Episode 17 (Ultimate Note)

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## Episode 17

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**Episode 17 (Ultimate Note)** is the seventeenth episode of the television series Ultimate Note.

## Story

Wu Erbai asks Wu Xie to come back to Hangzhou on the condition that his uncle tells him the truth about Wu Sanxing. Knowing his uncle well, Wu Xie travels to Hangzhou early but still ends up not reaching anyone of the elders. One day, Jin Wantang shows up at Wushanju and asks for a vase left to him by Wu Sanxing. Originally denying having such a vase, Wu Xie and Wang Meng realize it was sent to them in a box for Instant Noodles. Wu Xie discovers a video camera nd Jin Wantang admits he was paid to ask for the vase and does not actually want it. Wu Xie watches the video on the camera. It is by Wu Sanxing / Xie Lianhuan finally admiting the truth of his identity, apologising as well as further declaring that despite not being Wu Sanxing from the start, after all these years together, he is Wu Xie's uncle and only wants to protect him.

He tells about how Wu Sanxing and he were separated from Chen Wenjin and the others and never found them in the Paracel Underwater Tomb. After investigating the background of some expedition members, they realized something was off and to uncover the truth, they had to change identity. The video and knowing it was taken before the Tamutuo exploration, Wu Xie breaks down crying, not knowing if Wu Sanxing (or Xie Lianhuan who is pretty much his uncle after all this time) is still alive.

Procrastinating while thinking of answers, Wu Xie gets an unannounced visit by Wang Pangzi and Zhang Qiling. Not improving in the hospital and with the medicine, Wang Pangzi decided to take Zhang Qiling out of there. Due to Zhang Qiling only possessing fragmented memories, they give Zhang Qiling a lost-child-card with their contact details. After discussing with Wang Pangzi, Wu Xie gets in contact with an old aquaintance of Wu Sanxing who worked with Zhang Qiling before as well. They try to find out more about their friend's past.

While Wu Xie and Wang Pangzi talk with bald-headed Chu, Zhang Qiling explores the store and drives Wang Meng crazy when deeming everything in the store as "fake".

Bald-headed Chu, the aquaintance, reveals that before Zhang Qiling worked for Wu Sanxing, he worked with Chen Pi Ah Si. Chen Pi Ah Si met Zhang Qiling when exploring a tomb with treasure hoarders. The treasure hoarders sent in Zhang Qiling as bait for monsters and danger. Hearing the help cries of his men, Chen Pi Ah Si scares of the treasure hoarders and seals of the entrance to the tomb. When returning a week later, Zhang Qiling comes out of the tomb, unharmed, and Chen Pi Ah Si hires him. After "borrowing" Zhang Qiling from Chen Pi Ah Si, Wu Sanxing asked bald-headed Chu to investigate Zhang Qiling's past. Apparently the treasure hoarders found him in the village Banai in Guangxi. Traveling there Chu found multiple pictures but only took one with him. It shows Golmud Sanatorium and a hidden figure with especially slumped shoulders. Hoping to find more photos, the friends set out to the village to find out more.

They encounter a man offering them shelter and food and find a photo of Chen Wenjin from 1976 on the wall. They realize she had been there before and wonder why the expedition team was in Banai. Their guide reveals they stayed for multiple months, exploring the mountain. One member of the village told the others, he was told to only visit every three days. One day he came early and found the camp totally abandoned. Searching for the team everywhere he found nothing. Only for them to reappear the next day as if nothing happened.

While relieving themselves, a drunk Wang Pangzi thinks he sees a man with slouched shoulders but Wu Xie brushes it off as a drunk hallucination. The next day, the friends start making their way to Zhang Qiling's former house.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Wang Pangzi
* Zhang Qiling
* Xie Yuchen
* Huo Xiuxiu
* Wu Erbai
* Wu Sanxing (on video)
* Chen Pi Ah Si (flashback)
* Wang Meng
* Jin Wantang
* Xie Lianhuan

## Locations

* Hospital in Beijing
* Banai village
* Wushanju
* Xin Yue Restaurant