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♫ Please tell my friends ♫

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♫ And the story will keep on going ♫

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[Guardian]

[Episode 38]

The people are stirred up.

We can't control them.

If this continues,

mankind will be in chaos

even before the Undergrounders invade.

In facing the fear of death,

they forget their will to live.

Then, we must make them remember.

So you are all here!

Do you know how dangerous this place is?

Are you ready?

This time,

I risked hacking into Seastar Administration's circuit path.

When their evacuation notice ends,

I will cut the signal in.

I guarantee that your voice

will broadcast through the streets.

That's strange.

Do all people in Special Investigations love to go live?

Treating yourselves as online protagonists?

This doesn't count as a live broadcast, does it?

I don't have the eloquence and charm of Chief Zhao,

but I must

pass these messages onto their families.

[Establishing Global Live Broadcast Line. Please Wait.]

The tunnel is narrow.

You go in first. We'll keep watch outside.

As the Demi-humans have already appointed our overall chief,

I will not make decisions arbitrarily.

If the Chief trusts me,

are you suspicious of me?

Let's go.

You can understand it?

Nope.

Don't you think this word looks like a dried fish?

What these words mean are

that this is not only a passage connecting the underground to the surface.

It is also the locus created by the Demi-humans for the Sacred Items. (Locus: specific point)

When the four Sacred Items are correctly placed,

they can harmonize fully

and construct a screen that enables communication across time and space.

It's done. Let's start.

Hurry up. What are you dilly-dallying for?

Scared to death?

But they are already dead.

You are still alive.

That...

This is Guo Changcheng from Special Investigations.

I have some messages

to pass to the related families.

As... As you hear these messages,

those who asked me to pass them to you are already dead.

Please do not be too heartbroken.

- Let us out.- What do you want to do?

Let us out!

You are not well yet.

You have to go back to your beds immediately.

Didn't you hear the evacuation notice from Seastar Administration?

The Undergrounders are coming. Can you hold this hospital?

- Ge Xiaoqian who just turned 19...- Calm down! Listen to me first!

...wants to tell her most beloved brother...

Little Sister!

...to rest and recuperate well.

Don't wander about.

When I come back to see you

and save enough to pay the hospital bills,

you will definitely be cured.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm a fool.

Doctor, I'm sorry.

I will do my treatment.

Quickly, send them back.

36-year-old Gu Liang

wants to tell his colleagues...

There's no reaction.

It's working!

I thought that using the Sacred Items to

pass through time-space restrictions

was just a fantasy.

I didn't think we'd really succeed!

Fu You, come over!

Ma Gui. Fu You.

Long time no see.

Who are you?

Do you know us?

The tables have turned.

Now, it's your turn to not recognize me.

Have I not traveled back in time yet at this moment?

But you surely recognize me, right?

Da Qing?

Didn't you go on a mission?

What's going on?

Enough. I'll introduce myself.

Zhao Yunlan, the Master of the Guardians,

and also the one who will inherit your legacy after 10,000 years.

Inherits our legacy...

10,000 years?

- Does it mean...- This means

the ideals that you were fighting for

have produced the results they were meant to.

Thank you

for founding 10,000 years of peace on Seastar.

So we really succeeded!

Yes.

Zhao Yunlan,

I will now guide you

on how to fuse the four Sacred Items

to become an energy source.

These 55 people

are those who died today.

Please cherish your lives.

Hold on to their wishes and live well.

I also want everyone

to have more faith in Special Investigations.

We will definitely guard everyone's safety.

Please.

Dr. Cheng, what's wrong?

Hospital Director,

please permit me to provide first aid to those on the streets.

We are in an emergency.

- We can't—- Director!

Do you want to see more dead people?

We are doctors who heal and save.

We can save more lives the earlier we attend to them!

Be careful.

What's going on?

Did you not assemble all four of the Sacred Items?

We have assembled them all,

but the Guardian Lantern does not have a wick.

If that's so, fusion is impossible

and our signal cannot be sustained for long.

Where do we find the wick?

You can't find it.

You have to...

Crow Tribe Elder, surrender yourself!

- Otherwise, I will stop at nothing...- Something's happening. Quick!

Keep the Sacred Items away.

I just took care of those Undergrounders earlier,

now another extremist comes.

Don't be careless.

- He's not a normal human.- Old Serpent, how do you know?

Nonsense. Would a normal human have such a loud voice?

He came after me, so I'll handle him.

What are you saying? You are part of the Demi-humans.

If the extremists come after you,

trying to sow discord between humans and us,

he has to go through us first!

Seems like Professor Ouyang has been injected with the blood serum.

He's no longer a normal human.

That time, Boss...

Ye Zun ordered me to not make any move.

I never thought that the blood serum

would harm my people instead.

Why are the Demi-humans different from the intelligence reports?

Didn't the Crow Elder turn to Ye Zun's side

and is helping him attack the humans?

Looks like Special Investigations isn't only harboring an Undergrounder who's a murderer,

you've even become Ye Zun's accomplices?

What are you saying?

Professor Ouyang looks very strong

and aglow with happiness.

It's also different from the intelligence reports we got.

Idle chatter is useless!

Seems like this dark energy gun doesn't work.

You damn Demi-humans!

Continuing like this won't be a good plan.

Old Zhao!

Yunlan!

Old Zhao!

It really worked.

After the broadcast, the people calmed down.

They're no longer agitated.

Changcheng, you did very well.

Brother Chu, it's fine here now.

Let's quickly go to the forest and meet up with Chief Zhao.

Okay.

We'll hand this place over to you.

Yes.

Take care.

I think what we did is enough.

I think this place is very dangerous.

Then, you can go back first.

No.

Rescuing the ordinary citizens during a crisis

is my obligation as a whistleblower.

Hello. I'm Cheng Xinyan from Dragon City Hospital.

I saw the broadcast and I'm here to help.

Nice to meet you. I'm Cong Bo.

Nice to meet you.

Let's start now.

Yes.

You go there and there.

You go there.

Let's go.

Such a sorry state.

I'm fine.

Don't get me wrong.

Seastar Administration and Planetary Supervision Bureau

didn't expect that Ouyang Zhen would become this crazy.

Your actions today are considered self-defense.

We will not blame you.

Then, why are you here?

Yunlan,

I was asked to meet with you.

By who?

I want to tell you about

the Guardian Lantern's secret.

How do you know the Guardian Lantern's secret?

Let me reintroduce myself.

I am Zhang Shi.

I was born 9900 years ago.

I'm the only mutant Undergrounder who remained on the surface.

My teacher is Ma Gui.

Lord Black Robe,

how does it feel being a prisoner?

Don't look at me like that!

The victor has already been decided.

I am the master.

You are the slave.

You are the master?

I am the slave?

I am your older brother.

Right. Right.

You are my older brother.

I nearly forgot.

You are my older brother.

But Brother,

I really have to thank you.

All these years,

if it wasn't for the pull of my hatred towards you,

I would have died

thousands of times while in the PIllar!

Why?

Why do you hate me so much?

Why?

You're asking me why?

We are tied by blood.

I will not punish you for the moment.

But I want to tell you something.

That Master of the Guardians

seems to be on his way here.

I won't allow you to touch him.

You're not allowed to touch him!

Lord Black Robe,

you should conserve your strength.

Look carefully at the color of your energy.

It is black!

We and those humans

are destined to not co-exist together!

Yes.

You're right.

My energy is black.

My eyes,

my hair,

and even my soul

is black.

But the blood I bleed

is red

just like theirs.

Boss, the second group of Undergrounders are ready.

Old fellow,

you better not be scheming anything.

The moment I find out,

you know your fate.

Whether it's for the missing Shen Wei

or the Guardian Lantern's wick,

seems like we must make a trip to the Underworld.

I'll go with you!

This passageway just opened.

It is not stable yet.

It can only accommodate two people at most.

Chief Zhao,

take me along!

You?

You just barely escaped alive from the Underworld.

You want to go again?

Are you treating the Underworld as some trial of courage?

I say, Little Guo,

the Underworld is such a dangerous place. Don't go anymore.

I've recorded many of the fallen's final wishes.

I must tell their families in person.

But they are already dead.

Even if you break your promise,

they will not blame you.

What I promised them,

no matter how dangerous,

I will fulfill it.

Take him with you.

I've mentioned before

that this child might be the key to changing the world.

White energy?

There's white energy in this world?

Not energy.

It's the heart.

If virtue still exists in this world,

then the virtue he has amassed in his life up till now

is enough to save the world once.

I hope this sincere heart

can protect him from being corrupted by evil.

Changcheng,

take him with you.

I can't!

Be obedient.

When you are in danger,

he will come out and protect you.

Remember.

Don't lose him.

Enough.

Let's go.

Old Zhao, you have to come back safely!

Bring him back safely as well.

Who do you take me for?

Who am I?

The Master of the Guardians!

I'm just afraid you'd be slapped to death on the streets for being such a tease.

Enough. Pretend I never said anything.

If something bad really happens,

remember our agreement.

Don't worry.

Enough. Let's go.

How does it feel to hug your son?

You've waited for 20 years.

Loudmouth.

We should go back to Seatar Administration.

Lord Black Robe,

I'm just carrying out orders.

It can't be helped.

Zhao Yunlan.

Zhao Yunlan.

Zhao Yunlan.

What is the time now?

You're caring about the time now?

Moreover,

since when was there a concept of time here in the Underworld?

Regent,

you have caused the Undergrounders

to wallow forever

in a timeless darkness.

Are you content?

That's why...

following Lord Ye Zun

is not a bad choice.

He has the shrewdness and capability

to let us Undergrounders

return to the surface.

But his methods are wrong!

You have been the Regent for so many years.

You should know very well

that every single drop

of Undergrounder blood

is most precious.

Now our countrymen

are devoting themselves in succession

in using the most horrifying of ways

to strive for the wrong results.

Do you think this is meaningful?

I'm old

and a coward.

If I believe your false reasoning

and soften my heart,

it will be difficult to justify

when Ye Zun looks into it.

But when one is old,

one likes to be more prudent.

Lord Black Robe,

if there comes a day

when you can prove your theory,

don't forget

what I did today.

What do you mean?

What do you mean you can't contact Ouyang Zhen?

Is he missing?

Give the orders.

Allocate the reserve forces

and send them to the passageway to the Underworld.

Old Gao,

this is too unsightly.

Brother Zhao,

for the sake of our long friendship,

help me.

If we can't put the Undergrounders down in one go,

I am ruined!

You usually handle matters in a steady and stable manner,

but why do you behave like a rash child in the face of something like this?

This is because the Seastar Administration's responsibility is so great.

Every single policy of mine affects thousands of lives!

But this time,

the immensity of the enemy is beyond imagination.

It's not something we can decide on our own.

Perhaps the children were right.

Right now,

we'd only have a slim chance when everyone unites.

You, me, and Ouyang Zhen were all wrong.

I will...

put forth a motion in the Bureau

to temporarily take over your executive powers.

Old Gao,

go take a good rest first.

Brother Zhao! Brother Zhao?

I'm sorry, Brother Zhao.

What am I doing?

There's a time when Zhao Xinci would go soft?

How unexpected.

Minister Gao's request to allocate the reserve forces

has been submitted and is awaiting a response.

Only two ministers can change the command.

Since Minister Gao is unconscious,

I'll go look for Minister Guo who was locked up.

Can I trust you?

Zhao Yunlan is your son.

Shen Wei is my teacher.

We all believe

that they are in the middle of a very important task right now.

No one is allowed to disturb them.

You are...

Li Qian from the lab?

- How did you get in?- Password.

All the passwords in the Seastar Administration

originate from the lab. Follow me, quick.

What are you doing?

I'm an official of the Seastar Administration.

I have to follow its rules.

Deputy Minister,

Seastar Administration is in chaos.

Quick! Run! Quick, quick, quick!

Wait for us!

Wait for me!

This way! This way!

Quick! Run!

The situation here is even worse than Dragon City.

Hurry up!

I don't know how many times I've been here,

but this is definitely the last time.

Whether we win or lose,

we have to give it our best shot.

Chief Zhao!

You came down as well.

I used a code to cancel the request

and enclosed an apology.

[Request for Reserve Forces Terminated]

I don't know if I'm making the right decision.

It was Director-General Zhao who asked me to do this.

He seems to have finally decided

to fight by Special Investigations' side.

This is the best choice.

But...

what about him?

We have to stay back and monitor him.

Lord Black Robe has the situation under control.

He is waiting for you both in the Palace.

I'll bring you over to discuss our next move.

Really? That's wonderful.

What about Ye Zun?

This is the first time I've been to the palace.

This imposing presence!

Absolutely...!

Yes! Yes!

But we have an urgent matter.

Master of the Guardians, after we've seen Lord Black Robe,

I can take you on a tour.

Look at this wall.

Look at the lights!

What's that on the ceiling?

Boy.

Do you know why I hit you?

If you were clear-headed,

you would have definitely heard me catching criminals here in the Underworld Monarch Palace.

In coming here,

do I need you to show me the way?

I'm asking you...

Where is Black Robe Envoy?

You know that I'm no nice guy.

If I don't get the answers I want,

don't even think of seeing your boss, Ye Zun again.

If you desire the Light,

then first revere the Night.

Shen Wei.

Zhao Yunlan,

didn't I forbid you to come?

Professor Shen, what happened?

Don't talk about it now. We have to leave.

Go!

They went north?

Somebody!

The criminals went south!

Go after them!

- Shen Wei! - Professor Shen!

I'll go look ahead.

Yes.

Shen Wei.

What happened to you?

Why aren't these wounds healing on their own?

These wounds are nothing.

Quickly leave, Zhao Yunlan.

Go! Go!

GO!

Whoever hurt you,

I will kill him.

If a time comes

when I have to use my injuries

to exchange for everyone's lives...

I believe,

at that moment,

you will have your answer.

There are Undergrounders patrolling ahead.

Go search in front!

The soldiers behind us have arrived.

Go, quickly!

GO!

I will draw them away.

Meet up at the port.

Quick! Quick! In the alley!

- That way!- Come!

I'm here! I'm here!

Let's go!

Quickly after them! Hurry!

Keep up! Keep up!

Lord,

what kind of power is it

that managed to hurt you?

Human energy and dark energy are naturally mutually exclusive.

This piece of energy

went afoul in his body

like a disease that has spread to his bones.

Even if he's already dead,

this bomb

could explode at any time.

Yunlan,

you will definitely understand my plan.

Chief Zhao!

Chief Zhao!

- Chief Zhao!- Little Guo.

Chief Zhao!

Here. Take good care of it.

I... I can't!

You, what you?

Don't forget,

you have a power now.

Since we arrived in the Underworld,

I keep feeling that we were being watched.

The Sacred Items are of utmost importance.

It's not safe for all of them to be with me.

We have to guard them separately.

Okay.

Little Guo?

Little Guo!

Little Guo!

Little Guo?

- What's wrong, Little Guo?- Chief Zhao...

I gave you enough time to get away.

Who knew you just had to stay behind to be a hero?

Now that Ye Zun's back,

I can hardly fend for myself.

Moreover,

do you think the Master of the Guardians you're protecting so desperately will be safe?

Yunlan...

Zhao Yunlan...

Little Guo, what's wrong?

Chief Zhao, my body's not listening to me!

Little Guo.

Chief Zhao, run away!

Chao Zhao, run away!

Long live,

Ye Zun!

Do you think

you can escape from me so easily?

So this is your doing.

This sudden surprise,

what do you think of it?

It was worthwhile

burying this risky move

for so long.

Chief Zhao.

Brother Chu.

Professor Shen.

I'm the only one who's so useless.

I can't help at all.

You're wearing that to go to the washroom?

Boss,

please give your orders.

You will not remember seeing me.

But everything I say next,

you will remember it deeply.

You will insist on going

to the Underworld with Zhao Yunlan again.

At the key moment,

you will capture him for me.

You are still you.

An ignorant, normal human being.

Do you understand?

I understand.

But this child's will

is beyond what I imagined.

I thought that the seed I planted

would lose effectiveness.

But I never thought that

he would suddenly gain a power

and would keep on using it.

Each time he used his power,

he would reinforce

my suggestions.

Perhaps,

this is Heaven's will.

Da Ji!

Why are you here?

How can I not be where you are?

Moreover,

everyone has the duty of protecting Dragon City.

But...

you have to promise me

that you will take care of yourself first.

Brother,

this path

is the one you chose to guard.

In the end,

you did not guard anything at all.

I guessed correctly.

You were foolish enough

to link your life force to an average human's!

No wonder your energy would diminish so fast!

I have no regrets.

No regrets?

You still had a fighting chance against me.

But now,

you can only sprawl like a dog in front of me,

just waiting for me to devour you.

How boring.

It is just too boring.

Guo Changcheng.

As expected,

you destroyed world peace

just to absorb the energy of the Sacred Items.

So what

if you know it now?

I've been waiting so long for you.

Now,

as long as I consume all of your energy,

I will be one step closer

to my goal!

Where's the Guardian Lantern?

Where's the Guardian Lantern!

Just as I expected.

If the four Sacred Items are not complete,

we won't be able to use them.

But it's the same for you.

You have no way to absorb all their energy.

Where's the Guardian Lantern?

Guess.

The Guardian Lantern...

The Guardian Lantern!

I will give you one more chance.

As long as you tell me where it is,

I will leave your corpse intact.

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♫ A year went by in a flash ♫

♫ But time is still not resting ♫

♫ Still shuttling back and forth ♫

♫ In this empty side street ♫

♫ The yesterday of past ♫

♫ Everything still looks so real ♫

♫ Remembering each part ♫

♫ And blurring my eyes with it ♫

♫ Still can recall ♫

♫ That exact scene ♫

♫ Forgive me for I only wanted ♫

♫ Another person in this world ♫

♫ To cry for you ♫

♫ We still would be separating ♫

♫ So you shouldn't have said 'I love you' ♫

♫ The me now ♫

♫ Is just too concerned ♫

♫ Is just too concerned ♫

♫ Is just too concerned ♫