When the heart-wrenching wails erupted, the driver was outside the tomb entrance chatting and laughing with the management staff. The sudden distorted crying from the tomb passage startled everyone.

“What… what?” The management staff member was a young girl, scared into stammering.

The driver, being a man after all, hurried inside. The management girl hesitated for a moment, then followed.

Accompanied by the increasingly loud crying, the driver and the girl rushed into the tomb chamber.

“Oh my heavens!” the driver shouted.

The scene before them left him dumbfounded.

The woman was crying so hard she could barely breathe, pushing forcefully against the glass case.

When this woman went crazy, her strength was enormous. Plus, since the county hadn’t made any profit from this tomb, they weren’t interested in investing much, so the glass case quality was poor. After several attempts, Qi Yue actually managed to push it open.

“Chang Yuncheng!” Qi Yue cried out, reaching to grab the white bones with one hand while seizing the surgical knife with the other.

Yes, yes, it was hers! It was hers!

Her knife!

Cutting the rope in the water again and again…

Finally, she was struck on the head, let go, and drifted away with the current…

Her last sight was the knife swaying on the rope…

Tears fell on her hands, on the knife, on the withered bones…

“Oh my goodness!”

The stunned driver and management girl finally came to their senses.

“What are you doing! You’re destroying national cultural relics!” the girl was no longer afraid.

She was afraid of ghosts, not madmen.

The driver was also terrified. If this were investigated, would he be considered an accomplice?

Both rushed over to restrain this crazy woman. Just then, a thunderclap rolled overhead. Whether it was an illusion or not, with this thunder, all three saw darkness before their eyes.

The rumbling thunder rolled past, so loud it hurt their eardrums even in the mountain tomb chamber. One could imagine how massive this thunder was.

“Bury him! Bury him! Don’t treat him like this!” Qi Yue struggled and shouted.

The withered bones couldn’t withstand such pulling and tugging, and scattered with the commotion.

The girl let out a scream.

It was over, she was going to lose her job!

The girl also went mad.

The three fought in the tomb chamber, alarming people outside.

“Call the police! Call the police!”

“Get the police station people here!”

Hedu Ridge Ancient Tomb became lively for the second time.

The last time it was this lively was when it was first excavated.

The ID card was pulled from the backpack and thrown on the table.

The police officer sitting behind the computer reached for it, looked at the ID, then at the woman handcuffed to the chair.

“From Beijing,” he said, casually typing into the computer.

Not a wanted criminal.

The police officer tossed the ID back.

“Hey, speak up. What happened? Why did you destroy national cultural relics?” he demanded.

“Bury him back, bury him back…” the woman in the chair just mumbled.

The two police officers in the room were somewhat helpless.

Since subduing this woman, she had been repeating this phrase.

“Really crazy?” another police officer said. “Should we call the hospital?”

The police officer at the computer was also at a loss. Dealing with criminals was one thing, but dealing with madmen was truly hopeless.

“Miss,” he thought for a moment, changing to a gentle tone with some coaxing, “tell me what happened. We’re police officers, and Uncle Police will help you.”

This tone gave the other police officer goosebumps.

“Old Zhou, she’s crazy, not mentally deficient…” he couldn’t help but whisper.

“Ah, about the same,” Old Zhou said, continuing to put on a kind expression while looking at the woman.

Qi Yue hugged her knees, hunching down.

He was buried like this…

Only this knife…

Did he hold it for a thousand years…

All alone, holding this knife…

This fool…

This bastard…

Didn’t she tell him to live well, forget about her, and live well…

Even in death, he died so lonely. What must it have been like when he was alive…

Qi Yue began crying loudly again.

The two police officers looked at each other helplessly.

Being a township police officer really wasn’t easy. What kinds of things did they encounter every day?

“Now you know to be afraid. What’s the use of crying?” Old Zhou said sternly. “You destroyed cultural relics!”

As they were talking, a cheerful ringtone sounded, startling both men. They searched frantically before finding it in Qi Yue’s backpack.

“Hey, your phone,” one police officer said.

Qi Yue was crying hard with her knees hugged, mumbling incomprehensible words.

The police officer answered.

“Qi Yue, where are you?” came an anxious woman’s voice from the phone.

“Hello,” the police officer said.

Hearing this poor Mandarin from a man, Huang Ying was stunned.

“Who are you?” she asked, glancing at Peng Jiahai beside her.

Peng Jiahai looked at her, hesitated, then turned away. He was about to find an excuse to step away when he heard Huang Ying’s voice suddenly rise.

“What? Nanzhai Township Police Station?” Huang Ying shouted.

Peng Jiahai immediately turned back.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

Huang Ying began talking with the other party with various acknowledgments.

“…Officer, listen to me, Qi Yue is absolutely a law-abiding good citizen, yes yes… from Beijing… she’s a doctor, a doctor… good, fax? You send us a fax, and I’ll send you a letter of certification… yes yes, she’s a good citizen, a good doctor. You can check online, Beijing Hospital, Ten Outstanding Physicians candidate, she’s one of them… yes, yes… good, good… we’ll come right over…” She hung up and sighed heavily.

“What exactly happened?” Peng Jiahai asked.

“This person, don’t know what happened, went traveling and ended up damaging cultural relics,” Huang Ying said, clutching her phone and pacing. “Nanyun Province, Nanyun Province, who do we know in Nanyun Province…”

She muttered for a while then started making calls.

“I’ll book plane tickets,” Peng Jiahai said, also picking up his phone.

When darkness fell, the police station officers received a call and breathed a sigh of relief.

“Deputy Chief Chen vouched for her, the bureau’s car has come to pick her up. She really is a doctor,” Old Zhou said.

Great, someone was taking this hot potato off their hands.

The other police officer was also happy. Soon the car arrived.

The two police officers, three auxiliary police, and a cook all rushed to greet them.

“Where is Dr. Qi?” Deputy Chief Chen asked directly upon getting out of the car.

Qi Yue was brought out. Deputy Chief Chen introduced himself extensively, making several roundabout connections to Huang Ying.

“…Everything is prepared below. Let’s have Dr. Qi go down first,” he said.

Qi Yue just kept her head down. Though tears were still flowing, she was no longer wailing.

“I’m not leaving,” she just said. “I’m not leaving, I’ll never leave him again…”

Deputy Chief Chen looked at the two police officers, who gestured that this was exactly the abnormal behavior they’d seen.

No matter what, Qi Yue refused to leave.

“I beg you, let me go keep him company, let me stay with him…” she said, grabbing the nearest person. Saying this, she began crying loudly again.

The phone call hadn’t mentioned this woman had mental problems. How could a famous doctor from Beijing Hospital be crazy? Deputy Chief Chen looked frustrated.

“Alright, alright,” he finally said helplessly. “Find Dr. Qi a place to stay nearby.”

After finally settling the woman, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

“Eh? It’s raining,” someone said.

Everyone looked up as large raindrops fell, soon connecting into sheets.

“How did it start raining? It was fine just now.”

Everyone hurried toward the cars.

Through the rain-blurred car windows, they could see the small lit window of the guesthouse behind them, looking increasingly lonely.

“What a strange woman,” Deputy Chief Chen said again, shaking his head. Then thinking of something, he instructed the police officer beside him, “Have the people here stay alert, don’t let anything happen to her.”

The police officer quickly nodded in agreement.

The car started, its headlights penetrating the rain and fog as it slowly departed.

At the same time, it was raining in many places, bringing joy to some and sorrow to others.

“This damned rain!”

A male voice cursed fiercely.

The flashlight in his hand barely illuminated the mountain path through the rain and mist.

“It’s all your fault!” a girl beside him shouted angrily, trudging through the muddy mountain path.

In the deep mountain forest, everything was pitch black, and the rain made the night even more terrifying.

“Didn’t you say you had experience? Yet you got lost in these mountains! Do you actually have experience or not? What about trekking through Yubeng? Beng your sister!” the girl shouted angrily.

Just as her words fell, there seemed to be a rustling sound nearby, as if something heavy was charging out of the forest.

The girl screamed and threw herself at the boy in front.

The boy was caught off guard and fell to the ground, his flashlight rolling away.

Both screamed.

The rain continued steadily, everything quiet as usual.

“Why are you screaming!” the boy calmed down first, shouting while reaching for the flashlight that had rolled aside.

The girl gripped him tightly.

“I heard something!” she shouted, nervously looking around, finally bursting into tears.

“It’s okay, it’s okay, there’s nothing. Look, there’s open ground ahead. We’ll set up the tent there. I brought a stove – we’ll light it in the tent and won’t be afraid,” the boy comforted her.

The girl cried and huddled in his arms. The two finally got up, took the light, and continued forward. Soon the dim light gradually moved away.

Where they had passed, rustling sounds arose.

A flash of lightning streaked across the night sky, revealing a figure standing on the mountain path.

In the rain, a tall man stood completely naked with waist-length hair.

Just for an instant the lightning flashed, then merged back into darkness.

“Beng your sister…”

“Your sister…”

So, this is the place?

In the darkness, a deeper shadow began moving slowly, the pattering rain masking footsteps on the mountain path.