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[Candle in the Tomb]
[Episode 13]
Comrades, wait for my good news.
Come on.
Give me your hand.
Be careful.
Release a little.
Release.
- Release more. - Be careful.
Slowly.
Why is it swaying?
He's swaying. Release a bit more.
- Are you sure? - I'm sure.
Release.
Release more.
What's going on down there, Miss Yang?
He's not giving any signs.
Did he reach the bottom?
Slowly.
Here, here.
Slowly.
Hu.
- Did you find anything? - What's down there? Is it deep?
- Yeah. - Did you find anything?
Everyone, stop. Let him speak.
What's the situation down there?
Let's speak outside. Outside.
In short, that's the situation.
It's not dangerous. I didn't come across anything.
So what do you think?
I can't be certain whether that there's a tomb down there.
You couldn't tell?
Then what you told us a moment ago wasn't from the book?
You just made it up?
Are you referring to the Sixteen-word Feng Shui Manual?
Yes.
It's the book that was passed down from our ancestors.
I was talking about the astrology chapter of the manual.
When I was looking at the stars in the sky a moment ago
I discovered that this place is enveloped by an auspicious star.
This means that if there is a waterway, then there must be a tomb.
But even though the tomb should include water
this is too close to the water.
That's why I can't be certain.
Maybe what's there is just a passageway to flee for your life.
Professor Chen, have you studied these kinds of tombs before?
We study western region civilization.
I think that since we've found this place, we should go down and take a look.
It would be good to get started on studying what's there.
Don't you think so, Professor?
I agree with Professor Hao.
If it weren't for An Li Man's guidance
we probably wouldn't have found this place for years.
Since we've found it, why shouldn't we go down and explore it?
- That's right. - Okay.
Then in that case, I suggest we rest for the night.
The travel has been tough on everyone.
Let's get some rest to restore our energy and go down there tomorrow.
Okay. Let's all get some rest.
Brother Hu, Brother Wang.
This is the vegetable soup that Miss Yang made for us.
You guys haven't had any yet.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Drink it while it's hot. - Okay. Thank you, everyone.
- Thank you, Miss Yang. - You're welcome. Hurry and have some.
Hold this rope tightly.
Hold on tight.
Slowly.
I'm going down.
- Watch out. - Slowly.
Be careful.
Old Gentleman, do you want to go down to take a look?
I don't understand this thing.
I'll just go look after my camels.
Chu Jian!
What is it? Are you at the bottom?
Release. Release more.
Hu, come here. Let me tell you something.
In ancient times, people would bring
animals to slaughter as sacrifices for the gods.
And then, they'll take the skin of the sacrificed animal
and put it on top of small cracks in the door
to keep water vapor out.
That way, it helps preserve the things inside.
Form the looks of this, no one has come here for many years.
Slowly, slowly. Look at how stupid you're being.
What would happen to you if we were in a war?
Come on. Give me your hand.
I checked just now. There are no opening mechanisms.
For such a hidden place
if someone could find one, they must have been familiar with the place.
If they weren't, they wouldn't be able to find it.
We just bumped into this.
Fatso, come here quickly.
Coming!
Professor Chen, we'll take down the animal skin first.
Be careful. Don't ruin the animal skin.
Don't worry.
Xiao Ye, spread out the damp cloth.
Okay.
Here, slowly.
Stick it down there.
Take it easy. One, two...
Miss Yang, you should all step back.
Let's all put on gas masks.
Then we'll stand on both sides of the door.
- Okay. - Okay.
Here.
Everyone, let's shine our flashlights from both sides.
One, two.
Hu, don't ghosts blow out candles?
Why are they lighting candles now?
Everyone, don't be scared.
This is something they used to use.
They used white phosphorus.
The combustion point of white phosphorus is extremely low.
And it spontaneously combusts with air.
And then fuel oil lights it up.
This is a very common method.
I wasn't scared.
I just thought it was too cruel.
You weren't scared?
Your voice had changed.
That wasn't because of fear. I was worried about everyone.
Isn't this a tomb?
Why isn't there a coffin?
Are you okay?
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
Professor Chen.
These are probably slaves or prisoners who were buried with the dead.
It looks like this really isn't a tomb.
It's likely a location where they made human sacrifices.
The customs of the kingdoms in the western region are virtually the same.
They tied up criminals up in the desert and left them there to die from thirst.
After the corpses are dried, they bring them in here.
Then they put the blood of the slaughtered animal on the dried corpses.
That's so cruel.
Good thing we grew up in modern society.
The evil ancient societies were barbaric!
Fascists.
It was common in societies with slaves.
Xiao Sa.
- Give me the magnifying glass. - Coming.
Professor, here.
I wandered around.
Besides these dried up skeletons, there's nothing else here.
There aren't even any broken jars or pots.
What are you thinking about?
I'm not.
We're here to help the archaeology team.
I just want to see things so they can learn.
Am I supposed to believe that?
Was your book wrong?
Is there really a tomb here?
I think it's weird too.
According to the book
there has to be a tomb with those auspicious stars from last night.
It's impossible that there's only a hall where they sacrifice to the gods.
The two of us are unlucky.
We always go into a tomb and can't find the coffin.
Could there be some opening mechanism?
What are you two talking about?
Nothing.
I'm sure Hu wasn't wrong.
But why isn't there a coffin in this tomb?
There is definitely a tomb. It's just that it might not be here.
If there really isn't one here, then we'll have to go downstream to see.
Don't give us so soon. Let's keep looking around.
There might be some mechanism we haven't found yet.
Ancient people sure had a lot of time.
They hid this tomb too well such that no one could offer any sacrifices.
When their descendants want to offer sacrifices, they can't even find this.
Wouldn't it have been great if they just put it all out in the open?
Enough. Stop complaining.
Just let me complain. I'm so annoyed.
What's with you?
I'm fine. The ground is uneven.
Comrade Wang, are you all right?
I'm fine. Keep doing what you were doing.
That's great.
Ai Guo.
Look over here.
These models and crafts are very regional.
That's right, Professor. You guys, record this.
Professor Chen.
Let's go.
It looks like a lid.
- It's possible. - Could the tomb be down there?
Let's not jump to conclusions.
Hu, we probably don't have to go downstream.
Hurry and help out.
It's a ring.
We should be able to pull it out.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Come on. The four of us.
One, two, three!
One, two!
Wait, wait, wait!
Okay.
Let's try again.
Come on. Let's try again.
One, two, three!
Be careful.
Turn, turn.
Okay, let go.
Professor, there really is another level. Look!
What could be down there?
I can't see clearly.
Come here. Let's move this over there.
Come on. One, two, three!
One, two, three!
Xiao Sa, go get the ladder.
Okay.
You're worried?
You can go down to take a look.
I'm not worried.
I'm curious about down there, but I'm not worried about up here.
What did you say?
Nothing.
Give me some of your horse milk wine.
There's not much left.
Hu, you're really gifted at archaeology.
You said there would be a tomb down there, and there really is one!
You understand ancient tombs.
- Hu. - Professor Chen.
Let's go down and take a look.
Fatso and I will go down first.
Then everyone will go down one by one.
Don't follow too closely. Be safe.
Come on.
- Slowly. - Hold tight.
Slowly.
Let me go...
Slowly. Why did you come first?
Professor Hao, slow down! Be careful!
- Slowly. - Professor! Look at this tomb!
It's strange. It's like it was lost in translation.
It has the appearance of a tomb of the ancient western kingdoms.
Why did they turn psycho all of a sudden?
Hurry down! Look at this coffin.
I always thought Hao was an old man.
- But look, he's like a kid. - It isn't! It's nondescript!
Look at that psycho. Fortunately there aren't any contraptions here.
Hu, you're incredible.
You said there would be a tomb, and there really is one.
It's a square.
It's really strange.
Slowly.
Professor, hurry and look at this!
It's mystical!
Slowly.
Hu, it's such a huge tomb. There must be treasures inside.
This mural is really spectacular.
Don't think about that.
I know.
We can't take anything with Professor Chen here.
But we can learn something.
Look at this mural.
Show some control.
- I know, I know. - What's recorded in this mural
is related the Jingjue kingdom.
This...
This should be the Gumo Prince's tomb.
What do you think about this tomb?
This should be the first mural.
The tomb of a nobleman is more luxurious than that general's tomb.
Great minds think alike!
Gumo was one of the smaller kingdoms of the 36 kingdoms in the west.
It was also an auxiliary kingdom of Jingjue.
They were persecuted.
Every year, they had to offer up a large amount of
valuables, livestock, and slaves to the Jingjue Queen.
The artist of this mural was skilled.
Everything is so beautiful and vivid.
Even though there is no text, the content of the mural is clear.
Through the mural, we can clearly understand
the events and people depicted in the mural.
This is when the Gumo prince wanted to see the Jingjue queen.
He wanted to decrease the taxation on his people.
The Jingjue queen refused to see him.
The Gumo prince is personified as a god fighting the sun.
He infiltrated the Jingjue kingdom
because he wanted to kill the Jingjue queen.
But he discovered a shocking secret.
This mural is really strange.
The Gumo prince is peaking in the corner.
In previous murals, the Jingjue queen always has a veil on.
And here, she's just a silhouette.
One hand is lifting the veil.
Someone is across from her.
It looks like a slave.
He becomes fuzzy and disappears.
This queen is a monster.
A monster?
Interesting. Tell us your thoughts.
Out of all the murals, this one is the hardest to understand.
After the queen in the mural lifted her veil
the person across from her became a dotted line.
She might have been a slave or an assassin.
Or an enemy that the queen wanted to eliminate.
Miss Yang, you mean that
the woman in this picture disappeared because she saw the queen's face?
Yes.
So your conclusion is that the queen is a monster.
I think that after the queen in the picture looked at that woman
that woman disappeared.
A grown adult disappeared because she looked at someone?
That's too...
She's deluding us with lies.
I mean that... it's unfathomable.
It's hard for ordinary people to understand.
I'm just hypothesizing.
But my hypothesis isn't baseless.
My father liked reading a book called
The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions.
It was written by Xuan Zang, a senior monk in the Tang dynasty.
I've read it many times.
There are many western region legends written in there.
Among them is one about the desert queen.
It left a deep impression on me.
Miss Yang, tell us.
Yeah, tell us.
In the depths of the desert, there was a city.
A covert ethnic group lived there.
They ruled over all the little kingdoms around them.
After a few hundred years, the throne was passed on to the last queen.
In the legend, that queen's eyes was a passageway to the ghost world.
She just needs to look at her enemies
and they'll just disappear without a trace.
No one has ever known where the people disappear to.
Doesn't that mean they died?
If they died, there should be a corpse.
But disappearing means that there's nothing left.
I'm guessing this story must have a unimaginable ending.
The queen kept a tight grip on her kingdom.
She wanted the commoners of neighboring countries to worship her.
Anyone who resisted was executed.
Maybe her actions provoked the fates.
A few years after her treacherous rule
she contracted a strange disease and died.
After her death, the slaves and the oppressed kingdoms
formed an army and destroyed the queen's kingdom.
The army was getting ready to destroy the queen's tomb.
But then the skies changed colors.
The desert swallowed the army and the kingdom together.
The queen's tomb and the countless treasures she plundered
were buried under the sand.
Hundreds of years passed.
Whenever travelers take anything, they trigger a desert storm.
They get lost in the storm.
Those who take treasure from the queen will never be able to leave the desert.
But the mysterious kingdom of the legend
the evil queen, and the details of that era
aren't completely recorded in the book.
There are too many similarities among the mural of this tomb
what's recorded in the book and the old legends.
I feel like this isn't a legend.
This must be something that happened in real life.
These murals here have recorded them very clearly.
The prince's assassination wasn't successful.
After he returned to his kingdom
he continued to make plans on how to get rid of the queen.
At this time, he met a diviner from a faraway kingdom.
The diviner wanted the prince
to hide a special, slow-acting poison in the lamb meat and give it to the queen.
Not long after, there was news that the queen had suddenly died.
But the prince had already died from stress and overworking.
He and his beloved wife were buried together.
The diviner designed a tomb for him and buried them under an altar.
Professor Chen, is my understanding correct?
It's great. Your analysis is great.
This photographer lady is quite good with her words.
- My father is like Professor Chen. - She's knowledgeable.
He spent his life researching western region cultures.
Especially Jingjue culture.
I've also studied a lot when I was young.
I agree with Professor's point of view.
The queen in these pictures is the Jingjue queen.
And the later murals confirm this.
Professor, what's wrong?
Nothing.
I was just thinking about her father.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Uncle Chen, if we can find Jingjue kingdom
my father could rest in peace.
Professor, take care of yourself. Don't get worked up.
We've learned a lot.
Our understanding of Jingjue kingdom has increased substantially.
I'm sure we'll be able to find Jingjue kingdom.
- Yes. - We definitely will.
Yes.
It's great that your passion is surging and you feel this way.
But everyone, I want to ask you something.
Since the queen in the legend is a monster
do we still have to find her tomb?
Exactly.
If she's a monster and we find her tomb, aren't we digging our own grave?
This is all just a legend.
With our inference, it might not be the truth.
Miss Yang, then what you just said--
This is what archaeology is.
Ancient legends, historical records
digging up historical relics, and speculation.
The more of these there are the richer it is.
We get closer to the historical truth this way.
We archaeologists use science to look for answers to puzzling riddles.
You're right, Professor Chen. Science.
As an atheist who only believes in the tangible
in a scientifically and culturally advanced era
it's hard for people to believe
that someone would disappear after looking into the Jingjue queen's eye.
- That's unscientific. - Too unscientific.
In Kansas, there's a research center on special phenomenons and pathology.
There was a peculiar patient.
A 12-year-old boy who had supernatural powers.
If he stared at an object within a five centimeter radius
that object would disappear as if it evaporated into thin air.
See! I told you there were aliens.
Isn't he an alien? Professor!
- Aliens in the US-- - Let Miss Yang finish.
No one said that boy was an alien.
But his neighbor thought he was a different species.
His parents were ostracized.
And then the scientists found out that
this boy's brain waves were different from ordinary people's.
His cranial nerves and visual ability can create an energy that transports.
Humans have a one in three trillion chance of having this supernatural power.
You mean to say that the Jingjue queen had that supernatural power?
And then a researcher came up with an idea.
He made a magnetic helmet for the boy and put it on his head.
A year later, his supernatural power disappeared.
- So miraculous. - Did you hear that, Hu?
So it could be cured.
It's to bad the Jingjue queen didn't live in our times.
Stop messing around.
How do we confirm that the mural's queen is the Jingjue queen of the legends?
I can be certain because of the Jingjue people's unique apparel
and peculiar buildings and ornaments.
This is all strong evidence.
Look at this mural back here.
Such a delicate and outstanding mural is truly a gem of ethnic culture.
It's priceless.
It's a priceless treasure!
It belongs to the country, to the people, to mankind.
Do you have to make it such a big deal?
Everyone, we don't have to think about the past and future inside a tomb.
Yes, that's right.
I say that we should open this coffin.
Since we're both here, we can help out.
We absolutely can't do that!
The Gumo prince and his wife were buried together in a coffin.
It's extremely rare to find a tomb with a couple inside.
It's a national treasure.
We're not in the right circumstances to open the tomb.
As soon as we open it, we'll damage the seal and the burial gifts inside.
Professor Hao.
Lead the students in recording things.
When we go back, I'll write the report myself
and submit it to the authorities for evaluation
on whether we should excavate or take measures to protect this.
These are all precious relics of an ancient civilization.
Professor Chen, since we're already here, we should just do it now.
- Of course not! - Absolutely not!
Definitely not.
Wang, what do you know?
Such special historical relics can't be opened just because you say so.
Let's listen to the experts.
We have to listen to the experts.
Shirley!
What is it, Professor Chen?
The notebook.
Don't you want to see?
The desert swallowed the kingdom and the army together.
Zaglama Valley.
This is Jingjue Kingdom.
Jingjue Kingdom?
It's not far from here. Not far.
That's great.
Professor.
Professor Chen, I've come down.
You scared us to death.
You guys scared me to death.
I came down and couldn't see anyone.
I didn't expect there to be another level down here.
Didn't you say you weren't going to come down?
I was worried about you guys.
Who told you to come down?
Didn't we say to stay up there and watch that old man?
I saw that he was asleep.
I had nothing else to do, so I came down.
Professor Chen, in that case, we'll go back up.
We can't help much down here.
If you need anything, just call for us.
Okay, you should go up and rest.
Let's hurry up and take pictures for our records.
- Let's start. - Okay.
Xiao Ye, copy this down.
- Give it to me. - Here.
Don't mind me. Hurry and go check on that old man.
He can't run off.
Did you infect him with a disease or something?
You can never be sure with that old man.
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