Recaps

Tong Wenshi announced that his settlement would join the Mutual Aid Society, but the crowd doubted his claims. Zhang Tianyuan took the pregnant women and other people back to the 2012 spacetime to prove the Society was real, while Bai Xu stayed behind to build its Second Branch.

• Tong Wenshi told the forty thousand survivors that a parallel nation had developed a KV Virus vaccine and offered help through the Mutual Aid Society, but the crowd erupted in disbelief.
• Zhang Tianyuan told Bai Xu to help establish the Society's Second Branch and directed Xi Lei to prepare the virus data.
• Tong Wenshi announced that he would travel with a team and the settlement's pregnant women to discuss cooperation in the parallel spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan opened a spacetime gate to 2012 and took the pregnant women, other people, and the wooden speaking platform with him, leaving Bai Xu to work with the advance team.
• The return triggered alarms throughout the 2012 shelter, alerting officials that people had come back from a parallel spacetime.

Tong Wenshi and the pregnant women arrived safely in the 2012 spacetime, where Zhang Tianyuan arranged their quarantine and care. After learning how few people had survived the apocalypse in Legend World, the 2012 leaders heard the returning team’s accounts and saw evidence of the devastation, leaving them fearful of their own coming disaster.

• Zhang Tianyuan reassured Tong Wenshi and the pregnant women after they crossed into the containment facility.
• Tong Wenshi realized parallel spacetimes were real, and Zhang Tianyuan sent a video back to Legend World to reassure its people.
• Medical staff disinfected and quarantined Tong Wenshi, Zhang Tianyuan, and the others to prevent the KV Virus from spreading.
• Zhang Tianyuan told 2012’s senior leaders that only about forty thousand people had been gathered in Legend World, though roughly a million might remain alive in the country.
• The senior leaders questioned Instructor Yin, Wu Yisi, and the returning team, who described the collapsed order and horrors caused by the Darkseekers.
• The leaders watched the team’s visual evidence of the devastation, and an elderly man studied a bloody photograph.

Tong Wenshi began contact with the parallel world's leaders and worried that their powerful country might absorb his people. Meanwhile, A He and the other pregnant women received modern medical care, and one woman went into labor under careful precautions.

• The close-cropped old man agreed that his side should prepare for its own apocalypse and help the parallel world rebuild.
• Tong Wenshi spoke by telephone with the parallel world's senior leaders, who delayed an in-person meeting until quarantine and vaccination were complete.
• After studying the parallel world's history, Tong Wenshi feared his people might be absorbed and decided he might need Zhang Tianyuan's support.
• The parallel world's leaders sent a team of doctors to examine the pregnant women and arranged protected conditions for a woman who went into labor.
• A He watched anxiously outside the operating room until a nurse gave her a garment and led her away for a scan, reminding her of her late husband.

Bai Xu explained the Mutual Aid Society and the parallel spacetime rescue effort to the survivors, while Tong Wenshi and his team completed quarantine in the 2012 spacetime. The first meeting between the two worlds began, and Tong Wenshi discovered that the school chairs enhanced the mind.

• Bai Xu told the survivors that their leaders had traveled to another spacetime and that the pregnant women had been moved there for safe births and vaccination.
• After seeing a recording of the women safe in the other spacetime, the survivors mostly believed Bai Xu and began signing Mutual Aid Society applications.
• Bai Xu answered the survivors’ questions about parallel spacetimes, the Mutual Aid Society, and Zhang Tianyuan’s Spacetime Tunnel, though he could not explain how Zhang opened it.
• A month later, Zhang Tianyuan, Tong Wenshi, and the others completed quarantine and left the facility after tests confirmed they no longer carried the virus.
• Tong Wenshi met the senior officials of 2012, and the first meeting between the two worlds began at the school where Zhang Tianyuan was waiting.
• Tong Wenshi sat in a special chair, felt its brain-enhancing effect, and learned from Zhang Tianyuan that it improved memory and learning ability.

Zhang Tianyuan’s group briefed the “2012” officials on the KV Virus and its effects, then considered how to move people between spacetimes without spreading the infection. The chapter ended with Zhang proposing sea transport or disinfected tube trains through a Spacetime Tunnel.

• Zhang Tianyuan noted that 1,013 people had joined the Mutual Aid Society’s First Branch and opened the meeting with a KV Virus research report.
• Xi Lei explained the virus’s origins, broad transmission routes, rapid fatality, and the transformation of some infected people into Darkseekers.
• Xi Lei said researchers believed Darkseekers could not be turned back into humans, disappointing Tong Wenshi.
• Officials from “2012” asked how future migrants could avoid bringing the KV Virus into their spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed quarantining and disinfecting passengers before sending them by sea through a Spacetime Tunnel, or using disinfected enclosed tube trains.

Zhang Tianyuan helped No. 1 and No. 2 Spacetime agree on mutual aid, then planned to send a 10,000-person reserve team to No. 2 Spacetime and urged preparations for the coming apocalypse. The chapter ended with both sides asking him where foreign refugees should be settled in No. 2 Spacetime.

• Zhang Tianyuan outlined how No. 1 Spacetime would help No. 2 Spacetime eliminate the Darkseekers and restore production, while No. 2 Spacetime would shelter No. 1 Spacetime’s refugees and later help rebuild.
• Tong Wenshi and the elderly man with the crew cut agreed to help each other, and Zhang Tianyuan left them to discuss specific aid projects.
• Instructor Yin told Zhang Tianyuan that 10,000 reserve-team members had trained for over three months, and Zhang approved taking them to No. 2 Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan estimated that signs of the apocalypse would emerge by midyear and told Instructor Yin to prepare migration infrastructure, likely railways, before 2010 and begin migration in 2011.
• Tong Wenshi and the elderly man with the crew cut asked Zhang Tianyuan where foreign refugees should be settled after arriving in No. 2 Spacetime.

Zhang Tianyuan and the officials agreed to resettle foreign refugees in Africa rather than let them settle in No. 2 Spacetime’s counterpart nations. As aid negotiations concluded, preparations began for a third deployment and a massive disinfection railway system to support population relocation and contain the KV Virus.

• Zhang Tianyuan agreed with Tong Wenshi and the officials from "2012" that foreign refugees should be settled in Africa, where they would farm and hunt before returning to rebuild their homes.
• Dr. Satnam continued writing a project proposal that repeatedly invoked a major country’s research efforts in hopes of securing funding and a position for Adrian.
• Tong Wenshi and the officials from "2012" rapidly finalized aid agreements, and Yin Hongda received orders to prepare a five-hundred-thousand-person third deployment focused on restoring heavy industry in No. 2 Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan reviewed plans for enclosed tube railways with ozone-disinfection tunnels to prevent relocation trains from carrying the KV Virus into the "2012" world.

Zhang Tianyuan and Tong Wenshi finalized preparations for aid from “2012” while a ten-thousand-person base went into lockdown. At a meeting, a senior leader revealed that the world would end in 2012 and that the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society had warned them, leaving the recruits stunned by the truth.

• Zhang Tianyuan reviewed agreements for extensive supplies and personnel that “2012” would provide to Legend World.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the others moved toward the ten-thousand-person base as it entered lockdown, leaving recruits such as Qian Xiu anxious about their secret mission.
• A senior leader gathered the recruits and said their mission concerned the survival of their country and world.
• The senior leader explained that the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society had warned them of the coming 2012 disaster.
• The senior leader said nearly seven billion people would die and confirmed the warning was true.

Zhang Tianyuan and a senior official told nearly ten thousand people that their world would face catastrophic disasters in 2012 and that the Mutual Aid Society planned to evacuate them to a parallel spacetime. The first volunteers would instead travel to Legend World to help its survivors rebuild before the evacuation, and Qian Xiu decided to go.

• Zhang Tianyuan introduced himself as president of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and explained that multiple spacetimes faced apocalypses.
• Zhang Tianyuan described the disasters that would strike in 2012 and said his world could not survive them alone.
• Zhang Tianyuan announced that a parallel spacetime had agreed to shelter their citizens before 2012.
• The senior official explained that the parallel spacetime had lost more than 99 percent of its population to a viral outbreak and that the first aid workers would help restore services and protect survivors.
• Staff showed footage of Legend World, and Qian Xiu told his friend he would go.

Qian Xiu and nearly ten thousand others prepared to travel to Legend World, accepting the risks of the parallel spacetime. Zhang Tianyuan led the massive convoy through the Spacetime Tunnel, and a satellite passing afterward photographed only the empty grounds.

• Qian Xiu and his friend decided to join the mission to Legend World, and fewer than ten people withdrew before the count reached 9,956.
• After intensive training, Zhang Tianyuan and the team assembled tanks, helicopters, and support vehicles for the return journey.
• Zhang Tianyuan organized the force into seven departments and ordered them to enter the Spacetime Tunnel before a satellite passed overhead.
• At 8:35, Zhang Tianyuan opened the tunnel and the entire convoy vanished from the grounds.
• Ten minutes later, a satellite passed overhead and captured an empty grounds covered in tire tracks.

The “2012” leadership covertly prepared a nationwide evacuation, diverting resources toward railways, ships, and training workers. On the grasslands, Bai Xu and the settlement’s leaders worried as Zhang Tianyuan’s group stayed away, until a convoy appeared and Bai Xu realized they had returned.

• The “2012” leadership planned an evacuation railway and maritime transport, triggering a shipbuilding boom and a covert mobilization of five hundred thousand workers.
• Bai Xu regularly checked the cleared meeting site while the grassland settlement endured a worsening winter and grew anxious over Zhang Tianyuan’s prolonged absence.
• The Mutual Aid Society Second Branch discussed how to bolster survivors’ confidence as administrative work became difficult and production stopped.
• Bai Xu reassured the meeting by recounting his first encounter with Zhang Tianyuan, then heard a rumble outside.
• Bai Xu saw numerous vehicles at the meeting site and shouted that Zhang Tianyuan’s group had returned.

Zhang Tianyuan and the Mutual Aid Society returned to the world of "I Am Legend" with a convoy of supplies, reuniting with Bai Xu, Tong Wenshi, and the survivors. After helping establish a camp and distributing warm clothes, Zhang Tianyuan began briefing the society’s leaders on the cooperation agreement between the two spacetimes.

• Zhang Tianyuan confirmed that the convoy had returned to the world of "I Am Legend" and reunited with Bai Xu and the Second Division.
• Tong Wenshi announced that the parallel spacetime would provide further aid and help drive out the Darkseekers within a year, prompting cheers from the survivors.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the others struggled to manage the excited crowd before the logistics department began building a camp for more than ten thousand people.
• Zhang Tianyuan arranged for warm clothing to be distributed, and survivors joined the workers to finish setting up the camp.
• Zhang Tianyuan shared the cooperation agreement with the Mutual Aid Society’s First and Second Division leaders at Tong Wenshi’s yurt.

Zhang Tianyuan explained the cooperation agreement and gave the engineering team access to No. 2 Spacetime’s classified national records. The group decided to return to the Imperial Capital to change the emergency broadcast and inform survivors that the Mutual Aid Society had arrived.

• Zhang Tianyuan and Tong Wenshi explained that No. 1 Spacetime would provide resources and send experts, engineers, and workers, while No. 2 Spacetime would accommodate its residents temporarily.
• Zhang Tianyuan led Xu Tianji and the engineering team into the classified warehouses, where Tong Wenshi revealed records covering the country’s industry, engineering, geography, and other fields.
• Tong Wenshi permitted Xu Tianji’s team to consult and send the records to No. 1 Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan assigned the team to sort, disinfect, and pack them.
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed leaving the grassland to reclaim a city, and Tong Wenshi urged the group to return to the Imperial Capital because its radio station transmitted emergency broadcasts nationwide.
• Zhang Tianyuan agreed to change the broadcast so survivors across the country would learn that the Mutual Aid Society had arrived.

Zhang Tianyuan’s group picked up a distress call from an unknown woman, then prepared a five-hundred-person expedition to the Imperial Capital while the settlement organized its move south. The expedition set off through heavy snow with Ding Jingye among its members.

• Zhang Tianyuan and Instructor Yin heard a distorted Mayday broadcast, but the signal vanished before they could locate or contact the woman.
• Tong Wenshi announced that the settlement would soon head south, and the engineering department sorted and sent important documents back to "2012."
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed taking five hundred people to the Imperial Capital to change the broadcast and clear Darkseekers, despite Tong Wenshi and Instructor Yin objecting.
• Ding Jingye insisted on joining the expedition, offering his knowledge of the Imperial Capital as a former taxi driver, and Zhang Tianyuan agreed to take him.
• In February, Zhang Tianyuan led the five-hundred-person group south through heavy snow toward the Imperial Capital.

Zhang Tianyuan’s convoy reached the Imperial Capital and cleared the Darkseekers from Station 897 using ultraviolet-equipped remote-controlled vehicles. He replaced the broadcast tape, leaving the station ready to resume its transmission.

• After ten days of travel, Zhang Tianyuan’s convoy reached the Imperial Capital and confirmed Station 897’s location in Pingliuzhuang.
• Zhang Tianyuan briefed the group on the plan to reach the station, clear any Darkseekers, replace the tape, and leave before nightfall.
• Instructor Yin and Zhang Tianyuan’s soldiers entered the station grounds and deployed cable-controlled vehicles equipped with powerful ultraviolet flashlights.
• The vehicles killed every Darkseeker inside the main control station in less than an hour without exposing the soldiers to danger.
• Zhang Tianyuan entered the secure broadcast room with the communications experts, removed the old tape, and inserted the new one.

Zhang Tianyuan and the Mutual Aid Society broadcast instructions and survival information nationwide, then escaped the Imperial Capital as Darkseekers pursued them. Survivors in distant camps heard the announcement, and the desert camp’s leaders began discussing how to contact the Mutual Aid Society and join up.

• Zhang Tianyuan confirmed the new emergency broadcast, which announced the Mutual Aid Society and gave survivors instructions, Darkseeker information, and survival advice.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the soldiers sealed the main control station, then drove out of the Imperial Capital at dusk with loudspeakers playing music to draw Darkseekers into their vehicles’ ultraviolet headlights and armored plating.
• Tong Wenshi and his companions on the grasslands listened quietly to the changed broadcast over liquor.
• A young man and a middle-aged man in the wilderness stopped to listen when the middle-aged man tuned in to the new announcement.
• A young soldier in the desert alerted his camp to the changed broadcast, and thousands gathered to hear it before the leaders debated whether its claims were true.
• An elderly leader in the desert camp proposed sending people to find the Mutual Aid Society and discuss joining it.

Zhang Tianyuan and his team cleared Darkseekers from the transmission station and nearby blocks while waiting for Tong Wenshi’s helicopter. They then received a distress broadcast from astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and Zhang Tianyuan ordered the team to establish contact on the next pass.

• Zhang Tianyuan ordered his team to clear Darkseekers from the transmission station and build a cement perimeter covered with sharp objects.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Yin Hongda used ultraviolet lights and fire traps to eliminate Darkseekers across nearby blocks over five days.
• Tong Wenshi planned to fly to the Imperial Capital with Zhang Tianyuan to retrieve classified documents, so Zhang Tianyuan suspended operations and let the team rest.
• Zhang Tianyuan’s communications team received a clear distress broadcast from Hill Emma, who said she and Padalka and Mike were stranded aboard the International Space Station.
• Zhang Tianyuan confirmed that the signal came from the space station and told the operator to connect with the astronauts when it passed overhead again.

Hill, Padalka, and Mike, astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for over a year, made radio contact with Zhang Tianyuan on Earth. They learned that communication could continue, but a rescue would not be possible in the short term, and Padalka asked what had happened on Earth.

• Hill and the other surviving astronauts waited for a reply after repairing the station’s external radio, while facing dwindling supplies and despair.
• Padalka broke down over his stomach trouble and pleaded for medicine, prompting Zhang Tianyuan to answer through the radio.
• The astronauts confirmed Zhang Tianyuan was speaking from Earth and asked whether they could keep communicating; he said they could when conditions allowed.
• Mike asked whether they could be rescued, and Zhang Tianyuan explained that rescue would be difficult and not possible soon.
• Padalka asked why Earth had lost contact and whether a virus was responsible, while Hill stopped him from wasting their limited time on less urgent questions.

After learning that three astronauts remained alive aboard the space station, Zhang Tianyuan committed to rescuing them and realized that Antarctica might also shelter survivors. He and Tong Wenshi began considering rescue plans and whether foreign officials had fled there.

• Zhang Tianyuan told the astronauts that the KV Virus had killed 99.8% of Earth's population and said his group might find a way to bring them back to Earth.
• Padalka, Mike, and Hill shared information about possible rockets, a space shuttle, capsule specifications, and their supply needs before agreeing to speak again during the station's next pass.
• Zhang Tianyuan said the Mutual Aid Society would rescue the astronauts, then told Tong Wenshi about the discovery when he arrived by helicopter.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Tong Wenshi realized that Antarctica's isolation and cold might have kept people at its research stations safe from the virus.
• Tong Wenshi said their country's three Antarctic research stations were staffed, and Zhang Tianyuan asked whether senior officials from other countries might have fled to Antarctica.

Zhang Tianyuan and Tong Wenshi planned a rescue mission to Antarctica after learning that 166 people had been at their country’s three research stations when the virus broke out. Zhang then returned to the “2012” world, where he shared news of the stranded astronauts and proposed an Antarctic expedition that might also locate foreign officials in hiding.

• Tong Wenshi estimated that at least a hundred people were at their country’s Antarctic stations and discussed the possibility that foreign officials had fled to Antarctica.
• Zhang Tianyuan chose the Antarctica Peninsula as the first destination, planning to rescue people at No. 1 Station and check nearby foreign stations.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Tong Wenshi retrieved classified documents and the Antarctic personnel roster, learning that 166 people had been at their country’s three stations when the virus broke out.
• Zhang Tianyuan returned to the “2012” world with documents and intelligence personnel while Tong Wenshi went back to oversee the camp’s move south.
• Zhang Tianyuan told the “2012” leadership that three astronauts remained aboard the International Space Station and requested a professional team to help restore satellite operations and bring them home.
• Zhang Tianyuan told the “2012” leadership that researchers and possibly North and South American officials might be sheltering at Antarctic stations.

After record-breaking solar storms signaled that the 2012 apocalypse had begun, Zhang Tianyuan and the Chinese authorities pressed ahead with evacuation preparations while planning to secure equipment in No. 2 Spacetime. The chapter left Satnam celebrating his new research opportunity, unaware that the coming disaster was approaching.

• Zhang Tianyuan proposed rescuing the Antarctic expedition and checking foreign research stations for officials who could assist with evacuations, while the 2012 authorities planned to recover dangerous military equipment in No. 2 Spacetime.
• The 2012 authorities learned that the sun had produced the largest solar storm on record and informed Zhang Tianyuan when they reached the shelter.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked about core abnormalities and neutrino mutations, then urged the authorities to follow the existing plan as another record-breaking solar storm was reported.
• Over the next four days, solar storm records were broken seven times, prompting China to intensify its monitoring, evacuation drills, and evacuation planning.
• Satnam and Adrian celebrated after their research project was approved, with Adrian appointed deputy director and able to recommend Satnam for the team.

Yan Xingbang saw the city’s disaster drill turn out to be part of massive evacuation exercises across the country, while the leaders of "2012" accepted Zhang Tianyuan’s warning and prepared to rescue people in Antarctica and aboard the space station. The chapter ended with them recognizing that their own spacetime now depended on help from the Mutual Aid Society and No. 2 Spacetime.

• Yan Xingbang learned that his company had to join a city evacuation drill and found an enormous crowd gathered at the drill site.
• Major cities across the country held large evacuation drills, baffling international observers.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the senior leaders of "2012" agreed to mount simultaneous rescue efforts for the Antarctic research stations and the space station.
• Zhang Tianyuan planned to lead the Antarctic mission while an aerospace team went to No. 2 Spacetime to search for space-station technical documents.
• The leaders of "2012" prepared ships, supplies, and helicopters for the Antarctic rescue and acknowledged that their spacetime needed help to survive the coming catastrophe.

Zhang Tianyuan led a fleet and more than ten thousand personnel from "2012" into Legend World, where they began an Antarctic rescue mission. After their calls to the research stations went unanswered, he asked whether a helicopter could investigate.

• Zhang Tianyuan inspected a nine-ship fleet and learned that more than ten thousand personnel and supplies had been prepared for the mission.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent a five-hundred-person aerospace team to Legend World and tested that a communications cable could remain continuous through the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Zhang Tianyuan sailed to meet the other eight ships, then transported the assembled fleet to waters off South America.
• Zhang Tianyuan contacted the Imperial Capital and the grasslands, while two flotillas set course to rescue the No. 2 and No. 3 Antarctic research stations.
• Zhang Tianyuan's fleet received no answer from CN01 Antarctica Scientific Research Station, and he asked the ship's commander whether a helicopter could investigate.

Zhang Tianyuan joined an armed helicopter mission to investigate No. 1 Station in Antarctica, where the crew found a murdered man and evidence of violence. The chapter leaves Liu Chunshi and the station’s people defending themselves from the South American Gang.

• Zhang Tianyuan insisted on accompanying the armed helicopter crew, explaining that he could rescue them through the Spacetime Tunnel if the flight went wrong.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the crew flew toward No. 1 Station, recording floating ice locations and guiding the fleet behind them through the ice.
• The helicopter crew found a man in a bloodied white sweater lying dead in the snow, with injuries from sharp weapons and blunt-force blows.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered the crew back aboard and told them to prepare for combat as they continued toward No. 1 Station.
• Liu Chunshi and the people at No. 1 Station defended their camp from the South American Gang, which had attacked after running short of supplies.

Marcelo attacked No. 1 Station with his armed followers, but a helicopter carrying Zhang Tianyuan arrived and killed him, driving the attackers away. Liu Chunshi learned that the newcomers had come from back home, and he and the station staff broke down in relief.

• Marcelo rallied his followers and fired his automatic rifle at the people of No. 1 Station, forcing Liu Chunshi and the others into a panic.
• Marcelo prepared to shoot Liu Chunshi, but heard a helicopter approaching and spotted it hovering with a machine gun aimed at his group.
• The helicopter opened fire and killed Marcelo, sending his followers fleeing on snowmobiles or on foot.
• Liu Chunshi recognized the military flag on the helicopter and organized the station staff to clear the helipad so Zhang Tianyuan and his team could land.
• Liu Chunshi asked Zhang Tianyuan if he had come from back home, and Zhang Tianyuan nodded.
• Liu Chunshi wept with relief, and the people of No. 1 Station sobbed as they released their grief.