Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai joined Ethan Hunt, Brandt, and Benji in their hotel room and explained that he wanted to cooperate with them. After Brandt revealed why Jiang Yan Hai had defected from the CIA, the group agreed to work together, with Jiang Yan Hai helping their mission in exchange for a chance to speak with Molo.

• Benji attached electromagnetic gloves to the glass as Ethan Hunt and Brandt discussed their plan, and Jiang Yan Hai revealed himself from the next room.
• Brandt recognized Jiang Yan Hai as Liston Han Xiao, and Ethan Hunt lowered his gun after deciding Jiang Yan Hai would have killed them already if he meant them harm.
• At Ethan Hunt's urging, Brandt explained why Jiang Yan Hai had defected from the CIA, and Ethan and Benji reacted with disbelief.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed helping the team in exchange for speaking with Molo, and Ethan Hunt agreed to cooperate.
• Jiang Yan Hai connected to the server, and Benji confirmed that they controlled the cameras and elevators.

Jiang Yan Hai joined Ethan Hunt's team as they prepared to copy a forged nuclear password, then warned them that a cryptography expert could expose the deception. Ethan decided to use the real password to capture Kurt Hendricks, while Jiang Yan Hai stayed out of the operation and suspected Sandstorm's real objective lay in Africa.

• Jane arrived and introduced herself to Jiang Yan Hai after Ethan Hunt confirmed they were working together.
• Jane fitted Brandt with a special contact lens, and he copied the password onto paper through a briefcase printer.
• Jiang Yan Hai revealed that Vistron had arrived with Leonid Lysenko, who could verify whether the password was genuine.
• Ethan Hunt persuaded Brandt to use the real password so they could capture Kurt Hendricks in one stroke.
• The team began switching the room numbers and coordinating their operation across two floors while Jiang Yan Hai watched.
• Jiang Yan Hai believed Kurt Hendricks was a decoy and that Sandstorm's true objective was its activity in Africa.

Jiang Yan Hai used Er Dan’s surveillance and control of the hotel systems to save Leonid from Kurt Hendricks and intercept Molo. The others continued fighting on the 118th floor as Benji arranged an elevator for Ethan Hunt.

• Jiang Yan Hai tracked Kurt Hendricks and his communications while waiting near the elevator on the 119th floor.
• Kurt Hendricks tried to shoot Leonid, but Jiang Yan Hai shot the pistol from his hand and gave Leonid a chance to escape down the emergency stairs.
• Jiang Yan Hai used Er Dan to direct operatives and control the elevators while Ethan Hunt and Brandt fought Molo’s subordinates.
• Jiang Yan Hai caught Molo by the throat as she ran toward the elevator, and Jane arrived to see him holding her.
• Benji told Ethan Hunt that Kurt Hendricks had entered the elevator but Leonid was missing, then worked to get Ethan an elevator.

Jiang Yan Hai dragged the captured assassin Molo into a room and questioned her while Ethan Hunt pursued Kurt Hendricks and the team searched for Leonid. Molo revealed that she had been hired to kill Han, leaving Jiang Yan Hai to consider what to do with her.

• Jane saw Jiang Yan Hai stop Molo's attack and warned him that Molo could die, so he loosened his grip and dragged her away.
• Er Dan reported that Ethan Hunt had entered an elevator and Brandt was searching for Leonid, while Benji and Jane stayed behind.
• Jiang Yan Hai took Molo into Benji's room, and Benji failed to locate Leonid before the team stopped searching.
• Jiang Yan Hai questioned Molo about the Sha Chen Organization, and she said she knew nothing about its plans to ship something to Africa.
• Molo told Jiang Yan Hai that she had been hired to kill Han and had finished him off after someone named Daxiao crippled him.

Jiang Yan Hai coordinated the pursuit of Kurt Hendricks through a Dubai sandstorm, but Hendricks escaped in a truck. After Jiang Yan Hai handed Molo over to Jane and the others, Jane kicked her out of a 118-story building, and Jiang Yan Hai went to meet Leonid.

• Jiang Yan Hai directed cars through the sandstorm, helping Ethan Hunt pursue Vistron while the drivers disrupted the chase.
• Kurt Hendricks escaped by climbing into a truck, leaving Ethan Hunt unable to catch him.
• Er Dan told Jiang Yan Hai that Hendricks had escaped and that his location had been locked.
• Jiang Yan Hai handed Molo to Jane, who kicked her out of the window as Brandt tried to stop her.
• Benji ordered the team to evacuate, while Jiang Yan Hai went to the fifty-second floor and entered the stairwell where Leonid was climbing.

Jiang Yan Hai rescued Leonid and learned that Kurt Hendricks’s passwords could enable commands to active Russian nuclear submarines, while replacing the password database would leave the country without nuclear deterrence. Jiang Yan Hai continued surveilling Kurt, waiting to capture him and the nuclear launch case together.

• Jiang Yan Hai led Leonid out of the emergency passage and arranged for him to hide in Iceland after assuring him that his family was safe.
• Leonid explained that the passwords included codes for active Russian nuclear submarines and that a Russian strategic satellite could let Kurt send them commands.
• Leonid explained that Russia could invalidate the passwords only by discarding its strategic nuclear password database, leaving its deterrence disabled for months.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Leonid that Kurt was under surveillance and that he would wait until Kurt and the nuclear launch case were together before capturing him.

Jiang Yan Hai tracked Kurt Hendricks to a safehouse and confronted him, killing Vistron before Kurt surrendered. Kurt revealed Sha Chen’s activity in Azerbaijan and claimed its headquarters was a nuclear submarine, leaving Jiang Yan Hai shocked.

• Jiang Yan Hai drove to another city to capture Kurt Hendricks, whose location Er Dan had tracked.
• Jiang Yan Hai bypassed the safehouse’s explosive trap and shot Vistron when he reacted to the intrusion.
• Kurt surrendered and told Jiang Yan Hai that Sha Chen had offered him funding, resources, and intelligence.
• Kurt said Sha Chen was conducting an operation in Azerbaijan targeting a hacker.
• Kurt claimed Sha Chen’s headquarters was a nuclear submarine, shocking Jiang Yan Hai.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that Sandstorm might use a missing Soviet titanium-alloy nuclear submarine as its mobile headquarters, then killed Kurt and covered up the deaths. He delivered the nuclear warhead case to an embassy and returned to Dubai to await intelligence and investigate Sandstorm’s next move.

• Kurt told Jiang Yan Hai the rumor that Sandstorm’s mobile headquarters was a missing Soviet titanium-alloy nuclear submarine, but admitted he had no evidence.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot Kurt, checked the nuclear warhead launch case, and concealed the bodies by dissolving them with chemicals and setting the room on fire.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove to the country’s capital and handed the case over at the embassy before changing clothes and returning to Dubai.
• Jiang Yan Hai waited for intelligence from home about the submarine and considered how its construction might reveal Sandstorm’s secret facilities.
• Jiang Yan Hai decided to buy information about Sandstorm’s next move through Eagle Eye’s intelligence website, using the account Arthur had arranged.

Jiang Yan Hai reviewed intelligence on Sandstorm’s targets and began investigating Azerbaijan while Ethan Hunt’s team shut down a satellite in Mumbai. After Russian agents pursued the team, they escaped and watched Bujina’s residence, but Kurt Hendricks never appeared, leaving them unsure where he was.

• Jiang Yan Hai reviewed the intelligence and ordered Er Dan to infiltrate Azerbaijan’s main signal base station servers.
• Ethan Hunt’s team traveled to Mumbai, infiltrated Bujina’s party, and shut down the satellite.
• Jane extracted the shutdown password from Bujina, and Ethan realized Kurt Hendricks had not appeared as expected.
• Ethan ordered the team to split up when Benji spotted Russian agents following them, and the four later regrouped at Safe House Three.
• Ethan’s team monitored Bujina’s residence as he restarted the satellite, but Kurt never showed up, leaving Benji worried that they would be caught instead.

Jiang Yan Hai joined a Pantheon meeting about sheltering Ramsey, a hacker whose Sky Eye program could help the group locate people in need. When the others struggled to find a way to protect her, he offered assistance and hinted that they should have guessed his identity.

• Er Dan informed Jiang Yan Hai that the Pantheon had summoned him to a meeting.
• Athena argued that Ramsey and her Sky Eye program could give the Pantheon capabilities it needed, and Anubis agreed.
• Anubis, Ares, Gaia, and Michael discussed how Ramsey’s restricted freedom made a rescue difficult and risky.
• Zeus asked Jiang Yan Hai for his view, and Jiang Yan Hai asked whether the others had read his profile.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he needed no request but could help save Ramsey, then asked whether anyone had guessed his identity.

Jiang Yan Hai was recognized as Liston Han Xiao and accepted as a Pantheon member, then agreed to go alone to Azerbaijan to rescue Ramsey. He planned to bring weapons, while Pantheon offered to handle logistics and help arrange his evacuation route.

• Zeus identified Jiang Yan Hai as Liston Han Xiao, and Jiang Yan Hai apologized for concealing his identity on the server.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that his earlier actions had indirectly revealed who he was, and Zeus accepted him as a Pantheon member.
• Zeus asked whether Jiang Yan Hai could rescue Ramsey, and Jiang Yan Hai said he could go alone and asked whether Pantheon intended to recruit her.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Zeus discussed Ramsey's skills and the risks of the Sky Eye algorithms falling into the American government's hands.
• Zeus told Jiang Yan Hai that Ramsey was held in Azerbaijan by Moshijakandi's military organization and named Dominic's CIA-backed team and Daxiao as competitors.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he would bring weapons and go to Azerbaijan, and Zeus asked whether he had planned an evacuation route.

Jiang Yan Hai traveled to Azerbaijan to prepare an ambush for Ramsey, relying on Pantheon to supply weapons and explosives. After outfitting himself, he mined the route through Bazar Mountain and left the car over a cliff.

• Jiang Yan Hai agreed to enter the Bazar Mountain region alone and asked Pantheon to arrange a car, border crossing, and weapons.
• In Azerbaijan, Ian greeted Jiang Yan Hai and brought him homemade mines and explosives, which Jiang Yan Hai inspected and accepted.
• A Pantheon contact handed Jiang Yan Hai a vehicle loaded with firearms, ammunition, and two Javelin missile sets.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove toward the target route, planting mines along both sides of the road as he went.
• Jiang Yan Hai reached the end of the route and sent his car over a cliff.

Jiang Yan Hai prepared an ambush to rescue Ramsey from a convoy, while Zeus and the Pantheon agreed to support him by taking control of enemy aircraft and communications. The convoy set out the next morning, and Jiang Yan Hai waited in position, confident it would not reach him in time to stop the rescue.

• Jiang Yan Hai hid in the woods, set up his sniper position, and placed mines along the convoy’s only road.
• Zeus and Athena discussed Han Xiao’s hidden abilities, while Anubis proposed that the Pantheon share the risks of the rescue.
• Gabriel and the others agreed to block the enemy command center’s signals and take control of two fighter jets.
• Zeus told Jiang Yan Hai that the enemy convoy had departed and a U.S. military transport plane was due to arrive around the same time.
• Jiang Yan Hai said the convoy would not make it in time and planned to rescue Ramsey before Toledo’s team arrived.

Jiang Yan Hai ambushed the convoy with carefully timed explosions, trapped it on the mountain road, and eliminated the terrorists in the vehicles at its rear and front. He then warned Dominic’s parachuting team off with precise sniper shots, forcing Dominic to cancel their mission.

• Jiang Yan Hai detonated explosives that collapsed sections of the road, sent two off-road vehicles over the cliff, and rolled the bus onto its side.
• Jiang Yan Hai used his sniper rifle to kill the terrorists in the vehicles behind and ahead of the bus.
• Jiang Yan Hai fired warning shots at Dominic, Tai Ji, and Brian, destroying mirrors and puncturing tires and a windshield.
• Dominic recognized the threat and canceled the mission.

Jiang Yan Hai rescued Ramsey from the terrorists’ overturned bus while Dominic’s group retreated from the mountain road. With Zeus’s fighter-jet support destroying the approaching vehicles, Jiang Yan Hai and Ramsey drove away safely.

• Dominic ordered his group to retreat, and Letty, Tai Ji, and Roman used their cars to pick up the stranded members.
• Jiang Yan Hai attacked the overturned bus and killed the terrorists inside, leaving Ramsey alive.
• Jiang Yan Hai freed Ramsey and led her toward an undamaged off-road vehicle.
• Zeus told Jiang Yan Hai that support had arrived, and two fighter jets destroyed four approaching terrorist vehicles with missiles.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove past the wreckage with Ramsey while Tai Ji and the others witnessed the airstrike from the mountain path.

Jiang Yan Hai rescued Ramsey and arranged for her to leave Azerbaijan under Pantheon's protection. After Ramsey wrote down her algorithm, Er Dan assessed its tracking capabilities and confirmed that it could be traced and destroyed if someone used it.

• Daxiao watched the rescue from the jungle while Dominic and Brian discussed the failed mission and decided to retreat.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove Ramsey past a checkpoint destroyed by fighter jets and escaped with help from Pantheon.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Ramsey she would need to abandon her past, and she agreed to write down the core algorithm and its backdoors.
• Jiang Yan Hai bought Ramsey a laptop and took her toward the airport, while Ramsey chose to consider where she wanted to live.
• Ramsey finished writing the algorithm on the flight, and Er Dan assessed how it worked and confirmed that it could be traced and destroyed if used.

Jiang Yan Hai learned from Zeus that Sandstorm might have already moved its equipment to the Republic of Goa, using the apparent delay to distract investigators. He decided to find Sephora first and had Er Dan begin targeting satellite transmissions worldwide.

• Jiang Yan Hai had Er Dan record the Sky Eye algorithms and erase the laptop’s data, then told the Pantheon he could track and delete the program if it was activated.
• Zeus identified Sephora as the likely person seeking control of Ramsey and explained that she was a hidden Sandstorm hacker who traveled aboard a hard-to-find aircraft.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked the Pantheon for help investigating Sandstorm’s equipment shipments, and Zeus suggested the equipment might already be in the Republic of Goa.
• Jiang Yan Hai realized Sephora could be Sandstorm’s key source of outside intelligence and told Zeus he needed to stop events that could not be undone.
• After ending the connection, Jiang Yan Hai had Er Dan begin targeting satellite transmissions around the world.

Jiang Yan Hai activated a virus that spread worldwide and planted stealthy subprograms on infected devices to help locate Sephora’s aircraft. He reported new intelligence about the Sha Chen Organization to China and proposed a strike in Africa, leaving China to consider his plans and possible cooperation with America.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Er Dan to activate the virus, remove the subprograms’ replication limits, and trace any infected device where the virus was discovered.
• The virus spread through electronic devices around the world, secretly copying and activating Er Dan’s subprograms.
• Jiang Yan Hai contacted Chinese intelligence and explained that the Sha Chen Organization might have stirred up global incidents to distract America while conducting research.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed leading Blood Wolf to strike the suspected target in Africa and using hacking methods to locate Sephora’s aircraft so it could be shot down.
• Jiang Yan Hai suggested contacting America if China could not control the Republic of Goa, and the other party said it would respond after consulting higher authorities.

Jiang Yan Hai asked Ramsey to choose what to do after losing her old life, and she decided to follow him despite the dangers of his work. After the plane landed, he began arranging for her to join him in Africa and took her to change her conspicuous hairstyle.

• Ramsey woke as the plane prepared to land, and Jiang Yan Hai asked whether she had decided where to go.
• Ramsey asked Jiang Yan Hai for advice, but he told her the choice was hers to make.
• Ramsey asked to follow Jiang Yan Hai, and he warned her that he was a former CIA agent turned mercenary whose work could get her killed.
• Ramsey insisted she was willing to face the danger, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to take her to his mercenary group in Africa.
• Jiang Yan Hai informed Zeus and the others, while Pantheon helped arrange Ramsey's identity documents.
• After landing, Jiang Yan Hai took Ramsey to deal with her conspicuous afro before their next flight.

Jiang Yan Hai and Ramsey flew to the Republic of Evia while he weighed China’s choices over the Stargate and the Republic of Goa. China approved his Africa operation and asked why he had proposed communicating with its neighbor.

• Ramsey let Jiang Yan Hai deal with her hair, then put on a baseball cap and boarded a flight with him to the Republic of Evia.
• Jiang Yan Hai considered whether China should negotiate with the United States over the Republic of Goa and planned to absorb the ore’s energy before closing the Stargate from the Great Qin side.
• Ramsey fell asleep during the flight while Jiang Yan Hai waited for a reply from home.
• Jiang Yan Hai established a communications link with the Old Commander after confirming it was secure.
• The Old Commander told Jiang Yan Hai to proceed with his Africa operation plan, promised Chinese support, and asked why he had suggested communicating with China’s neighbor.