This is Applejack's third year as a security guard, and after graduating from college, she couldn't find the job she wanted, so she found her current job as a night security guard.

He has a rich imagination and always describes his imagination to those around him, his dream is to become a screenwriter, but gradually he begins to discover the cruelty of reality.

The cheating at work made him feel extremely depressed, and he could only relieve his emotions by reading books every time, and of course, because of economic reasons, he finally chose to become a community security guard. Gradually, he began to indulge in this stability.

"Applejack, why are you here" In the security room, an uncle wearing the same uniform as Applejack greets Applejack as he enters.

"Uncle Ma, I'm here to substitute for him, Amin's kid said he was going on a date with his girlfriend and asked me to substitute for him"

Applejack closes the door, walks over to the water dispenser, and replies. Ajie is also a young man, and when Ajie took up his post, Amin had been working as a security guard for a while, and because the two young people could talk, Ajie became friends with Amin when he first arrived.

"That kid, it's this excuse every time, he might as well stop working this month, he bullies you like this every time, you don't have to deal with him every time, you have to learn to resist, you know" Uncle Ma frowned and said.

"Ah, it's not like I'm free, and he said he'll pay me when the time comes," Applejack laughed as she sat in front of the monitor.

"That kid is very good, don't let him deceive, I'll go first" Uncle Ma changed back into his clothes and opened the door and went out.

After listening to Uncle Ma's words, Applejack shook her head, staring indifferently at the monitor in front of her, and began her daily routine for the day.

In the middle of the night, the road was already sparsely populated, because Applejack replaced Amin's morning shift, so he needed to take two shifts in a row today, so he was naturally responsible for the night shift.

Applejack makes herself a cup of strong tea, and staring at the surveillance makes him a little sleepy.

He raises his cup to drink his tea, when a figure suddenly appears in the surveillance camera, and a closer look is a man wearing a mask and a hat, Applejack puts down his teacup and stares at the person in front of him to see what this sneaky person wants to do.

Applejack's neighborhood requires a key card to enter and exit, so the man can only hang around at the entrance of the community.

Applejack saw that the man was just dangling in the doorway and didn't make any other moves, he found a comfortable spot in his chair, picked up the brewed tea, and looked at the people in front of him while drinking.

The person in the surveillance stopped and looked down at something after a while, and suddenly, the person in the surveillance raised his head and stared in the direction of the monitor, and did not shift his gaze for a long time, Applejack looked at the person staring at the monitor as if this person was staring at Applejack through the monitor.

The man stared at the monitor at the gate for five or six minutes before leaving the neighborhood, and Applejack, who watched the man leave, shuddered.

Applejack raised her hand to wipe her head, feeling like her heart was about to jump out of her chest. The man's gaze stared at him as if through a monitor, and the sleepiness dissipated in an instant, and the spirit tensed until the sun rose.

Applejack stayed up until morning, and Uncle Ma opened the door and came in to see Applejack straightening up and staring intently at the surveillance.

"Applejack, it's a shift change, you go and rest" Uncle Ma spoke to Applejack.

"Applejack, Applejack's shift" Uncle Ma saw that Applejack didn't reply to him, walked up behind Applejack and patted him on the shoulder.

"Ahh

"It turned out to be Uncle Ma," Applejack was originally taken aback, and when she saw Uncle Ma, her whole person immediately relaxed.

"Why didn't you react when you kid just called you?"

"Maybe I was too tired from a day of work yesterday, haha," Applejack explained, scratching at her hair.

"Indeed, you must be tired after working the day shift and night shift, you kid hurry up and go back to rest, let me do it next"

Uncle Ma and Applejack changed shifts and asked Applejack to go back to rest, Applejack said hello to Uncle Ma and went back to his rental house, he didn't tell Uncle Ma about what happened last night, and he didn't plan to call the police, Applejack thought that he must have been too comfortable for a long time to be scared last night, and he believed that the man would definitely not come back when he saw the surveillance.

Applejack decides to take advantage of tonight's shift change to get some sleep and then relax tomorrow morning.

Applejack continues to go about his work, and Applejack hasn't happened anything in a week other than what happened last week, and things seem to have sunk like this.

"Hey, Applejack you'll take my shift tomorrow, I'm going on a date with my girlfriend," Armin said, playing a game with his mobile phone in his hand, and said to Applejack with a natural expression.

Applejack, who had just finished changing her clothes and was about to leave work, frowned when she heard this, "Didn't I give you a substitute last week?" ”

"Will you play games, Sbi teammates" scolded his teammates in the game angrily, not listening to what Applejack said.

Applejack walks up to Armin and repeats what he said, "I replaced you last week, and I've got a plan for this week."

Ah Ming put down the mobile phone in his hand and said: "Anyway, you are so free, you will take a shift for me, my girlfriend said that she wants me to accompany her to the cinema to watch a movie this week"

"I said I had a plan for tomorrow"

"What plan you can have, you're just staying at home" Ah Ming looked indifferent

"Anyway, I don't have time tomorrow, your class will go up by yourself" Applejack didn't want to talk to Armin anymore, picked up her things and prepared to leave.

"Heh, the stingy guy doesn't even want to help his friends, and he's a college student" Armin looked at Applejack with disdain, as if Applejack had just done something bad.

After Ah Ming finished speaking, he raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said to himself: If you don't go to work at this time, no one should come.

Applejack walked to the door and stopped, turning to stare silently inside the surveillance room, before leaving without saying a word.

Back at the rental house, Applejack lies on the bed and tosses and turns, the more she thinks about it, the more angry she becomes, and she wishes that she would immediately fly in front of Amin and theorize what she had done for him before.

As the evening wore on, Applejack suddenly became quiet, staring at the ceiling as if thinking about something.

In the evening, Applejack goes to work after eating, and when she arrives at the door of the security booth, Applejack finds that the door of the security booth is unlocked, and when she enters, she finds that there is no one inside, only cold surveillance turned on. Applejack locks the door and walks over to her chair and sits down to get about her daily routine.

"Clam~" Applejack yawned, put away the phone and looked at the monitoring in front of him, everything was normal before the monitoring, Applejack looked at the monitoring and decided to make a cup of tea for himself, as soon as he got up, a figure appeared in the monitoring.

This figure reminds Applejack of the strange man last time'Applejack discouraged herself from making tea, staring at the figure of the man in front of her, who had been lingering in the doorway just like last time.

This time, however, the man did not linger at the door for long, but looked around and left. Looking at the man who was leaving, Applejack exhaled, and his whole body relaxed. Tonight looks like it's going to be a quiet night, Applejack thought.

Since the second time he saw the man, Applejack could see the man wandering around the gate of the neighborhood every night, and Applejack had tried to call the police, but every time he had finished reporting to the police, the man would disappear from the surveillance in less than a minute.

After learning about this incident, the police also actively investigated and squatted, but they couldn't find the man, and every time as long as the police intervened, the man would not appear, as if this area was within the range of the man's surveillance.

On this day, Applejack, who had been on surveillance all night, was already sleepy, but Uncle Ma, who was on duty, had not yet arrived, so Applejack could only continue to guard.

"It's strange, doesn't Uncle Ma arrive early every time, why hasn't he arrived so late this time?" Ajie, who was thinking like this, heard the sound of the door lock being opened by the key, and saw Uncle Ma who was thinking about it just now walking into the monitoring room with a black face.

"What's the matter, Uncle Ma, who made you angry?"

"Who else can there be but the uncompetitive daughter of my family," said his daughter Uncle Ma was even more angry, his whole face and neck were red, and his brows were tightly raised like the red fangs.

"You said Fangzi, Fangzi is still young and ignorant and can just say a few words, why bother to be so atmospheric" Ajie saw Ma Fangfang, it was a good-looking girl, Ajie poured a cup of brewed tea and gave it to Uncle Ma.

"Huh! , Small, small will not go to mix with bastards, Lao Tzu has really raised her for so many years, and he did not hesitate to scold his father for a bastard, how did I raise such an unfilial girl! ”

Uncle Ma drank the tea in his hand, then smashed the disposable water cup into the trash can and continued: "Do you know, that unfilial girl not only had a relationship with that bastard, but also said in front of a group of people that my father is not as concerned about her as that bastard, if Lao Tzu doesn't care about her, Lao Tzu won't buy her whatever she wants!" ”

"That bastard, Lao Tzu must break his dog's leg"

Seeing that Uncle Ma was so angry that he was smoking, Ajie hurriedly pulled Uncle Ma to sit down, comforted Uncle Ma and said, "If you are angry, don't be angry, come and drink a cup of tea to reduce the fire."

"Lao Tzu will definitely not let him go," Uncle Ma said cruel words while drinking tea.

"Alas, Uncle Ma, don't do anything illegal," Applejack hurriedly admonished Uncle Ma when he saw Uncle Ma's gloomy face.

"Well, you don't have to worry about this, and I won't do anything too much," Uncle Ma lowered his head and said.

"Mmmm, that's the best, then I'll leave first" Ajie saw that Uncle Ma's mood seemed to be calmer, so she said goodbye to Uncle Ma and went back to her rental house.

In the following week, Applejack still commutes to and from work, but this week, the relationship between Uncle Ma and her daughter also becomes more and more explosive.

Uncle Ma's daughter went to the community several times to lose her temper, so Uncle Ma scolded every time, and the people in the community began to be a little dissatisfied because of Uncle Ma's daughter's nonsense. This also caused the security company to warn Uncle Ma many times.

"Aren't you a stinky security guard yourself, why do you care about me!"

As soon as he walked to the door of the community, Ajie heard Uncle Ma's daughter Ma Fangfang scolding at Uncle Ma, Ajie frowned and wanted to go up to persuade him, only to see Uncle Ma also roaring: "Enough!" That bastard let you have a fetus and you still protect him like this, Lao Tzu has really raised you for so many years for nothing! ”

Ma Fangfang looked at Uncle Ma and was angry, and she also roared: "He said he would marry me"

"Marry a fart"

With a 'snap', Uncle Ma directly slapped his daughter and roared: "Get out of here!" I don't have you as a daughter."

"Okay, I'll get out, don't come and beg me to go home again!" With that, Ma Fangfang turned around and left.

Applejack looked at Ma Fangfang who was leaving, and immediately stepped forward to persuade the onlookers away.

When the crowd was gone, Applejack turned around and saw Uncle Ma squatting at the door of the monitoring room with a black face and smoking, so he stepped forward to try to persuade Uncle Ma, but before Applejack could speak, Uncle Ma stood up and said to Applejack, "Applejack, I'll go first"

After saying that, Uncle Ma left, and Applejack responded silently in his heart as he looked at the background of Uncle Ma's vicissitudes.

On this day, the company manager called Applejack, and he said to Applejack, "Applejack, you will be changing shifts with Uncle Ma from tomorrow, remember not to forget to go to work"

"Got it, Manager" Applejack hung up the phone and looked intently at the book in her hand.

Since Applejack and Uncle Ma changed shifts, he hadn't seen a figure wandering around the neighborhood that night, and as Applejack was about to leave work that day, his foreman found him.

The manager said to Applejack: "Applejack, Uncle Ma just told me that he is quitting, I really can't find anyone now, you do it first tonight, I will give you a salary increase this month, and I will find someone to give you compensatory leave next month."

"Huh? I've been working for a day today, isn't there still Amin? Applejack asked, confused.

"What Ah Ming, Ah Ming has resigned for almost a month, you don't even know?" The manager was more puzzled than Applejack when he heard this, and then the manager continued: "But it's better for that thug to resign, so that no one will discredit our company's image again, and ......."

"Huh? Amin has been resigning for a month? I'm on.." Applejack is silent before she finishes her sentence.

"Huh? What did you say? The manager seemed to be immersed in his own complaints, and didn't hear Applejack say.

"It's nothing, it's no problem to replace the shift," Applejack changed the subject.

"It's okay, then I'll go first, I'll be busy," said the manager and left.

Applejack stood quietly with her head down, and stood like this for almost five minutes before turning around and returning to the surveillance room, Applejack locked the door and sat on a chair, this time he no longer looked at the surveillance but took out his phone and opened the mobile game.

'Knock knock' after playing for a while, the knock on the door sounded, Ajie looked at the time, at 8:00 p.m., Ajie got up and opened the door, and at the door was Uncle Ma, who had just resigned.

Uncle Ma came in with a bag of beer and snacks, Uncle Ma looked at Applejack and said, "Come on, come on, Applejack has a drink with Uncle Ma"

Ajie smiled and took Uncle Ma's bag and said with a smile, "Uncle Ma, aren't you going back to your hometown, why do you still have time to come to me." ”

"Isn't it my unfilial daughter who finally gave up looking for her bastard boyfriend, that bastard probably ran away in a hurry when he heard that my daughter didn't want to have a baby, and this run has been running for almost a month"

Uncle Ma seemed to be really happy, took out the beer from the bag and dried a bottle directly, and after drinking it, Uncle Ma continued: "My daughter didn't believe that bastard would run, and after looking for him for a month, she finally realized the reality and wanted to go back to her hometown with me." ”

"I said, the kid is too young and doesn't understand, as long as it takes a while, he will wake up," Applejack said as she sipped a snack and drank.

"So Uncle didn't buy food to thank you, come on, come on, eat more" Uncle Ma took out several packs of snacks from his bag and raced them into Applejack's arms.

"Come on, have a good time tonight" Applejack happily raised the wine in her hand and clinked glasses with Uncle Ma, and the two ate and drank like this for more than an hour.

"I'm leaving, I don't have to send it," Uncle Ma wrapped in his coat and crossed his hands over his chest to say goodbye to Applejack.

"Walk slowly, Uncle Ma, remember to send me a photo when you get to your hometown" Applejack watched Uncle Ma disappear into the night.

Looking at Applejack without Uncle Ma's figure, he turned back to the house with an expressionless face, Applejack walked to the monitor, he sat on a chair and stared at the monitor motionless until the early hours of the morning.

Da~Da~Da~ The monitoring room is so quiet that you can hear the sound of Applejack's electronic watch, at this time, Applejack moved, and he smiled when he saw that there was no more figure in the monitor.

Applejack turns with his back to the monitor and walks to the beckoning tree on the opposite side of the surveillance screen, and he walks over to the beckoning tree, which is more than a meter tall in a potted plant, and the tree is about to catch up with two meters.

Applejack crouches down in front of the potted plant and reaches for her hands into the potted plant, and after a while, Applejack digs up the tree from the potted plant and places it next to the potted plant, and he gets up and grabs a half-eaten bag of potato chips and turns around and returns to the potted plant.

Applejack squatted down, grabbed a handful of potato chips from the bag with her soil-stained hands and stretched them into the potted plant, only to see that Amin's head appeared in the potted plant, Applejack broke Amin's mouth with her left hand and fed the potato chips into Amin's mouth with her right hand, and then grabbed Amin's head and jaw with her left and right hands and started to chew food.

"It's delicious, Ah Ming, these are the potato chips from your Uncle Ma, you need to eat more."

Ajay pours the whole packet of potato chips into the potted plant, stands up and laughs, "You can just stay here"

With that, Applejack picks up the Lucky Tree and inserts it into the potted plant, smooths out the soil on the side of the potted plant, and then sits down in front of the monitor screen and picks up the rest of the snack and eats it.

Applejack eats and eats, and he doesn't stop until he eats everything, Applejack smears his hands on his body casually, then takes out a small diary and a pen from his pocket, and flips through one of the pages of the notebook at random, only to see that it reads: Amin and Applejack quarrel in the monitoring room because of work, Applejack reluctantly leaves the monitoring room, and since then the two of them have staggered to work, and they have never seen each other again.

Applejack flipped another page, which read: Uncle Ma's daughter quarreled with Uncle Ma in the community today, Uncle Ma was angry and beat Ma Fangfang, and the relationship between the two broke up.

Applejack flipped through the notes, picked up the pen in her left hand and wrote on the note: "The black shadow in the surveillance captured Armin and began to target Applejack, Applejack .............."

End of Chapter 1