Mystic Nine Episode 20

The bidding for the two chests

Tottori is determined to involve Japan with the last two artifacts. Here 6th master does an excellent job posing as an opium dealer and gets the price bumped up to 600k by the real opium dealer in a private seat. Both Zhang and Tottori plan to bid on last one and steal the purchased one. Officer Luo is also keeping a close eye on things. Xie looks like he passed out as first transaction completed. Tottori starts bid with 300k and thinks he has it wrapped up with his don’t outbid hydrangea placed on curtain. Zhang steps up and places a blanket bid. This pushes price to 1 million but Tottori had more personal funds than they anticipated. He rallied the Chinese by refusing to give Japan such an artifact. This had every local contributing to his account, making them match at 2.45 million. Huo bravely offers last 200k bump and shocks Tottori by giving it to Zhang for them to win. Every Chinese person in there felt pride depriving Japan of Chinese treasure. This unfortunately makes Tottori go scorched earth on any contact Huo has. He figures she will die soon without the cure and will annihilate anyone she knows that caused him to lose bid. The Americans are backing XinYue and have the required travel permit to move artifact. They successfully circumvent the Japanese outside. Inside the powers that be move slowly even when urgent. 😝 He gets his warrant after everybody is gone. Huo boldly goes to claim her cure but finds herself surrounded instead. Leader of XinYue escorts her out and his military force cannot touch her since she is an employee of XinYue. Huo might be out of luck against black plague but she finally gets to see that little man thwarted at every turn. The downside is he plans to return the favor. It was fun watching them improvise to counter Japan and merge Chinese resources. To have that yoke off for even a moment was pretty satisfying all around. The focus now shifted to first chest and both sides will give no quarter in obtaining it. Masters 2and 6 fight brilliantly when the Japanese show up. Now even chest owner claims chest for China and to keep Japan from getting it. Everybody has sustained injuries. The fight scenes nicely choreographed but glad opium seller had a gun. That made it more real than only a sword at a gunfight. Now it was a mini war of China vs Japan. Loved his comment when his servant said they should run. They should leave and don’t belong here. Beat the Japanese. 😝😁👏🏻 He tells the masters the chest is theirs and to keep it in China. Chen is finding himself face to face with a mummy and 6th master is outmanned and outgunned when episode ends. They kept this a nail biter with battle lines made even clearer between Chinese Japanese and Americans. Hoping Zhang gets resources to them soon. They hopefully anticipated how hard Japan would go for artifact. Now have to wait til tomorrow.😝

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