Chapter 49: Seeking Good Luck
Chapter 49: Seeking Good Luck
"Um... Ning Zhe? Are you listening?" In the monitoring room, Feng Yusu felt a little uneasy as he looked at the pitch-black screen in front of him.
"I'm here." Ning Zhe's voice was still calm, emotionless but reassuring: "Okay, Auntie, I'll go turn off the power now, you leave the monitoring room immediately, and we'll go to the second floor to find Bai Zhi. I've found a way, you cooperate with me later, and we'll go kill that ghost."
"Huh? Just..." Feng Yusu was surprised. She felt as if she had done nothing, but Ning Zhe had solved all the puzzles, achieving a speedrun.
But after thinking for a moment, Feng Yushu finally decided to trust him: "Okay, I'll go find her now, and you should be careful too."
After that, she cut off the power supply of the monitoring room and left quickly with an umbrella.
Ning Zhe stuffed the security guard Lao Li's cell phone into his pocket, looked at the sealed transformer box embedded in the wall, and then looked at Lao Li, who was lying on the ground with his limbs broken by him and breathing less than he was breathing. He dug out some interesting things from Lao Li's memory, just like finding a joke book from the school's long-abandoned library corner, which he could use later.
Ning Zhe closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Okay, let the game begin."
In the locker room on the first floor of the castle, Xie Yaoan and Liu Yunzhi were waiting nervously. A faint light came in from the gaps in the curtains. It was not moonlight, as there was no moon in the shrouded Bishuiwan Manor. It was the street lights on the lawn in the distance. In the corridor outside the door, the hazy crystal chandeliers emitted an ambiguous halo.
But soon, even this last bit of light disappeared, and as the power was cut off, the entire castle sank into a pool of darkness as thick as ink.
"Brother Li really turned off the power." Xie Yaoan's voice was a little excited. Although she was not clear about the specific principle, she still knew the most basic rule, which was that hiding in the dark could avoid being found by the ghost.
Now the whole manor is pitch black. It can be said that Lao Li manually expanded the safe zone to the entire castle.
Now only the outdoor power grid has not been shut down, and that is what Tian Chengyun is responsible for.
"Great, we can go out soon..." Xie Yaoan leaned against the wall and held the phone to his chest.
Seeing her enthusiasm, Liu Yunzhi couldn't help but frown.
Xie Yaoan is not very old. Like Tian Chengyun, he is a young person who did not find a job after graduating from university. The difference is that Tian Chengyun found a security guard job and lived a life of idleness, while Xie Yaoan stayed at home to take the civil service exam, although he did not pass.
In the end, the two of them ended up in the same place and both went to work at the Bishuiwan Manor, one as a front desk receptionist and the other as a security guard.
Unlike Xie Yaoan, a young girl who has never really entered society, Liu Yunzhi, who only has a high school education, has changed many jobs. Although they are about the same age, she has more personal experience, a more stable personality, and is very meticulous.
Liu Yunzhi pushed Xie Yaoan's relaxed shoulders and whispered, "I say, don't you think it's strange?"
The other party was a little surprised: "What's the matter?"
Liu Yunzhi shook her head and showed her her phone screen. "Look for yourself. During the time I was hiding in the locker room, I called my family outside the manor many times, using WeChat, QQ, and text messages... I tried everything, but nothing worked. The phone calls didn't work, the messages couldn't be sent, and there was no internet."
"Maybe the signal is blocked." Xie Yaoan thought: "I remember that there are small-scale signal blockers in the innermost rooms of the castle. It seems that this is where the big boss discusses business. They were installed to keep it secret."
Maybe someone accidentally turned up the power of the signal jammer in a panic? Or maybe it was intentional.
"That doesn't make sense." Liu Yunzhi shook her head and said, "Have you forgotten that you just made a phone call?"
Xie Yaoan's expression froze: "It seems so..."
She was very panicked before, and when she saw the call from Brother Li, she was just excited. In her excitement, she ignored this detail.
"Why can't we make calls, but Brother Li can make calls to me?" Xie Yaoan couldn't figure it out. "Let me call you." Liu Yunzhi said, dialing her number.
A moment later, Xie Yaoan's cell phone rang.
"It actually works?" Surprised, Xie Yaoan quickly hung up the phone and tried to call her family outside, but it showed no signal, which made her depressed again: "What's going on? I can make calls and send messages normally in the manor, but I can't get in touch with the outside world?"
Coupled with the invisible evil spirit that was heading towards the light, the whole world seemed to be leaning towards the supernatural.
dong dong——
Suddenly, a crisp knocking sound broke the silence in the locker room. The nerves of the two people were tense at the same time. Xie Yaoan covered her face with her hands and curled up in the corner, her shoulders trembling slightly: "What's that sound..."
Liu Yunzhi's face was solemn. She turned off her mobile phone and looked in the direction where the sound came from with the faint light coming through the gap in the curtains.
It was a wide mirror wall. The entire wall was a huge mirror, similar to the large mirror wall in a ballet studio.
The sound just now came from the direction of the mirror wall.
Xie Yaoan squatted on the ground, buried his face between his knees, and dared not move. But Liu Yunzhi knew that it was useless to escape, just like when she was chased by ghosts before, if she had not followed Tian Chengyun to find this dark safe house, but squatted there like a turtle, she would have died long ago.
But what can I do now? Go out? No... maybe I will die faster. Tian Chengyun has not turned off the main switch of the outdoor power grid. The street lights outside the castle are still on. It may be more dangerous outside.
Liu Yunzhi tentatively half stood up and cast her gaze towards the direction of the mirror wall. There was nothing over there, only the vague shadows of herself and Xie Yaoan reflected on the wall.
The self in the mirror was also half-squatting on the ground, but for some reason, the blurry figure reflected in the dim environment always gave her an indescribable weird feeling, as if it was some kind of strange psychological suggestion.
Liu Yunzhi didn't dare to look any longer, she already knew what she should do.
She carefully moved to the bedside and completely closed the curtains that had a gap left. Suddenly, the dressing room fell into complete darkness, and the reflection in the mirror disappeared.
That strange feeling also melted into the darkness and could no longer be felt.
At the same time, on the other side of the mirror wall, Ning Zhe silently withdrew his gaze from the single-sided mirror wall in front of him.
He was wearing a brand new men's suit made of good fabric, but the loose cut did not fit his body well.
Ning Zhe took out a few red banknotes with the smell of ink from the pocket of his suit and stuffed them into his trouser pocket. He also took an emerald gold watch from the owner of the suit: a fat man lying on the ground, and put it on his hand. The edge of the pure gold dial was covered with tiny scratches.
"I'm so lucky. I managed to save my life." Ning Zhe was wearing a suit that didn't fit his body and a gold watch that didn't match his temperament at all. He walked away quickly with light steps.
The process of stealing Liu Yunzhi's identity was very smooth, flowing, and done in one step. He had never had such good luck before.
Believing in snake gods really works.
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Today's luck:
[Suitable for: getting married, breaking ground, planting, buying clothes, and making money]
[Avoid: drinking, making fire, cutting wood, building embankments, building houses]
(End of this chapter)