Patron of the Spring III

You're back! The ground was heaving and churning for a bit. I thought something bad happened to you...

Oh! Did you find Du Ming? Wait. BROTHER DU?! Is that you?

O, divine one... Is there a way to save the Ancestral Spring? Your servant humbly asks you to point the way...

Brother Du, I'm right here! Who the hell are you talking to?

That's it! O, thank you, divine one! I shall gladly serve as your vessel —

Who art thou? A chief ruling o'er the scions of Qingbo?

Ah...? You're talking to me?

I am the spirit of the fount from whom the ancient spring floweth. Ye mortals have trespassed upon the sanctity of the spring, but such was already ordained by fate...

Behold! Those who care little for the spring shall lose it, but everlasting it shall be to those who carry faith... Survival is achieved by those who seek...

Erm... Did some spirit of the source take over Brother Du's body? He's talking weird and stuff... I can barely understand all those hard words he's using...

I got it! I think he's telling us to ... uhm ... stop using the Ancestral Spring all the time. And maybe we ... should come up with our own ways?

I don't care if you're a spirit or ghost or talking cloud! GET OUT OF BROTHER DU! NOW!!!

And STOP talking in mumbo-jumbo! I know the spring is super important... And I never wanted the Fam to be helpless without the spring...

I think... NO! I'm gonna figure it out! ON MY OWN! I'll find a way for the Stockade Fam! I swear on it!

Chief, you're...

Hear, hear! Every Stockader is right behind you, Chief! We'll carve open a new way!

Good. I see hope in thee! As for my vessel, he hath fulfilled his wish and shall now take my stead! Fare thee well!

BROTHER DU!

Patron of the Spring was I, now the very truth is mine...

Today is when ... truth sings...

Thank you, Endmin.

Du Ming, why don't you keep going? Tangtang and the Stockade residents are up ahead.

You can go ahead first. I, uh... I need a moment to ready myself...

Is Brother Du gonna be like this forever...? There must be a cure, right?

I know what he's trying to say... But it's really making me sad... There's something I wanna get off my chest...

But I'm the Supreme Chief, and nobody gets left behind on my watch! The same goes for anyone in the Stockade Fam!

We'll wait for his return! No matter how long it takes!