Episode 17 (The Lost Tomb 2.5)

**Episode 17 (The Lost Tomb 2.5)** is the seventeenth episode of the television series The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note.

## Story

The group continues their way to the Heavenly Palace but gets poisoned by purple flowers, rattan, on the way. Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling manage to withstand the poison due to their blood but use Zhang Qiling's blood to save the others.

After recovering they continue on the way and soon encounter the first gate to the tomb, called the Sky Door. Chen Pi Ah Si reminds them to walk backwards when they leave the palace to avoid walking through the Guillotine door, which signifies danger. When walking forward, Wu Xie thinks he sees someone's face and they decide to split up. Chen Pi Ah Si, Shun Zi and Zhang Qiling go to explore whether they find Ning and her team while the others continue forward.

Wu Xie and his group encounter a living owl on a statue and wonder about it. Wang Pangzi tries to feed them when they suddenly realize there are more owls behind the one creature. They carefully try to make their way forward, but get attacked by the owls. They realize that the beasts attacking Jason's team in the snowy forest before must have been the owls. They manage to enter the Heavenly Palace running and find gun shells on the floor in the first chamber, showing someone was there before them. Looking around, they find Jason's men dead on a statue and despite Wu Xie and Hua Heshang's warnings, Wang Pangzi gets onto the statue to get the men's weapons. Everything goes well until Wu Xie notices the last man moving.

Hendry Cox sends one of his men to meet Huo Xiangu to resolve the Macau situation about the goods stolen by Xie Yuchen and Huo Xiuxiu but Huo Xiangu is shocked to know that Xie Yuchen would be able to pull of such a thing. Hendry Cox' man reveals Xie Yuchen will probably soon leave to go to the Heavenly Palace. Huo Xiangu does not believe him but is shocked when he tells her they might have found her daughter, Huo Ling. Huo Xiangu agrees to continue working with them.

After her group was attacked, resulting in the gun shells Wu Xie and the others found, Ning wakes up to find herself with Wu Sanxing and his group. Wu Sanxing arrived right after her team and saved her from the beasts.

Wu Xie and the others try to save the man and realize they are able to breathe fresh air in the palace. Suddenly the man wakes up and screams about a big bird, before he dies. They are attacked by the owls again but Chen Pi Ah Si and Shun Zi arrive back to support them. Shun Zi orders Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi and Pan Zi to stay as they fired gunshots and sends Chen Pi Ah Si and Hua Heshang to safety. When asking why he did so, he reveals to be working for Wu Sanxing and acting on his orders.

They defend against the owls and Shun Zi gets hurt but manages to continue fighting. While shooting his gun and moving around, Wang Pangzi loses his communication device from Hendry Cox and Wu Xie finds it, knowing who it is from as he got the same from Ning. After the owls are gone, Wu Xie confronts his friend and Wang Pangzi tries to reason with him. Due to the cheated deal with Hendry Cox, Wang Pangzi lost the shop he got from his family and decided to work for him. Despite this reasoning, Wu Xie cannot believe his friend lied to him and went on this trip for selfish reasons. He asks Wang Pangzi to leave. Hurt and misunderstood, Wang Pangzi lets out his frustrations on Wu Xie, telling him how much he cared and gave for his friend while also having to deal with the Wu family's issues. Having had enough, the friends part ways and Wang Pangzi leaves.

Wu Xie continues forward with Shun Zi and Pan Zi and Shun Zi relays a message from Wu Sanxing, which supposedly tells Wu Xie where to find the secret entrance to the underground tomb of the Heavenly Palace: "The place where the Black Tortoise rejects the dead body". Suddenly they are attacked by human-faced owls again.

## Characters

* Wu Xie
* Chen Pi Ah Si
* Wang Pangzi
* Hua Heshang
* Zhang Qiling
* Pan Zi
* Huo Xiangu
* Ning
* Jason
* Wu Sanxing
* Hendry Cox