Episode 1
When I was a child
I always thought that my grandfather was a mysterious person
He would always coop himself in the room all alone
Flipping through copies of old books and journals
Once he starts, he would be at it for a long time
There was once
Where I secretly snuck into his room
Wanting to see just what those books and journals were about
Those journals were very very old
Each of them are filled with bizarre
And obscure articles
I don't know if they are stories
Or true events
In 1903
A Japanese man named Otani Kozui
Entered Chinese soil in the name of conducting religious studies
And started carrying out intelligence work in the area of geographical exploration
As they approached Changsha
His expedition team split up
And he followed Japanese businessman, Hatoyama Nakagawa
They stayed in a mountainous town
That was 160 kilometres from the north of Changsha
For almost three months
When they left
The expedition team was only left with six people
From then onwards
Hatoyama Nakagawa stopped all exploration work
And hurriedly returned to Japan
Why did he stay in Changsha for such a long time?
Why were there heavy casualties amongst his subordinates?
Just what happened in this seemingly ordinary village?
No one knows
A week later
Hatoyama Nakagawa submitted a 16 page report
To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese Nissin Trade Institute
In the report, he mentioned about the things buried under the mountain
And this was then historically known as the Hatoyama Report
(Changsha Station)
Where is this train coming from?
What is going on?
Which bastard is on the train?
You can't stop the train here!
There will be trains coming later!
They will bite your ass!
There is another track in front!
Drive the train forward!
(Changsha Station)
How is it?
This military train has no markings nor codes
It just appeared out of thin air
Where is he?
Fo Ye
He is Gu Qing Feng, yesterday night's watchman
Officers
I really don't know anything
When the train entered the station yesterday night
What did you hear, what did you see?
Please answer truthfully
Our station master has said already
That due to the war preparations
There will often be military trains that will suddenly enter the station
This isn't the first time such a situation has occurred
This isn't the first time that there are dead bodies hanging in the train too I presume?
When military trains enter the station
They will alert the local guards
But this train does not have any entry records
It just appeared out of thin air
What time did it enter the station?
Our station master said
Were you the watchman for the night or your station master?
Me, me
When I looked at the clock yesterday night
I think it was close to midnight
After verification
This is a 076 military train
I'm afraid the people inside are...
Japanese
Fo Ye
These type of military trains are mostly manufactured in the northeast
Afterwards, they were driven to the northwest
And used by the Chinese Nationalist Government
And everything was then altered from scratch
But this train is rusty
Looks like it has been driven from a scrap station
Tell me, when did these people die?
When I discovered this train yesterday night
These people had already died
Officers
The front of the train as well as the carriages
Have all been welded with metal sheets
You can't see what is going on inside clearly
How are the preparations?
The torch cutter has already been sent here
Yes, Sir
Chief, Chief!
Halt!
I have something to say to the Chief!
Chief, the station master didn't allow me to say this
But let me tell you this
This train, is a ghost train
This train station is not just any ordinary place
As long as there are trains that enter the station at midnight
It would be full of dead people
Going to hell
A demon is coming to Changsha
Bring him away
Yes, Sir
Chief! Chief!
A demon is coming to Changsha
Chief, this is a ghost train!
This is a ghost train. Chief!
Fo Ye, it's open
Lock down all of Changsha
No train will enter today
Yes
(Label: 45)
Fo Ye, Fo Ye
Fo Ye, all the corpses here have died in a strange way
They're all facing down
It is indeed very strange
But it is not a ghost train
That's right
We are already checking the entire train
Does Ba Ye know
If Ba Ye knew this was what was inside the train
He may not come
Tell him
If he does not come in, I'll shoot him
Yes
Greetings, Ba Ye
Greetings greetings greetings
Greetings everyone
Where is your family's Fo Ye?
Fo Ye is waiting for you inside the carriage
It's bad
Tell your Chief
My family's got a bit of a problem
I'll leave first
Ba Ye
A master who walks alone, without family
Where do your family problems come from?
Lieutenant Zhang, you!
What are you saying?!
Fo Ye instructed
If the fortune-teller
Dares leave the station one step
He'll be shot
Fo Ye's character
You understand too
Don't make things difficult for me
Since you've come
What's wrong with going in for a look?
I'll tell you
It's not like I wanted to come myself
If it weren't because your Fo Ye begged me
I wouldn't be bothered to leave the house
Then Ba Ye, please
7
Ba Ye, Fo Ye is still waiting for you ahead
Go go go
I've seen scenes like this loads of times
You you, there's none of your business
Go do your own thing
Please
Go go go
Ah this smell
Fo Ye
Curved big toe
He must have worn wooden clogs for a long time
You mean, Japanese special agents?
Not necessarily special agents
They're doing secret experiments
You mean, they all died because of
They died because of experiments?
If this did happen
The ones who will suffer are
Changsha's people
And, the dead people in this carriage
Their coffins had only just been dug out
You mean
They want to use an underground cave for experiments?
Let's keep walking and have a look first
Eh Fo Ye
The next carriage
I expect will be different from the ones before
Based on the markings
These coffins are basically
From the same grave
I don't know if Fo Ye has noticed
The sizes of those coffins
Are essentially the same
So, these should belong to
Subordinate coffins that were buried together
And this carriage
Is a sleeper carriage
The people that it transports
All live in this carriage
The further back you go
Is the final carriage
You mean to say
The people in this carriage
Are all subordinate coffins
They are all guarding
The final carriage
And the person in that final carriage
Is the grave's master, right?
So the master's grave contains
The grave master's coffin
Fo Ye, Ba Ye
Time was tight
I only found two gas masks
The two of you put them on
Eh, Fo Ye, are you looking down on me?
I didn't wear them in these previous few carriages
This final carriage
I'll just save it
Then let's us two put them on
Yes, Sir
No, I'm not saying I won't put it on
Aiyo Fo Ye
You, this person, why do you always never
Play things out like normal people do
Fo Ye
Give it to me, you, wait here
I'll go in with Fo Ye
In here
They seem to have fought
Here
This is too odd
The whole way here
All the dead people
Were face-down
How odd
The answer is here
(In Japanese, meaning number One is the Tomb)
(Changsha Station)
Fo Ye
Do you think
It's these poisonous spiders that have caused this?
These aren't spider webs
They are larvae that hatched from the coffins
If the insects
Aren't the key cause of death
Then this is strange
The Japanese who transported these coffins
And the corpses inside these coffins
Their positions in death are similar
They all died face-down
Say, this entire train is filled with dead people
How did the train drive in?
Before the Japanese died
They should have breathed in the toxic air
Although they got on the train
But when the train arrived at the station
It was just precisely the moment
When they took took their dying gasp
This entire train is dead
Without leaving a single one alive
To leave us with some information or something
Do you mean you have a greater understanding of the living?
No, Fo Ye
Dead people are useful
But this small coffin
The amount of information it can give us
Is limited
The real secret
Is hidden in the largest coffin
Then, why aren't we opening the coffin?
That's a whistle coffin
Not just anyone can open it
Sealing the coffin with molten metal, with only one hole
If you forcibly pry it open
Poisonous gas will be released
The only way to solve it
Is to insert your hand in
And open it from the inside
What are we waiting for?
Open the coffin then
Regular people can't open this coffin
For safety
We have to rely on the Zhang Family's skill
Lieutenant
Tell them to make preparations
Yes
Prepare
Eh, Fo Ye?
Your family's bodyguards
Can they do it?
If they can't do it, you go
Looking at your family's bodyguards
Strong build, remarkable looks
They are definitely great talent
Our North-East's Zhang Family
Are remarkable as expected
These pi pa scissors mounted on this coffin
You can't mean you're going to...
Using a rope connecting the pipa scissors
To a speedy horse
If there's anything odd about the coffin
Someone will be specifically responsible for ringing the gong
And once the gong sounds
The horse will immediately tighten the rope
The pipa scissors will instantly
Cut off the bodyguard's arm
And thus save his life
Aiyo Fo Ye
You-you're losing a limb to keep a life?
Open the coffin
Yes
Start
Oh no, Fo Ye
There's something inside this coffin
Don't panic
Save me!
No!
Quick
Go look for the military doctor
Fo Ye, what are you doing?
Fo Ye!
Go reconnect this back on for that bodyguard
Okay
This coffin doesn't have any trap at all
That soldier earlier was overly scared
His arm was stuck in the coffin
Causing his arm to be lost
Fo Ye
This corpse
Is same as all the other corpses in the train
Face down
Is this how
Changsha's notable families
Were placed into coffins in the past?
I really don't get it
I'll go back and look it up
Let me have a look, Fo Ye
Why does this thing
Look so familiar?
It should be an item from the North-South Dynasties?
Of the Changsha's Nine Gates
The one who understands the graves from the North-South Dynasties best
Should be Er Ye's family
Er Ye? Er Yue Hong?
Yes
It seems like we have to make a trip to look for Er Ye
To get to the bottom of this
You're here
Come in please, come in please
Haven't seen you in a long time
Come in please, come in please
Old Master, haven't seen you in a long time
Come, sit here
Come this way please
Please sit
Sit here then
Masters, please come in, to the comfortable seats
This way please
Screw you, what sort of rubbish place is this?!
Master, sit
Master, here
What rubbish is this?!
Is this rubbish tea drinkable?!
Ever since I
Followed the King
Conquering the East, battling the West
Madame, the theatre already sounded the gong
I'm really sorry
Make an exception, won't you?
Only such a short while has passed
Say, I got these tickets with such difficulty
They can't go to waste
Madame, Er Ye has already started singing
I really can't break the rules
If I have offended you, please forgive me
In order to hear one of Er Ye's shows
I specially rushed back from outside the city
Make an exception
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Please
Fo Ye, you're here
Please
Eh?
Hasn't the show started?
Why can he enter?
Madame, there's something you don't know
This Zhang Da Fo Ye
Is Er Ye's close friend
Stop stop stop stop
Stop singing, stop singing
What the hell are you singing?
Po Po ma ma yi yi ya ya?
Just listening to it is disheartening
That's right
Your Hunan's most famous thing
Isn't it the Flower Drum Opera?
Come, sing a few verses for me
Sing, you!
What are you standing there blankly for?
I'm asking you to sing, sing a verse!
I have loads of money!
Sing quickly, sing
Sing for me quickly!
Sir, if you aren't going to listen to the opera
You can leave
Don't disturb others from listening to the opera, okay?
What disturbing or not disturbing?
Don't think that just because you're wearing the military uniform
I'll be afraid of you
Eh, Fo Ye is here
This rascal
Can't do much now
Sing, sing quickly for me!
Leave, leave you bastard!
Let me go, what a downer
What is this?
Go, go quickly
Fo Ye, sorry
It was my oversight
Help me look into this
Which province did he come from?
Let him never ever be able to
Leave Changsha city again
Yes
Okay okay bye bye
Farewell, farewell
What a rare guest, Fo Ye
Don't you dislike listening to opera?
How come you thought of coming to my opera theatre?
This time I have come here
Because I have one thing to ask of you
Zhang Da Fo Ye
Has something to ask of me?
Why don't you tell me about it
The night before last
A military train pulled into Changsha
076
No codes, no markings
Everything in the carriage was sealed in
Then?
I cut the carriage open
And discovered it was all coffins inside
Everyone inside was dead
The dead were all Japanese
The two of you singing and harmonising
What show are you singing?
This implicates graves from the North-South dynasty
These are the graves that you, and your family are most familiar with
Fo Ye, I think that you know
I have not touched the things underground
For a long time now
You and I are both the Old Nine Gates
And we are both the Upper Three Gates
Do you think that the things underground
Are something you can break all relations with?
Unless I was absolutely forced to
I wouldn't come trouble you
It is just that in the train
We discovered a large amount of blueprints relating to a secret experiment
I worry that it is a conspiracy by the Japanese
Fo Ye, I think you are thinking too much
The military sub-area is guarded by you
Who dares venture in?
More so
How could any rustle in the wind in Changsha
Escape the eyes of the Commanders of the Nine Gates?
It is precisely because of this situation
That I want to investigate the origins of this train clearly
The conspiracy by the Japanese
Let me advice Fo Ye on one thing
This is dangerous, do not act rashly
Do you know something?
Stopping me, not wanting me to know
The show has already ended
Fo Ye please leave
Er Ye
I'll leave the ring behind
Continue thinking about this
Fo Ye
If Er Ye really refuses to help with this
Whether or not Er Ye cares about this
I want to get to the bottom of this
When night falls
Invite Ba Ye over
Okay
Er Ye?
Ya Tou
What's wrong?
Are the noodles that I make, not delicious?
The noodles that you make, are the most delicious