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“one log, two logs.” We are not concer ned with where they are from, how
they came here. e man looked like a farmer, covered with grime. He was

wasting away, and his cheekbones protruded. His eyes glared out from the

dirt and tattered cotton clothes he was wrapped in. e team leader was

fully pleased with yesterday’s results. We never had such a typical change in

blood picture and rate of infection, and I was eagerly looking for ward to see

what changes would be present in today’s blood sample. With high hopes, I
came to the Number 7 cell block with the armed guards at my side. e

maruta I was working on was on the verge of death. It would be disastrous if

he died. en I would not be able to get a blood sample, and we would not

obtain the important results of the tests we had been working on. I called his

number. No answer came. I motioned through the window at the other four
prisoners to bring him over. ey sat there without moving. I screamed

abusively at them to hurr y up and bring him over to the window. One of the

guards pulled out a gun, aimed it at them and screamed in Chines e.

Resigned, they gently lied up the other man and brought him over to the

window. More important to me than the man’s death was the blood owing
in the human guinea pig’s body at the moment just before his death. His

hand was purplish and turning cold. He put his arm through the opening. I

was elated. Filled with a sense of victor y and holding down my inexpressible

excitement, thinking for ward to how the team leader would be waiting for

these results, I reached for the hypoder mic. I inser ted the needle into the
vein. It made a dull sound. I pulled the red-black blood into the

hypodermic. ree cubic centimeters… ve cubic centimeters… His face

became paler. Before, he’d been moaning; now he could not even moan. His

throat was making a tiny rasping sound like an insect. With res entment and

anger in his eyes. He stared at me without even blinking. But that did not
matter. I obtained a blood sample of ten cubic centimeters. For people in