Mountains and Rivers Lose Their Reputation

Local chronicler Lin Zaichuan received a call from a "non-existent village". "There are still 723 people in our village. Every time the map is updated, there will be one less person. The next one is me." The next day, the old man who called completely disappeared from files, photos and everyone's memory. Only Lin Zaichuan still remembers his name. Following an old map, Lin Zaichuan walked into the mountains and saw a boundary monument just emerging from the fog: Kushui Village has a current population of 722 people. In order to write the old man back to the world, he used the ability that had never been recorded in local chronicles for the first time - recording names. The price is to permanently lose a piece of your own memory. After that, he began to deal with a series of "name-loss incidents": Villages that have sunk into the reservoir but still light up the lights during the Lunar New Year; The last bus that drives past the abandoned platform every night and only carries passengers without registered residence; There are only eighteen teams, but they always go to the mines of "the nineteenth team" on rainy nights; Ten years after its demolition, the urban village was re-covered in real neighborhoods... Lin Zaichuan gradually understood that names are not titles, but the coordinates of living beings in the world; maps never just record mountains and rivers, they determine what is qualified to exist. And he saw his name on the earliest missing list. The registration date was twenty-three years ago.