Not long after, Ah-Pei also breathed her last, and her remains were sent to the provincial museum as a specimen. Linwang could no longer see his last remaining companion, with whom he had struggled through thick and thin. He became the one-and-only surviving elephant "veteran."
阿沛不久也香消玉殞，遺體被送到省立博物館做成標本，林旺再也沒有機會見到這最後一位曾經同患難共生死的夥伴，而它自己則成為碩果僅存的象「榮民」。