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[The Mystic Nine]
[Episode 20]
Officer Lu, in this world, there are only two people who can touch my hair.
One, my husband.
Two, the dead.
Head of the Huo Family, if I offended you, please do forgive me.
That's all right. In the future, if you are making your way around,
I hope that Officer Lu will learn about my rules first.
You are indeed an outstanding individual amongst women. Your clarity of thought is very much apparent.
It is just that Zhang Qishan looks down on everyone.
How can a person of your character be so willing to bow down to that?
Even if I am not willing,
Zhang Qishan is far too powerful.
As just one of the nine families, how can I compete with him?
I have a friend
who just wants to get rid of Zhang Qishan.
Is he one of the nine families?
If he wants, he will be one very soon.
I don't know if this person
- knows that there is a rule amongst the nine families. - Oh?
If he can eliminate the head of any one of the families,
he will be able to replace them.
I will help him. Thank you Madam Huo for your suggestion.
♫ The era of surviving amidst war, ♫
♫unable to avoid the rivalries ♫
♫ In this big world, everyone, let's worship together ♫
♫ Life and death are destined, you can't do anything about it ♫
♫ leaving when you still haven't done anything yet ♫
♫ You're here, I'm here, let's fight to have a future ♫
♫ Get up, get up ♫
♫ Get up, get up, upsurge of burning passion ♫
♫ Adversities and prosperity have caused us to lift our head high and not be afraid ♫
♫ No matter how many conflicts there would be ♫
♫ Moving forward or retreating, won't regret it ♫
♫ In a spurt of energy, preparing to give it all in this counterattack ♫
♫ Even if I have to abandon myself ♫
♫ If I'm not the battle addict, who else? ♫
♫ Who are we? A group of people who gets stronger as they meet someone stronger ♫
♫ No matter how exhausted we are ♫
♫ Moving forward or retreating, won't regret it ♫
♫ Bullets are flying around, using our own flesh to block it ♫
♫ Even if we are about to break down ♫
♫ Victory or defeat isn't definite, just pursue your dream. ♫
[The Mystic Nine]
Fo Ye! I can't do this, I can't do this.
If we keep going on like this, when will we ever reach an end?
All of you rest for now. Have a drink of water and we will continue in a while.
Lieutenant, give me a drink of water.
I'm dying from thirst.
Fo Ye, look. The corners of my mouth are even crusting over.
Fo Ye, earlier we walked the depth of a few floors already.
Logically, a mine shaft like this should get damper the deeper you go down.
However, it is only getting drier and drier. I can't figure it out.
You're right, this place is definitely strange.
When you are done drinking, we will continue forward.
What did the head of the Huo family say?
She said, if you want to take down Zhang Da Fo Ye
you must speak as one of the nine families.
What does that mean?
She said that there is a rule among the nine families.
Whoever can topple one of the heads of the nine families,
can replace them.
You understand the inner workings of the nine families better than I do.
Speak then, which family do you want to move in on?
How about the third then?
I reckon you can't touch the first two anyways.
San Ye is the most vicious character in all of Changsha.
Do you want me to die so soon?
Aside from the Huo family, you may take your pick.
Liu Ye's sword is too fast.
There is no need for me to take that risk.
Although Jiu Ye's fighting skill is not high, he is good at calculations.
I reckon I wouldn't even be able to get close to him.
Gou Wu Ye, I'm not afraid.
But his dogs are too numerous, with a keen sense of smell.
Before I kill him, I would have to kill tens of his dogs.
Speaking like this, then there is only Si Ye left.
Although Si Ye's fighting skills aren't bad,
but his enemies are numerous
so he is very wary. He is followed by a group of guards.
And two high skilled individuals stick by him.
Wherever he goes, they will tread first.
When someone enters and leaves a room, they will be searched carefully.
If Si Ye won't do, then who will?
Who says Si Ye won't do? I'll just pick him.
Si Ye is most fond of pretences. As long as Office Lu invites him,
he will most definitely come.
Fine. I'll ask him to meet tomorrow.
- But everything else, I'll leave it to you. - Fine.
Stop.
Fo Ye, there is no road ahead of us.
Since there is no road, how about we just head back?
Fo Ye, do you think this was caused by man or nature?
Based on the thickness here, it should have been caused by man.
By men?
You mean to say that someone deliberately blew this apart here?
Intended by the heavens!
Fo Ye!
We cannot disobey the heavens. Let's really return then.
Shut up.
The larger the tomb, the more interconnected it is.
If this road does not work, let's just find another one.
It's all right.
Come over.
- Lieutenant, throw the luggage over. - Okay.
Fo Ye, there is no road ahead.
Everyone have a rest here.
Yes.
That's great. I can finally take a breather.
I'm tired to death.
- Fo Ye, have some crackers? - I won't eat.
You keep it and eat it slowly.
I'll eat, I'll eat, I'll eat. I'll eat it. I'm dying of hunger.
What did you discover?
This is a mark of my family.
When my ancestors passed this spot, they left this mark
to send a message. This place is safe.
This area has symbols from Er Ye's family. Could the path from here be safer?
I instead feel that this is where danger starts.
Hence, starting from now,
no matter what happens from here on,
we mustn't panic.
Yes.
Hey, Fo Ye, come here quickly!
There's a stone tablet here, but I can't clearly see what's written on it.
Based on my assessment, this tombstone shouldn't be appearing here.
If my guess is right, what's written there is information about this ancient tomb.
But this tombstone shouldn't be appearing here.
Can you clearly read what's written on it?
It got destroyed by someone. You can't really decipher what's on it.
That's strange. Why would anyone destroy it?
Was this done by your ancestors?
No way. My ancestors wouldn't do such a thing.
No matter who did it, it's very obvious
that he doesn't want us to know more information about this tomb.
The more one tries to hide, the more one is exposed.
Looks like, they really want to hide something.
Move it!
Fo Ye, that must be a trap! You mustn't go in!
If it's a trap set up by my ancestors, I will surely be able to see through it.
This must be an abandoned hole.
You all stay here.
The three of us will go in. Er Ye.
It's a trap...
Fo Ye, let's walk forward a little more.
Let's go.
Fo Ye.
Let's divide and take a look.
Er Ye! Come! Come!
Er Ye! Er Ye! This! Look what this is.
Oh, my!
Fo Ye,
this must be a research lab that the Japanese left behind.
I never would have thought that the Japanese would create a place like this here.
Looks like your intuition is right.
Let's meticulously search and see if we can find anything useful.
(Detailed Map of Changsha City)
Er Ye, quickly come look.
Japanese language.
Can you understand it?
Huh?
Fo Ye, there are a lot of Japanese files here! Come and look!
Look. There are a lot of them. Do you understand Japanese?
Fo Ye, look.
These must be documents that the Japanese didn't have time to destroy before they escaped.
This must be a planar map of the mine.
Look at this place. We passed by this bridge earlier.
My god! This was drawn in such detailed manner.
Look. There are symbols here.
What do they mean?
Only the man who made this map will know that.
But with it, we can more or less decipher the meaning of those symbols
based on the places we've been through.
Let's search more. See if we can find something else.
Okay.
In this hole, other than maps, are there no other things?
The Japanese left a lot of documents down there.
But they are basically useless.
These Japanese set up camp here.
Exactly. They are really not treating themselves as outsiders.
What could this symbol mean?
We still are oblivious with the real situation of this mine cave.
Hence, when we enter, don't be curious.
If you encounter any mishap because of your curiosity, not only will you harm yourself, you'll drag all of us in danger.
Pack your things and come with me.
Yes!
[Xu Chang Xing Restaurant]
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Welcome! Welcome! Please go inside!
Please! Please!
[Xu Chang Xing Restaurant]
Please, this way.
Slow down.
This way. This way.
We're here.
Officer.
- He's here. - Si Ye. (Fourth Master)
Waiter, serve your best tea.
Yes, right away.
Si Ye, you're handling a huge family business and are surely a very busy man.
For you to be able to see me despite your busy schedule, it was indeed not a waste to send you that invitation.
I fear trouble the most.
I'm not really willing to have any dealings with government officials like you.
Officer Lu, I've given you enough honor today.
Yes. I've long heard that Si Ye is of noble character, unquestionable integrity, and aloof with secular matters.
I just arrived to your place. If I am lacking in some manners,
I hope you can guide me.
Si Ye, if you don't mind it,
please be my friend.
It will depend if you're worthy to be one.
Okay. Si Ye, please sit.
Si Ye, if you have a heroic bearing,
I fear that I won't be able to imitate it even if I tried.
In my opinion, even if you become the head of the Nine Mystic Families one day,
it won't be too surprising.
Of course. I just am not willing to lower myself to the level of the other members of the Nine Mystic Families.
Or else, with my martial arts skills,
how could they be my rival?
Si Ye, you have such an imposing bearing. I'm impressed.
Officer Lu, just be frank with me.
Straightforward!
Si Ye, you also know that the current situation is not peaceful.
There are even a few Japanese agents that have infiltrated the city.
I also don't have the qualities of being a general.
I only wish that this Changsha City can stay safe and peaceful, that I won't disappoint the citizens here.
Officer Lu, what do you want me to do?
Right now, it's unusual times.
I want to gather a group of powerful individuals and make some contributions. Changsha is full of talented people.
I'm thinking of asking for some people from you
and organize an elite young men force.
Si Ye, look at Changsha...
Si Ye, your men keep glaring at me.
I'm a little not used to it.
Si Ye, you are...
I have my own rules.
Officer Lu, you surely will give me this respect. Right?
Of course.
Si Ye, this restaurant has a new cook.
I heard that he has top level skills in shelling crabs.
Those fresh living crabs are shelled in just one stroke.
And then pouring over boiling nuerhong wine... Oh my, that taste!
Don't even say how fresh it is! How about it, Si Ye? You want a taste?
Let's have a taste.
Stop right there!
Si Ye, the food here in Xu Chang Xing Restaurant is really not bad.
Si Ye, the crab is here.
- Let's quickly taste it. - Right.
- Let me see how it tastes. - Okay.
- Come. - Come.
I noticed from the start that there was something wrong with you.
You even want to kill me? Attack him!
- Let's go. - Go?
Si Ye, we haven't eaten the crabs yet.
Go to hell!
You leave first.
Men! Men, quickly come help! Si Ye has been killed!
Help!
Why did you two just come? He's already escaped by jumping out the window!
Why are you still standing there? Quickly go after him! After him!
Old Si, Old Si, I thought you would be quite skillful.
You couldn't even defeat one Chen Pi.
I kind of belittled that Chen Pi.
Not bad. He's indeed a man that can do great things.
While I can still suppress him, I must make good use of him.
Lieutenant, look at the map.
Okay.
We're here on this map.
This part has a red mark.
I feel that it's better to go this way. Let's go this way then.
- Let's go. - Okay.
Go.
Hey, stop, Fo Ye!
Look! It's another Mother of Heaven statue.
If it's good fortune, then it's not a misfortune.
If it's a misfortune, you can't avoid it. We still have to pass through this.
[Elegant Room, Harmonious People]
[Libation]
Why?
Master and Chen Pi
don't really have any grudges between them.
Why must he kill him?
Chen Pi is sinister. He does what he feels like doing.
I will not let this matter go.
Madam, don't worry. I've already gathered all the men of Si Ye. We can set out anytime.
Okay. You all must remember to hasten your action.
Although Chen Pi killed Master, Master isn't weak.
Chen Pi must be hurt, too.
We must grab hold of this chance and kill him.
- Seek vengeance for Master. - Yes!
I've sent men to search Chen Pi's whereabouts.
Once we have any news, we'll act immediately.
- Is there news yet? - Not yet. After he murdered Si Ye,
- he disappeared. - He disappeared?
- Find him again! - No need for that!
I'm here!
Si Ye has already died in my hands.
Do you all still want to seek death?
Brothers, attack!
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You're not afraid of me?
Afraid of you?
You killed our master.
I so want to eat your flesh
and drink your blood.
Looks like you have deep feelings for Si Ye.
Since that's the case,
I'll send you down to accompany him.
Master,
I couldn't seek vengeance for you.
I'll go down there now to accompany you.
Brother, don't bully my mother.
I'll share you my noodles.
Eat it while kneeling down.
Teacher's Wife, do you only know to make noodles?
There are crabs, yet I'm still to eat noodles?
What? You're still being picky?
No. I will never get tired of eating the food you make.
Even if there are no crabs, this is still the best food I've eaten.
You should just spend more time practicing your martial arts. Stop being glib with me.
If you want to kill, kill me. Just spare my daughter.
You guys can leave.
I don't want to see you in Changsha City.
[Propagating Ancestral Morals for Generations]
[Memorial of Deceased Wife Hong-Li...]
Teacher's Wife, I saw a little girl today.
She is very similar to you.
It was Zhang Qishan who killed you.
I will surely seek revenge for you.
So what's under is magma. No wonder it got very dry and hot as we went down.
Fo Ye!
What weird things are these?
These probably aren't those that attacked us last time.
What are these things?
Could they all be alive?
This must be a kind of plant. Through sensing a human's temperature,
it will attack a human.
Could this be the man-eating Human-Eating Bacteria?
Everyone, be careful! Don't touch them!
Fo Ye, since these things are so dangerous, why don't we just burn them?
No, we can't.
We didn't bring enough burning material. We don't know how much of them we will be encountering along the way.
They must be guarding this cave.
If they can block us now, they also can block those evil people.
Let's just leave them as is and somebody else will handle them.
Everyone, follow me. Be careful.
Don't touch these things on the ground.
Be careful.
- Be careful! - You all must be careful!
Fo Ye!
Don't move!
Move!
- Hold on, Fo Ye! - Quickly help!
Your hand!
- Fo Ye! Fo Ye! - Hurry!
Are you all right? Are you all right?
Are you all all right?
We're fine!
Fo Ye, if there's a next time, I hope that you won't risk danger just for me.
It was me who brought you in here. I must ensure your safety.
I believe that if earlier, if it were me who was in your place, you would have saved me. Right?
Let's go.
This price is okay.
At that price, it totally can't be sold.
Officer Lu! That, our boss has orders.
He won't see anyone today.
What? Your Boss Chen is gravely injured?
No. No. Our boss also didn't tell us the reason.
I know already. I'll just go in and look.
Lu... Officer Lu!
You can't go in! You all...
Boss Chen!
Officer Lu!
Boss, Officer Lu insisted on going in. We couldn't stop him.
I told you to block off miscellaneous people. I didn't tell you to stop Officer Lu.
- Leave. - Yes.
Boss Chen, you're being so courteous. I just want to check on you today.
After all, yesterday, you had a huge battle.
I fear that I would be disappointing you.
We are doing dangerous business anyway.
Our skin and flesh are thick. It's not easy to get injured.
It's really great that Boss Chen isn't injured.
You all didn't know how dangerous the situation was yesterday.
That Old Si from the Mystic Nine Families can be considered to be a prestigious person, too.
He's a very doubtful person. Despite saying so much,
I wasn't able to make those two bodyguards of his leave.
Also, at one glance, he was able to see through your disguise. Oh, my...
It really made me sweat a lot.
So what if he saw through it?
None of the people I want to kill has ever escaped.
Of course.
Going back to it, how did Boss Chen think of
sending that nine-clawed hook flying through the window?
It's all thanks to it that we were successful yesterday.
A good weapon should of course be readied.
But yesterday, I still have to thank you.
If not because you pushed him towards me,
I fear that it wouldn't have went so successfully.
We are in alliance. Helping each other is just right.
Indeed.
Boss Chen, the situation yesterday was really too dangerous.
I indeed wasn't able to ask you in time if you were hurt.
Seeing how you are safe and unscathed today,
I'm now truly at ease.
Officer Lu, don't worry. Even if Zhang Qishan is right in front of me now,
I would also be able to kill him.
Boss Chen, you are indeed unrivaled in might and fierceness.
But you learned your skills from Er Yuehong.
Er Yuehong's famous weapon is metal balls. I never thought
that your weapon would be a nine-clawed hook.
Officer Lu, when did you start to be interested in such things?
I'm also just idle; hence, I asked.
In our kind of business, it's just normal to know a lot of skills.
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♫ In last night's dream, I went again to the opera stage and put on new clothes and powder ♫
♫ Another round of old songs ♫
♫ Stepping into the classical prison through the northern snow ♫
♫ The sprinkled salt swirl in the air, confusing the dawn ♫
♫ The hairpin of the brothel woman looks a lot like that of an old friend's ♫
♫ When the full moon bids goodbye, there was never a full gather again ♫
♫ The swallow in the hall is holding new earth in his mouth again ♫
♫ The lonely sound reverberates around the rafters of Cui Jiu's mansion ♫
♫ You said that Jiangnan has mist-like drizzling rain ♫
♫ Now, there is someone making offerings to the heaven in the wilderness beyond the great wall ♫
♫ Who's going to care for the new tomb out in the wilderness ♫
♫ The official has already raised his pen ♫
♫ That year of red snow and blue winter, my red sleeves got wet ♫
♫ Lord, do you still remember the seventh day of the burial of an old friend in the new house ♫
♫ An old friend returns drunk and in a haze to lightly sigh 'I love you' ♫
♫ Does lord still remember how the iron-like general sobbed like a child ♫
♫ A man immerses his loyal bones in the sand, wears his golden armor to conquer the the ends of the earth ♫
♫ Behind me are barn lanterns of prison; my old friend, you are my home ♫
♫ Clear sky then mild drizzle, rain falls on the steps; the umbrellas paired with green clothes looked like a painting ♫
♫ New snow on the 28th of midwinter, paying you back for the bluestone and black earthenware ♫
♫ You said to exchange the golden armor with the fire beacon offering where chrysanthemums are planted in our hometown ♫
♫ The Liyuan Opera during Chang'an's peaceful times has red wine on stage ♫
♫ Before parting after getting drunk, the general asks for another song, and the singer indulges him ♫
♫ I fear that this is just a dream; Lord, farewell from now on ♫
♫ Watching my friend's last performance ♫
♫ A simple make-up is most befitting ♫
♫ I fear that I'm disillusioned with the ending song ♫
♫ Lord, farewell from now on ♫
♫ That year of red snow and blue winter, my red sleeves got wet ♫
♫ Lord, do you still remember the seventh day of the burial of an old friend in the new house ♫
♫ An old friend returns drunk and in a haze to lightly sigh 'I love you' ♫
♫ Does lord still remember who's the person that covered your clothes while you were drunk ♫