Recaps

Jiang Yan Hai learned how the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate selected worlds and confirmed that closing Red Mad Wolf’s gate would not affect the stable gate between Earth and Great Qin. He ordered a search for unusual terrain that might conceal the gate, while higher-ups prepared a North American mission using two modified Yun-20s.

• Jiang Yan Hai learned from Er Dan that the Alpha 3 Type Star Gate infiltrated civilizations unfamiliar with Star Gate construction materials and expanded autonomously.
• Er Dan told Jiang Yan Hai that closing Red Mad Wolf’s Star Gate would not close the stable gate between Earth and Great Qin, and explained that only a neutron star’s gravitational field could irreversibly alter it.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Bei Chen Xiang to prioritize searching satellite-detected unusual terrain for a possible underground Star Gate.
• Higher-ups decided to transport two modified Yun-20s into Great Qin and assemble them for a mission to North America, where Area 51 was conducting research.
• Jiang Yan Hai and the others planned to scan the terrain near Area 51 for an emergency landing site and calculated that five Yun-20s could carry supplies for building a short runway if needed.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team discovered a large pack of Red Mad Wolves traveling with infected gorillas and suspected they were heading toward a Teleportation Gate in North America. As the pack continued north, the first Yun-20 was assembled and prepared to carry personnel and supplies to the destination.

• Jiang Yan Hai learned that a group of about 2,000 Red Mad Wolves had appeared near the coast and was avoiding human settlements.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Bei Chen Xiang used a reconnaissance drone to find about a hundred infected gorillas traveling with the wolves.
• Jiang Yan Hai connected the wolves’ route to the earlier Teleportation Gate incident and ordered the team to stop them.
• Jiang Yan Hai helped the aircraft assembly team identify installation problems while drones and satellites tracked the wolves toward North America.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team found possible emergency-landing ground near the destination, and the first Yun-20 completed assembly and testing.
• The first Yun-20 was loaded with personnel and supplies as tracking data confirmed that the Red Mad Wolves were heading for North America.

Jiang Yan Hai took control of the Yun-20 during the journey to the new continent to prepare for a safer landing, then handed the aircraft back to Nightingale. As the group continued toward its destination, He Chen Guang asked whether they might end up fighting the Americans in this world.

• Three days after preparations began, Jiang Yan Hai departed with twenty-three others, two Lynx assault vehicles, and supplies aboard a Yun-20.
• Jiang Yan Hai took over the controls from Da Peng and Nightingale, demonstrating his skill by steering the aircraft smoothly through turbulence.
• After an hour, Jiang Yan Hai let Nightingale take over and returned to the cargo hold.
• He Chen Guang asked Jiang Yan Hai whether they would fight in this world if they failed to stop North America and the Americans opened a Teleportation Gate.

Jiang Yan Hai and He Chen Guang discussed denying the Americans a foothold in the new world before Jiang Yan Hai piloted a Yun-20 toward a landing site. The aircraft touched down on rough grassland with its landing gear still intact, though the landing was not yet complete.

• Jiang Yan Hai told He Chen Guang that China should prevent the Americans from gaining an advantage and might first eliminate the Westerners in this world.
• Seven hours later, Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to parachute out while he stayed aboard to attempt an emergency landing.
• Jiang Yan Hai scanned the grassland from low altitude, and He Chen Guang and Gong Jian inspected the proposed landing area from the ground.
• Er Dan calculated a landing route with an 82 percent chance of avoiding damage, and Jiang Yan Hai began his approach with Da Peng as copilot.
• The Yun-20 jolted violently as it landed on the grassland, but its landing gear remained intact.

Jiang Yan Hai and Da Peng landed their plane safely, and Jiang Yan Hai’s group surveyed and prepared a rough runway for future transport flights. Seven days later, a second plane arrived with supplies and special cement, while plans for a land route and river port remained under study.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Da Peng brought the plane safely down and taxied it away from the temporary runway.
• Jiang Yan Hai split the group, sending Gong Jian to secure the coordinates while the others surveyed and cleared the grassland.
• Jiang Yan Hai chose the best landing route and planned to reinforce its first 150 meters with special cement delivered by later flights.
• Jiang Yan Hai and the others considered a river port and a land route because the planes could not return without fuel.
• Seven days later, Jiang Yan Hai received a second transport plane carrying nearly thirty tons of supplies, including special cement.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team prepared to reach Area 51 while headquarters arranged a nuclear-powered freighter to deliver supplies. As more troops and equipment arrived, the team laid a minefield and faced the approaching Red Mad Wolves, who had gathered near their target.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his team began laying a path by hand while using the satellite window to contact headquarters.
• Bei Chen Xiang told Jiang Yan Hai that the Yangtze River could support an aircraft carrier and that headquarters would build a 4,000-ton nuclear-powered freighter to bring supplies.
• Jiang Yan Hai agreed to endure the two-month wait and asked the next plane to bring a list of supplies.
• Black Hawk and the others confirmed that the Red Mad Wolves were heading toward North America as Jiang Yan Hai's team continued preparing defenses.
• Two more supply planes arrived, bringing the team to thirty-two people, including eight pilots and twenty-four special operations soldiers.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Er Dan narrowed down Area 51's likely location and laid a minefield, while more than two thousand Red Mad Wolves and one hundred Mutated Gorillas gathered nearby.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team slaughtered the Red Mad Wolf pack guarding the suspected star gate and began preparing a concealed shelter around its location. He planned to keep the Americans from seeing through the gate and to pump aviation fuel into it if they opened it.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered four team members to draw the Red Mad Wolves into an attack.
• Jiang Yan Hai detonated the buried mines and ordered the team to fire as the wolves charged.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team killed the Red Mad Wolves and chimpanzees, then checked the bodies and treated the area with quicklime.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to build a dark tent over the suspected star gate and connect fire hoses to drums of aviation fuel.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team waited for the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate to appear while preparing to contain it. As the gate’s energy began building, an Energy Ore test at Area 51 triggered an evacuation, and a tiny point of light appeared before Jiang Yan Hai’s team.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his team set up a light-blocking tent, kerosene equipment, and other preparations to guard the Star Gate.
• Er Dan warned Jiang Yan Hai that the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate would activate in twenty minutes, and Jiang Yan Hai chose not to spend his special energy reserves to interfere with it.
• At Area 51, Energy Ore began accumulating energy, prompting Professor Deck to order an evacuation and preserve the laboratory’s research data.
• With five minutes remaining, a tiny white point of light appeared above the ground, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered everyone to prepare.

Professor Deck's team activated the ore and discovered that it had formed a Teleportation Gate, which poured aviation kerosene into the laboratory. Jiang Yan Hai's team then sent a powerful cylindrical object through the gate, and he ordered everyone to fall back.

• The ore collapsed into a point, then formed a dark circular gate that began spewing liquid.
• Professor Deck realized the liquid might be water, but his team identified its smell as kerosene and rushed to contain it.
• Jiang Yan Hai's team pumped five tons of aviation kerosene through the gate to lower the other side's guard.
• After the kerosene stopped flowing, a three-meter cylindrical object emerged from the gate and fell into the laboratory.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered his team to retreat after sending the object through.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team detonated a one-megaton nuclear bomb through the Teleportation Gate, collapsing the mountain and burying the passage on the other side. They secured their side of the gate and began preparing a route to the coast, while the blast was reported as a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Nevada.

• Jiang Yan Hai and the others detonated the bomb, killing Professor Deck and engulfing the far side of the gate in flames and falling stone.
• Jiang Yan Hai declared the close-range nuclear test successful after his team detected no radiation on their side.
• The team dismantled their tents, burned the wolf carcasses, and pressed a fifty-centimeter alloy plate against the Teleportation Gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai planned to reinforce the gate with concrete and send a team to clear a route to the coast, about 420 kilometers away.
• The explosion caused Area 51's buildings and underground facilities to collapse, shook Las Vegas, and prompted the China Earthquake Networks Center to report a magnitude 7.2 earthquake.

Area 51 suffered catastrophic destruction after the Energy Ore opened a Teleportation Gate and triggered a massive underground explosion. President Kamp and other officials reviewed surveillance footage, which showed water pouring through the gate before a cylindrical object appeared.

• The explosion destroyed an underground base and caused widespread collapses at Area 51, killing at least a thousand people at the scene.
• A magnitude 5.3 aftershock struck less than ten minutes after the initial tremor, while rescuers evacuated survivors from Area 51.
• The White House Chief of Staff woke Kamp and told him that Area 51 had been destroyed after Target Number 1 activated and may have connected to another world.
• Kamp ordered an emergency meeting after hearing that the blast had the force of up to 1.2 million tons of TNT.
• At the meeting, officials watched footage showing a Teleportation Gate open above the ore, spray four to five tons of water, and then produce a cylindrical object.

After a thermonuclear bomb emerged through the Teleportation Gate and destroyed Area 51, Kamp and his advisers considered the threat posed by the ore and the civilization beyond the gate. The U.S. government began rescue and security operations while preparing a public explanation, as the media questioned whether an earthquake had really caused the collapse.

• The White House chief of staff and other officials concluded that the small bomb had likely been activated deliberately by intelligent life on the other side of the gate.
• Kamp rejected taking control of the African ore deposits, warning that doing so could mean war with the entire world.
• The White House chief of staff suggested informing China about the explosion and monitoring where it researched its ore.
• Kamp ordered rescue efforts at Area 51, the requisition of nearby airports, National Guard security, and CIA surveillance of China.
• The U.S. government blamed an earthquake for Area 51's collapse, but American media questioned the explanation despite several aftershocks.

After an underground nuclear test collapsed a site in China’s Taklamakan Desert, Kamp’s aides identified it as a secret base, and Kamp arranged a cover story to spare China embarrassment. China planned a railway and highway to move supplies through the hidden world, while the United States faced immense damage and losses at Area 51.

• An aide told Kamp that the Taklamakan collapse had occurred too shallow underground to be ordinary crustal movement and showed evidence of a concealed base.
• Kamp ordered a public announcement describing the collapse as crustal movement and agreed to let China save face.
• An archaeologists’ statement proposed sending experts and military personnel to survey the site, and Kamp recognized it as a cover story.
• China’s secret base submitted plans for a railway and highway that would let trains transfer supplies through a mountain tunnel without detection.
• The collapse made rescuing the underground American base impractical, while damage across Area 51 exceeded fifty percent and losses reached hundreds of billions of dollars.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team secured the Teleportation Gate and scouted a route to a suitable coastal harbor while a cargo ship was built and sent to them. The ship arrived with supplies and construction equipment, and Jiang Yan Hai showed its captain the semi-natural harbor he had found for a basic dock.

• The cargo ship was assembled, tested, and launched, then departed fully loaded with supplies and eighty-three people aboard.
• Jiang Yan Hai prepared for a permanent presence by planning a route, leaving twelve soldiers behind, and reinforcing the Teleportation Gate with concrete and an alloy block.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team used satellite images to find a route to a suitable coastal location, then abandoned plans for a wooden dock because they lacked the necessary tools.
• The cargo ship arrived at the bay, surveyed a shipping channel, and used amphibious tracked armored vehicles to tow supplies ashore.
• The captain told Jiang Yan Hai that the crew would survey the area and build a dock, and Jiang Yan Hai offered to show him the semi-natural harbor he had already identified.

Jiang Yan Hai established a temporary dock and left a crew behind to build a base. Research into the Great Qin world revealed unusual plants, medicines, and minerals, reinforcing his decision to keep the Teleportation Gate open.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s crew surveyed a natural harbor and began building a makeshift dock with steel columns, plates, rocks, and cement.
• After a week, Jiang Yan Hai returned to the city while more than sixty members of his group stayed behind to build a base.
• Professor Zhou and other researchers found that people in the Great Qin world had stronger immunity and that local crops could strengthen immunity in humans and animals.
• The researchers discovered medicinal herbs with powerful therapeutic effects and concluded that they could not be grown on Earth.
• Jiang Yan Hai kept the Teleportation Gate open because the new world’s unique plants and materials could benefit humanity.

Jiang Yan Hai studied the enormous rivers and mountains of this world while returning by ship, then received a report about a mysterious formation on Penglai Island and the westward migration of Red Mad Wolves. He ordered Lu Shi to accelerate negotiations and unify the warlords by summer, with Master Kang assuring him that Lu Shi’s soldiers were prepared to fight.

• Jiang Yan Hai examined satellite data showing the Yangtze River’s vast width and depth and considered the challenges of building dams and bridges.
• Bei Chen Xiang reported crater-like terrain and artificial altar-like structures on Penglai Island, along with a small number of Red Mad Wolves nearby.
• Bei Chen Xiang said tracked Red Mad Wolves were migrating west and had joined larger packs, while new packs continued to appear within Great Qin’s territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Lu Shi to speed up negotiations with other warlords and complete unification by summer, offering him absolute support.
• Master Kang told Jiang Yan Hai that Lu Shi’s former soldiers had strong convictions and were not comparable to the warlords’ troops from the Republic of China era.

Jiang Yan Hai and Kang Lei discussed military deterrence, migration, and building up their naval capabilities while Expedition 2 underwent its final tests. Jiang Yan Hai then led a squad to a suspected site on the Penglai Peninsula, where they discovered a gigantic Teleportation Gate opening onto a snow-covered world.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Kang Lei agreed to rely mainly on military deterrence and to speed up civilian affairs and construction plans.
• Kang Lei said Expedition 2 was a nuclear-powered, 9,000-ton vessel that would finish testing in about ten days, and Jiang Yan Hai planned to use it to investigate the suspicious location.
• After Expedition 2 completed its tests, Jiang Yan Hai took a combat squad by helicopter to the Penglai Peninsula and confirmed the site from the air.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the squad to record and recover the rusted swords and blades scattered near the cave before they advanced inside.
• Er Dan detected an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate in the cave, and Jiang Yan Hai chose not to close it.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his squad found a circular Teleportation Gate over 1,300 meters in diameter, with a snow-covered world visible beyond it, and he ordered everyone to stay alert.

Jiang Yan Hai discovered that the Teleportation Gate was blocked by an invisible barrier and called for Lu Shi to be brought over for experiments. Lu Shi arrived at the airfield, marveled at the aircraft, and reflected on the Great Qin soldiers’ respect for him.

• Jiang Yan Hai found that he could not pass through the Teleportation Gate and ordered a Yun-20 to bring Lu Shi to the site.
• Lu Shi received the urgent mission while training and rode an off-road vehicle to the restricted airfield.
• Lu Shi saw a Yun-20 up close and was astonished by its size.
• A Great Qin officer of equal rank greeted Lu Shi, who admired the soldiers’ respectful treatment of him.

Yang Rui took Lu Shi on an urgent military mission, explaining that Lu Shi would be treated as a fellow soldier. The chapter ended with Yang Rui and Lu Shi parachuting into the mountainous area where Jiang Yan Hai and the others were waiting.

• Yang Rui introduced himself to Lu Shi and asked him to join an urgent mission despite the danger.
• Lu Shi accepted the order as a soldier, and he and Yang Rui boarded a military aircraft.
• Yang Rui secured Lu Shi to himself and pushed them out of the aircraft for an airborne drop.
• Yang Rui deployed their parachute, and the pair landed in the mountains near Jiang Yan Hai's group.
• Jiang Yan Hai helped the shaken Lu Shi up and asked how the jump felt.

Jiang Yan Hai brought Lu Shi to the Teleportation Gate and confirmed that Lu Shi could pass through it while the Great Qin people could not. After a giant spider-like monster appeared beyond the gate, Jiang Yan Hai secretly ordered Er Dan to collapse it, leaving the world accessible to them alone.

• Yang Rui and Jiang Yan Hai reassured Lu Shi before Jiang Yan Hai said they had found Ghost Gate Pass and wanted him to inspect it.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the gate connected to another world, and Lu Shi easily reached through it and felt the cold on the other side.
• A huge spider-like monster appeared across the snowy field, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered the communications soldier to record it.
• Jiang Yan Hai secretly told Er Dan to shut down the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate, then shouted for everyone to evacuate as it began collapsing.
• Jiang Yan Hai, Lu Shi, and the others escaped the cave as the gate and mountain collapsed, and Jiang Yan Hai privately concluded that the world was now theirs.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team escaped as the Teleportation Gate closed, triggering a vast collapse and driving thousands of Red Mad Wolves out of the forest. After the wolves were put under surveillance, Jiang Yan Hai briefed the leaders on the gate and argued that its closure would not prevent the next stage of development.

• Jiang Yan Hai and the others boarded the helicopter as the mountain collapsed after the Teleportation Gate closed.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered drones, satellites, and the base to track thousands of Red Mad Wolves fleeing southwest.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the warship and concluded that the gate had existed for more than seven hundred years, giving the leaders grounds to continue planning development.
• Jiang Yan Hai told the leaders that the gate was not naturally formed and that its closure could be beneficial.

Jiang Yan Hai and the Old Commander agreed to expand their operations, reorganize command, and search for more Teleportation Gates. When Jiang Yan Hai returned to base, an emergency satellite report revealed a large British fleet sailing east, and he went to the command center to investigate.

• Jiang Yan Hai argued that the closed Teleportation Gate no longer posed a threat and that the team should accelerate contact, trade, and resource development in this world.
• The Old Commander ordered Dark Blade to expand and deploy to Africa, assigned Kang Lei to oversee Great Qin, and gave Jiang Yan Hai the 10th Brigade while keeping him supreme commander.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to base and decided to visit Dai Yuan before leaving his post, but an emergency call sent him to the command center instead.
• Bei Chen Xiang showed Jiang Yan Hai satellite images of a large fleet that had left the British Isles and appeared to be sailing east.

Jiang Yan Hai monitored a westbound fleet and learned that Red Mad Wolves were converging on the mainland while the ships followed a preplanned southern route with hidden coal supplies. After two more days, he discovered a well-equipped group leaving the mainland and ordered Bei Chen Xiang to map their route.

• Jiang Yan Hai questioned Lu Shi about western countries and learned that island nations had once sent sailing ships to the mainland.
• Bei Chen Xiang reported a battle between a settlement and a Red Mad Wolf pack, then showed Jiang Yan Hai a model indicating that wolves were migrating west in huge numbers.
• Bei Chen Xiang tracked the fleet to a small island supply cache and concluded that it was following an exploration route stocked with coal.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered his people to keep monitoring the fleet and the mainland battlefield as the ships continued south around South America.
• Bei Chen Xiang's people spotted a large, well-supplied group with vehicles setting out from the mainland, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered them to compile its route.

Jiang Yan Hai suspected Westerners had deliberately lured Red Mad Wolves toward Great Qin, contributing to the fall of its Great Wall defenses. He ordered Lu Shi to investigate whether wolf attacks followed the Westerners’ earlier appearances, while the purpose of their repeated visits remained uncertain.

• Jiang Yan Hai asked Lu Shi whether Red Mad Wolves attacked in large numbers after Westerners arrived, and gave him one day to question the elders in his city.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Bei Chen Xiang that the Westerners might have sacrificed their own people to draw the Red Mad Wolves eastward.
• Jiang Yan Hai used Great Qin’s records and the construction of its two Great Wall rings to explain how the wolves had threatened the northeast and north.
• Jiang Yan Hai argued that the wolves were unlikely to have crossed the frigid, oxygen-poor Kunlun range and could instead have reached Great Qin via northern ice caps.
• Jiang Yan Hai noted that Great Qin’s first and second Great Wall rings fell not long after the first two recorded appearances of Westerners, and questioned why the Westerners had come.

Jiang Yan Hai and Bei Chen Xiang pieced together how the westerners had used criminals and their families to redirect Red Mad Wolf attacks, and Lu Shi confirmed the attacks had surged after the westerners arrived. The satellite-tracked group was still advancing through the Arctic Circle toward them, taking the long route because the passage near Kunlun Divine Mountain was impassable.

• Bei Chen Xiang questioned whether anyone would risk a journey of more than ten thousand kilometers, and Jiang Yan Hai asked if he would do it for his family.
• Jiang Yan Hai inferred from the group's route and their known shelters that they were moving through the Arctic Circle, where proper insulation could help them travel faster than the Red Mad Wolves.
• Jiang Yan Hai examined satellite images and concluded that the warships were meant to break winter ice and that a fleet likely controlled the mainland criminals by offering protection in exchange for food and resources.
• Lu Shi returned and reported that Red Mad Wolf attacks had increased after the westerners arrived, peaked with heavy casualties, and then gradually subsided.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Bei Chen Xiang determined that the group was heading toward them through the Arctic Circle because neither people nor Red Mad Wolves could pass near Kunlun Divine Mountain.