Ming and Duan try to take Yuer away from the theater but are stopped by the guards. Suddenly, there is a blackout. Ming runs after Duan and tries to get them out of the building. They are safe. Duan asks where Duan went to save Shanshan. Ming tells him that she already saved him from that place. She says that there is something wrong with her and that she has to go. She begs him not to disappear. He tells her that he cannot go through this again. He feels that he has lost his chance to save her. He says that he thought he had discovered the secret of the human brain but all he got was "some cheap trick" .