In this chapter, jing tells xiaoche that he is not a criminal and that he will leave with him the next day. He also tells jing that there are many more prisoners in the prison and that they must act according to the letter that auntie liu has written. jing asks jing if he has been to school, and jing says that he has hated school and that there were too many random subjects there. . , he says, he wants to be friends with other students and fight back against the prison guards. He says that by the time he reads the letter, he will probably have been dead. He warns jing not to ask for help from anyone else in prison, and tells him to go to the control room and erase all of his identifying information. Then he tells him that he must pass a verification to operate the system.