Introduction and Table of Contents of "The Adventures of the Electric Boy"
Introduction·Undercurrent
In the midsummer of 1995, the chirping of cicadas pierced the dilapidated iron roof. The young boy Chen Xiao clutched the admission notice from Jingqu City No. 1 High School and ran for thirty miles on the mountain road in the heavy rain. When mud covered his trouser legs, he finally saw his parents squatting under a kerosene lamp mending fishing nets, and his sister huddled in the corner with a high fever. The moment the piece of paper smelling like ink was engulfed by the stove fire, he heard a crisp sound like cracking ice bursting out of his bones.
Twenty years later, in front of the big screen of the dispatch command center, Chen Xiao, chief expert of SD Power Grid, took off his smart AR glasses, and suddenly a piercing alarm sounded behind him - completely coincident with the fault waveform in 1998 that led to his first major mistake in life. He held down the old injury on his left arm that was throbbing violently, but on the surveillance screen he saw his first girlfriend, who had been missing for five years, standing under the 220 kV knife gate...
