Mystic Nine Episode 25

Rescuing unit 401 and Huo finding herself

Wu finally finds out most of the details surrounding the 401’s whereabouts and confrontations with Japanese. They were used to coerce Wu into finding better quality Sun-moon sand. He ultimately persuaded them to let him search with unit 401 men but only gets supplies for 3 day stints. He figured out how to use the herb to put them in stasis for over a month while he escaped to outside via the casket. When the zainiangniang helped him out it is not clear if the creature wanted to help him or tossed him down the waterway in frustration he couldn’t get to him. Huo finds the notes she left for herself and her hallucination reveals how she can save herself. She is the only one that knows the morning glory fruit keeps the cycle going. If she destroys it, the Japanese can’t get it and she can escape the tower. Wu and Zhang finally make peace as Zhang helps him remember he did not betray his country or unit 401. The one he shot wanted him to to save him from the pain of turning into a creature. XiaoYu finds the trap they set and wends his way through to cut the cord so Qi can enter. They use the sand pills to re constitute the soldiers there and the remnant of them can finally leave. Wu found out that any who died were killed by Japanese and that he had retaliated by killing them. He set them up in a space to survive and were discovered. He finally understood why Zhang shot his brother and peace was restored between the two of them. Huo was made to eradicate Wu from her heart because total isolation was her only path to saving herself and escaping. This is the sad reason she and Wu were never the couple they should have been after the tower. Whether this was her fate because it had to be or because she thought that was the only option, we don’t really know. The sand definitely made her believe that to be her only truth and path.

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