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[The Mystice Nine]
[Episode 39]
Fo Ye, you're saying that Er Ye...
Where's the meteorite?
- Give me the meteorite. - Why do you need it?
Right. A dead person is a live person.
Using the power of the meteorite, I can see Ya Tou.
I want to be with her and live our two-people world.
I only want to live in our world.
Give me the meteorite.
No.
I don't have it.
How is that possible? How come there's no meteorite?!
When we came out of the ancient tomb, I gave the meteorite to my Zhang clan.
I don't have it now.
Impossible. I have to find the meteorite.
Right. I remember there's still one recorded meteorite.
I'll go look for the meteorite now! I go look for it now!
Don't go! Please calm down a little!
It will be dark soon. Why don't we discuss this in length tomorrow morning?
You said it right. The sky is now dark.
I still have to prepare some stuff. We'll set out tomorrow.
Let's set out together tomorrow.
I'll go prepare first. Set out together.
Looks like we can only stabilize him this way for the night.
He won't listen to whatever you tell him now.
Er Ye is currently confused because of love.
After encountering such a huge trauma, I fear that he won't get better that fast.
[Based on the novel "The Mystic Nine" by Nanpai Sanshu]
[The Mystic Nine]
Er Ye is missing!
What do you mean?
I delivered him breakfast today and discovered that he's not in his room.
He must have pretended to go back to his room yesterday, but instead, secretly sneaked out.
Where are we going to find him?
Fo Ye, I'll go with you!
Xinyue and the others are still here in Baiqiao. They need your care.
Don't worry. I'll bring Er Ye back.
This is the only path to Miaozhai Marshes.
Based on Er Ye's walking speed, we should bump into him here.
We must have belittled Er Ye.
- Continue moving forward. - Yes.
So this narrow gorge was created by the explosion of the meteorite's fall.
Such uncanny workmanship.
In the wall painting, the meteorite was drawn
as crashing in a diagonal manner.
Based on the trajectory of its fall, it should be around here.
There must be a cave behind the waterfalls. Divide and look for it.
Yes.
Er Ye!
- Mr. Qi. - Thank you, Chieftain.
Come. Come.
Please sit down. Come.
Cheers.
Say, technically speaking,
Fo Ye should have caught up with Er Ye and are on their way back.
But for so many days, there is no news at all.
With Fo Ye personally setting out, he will surely find him.
What I fear is...
All that evil karma that one has done in the past
was all because of greed, recklessness, and being unable to discern right from wrong.
Er Ye's love has already entered his bones.
It's hard for him to disengage from it.
Chieftain, look!
Chieftain.
Chieftain!
What are you doing?
What are you doing, Ba Ye?!
- Does it hurt? - How could it not hurt?
Chieftain.
Chieftain?
Chieftain.
Stop calling. Chieftain has been frozen.
Look at that moon. It's hanging upside down.
This means we're still inside the meteorite.
This... What does this mean?
It means we thought we'd come out,
but it's not the case. Going out is going in. Going in is going out.
Ba Ye, you mean
- we haven't come out of the ancient tomb? - Correct!
- What correct? - How is it not correct?
Look. We've come out of the ancient tomb and returned to Changsha City with the meteorite.
From Changsha City, we found Chieftain.
We're still inside the tomb!
It means that everything you just said didn't happen!
I really don't know what Changsha City looks like now.
Fo Ye, wake up.
Fo Ye! Fo Ye! Wake up!
Fo Ye, you must wake up!
Fo Ye, you must wake up.
Fo Ye, wake up! Wake up!
Could it be we haven't come out of the meteorite?
All of these are still illusions?
Then Er Ye left these words...
must be because he discovered we're still inside an illusion.
He knew that I'd look for him,
that's why he left these words.
Not only was he waking himself up, but he's also waking me up.
Then Old Ba and the others...
Several years later,
Qi Ba Ye met a renowned and respected Western scholar.
The scholar finally cleared a lot of things that puzzled him.
The meteorite is a legendary ancient extraterrestrial object.
It is a rock that fell from space.
Because of its huge size, it contained special energy.
In its surrounding, it created a special gravitational force,
causing the objects surrounding it to mutate.
When you approach the meteorite, your brain waves will become affected.
The disturbance in the magnetic field will cause hallucinations.
The so-called hallucinations are formed because the frontal lobe is stimulated by the brainwaves.
The memories stored in there become disordered. They will be shattered into pieces then rearranged,
leading you to fall into a state of confusion and fear.
When you approach it more, when you've entered the meteorites gravitational force field,
the energy emitted by the meteorite can directly affect a human's nerves.
Causing the person's brain to enter into a state of high-speed activity.
At the same time, the person's brainwaves will disengage after becoming magnified.
While getting affected by the meteorite's energy,
you are also affecting the other people within the field.
If this huge interference energy
ends up in the hands of people harboring evil intentions, the consequences are unimaginable.
The Japanese and Mr. Cox are determined to find the meteorite.
Zhang Fo Ye vowed to stop these evil people from getting the meteorite.
Go. Quickly go.
Do you believe me now?
Then, isn't Fo Ye and Er Ye...
The people I sent down the tomb are either dead or injured.
Now, Zhang Qishan and Er Yuehong have suddenly disappeared.
There is no news until now. Inside that ancient tomb,
it's a huge mess. There are corpses everywhere.
If we continue to dig deep, it would be very difficult.
But if you don't send people now to find them
and they escape, Officer Lu,
I'm sure it would be harder for you to explain things to your superior.
My superior is starting to suspect me!
He already took away all the files.
The more people, the more someone will speak. If I continue to act recklessly,
it's possible to invite trouble to myself!
But Officer Lu, since we've gone down into the tomb,
there's no reason to retreat!
Don't you want to see what the treasure inside the tomb looks like?
Can you resign to that fact?
Of course, I want that tomb!
But we shouldn't act hastily.
The more you rush it, the more you won't get it.
The treasure inside the tomb is indeed massive wealth.
But if I offend my superior, I'm dead!
Head of the Huo House,
you can't force me to my death.
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Still haven't gotten out of the meteorite.
[Protect the country and give peace to the people]
Althought military posture is the simplest,
it is also the aspect that can test a person's endurance the most.
I can see that one or two of you
are quite impulsive.
It's easy for your breath to be unstable if you're like that.
If you want to be like Fo Ye
and be the last man standing,
you must achieve one thing.
That is to be quiet.
If your heart is quiet,
your body is cool.
If one's heart is quiet, one's body is cool.
- Mister. - Thanks.
Mr. Cox, you sent men to seek an audience with me and said you'd come up with a clever plan.
May I ask what plan it is?
You Chinese have a saying,
"The mantis stalks a cicada unaware of the oriole behind it."
That's indeed right. But this matter
is not something that can be solved by praying for divine intervention.
I've never doubted your skills.
But...
Meeting gift!
I've prepared it for you.
[Rongjin Restaurant]
Mr. Cox,
I really have no time to watch shadow plays with you.
Your Chinese culture is so vast and profound.
Just like this trick
that's very popular among the common folk.
Shadow plays use cut human figures to perform.
You can say that it's absolutely spectacular.
Mister, stop beating around the bush.
My gift has arrived. Just continue watching it and you'll understand.
I've prepared this especially for you.
I'm guessing that you've never seen this.
Why don't I explain it to you?
Legend says that in ancient times,
there was a meteor
that fell from the sky.
This huge meteor
separated into three
when it was entering the earth's atmosphere.
But I really can't understand how this is related to me.
It has nothing to do with us,
but is also closely related to us.
Because that treasure you are painstakingly trying to obtain inside the ancient tomb
is this meteorite
that contains special power.
- What do you mean? - These three meteorites
fell in three different locations.
One got collected by the Zhang clan.
It's hidden inside the Zhang clan's ancient building at Dongbei.
One is still unknown.
And the last one
was collected and kept
by the great Fengshui expert,
Qing Wuzi, inside the ancient tomb.
Legend says that this meteorite has supernatural powers.
Through it, you can enter a mysterious world.
What is inside and what can happen inside, no one knows.
What you mean is...
Zhang Qishan and his comrades might have entered the meteorite?
Maybe.
How can we capture them then?
You can't. Only I can.
This is a company that I
just established. I buy and sell stuff.
[Wanli Department Store]
I really have poor eyesight. After being with you for quite a long time,
I didn't know that you were this capable.
Are the items you buy and sell referring to any items?
I'm quite knowledgeable about Chinese culture.
Of course, the older the object, the more it will win my admiration.
Mister, you did all these things just to go down the tomb?
I can help you safely survive this crisis,
and even go down the tomb to capture the Zhang people for you.
But... I want
the power to control the Mystic Nine Families.
Mister, that's not what you said before.
Officer Lu, do you have any other choice?
Mister, you are capable. Everyone knows that.
But being in charge of the Nine Mystic Families
isn't something that can be done just because you understand Chinese culture
or is good at buying and selling things.
Why don't I open your eyes then?
I can't wait.
I really never thought...
I really never thought that you had such a huge secret laboratory.
Looks like I indeed belittled you.
These things were collected by you from the ancient tomb?
You've been in China for only a short time but have already collected so much stuff.
Just a hobby.
There's an old Chinese saying "proper behavior is based on reciprocity."
Since you've prepared such a big gift for me, I must repay it.
What if I don't plan to give you the item that you want?
Our deal ends here,
because I have my ways to make you talk
on how to avoid those weird things in the underground tomb.
Even if you safely go down the tomb, you won't be able to capture Zhang Qishan.
- Why do you say so? - Because you're not his competition.
Do you believe that I can kill you right now?
Believe it or not that if I die, no one can help you go down the tomb, resolve your crisis,
- and capture Zhang Qishan. - I know that you're capable.
But aren't you too overconfident?
I'm the honorable defense commander of Changsha.
I also have a lot of people inside the Nine Mystic Families. Just with these,
do you think I can't deal with you?
You are also familiar with Zhang Qishan.
Other than knowing that he's Fo Ye of the Nine Mystic Families,
what else do you know about him?
Don't you Chinese have an ancient saying "knowing yourself and your enemy well
can ascertain victory all the time"?
You know nothing about him,
but keep wanting to defeat him.
However, he was able to escape you every time.
Don't you find that fishy?
- What do you mean? - If you want to defeat Zhang Qishan,
you must analyze the Zhang family of Dongbei.
Zhang family of Dongbei?
[Memorial tablet of Zhang ancestor]
Not many know about the Zhang family.
The more it is rare to find anyone who knows about that family's secret.
As long as you can report to your superior
the secret of the Zhang family and the meteorite inside the ancient tomb,
he will naturally send you reinforcements.
By then, your crisis will be resolved
and you can even contribute great merit.
Mister, you plan to help me?
Regarding the condition I mentioned,
do you still have any objection?
[Entrusting Mr. Henry Cox to fully be in-charge of the Nine Mystic Families...]
[Mandator, Legal Proxy]
From the start, Mister, you came to China because of the Nine Mystic Families and the ancient tomb.
You've been waiting for me to jump into the ditch.
I said that only I can help you.
No matter if it's about the ancient tomb or Zhang Qishan.
Mister, you indeed set up this trap so cleverly.
Just for the ancient tomb, you've collected so many materials.
And then you state your conditions when I'm in a difficult spot.
You'll then be able to go down the tomb and obtain the Nine Mystic Families.
It's indeed a sure win deal.
But there's one thing I don't understand.
How come Mister knows about the Nine Mystic Families so well?
I said that I'm very interested in Chinese culture.
Coincidentally, the Nine Mystic Families of Changsha have a lot of legendary stories.
Of course, I won't let that off.
What you want is just a favor from me of pushing the boat along the current (take advantage of the situation for one's benefit).
I'll give it to you. But your manner of asking for it
is indeed not that honorable. I'm very dissatisfied.
The process isn't important.
The most important thing is you still have military power.
I can also take the treasures inside the ancient tomb for you.
This is indeed a good business, so I'm doing it.
But, other than that,
I want 30% of your company's dividends.
With you being so smart, I'm sure that this business of yours would continue to flourish
and huge money would come in daily. Why would I miss out on a chance to earn money so easily?
Officer, you're joking with me.
I'm just a businessman
who wants to earn big.
You obviously would get promoted because of this, so why make a fuss with me?
50%.
Okay.
Officer Lu, my company still needs your care
in the future.
[Protect the country and bring peace to the people]
[Changsha City]
What do you think is being transported by that truck?
It's obviously some commodities being transported by a businessman.
Don't look at it using your eyes.
Observe it using your heart.
What you can see may deceive you, but the truth won't.
Look. When the tires passed by the ground,
it made such deep tire marks.
It means that there are a large number of very heavy products inside it.
Technically speaking, transporting that many products through the land is not worth it.
Plus, a black cloth covered the upper part of the truck
so tightly.
I'm guessing that there are extraordinary treasures inside.
Treasures?
Are they transporting them out to be sold?
With times being very turbulent, I don't think they'll be able to sell it.
I think it's more like a fear that placing them inside one's house isn't safe,
so they must be transported away quickly.
People in Changsha City are becoming uneasy.
Everyone is thinking of a retreat path.
Mister, why are you still insistent in going down the tomb?
Ever since then, I've exerted so much effort for this.
I walked 99 steps just for that last step.
Now, I must go in that tomb no matter what.
Going down the tomb is very dangerous. I fear—
Fear comes from one's imagination.
No matter how dangerous that tomb is, I can avert disaster.
Mr. Cox, you're just taking this many people?
I fear that it's not enough. Do you need me to send you more men?
No need for that much trouble, Officer Lu.
There are some things that won't get resolved by a sheer number of people.
Mister, you are right. I'll be up here waiting for your good news then.
Once you come up, I will surely hold a huge banquet for you
to thank you for your help.
Don't worry about the tomb anymore, Official Lu.
You better just focus on how to govern Changsha well
so your superior will be pleased.
Okay. But it's very dangerous down there in the tomb.
Mister, you must be extra careful.
I love your Chinese saying
"If you don't enter a tiger's lair, you won't get its cub."
Okay. Please enter.
So interesting.
This tomb is full of evil forces. There are so many people who are dead.
Don't you Chinese have a saying "The former people plant the trees, while the later generation enjoys their shade."
All these traps have already been activated and blocked by them.
The more we don't need to be afraid.
Why are you here?
I can take you in.
Just you and this bunch of garbage?
When have I lied to you?
For me to reach here, you should have realized my capabilities.
Who really are you?
My identity is not important.
What's important is... you want to go in
and I can go in.
You make it sound so easy. If it was really so easy to go in,
would I be waiting here for so long?
Since I came down, then it means I'm well-prepared.
Sometimes, you Chinese must admit that the things that were passed down in your civilization
for thousands of years are already outdated.
You still have to rely on more advanced science and chemicals.
Right now, you can only believe me.
This place is the same as the place where we came from.
Look carefully. What's the difference?
I can't see it, but I do feel it's different.
This is the Luocha (Sanskrit: Raksasa) Sea City in Chinese legends. [Luocha is a kind of monster in Buddhism]
Look. Everything is upside down.
Luocha Sea City? Which means that everything we see
is fake?
The so-called illusions in life are when you thought you'd walked out of an imaginary world,
but you actually just walked into one.
What nonsense are you talking about? I totally can't understand it.
I don't care about some Luocha Sea City. I just want to find Zhang Qishan.
They most likely have entered this imaginary world, too.
But Zhang Qishan has the ability to recognize and break this illusion;
walk out of this impasse.
But now, it seems I've overestimated him.
He still hasn't realized this point.
Mister, where should we go next?
Since we've already entered the world they exited,
it's not a problem finding them then.
[Zhang Manor]
Madam, you haven't eaten for so many days.
- Madam. - Eat some.
If this continues, your health will turn bad.
My husband hasn't returned for so many days. I can't eat.
I know that you're worried about Fo Ye,
but your own health is very important, too.
If Fo Yo returns and sees you so frail,
he would surely be heartbroken.
I still have to wait for his return.
After going down for so long, there isn't any news at all.
How could I still be in the mood to eat?
I'm so mad! This is so preposterous!
Servant! Serve me my bowl and chopsticks!
I want that set made from the Jingdezhen kiln!
Yes.
Prince of the Third Rank, who angered you?
I'm so mad! Say, that Lu Jianxun,
I must find a chance to teach him a good lesson!
There are already so many people who went down into the tomb.
Yet, he had to find a Westerner to go down there, too.
If I don't show him my might,
if a tiger doesn't show its fangs, he would think I'm a sickly cat!
Another one went down the tomb?
♫ 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 ♫
♫ 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 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 ♫