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"Brother, that old lady is from the next village. After the reconstruction in recent years, she moved to live nearby. Now only our village is left there."

Liu Zhongze also planned to ask the doctor's grandmother about the situation, but the doctor told him that his grandmother had passed away many years ago and never went to see his parents, because his parents had never taken this matter seriously and had never encountered anything strange in the village.

As for the others, those who are capable mostly moved to wealthier cities, while those who are not will choose to work in places like Huacheng and Haicheng. If all else fails, they can try to find opportunities in Dongyue, since it's not far for people from Maolin City to go to these places.

Liu Zhongze figured he probably wouldn't get any information out of him, so he decided to leave.

At this moment, Xu Zhen approached the doctor and asked, "Brother, do you have any particularly effective talismans here? I can buy some from you."

"Don't buy them, they're all fake."

"What do you mean!" The doctor glared angrily at Liu Zhongze and demanded, "Last night you were trying to scam me out of my clinic by selling me fake talismans, and today your companion wants to buy talisman paper from me, and you're saying my talismans are fake?"

Liu Zhongze explained, "I used your talisman, but it had no effect at all. I've seen that real talismans stick to a possessed person, but yours just falls off, which means you're using a fake one."

Although the doctor had studied for many years, he grew up amidst the rumors of scholars in the village and had a certain degree of reverence for ghosts and gods.

He snorted coldly and said in a low voice, "My talisman was obtained from the most famous shaman in Maolin City! If you're trying to lower the price, then I'm sorry, I have no intention of selling it to you. If you cause any more trouble in my clinic, I'll call the police to arrest you."

Liu Zhongze sighed and said, "I've heard that truly capable people don't like to show off. They won't even receive guests unless recommended by an acquaintance, as if being too prominent might cause some bad trouble. Whether you believe it or not is up to you."

Liu Zhongze learned everything he saw and heard from Lin Zhengzhi over those years. He was in charge of behind-the-scenes work and always tried to learn from Lin Zhengzhi's orthodox Taoist teachings whenever he could.

Lin Zhengzhi was not born into Taoism. In order to make good horror films, he specifically sought out people from the Taoist sect to learn from. Over time, Lin Zhengzhi learned more and more, and many of the horror films he made could be found in ancient Chinese books.

"Let's go, stagehand."

Having figured out the location of the scholar's burial, Liu Zhongze decided not to linger any longer.

Xu Zhen did not express his own opinion, but left with Liu Zhongze. He had heard about Liu Zhongze's abilities last night and knew that Liu Zhongze's words were not unfounded.

Watching them leave, the doctor opened his drawer and fell into deep thought, looking at the yellow talismans stuffed inside.

Every year, he would go to the shaman to drive away the bad luck of the previous year and have the shaman perform a blessing for him. When he left, he would give her a lot of incense money and ask the shaman for a lot of yellow talismans, saying that they were useful for warding off evil spirits, dispelling evil, and protecting the house.

"Are these things really useless? Or am I just being too cowardly?"

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The temperature in Maolin in late autumn is similar to that in Guangzhou. The two cities are not far apart, and often even at this time of year, people don't necessarily need to wear thick clothes.

After walking along the mountain road for a while, Liu Zhongze and Xu Zhen were sweating profusely; the autumn in Maolin was still too hot.

"Teacher Liu, where do you think wolves could be found? Could it be that a pack of wolves that has lived for a hundred years is hiding in this mountain?"

In the script, the scholar was killed by the wolves after he saw the full moon.

Liu Zhongze roughly calculated the direction of the moon's setting and tried to look for anything related to wolves in several locations.

He didn't answer Xu Zhen, but instead focused on searching for places inhabited by wolves along the mountain path.

Both of their backs were soaked with sweat. After searching for more than an hour, Xu Zhen was so exhausted that he stopped by the mountain road and sat down on a rock.

Liu Zhongze glanced at it subconsciously, then suddenly said to Xu Zhen, "I know where the scholar was buried. So the place where wolves were planted was referring to wolf's tail grass..."

Liu Zhongze walked towards Xu Zhen, ignoring Xu Zhen's questioning gaze, and went straight past him to the earthen slope behind him, where foxtail grass was planted.

These foxtail grasses grew exceptionally lushly, as if the ground itself possessed a powerful life force that sustained them.

Liu Zhongze tried to dig up the soil under the foxtail grass and found that the soil was damp and not difficult to dig up.

He reached out and dug for more than ten minutes, but found nothing. So he continued digging to the side, determined not to give up until he found the scholar's remains.

Seeing Liu Zhongze's efforts, Xu Zhen knew he couldn't avoid it, so he went to the other side and started digging in the area where wolf's tail grass grew.

He had only been digging for five or six minutes when he felt something hard in the soil. He poked at the soil with his fingers, grabbed the hard thing, and pulled it out.

This is a mammal skeleton, but it is impossible to determine which animal it belongs to based on this bone alone.

"Teacher Liu, I have some bones here, but I don't know if they were left by a wolf or some other animal."

In Xu Zhen's view, it was rather unrealistic to think that the scholar's body could be found through rumors.

This is the real world, not some detective drama or movie. Not every casual remark from someone is something to be taken so seriously.

What he didn't know was that Liu Zhongze's actions weren't just a spur-of-the-moment decision. Rather, through learning from Lin Zhengzhi's experiences, he sensed that the scholar might still have unfulfilled wishes. If he didn't help him resolve these wishes, they might encounter unstable magnetic field energy during filming.

Liu Zhongze walked over to Xu Zhen and together they dug open the pit, where they saw many skeletons buried underneath.

As each finger bone was dug out, Xu Zhen immediately withdrew his hand and stepped back, feeling a bone-chilling cold even under the sun.

Xu Zhen stammered, "A...a human finger!"

Liu Zhongze said calmly, "Didn't you know from the beginning that I was coming to find the scholar's remains? What, you never believed me all along?"

"I...he..." Xu Zhen wanted to find the right words to express his current feelings, but after stammering for a long time, he still couldn't say a complete sentence.

More and more bones were unearthed by Liu Zhongze, including some tattered pieces of clothing. Liu Zhongze muttered, "These aren't the scholar's remains, they're the bones of Japanese soldiers. I see fragments of their old-fashioned military uniforms; these are the bones of the Japanese soldiers who invaded China back then!"

Liu Zhongze grew angrier the more he thought about it, and threw the bone in his hand aside, wishing he could grind it to dust.

He suddenly remembered that last night at the clinic, he heard the old man say that the scholar had killed a lot of Japanese soldiers back then. Could it be that the scholar buried all those Japanese soldiers here?

This matter is becoming increasingly bizarre and astonishing.