"Chen Ge, how about we retreat first, wait for Team Yan's support to arrive, and then go into the mountain together?" Old Wei looked at his cell phone which had no signal. The time displayed on it was 12:50 p.m.

"It takes at least an hour to drive from Jiujiang to Linguan Village. By the time they arrive and enter the mountains, it will be daybreak."

Chen Ge and his companions had been walking in the forest for nearly two hours, but they still could not see any village. There were only mountains in the distance.

"But can the three of us go alone?" What worried Old Wei was that if a conflict really happened, he would have to send one person from his side to take care of Mr. Bai.

"It's not a big problem." Chen Ge was also worried about Mr. Bai's health at first, but after walking for an hour, he realized that his worries were unnecessary.

Growing up in the mountains, Uncle Bai is not only in good health, but also very familiar with the mountain environment.

"What are you two whispering about?" Grandpa Bai walked in front holding a branch. "There is a fork in the road ahead. It will take a long detour from the top of the mountain. It will take about two hours to get there. But if you go through the middle of the valley, it will only take thirty minutes to get to the Coffin Village."

"Is the road in the middle of the valley difficult to travel?" Chen Ge knew clearly that since Mr. Bai specifically mentioned it, there must be a reason.

"Yes." Mr. Bai looked serious: "The valley is haunted."

"It's okay if it's haunted. I thought you were going to say there was a wolf." Chen Ge patted his backpack. The white cat poked its head out from the zipper gap in dissatisfaction.

"No, I've always been curious, in your world are wolves scarier than ghosts?" Grandpa Bai leaned on a branch, he couldn't understand Chen Ge's thinking at all.

"Ghosts are illusory, but wolves are real." Lao Wei doesn't believe in ghosts either.

Chen Ge rolled his eyes and did not argue: "Let's go through the valley."

"You have to think it over carefully. Some things in this world are really hard to explain." Uncle Bai asked the two for their opinions again.

"Uncle, have you encountered any problems before?" Chen Ge saw that Uncle Bai looked unnatural and was reluctant to enter the valley: "You are so familiar with this road, you must have walked it more than once before. We are all here to save the child, I hope you don't hide anything on purpose."

"I have never concealed anything, I'm just afraid you won't believe me if I tell you." Grandpa Bai talked about his youth for the first time: "My father knew a little about medicine and pathology. When smallpox and measles were rampant in the 1940s and 1950s, he traveled to almost every nearby mountain village. It was also at that time that he discovered the Coffin Village."

"This village is isolated from the outside world, and there are few literate people. If you get sick, you have to rely on your own folk remedies to survive. When my father went there, the epidemic in the village was already very serious."

"My father went there several times to treat the people in that village."

"I was young at the time, and my father wanted me to study medicine so that I could make a living from it in the future. Sometimes he would take me with him when he went to see patients."

"Nothing happened during the previous trips through the valley, but there was one time when my father seemed to have an argument with someone from the Coffin Village. I don't know what it started."

"Usually we leave at two or three in the afternoon, but that day it was already evening when we came out of the Coffin Village."

"It was still daylight outside the village, so my father and I went into the valley without thinking much."

"Halfway through the walk, my father suddenly came from behind and urged me to walk faster."

"I thought I could go home early and have a hot meal, so I quickened my pace and walked forward."

"But after walking for a while, I heard my father urging me to walk faster."

"I realized something was wrong and just as I turned my head to look back, my father covered my eyes with his hands."

"He kept urging me to walk faster, and I secretly glanced behind him through his fingers."

"And then I saw a person lying on my father's back!"

"My father looked very bad. He stood behind me and kept urging me to move forward quickly."

"Maybe it's because my father did a lot of good things as a doctor, so the thing crawling behind him didn't touch him in the end."

"But I remember that day very clearly. It was still light when we entered the valley, but it was completely dark when we came out."

"After returning home, my father fell seriously ill and never went to the Coffin Village again."

"I still don't know why he quarreled with the patient in the coffin village that day, and I don't know what was lying on his back that day."

When Mr. Bai talked about this experience, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Chen Ge also understood a little bit why Mr. Bai helped Jiang Ling's sister out of guilt. He had seen ghosts when he was very young, so he believed in them.

"Are you still planning to leave the valley?" Uncle Bai had a psychological trauma about the valley.

"It will take too much time to go around, so let's go through the middle of the valley." Chen Ge held the Pen Fairy in his hand: "You two go in front, I'll cover you."

"Can you do it?" The one who was left behind was Lao Wei. He made various marks in the woods as he walked.

Mr. Bai originally wanted to persuade Chen Ge, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered what happened that night. Chen Ge chased Sister Jiang Ling out of the room, as if he still wanted to keep the evil spirit.

With a twitch of his lips, Mr. Bai suspected that Chen Ge went there on purpose just because he heard about ghosts in the valley.

"Why are you two looking at me? Don't worry, let's go." Chen Ge was not panicked at all. He was carrying a backpack with a white cat in it. Even if the ghost really came over, it would lie on the white cat first.

Gently stroking the white cat's head, Chen Ge followed Grandpa Bai and Old Wei into the valley.

The sound of wind blew past my ears, as if someone was crying. The wild grass was higher than the knees, and occasionally something would run by and rub against my calves, making me feel very uncomfortable.

The trees on both sides gradually increased in number and grew in increasingly strange shapes. Everything around seemed to be slowly changing.

"Hurry up, try to get out within 20 minutes." Grandpa Bai's mood was not very stable. It seemed that the horrific memories of his youth were slowly emerging again. He looked very nervous.

"Chen Ge, be careful at the back." Old Wei walked in the middle. He was quite confident in Chen Ge.

After walking in the valley for five or six minutes, the narrow dirt road was completely blocked by weeds and tree branches, and on both sides of the road we could see many coffins half buried in the soil.

The coffins seemed to have been placed nearby on purpose, and some were not even covered tightly.

"Don't be afraid." Grandpa Bai's voice seemed to tremble. He was forcing himself to calm down. "This is the custom of the Coffin Village. Those are empty coffins. They are piled up higher and higher on both sides of the road. It means promotion and wealth."

"I'm not afraid, but you'd better walk faster."

Chen Ge looked back and saw a shadow following him.

He did not tell Lao Wei and Uncle Bai the news, but just started rummaging through his backpack.

"Just one? Then don't accuse me of bullying you by relying on my numbers."