Chapter Summaries

Delegations from around the world gathered at the space base to learn about Yuan Heguang’s plan to migrate people to New Star. Zhang Tianyuan introduced them to the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and showed them evidence of the new planet, leaving the visitors amazed by its life and the Spacetime Tunnel.

• Representatives from various countries assembled at the space base and exchanged information about New Star and the planned migration.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Yuan Heguang entered the hall, and Yuan introduced Zhang as the president of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society’s branch in their spacetime.
• Zhang explained that parallel spacetimes existed and that the Society aimed to unite and help people across them.
• Zhang took the delegations to a computer room, where staff showed them satellite images of New Star and views of its unusual plants and animals.
• The visitors saw alien specimens and the guarded Spacetime Tunnel, and some fell to their knees to pray.

The visiting delegations wanted to join the Mutual Aid Society but initially demanded that North America be expelled, until Yuan Heguang explained Professor Brand and his associates had opposed the North American sinners. Professor Brand then told the delegations that the sinners had fled and began seeking their support as he prepared to return to North America and end the chaos.

• The visiting delegations expressed excitement about joining the Mutual Aid Society and asked where the North American representative was.
• Professor Brand appeared with Amelia as the delegations cursed him and demanded that North America be expelled from the society.
• Yuan Heguang clarified that the Mutual Aid Society had cooperated with Professor Brand and his associates, not the North American sinners, and the delegations changed their tune in support of Brand.
• Zhang Tianyuan gave the delegations agreement templates to review before leaving with Yuan Heguang.
• Professor Brand told the delegations that the sinners had fled toward Planet No. 2, which was uninhabitable, and said he intended to return to North America to help end the chaos.

Morgan and the other Doomsday Plan conspirators feared that Matthew and the Mutual Aid Society were closing in, so they decided to blame Wilford and Mather publicly. The leaked investigation file triggered worldwide outrage, while the FBI denied having created it and failed to convince anyone.

• Morgan reviewed footage of snowbound New York and learned that Matthew had replaced Mather and was overseeing effective disaster relief.
• Morgan worried that Matthew was investigating the conspirators and convened the Doomsday Plan participants, who admitted they had no useful information about the investigation.
• Morgan and the others agreed to expose the Doomsday Plan while placing the blame on Wilford and Mather to avoid being charged with causing the global apocalypse.
• A major newspaper published a supposed confidential FBI file detailing the Doomsday Cooling Plan and naming Mather and Wilford as its masterminds.
• People around the world condemned Mather and Wilford, while the FBI denied conducting the investigation and its denial only fueled suspicion.

Morgan realized that he had exposed the Doomsday Plan before Matthew knew the truth, leaving his cover-up looking like a panicked attempt to shift blame. Cheng Wanli and the Mutual Aid Society announced a mass relocation to a parallel spacetime that would dismantle much of Morgan’s wealth and influence, while Morgan’s partners accepted that the migration could not be stopped.

• Morgan learned that Matthew had not known about the Doomsday Plan before Morgan revealed it, and realized his attempt to blame Wilford and Mather had made him look guilty.
• Morgan convened his partners to plan a united response, but the meeting was interrupted by news that Cheng Wanli and the Mutual Aid Society had announced a relocation plan.
• Morgan learned that residents would travel by railway to a parallel spacetime, where contracts, debts, and financial institutions would be dissolved or restructured and households would be scattered.
• Morgan urged his partners to resist the plan, but they argued that people would relocate to survive and that opposition could not stop them.
• Morgan considered hiding in his family’s bunker until Earth warmed again, but his partners warned that the other principal culprits might turn on him.
• People protested the loss of their property, and Cheng Wanli’s representatives replied that the extraordinary crisis left no better option and asked them to bear with the plan.

Cheng Wanli suppressed opposition to the relocation while warrants caused Morgan’s associates to betray him, forcing Old Morgan to flee his bunker. A superstorm then formed over North America, and Morgan’s family took shelter as the storm rapidly worsened and cracked a window.

• Cheng Wanli silenced media outlets and celebrities opposing relocation, then began negotiating relocation details with Matthew and representatives of other countries.
• United Nations warrants led Morgan’s subordinates and family members to betray his associates, so Old Morgan fled his bunker with his family and a few loyal followers.
• Liu Peiqiang and Makarov spotted a rapidly growing superstorm over Earth and reported it to the command center.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned the storm would sweep south across North America, arranged emergency preparations, and opened Spacetime Tunnels above twenty-four Planetary Engines.
• Old Morgan’s family sheltered in an office building as the storm brought heavy snow, hail, and freezing temperatures, then a window cracked.

A superstorm devastated North America, overwhelming emergency services and proving that the Mutual Aid Society’s Planetary Engines could do little to stop it. Old Morgan’s family endured the storm in a basement, and rescuers later found him alive but severely injured.

• Hail shattered the building’s windows, forcing Old Morgan and his family into a basement where they huddled against the cold.
• Old Morgan’s grandson asked whether they could return to the bunker, but Old Morgan said they could neither go back nor escape the consequences of their choices.
• Matthew learned that hundreds of deaths had been reported and that the true toll was already estimated at a thousand, while the plasma jets barely affected the storm.
• Zhang Tianyuan and his team redirected fifty-four Planetary Engines to pursue the storm, raising surface temperatures by up to five degrees as it moved south.
• Rescuers found Old Morgan alive beneath the wreckage, but his hands and feet broke off as they carried him out.

A devastating cold storm called the Steamroller killed and injured millions, convincing countries that they had to migrate to a parallel spacetime. Matthew joined the Mutual Aid Society, while Zhang Tianyuan also supported Professor Brand’s plan to end the conflict in Interstellar Spacetime.

• The Steamroller storm swept across North America, killing 100,000 people in its first three states and leaving more than a million injured before the toll rose to 500,000 dead and nearly ten million sick or injured.
• Liu Chunshi warned that similar storms could recur unpredictably, while meteorologists said stopping the plasma streams would make the entire world freeze even faster.
• Countries and conglomerates shifted toward migration, and Matthew met Zhang Tianyuan to formalize his spacetime’s membership in the Mutual Aid Society.
• Rescue teams captured Old Morgan and rounded up more than half of the hundreds of people named in Cheng Wanli’s warrants; Matthew also handed over evidence about CW-7.
• A one-day cold storm in South America killed nearly a thousand people and left tens of thousands sick or injured.
• Professor Brand decided to return to his country to end the warfare, and Yuan Heguang gave him a locator and modified rockets to support his effort.

Zhang Tianyuan redirected Snowpiercer’s future migrants toward North America while organizing new-planet farming to address the Mutual Aid Society’s enormous food shortage. After Morgan’s gang was captured, Snowpiercer’s countries signed a mass-migration agreement and the gang was sentenced to death; Zhang then discovered a newly identified world.

• Brand returned to North America while Amelia and the astronauts in training stayed with Yuan Heguang, and Zhang Tianyuan arranged for people from Snowpiercer Spacetime and Matthew’s citizens to settle in North America.
• Zhang Tianyuan calculated that the Mutual Aid Society faced a food shortage affecting roughly sixteen billion people and prioritized cultivating plains on the new planet, sending teams to explore twenty possible farming regions.
• Cheng Wanli reported that Morgan’s gang had been captured, and the countries of Snowpiercer Spacetime signed an agreement to migrate their entire populations.
• An international tribunal sentenced Morgan, Wilford, thirty-two principal offenders, and 440 accomplices to death after a five-day public trial.
• After 472 people were executed by firing squad, Zhang Tianyuan saw that the system had discovered a new world: "Mad Max: Fury Road".

Zhang Tianyuan sent a rocket and satellite into Rampage Spacetime to survey the world, but an unknown power destroyed it before it could begin transmitting. The satellite’s destruction suggested that a heavily armed state was active in the tense spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan was asked whether to launch again.

• Zhang Tianyuan arranged for a solid-fuel rocket to carry a satellite into Rampage Spacetime and connected it to Interstellar Spacetime through a Spacetime Tunnel.
• Staff at the space base discovered that the satellite had stopped sending signals, and Zhang Tianyuan returned to the command hall.
• The supervisor showed Zhang Tianyuan the severed, scorched cable and explained that a camera had confirmed the satellite was destroyed.
• Zhang Tianyuan concluded that Immortan Joe’s gang could not have destroyed the satellite and suspected a country with antisatellite weapons had intercepted it.
• The supervisor asked Zhang Tianyuan whether they should continue launching satellites into Rampage Spacetime.

Zhang Tianyuan and the branch presidents discussed the unstable, resource-scarce Rampage Spacetime and decided to investigate it with drones after satellite launches proved too risky. Several reconnaissance drones were quickly shot down, so Zhang planned to try an armed drone and send the remaining unarmed ones to Oceania, where Immortan Joe was.

• Zhang Tianyuan closed the Spacetime Tunnel, returned to his office, and briefed the eight branch presidents about Spacetime No. 9.
• Yuan Heguang argued that large-scale mushroom warfare was unlikely in Rampage Spacetime because the major powers probably had not resorted to it.
• Zhang Tianyuan approved using drones instead of satellites, and the first drone was shot down shortly after entering Rampage Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent a second drone to North America and a third to a northern region, but both were also destroyed by missiles.
• Zhang Tianyuan ordered the team to prepare a drone carrying air-to-air missiles and decided to send the two remaining reconnaissance drones to Oceania, where Immortan Joe was.

Zhang Tianyuan’s drone discovered a nuclear-ravaged wasteland where scavengers hunted a man named Max, then entered Rampage Spacetime and was shot down by its military. A second drone requested permission to land, and Bu Zhen’s team cautiously approached it at an abandoned airport.

• Zhang Tianyuan’s drone found a city reduced to a radioactive desert and spotted a scavenger convoy chasing Max.
• Zhang Tianyuan sent the drone low over the convoy, causing the scavengers to abandon Max and chase it instead.
• Max watched the drone disappear, then drove on and was targeted by another scavenger convoy.
• Jing Youwei learned that the first drone was not a model developed by his forces, then ordered a second unidentified drone to land under close guard.
• Bu Zhen and his team watched the drone land at an abandoned airport, jammed its signal, and waited before sending an explosives specialist to inspect it.

Bu Zhen’s team discovered that a voice was speaking through the dismantled drone’s speaker, and that a hand could emerge from a black passage connected to it. Jing Youwei and Instructor Yin then began speaking with the Mutual Aid Society representatives, who explained that they could not yet come through the passage.

• After bomb disposal specialists found no explosives, Bu Zhen brought aviation technicians to dismantle the drone and record its parts.
• An operator from the Mutual Aid Society’s No. 7 Branch spoke through a wired speaker, explaining that wireless jamming did not affect the connection.
• When the speaker malfunctioned, a hand emerged from a black patch behind it and slapped it; the operator warned Bu Zhen that touching the passage was dangerous.
• Jing Youwei received a report about the speaking speaker and mysterious hand, then went to the airfield to investigate.
• Instructor Yin identified himself as a deputy director of the Mutual Aid Society’s disaster-response bureau and told Jing Youwei that the group could not yet widen the passage enough to come out.

Jing Youwei learned that Deputy Director Yin and his team came from a parallel spacetime and belonged to the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society. Their conversation revealed that Jing Youwei’s world faced catastrophic shortages of oil and water, leaving Instructor Yin alarmed by how severe its resource crisis had become.

• Yin Hongda explained to Jing Youwei that they were in another spacetime and used a Spacetime Tunnel to control the drone and reach into his world.
• Instructor Yin warned Jing Youwei about the tunnel’s Spacetime Cutting risks, then identified their group as the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, which had contacted eight other parallel spacetimes.
• Instructor Yin apologized for the reconnaissance satellite and drones that had been shot down, and Jing Youwei confirmed that his world had extensive anti-satellite weapons.
• Jing Youwei described how Topol missiles had devastated Oceania thirteen years earlier and said Earth’s resource depletion prevented other countries from providing relief.
• Jing Youwei told Instructor Yin that oil and water shortages had spread worldwide, with major rivers and lakes drying up and the world descending into wars over resources.

Jing Youwei learned about the nuclear devastation and resource wars in Rampage Spacetime from Instructor Yin, then investigated the drone and the still-open Spacetime Tunnel after their call ended. He and Bu Zhen began testing the tunnel, which cut an iron rod cleanly at its edge, and prepared to examine it with a camera.

• Jing Youwei told Instructor Yin that the oil unrest and water unrest had left the world devastated by nuclear weapons, contamination, and ongoing conflict.
• Jing Youwei described the suspected cause of the Black Poplar Missile salvo thirteen years earlier, while admitting the account might not be true.
• Instructor Yin arranged a handshake through the Spacetime Tunnel, and Jing Youwei confirmed the hand belonged to a living person.
• Jing Youwei ordered Bu Zhen to dismantle the drone, record the site, and restrict everyone there from leaving or contacting the outside.
• Jing Youwei and Bu Zhen found no one inside the dismantled drone and saw that the Spacetime Tunnel remained open in midair.
• Jing Youwei tested the tunnel with an iron rod, discovered that its edge cut off a section perfectly, and began extending a camera toward it with Bu Zhen.

Jing Youwei and Bu Zhen discovered a crowded transit hub beyond the Spacetime Tunnel and recorded it, prompting an all-night government meeting. The authorities decided to investigate the airport and continue filming the tunnel as they prepared contingency plans.

• Bu Zhen and Jing Youwei watched camera footage of a vast facility where people and vehicles passed through several Spacetime Tunnels, especially the busy tunnel numbered three.
• Jing Youwei ordered Bu Zhen to secure the tunnel and isolate everyone at the airport who knew about it, then took the camera’s memory card to report the discovery.
• Jing Youwei showed officials footage of the transit hub and the drone dismantling process during an overnight meeting with Meng Anping and others.
• Meng Anping confirmed that an unusual aircraft had been detected and shot down, while officials had not yet verified the reports of the other drones.
• Meng Anping ordered a team to research the old airport and told Jing Youwei to record the Spacetime Tunnel continuously as departments prepared contingency plans.
• Bu Zhen set up a camera at the tunnel while keeping watch through the night.

After a major earthquake struck Wandering Spacetime, Zhang Tianyuan and Yuan Heguang arranged to evacuate and resettle disaster victims in Interstellar Spacetime. Meanwhile, Jing Youwei’s team tested the Spacetime Tunnel and confirmed its biometric identification feature.

• Zhang Tianyuan mobilized rescue teams and Bai Xu to evacuate people and salvage grain from damaged underground cities in Wandering Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan persuaded Yuan Heguang to accept disaster victims from Wandering Spacetime, and Yuan Heguang approved plans to resettle 1.2 million domestic victims and place foreign victims in a Southeast Asian resettlement area.
• Wandering Spacetime prepared to build replacement underground cities and used nearly half of its accumulated Planetary Engine blueprints.
• Bu Zhen waited beside the Spacetime Tunnel for Jing Youwei, who returned with a research team.
• Jing Youwei’s researchers tested the tunnel and found that attached fingernails and hair vanished on contact, while detached samples passed through, confirming biometric identification.

Jing Youwei and the experts used a camera feed through the Spacetime Tunnel to learn about the Mutual Aid Society, while Zheng Xu gave them a tour of its transit network and member spacetimes. Hearing about vast freshwater exports from The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime made Meng Anping and the others consider joining the trade system and question why their own spacetime had run out of resources.

• After experts confirmed the Spacetime Tunnel was real, Jing Youwei agreed to let Zheng Xu show the camera around the Mutual Aid Society’s facilities.
• Zheng Xu described the transit hubs in Interstellar Spacetime and Legend Spacetime, and Meng Anping and the experts recognized their importance to future trade between spacetimes.
• Zheng Xu explained that The Day After Tomorrow Spacetime had transported 50,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater and planned to export ten million more.
• Meng Anping and the others discussed whether their spacetime could import water and other resources if it joined the Mutual Aid Society.
• The group questioned why their spacetime faced resource depletion when the other parallel spacetimes did not, and wondered whether its resource supply was unusually limited.

Zheng Xu showed Jing Youwei and Meng Anping the worsening environmental conditions in No. 7 Spacetime, while the leaders discussed the Mutual Aid Society’s immense military capacity and potential dangers. The chapter ended with Zheng Xu revealing that No. 7 Spacetime planned to escape Blight by colonizing a habitable planet, prompting Jing Youwei to seek more details.

• Zheng Xu explained that Blight had made successive plant species impossible to grow, leaving corn as the only remaining crop in No. 7 Spacetime.
• Jing Youwei sent a wireless camera and signal relays so Zheng Xu could film outside, then had the returned wired camera examined for signs of intrusion.
• Jing Youwei and Meng Anping discussed the other spacetimes’ ability to build ten thousand Planetary Engines and the danger posed by their combined nuclear arsenals.
• Zheng Xu showed the leaders No. 7 Spacetime’s barren, sand-covered landscape and described its worsening environmental conditions.
• Zheng Xu told Jing Youwei that No. 7 Spacetime could not stop Blight and was planning an interstellar colonization effort on a newly found habitable planet.

Jing Youwei and Meng Anping learned about the Mutual Aid Society and decided to pursue membership, appointing Jing to lead a working group and prepare a visit to No. 7 Spacetime. Meanwhile, Zhang Tianyuan finished overseeing the most urgent evacuations in The Wandering Earth and turned his attention to Rampage Spacetime.

• Jing Youwei asked Zheng Xu about habitable planets, and Zheng explained that a wormhole near Saturn made No. 7 Spacetime’s circumstances difficult to replicate.
• Meng Anping asked whether No. 7 Spacetime had resources beyond food, and Zheng Xu said he had heard of no resource shortages.
• Zheng Xu toured the space base and New Star Research Center, where biology experts admired new life forms while Meng Anping and his colleagues discussed joining the Mutual Aid Society.
• Meng Anping appointed Jing Youwei to lead a working group on joining the Mutual Aid Society and instructed him to help arrange a visit to No. 7 Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that evacuations from two magma-threatened underground cities in The Wandering Earth were complete and reviewed reports on Rampage Spacetime, where conditions had deteriorated in small countries and resource-rich regions.

Zhang Tianyuan planned to ease No. 9 Spacetime’s resource crisis with the Mutual Aid Society’s abundant supplies and arranged for a delegation to visit. After signing the required agreements, Jing Youwei and his team set out through the Spacetime Tunnel to a parallel spacetime.

• Zhang Tianyuan identified resource scarcity as the root of No. 9 Spacetime’s unrest and said the Mutual Aid Society could help supply it.
• Instructor Yin explained that the Mutual Aid Society would gain half the resources on Yuan Heguang’s Earth in exchange for migration assistance.
• After Zheng Xu reported that No. 9 Spacetime had requested a visit, Zhang Tianyuan approved the delegation and instructed them to sign agreements before crossing.
• Zhang Tianyuan checked his energy balance and found that supporting Snowpiercer Spacetime’s plasma jets was leaving him at a daily loss.
• Zheng Xu escorted Jing Youwei’s delegation to the widened Spacetime Tunnel and watched them sign their real names.
• Jing Youwei rallied his subordinates and led them through the Spacetime Tunnel.