In this chapter, the narrator tells us that the government does not know what happened to xie yanshan. They only know that he was a visitor, and that he received a medal for his bravery. He also reveals that one of the officials in charge of the project that awarded him the medal was the only one who had any contact with xie for those years. The narrator says that it is a good thing that wu yu woke up, because otherwise he would have committed suicide.