Parallel World Episode 7 Recap
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Since it was harder to track footprints at night than during the day, Chang Dong easily climbed onto the top of the earthen platform to check all directions. He identified a location and hurriedly led Ye Liuxi towards it. During the journey, the two followed behind him, and Ye Liuxi couldn't resist teasing Chang Dong, but he just led her forward.
After about half an hour, the group finally reached their destination. They formed two teams of three, taking turns to dig into the earthen platform. They discovered a coffin embedded halfway into the platform. They immediately tied up the coffin tightly with ropes and used all their strength to pull it out. The coffin suddenly loosened at the end embedded in the earthen platform, and due to the force of their pulling, it nearly slipped out. Two people were knocked away and died instantly.
Even though there were casualties, their greed was not deterred. Gray Eight shouted to move the bodies aside and continued opening the coffin with his companions. At this moment, dust swirled around them, and faint sounds could be heard in the distance. Upon closer listening, it seemed like someone was softly singing. It felt very familiar to Ye Liuxi, and she suspected that the coffin might have some connection to her.
With this in mind, Ye Liuxi stepped past Chang Dong and boldly approached the coffin. Gray Eight, taken aback by the sudden appearance of someone, was initially frightened, but when he realized it was Ye Liuxi and Chang Dong, his heart sank, fearing they were there to claim a share.
Ye Liuxi made it clear that she had no interest in the coffin, easing Gray Eight's concerns. Just as everyone was preparing to continue opening the coffin, they unexpectedly witnessed an iron shovel thrown from a distance, smashing into the earthen platform nearby. Gray Eight fell to the ground, and they saw blood oozing from his neck, as he had already lost his breath.
Chaos ensued. Cook fled in fear, and the others quickly distanced themselves from the coffin. In contrast, Ye Liuxi slowly approached the coffin, hummed a nursery rhyme, and examined the coffin's structure. Although she couldn't explain why she was humming this particular song, she was confident that she could open the coffin.
Chang Dong attempted to stop her to no avail. He watched as Ye Liuxi opened the coffin, revealing several shadow puppets stacked inside, nearly as tall as humans, each with different appearances. The sight of shadow puppets filling such a large coffin left them puzzled. Chang Dong took some photos and then returned with Ye Liuxi to the camp. To their surprise, the car was already filled with sand, as if the sand had a life of its own, creeping inside.
After careful observation and examination by Fei Tang, they were able to confirm that they had found a Han Dynasty coffin in the modern desolate area of Yadan. However, the suspicious part was that the Han Dynasty coffin contained clothing from the Tang Dynasty. Ye Liuxi recalled the eerie nursery rhyme she had hummed the night before, with strange lyrics suggesting that these people didn't want to leave the Yumen Pass nor enter it, indicating they were most likely criminals turned into lost spirits.
Fei Tang couldn't make sense of it and chose to rest in the car. Chang Dong hesitated for a moment but eventually expressed his concerns to Ye Liuxi. He felt that she didn't seem like someone who had grown up in a normal society, as she was accustomed to solving problems through violence. In modern society, there were many ways to resolve issues, and violence should not be her first choice. Ye Liuxi listened attentively to Chang Dong's words, uncommonly refraining from arguing and accepting his advice.
After a sleepless night, Chang Dong drew a map of the Yumen Pass ruins. He believed that they had been making some assumptions all along, thinking that they lived in the inland area, where leaving the Yumen Pass meant going outside and entering it meant coming inside. However, if there was a group of people stationed outside the pass, their perspectives would be entirely different.
Ye Liuxi took a moment to digest this and then hurriedly got up to take the map. Based on the content sung in the nursery rhyme, she analyzed that these people were forced to leave the Yumen Pass for some reason, couldn't return for a long time, and had to make the desert their home. Fei Tang woke up and found that the tire tracks and flags that had disappeared earlier were all back, but Gray Eight and the others' bodies were nowhere to be seen.
The camp, usually lively, was exceptionally quiet today. Ye Liuxi, Chang Dong, and Fei Tang drove along the road, finally leaving that eerie desert behind. While Fei Tang was busy picking up stones, Chang Dong remembered the legends about Dalipo and everything they had encountered recently. He deduced that they had most likely entered another Haolongdui, which he tentatively called "Haolongdui No. 2." All the strangeness and horror had occurred in Haolongdui No. 2, and perhaps Kong Yang and her team's bodies were also here.
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