In this chapter, we learn that the heart is a fragment of a human's body, and that it is the final stage of evolution. In other words, death is the end of the human race, and evolution is the beginning of the end. This is why, when he watched people die, he was jealous of them. But all of them did not die, because their desire to live was entwined with their existence. He tells us that the city is in chaos, and he wonders why the military is doing what it is doing. He wonders if the heart will end up in the hands of the enemy. He hears that bullets are being fired at the heart, but that it has vanished from the radar. He also learns that the informant who gave him the information has turned himself in for protection. He says that he obtained the information from comrades who are close to the host of the heart. He explains that he will lead other nations against the enemy in order to prove that he is the true evolutionist.