Within hours of reaching the village, Bhagwati was gripped with fever and the village was good enough to take care of him. He spend several days in the village and never thought to go back and find out about his colleagues. All one hundred and twenty of his colleagues had either been killed or were captured. He was the only person free and alive to tell what happened to his platoon. Village folks were nice and tried talking to him several times. Their language was beyond understanding for Bhagwati but they could easily communicate with them with sign language. He recovered under their care and became like one of them. One day he decided to move again and try locating the British army. He knew that war was favoring the Japs and by this time the entire geography of control would have changed. He might himself be in Japanese controlled territory by this time. Luck had favored him so much that all throughout his stay, no enemy soldier came that side and did any check. It was common for the victorious army to comb all the settlements and locate out the enemy hidden in the population. Had the enemy ventured this side, he was sure to be caught and executed.

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