Deadly Puppet (津沽奇谭1：暗城杀机)

So... So many graves.

Sir, look.

Come.

Clear the path for me.

Sir.

What if we take another path?

This mass grave was originally a ghost city outside of Jingu.

Since the two head sightings happened,

no one dared to come anymore.

I heard that this place is haunted.

Look.

It's telling us to change our path.

Come on.

If there are really ghosts here,

I was the one who buried them back then.

Change paths?

Will you take responsibility for the delay?

Move them.

Help me carry that one.

Mr. Liu.

Why is this called a ghost city?

This area

was originally a flea market.

But they were mostly goods stolen from graves

that they didn't dare to sell in the city.

Since they were selling things that belonged to the dead,

it was called ghost city.

What exactly happened with the head sightings?

I heard about that many years back.

I heard that someone passed by this area in the middle of the night,

and the dead wanted to borrow a match

to find its own head.

And I heard

that a couple

passed by this area in the middle of the night.

When they were rumbling from hunger,

a nice old lady

gave them some food.

After they finished eating,

they couldn't move.

At that time,

they only saw that old lady

having the hairy face of a civet

facing them and...

Sir!

Sir!

Sir, are you okay?

Say something, sir!

How deep is this?

Sir.

Bodhisattva, protect us.

I'm sorry to offend you.

Sir, are you okay?

Answer us!

Sir, are you all right?

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

Don't worry.

Do you want to scare us to death?

Take him up.

Come up.

Sir, what's the matter?

Come on, give me your hand.

Hold his hand.

Someone's grabbing me.

Something's grabbing me.

The dead is seeking revenge.

We must pay for our sins back then!

Stand properly!

Stand properly!

Don't vomit.

Look at how inexperienced you all are.

How can you take the responsibility of protecting the citizens?

My goodness.

Attention!

Division Chief Luo taught us

that the police

must rise to the challenge.

Eliminate distractions.

Sir.

We've already confirmed

that the deaths of these six businessmen

has no direct relationship

with the head sightings in the ghost city many years back.

That nameless grave

belonged to a soldier who died in the Zhili-Anhui War over ten years ago.

But what's strange is that

only the head is there,

there's no body.

I got it.

See?

See?

He's the Chief indeed.

He wasn't even there,

but he understands it completely.

I was also one of the people responsible

for burying the heads of soldiers back then.

Over ten years ago,

Anhui warlords besieged Jingu City.

Before the commander in chief committed suicide,

he vowed

to transform into a rakshasa after he died

and take the heads of defectors.

Reporting!

Brown from Cathay is dead.

Only his body was there,

his head is gone.

Later on, I'll discuss with the higher-ups

regarding my promotion next month to Commissioner.

At this point,

so many people died.

How can we do that?

What if

we say that the rakshasa did it?

The Qing Dynasty has been gone for 20 years.

We can't mention supernatural stuff now.

We must do things scientifically.

Can you catch that bird and show the higher-ups?

Remember.

You must handle this case well.

I understand.

By the way,

Lanlan is back from her studies abroad.

She said that she wants to implement the western case-solving theories

she has learned.

Be more tolerant of her.

I understand.

In heaven and earth,

the gods are always watching.

All evil thoughts are debts.

Jim Brown, come back.

Every wrong has its cause, every debt has its debtor.

All evil thoughts are debts.

Every wrong has its cause, every debt has its debtor.

All evil thoughts are debts.

Open my third eye.

Open my third eye.

This flour is so bad.

The flour is humid.

Use alcohol.

Open my third eye.

Next time, add special effects.

Otherwise, you won't be able to hold your audience.

Help!

Qi Wei.

Qi Wei, what happened?

Qi Wei.

Are you okay?

What's wrong with him?

Wake up, Qi Wei.

What did you see?

Qi Wei.

Rakshasa.

Rakshasa.

Brown's head was burning on the wall.

I feel like in a dark place,

someone is masterminding all of this.

Spectacular.

It was like watching an Italian opera.

This ambiance and performance is a perfect combination,

especially this medium.

Tears were streaming down his cheeks.

That was an amazing level of performance.

And those real slaps in the end

added a lot of points.

It's just that your props are a bit low-quality.

It's fine.

Come on, give them a round of applause.

Give them a round of applause.

All right.

That's it for the warm-up performance today.

The actors may leave.

And I wondered who arrived here.

Why are you always around?

Didn't you study abroad?

I'm curious too.

On my first day of investigating a case,

why did I see you here playing your spooky tricks?

You must have tricked them out of a lot of money, right?

I'm sorry.

Your dad officially invited us to do this.

Duan Yuhao.

Qi Wei.

In the past three years,

you've been pretending to be Feng Shui experts in solving cases

and scamming money

for a total of 128 times.

Strictly speaking, it's 129 times.

You're a bad influence to society.

Let me tell you.

It would be normal for you to be imprisoned here

for eight or ten years.

However,

since you two

has the intention of punishing and eliminating evil,

we've decided to give you

a chance to redeem yourselves.

You're talking about the headless sighting case in ghost city last night, right?

You must pay extra for that case.

How did you know about this?