I can refuse Zhang Anguo, but what happens after refusing?

The task will fall on my father's head, and if anyone in the Anomaly Bureau is lost in the mission of the curse of human skin, I will still go back to save people. You even have to catch someone else.

Since you can't hide, let's take one step at a time!

I waved my hand weakly and said, "Sanjin, let's go!" ”

I have been studying the information given to me by Old Man Qian all the way, in fact, his information is meaningless, just that Qi Xiangchen found a human skin scroll, and since then strange things have been happening around him. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary collision. But I instinctively felt that things were not that simple. If it was just an ordinary collision, why did they bother to find Zhang Anguo?

I was looking through the materials, Chen Sanjin had already driven the car to the gate of the university, and it didn't take long for a good-looking female student to greet me: "Excuse me, are you Director Chen? I am Yu Shanshan, a student of Teacher Qi, and the teacher asked me to pick you up." ”

"I'm Chen Ye. When I followed Yu Shanshan to the school, I pretended to ask casually, "What trouble is your Teacher Qi in trouble?"

Yu Shanshan said hesitantly: "This ...... This one...... You should ask Mr. Yu in person! He won't let us tell. ”

I wanted to ask again, but Yu Shanshan immediately diverted the topic: "Over there is the teacher's teaching building." Teachers generally do research inside and rarely come out. ”

I looked at the five floors on the opposite side and said, "You teachers have their own teaching building?"

"Hmm!" Yu Shanshan nodded: "This is a specially arranged teaching building by the school, and Teacher Qi's contribution to the academic world is enough for the school to reward exceptionally." ”

I stood in front of the teaching building with my hands backwards for a while before stepping into the building, Yu Shanshan introduced to a middle-aged man waiting at the door: "Teacher Qi, this is Director Chen, these three are ......."

When I was looking Qi Xiangchen up and down, the other party raised his hand and looked at his watch: "Mr. Chen, you are two minutes late." You're wasting my time. ”

I said in a deep voice, "I don't seem to have an appointment with you, do I?"

Qi Xiangchen said: "Less than walking from the school gate, fifteen minutes at most." You didn't go with her, did you?"

I looked at Qi Xiangchen and said, "I asked something on the way, is there a problem?"

"Of course there is!" Qi Xiangchen said: "I am the party to the task, you don't come to ask me, but ask my students, this is putting the cart before the horse." It's also a waste of time. ”

I said coldly, "I don't think I'm wasting my time. Everyone's profession is different, and I hope you respect my profession. You're a scholar, and if a scholar can't even learn to respect each other's profession. All I can say is that you don't deserve to be a scholar. ”

I originally thought that Qi Xiangchen would get angry on the spot, but I didn't expect the other party to nod after pondering for a while: "You're right." I apologize to you, come with me!"

Qi Xiangchen didn't care if I agreed or not, turned around and walked towards the teaching building, Ye Xuan lowered his voice behind him and said, "I've heard that I read too much, and it's easy to read out the wrong mind." When you see when we first came in, his eyes were straight outside, and he didn't move a moment, as if he had hysteria, and he must have read his brain badly. ”

I poked Ye Xuan lightly: "Don't talk nonsense!

Ye Xuan quietly glanced to the side, and sure enough, he saw that Yu Shanshan's face was a little unkind, so he could only laugh embarrassedly twice and followed Qi Xiangchen into the research room.

Qi Xiangchen led me to a table, asked the assistant to open the dust cover, pointed to the human skin on the table, and said, "All the strange things I encountered came from this human skin." ”

The skin on the table is not a complete human skin, but a human skin painting that has been stripped into a rectangle, and judging by the size of the human skin, it is either from the front of the chest or the back. There are four vague drawings on the human skin, which look like they have been outlined in blood, and all four of them are holding longbows, bending their bows and arrows to shoot somewhere.

The image of the four paintings is the same, but the position is slightly different, and the overall image is supposed to be four archers, shooting arrows from four different angles to the center.

I looked at it for a long time before I said, "There should be more than this one of the human skin paintings, right?"

Qi Xiangchen's eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes, yes...... According to records, there should have been twelve human skin paintings. How do you see that?"

I said in a deep voice, "I'm just speculating, and I don't have any definite evidence." Where did you get this painting?"

Qi Xiangchen said with a slight disappointment: "The provenance of this painting is highly confidential, I can't tell you." All I can say is that the painting itself carries a strong curse. He made me feel very uneasy. ”

I looked at Qi Xiangchen: "Do you believe in the curse?"

"I don't believe it!" Qi Xiangchen said: "I don't believe in all theism, but I believe that those so-called ghosts and gods can be explained by science." I don't deny that people die when they come into contact with certain antiquities. However, I believe that it is because there is some kind of magnetic field between the antiquities and people, such as ......"

I raised my hand and interrupted the other party: "Professor Qi, I'm not here to learn from you, let alone listen to any reasonable explanation." I'm a warlock, you're a scholar. There was no intersection between you and me before, and there will never be one in the future. So, when I'm on a mission, I don't want to have some unnecessary arguments with you. I'm responsible for your safety, and it's enough for you to cooperate with me. ”

Qi Xiangchen listened to the words, although his face was a little ugly, but he didn't refute it, but just said lightly: "Then what do you think is the problem?"

I look like Qi Xiangchen said, "It's been less than seven days since you got this human skin painting, right?"

Qi Xiangchen's eyes lit up: "How do you know?"

I pointed to a symbol in the skin and said, "Here! If it hadn't been seven days since you got the human skin painting, no one would have died. On the contrary, there should be dead among you. I don't think you're scared enough to guess that you'll have to paint for less than seven days. ”

Qi Xiangchen nodded and said, "Indeed, today is the sixth day that we have obtained the human skin painting. Do you know the symbols painted on human skins, what does that mean?"

I shook my head and said, "This is also a secret, so you can't just say it." ”

The things on the human skin painting are actually the secret words of the Dao, but this kind of secret language is very jerky, and even the Chen family's secret record only records less than three hundred words. I can read the secret language, all of which rely on the inheritance of the Chen family.

The assistant, who had not spoken, spoke: "Director Chen, do you know that this kind of text is very rare, and if you can decipher the content of the text, it will be a major discovery in archaeology." ”

Ye Xuan said coldly: "That's the secret method handed down by our old class, why should I tell you?"

The assistant retorted: "What about the secret methods of family traditions? If they contribute to the country and are meaningful to archaeology, they should be taken out impermanently." If you are still an official, what is the difference between your practice and those old peasants who cling to their family heirlooms and refuse to hand them over to the state? Except for proving that you are short-sighted, they have no meaning for the country or society. ”

As soon as Ye Xuan wanted to reply, he was interrupted by me raising his hand: "Xuanzi, don't quarrel with them." Let's get down to business. ”

I said in a deep voice, "Professor Qi, gather all of you who have come into contact with this human skin, and I want to see everyone." ”

Qi Xiangchen nodded and said, "Xiao Li, you go find someone." ”

The assistant nodded and walked out quickly, but Qi Xiangchen said, "Director Chen, when I found this human skin painting, I also found a scroll made of some kind of leather. It does have a text written in the same symbol. Unfortunately, before I could transcribe the text, the scroll was reduced to pieces. ”

I immediately seized the loophole in Qi Xiangchen's words: "You say some kind of leather, but you are sure that it is not human skin?"

Qi Xiangchen said: "In fact, I can't be sure that the thing that carries this painting is human skin. When I first discovered this painting, he was still depicted on a complete human skin, which was very peculiar when folded, like a painting with limbs curled up and hugging his chest. When I found the drawing, the skin turned into powder on its own. Only this human skin painting remained. And ......"

Qi Xiangchen pointed to the painting and said, "If you look at the color of the human skin painting, the color of this human skin is obvious, and it is much brighter than the other parts of the human skin. As far as I can see, the nitrate of this piece of leather should be quite special. In other words, the person who made the human skin painting probably only made the limbs and head of the human skin, leaving only the position of the chest. ”

Many people know that freshly peeled cowhide is not easy to preserve, and it should be nitrated to remove the moisture before it can be stored until it needs to be processed. In fact, the same is true for human skin, the Ming Dynasty was popular to peel the skin and grass, not to stuff the grass into the freshly peeled human skin. It also needs to be nitrated to make adult skin.

Nitrate leather is generally processed as a whole leather, how can there be only nitrate limbs, regardless of the front chest.

I couldn't understand the mystery for a while, so I simply changed the topic and said, "Professor Qi, how did you know the master of the Qian family?"

Qi Xiangchen said: "I don't know anyone surnamed Qian. ”

"Huh?" Ye Xuan said: "You don't know the surname Qian? ”

Qi Xiangchen said with disdain: "I never believe in fortune telling. The most superstitious thing is fortune-telling, which has fooled the Chinese people for thousands of years, but it continues to fool them. It is simply the sorrow of the Chinese people. The state should issue decrees, impose heavy penalties and severe sentences on fortune tellers, and put an end to this superstitious practice at its roots. ”