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When I was a child,
the whole world was full of magic.
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My father was a spirit hunter,
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one of the brave men who protected
humanity against spirits
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that would harm it.
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When will she come?
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Soon, Liang. A huli jing cannot resist
the cries of the man she's bewitched.
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My sweet Tsiao-Jung.
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Don't stare at her, she'll entrance you.
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Tsiao-Jung, have you come for me?
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Hyah!
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Oof!
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The piss, toss it on her
before she changes.
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You are a very brave boy.
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Throw it! Now!
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No!
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She's trapped in this half form.
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Father, I'm sorry.
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The hunt is not over, Liang.
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She's made her den here.
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Go round back.
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Why are you hunting us?
We did nothing to you.
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Your mother bewitched the merchant's son.
We were hired to save him.
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Bewitched?
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He's the one who wouldn't leave her alone.
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That's not true.
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Once a man has set his heart
on a huli jing,
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she can hear him,
no matter how far apart they are.
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All that moaning and crying,
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she has to go to him every night
just to keep him quiet.
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No, she lures men and feeds on them
for her evil magic.
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A man can fall in love with a huli jing
just like he can with a human woman.
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- It's not the same!
- Not the same?
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I saw how you looked at me.
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Yan!
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Do not speak to that human!
You know how dangerous they are.
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Liang, have you seen
any sign of pups?
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Are you listening to me?
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Yes, Father, I...
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I've seen no sign of any pups.
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Fine.
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Let's collect the bounty
for this huli jing head.
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It was five years later
that my father died.
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I laid him to rest next to my mother.
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I miss my father terribly...
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but a part of me was relieved
he died when he did,
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before the first trains
roared through the village.
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The world was modernizing.
He would not have understood.
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There were many things
he would not have understood.
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Yan never blamed me for what had happened.
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Sometimes, the hunter became the hunted.
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Hello, Yan.
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Thank you.
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How is hunting?
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Worse this year than last.
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It's getting harder and harder for me
to return to my true form.
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Some nights, I can't do it at all.
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What's causing it?
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Iron roads
and machines that breathe smoke.
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Magic is draining from the world
and with it,
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we magical creatures grow ever weaker.
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Yan, I have to tell you something.
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I'm going to leave the village.
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Where will you go?
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I don't know yet.
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I just... I wanted to tell you.
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What will you do?
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Learn to survive.
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I ended up in Hong Kong,
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working the train line at Victoria Peak.
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It was there that the English lived,
our colonial masters.
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We could take them up to
the top of that mountain,
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but we were forbidden to stay.
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After five years, I knew the grinding of
the gears and the rumbling of the pistons
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as well as I knew my own heartbeat.
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Yes, very clever, Liang, for a Chinaman.
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Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
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Oh, come now.
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How can you be done for the day
when there's good money to be earned?
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Please, I'm very tired.
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Oh, don't be shy now.
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You Chinese are goers,
everyone knows that.
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Hey! Leave her alone!
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This isn't your business, boy.
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I said, leave her alone.
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I said piss off, you fucking chink.
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Why don't you go find
what you're looking for elsewhere?
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Right, yes, of course.
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How is hunting?
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I'm stuck now in this human form:
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no claws, no sharp teeth.
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I can't even run very fast.
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All I have is my beauty.
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Now, I live by the very thing
you accused my mother of:
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I bewitch men for money.
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And you?
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I also serve our English masters.
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I keep their precious trains running.
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Are you happy keeping
their engines running?
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Happy?
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I don't know, but I'm good at it.
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I dream of hunting in this jungle
of metal and asphalt.
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I imagine my true form leaping from beam
to ledge to terrace roof
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until I am at the top of this island.
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Until I can growl in the faces of all
the men who believe they can own me.
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I meant what I said to Yan.
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I enjoyed my work.
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As the years passed,
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I learned more and more.
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Technology in the city was exciting
and always changing.
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As it changed, I changed with it.
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I found I understood automata
even better than I understood trains.
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These machines were otherworldly...
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and alive.
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They felt akin to magic.
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Stop right there!
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Yan?
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What are you doing here?
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I need your help.
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Tell me what's wrong.
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Look.
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What happened?
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The Governor.
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For months, he had been a client,
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but he seemed a gentleman.
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He'd pay, but we never...
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Then, one night,
he put something in my drink.
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No! Stop!
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The truth is
he could only get hard for machines,
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and he wanted the ultimate machine
to serve that twisted desire.
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One night, I'd finally had enough.
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I told him no.
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That word coming from me,
it sent him into a rage.
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A terrible thing
had been done to me.
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But I could also be terrible.
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We'll find some way to reverse this, Yan.
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It's too late for that, Liang.
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What I want is to hunt.
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Hunt the men who think they can own us.
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The men who perpetrate evil,
but call it progress.
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I need you to help me.
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I told her I would do it.
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The old magic may have been gone
from the world,
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but I could make a new magic
from their machines.
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A magic we could use against them.
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I'm ready.
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Good hunting, Yan.
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No!
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Stop!
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No!