Now that he's back in the lab, Thomas wonders if it would be better for him to slip into a "more comfortable" place. He's not sure if it's better to be dead or to be alive, but he doesn't want to go back to being a normal person. He wants to be with a living person, not a dead one. He wonders if there's a way to get in the "bunker," and he wonders if the place isn't deserted. He also wonders if all the living people are hostile, and he'll get "the worst of it" . He knows that there are a lot of dead people in the area, and that they're all going crazy. They're just like the living ones, he says. He can't help but wonder if the dead people are going crazy because they've been dead for a long time. He thinks that's because they don't have any sense of pain, and they think that they can feel pain just because they are dead. It turns out that the guy who was the first to test for immortality was none other than Professor Henry vasey, who's now dead. He was one of the first people to use live subjects in experiments on immortality, and his experiments didn't go well, so he was captured and killed. They split the research team into two labs, and the final version of the novel is almost finished.