Veteran Hong Kong stars reorganize the Chinese entertainment industry.

After returning to his residence, Liu Zhongze did not go to sleep immediately, but instead trained in his room for a long time until the early hours of the morning before finally going to bed.

That night, he dreamed of a dark figure that could only crawl on the ground. Although its limbs were all broken, it moved quite quickly.

It came up to Liu Zhongze, and without saying a word, just stared into his eyes.

Liu Zhongze wanted to speak in his dream, but found that he couldn't make a sound no matter what he did. He wanted the shadowy figure to feel his kindness, but he suddenly woke up when he opened his eyes.

It was already broad daylight.

"Is there something you need my help with?"

After finishing his meal, Liu Zhongze walked around the village. Many houses were dilapidated, especially those that hadn't been lived in for a long time and were at risk of collapsing at any time. He could clearly see a large crack in the wall that extended for nearly a meter.

The people in this village maintain a regular routine of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. They are rather indifferent to their neighbors, and no matter what noises are made outside after nightfall, they are not curious and sleep very quietly.

They searched several households that showed signs of habitation, but found no one inside.

Left with no other option, Liu Zhongze tried to walk outside, where he ran into Xu Zhen.

"Teacher Liu, where are you going?"

Xu Zhen stopped his electric scooter beside Liu Zhongze and asked, "Do you need a ride? Or can you use my scooter?"

Liu Zhongze thought for a moment and asked, "Is there anything I need right now?"

"The director asked me to go to the morning market to buy him some breakfast. Would you like some, teacher?"

Liu Zhongze shook his head and said, "Then we won't go that way. I plan to find out more about the ghost in the script."

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhen's expression changed. As a stagehand, he had to coordinate relationships with many departments, so he naturally knew about what happened last night, and he still felt lingering fear when he thought about it.

"Teacher Liu, why are you investigating this?"

"Perhaps it's my resonance with the character that makes it impossible for me to ignore him. Only by understanding him more deeply can I deliver a better performance."

Xu Zhen fell silent. Just as Liu Zhongze was about to leave, he grabbed him again and said, "How about this, I'll talk to the director and I'll go with you to investigate."

After saying that, Xu Zhen didn't give Liu Zhongze a chance to refuse and dialed the director's number.

When the director heard him say that something came up and he might be late buying breakfast for the director, he was about to get angry when he quickly brought up the matter that Liu Zhongze wanted to investigate.

The director's anger immediately turned into a friendly tone, and he told him to be careful when he was with Liu Zhongze. The director would have someone else buy breakfast, and he could just follow Liu Zhongze to investigate during the day.

After Xu Zhen hung up the phone, Liu Zhongze finally had a chance to speak: "Actually, you didn't need to go to all this trouble."

Xu Zhen smiled, gestured for Liu Zhongze to get into the car, and said, "Since we're making this movie, some hard work is definitely necessary."

As Liu Zhongze got into the car, he affirmed, "If we can help others while filming, that would be a great act of merit."

"Teacher Liu seems to really like traditional Chinese culture. Where are we headed?"

Liu Zhongze ignored Xu Zhen's praise. When he was young, he didn't really believe in any ghosts or monsters. However, when he worked behind the scenes with Lin Zhengzhi, he actually discovered some inexplicable things.

Out of respect for the unknown, Liu Zhongze secretly learned some of Lin Zhengzhi's communication methods. They might not actually work, but at least they could have some peace of mind.

The two arrived at the small clinic from the previous night. As soon as the doctor saw Liu Zhongze's face, he was about to come out and lock the door, but Liu Zhongze stopped him in time.

"Brother, I just want to ask you something."

"Get lost! You tricked me last night, what are you planning to do today? You guys aren't trying to lure me to that ghost village so I can do some wicked things, are you?"

Liu Zhongze jammed the door lock, preventing the doctor from locking it. He looked into the doctor's eyes and said, "We really just want to ask you some questions. If you can tell us, we'll leave right away after we hear them."

When the doctor realized he wasn't as strong as Liu Zhongze, he was about to call his family to lock the door when he saw Xu Zhen silently take a step forward, looking ready to help open the door at any moment.

Too little, too late, for the doctor could only helplessly ask, "What do you want to know?"

"The matter of the top scorer."

The doctor frowned and said coldly, "I don't know."

Liu Zhongze knew that such matters needed to be avoided wherever the rumors occurred, but he had his own way of getting the doctor to talk.

He walked up to the doctor and said, "You can either tell me now, or I'll come back tonight to ask you. If you don't tell me, I'll come every night."

Liu Zhongze's shameless behavior gave the doctor a real headache.

The doctor's family moved out of the village. To put it nicely, he led his family away from the uninhabited village after he became a doctor. To put it bluntly, he was terrified by ghost stories since childhood, and that's why he led his family to escape the haunted village after he made money.

The doctor walked to the window and door to let the sunlight in, as if he were about to be enveloped in a chill.

There weren't many people in the clinic at the moment. When they first arrived, a mother had bought some medicine with her child and then left. Now, only the doctor's family, Liu Zhongze, Xu Zhen, and an old woman who was getting an IV drip and sunbathing by the window were inside.

"Actually, I don't know much about the top scholar. We all call him Xiucai. His legend has been circulating in the village since before I can remember."

"Like many children, as I grew up, I thought it was just a rumor, unbelievable, and that people were just scaring themselves. But one day, when I passed by the house of a bully from a hundred years ago, I saw a dark shadow that looked like a stray dog ​​at his door. Just as I was about to go over to check, the shadow suddenly disappeared."

Liu Zhongze could see that the doctor's wrist had many goosebumps.

"The old people in the village all said that the scholar was pitiful, and that even if he became a ghost, he would be a good ghost. But when I actually saw that dark figure, I felt instinctively uncomfortable, and I even had a high fever for three days because of it."

Xu Zhen listened with trepidation, and the thought of having to go back to film that night made him even more uneasy.

Liu Zhongze remained calm. He asked, "Actually, I don't want to know if he exists or not; I just want to know where he's buried."

The doctor looked at him even more strangely. He said, "When the villagers found the scholar, all that was left were some broken bones. I remember my grandmother saying when I was a child that the scholar lived in a place on the mountain where there were wolves."

"A place where wolves live? What does that mean?"

The doctor shrugged and said, "I don't know either. That's what my grandma told me. You can find out the rest yourself."

Liu Zhongze glanced at the old woman sunbathing by the window and asked, "Is she also from the village?"

"Brother, how come you're even going after an 80-year-old grandmother?"