This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of Act IV, Scene 1 : "Those people are shuanhai beasts. What are they surrounding?" . The scene opens with a description of a "shanhai beasts" set up in front of a crowd of people. The crowd is led by Yaoyao, who is overjoyed to see his grandfather and Siyou again. Siyou tells him to go ahead and find the place where they've been researching to fight against the beasts. He says that he's going to fulfill his father's wishes. He tells Siyou to cough up a little bit of blood and to be careful, because it's dripping from a doll's mouth. Si