Mao Sheng!
Zhi Yu... Zhi Yu...
Zhi Yu, there is a lady who will come to see you.
You better go get ready for yourself.
I've told you that I don't want English tutor.
If looking for me, tell her that you can't find me.
Hi.
Sorry, it's okay. It's okay.
Oops.
Sorry.
My name is...
Oh, it's okay. I speak English.
- Hi. - It's nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
Come this way, please.
Wow, you must be loaded.
Excuse me?
You have a lovely home.
Well, I work very hard
to make sure my son has the best.
Can I ask you a question?
Of course.
Why is this job a full-time live-in position?
That's a lot of English studies.
Thank you.
Things have been difficult
since my wife passed away last year.
My son has also struggled.
So in addition to tutoring
I could use a little help at home.
I understand.
My condolences.
Zhi Yu.
Please come out and meet your new tutor.
Hi, Zhi Yu.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
Hello,
it's to me,
pleasure for you meet.
Zhi Yu, show some respect!
It's okay.
Just give him some time.
My apologies.
No need to apologize.
So,
what's the plan?
I have a new job in Wanzhou
and I need you to fly there with Zhi Yu,
set up the house and get him into his new school.
As soon as I wrap up business here
I will join you a few weeks later.
When do you want me to start?
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow?
Mhmm.
Okay. Okay.
Okay!
Thank you.
Duke.
Hey, Mr. Chey.
- How are you? How are you? - Thank you.
Good... good...
Okay!
Mr. Chey?
One more thing.
How much?
A fairytale.
There's been evidence, huh?
In the caves right here in this region.
Not just by your farmers,
but by scientists.
And we just found this.
In a bear trap.
No bear.
No, it's like nothing I've ever seen before.
He wants...
He wants one alive.
Two million.
Two million U.S.,
U-S dollars!
Yeah?
Zhi Yu, some help?
You ever been on a plane before?
I fly one on FS ten.
On what?
Flight simulator.
It's a computer game.
Same thing.
Not exactly.
It must be destiny.
Yeah.
Joshua Ridley,
energy consultant.
I'm his business partner,
Piao Zhimin.
It's nice to meet you.
I'm Denise Nichols
and this is Zhi Yu.
So what hotel are you guys staying at?
Zhi Yu, get out your English grammar book.
No.
Please get it out, chapter six.
Thank you.
Where?
Chapter six, here.
That's an interesting necklace.
Where'd you get it?
None of your business.
It was my mother's.
My friends tease me and say that is a girl's necklace.
They don't know anything.
And I think
it's very cool.
Want to read the newspaper?
Okay.
Thank you.
Hey, did you know that we're flying over
one of the most mysterious places in all of China?
Mhmm.
Where you see mystery,
I see opportunity.
Hey,
the Yeren lives in Shennongjia, under our plane.
Wow.
What kind of energy business are you in?
Anything that burns, baby.
Responsibly, of course.
Those green mountains
are home to some of the rarest animals on Earth.
You know, golden monkeys, giant salamanders.
How many jobs has a salamander created?
Are you okay?
Maybe.
Put on your seat belt.
Honey, I fly over 250,000 miles a year.
Nothing to worry about.
Is this something to worry about?
What's wrong?
Stop screaming, you're scaring him!
Help!
Help! Help!
We're gonna crash!
Help, we're gonna crash!
We're gonna crash!
Help!
We already crashed, you idiot!
Zhi Yu!
Zhi Yu's under this.
He's under the seat.
Let's get him up. Piao Zhimin, help!
Piao Zhimin, help us!
Zhi Yu?
Zhi Yu, talk to me.
Can you hear me?
Help!
You got him?
Yeah, I got him. You take care of the old man.
Mister Feng, can I see?
All right, listen. You're gonna be fine.
Okay? Just sit tight.
You're totally safe now.
Does anything else hurt?
On your body? Does anything hurt?
I think you're gonna be okay, okay?
Let's get out of the plane.
Hua, is flower.
Fire?!
Fire!
We gotta get out of here!
Where's Zhi Yu?
He's fine.
He's over by the...
By the tree.
What?
Zhi Yu?
Piao, where is he?
Who?
The kid! The kid! The kid, like that tall!
Girlie necklace! Where is he?
Maybe he's in shock and wandered off.
Don't go anywhere, I'll take care of it!
He's my responsibility. I need to go and find him!
No, you don't. You need to stay here and wait for the...
It's gonna be fine.
I'm gonna call the rescue copter.
I have my phone.
It's fine.
And it has no signal.
Great.
Zhi Yu?
Zhi Yu, if you can hear me, make a noise!
Mr. Feng?
You're a little bit cut up,
but nothing that looks really serious.
You're probably gonna need some stitches,
but we can't do that here.
So we're going to bandage you up first, okay?
Thank you.
Piao, go get a first aid kit.
Sit tight, I gotta see if I can find the pilots.
Okay?
Zhi Yu?!
Is anybody there?
Hello?
Pilots?
We have ELT. We'll be okay.
You mean the emergency beacon, right?
Yes.
Zhi Yu!
Denise!
Oh, Zhi Yu! You're okay!
Oh, God!
You're okay, you're okay!
What happened? How did you get here?
- I was in the plane. - Yeah.
And then I woke up in this cave.
Okay,
we need to go.
No, stay there.
Damn it.
Okay, we need to go this way.
Okay.
Okay, go. Okay, go. Go, go! Go, go!
Good.
Go! Go!
Don't look at him.
Keep your eyes on the floor, okay?
You understand me? Keep your eyes on the floor.
Joshua.
Joshua, wake up.
Zhi Yu! Where are you?
Zhi Yu!
Good day!
Good day?
Are you Mao Sheng?
The Yeren hunter, eh?
Yes.
He thinks we're reporter.
No, no, no, no.
We're scientists.
And we think you've made a remarkable discovery.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Please, sit down.
Sit.
Why are you doing here?
We would like to hear about your encounter with the Yeren.
He says
they only saw a bear
with toothache.
No, no, no.
My father...
It was the Yeren.
Taller than Yao Ming.
Lots of teeth.
You, um... Did you?
Do you think you would be able to show us
where you last saw the Yeren?
He wants us to leave.
We will pay you, yeah? For your trouble.
He doesn't want our money.
Sorry to disturb you then.
That's it?
You're giving up so easily?
On the count of three.
One, two...
Hi!
Three.
Be at the river
behind our house in the morning
and I take you to find the Yeren.
Let's make the fire really big
because I want the rescue helicopters to be able to see us.
That's weird.
These are known medicinals.
And so we're assuming that
the animal did this?
He is not an animal.
Okay, what is he?
A human?
Who can, like, come out of the forest and help us?
He is not a man.
He says, some people believe the Yeren is stupid,
half-way between man and ape.
Other people think
they are very smart,
the protector of the forest.
I think he's very intelligent.
I don't care if he's a Yeti,
a Sasqautch or like a mutant hillbilly,
we are the most intelligent monkeys on the planet.
That's what allowed us to conquer it.
That's what allowed us to invent modern
twenty-first century medicine.
So lets take the twigs and the dirt and the mud
off the kid's leg and give him some real medicine, okay?
You're mean.
Yes, I am mean!
Stop.
We're in a forest with a creature
after a plane crash,
so I apologize if I hurt your feelings.
But let's put some antibiotics on your leg
so that it can get better, okay?
Joshua?
Calm down.
Piao, get the first aid kit.
Piao!
Piao took the emergency kit.
He took everything. The food, the supplies.
Everything is gone.
That's ridiculous. Why would he do that?
I guess he saw an opportunity.
Zhi Yu.
You seriously don't remember what happened
last time you left the plane?
You're memory is like that...
Shoo!
What are you doing?
What?
What are you doing?
What do you mean, what am I doing?
He's not hurting us.
He's right. He wasn't hurting us.
Oh well, well, I apologize then,
for misunderstanding what the nice monster wanted.
Yes, no that's okay,
don't thank me for saving your life twice.
Yep, bad Joshua always coming in, saving the day...
Hello.
My friend.
You are late.
With the high altitude,
it was a little bit of a challenge, mate.
Not for me.
I'm okay.
I am strong.
I prove
Yeren really exists.
Oh, good.
Well you can lead the expedition then, yeah?
You are in charge.
Come on.
There's a plane, there's a plane.
Help!
It's a plane! Hello!
Hey, we're over here!
Help!
We're down here!
Help!
I'm gonna go put more wood on the fire.
Stop!
The fire is not gonna work.
Feng is in bad shape.
We need to get him to a doctor right away.
Exactly, he's in bad shape.
He's in no shape to make a big mountain hike.
Then we will carry him.
We will follow the stream until...
Oh, that's a great idea!
With a big monster waiting out there to eat us.
That's a chance we'll have to take.
It says in every survival manual,
"stay by the plane, stay by the plane,
"stay by the plane!"
It's like survival 101.
Yet, you want to go wander off into the wilderness.
That's the plan?
To risk everybody's life?
That's exactly what we're going to do.
crikey!
Wow.
You finally found your albino salamander, huh?
Come on, Mister Feng.
Sit down, sit down.
I think we should stop and rest.
I'm tired too.
Okay.
We should build a shelter.
It's definitely going to get cold tonight.
I'll go get some branches.
Denise?
What?
That thing.
I saw it.
It's tracking us.
It's protecting us.
Look.
Hello?
We don't need witnesses.
Don't worry, I'll handle this.
Zhi Yu!
Zhi Yu, are you okay?
The boar was chasing me,
but he shot it.
What?
Oh my God, are we happy to see you guys.
You survived the plane crash, did you?
Yes, we did.
Is that alive?
No, dead as a doorknob, mate.
We have an elderly man with us
who may have a punctured lung.
Which one of you is the medic?
Yeah, we've got a first aid kit.
Chow?
First aid kit?
So,
you guys aren't like
the main rescue team then?
Yeah, no.
No, no, no, we're just researching
rare animals up here in Shennongjia.
Duke Darwin, mate.
And this is my friend,
Doctor Yong Sai.
Joshua Ridley, energy consultant, nice to meet you.
This here is Denise, and this is Zhi Yu.
We don't care where you guys are from, what you do,
we just want to get the hell off this mountain.
Anybody hungry?
So how'd you survive the plane crash?
We were over a meadow and the pilots tried to land there,
but they didn't make it.
And we got lucky.
Then we were attacked by a bear.
But he was no match for the Yer...
The yelling.
We screamed and it scared the bear away.
So what university did you say you guys are with?
Privately funded, love.
Corporate gravy train.
It's where the money is.
I will take him some water.
Okay.
Cigar?
Thanks, Duke.
Cigar?
I'd love one.
I'm a bit of a connoisseur, actually.
Only the best, mate.
I'm gonna go
calibrate some, uh...
Equipment.
How's the old man doing?
He has a fever.
He's a tough old coot.
He'll be all right.
Hey, it's Zhi Yu, isn't it?
I want to talk to you about something.
Come on, son.
He'll be okay.
Oh, thank you so much.
Oh, I'm good.
Thank you very much.
Excuse me.
I'm going to make sure the equipment is calibrated.
Okay.
See you soon.
See you.
Okay.
I'm going to tell you something, laugh after I tell you.
Okay.
They're planning on killing us.
Laugh.
How do you know that?
Because I speak Chinese.
You what?
Yeah,
it's really useful in business to not let on,
and like, when people are going to kill you secretly.
Laugh again.
You know how we're here
to study and protect endangered species?
You know, like that bear you saw, right?
I guess so.
I'm just wondering whether you've seen
any other unusual creatures around here.
Unusual?
Yeah, like I'm thinking
extremely rare, matey.
Like uh...
Maybe uh...
Two and half meters tall,
long red hair.
Like a big ape on steroids.
I'd remember.
Level with me kid.
You've seen the Yeren, haven't you?
No.
Only newspaper.
You want that old man to get medical attention or not?
Okay.
We saw one.
He says he's the guardian of the forest.
And is he close by?
No.
If you're lying to me kid!
Tiger?
He's been here all along, hasn't he?
He's been following us.
Following or chasing?
Yeren is my friend.
He's your friend, is he?
No!
Not exactly.
Come on!
Easy, old man.
You're in bad shape.
Take your hand off the boy.
I'm afraid I can't do that.
Because if this creature is the last Yeren on Earth,
I'm gonna be the one to catch him.
No!
Come on!
I've got other plans for you!
Let go of me!
Hey!
You want the old man to live or die?
Because as soon we get your Yeren,
the sooner Feng gets medical help. You got it?
Because he is the fish, yeah?
And you, my friend, are the bait!
Hold this for a sec.
Okay.
Hey!
Not so fast.
You have no idea what you're dealing with.
Yeah?
All I know is,
we've got weapons and he doesn't.
Come on! Move it, little man!
You know, that's very touching.
Come out, you bloody big baboon!
You saved him once, didn't you?
So why don't you give it a second go?!
Come out, you bloody big gorilla!
Yong Sai, I need backup!
I'll be right back.
I've got it.
Got it at twelve o'clock.
Chow!
Flank left.
Li Wei.
Yeren?
Don't move!
You're in danger.
No! I'm gonna take him alive!
Feng!
Over here.
Yeren.
No!
Yeren!
No!
Yeren!
You've said your last good-byes.
You're wasting time!
We're gonna make history, Doctor Sai.
More importantly, we're going to be very rich!
Let the Yeren go! He never hurted you!
Technically he did, kid.
He gave my men a beating.
Look, if you take him out of his natural habitat,
he could die.
His immune system could be compromised.
That's enough out of you.
You know, I think that we might have had
a little bit of a misunderstanding.
As you know, I'm a businessman.
I have a win-win proposition for you.
Right-o.
Okay.
Professional opinion,
but I think you guys are gonna have a little bit of trouble
selling this monster.
Got it sorted, mate.
Okay, what're you getting?
Two million.
Two million? Really?
That's all.
Smart ass.
Well, listen.
Actually.
Wait!
Let the man speak.
I think I can get you in the neighborhood
of twenty million dollars.
Well, how are going to do that, mate?
I do land lease deals with this casino owner in Macao.
You know, his new casino is going to have a zoo.
Like an endangered species zoo.
You're joking, right?
You may be willing to risk your life
for this oversized orangutan, I am not.
He'll be in a zoo, he'll be well taken care of.
Joshua!
You're pigs.
All of you.
I get ten percent.
You get five.
Seven and a half.
Deal.
Hold on!
Hold it, just hold it a minute.
Put it down.
Mao Sheng!
Are you okay?
He wanted me to protect the Yeren,
I failed him.
Oh, sweetie.
Look, you cannot give up,
okay?
Mao Sheng,
why don't we go that way instead?
Mate, you're analog.
I'm a digital man.
Here, watch me.
We are going that way!
That way is dangerous. We could get lost.
Whatever!
Let's go!
Come on!
Hurry up!
I hurt my feet.
The kid's got ten seconds to decide his own fate!
Duke, calm down.
Let's all calm down.
We're at the peak.
The SAT phone might work.
I'll make the call, we do the deal.
All righty, then.
Okay.
Li Wei,
prepare the shot tranquilizer!
Are you okay?
Give it try.
Josh!
Josh.
Just one little problem.
Yong Sai disabled the phone.
Drop your weapons!
Wait here.
Police.
Okay.
How bad is it?
It's okay.
Zhi Yu!
Father! We're here!
Zhi Yu, no!
No! No!
Go! Go!
Father!
I've got use for you now, kid. Eh?
Help me!
Father, help me!
You play it safe old man and put you little stick down.
You want a hostage?
Take me instead!
I got your boy.
You do as I say!
Forget the boy.
We can handle it, man to man!
Nah.
We do it my way.
Tell the cops to back off!
Nobody leaves the forest until daybreak, you got that?
Yeah.
Just don't hurt boy.
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm a tough guy.
Yeren!
Zhi Yu!
Not again!
Zhi Yu!
Yeren!
No!
Yeren!
No!
Show a little bit of human kindness.
You will never be one of us.
You're an animal.
You'll never
understand the difference
between revenge and justice.
You beast!
Yeren!
Zhi Yu!
Yeren?