The soles of Li Jin’s pumps hit the floor much earlier than he’d anticipated and he felt the muscles in his sinewy legs absorb the impact with room to spare. He paused for a few seconds allowing his heartbeat to slow. Then he switched on the small flashlight and let the tiny beam dance around the room. It was a small enclosure, not much bigger than his dormitory room at Tsinghua. He sighed. He would probably never ever see that dormitory again. Then the beam danced over something that had his heart racing all over again.

There was a gurney in the center of the room. On closer inspection, Li Jin realized that it was more like an elaborate dental chair with the backrest pushed way back to allow the occupant to assume a reclining position. Next to the dentist chair was what looked like some sort of lamp/heater hybrid. They were common in Beijing, inexpensive lamps that provided a modest amount of heating at the same time by redirecting the heat from the filament outwards into the room. He felt along its stem and switched it on. The room was illuminated in a harsh yellow glow and a blanket of dry heat started to crawl outwards, slowly warming the room. Li Jin switched off his flashlight and looked around the room. The walls were made of gray brick, dripping with humidity. The floor was covered with some kind of laminate designed to approximate a wooden floor.

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