The narrator tells us that he's been hiding out in the middle of nowhere. He's got a message from the doctor, who says that he found him and his brother. He says that the doctor is not a physician, but a "wandering monkey." The narrator says he'll leave some signs on the mountain for his older brother to find. The doctor says he wants to "treat our sickness," but the narrator says that treating sickness is "just a front" , and the doctor's "giving poison" .