I couldn't take it anymore; when I went home for Chinese New Year, the family genealogy book ha

There was a rogue in the village named Jiang Daniu. Because he was stubborn and unreasonable, the villagers secretly called him "Jiang the Rolling Knife".

Jiang Gundao is a little short of money lately.

I gambled away all the money I had saved for my son's tuition a couple of days ago.

With school starting soon, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

Then, he set his sights on the bustling construction site at the west end of the village.

At that construction site, the mountains of rebar and the rolls of gleaming cables looked to him like a walking pile of RMB.

"These are all high-grade special steels, and also national standard thick copper wire."

Jiang Gundao was making his own calculations.

"I can just steal a bundle and sell it to the town's scrap yard. I can get a good amount of money on the black market, enough to make me recoup my losses!"

He secretly observed the construction site from the outside for several days.

He discovered that although these workers worked like beasts, it seemed that... there were no safety measures in place.

There wasn't even a decent security booth around the construction site.

At night, the entire construction site becomes even quieter, with not even a guard dog.

Jiang Gundao felt that God was sending him money.

That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Jiang Gundao deliberately drank two ounces of cheap liquor at home, commonly known as "cat urine," to bolster his courage.

He grabbed a rusty pair of wire cutters from the corner of the wall, tucked them into his pocket, and, under the cover of night, crept into the rocky hill like a mouse.

The entire construction site was deathly silent.

The machines that were deafeningly loud during the day are now all lying quietly.

Only the evening breeze rustled through the newly erected steel frames, making a "whooshing" sound, as if something was crying.

Jiang Gundao felt a little uneasy, but the thought of the piles of silver emboldened him.

He tiptoed and crouched low, hiding and dodging along the way, and easily found himself next to a pile of neatly stacked steel bars.

He crouched down, took out wire cutters from his pocket, aimed them at the thickest piece of rebar, and prepared to cut it.

Just then!

A series of extremely faint yet perfectly synchronized "click, click" sounds came from the direction of the prefabricated houses not far away.

That sound was very strange.

It didn't sound like human footsteps, but rather like... some kind of mechanical gears slowly meshing together.

Jiang Gundao's heart skipped a beat, and he stopped what he was doing.

He held his breath and quietly peeked half his head out from behind the pile of steel bars.

I only glanced at it.

He was so scared he almost peed his pants on the spot!

All I could see was that empty construction site.

None of the hundred workers who had worked hard all day were sleeping in the prefab house!

They stood in neat rows, forming ten squares, under the open moonlight.

Not moving at all.

Like lifeless terracotta warriors!

The moonlight shone on their expressionless faces, giving them an eerie, metallic bluish-white hue.

What are they doing?

Are you worshipping the moon?

Jiang Gundao was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe, his heart pounding wildly.

He didn't want to think about anything else now; he just wanted to get out of this eerie place as soon as possible!

He turned back, preparing to return the way he came and slip away quietly.

But he was too nervous.

As I turned around, I wasn't paying attention to my footing and accidentally kicked an empty soda can that someone had left there.

"Clang—!"

A crisp metallic clang rang out, sounding particularly jarring in the deathly still night!

It was like a death warrant!

The most terrifying thing happened the next second!

In the squad closest to Jiang Gundao.

The worker standing at the very front row did not move.

He didn't even turn his shoulder.

But his head!

His head actually made a crisp "crack" sound, and rotated 180 degrees at an absolutely inhuman angle!

The back of his head turned to the front!

His face turned to the back!

Even more terrifying, his originally pitch-black eyes suddenly lit up with two points of scarlet light in the darkness!

Like two little lanterns from hell!

"Intruder detected."

Threat Level: Low.

"Execute...deportation proceedings."

That worker, or rather that "thing," emitted a synthesized electronic voice!

After saying that, it took stiff steps and strode towards the location where Jiang Gundao was hiding!

The way he walked was just like the paper figures that the village elders made for their funerals!

Jiang Gundao's psychological defenses completely collapsed at that moment!

The lingering effects of the alcohol from that two ounces of cat urine vanished instantly in fright!

"Oh my god! It's a ghost!"

"A zombie has risen from the dead! A zombie has risen from the construction site!"

He let out a bloodcurdling scream that was not human, and scrambled out from behind the pile of steel bars!

I don't even know where I threw the wire cutters I was holding.

He had only one thought in mind: to run!

Run as far as you can!

He felt a warm flow gushing out from his crotch, soaking a large area.