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Wutopia Lab transformed an abandoned water tower at Dongtanyuan (the former 12th Company of Qianshao Farm), a subsidiary of Bright Food (Group), into the Memorial of Everyman, a memorial to all the ordinary people who performed heroic acts in desperate times. Desperate When you're desperate. Your heart is beating so slow it's going to stop! Going out of breath! Sweating, blurred vision, stiff limbs, your mind goes blank. Slowly sliding down, you are shrinking into a ball The air wraps tightly around you like a film. Sometimes you trumpet, sometimes you can't scream. The last blow of fate, that's it, come on. The doctor spoke softly about her [1] condition. I was like a nautilus thrown into the shallows of time. Brightly colored but losing its vitality, desperately. Plugging leaks with one's body Lu Jingjuan [2], jumped into the gap. The cold water pierced into the bones. The cold water to drown the polder. Despreately. Everyone, jumped into the gap. "People are like waves, that's what the sea is like. " The great wave [3] lowered its head and sighed outside the small flood dam [4]. Just like hope Memory is recreating It's 2021. The weaving factory is a hotel now, a conference center. The water tower on the side, lonely. Superior suite. A private space for afternoon tea. It hears whispers about the future. Desperately Instead I hear memories echoing from the earth Don't forget Lu Jingjuan's Hope Memorial of Everyman Lu Jingjuan's is Shanghai. It is the less familiar Shanghai. That Shanghai of collectivism and individual courage and, the horn that makes the tide sigh Please don't forget it. The water tower should be a memorial to Those in despair The ordinary people who fought hard in despair. All deserve to be remembered. Heroic mortals. Tower into tower Tower into tower 84 thin golden rods that form the golden tower. This is the golden Lu Jingjuans' plugging the leaks with their bodies. The golden tower was inserted in the water tower. Age of eternal innocence Glittering spiral staircase, 100 steps. From 1921 to 2021. Ordinary people Creating a bountiful harvest on a barren beach before there are more ordinary people create prosperity in Shanghai. "Shanghai is where I grew up and became an adult. with all my sentiments. " Now, Look down It's Shanghai. Light tower Light shines on the concrete wall A triangle was cut "There is a gap in everything. That's where the light shines in" The glass roof of the golden tower Glows That's the top of the spirit. The water tower is now a light tower "All life is holy, and to live is joy" Hope She is fine now Her breath sounds like sweet rain From Despair She fights with me To Hope wow,