Hear the Colors of the Universe

Zhu Yuyuan can "hear" colors - the new machine is amber, the server is light blue, and people's voices carry their own emotional tones. Later she discovered that the colors were fading. Precision equipment decays at an accelerated rate, newly-produced iron ore is pulverized from the inside, and deep in the mountains there is a drum beat as regular as a heartbeat. The late physics teacher Xi Wenshan left the last six words in his notebook: "Don't listen for too long." No one knows what "it" is. But Zhu Yuyuan put Teacher Xi's iron box on her back and set foot on the road to Gushan. The underlying colors of the world are being pulled away bit by bit, and a person who can hear colors may be able to see the final truth - as long as she can get there.