Recaps

Zhang Tianyuan learned from Liu Huo about the Lord Game’s deadly bugs and the likely absence of its super-civilization, while hiding his true strength. After Liu Huo left the island, he spotted a modern fleet at sea and was stunned by its presence in the game.

• Liu Huo explained that his alliance had killed a level-four monster with over four thousand people and that clone soldiers were disposable, low-intelligence fakes.
• Liu Huo told Zhang Tianyuan that two servers had merged after a bug caused monsters to spawn abnormally, and listed other deadly game bugs that players suffered from.
• Zhang Tianyuan concluded that the super-civilization had likely left the game under automated control, and Liu Huo offered to let him remain on the island rather than join the alliance.
• Liu Huo departed to inspect Shenluo’s territory, then saw a fleet of modern warships and realized it was not an ordinary group of ironclads.

Liu Huo met a fleet from the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and learned that its members had come from parallel worlds to rescue people trapped in the Lord Game. He agreed that he could join them while remaining in the game world, subject to their rules, and Instructor Yin asked where his alliance's headquarters was.

• Liu Huo spotted the approaching fleet, recognized its flag, and ordered his clone soldiers to lower their weapons.
• Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun brought Liu Huo aboard and explained that they were members of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, not agents sent by his country or players in the game.
• Instructor Yin described the Society's mission to save apocalyptic spacetimes and explained that he and Ke Jinjun came from different parallel worlds.
• Instructor Yin offered to take Liu Huo and the other trapped players to safety, while warning that those who stayed must not interfere with the Society's mission.
• Liu Huo asked whether he could join the Society and remain in the game world, and Instructor Yin agreed under certain conditions.
• After giving Liu Huo a can of soda, Instructor Yin learned that he belonged to an alliance and asked where its headquarters was.

Zhang Tianyuan used the Mutual Aid Society to offer players a way back to modern life while pushing evacuation efforts forward in the "2012" spacetime. The chapter ended as a fleet of white-painted warships appeared off the Tokugawa Shogunate's shore.

• Liu Huo showed Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun a map of the Yanhuang Alliance's territory, and Instructor Yin planned to visit the Tokugawa Shogunate and inform other factions about the Mutual Aid Society.
• Liu Huo weighed whether to leave the game or keep playing, while Zhang Tianyuan revealed that he had arranged the fleet's encounter with Liu Huo.
• Zhang Tianyuan returned to the "2012" spacetime, urged Thomas and Elder Zhou to speed up vaccinations and applications, and added a radiation-plagued island as a relocation site.
• Foreign refugee evacuations began, with the first groups traveling through the Spacetime Tunnel aboard converted passenger liners.
• Kenta and the other Tokugawa lords spotted a fast-moving fleet of white-painted steel warships approaching their shore.

He Pan and her family relocated to Legend Spacetime, where soldiers warned them about remaining Darkseekers and residents from No. 3 Spacetime reassured them about life in the camp. At the residential complex, Xiaoya met Liu Qi, and Han Zi'ang jokingly told her to call him big brother.

• He Pan, Xiaoya, and Instructor Yin's mother traveled through the Spacetime Tunnel with the convoy bound for Tong Wenshi's base.
• Soldiers checked the family's identities, assigned them an apartment, and warned them to avoid sealed rooms, suspicious dark areas, and sewer manhole covers because Darkseekers might remain.
• He Pan saw families from No. 3 Spacetime living in the complex and decided to stay after learning that they had been relocated there earlier.
• He Pan asked Han Zi'ang about the Darkseekers, and he said he had not seen any since arriving and praised Legend Spacetime as a paradise.
• Xiaoya called Liu Qi her little brother, and Han Zi'ang teased her by saying she should call him big brother because he was born in 1999.

Zhang Tianyuan oversaw the evacuation of an underground city threatened by magma, then discovered the newly opened Pacific Rim Spacetime. After considering how to address Wandering Spacetime’s supply shortage, he realized Pacific Rim required a different approach from the first three spacetimes.

• Zhang Tianyuan coordinated the evacuation as residents fled through ten Spacetime Tunnels and firefighters reported that lower tunnels were being flooded by magma.
• The tunnels were closed after the final firefighter confirmed no one remained, and the evacuation count showed that more than 480,000 people had been transferred.
• Zhang Tianyuan agreed to help Sun Deyi arrange the residents’ return and said he would seek supplies for Wandering Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan found Pacific Rim listed as a new world and recalled its monster attacks and plans to destroy the wormhole.
• After passing Sun Deyi’s request for plantations and factories to Tong Wenshi, Zhang Tianyuan concluded that Pacific Rim’s intact society meant he could not use his previous approach there.

Zhang Tianyuan arrived in Hong Kong in the Pacific Ocean Rim world and questioned men at Hannibal Chau's pharmacy about the latest monster attack. He learned that Scunner had appeared and was heading toward Crimson Typhoon, leaving the Wei Brothers facing an unexpected encounter.

• Zhang Tianyuan and his companions entered a Hong Kong slum and identified the world as Pacific Ocean Rim.
• Zhang Tianyuan found Hannibal Chau's pharmacy and had his soldiers subdue the men inside.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that the date was August 13, 2024, and that the new monster Scunner had emerged from the wormhole half an hour earlier.
• The man in sunglasses said Crimson Typhoon had deployed from Hong Kong to intercept Scunner near Taipei 101.
• Tendo reported that Scunner had abruptly changed course southwest and was charging toward Crimson Typhoon.

Zhang Tianyuan captured Hannibal Zhou and asked him to arrange a meeting with General Pentecost, but a kaiju suddenly changed course toward Hong Kong. As the city evacuated, Zhang Tianyuan headed for the coast while the PPDC prepared to fight the kaiju near land.

• Zhang Tianyuan forced Hannibal Zhou to reveal his hidden kaiju dissection room and asked him to contact General Pentecost about cooperation.
• A citywide alarm sounded when Tendo Choi detected that the kaiju had changed its target to Hong Kong.
• Zhang Tianyuan left Hannibal Zhou behind and drove toward the coast with Mie Juan and the others in a bulletproof command vehicle.
• At the Shatterdome, General Pentecost learned that Crimson Typhoon could not intercept the kaiju before it reached the coast.
• General Pentecost ordered Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka to support the defense of Hong Kong.

A Scunner attacked the coast near PPDC headquarters while Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka were dispatched to support the base. Zhang Tianyuan and his group stayed in its path, but just as Scunner was about to attack them, it vanished, leaving Pentecost and the headquarters staff stunned.

• Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka prepared to support PPDC headquarters as Scunner approached the coast.
• Pentecost learned that the PPDC's dwindling funds made the headquarters vital to its plan to destroy the monsters' wormhole.
• Zhang Tianyuan and his group ignored a helicopter's warning to evacuate the coast.
• The Wei brothers saw Zhang Tianyuan's group ahead of Scunner but could not reach them in time with Crimson Typhoon.
• Scunner reached shore and charged toward Zhang Tianyuan's group, but it suddenly disappeared from the surveillance feed.

After Scunner vanished during Crimson Typhoon’s battle, the PPDC searched for it and discovered it was falling back to Earth from space. Pentecost canceled the other Jaegers’ support mission and went to meet whoever had sent the monster skyward.

• Wei Chang suspected Scunner had turned invisible, but Tendo Choi ruled that out because it had vanished from every instrument and left the people on shore unharmed.
• Pentecost ordered a global emergency and a worldwide search for the missing monster.
• Tendo Choi found satellite reports showing Scunner falling toward Earth, and trajectory calculations predicted it would hit the ocean near Point Nemo.
• Pentecost concluded Scunner would not survive the impact, canceled the other Jaegers’ support missions, and ordered the recovery of its remains.
• The pilots of Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka were told to return to base, while Tendo Choi told Wei Chang that Scunner was falling from the sky.

Zhang Yuantian discussed the monster crisis and the PPDC’s failing Hunter Plan with Pentecost, learning that dwindling funds and international withdrawals had left the organization relying on a nuclear strike. He agreed to meet General Ji Ning and traveled with Pentecost to the Shatterdome.

• Zhang Yuantian sent a monster through a spatial loop so it fell toward the star, then boarded a train with Mie Juan and Zhou.
• Pentecost met Zhang Yuantian and asked about the monster’s disappearance and whether they could cooperate against future invasions.
• Pentecost explained the PPDC’s lack of money, personnel, and mecha, and described its plan to use a nuclear bomb against the wormhole.
• Zhang Yuantian warned that monsters would grow stronger and arrive more frequently, persuading Pentecost that relying on Zhang’s technology to expel them was not a lasting solution.
• Pentecost revealed that countries had withdrawn from the Hunter Plan because they no longer wanted to fund it, and Zhang Yuantian asked to meet General Ji Ning.
• Pentecost invited Zhang Yuantian to the Shatterdome, and they set out as the city resumed its ordinary routines.

The Wei Brothers returned to the Hong Kong Shatterdome after Scunner fell to its death, while Zhang Tianyuan met with Pentecost and spoke to Ning Jihua about the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society. The chapter ended with Zhang clarifying that he had not come to move their world, but to explain the organization and its work.

• The Wei Brothers learned that Scunner had fallen at Point Nemo and returned to the Shatterdome, where they worried about the future of the Jaeger program.
• Pentecost introduced Zhang Tianyuan and his group to the Wei Brothers, then took them to meet scientists Hermann and Newton.
• Pentecost told Ning Jihua that strange visitors might have caused Scunner's disappearance and arranged a conversation with Zhang.
• Zhang told Ning that he came from a parallel Earth and represented the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, which was helping another world evacuate seven billion people.
• Ning feared Zhang intended to relocate their world, but Zhang clarified that their situation did not require migration and that he had offered the example only to explain the organization.

Zhang Tianyuan and Ning Jihua discussed the Pacific Rim spacetime’s strained economy and the other spacetimes’ greater shortages. Zhang proposed a cross-spacetime economic and trade organization, and Ning agreed to its requirements, setting up a formal meeting at the Shatterdome the next day.

• Ning Jihua described how the kaiju attacks and the Jaeger Program had disrupted shipping, production, and supplies in his spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan concluded that developed nations had abandoned the PPDC after the program drained their resources, leaving people reliant on ration coupons.
• Zhang Tianyuan urged Ning Jihua to continue the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole and offered the Mutual Aid Society’s intelligence support.
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed a Parallel Spacetime Economic and Trade Organization to connect Pacific Rim production with other spacetimes’ needs.
• Ning Jihua accepted the Mutual Aid Society membership obligations and agreed to meet Zhang Tianyuan at the Shatterdome the next day.

Zhang Tianyuan joined the Pacific Rim team as they prepared to destroy the wormhole, and he suggested new Jaeger research while visiting Gipsy Danger. The next day, Ning Jihua brought Zhang Tianyuan before the Shatterdome’s key personnel to improve the plan to nuke the wormhole, leaving Hermann confused about why Zhang was being treated as an expert.

• Zhang Tianyuan gave General Pentecost an AI translation earpiece, then ate with him and the others, where Pentecost learned that local staff had been calling him “Old Pan.”
• Zhang Tianyuan toured Gipsy Danger’s maintenance bay with Mie Juan and watched Old Pan and Mako Mori disagree over choosing Raleigh as a pilot.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked Mako Mori about unmanned and smaller Jaegers and advised her to change the direction of her research.
• Zhang Tianyuan and his group returned to their own spacetime, while Old Pan told Ning Jihua that he had witnessed them pass through a wormhole and described its unusual properties.
• The next day, Ning Jihua gathered the Shatterdome’s key personnel and introduced Zhang Tianyuan as someone who could improve their plan to nuke the wormhole, surprising Hermann.

Zhang Tianyuan explained how the Precursors' wormhole might require a living or recently dead monster to pass through, then proposed using a successful Jaeger crossing to open a route to the monster planet. Old Pan's team learned about the Mutual Aid Society's wormhole technology and nuclear stockpile, leaving them newly confident in their plan to attack the Precursors.

• Zhang Tianyuan warned that Jaegers and nuclear bombs might be blocked by the Precursors' wormhole unless they brought a living monster or one that had just died.
• Zhang Tianyuan offered to reverse-locate the monster planet if a Jaeger crossed the wormhole, and proposed using the route to dispose of nearly ten thousand nuclear bombs there.
• Ning Jihua pledged more support for the plan and added another billion in funding to repair Gipsy Danger, while Zhang Tianyuan warned that radiation on the monster planet could be lethal.
• Old Pan's subordinates questioned him about Zhang Tianyuan's claims, so he showed them surveillance footage of the Mutual Aid Society's miniature wormhole and explained its technology.
• Old Pan told the group to keep the news secret and said he would bring Raleigh back for preliminary Jaeger training.

Ning Jihua met the leaders of the other Mutual Aid Society branches as they began negotiating a parallel-spacetime trade organization. Meanwhile, Old Pan found Raleigh Becket and recruited him to pilot Gipsy Danger for a renewed plan to destroy the monster wormhole.

• Zhang Tianyuan brought Ning Jihua to 2012 Spacetime, where Elder Zhou, Tong Wenshi, and Sun Deyi warmly welcomed him.
• Ning Jihua began a six-day visit to the other spacetimes to help negotiate the first terms of a trade organization that would charge for use of the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Old Pan flew to a construction site in Sitka, Alaska, and found Raleigh Becket working as a welder.
• Old Pan told Raleigh that the monster crisis had worsened and invited him to pilot the refitted Gipsy Danger in a plan to nuke the wormhole.
• Raleigh questioned why they were repeating a plan that had failed before, and Old Pan replied, “Times have changed.”

Old Pan brought Raleigh back to the Hong Kong Shatterdome as the PPDC prepared to attack the wormhole with support and funding from Ning. Meanwhile, representatives from several spacetimes began shaping a trade organization, and Ning Jihua learned how the Wandering Spacetime planned to move Earth.

• Old Pan told Raleigh that the PPDC had advanced wormhole technology and asked him to return to the organization, and Raleigh agreed.
• Taylor learned that Old Pan had recruited Raleigh and was preparing a nuclear strike on the wormhole, but he dismissed the intelligence as unimportant.
• Ning Jihua visited the Wandering Spacetime and saw its planetary engines, which were slowing Earth's rotation in preparation for sending the planet out of the solar system.
• Sun Deyi and Elder Zhou explained that the extreme planetary-engine plan had been necessary for survival, while Tong Wenshi listened.
• The Parallel Spacetime Economic and Trade Organization drafted plans for trade, assigning consumer goods and childbirth services to Pacific Rim Spacetime, energy to Wandering Spacetime, and mineral supplies to Legend and 2012 Spacetimes.

Zhang Tianyuan explained that Jaegers could hunt monsters in No. 0 Spacetime and agreed to Ning Jihua’s proposal to transfer the PPDC to the Mutual Aid Society after the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole. The four-spacetime meeting ended, and Pentecost received the news that the PPDC would be reorganized as he prepared to retire.

• Zhang Tianyuan showed Ning Jihua a building in No. 0 Spacetime that boosted the user’s thinking and explained that monsters could randomly drop such blueprints.
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed using Jaegers to hunt monsters in No. 0 Spacetime, with the Mutual Aid Society compensating Ning Jihua’s spacetime for the effort.
• Ning Jihua asked to transfer the PPDC and its bases and three Jaegers to the Mutual Aid Society after the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole, and Zhang Tianyuan agreed.
• The four spacetimes concluded their meeting and began arranging personnel and technical exchanges.
• Pentecost learned that the PPDC would likely be renamed under the Mutual Aid Society, and he accepted the change as he prepared to retire because of radiation damage.

Mako Mori learned she would lead the PPDC’s technical exchange delegation to No. 3 Spacetime, where access to compact nuclear fusion technology could shape the next generation of mechs. She crossed through the Spacetime Tunnel with the delegation and arrived in an underground city.

• Old Pan told Mako that she would represent the PPDC on a technical exchange mission to No. 3 Spacetime, and that the PPDC’s mech design team would accompany her.
• Old Pan explained that No. 3 Spacetime had compact nuclear fusion technology that could power future mechs, and Mako agreed to set aside her wish to become a pilot.
• The next day, Zhang Tianyuan opened the Spacetime Tunnel after the delegation assembled, and the group passed through to No. 3 Spacetime.
• Mako followed the others through the tunnel and found herself in a crowded underground facility guarded by armed soldiers.
• A receptionist welcomed the delegation to No. 3 Spacetime and warned them not to leave the group because the underground city was complicated to navigate.

Mako Mori toured BJ Dungeon No. 1 and learned how the Mutual Aid Society had reduced danger for surface workers. The receptionist explained that fear had once driven the Wandering Earth Project, while a protest demanding spacetime merger revealed a new conflict over whether to annex other spacetimes.

• The receptionist took Mako Mori and the others aboard a tram and explained that BJ Dungeon No. 1 was a major center of science and technology.
• Mako Mori learned that the Mutual Aid Society's rescue system could evacuate endangered surface workers through a Spacetime Tunnel for treatment.
• The receptionist told Mako Mori that fear of destruction had driven the Wandering Earth Project before the people found new hope.
• Mako Mori hugged the receptionist after hearing about the despair people had faced two months earlier.
• The receptionist explained that protesters calling for spacetime merger included former refugees and Spaceship Faction members who sought to annex other spacetimes.
• The tram arrived at the Engineering Bureau.

Mako Mori and the No. 3 Spacetime experts began collaborating on a new Jaeger’s miniature fusion power source while Zhang Tianyuan coordinated evacuations and suspended exploration after a sea-monster attack. Instructor Yin returned home on leave, but his daughter Xiaoya rejected him when she pulled off his hat and wig and saw his bald head.

• Mako Mori toured the Engineering Bureau’s technical archive and learned about its fusion-powered Navigator Space Station.
• The No. 3 Spacetime experts examined the Jaeger data and agreed to design its miniature fusion core while Mako’s team designed the rest of the Jaeger.
• Zhang Tianyuan reduced his daily world-channel searches and continued coordinating the 2012 Spacetime evacuations through six continuously open sea tunnels.
• Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun’s exploration fleet encountered a giant octopus-like sea monster that broke a transport ship’s keel, so Zhang Tianyuan halted exploration and sent the injured crew to recover.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent Instructor Yin to Legend Spacetime for a vacation, where Xiaoya pulled off his hat and wig and cried that he was not Daddy because he had no hair.

Zhang Tianyuan learned that a new kaiju, Rampage, had emerged from the Mariana Trench and was heading toward North America, where no Jaegers were stationed. As the West Coast descended into panic, he arrived at the Hong Kong Shatterdome and recalled that Rampage had been killed by Cherno Alpha in Acapulco, Mexico.

• Zhang Tianyuan approved the corrected Asian evacuation schedule after Zheng Xu accidentally placed Takemura's country in Europe's evacuation queue.
• Ning Jihua relayed Old Pan's report that a kaiju had emerged from the Mariana Trench and was headed toward North America.
• Old Pan refused North America's request to pre-position Cherno Alpha, saying the PPDC needed to confirm the kaiju's destination first.
• Taylor became angry when North America could not secure a Jaeger, while West Coast residents fled in fear of another San Francisco-style attack.
• Zhang Tianyuan arrived at the Hong Kong Shatterdome, learned the kaiju was codenamed Rampage, and remembered that Cherno Alpha had killed it in Acapulco, Mexico.

Zhang Tianyuan and Old Pan concluded that the kaiju’s changed attack pattern was a search for the cause of Scunner’s death, and prepared to deploy Jaegers to North America. The chapter ended with Old Pan revealing to the pilots that wormhole technology would let them reach the eastern Pacific in time to stop the kaiju from landing.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Old Pan that kaiju could inherit one another’s memories and might be probing for the person who killed Scunner.
• Old Pan ordered the North American defense zone to prepare for a kaiju attack and asked Zhang Tianyuan to open a Spacetime Tunnel for Jaeger deployment.
• Tendo Choi reported that the kaiju had entered the open ocean, while residents along the eastern Pacific coast rushed to flee.
• Old Pan convened the Jaeger teams from the Pacific bases and announced that their mission was to stop the kaiju from making landfall.
• Old Pan revealed that wormhole technology would let the Jaegers deploy to North America, startling the pilots who had not heard of it.

Old Pan revealed that the PPDC would join the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and outlined a wormhole-based plan to fight Rampage. After Rampage was detected heading for Los Angeles, the Jaegers deployed there, surprising Taylor.

• Old Pan told the leaders that Scunner had been banished into outer space by the Mutual Aid Society and that the PPDC would come under its jurisdiction after the wormhole plan was complete.
• Old Pan explained that the Society would provide wormholes so the Jaegers could reach Rampage near its deployment site, and the combat teams signed membership applications.
• Old Pan designated two people as beacons and placed all three Jaegers on combat alert while residents along the eastern Pacific coast continued evacuating.
• Tendo Choi detected Rampage heading toward Los Angeles, and Old Pan ordered an evacuation alert and a joint Jaeger operation.
• Taylor ordered Los Angeles to evacuate and prepared military defenses, then learned from his secretary that the Jaegers had already deployed to the city.

Crimson Typhoon traveled through Zhang Tianyuan’s Spacetime Tunnel and descended into Los Angeles, where a monster was approaching and residents were fleeing. After the Jaeger fully emerged, the Wei Brothers identified it to circling fighter jets and requested clear airspace for the interception mission.

• Zhang Tianyuan and Old Pan sent Crimson Typhoon through the Spacetime Tunnel, while Cherno Alpha prepared to deploy from Vladivostok and another Jaeger prepared in Sydney.
• Los Angeles residents fled as Rampage approached, and a private plane crashed after birds damaged its engines.
• A huge dark curtain appeared over Los Angeles, and Crimson Typhoon began descending through it as people and pilots watched in shock.
• The Wei Brothers confirmed that Crimson Typhoon’s systems remained normal while the Jaeger was split across the Spacetime Tunnel.
• After Crimson Typhoon fully emerged, the Wei Brothers identified the Jaeger to nearby fighter pilots and asked them to clear Los Angeles’s low-altitude airspace.

Taylor learned that wormholes had brought three mecha to Los Angeles, where they defeated the monsters while the public and governments reacted to the technology. The chapter ended with Ning Jihua beginning a live global speech, though the translated text of his address was garbled.

• Taylor watched footage of a red mecha emerging from a wormhole and fighting alongside Crimson Storm, then demanded to speak to Pan Cos.
• Three mecha arrived in Los Angeles, and Old Pan ordered them to intercept the monsters outside the city.
• Old Pan and Zhang Yuan discussed the pollution caused by dropping monsters through wormholes and the mecha’s usual fighting methods.
• Videos of the wormholes spread online, prompting public outrage and a scramble by officials to contact Old Pan.
• Yuri Kartsev, Aleksis, and the pilots of Crimson Storm and Cherno Alpha overwhelmed Berserker and stopped it from escaping.
• Taylor saw Ning Jihua appear on a live global broadcast and sent for a Chinese interpreter as Ning began his speech.