Wang Pangzi/History

## Wang Pangzi

* The Lost Tomb
* The Lost Tomb 2
* The Lost Tomb 2.5
* Ultimate Note
* Tomb of the Sea
* Reunion 1&2
* Time Raiders
* Conjuring Curse

## In The Lost Tomb 2

He meets Wu Xie when they start on the journey to the Paracel Underwater Tomb together. He seems motivated while on the journey.

When it becomes apparent that Wu Xie's uncle Wu Sanxing is harboring multiple secrets, Pangzi tries to reason with him and make his friend realize that maybe his uncle did not tell him everything and is not the good guy he is supposed to be. Believing in Wu Xie he drops the whole issue though and supports his friend in his beliefs.

After being betrayed by Ning, Pangzi and Wu Xie are shot by multiple lotus head arrows and are full of joy realizing they are unharmed. They are rejoined by Zhang Qiling who followed them in the disguise of Zhang Hao, an expert in exploring and Pangzi notes multiple times how his quiet friend did not have any problems talking when he was in disguise but seem to have gone quiet after returning to his old self. They get separated from Wu Xie and go on a search for their friend, encountering problems because of the moving chambers.

When they find out about the real reason why Wu Sanxing looked into the mirror with womanly gestures, Pangzi copies him and sees the secret passage behind him. They enter but accidentally enter the death door instead of the life door and the walls start moving in on them. They manage to climb on top of the chamber to safety. On their way through the following tunnels, Pangzi feels increasingly itchy and is highly bothered by it. Wu Xie ends up stopping and inspecting his friends and it turns out it is a side effect of being shot by the arrows. Not being as infected as Pangzi, Wu Xie assumes it is his blood that was infused with Dragon's blood, that caused his side effects to disappear. Telling Pangzi he has some lotion, he actually cuts his palm and smears his blood on his friend. Pangzi wonders why his friend actually takes lotion to a tomb exploration but since the blood takes effect and works successfully, he drops the issue.

They enter the chamber of the Heavenly Palace model and try to find out the truth behind it and a way out of the tomb. They find Ning distressed and despite Pangzi's attempts to reason with Wu Xie that she might not be as distressed as she acts, they take her with them. They implement a risky plan of blowing up the ceiling to escape the tomb and plan to use the dried up mummy from the model to do it. When the mummy suddenly starts moving, they have to blow it up in a different way, causing all of them to be separated.

Pangzi joins Wu Xie above water and saves him when his friend goes back to search for Zhang Qiling, reassuring him that Zhang Qiling is strong enough to survive on his own. Wu Xie agrees but is also worried about Ning and her whereabouts. Pangzi gets angry when he sees her fleeing in a boat of her own and asks exasperated why they even tried rescuing her.

They are saved by the empty ship they arrived in and separate on their way to Beijing. To find out more about his uncle's disappearance Wu Xie enlists Pangzi's help once again. Pangzi helps him enter the offices of a software firm and convincing Xiao Yu, the son of Xiao Da, a member of the original exploration team at the Paracel Underwater Tomb, to give them more information of the missing team. He reasons with Xiao Yu, even revealing how he lost his own parents when he was young. Xiao Yu relents and gives them his findings and they travel to Myanmar to take part in a secret auction after finding the picture of a Snake Eye Copper Fish.

When they are in desperate need of money to acquire the Copper Fish, Pangzi gives Wu Xie the money he got from selling his house and tells his friend not to bother with paying it back immediately. When Wu Xie loses sight of their goal of acquiring the Copper Fish when he sees another antique almost landing in the hands of a non-Chinese person, he tries to stop his friend from buying it to no avail. The auction is cut short by the authorities and Wu Xie and Pangzi start pursuing Ning and her team. After teaming up with Xie Yuchen they manage to acquire the Copper Fish but are taken by Ning's group. Pangzi manages to free himself from the cable ties and they try to escape only for Wu Xie to be captured. Worried for his friend he teams up with Xie Yuchen again and plans to free Wu Xie, when Zhang Qiling makes an appearance. In the following rescue mission, Pangzi is the only one not worried for their safety, even playing games on the computer while Xie Yuchen, Huo Xiuxiu and Pangzi wait for Zhang Qiling to return with Wu Xie. After Zhang Qiling disappears right after dropping off Wu Xie with them, Pangzi again reassures him, they will see their friend again soon, as always.

After they returned home and Wu Xie confronted his uncle about the truth from the Paracel Underwater Tomb exploration, Pangzi gets a surprise visitor during the night at his shop and is offered to buy a bronze bell like the ones they saw when exploring King Lu's Seven Star Palace. After listening to the visitor's story, Pangzi is freaked out when he sees the visitor talking to invisible people.

They research more about the bell and find a clue about a mountain tomb in Qinling. They travel to the area but encounter another group of tomb raiders along the way. Pangzi quickly reassures them they are just there to explore and sell animals illegally but they meet again at an inn later on. Pangzi decides to find out more information about them and even sleeps on the floor, expecting to be ambushed during the night. When nothing happens they continue on their way and encounter the raiders once again in the woods. They eavesdrop on their conversation and are almost caught but are saves by mountain guards. When they lose their way, they encounter a strange couple and follow them to their shack to stay for the night. During the night the husband starts behaving strangely and they realize he keeps his son in a cave in the mountain after his son went crazy after touching a bronze branch, similar to the bronze bell.

They return to the shack and continue on their way the next day. After finally entering the mountain tomb they are separated when they are attacked by a giant monster and Wu Xie pushes Pangzi to safety before the stone gate closes on him. Pangzi breaks down thinking his friend died and wanders aimlessly through the cave. When he encounters the dead corpse of the monster, he realizes his friend is alive and is newly motivated to find him. He starts searching for Wu Xie.

In the cave tunnels, Pangzi encounters a strange pattern on the stones and frees a poisonous insect. He flees but is stung in the process and breaks down soon after. Resolving that this is his end, he wakes up to the arrival of Zhang Qiling who neutralized the poison. Pangzi reveals to Zhang Qiling that Wu Xie is also stuck in the cave and they continue the search for their friend together. When they encounter Ning and her comrade they decide on a temporary truce and continue on together. They see reflections of the past on their way and conclude it to of the general and the Mute Army, they heard about from before.

The group finds a wider area being covered by bronze bells. Originally quiet the bells are activated and cause hallucinations. Pangzi almost shoots himself with his gun but is saved by Qiling just in time. They see Ning being pushed off the platform by her comrade, both being enthralled in their hallucinations. Pangzi and Qiling conclude that they must have died after their fall.

Zhang Qiling and Wu Xie have a vision of each other but Pangzi thinks it was just their imagination. They are attacked by a horde of humanoid monkey but manage to defeat them, only for them to realize the masks of the monkeys are actually parasitic Chi Venom beetles. They are attacked by the beetles and Zhang Qiling sprays his blood on the ground to save them. When they find a tomb circled by the bronze tree, Pangzi tries to open the coffin but fails. Zhang Qiling has another vision of Wu Xie, this time being able to communicate and they exchange information. Pangzi reminds Zhang Qiling not to tell Wu Xie about Ning, knowing about his friend affection toward Ning. Wu Xie reveals to them that Ning is alive and Pangzi, Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling promise to find each other. Zhang Qiling opens the coffin and they find a well preserved corpse in it. Pangzi is shocked when the corpse suddenly awakens and starts fighting with Zhang Qiling. He notices how the corpse seems to be a very good fighter, being able to keep up with Zhang Qiling.

When the fight stops, they get a chance to talk to the man and realize he is from another era, speaking in old Chinese words. Pangzi changes his speaking pattern to accommodate their new acquaintance and they talk and find out he was a servant serving beside the Mute Army. Soon after the man dies permanently. They continue their search and find their friend being blasted into the water after killing the second Candle Dragon.

They take Wu Xie back to Beijing and he awakens in the hospital. Pangzi jokes around with his friends and joins their discussions on their discoveries. He is confused by Wu Xie's theories on alternative universes though. After Zhang Qiling leaves them again, they are ambushed in their car and get the silk book and the sword from the mountain cave stolen from them. Pangzi injures his arm in the car accident.

After his arm is healed enough, Wu Xie and Pangzi make their way to the mysterious Fog village from their research regarding the silk book. On the way they eat at a locals' house but Pangzi also picks some mushrooms on the side of the road only for him to get diarrhea. When they find the Fog village he leaves to get water and relieve himself but is ambushed at his most vulnerable moment.

As later revealed he is later taken to the entry of the hidden tomb and stuck in a coffin by Hei Yanjing. He awakens when Wu Xie sprays alcohol on him, wondering how he came to be in the coffin. They continue on exploring carefully, knowing they are not alone in the tomb. They use used bullet shells to scout the way ahead of them but only encounter recently shot men. When they enter a room full of coffins, they encounter one of the Puppeteer's robotic self-exploding puppets and join Xie Yuchen's group. Originally wanting to just shoot the puppet, the conclude it is too risky to activate another explosive in the cave and go on evading the puppet. When they open the strange coffin in the middle of the room, a cloaked men enters the secret entrance to the next tomb level and an angered Pangzi follows him. He is later found knocked out in the army quarters and again wondering how he landed there. Reunited the group finds out more about the army quarters and manages to find the hidden trap door in another tomb.

In the following tunnels, they suddenly encounter a ghost general and with Zhai Xingyao's help blow him up. Hei Yanjing finally joins them and reassured of their victory, Pangzi is shocked to find that a whole group of ghost soldiers is after them. He flees and the rest of the group follows him. They make a narrow escape and enter one of the main rooms of the tomb. Pangzi triggers a secret switch and reveals a collection of golden murals to them. Wu Xie and Pangzi recognize the Seven Star Palace and the Paracel Underwater Tomb from the murals. When continuing on their way, they find the coffin of the general of the Mute Army and Pangzi triggers a hidden trap when taking a jade token. Pangzi throws the jade token at the general hoping to get him to leave them alone. Not impressed they see themselves cornered between the ghost general and his soldiers. While Wu Xie runs to find the jade token to deactivate the ghost soldiers, Pangzi fights alongside the others to survive. Just when all hope seems lost, Wu Xie returns and the ghost soldiers are deactivated. The group plans to leave when the tomb is suddenly shook with earthquakes and the tomb crumbles down around them.

Pangzi is later seen searching for Wu Xie in the remote village in the Changbai mountains after getting an anonymous hint to save Wu Xie from there. He is intercepted by Ning's group but secretly follows one of her men to find his friend. He finds the man with the village head and is taken by the villagers and continues to annoy them even as a prisoner. He is freed by Zhang Qiling who remembered who he is after getting injected with a serum and they start on a search for Wu Xie. On their way the re-encounter Ning's group when they re-inject Zhang Qiling with the serum after its neutralizing effect lessened. Ning tells Pangzi about the poison in Zhang Qiling's blood and he worries about his friend. When Zhang Qiling decides to continue searching for Wu Xie instead of worry about himself, he accepts his friends' decision.

Originally only finding a puppet in the mountains they are ambushed by another group of explorers in an abandoned house but reunite with Wu Xie shortly after. The other group of explorers is lead by Chen Pi Ah Si and they join forces to find the treasures behind the mountain.

When some members of the group get discouraged on the way, Pangzi keeps them inspired and in a good mood and helps them go further. After entering the first cave with an hot spring, they find a mural and Pangzi suspects an second layer behind it but is reprimanded by the others to not destroy the mural. Only after entering the second cave he finally cracks open the mural and reveals the hidden second mural to them. Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling and Pangzi recognize it from the painting in the model chamber in the Paracel Underwater Tomb.

When Chen Pi Ah Si reveals the secret behind the Snake Eye Copper Fish to them, Wu Xie thinks about revealing his own but Pangzi stops him. When they are caught by a surprise avalanche, Pangzi hurries them out of the cave but when he sees Wu Xie falling after he saved Teacher Hua, he and Zhang Qiling run to save their friend, leaving their fate unknown.

## In Reunion: Sound of the Providence

See Reunion: Sound of the Providence and Reunion: Sound of the Providence 2.

## In Time Raiders

Originally working with Ning and not being on the same side as Wu Xie and his friends and family, he later joins them with Ning when the dangerous in the tomb exploration becomes apparent.

He remains nameless for most of the movie, but in the end is just about to reveal his name as "Wang-" when he is interrupted by Ning.