teleportation Gate without unusual viruses.
• Higher command ordered the gate’s defenses stabilized, and engineers, logistics personnel, vehicles, power cables, steel pillars, and searchlights arrived.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Zhuang Yu and Xu Tian Long to establish an infrared detection perimeter around the Teleportation Gate.
• Workers began filling modular barriers with earth to build the defensive position.

Jiang Yan Hai built a rapidly assembled defensive wall around the Teleportation Gate and briefed the nation’s highest command on the new world’s dangers and potential. The command approved further reconnaissance, plans to improve supply transport, and an experiment to test whether the gate expanded for living creatures.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s team used excavators to build a circular, layered bunker wall around the Teleportation Gate and installed weapon mounts.
• Jiang Yan Hai left Tong Li to look after Dai Yuan and returned to the base for a meeting with the highest command.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported that the local town had been slaughtered, the natives could not pass through the gate, and the new world might offer strategic and material resources.
• The Old Commander told Jiang Yan Hai that tunnel boring machines would be transferred to improve supply transport through the base.
• Jiang Yan Hai agreed to capture a Red Mad Wolf alive the next day to test whether the Teleportation Gate expanded, and requested an iron cage and tranquilizer weapons.

Jiang Yan Hai coordinated personnel and equipment support for the new world, then returned to camp and checked the planet’s stars. The next morning, Dai Yuan saw the engineering work and machinery that had appeared overnight, and Jiang Yan Hai introduced it as the power of the Technological God Cult.

• Biologists and medical experts requested access to the Teleportation Gate and an examination of Dai Yuan, but Jiang Yan Hai deferred their requests until the situation was confirmed.
• The higher-ups arranged weapons, supplies, and an engineering regiment for the new world, while Rocket Force engineers took over tunnel construction at the base.
• Jiang Yan Hai messaged Li Ruo Bai that he was safe, returned to camp, and told his team to rest before their next mission.
• After Dai Yuan and the others fell asleep, Jiang Yan Hai studied the stars, and Er Dan estimated that the planet was likely in the Orion Arm and near the Solar System’s position.
• The next morning, Dai Yuan saw a temporary runway and unfamiliar machines near the camp, and Jiang Yan Hai told her they belonged to the Technological God Cult.
• A large reconnaissance drone had been assembled and was ready to take off.

Jiang Yan Hai used a Pterosaur reconnaissance drone to scout the area and led a convoy to capture Red Mad Wolves for research. After tranquilizing and killing the pack, his team loaded ten unconscious wolves into cages and began transporting them, though Er Dan warned that the anesthetic might wear off quickly.

• Jiang Yan Hai showed Dai Yuan the Pterosaur drone and told her to wait at the base while he went to capture Red Mad Wolves.
• The Pterosaur took off and began circling the Teleportation Gate, relaying reconnaissance data within the ground station's limited signal range.
• Jiang Yan Hai led thirty-two people in eight Lynx assault vehicles and five trucks toward a pack of Red Mad Wolves spotted southeast of the town.
• Jiang Yan Hai tested his increased anesthetic dosage on the wolves, and the darts successfully knocked them unconscious.
• The team shot the remaining wolves, loaded ten sedated ones into iron cages, and Er Dan warned that their fast metabolisms might shorten the anesthetic's effects.

Jiang Yan Hai’s forces expanded their base and learned more about the Xia Yan Nation, while captured Red Mad Wolves caused the Teleportation Gate to grow. The chapter ended with a thousand Red Mad Wolves converging on an eastern town, prompting Jiang Yan Hai to order a rescue operation.

• Professor Xu and his team transported eight Red Mad Wolves through the Teleportation Gate, which expanded each time, and kept the last wolf for examination.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent a team to build a signal relay and ordered Professor Xu and six scientists to investigate a massacred town.
• Professor Xu reported that the locals called themselves the Xia Yan people, and that the Great Qin Empire had collapsed over eighty years earlier after Red Mad Wolves broke through its defenses.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s forces spent the next several days capturing Red Mad Wolves to enlarge the Teleportation Gate, and their base took shape within a week.
• Jiang Yan Hai received a report that at least a thousand Red Mad Wolves were converging on Target Number 2, an eastern town, and ordered a rescue operation.

Jiang Yan Hai ordered the base’s forces to deploy old artillery and other available vehicles against a Red Mad Wolf disaster threatening a nearby town. As the wolf pack grew beyond three thousand, the town’s mayor organized residents to defend the walls while Jiang Yan Hai’s troops advanced.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered an alarm and sent Yi Wei’s artillery regiment, Zhang Ronghua’s truck-borne infantry, and two special operations teams toward the threatened town.
• Yi Wei’s regiment deployed twelve old Type 60 cannons and twelve Type 63 rocket launchers because modern artillery could not pass through the Teleportation Gate.
• The town mayor ordered residents over thirteen to man the walls and told the militia to conserve ammunition as Red Mad Wolves gathered outside.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the pack had exceeded three thousand and ordered drones to search for a wolf king or alpha.

Jiang Yan Hai’s artillery units prepared to defend a town from a vast pack of Red Mad Wolves. As the wolves charged and the townspeople faced despair, rocket fire swept across the battlefield, leaving the mayor and militia stunned.

• Jiang Yan Hai halted his troops near the town and waited for the artillery ammunition to arrive.
• The mayor watched the approaching Red Mad Wolves and feared the town’s fifty militiamen could not stop them.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Yi Wei to fire rockets into the wolves’ path and extend the barrage.
• The wolves charged as a frightened commoner knelt to pray, but the mayor rallied the militiamen to prepare to fight.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s rocket barrage engulfed the charging wolves in explosions near the town wall.
• The mayor and townspeople watched in shock as a second wave of rockets struck the battlefield.