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Chapter 97: Deferred Exam Slip The morning fog had not yet cleared. Lin Chen put Fundamentals of Electronic Information Experiments and the deferred exam application form into his canvas bag. The zipper caught halfway;...
Chapter 96: Settled Accounts and Calibrations Before the sky had fully lightened, Lin Chen was already awake. The coolness of the wooden bedboards crept up his back. He did not hurry to get up. He first moved his left f...
Chapter 95: Ledger and Scale At dusk, the short haul bus from the county seat back to town was thick with the smell of diesel and damp human bodies. Lin Chen sat by the window in the last row, his right foot planted fir...
Chapter 94: Homeward Bound and the Hole Card The hard seat carriage of the slow train was thick with the mingled smells of cheap tobacco, sour sweat, and orange peel. Lin Chen sat by the window with his left foot restin...
Chapter 89: Morning Inspection and Blind Spots Five in the morning. Dawn had not yet broken. The window glass at the end of the corridor held a gray blue sheen. Lin Chen opened his eyes. He did not turn on the light. Hi...
Chapter 93: Threshold Night in the guesthouse had no sound, except for the dull drip of a faucet at the end of the corridor every dozen seconds or so. Lin Chen leaned against the headboard with his left foot resting on...
Chapter 92: Temperature Drift and Margin The motion sensor light in the stairwell was broken. Lin Chen braced himself against the wall and edged his way down one step at a time. Each time his left foot touched the groun...
Chapter 90: Filling and Margin At nine sharp, the bell cuts through the air. The invigilator’s voice falls away. Lin Chen’s pen touches paper. First question: Kirchhoff’s Current Law. The algebraic sum of currents at a...
Chapter 83: Graduations and Hard Seats The aftershocks of the bus ride still lingered in his calf muscles. By the time Lin Chen pushed open the back door of the classroom, the morning reading bell had already been ringi...
Chapter 81: Rankings and Margins At six in the morning, the corridor of the guesthouse echoed with the scrape of a mop over the terrazzo floor. A trace of dampness seeped in through the gap beneath the door. Lin Chen op...
Chapter 78: Ripples and Reference Tables The wind in the corridor died away. Lin Chen stepped back into the dorm room and locked the door behind him. The halo of the desk lamp pressed down over the graph paper. He cross...
Chapter 77: Gauze and Gradations At 5:40 in the morning, before the alarm had even gone off, Lin Chen was already awake. In the gray white light, the water stains on the ceiling gradually came into focus, like a faded m...