Magic Network

Author: Zhang Huiping
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
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Prologue The sun slowly descended, and the entire city gradually sank into twilight. Xiao Yong sat silently in the back seat of a yellow taxi. There were nearly ten thousand such taxis in the city, and it was difficult for ordinary people to distinguish between them. Despite this, Xiao Yong still covered half of his face with a newspaper, afraid that someone might recognize him from somewhere. A huge fear tightly surrounded him.
"Hey, buddy, it's getting dark. Where are you heading?" The driver had asked this question several times already, and Xiao Yong always gave the same answer: "Anywhere! Just don't stop!"
"Hmph! I'll play with you today! See what tricks you can pull!" The driver muttered to himself, secretly touching the large wrench by his leg. For nearly an hour, this "taxi driver" kept observing the gloomy passenger in the rearview mirror, while bewilderingly asking himself, "Did he fight with his wife? No! Did he commit a crime? Not likely! If he had committed a crime, he would have been fleeing frantically outside the city long ago. Why would he be wandering around here, waiting for the police to catch him? Then..."