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Candle in the Tomb
Episode 19
This should be the legendary Titan Arum.
People say it is extremely dangerous when it blooms.
I can't believe something like this exists!
Titan Arum? Isn't it still like a taro?
Legends say that Titan Arums
grow in tombs. Not only can they preserve corpses,
they can give corpses a sweet aroma. It's very valuable.
These two things are here, serving Queen Jingjue.
That's so magical.
Old Hu, we're already here,
and we've barely escaped death.
- We must go up there and look.- You can't go!
You mustn't carelessly go over there.
According to legends, demons reside in these Titan Arums.
Once it matures, living people can no longer come near it.
It's too dangerous!
Do you notice that the Guidong language is also written on this bridge.
Look!
I think these words are strongly connected to this cave.
It must be recordings of important information!
I want to go up and copy it down.
Professor, I also want to go.
Okay, then.
Be sure not to go near the Titan Arum. Just record it down.
Don't worry, Professor.
- Be careful of safety!- Okay.
Be extra careful.
Be careful.
Don't go near it!
It's identical to your dream?
Exactly the same. Why is that?
How is this place related to me?
I must find out.
I must go look at Queen Jingjue's coffin.
This is my last chance.
Calm down. I understand your feelings.
Relax. When those two come back, I'll go with you.
Thank you, Old Hu.
Are you two really hiding something from me?
Xiao Chu, Xiao Sa, come back!
Hey! You two! What are you doing?
Stay away from that taro!
Xiao Chu! You two, come down!
Something's wrong.
Old Hu, what's wrong?
I don't know. I just feel like something is wrong.
- What's wrong?- I can't explain it. It's an intuition.
No, I must stop them.
- Old Hu! Come back!- Xiao Hu!
Fatty!
- I already told them not to get too close. Why didn't they listen?- What do we do?
Old Hu.
Why did you two follow me?
Hey!
Xiao Sa!
What is going on? Why did it suddenly--
They were... They were the best...
You two, take care of Professor. I'll go take a look.
Didn't I tell you to take care of Professor? Why did you follow me?
Who knows what may be up here? I'm worried if you come alone.
Plus, it'll be heavy to carry Sa Dipeng alone. I can help you to prevent another accident.
Fatty, here.
Old Hu, don't worry about it! It's more important to save him.
How is he?
No pulse.
How will we explain this to his parents?
It'll break his parents' hearts.
Dead people can't come back to life.
She's alive! She's alive!
Xiao Sa!
He clearly had no pulse.
Look!
The flower is blooming!
I'd like to see her true appearance.
- Old Hu.- Don't be afraid!
Didn't you also want to look? Great.
I want to see what kind of demon she is.
At worst, I'll fulfill her wish and make her die a second time!
That's right!
- Here. Hold this.- Yes, hold it! Fatty and I will go up first.
If anything happens in the coffin, we'll call for you.
Why are you here? Don't you have acrophobia?
What? I'm deaf! I can't hear you!
- Hu Bayi!- Old Hu!
Hu Bayi!
What are you doing? Come down!
-Hu Bayi!- Old Hu, come down!
Come back, Hu Bayi!
Old Hu, hurry and come down!
Hu Bayi!
Are you crazy?
Why didn't you hear us when we called your name?
What just happened to me?
You scared us to death.
When you reached the middle of the bridge, it was like you were sleepwalking.
You started waving the shovel around.
You were moving and gesturing for quite some time.
I'm telling you, if I don't have acrophobia,
I would've gone up there and beat you up.
Didn't you tell me that you can't hear anything?
Can you not always expect the worst in me?
Fatty.
All thanks to your acrophobia.
Old Hu, have you gone crazy too?
I understand now. This Titan Arum
uses its color and aroma to cause hallucination in us.
The stone bridge is its area of influence. Once you step onto the bridge,
it will cause hallucinations. That was what happened to Xiao Sa and Xiao Chu.
Damn it. I must teach that thing a lesson.
Old man, is this a botanic garden?
Why does this place have so many strange flowers?
It's Red Spider Lily. Legend has it that this flower only blooms in hell. It's an ominous sign.
That's why it's also known as the 'flower on the road to hell'.
- I need to bring back Xiao Sa.- Old Hu, you can't go there.
Sa Dipeng!
Why is this flower growing so fast?
Quick, run! Otherwise, we can't escape at all.
Come, let me do it. Fatty, carry Xiao Yezi.
Professor.
There are Red Spider Lilies all over in front. Our route has been sealed off.
Quick, go this way. Come!
This way.
Fatty, quick, this way.
Quick.
That damned flowers are catching up! What to do?
Fatty, explosives.
Quick.
Open your mouth and cover your ears!
Old Hu, are you alright?
Are you alright?
I can't hear you.
Are you alright?
Maybe we put too much explosives.
- Xiao Yezi has regained consciousness.- Xiao Ye.
- Have some water.- Xiao Ye!
Professor Chen.
It's going to collapse!
Quick run!
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Xiao Ye, come!
Xiao Ye.
Professor Chen.
Fatty. Everyone, we can't stop. We have to keep moving.
Just let me die. I can't run anymore.
Old Hu, are we dead or are we still alive?
There's not much difference now.
Even if we are still alive now, we aren't too far from dying.
That means we are on the way to death.
Miss Yang, let me say my farewell to you.
Old Hu and I will have to meet the king of Hades.
As for you, you are meeting God. Your route is longer.
Please take good care of yourself.
Can both of you stop fooling around at this time?
It seemed to have stopped.
Stop?
It has really stopped, Old Hu.
We are destined to have good fortune after surviving this disaster.
It's too early to say that. I'm saying that we are temporarily alive.
What do you mean?
We've been buried. We can't get out at all.
I'm not sure whether it's ventilated here or not. If we don't have air,
all of us can only live for an hour at the most.
I lost my bag. Everything's gone.
Not even explosives.
We only have this much water left.
We can't do much here.
We can't expect help from outside either.
That old man Anliman would have left.
Old Hu, both of us have shovels. Let's dig our way out.
Save your energy. How long must we dig?
And where shall we start digging? Even if we have water,
if there's no oxygen here, we'll still die.
Since it has come to this, let's not think anymore.
Let's distribute the water first.
Xiao Ye, have some water.
Have some.
Professor, have some water.
Hold this, drink it when you are thirsty.
You drink first.
I'm not thirsty, you drink it first.
Drink slowly.
There are only a few of us here, no one is going to snatch it from you.
If all of us died here,
it's all my fault.
If I didn't insist on coming here, all these wouldn't have happened.
Also, wouldn't have implicated so many people.
I'm really...
It's okay.
You can't say it that way. There's this old Chinese saying,
"human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food" (fig. a man will do anything in his means to become rich). Fatty and I
brought these upon ourselves. If we weren't greedy for your US$40,000,
we wouldn't be here, right?
And for Professor Chen, this is their vocation,
even if you don't invest in their expedition, sooner or later they will still find a way to search for the Ancient City of Jingjue.
Why are you crying?
I'm telling you, I should be the one crying.
If I had known that this is so difficult, I should've asked for more money from you.
That's right. You have to pay us more.
Why are you smiling now?
I'm telling you, don't cry and laugh. We are serious.
I'm really not thirsty.
The Guidong which we saw,
- is the same as the one in your dream, right?- Yes.
The one thing that you didn't see clearly
is the huge Titan Arum on the coffin.
Old Hu, what are you saying?
She said her dad appeared in her dream and what she saw is the same as in her dream.
So that's why she wanted to look at the Queen of Jingjue.
So in the end, you were bewitched?
Miss Yang, something's not right.
Didn't your father met with a mishap in the Kunlun glacier?
How could he appear here? Did he come here?
Actually, when I saw the Titan Arum,
I also thought of it.
You actually believe in the deceased appearing in dreams? It's all superstition.
But why did I
see places which I've never been to in my dream?
It was also very vivid.
I also don't know why.
There seems to be an indistinct voice in me, which has been calling out to me,
leading me to this place.
It could be that you were the Queen of Jingjue in your previous life.
You were just coming back to the place which you had been here before.
He's crazy.
We should be able to go over from here.
Fatty, bring them with you.
Alright.
XIao Ye.
Be careful.
Professor, be careful.
Be careful.
-Where is this place?- Be quiet.
There's something there.
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- Old Hu, two Zongzi. -What Zongzi?
Their faces are almost fossilized. It looks like
they are more than a thousand years old.
What is this? I thought this is the way out.
It's just going from a sealed area to another sealed area.
Light the candles.
Both of you are tomb raiders.
What are you saying? Are you exhausted?
Didn't I tell you before,
my hobby is to research on Feng Shui and Astrology?
But we are not tomb raiders, don't accuse us without any reason.
Fatty and I have good upbringing.
Fatty himself received the "Three Eight Red Flag" role model award every year (awarded to women for exemplary work on 8th March, International Women's Day).
What "Three Eight Red Flag" award? My mother was the one who received it.
I was in the Youth Commando Force. We are all groomed well by the party and the nation, right?
Hey Old Hu, this stone chamber looks quite unique.
What do you think is inside?
I'm saying why are you two still acting like this at this time?
We...We are just trying to seek truth from facts (be practical and realistic).
That's right.
Your hearts harbor ulterior motives, your mouths are speaking nonsense,
you two raid tombs for your benefit and are very good at it.
You two have good foresight and instinct, and will not be deceived by others.
What's going on? Are you possessed?
Not at all. There are no experts here. It's just a skill that was passed down from my ancestors.
May I be bold in asking you, the expert, where have you been raiding tombs, and what geographical extent have you covered?
What was your best raid, what contraption from which dynasty have you been able to decode?
Although we are at different ends of the world far away from each other, but we are in the same vocation, and our skills are similarly passed down from our ancestors.
I've been everywhere and will go anywhere, from ancient times to modern days, from high to low, from front to back.
I've been to many kings' palaces. However, I don't know Feng Shui and have missed many splendid burial sites.
Are the both of you possessed or is it me?
Don't scare me.
Still not admitting to it.
Let me tell you, these two poems appear in our primary school textbook.
I didn't know that the primary school textbooks in the States
are similar to ours.
I don't remember learning those poems.
Old Hu, if we can get out of here alive,
I hope we can have a serious talk.
But we have to get out of here alive first.
Hey, what were the both of you talking about just now?
It was tomb raiding jargon. They're all code words. Others won't be able to understand.
But how was she able to understand? She's also a tomb raider?
I can't say for sure.
But all these jargons were lost after the revolution.
If my ancestors were not in this line, I wouldn't have known it.
So that means her ancestors...
Hey, could it be that her father...
It's possible. But this lass is quite knowledgeable,
so I didn't dare to carry on the conversation.
What did I tell you before? I don't trust her right from the beginning.
Let me tell you, we can't be too polite with her. Let's tie her up and get the truth from her.
Even if we have to die, we have to know the truth.
Stop it. Find an exit quickly, otherwise all these are nonsense.
Old Hu, there's no exit here.
The road there has been sealed off.
We can only see if there could be a hidden mechanism in this stone chamber.
I remember in the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (travel record of Xuan Zang), Mount Zhagelama was mentioned in it.
Legend has it that two sages were buried in that mountain.
Could it be these two?
But this tomb is too simple.
It's not befitting of sages.
From the mural, this isn't the tomb of the sages.
Look, this child could be the son of the sage or his disciple.
They should be prophets.
But this old man next to him should be his servant.
Look, from the ten over drawings on this stone chamber,
if you connect them together, they look like an ancient prophecy.
The drawing is simple and the symbols are distinctive.
I think I can decipher a few.
Can you decipher and see if there's an exit hidden inside?
No. But I think what this prophet said isn't accurate.
On the top over here, it's written that after his death, no one has entered here.
Until later when four persons barged in and opened the stone chamber.
4 persons?
This prophet's math wasn't good.
He didn't count Professor Chen in because he went crazy?
If this prophet isn't a swindler,
then...it could be that he wasn't referring to us. But there could be another possibility.
What is it?
Among the five of us, one isn't a human.
♫ Walk forward and pass through a gap ♫
♫ I want to see it more clearly ♫
♫ My courage and fragile sensitivityare together ♫
♫ Some secrets are hidden at the bottom of my heart ♫
♫ I’ve never mentioned it to anybody ♫
♫ Fate beckons, but doesn’t careabout the result ♫
♫ Because of capricious changes,I’m trapped in the moment ♫
♫ An unknown river flows up,but the river current goes down ♫
♫ The bigger your desires,the higher price you must pay ♫
♫ My stomach is filled with words,but I close my mouth ♫
♫ Fate has once given promises,but it can also go back on its words ♫
♫ One side offers loving words,while the other side offers lies ♫
♫ You’re supposed to climb to heaven,but you flee to hell ♫
♫ You were given a youthful face,but it transformed all into grey hairs overnight ♫
♫ Sail downstream with the current ♫