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Chapter 119: Zero Tolerance The jolting inside the cargo bed was harsher than he had expected. Pellets of snow struck the tin canopy overhead in a dense dry rustle. Lin Chen held the document pouch against his chest. Th...
Chapter 115: Scale and Frost The 11:00 minibus pulled into the station right on time. Lin Chen dragged his left foot as he stepped aboard. The coin slot only accepted coins, so he handed over a twenty cent paper bill. T...
Chapter 107: Scale Marks and Gaps Early the next morning, the academic affairs office was still closed. Lin Chen leaned against the radiator at the end of the corridor, his left foot raised, his right planted on the flo...
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 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 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...
Chapter 85: Seals and Compatibility Six in the morning. The alarm had not yet rung, but Lin Chen was already awake. In the growing light, the water stain on the ceiling slowly came into focus, its edges jagged and irreg...
Chapter 82: The Return and the Measure By the time the coach pulled into Qinghe County Bus Station, night had fully fallen. A plume of white exhaust hissed from the tailpipe, dissolving into the cold air with the smell...
Chapter 79: Rain Streaks and the Answer Sheet At six in the morning, the rain had already soaked everything through. Dense trails of water clung to the window glass, and the world outside had been washed into a gray blu...