Episode 20 (The Lost Tomb 2.5)

**Episode 20 (The Lost Tomb 2.5)** is the twentieth episode of the television series The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note.

## Story

Realizing the group of explorers from before ran out of food, the group think that maybe the group got locked in the chamber of gold, but when they check the doors, everything looks normal. Shun Zi remembers eight people being part of the excursion of his father and they wonder what happened with the two people whose skeletons are not in the chamber.

Xie Yuchen meets with Huo Xiangu to ask about Huo Xiuxiu as well as her real intentions with Hendry Cox and the Heavenly Palace. Despite her telling him how lacking he is, he refuses to step back. Xie Yuchen asks her how Hendry Cox stayed young and healthy all these years. Huo Xiangu retells her side of the story when she found out that Huo Ling and Xie Lianhuan went missing on the Paracel Underwater Tomb exploration, with only Wu Sanxing returning. When she questions Wu Sanxing, he tries to tell her that Huo Ling wasn't herself when she went on the exploration but seemed to be different. Not believing him and thinking he might have something to do with her disappearance, she distrusts Wu Sanxing and thinks he might have wanted the downfall of the other clans. She later received a video tape, showing Huo Ling trapped in a room, unable to escape and screaming for help. While Huo Xiangu tells her story, Huo Xiuxiu listens in through Xie Yuchen's phone. She reveals she worked with Hendry Cox to find out where her daughter is, as well as working against the Wu family, as she still distrusts them after all these years. Xie Yuchen understand why she worked in the dark all these years but claims she only resents the Wu family out of spite.

Wu Xie and his friends continue wandering the corridors but wonder how the group of explorers died. When they find another chamber of gold and the bodies are still there, they wonder what is happening. They realize they are stuck in an endless maze of corridors, the same Ning and her team, as well as the dead explorers, fell victim to. They continue wandering through the corridors again and again, all with the same result, them ending up in the room of gold.

They finally take a rest in the gold chamber when Shun Zi starts acting strangely and turns gold-eyed again. They hold him down and tie him up. To find a way out of the corridors and chamber, they start thinking about possible solutions to the endless maze, trying to prove each of them to see which is the correct one. To prove whether the corridors are a hallucination or not, Wang Pangzi goes to fire a gun in the corridor. When they join Wang Pangzi he reveals the bullet came straight back at him immediately and they find the bullet in the side wall, showing something is wrong with their perception.

Ning and her team struggle with the same corridors and they call Hendry Cox and update him about the progress. The team grows insecure about the maze and Ning has to knock out one of the men.

Wu Xie wonders how to prove his group's third assumption, it might be a parallel space.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Wang Pangzi
* Pan Zi
* Shun Zi
* Xie Yuchen
* Huo Xiangu
* Huo Xiuxiu
* Huo Ling (flashback)
* Ning
* Hendry Cox
* Jason
* Wu Sanxing

## Locations

* Heavenly Palace
* Huo Manor
* Changsha
* Golmud Sanatorium (flashback, presumably)