Chapter Summaries

As preparations for mass evacuation continued, governments around the world began censuses and training, while many overseas Chinese returned home. Zhang Tianyuan brought Carl and representatives from dozens of countries to Legend Spacetime to inspect its conditions and resettlement site.

• Elder Zhou revised the evacuation plan, halted domestic construction, arranged KV Vaccine for construction workers, and called on overseas Chinese to return.
• As people gradually accepted the loss of property in the apocalypse, Charlie Frost was found during a census near Yellowstone Park and given a Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society membership application.
• After global unrest subsided, Carl and representatives from dozens of countries traveled with Zhang Tianyuan through the Spacetime Tunnel to the Imperial Capital of Legend Spacetime.
• Instructor Yin greeted Zhang Tianyuan, who introduced the visitors as representatives come to inspect conditions and the resettlement site.

Zhang Tianyuan and Instructor Yin briefed Carl and the other representatives on life in the camp and the effort to rescue astronauts stranded on the International Space Station. Carl offered her spacetime’s help and proposed broadcasting the astronauts’ return, giving Zhang Tianyuan an idea for building public support for cooperation between the spacetimes.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Instructor Yin that President Zhou would prioritize bringing their families over during the evacuation, and Instructor Yin spoke of missing his daughter.
• Instructor Yin showed Carl and the representatives how the camp restored utilities and defended against Darkseekers, while sharing lessons on disease prevention and settlement management.
• Zhang Tianyuan told Carl that searchers had found European refugees dead from viral infection in the Arctic, while Otis and his group had reached Antarctica without carrying the virus.
• Instructor Yin explained that aerospace specialists in the camp were preparing to bring three astronauts home from the International Space Station after nearly a year in orbit.
• Carl thanked Instructor Yin, offered for her group to join the rescue, and suggested broadcasting the astronauts’ return through the Spacetime Tunnel; Zhang Tianyuan saw a chance to build public confidence in the Mutual Aid Society.

Zhang Tianyuan and the ground team prepared and launched a return capsule to rescue Hill, Mike, and Padalka from the space station. The rocket successfully entered orbit, and the astronauts learned it would dock with them in about two days.

• Carl agreed to keep her country's space shuttle on standby as a backup for the rescue, while Thomas offered additional support from the "2012" spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan took Carl to inspect potential settlements, then returned to the domestic launch base to await the rocket.
• Zhang Tianyuan reassured Hill, Mike, and Padalka that a space shuttle could serve as a backup if the rocket mission failed.
• The launch team fired the rocket, which successfully reached orbit as the command center watched its progress.
• The ground team told Hill, Mike, and Padalka that the capsule would rendezvous with the space station and dock in about two days, prompting Padalka to thank them enthusiastically.

Hill, Mike, and Padalka prepared to return to Earth while people across the world watched their spacecraft leave the station. At a resettlement camp, Charlie’s roommates rejected his conspiracy theories as the return began on television.

• After the spacecraft docked and its return capsule passed inspection, Zhang Tianyuan opened the Spacetime Tunnel and arranged for the return to be broadcast across both spacetimes.
• Hill, Mike, and Padalka boarded the return capsule and prepared to leave the space station.
• Television stations worldwide aired footage of the astronauts, and people watched them begin their journey home.
• At the Tenth Resettlement Camp, Charlie warned his roommates that the Mutual Aid Society planned to enslave them, but a scarred former homeless man defended the help they had received.
• Charlie avoided admitting that he hoped to survive the Great Evacuation Plan as his roommates watched the spacecraft separate successfully from the station.

Zhang Tianyuan and the Mutual Aid Society rescued Hill, Mike, and Padalka after their capsule reentered from space, then brought them to a shelter in the "2012" spacetime for treatment. The astronauts survived with multiple fractures, and the chapter ended with the people of that spacetime awaiting news of their condition.

• Hill, Mike, and Padalka endured the painful return journey as viewers watched and hoped they would survive.
• The capsule deployed its parachute, and Hill passed out as it slowed; the command center reported that she was still breathing normally.
• The capsule landed, and Zhang Tianyuan's team disinfected it before a rescuer entered and collected Mutual Aid Society membership applications from the astronauts.
• Zhang Tianyuan transported the capsule and rescue team to a shelter in the "2012" spacetime, where doctors rushed the astronauts into emergency care.
• Doctors found that Hill, Mike, and Padalka had multiple fractures caused by weakened bones but no other life-threatening injuries, and Zhang Tianyuan had the news relayed.

After the astronauts were rescued, Hill woke during her transfer to a hospital and learned that she had been moved to a parallel spacetime. She could not accept Robert’s explanation and decided she must still be dreaming.

• Zhang Tianyuan left Robert to oversee the astronauts’ care and returned to No. 2 Spacetime.
• In Legend Spacetime, Zhang Tianyuan watched country representatives argue over the settlement while continuing his fruitless searches of the world channel.
• Hill regained consciousness in an ambulance and asked Robert whether she and the other astronauts had landed safely.
• Hill saw a crowded Chinese city outside and questioned how it could exist after the KV Virus devastation she remembered.
• Robert explained that Hill had been transferred to a parallel spacetime by the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, led by Zhang.
• Hill concluded that she was dreaming, covered her face, and lay back down, then screamed in pain from her fractures.

Zhang Tianyuan learned that the world channel search had found The Wandering Earth, but postponed exploring it because its timeline and conditions made choosing a safe arrival point difficult. After discovering his island’s newbie protection had ended, he returned to find it covered in thick fog and a corroded skeleton outside his control room.

• Zhang Tianyuan visited the injured astronauts, who discussed their rescue and Mike asked to experience spacetime travel again.
• Zhang Tianyuan told the astronauts that evacuations from the 2012 spacetime would begin soon and that the Mutual Aid Society was busy preparing settlements.
• The international Mutual Aid Societies agreed that each country would clear and restore an assigned settlement in No. 2 Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan’s search found a third world channel, The Wandering Earth, and he decided to plan its exploration carefully because he might arrive in a dangerous place or era.
• Zhang Tianyuan noticed that his newbie protection had ended, returned to his island, and found thick fog and a corroded skeleton outside the control room before shutting himself back inside.

Zhang Tianyuan discovered that giant Sea of Mist Snakes had overrun his island and attacked them from the safety of his main base. His rockets yielded resources and building blueprints, but the surviving snakes surrounded the base and began searching for him.

• Zhang Tianyuan tested the fog outside and used infrared goggles to discover more than two hundred giant snakes roaming his island.
• He checked the system and learned that the snakes were part of the fourth monster wave.
• Zhang Tianyuan fired a rocket at the giant snake leader, killing five level 1 snakes and receiving base energy, food, and a level 2 barracks blueprint.
• He launched three more rockets, killing additional snakes and obtaining food, wood, an intermediate school blueprint, and a level 1 hospital blueprint fragment.
• The surviving snakes began searching the island, surrounded Zhang Tianyuan's main base, and failed to enter.

Zhang Tianyuan used the Spacetime Tunnel to slice apart the Sea of Mist Snakes surrounding his base and collected the resulting kill rewards. As more serpents approached, their enormous leader advanced from the beach toward the base.

• Zhang Tianyuan assessed the levels of the Sea of Mist Snakes surrounding his base and judged that the game had spawned an unusually powerful nest in his territory.
• Zhang Tianyuan used the Spacetime Tunnel as a blade, cutting the serpents outside the windows into pieces and sending parts of their bodies into the sky above Legend World.
• Zhang Tianyuan killed the serpents around the base in less than a minute and received fifty-seven kill notifications, including doubled rewards for being the first lord to kill a level 4 monster.
• More Sea of Mist Snakes approached, and their massive leader crawled from the beach toward Zhang Tianyuan's base.

Zhang Tianyuan killed a level 5 Sea of Mist Snake and discovered that the Lord Game included training camps that could awaken talents. After clearing the island and examining the loot, he cataloged 12 building blueprints and prepared to investigate the game’s unfamiliar resources and mechanics.

• Zhang Tianyuan killed a level 5 Sea of Mist Snake, earning doubled first-kill rewards and a level 5 training camp blueprint.
• Zhang Tianyuan inferred that lower-level training camps might awaken talents and considered how other lords could have defeated earlier monsters.
• Zhang Tianyuan went outside after the mist thinned, killed the remaining Sea of Mist Snakes on the island, and collected samples from the level 5 snake.
• Zhang Tianyuan counted his haul of 120 kills, including crystals and 12 building blueprints, among them two level 5 training camps and two level 4 hospitals.
• Zhang Tianyuan reviewed the hospital and workshop blueprint requirements and attributes.

Zhang Tianyuan upgraded his base to level 5, unlocking new features and making his faction the server’s first overlord. At the Yanhuang Alliance encampment, Liu Huo and the other lords reacted to the announcement, and Liu Huo urged them to find the Chinese faction behind it.

• Zhang Tianyuan reviewed blueprints for roads, a shipyard, barracks, and an intermediate school, and recalled the enchanted disinfection tunnels protecting trains from the KV Virus.
• Zhang Tianyuan upgraded his base from level 1 to level 2, unlocking more wishes, higher building and mining caps, improved cloning, alliances, a territory warehouse requirement, and plundering.
• Zhang Tianyuan spent more energy to raise the base to level 5 and received a system announcement naming his faction, Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, the server’s first overlord.
• At the Yanhuang Alliance encampment, Liu Huo discussed plans to defeat a level 4 Tiger King and then confront Shenluo’s lords.
• The Yanhuang Alliance lords learned that a faction had reached level 5, and Liu Huo recognized its Chinese name and ordered the group to find it.

After the system announced the level-five Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, Liu Huo and other alliance leaders searched for the mysterious faction. Zhang Tianyuan collected his overlord rewards, reviewed his upgrades, and went to the 2012 spacetime to prepare for exploration.

• Liu Huo reasoned that the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society might belong to an early lord in a remote region, and the Yanhuang Alliance sent soldiers to search unexplored areas.
• The other alliances, including Holy Rome and the Science Society, also began searching for the newly revealed faction.
• Zhang Tianyuan received Advanced Physical Enhancement, Life Extension, one billion energy points, and a clone profession level increase.
• Zhang Tianyuan reviewed the level-five upgrades, including the requirement to build a Spacetime Warehouse within three days and new targeted tunnel and communication functions.
• Zhang Tianyuan traveled to the 2012 spacetime and requested a wire-controlled exploration vehicle; two remote-controlled vehicles arrived less than an hour later.

Zhang Tianyuan explored the Wandering Earth spacetime and discovered the enormous Planetary Engine near BJ Dungeon No. 3. After its defenses mistook his fighter for a threat, he escaped through a Spacetime Tunnel, and the dungeon scrambled its own fighters to search for him.

• Zhang Tianyuan found that a Spacetime Tunnel could not open while the new world’s time was out of sync, then sent a remote-controlled car through after returning to the main spacetime.
• The car revealed an unusually severe snowstorm in the Imperial Capital, temperatures of -34 degrees, and an unfinished BJ Dungeon No. 3.
• Zhang Tianyuan asked Elder Zhou for a fighter jet, then opened a tunnel into the Wandering Earth spacetime while flying at supersonic speed.
• Zhang Tianyuan and the pilot spotted a massive Planetary Engine, and its defenses fired missiles at their fighter.
• Zhang Tianyuan opened a Spacetime Tunnel to escape the missiles, while BJ Dungeon No. 3’s commander ordered five fighters to take off and search for the aircraft.

Zhang Tianyuan and his fighter entered the Wandering Spacetime and were intercepted by Zheng Yingyi’s squadron above the Planetary Engine. Their attempt to communicate failed after Zheng Yingyi mistook the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society for a hostile cult, and Zhang Tianyuan returned to the “2012” spacetime, leaving the pilots stunned.

• Zheng Yingyi and four other pilots searched for the unidentified fighter above the Planetary Engine, and it suddenly appeared behind Zheng Yingyi’s aircraft.
• Zheng Yingyi recognized the familiar military flag on the fighter and ordered its pilot to identify himself and land.
• Zhang Tianyuan identified himself as a member of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and asked about the year and recent events in their spacetime.
• Zheng Yingyi associated the Mutual Aid Society with extremist groups and ordered Zhang Tianyuan to land or face attack.
• Zhang Tianyuan offered his respects and said he would return to communicate, then took the fighter back to the “2012” spacetime.
• Zheng Yingyi and the ground crew reported that the unidentified aircraft had vanished from sight and radar.

Zhang Tianyuan returned from Wandering Spacetime without establishing contact and told Elder Zhou that No. 3 Spacetime faced a rapidly expanding sun. In The Wandering Earth, Zheng Yingyi was suspended for mistaking Zhang Tianyuan’s message for cult propaganda, while Ke Jinjun postponed suppressing protests in Berlin Underground City No. 5.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Elder Zhou that he would return to Wandering Spacetime in a day or two and described its rapidly expanding sun as a threat requiring worldwide migration.
• Elder Zhou worried that Zhang Tianyuan had risked his life, but Zhang Tianyuan changed the subject and kept the training camp plans to himself.
• Zheng Yingyi explained his actions to the Earth Security Force Military Department and admitted he had acted impulsively without understanding Zhang Tianyuan’s message.
• Ke Jinjun suspended Zheng Yingyi for one year pending review, then replayed the recording and footage of the fighter disappearing.
• Ke Jinjun hesitated when asked whether to suppress protests at Berlin Underground City No. 5 and decided to wait a few more days.

Instructor Yin and his delegation traveled to Wandering Spacetime to assess the United Government’s attitude toward the Mutual Aid Society. They met with Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi, who learned that the Society could connect parallel spacetimes and had already helped another world.

• Zhang Tianyuan sent Instructor Yin and a delegation through a targeted Spacetime Tunnel to make initial contact with Wandering Spacetime.
• Instructor Yin’s plane arrived over the frozen world, where BJ No. 3 Dungeon scrambled fighters to identify and escort it.
• United Government reception staff met the delegation and guided them into the Planetary Engine’s accompanying dungeon.
• Instructor Yin met Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi and explained how the Mutual Aid Society and its Spacetime Tunnels worked.
• Sun Deyi was shaken to learn that the Society had already connected two spacetimes and helped them rebuild and avoid disaster.

Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi learned that the Mutual Aid Society could evacuate people through Spacetime Tunnels, making Ke question the terrible sacrifices made for The Wandering Earth Project. They traveled to No. 1 Spacetime to ask Zhang Tianyuan whether their entire population could relocate, and he said their situation was special.

• Yin Hongda told Sun Deyi that the Mutual Aid Society had over two billion members and eight Spacetime Tunnels, leaving Ke Jinjun to wonder whether his world's sacrifices had been necessary.
• Ke Jinjun asked whether everyone in his spacetime could relocate, and Yin Hongda contacted Zhang Tianyuan for an answer.
• Zhang Tianyuan invited Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi to No. 1 Spacetime, and both signed forms to join the Mutual Aid Society before entering the Spacetime Tunnel.
• Ke Jinjun and Sun Deyi arrived in No. 1 Spacetime, met Zhang Tianyuan, and asked about relocating their entire population.
• Zhang Tianyuan said their situation was special after Sun Deyi explained why they had pursued The Wandering Earth Project.

Zhang Tianyuan explained why the Mutual Aid Society could not permanently relocate all of Wandering Spacetime’s people to No. 2 Spacetime, though he offered to pass along a request for negotiations. Sun Deyi shared a chronicle of Wandering Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan considered the coming Jupiter Crisis.

• Zhang Tianyuan told Ke Jinjun that Wandering Spacetime’s people would likely be unable to return after migrating to No. 2 Spacetime.
• Sun Deyi explained that settling billions of people in No. 2 Spacetime would eventually lead to them expanding and taking its land and resources.
• Zhang Tianyuan said the Mutual Aid Society would not sacrifice one spacetime’s interests for another, but Wandering Spacetime could negotiate a merger with No. 2 Spacetime after its rescue work was further along.
• Sun Deyi warned that Wandering Spacetime’s planetary-engine plans would bring disasters that could kill at least a billion people, and Zhang Tianyuan promised the Mutual Aid Society would help but could not yet relocate everyone.
• Sun Deyi brought Zhang Tianyuan a chronicle of Wandering Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan recalled that the Jupiter Crisis was expected in 2075.

Sun Deyi returned to Wandering Spacetime to report the Mutual Aid Society’s offer, while Ke Jinjun struggled with guilt over the sacrifices made for The Wandering Earth. Zhang Tianyuan told Tong Wenshi about No. 3 Spacetime’s impending disasters and considered sending its refugees to the Lord Game world rather than relocating everyone to Legend Spacetime.

• Sun Deyi returned to Wandering Spacetime and prepared to inform Earth’s countries about the Mutual Aid Society and its possible help relocating people affected by disasters.
• Ke Jinjun questioned whether the deaths and sacrifices had been necessary, wrote that his crimes were unforgivable, and hid a loaded handgun in his desk drawer.
• Zhang Tianyuan told Tong Wenshi that No. 3 Spacetime was carrying out The Wandering Earth plan and might lose one or two billion people to disasters.
• Tong Wenshi agreed that Legend Spacetime could take in some refugees, especially the elderly, weak, women, and children.
• Zhang Tianyuan considered sending Wandering Spacetime’s people to the Lord Game world to avoid an influx that could threaten Legend Spacetime.

Zheng Yingyi left BJ Dungeon No. 3 to train as a Navigator astronaut, where he met Liu Peiqiang and learned about his painful family choices. Meanwhile, officials from other countries arrived at BJ Dungeon No. 3 to make their first contact with a parallel spacetime.

• A political affairs officer offered Zheng Yingyi a transfer to Navigator Program astronaut training, and Zheng signed the notice after seeing Ke Jinjun’s name on it.
• Zheng Yingyi traveled to BJ Dungeon No. 1, passed his initial tests, and met his roommate, first-group astronaut Liu Peiqiang.
• Zheng Yingyi and Liu Peiqiang shared their family losses and hardships, including Liu’s dilemma over which two relatives could enter the dungeon.
• Zheng Yingyi told Liu Peiqiang that things might soon improve, recalling what he had heard about the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society.
• After the United Government informed national authorities about the society, representatives from several countries arrived at BJ Dungeon No. 3 to begin contact with a parallel spacetime.