A beam of gray light shone on the wall.

Security guard Xiao Wang rubbed the back of his hand holding the flashlight and exhaled.

“Why does it feel like winter is coming so quickly this year?”

He muttered something and swept the flashlight in his hand. There was a series of red palm prints on the snow-white wall. The palm prints were the size of a child's palm and looked extremely scary in the night. But he just took a look and walked away calmly.

The faucet in the toilet was also broken, and water kept dripping. Xiao Wang went over and turned it hard, but the water dripped faster. The water drops appeared reddish-brown under the light of the flashlight.

There are also some red footprints on the cement floor.

Xiao Wang yawned, didn't bother to care about the faucet, turned around and continued patrolling.

Xiao Wang knew very well that those red handprints and footprints were all acrylic paints. He didn't know who purchased the faucet, but the quality was not up to standard. It rusted in a few days and kept leaking red rusty water. Xiao Wang thought that person must have taken a lot of kickbacks.

He has been working here for a few days. At the beginning, there was a middle-aged man guarding the place and there was no need for patrolling. Later, someone did something wrong and the middle-aged security guard was scared away, so Xiao Wang took over.

Xiao Wang is in his twenties. He doesn't have any special skills, but he is very brave, so he was assigned to this construction site.

Ever since the construction site became "haunted", work has been suspended and the main workers are afraid to come. The boss wants to catch the person who is causing trouble at the site and delaying their work, so he added two security guards to patrol every night.

They come to patrol every hour, but they don't see anyone. Instead, there are more and more haunted phenomena. A security guard left yesterday.

Xiao Wang yawned again, and the flashlight in his hand shook. Suddenly, he shone the light on a pale face pressed against the ground. He was stunned for a moment, then moved the flashlight back and found that there was nothing there.

"Did I see it wrong?" Xiao Wang asked in confusion.

However, this doubt did not bother him for too long. He shone the flashlight around and prepared to continue patrolling.

At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded. There were more than one footsteps and they were very regular. He wondered if the others had remembered the patrol time wrong. Why were there still people at this time? Suddenly he remembered that a security guard had just left yesterday. There were only two security guards guarding the construction site now. How could there be other people?

Xiao Wang glanced at the time. It was two o'clock in the evening.

Could it be the group of people who came to cause trouble?

Xiao Wang turned off the flashlight and walked quietly towards the footsteps.

After following for a while and turning a corner, the footsteps suddenly disappeared and Xiao Wang stopped. If he rushed out and shouted now, there would be many people on the opposite side and he might get beaten up, so he wanted to see the situation first.

He leaned against the wall, carefully stuck his head out and looked over there.

"Hello." Suddenly a voice sounded beside him.

Xiao Wang suddenly turned around and turned on the flashlight, only to see a pale face illuminated by the gray light. The owner of that face showed a horrible smile and looked at him, as if he was going to open his red lips and eat him in the next moment.

People... make sounds when they walk.

Xiao Wang suddenly got up from the ground, grabbed the flashlight and started running. Just as he turned the corner, he saw in the light of the flashlight a person who looked like he had just died of cancer. The person had dull eyes, sunken cheeks, and sallow and bluish skin. He was standing in front of him and looking straight at him.

"Ghost!" Xiao Wang yelled and turned around to run back, but when he turned around, he saw the ghost with the scary smile again.

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"Don't be afraid, we are human, not ghosts."

After a moment, Xiao Wang looked at the cigarette handed to him by the sick ghost, his pupils still trembling.

They had already arrived at the security room, and it was Chi Shen who helped the person back. Under the still bright light in the security room, they finally proved that they were human beings and not ghosts. The other person among them was Li Xu.

As for why the two of them were here...

It all started that night when we went out for drinks.

After drinking, Li Xu seemed to think that Chi Shen was indeed more involved in folklore, so he asked him to come out to collect materials tonight. He wanted to see if Chi Shen could have some new ideas at the haunted scene. There was a ready-made haunted scene, such as the construction site in the northern area of Gangcheng.

Although the construction site in Gangbei has denied the rumor that it was all man-made, Li Xu does not think so. He feels that as long as he did not go there, it is just Schrödinger's haunted story. Maybe there really is a ghost. After all, the criminal who pretended to be haunted has not been caught.

Chi Shen didn't want to come, but...

At that time, Li Xu patted his shoulder and said, "It's overtime pay. You can take a day off tomorrow to rest at home."

Chi Shen thought it was a good deal, so he came.

Li Xu seemed to be very experienced in collecting materials from haunted scenes. He pacified the security guard Xiao Wang with just a few words and even persuaded Xiao Wang to keep watch for them. Of course, Chi Shen felt that the charm of language was not great; the main charm was still the pack of Zhonghua cigarettes.

Chi Shen also asked Xiao Wang some questions, but Xiao Wang's answers showed that he knew nothing about anything and he firmly believed that there were no ghosts on the construction site.

After chatting for a while, Chi Shen and Li Xu prepared to explore on their own. Xiao Wang said hello to them and asked them not to touch anything on the construction site. Then he went back to the security room and prepared to close the door.

When closing the door, he looked outside and suddenly his hand stopped. He seemed to see something lying behind the man who looked like a sick ghost, and the outline looked like a person in a skirt.

Xiao Wang rubbed his eyes and looked again, and found that there was nothing behind the man. He thought he was seeing things and quickly closed the door.

"There are no ghosts." Xiao Wang comforted himself, "It's all man-made. Seeing ghosts is just dazzling."

He sat back at the window of the security room, ready to take a nap, but his sleep was not sound. He faintly heard the sound of something heavy being dragged. After only a few minutes of sleep, he was awakened by the cold. He stood up and prepared to put on some clothes, but suddenly saw a string of red marks on the cement floor outside the door, which looked like blood.

"It's too late, my eyes are blurry." Xiao Wang went to get some clothes and put them on, then fell asleep, muttering, "Working too many night shifts really makes it easy to have hallucinations."

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Happy New Year!

I will go out during the day and update at night. Don't worry, I won't update so late in the morning today!