In this chapter, we learn that the artist who painted the picture at the end of the previous chapter has agreed to show the painting to the inspector, but that he has become a stranger to the artist since that day. The narrator tells us that the painting is called "the midnight star" and that it has been a legend in the academy since the nineteenth century. Dr. x divided the key gene of the experiment in five fragments and separated them so that no one could steal the technology. He then followed the request of the investor to close the research center before it was too late. This is the fifth time in the month that Dr. X has had to close his research center because of a mysterious incident. Among the missing students from the academy is a boy named ye muzhen, who has inherited a certain fragment from his ancestors who once injected medicine containing fragments from the midnight star