After a typhoon, the sky was clear.
In the suburbs not far from the city, a village was destroyed by the typhoon. 
The loss was not too serious. Only the small temple at the foot of the mountain outside the village was swept away, and a hole appeared on the ground. 

After the villagers knew about it, they talked about it.




A man suspected and said, “ It's not a fox hole, is it? ”
A young man shouted loudly at the hole.
“ Hello, Come Out! ”





However, no echo came from the bottom of the hole.


So, he picked up a small stone nearby and prepared to throw it into the hole. 
A timid old man trying to dissuade the young man from doing so. “ You must not throw this down. You may be punished with some terrible punishment. ”

But at the same time, the young man had already gone ahead and threw the stone into the hole.







Officers from the local police station stood guard around the hole to prevent people from falling down.









A journalist took a long thin rope, tied a weight to one end, and carefully lowered it. 
Gradually, the rope was lowered foot by foot.







A scholar asked someone to move a high-power the frequency of the echo coming from the bottom of the hole. 
However, he tiddled with the loudspeaker for a long time. 
He tried all kinds of sounds, but didn't get any echo.










A man squeezed out of the crowd profusely in sweat, and proposed loudly: “ Please give me this hole. ” He was the speculator who originally planned to pay a high price for the patent rights to the hole. 

But the head of the village disagreed. “ This hole cannot be given to you. Because we have to build a temple on it. ”

“ I'll build you an even better temple right away, with a square attached, how about it? ”

Before the village head could answer, the villagers shouted in unison. “ Is this real? It would be nice if it was built closer to our village. ”

“ What's so special about a hole, I'll give it to you now. ”

So, the deal was sealed.







The businessman who bought the patent fulfilled his promise according to the contract. A small temple was built closer to the village, and a square was also built.

In the autumn harvest season of this year, the patent owner founded a novel “ hole filling company ”.
Then, the patent owner asked his partners to run around the city and use various methods to promote it.

Trucks were running on the road, and many large boxes made of lead were continuously transported.





The boxes automatically open above the hole, and the waste from the nuclear reactor was dumped into the hole.






The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defense threw away all unnecessary classified documents. 

Carcasses of animals used in university experiments on infectious diseases were brought in.










The betrothed girls threw their former diaries into the hole. 
Some threw photos taken with their lovers into the hole, and then started a new love with peace of mind.











Criminals threw all kinds of their criminal evidence into the hole, thinking that they could get away with it.







No matter what was thrown in, this generous hole treated them all equally and accepted them all. 
This hole worked tirelessly to wash all kinds of dirty things for the entire city. 

Gradually, the ocean and the sky turned into a beautiful blue again, looking like transparent glass from a distance.

Under the blue sky, the newly built high-rise buildings have been erected like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.





One day, a worker was working on the top of a building under construction. He put down his tools and had a rest. 

Suddenly, he heard a strange cry above his head. “ Hello, Come Out! ”
He looked up to the sky, but there was nothing. The sky was crystal clear. 
He thought he was a little dizzy just now.






A stone flew from the direction where the sound was just made, passed in front of him and fell ot the ground. 

Of course, the little stone did not draw his attention at all...






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<Can anyone hear me> is a story written by Hoshi Shinichi about the environment and people's mind: Imagine that a bottomless hole suddenly appears on the earth, which can hold all the garbage produced by humans, so that human production and life are free of worries. Then, the city sky becomes more beautiful, and people can enjoy the benefits brought by the bottomless hole with ease. However, the good times does not last long long. As the previously thrown small stones drop, they pour back to the earth.