The next morning, Xinhua reports that the business at the bar is not doing so well, so Xinhua is going to sleep in a private room upstairs instead of going home. He asks her to keep a guard awake and tells her to tell him if she sees any suspicious people coming up to her door. Xinhua tells her sister that her feet are swollen and that she has twisted her ankle. He tells her that she is "really something" and asks her if she even dares to have such a thing. She tells him that it fell out of his pocket earlier and that he even dared to have it, but he says that he just knew it would come, and not this quickly . He says that when Xinhua asked about the bone mask, he gave her professional advice, and now he tells her the name and address of the student who made the mask. He also says that after the skeleton case on May 3rd, he began to go and wait like a hunter for the police to come and get information. He suspects that Xinhua has gone mad, and he suspects that he has persuaded Xinhua into believing in the ritual about living sacrifices and the killing of goa-ling andnianxiaoping.