After Dark, Before Dawn

At the end of the night shift, Bai Xunzhou walked out of the factory and saw the lights of a train in the distance sweeping across the tracks. He remembered what she said when he was a child: "Everyone taken away by the train will come back." He didn't know if an adult told her this or if she made it up herself. But in his twenty-two years of life, everyone who left never came back.