Mystic Nine Episode 12

Mystic Nine strategy and mystery creature

As the meeting comes to order blame gets tossed at Zhang QiShan for not finding whatever the Japanese did and losing Wu. Huo looks a bit guilty because she has the item. Chen picks up annoyance factor after general’s departure. This actor is very good at playing self righteous annoying characters. He did this in Paper Dreams in Ink too. Zhang QiShen finally gets their full attention reminding them what will be lost if the Japanese succeed. So now that the childish taunts can be thrown aside they ask how to assist. It is agreed that merchants and informants will garner intel and Ban will assist navigating the underground waterway. This is most likely how they escaped undetected from the tower. Xie agrees to continue dealing with General Huo. Zhang and Huo have a chat where she reveals Ding QianSui as her contact. She acknowledges supplies her clan purchased and that she learned he was colluding with the Japanese and now has her clan implicated. When asked what she found, she did not disclose. She wants to know what she’s dealing with to not be used as a pawn. She made it clear she was tired of that role from all of them. Zhang is candid that he gave her this time to talk as a colleague but that if anything became public he would be forced to deal with her in a military fashion with no mercy. She understands the terms and leaves to assist with the search for Wu. Qi mentions the picture of otherworld patriarch and hair. He noticed such a person visited his father, but he doesn’t know where she came from or where she went. Qi is good with ambiguous supernatural details. Zhang QiShan wants to target Ding QianSui because he believes the eunuch is backed by the Japanese and Americans which is giving him a stronghold in China. I gotta say I am hoping Zhang is successful in wiping out that old lech—the sooner the better.😝😡 Xie is left to greet the general when he wakes up and calmly tells him why mystic nine visited and how Zhang had admonished them and guards for oversight. General Huo is left to reprimand his men as he sees fit while Xie leaves early as not feeling well. General Huo is advised to rest well so he doesn’t become ill.😝 In the divination hall Qi is pouring through notes on the hair statue. The woman with the lustrous hair is traced to the Xishan monastery. Qi leaves a letter and preps to go. General Huo is tattling on the mystic nine like a bested bully. 😝🤣🙄The top ministry of war leader respects the mystic nine but acknowledges their days are numbered. Xie and Chen have a chat about that very thing. Xie is already well aware that General Huo is desperate to cut ties and that mystic nine will be ended because they no longer have a reason to exist. However, Wu gives them a new variable that changes things. The scene changes to Caopan Mountain where Wu is being held. Hatoyama says they have a creature they want him to tame. His refusal is countered with the lives of Unit 401. He is reminded he cannot gain his wish if Zhang’s men aren’t returned. The Japanese dealings with Ding started four years earlier when the Huo clan were eventually purchased and provision providers. Their logistics were outside Zhang’s view, so delivered to the tower secretly. Hatoyama is almost as annoying as Gen Huo.😝🙄 His sleazy laugh at how clever he is manipulating Wu. They do keep the creep factor going with their many armed creation. 👀He is also told the Huo will have to deal with the spy execution squad if her clan’s provision assist is made known. He thinks he has every angle covered to ensnare Wu. Third Master doesn’t seem to be appreciated at home. They want him packed up and gone with Zhang ASAP. 🤣😂 We aren’t told why they don’t like him home. He and Zhang are within a few days of waterway entrance. He won’t retire because he has even more wanting to kill him than he supports. His killer isn’t born yet so he bides his time doing what he can in the interim. There is a deceptive peaceful Mountain View that is soon going to change to a warzone of waterways. It is still unclear what the Japanese plan, only that Hatoyama is quite confident of their success. The mystic nine hold secrets from each other even as they ally to find Wu and how he serves Japanese and American plans. The one who knows Japanese finds no records of the eunuch locally. He remembers that American backing is involved and thinks of a new place to look, but we aren’t told where that is. Both sides are bracing for impact and both sides want first strike. Hatoyama disposes of the supernatural theory and replaces it with technology. One the Chinese have forgotten and that the Japanese want to perfect. The eerie factor still stays up there because of their creation and what exactly do they want Wu to tame?

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