In this chapter, the protagonist is introduced to the protagonist's mother, Lin He, who is the mother of a young boy who has been lost in the "super-haunted house" . Lin tells the protagonist that her son has been missing for two days and that she has finally found someone who will help her find him. The protagonist tells her that he is afraid he will die in the house, but that he does not want to be an intermediary between her son and the evil spirits. He explains that he has studied the house for a long time and has met many kinds of ghosts, but the room where the boy was lost is the only room where they have been able to escape.