Recaps

Zhang Tianyuan led the Jaegers in defeating the kaiju invasion and destroying the Precursors’ wormhole, then turned the Mutual Aid Society toward a new spacetime facing a catastrophic ice age. As migrations began, he sent a team to Antarctica to investigate the coming crisis.

• Zhang Tianyuan’s Drift test sent his neural processing power soaring, and he used Pangu to defeat Horn and Flying Squirrel while helping the Jaegers complete the wormhole mission.
• Zhang Tianyuan trapped Scunner in Antarctic ice, then fought kaiju number four and helped Gipsy Danger carry it and Striker Eureka’s nuclear bomb through the wormhole.
• Raleigh Becket and Zhang Qing detonated the bomb, destroying the Precursors’ wormhole device and ending the kaiju invasion.
• Zhang Tianyuan reorganized the PPDC as Support Team No. 0, discovered No. 6 Spacetime’s looming ice age, and began planning research and evacuations.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the Society leaders destroyed another wormhole device with Red Umbrella No. 1 and planned further attacks against the Precursors.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Elder Zhou began the mass migration, while disputes over tickets and evacuation resistance complicated departures from several regions.
• Adrian and his father reached No. 2 Spacetime, while Liu Qi and Han Zi’ang learned Liu Peiqiang could not return for seventeen years.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi surveyed the Larsen B Ice Shelf, met North American researcher Jason, and Zhang Tianyuan asked about his mission.

Zhang Tianyuan and the Mutual Aid Society warned No. 6 Spacetime that a catastrophic cold shift would arrive in October, then worked to persuade governments and move people south. As evacuations spread, Sam vanished and worsening weather began to confirm the warning.

• Wang Lei’s advanced vehicles and account of the Mutual Aid Society led Lu Deshou and Zhong Ruijin to hear Zhang Tianyuan’s warning that an ice age could begin in October.
• Zhong Ruijin began emergency preparations, while Zhang Tianyuan rallied the Society’s branches to help No. 6 Spacetime and Liu Chunshi’s team issued a global climate warning.
• Becker tried to suppress the warning, but Jack publicly supported it and Zhang Tianyuan appeared at the New Delhi conference to confirm the coming catastrophe.
• Delegates visited parallel spacetimes, saw the Society’s resources and No. 3 Spacetime’s Planetary Engine, and agreed to support evacuations and shelter preparations.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the branch leaders offered refuge, supplies, energy, communications support, and relocation guidance, while countries began joining the Society and planning evacuations.
• As Becker resisted and people fled south, Lucy decided to leave Washington with Sam, but Sam disappeared before she could take him to Miami.
• Jack learned that Sam was missing and suspected the FBI had taken him, while the Mutual Aid Society deployed members to assist with evacuations and shelters.
• New Delhi snow, Tokyo’s lethal hail, and other extreme weather spread panic, and more North Americans fled south despite Becker’s renewed attempts to discredit the warning.

The Mutual Aid Society coordinated rescues as catastrophic storms devastated North America, while survivors regrouped and new spacetimes negotiated membership and cooperation. The arc ended with the Fifth Branch founded in Finch Spacetime and returning drivers bringing news and scarce goods home.

• Zhang Tianyuan activated shelter plans as unprecedented cold and storms spread, and the Navigator Space Station established a global communications network.
• After tornadoes struck California, Becker accepted the Society’s forecasts and negotiated a North American rescue, while Sam and his friends became trapped in New York as a tsunami approached.
• Wang Lei organized rescue teams across North America, and Jack searched for Sam while rescuers evacuated survivors from New York and Washington.
• Jack reunited with Sam in the library, but the storm killed millions across North America and Becker’s evacuation convoy disappeared into the snow.
• When the storm passed, Jack and Sam left the library and searched for Lucy, while officials began recovery work and northern camps grew increasingly volatile.
• Grant sought Mutual Aid Society membership, but Zhang Tianyuan required his people to repay their rescue debt to Wandering Spacetime before joining.
• Finch Spacetime’s delegation returned home convinced by what they had witnessed, and Tan Mingda agreed to continue building a branch and cooperate on food security.
• Zhang Tianyuan organized joint farming and artificial-starch projects among the member spacetimes, while Liu Peiqiang learned Duoduo’s condition was improving.
• Jack sought help to leave North America as unrest spread, and Tan Mingda urged Finch Spacetime to contribute research on artificial starch.
• Zhang Tianyuan brought Jack and other North American members to Finch Spacetime, where Tan held the Fifth Branch’s founding ceremony, while Zhou Tao and Xue Liangping returned home with scarce goods for their neighbors.

Zhang Tianyuan brought the Mutual Aid Society into Interstellar Spacetime, where it supplied famine relief and restarted research on Saturn’s wormhole. As the Society launched probes and revealed the truth about the wormhole, Amelia and Jody came to reconsider their assumptions and joined Zhou Kun’s efforts to cooperate.

• After the game servers merged, Zhang Tianyuan prepared the Society for conflict, discovered Interstellar Spacetime’s famine, and sent Instructor Yin’s vanguard to make contact.
• Zhang Tianyuan met Yuan Heguang, explained the Society’s work across parallel spacetimes, and secured Interstellar Spacetime’s membership and agreement to share wormhole research.
• The Society delivered fifty thousand tons of dried earthworms and helped Zhou Kun and Yuan Heguang restore the aerospace base and launch a rocket toward Saturn’s wormhole.
• Zhang Tianyuan’s team redirected and refueled the spacecraft through a Spacetime Tunnel, while Yuan Heguang organized food and industrial support for Interstellar Spacetime.
• Amelia and Jody visited China, offered their Plan B technology, and saw its recovery efforts before Zhang Tianyuan declined their offer and explained to Zhou Kun that higher-dimensional humans had engineered the wormhole and a causal loop.
• Amelia toured a recovering city, learned that the dried earthworms were keeping residents from starving, and crossed out her doubts about Plan A and Plan B.
• After the Society launched a second rocket, Zhang Tianyuan agreed to contact Amelia and Jody, and Zhou Kun welcomed them into the Society’s office.