After nightfall, Xiaoli decided not to take sleeping pills, not to sleep, and to stay by Zhang Mengdi's bedside.

Zhang Mengdi slept, waited for Xiaoli's grandmother to fall into her dream, and then asked Xiaoli's grandmother about the real cause of death to see if someone had harmed her.

Although it was very difficult to fall asleep, Zhang Mengdi still used the method of counting sheep to force himself to fall asleep as soon as possible. After falling asleep, Zhang Mengdi had some messy dreams, but he could no longer dream of Xiaoli's grandmother with a black and blue face, so he couldn't ask Xiaoli's grandmother about the cause of death according to Xiaoli's request.

Finally, Zhang Mengdi woke up, it was dark all around, and Xiaoli seemed to have fallen asleep lying on the side of her bed.

Zhang Mengdi touched the mobile phone next to the pillow and looked at it, the time was now around two o'clock in the morning.

"Awake?" Xiaoli woke up when she heard the movement and asked Zhang Mengdi.

"Hmm. ”

"Have you seen grandma?" Xiaoli looked expectantly.

"Nope. Zhang Mengdi recalled carefully, and then shook his head.

Although she was afraid that she would see the dried corpse again before she fell asleep, she still hoped that the dried corpse would appear in her dream because she wanted to help Xiaoli.

Unfortunately, no.

"Why don't you fall asleep?" Xiaoli looked very disappointed.

"Probably...... Because the coffin is no longer here, right?" Zhang Mengdi guessed.

"Ahh......h It's really possible. Xiaoli nodded.

"Let's still go as planned, ask Mr. Wang for help after we leave tomorrow, and come back to investigate the cause of my grandmother's death. Zhang Mengdi suggested a few words to Xiaoli.

"If grandma can't dream because the coffin is not here, we can go to grandma's grave and we should be able to receive grandma's dream. Xiaoli thought about it and mentioned it to Zhang Mengdi.

"Where is my grandmother's grave?"

"Well, the rain outside has stopped, and I heard that the soul is getting weaker day by day after death, and if you miss tonight, it may be too late tomorrow night. Xiaoli nodded.

"Is it appropriate to go to the cemetery in the middle of the night? Didn't you say last night...... Don't go out in the middle of the night, there's a cemetery to the west, and something strange has happened...... By the way, what strange things happened in the cemetery? I was about to ask you!" Zhang Mengdi asked Xiaoli.

"I've only heard that there is a ghost fire at night in the cemetery, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes, so I don't know if those legends are true or not. But ghost fire is not a terrible thing, the scientific explanation is just a burning phosphorus fire......" Xiaoli replied to Zhang Mengdi.

"Aren't you afraid to go to the cemetery in the middle of the night?" Zhang Mengdi asked Xiaoli again.

"What if...... If you stay with me, I won't be afraid. And...... Grandma only came to your dream, not to my dream......" Xiaoli looked at Zhang Mengdi with a begging expression.

"No, do you, do you really want to go to the cemetery at this time?" Zhang Mengdi's eyes widened.

"You have been following Teacher Wang for so long, you should be talking about science, right? There are no ghosts or anything in the world, there are just some dead people buried in the cemetery, what is there to be afraid of?" Xiaoli thought for a while and replied to Zhang Mengdi.

"No ghosts? What did I dream about last night...... What's the matter with your grandmother?" Zhang Mengdi shook his head.

"It's just a dream, and it's not really there, and that's not against science. Why don't you explain why people dream, and everything they dream about is the same as if they were there?"

"Dreaming day and night, dreaming is just some fantasies produced by some brain cells that are still in a state of excitement when they are sleeping. Zhang Mengdi replied to Xiaoli.

"Oh, fantasy, since it's a fantasy, it will definitely not cause substantial harm, so what do we have to be afraid of?" Xiaoli continued to say to Zhang Mengdi.

"You won't be ...... Do you want me to sleep by your grandmother's grave and let your grandmother give me a dream?" Zhang Mengdi felt that something was not going well.

"Only you can help me in this matter, you are my best friend, my grandmother is gone, you are now like my only relative, if you don't help me, I don't know who else to ask for. Xiaoli's eyes were red, and she continued to look at Zhang Mengdi with a begging expression.

"Uh...... Uh-uh...... "Zhang Mengdi regretted that she shouldn't have followed Xiaoli here and waded into this pool of troubled water, but, with her character, Xiaoli has spoken to this point, and if she doesn't help her, she really can't get over it."

"Then you promised to help me?" Xiao Li took Zhang Mengdi's hand.

"Okay, but we have to do some preparations, go to the cemetery, what if we encounter something? Even if there are no ghosts, what if we encounter bad people?" Zhang Mengdi couldn't save face, so he had to agree.

"Bad guys, the villagers in the mountain village are very simple, if there are really bad people who have bad intentions towards us, do you think the wooden door of grandma's house can block them?" Xiaoli pointed to the wooden door of the room.

"But you also suspect that someone killed your grandmother! During the day, you threaten them not to kill people, which means that you don't think there are no bad people in the mountain village. That Uncle Qiang was very strange, he must know something, but his wife wouldn't let him say it. Zhang Mengdi opened the topic, in fact, she didn't want to accompany Xiaoli to the cemetery very much.

"I just wanted to find out the cause of my grandmother's death, not to suspect that the people in the village had killed her. Xiaoli shook her head.

"Alas...... Okay, then I'll go with you. By the way, do you know the way? After entering the cave, it was like a labyrinth, and I don't remember where your grandmother was buried. Zhang Mengdi finally said a few words, in fact, he still hoped that Xiaoli would dispel the idea of going to the cemetery.

"Don't forget that I grew up here, and I know the cave very well, and I often play in it, and I can describe it as knowing everything well, and I can't get lost no matter how I walk. Xiaoli made a promise to Zhang Mengdi.

"The cemetery! There are graves in that cave, where you played when you were a child?" Zhang Mengdi's eyes widened.

"What is this? There are a lot of mushrooms growing in the cave, many of them are not poisonous, they grow very fat and big, and the stew soup is very fragrant, when I was a child, my grandmother often took me to pick up mushrooms, and we can also pick up some mushrooms by the way after we pass, and tomorrow I will kill a chicken and stew mushrooms for you to eat. Xiaoli mentioned it to Zhang Mengdi.

"It seems to be delicious...... Zhang Mengdi has nothing to say.

But...... Are these mushrooms really edible? They can't be grown from corpses as fertilizer, are they? It's a little oozing when you think about it.

After some deliberation, the two finally prepared the following equipment.

A lantern cover can be used to put a kerosene lamp into it and use it to illuminate, and if there is a lantern cover, the kerosene lamp will not be blown out by the wind.

A lighter in case the kerosene lamp goes out inadvertently, and it can also be re-lit with a lighter.

A shovel for shoveling mushrooms.

A few bags, some cloth bags, some plastic bags, are used to hold mushrooms, and taking more may have other uses.

An old bed sheet, when the time comes, Zhang Mengdi will sleep next to her grandmother's grave, find a way to contact her grandmother, and ask about the cause of her grandmother's death.

A small knife, a couple of ropes, I don't know what it will be for.

Two raincoats just in case it rains again.

There is also a mop stick, which Zhang Mengdi holds in his hand to strengthen his courage.

Of course, both of them changed into galoshes that could walk on muddy ground.

When everything was ready, the two pushed open the wooden door and went on the road.

Xiaoli's grandmother's house is very close to the cemetery in the west, and there is only the courtyard of Uncle Qiang's house in the middle. But the cemetery is very large, my grandmother is buried in the depths of the cave, and the ground is muddy when it rains, so it will take at least half an hour to walk there.

The two of them walked out of the courtyard gate of their grandmother's house with lanterns and walked towards the path outside the courtyard of Uncle Qiang's house.

As she walked, Zhang Mengdi suddenly stopped, stopped Xiaoli and blew out the kerosene lamp in the lantern cover.

"What's wrong?" Xiaoli asked Zhang Mengdi in a low voice.

"There seems to be a voice at Uncle Qiang's house, so let's sneak closer to see what they are talking about at home. Zhang Mengdi pointed in the direction of Uncle Qiang's house.

"Well, there were voices, like talking, and crying. Xiaoli listened carefully and nodded to Zhang Mengdi.

"Let's go over and see what's going on. Zhang Mengdi took Xiaoli's hand, and the two walked lightly towards the courtyard of Uncle Qiang's house, and when they got closer, they could hear that there were indeed voices of talking and crying in the dimly lit room.

This room is on the side of the road, there is a window facing the path, between the path and the window is a weed more than a meter high, and when you get close to it, you can see everything in the room from the broken place of the window paper.

"Is Xiaobing really hopeless? Just stop working hard, send it to the county or city hospital, let the doctor see if there may be hope, right?" Uncle Qiang's wife's voice.

"There is no hope, even if he is sent to the county or city, there is no hope, and the secrets of the village will be exposed, and it will only be more troublesome at that time. Uncle Qiang's sigh.

Uncle Qiang's wife didn't say anything more, and cried again to the bed next to her.

Through the dim kerosene light, a little boy lying on the bed in the room could be faintly seen, obviously the little soldier in the mouth of Uncle Qiang's wife, that is, their youngest son.

Just when Zhang Mengdi tried to look inside through the crack in the window, trying to see what happened to Uncle Qiang's son Xiaobing, Xiaobing suddenly sat up from the bed, and the light of the kerosene lamp shone on his face, Zhang Mengdi could see his appearance clearly.

After seeing Xiaobing's appearance, Zhang Mengdi almost screamed in fright, but she covered her mouth in time so that she didn't let herself scream.

Xiao Bing's face is similar to the black and cyan color of Xiaoli's grandmother, although it has not become a dried corpse like her grandmother, but it seems that there is a trend of transforming into a dry corpse.

"Xiao Bing, are you okay?" Uncle Qiang's wife hurriedly asked Xiao Bing.

"Outside the window...... Someone. The creep pointed in the direction of the window, and the sound of his voice was like wood rubbing against each other, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

"Who?" Uncle Qiang and his wife hurriedly walked to the window and stretched out their hands to push it open.

Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli were so frightened that they hurriedly fled in the direction of the cemetery, until they fled to the high stone slope of the cemetery, and turned around to confirm that no one was chasing them, so the two of them covered their chests and gasped for a few breaths.

……

"Did you see the little boy in the room?" Zhang Mengdi asked Xiaoli.

"See, it should be Uncle Qiang's youngest son Xiaobing, I saw him when I went home for the Chinese New Year this year. Xiaoli nodded.

"Is there an infectious disease in the village? Xiaobing has symptoms similar to those of his grandmother!" Zhang Mengdi recalled the scene just now, still a little shocked.

"It's more like an evil spirit. Xiaoli shook her head.

"Evil?"

"Didn't you notice that there were a lot of talismans on my grandmother's coffin and her body? They must have thought that my grandmother had fallen into evil spirits, so they asked the mage to do that. Xiaoli sighed.

"What secrets are there in the village, why do Uncle Qiang and they prefer not to let Xiaobing get treatment from the outside world in order to keep the secret?" Zhang Mengdi looked at Xiaoli, even if the two faced each other in the dark, they didn't really look at each other.

"I don't know, anyway...... The village is indeed a little weird, and now there is probably no place in the country that does not have electricity and no communication base station, but there is no one in the village. And the people in the village don't like to go out to work, so I'm an alternative. Xiaoli smiled wryly.

"Didn't you hear what your grandmother said......? Strange things happened in the cemetery?" Zhang Mengdi always felt that Xiaoli had something to hide from her.

"Well, I said don't be afraid. Xiaoli looked up at Zhang Mengdi.

"In the middle of the night, I didn't know that I dared to run to the cemetery to sit, what could be more terrifying?" Zhang Mengdi smiled bitterly.

"My grandmother said that I was not related to her, and that I had picked up mushrooms when she was picking them in the cemetery. Xiaoli hesitated for a while before speaking.

"Oh...... Possible...... Your biological parents were patriarchal, and you found out that you were a daughter when you gave birth, so they abandoned you in the cemetery?" Zhang Mengdi looked at Xiaoli sympathetically.

"No, when she was picking mushrooms in the cemetery, she heard the cry of a baby under the ground, so she dug up the field with her hand and found a coffin inside, and she took great difficulty to open the coffin and carry me out of it. Xiaoli continued.

"Huh......? Your biological parents are too ruthless, aren't they? Even if they abandon you, they can't put you in a coffin and bury you in the ground, right?" Zhang Mengdi was very surprised.

"No, I wasn't abandoned by my biological parents, and when my grandmother opened the coffin, she saw the belly of the decomposing female corpse moving, and she cut open the belly of the female corpse and gouged me out. Xiaoli continued.

"How is that possible? If so...... It's impossible for you to cry, and besides, it's all a female corpse that is about to rot, how can there be a live baby in it?" Zhang Mengdi immediately pointed out the loophole in Xiaoli's words.

"So it's strange! Grandma said she dug up the ground and rescued me when she heard the crying, and I don't know why I'm still alive. Xiaoli said quietly.

"Your birth mother died when she was pregnant with you, she was buried, and then your grandmother ...... It's not that my grandmother dug up the ground and saved you......" Zhang Mengdi felt breathless.

"So, I've always suspected that I'm not actually human, that I might be a ...... Ghost. Xiaoli's voice became eerie, and one of her hands touched Zhang Mengdi's face, cold and slippery.