Chapter Summaries

The Dark Knight’s holographic release became a global sensation and revealed how S.H.I.E.L.D. Group planned to reshape the film industry. Chen Mo left other studios a path into holographic filmmaking while keeping control of the equipment and distribution outlets, and the industry faced a major transition.

• Audiences and critics praised The Dark Knight, calling its holographic release a milestone that would transform the film industry.
• Chen Mo planned to expand S.H.I.E.L.D. Group’s smart terminals gradually while retaining control of theaters, home systems, and mobile devices.
• Chen Mo planned to sell expensive 3D Photography Equipment to other film companies so they could produce holographic films, while preserving S.H.I.E.L.D. Group’s control of distribution.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Cinemas sold out on opening day, and some would-be theatergoers joined queues at S.H.I.E.L.D. product experience centers to buy holographic devices.
• The film dominated online discussions, while people in the film industry saw holographic cinema as both a major opportunity and a challenge.

An Ran’s The Dark Knight broke opening-day box office records as S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto established its China Branch and began targeting the Fūtián Group’s high-end SUV market. The branch released its first SUV in China, drawing worldwide attention despite limited promotion.

• The Dark Knight earned 700 million dollars in theater box office on its opening day, with Holographic Smartphone earnings not yet included.
• Under He Han’s leadership, S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto established its China Branch with support from local authorities and began manufacturing after installing its production line.
• Chen Mo targeted the Fūtián Group’s high-end models, and the branch chose to produce a large urban SUV priced from 500,000 to 1.5 million yuan.
• One week after The Dark Knight premiered, S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto released the SUV in China, and it quickly attracted worldwide attention.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto launched a more affordable urban SUV in China, and overwhelming demand quickly threatened the Fūtián Group’s mid-to-high-end vehicle business. After learning of the sales collapse, Chairman Fukuda Kosuke suffered another heart attack and lay in the hospital consumed by anger at S.H.I.E.L.D. Group.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto released its new 500,000-yuan SUV in China, attracting eager buyers with its safety and value.
• Customers in China and abroad rushed to order the SUV, leaving the S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto China Branch unable to keep up with demand.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Machinery began building another automotive production line, while the new SUV’s sales severely damaged the Fūtián Group’s vehicle sales.
• Fūtián Group Chairman Fukuda Kosuke suffered a heart attack after hearing the news and was rushed to the hospital.
• Fukuda Kosuke lay in his hospital bed resenting S.H.I.E.L.D. Group and recalling his earlier attempt to steal S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s technology.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s SUV threatened Fūtián Group’s mid-to-high-end car business, Fukuda Kosuke faced the prospect of the company’s collapse. Fūtián Group cut prices sharply to survive, restoring sales while sacrificing most of its profits.

• Fukuda Kosuke’s attempt to sabotage S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Formula One race failed, leaving the Futa team disgraced and causing heavy losses for Fūtián Group.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s new SUV undercut Fūtián Group’s mid-to-high-end cars, leaving inventory unsold and threatening the company’s cash flow and survival.
• Fūtián Group responded by halving prices on models including the Prado and Lexus cars three days after the SUV’s release.
• Consumers flocked to the discounted cars, reviving Fūtián Group’s sales and easing the immediate threat of bankruptcy.
• Fūtián Group’s recovery came at the cost of its former high profits, which the increased sales could not replace.

Chen Mo’s calculated campaign against the Fūtián Group drove its vehicle sales, profits, stock price, and cash flow into collapse. Fukuda Kosuke’s efforts to save the company failed, and the group stood on the brink of bankruptcy as Chen Mo prepared to travel through time again.

• The Fūtián Group’s price cuts triggered market-wide reductions that slashed its low-to-mid-range sales and profits while causing its stock to plunge.
• Chinese consumers rushed to buy newly affordable cars, boosting overall sales and tax revenue while Chinese automakers largely weathered the disruption.
• Chen Mo had planned the chain reaction to punish the Fūtián Group for targeting S.H.I.E.L.D. Group, and J.A.R.V.I.S. had predicted the operation’s outcome.
• Two weeks after the S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV launched, all of the Fūtián Group’s vehicle lines were struggling, and bankruptcy appeared inevitable.
• Fukuda Kosuke tried loans, mortgages, bailouts, and stock-price measures to rescue the company, but the Fūtián Group’s cash flow finally collapsed.

Chen Mo profited from the collapse of the Fūtián Group while S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto and his other businesses continued to grow. After Fukuda Kosuke died, Chen Mo entered his underground laboratory and prepared to cross over to another world.

• Chen Mo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to short Fūtián Group stock, earning over a hundred billion dollars as the company collapsed.
• The S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV’s sales surged, while the 3D Holographic Film and holographic devices also brought in growing revenue.
• Fūtián Group executives lost their shares and fortunes, and Fukuda Kosuke died in a hospital bed consumed by regret.
• Chen Mo learned of Fukuda Kosuke’s death and remained unmoved, then teleported into his underground laboratory.
• Chen Mo entered the crossing space and saw three bright spheres among the points of light beyond the transparent spatial barrier.

Chen Mo examined two movie worlds, identifying Chappie and Real Steel while assessing their robots and technologies. He rejected Chappie’s consciousness-copying technology as neither true resurrection nor safe to bring back, then recognized Logan as a different character in each world.

• Chen Mo identified the first world as Chappie, where an engineer secretly created the intelligent robot Chappie, who was raised by criminals.
• Chen Mo judged that the world’s consciousness technology copied memories and thought patterns rather than transferring souls, and decided it was too risky to use.
• Chen Mo saw Logan as the weapons-company engineer who hunted Chappie and agreed with his concerns about emotional robots.
• Chen Mo examined the second world and identified it as Real Steel after seeing robot boxing and recognizing Logan as boxer Charlie.
• Chen Mo learned that Charlie had been a top boxer before robot fighting replaced human boxing, then switched to controlling fighting robots.

Chen Mo recognized the third world as Pacific Rim: Uprising and traveled there, drawn by the chance to encounter Giant Jaegers. The chapter recounted humanity’s war against the Kaiju and ended with the threat escalating as stronger Kaiju overwhelmed the Jaeger defenses.

• Chen Mo left the previous world projections and recognized Gipsy Danger in the third sphere as a Jaeger from Pacific Rim: Uprising.
• Chen Mo chose to travel directly to the Pacific Rim world because he wanted to pilot a Giant Jaeger.
• The Precursors on Anteverse used wormholes to invade other planets with giant biological weapons.
• After the first Kaiju attack devastated San Francisco in 2013, humanity united and created the Jaegers and the Pan Pacific Defense Corps.
• On February 28, 2020, Raleigh Beckett and Yancy Beckett fought Knifehead in Gipsy Danger, and Yancy died while Raleigh returned alone.
• Humanity discovered that Kaiju learned and evolved, while increasingly frequent attacks and Jaeger losses left Earth facing stronger Category 4 threats.

Ten years after the Breach was destroyed, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps prepared to discuss deploying drone Jaegers at a summit in Sydney. Secretary General Mako Mori reviewed the proposal as protesters clashed outside headquarters, and the chapter left the summit not yet begun.

• The PPDC kept building sixth-generation Jaegers and training pilots while some civilians demanded its disbandment and Monster Worshippers praised the Kaiju.
• Protesters gathered outside Pan Pacific Defense Corps Headquarters in Sydney to oppose drone Jaegers and the PPDC, and radical Monster Worshippers clashed with police.
• PPDC soldiers restored order before the Committee Summit on drone Jaeger deployment could begin.
• Mako Mori traveled by helicopter to headquarters and reviewed Shaws Corporation's drone Jaeger feasibility report.
• The chapter explained that drone Jaegers required only one operator, while conventional Jaegers depended on scarce, rigorously trained two-person pilot teams.

Mako Mori vetoed the drone Jaeger plan and watched her brother Jake Pentecost return to piloting Gipsy Danger as an honor guard. A mysterious black Jaeger emerged from the bay by the Sydney Opera House, leaving the gathered officials and pilots facing an unknown threat.

• Mako Mori rejected drone Jaeger deployment because remote controls could be hacked or disabled by electromagnetic pulses.
• Mako Mori watched Jake Pentecost pilot Gipsy Danger after forcing him to reenlist and train cadets alongside Amara.
• Seagulls fled from the coast, drawing Mako Mori, Liwen Shao, and Knight’s attention toward Sydney Opera House.
• A nearly ninety-meter-tall black Jaeger burst out of the bay near Sydney Opera House.

An unidentified black Jaeger attacked Sydney as Jack and Knight defended the PPDC headquarters in Gipsy Danger. After Gipsy Danger caught a falling rooftop landing pad to save civilians, a missile disabled its power system, but coastal defense guns struck the black Jaeger.

• The black Jaeger emerged from the sea, crushed civilians and damaged a cruise ship as it advanced toward PPDC headquarters.
• Jack and Knight ordered the unidentified Jaeger to shut down, but it opened its shoulder launchers and fired missiles.
• Mako Mori's helicopter dodged the missiles, while three missiles hit PPDC headquarters and sent its rooftop landing pad crashing toward the fleeing crowd.
• Jack and Knight caught the landing pad with Gipsy Danger, allowing Liwen Shao and her bodyguards to escape, but another missile struck Gipsy Danger and disabled its power system.
• Two twin-barreled coastal defense guns struck the black Jaeger as it prepared to attack again.

A black Jaeger destroyed the coastal defense guns and attacked the helicopter carrying Mako Mori before fighting Gipsy Danger. Jack and Knight were overwhelmed by its strength and speed, and they prepared to use their ultimate move.

• The black Jaeger destroyed the coastal defense guns, and Mako Mori analyzed its power signature and warned Jack that it matched Gipsy Danger's.
• The black Jaeger jammed communications and aimed its arm cannon at Mako Mori's helicopter, but Jack and Knight restored Gipsy Danger's power and threw a helipad to interrupt its shot.
• The black Jaeger caught Gipsy Danger's punch, struck its head, and repeatedly smashed it through buildings.
• The black Jaeger revealed a Turbine Engine matching Gipsy Danger's and blasted it into a building.
• Jack and Knight regrouped and decided to change tactics and use their ultimate move.

Jack and Knight’s Gipsy Danger battled a black Jaeger armed with twin Flame Chainsaws, discovering that its slightly faster control system gave it the advantage. After Gipsy Danger landed a heavy punch, the black Jaeger fired missiles that threatened Mako Mori’s helicopter, revealing that the aircraft was its true target.

• Jack and Knight drew Gipsy Danger’s Chain Sword, but the black Jaeger deployed two Flame Chainsaws and overwhelmed them with its attacks.
• The black Jaeger’s chainsaw cut through Gipsy Danger’s armor and sliced into a building, endangering the people inside.
• Jack and Knight exploited the black Jaeger’s brief opening and struck its chest with Gipsy Danger’s rocket-powered Iron Fist.
• The black Jaeger stayed upright, slowed itself with its Chainsaws against the road and buildings, and then launched missiles at Gipsy Danger.
• Two missiles flew past Gipsy Danger toward Mako Mori’s helicopter, showing that the black Jaeger had been targeting it.

Jack and Knight fought the black mech while the damaged helicopter carrying Mako Mori fell from the sky. Jack failed to catch it and believed Mako was dead, but a small black humanoid mech caught the helicopter and set it down safely.

• Two missile blasts damaged the helicopter carrying Mako Mori, causing it to lose altitude and spiral toward the ground.
• Knight used Gipsy Danger’s Gravity Catapult to hurl a ball of crushed cars at the charging black mech, knocking it down.
• As the helicopter fell, Mako sent her analysis of the black mech from her tablet while Jack rushed to catch her.
• Gipsy Danger’s fingers only scraped the helicopter, and Jack crashed to the ground as the aircraft fell out of sight.
• Believing Mako was dead, Jack left Gipsy Danger and ran toward the crash site in grief.
• A small black humanoid mech caught the helicopter by its tail and lowered it safely to the ground.

Mako Mori survived the helicopter crash when Chen Mo, wearing his Iron Man suit, caught the aircraft with a small black Jaeger. The chapter revealed Chen Mo’s earlier arrival in Los Angeles and his observations of Winter Ajax and the events involving Jack and Amara.

• Chen Mo’s small black Jaeger caught the falling helicopter and lowered it safely to the ground, saving Mako Mori and the pilot.
• Mako Mori spotted the sleek, two-meter-tall black Jaeger hovering outside the helicopter and wondered who had rescued her.
• Chen Mo had arrived in Los Angeles days earlier and had watched Jack and Amara get captured by Winter Ajax without revealing himself.
• Chen Mo had been impressed by Winter Ajax’s immense size but disappointed by its clumsy performance against Boxer.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. showed Chen Mo that Winter Ajax was an early sixth-generation model with mediocre speed, strength, and defense.

Chen Mo watched Gipsy Avenger and Obsidian Fury fight in Sydney and compared their strength with other Jaegers. He had come to save Mako Mori, who was about to be killed in the battle.

• Chen Mo admired Amara Namani’s agile, improvised Jaeger Scrapper and considered what she could build with proper resources.
• Chen Mo arrived in Sydney ahead of the PPDC committee summit after J.A.R.V.I.S. identified when the battle would occur.
• Chen Mo watched Gipsy Avenger and Obsidian Fury clash through the city and saw how far they outclassed Winter Ajax.
• Chen Mo learned that Obsidian Fury’s faster reactions gave it an advantage over the two-pilot Gipsy Avenger.
• Chen Mo prepared to save Mako Mori from the missile strike and crash that killed her in the original events.

Chen Mo saved Mako Mori from Obsidian Fury’s missile attack by intercepting the missiles with miniature rockets fired from his armor. Mako and Jack witnessed the tiny missiles’ extraordinary speed and maneuverability, while Obsidian Fury remained a threat.

• Obsidian Fury rose after being knocked down and fired missiles at Mako Mori’s helicopter.
• Mako Mori saw the missiles approaching, and Jack shouted for her to escape.
• Chen Mo turned toward the attack and launched miniature missiles from his shoulder armor.
• Chen Mo’s miniature missiles intercepted and detonated every incoming missile above the street.
• Mako Mori and Jack watched in astonishment as Chen Mo’s miniature missiles proved far more capable than their size suggested.

Chen Mo saved Mako Mori from Obsidian Fury, which escaped before reinforcements arrived. After Mako Mori and Jack thanked him, Chen Mo raised the possibility that the attack was meant to influence the summit, and Mako Mori realized what decision her death could trigger.

• Chen Mo intercepted Obsidian Fury's missiles, and Obsidian Fury fled into the sea as three Jaegers approached.
• Jack embraced Mako Mori after she emerged safely from the helicopter, and both thanked Chen Mo for saving her.
• Jack asked whether Chen Mo had built his small Jaeger himself, but Chen Mo postponed answering.
• Chen Mo asked where Obsidian Fury came from and why it attacked, and Mako Mori admitted she had guesses about its origin but not its purpose.
• Chen Mo asked what would happen to the summit if Mako Mori died, and Mako Mori realized the committee would meet urgently to decide its main topic.

Chen Mo argued that the attack on Mako was a conspiracy by Monster Worshippers controlled by the Precursors, not a plot by Liwen Shao. He urged Mako to support drone Jaegers so the PPDC could investigate Shao Industries and use the attackers’ plans to strike back at the Precursors.

• Mako suspected Shao Industries had attacked her to secure approval for drone Jaegers, but Chen Mo explained that Liwen Shao had nearly died in the attack and was unlikely to be responsible.
• Chen Mo suggested that the attackers were Monster Worshippers controlled by the Precursors through Kaiju brains connected to their hive mind.
• Jack recognized the attack as a conspiracy, and Mako agreed that she needed to stop the attackers.
• Chen Mo told Mako to vote in favor of deploying drone Jaegers, arguing that the PPDC should use the exposed conspiracy to uncover the Precursors’ plans and eliminate their threat.

Chen Mo persuaded Mako Mori to approve a cautious counterattack, using the drone Jaeger deployment to investigate the Precursors’ plan while keeping the risks controllable. The PPDC committee approved deployment within forty-eight hours, but cut the number of drone Jaegers in half.

• Mako Mori hesitated to strike back against the Kaiju, but Jack supported Chen Mo’s plan to exploit the exposed conspiracy.
• Chen Mo proposed limiting the initial drone Jaeger deployment, preparing the bases, and secretly investigating the plan before deployment finished.
• Mako Mori agreed and used her authority to convene an emergency PPDC committee meeting with Liwen Shao and the evacuated members.
• The committee approved the drone Jaeger deployment within forty-eight hours and reduced the number to half the original amount.