Episode 52 (Tomb of the Sea)

**Episode 52 (Tomb of the Sea)** is the fifty-second and last episode of the television series Tomb of the Sea. This episode includes content from the short novel *Ten Years Later*.

## Synopsis

Wu Xie and the Wangs finally face each other.

## Story

Wu Xie managed to find the computing department. However, a man in white was waiting for him. He told Wu Xie that what he sees may not be real. Then, walked over to show him a piece of the Bronze Gate at Changbai Mountains. With that small piece of bronze meteorite, the Wangs were able to calculate everything. It was how the computing department was able to predict what it could. Wu Xie wondered why it couldn't predict him going there that day. The mysterious man said that there is no solution to the conflict between the Wangs and Wu Xie. The two exist to counteract each other and create balance. The man said that if "we're" gone, then Wu Xie will become them. People will come to fight him in return. Wu Xie began his attack on the computer equipment but the other man stopped him. They fought and Wu Xie was able to stab him. But there was no blood. Wu Xie knew the man was an illusion and went over and smashed some kind of glass. Once he did, the mysterious man disappears instaneously. Beyond the glass, was a corpse with a mask on sitting in a chair. It was the Green-Eyed Fox Corpse, likely the cause of the hallucination Wu Xie had experienced. He made a comment he won't make the same mistake he did ten years ago and then sliced off the corpse's head. Wu Xie then set a bomb in the computing department and left.

Li Cu and Su Nan returned to facility and headed towards the computing department but it was blocked off. They eventually heard the siren go off for the poisonous gas system. The gas was going to be released soon. Wang Can set it so it would release in five minutes. Li Cu and Su Nan find the room that controls the countdown. Wang Can was waiting for them and started shooting. He missed and Su Nan was able to distract him while Li Cu tried to guess the password to stop the countdown. After Su Nan got pinned by a cabinet that fell on her, Li Cu went over to fight with Wang Can.

Su Nan made an annoucement over the speaker system that was set up in the facility. She warned Wu Xie about the posoinous gas. Everyone heard her message and started to retreat, but Wu Xie was still looking for Li Cu. Su Nan managed to fatally wound Wang Can and Li Cu successfuly guessed the password and stopped the countdown. Wang Can was still able to release a grenade into the room hoping to take the two of them with him. Su Nan got Li Cu out in time, but Wang Can's grenade went off and also set off the poisonous gas nearby. Wu Xie later found Li Cu outside the window where Su Nan threw him out of. He picked him up and took him to safety. He brought Li Cu to his car and placed him in the backseat of his car. Wu Xie got in the front seat and remembered what his uncle said to him from the snake pheromones. In it, Wu Sanxing hoped Wu Xie could forgive him since everything that has happened to him was his fault. He listened further to what Wu Sanxing said about the Wangs and how they controled the Nine Clans. He didn't want to tell Wu Xie a plan and wanted him to forget all of his experiences so that he would be uncontrollable. Wu Xie stopped thinking of his uncle and thought back to everything he had to go through recently to defeat the Wangs. The people who died along the way and the others who became traumatized because of the violence in the desert. He also thought of Li Cu and what he had to go through and Su Nan who had died. He broke down crying in the car where no one outside could hear him.

Xie Yuchen told Zhang Rishan that everything should end soon. But Zhang Rishan thought the issues between the Wang and Zhang families couldn't be resolved so easily. That perhaps this was only the beginning.

Li Cu woke up on a train alone with his arm bandaged. A group of school girls walked by and one of them recognized Li Cu and stopped to talk to him. It was the girl he got into a fight with another student over. They exchanged pleasantries and she told Li Cu that she was no longer dating the violent classmate. Li Cu did not say anything and so she left. He thought of Wang Xiaoyuan and how she died.

Li Cu's father was lying down on a bed in another room somewhere. The door had opened and he seemed confused but got up and walked towards it. Li Cu reunited with Yang Hao and Su Wan. They were happy to see Li Cu. Li Cu informed Su Wan that Shen Qiong was dead. He told him that he couldn't save her or anybody else. He also told him that she died saving his life.

Wu Xie and Pangzi visited Pan Zi's grave. Pangzi wondered if Zhang Qiling had already come out a long time ago and left by himself. Wu Xie said that if he did do that, then he would have seriously offended him. Pangzi started talking to Pan Zi and asked him for his blessing to bring back Zhang Qiling safely so that the Iron Triangle was going to be reunited. Wu Xie interrupted him calling him a talkative old man. Pangzi wanted Wu Xie to smile just once and go back to his old, innocent self. That way, Zhang Qiling would recognize him. They went to the car and gave their final blessings to Pan Zi. They left and while driving, Pangzi thought the three of them were similar to Li Cu and his friends.

Li Cu met with his teacher from school who was impressed that he came back to repeat his studies in March, but then took the entrance exam in June and got an excellent score despite studying for only four months. Li Cu was able to graduate school.

Zhang Rishan visisted Liang Wan at her work office. Liang Wan was happy to see him alive and well and they both embraced each other.

Wang Cen and about twenty other Wangs were able to escape the facility unharmed.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Li Cu
* Su Nan
* Wang Can
* Hei Yanjing
* Wang Pangzi
* Wu Erbai
* Zhang Rishan
* Luo Que
* Xie Yuchen
* Wu Sanxing (flashback)
* Wang Xiaoyuan (flashback)
* Su Wan
* Yang Hao
* Zhang Qiling (mentioned)
* Wang Meng
* Zhang Rishan
* Liang Wan

## References

1. ↑ The same man in white appeared in Episode 34 when Li Cu saw the White Snake.
2. ↑ The Green-Eyed Fox Corpse was in the Seven Star Palace tomb. In The Lost Tomb, only Pangzi suffered from the hallucination. However, in the Daomu Biji novel *Volume 1*, Wu Xie also suffered from a hallucination and almost died.