He called Xu Guang, who was extremely annoyed upon hearing the call.
"Damn it, fix it! Go find someone to fix it! I refuse to believe I can't beat him!"
"Also, you two buy some things tonight and sleep in the mine's prefab houses. Your wages will be doubled. Keep an eye on things tonight, and if Chen Feng comes again, call the police and catch him red-handed!" Xu Guang roared.
"Ah... alright then, we'll go buy some bedding later." Wang Bing took a deep breath and could only nod.
Since you're already here, what else can you do?
Wang Bing felt that he was destined to be a workaholic, and now he even had to work part-time as a night watchman.
The two went to the job market and found another electrician. This electrician was very professional and even had a certificate. He just occasionally did odd jobs when he was busy. That's when the two of them ran into him.
Actually, they still wanted to find Li Er, since they were familiar with him, but this time they couldn't find him anywhere, so they had to give up and find someone else instead.
The electrician arrived quickly and located the problem with the wiring.
"Huh? How could this wire break? It doesn't make any sense," the electrician said, holding the two pieces of wire in bewilderment.
"What's unreasonable about it? It's just that someone cut it down. We know there's trouble going on," Wang Bing said casually.
"No, look at this power line. How could someone have cut it like this? Especially when I dug it open just now, the power lines were perfectly aligned."
"If I hadn't pulled on it, I wouldn't have known it was broken."
"And look at the break, it looks like it snapped on its own, there's no sign of being cut at all. It's more like... it was frozen brittle and then snapped open." The electrician said, puzzled, while reconnecting the wire.
This was the first time he had ever seen such a bizarre situation.
"Really? Let me see." Wang Bing stepped forward, took the wire from the electrician's hand, examined it carefully, and marveled at it.
"It doesn't seem like it was cut. How did this happen?" Wang Bing asked, equally puzzled.
"It's probably Chen Feng's doing, who knows what happened," Zhang Lin said nonchalantly.
"No one could do something like this. These wires are all copper. How could the cuts be so clean and the nicks even match? Look."
“Especially now that it’s just past zero at night, even if it’s minus forty degrees Celsius, the national standard line buried in the ground would not be like this.”
After the electrician finished speaking, he didn't pay much attention to the situation. It wasn't his business anyway; he was just responsible for connecting the wires and leaving once he was done.
"Okay, all done. Now you can take me home," the electrician said, patting the mud off his hands.
"Okay, let's go."
By the time the electrician was taken back, it was already 4:30 PM.
Wang Bing looked at the restarted machine and shook his head.
What's the point of fixing it now? The workers are about to go home, so we'll have to do it again tomorrow.
"What's wrong? Why is the power out again? Is there some kind of reason for this? Maybe we should find a feng shui master to take a look," Yin Xing said, leaning closer and looking at the machine.
"Finding a feng shui master like Mao? This is all man-made!" Wang Bing spat.
The villagers are poorly educated, so they tend to attribute everything to metaphysics.
"Hey, not necessarily. This used to be a cemetery, but it was later converted into land. People have even dug up coffins here."
"If you build a house on someone's head, they're bound to be unhappy."
"Haven't you heard of those big developers who can't even finish building the roofs of some houses? They either have no water or no electricity, and in the end, they have to burn incense, kowtow, make offerings, and burn paper money to solve the problem?"
"Maybe they're just making trouble. Otherwise, you could burn some paper money and mutter some prayers," Yin Xing advised.
"Nonsense, I'm a staunch materialist. Why would I burn paper? I won't!" Wang Bing snorted dismissively.
Twenty minutes later, Wang Bing drew a circle on the ground with a small stick and started burning paper money with Zhang Lin, chanting incantations.
"Aren't you a staunch materialist? What are you doing here?" Zhang Lin watched him poking at the paper money with a small stick, finding it quite amusing.
"The more I think about it, the more suspicious it seems. Do you think Chen Feng really cut down those power lines?"
Wang Bing became increasingly uneasy as he thought about it.
"Who knows? But it was definitely the first day. Look at how haphazardly it was chopped; it was obviously dug with a pickaxe."
"But today's... it's hard to say, who knows what happened." Zhang Lin also felt strange.
"Let's burn some more. This whole thing is giving me the creeps. I have to stay here on watch late at night, like I'm watching a grave." Wang Bing cursed and burned both bundles of paper money.
"Big brother and sister, we're just employees. If anything happens, please don't come looking for me. Go find my boss. His name is Xu Guang, his ID number is..., and he's currently staying at the Yuyue Hotel in the city, room 4057."
“But it has nothing to do with us,” Wang Bing muttered. After the paper money burned out, he casually threw the stick aside and went with Zhang Lin to the county town to buy bedding, intending to sleep on the floor in the prefab house.
They also bought a flashlight, roast chicken, and beer, planning to have a nice meal that night.
So, when evening came, the two of them, having eaten and drunk their fill, lay on the ground, watching videos on their phones, preparing to go out on patrol later to see if anyone was causing trouble.
Meanwhile, at Chen Feng's home, Chen Jianguo couldn't help but laugh when he mentioned it.
"They seemed to be having some doubts. I tried to convince them and even showed them some clues, and they started to have doubts."
If anyone had been there at the time, they would have recognized that the electrician who came to connect the power was none other than Chen Jianguo!
"Haha, I also gave them a lecture on ghost stories when I got off work. At first, he was all about materialism, but after a while, he asked me where he could buy paper money around here," Yin Xing said, slapping his thigh with a laugh.
"Fengzi, you're amazing! This plan is so meticulous, step by step. How did you know that Xu Guang would have them keep watch here today?" Zheng Ping looked at Chen Feng with great admiration.
It could be said that Chen Feng had already begun making preparations before they even knew that Wang Bing and his companion would be keeping watch here that night.
"No one can stand having the power lines cut like this all the time. It's only a matter of time before they see it."
Chen Feng said knowingly.
"So, what about tonight?" Zheng Ping asked.
"I have to scare them so much they won't dare stay here, otherwise how am I supposed to cut the power lines?"
"Moreover, once they can establish a foothold here, Xu Guang can send more people."
"I'm going to let no one stay here!" Chen Feng lowered his head, lit a cigarette, and snorted, but he didn't notice someone walking towards him from behind.
The group of people sitting opposite him saw it, but they all remained silent, their eyes filled with smiles.
Just as Chen Feng took a puff of his cigarette, he felt someone pat him on the shoulder.
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