The mourning hall was in deathly silence. Even Yu Xiao, who was always good at shocking others, was shocked. Everyone was stunned and looked at Luo Jin with blank expressions.

Lu Xun finally reacted after a long time. He suppressed his three views that were on the verge of breaking, and asked incredulously: "Are you crazy?"

"No." Luo Jin was still very calm. He looked at Gu Jingrong, "Do you agree?"

Gu Jingrong: "..."

...

The five of them left the village chief's house together. Gu Jingrong almost fainted in the mourning hall. When his mother and the villagers came back, they saw Gu Jingrong crying. Everyone praised him for his filial piety and praised him as a filial son.

The five of them returned to their residence, and Lu Xun also understood what Luo Jin meant. After understanding, he knew why Luo Jin did this, but understanding does not mean acceptance. He always felt something was strange, something was not right.

The atmosphere was rather subtle, and the five of them did not speak. After returning, they found a place to sit.

Of course, their reasons for sitting there and their moods were different. For example, Lu Xun and Zhao Lan were silent in shame, Yu Xiao was thinking about what to do next, Luo Jin was simply in a daze, and Zhou Xiaozhen did not speak because no one else was talking.

They sat there in silence until Zhang Feng and the other four came back.

Zhang Feng was walking in front, and as soon as he turned the corner, he saw Zhao Lan sitting at the door leaning against the door frame. The scene of her breaking the kitchen knife with her bare hands yesterday was still vivid in Zhang Feng's mind, and he even slowed down his pace immediately.

Wang Yang was the second one to walk in. He saw five people sitting at the door with their heads down, and thought they were hungry, so he said, "Sorry, sorry, I accidentally delayed you for so long. You must be hungry, I'll go cook."

Zuo Qing and Sun Yun held hands. They didn't blame anyone, so although they were careful, they were not afraid. Walking to the door, Sun Yun said, "Today we checked according to the list, and the first person in the village who died of illness was called Guban. His whole family died of illness, and the villagers didn't know how he got sick. Later we went to the cemetery, but it was inconvenient during the day, so we planned to dig out the body at night."

After she finished speaking, she looked at the five people with expectation, but the five people still didn't react.

Sun Yun bit her lip and said cautiously, "Did you find anything today?"

"No, I didn't." Zhou Xiaozhen said, "We are mainly here to solve a problem today."

"One problem?" Zuo Qing asked curiously, "What is it? Can you let us know?"

"It's not that I can't..." Zhou Xiaozhen thought about it. This matter is not easy to describe. Even if she used the profound Chinese language, it still seemed poor. "Anyway, you will know soon."

After she said this, others didn't dare to ask. After all, they might be big bosses, or from the fourth hospital, and they have more experience than them, so they didn't dare to ask more.

Because the village chief died, there was a lot of music and dancing in the village that day. Yu Xiao planned to ask Gu Jingrong about the plague tomorrow, and he could go to the cemetery with them tonight.

In such a weird atmosphere, everyone finished their meal. Zhao Lan suggested that everyone take a rest first and go out later at night.

But no one could fall asleep at this time, except Yu Xiao, even if they had strong mental qualities.

Yu Xiao was woken up in the middle of the night. She rubbed her eyes and followed everyone to quietly walk along the wall to the cemetery at the edge of the village. Zuo Qing and his friends had been here during the day. The cemetery was just across the river.

The moon in the sky was round and big, with a faint layer of blood color, which looked unlucky.

Nine people stood by the river, Yu Xiao asked, "Where is the bridge?"

"No... no bridge." Zhang Feng said, "We looked here during the day, and there was no bridge."

"It shouldn't be." Lu Xun rubbed his fingers unconsciously, "This is a cemetery in the village, how can they get across without a bridge?"

"No... I don't know."

"Tsk." Lu Xun frowned in embarrassment, "How should we get across?"

Yu Xiao asked, "You guys came here during the day, was the river water clear?" "

Very clear." Zuo Qing said, "It looks completely natural and pollution-free."

"Okay, let's wade across." Yu Xiao said.

"Ah?!" Everyone was shocked. Wang Yang said fearfully, "It's so dark in the middle of the night. What if there's something dirty in the river..."

"If you're scared, just stay here." Lu Xun agreed with Yu Xiao's approach and started taking off his shoes.

Wang Yang was so anxious watching them take off their shoes. He turned around and saw Zhang Feng taking off his shoes. He couldn't help it. "Old Zhang, you want to go over there too? Aren't you afraid of ghosts in the water?"

Zhang Feng said as he took off his shoes, "Even if there are ghosts, it's safer to be together than to stay alone on the shore."

"..."

What he said made sense. Wang Yang also started taking off his shoes.

The river water was cold in the middle of the night. Nine people held hands and crossed the river together. In the quiet night, there was not even the sound of insects, only the rustling sound of legs walking through the water.

"Actually... this feeling is quite special." Sun Yun held Zuo Qing with one hand and Zhao Lan with the other. "I have lived in the city since I was a child and have never been to the countryside to play. Later, when I came to the Fifth Academy, I was always trembling with fear and only thought about passing the dungeon. I don't know why, but this time I feel quite relaxed with you guys."

Zhou Xiaozhen said, "Because you feel safe with us."

Sun Yun thought about it and it was indeed the case. Apart from anything else, one of them can break a kitchen knife, and another chases ghosts alone in the middle of the night. There is nothing more reassuring than this.

She smiled slightly, "You're right."

Zuo Qing also smiled and said, "With powerful guys like you around, ghosts shouldn't dare to get close."

"That's not necessarily true." Zhou Xiaozhen said, looking at Yu Xiao, "Sister Xiao, I feel like my left ankle seems to be grabbed by something, I wonder if it's a ghost."

Everyone stopped immediately.

Yu Xiao let go of the hands of the people on both sides, bent down and reached into the water to touch Zhou Xiaozhen's ankle. Before she touched her ankle, she touched a round thing that looked like a watermelon.

She didn't think much about it and just grabbed it and pulled it out.

"Wow!"

The moonlight sprinkled on the water, creating ripples. Everyone watched Yu Xiao bend down and touch something in the water, then she stood up and grabbed something dark and mud-like and came out.

The mud was roughly the outline of a human figure, and after Yu Xiao grabbed it, it suddenly made a strange sound.

"Hahahahaha..."

Zuo Qing and the others stepped back in shock, and because they couldn't walk steadily underwater, they stopped after taking two steps, supporting each other.

The dark thing laughed for a while, and suddenly found something wrong.

Looking closely, the guy holding it was looking at it coldly, motionless and steady as a mountain. The people around her were also indifferent, looking at it very calmly. The

dark thing stopped talking quietly, and a trace of embarrassment emerged from the bottom of her heart.

Zhou Xiaozhen stared at the dark mud-like thing with wide eyes, and asked curiously: "Is this what a water ghost looks like?"

Lu Xun said: "I don't know if it is a water ghost, but it's a ghost anyway."

What? ! A mere ordinary living person dares to look down on me like this? ! The black mud was angry, and opened its mouth wide, big enough to fit a basketball, and was about to swallow the head of the guy holding it. Just as

its mouth opened as wide as it could, before it could swallow, it saw that the guy was holding a yellow talisman paper in his other hand. The yellow paper trembled slightly in the breeze, like a butterfly about to fly high.

"..."

Too much, it was just a poor ghost...

On the dry grass on the other side of the river, nine people formed a circle, and in the center of them was a black mud-like ghost.

Yu smiled and said, "Who's going to ask?"

"I'll do it." Lu Xun volunteered. He pointed at the ghost and said, "You, tell us where the plague in this village started."

The ghost was very scared. It didn't know anything. It was just bored and hungry. People should be fed to ghosts.

"Will you tell me?" Facing the ghost, Lu Xun showed a different side from usual. "You're being stubborn, right?"

He rummaged in his pocket and took out a pair of transparent gloves as thin as cicada wings and put them on his hands. Then he grabbed the ghost and started to beat him.

"Will you tell me? Will you tell me? Will you tell me..."

"Wuwuwuwuwuwu..."

The miserable crying sound floated in the night sky, which really made those who heard it sad and those who saw it would cry.

I don't know if this ghost is stupid or can't talk. He was beaten to a deformed state by Lu Xun, but he didn't say a word. He is really a ghost with a strong character.

"Forget it, don't waste time on it." Yu Xiao said, "Let's go to the cemetery."

"Yeah." Lu Xun nodded, and then said, "What should we do with it?"

Yu Xiao stared at the ghost worriedly, "Is there anything that can lock it up and take it away?"

Everyone was worried. Ghosts are not ordinary things. Ordinary things can't lock them up.

At this time, Luo Jin, who had been silent all night, said, "There is a high-pressure cooker in the house. Lock it in and put a talisman on it."

What a good idea! Yu

Xiao looked at him with admiration. She admired such a smart guy.

After that, they dragged the ghost to the cemetery. There were graves everywhere in the cemetery, some with tombstones, some without. The nine people scattered and walked around, and finally Zhang Feng found it, "Guban! Guban is here!"

Everyone gathered in front of Guban's tombstone. According to the list, this was the first person in the village who was infected with the plague and died of the plague.

Lu Xun said, "Let's dig."

Zhao Lan started to roll up his sleeves. Wang Yang said, "Oh, this kind of rough work should be done by us men. You girls have less strength..." Before he finished

speaking, he remembered the scene of Zhao Lan breaking the knife with his bare hands, and he couldn't say the rest of the words.

It was Lu Xun who said, "You caught the ghost, so let us dig the grave."

Zhao Lan didn't really want to dig the grave, so he and Yu Xiao stepped aside and watched them sweating.

A grave was soon dug out. Yu Xiao covered his nose and came to the edge of the pit. Luo Jin was pulling the coffin out of the pit alone.

The coffin was opened and a foul smell emanated.

Yu Xiao rolled his eyes because of the smell, and it took a while for the smell to dissipate. Everyone gathered together again, only to see a rotten corpse lying quietly in the coffin. Other parts were normal, only the head was completely destroyed, as if it was smashed to pieces by a heavy hammer.

Zhao Lan wondered, "What disease can change a person's head into this state?"