Recaps

Zhang Tianyuan tested his neural processing power by connecting to a Jaeger's central system through a Drift. Although the initial connection caused him no discomfort, the system displayed a negative processing-power reading, leaving Mako Mori alarmed.

• Zhang Tianyuan went ahead with a Drift test despite Old Pan and Taylor's concerns, and Ning Jihua agreed after Mako Mori said the risks were low.
• Mako Mori explained the Drift process and fitted Zhang Tianyuan with an operating suit and helmet.
• Zhang Tianyuan connected to the pilot station, curious whether his enhanced body had increased his neural processing power.
• Mako Mori assigned 10% of the fusion reactor's operating load, and the system measured Zhang Tianyuan's initial neural processing power at 11.
• When Mako Mori asked if he felt anything unusual, Zhang Tianyuan said he felt nothing and asked whether the test had started.
• Mako Mori saw that Zhang Tianyuan's current neural processing power had dropped to -20.

Zhang Tianyuan tested a neural drift system and discovered he could link with the Pangu mecha at an unprecedented level, eventually piloting it alone. After safely walking the mecha back, he ended the test feeling physically fine, though his brain seemed more active than before.

• Mako Mori and the technicians watched Zhang Tianyuan’s neural computing power climb rapidly while his signals remained normal, and he insisted they continue the test.
• Mako Mori transferred the reactor and mecha systems’ computing loads to the drift system, but Zhang Tianyuan’s capacity continued to outpace the load and reached 9,800.
• Zhang Tianyuan’s close connection to the Pangu caused the mecha to move when he nodded, briefly shaking the cockpit and its safety crew before he steadied it.
• Zhang Tianyuan moved the fully powered Pangu forward, then followed Old Pan’s warning and piloted it safely back to its original position.
• The technicians revoked Zhang Tianyuan’s access and helped him leave the cockpit, and he reported no unusual physical effects aside from feeling that his brain was more active.

Zhang Tianyuan reviewed the successful Pangu Drift System test, assigned the new Jaeger base to Moyulan, and allowed Taylor’s branch to help build and maintain it. In San Francisco, Finch woke from a month-long coma in a hospital and began to wonder whether civilization had been rebuilt.

• Zhang Tianyuan learned that his neural processing power had continued rising during the Drift test, while Mako Mori reported that Pangu’s systems had performed better than expected.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered continued work on Pangu and smaller Jaegers, and said he would bring the team to another spacetime for stronger construction materials.
• Taylor offered Anchorage Base and its Jaeger Academy, while Ning Jihua argued for Moyulan; Zhang Tianyuan chose Moyulan as the sole Jaeger base and invited Taylor’s branch to participate.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked about the rescued patients from No. 5 Spacetime and warned Taylor not to experiment on them, including after death.
• Finch woke in a San Francisco hospital after a month unconscious, removed his breathing tube, and wondered whether civilization had been rebuilt.

Finch woke in another spacetime, where the Mutual Aid Society had arranged free treatment and he and Jeff had become famous. As a monster attack forced San Francisco into shelters, Finch learned that the Golden Gate Bridge had been destroyed in the first attack.

• Finch woke in a futuristic hospital, learned that his medical care was free, and reunited with Jeff and Goodyear.
• Jeff explained that the Mutual Aid Society had brought Finch to a world without the solar-storm apocalypse and described how their story had drawn worldwide attention and gifts.
• Finch accepted Jeff's account after seeing a photograph of them on the Golden Gate Bridge and asked to explore this world's San Francisco.
• A monster-attack alarm sent Finch, Jeff, and Goodyear into an underground shelter, where a broadcast announced that the Mutual Aid Society and PPDC would respond.
• Finch heard that a monster had destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge during its first attack in 2013 and stood stunned.

After months without kaiju attacks, several enormous Category 5 kaiju emerged from the wormhole, prompting Zhang Tianyuan and the PPDC to launch the plan to destroy it. As one kaiju flew toward San Francisco and another headed for Hong Kong, an unknown force brought down the helicopters tracking the Hong Kong-bound monster.

• Tendo Choi detected multiple kaiju emerging from the wormhole and alerted the Shatterdome and Zhang Tianyuan.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Old Pan recalled the pilots and sent four Jaegers through Spacetime Tunnels to carry out the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole.
• The first kaiju took flight, and Old Pan redirected Crimson Typhoon to intercept it near San Francisco.
• Tendo Choi reported that a fourth kaiju, estimated to be 140 meters long, was heading toward Hong Kong.
• Zhang Tianyuan suspected the Hong Kong-bound kaiju had a special ability, and Tendo Choi reported that an unknown force had crashed the tracking helicopters into the sea.

After monster number three brought down helicopters with powerful sonic attacks, the PPDC codenamed it Horn and assessed its growing threat to Hong Kong. With Hong Kong, San Francisco, and the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole all at risk, Zhang Tianyuan proposed using Pangu, whose defenses could withstand sonic attacks.

• Tendo Choi reported that helicopters had crashed after a piercing noise overwhelmed their communications, and Old Pan reviewed recordings showing the crews losing consciousness.
• Mako Mori explained that Horn could be using noise, infrasound, and ultrasound, while Zhang Tianyuan identified the monster as the source of the attack.
• Old Pan codenamed the approaching monster Horn and ordered close reconnaissance; Zhang Tianyuan also arranged for more satellites to track it.
• Mako Mori estimated Horn was 168 meters long, emitted 130-decibel noise at five kilometers, and could expand its attack range as its back structures vibrated more strongly.
• The group weighed protecting Hong Kong against leaving San Francisco or the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole exposed, and Zhang Tianyuan suggested deploying Pangu because it could withstand sonic attacks.

Zhang Tianyuan decided to take Pangu toward the incoming kaiju Horn and capture it rather than fight it, despite Ning Jihua and Taylor's concerns. As Hong Kong and San Francisco prepared for the attack, residents placed their faith in the Jaegers and the Mutual Aid Society.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Old Pan and Mako Mori to prepare Pangu and help him track the kaiju's route, and they saluted before leaving for Moyulan Base.
• Ning Jihua stopped arguing after Zhang Tianyuan made up his mind, while Taylor remained opposed to the risk.
• Hong Kong began evacuating as the kaiju Horn approached, and a public announcement warned citizens about its sonic attacks.
• Crimson Typhoon arrived through a Spacetime Tunnel above San Francisco to await Flying Squirrel, and Finch heard a resident praise the Mutual Aid Society for helping prevent kaiju from breaking into cities.

Finch reconsidered Jeff’s future after learning about the Mutual Aid Society, while the Jaeger teams debated how to defend Hong Kong from an approaching monster. Zhang Tianyuan and Mako Mori launched Pangu to assist, leaving for the battle after receiving permission to sortie.

• Finch declined the middle-aged man’s invitation to join the Mutual Aid Society and decided to remove Jeff’s fourth law so Jeff could pursue a larger future.
• The Jaeger pilots learned that a monster was heading toward Hong Kong, and Zhang Qing asked to withdraw Gipsy Danger from the seabed mission to help defend the city.
• Tendo Choi told the pilots to wait for orders as Chuck and Sasha argued that their Jaegers could complete the mission without Gipsy Danger.
• Old Pan revealed that Pangu’s signal came from a Jaeger someone could pilot, and Zhang Tianyuan prepared to sortie from Moyulan Base.
• Mako Mori joined Zhang Tianyuan in Pangu’s cockpit as a reserve pilot, connected the Jaeger to Hong Kong’s Shatterdome, and received Tendo Choi’s permission to launch.

Zhang Tianyuan took Pangu through a Spacetime Tunnel and ambushed the monster-Horn from above, then fought it underwater when it feigned unconsciousness. He left the monster badly injured and began plucking the vocal cords from its back.

• Tendo Choi told the other mechs that Zhang Tianyuan had taken Pangu out alone, astonishing Crimson Typhoon and the pilots on the ocean floor.
• Zhang Qing and the other pilots continued toward the wormhole after spotting its glow ahead.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Mako Mori deployed in Pangu, which fell through a Spacetime Tunnel and struck the monster-Horn from above.
• Tendo Choi detected the monster beneath the surface, and Zhang Tianyuan found it apparently unconscious before it unleashed sonic waves.
• Zhang Tianyuan struck the monster's head with Pangu's giant axe, subdued it, and began plucking its vocal cords.

Zhang Tianyuan disabled Horn by tearing out its vocal cords and decided to bring the monster ashore alive for study. After hearing that the other battles were going badly, he took Pangu to support the Wei Brothers in San Francisco, where Flying Squirrel had begun attacking Crimson Typhoon.

• Zhang Tianyuan tore out Horn's vocal cords, leaving it too weak to fight, and planned to preserve its body for research.
• Mako Mori reported that the wormhole and San Francisco fronts were both struggling against their monsters.
• A powerful monster struck Gipsy Danger and sent Striker Eureka flying underwater, prompting Herc to lead an attempt to stop the next monster from emerging through the wormhole.
• Flying Squirrel appeared over San Francisco, and Tendo Choi warned the Wei Brothers that Crimson Typhoon had little chance of winning and must stop the monster from flying onward.
• Flying Squirrel charged at Crimson Typhoon as the Wei Brothers prepared to fight, and Zhang Tianyuan brought Pangu to the surface to support them while holding Horn.

The Wei Brothers struggled to defend San Francisco in Crimson Typhoon, but Flying Squirrel overwhelmed them and destroyed the mecha’s left arm. Zhang Tianyuan arrived in Pangu, pulled Flying Squirrel away from Typhoon, and left both monsters down on the beach as the Wei Brothers realized they had been rescued.

• Flying Squirrel battered Crimson Typhoon, and the Wei Brothers struggled to damage the monster or keep the mecha functioning.
• Flying Squirrel spread its wings to trap Typhoon, then struck its plasma cannon with its tongue and destroyed the mecha’s left arm.
• People panicked in the underground shelter until Finch spotted a new gold-and-red mecha on the television and called everyone’s attention to it.
• Zhang Tianyuan arrived in Pangu, released Horn, and grabbed Flying Squirrel by the throat.
• Zhang Tianyuan hurled Flying Squirrel beside Horn, giving the damaged Crimson Typhoon a chance to recover.

Zhang Tianyuan piloted Pangu to defeat Horn and Flying Squirrel in San Francisco, while the city watched the Jaeger's capabilities revealed on live television. After the emergency ended and residents left the shelters, Finch and Jeff continued searching the hospital.

• The Wei Brothers learned Pangu had arrived to rescue them, and Zhang Tianyuan told them to stay back as he confronted both monsters.
• Zhang Tianyuan struck Flying Squirrel with Pangu's axe, badly injuring him, then charged Horn and struck him down after Mako Mori warned Horn might escape.
• A reporter identified Pangu as a new-generation Jaeger piloted by Zhang Tianyuan and described its capabilities, including miniature nuclear fusion power.
• Zhang Tianyuan crushed Flying Squirrel's neck after Horn's vital signs ceased, and Mako Mori confirmed both monsters were dead.
• Tendo Choi reported the kills, crews began neutralizing the monsters' blue blood, and San Francisco lifted its state of emergency; Finch and Jeff continued looking around the hospital.

Zhang Tianyuan learned that the Jaegers were losing the underwater battle against Scunner and entered the Mariana Trench to reinforce them. He intercepted Scunner’s charge, then drew the giant axe as the monster prepared another attack.

• At Shatterdome, Zhang Tianyuan asked about the seabed battle and learned that Striker Eureka had lost its fighting ability, Cherno Alpha was badly damaged, and Gipsy Danger was the only Jaeger still mobile.
• Raleigh and Zhang Qing struggled to fight Scunner, whose water jets knocked the Jaegers down, while Herc, Chuck, Sasha, and their partners considered abandoning the mission.
• The Jaeger pilots requested to return, but Tendo Choi told them to keep holding on because reinforcements were coming.
• Scunner charged at Gipsy Danger, but Zhang Tianyuan arrived and blocked the monster with the giant axe on his Jaeger’s back.
• Scunner recovered and formed another current, and Zhang Tianyuan drew the giant axe to face it.

Zhang Tianyuan used Pangu’s Spacetime Tunnels to take Scunner from the seabed to Antarctica, where the freezing cold immobilized the monster. After Pangu reconnected with the Shatterdome Base and arranged for Scunner’s recovery, Zhang Tianyuan asked how the battle on the seabed was going.

• Mako Mori warned Zhang Tianyuan that Scunner was preparing a water attack, and Zhang Tianyuan advanced toward the monster while waiting for the right moment.
• As Scunner unleashed its water blast, Zhang Tianyuan opened two Spacetime Tunnels and jumped with the monster to Antarctica, leaving Raleigh and Zhang Qing unable to find Pangu or Scunner.
• Zhang Tianyuan found Scunner frozen and trapped in the Antarctic ice, and decided to leave it alive in case it could later help with the wormhole.
• Mako Mori reconnected Pangu with the base and sent its coordinates, while Tendo Choi arranged for a recovery team to collect Scunner.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked Tendo Choi about the seabed situation, and Tendo Choi said Gipsy Danger had begun carrying out the plan.

Zhang Tianyuan returned to the seafloor to help the Jaegers carry out the plan to nuke the wormhole, but kaiju number four emerged before Gipsy Danger could complete the positioning mission. Pangu struggled against the enormous kaiju, then trapped it and prepared to fire its concealed plasma cannons.

• Zhang Tianyuan returned to the seafloor and learned that Gipsy Danger, Cherno Alpha, and Striker Eureka planned to push kaiju number four back through the wormhole while completing the positioning mission.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent Cherno Alpha and its pilots back to safety, then carried the damaged Striker Eureka and its nuclear bomb toward the wormhole.
• Zhang Tianyuan taunted kaiju number four while waiting for Gipsy Danger, but the creature escaped the wormhole and charged at Pangu.
• Zhang Tianyuan fought kaiju number four with Pangu, using its rocket boosters and electric bayonets while Gipsy Danger came to assist.
• Zhang Tianyuan grabbed kaiju number four to keep it from pulling away and activated Pangu’s concealed I-24 Plasma Cannons.

Zhang Tianyuan and Pangu crippled the category-four kaiju while Gipsy Danger took it toward the wormhole with Striker Eureka’s nuclear bomb. Raleigh Becket and Zhang Qing entered the wormhole alive, and command celebrated the mission’s progress as Zhang Tianyuan waited for news of their return.

• Pangu blasted off the kaiju’s hands, then Zhang Tianyuan used Spacetime Cutting to sever its lower jaw and legs after it absorbed and retaliated against a plasma shot.
• The falling kaiju nearly crushed Gipsy Danger, but Pangu removed its remaining limbs and relieved the Jaeger of most of the weight.
• Raleigh Becket and Zhang Qing carried the weakened kaiju toward the wormhole while Zhang Tianyuan threw Striker Eureka’s head to them with its nuclear bomb intact.
• After command wished the pilots a safe return, Gipsy Danger jumped into the wormhole carrying the kaiju and Striker Eureka’s head.
• Mako Mori reported that Gipsy Danger had disappeared, and Zhang Tianyuan confirmed through the system that Raleigh Becket and Zhang Qing were alive.
• Old Pan announced the mission’s progress at Shatterdome Base, where the news sparked celebrations and stunned the Wei Brothers in San Francisco.

Raleigh and Zhang Qing set the nuclear bomb to detonate as Gipsy Danger entered the wormhole, while Zhang Tianyuan brought them safely back and helped Mako Mori adjust to the end of the kaiju threat. The bomb destroyed the Precursors’ wormhole device, and the wormhole vanished on Earth.

• Raleigh set the nuclear bomb’s automatic detonation, and Zhang Tianyuan returned Raleigh and Zhang Qing to Pacific Rim Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan told Mako Mori the kaiju invasions were over and invited her to join the Mutual Aid Society, and she reported for duty.
• News of the mission spread as Raleigh and Zhang Qing recovered in the hospital and visitors gathered to ask about the wormhole.
• The Precursors watched the kaiju and Jaegers fall through their wormhole, and the bomb detonated inside Striker Eureka.
• The nuclear blast destroyed Gipsy Danger, the Precursors’ wormhole device, and the gathered Precursors.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Mako Mori watched the wormhole’s light disappear, and Mako Mori reported that the wormhole had vanished.

After the Pangu destroyed the Mariana Wormhole, Pacific Rim Spacetime celebrated the end of the monster crisis and began handing the PPDC to the Mutual Aid Society. Zhang Tianyuan discovered a new world, The Day After Tomorrow, and turned his attention to its looming climate disaster.

• Zhang Tianyuan confirmed the wormhole had vanished, and Old Pan announced the successful operation as people around the world celebrated.
• Zhang Tianyuan returned with Mako Mori to Moyulan Base, where technicians thanked him, while Old Pan recounted the mission at a press conference.
• Finch and Jeff encountered people treating Zhang Tianyuan as a religious figure, while Hannibal resented him and worried that the end of the monsters would end his business.
• Zhang Tianyuan, Ning Jihua, and Taylor agreed to transfer the PPDC to the Mutual Aid Society and reorganize it as Support Team No. 0 under Ke Jinjun.
• Zhang Tianyuan found a sixth world channel, identified the new world as The Day After Tomorrow, and learned it faced a rapid, catastrophic ice age.
• Ning Jihua announced the PPDC handover, and its staff welcomed the promise of continued work under the Mutual Aid Society.

Mako Mori took over preparations for the Jaeger program as Old Pan’s health failed, while Zhang Tianyuan arranged to reactivate a powerful nuclear bomb for use against the Precursors. He also identified Liu Chunshi’s Antarctic research team as a key resource for investigating a newly discovered spacetime.

• Old Pan told Mako Mori that his era was over, reviewed the base’s projects with her, and left after his nose began bleeding again.
• Mako Mori gave Zhang Tianyuan the recruitment plan, and he raised the Jaeger Academy’s intake from thirty to three hundred while assigning recruitment across other branches.
• Zhang Tianyuan visited the underground nuclear weapons base with Tong Wenshi and selected a ten-megaton bomb to be reactivated within about a week.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that Liu Chunshi and his former Antarctic research team had returned from Wandering Spacetime through a communications tunnel.
• Zhang Tianyuan told Tong Wenshi that the Society had found a new spacetime and might need Liu Chunshi’s team to conduct Antarctic research there.

Zhang Tianyuan and the scientists surveyed the Precursors’ damaged wormhole, then dropped Red Umbrella No. 1 through it, destroying the wormhole device and killing many Precursors. After celebrating their revenge, the Mutual Aid Society planned a sustained nuclear campaign against the Precursors’ world.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Tong Wenshi that Support Team No. 0 would recruit pilots and technical personnel from every spacetime, and Tong agreed to recruit pilots.
• Tong Wenshi arranged for Liu Chunshi to receive a headquarters mission related to polar exploration, while Support Team No. 0 began recruiting across the base area.
• Zhang Tianyuan, Tong Wenshi, Ning Jihua, and scientists from several spacetimes used a mechanical arm to survey the Precursors’ wormhole device and its surroundings.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent Red Umbrella No. 1 through the wormhole, where it exploded and destroyed the wormhole device as the Precursors and monsters worked nearby.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the others celebrated the strike, then planned to use nuclear bombs from both spacetimes against the Precursors within a year and set a schedule of attacks on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Zhang Tianyuan briefed the Mutual Aid Society on the extreme, sudden ice age threatening No. 6 Spacetime and helped plan how to warn its authorities. He then went to No. 1 Spacetime to oversee the full-scale migration, where Thomas faced pressure to evacuate hundreds of thousands who refused to believe the apocalypse was coming.

• Zhang Tianyuan showed the scientists the damaged wormhole device in No. 6 Spacetime, then closed the tunnel and sent everyone home.
• Zhang Tianyuan told the Mutual Aid Society leaders that No. 6 Spacetime faced a sudden, long-lasting ice age with temperatures reaching minus 100 degrees, and explained that most people in the Northern Hemisphere could die.
• Zhang Tianyuan described plans to send research teams to Antarctica and joined the group in devising ways to contact No. 6 Spacetime's authorities and prepare for evacuations.
• Elder Zhou told Zhang Tianyuan that the spacetime railway was ready for full-scale migration, so Zhang Tianyuan went with him to No. 1 Spacetime.
• Thomas reported that two billion people had been moved but several hundred thousand still refused to evacuate, and Zhang Tianyuan reminded him that his country was supposed to leave last.

Zhang Tianyuan and Elder Zhou launched the nationwide migration in the “2012” spacetime, while civilians in North America grew anxious as their own evacuation lagged behind. The chapter ended with Jackson realizing he was late for work after Kate asked whether his wealthy employer could help their family board a train.

• Zhang Tianyuan explained that rival forces might manipulate civilians into refusing evacuation to free up Spacetime Tunnel time, so he required Thomas’s country to evacuate everyone under outside supervision.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Elder Zhou opened the spacetime railway and spacetime line on New Year’s Day 2011, and the first migrants boarded trains for the tunnel.
• Zhou Tao and Xue Liangping watched people at a roadside cooperative joke about their scheduled migration dates and celebrate the start of the evacuation.
• Satnam, Aparna, and Ajit discovered that their family appeared on neither their home country’s nor North America’s migration lists, and Satnam failed to reach his friend Adrian or the migration office for help.
• North Americans protested as their evacuation stalled, and Thomas called Elder Zhou after promising to speed up the migration despite interference from powerful forces.
• Kate called Jackson about the lack of evacuation in North America and asked whether his wealthy employer could secure train tickets, prompting Jackson to hang up and rush to work.

Jackson drove Yuri and his family to seek spacetime tickets, then secured tickets for his own family by claiming to be a writer. The tickets were part of a plan to remove people obstructing migration, while Adrian and his father settled into a resettlement community in No. 2 Spacetime.

• Jackson drove Yuri and his family on an outing and learned that Yuri had failed to obtain spacetime tickets through his connections.
• North America Mutual Aid Society envoys arrived at Yuri's mansion and gave Yuri tickets, telling him the family had to leave by the next night's deadline.
• Jackson claimed to be a writer and received tickets for his family, then contacted his ex-wife.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Elder Zhou told Thomas that the ticket offer was a trap to bring migration opponents to No. 2 Spacetime, where they could be isolated or arrested.
• Adrian and his father arrived in No. 2 Spacetime and were taken to a resettlement community, where Adrian learned about the inter-spacetime phone booths and the dangers of the KV Virus and Darkseekers.
• Liu Qi asked Han Zi'ang whether Adrian's group were their new neighbors, and Han Zi'ang said he did not know.

Han Zi'ang and Liu Qi finally reached Liu Peiqiang by phone, learning that he had left Earth and would not return for seventeen years. Liu Qi tried to collect seventeen calendars to count down the wait, while Han Zi'ang discovered him sneaking out to find them.

• Han Zi'ang repeatedly called Liu Peiqiang with Liu Qi before finally reaching him, and they discussed Duoduo’s condition and Liu Qi’s schooling.
• Liu Peiqiang told them he had boarded a space station and could not return for now, estimating that he might see them again in seventeen years.
• After the call, Han Zi'ang started playing Warcraft while Liu Qi slipped out of the house to look for calendars.
• Han Zi'ang found Liu Qi outside with several calendars and explained that he needed calendars from seventeen different years, which were not yet available.

Ren Fei brought a mysterious, enormous vehicle and its helmeted driver to the station, where he learned that dozens of identical vehicles had appeared around the city. Meanwhile, Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi surveyed Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf and met a North American researcher named Jason, leaving Zhang Tianyuan poised to ask about his mission.

• Ren Fei found a thirty-meter, unregistered vehicle blocking Jingxi Road and took its cooperative driver back to the station.
• Ren Fei drove the vehicle through obstacles to reach the station and discovered its futuristic controls and tank-like construction.
• The station chief told Ren Fei that dozens of people driving the same model had appeared across the city.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi began surveying the Larsen B Ice Shelf with their meteorological team while their communications team accessed research data.
• A North American research vehicle approached, and Liu Chunshi spoke with its researcher, Jason, while Zhang Tianyuan concealed the group’s identity.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked Jason what mission he had come to carry out.