Recaps

Bu Zhen’s team discovered that a voice was speaking through the dismantled drone’s speaker, and that a hand could emerge from a black passage connected to it. Jing Youwei and Instructor Yin then began speaking with the Mutual Aid Society representatives, who explained that they could not yet come through the passage.

• After bomb disposal specialists found no explosives, Bu Zhen brought aviation technicians to dismantle the drone and record its parts.
• An operator from the Mutual Aid Society’s No. 7 Branch spoke through a wired speaker, explaining that wireless jamming did not affect the connection.
• When the speaker malfunctioned, a hand emerged from a black patch behind it and slapped it; the operator warned Bu Zhen that touching the passage was dangerous.
• Jing Youwei received a report about the speaking speaker and mysterious hand, then went to the airfield to investigate.
• Instructor Yin identified himself as a deputy director of the Mutual Aid Society’s disaster-response bureau and told Jing Youwei that the group could not yet widen the passage enough to come out.

Jing Youwei learned that Deputy Director Yin and his team came from a parallel spacetime and belonged to the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society. Their conversation revealed that Jing Youwei’s world faced catastrophic shortages of oil and water, leaving Instructor Yin alarmed by how severe its resource crisis had become.

• Yin Hongda explained to Jing Youwei that they were in another spacetime and used a Spacetime Tunnel to control the drone and reach into his world.
• Instructor Yin warned Jing Youwei about the tunnel’s Spacetime Cutting risks, then identified their group as the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, which had contacted eight other parallel spacetimes.
• Instructor Yin apologized for the reconnaissance satellite and drones that had been shot down, and Jing Youwei confirmed that his world had extensive anti-satellite weapons.
• Jing Youwei described how Topol missiles had devastated Oceania thirteen years earlier and said Earth’s resource depletion prevented other countries from providing relief.
• Jing Youwei told Instructor Yin that oil and water shortages had spread worldwide, with major rivers and lakes drying up and the world descending into wars over resources.

Jing Youwei learned about the nuclear devastation and resource wars in Rampage Spacetime from Instructor Yin, then investigated the drone and the still-open Spacetime Tunnel after their call ended. He and Bu Zhen began testing the tunnel, which cut an iron rod cleanly at its edge, and prepared to examine it with a camera.

• Jing Youwei told Instructor Yin that the oil unrest and water unrest had left the world devastated by nuclear weapons, contamination, and ongoing conflict.
• Jing Youwei described the suspected cause of the Black Poplar Missile salvo thirteen years earlier, while admitting the account might not be true.
• Instructor Yin arranged a handshake through the Spacetime Tunnel, and Jing Youwei confirmed the hand belonged to a living person.
• Jing Youwei ordered Bu Zhen to dismantle the drone, record the site, and restrict everyone there from leaving or contacting the outside.
• Jing Youwei and Bu Zhen found no one inside the dismantled drone and saw that the Spacetime Tunnel remained open in midair.
• Jing Youwei tested the tunnel with an iron rod, discovered that its edge cut off a section perfectly, and began extending a camera toward it with Bu Zhen.

Jing Youwei and Bu Zhen discovered a crowded transit hub beyond the Spacetime Tunnel and recorded it, prompting an all-night government meeting. The authorities decided to investigate the airport and continue filming the tunnel as they prepared contingency plans.

• Bu Zhen and Jing Youwei watched camera footage of a vast facility where people and vehicles passed through several Spacetime Tunnels, especially the busy tunnel numbered three.
• Jing Youwei ordered Bu Zhen to secure the tunnel and isolate everyone at the airport who knew about it, then took the camera’s memory card to report the discovery.
• Jing Youwei showed officials footage of the transit hub and the drone dismantling process during an overnight meeting with Meng Anping and others.
• Meng Anping confirmed that an unusual aircraft had been detected and shot down, while officials had not yet verified the reports of the other drones.
• Meng Anping ordered a team to research the old airport and told Jing Youwei to record the Spacetime Tunnel continuously as departments prepared contingency plans.
• Bu Zhen set up a camera at the tunnel while keeping watch through the night.

After a major earthquake struck Wandering Spacetime, Zhang Tianyuan and Yuan Heguang arranged to evacuate and resettle disaster victims in Interstellar Spacetime. Meanwhile, Jing Youwei’s team tested the Spacetime Tunnel and confirmed its biometric identification feature.

• Zhang Tianyuan mobilized rescue teams and Bai Xu to evacuate people and salvage grain from damaged underground cities in Wandering Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan persuaded Yuan Heguang to accept disaster victims from Wandering Spacetime, and Yuan Heguang approved plans to resettle 1.2 million domestic victims and place foreign victims in a Southeast Asian resettlement area.
• Wandering Spacetime prepared to build replacement underground cities and used nearly half of its accumulated Planetary Engine blueprints.
• Bu Zhen waited beside the Spacetime Tunnel for Jing Youwei, who returned with a research team.
• Jing Youwei’s researchers tested the tunnel and found that attached fingernails and hair vanished on contact, while detached samples passed through, confirming biometric identification.

Jing Youwei and the experts used a camera feed through the Spacetime Tunnel to learn about the Mutual Aid Society, while Zheng Xu gave them a tour of its transit network and member spacetimes. Hearing about vast freshwater exports from The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime made Meng Anping and the others consider joining the trade system and question why their own spacetime had run out of resources.

• After experts confirmed the Spacetime Tunnel was real, Jing Youwei agreed to let Zheng Xu show the camera around the Mutual Aid Society’s facilities.
• Zheng Xu described the transit hubs in Interstellar Spacetime and Legend Spacetime, and Meng Anping and the experts recognized their importance to future trade between spacetimes.
• Zheng Xu explained that The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime had transported 50,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater and planned to export ten million more.
• Meng Anping and the others discussed whether their spacetime could import water and other resources if it joined the Mutual Aid Society.
• The group questioned why their spacetime faced resource depletion when the other parallel spacetimes did not, and wondered whether its resource supply was unusually limited.

Zheng Xu showed Jing Youwei and Meng Anping the worsening environmental conditions in No. 7 Spacetime, while the leaders discussed the Mutual Aid Society’s immense military capacity and potential dangers. The chapter ended with Zheng Xu revealing that No. 7 Spacetime planned to escape Blight by colonizing a habitable planet, prompting Jing Youwei to seek more details.

• Zheng Xu explained that Blight had made successive plant species impossible to grow, leaving corn as the only remaining crop in No. 7 Spacetime.
• Jing Youwei sent a wireless camera and signal relays so Zheng Xu could film outside, then had the returned wired camera examined for signs of intrusion.
• Jing Youwei and Meng Anping discussed the other spacetimes’ ability to build ten thousand Planetary Engines and the danger posed by their combined nuclear arsenals.
• Zheng Xu showed the leaders No. 7 Spacetime’s barren, sand-covered landscape and described its worsening environmental conditions.
• Zheng Xu told Jing Youwei that No. 7 Spacetime could not stop Blight and was planning an interstellar colonization effort on a newly found habitable planet.

Jing Youwei and Meng Anping learned about the Mutual Aid Society and decided to pursue membership, appointing Jing to lead a working group and prepare a visit to No. 7 Spacetime. Meanwhile, Zhang Tianyuan finished overseeing the most urgent evacuations in The Wandering Earth and turned his attention to Rampage Spacetime.

• Jing Youwei asked Zheng Xu about habitable planets, and Zheng explained that a wormhole near Saturn made No. 7 Spacetime’s circumstances difficult to replicate.
• Meng Anping asked whether No. 7 Spacetime had resources beyond food, and Zheng Xu said he had heard of no resource shortages.
• Zheng Xu toured the space base and New Star Research Center, where biology experts admired new life forms while Meng Anping and his colleagues discussed joining the Mutual Aid Society.
• Meng Anping appointed Jing Youwei to lead a working group on joining the Mutual Aid Society and instructed him to help arrange a visit to No. 7 Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that evacuations from two magma-threatened underground cities in The Wandering Earth were complete and reviewed reports on Rampage Spacetime, where conditions had deteriorated in small countries and resource-rich regions.

Zhang Tianyuan planned to ease No. 9 Spacetime’s resource crisis with the Mutual Aid Society’s abundant supplies and arranged for a delegation to visit. After signing the required agreements, Jing Youwei and his team set out through the Spacetime Tunnel to a parallel spacetime.

• Zhang Tianyuan identified resource scarcity as the root of No. 9 Spacetime’s unrest and said the Mutual Aid Society could help supply it.
• Instructor Yin explained that the Mutual Aid Society would gain half the resources on Yuan Heguang’s Earth in exchange for migration assistance.
• After Zheng Xu reported that No. 9 Spacetime had requested a visit, Zhang Tianyuan approved the delegation and instructed them to sign agreements before crossing.
• Zhang Tianyuan checked his energy balance and found that supporting Snowpiercer Spacetime’s plasma jets was leaving him at a daily loss.
• Zheng Xu escorted Jing Youwei’s delegation to the widened Spacetime Tunnel and watched them sign their real names.
• Jing Youwei rallied his subordinates and led them through the Spacetime Tunnel.

Jing Youwei and his delegation crossed into Interstellar Spacetime, where they toured the base and met President Zhang. During their meeting, Zhang agreed to let Mutual Aid Society member countries take part in importing resources, leaving Meng Anping’s country poised to seek membership.

• Jing Youwei and his team crossed the Spacetime Tunnel and confirmed their arrival in Interstellar Spacetime by reporting back through their own communications equipment.
• Zheng Xu escorted the delegation out of the transfer station, where Instructor Yin and others welcomed them.
• Instructor Yin showed Jing Youwei’s party the base, the New Star research area, and Amelia’s biology lab.
• President Zhang met Jing Youwei and two members of his team and heard their diplomats express support for the Mutual Aid Society and propose resource cooperation.
• Zhang promised that any Mutual Aid Society member country could participate in importing resources, reassuring the diplomats.

Jing Youwei left his meeting with President Zhang and, unable to contact Meng Anping from the other spacetime, headed back toward the Spacetime Tunnel. Along the way, he met disaster victims relocated from No. 3 Spacetime and learned how proudly they spoke of the Planetary Engines.

• Zhang Tianyuan assured the two diplomats that the Mutual Aid Society would not prevent them from joining, and Jing Youwei left with them for the guesthouse.
• Jing Youwei remembered that his communication device could not reach Meng Anping across spacetimes and hurried out to report through the Spacetime Tunnel.
• A receptionist explained that the people gathered at the base were disaster victims relocated from No. 3 Spacetime, whose underground homes had become uninhabitable.
• Jing Youwei asked to speak with the victims, then approached a young man and asked about the Planetary Engines.
• The young man recited public information about the engines with pride, and Jing Youwei noticed how the Mutual Aid Society had changed people’s outlook in Wandering Spacetime.

Jing Youwei returned from Wandering Spacetime convinced that the Mutual Aid Society had earned its people’s trust and learned why Zhang Tianyuan commanded such respect. After hearing that each branch was led by people from its own spacetime and that other worlds needed industrial goods, Meng Anping revised his plans and began to prepare a public campaign for the Society.

• Jing Youwei heard a Wandering Spacetime resident explain how the Mutual Aid Society had helped people survive and improve their lives, strengthening his view of the Society.
• Jing Youwei returned through the Spacetime Tunnel with two diplomats and called Meng Anping to report that Zhang Tianyuan had offered Rampage Spacetime a chance to participate in importing resources without conditions.
• A diplomat told Meng Anping that the Mutual Aid Society’s branches were run by people from their own countries, and Jing Youwei explained how Zhang Tianyuan had helped evacuate dungeon residents with few casualties.
• The diplomats reported that the Society needed food and industrial goods, and Meng Anping learned Rampage Spacetime could help by producing goods at full capacity.
• Reassured that he would lead his spacetime’s branch, Meng Anping ordered relevant departments to lower the Mutual Aid Society’s secrecy classification and stir up public attention.

Cha Minzhi discovered the Spacetime Tunnel and the negotiations with a parallel spacetime, then tried to secretly report the information and was arrested as part of Meng Anping’s purge of foreign agents. After closing the airport tunnel and meeting the Mutual Aid Society, Meng Anping sought help stopping the other powers’ escalating war, and Zhang Tianyuan asked how strong their militaries were.

• Cha Minzhi learned about the Spacetime Tunnel and saw Jing Youwei’s video call, confirming that contact with a parallel spacetime was real.
• Cha Minzhi secretly assembled a covert transmitter and sent coded information about the tunnel, but burly men caught him after he dismantled it.
• Meng Anping used the tunnel’s existence to identify and remove agents across the airport, while their reports were dismissed by the people who received them.
• Zhang Tianyuan opened a new tunnel for Meng Anping, closed the airport passage, and introduced him to the Mutual Aid Society’s branches at a spacetime conference.
• Meng Anping asked the Mutual Aid Society to help stop the fighting between the other two major powers, and Zhang Tianyuan asked about their military strength.

Zhang Tianyuan and the branch presidents learned how Rampage Spacetime’s widespread small nuclear weapons had kept Connor’s superior military from winning outright, then agreed to send a thirty-carrier joint fleet on a friendly visit. Connor dismissed Meng Anping’s warning as fantasy until intelligence reports about the Spacetime Tunnel unsettled him, and his fleet mobilization further heightened global tensions.

• Meng Anping showed the presidents Connor’s formidable military strength and explained how small nuclear weapons had prolonged conflict and caused lasting devastation in Rampage Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed a joint fleet visit to Connor, and the presidents of Legend, Pacific Rim, Snowpiercer, and "2012" agreed to contribute thirty carrier fleets.
• Meng Anping returned to his spacetime and formally informed Connor that the Mutual Aid Society’s joint fleet planned to visit soon.
• Connor initially dismissed the letter as an absurd mistake, but an intelligence official told him that reports about Meng Anping and a Spacetime Tunnel might be true.
• Connor ordered West Coast fleets onto high alert, and their movements alarmed other powers and increased worldwide tensions.

Zhang Tianyuan prepared for the joint fleet’s deployment while learning that a nuclear-armed faction had emerged in No. 0 Spacetime. He also faced Sun Deyi’s request to evacuate over a billion people from Wandering Spacetime, a plan complicated by the Escape Faction; the chapter ended with the joint fleet ready.

• Connor sent a fleet into the Pacific, prompting intelligence agencies and smaller powers to prepare for conflict, while his forces watched Meng Anping’s fleet for three days without seeing it move.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned from Ke Jinjun that repeated nuclear explosions and radioactive dust in No. 0 Spacetime pointed to a faction using nuclear weapons, and he ordered exploration rockets launched in every direction.
• Sun Deyi told Zhang Tianyuan that the Moon Exile Project was nearing completion and asked him to help evacuate more than a billion people before the moon was pushed away.
• Zhang Tianyuan worried that Escape Faction members might abandon their families and settle permanently in other spacetimes, or even sabotage underground cities to escape, so he sent Sun Deyi’s proposal to the Mutual Aid Society’s branches for discussion.
• After half a month of coordination drills, Zhang Tianyuan received word that the joint fleet was ready.

Connor waited for news of the supposed Joint Fleet, but reconnaissance found nothing until an enormous black curtain opened in New York Harbor. A massive, unrecognized fleet began emerging through it, leaving the city and harbor in alarm as reports climbed the chain of command.

• Connor learned from Lewis that the Joint Fleet was expected near New York Harbor at noon, then ordered the Norfolk fleet to search for and intercept any unidentified ships.
• Connor received word that reconnaissance aircraft had found no unidentified warships and prepared to confront Meng Anping.
• A mysterious black curtain appeared off New York, drawing the attention of harbor workers, residents, and a television helicopter.
• A harbor speedboat approached the curtain, but its driver turned away when an aircraft carrier emerged from it.
• Unidentified escort warships and additional carriers poured through the Spacetime Tunnel, filling the waters and prompting people to flee.
• Reports of the fleet began moving up through the ranks.

A joint fleet emerged from a spacetime tunnel outside New York Harbor, shocking Connor and Lewis as the number of warships grew to 240. Connor arranged for the fleet to dock and flew out to meet its commanders, leaving the chapter with him aboard its command ship.

• Lewis learned from a live broadcast that warships were streaming through a spacetime tunnel into New York Harbor and rushed to tell Connor.
• Connor confirmed the fleet had arrived, learned it was visiting, and ordered New York Harbor to arrange berths for the ships.
• Port operators struggled to clear the busy harbor, then began evacuating vessels and making room for the fleet.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the joint fleet agreed to send a destroyer into port first while the rest of the ships waited offshore.
• Connor and Lewis arrived in New York, realized the destroyer was not the fleet's command vessel, and flew to meet its leaders aboard the command ship.

Connor and Lewis welcomed Zhang Tianyuan and the Cross-Spacetime Joint Fleet aboard its command carrier, where they learned the fleet included 30 carrier fleets from four parallel spacetimes. Connor grew friendlier after hearing that many of the ships were formidable, while Lewis struggled with the wind and his hair.

• Connor and Lewis arrived by helicopter with their secretaries and security personnel to meet the aliens aboard the carrier.
• Zhang Tianyuan introduced himself as the temporary president of the Mutual Aid Society headquarters and described the Cross-Spacetime Joint Fleet.
• Zhang Tianyuan explained that the fleet had come because Connor had not formally refused its requested visit, leaving Connor to regret not replying.
• The fleet commanders arrived, and Zhang Tianyuan introduced them and their ships to Connor and Lewis.
• Connor heard that some fleets were weak while others, especially those from Pacific Rim Spacetime and Snowpiercer Spacetime, were powerful, and he warmly welcomed the visitors.
• Lewis watched Connor pose for photos and felt déjà vu at the sight of a four-spacetime joint force.

Zhang Tianyuan told Connor that the Joint Fleet represented the Mutual Aid Society, which had helped eight parallel spacetimes and planned to inspect other countries as well. Connor became eager to join after seeing the Society’s advanced exoskeletons, while Lewis complained that the port was taking too long to prepare a berth for the fleet.

• Zhang Tianyuan explained the Mutual Aid Society’s work across eight parallel spacetimes and said it had come to help Connor’s world by learning about it through visits.
• Connor asked about joining, and Zhang Tianyuan described the Society’s basic requirements without accepting Connor’s implied offer.
• A soldier demonstrated an exoskeleton by lifting and pulling one corner of a plane, leaving Connor and Lewis impressed.
• Zhang Tianyuan explained that the exoskeletons were exported from another spacetime, and Connor began to long for access to parallel-spacetime technology.
• Connor lost sight of Zhang Tianyuan, returned to Lewis, and heard him complain that the port had not prepared a berth despite the fleet’s long wait.

Connor struggled to berth the Joint Fleet at New York Harbor and ordered supplies and promotional brochures for the ships. After arranging preparations on both coasts, he called Meng Anping late at night to ask how he could join the Mutual Aid Society and become a messenger.

• Lewis explained that New York Harbor could not clear berths quickly, and Connor learned that thirty Joint Fleet warships had docked while 210 remained at sea.
• Connor ordered East Coast supply ships to resupply the fleet offshore, while docked ships received fuel, provisions, gifts, and promotional brochures.
• Lewis arranged the resupply and brochure printing, and West Coast bases and California ports prepared for President Zhang's visit.
• Crowds gathered around New York Harbor as news of the Joint Fleet spread, and Connor fielded calls from countries around the world.
• After briefing his people, Connor contacted Meng Anping to ask how he could join the Mutual Aid Society and become a messenger.

Connor asked Meng Anping how to join the Mutual Aid Society and learned that his government’s actions had already put its prospects at risk. He realized the Joint Fleet’s visit was both a response to the downed reconnaissance craft and a warning to stop interfering overseas.

• Connor spoke with Meng Anping about joining the Mutual Aid Society and shared what President Zhang had told him.
• Meng Anping explained the society’s principles and warned Connor that a spacetime that rejected its help had seen a hundred million people freeze to death.
• Meng Anping revealed that Connor’s side had shot down the society’s reconnaissance satellite and drone, prompting Connor to send his secretary to investigate.
• Meng Anping said he had defended Connor’s side to President Zhang and urged Connor to consider whether its world was on the wrong path.
• Connor concluded that joining the Mutual Aid Society would require him to abandon overseas interference, and he recognized the Joint Fleet’s visit as a warning as well as a show of force.

Connor learned that the Economic and Trade Organization could supply his country with resources from other spacetimes, giving him a possible alternative to overseas interests. Seeing crowds gather around New York Harbor, he recognized how widely the Joint Fleet’s visit had drawn attention and decided to address the public from the warship.

• Meng Anping told Connor that another spacetime was abandoning its old planet and that the Economic and Trade Organization could import resources from it.
• Connor asked about oil, natural gas, coal, and freshwater, and Meng Anping described the organization’s expanding trade between spacetimes.
• Connor considered replacing overseas resource supplies with imports from other spacetimes, especially while the Joint Fleet remained in New York.
• Connor saw crowds and civilian vessels gathering around New York Harbor as supply ships served the Joint Fleet and warships kept other boats away.
• Connor called Lewis and decided to give a televised address from the warship rather than go ashore.

Connor delivered a televised speech from a Mutual Aid Society carrier, assuring the world that the visitors came from a parallel Earth and were friendly. He ended by announcing that the Joint Fleet would next visit California.

• Lewis secured permission from the Mutual Aid Society to host Connor's speech aboard a carrier and arranged for a television crew to fly in from New York.
• Connor addressed viewers from the ship's island, describing the Joint Fleet's arrival as a friendly visit after earlier contact.
• Connor explained that the visitors came from a parallel spacetime and praised the Mutual Aid Society as a charitable organization dedicated to peace.
• Officials in other countries analyzed Connor's speech, and some intelligence officers wondered whether he had been taken hostage.
• Connor concluded by announcing that the Joint Fleet would visit California to learn about the world.

The Joint Fleet prepared to leave New York Harbor after establishing the Mutual Aid Society’s power, but Connor refused to get off Zhang Tianyuan’s command ship. Zhang Tianyuan eventually ordered the fleet to sail to California, giving Connor a high-profile visit through a Spacetime Tunnel.

• After Connor announced that the Joint Fleet would visit California, other powers contacted Meng Anping to seek visits of their own.
• Meng Anping told the powers to wait, expecting the Joint Fleet to leave New York Harbor once it was ready.
• Zhang Tianyuan decided to depart the crowded harbor after the fleet received gifts and supplies from Connor.
• When Zhang Tianyuan announced the departure, Connor asked the Joint Fleet to stay but refused to leave the command ship.
• After an hour of arguing with Connor, Zhang Tianyuan ordered the command ship to sail to California through a Spacetime Tunnel.

Connor turned the signing of the temporary agreement and his passage through the Spacetime Tunnel into a live spectacle, using his connection with the Mutual Aid Society to build public support. The Joint Fleet reached California to a massive welcome, leaving Connor and Lewis exhausted but delighted by their sudden popularity.

• Connor arranged for a television crew to broadcast him and Lewis signing the temporary agreement aboard the carrier.
• Connor asked Zhang Tianyuan to let the crew film his passage through the Spacetime Tunnel, and Zhang agreed.
• Connor chatted with Joint Fleet commanders and gathered basic information about other spacetimes while the fleet loaded his supplies.
• Connor kept addressing the camera as the carrier passed through the Spacetime Tunnel, presenting himself as enthusiastic and fearless.
• The Joint Fleet sailed to California, where crowds welcomed it and the Mutual Aid Society, strengthening Connor's public support.
• Connor and Lewis waved to the crowds until they were exhausted, then returned smiling and unsteady on their feet.