The chapter opens with a description of the situation in Batu-Gahjah. The narrator tells the reader that he has been locked in a locked car for days and that he remembers feeling a pain in his head as he walked out of the house. He says that every body in the country is turning into a killer, and that the ones who are bitten become killers as well. He explains that the police and military have failed to do anything about the situation. He asks the reader to come with him on a bicycle to Kulu-Kulu, where they will be able to find food and water. He tells the story of how he was working as a doctor in Penang, and how his brother was a doctor. When he became a doctor, he realized that he had no empathy for his patients and that doctors did not care about them at all.