Chapter Five: The Bureau of Corrections

He landed on an endless street. Buildings folded and unfolded like crumpled paper. Door numbers changed constantly. Deleted sentences swam across the sky. Xu stood nearby with her back to him. Farther away, a boy carrying seven lanterns called softly, “Sister.” Xu took one step. [Do not let her answer.] Behind Lin came Xiaoman's voice. “Brother, I found the original death list.” Lin did not turn around.