Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The Invisible City

Sun Xiaoliu jumped out from the window on the fifth floor, and landed on the red brick road with his feet; he was in a squatting position with his fists in his arms, his eyes ringed in four shapes, his breath out for three points, and his waist down seven inches.It was the dawn of early winter at this time, and the street was deserted, but he always felt that the master's dark eyes were sweeping towards him from nowhere; Take a closer look. good.This is the intersection of Zhonghua Road and Tibet Road, where he has lived for thirty-four years.But now he couldn't stand it anymore.In the wallet was a wad of banknotes that his old mother had hidden under the mattress for an unknown amount of time.Around his waist is a coil of mild steel knife passed down from his father.The jacket was cut out of the warehouse of his brother's fourth dozen garages, with a set of STP words embroidered on the chest and back.The white soles of the cotton shoes are made by his sister Xiao Wu himself; the needles and threads are dense, and the paste is even and solid, so they don't squeeze your feet when you wear them for a long time, so you don't need socks, and the smell is special Smoke people.As for the rest—sorry, a ripped undershirt and khakis are hardly anything else; there's nothing else.There are big roads extending in all directions in front of you.The Tibet Road runs from east to west, and goes west to Wanhua. There are people with new gnats there, so they can't go there.Go east to Tingzhou Road and Sanyuan Street, where there is the eyeliner of Xiaopipo from Southeast Sea, so you can't go there.Zhonghua Road runs from north to south, and if you go north, you may run into his master coming out to sneak out of the bird cage, which is even more impossible to go.Thinking about this, Sun Xiaoliu had no choice but to grit his teeth, turn left, go south along Zhonghua Road, and head straight for Zhulin City.

Zhulin City is an invisible city.The so-called one is also different from the commonly seen cities that have surrounding land boundaries and self-contained units.To use an analogy: you find a white-painted concrete wall that is 20 meters wide and ten stories high, and draw a very large island of Taiwan on it.Then I borrowed his double-barreled shotgun from Mr. Xu with 1,800 rounds of ammunition, stood fifteen meters away, and fired at the map of Taiwan Island.After the bullets run out, your fingers will be swollen, and the white-painted concrete wall may collapse.But this is an analogy, so assuming that the high wall has not collapsed, the huge map of Taiwan Island on the wall must be full of dense bullet holes like a star-spotted honeycomb.The sum of these bullet holes is Zhulin City; any one of the bullet holes is also Zhulin City.Zhulin City can be big or small, Big Bamboo Forest is the general name of all the bullet holes - but this is just a concept, no idiot will really calculate the number of bullet holes, the area, the current population...etc; People in the bamboo forest may not be willing to know everything about the big bamboo forest (that seems to be what the police and the media are talking about).As for the small bamboo forest, it is just a single bullet hole on the map.Small bamboo forests can also be divided into different sizes—large ones may consist of several mountains, hundreds of betel nut orchards, fish ponds, salt fields, and industrial roads stretching for miles; small ones may be just an altar, a restaurant, or a stall. Even a public restroom with a broken toilet.

Ordinary people have no awareness of Zhulin City, and they will not combine the three characters of Zhulin City as a vocabulary referring to a certain area.We can use an example to illustrate the relationship between ordinary people and Zhulin City.This incident happened at about ten o'clock in the night on August 25, 1997.Eight doctors of physics, electrical engineering and biochemistry who studied at the University of Illinois in the United States in the early years had a meal in a restaurant called "Da Si Xi". There were two tables for two tables, and a total of 22 people, including their families, attended .After drinking for three rounds, a doctor of electrical engineering suggested singing to add to the fun, and everyone agreed.So the service personnel were called to install the accompaniment player and the accompaniment video tape.Yang, a Ph.D. in physics, was the first to perform and sang the song "I just want to be you".Biochemistry preachers Lin and Xu then sang a song "Old Love".Jian, a doctor of electrical engineering, and his wife hadn't finished singing "The Sky of Taipei" when suddenly five men rushed into the box, pointing out that the people were talking, joking and singing too loudly.He Mou, a doctor of electrical engineering, got up immediately, apologized repeatedly on behalf of everyone, and stated that all of you are from the academy, and you don't know the rules of the world. Please forgive me for the offense.The visitor nodded and smiled for a moment, and said, "Scholar? How many doctors are there?" The eight doctors laughed and raised their hands.But at this moment, the questioner suddenly pulled out a pistol, and fired ten shots in a row according to the distance of the seat, killing all the doctors.And declared: "What's the matter with the doctor? The doctor is so loud? Fuck you!" This murder case is called the "Eight Doctors Incident", and it is a typical example of ordinary people accidentally entering Zhulin City.The reason why it is called "wrong entry" is that no one can point out the place where a murder will happen before a murder happens, in other words: it could be anywhere.A huge random number.Looking ahead and suddenly behind, a city that disappears and regenerates in a flash, an invisible city.It must be entered by mistake.