Recaps

Namgoong Minsu opened doors through the train to reach the hostages while the Pangu pursued Wilford’s speeding train. Morgan and Mather agreed to launch a missile, and the Wei Brothers prepared the Gravity Sling as the train neared a straight stretch.

• Namgoong Minsu bypassed the control system and opened doors until he found the hostages, then urged them to follow him.
• Morgan reviewed satellite footage of the Pangu pursuing the train and persuaded Mather to authorize a missile launch against Wilford.
• Wilford accelerated the train to around one hundred kilometers per hour despite its dangerous swaying, while the Pangu kept pace.
• Wei Chang planned to use the Gravity Sling when the train reached the straight track, and Wei Hu reported that the device was ready.

The Pangu stopped Snowpiercer and its passengers confronted Wilford, who overloaded the train’s nuclear reactor to create a chance to escape. The Wei Brothers and Zhang Tianyuan contained the radiation crisis by sending the reactor car through a Spacetime Tunnel, while the Pangu pursued Wilford through the snow.

• The Pangu used an electric bolt to slow Snowpiercer, and Curtis and Namgoong Minsu led the passengers toward Wilford.
• Mather launched a nuclear missile at the Pangu, but Cheng Wanli ordered an interception and the Wei Brothers slowed the train further.
• Wilford overloaded Snowpiercer’s reactor and tried to flee, but Namgoong Minsu and the passengers caught and beat him before he escaped through a window.
• The Wei Brothers detected the overheating reactor, and the Pangu tore the train apart while passengers escaped and Namgoong Minsu found his wife.
• Zhang Tianyuan opened a Spacetime Tunnel, and the Wei Brothers threw the reactor carriage through it to resolve the nuclear crisis.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent a team to pursue Wilford, and the Pangu followed him through the forest.

Wilford was captured after the Pangu rescued the train passengers, while Mather and Morgan scrambled to cover up their role in the CW-7 disaster. Morgan planned to frame Mather and arranged for a farmer who hated him to carry out the next step.

• Wilford surrendered to black-armored soldiers, who verified his identity and took him away as the Pangu departed.
• Curtis and the other survivors searched the wrecked train for food as local soldiers and police took them in.
• Mather watched the rescue, learned his missile had failed, and called Morgan for advice before speaking with Cheng Wanli.
• Morgan told Mather to stay in public view while his team erased evidence and altered Mather's medical records to make him appear mentally ill.
• Morgan's subordinate reported that the cleanup was nearly finished and described a grieving farmer who blamed Mather for the deaths of his cattle.

Morgan ordered his people to move between shelters while he waited for the final east wind and feared the Mutual Aid Society’s response. Mather grew increasingly reluctant to appear in public as the climate worsened, while Zhang Tianyuan and Cheng Wanli identified the powerful figures altering Mather’s medical records.

• Morgan ordered his servants and associates to leave their bunker and remain ready to move, fearing the Mutual Aid Society would punish them for their role in the doomsday plan.
• Mather learned that the national average temperature had fallen to 30.2°F and considered giving a public speech to restore his reputation.
• Mather canceled the speech after becoming frightened by the dark corridor, but his secretary insisted that he leave or risk impeachment.
• Cheng Wanli told Zhang Tianyuan that Mather’s medical records had been altered to support declaring him mentally ill.
• Cheng Wanli showed Zhang Tianyuan photographs of the people behind the scheme, and Zhang memorized their names.

Wilford confessed that Morgan and his allies created CW-7 to trigger a global cooling catastrophe and build a new world under their control, while Wilford built the train and later abandoned them. He ended the chapter stripped of his confidence and cooperating with his interrogators.

• Zhang Tianyuan and Cheng Wanli discussed how migration to another spacetime would dissolve Morgan's power and make his attempts to tamper with evidence useless.
• Wilford returned under guard and became more cooperative after seeing the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Wilford confessed that Morgan's group discovered CW-7 and disguised their global cooling plan as a response to global warming.
• Wilford admitted that he built the apocalypse train and railway for Morgan's organization, then abandoned some of the group and hijacked passengers for his own train.
• Wilford's account revealed that Morgan and his allies planned to restart civilization and rule the new world after their influence declined, and that using a nuclear-powered train as a fortress had been Wilford's idea.

After Cheng Wanli joined the Mutual Aid Society, he and Zhang Tianyuan traveled to No. 7 Spacetime for a conference on relocating Snowpiercer Spacetime’s population to Interstellar Spacetime and accelerating settlement on the new planet. Cheng Wanli proposed providing extensive infrastructure support, and Yuan Heguang welcomed the offer.

• Cheng Wanli’s people found documents confirming that the global cooling plan was real, but none identified who had initiated it or made CW-7.
• Cheng Wanli learned that Mather was in the hospital undergoing emergency resuscitation, while worsening cooling and declining Planetary Engine influence threatened Snowpiercer Spacetime.
• Cheng Wanli formally joined the Mutual Aid Society as the president of its No. 8 Branch and traveled with Zhang Tianyuan to No. 7 Spacetime.
• Yuan Heguang and the other branch presidents gathered for a conference about moving people from Snowpiercer Spacetime to Interstellar Spacetime and expanding migration to the new planet.
• Cheng Wanli offered to build a heavy-haul railway network and provide other infrastructure support in Interstellar Spacetime and on the new planet, and Yuan Heguang welcomed the proposal.

Zhang Tianyuan discussed the Spacetime branches’ cooperation and learned how the Mutual Aid Society Divine Church used repentance rituals to restore order in Finch Spacetime. Meanwhile, North American leaders secretly shifted resources toward NASA, where officials concluded that the Mutual Aid Society’s Spacetime Tunnels had limits and believed rockets could give them an advantage.

• The Spacetime branches agreed on cooperation plans, including Snowpiercer Spacetime’s migration and future assistance for Wandering Spacetime.
• Amelia Brand and Professor Brand asked Zhang Tianyuan about the man-made disaster in No. 8 Spacetime, and Amelia described the Indian Curse circulating in Finch Spacetime.
• Amelia explained that Jack’s church made believers repent for past wrongs, while Zhang Tianyuan said its rituals helped guide people and rebuild social order after the chaos.
• Professor Brand reported that most starving people had been rescued and that local guards were helping, while leaders elsewhere diverted resources and secretly supported NASA’s rocket program.
• A North American presentation argued that Spacetime Tunnels could not stay open long or transport large forces, and its officials concluded that rocket migration was their opportunity.

A group of officials decided to flee Earth for Planet No. 2, believing Dr. Mann might still be alive there and that the Mutual Aid Society had left it undeveloped. As they prepared their rocket, fighting between National Guard units over grain signaled that North America was descending into chaos.

• An old official argued that the Mutual Aid Society had concealed information about Planet No. 2, where Dr. Mann had reported breathable air, water, and organic matter.
• He persuaded the others that they could settle Planet No. 2 while the Mutual Aid Society focused on Planet No. 3, then have their descendants merge with the later colonists.
• The group approved the New Lazarus Plan, and the old official said the rocket was nearly ready and could carry relatives, Population Bomb devices, women for breeding, and basic supplies.
• The B34 Granary in Pennsylvania ran out of grain beyond the five-year ration for fifty thousand people, and its National Guard unit asked to join the Mutual Aid Society.
• After the Mutual Aid Society rejected the request, the unit fought another National Guard unit over the still-stocked B40 Granary.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Yuan Heguang saw the clash as the beginning of unavoidable chaos across North America.

The author reflected on a lost move in the game, arguing that later gains kept the overall position from collapsing. They criticized the opposing player for taking the prestige and urged people to seek ways to retaliate instead of imagining defeat.

• The author said the game had lost one ko fight and one stone, but its big dragon remained intact.
• The author noted that later gains included a small ko fight, a captured stone, and an advance elsewhere.
• The author complained that the opposing player took the prestige while the pieces and parasites were used and gained nothing.
• The author attributed some disappointment to a generational divide in expectations and approaches to the game.
• The author dismissed online predictions of total defeat and urged people to find an outside way to hit back.

As armed conflict spread across North America, Donald decided his family had to leave and contacted Amelia Brand, who arranged to evacuate them. Meanwhile, Zhang Tianyuan learned that the North American authorities had launched a colonization mission to Planet No. 2, where Mann might be stranded.

• After a local gathering revealed plans to recruit soldiers and buy horses amid the chaos, Donald called Amelia Brand and asked her to evacuate him, Murphy, and Tom.
• Amelia promised to send a team within a week and suggested that Professor Brand arrange evacuation for other families as well.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that armed clashes in North America had expanded, while its authorities ignored his message and prepared resources for an undisclosed plan.
• As North American society grew more violent, Zhang Tianyuan withdrew Mutual Aid Society personnel from granaries that joined the National Guard, while immigrants from Snowpiercer Spacetime began arriving to help build a railway.
• Professor Brand told Zhang Tianyuan that North American rockets had carried a colonization team toward Planet No. 2, where Mann’s reports suggested the planet might be habitable.

Zhang Tianyuan revealed that Planet No. 2 was uninhabitable and that Dr. Mann had deceived Earth, devastating Professor Brand. The group decided to monitor the sinners' expedition and arrest them—and Mann—after they landed and experienced the planet’s conditions.

• Professor Brand proposed an immediate expedition to Planet No. 2 to retrieve Mann and stop the sinners, but Zhang Tianyuan revealed that the planet was uninhabitable and Mann’s reports were false.
• Professor Brand searched Mann’s coded messages for proof but found no way to verify them, and the others tried to console him over the betrayal.
• The group discussed letting the sinners face despair on Planet No. 2, but Zhang Tianyuan insisted they must be brought back and put on trial.
• Zhang Tianyuan decided to send satellites to monitor Planet No. 2 and wait until the sinners landed before arresting them and retrieving Mann; Professor Brand raised no objection.

After the sinners fled, North America’s authorities collapsed and armed groups threatened further disorder. Zhang Tianyuan refused to let Headquarters intervene, but proposed that Professor Brand and the North America Branch take responsibility, revealing that the branch already had at least five million members.

• Officials discovered that their superiors had vanished, and rumors spread as North American society fell into chaos.
• Zhang Tianyuan warned that armed groups and the collapse of order could cause a greater humanitarian disaster.
• Zhang Tianyuan explained that the Mutual Aid Society’s influence could restrain the guard units, but said Headquarters would not interfere in North America’s affairs.
• Amelia realized that Zhang Tianyuan expected the North America Branch to handle the crisis, and the others agreed that it should rebuild social order.
• Professor Brand questioned how his small branch could manage the task, and Zhang Tianyuan revealed that it already had at least five million members among the rescued starving people.

Donald arrived with Murphy and Tom in a busy airport city and saw signs of a functioning society, including factories, public transportation, schools, and hospitals. Their coach reached the space base, where Cooper came to meet them.

• Donald and his grandchildren disembarked and saw the crowded airport, including soldiers in exoskeletons loading cargo onto a plane.
• Donald led Murphy and Tom onto their assigned coach and noticed passengers from Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East.
• Donald told the children that they were traveling to the space base to reunite with Cooper, then settle in a nearby city.
• The coach passed operating factories, buses, schools, hospitals, and ambulances, astonishing Donald.
• The coach stopped outside the space base, and Donald spotted Cooper approaching with a broad smile.

Cooper reunited with Murphy, Tom, and Donald at the space base, showed his children around, and told them about New Star. The family left eager to learn more about the new planet, while Donald connected Cooper’s news about foreign delegations to the people he had seen on the coach.

• Murphy and Tom ran to Cooper and embraced him, while Donald brought their luggage into the space base.
• Cooper showed his family the base and took the children to see a rocket launch pad.
• Cooper gave Murphy and Tom dried earthworms flavored to taste like durian; Murphy and Donald enjoyed them, but Tom rejected his.
• Cooper explained that the durian flavor was artificial and told the family that crop trials on New Star were going well.
• Cooper described New Star’s landscape and wildlife to the fascinated children, then said foreign delegations were arriving to discuss the planet.
• Donald remembered seeing foreign faces on the coach when he heard about the delegations.

Delegations from around the world gathered at the space base to learn about Yuan Heguang’s plan to migrate people to New Star. Zhang Tianyuan introduced them to the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and showed them evidence of the new planet, leaving the visitors amazed by its life and the Spacetime Tunnel.

• Representatives from various countries assembled at the space base and exchanged information about New Star and the planned migration.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Yuan Heguang entered the hall, and Yuan introduced Zhang as the president of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society’s branch in their spacetime.
• Zhang explained that parallel spacetimes existed and that the Society aimed to unite and help people across them.
• Zhang took the delegations to a computer room, where staff showed them satellite images of New Star and views of its unusual plants and animals.
• The visitors saw alien specimens and the guarded Spacetime Tunnel, and some fell to their knees to pray.

The visiting delegations wanted to join the Mutual Aid Society but initially demanded that North America be expelled, until Yuan Heguang explained Professor Brand and his associates had opposed the North American sinners. Professor Brand then told the delegations that the sinners had fled and began seeking their support as he prepared to return to North America and end the chaos.

• The visiting delegations expressed excitement about joining the Mutual Aid Society and asked where the North American representative was.
• Professor Brand appeared with Amelia as the delegations cursed him and demanded that North America be expelled from the society.
• Yuan Heguang clarified that the Mutual Aid Society had cooperated with Professor Brand and his associates, not the North American sinners, and the delegations changed their tune in support of Brand.
• Zhang Tianyuan gave the delegations agreement templates to review before leaving with Yuan Heguang.
• Professor Brand told the delegations that the sinners had fled toward Planet No. 2, which was uninhabitable, and said he intended to return to North America to help end the chaos.

Morgan and the other Doomsday Plan conspirators feared that Matthew and the Mutual Aid Society were closing in, so they decided to blame Wilford and Mather publicly. The leaked investigation file triggered worldwide outrage, while the FBI denied having created it and failed to convince anyone.

• Morgan reviewed footage of snowbound New York and learned that Matthew had replaced Mather and was overseeing effective disaster relief.
• Morgan worried that Matthew was investigating the conspirators and convened the Doomsday Plan participants, who admitted they had no useful information about the investigation.
• Morgan and the others agreed to expose the Doomsday Plan while placing the blame on Wilford and Mather to avoid being charged with causing the global apocalypse.
• A major newspaper published a supposed confidential FBI file detailing the Doomsday Cooling Plan and naming Mather and Wilford as its masterminds.
• People around the world condemned Mather and Wilford, while the FBI denied conducting the investigation and its denial only fueled suspicion.

Morgan realized that he had exposed the Doomsday Plan before Matthew knew the truth, leaving his cover-up looking like a panicked attempt to shift blame. Cheng Wanli and the Mutual Aid Society announced a mass relocation to a parallel spacetime that would dismantle much of Morgan’s wealth and influence, while Morgan’s partners accepted that the migration could not be stopped.

• Morgan learned that Matthew had not known about the Doomsday Plan before Morgan revealed it, and realized his attempt to blame Wilford and Mather had made him look guilty.
• Morgan convened his partners to plan a united response, but the meeting was interrupted by news that Cheng Wanli and the Mutual Aid Society had announced a relocation plan.
• Morgan learned that residents would travel by railway to a parallel spacetime, where contracts, debts, and financial institutions would be dissolved or restructured and households would be scattered.
• Morgan urged his partners to resist the plan, but they argued that people would relocate to survive and that opposition could not stop them.
• Morgan considered hiding in his family’s bunker until Earth warmed again, but his partners warned that the other principal culprits might turn on him.
• People protested the loss of their property, and Cheng Wanli’s representatives replied that the extraordinary crisis left no better option and asked them to bear with the plan.

Cheng Wanli suppressed opposition to the relocation while warrants caused Morgan’s associates to betray him, forcing Old Morgan to flee his bunker. A superstorm then formed over North America, and Morgan’s family took shelter as the storm rapidly worsened and cracked a window.

• Cheng Wanli silenced media outlets and celebrities opposing relocation, then began negotiating relocation details with Matthew and representatives of other countries.
• United Nations warrants led Morgan’s subordinates and family members to betray his associates, so Old Morgan fled his bunker with his family and a few loyal followers.
• Liu Peiqiang and Makarov spotted a rapidly growing superstorm over Earth and reported it to the command center.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned the storm would sweep south across North America, arranged emergency preparations, and opened Spacetime Tunnels above twenty-four Planetary Engines.
• Old Morgan’s family sheltered in an office building as the storm brought heavy snow, hail, and freezing temperatures, then a window cracked.

A superstorm devastated North America, overwhelming emergency services and proving that the Mutual Aid Society’s Planetary Engines could do little to stop it. Old Morgan’s family endured the storm in a basement, and rescuers later found him alive but severely injured.

• Hail shattered the building’s windows, forcing Old Morgan and his family into a basement where they huddled against the cold.
• Old Morgan’s grandson asked whether they could return to the bunker, but Old Morgan said they could neither go back nor escape the consequences of their choices.
• Matthew learned that hundreds of deaths had been reported and that the true toll was already estimated at a thousand, while the plasma jets barely affected the storm.
• Zhang Tianyuan and his team redirected fifty-four Planetary Engines to pursue the storm, raising surface temperatures by up to five degrees as it moved south.
• Rescuers found Old Morgan alive beneath the wreckage, but his hands and feet broke off as they carried him out.

A devastating cold storm called the Steamroller killed and injured millions, convincing countries that they had to migrate to a parallel spacetime. Matthew joined the Mutual Aid Society, while Zhang Tianyuan also supported Professor Brand’s plan to end the conflict in Interstellar Spacetime.

• The Steamroller storm swept across North America, killing 100,000 people in its first three states and leaving more than a million injured before the toll rose to 500,000 dead and nearly ten million sick or injured.
• Liu Chunshi warned that similar storms could recur unpredictably, while meteorologists said stopping the plasma streams would make the entire world freeze even faster.
• Countries and conglomerates shifted toward migration, and Matthew met Zhang Tianyuan to formalize his spacetime’s membership in the Mutual Aid Society.
• Rescue teams captured Old Morgan and rounded up more than half of the hundreds of people named in Cheng Wanli’s warrants; Matthew also handed over evidence about CW-7.
• A one-day cold storm in South America killed nearly a thousand people and left tens of thousands sick or injured.
• Professor Brand decided to return to his country to end the warfare, and Yuan Heguang gave him a locator and modified rockets to support his effort.

Zhang Tianyuan redirected Snowpiercer’s future migrants toward North America while organizing new-planet farming to address the Mutual Aid Society’s enormous food shortage. After Morgan’s gang was captured, Snowpiercer’s countries signed a mass-migration agreement and the gang was sentenced to death; Zhang then discovered a newly identified world.

• Brand returned to North America while Amelia and the astronauts in training stayed with Yuan Heguang, and Zhang Tianyuan arranged for people from Snowpiercer Spacetime and Matthew’s citizens to settle in North America.
• Zhang Tianyuan calculated that the Mutual Aid Society faced a food shortage affecting roughly sixteen billion people and prioritized cultivating plains on the new planet, sending teams to explore twenty possible farming regions.
• Cheng Wanli reported that Morgan’s gang had been captured, and the countries of Snowpiercer Spacetime signed an agreement to migrate their entire populations.
• An international tribunal sentenced Morgan, Wilford, thirty-two principal offenders, and 440 accomplices to death after a five-day public trial.
• After 472 people were executed by firing squad, Zhang Tianyuan saw that the system had discovered a new world: "Mad Max: Fury Road".

Zhang Tianyuan sent a rocket and satellite into Rampage Spacetime to survey the world, but an unknown power destroyed it before it could begin transmitting. The satellite’s destruction suggested that a heavily armed state was active in the tense spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan was asked whether to launch again.

• Zhang Tianyuan arranged for a solid-fuel rocket to carry a satellite into Rampage Spacetime and connected it to Interstellar Spacetime through a Spacetime Tunnel.
• Staff at the space base discovered that the satellite had stopped sending signals, and Zhang Tianyuan returned to the command hall.
• The supervisor showed Zhang Tianyuan the severed, scorched cable and explained that a camera had confirmed the satellite was destroyed.
• Zhang Tianyuan concluded that Immortan Joe’s gang could not have destroyed the satellite and suspected a country with antisatellite weapons had intercepted it.
• The supervisor asked Zhang Tianyuan whether they should continue launching satellites into Rampage Spacetime.

Zhang Tianyuan and the branch presidents discussed the unstable, resource-scarce Rampage Spacetime and decided to investigate it with drones after satellite launches proved too risky. Several reconnaissance drones were quickly shot down, so Zhang planned to try an armed drone and send the remaining unarmed ones to Oceania, where Immortan Joe was.

• Zhang Tianyuan closed the Spacetime Tunnel, returned to his office, and briefed the eight branch presidents about Spacetime No. 9.
• Yuan Heguang argued that large-scale mushroom warfare was unlikely in Rampage Spacetime because the major powers probably had not resorted to it.
• Zhang Tianyuan approved using drones instead of satellites, and the first drone was shot down shortly after entering Rampage Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent a second drone to North America and a third to a northern region, but both were also destroyed by missiles.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered the team to prepare a drone carrying air-to-air missiles and decided to send the two remaining reconnaissance drones to Oceania, where Immortan Joe was.

Zhang Tianyuan’s drone discovered a nuclear-ravaged wasteland where scavengers hunted a man named Max, then entered Rampage Spacetime and was shot down by its military. A second drone requested permission to land, and Bu Zhen’s team cautiously approached it at an abandoned airport.

• Zhang Tianyuan’s drone found a city reduced to a radioactive desert and spotted a scavenger convoy chasing Max.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent the drone low over the convoy, causing the scavengers to abandon Max and chase it instead.
• Max watched the drone disappear, then drove on and was targeted by another scavenger convoy.
• Jing Youwei learned that the first drone was not a model developed by his forces, then ordered a second unidentified drone to land under close guard.
• Bu Zhen and his team watched the drone land at an abandoned airport, jammed its signal, and waited before sending an explosives specialist to inspect it.