In the middle of the fight, Peter is overcome with fatigue. He realizes that he has misjudged the outcome of the game. He decides to decrease the size of the team so that he will be able to survive the fight. He feels guilty at first, but then he realizes that it was the right thing to do. He had planned to put his square between xiahua and peterzhou, but now he has prevented everyone from doing so. He also realizes that liming was a bad idea, because it could easily lead to the death of one person.