This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the novel, "What is that smell? It smell so good" . It's a reference to the smell of smoke in the air. The smoke is bad for you, because it's bad for the evil spirit that's been taking over the world. The evil spirit is the same one that wang yong talked about in Chapter 1. He's the one who created the world, and he's also the one that is trying to destroy it. He wants to kill you, but you don't want to kill him. You're not his opponent, he says. He