This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by a famous English poet, Henry James. The poem is about a messenger who slays an evil spirit, and then makes a profit from the evil spirit's death. The messenger is angry that the two men who killed the spirit must have gotten the money from him. He is also angry that they are trying to get revenge against the gao clan. He does not need their gratitude, he says, because he has done a good deed, and he does not want to leave any trail for others to follow. He feels that he should not have returned the costumes, as he has heard a second mountain collapse since he returned them. The man from Fangzheng's house, who was digging the grave, is also in a rush, and the director of the film has just called to tell them to meet. He says that stealing the costume would have been a lot more profitable, but the mountain collapsed, revealing the evil human heads. He wonders why so many people are gathered over there. He hears that the man is a corpse scavenger, and that he can fish out corpses from the dragonhead lake for ten thousand yuan. He also says that he dresses the corpses of the dead to make them whole again.