This chapter opens with the manager of a "shanhai beast" restaurant lamenting the fact that someone has just kidnapped him and wants to eat him. He is worried that the recent disappearances may be responsible for the kidnapping, and he resolves to use the "way of shanhe beast restaurants" to solve the problem. He tells his employees that they are the mysterious "people" who have just come to challenge them, and that if they fail to comply, he will chop off their limbs and forbid them from entering the practice again.