Chapter 46 Tian Chengyun
Chapter 46 Tian Chengyun
Tian Chengyun is an ordinary security guard in Bishuiwan Manor.
After graduating from college, he has been unable to find a job he likes. The educational requirements for positions with slightly better pay are all from 211 universities, and the salary that the positions willing to hire him can only offer is similar to that of ordinary college students. It is even worse than that of a college graduate.
Unable to get a high-level job or a low-level job, Tian Chengyun simply returned to his hometown and lay down. With a bachelor's degree, he went to work as a security guard in a garment factory, earning 1,800 yuan a month and laughing every day.
This kind of life continued until a few years ago, when a big boss spent a huge amount of money to build a holiday estate in Bishui Bay outside Gubei Town. As the one who is close to the water gets the moon first, many local unemployed young men found jobs thanks to this big project, and Tian Chengyun was one of them.
The investors of Bishuiwan Manor are very wealthy, and the requirements for recruiting security guards for the manor are at least a bachelor's degree and fluency in three languages. Graduate students and doctoral students with overseas study experience are preferred.
Many local hooligans who graduated from technical secondary schools in Gubei Town were screened out. Only a few people like Tian Chengyun became security guards of Bishuiwan Manor, receiving a monthly salary of 8000 yuan, five insurances and one fund, and four days of vacation per month, which they could arrange by themselves, but they had to report their shifts in advance.
The moment he took over the security uniform, Tian Chengyun was extremely grateful to his former self who had studied hard.
But he had only worked in this well-paid job for less than two years when an accident happened.
As the sky was obscured and communications were cut, the 'ghost' appeared in the manor.
Tian Chengyun saw the usually well-dressed social elites running hurriedly on the lawn and dying like piglets in a slaughterhouse. An invisible and intangible killer was wandering in the castle, slowly and methodically taking away everyone's soul.
In the despair of death, Tian Chengyun accidentally discovered that most people killed by ghosts had one thing in common: their bodies fell under the light, as if the light source itself was the cause of their death.
Tian Chengyun, who was quick-witted, pulled his security colleague and two waiters who happened to run in the same direction as him, and they all ran to a locker room on the first floor, turned off the lights, and gambled in the darkness for a possible chance of survival.
It turned out that he was right.
People outside died one after another, screams and cries were heard incessantly. The ghost was killing everyone step by step, but it did not come to this dark locker room, as if they who were hiding here did not exist.
Tian Chengyun counted the number of his companions:
There were four people in the locker room, namely myself, my security colleague Lao Li, and the manor waitresses Liu Yunzhi and Xie Yaoan. The emotions of the two girls were very unstable, and their suppressed sobs could be heard in the darkness. Lao Li's condition was slightly better, but he was also in a state of nervous tension.
"Listen, we can't just sit there and wait for death." Tian Chengyun said, "The manor is haunted, and the people outside may have died, but we are lucky. I found the killing pattern of this ghost - it only kills people who are exposed to light."
"We can't hide here forever, understand?" Tian Chengyun continued, "Now the phone can't be dialed out, and the network shows no connection, but we have to go out and leave this haunted place, so we have to go outside and turn off the lights, maybe we can leave more safely..."
“No!” A scream came from the darkness. It was unclear whether it was Liu Yunzhi’s or Xie Yaoan’s voice. Then she was heard crying, “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 listened to Lao Li say: "I know where the switch is. We can go there and turn off all the lights in the castle at once."
"Xiao Liu and Xiao Xie, if you are scared, just wait here for us to come back. When you see the lights outside go out, it means we have succeeded." Lao Li gave his suggestion.
"No, don't...you can't leave, I won't let you leave!"
This time, it was Xie Yaoan's voice. She clutched the corner of Tian Chengyun's clothes tightly in the dark, crying, "What if a ghost comes?! You can't leave, you have to stay and protect me... I, I'm scared..." Tian Chengyun was immediately furious: "You are not my girlfriend, why should I protect you? Do I owe you?"
"I don't care!" Xie Yaoan still refused to let go of his clothes: "Aren't men supposed to protect women? If a ghost comes looking for you, you must...ah!"
Before she could finish her words, Xie Yaoan screamed and was pushed against the wall by Tian Chengyun.
"You don't seem to understand the current situation!" Tian Chengyun roared, "Ghosts don't care whether you are a man or a woman. Ghosts only see the living and the dead! I saved you just now because you happened to be close to me, not because I owe you anything! If only one of you and I can survive, then you have to die! Bitch!"
After being yelled at by Tian Chengyun, Xie Yaoan leaned against the wall and started to cry: "You, how can you be so mean to me... I, I'm a girl, and you're a grown man..."
"Don't worry about her, Brother Li, let's go." Tian Chengyun walked to the door and opened the locker room door a crack.
"You go turn off the outdoor power grid, and I'll turn off the indoor one." Lao Li suggested, "It will be faster if we act separately."
"Okay." Tian Chengyun nodded.
Then, Lao Li took out a pistol, aimed at the street lamp outside the window and fired two shots, shattering the bulb.
——The security guards of Bishuiwan Manor are private security personnel at the same level as bank cash escorts. They are legally qualified to carry guns, but their magazines can only be loaded with non-lethal rubber bullets and the use of live ammunition is strictly prohibited.
Even the riot pistol that uses rubber bullets can only be equipped with Lao Li, the security team leader. Grassroots security guards like Tian Chengyun only have batons.
"Okay, let's go." As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Li walked out of the room first and carefully walked out of the locker room along the wall.
Tian Chengyun followed, and the two walked through the dim corridor together and parted ways at the door.
Lao Li walked along the outer wall of the castle to find the main indoor power grid switch hidden in a small compartment.
Tian Chengyun walked through the Yingbin Avenue, which was littered with corpses, and went to look for the main outdoor power grid switch located in the substation.
In the locker room in the castle, Xie Yaoan squatted on the ground and burst into tears, while crying and cursing Tian Chengyun and Lao Li bitterly, calling them men. Liu Yunzhi stayed beside her, not saying a word, and no one knew what she was thinking.
After walking for a while, security team leader Lao Li discovered a strange scene - as he walked along the way, he found that the lights on the road were either turned off or simply destroyed. The castle hall was also dim, and the chandelier on the ceiling was broken by someone at some point in time.
"Has anyone else discovered the ghost's killing pattern? Was it that person who turned off the lights on the road?" Old Li felt solemn. He walked forward with light steps, jogging towards the hidden compartment.
He had not run far when he suddenly stopped and a look of horror immediately appeared on his face.
Under the street light, he saw a dead body standing upright, with a look of fear still on its face and its facial features distorted unnaturally.
In front of the corpse, a handsome young man was squatting on the ground, covering his entire body with a beautiful parasol, like a turtle hiding in its shell.
(End of this chapter)