Li Jin’s rented van sped along t road creating dust clouds in its  ed  s. Li Jin raig,  to a bank in ty and bombarded teller ructions. It o to see er an absence of more t ion ransformed into concern he back.

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    Li Jin ed a place to , some ted cave d still ricity and  Li Jin ed t  need electricity.  or retc t looked like medical supplies. Every fees, Lao Zurn around and look at t on earto? Li Jin looked over at tried to put  ease.

    “Don’t ’s a project related to tuff t I udying at tsinghua,” he explained.

    “If you say so. But understand it from my point of vieurn up in t after almost to do to be in t  understand it.”

    “I  to you after’s just a couple of weeks.”

    “OK, if you say so. Go off tructed reluctantly. Li Jin took a left turn and tiated terrain. It  impossible to see clearly in t and one urning could plunge to a steep ravine.

    t fifty kilometers outside ty of Yulin, a fortified garrison toy t ion of t all. teau met Inner Mongolia’s Mu Us Desert, a mountainous expanse of yello stretc all beacons scattered across ted landscape, tions long eroded by sand, er and tless passage of time.

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