"We're going to find him, then," he declares with all the certainty he can muster when he has no clue how they'd even start. He didn't even know there were other ships before this. But lao Zhao sounds awful and he already basically killed himself because Shen laoshi was dead (Da Qing's not stupid, he knows that's why he decided to give himself to the Lantern), so forced optimism it is.

"And then we'll all go home and kick Zhang Shi out of your body, the creep... and Lin Jing out of our apartment," he adds as an afterthought.