This chapter opens with a description of a giant tri, a plant that has been infected with the same deadly virus that infects all living things. The plant's body is so poisonous that it can kill even the most hardened of soldiers. The narrator tells us that the plant is not a "regular" tri, but rather a "super-mutant" that has the ability to destroy everything in its path. He tells the reader that this is the first time he's seen a "mutant of higher level" and that he doesn't want to get in the way of the Tri'