I'm too careless.
Before this, I thought that...
some refugees are just trying...
to cause some troubles here.
Now, it looks like...
there's a bigger force at work.
I'm afraid that...
tonight will be a life-and-death struggle.
Let Li Bi continue with his investigation.
Help him in secret if necessary.
Report back to me at once...
if there's any information about it.
Yes, Counsellor.
I'm too careless.
Early night!
The night has fallen!
" The Longest Day in Chang'an "
Episode 20
Where are you going?
To check on Li Bi's progress on the case.
You've seen Wen Ran?
Who is she?
I never saw her before.
Your body...
carries the smell of the sachet that she has with her.
Is she still alive?
Are we getting physical here?
Is she still alive?
I know where she is.
But I can't tell you about it.
Satisfied?
Why do you want to hide it from me?
I'm hiding it from you?
I have nothing to hide.
Me, Tan Qi and Li Bi...
had risked our lives to save you...
so that you can work on the case for Chang'an. But what about you?
Is your heart really in the case?
Don't you have any selfish motives at all?
Can you say that you didn't take on this case...
to get Wen Ran out from her crimes?
Zhang Xiao Jing. Let me tell you.
I don't believe that there will be someone like you.
I don't believe that there are people...
in Chang'an who will work for nothing while carrying a death punishment!
What is it? You have nothing to say?
When Wen Wu Ji died, he left me a death wish.
He asked me to take good care of Wen Ran.
After killing the 34 people in Blaze Gang...
and County Commander, Tan Tong Shou,
I can leave Chang'an together with Wen Ran at first.
But I was stopped by a bunch of people.
You were stopped?
You were in a killing spree that time. Who dared stop you?
Our captain, Su Kun,
team leader, Wen Wu Ji,
shooters, He You Lu, Nan Nu Zi,
mess officer, Zhang Si Lang,
foot soldier, Zhang Feng Er,
Duan Jun Jun,
Niu Wan Shou,
Baizhen Tuo Luo.
Who are you talking about?
They were the people in The Eight Squad.
They died in battle.
Wen Ran is living for us 220 brothers.
She is fulfilling our Chang'an dreams.
She should stay in Chang'an...
and watch while it gets better and better.
She should live better and better together with...
the people and Chang'an...
Isn't it funny?
This is a little dream that we stinking soldiers had.
We hope that all is well in Chang'an.
It is funny.
-Is she hurt? -She...
She is fine.
But I'm afraid that she's not clean.
What are you going to do?
Give me some time.
I'll find the real culprit.
After my investigation, we'll know whether or not Wen Ran is guilty.
But before I can do that,
please give her to Chief Li so that he can protect her.
Where are you going, Commandant Yao?
I'm going to see if Li Bi has the answer already or not.
You want to know who sent us.
I'll tell you about it in hell.
Chief Li.
Last...
This is the last chance to save your family.
I can find out where your family is.
I can provide for them for the rest of their lives and keep them safe.
I can make sure that they dress well and eat well.
Others can find out the location of your family too.
Your family's heads will be their merits.
I'm not seducing you for betrayal.
I know that it's useless for the Wolven Squad.
You use your rewards to feed your families.
You use your honour in exchange for your families' lives.
You had lived your whole lives...
only for your master.
I just want to talk to you and listen to your story...
so that you won't die in confusion.
Why didn't you get the map from Hu's Shop...
in Western District straight away?
It's a much better choice than Cui Liu Lang.
Wanquan Manor and the shop were already prepared well ahead.
Why were you rushed in...
only during the day of action itself?
Are you warriors...
or are you baits?
It's very possible that...
the Wolven Squad has been used by another...
to capture the attention of Peacekeeper Corps...
so that they can use the chance to transport Crouching Fire...
for other purposes.
Your efforts and sacrifices...
are nothing but a distraction for them.
So what?
It's fine as long as we can destroy Chang'an.
You are right.
It's nothing.
Great Tang is a huge country.
Without Chang'an,
it still has Luoyang,
Yangzhou, Jiangling, Chengdu,
15 governing cities and more than 300 states in the whole country.
Will you be able to blow them all off? How many Wolven Squad is there?
If the anger of Great Tang blows to your hometown,
Wolven Squad will be ripped from their roots.
Your family and friends...
will become the lowest of all slaves.
Even if your plan works, you'll face the ultimate revenge from Great Tang.
In the end, the one who hurts the most is the Wolven Squad.
You put in the most effort, but you have the worst ending...
and the least profits.
When your master plans this attack,
has he really thought about the consequences?
Is he doing it in a spur of a moment...
or is he under other's thumb?
I'm afraid that...
someone has been lying to you about this since the very start.
Put the Wolven Squad forward as shield.
Such a clever plan.
Great Tang will suffer great loss,
the Wolven Squad will be exterminated...
and the ones who hid behind their backs...
will go unscathed...
while reaping the benefits from it.
If they want to use the Wolven Squad,
they have to find someone from the inside.
And the insider...
needs to have enough power to control the Wolven Squad...
besides having a clear view on the situation in Chang'an.
I'm afraid that...
Your Excellency is the only one who is able to do that.
He has betrayed you.
He has betrayed all of Wolven Squad.
He put you in a suicide mission...
and all of your efforts and sacrifices...
had become the presents for him to please his new master.
And this traitor...
had cut off the hair of a loyal soldier...
so that he wouldn't be able to take care...
-of her daughter when he dies. -You Cha!
You Cha.
The person who sent you into Chang'an is You Cha.
Where is he?
Wolven Squad has never feared death.
But we are afraid to die unworthy.
He tricked us.
Tell me now. Where is You Cha hiding?
The stars in the sky...
won't be able to see me anymore.
I swear to God.
I will send your necklace...
and your soul...
back to your hometown.
I'll do it for your reputation...
and for the person who made this necklace for you.
Answer me.
Where is You Cha?
Lotus Cross.
Actually,
you are just like me, right?
Father!
Where is the person I brought here?
Have you heard about the Lotus Cross?
You have a clue?
Cao Po Yan has spoken.
Lotus Cross.
Wait for a while.
-He talked? -Yes, he did.
-She has escaped. -Who has escaped?
Tell him yourself.
I guard Peacekeeper Corps...
in case Right Cavalries finds trouble with us again.
At this very moment,
I need someone that I can trust.
Wen Ran.
Yao Ru Neng has found Wen Ran. But I guess that she has escaped.
Truthfully, I'm quite glad.
At least it means that she's still safe at the moment.
Truth be told,
ever since you came to Peacekeeper Corps,
me and Tan Qi have been investigating on Wen Ran in secret.
This woman is very suspicious. If you keep on protecting her,
I can't trust you anymore.
Today, I can do anything you ask for Chang'an.
But I have to protect Wen Ran no matter what.
I will solve...
her case myself after I'm done with this.
Master.
Let's get you changed.
Is Wen Ran that important to you?
You are the descendant of aristocrats.
If you are bored of Chang'an, you can stay in the mountains...
just for a change of scene.
You don't know how much we longed to stay in Chang'an.
When we cannot do that,
we want to leave a pair of eyes behind...
to watch.
To watch Chang'an for us.
Get us some fried sesame balls.
Commander Zhang needs to rest.
Cao Po Yan mentioned about Lotus Cross before he dies.
If we can find out what Lotus Cross means,
we will be able to find the person behind Wolven Squad,
You Cha.
You still trust me?
Even if you see Wen Ran,
you will ask her for everything she knows about the case at once too,
right?
Thank you.
I heard about You Cha.
He is the youngest son of the Alpha.
You Cha is hiding in Chang'an.
The person who can find out about his whereabouts and hire him...
is not just some mindless vigilantes.
You really aren't hiding anything?
Now, we need to find You Cha at once...
and find out what Lotus Cross means.
Xu Bin is searching for the answer now.
But with him alone,
I'm afraid that it'll take us much longer.
I trust you. You have to trust me too.
Let us replay the whereabouts of the Wolven Squad again.
When is the last time you rest?
It's just two days ago.
I had fasted all year long. My body can take it.
You better take a nap.
If you are wound up so tightly all the time, your body can't take it.
I can't.
I can't sleep.
For the past two days,
as soon as I close my eyes,
I'll be worried that something might happen when I sleep...
and I couldn't get to it on time.
I thought that you are a man of cultivation.
You need to be more open-minded.
A man of cultivation has a solitary heart.
We strive to be detached from all things in the world.
But so many lives in Chang'an are under my care today.
How can I turn my back on them?
Heaven and earth are ruthless.
They treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs.
Unfortunately, I'm not at that level yet.
How are you going to be a prime minister then?
Don't just talk about me. Aren't you the King of Hell?
How did you hurt your hand?
A brother of mine...
was dead because of me while being a spy in Ge Lao's underworld.
It's my way of atoning for my sin.
Since you are the King of Hell, you should know that...
sacrificing one for all...
is about protecting the majority.
It is not a sin. Why do you need to atone for it?
Both of you are not at that level yet.
But it's good...
to have that humanness.
If something like that happens to me in the future,
you can just do it.
No need to feel uncomfortable or guilty about it.
Sure!
I promise you.
I thought that you will at least decline politely.
You hired me...
because I'm good at my work...
not because I'm polite.
Master, these fried sesame balls...
are fried by the Taoist priest in Jinglong Temple with vegetarian oil.
It's very filling.
You don't know how long are you going to go at this later.
So, you need to use this chance to eat more.
I found it.
Where is the possible hiding spots for You Cha?
Let's talk about the Lotus Cross first. It's the symbol of a church.
-Church? -Yes.
Only some priests call it church.
They had come to Chang'an for almost a century.
But they are not as popular as the prayer hall.
And there are even less people who know about its real name.
In the official documents, it's called the Golden Monastery of Persia.
The people of Chang'an only known it as the Persian's monastery.
-Get to the point. -The point is,
it's very possible that...
You Cha is hiding in a Persian's monastery.
Persian's monastery?
There are too many of them.
Chang'an has more than 10 said monasteries with certain scale...
and thousands of priests.
With that information alone, it'll be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Can you...
look into the clerical certificates of...
Persian's monastery like you did the prayer hall?
When we investigated the prayer hall,
we were just looking within Huaiyuan Street.
Now, we have to look into all clerical certificates of churches in Chang'an.
We don't have time for that.
The map of Chang'an.
It's here.
The places where the Wolven Squad showed up today.
We need to find the most suspicious one within these four monasteries...
so that we won't alert the enemy and show our hands.
What do you want to say?
Just say it if you have something in your mind.
After all, being a slave is not the only thing that you know how to do.
There are no others here. You can just speak your mind.
I don't think that he's in any of those four monasteries.
If I were to lay down traps to fool others,
the traps I laid down will be far from where I stay...
so that I don't leave a trail for others.
This is an emergency.
Don't make useless remarks.
Then, where do you think it is?
Master.
I remembered something from the past.
When Peacekeeper Corps was just starting out,
we had decided on Guangde Street after changing the location for a few times.
We have Ministry of Capital on same street to exchange database easily.
Our west is close to Western District so that we can spy on Hu's shop.
Our north is near to the royal city to contact the palace easily.
Our east is connected to Zhuque Street to transfer our forces with ease.
You can be in control of the overall situation by being here...
to give out instruction.
So, I think You Cha...
might have the same thinking as us.
He will choose somewhere safe...
where he can access to information with ease.
You are very smart.
You Cha has to give out commands and coordinate behind the scene.
He has to control the Wolven Squad...
while contacting the mysterious power that bought him off.
Communication is a high demand. But he doesn't have the watchtowers.
So, he has to stay in a place that can link to everywhere.
I got it.
Yining Street.
The most western part of the north part of Chang'an.
It has Kaiyuan Gate in the Northwest, Jinguang Gate in the south-west.
Western District is at the south where the Hu's shop is.
He can climb up to observe if there's anything happening.
It has a street in front of it which is...
one of the main six streets in Chang'an.
The street goes past the royal city.
And it'll cross with Zhuque Main Street from north to south.
The traffic is very convenient.
In terms of hiding or communication,
this is the best place that You Cha will choose.
I'll check it out.
Even if you can get in, how are you going to find him...
among hundreds of priests.
Lend Miss Tan Qi out to me.
She is very sharp and attentive.
She's stronger than normal man. She can be of help.
Are you willing to go?
Did you see them eating salt and inhaling the candles' fume?
It's quite popular in Chang'an for many years.
At first, I just think that it's very entertaining.
After that, I did the same thing every year.
Salt symbolises prolonging...
while candle symbolises longevity.
If you inhale the fume of one candle, you can prolong your life for a year.
It's just a measure to be auspicious. This is called the Life Candle.
-Let's go. -So beautiful
I had inhaled it for so many years. But it didn't work.
-We can't let them waste their effort. -Let's take a look there.
Sure.
-How much is this? -I'll sell it to you.
-Happy Lantern Festival. -Happy Lantern Festival. Thank you.
-Happy Lantern Festival. -Thank you.
Thank you.
God bless you.
" Church in Yining Street "
Are we going to ask for the clerical certificate from them?
We don't know what Christian name did You Cha use.
I'm afraid that we won't be able to check the clerical certificate.
Later,
I do have a plan.
-But it depends on your capability. -What capability?
Are you willing to take the cross and be blessed by us?
Thank you.
My wife...
had dreamt about a God in golden Armour last night.
He wore a cross and stood on a lotus.
He said that a priest who is fated to her is coming to Chang'an.
He had ordered me to serve him sincerely.
We came to this Persian's monastery...
to look for our priest.
Madam.
Since you had dreamt about the Lotus Cross,
you should look for your fated one today.
It's rare for Him to appear in your dream.
Looks like you've been reformed by this person who is fated to you.
This is even more precious than donating some silks...
or some golden instruments.
Do you know the priest's name?
About that,
the God in golden Armour just said that the priest...
is not from Central Plains...
and he came to Chang'an in recent months.
The wandering priests in our church...
include people from Rome, Japan, Persia and etcetera.
And we have priests from western countries and highlands from north.
The scope of non-Central-Plains priests is too wide.
That priest has a noble look to him.
Do you have someone like that in the church?
There are too many priests in this church.
I can't think of any for the moment.
How about...
you come in with me?
Follow me in. I'll ask my fellow priests about it.
You found her?
She is not dead. Some soldiers are...
collecting evidences in Li's Shop at Changming Street.
I killed them.
How can you be sure that she's fine?
Upon dying, one of them told me that...
they saw a girl leaving from that place.
Come.
Please wait a moment.
Where did the Samaritans come from?
They come here to search for someone.
This is Deacon Isse.
He's the one in charge of the general affairs in the church.
You can ask him about everything.
God bless you.
Happy Lantern Festival to you.
You are such a matching pair.
You make me...
so envious.
You speak the language of Tang very well.
Looks like we came to the right place.
Last night,
I dreamt about a fated priest coming to Chang'an.
I was ordered to serve him sincerely.
My husband saw that I was so faithful.
So, we had searched everywhere for that priest.
This Persian's monastery...
is the fifth one.
I wonder if there is a...
an Elder who came from the west recently?
Now that you've mentioned it,
we do have an Elder who came from the west.
He is new to the church.
And he's quite close to the description of the one...
that you dreamt of.
We are thirsty for knowledge about this religion.
Can you bring us to him?
Of course.
But,
this is a Roman church.
Not a Persian's monastery.
I had put in many efforts to make the people of Chang'an...
know about the name of...
Roman church.
But Chang'an is too big.
Maybe there are too many good things in it.
And the people of Chang'an have seen a lot.
I work hard every day but there are few who know about us.
We are people of Chang'an too. Since we are here,
it means that you are not incompetent.
Do you know that...
not everything is predestined by God?
I know that...
we didn't do very well lately.
We didn't deserve you.
But I wonder,
how did you know about our church?
I made a wish to Bodhisattva.
And then, the dream came to me.
If it's the real God, then They should be one and the same.
Isn't that right?
Such enlightenment.
-I'm too narrow-minded. -Please pardon me,
but where is the Elder from the west...
that you had mentioned?
This way please.
My fellow Samaritans,
this is our church's confession room.
If you had done anything wrong...
or have some ill intentions,
you can come here to confess, repent...
and ask the priest for guidance.
This is a fully enclosed and private place.
You can speak anything you wish...
and no one will know about it.
Since both of you want to meet your priest,
maybe you can make a confession first.
We have nothing to confess.
This is our church's usual practice.
My husband still wants to take me for the light show later.
So, he's impatient.
Please bring us to the priest as soon as possible.
Please...
sit and wait in the confession room first.
I'll go and bring him here now.
Has You Cha seen you before?
Use this time...
to rest.
He works only for the money. He's unreliable.
I already sent someone to take care of him.
No need to worry about it.
Who did you send?
Is he stronger than me?
Do you know why I call myself Yu Chang?
Because like Yuchang Sword,
it is tough but flexible.
Ruthless and deadly.
You wish that...
you can be like Yuchang Sword.
Yuchang Sword is the king of all swords.
I'm the most useful one for you. Why did you need to send others?
Who did you send?
They are assassins.
They never fail and they never leak a secret.
They are unreliable.
Miss Wen is back.
Husband.
Will you blame me?
If only I didn't learn those nonsense...
from that Taoist priest for a few years,
we wouldn't be stuck here now.
What did the master tell you?
My master...
didn't tell me anything.
I just used his teachings...
to make a deduction.
I deduced that today, there will be...
a disaster in this church.
So, I had dragged you here without thinking to help me diffuse it.
But in the end, we were locked up in here.
It's a predestined disaster.
How can there be ways to diffuse it?
Good things in this world...
will come to an end.
And there are no endless bad things as well.
There will be an interchange...
between the good and the bad.
As for how to solve it,
-there will be a way. -What is it?
Give me your ear.
-We can't let others hear it. -Tell me.
The solution is...
You can't say it! You'll jinx it! You can't say it!
What disaster is going to fall upon our church? Tell me the solution now.
Why did you lock us up?
Because I'm too handsome.
If you speak nonsense again, I'll put a scar on your face.
I've been the attention of many since young. I'm sick with it.
So, I'm always very doubtful.
Look at my eyes.
When you came into the church,
you kept stealing glances at each other.
You like each other but you are trying to hide it.
You don't look like husband and wife.
Why did you pretend to be husband and wife...
to barge into our church?
As the deacon of this church, it's my duty to protect it.
If I didn't check when I saw some suspicious people in the church,
then I'll become a free-loader.
That's why I locked both of you in here.
I'll be truthful to you then.
I am Commander Zhang Xiao Jing from Peacekeeper Corps.
I'm investigating about a huge case regarding the safety of Chang'an.
We found out that the instigator behind it stays in your church.
You locked us up without any reason. Are you his accomplice?
What huge case? What instigator?
-Will it affect our church? -It's inevitable.
Wolven Squad from the west had infiltrated...
Chang'an this morning to plan an attack and the instigator is You Cha,
leader of Wolven Squad's son.
He came into your church half a year ago. He is extremely dangerous.
He is connected to the millions of lives in Chang'an.
If you purposely delay our progress here,
put Chang'an into jeopardy and risk the lives of many innocents,
your church will earn itself an eternal infamy.
God bless us.
If we can contribute to this case, we'll be in the country's good graces.
And then, our church's name will be known to all.
I know who you are talking about.
Follow me.
This way.
Priest Jing De.
Have you seen Elder Pu Zhe?
He was just here,
urging us to tell him the details about the fire in Western District.
Which room is he in?
The first chapel house in the backyard.