油屋Oil Dealer

Looking for the mercury dealer?

He's... been of a bitter sort since the death of his younger sister. No one uses mercury now anyways. Oil is far more practical!

The hutongs are rife with danger! People used to live in them, but now, you mustn't venture too deep inside. I sell my oils out here now. Helps the time slide by.

How are you after entering the hutongs? ... Goodness, you're something else! I'd be too scared to do all that! Haven't gone back there in years.

If it helps, Chungking Garden isn't the only hutong on Lung Shing Road. Go ask the locksmith for details.

What do you know about Fu Shin Court?

... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Nothing? Really? Oh, dear...

Have you ever heard the word "wangren"?

Let's say you're FIXATED on a boiler. Before long, you start to see yourself AS a boiler, and before long, you you magically BECOME a boiler! That's how a person becomes a wangren.

At some point, their delusions broke free, transforming them.

That example was actually about... my friend... who became a wangren.

The wangren population is growing. Some residents become wangren by imagining themselves as an object. If a wangren's delusions ever stop, they fully transform into an object.

Remaining a delusional wangren sounds better than becoming an inanimate object, don't you think?

Huh? "Darkness in the heart"? My heart's clean as a whistle!

It's full of thoughts of my friend.

All things considered, this may be my one chance to help my friend.

My friend, the power generator... Mind coming back later? I'm putting something special together for you.

The guy acting as the big power generator was an old friend of mine.

He's been working hard to generate electricity, so he may be dried up.

Won't you take this lubricant I prepared for you?

Use it on him, and he'll generate electricity again, good as new.

Yes, he's a wangren, but I wonder if that only makes him happier...

We can't take this away from him, or he'll only become an object.

Now's my last chance... I have to help...

I can't let my friend go without a fight, but there's nothing I can do.

... Anyways, the entrance to Bailey Street is behind the mercury dealer.

Oh, you're back?

How did it go? Had enough of the guilü in the hutongs? Gee, who would've thought...

If the guilü ever disappeared, maybe I'd muster up the courage to finally go see my friend.

Everyone's spreading rumours about whom might be possessed! The district's in shambles....

I didn't want to be the one to point it out, but surely you've noticed the disappearances by now. What if the people who went missing were... Oh, I hope not!

The people who have gone missing must be the ones who... Ah-hah!