In the R&D Department, Li Shan lifts up Li Ruoyuan and explains the tracking device. A staffer, curious about the rumours around Li Ruoyuan's childlike appearance, sneaks a glimpse. Han Fu, leader of the Lijing Bureau, makes a dramatic entrance and shoots corrosive poison from her fingertip into his eye as punishment. A blue light appears on the tracker screen, indicating a zhulong-level abomination. Li Ruoyuan orders Han Fu to go take care of it.
In the market, Shen Ni and Bian Jin (as well as Li Si, joining the fray with a Gatling gun) fight the abomination that used to be a child, observing that it's regenerative abilities are not like the Black Box they fought at the border, which could be defeated by destroying the head and then removing the core or jade disc and tossing it in mercury. Shen Ni suspects there's some kind of brain in there. The abomination says I want a better body, the best body, that body, and points at Bian Jin.