The Lamplighter of Eternal Night

The sun went down and never rose again. On the seventh day, the power grid collapsed. On the fifteenth day, things began to move in the darkness. Those entangled by them froze into ice within minutes. Boiler engineer Ge Bei died in the third year of the eternal night. That day, to save coal, the settlement cut off heating to the outer areas. He and his master went to secretly open the valves and were thrown outside the light circle. When he opened his eyes again, he was back seven days before sunset, with a lamp in his palm that only he could light. Where the lamp shines, even minus seventy degrees cannot freeze people to death, and the things in the darkness cannot enter. There, he can build walls, lay heated beds, and repair boilers. But this lamp only grows brighter the more people it supports. Take in one more person, and there is one more mouth to feed, and one more person who might stab him in the back. In this life, he does not want to watch others being thrown out again. He wants to light up a city in the eternal night of Anping. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Lamplighter of Eternal Night — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠