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♫ Waking up before midnight, I’m as confused as the ocean ♫
♫ The stars forget to shine ♫
♫ We were children ♫
♫ We’ve been children born on this boat ♫
♫ The ark that people talk about is like a small boat ♫
♫ You could hear whispering through deck ♫
♫ Its flag sways in rainstorms ♫
♫ But humans’ endless disputes ♫
♫ push you and me to two most distant sides with ♫
♫ heresies, extremes and abandoned regrets ♫
♫ When have that thousands of thousands layers of color ♫
♫ quietly blossomed through the end of dark night? ♫
♫ On the top of clouds, ♫
♫ that ray is like a crown. ♫
[Magic Star]
~ Episode 8 ~
Maybe you hallucinated due to almost being drowned yesterday.
Maybe the person who is secretly refining gold is you!
You've never liked us because you're afraid of being found out!
That's right!
This... belongs to your older brother, right?
I remember that day in the Memorial Hall, you said
that you can frequently sense his presence
because you know that he really isn't dead!
Ke Tu, I remember that your older brother indeed owns such an item.
Unexpectedly,
You actually want to be on the throne by any means necessary.
This is the real thing.
The one they have is an imitation!
Unexpectedly, you actually stole this from my older brother's tomb.
If not because this thing is very important to me,
I have been wearing it all this time
and left an imitation in the tomb.
Then your lies today would become true.
Totally preposterous!
Lord Wind Calmer,
originally for you, an outsider, to join our tribe,
we tolerated you and held no grudge against you.
Unexpectedly, this person is full of lies
and do every means necessary to get what they wanted.
Just to achieve merit, they fooled our tribe.
Leader Wind Calmer, they are originally sacrifices.
Immediately hold the sacrificial rites.
Bring them to the Bloody Fog Forest!
Arrest them!
Leader Wind Calmer, what I said were all true!
What won't you believe me?!
Let go of me!
This...
Leader!
- Leader.- Leader Wind Calmer!
Okay! Send them on their way!
Why are you pushing me?
I initially just planned to look for a source of fortune
but instead I bumped into an unlucky star.
You tell me, does my brain have problems?
I could be a nice mountain bandit leader but I didn't want to be and insisted to fight for treasures with you.
And now we're doomed, aren't we?
I'm already not far from death.
It's all your fault!
Ma Da Dao, we were the ones who dragged you into this trouble.
We still haven't reached the stage to talk about such things.
Let's think of a way. We surely will be able to escape.
Escape?
Dream on.
Do you think that going to the Bloody Fog Forest is just a role play?
The hour of the appearing of the Bloody Fog Forest that Aunt Yan predicted will soon arrive.
Let's hurry and leave!
Hey, oh, right.
I must not forget this.
What are you doing?!
Hey!
What was that thing that you fed us?!
I'm sure you all have eaten this.
That thing will cause you to have hallucinations.
This is extracted from the red fruits and leaves.
Just think about what will happen to you next.
I think that it'll be a greater surprise.
Just enjoy it then. Okay?
Let's leave!
Where are you taking me?
You'll know when we get there.
No way. If you don't say it now, I won't move anymore.
Don't. Don't rush. You'll know it in a little while.
Hurry and close your eyes.
Close my eyes? How can I see the path then?
Ah...that's right.
How about this? I'll pull you.
I'll be your eyes.
Okay.
Do you really trust me that much?
Aren't you afraid that I'll push you into the cooking pan?
Are you going or not?
Going. Going. Let's go now.
Be careful. Be careful.
Step.
- Woah!- Hey! Hey!
Be careful!
We'll be there soon. We'll be there soon.
We're here. We're here. You can open your eyes now.
Wow!
What beautiful flowers!
You like them, right?
Although you grew up in the Palace,
you surely have seen a lot of precious and rare flowers.
But I can guarantee that you haven't seen the rare flowers and plants of Clouds Village.
Because only Clouds Village has these.
Wow!
- Look at these.- So pretty.
Zi Su.
Here.
Are these for me?
Of course.
Thank you.
Does it look good?
It looks so good!
It must look so ugly.
No way. It looks so pretty.
Older Sister Zi Su!
Little Shi Tou!
Older Sister Zi Su, can you play with me?
Sure.
Let's ask Older Brother Zhan Xiong to make us a little flower cat
from these wild flowers, okay?
He surely don't know how to do that.
Who told you I don't know how to do that?
Do you believe that I can turn it into a cow?
Shi Tou!
What?
Come home with me, Shi Tou.
I still want to play with Older Sister Zi Su for a while.
That's right. Let him play for a while more.
No way. You must go home with me now.
I will just play with Older Sister Zi Su for a while more.
Shi Tou's mother, no...we can bring him home later.
- Go. Hurry. Hurry and move. No, you can't. - Mother, I want to play with Older Sister Zi Su for a little longer.
Mother!
It's not your fault. It must be that Little Shi Tou made his mother mad again.
Let's go now.
Don't go now.
Over there! There are still a lot of flowers over there!
- Lord Ke Tu.- How are they doing?
I've already given them the medicine.
Usually, 30 minutes after these sacrifices are brought on the edge of the Bloody Fog Forest,
Bao Ya will bring his men to come here and take them.
We don't have much time.
It looks like they're quite healthy.
Even though they can't control their own body,
their overall consciousness is still intact.
Lord Ke Tu, this is too risky.
What if they don't cooperate
or they don't hear us?
There is no meaning to fight about it now.
We can only gamble.
As for the rest...let's just leave it to the blessings of the Sand God.
Older Sis Mei Hua, where are you guys going?
Hurry and move!
In such a hurry?
Older Bro Mu Tou, do you know where Older Sis Mei Hua and them are going?
Hurry, let's run!
What?
What's going on here?
Hurry and go!
Really weird. This...
Jeez, this Clouds Village, they...how come they like to sleep in the afternoon?
I really can't get used to their customs.
Really can't get used to it.
Stop consoling me already.
I can see it.
They still are very afraid of me.
They just don't understand you.
As long as they understand you, they will be like me and not be afraid of you anymore.
Really?
Then will you never be afraid of me, avoid me, and leave me?
You can't be sure of that...
- Don't come near!- Hey!
Don't move! Don't move!
How about this? I promise you
that even if one day, you point a knife to my neck,
I still won't leave you.
Really?
Yes.
Hey, let me tell you. The people here in Clouds Village really do take afternoon naps.
Village Chief, wine isn't meant to be drank like this.
Do you get drunk to increase your courage?
Does it work?
I did completely see through it.
We're severely frightened by that demon exterminator.
Including me, none dared to attack her.
How about let's just drop it?
She didn't really cause us harm.
At least for now, she still hasn't.
No way.
We must make the first move first to get the upper hand.
But they are still kids.
I'm doing this also for the children of Clouds Village.
Catch Zi Su.
Let her swear to let us go.
But... but no one dares to do it
If we can't do it openly,
let's then do it covertly.
I know that you still have some consciousness.
You must hold out to listen until I finish all my words.
What I want to tell you is
you can tell me about my older brother, can't you?
I totally believe you.
A Ji Ya.
Ma Da Dao! Ma Da Dao!
Could it be that everything earlier was just my imagination?
Wrong. If it was just an imagination,
how come I am completely fine?
You scared me to death.
You're already awake. Why didn't you answer when I was calling you earlier?
These few days my energy has been depleted.
Fight, fight, kill, kill. You guys are made of steel, but I'm just a normal human being.
Was it easy for me to have a good sleep?
What is happening?
I heard someone speak to me when I was in a daze earlier.
It seems to be about the gold refinery under the lake.
I seemed to hear it, too.
But my head was too heavy to remember much.
Let's do this. Let's recount what we do remember
to put the pieces together.
Great idea.
From the day that my older brother disappeared,
I've never stopped even a moment looking for him.
But I still found nothing.
Until this year, when I went out to trade for water,
I came across this at the black market.
When we were little, I went out with my older brother to play.
Sometimes, I would go really far.
Older brother was afraid that I forgot the way home.
On the way,
after a certain distance, he would find a place
to make such a symbol.
What my older brother was best at
was that he was the only one mastered the god refining skill in the whole Sandmen Tribe.
Thus, tracing down this clue,
I send Qiang En to secretly investigate about this continuously.
Gradually, every piece of evidence begin to point towards the Leader Wind Calmer.
I am sure that my brother's disappearance has something to do with him.
But I don't have direct evidence.
So I can only continue to pretend to know nothing.
Bai Ze, what is that?
Bai Ze, when you took out the golden necklace and said those words,
I suddenly pieced everything together.
I realized that those people swallowed by the Bloody Fog Forest
were actually being converted into zombies and then
taken down to labor in the gold refinery under the lake by them.
My older brother's and mine two golden necklaces
were created from the same gold piece when we were young.
I wronged you in front of Leader Wind Calmer at that time.
But only through this
will he think that this situation isn't exposed.
Maybe Aunt Yan's prophecy was correct.
You are the real people rescue the Sandmen Tribe.
Only let people know the existence of the gold refinery to
expose Leader Wind Calmer's lies and stop producing pollution,
our Sandmen Tribe will then have the hope.
I, Ke Tu, swear to the Sandmen god
that the only thing I want to do is to rescue my older brother.
I can not wanting anything else
as long as my older brother can be rescued.
Bai Ze, the Leader Wind Calmer of Sandmen Tribe will be you.
I beg of you. Give me the medicine.
I've made them drink the medicine.
Other than the one already mixed, don't you still have the original powder?
If we give them the original powder, what if I can't make the medicine next time?
There will be no next time. This is our last chance.
If in this world there is a Leader Wind Calmer,
there will be no me, Ke Tu.
Hand it over!
Once you were taken to the gold refinery,
you must find a way to find me older brother Ka Ba.
Wake him up.
The golden necklace will make him believe you.
We will also think of a way to work in collusion with you.
This is our last chance.
I beg of you.
Let's go.
Ke Tu really gave us such a precious item.
If what he said were all true,
then the back that we saw in the gold refinery when we accidently entered last time
was Leader Wind Calmer.
I can see that his health wasn't bad.
So was his illness just make pretend?
I did examine him.
He is very weak.
That can't be disguised.
It's just that I didn't tell him that time all my thoughts.
But right now, I can surely conclude
that the cause of his illness was the gold.
Gold?
That's right.
He is old already to begin with. His body is very weak.
Yet right now, he inhales waste materials made from refining gold everyday causing him to get poisoned.
Which also means that in front of the public, his health situation is real.
But inside the gold refinery, he was just acting.
That's right.
You really are smart.
I understand now.
Leader Wind Calmer is forcing himself to look okay so that his men will believe that his illness is just fake.
That's why the more we shouldn't fear that man.
But do we really have to risk this danger?
It's not easy for us to be free now. We don't know where Zhan Xiong Fei and the others are, either.
The yellow Magic Star also got stolen by the man in black.
Right now, we can't even protect ourselves.
Does the internal conflict of the Sandmen Tribe has anything to do with us?
Do you really want to become some Leader Wind Calmer or something?
I am not interested in that.
I just feel that since Ke Tu trusted us that much,
we cannot disappoint him.
Moreover, there are so many tribesmen from the Sandmen Tribe waiting for us to rescue them.
They all have no water to drink.
I believe... that saving others is saving oneself.
Saving other is saving oneself. I support you.
Thank you.
Let's talk about the main problem first.
2 against 1 then.
Although my vote is of no use, I will support you guys for now.
But I want to say these first.
After all these are done,
this...give me more of this.
Anyway, they have a lot of them.
You only think of gold.
It seems someone is coming. Hurry.
After going in circles,
don't you all still end up in my hands?
Both of you, give me some privacy.
Turn around!
I am going to wake them up now.
What is he doing?
Don't know. Let's watch first.
I think it's searing iron.
Searing... searing iron.
Sh.
What's he doing?
Might be for branding.
Bai Ze, hurry and think of a plan.
Oh no, oh no. It's red hot.
Bai Ze...
Dare you to lay a finger on me.
Starting today, I am your only monster.
You must forever listen to my orders.
Be my forever loyal laborer.
If you understand, then nod your head.
I'll let you also feel how it feels to be burned.
Are you okay, Boss?
Who told you two to turn around? Go back there!
Turn around!
I just left it here.
How come it flipped?
Could it be these two...these people...
What's wrong with him?
He woke up on his own?
Starting today,
you must listen to my orders.
Be my forever loyal laborer.
This Bai Ze is really sly.
If you understand it, then nod.
Next one.
This...
Could it be that the medicine that these group of people took...
is adjusted?
How come everyone of them woke up on their own?
Forget it. I'm not going to worry about it.
Leader Wind Calmer is still waiting for me to go back and report.
Ayy.
such beautiful face.
- Bastard. - What a waste.
From now on, I am your only master.
You must listen to my orders. Be my forever loyal laborer.
If you understand, then nod.
Just nod once and it's fine.
Bring them up here.
Hurry up.
Work well.
- Hurry, hurry. - Monitor them tightly.
Hurry.
Hurry up. Hurry up.
Quicker, quicker.
Grinding Zone.
Separation Zone.
Agglutination Zone.
Refining Zone.
Weird. Why is the most important process missing from the 5 metallurgy processes?
Quicker.
Also you, hurry.
Leader Wind Calmer,
I have brought every single new worker here.
Leader Wind Calmer has such good foresight.
You gave these foreigners something nice firstly
to stir up Ke Tu's vengeance.
Let them fought each other and caused destruction to both sides.
Then by turning their trick to them own use to let them fall into our trap.
We reaped the benefits.
Stop with those shoe licking words.
It's still not at the end time to determine the winner.
We cannot afford any mistakes.
Don't forget the prophecy of Aunt Yan.
Yes, yes, yes.
I think Aunt Yan is a crazy woman.
Her prophecies basically... kick up a cloud of dust.
Don't say that.
Even though I am not completely sure either
how much of Aunt Yan's prophecies are real or fake,
but it is better to believe that something is real than fake.
There is no wrong with being more careful.
Yes. I was muddled. I will remember your words.
Do you know what I let you increase the number of workers?
I understand.
Lord Ding Song from Du wants this gold.
And we don't have much time.
As long as you understand, that would be fine.
Leader Wind Calmer, don't worry.
I understand the relationship between these things.
Ke Tu's older brother is really a genius in this aspect.
He is already able to refine pure gold to deliver on time.
You have done a very good job.
In the future, Ke Tu's position will be yours.
Thank you, Leader.
Right,
Send more able men to the gold mine tomorrow.
We still need them to increase the speed of the gold mining.
What exactly does Ding Song want these gold for?
It look like the Bloody Fog Forest and sacrifices
actually are a fraud.
Come.
Who is it?
Zhan Xiong Fei.
Yuan Shuai.
Who is it?
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Stop working. Stop working. All of you, come over here. Hurry and come over.
Come over here..
Hurry. All of you come over here.
Let me tell you. The life here is way better than outside.
As long as you work well, I'll give you enough water everyday.
You can even take a bath everyday.
Really just total bullshit.
All of these are thanks to Leader Wind Calmer.
As long as you work well everyday,
you'll surely be rewarded!
Big Bro, with their level of intelligence, they don't really understand what you're talking about.
- Of course, I know that. Do I still need you to tell me that?- Okay. Okay. Yes. Yes.
This Ma Da Dao quite have a strong built.
Send him to Grinding Zone.
Let's go. There.
And this girl here. Send her to Agglutination Zone.
Move.
As for Bai Ze...
I have my own arrangement.
All others, go back to your work.
Hurry and go!
Go back to work.
I already noticed
that you're one of the smartest person in here.
Letting you do those laborious work is such a waste.
I am a person who valued talented people very much.
So I found you a good job.
Who is it?
Lord Ka Ba, it is me, Bao Ya.
Come in.
Lord Ka Ba,
it's already so late and you still haven't slept yet?
You really are working so hard.
I'm used to it.
I still have a bit of data I've not recorded.
He is called Bai Ze who we just obtained today.
Didn't you say last time that you wanted an assistant?
I now brought you one.
But a zombie like him...
Although he is a zombie,
he's way smarter than those other zombies.
Recording data for you won't be a problem.
Okay.
I'll give him a problem to test him
to see if he can be my assistant.
Come. Come.
Tell him to come over here.
Hurry.
What is the situation now?
Should I answer it right or wrong?
Hurry up. Don't just stand there.
Looks like I can only leave it to the Heaven.
Short side 3, long side 4, Pythagorean theorem.
Do you even know this?
Does this mean... he pass?
Leave this one to me.
I already told you. The person I recommend will surely be of no problem.
That... then just rest for now. I'll be leaving then.
Lord Ka Ba, Leader Wind Calmer said that he might visit you in a few days.
He's very interested in your new formula
to make gold.
Okay. It's fine if he comes here.
But tell me first beforehand.
Or else, if I'm in the middle of an experiment,
I won't have the time to entertain him.
Of course. Of course.
About this current order, the last procedure will be done tomorrow.
There won't be a delay.
That's great then. Great.
Please. Please.
Stop acting already.
I know that you aren't a zombie.
Older Bro Fei! Not good!
Older Bro Fei! Older Bro Fei! Older Bro Fei...
Zi Su is missing! Hurry and wake up!
- Older Bro Fei!- Earthquake?
It's not an earthquake. It's that Zi Su is missing!
Hurry and wake up. Let's go find her.
When I woke up this early morning, I already didn't see her.
I went around the whole town but I still didn't see her.
Could she be missing?
Could it be that she has gone to Shi Tou's house?
I also went there to look already.
- Hurry! Hurry! Hurry and wake up!- Okay. Okay.
Let's go look for her together.
Older Bro Fei, hurry up.
I'm sleepy.
Who is missing?
Hurry! Hurry! Zi Su!
She doesn't usually wake up this early.
I woke up and went to the bathroom then I came back to wake her up
but I realized she was gone.
- Shi Tou's father!- Shi Tou's father!
Have you seen Zi Su?
No. No.
Then is Shi Tou home?
Shi Tou went out to play with his mother.
Zi Su didn't come to our house.
How about you just go somewhere else to look for her?
That's strange.
Where can Zi Su go this early in the morning?
Don't know.
Even though Zi Su is normally obstinate,
we didn't make her angry.
Why would she just leave by herself without telling us?
Yuan Shuai, did you notice that when Shi Tou's father was talking earlier,
he kept trying to avoid us.
What?
And also, when Zi Su and I went out yesterday,
those villagers also kept trying to avoid us.
What you mean is...
Zi Su deliberately went missing.
Jeez, how can that be?
What I mean is...
I feel that Zi Su's disappearance
may have something to do with the people here in Clouds Village.
What?
I also can't be sure about it.
How about this? You keep watch of Shi Tou's father for now.
If there is any situation,
hurry and return to meet up with me.
Okay.
Hey, be careful.
Where am I?
Granddaddy Shi San,
why must you tie me up?!
Did I offend you all in any way?
You can just tell me.
Where are Zhan Xiong Fei and Yuan Shuai?
I beg you, just let me go!
Are you begging me?
Yes. I beg you to let me go.
Is there some misunderstanding?
Hello. Did you all hear that?
The noble demon exterminator is begging me.
What demon exterminator?!
I don't know what you are talking about!
Maybe you really don't know.
But I want to tell you that you're a hundred-percent demon exterminator.
Zhan Xiong Fei! Yuan Shuai! Where are you?!
Hurry and come save me...
- Stop shouting already.- Come and save me...
They won't be able to hear you.
You and them are not the same.
Yuan Shuai is an ordinary person.
But Zhan Xiong Fei has been bitten by the demon bug.
It won't take long for him to become a real demon completely.
We and your kind can't co-exist together.
Rather than waiting for you to wake up and catch us,
it's better for us to make the first move to get the upper hand.
Let go of me!
Zhan Xiong Fei!
Yuan Shuai! Where are you two?!
When you and that girl infiltrated this gold refinery last time,
I already saw you.
Last time, when I called you, you didn't answer.
I thought that you were a zombie.
At that situation, me not minding you was for your own good.
But why did you come here today?
We came here today to return a thing to his rightful owner. Here.
This is yours.
This is Ke Tu's.
That's right.
It was Ke Tu who told us to come in to rescue you.
Don't talk about that anymore.
I don't want to get out now.
We worked hard to get in here just to save you.
But now, you just want us to leave just like that?
How are we going to explain to Ke Tu when we get out?
You don't understand.
I don't want more people to be harmed.
What do you mean?
You don't know.
It's very hard to try to escape from here.
Once you fail, you have to pay a big price.
Enough already.
Just continue pretending to be zombie here
and then think of a way to escape.
Listen to my advice.
Don't interfere with this matter anymore.
You guys don't really have the capabilities to go against Leader Wind Calmer's team.
No matter if you are going out or not,
you should at least give me a reason.
Could it be that you have already been bought by Leader Wind Calmer and has become his accomplice?
Fine.
I'll tell you my reasons.
Before, I kept thinking of ways to escape from here.
That's why, I didn't mind working for Leader Wind Calmer, to make purer gold for him.
My goal is for him to lessen his guard on me.
Slowly, his defense against me decreased.
Using that, I requested them to send me a man
to serve as my assistant.
To better use me, they sent me a normal person that was loyal to them
as my assistant.
I used a long time to convince this person to rebel.
I beg him to take me out of here.
In the end, he agreed.
But too bad, the mission still failed.
Then afterwards, what happened to that young guy?
The cup you're drinking out of is made of that person bones.
Leader Wind Calmer still need to continue using me
so he didn't kill me.
But that young guy was cruelly killed.
He used his skull to make this cup so as to make me
not forget this matter.
If you are a zombie, how good would that be? That way, I can just take you away.
Your little brother thought that you were turned into a zombie and even gave me this antidote.
Looks like right now, there's not much use for it already.
I'll return the antidote to you.
You are saying that this is the original powder of the antidote?
Can it be fake?
That's great!
No matter if I can get out or not.
But at least, we can save the zombies that were in here.
It's not bad that you can come up with such an idea.
Before I came here, I heard that Leader Wind Calmer will be taking Bao Ya to the gold mining area.
That's why there are no one keeping watch of this area.
That just happen to be a good opportunity.
Okay. You wait.
You wait.
Based on my observations
and memory, I drew them one by one.
This is the map of the underground gold refinery.
Look here.
This is the kitchen for the underground gold refinery.
All food of the zombies are made here.
That's why, tomorrow at this time, we will...
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Village Chief! Village Chief!
Village Chief! Not good! Not good!
What are you panicking about?
Zhan Xiong Fei and his friend seem to be suspecting us already.
That is just sooner or later.
The longer this takes, the worse it'll be for us.
I'll leave Zi Su to you.
I'm old already. The Clouds Village need
A young leader. Take care of this properly.
you will become my successor.
Village Chief, but I...
Stop hesitating already.
You will become our new Village Chief from now on.
New Village Chief! New Village Chief!
Older Bro Fei! It was really as you guessed.
The father of Shi Tou
was suspiciously running towards the back of the village.
I didn't dare to follow him up to there.
But I feel that Zi Su must be inside that place.
Hurry! Let's go!
Shi Tou's father...
Miss Zi Su, I beg you not to look at me like that.
I really don't want to harm you.
Between us,
there are no hatred or grudges. You even saved Shi Tou.
You should be our family's big savior.
If this matter will just involve you and me,
I will not treat you like this.
If we don't tie you up first,
we were afraid that we can't deal with you.
Right now, this matter concerns everyone in our village.
You must give us a resolution.
♫ How long can my friends around me to accompany me? ♫
♫ I’m tired of hearing those comforting words ♫
♫ I’m pulled between courage and collapse repeatedly ♫
♫ I cry out to myself to hang in there ♫
♫ I’m still awake at 3 in the early morning ♫
♫ I can only expect for a good night sleep but not having it ♫
♫ If I’m not careful, I’ll be disturbed once I think about you ♫
♫ Memory has been overturned into a kind of sin ♫
♫ Having loved one very much is wrong but so what ♫
♫ Loneliness is also just a process ♫
♫ We still have next person waiting for us ♫
♫ I’ll remember those wonderful things ♫
♫ Shedding tears isn’t need ♫
♫ Thank you for your choosing ♫
♫ Don’t force myself to give blessing ♫
♫ Be a mature person ♫
♫ Having loved one very much is worth the pain and so happy ♫
♫ I need to learn to let go those I can’t part with ♫
♫ Having loved one very much is wrong but so what ♫
♫ Loneliness is also just a process ♫
♫ We still have next person waiting for us ♫
♫ With a little regret, I’m more complete ♫