Arc 5The Wandering Earth Rescue

Zhang Tianyuan discovered The Wandering Earth spacetime, negotiated aid and a limited evacuation, and helped launch the transfer of vulnerable people while its inhabitants continued their migration plan. He then led an expedition into the lord-game world, where Liu Huo arrived seeking the mysterious overlord and learned it was Zhang.

  • Zhang Tianyuan survived the Sea of Mist Snakes on his island, gained enough energy to upgrade his base to level five, and became the game’s first overlord.
  • Zhang Tianyuan explored The Wandering Earth spacetime and met Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi, who explained their plan to move Earth as its sun expanded.
  • Zhang Tianyuan offered aid but refused an immediate mass relocation or merger, while Sun Deyi’s representatives chose to continue the project and evacuate vulnerable people to No. 2 Spacetime.
  • Sun Deyi removed Ke Jinjun from his post and announced the Mutual Aid Society’s involvement, the continued Wandering Earth Project, and relocation for vulnerable groups.
  • Han Zi'ang applied to transfer himself, Liu Qi, and Han Duoduo, while the spacetimes supplied food, vaccines, and evacuation points for Wandering Spacetime’s underground cities.
  • Zhang Tianyuan and Sun Deyi sent the first migrants through a Spacetime Tunnel, including Han Zi'ang, Liu Qi, and Han Duoduo.
  • Zhang Tianyuan took Ke Jinjun and an elite team to No. 0 Spacetime, explained the lord-management game, and instructed them to unite or rescue other players rather than attack them without cause.
  • Zhang Tianyuan prepared a concealed base and fleet, then met Liu Huo, who revealed that the Yanhuang Alliance had destroyed Shenluo while searching for the mysterious overlord, whom Zhang realized was himself.
Chapters 106–130 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 106I Really Was Dreaming (3/4)

After the astronauts were rescued, Hill woke during her transfer to a hospital and learned that she had been moved to a parallel spacetime. She could not accept Robert’s explanation and decided she must still be dreaming.

  • Zhang Tianyuan left Robert to oversee the astronauts’ care and returned to No. 2 Spacetime.
  • In Legend Spacetime, Zhang Tianyuan watched country representatives argue over the settlement while continuing his fruitless searches of the world channel.
  • Hill regained consciousness in an ambulance and asked Robert whether she and the other astronauts had landed safely.
  • Hill saw a crowded Chinese city outside and questioned how it could exist after the KV Virus devastation she remembered.
  • Robert explained that Hill had been transferred to a parallel spacetime by the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, led by Zhang.
  • Hill concluded that she was dreaming, covered her face, and lay back down, then screamed in pain from her fractures.

Ch. 107The Wandering Earth, Searching for a New World

Zhang Tianyuan learned that the world channel search had found The Wandering Earth, but postponed exploring it because its timeline and conditions made choosing a safe arrival point difficult. After discovering his island’s newbie protection had ended, he returned to find it covered in thick fog and a corroded skeleton outside his control room.

  • Zhang Tianyuan visited the injured astronauts, who discussed their rescue and Mike asked to experience spacetime travel again.
  • Zhang Tianyuan told the astronauts that evacuations from the 2012 spacetime would begin soon and that the Mutual Aid Society was busy preparing settlements.
  • The international Mutual Aid Societies agreed that each country would clear and restore an assigned settlement in No. 2 Spacetime.
  • Zhang Tianyuan’s search found a third world channel, The Wandering Earth, and he decided to plan its exploration carefully because he might arrive in a dangerous place or era.
  • Zhang Tianyuan noticed that his newbie protection had ended, returned to his island, and found thick fog and a corroded skeleton outside the control room before shutting himself back inside.

Ch. 108The Source of the Building Blueprints

Zhang Tianyuan discovered that giant Sea of Mist Snakes had overrun his island and attacked them from the safety of his main base. His rockets yielded resources and building blueprints, but the surviving snakes surrounded the base and began searching for him.

  • Zhang Tianyuan tested the fog outside and used infrared goggles to discover more than two hundred giant snakes roaming his island.
  • He checked the system and learned that the snakes were part of the fourth monster wave.
  • Zhang Tianyuan fired a rocket at the giant snake leader, killing five level 1 snakes and receiving base energy, food, and a level 2 barracks blueprint.
  • He launched three more rockets, killing additional snakes and obtaining food, wood, an intermediate school blueprint, and a level 1 hospital blueprint fragment.
  • The surviving snakes began searching the island, surrounded Zhang Tianyuan's main base, and failed to enter.

Ch. 109Another Use for the Spacetime Tunnel (2/3)

Zhang Tianyuan used the Spacetime Tunnel to slice apart the Sea of Mist Snakes surrounding his base and collected the resulting kill rewards. As more serpents approached, their enormous leader advanced from the beach toward the base.

  • Zhang Tianyuan assessed the levels of the Sea of Mist Snakes surrounding his base and judged that the game had spawned an unusually powerful nest in his territory.
  • Zhang Tianyuan used the Spacetime Tunnel as a blade, cutting the serpents outside the windows into pieces and sending parts of their bodies into the sky above Legend World.
  • Zhang Tianyuan killed the serpents around the base in less than a minute and received fifty-seven kill notifications, including doubled rewards for being the first lord to kill a level 4 monster.
  • More Sea of Mist Snakes approached, and their massive leader crawled from the beach toward Zhang Tianyuan's base.

Ch. 110A Bountiful Haul of Building Blueprints

Zhang Tianyuan killed a level 5 Sea of Mist Snake and discovered that the Lord Game included training camps that could awaken talents. After clearing the island and examining the loot, he cataloged 12 building blueprints and prepared to investigate the game’s unfamiliar resources and mechanics.

  • Zhang Tianyuan killed a level 5 Sea of Mist Snake, earning doubled first-kill rewards and a level 5 training camp blueprint.
  • Zhang Tianyuan inferred that lower-level training camps might awaken talents and considered how other lords could have defeated earlier monsters.
  • Zhang Tianyuan went outside after the mist thinned, killed the remaining Sea of Mist Snakes on the island, and collected samples from the level 5 snake.
  • Zhang Tianyuan counted his haul of 120 kills, including crystals and 12 building blueprints, among them two level 5 training camps and two level 4 hospitals.
  • Zhang Tianyuan reviewed the hospital and workshop blueprint requirements and attributes.

Ch. 111Main Base Upgrade

Zhang Tianyuan upgraded his base to level 5, unlocking new features and making his faction the server’s first overlord. At the Yanhuang Alliance encampment, Liu Huo and the other lords reacted to the announcement, and Liu Huo urged them to find the Chinese faction behind it.

  • Zhang Tianyuan reviewed blueprints for roads, a shipyard, barracks, and an intermediate school, and recalled the enchanted disinfection tunnels protecting trains from the KV Virus.
  • Zhang Tianyuan upgraded his base from level 1 to level 2, unlocking more wishes, higher building and mining caps, improved cloning, alliances, a territory warehouse requirement, and plundering.
  • Zhang Tianyuan spent more energy to raise the base to level 5 and received a system announcement naming his faction, Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, the server’s first overlord.
  • At the Yanhuang Alliance encampment, Liu Huo discussed plans to defeat a level 4 Tiger King and then confront Shenluo’s lords.
  • The Yanhuang Alliance lords learned that a faction had reached level 5, and Liu Huo recognized its Chinese name and ordered the group to find it.

Ch. 112Spacetime Tunnel Module Upgrade

After the system announced the level-five Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, Liu Huo and other alliance leaders searched for the mysterious faction. Zhang Tianyuan collected his overlord rewards, reviewed his upgrades, and went to the 2012 spacetime to prepare for exploration.

  • Liu Huo reasoned that the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society might belong to an early lord in a remote region, and the Yanhuang Alliance sent soldiers to search unexplored areas.
  • The other alliances, including Holy Rome and the Science Society, also began searching for the newly revealed faction.
  • Zhang Tianyuan received Advanced Physical Enhancement, Life Extension, one billion energy points, and a clone profession level increase.
  • Zhang Tianyuan reviewed the level-five upgrades, including the requirement to build a Spacetime Warehouse within three days and new targeted tunnel and communication functions.
  • Zhang Tianyuan traveled to the 2012 spacetime and requested a wire-controlled exploration vehicle; two remote-controlled vehicles arrived less than an hour later.

Ch. 113Planetary Engine

Zhang Tianyuan explored the Wandering Earth spacetime and discovered the enormous Planetary Engine near BJ Dungeon No. 3. After its defenses mistook his fighter for a threat, he escaped through a Spacetime Tunnel, and the dungeon scrambled its own fighters to search for him.

  • Zhang Tianyuan found that a Spacetime Tunnel could not open while the new world’s time was out of sync, then sent a remote-controlled car through after returning to the main spacetime.
  • The car revealed an unusually severe snowstorm in the Imperial Capital, temperatures of -34 degrees, and an unfinished BJ Dungeon No. 3.
  • Zhang Tianyuan asked Elder Zhou for a fighter jet, then opened a tunnel into the Wandering Earth spacetime while flying at supersonic speed.
  • Zhang Tianyuan and the pilot spotted a massive Planetary Engine, and its defenses fired missiles at their fighter.
  • Zhang Tianyuan opened a Spacetime Tunnel to escape the missiles, while BJ Dungeon No. 3’s commander ordered five fighters to take off and search for the aircraft.

Ch. 114Unable to Communicate

Zhang Tianyuan and his fighter entered the Wandering Spacetime and were intercepted by Zheng Yingyi’s squadron above the Planetary Engine. Their attempt to communicate failed after Zheng Yingyi mistook the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society for a hostile cult, and Zhang Tianyuan returned to the “2012” spacetime, leaving the pilots stunned.

  • Zheng Yingyi and four other pilots searched for the unidentified fighter above the Planetary Engine, and it suddenly appeared behind Zheng Yingyi’s aircraft.
  • Zheng Yingyi recognized the familiar military flag on the fighter and ordered its pilot to identify himself and land.
  • Zhang Tianyuan identified himself as a member of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and asked about the year and recent events in their spacetime.
  • Zheng Yingyi associated the Mutual Aid Society with extremist groups and ordered Zhang Tianyuan to land or face attack.
  • Zhang Tianyuan offered his respects and said he would return to communicate, then took the fighter back to the “2012” spacetime.
  • Zheng Yingyi and the ground crew reported that the unidentified aircraft had vanished from sight and radar.

Ch. 115Ke Jinjun (4/5)

Zhang Tianyuan returned from Wandering Spacetime without establishing contact and told Elder Zhou that No. 3 Spacetime faced a rapidly expanding sun. In The Wandering Earth, Zheng Yingyi was suspended for mistaking Zhang Tianyuan’s message for cult propaganda, while Ke Jinjun postponed suppressing protests in Berlin Underground City No. 5.

  • Zhang Tianyuan told Elder Zhou that he would return to Wandering Spacetime in a day or two and described its rapidly expanding sun as a threat requiring worldwide migration.
  • Elder Zhou worried that Zhang Tianyuan had risked his life, but Zhang Tianyuan changed the subject and kept the training camp plans to himself.
  • Zheng Yingyi explained his actions to the Earth Security Force Military Department and admitted he had acted impulsively without understanding Zhang Tianyuan’s message.
  • Ke Jinjun suspended Zheng Yingyi for one year pending review, then replayed the recording and footage of the fighter disappearing.
  • Ke Jinjun hesitated when asked whether to suppress protests at Berlin Underground City No. 5 and decided to wait a few more days.

Ch. 116There Was Actually an Organization Like This in the World?!

Instructor Yin and his delegation traveled to Wandering Spacetime to assess the United Government’s attitude toward the Mutual Aid Society. They met with Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi, who learned that the Society could connect parallel spacetimes and had already helped another world.

  • Zhang Tianyuan sent Instructor Yin and a delegation through a targeted Spacetime Tunnel to make initial contact with Wandering Spacetime.
  • Instructor Yin’s plane arrived over the frozen world, where BJ No. 3 Dungeon scrambled fighters to identify and escort it.
  • United Government reception staff met the delegation and guided them into the Planetary Engine’s accompanying dungeon.
  • Instructor Yin met Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi and explained how the Mutual Aid Society and its Spacetime Tunnels worked.
  • Sun Deyi was shaken to learn that the Society had already connected two spacetimes and helped them rebuild and avoid disaster.

Ch. 117A Meaningless Sacrifice?

Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi learned that the Mutual Aid Society could evacuate people through Spacetime Tunnels, making Ke question the terrible sacrifices made for The Wandering Earth Project. They traveled to No. 1 Spacetime to ask Zhang Tianyuan whether their entire population could relocate, and he said their situation was special.

  • Yin Hongda told Sun Deyi that the Mutual Aid Society had over two billion members and eight Spacetime Tunnels, leaving Ke Jinjun to wonder whether his world's sacrifices had been necessary.
  • Ke Jinjun asked whether everyone in his spacetime could relocate, and Yin Hongda contacted Zhang Tianyuan for an answer.
  • Zhang Tianyuan invited Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi to No. 1 Spacetime, and both signed forms to join the Mutual Aid Society before entering the Spacetime Tunnel.
  • Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi arrived in No. 1 Spacetime, met Zhang Tianyuan, and asked about relocating their entire population.
  • Zhang Tianyuan said their situation was special after Sun Deyi explained why they had pursued The Wandering Earth Project.

Ch. 118A Spacetime Merger? (2/3)

Zhang Tianyuan explained why the Mutual Aid Society could not permanently relocate all of Wandering Spacetime’s people to No. 2 Spacetime, though he offered to pass along a request for negotiations. Sun Deyi shared a chronicle of Wandering Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan considered the coming Jupiter Crisis.

  • Zhang Tianyuan told Ke Jinjun that Wandering Spacetime’s people would likely be unable to return after migrating to No. 2 Spacetime.
  • Sun Deyi explained that settling billions of people in No. 2 Spacetime would eventually lead to them expanding and taking its land and resources.
  • Zhang Tianyuan said the Mutual Aid Society would not sacrifice one spacetime’s interests for another, but Wandering Spacetime could negotiate a merger with No. 2 Spacetime after its rescue work was further along.
  • Sun Deyi warned that Wandering Spacetime’s planetary-engine plans would bring disasters that could kill at least a billion people, and Zhang Tianyuan promised the Mutual Aid Society would help but could not yet relocate everyone.
  • Sun Deyi brought Zhang Tianyuan a chronicle of Wandering Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan recalled that the Jupiter Crisis was expected in 2075.

Ch. 119A New Destination for Wandering Spacetime

Sun Deyi returned to Wandering Spacetime to report the Mutual Aid Society’s offer, while Ke Jinjun struggled with guilt over the sacrifices made for The Wandering Earth. Zhang Tianyuan told Tong Wenshi about No. 3 Spacetime’s impending disasters and considered sending its refugees to the Lord Game world rather than relocating everyone to Legend Spacetime.

  • Sun Deyi returned to Wandering Spacetime and prepared to inform Earth’s countries about the Mutual Aid Society and its possible help relocating people affected by disasters.
  • Ke Jinjun questioned whether the deaths and sacrifices had been necessary, wrote that his crimes were unforgivable, and hid a loaded handgun in his desk drawer.
  • Zhang Tianyuan told Tong Wenshi that No. 3 Spacetime was carrying out The Wandering Earth plan and might lose one or two billion people to disasters.
  • Tong Wenshi agreed that Legend Spacetime could take in some refugees, especially the elderly, weak, women, and children.
  • Zhang Tianyuan considered sending Wandering Spacetime’s people to the Lord Game world to avoid an influx that could threaten Legend Spacetime.

Ch. 120Navigator Program

Zheng Yingyi left BJ Dungeon No. 3 to train as a Navigator astronaut, where he met Liu Peiqiang and learned about his painful family choices. Meanwhile, officials from other countries arrived at BJ Dungeon No. 3 to make their first contact with a parallel spacetime.

  • A political affairs officer offered Zheng Yingyi a transfer to Navigator Program astronaut training, and Zheng signed the notice after seeing Ke Jinjun’s name on it.
  • Zheng Yingyi traveled to BJ Dungeon No. 1, passed his initial tests, and met his roommate, first-group astronaut Liu Peiqiang.
  • Zheng Yingyi and Liu Peiqiang shared their family losses and hardships, including Liu’s dilemma over which two relatives could enter the dungeon.
  • Zheng Yingyi told Liu Peiqiang that things might soon improve, recalling what he had heard about the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society.
  • After the United Government informed national authorities about the society, representatives from several countries arrived at BJ Dungeon No. 3 to begin contact with a parallel spacetime.

Ch. 121Hard to Imagine

Zhang Tianyuan brought delegations from the "2012" and Legend World spacetimes to meet Wandering Spacetime’s leaders, who learned how dire the crisis was there. The Mutual Aid Society offered to accept vulnerable people, and Elder Zhou promised a major food shipment.

  • Zhang Tianyuan, Elder Zhou, and Tong Wenshi arrived through the Spacetime Tunnel with the two delegations and met Sun Deyi and the other leaders.
  • Scientists and officials described The Wandering Earth Project and reported that billions still lived outside the underground cities, while only 280 million places remained in the final batch.
  • The "2012" and Legend World delegations explained their circumstances, and Sun Deyi’s group learned that No. 2 Spacetime was already strained by migrants from No. 1 Spacetime.
  • Tong Wenshi offered to take in Wandering Spacetime’s elderly, weak, sick, and disabled unconditionally.
  • Elder Zhou promised to provide enough grain to feed six billion people for a year.

Ch. 122No. 0 Spacetime

Sun Deyi explained how the Braking Era had devastated agriculture in Wandering Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan confirmed that the promised aid would arrive while rejecting a merger with No. 2 Spacetime. He offered No. 0 Spacetime as a possible destination but warned of its powerful creator, and Sun Deyi’s group decided to continue The Wandering Earth Project while exploring their options.

  • Sun Deyi described how the slowing Earth and extreme weather had crippled agriculture, leaving underground farms unable to feed Wandering Spacetime’s residents adequately.
  • Zhang Tianyuan assured Sun Deyi that the aid from No. 1 and No. 2 Spacetimes would be delivered, then said a spacetime merger was inappropriate.
  • Zhang Tianyuan proposed that the people of Wandering Spacetime could consider No. 0 Spacetime, while warning that its unknown supercivilization imposed strict rules and might react to major actions.
  • Sun Deyi and the other nine representatives held a private discussion and chose to continue The Wandering Earth Project, relocate people unsuited for frontline work to No. 2 Spacetime, and help explore No. 0 Spacetime.

Ch. 123Two Silent Men

Sun Deyi finalized a three-front plan with the Mutual Aid Society and received help for Wandering Spacetime, while insisting that The Wandering Earth Project continue until evacuation was certain. Liu Peiqiang called home from training and learned that Duoduo remained bedridden while the child was lively.

  • Sun Deyi gave Elder Zhou and Tong Wenshi access to the United Government’s Level 1 technology database and arranged to transfer youth education, elder care, and medical services to No. 2 Spacetime.
  • Sun Deyi presented Zhang Tianyuan with backups of the planetary engine and steering engine data, and Zhang reassured him that Wandering Spacetime still had chances of survival.
  • Sun Deyi told national governments that No. 2 Spacetime would take in vulnerable people, No. 1 Spacetime would provide food for six billion people for a year, and the Mutual Aid Society would help explore a possible refuge.
  • Sun Deyi warned governments that evacuation remained uncertain and ordered The Wandering Earth Project to continue with its original objective.
  • Liu Peiqiang called Han Zi'ang from the Navigator Program training camp and asked about Duoduo and the child; Han said Duoduo still lay in bed, while the child was energetic.

Ch. 124"Killing the Donkey After It Finished Turning the Mill"

Ke Jinjun was removed from his post after Sun Deyi exposed his past abuses, while preparations continued for a global refugee evacuation. As rescue teams brought survivors into underground cities, Sun Deyi began a worldwide address to reveal what was happening.

  • After the conference, Ke Jinjun found his pistol missing and watched special operations soldiers break into his office.
  • Sun Deyi read out the findings against Ke Jinjun and announced that he had been removed from his post.
  • At the next meeting, Sun Deyi said Ke Jinjun had been transferred, and the group continued planning the operation, including vaccinations and refugee transport.
  • Over the following week, Sun Deyi finalized plans with other governments and arranged a sudden global address.
  • Rescue teams brought refugees from the surface into overcrowded underground cities, where scarce food reserves were opened and dried earthworms distributed.
  • Sun Deyi appeared on televisions and radios around the world to begin the global address.

Ch. 125Is It True?

The United Government announced that it had contacted the Mutual Aid Society, an organization able to cross space-time, and would cooperate with it to relocate vulnerable people. The announcement left people across Earth stunned and uncertain, while Liu Peiqiang hoped his family would qualify for the relocation.

  • The United Government halted nonessential work around the world so people could listen to Sun Deyi’s address.
  • Sun Deyi announced that humanity had contacted the Mutual Aid Society and that the Wandering Earth Project would continue alongside a plan to relocate vulnerable groups.
  • At the astronaut training camp, Zheng Yingyi told Liu Peiqiang that the Mutual Aid Society was real and that he had met its members.
  • Sun Deyi voided the previous underground-city residency lottery and outlined relocation criteria for the elderly, children, seriously ill people, and people with disabilities.
  • Liu Peiqiang realized that his unconscious wife, his father-in-law, and his young son met the criteria, and repeatedly asked Zheng Yingyi whether the announcement was true.
  • Underground city governments issued formal announcements confirming that the relocation plan appeared to be real.

Ch. 126The Highest Level of Global Mobilization

Liu Peiqiang confirmed to Han Zi'ang that the transfer to a parallel spacetime was real and that their family could go in the first group. The United Government then mobilized people across Wandering Spacetime to join the Mutual Aid Society, while Zhang Tianyuan coordinated vaccine and food aid.

  • Liu Peiqiang called Han Zi'ang and confirmed that astronauts' families and people who were elderly, young, sick, or disabled could transfer to a parallel spacetime in the first group.
  • Han Zi'ang signed applications for himself, Liu Qi, and Han Duoduo, then took his family to Dungeon No. 3 to wait for their transfer.
  • The United Government organized a worldwide drive to distribute Mutual Aid Society applications, and 3.6 billion people had joined within a week.
  • Elder Zhou and the others distributed 600 million KV Vaccine doses in five days.
  • Zhang Tianyuan and Bai Xu used portals and the spacetime warehouse to deliver emergency food to residents of underground cities.

Ch. 127The First Migration Begins

After Zhang Tianyuan finished establishing evacuation routes for 9,200 underground cities, the first group of vaccinated residents began migrating from Wandering Spacetime to Legend Spacetime. Han Zi'ang, Han Duoduo, and Liu Qi departed through a Spacetime Tunnel, while Instructor Yin received the arrivals and questioned Han Zi'ang about his age.

  • Zhang Tianyuan spent a month setting up Spacetime Tunnel evacuation points for all 9,200 underground cities.
  • Sun Deyi told Zhang Tianyuan that Wandering Spacetime had agreed to exchange researchers with No. 1 Spacetime and conduct joint KV Virus research with the other spacetimes.
  • Liu Peiqiang visited Han Zi'ang, Han Duoduo, and Liu Qi in their ambulance to say goodbye before their migration began.
  • The migration convoy passed through a Spacetime Tunnel toward No. 2 Spacetime as Zhang Tianyuan and Sun Deyi returned Liu Peiqiang's salute.
  • Instructor Yin verified the arriving migrants at Legend Spacetime's southern base and was startled when Han Zi'ang said he was fifty-eight and born in 1999.

Ch. 128Ke Jinjun: I'm Willing, Happy, and Excited

Zhang Tianyuan assembled an elite team and appointed Ke Jinjun to lead an expedition into No. 0 Spacetime. After Ke Jinjun familiarized himself with the team and its equipment, Zhang Tianyuan prepared to take them there.

  • Sun Deyi showed Zhang Tianyuan the one-hundred-member Earth Security Force team and its air force surveyor, and Zhang Tianyuan asked for a commander because he would not stay in No. 0 Spacetime.
  • Zhang Tianyuan told the soldiers that refugees from other spacetimes were preparing to migrate, while construction teams built housing in Legend Spacetime.
  • Sun Deyi brought Ke Jinjun to lead the expedition, and Ke Jinjun accepted the post despite having recently retired.
  • Ke Jinjun found Zheng Yingyi on the roster and learned he had been reassigned as an air force surveyor after failing an emotional management assessment.
  • Zhang Tianyuan recognized Wang Lei among the soldiers and noted that he was twenty-six and had recently married.
  • Ke Jinjun completed roll call and checked the team's equipment, and Zhang Tianyuan said he would take them to No. 0 Spacetime.

Ch. 129No, We Should Save Them

Zhang Tianyuan brought Ke Jinjun and soldiers from several spacetimes to No. 0 Spacetime, where he explained that its world was a lord-management game created by a super-civilization. He rejected wiping out the other players and instead argued that the Mutual Aid Society should save and unite them, while avoiding actions that might alert the super-civilization.

  • Zhang Tianyuan brought a hundred elite soldiers and Ke Jinjun to a deserted island in No. 0 Spacetime, where they marveled at the sea and sun.
  • Zhang Tianyuan met Instructor Yin, who had brought soldiers from 2012 Spacetime and arranged to transfer a warship to the island.
  • Zhang Tianyuan reminded Ke Jinjun that No. 1 Spacetime would handle the sea while No. 3 Spacetime handled the ground and sky.
  • Zhang Tianyuan explained that a super-civilization had created No. 0 Spacetime as a lord-management game and that the Mutual Aid Society was one of its players.
  • Ke Jinjun asked whether they should eliminate the other players, but Zhang Tianyuan said they should save and unite them unless they had committed grave wrongs.
  • Zhang Tianyuan added that destroying many players might alert the super-civilization and that he had little to gain from taking their resources.

Ch. 130Meeting with the Yanhuang Alliance

Zhang Tianyuan sent a fleet to explore the game world while disguising the Mutual Aid Society’s conspicuous island base. Liu Huo of the Yanhuang Alliance arrived and revealed that his alliance had used the search for the mysterious server overlord as cover to destroy Shenluo, leaving Zhang to realize they had been looking for him.

  • Zhang Tianyuan agreed with Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun that the other players posed little threat and discussed offering them a way to return to modern life.
  • Instructor Yin suggested camouflaging the level-five base, so Zhang Tianyuan brought over supplies and frogmen while soldiers disguised it as a tropical wooden cabin.
  • After the frogmen confirmed the seabed was clear, Zhang Tianyuan transferred in a fleet, and Ke Jinjun departed with it, leaving ten soldiers to guard the island.
  • A player ship approached the island, and Zhang Tianyuan went ashore to meet Liu Huo of the Yanhuang Alliance.
  • Liu Huo told Zhang Tianyuan that the Yanhuang Alliance had destroyed Shenluo while using the search for the mysterious server overlord as a pretext to mobilize its fleet.
  • Zhang Tianyuan realized that the mysterious overlord Liu Huo had been seeking was himself.
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