All language subtitles for Archives.The.Nanyang.Mystery.2026.S01E04.1080p.iQ.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-The-King-Team

Move! Be quick!

Faster!

You,

move faster.

You don't mess with me.

[Deep in the Rainforest;
Warner Excavation Team]

You, over there.

[Hudson, Archaeological Team Leader]

This damn forest isn't safe.

There's something evil out there.

Mr. Warner has had us

digging here for months.

When are we leaving?

[Steven, Archaeological Team Clerk/Medic]

We just wait for him
to find what he wants.

These oriental lands are full of

ancient and mystical artifacts...

Extremely valuable ones.

God damn it.

Hey, who are you?

How the hell did you get in here?

Wait...

Why is she carrying severed arms?

Black magic curse!

Who are you?

May you rest in peace.

I wanna talk with the boss here

about a deal.

Miss Dong,

could you repeat that, please?

What do you want me to help you?

I need someone to
escort me back to Xiacheng.

Otherwise, I'll die on the way.

[Warner, Professor/Explorer]

We're just an expedition team

here to study
East Asian culture and rocks.

We don't engage in this kind of business.

Why come to the jungle

to ask our expedition for help?

Because

I need your faces.

Our faces?

Yes.

Those people can steal

others' faces to approach me.

Well, the faces of foreigners
like you guys

are much more difficult
for them to imitate.

It seems the South Seas are
full of strange tales.

As a reward,

I can give you what you seek.

Things cannot be found here.

How did you get this map?

Deal.

Let's get ready for boarding.

[Archives: The Nanyang Mystery]

[Episode 4]

Then I'll start
forcing information out of you.

Answer my questions,

or I'm going to crush his spine,

vertebra by vertebra.

For every minute you hesitate,

I'll crush one more.

Right now, he can still feel his hands.

In seven minutes,

other than his head...

No.

He'll only be able to move his head.

No, I'll tell you right now!

You're not putting up much of a fight.

We civilian experts are not exactly...

not exactly sticklers for principle.

So then,

the toxic weed in Xucheng

was indeed planted deliberately.

I investigated it three years ago.

The plant was believed to have gone extinct
during the Ming Dynasty.

And Panhua Reef—
The only place where its seeds

had ever been found—was blown up.

So, in this world, the only people

who still possessed Twilight Grass

were those warlords from three years ago.

After the poison broke out
in the three villages in Xucheng,

the toxic weed began appearing

in 15 villages across Balai.

But by then,

I had already grown suspicious

and stationed people in every village.

The source of the poison
was quickly dealt with,

and the outbreak never spread.

You mean

this poisoning was aimed at
the whole of Balai,

and they simply chose Xucheng first?

Xucheng was simply the first
to see an outbreak

because it's the closest city to the port.

But fortunately, I had people stationed

in the surrounding villages
and mountain passes.

So your Balongzhou was spared.

I did lose

quite a few of my people, though.

I won't let whoever is behind this
get away with it.

Mr. Zhang Ruipu,

since you're so resourceful...

Able to uncover our backgrounds so quickly

and stop the poisonings...

Have you identified the people behind it?

Look at these 15 villages...

[Langhuacheng] [Yungangyi] [Yeruicheng]

they're evenly spread across
the entire coast.

And the first three poisoned villages
in Xucheng

are here.

I connected them according to the order

in which the poison outbreaks occurred

and discovered
that they form a shipping route.

[Balai Map]

The timing of the outbreaks

matches the travel schedule

along that route exactly.

[Xucheng] [Poisoned on the Nan'an]
[Xiacheng]

The first outbreaks

of Twilight Grass poisoning occurred
simultaneously in these three villages.

And in each village,

the very first poisoning victim

arrived in Balai

aboard the Nan'an from Xiacheng
during the first week of July.

[Time of Poisoning]
[First Poisoning Victim] [July 2]

It was this ship,

the Nan'an.

The poisoning victims
in Xucheng's three villages

had also come ashore from the Nan'an.

That

also confirms my theory.

It really is the Nan'an.

If the Twilight Grass poisoning

was indeed the work of the warlords,
as you say,

the one thing that remains unclear

is their motive.

In that case,

why not just send someone
aboard the Nan'an

to investigate?

That's exactly why I've come.

My clansmen and I swore,

after leaving the Southern Archives,

that we would

never return to Xiacheng.

But someone has to help me
investigate this matter.

Although personnel from the Archives

are required to
undergo poison-resistance training,

the Twilight Grass is
exceptionally deadly.

I still lost many of my people.

But you were exposed to Twilight Grass

and survived.

That's why

I came to you.

[Invitation; Nan'an]

Here is your payment and a ticket.

In two days, the Nan'an

will be departing from here

and heading straight for Xiacheng.

Go on board to investigate for me,

and I will help you take care of

this friend of yours.

If you can't find anything

within half a year,

your friend

will become fertilizer
for my rubber plantation.

[First-Class Cabin Ticket Stub]

You can have us killed at any moment,

so what you're saying must be true.

I have one additional condition.

Go ahead.

My friend here

needs to rinse his mouth
with shark-fin soup every morning.

For lunch,
he needs eight dishes and a soup.

Dinner can be a bit lighter...

Five dishes and plain congee.

But the congee

must have diced Jinhua ham

and cordyceps flowers in it.

As for his legs,
massage them three times a day.

And he's afraid to sleep alone at night.

You'd better find several girls

to sleep with him.

Were you, by any chance...

raised by a woman named Zhang Haiqi?

What's your relationship with her?

You can go ask her yourself.

And as for

your friend here,

I'll take even better care of him.

Isn't the ticket for three days from now?

It's docked ahead of schedule.

My people will take you there.

What a strange smell.

I'll be back.

Boss, will he really get on the ship
and investigate?

A clever person

always focuses on
solving practical problems...

Finding a chance to rescue his friend...

Rather than following the rules of a deal.

On his way there,

someone

will make the stakes very clear to him.

Haijiao.

You're wearing a gardenia?

The uncle who just took me outside
gave it to me.

Flowers suit girls.

Go play at Granny's next door for a while.

No.

I want to stay with you, Uncle Shrimpie,

and take care of you.

Little one,

let me take both of you

to my place as guests.

From here on, your friend

will be taken away
from the Southern Archives branch.

We will erase every trace of his presence.

If

You slip off the ship after boarding
and come back here,

you'll find only an empty room.

Of course,

we also have our men on the ship.

If you dare disembark without permission,

a telegram will be sent back immediately.

Then, your friend

will be beheaded,
and his head hung from a pole.

Don't bother with petty tricks like that.

By the time we got here,

they had already left.

And my boss's men are watching you.

You'll always be watched.

If you do anything
unrelated to the investigation,

your friend

will die.

Leaving Shrimpie with you for half a year

is too long.

If I can find out the truth
within two days,

who should I contact?

You'll know once you're on board.

And if I happen to die on the ship,

will you let Shrimpie go?

Move.

A sudden outbreak of toxic weed in Balai

has left nearly a hundred casualties.

[Emergency Notice]

[Golden Needle—Special Equipment
of the Archives; Voice Modulation]

The Nan'an...

Nice weather today.

Isn't it always?

Watch where you're going!

Sorry.

Mr. Zhang,

are you getting on board or not?

[Invitation; Nan'an]

Tell Zhang Ruipu for me

that he'd better treat my friend

with the same generosity he has shown me.

We're just doing our jobs.

Whether Mr. Zhang Ruipu is generous or not

is beyond our control.

So,

you'd better get moving.

Alright, let's check your luggage.

Sorry, a moment.

Sorry.

Hello, Mr. Zhang.

You must be Mr. Zhang Hailou,

Mr. Zhang Ruipu's nephew.

I've been assigned specifically
to assist you.

So you know everything
he's sent me to investigate?

Of course.

I'll do everything in my power
to help you.

[Nan'an]

Tell me about this ship first.

On this route, the Nan'an

is an absolute behemoth.

She has an enormous capacity...

Able to hold at least 1,500 passengers.

The crew alone

numbers 437.

Like other ships,

she has three classes of cabins:

first, second, and third.

Essentially,

the first and second classes

[First-Class Cabin] [Second-Class Cabin]
[Corridor]

are interconnected,

but the third class is different.

[Third-Class Cabin]

Its activity areas
are relatively restricted.

The ocean brings out
the crazy side in people.

These people may
behave themselves on land,

but once on board,
they let go of everything.

Couldn't that make you catch something?

There are doctors on board.

Any issues can be brought to them.

They treat third-class passengers too?

Of course.

How do you write "cabin" again?

I've suddenly forgotten.

Have you ever heard

of anyone on this ship
being poisoned by Twilight Grass?

I've never heard of anyone
being poisoned on board.

Okay, thank you.

This is weird.

Zhang Ruipu said

the Twilight Grass poisoning originated
with passengers disembarking from the ship,

yet no one on board was poisoned.

That's for you to investigate, I suppose.

Have you ever seen

any warlords or soldiers on board,

wearing uniforms like this

and carrying top-notch foreign guns?

Why is there so much stuff?

What do those have to do
with the people I'm looking for?

Those are all mercenaries.

When on shore,

they looked a lot like
the warlords you described.

But now that they're aboard,

they must have changed into plain clothes.

The luggage they're carrying

is full of submachine guns.

Move it, move it.

Are they the ones you're looking for?

Mr. Zhang?

Deep in thought?

That's the ship owner's daughter,

Miss Dong,

our young mistress.

She was staying elsewhere,
passed through Balai,

and is now taking her family's own ship
back to Xiacheng.

Thanks to her,

all the food on the ship

is European wine and cured meat

shipped from Balai's harbor warehouse.

She's friends with those foreigners?

Of course.

Otherwise, how could Mr. Warner

have brought firearms on board?

What's wrong?

Miss Dong doesn't look like someone
you want to mess with.

We're all afraid of her.

You'd better not provoke her.

Tell me, if I control her,

does that mean I

indirectly control the whole ship?

Wouldn't that speed up
the investigation considerably?

What are you planning to do?

Hijack the ship.

Are you out of your mind?

We have a tail, left side.

If it were Shrimpie,
he definitely wouldn't hijack the ship.

I have to find a way
to use Miss Dong's authority

to track down
whoever's spreading Twilight Grass aboard.

Hey, bro,

maybe you're in the wrong seat.

Miss Dong,

you're in serious danger right now.

But I can help you.

Miss Dong,

would you like me to throw him off?

With your skills, Mr. Hudson,

you may not be able to
throw him overboard.

Plus, he's a first-class passenger.

See him about it.

Explain what you just said.

Miss Dong.

I can see you're the kind of person
who avoids drawing attention

and keeps a very low profile.

But if I'm not mistaken,

you must have

something very valuable on this ship

that you're transporting back to Xiacheng.

Looks like I was right.

That's why you're sailing
on your own vessel

and have secretly arranged

so many guards to protect yourself.

To be honest,

I didn't actually guess any of that.

Rather, I happened to overhear

a group of people

in a small tavern on shore
plotting to seize those valuables.

But don't worry.

I've got their faces

burned into my memory.

And then?

Then, out of professional integrity

and my deep hatred of wrongdoing,

I've decided to help you.

Miss Dong, today is your lucky day.

I can protect you.

I forgot to introduce myself.

On the surface,

I'm just a first-class passenger,

but actually,

I am a patrolman.

It's just that my trip this time

was arranged rather suddenly.

So I might need to...

So you need to borrow my men

and have me give you full access

to make things easier for you, right?

Miss Dong, you're indeed sharp.

With all due respect,

even with all the men you've brought,

in my opinion, it still isn't enough.

You can rest assured.

As a professional patrolman,

I never lie.

Besides, you won't lose anything anyway.

What if I'm telling the truth, right?

You sound so convincing right now.

But if you don't find anyone in the end,

how will you explain yourself?

If I don't find anyone,

then I can only...

punish myself with three cups of wine.

After all, that wouldn't be my fault.

It could only mean...

I understand.

Tavern...

I understand.

You're just using that story as an excuse

to get special privileges from me

so you can investigate

whatever it is
you're actually here to investigate,

right?

- Miss Dong, actually...
- Alright.

Whatever your real motive may be,

in keeping with the principle
that safety comes first at sea,

I will give you the privilege.

But I'm only giving you two days.

If you haven't found those people

before the ship departs in two days,

I'll exercise my right as the ship owner

and have you arrested
for seriously disrupting public order

aboard this vessel...

And sent to prison in Xiacheng.

If you resist arrest,

I'll authorize my men

to shoot you on the spot.

Do you accept?

You have 10 seconds to answer me.

I accept.

And what if I find all those people?

Find them first.

Steven.

He'll accompany you

and open doors for you.

You will have free rein on this ship

and do whatever you want.

Miss Dong seems to be...

quite something.

I'm Miss Dong's personal physician

and also the quickest draw

in Nanyang.

How may I address you?

What a coincidence.

I'm the fastest blade in Nanyang.

We can have a friendly spar.

Let's use...

Indeed, fast enough.

So fast.

But being too fast...

isn't always a good thing.

My last name is Zhang.

I think we really hit it off.

The next few days should be...

Mr. Zhang, I'm going back to my cabin
to settle in.

Let's meet here again in an hour.

I'll officially start the clock then.

Within 48 hours,

you must find those bandits you mentioned.

Otherwise...

Interesting.

Steven.

Mr. Warner said

we cannot let anything or anyone
delay the Nan'an's departure,

including that voice-changing witch.

Escorting Miss Dong is not our real
objective, so don't take her words to heart.

Understood.

Also,

that man isn't important.

You can let him be for now.

But if he tries to interfere with it

or do anything out of line,

you just kill him.

Take that road.

This road is too narrow.

I don't like it.

I'm kidnapping you,

yet you're acting like we're old friends.

No need to worry.

These flies...

have been buzzing around me
for a long time.

I'm quite good at swatting flies.

I've lived here for 10 years.

I know which route is shorter.

Besides, my body can't handle the bumps.

Please bear with me.

Allow me.

Your friend is quite impressive.

A little impulsive, though.

But you're different...

Calm

and sharp.

Why not come

work for me

and leave the Southern Archives?

Mr. Zhang, you have
so many capable people around you.

What use would you have
for a paralyzed man like me?

I can't even swat a fly.

As for you,

I think you're in serious trouble.

I've always been trouble for others.

Everyone who dares to cross me

never ends well.

This time will be no different.

Mr. Zhang, have you already

figured out the truth behind this?

I'm no longer with the Archives.

I simply don't like...

people disturbing my peaceful life.

My friend is a lot like you.

You're both very strong.

But no matter how strong someone is,

they might just die because of it.

You're about to make your move, right?

It's Twilight Grass Poison.

The toxic weed incidents are connected to
the people who tried to kill you.

Is Hailou in danger then?

Just as I thought.

Their target

is Zhang...

Where is Haijiao?

Dead.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Six.

Follow him.