The villagers spontaneously ran to help put out the fire. Fortunately, when the fire began to spread, rain started to float in the sky. A few hours later, with the help of God, the fire was finally put out.

Zhou Feng was crying after returning to the yard and checking it out. The fire started to burn from his laboratory, and it was filled with gasoline, burning all his instruments, equipment, information and samples.

"All my research results are gone!" Zhou Feng knelt on the ground.

"Who did it?" Xiaoli and Zhang Mengdi were very surprised. With such a big furious situation, if they stayed in the Zhou family, they would probably not be able to escape.

"Someone is stopping our investigation." Zhou Feng stood up.

"What should I do now?" Xiaoli asked Zhou Feng.

"Go to your grandmother's house first, and then discuss the next action." Zhou Feng thought for a while and answered Xiaoli.

A little girl appeared near the Zhou family yard and secretly looked here. After Zhang Mengdi saw her, she hurried over.

"I am Xiaolan's classmate Li Yan, please save me!" Li Yan begged Zhang Mengdi in a low voice.

"Come with us." Zhang Mengdi looked around and pulled Li Yan quickly towards Xiaoli's grandmother's house.

...

"Looking at my palms, there were dark spots like Xiaolan." Li Yan showed her palms to the three of them.

"Have you done anything with Xiaolan?" Zhou Feng asked Li Yan.

"I can't remember more. One night a year ago, I suddenly found myself not at home. I didn't know how I ran out of the house. I found myself in the ancestral hall, and Xiaolan, her younger brother Xiaojun, and some other villagers were with me."

“When did something happen?”

"Didn't it last summer vacation? I needed you to protect me. I was afraid that I would become a mummy like everyone else. I know you are investigating this matter. I think you might have a solution." Li Yan looked begging.

"You are the granddaughter of Chinese Medicine Dr. Li in the clinic. Your grandfather knows these things, right? He knows what happened, right?" Zhou Feng confirmed to Li Yan.

"Yes, but he said never to tell anyone."

"Why?"

"He wants to protect me, he thinks he can, but I don't think he can do it."

"He knows what's going on, can you tell us?"

"I don't know what specific things are. It's probably what ceremonies the people in the village held in the ancestral hall. Many people were brainwashed and they became different from before."

Zhou Feng, Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli looked at each other, which seemed to be somewhat similar to their previous guess.

"I will become a mummy, right? I will become the next one to die, right?" Li Yan looked anxious.

"Swallow! We're back home!" Dr. Li from the clinic led two strong men to the yard of Xiaoli's grandmother's house and found the four people talking. Zhou Feng and others had seen these two strong men, who were two of the guardians of the ancestral hall.

"Swallows go home!" A strong man said to Li Yan. Judging from his appearance, he might be Li Yan's father.

"I don't think she wants to go back with you." Zhou Feng stopped the three men.

"She is sick, and her father and grandpa want to take her home. They will cure her. Don't interfere, otherwise there will be trouble." Another strong man said to Zhou Feng.

"Are you the father of Xiaolan and Xiaojun?" Zhou Feng recognized the strong man.

"My daughter Xiaolan is dead, please stay away from my son Xiaojun! Don't think about making a fuss!" The strong man looked very ugly.

Li Yan was reluctant to go back with her grandfather and father, but Zhou Feng and the other two could not stop all this from happening, so they could only watch as they forcibly took Li Yan away.

"You will like this village. Every day it feels like celebrating the Ghost Festival." Zhou Feng smiled bitterly as he watched Li Yan being taken away by Chinese medicine doctor Li and two strong men.

"They know the truth, but no one tells it." Zhang Mengdi sighed.

"They know who the murderer is, who knows who made this happen. They know something, they even know my secret laboratory, everything we do is under their surveillance, and they are destroying all the evidence." Zhou Feng was dejected.

"Why do they destroy the evidence?" Xiaoli asked Zhou Feng.

"I really can't guess." Zhou Feng shook his head.

"I wonder if there are any secrets hidden in the other graves in the cemetery?" Zhang Mengdi asked Zhou Feng.

...

After dark, the three of them returned to the cemetery again.

Several graves were dug up, and they were all empty inside, leaving only the dug-out coffin boards.

"What happened in this village?" Zhang Mengdi was completely messy.

"I know who did it, I know who killed Xiaolan." Zhou Fengxiang suddenly had an idea.

"who?"

"It's Xiaolan's younger brother Xiaojun, that vegetative person!" Zhou Feng answered the two girls.

"Ah? The vegetative person in Li's Chinese Medicine Clinic? A boy who has been unconscious for a year?" Zhang Mengdi looked surprised.

"Xiaolan was in a wheelchair, but she ran to the high slope and fell to death. When she was in the clinic, I felt that she was under the control of her vegetative brother. She was killed at around 6 o'clock in the morning. At that time, we had lost forty minutes. Something must have happened in these forty minutes! Our time disappeared! The whole village had disappeared forty minutes! Something committed the case at this time! Some powerful thing controlled the time, causing the time to flow in that moment!" Zhou Feng analyzed.

The two girls were stunned.

"Do you think I'm crazy?" Zhou Feng smiled bitterly.

"No." Zhang Mengdi shook her head.

"Anyway, I think, some villagers were controlled by some mysterious force and went to the ancestral hall in the woods. Some things were summoning them. The dark spots in the palms of some villagers should have been left after a test, which may have caused gene mutations, which also explains why they transform into mummies. If you guess well, Xiaolan's corpse should also become mummies." Zhou Feng continued to analyze.

"This morning it was that power. Whoever summoned Xiaolan ran out of the clinic and fell to death?" Zhang Mengdi asked Zhou Feng.

"Yes, but she didn't go there by herself, she was her younger brother Xiaojun who took her there." Zhou Feng shook his head.

"Why do you suspect Xiaojun? There should be a reason, right?" Zhang Mengdi felt a little strange.

"I am considered a doctor. When I was internship in the medical school, I met many vegetative people. They have some common characteristics, such as swelling, muscle atrophy, etc., but Xiaojun doesn't. The vegetative people who have been in bed for a year will not be like him. He has big problems." Zhou Feng answered Zhang Mengdi.

"Why don't we go to Li's Chinese Medicine Clinic to see Xiaojun?" Zhang Mengdi mentioned it to Zhou Feng.

"Well, we can't do anything else now." Zhou Feng nodded.

...

Li Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic.

Dr. Li is not here, there is only a woman in her fifties. Her surname is Li, and she is a nurse in Li's Chinese Medicine Clinic.

"You are standing here until you die of old age. Xiaojun won't get up. I have been guarding him for more than a year." Nurse Li teased the three of them.

"That's right, he can only blink." Xiaoli touched Xiaojun's face.

"I guess you changed his potty last night, right? Have you noticed something unusual? Last night...or around six o'clock this morning? That is when Xiaolan disappeared?" Zhou Feng asked Nurse Li while checking Xiaojun's feet.

"No, I was sleeping in the small bed next to me at that time." Nurse Li thought about it and shook his head.

"Okay, I understand, thank you, let's go." Zhou Feng was not ready to continue after checking Xiaojun's feet.

"Okay, goodbye." Nurse Li glanced at Zhou Feng with some wonder.

...

"Maybe Xiaojun killed his sister Xiaolan!" Zhou Feng said to the two girls as he walked.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because he left the clinic last night and even went to the woods." Zhou Feng snorted coldly.

"are you sure?"

"This is the fire ashes in his toes and toenails, which seems exactly the same as what I found in the woods. I want to go to the woods to collect some samples, then compare and make a conclusion to see if it is exactly the same thing. If so, it means that the root of all this lies in Xiaojun." Zhou Feng thought.

...

The three of them entered the woods again at night and came to the vicinity of the ancestral hall. Just as Zhou Feng was looking for the ashes everywhere, a girl's scream suddenly came from the direction of the ancestral hall, a very shrill scream.

Zhou Feng hurriedly ran towards the ancestral hall, but was hit in the neck by a hunting gun and fell to the ground in pain.

"I told you to leave and don't come here again! I just don't listen!" The person who shot was Xiaojun's father.

Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli also rushed over, but were stopped.

"Don't move around!" Xiaojun's father stopped Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli with a gun.

"Someone is screaming, a murder is happening in the ancestral hall!" Zhang Mengdi shouted to Xiaojun's father.

"It's not your business! Lean on the ground!" Xiaojun's father yelled at Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli.

"You know it was Xiaojun who did it! You knew it long ago!" Zhou Feng covered his bleeding neck and yelled at Xiaojun's father. Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli quickly squatted down to check Zhou Feng's injuries.

"I'll let you lie on the ground!" Xiaojun's father ordered Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli again.

At this moment, Xiaojun's scream came from the direction of the ancestral hall, and Xiaojun's father hurriedly ran over there.

Only then did Zhang Mengdi and Xiaoli find that there was a lot of blood flowing from the ground beneath Zhou Feng.

"My carotid artery is injured. I...I'm almost...I can't do it anymore. You guys quickly...get out of here and find a way... to call the police! The dark forces in this village... are not something you... can fight against..." Zhou Feng said to the second girl, and then he snorted.

...

A few days later, the Public Security Bureau of a certain city.

Xiaojun was hypnotized by the old forensic doctor Zhou Feng said.

"If you can hear me please raise your right hand." The old forensic doctor confirmed the hypnosis effect.
To be continued...