In this chapter, we learn that the protagonist is named "Wei" and that he lives in a town by the railway. He is a restless young man who often sneaks away from home during his college summer vacation. He tells us that he has seen many strange things in his life, including a haunted railway crossing that he used to frequent as a young man. He also tells us about a time when his uncle accidentally slapped him on the face while he was taking his niece on a trip. The story of this incident is told by his mother, who tells him that the underground railway crossing was once a canal that many villagers used to wash their laundry and irrigate their farmland. The woman tried to leap into the river but was eventually dragged back home by villagers, who thought she must have gotten well since she calmed down. In the 1980s, however, the government decided to construct roads and build greenhouses, so the woman's grave was moved to a place that nobody knows.