Iceman: The Time Traveller (아이스맨 레져렉션)

Time passes. Seasons change.

What actually is 'time'?

If we could control time - travel back and forth,

could we then change fate and rewrite history?

Mankind has always explored this riddle of time

Scientists discovered that time is actually speed

If we could master the secrets of speed,

then we could control time

And thus control the past and the future

Man devised technology to break the sound barrier

But even faster than sound - is light

And so, we wait to see how light-speed can be broken

Will such future technology

be rockets and spaceships?

Or will it just be a program developed on the internet?

Remains of ancient civilizations actually show us

some did traverse space-time

came to this world

Mysteries of the ancients

the pyramids, the heads on Easter Island,

or the still-unexplained Mayan civilization

And sages who could predict the future,

were they cosmic travelers who held the secrets to space-time?

I can tell you now

There really were those who became time travelers.

Because I am one of them

Back then, the Ming empire was formidable

I was one of the Emperor's elite guard

I was born in 1 591

When I was ten, Nurhaci united the Manchu banners,

the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China

I was drafted into the imperial court, away from Taoyuan village and my people

Away from my people

I was then placed into a training camp for the elite guard.

Training was arduous,

but that's how I met the friends who'd die for each other

Can you do it?

Yes, we can!

He Ying,

what do you want do when you grow up?

Me? I'm gonna be a real man -

a servant of the court and a good son

- That's it? - Yep. What about you?

I'll do something big

so I don't waste the skills I've learned

And you, Niehu? What's your dream?

I want to marry a beautiful wife

You wish

Dream on

What about you, Sao?

Me? Let me think

I want a giant chicken leg,

a drumstick so big, I'll never finish it

You're hopeless!

It's always about food!

"1 624 AD"

The four of us were sent out west

I never expected that expedition would change my life

Shall we?

Let's go!

I met a holy monk

He bestowed on me the secret to time travel

Can you swear on your life

that you will never reveal the chant that starts the orb?

That monk had me deliver the orb to the capital

But the Emperor was young and neglected his duties

I don't think we should give him the Linga

For the sake of the people,

I will forever guard the the orb's secret

Deceiving the Emperor could cost your head

For you

Alright

This almost cost me my life four hundred years later

That was a catastrophe

Or should I call it a conspiracy

From the western reaches, I bring back this sacred orb!

Long live the Emperor!

Please slow down, Your Highness

This western campaign has wrought great rewards,

but why has General He Ying not returned?

Eunuch Wei,

Japanese pirates and Jurchen forces lurk at our borders

Generals He and Sao received word en route

and voluntarily set off to fight them

That pleases me greatly

Especially this golden orb

Lt is the work of the gods

Put it in the treasure stores so that I can toy with it!

General Yuanlong, is there some way to operate this orb?

Lt requires something called a Linga.

He Ying has it

This orb has the power to alter time and space

Are you telling me everything?

As your ally, I of course would conceal nothing

But you are destined to suffer great calamity

What calamity?

Life becomes death. Death becomes life. Ln three cycles

By Heaven's authority, the Emperor decrees

He Ying has failed him, colluding with pirates,

and slaughtering Justice Minister Du's entire family

I have been honest and true all my life

I could not possibly commit such murders!

The Emperor has ordered your whole clan's execution!

That was the avalanche that buried us

When we awoke,

it was to a world hundreds of years later

"Route 3, Hong Kong"

An illicit businessman smuggling national treasures

brought Niehu, Sao, and me down to Hong Kong

I met many strange people

They said I was from the past

At first, I couldn't believe it

But everything here was so unimaginable,

it wasn't a matter of believing

Luckily, she was at my side,

helping me understand what to me was a totally unfamiliar world of the future

And yet I never expected

that my three best friends

would be here as well

Four hundred years later,

they still believed

I was an ungrateful traitor who abandoned the Ming empire

Even more unexpected

was that their pursuit would paralyze all of Hong Kong

And that is how I fell into the sea

At that moment,

I thought I had left the world for good

Thus is your fate

and thus is the test Heaven hath given

Should you pass this adversity,

you will reach another plane

Inspector! Inspector!

About the chaos at the bridge caused by the strange men,

does the police have any comment?

Can you tell us anything?

sir, we got the one from the ocean and took him to the morgue

Be right there

There's another one held in solitary

I just checked. He still has a pulse

Niehu

Boss!

Eat something

If everything you say is true,

then I say write a book

Write it all down.

Lt ought to do better than that Palace series

- He's still alive. - What do you mean?

I have to find him

Where would you look?

Police are still investigating the bizarre events at the bridge,

but have declined further comment

The deputy inspector of this case

has been missing for several days

and is a suspect in an officer's death in the morgue

Police have ordered his arrest

Sao isn't important to us

Only He Ying knows the chant

Help me find the orb. It's the only way back

Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine

Yuanlong would be the one to save me

The execution of the Minister's family was really a setup

My brothers finally realized they had me all wrong

But with all of Hong Kong looking for me,

I had to completely change my look

To save my mother and my village,

I had to change history

But first I needed to find May

She had to be worried about me

So he got here before you did

and now he's even some kind of

assistant police chief?

If he hadn't intervened to save me,

I would've been a goner

Hey, you cut your hair

That's right, I did

Because I needed a fresh start

May, I really must thank you

for looking after me all this time

Oh, you noticed

So what are your plans?

Actually...I came to say goodbye

You're going back to the Ming era?

How is that possible?

Yuanlong found the orb!

He found the orb!

Hey, why don't we take a selfie?

The times have moved on

The old hutongs are all gone

Now they're all these strange, tall buildings

Let me use your phone

You have friends in Beijing?

How could I have friends in a place like this?

But I've got one in Hong Kong

"At the capital, don't worry"

The Emperor was young and Eunuch Wei ran amok

He died after a six year reign

Chongzhen ascended. He fought the tide,

but the dynasty was doomed

This is the Ming Mausoleum

Thirteen of the Emperors are buried here