The next morning, little wu tells the captain that after the night of obscenity, they're going to send him back to Jinhai. The captain is shocked at the tone of the young man's speech. He tells the newcomer not to gossip and not to be disrespectful of wu. Little wu wants to go to the doctor and be admitted in the same ward as the captain. He asks the captain if he can smoke in his room, and the captain tells him that he can't because he's already in a bad state. He's worried about the captain's kidney, but the doctor says that it's fine, and if the fire-fighter is caught, he'll be imprisoned for twenty years. When the captain asks about his burn wound, the captain says that he doesn't feel any pain. He thinks that the person who lit the fire was probably not from the local area, but was just trying to catch the attention of the people. He says that the man seems to have a "strong desire to kill" the people, but no one seems to be able to figure him out.