

Mei received the recall to join the new Overwatch after Winston reinstated the organization, indirectly awakening her from cryostasis. Equipped with a portable version of her climate-manipulation technology, she travels around the world, hoping to re-establish the eco-network and track down the causes of the threats to the planet's ecosystem. Mei has decided to continue her work on her own. Any clues that they had uncovered were lost. The world Mei awoke to had gone through considerable changes: Overwatch was no more, the serious climate issues had worsened, and none of the eco-Watchpoints were in operation. Mei, still in hibernation, was the only survivor. It was years later when the team's cryogenics chamber was finally discovered. As their supplies dwindled, they entered cryostasis in a last-ditch effort to survive until a rescue attempt could be made.īut that rescue never came. She was assigned to the program's monitoring station at Watchpoint: Antarctica when disaster struck: a sudden, catastrophic polar storm battered the installation and cut it off from the outside world, leaving the facility damaged and the scientists stranded. A peerless climatologist, she had introduced cutting-edge innovations in the field of climate manipulation that protected at-risk areas in Asia and beyond. Mei-Ling Zhou (周美灵 Zhōu Měi-líng) was a member of this multiyear initiative. To find a solution, Overwatch established a series of eco-Watchpoints at remote, critical locations worldwide.ĭr.

Though many blamed the planet's escalating, unexplained climate phenomena on the advent of new technologies, the rapidly growing Omnic population, and drastically increased consumption of resources, the true cause remained unknown.
