Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tianyuan brought delegations from the "2012" and Legend World spacetimes to meet Wandering Spacetime’s leaders, who learned how dire the crisis was there. The Mutual Aid Society offered to accept vulnerable people, and Elder Zhou promised a major food shipment.

• Zhang Tianyuan, Elder Zhou, and Tong Wenshi arrived through the Spacetime Tunnel with the two delegations and met Sun Deyi and the other leaders.
• Scientists and officials described The Wandering Earth Project and reported that billions still lived outside the underground cities, while only 280 million places remained in the final batch.
• The "2012" and Legend World delegations explained their circumstances, and Sun Deyi’s group learned that No. 2 Spacetime was already strained by migrants from No. 1 Spacetime.
• Tong Wenshi offered to take in Wandering Spacetime’s elderly, weak, sick, and disabled unconditionally.
• Elder Zhou promised to provide enough grain to feed six billion people for a year.

Sun Deyi explained how the Braking Era had devastated agriculture in Wandering Spacetime, and Zhang Tianyuan confirmed that the promised aid would arrive while rejecting a merger with No. 2 Spacetime. He offered No. 0 Spacetime as a possible destination but warned of its powerful creator, and Sun Deyi’s group decided to continue The Wandering Earth Project while exploring their options.

• Sun Deyi described how the slowing Earth and extreme weather had crippled agriculture, leaving underground farms unable to feed Wandering Spacetime’s residents adequately.
• Zhang Tianyuan assured Sun Deyi that the aid from No. 1 and No. 2 Spacetimes would be delivered, then said a spacetime merger was inappropriate.
• Zhang Tianyuan proposed that the people of Wandering Spacetime could consider No. 0 Spacetime, while warning that its unknown supercivilization imposed strict rules and might react to major actions.
• Sun Deyi and the other nine representatives held a private discussion and chose to continue The Wandering Earth Project, relocate people unsuited for frontline work to No. 2 Spacetime, and help explore No. 0 Spacetime.

Sun Deyi finalized a three-front plan with the Mutual Aid Society and received help for Wandering Spacetime, while insisting that The Wandering Earth Project continue until evacuation was certain. Liu Peiqiang called home from training and learned that Duoduo remained bedridden while the child was lively.

• Sun Deyi gave Elder Zhou and Tong Wenshi access to the United Government’s Level 1 technology database and arranged to transfer youth education, elder care, and medical services to No. 2 Spacetime.
• Sun Deyi presented Zhang Tianyuan with backups of the planetary engine and steering engine data, and Zhang reassured him that Wandering Spacetime still had chances of survival.
• Sun Deyi told national governments that No. 2 Spacetime would take in vulnerable people, No. 1 Spacetime would provide food for six billion people for a year, and the Mutual Aid Society would help explore a possible refuge.
• Sun Deyi warned governments that evacuation remained uncertain and ordered The Wandering Earth Project to continue with its original objective.
• Liu Peiqiang called Han Zi'ang from the Navigator Program training camp and asked about Duoduo and the child; Han said Duoduo still lay in bed, while the child was energetic.

Ke Jinjun was removed from his post after Sun Deyi exposed his past abuses, while preparations continued for a global refugee evacuation. As rescue teams brought survivors into underground cities, Sun Deyi began a worldwide address to reveal what was happening.

• After the conference, Ke Jinjun found his pistol missing and watched special operations soldiers break into his office.
• Sun Deyi read out the findings against Ke Jinjun and announced that he had been removed from his post.
• At the next meeting, Sun Deyi said Ke Jinjun had been transferred, and the group continued planning the operation, including vaccinations and refugee transport.
• Over the following week, Sun Deyi finalized plans with other governments and arranged a sudden global address.
• Rescue teams brought refugees from the surface into overcrowded underground cities, where scarce food reserves were opened and dried earthworms distributed.
• Sun Deyi appeared on televisions and radios around the world to begin the global address.

The United Government announced that it had contacted the Mutual Aid Society, an organization able to cross space-time, and would cooperate with it to relocate vulnerable people. The announcement left people across Earth stunned and uncertain, while Liu Peiqiang hoped his family would qualify for the relocation.

• The United Government halted nonessential work around the world so people could listen to Sun Deyi’s address.
• Sun Deyi announced that humanity had contacted the Mutual Aid Society and that the Wandering Earth Project would continue alongside a plan to relocate vulnerable groups.
• At the astronaut training camp, Zheng Yingyi told Liu Peiqiang that the Mutual Aid Society was real and that he had met its members.
• Sun Deyi voided the previous underground-city residency lottery and outlined relocation criteria for the elderly, children, seriously ill people, and people with disabilities.
• Liu Peiqiang realized that his unconscious wife, his father-in-law, and his young son met the criteria, and repeatedly asked Zheng Yingyi whether the announcement was true.
• Underground city governments issued formal announcements confirming that the relocation plan appeared to be real.

Liu Peiqiang confirmed to Han Zi'ang that the transfer to a parallel spacetime was real and that their family could go in the first group. The United Government then mobilized people across Wandering Spacetime to join the Mutual Aid Society, while Zhang Tianyuan coordinated vaccine and food aid.

• Liu Peiqiang called Han Zi'ang and confirmed that astronauts' families and people who were elderly, young, sick, or disabled could transfer to a parallel spacetime in the first group.
• Han Zi'ang signed applications for himself, Liu Qi, and Han Duoduo, then took his family to Dungeon No. 3 to wait for their transfer.
• The United Government organized a worldwide drive to distribute Mutual Aid Society applications, and 3.6 billion people had joined within a week.
• Elder Zhou and the others distributed 600 million KV Vaccine doses in five days.
• Zhang Tianyuan and Bai Xu used portals and the spacetime warehouse to deliver emergency food to residents of underground cities.

After Zhang Tianyuan finished establishing evacuation routes for 9,200 underground cities, the first group of vaccinated residents began migrating from Wandering Spacetime to Legend Spacetime. Han Zi'ang, Han Duoduo, and Liu Qi departed through a Spacetime Tunnel, while Instructor Yin received the arrivals and questioned Han Zi'ang about his age.

• Zhang Tianyuan spent a month setting up Spacetime Tunnel evacuation points for all 9,200 underground cities.
• Sun Deyi told Zhang Tianyuan that Wandering Spacetime had agreed to exchange researchers with No. 1 Spacetime and conduct joint KV Virus research with the other spacetimes.
• Liu Peiqiang visited Han Zi'ang, Han Duoduo, and Liu Qi in their ambulance to say goodbye before their migration began.
• The migration convoy passed through a Spacetime Tunnel toward No. 2 Spacetime as Zhang Tianyuan and Sun Deyi returned Liu Peiqiang's salute.
• Instructor Yin verified the arriving migrants at Legend Spacetime's southern base and was startled when Han Zi'ang said he was fifty-eight and born in 1999.

Zhang Tianyuan assembled an elite team and appointed Ke Jinjun to lead an expedition into No. 0 Spacetime. After Ke Jinjun familiarized himself with the team and its equipment, Zhang Tianyuan prepared to take them there.

• Sun Deyi showed Zhang Tianyuan the one-hundred-member Earth Security Force team and its air force surveyor, and Zhang Tianyuan asked for a commander because he would not stay in No. 0 Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan told the soldiers that refugees from other spacetimes were preparing to migrate, while construction teams built housing in Legend Spacetime.
• Sun Deyi brought Ke Jinjun to lead the expedition, and Ke Jinjun accepted the post despite having recently retired.
• Ke Jinjun found Zheng Yingyi on the roster and learned he had been reassigned as an air force surveyor after failing an emotional management assessment.
• Zhang Tianyuan recognized Wang Lei among the soldiers and noted that he was twenty-six and had recently married.
• Ke Jinjun completed roll call and checked the team's equipment, and Zhang Tianyuan said he would take them to No. 0 Spacetime.

Zhang Tianyuan brought Ke Jinjun and soldiers from several spacetimes to No. 0 Spacetime, where he explained that its world was a lord-management game created by a super-civilization. He rejected wiping out the other players and instead argued that the Mutual Aid Society should save and unite them, while avoiding actions that might alert the super-civilization.

• Zhang Tianyuan brought a hundred elite soldiers and Ke Jinjun to a deserted island in No. 0 Spacetime, where they marveled at the sea and sun.
• Zhang Tianyuan met Instructor Yin, who had brought soldiers from 2012 Spacetime and arranged to transfer a warship to the island.
• Zhang Tianyuan reminded Ke Jinjun that No. 1 Spacetime would handle the sea while No. 3 Spacetime handled the ground and sky.
• Zhang Tianyuan explained that a super-civilization had created No. 0 Spacetime as a lord-management game and that the Mutual Aid Society was one of its players.
• Ke Jinjun asked whether they should eliminate the other players, but Zhang Tianyuan said they should save and unite them unless they had committed grave wrongs.
• Zhang Tianyuan added that destroying many players might alert the super-civilization and that he had little to gain from taking their resources.

Zhang Tianyuan sent a fleet to explore the game world while disguising the Mutual Aid Society’s conspicuous island base. Liu Huo of the Yanhuang Alliance arrived and revealed that his alliance had used the search for the mysterious server overlord as cover to destroy Shenluo, leaving Zhang to realize they had been looking for him.

• Zhang Tianyuan agreed with Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun that the other players posed little threat and discussed offering them a way to return to modern life.
• Instructor Yin suggested camouflaging the level-five base, so Zhang Tianyuan brought over supplies and frogmen while soldiers disguised it as a tropical wooden cabin.
• After the frogmen confirmed the seabed was clear, Zhang Tianyuan transferred in a fleet, and Ke Jinjun departed with it, leaving ten soldiers to guard the island.
• A player ship approached the island, and Zhang Tianyuan went ashore to meet Liu Huo of the Yanhuang Alliance.
• Liu Huo told Zhang Tianyuan that the Yanhuang Alliance had destroyed Shenluo while using the search for the mysterious server overlord as a pretext to mobilize its fleet.
• Zhang Tianyuan realized that the mysterious overlord Liu Huo had been seeking was himself.

Zhang Tianyuan learned from Liu Huo about the Lord Game’s deadly bugs and the likely absence of its super-civilization, while hiding his true strength. After Liu Huo left the island, he spotted a modern fleet at sea and was stunned by its presence in the game.

• Liu Huo explained that his alliance had killed a level-four monster with over four thousand people and that clone soldiers were disposable, low-intelligence fakes.
• Liu Huo told Zhang Tianyuan that two servers had merged after a bug caused monsters to spawn abnormally, and listed other deadly game bugs that players suffered from.
• Zhang Tianyuan concluded that the super-civilization had likely left the game under automated control, and Liu Huo offered to let him remain on the island rather than join the alliance.
• Liu Huo departed to inspect Shenluo’s territory, then saw a fleet of modern warships and realized it was not an ordinary group of ironclads.

Liu Huo met a fleet from the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society and learned that its members had come from parallel worlds to rescue people trapped in the Lord Game. He agreed that he could join them while remaining in the game world, subject to their rules, and Instructor Yin asked where his alliance's headquarters was.

• Liu Huo spotted the approaching fleet, recognized its flag, and ordered his clone soldiers to lower their weapons.
• Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun brought Liu Huo aboard and explained that they were members of the Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society, not agents sent by his country or players in the game.
• Instructor Yin described the Society's mission to save apocalyptic spacetimes and explained that he and Ke Jinjun came from different parallel worlds.
• Instructor Yin offered to take Liu Huo and the other trapped players to safety, while warning that those who stayed must not interfere with the Society's mission.
• Liu Huo asked whether he could join the Society and remain in the game world, and Instructor Yin agreed under certain conditions.
• After giving Liu Huo a can of soda, Instructor Yin learned that he belonged to an alliance and asked where its headquarters was.

Zhang Tianyuan used the Mutual Aid Society to offer players a way back to modern life while pushing evacuation efforts forward in the "2012" spacetime. The chapter ended as a fleet of white-painted warships appeared off the Tokugawa Shogunate's shore.

• Liu Huo showed Instructor Yin and Ke Jinjun a map of the Yanhuang Alliance's territory, and Instructor Yin planned to visit the Tokugawa Shogunate and inform other factions about the Mutual Aid Society.
• Liu Huo weighed whether to leave the game or keep playing, while Zhang Tianyuan revealed that he had arranged the fleet's encounter with Liu Huo.
• Zhang Tianyuan returned to the "2012" spacetime, urged Thomas and Elder Zhou to speed up vaccinations and applications, and added a radiation-plagued island as a relocation site.
• Foreign refugee evacuations began, with the first groups traveling through the Spacetime Tunnel aboard converted passenger liners.
• Kenta and the other Tokugawa lords spotted a fast-moving fleet of white-painted steel warships approaching their shore.

He Pan and her family relocated to Legend Spacetime, where soldiers warned them about remaining Darkseekers and residents from No. 3 Spacetime reassured them about life in the camp. At the residential complex, Xiaoya met Liu Qi, and Han Zi'ang jokingly told her to call him big brother.

• He Pan, Xiaoya, and Instructor Yin's mother traveled through the Spacetime Tunnel with the convoy bound for Tong Wenshi's base.
• Soldiers checked the family's identities, assigned them an apartment, and warned them to avoid sealed rooms, suspicious dark areas, and sewer manhole covers because Darkseekers might remain.
• He Pan saw families from No. 3 Spacetime living in the complex and decided to stay after learning that they had been relocated there earlier.
• He Pan asked Han Zi'ang about the Darkseekers, and he said he had not seen any since arriving and praised Legend Spacetime as a paradise.
• Xiaoya called Liu Qi her little brother, and Han Zi'ang teased her by saying she should call him big brother because he was born in 1999.

Zhang Tianyuan oversaw the evacuation of an underground city threatened by magma, then discovered the newly opened Pacific Rim Spacetime. After considering how to address Wandering Spacetime’s supply shortage, he realized Pacific Rim required a different approach from the first three spacetimes.

• Zhang Tianyuan coordinated the evacuation as residents fled through ten Spacetime Tunnels and firefighters reported that lower tunnels were being flooded by magma.
• The tunnels were closed after the final firefighter confirmed no one remained, and the evacuation count showed that more than 480,000 people had been transferred.
• Zhang Tianyuan agreed to help Sun Deyi arrange the residents’ return and said he would seek supplies for Wandering Spacetime.
• Zhang Tianyuan found Pacific Rim listed as a new world and recalled its monster attacks and plans to destroy the wormhole.
• After passing Sun Deyi’s request for plantations and factories to Tong Wenshi, Zhang Tianyuan concluded that Pacific Rim’s intact society meant he could not use his previous approach there.

Zhang Tianyuan arrived in Hong Kong in the Pacific Ocean Rim world and questioned men at Hannibal Chau's pharmacy about the latest monster attack. He learned that Scunner had appeared and was heading toward Crimson Typhoon, leaving the Wei Brothers facing an unexpected encounter.

• Zhang Tianyuan and his companions entered a Hong Kong slum and identified the world as Pacific Ocean Rim.
• Zhang Tianyuan found Hannibal Chau's pharmacy and had his soldiers subdue the men inside.
• Zhang Tianyuan learned that the date was August 13, 2024, and that the new monster Scunner had emerged from the wormhole half an hour earlier.
• The man in sunglasses said Crimson Typhoon had deployed from Hong Kong to intercept Scunner near Taipei 101.
• Tendo reported that Scunner had abruptly changed course southwest and was charging toward Crimson Typhoon.

Zhang Tianyuan captured Hannibal Zhou and asked him to arrange a meeting with General Pentecost, but a kaiju suddenly changed course toward Hong Kong. As the city evacuated, Zhang Tianyuan headed for the coast while the PPDC prepared to fight the kaiju near land.

• Zhang Tianyuan forced Hannibal Zhou to reveal his hidden kaiju dissection room and asked him to contact General Pentecost about cooperation.
• A citywide alarm sounded when Tendo Choi detected that the kaiju had changed its target to Hong Kong.
• Zhang Tianyuan left Hannibal Zhou behind and drove toward the coast with Mie Juan and the others in a bulletproof command vehicle.
• At the Shatterdome, General Pentecost learned that Crimson Typhoon could not intercept the kaiju before it reached the coast.
• General Pentecost ordered Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka to support the defense of Hong Kong.

A Scunner attacked the coast near PPDC headquarters while Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka were dispatched to support the base. Zhang Tianyuan and his group stayed in its path, but just as Scunner was about to attack them, it vanished, leaving Pentecost and the headquarters staff stunned.

• Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka prepared to support PPDC headquarters as Scunner approached the coast.
• Pentecost learned that the PPDC's dwindling funds made the headquarters vital to its plan to destroy the monsters' wormhole.
• Zhang Tianyuan and his group ignored a helicopter's warning to evacuate the coast.
• The Wei brothers saw Zhang Tianyuan's group ahead of Scunner but could not reach them in time with Crimson Typhoon.
• Scunner reached shore and charged toward Zhang Tianyuan's group, but it suddenly disappeared from the surveillance feed.

After Scunner vanished during Crimson Typhoon’s battle, the PPDC searched for it and discovered it was falling back to Earth from space. Pentecost canceled the other Jaegers’ support mission and went to meet whoever had sent the monster skyward.

• Wei Chang suspected Scunner had turned invisible, but Tendo Choi ruled that out because it had vanished from every instrument and left the people on shore unharmed.
• Pentecost ordered a global emergency and a worldwide search for the missing monster.
• Tendo Choi found satellite reports showing Scunner falling toward Earth, and trajectory calculations predicted it would hit the ocean near Point Nemo.
• Pentecost concluded Scunner would not survive the impact, canceled the other Jaegers’ support missions, and ordered the recovery of its remains.
• The pilots of Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka were told to return to base, while Tendo Choi told Wei Chang that Scunner was falling from the sky.

Zhang Yuantian discussed the monster crisis and the PPDC’s failing Hunter Plan with Pentecost, learning that dwindling funds and international withdrawals had left the organization relying on a nuclear strike. He agreed to meet General Ji Ning and traveled with Pentecost to the Shatterdome.

• Zhang Yuantian sent a monster through a spatial loop so it fell toward the star, then boarded a train with Mie Juan and Zhou.
• Pentecost met Zhang Yuantian and asked about the monster’s disappearance and whether they could cooperate against future invasions.
• Pentecost explained the PPDC’s lack of money, personnel, and mecha, and described its plan to use a nuclear bomb against the wormhole.
• Zhang Yuantian warned that monsters would grow stronger and arrive more frequently, persuading Pentecost that relying on Zhang’s technology to expel them was not a lasting solution.
• Pentecost revealed that countries had withdrawn from the Hunter Plan because they no longer wanted to fund it, and Zhang Yuantian asked to meet General Ji Ning.
• Pentecost invited Zhang Yuantian to the Shatterdome, and they set out as the city resumed its ordinary routines.