This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Wugu and feng cang. Wugu tells his dog not to fight anymore, and tells his grandmother to go check on his brother. She tells him to come and check on him, because he's already in a bad state of mind. She asks why he didn't go to the main camp to get treatment for his wounds. He tells her that if the military had its own rules, he wouldn't have come to the camp and watched his brother being bullied. He says that if he had killed someone in the camp, he'd have no choice but to forgive himself.