Chapter 31: Dian Mu dines

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Dian Mu had dined in an abandoned mine 200 kilometers from Guangzhou, an underground cavern carved out of raw stone according to a master plan laid down in geology. All minerals of use had long since been extracted, but the space had been converted into a dinner theater.

The food and theatrics were equal parts tomorrow and yesterday, the future and the past, forward looking and backward looking. Dinner had been informed by — according to the program — Nero Wolfe’s favourites combined with misinformed readings of paleontology by American…