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[Candle in the Tomb]
[Episode 12]
The desert is vast and without boundaries.
If it weren't for these long trails of footprints
we wouldn't be able to tell that we're going forward.
I really admire the explorers who entered the desert on their own.
Only by traveling between the heaven and earth on your own
do you understand the significance of life more.
You can also go become an explorer and travel all over the world.
I won't do that in this lifetime.
I'm more suited for group activities.
Sister Yang. Sister Yang, I want to ask you a question.
What is a desert marching ant?
I had never seen one with my own eyes before.
I saw them in science textbooks.
But I had seen villages that they've ransacked.
All the people and livestock were gnawed to their bones.
It was a tragic sight.
These ants are called marching ants
because they're very organized and disciplined.
Even the most trained troops would pale in comparison.
No wonder their fighting strength is so astonishing.
Their mouths also contain formic acid.
If thousands of them gnaw at something together
even an elephant couldn't withstand it.
Oh, thank you Sister Yang. I don't have any other questions.
I think I was bitten.
Am I going to corrode from the acid?
One bite is okay.
Then I want to ask you something.
How did you know the gas would be effective against the ants?
I didn't know.
You didn't know?
I just know that ants are afraid of chili powder
and that tear gas has elements of pepper and chili powder.
Without any better options, I had to give it a try.
Did you think about what would happen if it didn't work?
I also had fireworks.
Okay.
Thank you for saving me, Superwoman.
Don't mention it, Sir Hu.
What are you looking at?
Don't you think you've changed a lot lately?
You didn't like smiling before.
That's because you didn't know me.
That's true.
I can see it! I can see it!
Those are the city ruins!
An ancient city is buried under that sand.
- Do you see it? - We found it.
- It's over there! - It's over there!
- Do you see it? - We do! We do!
Hu, it's over there!
Let's hurry and go.
Even though it looks close, it'll take a long time to get there.
Everyone, follow me.
It's dawn up ahead. Hurry!
Professor, are you okay?
I'm fine. We're almost there.
Old Gentleman, what is it? Is there a problem?
You're not hiding anything from us, are you?
It's different from the past.
It's changed so much.
What do you mean?
I can't be certain if there's still water there.
It's been many years.
No one has mentioned it all these years.
Which means that when we get there, we might not find water.
The place that the white camel brought me to
had water more than 20 years ago.
May God bless us.
Chu Jian, I still have some water.
I'm fine. I can hold on without it.
When will we get there?
This is the place that helped me survive many years ago.
Old Gentleman, where is there water?
There's a well inside.
Hu, where's the water?
He said there's a well inside.
Professor, how are you doing?
Look at that old man. There he goes again.
Just let him pray.
If the well inside has dried up this might be the last place we'll see.
What do you mean?
Everyone, let's all rest here.
Fatso and I will go inside and take a look.
I will go with you.
Be careful.
Let's go.
Chu Jian, Sa Di Peng, go and take a look.
Okay.
- We're screwed. - What happened?
Wang, what happened?
Hurry and tell us.
Hurry and tell us, Wang.
Hu! What happened?
Fatso, stop messing around.
Tell us! What happened?
There's water inside.
There's water.
You scared me to death.
Then why did you open fire?
This is great.
There was a rabbit inside, and it scared him.
Nonsense! I wanted to get some food for everyone.
- Did you get it? - Get what?
When he first saw the rabbit, he ducked.
It's already pretty good that he didn't shoot us.
Hu, who publicly mocks others like this?
Don't waste bullets in the future.
All right, everyone should go get water.
Let's go. Let's go.
God has blessed us.
- Professor. - We're blessed.
Everything's okay now. We have water.
Old Gentleman, thank you.
- Thank you, Old Buddy. - Thank you.
We're friends. This is God's grace.
Let's go.
Old Gentleman.
You were worried about your camels, weren't you?
If there really wasn't water inside... your poor camels.
Comrade Hu.
God would like you. He would.
Of course, if God didn't like one of us
we'd all be done for.
God has blessed all of us.
Old Gentleman, thank you so much for today.
We're buddies now. We're connected to the core.
Friends. We're friends.
Here.
All right.
How's it going? Is it full?
Almost.
Brother Hu said to stop.
We can just fill everything before we leave tomorrow.
- Okay, this will be the last one. - Okay.
Forget it. I've never seen it before.
Come and see. The American is making some foreign food.
These are vegetables?
Yes, that's right.
How convenient.
They can be preserved for a long time and they're easy to transport.
Great, great, great.
Young lady, these is the vegetables we'll be eating?
Yes. These vegetables have had their moisture drained.
But their nutrients and color are preserved.
It's great for working outside the cities.
Old Buddy, these would be great for you.
When you go to the desert with these
you won't have to just eat dry and cold foods.
Are these expensive?
The technology to make these vegetables
was created by NASA so that astronauts could still have vegetables
in space to get their vitamins.
So it's relatively expensive.
What were you talking about? I didn't understand.
You said something about America?
Old Gentleman, what she means is that this is expensive.
Got it.
Ms. Yang hid them quite well.
She didn't take them out at all these past few days.
By taking them out during tough times like this
it more accurately reflects its worth.
That's right, Sister Yang.
It's so amazing to be able to drink vegetable soup in such a desolate place.
I haven't added seasoning yet.
After I add some, it'll smell, look, and taste great.
For me, I still think Manchuria is best.
There are a ton of delicious wild animals in the woods and mountains.
There's only sand here.
If you kill a gazelle to eat, you'd still be eating a ton of sand.
When we were in Inner Mongolia, wasn't there a saying?
"You can just beat a deer with a club and scoop up fish with a ladle."
Pheasants would just fly into your bowl.
It's already good enough that we have food.
Who would've thought that we were unsure about life or death just a while ago?
Now we can even have soup.
Brother Wang, what do you mean by beating a deer with a club?
You beat it with a rod?
Four Eyes, you're quite studious.
Okay, I'll tell you.
When you go into the woods you just take a club and it swing around
and you'll be able to kill a deer.
By a river, just take a ladle and randomly scoop
and you'll be able to scoop up a huge fish.
It's a saying that means the natural resources there are plentiful.
I get it, I get it.
Comrade Wang, there are good things about the western regions too.
The western region is like a maze that you can never finish exploring.
This is a treasure of the world, a source of culture.
I hate hearing that.
What? There's no culture in Manchuria?
You think it's all forest?
There are treasures underground!
A while ago, the two of us--
Miss Yang, when will the soup be ready?
This is too dry. It's too easy to choke on.
You have to wait a bit longer.
Brother Wang, what happened a while ago?
Continue the story!
A while ago, the two of us went back to our hometown.
How did you know there were treasures underground when you went back home?
Yeah... visiting our hometown is such a treasure.
Hu.
When we went home
Old Secretary told us there was a national archaeology team
that went to Niuxin Mountain for research, right?
Yes, yes. That's absolutely right.
You're talking about the tomb of Empress Dowager Xiao
in Niuxin Mountain, right?
They said something about a tomb, right?
Yes, it seemed like it was very big.
Recently, there were news reports that
a tomb of a general from the Liao and Jin dynasties
and a Japanese military stronghold were found near Niuxin Mountain.
- Yes, yes. - Did you know about that?
Was there? I didn't know.
- I don't think I heard about that. - I didn't know.
But when the tomb was being excavated
the tomb of Empress Dowager Xiao was being excavated too.
If you knew about Empress Dowager Xiao's tomb
you must know about...
Wait, something's not right.
Before the general's tomb was discovered you must have been to Niuxin Mountain.
How could you--
Four Eyes, what are you doing?
Are you a student of archaeology or criminal investigation?
I... archaeology.
The delicious soup is ready.
It smells so good.
- I'm drooling. - It looks great.
Let's stop investigating.
Let's hurry and drink some soup.
- Fatso. - Yes?
Come pee with me.
We'll pee so we can drink more soup.
Okay, okay. You're so civilized.
Four Eyes, if there's anything you don't understand, ask Sister Yang.
She knows everything.
Sister Yang, let me scoop the soup.
Look at your big mouth.
You almost spilled the beans about the general's tomb!
I can't stand seeing that foreigner show off every day.
What is she showing off?
You should thank her.
If she didn't change the subject to the soup being ready
how would you have gotten off the hook?
I have to thank her?
I have to thank her because you're on good terms with her and she calls you Hu?
There's something wrong with your position in this.
It's a serious problem.
I think Shirley Yang is starting to suspect us.
Everyone, have some to get your vitamins.
Suspect us?
Suspect what? I suspect her.
At worst, we're just tomb raiders of Mojin.
But what is she doing? I still have many questions.
I'm telling you that American's motives aren't pure.
She told you she takes pictures.
Takes pictures? She's a photographer.
Fine, a photographer.
She knew about the beetles of fire and the desert marching ants.
Don't you think she knows too much?
She's not just a photographer. She's also a journalist.
Photojournalists travel a lot so they're very experienced and knowledgeable.
Then why is her marksmanship so good?
She's a woman but she's better with a gun than I am.
How do you explain that?
Your marksmanship is pretty good too.
In America, it's legal to possess firearms.
Since she travels all the time
she practices her shooting to protect herself.
That's very reasonable.
There is definitely something wrong with you now.
Has that beautiful woman cast a spell on you?
Do you think she's beautiful?
Yes.
There you go.
What nonsense!
Can you follow me--
Be quieter.
Can you follow my train of thought?
There's something I'm sure you've noticed.
What is it?
At the glacier of Karakoram she said she was looking for her father.
But did she look for her father after going down the glacier?
She didn't at all.
All she thought about was that notebook.
She didn't look into all the corpses.
When you two were talking
she talked about how she was sorry to her father
and how she understood him now.
It's all just talk.
Did she do anything about it?
Is that how a daughter's attitude toward her father should be?
Don't tell me you've never thought about this.
So you were eavesdropping.
Of course I thought about it.
After observing her for a while
I trust that she doesn't have bad intentions.
I don't know if she has bad intentions.
But I don't think she's telling us the truth.
I'm even suspicious of whether her father is really dead.
I suspect she might be an American spy.
On the surface, she's funding an archaeology team.
But she's actually in our country to mess with our cultural relics.
American spy? How outrageous.
I admit that she hasn't told us the complete truth
but she's not obligated to.
I'm sure she has her reasons.
She's not trying to harm us.
Hu! How did she bewitch you?
Fatso, she saved my life.
I don't believe she's the bad person you're making her out to be.
What kind of friend are you?
I've saved your life too! Why won't you believe me?
Fine. Let's say I believe you and she really is a spy. Then what?
Fine. Forget what I just said.
All I'm saying is
there better not be some special moths or something when she's around.
- Relax, relax. - Don't give me that.
I'll tell you and only you, Hu Ba Yi. It's only because of you.
If it were anyone else
I would've snapped her head off and kicked it around like a ball.
Don't.
If you snapped off her head
who would pay us when we get out of here? Isn't that right?
That's true.
Then I won't kill her just yet.
Let her off.
Let's go back. The soup will be cold if we don't go back now.
Wait.
Fatso, something's off.
What?
Look at the arrangement of the stars.
I've seen this positioning before in the Sixteen-word Feng Shui Manual.
This is definitely not an ordinary place.
It's a rare, treasured land.
We have work?
Let's go.
What have you two been doing? The soup is all cold now.
- Excuse me. - That's not important.
Professor Chen, I have some horse milk wine here.
I'll take it out for you to try.
Hu, what have you found?
I can't be sure yet.
Do you see anything?
Professor.
Professor Chen.
There should be a tomb here.
Where?
There's a large front star with left and right complementary stars.
All three stars are sparkling and form a triangle.
In the middle, the sun star and moon star both appear.
They all form a group of fortune stars.
Say something we can all understand.
And the center corresponds to...
It's that well.
That well?
Hu, are you sure there's a tomb inside the well?
According to Celestial Star Feng Shui, there should be one.
Listen.
It's the sound of flowing water.
There should be a subterranean river down there.
If there's so much water down there, there shouldn't be a tomb.
The tomb should be in a dry--
I don't know. I'm just randomly saying stuff.
That might not be so.
There's not a lot of research done on the ancient western region civilizations.
Besides, the western regions are different from the central plains.
There are many possibilities.
Did you hear that, Fatso?
It's not impossible.
Chu Jian, go make preparations.
I'll go down to take a look.
- Let's go. - Let's go.
This is outside our expertise.
Hu, I'll go down with you.
No, it's okay. I'll go down first to take a look.
If I need anything, I'll let you know.
With so many men here, how could Hu make a woman go down there?
That would break his heart.
- Comrade Hu. - Yes?
You're going down the well to look for a tomb?
Yes. Professor Chen.
Although I can't confirm what I'll find we might get some surprise findings.
Yes, yes. Hu, having you join us was the right choice.
Wait, wait.
If you go down and find a tomb, what will you do?
If I find one, I'll go inside and take a look.
And after you take a look?
We'll take the things that are valuable for research.
I don't understand what you're saying.
Let's put it this way. If you find treasures, you'll start digging.
Is that what you mean?
You can put it that way.
Wait, wait. I'm not done.
You're here to raid a tomb?
Old Buddy, we're doing archaeology research.
We're specialists in western region civilization research.
Our other mission of this trip is to find an ancient tomb.
I don't understand archaeology research.
In the end, will you take anything?
Didn't I say that we were going to dig out things that were valuable?
We can't just let them stay underground.
- Yes. - Isn't that raiding the tomb?
Old Gentleman, they are from Archaeology Research Institute.
Didn't I show you their bios?
Is that a state-run tomb raiding institute?
What are you laughing at?
So this is what you've been doing all day.
If I had known you were like this...
I wouldn't have come no matter how much you paid me. You cannot go down there.
- I don't agree with it. - Old Gentleman, we already told you.
They're... why can't I explain it so that you understand?
Listen to me. I'll explain it to you slowly.
We explore tombs so that we can protect them better.
That's right.
That's the only way we can preserve
the treasures of western region civilizations for the people.
In history, it was common to raid tombs in Xinjiang.
Foreigners came here to raid them.
After the communist party's victory
we still couldn't put an end to this completely.
If the government doesn't step in now
these treasures would end up in the wrong hands, don't you think?
Old Buddy, we're going to
protect the treasures and do research not destroy and steal them.
There's a difference in the nature of the two.
We wouldn't do anything to disappoint our ancestors.
Don't worry.
I don't understand what you guys are saying.
All these years, I've met a lot of bad people.
Old Gentleman, I don't like how you're saying that.
Didn't you say today that we're all good people?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Aren't you?
Hu, come here.
Old Buddy, come here.
Was what you said just now the truth?
What is it?
Do you have the black donkey's hoof and Mojin amulet?
I was wondering why you ran over here.
Of course I have to. I can't let you bother with the trivial stuff.
I've put together all the things you might need.
Nice!
If everything's packed, let's go.
Okay!
Xiao Chu, this isn't that deep.
You should be able to feel it when I get to the bottom.
- Okay. - So talkative.
We're all here. Don't worry.
All right.
Okay.
Here.
Take the gun just in case.
Take it. Don't make Miss Yang worry.
Shut up.
Thank you.
Comrades, wait for my good news.
Come on.
Give me your hand.
Be careful.
Release a bit.
Release.
- Release more. - Be careful.
Slowly.
Xiao Chu, release slowly.
Hu, are you okay?
Hu, give us a sign!
- Are you okay? - I'm fine, Fatso.
Brother Hu says he's fine.
Hu, are you okay?
I'm fine.
Slowly, slowly.
- We can't release too quickly. - Keep releasing.
- Keep releasing. Keep releasing. - Slow down.
Stop! Who exactly are we listening to?
- Slow down. - We'll listen to Miss Yang. Slow down.
Release.
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