Chapter Summaries

While at sea, Jiang Yan Hai used Er Dan to break into Pantheon's hidden server at CERN and discovered that his earlier cracking spree had led him straight to the group's headquarters. He ordered a security scan before copying anything, leaving Pantheon's secrets within reach.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his companions left the harbor and continued toward their destination by ship.
• With three days left on the journey, the Electronic Warfare Program finished cracking Pantheon's program and revealed an account linked to CERN's internal server.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Er Dan to scan the server and verify that copying its data would not expose them or trigger hidden traps.
• Jiang Yan Hai reviewed the eleven cracked addresses and realized that the first eight held Pantheon's tests, while later addresses led to its contact hub, backup server, and true headquarters.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized the rarely used headquarters server likely held information on Pantheon's members and waited for Er Dan's scan before copying its secrets.

Jiang Yan Hai had Er Dan secretly extract Pantheon's protected supercomputer data and studied the identities of its fourteen leaders and 122 members. He learned that Pantheon included prominent scientists, hackers, and business figures, leaving him with information he planned to handle privately.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Er Dan to scan the supercomputer and copy its data while avoiding alarms and erasing all traces afterward.
• Er Dan identified Pantheon's structure: fourteen leaders whose passwords controlled access, and 122 other members made up of hackers and people under Pantheon's protection.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the 122 members included wealthy business owners and hackers, and that Pantheon had killed a member who tried to expose it by arranging for an F16 to crash into his villa.
• Jiang Yan Hai examined the fourteen leaders' identities and discovered that they included eminent figures such as Nobel laureate Professor Carlos Noby, MIT professor George Abbey, and internet pioneer Vint Cerf.
• Jiang Yan Hai decided not to report the information to China yet and kept the matter in his own hands.

Jiang Yan Hai investigated a scientist protected by Pantheon while preparing to enter the Republic of Evia with Black Lion’s mercenaries. Just before dawn, Er Dan warned that the Red Scarf Army was highly likely to launch a rebellion, and Jiang Yan Hai began making urgent preparations.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Er Dan to search Pantheon’s database and found information about Ivan, a Ukrainian-American chemist whose research had attracted the attention of American companies and government agencies.
• Jiang Yan Hai investigated Ivan’s location and phone through Republic of Evia surveillance and government networks while planning to meet him and obtain his research.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Black Lion’s team arrived at the Port of Santa Marta Sava and organized their weapons and supplies aboard the ship.
• Black Lion told Jiang Yan Hai that his mercenaries had come to the Republic of Evia without a specific job and were available to help him.
• Er Dan warned Jiang Yan Hai that the Red Scarf Army had an 87.88% chance of launching a rebellion that day, and Jiang Yan Hai woke Black Lion to ask about his funds.

Jiang Yan Hai and Black Lion prepared their mercenary team for a possible uprising in the Republic of Evia and helped the cargo ship finish refueling. As the city descended into chaos, the team moved along its outskirts and saw an armed thug threatening a mother and daughter.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Black Lion that the Rebel Army in the Republic of Evia might launch an uprising, and the team prepared weapons and ammunition.
• Black Lion arranged for the captain to refuel the ship and transfer their money and gold without a fee in exchange for protecting the vessel.
• An explosion sounded in the city at sunrise, and Jiang Yan Hai led the team onto the deck as gunfire spread toward the port.
• After refueling ended, the team disembarked and headed along the city's outskirts while the captain departed with their funds.
• Jiang Yan Hai stopped the team near fleeing civilians and looters, where they saw a gunman threatening a mother and daughter beside a bloodied building.

Jiang Yan Hai and Blood Wolf protected fleeing civilians as fighting swept through the city. After stopping a truck-mounted machine gun and breaking up the Rebel Army’s attack, Jiang Yan Hai noticed a former soldier among the refugees watching him closely.

• Jiang Yan Hai shot a thug threatening a mother and daughter, then ordered his team to fire immediately if civilians faced danger.
• The mother and daughter thanked Jiang Yan Hai’s group and fled through the ruined city.
• Jiang Yan Hai spotted Chinese nationals among civilians fleeing the government army’s collapsing position and ordered his team to rescue them if necessary.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot the operator of a truck-mounted machine gun as the Rebel Army attacked the fleeing civilians, and Bob Lee and Hummingbird joined the firefight.
• Blood Wolf killed or drove off several attackers, allowing the civilians to reach the group, while Jiang Yan Hai noticed a man among them move like a trained soldier and study him.

Jiang Yan Hai’s group withdrew to the embassy district and waited for events to settle, while the Chinese consulate prepared to evacuate its nationals. A Chinese naval fleet received orders to send warships to Evia and bring every Chinese citizen home.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s team secured a building and three SUVs near the consulate, then agreed to wait and avoid joining the fighting.
• The counselor learned from Leng Feng that Jiang Yan Hai’s group had rescued him and appeared to be elite mercenaries.
• The counselor told Leng Feng that a convoy would assemble before dawn to take the consulate’s evacuees to the port.
• A Chinese fleet received orders to send the 101 Nanchang and 172 Xiamen missile destroyers with a supply ship to Evia to evacuate nationals from two ports.

China dispatched warships and surveillance satellites to support the evacuation mission in the Republic of Evia. As dawn neared, Jiang Yan Hai and his group prepared to leave while watching the Chinese consulate evacuate people of several nationalities and local residents.

• A general ordered the fleet to cooperate fully with Jiang Yan Hai if they made contact and sent the ships toward Evia at full speed.
• A Type 055 destroyer and a Type 052D destroyer were dispatched for the evacuation as satellites converged on the area.
• As dawn approached, Jiang Yan Hai woke his group when the Chinese consulate began evacuating people by bus.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Black Lion watched the consulate evacuate Chinese nationals, foreign employees, and local residents, and Black Lion praised the country's sense of responsibility.
• Jiang Yan Hai reflected that a strong country gave its people a home, then told the group to leave.

Jiang Yan Hai led Black Lion’s mercenaries through the devastated city toward the port, where a Chinese warship was evacuating citizens. He decided to approach the port and seek work supporting the Republic of Evia’s government forces, leaving Black Lion’s squad waiting nearby.

• Jiang Yan Hai and Black Lion followed another convoy through a city ravaged by fighting and looting.
• Jiang Yan Hai reflected on the destruction and resolved to find a way for his squad to help stop the Rebel Army.
• The squad reached the government-held port and spotted a Chinese warship flying the Five-star Red Flag.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that foreign evacuation efforts could require the Republic of Evia to send troops, creating a possible mission for the mercenaries.
• Jiang Yan Hai changed into ordinary clothes and headed for the port while Black Lion and the others waited in nearby buildings.

Jiang Yan Hai reached the Chinese evacuation ship and revealed his military identity while volunteering to rescue Chinese nationals and Dr. Chen. After his credentials were verified, Captain Ding Hai placed Xiamen Ship 172 under his command.

• Jiang Yan Hai bluffed his way into the harbor and approached the officers discussing a rescue mission for Chinese citizens trapped in the combat zone.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Leng Feng both volunteered to undertake the mission, and Leng Feng introduced himself as a former Wolf Warrior Squadron member.
• Jiang Yan Hai identified himself as the Wolf Warrior Squadron captain and brought Leng Feng aboard the ship with him.
• In the command cabin, Jiang Yan Hai gave his credentials and emergency assistance code, which the officers verified.
• Captain Ding Hai, Political Commissar Zhao Gang, and Weapons Officer Tian Hai Liang saluted Jiang Yan Hai and announced that Xiamen Ship 172 would follow his command.

Jiang Yan Hai secured command of three Chinese ships and arranged for the Republic of Evia to hire Blood Wolf to evacuate Chinese nationals. He gathered the mercenaries and Leng Feng to prepare for the rescue mission.

• Ding Hai gave Jiang Yan Hai orders placing three ships under his command, including the Nanchang, hull number 101, which was heading to Haofa Port.
• Jiang Yan Hai requested authorization for the warships to intervene if terrorists threatened Chinese civilians and proposed that Evia hire Blood Wolf to conduct the rescue.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Leng Feng to arrange the hiring and vehicles, then asked him to use the name Han Xiao and the codename Technician.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Black Lion that Dr. Chen and forty-seven Chinese employees at a factory in Sangkuja Town needed rescuing, and that Evia would negotiate Blood Wolf's fee.
• Leng Feng arrived with five modified Jeeps, and Jiang Yan Hai introduced him to Black Lion and the other mercenaries as their guide and potential source of assistance.

Jiang Yan Hai negotiated the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group’s payment for protecting Chinese nationals in Evia, raising the government’s offer from two million to five million dollars. The convoy reached a government army depot to replenish weapons, while Leng Feng wondered how Jiang Yan Hai had earned the mercenaries’ trust.

• Leng Feng told Jiang Yan Hai that the group was heading to a military camp for weapons and that they might also need to escort more than a thousand Chinese nationals to another port.
• Black Lion accepted a contract from the Republic of Evia government for two million dollars, but Jiang Yan Hai argued that the mission’s danger and the Chinese lives at stake justified five million.
• Leng Feng contacted his superiors, and the fleet agreed to Black Lion’s request for five million dollars, payable in advance.
• Leng Feng wondered how Jiang Yan Hai had gained the trust of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group despite seeming too young to have spent years with them.
• The convoy reached a government army-controlled building, where the group replenished its light weapons and ammunition.

Jiang Yan Hai led Leng Feng and his team into the quarantined Sangkuja Town to rescue Dr. Chen and other hostages from mercenaries and Red Scarf Army fighters. After discovering an old enemy among the attackers, Jiang Yan Hai and Leng Feng drove toward the hospital while the rest of the team took positions around it.

• Jiang Yan Hai briefed the team on the hospital, the quarantine zone, and the enemy forces already approaching the hostages.
• Leng Feng suggested ramming a reinforced vehicle through the hospital wall if the enemies seized it, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to go in with him.
• The team entered Sangkuja Town, and Jiang Yan Hai identified one attacker as an enemy from the Africa coast mission.
• Jiang Yan Hai assigned Hippo and Hornet to guard the vehicles and sent the others to form perimeter and sniper teams.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Leng Feng drove toward the hospital as Jiang Yan Hai's warning system revealed that people inside had been tortured.

Jiang Yan Hai and Leng Feng crashed a modified Jeep into the hospital to attack the Red Scarf Army and rescue a hostage. Jiang Yan Hai overwhelmed the mercenaries with his strength and marksmanship as Leng Feng fought alongside him.

• Leng Feng drove the Jeep through the hospital wall while Jiang Yan Hai braced himself and leaped through the passenger window.
• Jiang Yan Hai disarmed and kicked a female mercenary, then knocked Big Bear backward with a shoulder collision.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot the wounded female mercenary dead, enraging Big Bear, while Leng Feng opened fire on the surrounding enemies.
• Jiang Yan Hai caught Big Bear’s punch, hurled him onto the concrete floor, and left him unable to rise.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot an Asian mercenary and two Red Scarf Army soldiers who emerged from hiding.

Jiang Yan Hai and the others secured the hospital, where they found that Dane Military Company had tortured and killed most of the people inside. After killing Big Bear, Jiang Yan Hai wondered whether the deaths had happened because of him and resolved to make sure they had not died in vain.

• Leng Feng told Black Lion and his men that the hospital was safe, and Jiang Yan Hai handed Black Lion his pistol.
• Big Bear charged Jiang Yan Hai again, but Jiang Yan Hai broke his ribs, snapped his leg, broke his arm, and crushed his fingers.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot Big Bear in the head after he fainted from the pain.
• Leng Feng and the others left Jiang Yan Hai unchallenged after seeing the tortured victims, including Dr. Chen and the blonde woman, dead inside the hospital.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized Dane Military Company had retaliated for his previous killings in Africa and questioned whether the victims had died because of him.

Jiang Yan Hai’s group rescued Doctor Rachel, the nurse, and Pasha from the hospital, recovered surveillance footage and research drives, and burned the site. The convoy reached the Chinese-funded Factory, where Jiang Yan Hai cautiously approached its defenses and called out at the entrance.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Mouse Carlos to copy the hospital’s surveillance data and decided to take the remaining survivors with them.
• Black Lion rescued Doctor Rachel from upstairs, while a nurse explained that two sick women would stay behind and introduced Pasha as Dr. Chen’s daughter.
• Pasha thanked Jiang Yan Hai, then broke down crying when he apologized for arriving too late to save her father.
• Mouse Carlos returned with the hard drives, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered the group to burn the hospital before leaving with Doctor Rachel, the nurse, and Pasha.
• Jiang Yan Hai stopped the convoy near the Chinese-funded Factory, sent White Headed Eagle and Hummingbird’s teams to sniper positions, and warned Leng Feng that about ten people were hidden around the factory.
• Jiang Yan Hai stepped over a concealed tripwire, reached the factory barrier, and called out to whoever was there.

Jiang Yan Hai and Leng Feng reached the factory to rescue the Chinese nationals, where Jiang Yan Hai disarmed a hostile young man and established control of the situation. He warned the group that a mercenary regiment threatened them, planned defenses for the night, and went to contact the Chinese side.

• Jiang Yan Hai disarmed Zhuo Yifan when he aimed a pistol at him, and the surrounding guards lowered their weapons.
• Jiang Yan Hai introduced himself as a Blood Wolf mercenary hired by the Republic of Evia and identified Leng Feng as Chinese; the convoy and distant sniper teams entered the factory.
• Jiang Yan Hai questioned Zhuo Yifan about the factory's defenses, then ordered everyone to cooperate and hold out until a planned evacuation the next day.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the enemy included a mercenary regiment and said the group might travel by truck to the peacekeeping camp rather than risk unprotected helicopters.
• Jiang Yan Hai assigned Black Lion to handle the defenses and went to communicate with the Chinese side.

Jiang Yan Hai ordered preparations to evacuate the Chinese employees and local factory workers, then accessed Pantheon's secret website using a reserved account. His login alerted fourteen Pantheon members, who gathered in the chatroom to question how he had found them.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Black Lion that Dane Military Consulting Company controlled the threat and had deterred other mercenary groups from intervening.
• Jiang Yan Hai used the warship's satellite link to confirm his orders and take command authority.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Leng Feng to prepare the factory's vehicles and evacuate both the forty-seven Chinese employees and the local workers.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained to Black Lion that responsibility and a strong homeland mattered to soldiers and citizens, then warned that the enemy might attack that night.
• Jiang Yan Hai logged into Pantheon's website with a reserved account, triggering alerts that brought fourteen members into the chatroom.
• Thor said no challenge server or virus had been breached, while Athena asked how Jiang Yan Hai had reached the site and used the reserved account.

Jiang Yan Hai demonstrated his ability to access the Pantheon's secure chat and asked to act under the organization's name. He then demanded the US Submarine Firing Command and Password, leaving the Pantheon members stunned.

• Zeus proposed that Ghost had infiltrated their websites to reach the Pantheon's private address, and the members logged in to meet him.
• Jiang Yan Hai revealed that he was Ghost and asked why the Pantheon wanted him to join.
• Zeus invited Jiang Yan Hai to join and explained that the Pantheon would oppose terrorism and other actions without a moral bottom line.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he wanted to act under the Pantheon's name and hinted that he could obtain something from its older members whether they agreed or not.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked for the US Submarine Firing Command and Password.

Jiang Yan Hai and Blood Wolf prepared for an attack after Old Man’s forces chose to wait until morning. When the Red Scarf Army convoy entered range, Jiang Yan Hai opened fire from nearly 2,800 meters away and killed a vehicle’s machine gunner.

• Jiang Yan Hai left the others to consider his request, then prepared his M82A1M rifle in case the enemy raided the factory.
• Leng Feng told Black Lion that Blood Wolf would evacuate to a nearby UN peacekeeping camp, while the defenders took positions around the factory.
• Old Man decided to attack the factory the next morning with his Red Scarf Army soldiers and twelve Type 59D tanks.
• At dawn, Jiang Yan Hai warned the team that the enemy had entered range and ordered the defenders into the old workshop while Hummingbird and White Headed Eagle harassed the approaching force.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot a machine gunner in a vehicle from roughly 2,800 meters away, bringing the convoy to a halt.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team used long-range sniper fire to halt Old Man’s convoy, forcing it to hide behind tanks and smoke. After the smoke blocked their view, Jiang Yan Hai revealed that Ship 172 had received an attack order, and Captain Ding Hai launched the first four Yingji-18 missiles toward the battlefield.

• Seagull reported that Jiang Yan Hai hit a machine gunner and then a vehicle driver from more than 2,500 meters away.
• Hummingbird fired and struck a thin rail on a vehicle, while Bob Lee gave up comparing himself to Jiang Yan Hai.
• Old Man ordered twelve tanks to move ahead of the convoy and deploy smoke grenades to screen the factory from the snipers.
• Seagull and Wild Donkey reported that the smoke had blocked their view, and Jiang Yan Hai told his team that some lines could not be crossed.
• Captain Ding Hai ordered Ship 172 to launch four Yingji-18 missiles, then prepared a second batch for launch.