Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai oversaw the secret genetic-antibody experiment and prepared Great Qin’s first basic stargate for activation. The stargate’s detection range reached five thousand light-years, and the team stood ready to open it.

• Jiang Yan Hai’s project monitored Scorpion and other criminal subjects, whose genetic antibodies appeared to improve their health without spreading to Great Qin’s inhabitants.
• Jiang Yan Hai learned that the experiment would continue for decades and later include criminals from the Song Dynasty.
• Jiang Yan Hai prepared to witness Great Qin’s Mars rocket launch and the activation of its basic stargate.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to begin pre-startup as the stargate detected space and gradually received energy.
• Jiang Yan Hai’s team established that the stargate could detect targets up to five thousand light-years away, while opening one without detection would connect to a random location.

Jiang Yan Hai and the team activated the initial stargate after detecting thirty-eight connectable locations on the Moon and locking onto one coordinate. After two hours of charging, the gate filled with energy and began opening, leaving the team watching a growing black vortex.

• The detection system found thirty-eight connectable locations, and Jiang Yan Hai ordered the team to lock onto them and connect to the chosen coordinate.
• The team followed its procedures to activate the stargate, with three nuclear power plants supplying energy.
• For two hours, staff monitored the energy gathering in the gate while electrical workers maintained the power transmission.
• The stargate reached full energy, formed a pale black vortex, and began expanding.

Jiang Yan Hai and the scientists successfully activated the Primary Stargate, opening a route from Earth to the Moon and beginning preparations for a lunar base. After taking time to rest with Li Ruo Bai, Jiang Yan Hai learned that she was pregnant.

• The scientists announced the Primary Stargate's successful activation, and the team celebrated the historic breakthrough.
• Jiang Yan Hai and the team sent five astronauts through the stargate, and the astronauts confirmed they were safe on the Moon.
• The astronauts established communications through the Earth-Moon relay satellite, while the team prepared unmanned vehicles and supplies for a lunar base.
• Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai rested together at the base, and he said the era itself was great.
• Li Ruo Bai told Jiang Yan Hai that she was pregnant.

Li Ruo Bai received a farewell letter from Jiang Yan Hai as she lay dying, and the message brought her comfort before she passed away. The nation mourned the deaths of both legendary scientists, who died on the same day.

• A young Starfleet soldier arrived at the sanatorium and learned that his great-grandmother, Li Ruo Bai, was believed to be dying.
• Li Ruo Bai’s phone received a message from Jiang Yan Hai, who wrote that he had failed her and urged her to live happily.
• After reading Jiang Yan Hai’s letter, Li Ruo Bai smiled, asked her family to leave, and died holding the phone.
• Doctor Liang explained that Li Ruo Bai had endured months of pain because she wanted to keep living after Jiang Yan Hai said he would be sad if she died.
• National news announced that Jiang Yan Hai and Li Ruo Bai had both died at the ages of 132 and 131.