Mystic Tales : The Spider Lady‘s Vendetta (奇谭：纸刃渡荒墟)

Where am I?

[Bai Xiaoman realizes she has lost the memories about her family]

Who are you?

[She seems to have forgotten who means most to her]

Come play it again, Xiaoman.

Don't worry.

Even if you forget me,

I'll always remember you.

If you want to get your memories back

and find me,

then stick with Hu Bugui.

Find Hu Bugui.

Why was it the same dream again?

Darn it.

I still can't recall the past.

Freeze!

I'll teach you a good lesson!

Someone's there.

Hu Bugui,

let's see where else you can go!

So this man is Hu Bugui.

Is he the one who can help me recover my memories?

I beg you.

Please spare me.

I had no better choice.

I'll give it back to you when I'm done.

Cut the crap!

How audacious of you,

a lowly thief, to commit the heinous crime

of stealing the Tiger Tally!

Today, I'll make sure you die here!

No.

He cannot die.

How do I regain my memories if he dies?

Seeing how pitiful you were,

I meant to take you in.

Yet I didn't expect you to be such an ungrateful person!

Monsters!

This is bad.

It's...

Heaven and earth pave my way. Paper puppets march as my army.

Heed my command!

There's a paper puppeteer!

I-It's nothing but a petty trick.

We are real men.

Go get them!

Paper puppets, retreat.

Thank you for your help, miss.

Your skills of controlling paper puppets are truly amazing.

Are you...

Hu Bugui?

You've heard of me, miss?

No.

- Just now... - The truth is not what you saw.

I had no choice but to take the Tiger Tally away.

Besides, it was I who first dug it out.

You had no choice?

Right.

That's a paper-transformed leg.

How did it become like this?

Have you heard about the fire

that burned down half the city?

In that exact fire,

I lost most of my flesh.

When I woke up, I found myself

turned into a half-paper half-human creature of the living dead.

I must restore my physical form within three days,

or I'll completely become a paper figure,

with my soul trapped forever.

He might die in three days?

That's no good.

How can I recover my memories without him?

What's the solution?

After asking many Taoists,

I finally found a way.

To restore my physical form,

I'll have to gather three treasures in the Hidden City,

namely the Rootless Water,

the Century-Old Blood Ink,

and the Ever-Burning Wick.

The Hidden Market sits between Yin and Yang.

The Tiger Tally is the key to entering it.

He cannot die.

I must save his life.

I'll help you.

You'll help me?

Why?

I am a paper puppeteer

with expertise in subduing demons and evil beings.

Exactly the helper I need now.

With a heroine like you around,

I'll stand a much higher chance

of restoring my physical form.

What's the first item we need to find?

The Rootless Water in the Hidden City.

Come on.

Drop your blood on the Tiger Tally

so as to leave your aura on it.

Only when the Tiger Tally recognizes us as its masters

will we have a chance to enter the Hidden City.

Have we met before?

No, never.

Excuse me, how do we get to the Hidden City?

When the oil is spent and the lamp dies, the door shall open in the mist.

"When the oil is spent and the lamp dies..."

Time to enter the Hidden City.

It's time to enter the Hidden City!

Let's go.

I smell the scent of living souls.

It's the scent of my paper constitution.

Half-dead visitors are allowed in.

Hurry, move!

Are you selling your nose?

Scram!

- I beg you. Ears will do, too. - Go away!

- Have some mercy. I beg for paper ingots. - Big sale on death-substitution contracts!

Exchange one pair of monster eyeballs for a year of good luck!

For gossip and secrets, please get in the Broken Tongue Inn.

Welcome.

To the Broken Tongue Inn!

One last day.

Discounts on everything! Eat it while it's hot!

What kind of place is this?

Offer incense to recover your memories.

Recover my memories?

There you are.

I've waited a long time for you.

Come here.

There's watermelon, your favorite.

Don't worry.

Even if you forget me,

I'll always remember you.

Come on.

Have something sweet.

I don't know why

why I'm crying.

Don't cry.

If you want to get your memories back

and find me,

then stick with Hu Bugui.

Aren't you here

already?

Who is Hu Bugui?

And who are you?

Miss,

care for some incense?

Who should I offer incense to for recovering my memories?

What are you going to do?

Make sure you stay close to me.

We'll be safe as long as the Tiger Tally covers our scent.

Got it.

No need to fear them.

They do look hedious,

and they're not exactly nice.

But we can take a different perspective.

Perhaps in this place,

we'll run into our own family.

Family?

But I don't remember them.

It's fine. If it's meant to be,

you'll know them the moment you meet again.

Will you turn back into a normal human

when those three things are found?

Yes.

A Taoist told me that.

It should be correct.

You have no idea

how eager I am to be a normal human again.

That way, I won't have to fear anymore,

and I can run or jump

as I please.

I'm looking for the Rootless Water,

the Century-Old Blood Ink,

and the Ever-Burning Wick.

Do you know where I can find them?

What do you mean?

Three hundred paper ingots.

Come back.

I'll take three then.

Three are also fine.

Alright.

Good for Lady Meng,

for storing the Rootless Water in her boudoir.

Why is there no one around?

[He who yearns for the Rootless Water shall have his eyes gouged out first]

Have one's eyes gouged out?

What a brutal woman.

Go for it. You're all we're counting on now.

Didn't expect to have myself replaced by such a life-like paper puppet.

I owe you one. You really are gifted.

Though young, your strength is unfathomable.

The paper puppet will last

only one incense stick's burn.

This is bad. Run!

The capable usually do more work.

Such strong demon power.

If you want the Rootless Water

then trade it

with your eyes!

Run, now!