In order to win the chess match, laofang must sacrifice some of his own chess pieces. Worried that jiang will think of him as a bad guy, he tries to convince him that it's better to kill him than to sacrifice his own pieces. He compares himself to a "checkmate" , and says that he's scared to death, but that's because jiang is like a "god" to him. He says that as a "standby viewing this showdown," you've already been "broken" . He asks if you ever wondered what it was like to be in the middle of a battle and feel a gun pointed at your head, and how it felt to be hit by a bullet. He tells you that instead of suffering "in vain," they'll have to endure humiliation and smash jiang down. He's not good enough, he says, and he begs you to stay and help them capture su-chen. . They have trouble catching big fish, and they need to target his cubs to satisfy their hunger. They also have a "hunting dog," a "virtue," and an "old cat" on their side. They're better than their opponents, they say, because they're less vulnerable to their opponents' "pride" and they can focus on the cubs instead of their own pride. They can also use this metaphor to prove that they'd rather be with the wolves than with the foxes and the old cats.