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Candle in the Tomb
Episode 20
Of us five, one of us isn't a human being.
Not a human being, then what is it?
A god?
A devil?
I was just saying on a whim. Can't you see from the drawings?
Miss Yang, there's another possibility.
Could it be that there is originally 5 persons?
But because many years had passed, one came off?
This stone chamber is preserved very well.
There's no sign of wear and tear.
And it's stated very clearly that this circle is a head,
the connecting lines are the limbs and body.
It's stated that
out of these 4 persons, one of them opened the stone casket.
But how could a small child have such a round head?
It's just an old stone casket and it's not locked.
It's stated that 4 persons came in and only one can open it?
Let's reason this out with him.
Give me your hand and let's open it together.
Monster!
Dead. All dead!
Monster!
Professor. Fatty, quick, get him.
- Stop, Professor.- Monster.
- Professor.- Monster, I'm not afraid of you.
- I'm a scientist.- Professor.
Fatty, use all your might.
I'm using all my might! Can't you see it?
- Professor.- Xiao Ye.
- Professor.- I'm a scientist.
- Yes.- Xiao Ye.- You are alright, Professor.
Xiao Ye, wake up.
- Xiao Ye.- XIao Ye!
Xiao Ye, what's wrong with you?
Xiao Ye!
Xiao Ye has always been weak.
After so much hardship, she finally can't take it anymore.
You Yang woman, it's all your fault.
You have to take responsibility.
If you can get out of here alive, I'll not take it lying down.
All you monsters!
I'm going to fight it out with you!
Professor Chen, what are you doing?
- Professor, what are you doing?- Don't come here, all of you are monsters.
Professor Chen.
Fatty, come here.
- All of you are monsters.- Professor.
- Professor.- Monster.- Calm down.
Professor.
Uncle Chen.
Uncle Chen, what's wrong with you?
Please, you have to be alright.
I'm not scared.
I'm not scared of monsters.
Old Hu, the prophecy came true.
There's four of us now.
And Professor Chen was the one who opened the casket.
Since it was prophesied that we would be here, he might show us the way out.
What's in the drawing?
Is it another prophecy?
It must be.
Then is there any clues to show us how to get out of here?
Old Hu, say something.
What is it implying?
If I'm guessing correctly,
this second box can also be opened.
But the prophecy said that
out of these four persons who opened this second box,
one of them is an evil ghost.
Evil ghost? Don't joke with me.
Come here.
From the first drawing, out of the 4 persons who opened the casket,
only one of them has eyes and teeth like snake.
Fatty, it the same as the stone statue as
the fourth pillar in the divine palace.
Look at this.
The second drawing and the third drawing are aligned together.
There are two outcomes.
One of them is that the four of them open the box,
the evil ghost suddenly appeared, attacked and killed three of them.
The other one is that the evil ghost lies on the ground, the head and body are torn apart.
The other three open the second box,
a pathway appears in tomb.
It's here. Maybe
this is our escape route.
Old Hu, I understand now.
You are saying that we can escape after we kill the evil ghost.
I think the prophet is trying to tell us to
choose our own destiny.
I know who is this evil ghost. I can't be wrong.
I know what you are thinking. But I tell you, Fatty,
all of us must stay calm right now.
How to be calm? We are running out of time.
I'm telling you we'll all be finished if we delay any longer.
Xiao Ye is already dead. Professor may die anytime.
Of course I know.
But everyone of us here could be it, including you and me.
Hu Bayi, you are suspecting me as well?
What are the both of you doing?
What's in the stone casket?
Nothing.
It's empty. Nothing's here.
We are just discussing
to see if there's other method to find the exit.
- The waterfall cascades down three thousand feet.- You can't do that.
- This water is poisonous. - Professor.
Let me tell you, I'll listen to your instructions from now on.
Inspect me first, no matter what method you will be using.
If I'm not the evil ghost, then I won't be polite anymore.
We can't be democratic anymore.
Political power grows out of the barrel.
You are saying, "political power grows out of the barrel"?
Are you crazy? I wasn't the one who said that, it was Chairman Mao who said that.
I have a solution.
Fatty.
This evil ghost must have come out from Jingjue kingdom.
Yes.
So no matter how it disguises itself, it must not have experienced the cultural revolution.
It must not have gone through any political education or read the newspapers.
State your point.
We will use matters that this evil ghost doesn't know
to test it. Alright?
Do you still remember that poem which pays salute to the soldiers who were in World War Three?
Of course I remember.
I wrote this down in the notebook which I gave to you on your 16th birthday.
In the third world war to eliminate the remnants of the exploitation system,
we were allocated to the same class,
our friendship started from there, and it couldn't be measured.
We only know that it's higher than the mountains and longer than the roads,
In the war zone, we shared a piece of bread
and a pinch of salt.
We hummed the same tune and shared the same blanket.
The every word and every sentence of the leaders' thinking and great truths,
we learned them by heart over and over again.
Under the red flag, with sincerity and loyalty towards the Party, with passionate sacrifices,
we held our guns tight, and held up our fists, and gave our promise
that we are willing to give of everything towards the realization of communism.
In the cannon fire, we march out side by side, we attacked entered into 300 metres of the enemy's frontline.
we held our guns towards the exploiters
and fired bullets of revenge at the exploiters.
What are the two of you doing?
Look at the situation we are in now, yet you are still fooling around.
Take a bite, then give it to Professor Chen for him to take another bite.
Just do what I say. I'm not harming you.
Are you crazy? This black donkey hoof is to ward off evil.
I'm not biting it. Take it away.
She knows everything.
Let me tell you honestly. There's another prophecy in the casket.
Among the four of us, one of us is an evil ghost.
We can only get out after eliminating it.
Two of us have been examined, then it only leaves the two of you.
If you don't dare to bite it, it means that there's something wrong with you.
- Are you biting it or not?- I just don't want to. What can you do?
Let's not talk with her anymore.
- Look.- The two of you stop right there. Are you done fooling around?
Old Hu, she's pointing a gun at us.
Hu Bayi, just because I suspect you are tomb raiders, that's why you want to kill me?
You are jerks! I should have exposed you earlier.
You are so bold. You think only you are good with guns?
It's the two of us against you. We are not scared of you.
Let me tell you, this trip is considered not wasted that I catch a ghost before I die.
You are really crazy? If there's ghosts, then it's the both of you.
Then tell us the truth, what's your relation with the Queen of Jingjue?
What kind of relation could I have with her?
Why do the two of you look so alike?
How do you know?
Just now, when I was on the stone bridge, I opened the coffin,
the one who was lying inside is you!
Old Hu, don't you find it ridiculous?
How can hallucination be taken as real? It was your hallucination, why don't you ask yourself?
We are talking about you. Don't change the subject.
Then why did you keep dreaming about Guidong?
And you are an American,
how do you know the jargons of tomb raiding?
What do you do? Speak!
Speak!
Don't be polite with her anymore.
Wait!
Don't move! My gun doesn't have eyes.
Fatty.
This is the real one!
That gold-tooth jerk. He deceived us with a fake one.
That's why I say why it wasn't effective at all.
I also don't know why I dream of Guidong.
I know all those jargons is because my maternal grandpa was also doing this.
I heard all from him.
That means your grandpa is also a tomb raider?
All of you are bad. All of you can't leave.
Fatty, quick, get hold of him!
- Quick!- I'm the guardian of Jingjue kingdom!
This old man is totally crazy.
Take a bite.
Hu Bayi, return it to me.
You believe me now?
If I was the evil ghost, how could I have the tomb raider seal on me?
Old Hu, come here! I can't put this in his mouth.
Don't mess around.
Don't move.
It concerns four lives. I'm left with no choice.
Old Hu, come here quickly.
Don't move.
Old Hu, don't just stare. Shoot.
Calm down.
Shoot!
- Why did you hit me?- Stop shouting.
Miss Yang, come and take care of Professor Chen.
What exactly is happening?
Fatty, tell me, what did you see?
There's nothing here.
That's right.
- I'm really scared now, Old Hu.- Don't be scared, Fatty. I understand now.
Just now everything was a hallucination. That shot from Shirley Yang woke me up.
Including that time on the stone bridge, it was your gunshot
that shook me up.
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I was hallucinating too just now?
Yes, that's right. Let me try this.
Let me straighten my thinking.
The control of this Titan arum
is far beyond our imagination.
When it blooms, it's area of control has expanded.
That red spider lily. I suspect that red spider lily
is also a hallucination that it created.
In order to get us into that stone cave, it buried itself.
After that we came here and saw that fake prophecy.
Its motive was to create conflict and for us to kill each other.
In this way, the secret of Queen of Jingjue
wouldn't be exposed at all.
This is way too devious.
If I had known this, I would have exploded that bridge with explosives.
The owner of that notebook
must have also saw his teammates killing one another
and became deranged after that.
Like Professor Chen now.
His students are all dead now.
Miss Yang, I'm really sorry.
We were really rude and messed things up.
I'm not holding it against you now. I'll deal with you after we get out.
You are really magnanimous.
Yes, we are bewitched just now.
You are really magnanimous and forgiving.
Stop it. Let's think of how to get out of here.
Right, let's see what else is in that stone case.
Let's agree on this. No matter what we see or what happens later,
if we find anything wrong with the others,
we just slap that person and not feel bad about it.
That's right.
The main thing is that you slap the both of us.
- Right.- Okay.
Look through it and see if the little prophet is giving us any clues about the way out.
These are drawings by the sage.
It mainly talks about the secret of the Guidong race.
Because there's a ghost cave on this Mount Zhagemala,
so it's be touted as a sacred mountain.
Everyone wants to know what's in the cave.
So they invited a priest and built a jade eye.
They hoped that through this eye, they can see what's in this bottomless cave.
But it doesn't work and attracted many weird snakes,
and killed many people and animals.
Did they have nothing to do? Why must they want to see what's in the cave?
Wait.
The jade eye which I shattered, was it the one that they built?
It's possible.
Continue.
In the end, the two sages whom the gods favored upon,
led the warriors in the tribe and eliminated all the snakes.
From then on, the sages viewed the cave as the cave of disaster.
But the jade eye had already opened the door to disaster.
Miss Yang, are you telling us the story from the beginning?
Even if I don't do that, I still have to finish reading it.
If we read the ending straight away, we might not be able to decipher anything.
Fatty, don't interrupt. Please continue.
After this, a prophet was born in the tribe,
which is this child who has prophetic ability.
It said here that through rituals performed,
he could prophesy the major events which will happen thousand of years later.
But it's restricted to the area around Mount Zhagemala.
Isn't that fast? It's reaching the story about the prophet.
Did he prophesy anything?
My heartbeat is getting faster.
Don't read the contents at the back.
Don't read.
Professor, calm down.
Don't go out.
Fatty, stop him!
- Professor!- Professor.
- Professor!- Don't delay anymore!
I'll not be polite anymore.
Fatty, pull it out!
That's it. This last page
has been licked off by Professor.
You've done wrong.
It's alright, there isn't any drawing on the last page anyway.
Could it be that the prophet knew beforehand that the Professor will eat the last page?
Maybe.
- Quick.- Look quickly.
The prophet prophesied that 800 years after his death,
Mount Zhagelama will have another tribe.
This tribe must be the predecessor of Jingjue Kingdom.
The Queen of Jingjue had eyes which can see through the ghost cave.
She used the jade eye to summon evil spirit through rituals,
and used this to conquer the surrounding ten over tribes.
And the violent acts of this kingdom angered God
so God handed over this mountain and the surrounding regions to the devil.
The desert swallowed up all the cities.
The people and animals of this kingdom, including the evil spirits of the ghost cave
were all buried deep down.
This coincides with what you mentioned about the legend of ancient Jingjue city.
That's right. This is the last revelation given to us.
In this relevation, there will be four survivors
who came here after the mountain was torn apart.
One of them is actually a descendant of the prophet's tribe.
Among the four us, you are the most likely one.
That's right. It must be you.
You could see places which you've never been before. It's a sign of a prophet.
Could your ancestors have lived here before?
No matter who it is, it must be one of us.
The first and foremost thing is to leave this place.
The prophet will show his descendant the escape route.
But don't ever drop the sheepskin manuscript on the groound.
If it drops on the ground, it's the beginning of sandstorm.
And the sandstorm will once again buried the ancient city of Jingjue
and Mount Zhagelama.
The mountain will be buried till the end of time.
This sheepskin manuscript is a time ticking bomb!
There isn't any more drawing at the back?
No more. This is the final revelation given to us by the prophet.
He said he will show his descendant the way out.
Let's look at the corpse and see if there's any clues.
Old Hu, how is it?
There's nothing special here.
There isn't anything that seems like a clue.
Miss Yang, stop looking. Keep that manuscript.
Don't let it drop on the ground.
Don't ever think of leaving this place!
Professor!
- Don't!- Don't!
That's it.
What's happening?
Could it be collapsing again?
Old Hu, we are really done for this time.
The prophecy on the manuscript has come true.
Old Hu!
Is this prophet playing a joke on us?
We have to choose one out of three.
There's only one correct route. We only have one chance. If we choose the wrong one,
then we will really die.
Each of us take one route. It's better for one to be alive than all to be buried here.
Shut up. We come in together. We must leave together.
Miss Yang, you choose one.
Don't look at her. Don't expect her to show us the right route.
That one.
S-She...Is she reliable?
We don't have time. Quick!
Professor.
I belong to here.
Let's go!
Fatty, quick!
Quick!
Hey!
Here!
Go!
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