Recaps

Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai arrived at the Wolf Fang Special Operations Base, where He Zhi Jun and Bai Zhipeng welcomed them and discussed the upcoming Operation Winter Chill. After settling into the newly built command center, Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai looked out over the growing military base and the surrounding new world.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai greeted He Zhi Jun and reunited with Bai Zhipeng at the base.
• He Zhi Jun told Jiang Yan Hai that Operation Winter Chill was scheduled for three days later, before a forecast cold wave froze the sea.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the operation would use submarines to destroy warships around the British Isles and protect the ice where Red Mad Wolf operated.
• He Zhi Jun took Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai through the snowy landscape to the new command center and showed them their suite.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai looked out from their room at the town walls, new roads, and expanding settlement.

Li Ruo Bai learned about the Great Qin world while Jiang Yan Hai returned to the command center to discuss next steps. After reviewing their satellite coverage and Red Mad Wolf breeding plans, Jiang Yan Hai said they could begin their operation.

• Li Ruo Bai asked whether the unfamiliar landscape was part of the universe, and Jiang Yan Hai explained that the world might be a parallel space called Great Qin.
• Jiang Yan Hai gave Li Ruo Bai a tablet containing information about Great Qin, then went to the command center.
• A major told Jiang Yan Hai that the global positioning and surveillance satellite network was operational and that no human settlements had been found beyond three locations.
• He Zhi Jun said they had established a captive breeding base for about fifty to a hundred Red Mad Wolves.
• Jiang Yan Hai said they could begin, and he told Bai Zhipeng that their country’s principles did not mean they would not fight back.

Jiang Yan Hai, He Zhi Jun, and Bai Zhipeng decided to destroy the walls of the mainland’s last two cities so the Red Mad Wolves would be driven toward the sea. He Zhi Jun ordered Operation Spring Thunder to begin, sending the Hou Yi the coordinates for an immediate attack.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Bai Zhipeng discussed the grim choice of killing people in the cities, and Bai Zhipeng said he was prepared to carry out the order.
• He Zhi Jun reported that the enemy fleets were drilling near the island and could break through the ice at any time.
• A major reported that only two mainland cities remained, with about 600,000 people, while roughly 2.5 million Red Mad Wolves remained.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed destroying the cities’ walls to make the Red Mad Wolves cross the ocean, and He Zhi Jun and Bai Zhipeng agreed.
• He Zhi Jun ordered Operation Spring Thunder and directed the Hou Yi to attack the two cities’ walls using the supplied coordinates.

The Descendant carried out Operation Spring Thunder, launching missiles at the last two cities threatened by the Red Mad Wolves. The missiles struck Gaodu and Thorn, blasting through their walls as the attack began.

• The Descendant received orders to attack two targets and prepared its missiles using satellite data.
• The submarine launched four missiles, which climbed into the sky and turned toward Gaodu and Thorn.
• Guards Tom and another soldier spotted two incoming fireballs and sounded the alarm in Thorn.
• Two missiles struck beside and atop a city wall, unleashing explosions that destroyed a stretch of the wall.

Jiang Yan Hai’s forces destroyed the walls of two cities with cruise missiles, allowing the red mad wolves to overrun them. As the wolves flooded in, Jiang Yan Hai prepared his forces to advance and trap the survivors between his defensive lines and the sea.

• Two specially designed cruise missiles blasted enormous breaches in the walls of two cities surrounded by red mad wolves.
• The residents piled furniture and timber into the breaches, but the wolves charged in waves and broke through the makeshift barricades.
• Red mad wolves flooded both cities, overwhelming the defenders as more packs gathered nearby.
• Infrared reconnaissance satellites transmitted the invasions to Jiang Yan Hai and the others, who watched in silence before turning to their preparations.
• A major reported that four defensive lines, six temporary bases, and two advance units totaling five thousand personnel were in place to prevent the wolves from returning across the continent.
• Jiang Yan Hai accepted that his forces would advance after dawn and close the encirclement, leaving the red mad wolves only the sea or destruction as options.

Jiang Yan Hai and He Zhi Jun discussed how to eliminate the Red Mad Wolves and prevent them from breeding, despite having only 5,000 soldiers to cover the vast forest. Jiang Yan Hai proposed setting fires around the wolf packs if other measures failed, and He Zhi Jun ordered the front lines to prepare.

• A major reported that the Red Mad Wolves might disappear into the remaining wildlife if they escaped, making them impossible to track.
• Jiang Yan Hai and He Zhi Jun agreed that if they could not kill every wolf, they should eliminate the females and cubs to stop the pack from breeding.
• Jiang Yan Hai studied a map and saw that the wolves were concentrated in forests beyond farmland surrounding two coastal cities.
• Jiang Yan Hai suggested using incendiary bombs to set the forest on fire if necessary, and He Zhi Jun and Bai Zhipeng accepted the plan.
• He Zhi Jun ordered the front lines to prepare, while Red Mad Wolves continued searching through both cities as dawn approached.

The Red Mad Wolves overran two cities before fleets from the British Isles could intervene, while Jiang Yan Hai and the five-thousand-strong force continued advancing across the mainland. The British fleet prepared to defend against the wolves, unaware that an Attack Nuclear Submarine had targeted its ships.

• The fleets across the strait arrived too late to save the two cities, and their crews watched as the Red Mad Wolves overran the residents.
• Two days later, the Red Mad Wolves gathered along the coast, allowing Jiang Yan Hai and the others to advance past them along ancient roads.
• The five thousand troops used drones, satellite support, modern weapons, and Attack Nuclear Submarine support to monitor and hold off the wolf packs as they advanced.
• The British Isles learned that the mainland's people had been wiped out, and their commanders planned to break up winter ice to keep the wolves from reaching the islands.
• An Attack Nuclear Submarine targeted the British fleet, which included eighteen large warships, while its crew carried 128 Cruise Missiles and Anti-ship Missiles.
• The chapter explained that the submarine's missiles were retired domestic models, as Earth prepared to replace its missile systems with designs using Ivan's solid rocket engines.

A submarine destroyed the British Isles’ warships and fishing fleet, leaving the island vulnerable as Red Mad Wolves gathered near the frozen strait. Two days later, Jiang Yan Hai and the others learned the strait was close to freezing over completely while a three-day storm threatened boats pushed out onto the sea.

• The captain fired twenty torpedoes at the harbor’s large vessels, then launched four thermobaric missiles that set the wooden fishing-boat docks ablaze.
• The captain ordered the submarine to dive as people across the British Isles watched the destruction, and Red Mad Wolves howled at the firelight along the shore.
• The submarine and drones continued monitoring the Red Mad Wolves as they advanced across the growing sea ice, then stopped where open water blocked their path.
• Two days later, a major reported to Jiang Yan Hai and the others that sea ice had nearly joined across the strait and dozens of fishing boats had been pushed out toward a three-day storm.

After the Red Mad Wolves migrated across the frozen strait and overran the British Isles, He Zhi Jun’s troops and supply fleet prepared to reopen the route. Jiang Yan Hai proposed using two low-cost nuclear detonations to destroy the ice, leaving the group to consider his plan.

• Drones detected Red Mad Wolf packs crossing the frozen strait, and the first wave reached the island at night.
• Giant female wolves called the remaining packs forward, and the Red Mad Wolves migrated across the strait until the British Isles were completely overrun.
• He Zhi Jun ordered the rear troops to advance as an eleven-ship Nuclear Power supply fleet, including an icebreaker, arrived near the coast.
• A major estimated that keeping the strait clear would require three or four bombardments and around four hundred missiles.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed placing two nuclear bombs on the ice to destroy it more cheaply than using Cruise Missiles.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that nuclear warheads were inexpensive compared with the missiles and vehicles used to deliver them.

He Zhi Jun secured approval to transport nuclear warheads for use against the red mad wolves, but a report of a strange discovery near the collapsed Stargate at Penglai Peninsula disrupted Jiang Yan Hai’s plans. Uneasy about the creature preserved inside a huge amber-like crystal, Jiang Yan Hai decided to go investigate.

• He Zhi Jun obtained approval to send nuclear warheads, and a transport plane departed with two while frontline troops prepared the site and planned to withdraw ahead of the blast.
• An alarm announced that staff at Penglai Peninsula had reported a Level One incident, and He Zhi Jun explained that it involved a discovery requiring investigation.
• Jiang Yan Hai watched a video of a cave near the collapsed Stargate, where murals showed unfamiliar monsters and a large amber-like crystal contained a creature resembling one of them.
• Jiang Yan Hai volunteered to travel to Penglai Peninsula and ordered the site sealed while He Zhi Jun agreed to report the development.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s recent time at the base with Li Ruo Bai and Dai Yuan ended with Li Ruo Bai and Dai Yuan playing video games together.

Jiang Yan Hai investigated a newly discovered cave near the Star Gate collapse site on Penglai Peninsula, where Er Dan detected ore from the Star Gate’s construction materials. The cave also contained murals and a huge amber-like object holding a small monster, but Professor Zhou had only reached preliminary conclusions.

• Jiang Yan Hai left Li Ruo Bai and Dai Yuan at home and traveled to the temporary base on Penglai Peninsula.
• A major led Jiang Yan Hai through an excavated cave and explained that machinery had uncovered a sealed side passage.
• Er Dan detected ore from the Star Gate construction material sequence, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered it to be absorbed.
• Jiang Yan Hai entered the passage with soldiers and found murals and a huge amber-like object containing a monster.
• Professor Zhou told Jiang Yan Hai that the cave seemed to be between seven hundred and eleven hundred years old and that the object was unlikely to be natural amber.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that the crystal cave contained a second type of Star Gate energy, which raised his commander authority to major general and unlocked several upgraded systems. During his return to headquarters, Er Dan explained that the new systems could analyze materials, simulate objects and experiments, and manipulate Star Gates.

• Jiang Yan Hai confirmed with Professor Zhou that the crystal cave had no immediate dangers, though researchers could not tell whether its animal-like shapes contained actual organisms.
• Er Dan reported that absorbing the crystal yielded 822 points of Star Gate energy and raised Jiang Yan Hai’s authority by 2,000 points to major general.
• The Red Star Engine upgraded Jiang Yan Hai’s scanning and simulation systems and activated the Star Gate Analysis System, prompting him to hurry back to headquarters.
• Jiang Yan Hai boarded a transport plane and learned that the Data Analysis System could analyze scanned materials while the Illusion Simulation System could simulate objects, production lines, and experiments.
• Er Dan explained that the Star Gate Analysis System could manipulate Star Gates, including the Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate, whose diameter could be increased by one meter for 50 points of special energy.

Jiang Yan Hai learned about Star Gate materials, construction costs, transmission limits, and cross-world inheritance from Er Dan. He arranged to analyze the Star Gate under the cover story that he had recently decrypted data from the Prophet’s opponents, and the scan began taking an hour.

• Jiang Yan Hai asked Er Dan how much energy it would take to change the Star Gate’s transmission method and learned it required 50,000 energy points.
• Er Dan explained that basic Star Gates could travel within a galaxy and that Star Gate materials existed across civilizations’ planetary systems.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that mixed-blood children could travel between their parents’ worlds, but that cross-world couples had only a one-in-twenty chance of conceiving.
• Er Dan suggested Jiang Yan Hai claim he had decrypted information from the creators of the Mechanical Octopus to explain his Star Gate research.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned to the base and began analyzing the Star Gate, whose scan was expected to take an hour.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that the Star Gate contained coordinates for a rare symbiotic Star Gate leading to another world, which could provide the final material needed to build a basic Star Gate. He decided to prepare an explanation and instruments before expanding it, then contacted the highest Strategic Command Center.

• He Zhi Jun found Jiang Yan Hai studying the Star Gate, and Jiang Yan Hai told him he was comparing it with encrypted data and mural clues.
• Er Dan’s analysis identified the Star Gate as an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate with its connection chain severed and revealed coordinates for a symbiotic Star Gate.
• Er Dan explained that spending 500 energy points could expand a matching Star Gate to the symbiotic world, potentially providing the fifth type of Star Gate material ore.
• Jiang Yan Hai weighed the risks of an unknown civilization and the possible return of the Alpha-3 connection route, then decided to delay expansion until preparations were made.
• Er Dan offered to fabricate decipherable materials and instruments to support Jiang Yan Hai’s explanation, and Jiang Yan Hai returned to the command center, informed He Zhi Jun, and contacted the highest Strategic Command Center.

Jiang Yan Hai presented decrypted information about symbiotic Star Gates and urged the commanders to open one to the Great Qin world. The commanders adjourned to decide and promised him an answer within a day.

• Jiang Yan Hai told the commanders that Zakayev had protected a document containing information about Star Gates and a device that could activate Energy Ore.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the information described symbiotic Star Gates and suggested one connected to the world of the Mechanical Octopuses.
• Jiang Yan Hai said the device might help them access the Great Qin world, giving the Red Star nations another source of materials and technological advancement.
• After a two-hour meeting, Old Commander asked Jiang Yan Hai for his opinion, and Jiang Yan Hai urged them to proceed because people from the other world could not come through.
• The commanders confirmed that people from their side could travel through, then adjourned and said they would give Jiang Yan Hai a decision within one day.

Jiang Yan Hai secured approval for his plan to investigate the Star Gate, and the state prepared equipment, troops, and supplies for an expedition. With the equipment completed, the team was ready to begin analyzing the Star Gate and exploring what lay beyond it.

• After the video call, Jiang Yan Hai returned to his quarters while the military dealt with the aftermath of detonating two Hydrogen Bombs and confined the Red Mad Wolves to the island.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Li Ruo Bai that he might enter a new world through the Star Gate, and she agreed to stay and wait for him.
• The next afternoon, the higher-ups approved Jiang Yan Hai's proposal and arranged to provide the Star Gate ore while his team built the required equipment.
• During the following week, the state readied military forces, helicopters, and supplies as Professor Li and other researchers prepared to study the Star Gate.
• The completed equipment included detection, analysis, and energy-injection systems, and Jiang Yan Hai's team was ready to examine the Star Gate.

Jiang Yan Hai and the scientists prepared the factory for an experiment to activate a new Stargate, while a special operations squad stood by. The experiment succeeded, opening a second Stargate beside the original, with its settings configured to allow travel from their side and the Great Qin world but prevent outsiders from entering.

• The team spent weeks dismantling and reinforcing the factory so a second Stargate could appear without endangering the scientists inside.
• Jiang Yan Hai and a sixteen-person special operations squad waited as Li Ruo Bai, Professor Li, and the researchers prepared the experiment.
• Professor Li started the experiment, and the laser struck the Energy Ore while Er Dan extracted its energy.
• Professor Li ordered the laser shut off when the energy peaked, and the ore crumbled into ash as a bright spot appeared beside the Stargate.
• Er Dan opened the new Stargate with settings that allowed people from Jiang Yan Hai's side and the Great Qin world to travel through but blocked people from the other world.

Jiang Yan Hai led an advance team through the new Stargate into a Gobi Desert world and discovered the Great Wall nearby. A drone revealed an armored army and strange machines stationed along the wall.

• Jiang Yan Hai led the advance team through the Stargate and ordered Yang Rui and the Jiaolong team to secure the northern high ground.
• Scientists confirmed that the air was safe to breathe, and Jiang Yan Hai's team removed their oxygen masks.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team spotted the Great Wall about 3,800 meters away and reported flags resembling ancient military banners to the base.
• Logistical personnel set up signal transmitters and launched a drone toward the Great Wall.
• Jiang Yan Hai watched the drone feed reveal strange machines and a neatly organized armored army atop the wall.

Jiang Yan Hai recognized the world beyond the Star Gate as resembling The Great Wall, where an army guarded a valley containing Taotie. After ordering defenses and continuous reconnaissance, he returned to report the discovery and discuss how to make contact.

• Jiang Yan Hai recognized the Great Wall and the female soldiers in blue armor from the film The Great Wall, and suspected the valley held Taotie.
• Jiang Yan Hai considered how the Taotie compared with the Red Mad Wolves and concluded that intervention would require careful planning.
• The drones mapped the Great Wall and recorded its troops, while soldiers camouflaged the Star Gate and established defensive lines around the valley.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered round-the-clock infrared drone surveillance and told He Zhi Jun and the others to prepare for a meeting.
• Jiang Yan Hai returned through the Star Gate, reassured Li Ruo Bai, and began a video conference to show the drone footage to his superiors.

Jiang Yan Hai briefed the leaders on the symbiotic Stargate and analyzed the Great Wall footage, concluding that the local army was defending against enemies like the Red Mad Wolf rather than nomadic peoples. The meeting ended with the leaders considering the threat hidden beyond the valley.

• Jiang Yan Hai reported that the drone footage and Professor Li’s spatial-distortion data supported the Stargate information, though decryption remained slow.
• Jiang Yan Hai argued that the new world’s lavishly equipped, color-coded troops and immense fortifications were not intended to repel nomadic peoples.
• He Zhi Jun questioned Jiang Yan Hai’s claim, but agreed that cavalry could not plausibly breach the Great Wall’s formidable defenses.
• Jiang Yan Hai showed that the main defensive position faced a long valley bordered by near-vertical cliffs and ending at a vast cave.
• Jiang Yan Hai concluded that the defenders faced enemies similar to the Red Mad Wolf.

Jiang Yan Hai proposed contacting the soldiers at the Great Wall and set out alone to seek their cooperation. He reached the wall, where the Eagle Army’s general ordered arrows fired around him, and Jiang Yan Hai called out to ask if he was an Eagle Army general.

• Jiang Yan Hai argued that the cave might contain a Stargate and that the group would need to cooperate with the people guarding it.
• He Zhi Jun and the others approved Jiang Yan Hai’s plan to make contact, and Jiang Yan Hai chose to go alone.
• Jiang Yan Hai armed himself, rode an off-road motorcycle toward the city wall, and drew the attention of its defenders.
• The general in dark red armor ordered arrows to land in a circle around Jiang Yan Hai.
• Jiang Yan Hai bowed and asked the general whether he was an Eagle Army general.

Jiang Yan Hai introduced himself to the Shadowless Imperial Guard as a military leader from the Great Qin Empire and offered to join forces against the Taotie. After General Chen brought him inside the fortress and his weapons were searched, Jiang Yan Hai met Commander Shao Xiong and gave him his name and rank.

• Jiang Yan Hai told General Chen that he came from the Great Qin Empire and had come because of the Taotie.
• General Chen reacted to the mention of the Taotie and agreed to bring Jiang Yan Hai to the Commander, provided he followed their rules.
• Jiang Yan Hai pushed his motorcycle through the fortress gate and entered the Shadowless Imperial Guard's military settlement.
• The soldiers searched Jiang Yan Hai's equipment, setting aside his daggers and flashbang grenades while returning his magazines and leaving his pistol with him.
• Jiang Yan Hai met Commander Shao Xiong and introduced himself as Colonel Jiang.

Jiang Yan Hai negotiated with Commander Shao and the Shadowless Imperial Guard about the approaching Taotie attack, offering the Great Qin Empire’s army as potential support. The guards agreed to seek his help if they failed to stop the Taotie.

• Jiang Yan Hai confirmed that the Taotie’s next attack was expected to begin in half a month, and noted that the gathered generals had never fought them before.
• General Lin declared that the Shadowless Imperial Guard would not retreat, while Commander Shao asked how Jiang Yan Hai intended to help.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed stationing the Great Qin Empire’s army inside the Great Wall, and General Deng accused him of being a spy.
• Commander Shao and General Wu questioned whether Jiang Yan Hai might secretly sabotage the defenses, but Jiang Yan Hai argued that the guards could easily watch him and would detect any approaching army.
• Commander Shao accepted Jiang Yan Hai’s offer of help if the Shadowless Imperial Guard could not stop the Taotie.

Jiang Yan Hai discussed the Great Qin Empire’s support with Commander Shao and Advisor Wang, who questioned his motives, forces, and equipment. After agreeing to be watched, Jiang Yan Hai claimed he could kill the gathered generals and asked for five suits of armor to demonstrate his ability.

• Advisor Wang questioned Jiang Yan Hai about how quickly his forces could arrive, how many soldiers he could provide, and what he knew about the Taotie.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he could provide at most ten thousand troops, knew no more about the Taotie than they did, and had only followed orders.
• Commander Shao ended Advisor Wang’s questioning and told Jiang Yan Hai he would be watched while staying with them; Jiang Yan Hai agreed.
• Commander Shao questioned why Jiang Yan Hai wore no armor and asked him to demonstrate his weapons and equipment.
• Jiang Yan Hai claimed he could easily kill the generals and escape, then asked Commander Shao to bring him five suits of armor.
• Commander Shao ordered a soldier to fetch the armor.

Jiang Yan Hai demonstrated that his pistol could pierce the Shadowless Imperial Guard’s scale armor, persuading Commander Shao and the generals of its deadly power. He then went to inspect the Great Wall while they examined the bullet and the dead pigs.

• Jiang Yan Hai had five pigs fitted with scale mail to test the armor against his pistol.
• Jiang Yan Hai fired five shots in quick succession, piercing the armor and killing each pig with a shot to the heart.
• Commander Shao and the generals were stunned by the demonstration, and Commander Shao allowed Jiang Yan Hai to inspect the Great Wall.
• Jiang Yan Hai reclaimed his belongings and followed a soldier to the Great Wall.
• Advisor Wang and the generals examined a pig’s armor and body, uncovering a deformed bullet and its shattered heart.