You are listening to a Clarkswold magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings to Clarkswold citizens, I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

We have yet another story for you, with a month of June 2021 issue 177.

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Our story is titled Face Changing and is by Xiang Bo, and translated by Andy Dudek.

Xiang Bo's first story, The Last Game, was published in 2003.

Today, he has published over 50 short stories in several novels, including The Gate of Machine

and The Galaxy Heart Trilogy. His work has been honored with multiple Galaxy and Shinkyun awards.

If you like what you hear, April 2018 brought you the wings of Earth.

So, my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you the story.

Zhu Haifeng sat down at the desk and tapped a button. Large screens slowly rose to

surround him like a 360 degree theater. All kinds of data scrolled on the screens and a never-ending

torrent. Zhu waved his hand and the screens responded, scrolls coming and going. When the capital

flow chart revolved before his eyes, he raised a palm. The screen froze. A two meter high world map

was revealed, bright lines rising from all parts of the map like ballistic trajectories,

extending in various directions, a various length, finally plunging back to Earth, and vanishing.

North Americans lines were countless, becoming one mass of light. East Asia was much quieter

with only the occasional bright line appearing. It was midday in North America while most of East Asia

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