Chapter Summaries

In 2008, Zhang Tianyuan arrived in the world of the film "2012" four years before the apocalypse and tried to recruit people, but no one believed his warning. After he vanished in front of criminal investigator Bai Xu, authorities investigated the disappearance while Bai Xu realized Zhang had kept his phone number.

• During the Olympic opening celebrations, Zhang Tianyuan told a stranger that the world would end in 2012, but the man and his companion fled in disbelief.
• Zhang explained the coming catastrophe to Bai Xu and offered to contact him when he returned, and Bai Xu wrote down his phone number.
• Bai Xu revealed that he was a criminal investigator and restrained Zhang Tianyuan to take him in for questioning.
• In a corridor, Zhang said "Return" and disappeared, leaving Bai Xu with empty hands.
• Authorities sealed off the bar, investigated the disappearance, and reviewed surveillance footage that showed Zhang vanishing without warning.
• Bai Xu noticed Zhang had secretly pocketed his phone number and was told to keep it private and report any call.

Zhang Tianyuan discovered that his cloning laboratory had been destroyed, but his mutated Spacetime Tunnel let him access the worlds of “2012” and “I Am Legend.” After spotting a large ship near his island, he abandoned his plan to wait and entered “2012” again, arriving at a restaurant in the imperial capital to prepare for a gathering.

• Zhang Tianyuan opened his panel and reviewed his ruined cloning laboratory, his two discovered movie worlds, and his dwindling base energy.
• Zhang Tianyuan spotted an enormous wooden ship sailing past his island and realized other players might have started earlier than he had.
• Zhang Tianyuan decided to use his movie-world advantage instead of waiting, then entered “2012” with the imperial capital as his destination.
• Zhang Tianyuan emerged from a restroom in the Reunion Farmhouse Restaurant, ordered the restaurant’s specialties, and asked to borrow a phone.

Zhang Tianyuan reunited with Bai Xu a month after vanishing from the Phoenix Bar and learned that time had passed ten times faster in the 2012 world than at his base. After discovering that Bai Xu’s report had brought no response, Zhang Tianyuan heard that demonstrating his ability again might change things.

• Bai Xu, now leading a task force, received Zhang Tianyuan’s call and hurried with his subordinates to a farmhouse restaurant.
• Zhang Tianyuan welcomed Bai Xu and his team, while the restaurant owner mistook the silent gathering for a gang meeting and tried to call the police.
• Bai Xu told Zhang Tianyuan that a month had passed since he vanished, and Zhang Tianyuan realized the time difference would end after the portal opened seven more times.
• Bai Xu said his report about Zhang Tianyuan had received no feedback and suggested another demonstration might prompt a response.

Zhang Tianyuan tried to convince Bai Xu and his colleagues that an apocalypse would strike in four years and that only his Spacetime Tunnel could save people, but they remained skeptical. After Bai Xu arranged a place for him to stay, Zhang noticed trees in the villa’s backyard that could provide wood for his Construction System.

• Zhang Tianyuan confirmed that he wanted to save people from the coming apocalypse, while Yin Hongda said he approached them because he needed their help.
• Zhang Tianyuan warned that continental drift would cause tsunamis in four years and said fewer than a million people would survive unless he opened the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Bai Xu and his colleagues said they doubted the apocalypse theory and asked for evidence, so Zhang Tianyuan advised them to monitor a deep copper mine in India for early signs next year.
• Bai Xu arranged a villa for Zhang Tianyuan, while Yin Hongda and the team discussed their doubts and pressure to verify his claims quickly.
• Zhang Tianyuan noticed trees in the backyard and considered using their wood to test the Construction System.

Zhang Tianyuan asked Bai Xu’s team for timber, then used his panel to store it and begin constructing an Elementary School. Meanwhile, Wu Yisi assessed Zhang Tianyuan and warned the team that although he was certain the apocalypse would come, they still had no proof of his abilities.

• Zhang Tianyuan asked Bai Xu to obtain three tons of timber, claiming he wanted to build a pavilion for reading.
• Bai Xu and his teammates felled roadside trees and hauled more than four tons of timber into Zhang Tianyuan’s backyard.
• After the team left, Zhang Tianyuan stored the timber through his panel and started constructing an Elementary School inside a transparent enclosure.
• Wu Yisi told Bai Xu’s team that Zhang Tianyuan appeared almost completely certain the apocalypse would come and that they would cooperate with him.
• Wu Yisi found no supernatural traits in Zhang Tianyuan’s body or mind, leaving the team to consider whether he could open a Spacetime Tunnel or had fooled Bai Xu with a trick.
• Bai Xu grew suspicious of Zhang Tianyuan’s sudden timber request and went to check the backyard surveillance.

Wu Yisi and the response team witnessed Zhang Tianyuan’s elementary school assembling itself from light, prompting the team to cover it and report the phenomenon. The next morning, Zhang Tianyuan showed them the completed school and they asked what it could do.

• Wu Yisi watched a wooden pavilion materialize inside a glowing barrier in the backyard and added the incident to her meeting minutes, warning that their conclusions might be seriously flawed.
• Bai Xu and the three team members covered the glowing structure with a tarp, then sent a video of the invisible barrier to their superiors.
• Bai Xu explained that Zhang Tianyuan had intentionally let them witness the construction, so his superiors ordered the team not to wake him.
• The next morning, Zhang Tianyuan found the four team members waiting in his backyard after staying up all night, and Bai Xu offered their cooperation.
• Zhang Tianyuan showed them the completed Elementary School, which had seven places and no students, and Bai Xu asked whether they could sit inside.

Zhang Tianyuan explained the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society to Bai Xu and his companions, offering them membership so they could use the school and join his effort to rescue doomed parallel worlds. The chapter ended with Bai Xu and the others studying the membership terms before deciding whether to consult their superiors.

• Bai Xu and the others entered the school, but Zhang Tianyuan told them they could not use its seats because they were not residents of his territory.
• Zhang Tianyuan invited Bai Xu, Instructor Yin, and the others to become the first members of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society.
• Zhang Tianyuan experienced the school's boosts to memory, comprehension, and language learning as he explained the facility's effects.
• Zhang Tianyuan described his plan to unite parallel spacetimes against apocalypses, including disasters, alien invasions, and viruses.
• Zhang Tianyuan printed membership applications and handed them to Bai Xu and the others, who began considering the terms.

Zhang Tianyuan recalled details about the I Am Legend world while the leaders of the 2012 world came to learn more about the apocalypse he had warned them of. He told them that ordinary shelters would not save them and proposed relocating the population through his Spacetime Tunnel, leaving them to ask where they could go.

• Bai Xu and Instructor Yin said they needed their superiors’ approval before joining Zhang Tianyuan’s Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, and Zhang Tianyuan told them to return after receiving an answer.
• Zhang Tianyuan reviewed and recorded details from I Am Legend as he prepared for his next trip.
• Bai Xu and the others reported the Mutual Aid Society and its schoolhouse to their superiors, who scheduled an urgent meeting with Zhang Tianyuan that afternoon.
• Leaders from the 2012 world met Zhang Tianyuan and asked for detailed information about the coming apocalypse.
• Zhang Tianyuan said no place on Earth would escape the tsunami and proposed relocating the population through his Spacetime Tunnel.
• One of the leaders asked where they could relocate.

Zhang Tianyuan explained that his territory could not shelter a billion people, but the Mutual Aid Society could coordinate with another parallel world whose disaster had not yet struck. He revealed that world faced a deadly virus and presented the leaders with applications for their nations to join the Society, leaving them wary as they considered the proposal.

• Zhang Tianyuan told the leaders that his small territory could not accommodate the population they needed to evacuate.
• Zhang Tianyuan explained that other spacetime worlds faced disasters at different times, allowing displaced people to seek refuge in one world and later return.
• Zhang Tianyuan said the other world was around 2008 to 2012 and described the KV Virus, which spread through the air, killed most infected people, and turned some into aggressive monsters.
• Zhang Tianyuan placed Mutual Aid Society member-nation applications on the table and said membership was required to use the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Zhang Tianyuan promised not to interfere in the nations' internal affairs, while the leaders accepted the applications with wariness and suspicion.

Zhang Tianyuan secured the leaders’ agreement to join the Mutual Aid Society under rules that limited interference in their internal affairs. He then requested personnel and supplies for an expedition to another apocalyptic world, and the chapter ended as he began asking them to develop a flashlight.

• Zhang Tianyuan explained the Mutual Aid Society’s member-state application, including mutual aid during disasters, reasonable compensation, and government oversight of members.
• The leaders accepted the application in principle, and Zhang Tianyuan invited them to sign and become the Society’s first member state.
• The leaders said they would keep the Society and the potential apocalypse secret until they had evidence, while preparing evacuation plans and drills; Zhang Tianyuan left the timing of public disclosure to them.
• Zhang Tianyuan requested soldiers, medical and engineering personnel, and virologists for an expedition to another apocalyptic world, along with a reserve force of over ten thousand.
• The leaders agreed to provide personnel, and Zhang Tianyuan began listing needed supplies by asking them to develop a flashlight.

Zhang Tianyuan briefed Bai Xu’s team on the dangers of entering the KV Virus apocalypse and revealed that he could obtain a vaccine production method through the Wishing Machine. He discovered the wish would cost far less than expected, but left its confirmation for later.

• Bai Xu told Zhang Tianyuan that his team had been approved to join the Mutual Aid Society.
• Zhang Tianyuan explained that the team might need to fight Darkseekers and reclaim cities if the virus had already spread when they arrived.
• Wu Yisi pointed out that the team could also be vulnerable to the KV Virus, and Zhang Tianyuan said he had an unconventional way to obtain vaccine production knowledge.
• After the team left, Zhang Tianyuan used the Wishing Machine to request an effective inactivated vaccine method and virus material for one hundred thousand doses.
• Zhang Tianyuan saw that the wish would cost two wishes and fewer than fifty thousand energy points, and suspected the 2012 world’s technology had raised his base’s level.

Zhang Tianyuan arranged for the KV vaccine to be produced and quietly expanded the Mutual Aid Society as preparations for the coming disaster spread across the country. The chapter ended with the first energy points arriving from his new residents, while he waited for the vaccines and flashlights.

• Bai Xu and four others became territory residents, and Zhang Tianyuan asked them to arrange a laboratory and production of one hundred thousand KV vaccine doses.
• After the government agreed to cooperate, Zhang Tianyuan spent the week testing the Elementary School’s effects with Bai Xu’s group, protected by his activated Lord Clauses.
• The country issued unusual flashlight requirements, prepared a virology lab and emergency teams, and organized disaster evacuation planning while leasing a deep Indian mine for geophysical research.
• Dr. Satnam Tsurutani complained to Adrian Helmsley after being expelled from the mine, then accepted Adrian’s offer to visit him in the United States.
• Zhang Tianyuan used the wishing machine to obtain the KV vaccine production method and inactivated virus, then urged the leadership to recruit ten thousand Mutual Aid Society members.
• The country’s secret branch of the Parallel Mutual Aid Association began signing members, and ten days after Bai Xu’s group joined, Zhang received his first five energy points from residents.

Zhang Tianyuan and the Mutual Aid Society prepared a 150-person advance team to enter Legend World, developing equipment and vaccinating the team against the virus. With preparations complete, the team gathered at a biosafety facility, and Zhang Tianyuan announced he would open the Spacetime Tunnel.

• Zhang Tianyuan oversaw training for the advance team and pressed for the KV Vaccine, while the reserve team of ten thousand completed its preparations.
• The advance team selected a powerful, portable generator-equipped flashlight and requested smaller ultraviolet flashlights as well.
• Researchers produced the first KV Vaccine trial batch, and successive trials showed no abnormalities and a 100 percent antibody response rate.
• Zhang Tianyuan received his vaccine and completed the full course by mid-December, leaving the advance team ready to enter Legend World.
• Zhang Tianyuan, Bai Xu, his four companions, and the 150-person team assembled at a biosafety facility, boarded their assigned vehicles, and prepared to cross as Zhang Tianyuan gave the one-minute warning.

Zhang Tianyuan brought the 0808 Task Force through the Spacetime Tunnel to the Imperial Capital in the world of I Am Legend, where they found humanity apparently wiped out and were attacked by Darkseekers. He ordered the convoy to turn on its ultraviolet vehicle lights, which killed the attackers, but the team remained in the dangerous city awaiting test results.

• Zhang Tianyuan opened the Spacetime Tunnel to the Imperial Capital, and the 0808 Task Force vanished from the observation site.
• Zhang Tianyuan arrived in a dark, overgrown city and concluded that the apocalypse had already happened and humanity had fallen.
• Zhang Tianyuan warned everyone to stay inside their vehicles while the nuclear, biological, and chemical team tested the surroundings.
• Darkseekers swarmed the convoy from the streets and buildings, frightening Bai Xu and Wu Yisi.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered the drivers to switch on their modified ultraviolet headlights, and the Darkseekers outside melted within thirty seconds.

After confirming the city was safe from radiation, Zhang Tianyuan's group stepped outside and received a fragmented emergency broadcast about the KV Virus. They decided to leave the city for the wilderness or a survivor base, though the broadcast could not confirm whether any bases remained.

• Zhang Tianyuan's team checked the air, removed their protective suits, and found a deserted city haunted by Darkseekers.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that the communications team had picked up an urgent broadcast from the Central People's Broadcasting Station.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered the team to decipher the broadcast while the exploration team prepared wheeled robots to scout the streets.
• Instructor Yin urged the group to leave the city before its hundreds of thousands of Darkseekers could overwhelm them, and Zhang Tianyuan ordered the convoy to set off.
• The communications team reported that the broadcast warned survivors about the KV Virus and directed them toward the wilderness or bases in the northern grasslands, western plateau, and deserts, but they did not know if those bases still existed.

Zhang Tianyuan’s group searched for survivors in the Imperial Capital, gathered supplies, and planned to head north to the grasslands. As their radio broadcast reached a group approaching the city, the chapter left their arrival and possible contact with the Mutual Aid Society pending.

• Zhang Tianyuan and his team chose the grasslands as their first destination and planned to replenish supplies in the Imperial Capital before leaving.
• Zhang Tianyuan led a noisy convoy into the city, distributing leaflets that invited survivors to contact the Mutual Aid Society.
• Zhang Tianyuan’s group learned that the date was October 9, 2010, ten months after the KV Virus outbreak, and began gathering supplies during daylight.
• A man rode toward the Imperial Capital with a boy on his motorcycle while several cars followed, and the group heard the Mutual Aid Society’s radio broadcast.

A convoy searching for the Mutual Aid Society found flyers in the city and hurried to locate the group because A He was pregnant and unwell. As Zhang Tianyuan’s team searched nearby buildings, Bai Xu gathered human remains and realized how devastating the apocalypse had been, then vowed that no world should suffer the same fate.

• The convoy entered the city, found flyers for the Mutual Aid Society, and set out to locate the group quickly because A He was pregnant and sick.
• Zhang Tianyuan joined the vanguard’s search of the city while Instructor Yin followed close behind.
• Bai Xu and several vanguard members collected human remains from a mall where Darkseekers had left bones and blood throughout the building.
• Bai Xu recognized the remains of children, women, and infants, and understood the apocalypse as a scene of blood and bones.
• Bai Xu told the machine gunner that no world should become like this and felt grateful that their world still had a chance.

Zhang Tianyuan's group encountered Ding Jingye's survivors near the Imperial Capital and offered them help and a place in the Mutual Aid Society. Ding Jingye revealed that newborns almost never survived the virus, leaving Zhang Tianyuan to realize that this world's humanity faced extinction.

• After leaving a mall, Zhang Tianyuan spotted a convoy approaching and readied his team in case the newcomers were hostile.
• Ding Jingye's convoy arrived, and he introduced himself as the leader of seventeen survivors living outside the Imperial Capital.
• Zhang Tianyuan told Ding Jingye about the Mutual Aid Society and offered safety, food, and medical care.
• Ding Jingye asked whether the group's doctors could help a pregnant woman abort her baby, explaining that nearly all newborns died from the KV Virus within six hours.
• Ding Jingye recounted seeing three pregnant women give birth, with all three mothers or babies dying, and Zhang Tianyuan realized humanity in this world might be doomed to extinction.

Zhang Tianyuan reassured Ding Jingye and the other survivors that the Mutual Aid Society could help with the KV Virus crisis, then discussed how to protect A He’s unborn child. He settled on sending pregnant women through the Spacetime Tunnel to give birth in a virus-free world and vaccinating their babies afterward.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Ding Jingye and the survivors that his group had developed a KV Virus vaccine, then showed them the advance team’s overwhelming weapons.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that A He was pregnant after her naturally immune husband had been taken by Darkseekers.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked Xi Lei and Luo Zhenyi whether vaccination could protect infants, but they said inherited antibodies and fetal vaccines were not practical solutions.
• Xi Lei and Luo Zhenyi judged that pregnant women might safely cross the Spacetime Tunnel, be disinfected, and give birth in a virus-free world.
• Zhang Tianyuan told A He that the Mutual Aid Society would send her somewhere without the virus to give birth and vaccinate her child later.

Zhang Tianyuan’s group gathered survivors in and around the Imperial Capital, then traveled north across the grasslands to find the main settlement. There, he introduced the group to its leaders as the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society.

• Zhang Tianyuan, Bai Xu, Wu Yisi, and Instructor Yin decided to use rooftop signal fires and fireworks to find survivors around the Imperial Capital.
• Over the next month, Zhang Tianyuan’s group lit signals across the city and took in sixty-two survivors before setting out north with 218 people.
• The convoy attracted thirty-five more survivors along the way and spent a month and a half searching the grasslands for the gathering point.
• After picking up a radio signal, Zhang Tianyuan’s group reached a settlement of yurts and tents and met its interim leader, Tong Wenshi, and two other leaders.
• Tong Wenshi asked where the well-equipped group had come from, and Zhang Tianyuan said they were from the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society.