Chapter 46

Tian Chengyun was an ordinary security guard in Bishuiwan Manor.

After graduating with an undergraduate degree, he failed to find his ideal job for a long time. The academic requirements for positions with slightly better treatment were all 211 and above, and the treatment that positions willing to take him could give was only about the same as ordinary college students. Not even as good as a junior college.

Tian Chengyun, who was neither high nor low, simply returned to his hometown to lie flat and rot, taking an undergraduate degree to be a security guard for a clothing factory, with a monthly salary of 1,800, laughing every day.

Such days continued until a few years ago, when a big boss spent a lot of money outside Gubei Town to build a resort manor, and prepared to build a resort manor here. Being close to the water, many unemployed young people in the town found jobs relying on this big project, and Tian Chengyun was one of them.

The capital of Bishuiwan Manor was rich and powerful. The requirement for recruiting security guards for the manor was at least an undergraduate degree, fluent in three languages, and priority was given to graduate students and doctoral students with overseas study experience.

Many local small gangsters with technical secondary school degrees in Gubei Town were screened out. Only a few people like Tian Chengyun became security guards of Bishuiwan Manor, getting a monthly salary of 8,000 and five insurances and one fund, with 4 days off per month, which could be arranged by themselves, but they had to report the shift schedule in advance.

The moment he took over the security uniform, Tian Chengyun was extremely grateful to himself who had studied hard under the cold window.

But this job with excellent treatment only lasted for less than two years before an accident happened.

As the sky was covered and communication was cut off, that 'ghost' appeared in the manor.

Tian Chengyun saw the social elites who were usually bright and decent running in panic on the lawn, dying like pigs locked in a slaughterhouse. An invisible, untouchable killer wandered in the castle, slowly hooking away everyone's souls.

In the despair of death, Tian Chengyun accidentally discovered that most of the people killed by ghosts had one thing in common: their corpses fell under the light, as if the light source itself was what caused their death.

Tian Chengyun, who was quick-witted, pulled his security guard colleague and two waiters who happened to be running in the same direction as him, and everyone ran to a changing room on the first floor together, turned off the lighting, and gambled on the possible line of life in the darkness.

Facts proved that he bet right.

People outside died one after another, and the screams and wails were endless. The ghost was killing everyone step by step, but it didn't come to this changing room where one couldn't see one's fingers, as if they hiding here didn't exist.

Tian Chengyun counted the number of companions:

There were 4 people in the changing room, namely himself, security colleague Lao Li, manor waiter Liu Yunzhi, and Xie Yaoan. The emotional states of the two girls were very unstable. In the darkness, one could hear their repressed crying, and Lao Li's state was slightly better, but it was also a nervous state of tension.

"Listen, we can't sit and wait for death." Tian Chengyun said: "There is a ghost in the manor, and the people outside might all be dead, but our luck is very good. I discovered the killing rule of this ghost — that is, it only kills people illuminated by light."

"We can't keep hiding here, you know?" Tian Chengyun continued: "The phone can't be dialed out now, and the network shows no connection, but we must go out, leave this haunted place, so we must go outside, turn off the lights, maybe we can leave relatively safely..."

"No!" A scream came from the darkness. It was unclear whether it was Liu Yunzhi or Xie Yaoan's voice, and then she said with a crying tone: "I don't want to go out, there are ghosts outside, I don't want to go out, I won't go out, I won't go out..."

Tian Chengyun gritted his teeth slightly, and then heard Lao Li say: "I know where the circuit breaker is. We can go there and turn off all the lights in the castle at once."

"Xiao Liu, Xiao Xie, if you are afraid, wait here for us to come back. Seeing the lights outside go out means we have succeeded." Lao Li gave his proposal.

"No, don't... you can't go, I don't allow you to go!"

It was heard this time, it was Xie Yaoan's voice. She grabbed Tian Chengyun's clothes tightly in the darkness and cried: "What if the ghost comes over?! You can't go, you have to stay and protect me... I, I'm scared..." Tian Chengyun was immediately furious: "You are not my girlfriend, why do I have to protect you? Do I owe you?"

"I don't care!" Xie Yaoan still wouldn't let go of his clothes: "Aren't men supposed to protect women? If the ghost finds us, you must... ah!"

Before she finished speaking, Xie Yaoan screamed and was pushed against the wall by Tian Chengyun.

"You don't seem to understand the situation!" Tian Chengyun roared: "Ghosts don't care if you are a man or a woman! In the ghost's eyes, there are only living people and dead people! I saved you just now because you happened to be close to me, not because I owe you anything! If you and I can only live one, then you have to die! Bitch!"

After being roared by Tian Chengyun, Xie Yaoan leaned against the wall and cried: "You, how can you be so fierce to me... I, I am a girl, you are a big man..."

"Don't worry about her, Brother Li, let's go." Tian Chengyun walked to the door and pulled the door of the changing room open a crack.

"You go turn off the circuit breaker of the outdoor power grid, I'll go turn off the indoor one." Lao Li proposed: "Acting separately will be faster."

"Okay." Tian Chengyun nodded.

Subsequently, Lao Li took out a pistol from his pocket and fired two shots at the street lamp outside the window, smashing the light bulb.

—The security guards of Bishuiwan Manor belong to the same level of private security personnel as bank cash escort, and have the qualification to legally carry guns, but they can only fill in rubber bullets without lethality, and the use of live ammunition is strictly prohibited.

Even if it is an anti-riot pistol using rubber bullets, only Lao Li, who is the security captain, can be equipped with it. Tian Chengyun, a grassroots security guard, only has a police baton.

"Okay, let's go." As soon as the words fell, Lao Li walked out of the room first, carefully sticking to the wall and leaving the changing room.

Tian Chengyun followed, and the two walked through the dim corridor together and parted ways at the gate.

Lao Li moved forward along the outer wall of the castle, looking for the indoor power grid circuit breaker hidden in the small compartment.

Tian Chengyun followed, passing through the welcoming avenue full of corpses, and went to find the outdoor power grid circuit breaker placed in the transformer room.

In the changing room in the castle, Xie Yaoan squatted on the ground and cried loudly, while crying and cursing Tian Chengyun and Lao Li for what kind of men they were. Liu Yunzhi stayed by her side, saying nothing, not knowing what she was thinking.

After walking for a period of time, security captain Lao Li discovered a strange scene — he found that the street lamps on the road along the way had either been turned off or were directly destroyed, and the castle lobby was also dim, and the chandelier on the ceiling didn't know when it had been smashed by someone.

"Are there other people who discovered the ghost's killing rules? Was it that person who turned off the lights on the road?" Lao Li's heart was heavy, he lightened his steps and continued to move forward, running toward the direction of the hidden compartment.

After running for a short distance, his steps stopped abruptly, and a look of horror appeared on his face.

Under the street lamp, he saw a corpse that had already stopped breathing standing upright, with a terrified look still remaining before death, and the facial features were distorted unnaturally.

And in front of the corpse, a handsome young man squatted on the ground, using a beautiful parasol to cover his whole body, like a turtle hiding in a turtle shell.

(End of chapter)