Listening in Los Angeles

Name: Listening in Los Angeles
Author: Pen Without Ink

by Pen Without Ink

ongoing Suspense and Supernatural Weird and Mysterious Male Lead

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22Kwords8chapters

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Ch. 8 — ·inspection Group

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About This Novel

A city that has breathed under the water for three thousand years. They are the only ones who can hear its heartbeat. In 1930, on the eve of the Central Plains War. When Zhong Wujiu, an assistant professor at Peking University of Technology, returned home for the funeral of his father who died suddenly, he unexpectedly found a bronze tube deep in his father's ear canal - an artificially implanted device. During his lifetime, my father seemed to be more than just an antique shop owner. He soon discovered that his father left behind an unfinished underground drawing, marking a super project under the Luo River that spanned the Zhou, Han, Wei and Tang Dynasties - the "River Map Array". It is not a mausoleum, but a functioning urban foundation built using acoustics and hydraulics. Once it collapses, the entire Luoyang will be swallowed up. What was even more strange was that Zhong Wujiu began to hear things that ordinary people could not hear: the vibrating sound of metal, the resonance of stone slabs, and the pulse of underground water. And he is not alone. Miners can "see" underground cavities with the sound of hammers, female scholars can knock out the original position of stone slabs in the city, and painters can hear music from thousands of years ago when restoring ancient paintings. They are marginalized people who are troubled by "geophonia", but it is these "defects" that spell out a complete lifeline map of the city. An "inspection team" of American acoustic experts followed closely, coveting this resonance technology. Zhong Wujiu must gather the other six "earth listeners" before the system collapses and the enemy succeeds, to rewrite the city's fate of destruction. --Those who "early listen" listen to the pulse of the earth and bear the weight of civilization.