Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi learned that an Antarctic ice-shelf disaster was about a month and a half away, while a government task force investigated the strange vehicles and people who had appeared in the city. After inspecting the vehicles and hearing Wang Lei’s account, team leader Lu Deshou began to suspect they might be telling the truth.

• Jason told Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi that his team was studying the rapidly melting ice shelf and planned to drill ice cores, while Jack questioned the other team’s advanced equipment and interest in Antarctica.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered his team to follow Jason’s group, then estimated that they had about a month and a half to warn countries and move populations south before the disaster.
• Lu Deshou’s task force questioned the visitors, and Wang Lei said he was a cross-spacetime rescue-team captain from No. 3 Spacetime under the Mutual Aid Society and United Government.
• A subordinate reported that the vehicles contained technology more advanced than anything known on Earth, prompting Lu Deshou to reconsider Wang Lei’s explanation and take him to inspect them.
• Wang Lei explained that the vehicles used cards as keys, and Lu Deshou started one, which announced the driver’s identity and played a safety notice.

Wang Lei told Lu Deshou about the Mutual Aid Society and its disaster-rescue work, while Lu Deshou quietly investigated the group and reported what he learned. In Antarctica, Zhang Tianyuan’s team witnessed a massive ice-shelf collapse that nearly killed Jack, Jason, and Frank, confirming that the disaster had begun.

• Wang Lei described the Mutual Aid Society to Lu Deshou and recounted the Wandering Spacetime’s history, while withholding classified details about the coming disaster.
• Lu Deshou questioned the other team members, ordered them allowed to rest, and left to report his findings.
• Liu Chunshi’s team found that Antarctica had warmed by six degrees in the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime, compared with a two-degree rise in their own spacetime.
• A fissure tore through the ice shelf while Jack, Jason, and Frank were working, leaving their camp at the edge of a deep chasm.
• Jack rescued the ice-core samples and the Mutual Aid Society soldiers pulled him to safety; Zhang Tianyuan warned everyone to leave as the broken ice shelf drifted apart.

Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi rescued Jack and his colleagues after the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed, then debated how soon climate change could trigger disaster. Back at the research station, Jack’s account revealed that his rescuers belonged to no known Antarctic team, while Zhong Ruijin prepared to investigate Wang Lei and the advanced vehicles in person.

• Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Chunshi rescued Jack, Frank, and Jason from the collapsing ice shelf, and Liu Chunshi questioned Jack about climate change in their spacetime.
• Liu Chunshi and the other meteorologists argued with Jack that severe climate changes could happen soon, but Jack remained unconvinced and later invited them to a conference.
• Frank contacted the research station, and he, Jack, and Jason returned safely after Jack declined Liu Chunshi’s invitation to the climate conference.
• Lu Deshou reported Wang Lei’s account and the advanced vehicles to Zhong Ruijin, who decided to inspect them the next day; Lu then questioned Wang Lei further.
• Jack and his colleagues learned that their research station had no expedition or vehicles matching the group that rescued them, and Jack’s joke about meeting kind ghosts left him, Frank, and Jason isolated for the night.

Wang Lei introduced Zhang Tianyuan to Zhong Ruijin and other officials, and Zhang warned them that their spacetime faced a catastrophic cold storm followed by a prolonged glacial period. He said the storm was expected to arrive in October.

• Lu Deshou escorted Wang Lei to the transport vehicles, where Zhong Ruijin asked Wang Lei about the vehicles and his spacetime.
• Wang Lei contacted the Mutual Aid Society president, and Zhang Tianyuan arrived through a Spacetime Tunnel to meet Zhong Ruijin.
• Zhang Tianyuan showed Zhong Ruijin climate data comparing their spacetime with No. 2 Spacetime and explained that rising temperatures had made their climate unusually unstable.
• Zhang Tianyuan warned that a severe cold storm would sweep across the northern hemisphere, bringing extreme cold and widespread ice and snow.
• Zhong Ruijin asked when the disaster would occur, and Zhang Tianyuan answered that it would come in October.

Zhang Tianyuan warned Zhong Ruijin that No. 6 Spacetime would face an unprecedented superstorm in October and helped establish emergency preparations. He then rallied the Mutual Aid Society’s chapters to assist No. 6 Spacetime, but their representatives had to compete for places before they could go.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Zhong Ruijin that an ice age could begin in October, despite the projections giving that outcome a probability of less than one in a hundred million.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Ruijin agreed on evacuation, shelter, and civil-defense preparations, and Zhang Tianyuan arranged further meteorological research and help from other spacetimes.
• Zhong Ruijin ordered emergency preparations, including stockpiling supplies, inspecting transport routes, and retrofitting civil-defense facilities.
• Lu Deshou contained the public fallout from Wang Lei’s group by having authorities describe their traffic obstruction as a film crew’s malicious marketing for The Wandering Earth.
• Zhang Tianyuan convened Mutual Aid Society representatives in No. 4 Spacetime and called on them to help No. 6 Spacetime prepare for the superstorm.
• The chapters agreed to send teams to persuade their counterparts in No. 6 Spacetime, but they first had to compete with chapters from the other spacetimes for places.

Zhang Tianyuan secured Zhong Ruijin’s agreement to begin the disaster-avoidance plan after new Arctic data raised the projected risk of a cooling storm. The plan’s first step was to circulate a meteorological paper, and the chapter ended with Carl telling Raymond Becker that she came from a parallel spacetime and held his position there.

• Liu Chunshi reported that Arctic and Antarctic warming had raised the projected chance of a catastrophic climate shift, and Zhong Ruijin agreed to begin the plan.
• The Disaster Prevention Working Group sent a paper about polar conditions and their possible catastrophic consequences to meteorological institutions around the world.
• Tom discovered that the paper’s Antarctic data matched classified records and went to report his concerns to Raymond Becker.
• Chai Ping arrived to meet Becker with Carl and her team, while Tom waited to explain the paper’s classified data.
• Carl told Becker that she came from a parallel spacetime and held the same position there.

Carl and Chai Ping tried to convince Becker that a catastrophic storm was approaching, but he dismissed their warning and worked to undermine trust in their claims. Jack recognized the authors of the warning paper as the people he had met in Antarctica just as news arrived that the other side had issued a global climate disaster alert.

• Carl told Becker that she came from a parallel spacetime and warned that a devastating storm would arrive, but Becker refused to listen and left.
• Becker dismissed the paper predicting a new glacial period, ordered Tom to stop spending money on verifying it, and called officials in other countries to discredit the warning.
• Becker's superior told him to stay in contact with Chai and report back, and Becker received the agreement Chai had sent him.
• Jack returned from Antarctica and recognized Liu Chunshi's name on the paper Tom showed him, realizing its authors were the people he had encountered there.
• A young man rushed into the laboratory and told Tom and Jack that the other side's meteorological department had issued a climate disaster warning to every country.

A worldwide broadcast warned that a superstorm and global ice age would arrive in October, and Jack recognized its explanation as matching the paper he held. While Zhong Ruijin’s government began preparing the public for disaster, Becker suppressed the warning abroad and accused Chai Ping and the Mutual Aid Society of causing a crisis; the chapter ended with Carl insisting they had come to save them.

• Jack and Tom watched a broadcast warning of a superstorm followed by a global ice age, and Jack realized its explanation matched both his paper and what he had heard in Antarctica.
• Becker ordered the warning blocked, accused Chai Ping’s side of trying to destabilize the economy, and arranged for his meteorology department to produce a false report predicting normal conditions.
• Zhong Ruijin declared an emergency, accelerated civil-defense preparations, issued disaster-avoidance plans, and urged citizens abroad to return home.
• Becker and President Kazu struggled to explain Zhong Ruijin’s serious preparations, then decided to hold steady and leave the other country alone.
• Becker met Chai Ping and Carl and demanded that they stop their actions and compensate the world economy, but Carl replied that the Mutual Aid Society had come to save them.

Chai Ping and Carl planned to encourage people to migrate south after Becker rejected their warning, while Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Ruijin continued trying to publicize the coming superstorm. In North America, Jack judged the warning plausible, sent his family south, and learned that the New Delhi Climate Change Conference had been moved up.

• Becker rejected Chai Ping's proposal, and Chai Ping told Carl they would try to persuade people to migrate south on their own.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Zhong Ruijin decided to break through North America's information blockade and urge people to evacuate south.
• Jack concluded that Liu Chunshi's paper and the climate warning were plausible, prompting Tom, Jason, and Frank to arrange for their families to go south.
• Jack urged Lucy to take Sam to Miami, while Lucy recognized that he was hiding his concern about the climate warning.
• Jack received news from Tom that the New Delhi Climate Change Conference had been moved up.