In this chapter, the protagonist explains that he was arrested because the boss caught him in the torture room, where the undercover agent was being beaten to death. He knows where the torture chamber is, and he hears that the police will not be able to save the agent. The protagonist asks the boss how the agent escaped from the Red Mountain torture chamber ten years ago. The boss says that the name of the agent has a "80 percent chance" of being fake, so he should use this name to get the agent to speak. He tells the protagonist to go outside and speak to a "yinmei" , or ghost, and ask him how badly he has been beaten. He says that he is just a normal, insignificant working man, and that he went undercover because he was "young and impulsive," and that it was "pure luck" that he came back alive. He asks the protagonist if he thinks he can escape the "sharks forever," and the protagonist replies that he doesn't think so, because the sharks will not let him go. He also says that if he were a human being, he would have been beaten like a dog, and not like an anonymous e-commerce agent who created a "liberal and wealthy expansive kingdom." The protagonist says that this is the "poor thing" he is seeing right now, and the anonymous e