Chapter Four: The Nameless Man

Black water had rubbed off Zero's sleeve, yet it fell normally. Daocuan water flowed upward. Zero had lived in reality long enough to escape the mirror city's laws. Shen Jing's phone displayed the appointment: NAMELESS LANE, NUMBER 7. 2:02 A.M. Until they arrived, each person who spoke Cheng Du's true name would be erased from the lives of those who knew him. A police officer read the full name from an identification record. Xu Man blinked. “Who are you?” She had forgotten Cheng, but kept running because she remembered that someone needed saving. They entered an old drain beneath the bridge. Advertisements, navigation systems, and broken speakers began repeating the forbidden name. Each repetition emptied another contact from Cheng's phone.