Episode 26 (Ultimate Note)

**Episode 26 (Ultimate Note)** is the twenty-sixth episode of the television series Ultimate Note.

## Story

Finding new energy in his resolution, Wang Pangzi and the others continue excavating the mountain. After finding no new clues, Wu Xie discusses with his friends and they decide to talk to bald-headed Chu again, as they found it strange for him to have just one photo from Zhang Qiling's stilt house. Worried for Wang Pangzi who wants to stay behind at the mountain, Wu Xie asks Zhang Qiling to take care of him while he talks to bald-headed Chu again.

Back in the city, Chu reveals to Wu Xie he got the photo from Wu Sanxing who predicted his nephew's moves and even arranged for Chu to give something to Wu Xie at their second meeting. He hands Wu Xie the Grant subsidy list of the first expedition team to the mountain lake and figures his uncle to lead him towards finding the member files of the expedition. Wu Xie deducts finding the names of the members will lead him to the imposters of the second expedition who are probably still alive. He gets Wang Meng to come to Changsha and help him search the archives. They visit the local archive but end up finding nothing. After some research, they find out the data they are interested in is located in the old archive rooms of Changsha University.

They trick the guard into thinking they are alumni and manage to take a first look before he finds them snooping. Still sticking with their story of just wanting to take photos, he asks them to sign a guest log, which Wu Xie signs as Guan Gen and Wang Ming. Later, the guard returns to his post to find an unknown man there, asking who visited. The guard hands him the guest log and shows him the security footage.

After realizing they have to take another look, Wu Xie and Wang Meng return and search the archive room. When they end up with nothing, Wang Meng notices a painting different from anything else in the room. Wu Xie sees the spider webs on it being glued to the back of the painting, as if it was put there deliberately. They remove the painting and find a secret room. Searching this archive, Wu Xie manages to find the folder for 1976, the year of the mountain expedition but only finds the guest log page of their last visit on it. Wu Xie understand the message of someone not wanting them to investigate but decides to continue searching. When sitting down in the middle of some books and files, they soon notice everything being exactly the way Wu Xie normally separates his files. Wu Xie explains that only Wang Meng and Wu Sanxing know of this habit. Checking the location where he normally puts the important files, they find a book leading them to Xiao Man, Wu Sanxing's dog. Following Wu Sanxing's lead they check Xiao Man's doghouse and find old architectural plans of Lei architecture from the Qing dynasty.

While they search for clues of the actual entrance into the Old Pavilion, Wang Pangzi and Zhang Qiling encounter more jade veins but after a melting test realize them all to be natural ones, not leading to the Old Pavilion.

Xie Yuchen decides to find out how Huo Xiangu and Hendry Cox might have come in contact with the Yellow Silk which leads to all the exploration sites on the search for immortality, and writes a fake letter in the name of Huo Xiangu to lure out old acquaintances. Receiving an answer, they follow the lead and land in Jin Wantang's shop. After some threatening from Xie Yuchen and his men, he relents and decides to tell them his story.

Being a master in antiques he was asked to be the expert and evaluator for a Mystic Nine operation back in 1963. Being infatuated with money and Huo Xiangu he agrees to participate and goes with them. He explains it was a big operation with many secrets and he mostly got ancient manuscripts to read and decipher.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Wang Pangzi
* Zhang Qiling
* Hei Yanjing
* Xie Yuchen
* Wang Meng
* Huo Xiangu (flashback)
* Jin Wantang

## Locations

* Banai village and lake
* Jin Wantang's antiques shop