Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai interrogated the gangsters who had threatened Boss Yang and learned they were helping a guarded group of more than twenty people who might be Rebel Army. He changed the planned attack to that night and sent Black Lion’s group around the village after learning the compound was surrounded by minefields.

• Jiang Yan Hai questioned Boss Yang, learned the gangsters had been pressuring him for two months, and borrowed his warehouse.
• Jiang Yan Hai exposed Bamanhe’s lie and learned that a guarded group had arrived in the village two months earlier and arranged for the gangsters to buy Boss Yang’s land.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Bamanhe and two others to guide his team toward the village, keeping three gangsters under guard at the warehouse.
• Jiang Yan Hai changed the operation to that night and told Black Lion’s group to approach from the other side of the village.
• Bamanhe warned Jiang Yan Hai that minefields surrounded the group’s houses, and Jiang Yan Hai relayed the warning to Black Lion as both teams moved toward position.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team launched a surprise assault on the armed researchers in the village, but their attack triggered an explosion. Er Dan warned Jiang Yan Hai that the enemy had detonated the Energy Ore and opened an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate.

• Jiang Yan Hai used his warning system to locate the enemy guards and a hidden sentry as his team approached the village.
• Bamanhe rammed through the checkpoint while Black Lion’s snipers killed the guards, and Inov’s machine gun swept through the building.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his team eliminated the enemies outside before closing in on the central building, where four enemies remained.
• Jiang Yan Hai detected a bomb inside the building and warned everyone to retreat moments before it exploded.
• Er Dan told Jiang Yan Hai that the enemy had tried to detonate the Energy Ore, opening an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate.

Jiang Yan Hai secured the newly opened Stargate and brought Black Hawk’s men through to investigate the other world. After Er Dan connected to an encrypted signal there, Jiang Yan Hai recognized the names Captain Price and Soap.

• Jiang Yan Hai alerted home to the SSS-level emergency and saw that the Stargate had opened to a diameter of 2.25 meters.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove a truck in front of the Stargate, ordered Balek to establish a perimeter, and told the group that the gate connected to another world.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Carlos to prepare communications through the gate and led Black Lion, Leng Feng, and Carlos across.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Er Dan to scan for and connect to nearby electronic signals, and Er Dan cracked an encrypted channel.
• Jiang Yan Hai heard the names Captain Price and Soap on the channel and recognized them.

Jiang Yan Hai’s team emerged through the Star Gate into a world with technology comparable to their own and spotted armed groups nearby. He reported the discovery to Old Commander, who arranged for troops to secure the area while the team kept the gate’s location secret.

• Carlos connected the communication devices, allowing Jiang Yan Hai to contact Balek and brief the others on the need to keep the Star Gate secret.
• Jiang Yan Hai led Black Lion and Leng Feng up a slope, where they spotted three professional-looking soldiers and armed guards farther away.
• Er Dan relayed that troops and helicopters were moving from a nearby city, and Jiang Yan Hai returned through the Star Gate to contact Gao Yun and Old Commander.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Old Commander that the Sha Chen Organization’s experiment had opened a 2.25-meter Teleportation Gate to a world with technology comparable to theirs.
• Old Commander said the Republic of Goa had sent troops to establish a cordon and that a peacekeeping infantry battalion would arrive with supplies in about three hours.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported seeing covertly advancing special forces soldiers and a distant armed group with sentry posts.

Jiang Yan Hai learned that a Marine Corps unit had secretly entered the Republic of Goa to retrieve Energy Ore being researched by the Sandstorm Organization. After searching nearby corpses for clues, he suspected Sandstorm was using a fake target and a second ore site to divert attention.

• Jiang Yan Hai learned from his Chinese contacts that a neighboring country’s Marine Corps unit had entered the Republic of Goa through Rebel Army territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai called Jacques Fraser, who revealed that the Marine Corps was seeking Energy Ore secretly researched by Sandstorm and that its location was in Rebel Army-controlled territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai admitted that his team had attacked a Rebel Army city while searching for the ore, but found only a fake target.
• Jiang Yan Hai searched nearby corpses, found four phones, and ordered Er Dan to retrieve their call records and trace the numbers.
• Jiang Yan Hai suspected Sandstorm was researching two pieces of ore and had planted a fake target to conceal a second research site.

Jiang Yan Hai secured the Stargate and prepared to investigate the nearby world while a battle broke out near Price's group. He ordered Er Dan to spread a virus through the local network as the team waited for a chance to approach Price and make contact.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Ramsey to trace supply routes and told Balek and the others to guard the Stargate's perimeter and keep its secret.
• Jiang Yan Hai took White Headed Eagle and Seagull through the Stargate, ordered Carlos to mine the area, and joined Black Lion and Leng Feng to observe Price's group.
• Er Dan identified their location as the northern Caucasus region, and Jiang Yan Hai learned that Kamalov was a soldier commanding a unit nearby.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Carlos and Red Fox to investigate a signal tower while his group watched Price's team approach the town.
• An explosion and gunfire erupted in the town, and Jiang Yan Hai decided to wait until Price's group entered the battle before making contact.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Er Dan to release their computer virus and spread its subprograms through the local network.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team decided to help Price and Soap against the Rebel Army, using their sniper rifles to support the advancing soldiers. Price recognized the rifles as Barretts and suspected the unknown snipers were allies, while the fighting continued.

• Jiang Yan Hai judged that the troops fighting the Rebel Army were worth helping and named the plan Operation Friendship.
• Price argued with Kamalov while his team fought Rebel Army forces across the town.
• Jiang Yan Hai, Leng Feng, and Bob Lee opened fire from a distance, taking down enemies and supporting Price's advance.
• Price and Kamalov realized the snipers were an unknown third party, but Price ordered his team to keep following their original plan.
• Soap identified the weapons as Barrett Large Caliber Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifles, and Price decided to proceed while treating the snipers as possible allies.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team helped Price’s squad clear a path through the town, then watched them escape by helicopter. After connecting to the local network, Jiang Yan Hai found a world map that confirmed they were in a different world, whose countries had unfamiliar names.

• Jiang Yan Hai and his snipers helped Price’s team eliminate enemies on the cliff, while Price told Soap that battlefield cooperation depended on practical advantage.
• Jiang Yan Hai sent Leng Feng and Bob Lee to assist Kamalov’s Russians and continued covering Price’s team as they advanced through town.
• Price’s team reached the northeastern corner, fought inside a building, and escaped by helicopter without approaching Jiang Yan Hai’s position.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Carlos to crack a network connection, then used a program to search the local web.
• Jiang Yan Hai opened a world map and found that none of its country names matched those from his own world.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team realized they had arrived in another world and met Kamalov, a local commander, while posing as soldiers from Red Star. After Kamalov departed, Jiang Yan Hai kept watch over the Star Gate and considered how to conceal it from the rebels who controlled the area.

• Jiang Yan Hai identified the new world’s major countries and told his team not to reveal that they had come from another world.
• Leng Feng alerted Jiang Yan Hai that Kamalov was approaching, and Kamalov arrived with a few men while signaling that he meant no harm.
• Jiang Yan Hai introduced himself as Han Xiao and claimed to be with Red Star, then learned that Kamalov had not retaken the area from the rebels.
• Kamalov offered an encrypted radio frequency and withdrew, warning Jiang Yan Hai that the rebels would return soon.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Leng Feng and the others to stay on guard and considered how to disguise the Star Gate in rebel-controlled territory.

Jiang Yan Hai briefed the homeland on the new Stargate world and received authorization to seek cooperation with the Red Star Republic. The chapter ended with him preparing an operation to investigate the Marine Corps in Rebel Army territory.

• Zhang Qi arrived with a peacekeeping force, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered his soldiers to camouflage the Stargate and establish security.
• Jiang Yan Hai held a video conference with the homeland and reported on the Red Star Republic, Mipu United States, Sand Bear Federation, and Sulan United Kingdom.
• Jiang Yan Hai proposed visiting the Red Star Republic to seek a partner and learn about its higher-level Stargates, and the homeland approved his plan.
• Jiang Yan Hai identified the Marine Corps as the next matter to investigate, with a possible target about a hundred kilometers away in Rebel Army territory.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Zhang Qi for security, two Armored Vehicles, and ammunition, and Zhang Qi agreed to prepare them.

Jiang Yan Hai led Black Lion’s group toward Rebel Army territory while Leng Feng stayed behind to defend the Stargate. Along the way, Jiang Yan Hai revealed what he knew about the Stargate and explained why he had secured powerful backing for them, leaving the group reassured that they could rely on support without being officially acknowledged.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Leng Feng to establish a defensive line on the far side of the Stargate and took Black Lion’s group with him in two Armored Vehicles.
• Jiang Yan Hai told the group to use drones to watch for people and detour around inhabited villages as they traveled into Rebel Army territory.
• Black Lion asked about Leng Feng’s comrades, and Jiang Yan Hai explained that their status as veterans or assigned personnel no longer mattered because they were all in the same position.
• Jiang Yan Hai revealed that he had long known about the Stargate, including that American research had created one and that a nuclear bomb had come through it.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the Republic of Goa hoped to profit from the Stargate’s location, while China’s backing could help protect the group.
• Red Fox Tom and Inov thanked Jiang Yan Hai, and the group agreed they could likely receive support in future operations even if China would not publicly acknowledge them.

Jiang Yan Hai and his team reached an apparently empty village full of armed personnel, where a small U.S. Marine Corps unit was preparing to approach. He decided their mission was not to compete with the Marines but to get involved and ease future negotiations.

• Balek accepted the idea of treating himself as one of the U.S. soldiers, and the others joked about discipline and faith in their country.
• Jiang Yan Hai's team traveled through the night while Ramsey used a large drone to survey the area.
• The team learned that the village had been emptied of civilians and now contained more than a hundred armed personnel, with many asleep.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Carlos to take control of the two armored vehicles and their heavy weapons.
• Black Lion asked what they should do after drone reconnaissance spotted twelve U.S. Marines near the village, and Jiang Yan Hai said they had come to get involved rather than compete.

Jiang Yan Hai explained that his team had been hired to join the Americans’ operation for five million US dollars per person, then infiltrated their perimeter and discovered that Waters was leading the outnumbered Marines. He offered Waters help, leaving the next move between the old acquaintances unresolved.

• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the homeland wanted to join the operation and secure a share of the benefits while avoiding conflict with the neighboring country.
• Jiang Yan Hai told the team that their employer would pay each person five million US dollars and ordered Mouse and Wasp to stay with Ramsey while the others went with him.
• Jiang Yan Hai led Black Lion and the others toward the Marines’ perimeter, then sneaked inside to listen to their plans.
• Waters and his twelve Marines discussed how to face more than a hundred enemies and rescue the scientists before time ran out.
• Jiang Yan Hai recognized Waters from Argentina and offered to help him.

Jiang Yan Hai approached Waters’s team and proposed cooperation to capture a Sha Chen Organization base containing Energy Ore. After headquarters approved the alliance, the two sides prepared to move in together while leaving control of the item for their superiors to negotiate.

• Jiang Yan Hai revealed himself to Waters and identified the team’s objective as finding the Energy Ore used by the Sha Chen Organization.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned Waters that minefields surrounded three sides of the village and proposed sharing any discoveries.
• Waters contacted headquarters, which authorized cooperation on the condition that his team secure the item.
• Waters and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to work together and let their superiors negotiate the item’s final disposition.
• Jiang Yan Hai called Black Lion and the others out of hiding, and Waters realized they were mercenaries.

Jiang Yan Hai and Waters launched an assault on the Rebel Army village using a 122mm howitzer mounted on an Armored Vehicle. After the bombardment and a rapid advance through the burning village, Er Dan warned Jiang Yan Hai that enemies near the last intact building were about to detonate bombs.

• Jiang Yan Hai introduced himself to Waters as Liston Han Xiao, wanted by the U.S. government and the CIA, and the teams joined forces.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Carlos to fire the Armored Vehicle’s 122mm howitzer at the village.
• The artillery shells devastated the village and drove Rebel Army soldiers toward the mined approaches, where Jiang Yan Hai’s team opened fire.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Carlos to stop after ten shells, warned Waters that enemies might detonate themselves, and led both teams into the village.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team advanced through the burning ruins toward the only intact building, and Er Dan’s warning alerted him to an imminent bomb detonation.

Jiang Yan Hai absorbed energy from the explosion that opened an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate, then sent a joint team through the new gate to establish a defensive line. The team found a city under attack on the other side, and both Chinese and American authorities were alerted.

• An explosion destroyed the building and opened an Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate, while Er Dan detected and absorbed special mineral energy for Jiang Yan Hai.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that he had stored enough Star Gate energy to interfere with and close two gates, then called Carlos to the site.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained to Waters that the Star Gate connected two worlds, and Waters sent Barn, Porter, Carl, and John through with Black Lion and Balek.
• Black Lion reported that a city lay about six kilometers away and that planes, bombs, gunfire, and artillery could be heard.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported the situation to headquarters, while the American team passed the news to the Pentagon, which activated its highest-level alert.

Jiang Yan Hai and Waters concealed the Stargate and crossed through to inspect the other side, where they discovered a war-torn region near the Persian Gulf. American and Republic of Goa forces arrived to secure the site, leaving both sides guarding the Stargate together.

• Jiang Yan Hai warned Waters that other countries had satellites, and both sides set up tents to hide the Stargate.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Waters crossed the Stargate, where Er Dan located them near the Persian Gulf, far from their other Stargate.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Waters observed a distant town under attack, with helicopters circling overhead.
• Zhang Qi's men arrived with desert camouflage tents and nets, then stayed to guard the concealed Stargate.
• An American transport aircraft dropped supplies and more than a hundred soldiers, and Waters ordered them to establish a defensive perimeter.
• Zhang Qi arrived with around fifty more men, and Waters let them through after American soldiers initially stopped them.

Jiang Yan Hai left the Star Gate under homeland authorization and traveled toward the Red Star Republic to carry out a secret mission. In the Osai Nation's capital, he confronted a bar's guard and gained entry by threatening him with a grenade.

• Jiang Yan Hai put Black Lion in charge of the defensive line and told Zhang Qi to manage the situation without revealing his identity.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Waters agreed to protect the area while higher-level officials negotiated, and Waters questioned whether he would receive the promised twenty million dollars.
• Jiang Yan Hai received formal authorization from the homeland to go to the Red Star Republic, packed several kilograms of gold, and left the Star Gate.
• Jiang Yan Hai crossed the Gaosuo Mountain Range into the Osai Nation, obtained a motorcycle and cash, and rode to its capital.
• Er Dan found a contact who could provide Jiang Yan Hai with an identity, and Jiang Yan Hai went to a rundown bar to find Frog.
• A burly guard denied knowing Frog, but Jiang Yan Hai showed him a grenade with its pin pulled and entered the bar.

Jiang Yan Hai confronted Frog to obtain four valid blank passports, using a drone image, a claimed missile strike, and details of Frog’s bank accounts to pressure him. Frog considered the deal after Jiang Yan Hai offered ten kilograms of gold.

• Jiang Yan Hai entered Frog’s bar and followed a guarded route to a basement reception room.
• Frog arrived with armed men and questioned Jiang Yan Hai, who asked for four valid blank passports.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned that a fighter jet missile could destroy the building and demonstrated that he knew Frog’s seven primary bank accounts.
• Frog questioned whether the threat would remain after the deal, and Jiang Yan Hai argued that an attack could harm nearby civilians.
• Jiang Yan Hai offered five gold bars totaling ten kilograms, and Frog inspected them and confirmed their purity.

Jiang Yan Hai secured passports and money to travel to Jingping, the Red Star Nation’s capital, where he posted evidence of a Teleportation Gate to draw the authorities’ attention. The post triggered a Level One crisis alert after a cybersecurity reviewer recognized the discovery.

• Jiang Yan Hai sent Frog photos of himself, Price, Gates, and Comrade Soap, then accepted the passport job.
• Frog refused to have Jiang Yan Hai tailed and warned that the passports had to be flawless.
• Jiang Yan Hai secretly took over a hundred thousand Osai Nation currency from local criminals and collected the passports the next morning.
• Jiang Yan Hai flew to Jingping, bought a phone and laptop, and used Er Dan to upload prepared data.
• Jiang Yan Hai posted photos and video of a Teleportation Gate, triggering the Red Star Nation’s monitoring system.
• A cybersecurity staff member reviewed the post, sounded the alarm, and reported that someone had discovered a new Teleportation Gate.