Mystic Nine Episode 4

Liunian Hall

Zhang figured out the troops would only let him go forward and not back. He sees a creature in an upper corner and the chase is on. The only way to describe its movements would be like vampires in horror movies. It moves super fast and can mist and relocate evading Zhang and his dagger quite well. Zhang finds himself in another chamber that has statues or long dead people in a concentric pattern. It is never made clear who or what he was chasing but there seems to be a mummified figure on second floor of the building. The group staying with unit 401 gets creeped out that they are neither really dead or alive nor seem possessed by anything. They are just sedated unresponsive bodies that are standing. Huo notices that her morning glories are found on their pockets and that her symbols have shown on a wall Wu swears up and down they have never been to. Flickering lights seem to indicate change. Qi has determined that the tower itself seems alive and manipulating them as it chooses. Wu ends up agreeing with him. As they are deciding their next move Tianpeng disappears right in front of them. Like the lights he first flickers and then disappears. Huo took a nut out of the pocket of one of the soldiers and it is giving her a clue of some sort but she has not figured it out yet. Wu’s group has divided to find their missing comrade. A new hall has presented itself and they choose to enter. Wu gives Huo the peke which she hands to the guy behind her and enters Liunian Hall with the men. ZhenYuan and Tianpeng have now become like unit 401. They keep distance from Wu now and enter the hall where the doors slam shut. When Wu breaks in he finds himself face to face battling Zhang instead. They find an underground waterway and TianPeng shows up begging for help. It is decided that Zhang’s second will investigate on the mini raft the made with a guide wire to be pulled back quickly if need to.He finds himself traveling under corpses and is doing a damn good job holding himself together and just keep traveling down the waterway. Huo sees a sedan chair moving with no carriers that disappears. Production crew doing a decent job of keeping the vibe eerie and not silly. The cast does well keeping the groups separate in stance and dialogue. The lines are clearly drawn between all of them but the tower is muddying their biases and making them cooperate to get their people back. It is a very unwilling alliance, but one is being made. Wu wants them to stay even by locating each other’s people so no debts will be owed. The episode ends just as he strikes the new deal.

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