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[Candle in the Tomb]
[Episode 19]
This is likely the legendary fragrant corpse devil's taro.
It's said that they're really dangerous when they bloom.
I really can't believe this exists.
Fragrant corpse devil's taro?
Then isn't it still a taro?
Legend has it that the fragrant corpse devil's taro grows in tombs.
Not only do they preserve the corpse from decaying
but they also make the corpse emit a fragrance.
It's extremely precious.
These two mystical items protect the Jingjue queen.
Hu, it wasn't easy to get here. We barely made it.
We have to go up to see it.
You must not go over there!
You must tread lightly.
Legend has it that the fragrant corpse devil's taro has the spirit of the devil.
When it blooms, a living person can't get close to it.
It's too dangerous.
Do you see that?
There are Devil's Cave characters here.
See?
I think those characters are special to this cave.
They must contain some important information.
- Yes. - I want to go up and copy them.
Professor, I want to go up too.
All right then.
You must not get close to it. Just record the characters.
Don't worry, Professor.
- Be careful. - Okay.
You must be careful.
Be careful.
- You must not get too close. - Okay.
Is it the same as your dream?
Completely.
Why exactly is that?
What does this place have to do with me?
I must find out.
I must go and see the Jingjue queen's coffin.
This is my last chance.
Calm down.
I understand how you feel.
Relax.
When Chu Jian and Xiao Sa come back, I'll go up there with you.
Thank you, Hu.
Are you two really hiding something from me?
Xiao Hu, Xiao Sa, come back!
Hey! You two! What are you two doing?
Stay away from that rotten taro!
Xiao Chu, come down!
Hurry and come down!
Something is not right.
Hu, what's wrong?
I don't know. Something just doesn't feel right.
What's not right?
I can't say. It's just a feeling.
No, we must get them down.
Hu! Hu! Come back!
- Hu! - Fatso!
I told them not to get close! Why didn't they listen?
What do we do?
Hu!
Why did you two follow me here?
Xiao Sa!
Xiao Sa! What is this?
Why did they suddenly--
They were... They were such good friends...
You two go look after the professor. I'll go take a look.
I told you to look after the professor!
Why did you follow me up here?
Who knows what devilish things are up there?
I can't be at ease if you're up there by yourself.
Besides, it'll be so tiring for you to carry Sa Di Peng by yourself.
We'll carry him together so that no accidents happen.
Fatso.
Hu, don't worry about that. Saving him is more important.
How is he?
There's no pulse.
How do we tell his family?
We'll be devastating his family.
We can't revive the dead.
She's alive. She's alive!
Xiao Sa!
He didn't have a pulse a moment ago.
Look!
It's blooming!
I really want to see her real face.
- Hu! - Don't be scared.
Don't you want to see it too?
Great. I want to see what kind of monster she is.
Worst comes to worst, I'll just help her die again.
That's right! Here, take it.
That's right! Take it. Fatso and I will go up.
If there are any problems with the coffin, take care of it.
Why are you here?
Don't you have a fear of heights?
What? My ears are ringing. I can't hear!
Hu Ba Yi!
Hu!
Hu Ba Yi!
Hey! What are you doing? Come down!
- Hu Ba Yi! - Hu! Come down!
Hurry back, Hu Ba Yi!
Hu! Hurry down!
Hu Ba Yi!
Did you lose your senses?
You couldn't hear us no matter how we yelled!
What happened to me just now?
You scared us to death.
You stood in the middle of that rock bridge like you were sleepwalking.
You took the shovel and kept randomly swinging.
You were fighting around over there for hours!
I'm telling you, if I wasn't afraid of heights
I would've gone up there and given you a beating!
Didn't you tell me your ears were ringing?
Can't you hope for good things to happen to me?
Fatso, thank goodness you have a fear of heights.
Hu, have you also gone mad?
I understand now.
That damn fragrant corpse devil's taro.
Through its color and smell, it makes people hallucinate.
The rock bridge is in the range of its control.
If you set foot on the rock bridge, you'll start to hallucinate.
Xiao Sa and Xiao Chu got into trouble because of that!
That damn thing! I'll show it!
Is this an arboretum?
Why are there all these bizarre flowers?
They're lycoris.
Legend has it that these flowers only bloom at the border between yin and yang.
They're a bad omen. That's why they're also called flowers on the road to hell.
No! I must get Xiao Sa.
You must not go, Hu!
Sa Di Peng!
Why are they spreading so quickly?
Hurry and run! If we don't run now, it'll be too late!
Here, let me. Let me do it.
- Fatso, carry Xiao Ye. - Okay.
Professor.
No, it's filled with lycoris over there.
The path we came through is blocked.
Hurry! Go over there! Come on!
Over here, hurry!
Over here.
Hurry, Fatso! Over here!
Hurry!
Those rotten flowers are catching up!
What do we do?
- Fatso, explosives. - Okay.
Hurry.
Open your mouths and cover your ears!
Hu, are you okay?
Are you okay?
I can't hear.
Are you guys okay?
We might have used too many explosives.
- Xiao Ye is awake! - Xiao Ye.
- Drink some water. - Xiao Ye.
Professor Chen! Professor Chen!
It's going to cave in!
Hurry and run!
Hurry! Run!
Hurry!
Xiao Ye, hurry!
Xiao Ye!
Professor Chen! Professor Chen!
Be careful.
Fatso!
We can't stop! We have to keep running!
I'll just die.
I can't run anymore.
Hu, are we dead or still alive?
Right now there's not much difference between being alive and being dead.
Even though we're alive now, we're not far from death.
Then we're on the road to death.
Miss Yang, I'll say goodbye now.
Hu and I will be going to meet the devil.
You're going to go see God. You'll be far away.
Take care of yourself.
Can you two stop messing around?
Hey, it seems to have stopped.
Stopped?
It did stop, Hu!
We escaped death! We're so lucky!
It's too soon to say that.
I mean that we're still alive.
What do you mean?
We won't be buried
and we won't be able to leave.
And we don't know if oxygen is flowing through here.
If it isn't, we'll only last a couple of hours.
I left my bag.
We have nothing.
We don't have the explosives.
That's all the water we have left.
There's no hope for us in here.
We have no hope out there either.
An Li Man must have left on his own.
Hu, we have shovels. We can dig our way out.
Save it.
How long will we have to dig? In which direction do we dig?
Even if we had water, we would still die since there's no oxygen here.
In that case, let's not think about anything.
Let's split the water and drink it.
Xiao Ye, drink some water.
Drink some.
Professor, drink some water.
Take this. Drink from it when you're thirsty.
You drink first.
I'm not thirsty. You drink first.
Slowly. Drink slowly.
There's only a few of us here. No one will take it from you.
Drink slowly.
If we all die here
it's all my fault.
If I wasn't determined to come here none of this would have happened.
I've implicated so many people.
I'm really...
All right.
You can't put it that way.
There's an old Chinese saying.
"People die for treasure; birds die for food."
Fatso and I brought this on ourselves.
If we didn't desire your $40,000, we wouldn't be here, right?
And this is Professor Chen's line of work.
If you didn't sponsor him
he would've found another way to come to Jingjue Kingdom eventually.
Hey, why are you crying?
I'm telling you, I should be the one crying.
If I had known it would be so difficult
I would have asked for more money.
Exactly! You have to increase our pay!
Why are you laughing?
I'm telling you, stop laughing and crying.
We're being serious.
I'm really not thirsty.
Hey.
The Devil's Cave that we saw is exactly the same as the one in your dream, right?
Yes.
So the only thing that you weren't able to see clearly...
was the fragrant corpse devil's taro on top of the coffin?
Hu, what are you talking about?
She said her dad passed a dream on to her.
This place is exactly the same as the one in her dream.
So that's why she wanted to see the Jingjue queen.
- And then I-- - And then you started hallucinating.
Miss Yang, something's not right.
Didn't your father die at the glacier of Karakoram?
How did he pass on a dream about this place to you?
Did he come here?
When I saw the fragrant corpse devil's taro, I remembered.
You believe in the passing of dreams?
That's just an old superstition.
But why would I dream about a place I've never been to?
And in such detail.
I don't know why either.
It's like there's a hazy voice in my heart that keeps calling out to me
drawing me to this place.
Maybe you were the Jingjue queen in your past life.
You were going down memory lane.
There's a breeze.
We should be able to pass through here.
Fatso, let's take them with us out of here.
Okay.
Xiao Ye.
Watch out.
Professor, be careful.
Be careful.
Where is this place?
Don't say anything.
There's something over there.
Hu, there are two corpses here.
What corpses?
They're fossils.
From the looks of it, they've been there for more than thousand years.
This is a tomb.
I thought we had found a way out.
We went from one enclosed space to another enclosed space.
Light some candles.
You two are definitely tomb raiders.
What are you saying?
Are you suffering from exhaustion?
Didn't I already tell you?
My hobby is researching feng shui and astrology.
We are definitely not tomb raiders.
You must not groundlessly accuse us.
Fatso and I come from good backgrounds.
Fatso was a model worker in his unit. He got some award on March 8.
On March 8 (International Woman's Day)?
That was my mom.
I was just in the youth commando unit.
But that means I was raised well by the party and the people.
Hu, that stone box looks special.
What could be inside?
Isn't it meaningless for you to act like that at a time like this?
We're just seeking the truth from facts.
Exactly.
"Put money on the plate and make a sound by the lake."
"Kick the pole and grab it."
"Flip your hat and put it back."
"You can't wrap up the faraway colors that the moon shines on."
What is this?
What did you say?
Are you possessed?
"There is none."
"Collect wood at the top of the mountain, start a fire at the bottom."
"May I ask where the person with the hat passed the mountain?"
"How many mountain passes did he go through?"
There are two shores of a river.
Collect wood at the top of the mountain while starting a fire at the bottom.
"The partridge splits the mountain, the sparrow divides the passes."
"More levels of palace are nowhere to be found."
Are you two possessed or am I possessed?
Let's not scare each other.
Tell me.
I'll tell you.
These verses are from our elementary school books.
I can't believe the materials in American elementary schools
are similar to ours.
How come I don't remember learning it?
Hu, if we are able to make it out alive today
I hope we can have a serious talk.
The premise is that we have to make it out alive.
Hey, what exactly were you two talking about just now?
We were speaking in a tomb raiding code. Others wouldn't be able to understand it.
Then how could she understand it?
Is she also in this line of work?
I don't know.
But this code stopped being passed on after liberation.
I wouldn't have understood it if my grandfather wasn't in this field.
Then her family...
Hey, could her father be...
It's possible.
But she's quite skilled, so I didn't dare to keep talking to her.
Hey, what did I tell you?
I didn't trust her from the beginning.
I'm telling you, at this time, we can't be polite anymore.
Let's just tie her up and question her.
Even if we die, we should know the truth.
Enough already. Let's just find a way out of here.
Otherwise this was all for naught.
Hu, there is no way out of here.
That path is already blocked off.
We can only see if this stone box has any mechanisms that might open a way out.
I remember that the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions
talked about Zaglama Mountain.
Legend has it that two holy sages were buried in the mountain.
Not these two, right?
But this... this tomb is too plain.
It's not fitting for two holy sages.
Judging from this mural, this isn't the tomb of the two holy sages.
The child beside the holy sage is probably his child or disciple.
He is probably a prophet.
And the one beside him is probably his servant.
Look.
Judging from the drawings on top of this stone box...
If you put them together, it looks like an ancient prophecy.
The art is simple.
The features of the drawings are clear.
I think I can understand it a bit.
Can you see if there's a way out from these drawings?
No.
But I don't think this prophet was correct.
It says that after he dies, no one else will come in here
until four people barge in and open the box.
Four people?
Yes.
That's not right. We're five people.
That prophet can't count?
Or maybe Professor Chen doesn't count because he's gone mad?
If that prophet isn't a swindler, then...
Then those four people aren't us.
Of course, there's another possibility.
What possibility?
One person in our group might not be human.
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