I can reject Zhang Anguo, but what if I refuse?

The mission will fall on my grandfather's head. If someone in the strange game is lost in the task of cursing the human skin, I still have to go back to save the person. I even have to take on someone else.

What should come can't hide! Since you can't hide, just take one step at a time!

I waved my hand powerlessly and said, "Sanjin, let's go! Continue to find that Qi Xiangchen."

I was studying the information given to me by Old Man Qian along the way. In fact, his information was meaningless. It was just that Qi Xiangchen discovered a pair of human skins, and since then, strange things have been happening around him. At first glance, it was just an ordinary collision. But I instinctively felt that things were not that simple. If it was just an ordinary collision, why did they come to Zhang Anguo?

While I was looking through the information, Chen Sanjin had already driven the car to the entrance of the university. Not long after, a pretty female student came out: "May I ask, are you Director Chen? I am Yu Shanshan, a student of Teacher Qi. The teacher asked me to pick you up."

"I'm Chen Ye." As I followed Yu Shanshan to the school, I pretended to be careless and asked: "What trouble did you Teacher Qi encounter?"

Yu Shanshan stammered and said, "This...this...you should ask Teacher Yu in person! He won't let us say it."

I wanted to ask again, but Yu Shanshan immediately changed the topic: "Then is the teacher's teaching building. Teachers usually do research in it and rarely come out."

I looked at the five-story building opposite and said, "You teachers have a teaching building yourself?"

"Yeah!" Yu Shanshan nodded and said, "This is a teaching building specially arranged by the school. Teacher Qi's contribution to the academic community is enough for the school to reward the school for its extraordinary reward."

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

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

I said in a deep voice: "I didn't seem to have made an appointment with you, right?"

Qi Xiangchen said: "Xiaoyu came over the school gate for up to fifteen minutes. Didn't you follow her forward, right?"

I looked at Qi Xiangchen and said, "I asked some things on the way. Is there any problem?"

"Of course there is!" Qi Xiangchen said: "I am the person involved in the mission. If you don't ask me, you will ask my students instead. This is putting the cart before the horse and a waste of time."

I said coldly: "I don't think I'm wasting time. Everyone's major is different. I hope you respect my major. You are a scholar. If a scholar can't even learn to respect the other party's major, I can only say that you are not worthy of the word "scholar."

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

Qi Xiangchen didn't care whether I agreed or not, turned around and walked into the teaching building. Ye Xuan lowered his voice from behind and said, "I heard that if I read too much, it is easy to make my brain go wrong. Did he make my brain go wrong? Look at the moment when we came in, his eyes were straight outside, and he didn't move for a moment, just like he was hysterical. It must be that he made my brain go bad by studying."

I poked Ye Xuan gently: "Don't talk nonsense! His students are listening!"

Ye Xuan looked at the side quietly, and indeed saw that Yu Shanshan looked a little unkind, so he could only smile awkwardly and followed Qi Xiangchen into the laboratory.

Qi Xiangchen led me to the front of a table, asked his assistant to open the dust cover, pointing to the human skin on the table and said, "The strange things I encountered all came from this human skin."

The table was not a complete human skin, but a human skin painting that was peeled into a rectangular shape. Judging from the size of the human skin, it was either peeled from the front chest or the back. There were four blurry pictures on the human skin, which looked like the outline of the human figure was outlined with blood. The images of the four people were all long bows holding hands, bent their bows and arrows to shoot at some place.

The four paintings have the same images, but the positions are slightly different. Overall, there should be four archers shooting arrows from four different angles to the center.

I looked at it for a long time before saying, "It should be more than this human skin painting, right?"

Qi Xiangchen's eyes lit up: "Yes... According to records, there should be twelve human skin paintings. How did you see it?"

I said in a deep voice: "I'm just guessing and not doing any exact evidence. Where did you get this painting?"

Qi Xiangchen said with a little disappointment: "The source of this painting is highly confidential, and I can't tell you. I can only say that the painting itself has a strong curse. He makes me feel very uneasy."

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

"Don't believe it!" Qi Xiangchen said: "I don't believe in all theories, but I believe that the so-called ghosts and gods can be explained by science. I do not deny that someone will die after coming into contact with certain antiquities. However, I believe that it is because there is a certain magnetic field between the antiquities and people, such as..."

I raised my hand and interrupted the other party: "Professor Qi, I am not here to learn from you, nor to listen to any reasonable explanation. I am a sorcerer, you are a scholar. There was no intersection between you and me before, and there would never be any future. Therefore, when I perform tasks, I don't want to have any unnecessary disputes with you. I am responsible for protecting your safety, and it is enough for you to cooperate with me."

After listening to the words, Qi Xiangchen looked a little ugly, but he did not refute it. He just said lightly: "Then do you think, what is the problem?"

I looked like Qi Xiangchen and said, "It's less than seven days before you get this human skin painting?"

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

I pointed my finger at a symbol in the human skin painting and said, "Here! The meaning of this symbol represents seven days. If you have not yet reached seven days of time for the human skin painting, no one will die. On the contrary, there should be dead among you. I see that you are not afraid enough, so I guess that you will have to draw for less than seven days."

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

I shook my head and said, "This is also a secret, and I can't say it casually."

The things on the human skin are actually secret words of art, but this secret word is very awkward. Even the secret record of the Chen family only records less than 300 words. I can understand the secret word all rely on the inheritance of the Chen family.

The assistant who had not spoken said, "Director Chen, do you know that this kind of text is very rare. If the content of the text can be cracked, it will be a major archaeological discovery."

Ye Xuan said coldly: "That is the secret method passed down by our old class family. Why tell you?"

The assistant retorted: "So what about the secret method of family inheritance? If it is a contribution to the country and is meaningful to archaeology, it should be taken out impermanently. You are still officials. What is the difference between your practice and those old farmers who hold on to the family inheritance and refuse to hand it over to the country? Apart from proving that they have short-sighted vision, they have no meaning to the country and society."

Ye Xuan was about to talk back, but I raised his hand and interrupted him: "Xuanzi, don't argue with them. It's important for us to do serious things."

I said in a deep voice: "Professor Qi, gather all your people who have been in contact with this human skin, and I want to see everyone."

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

The assistant nodded and walked out quickly. Qi Xiangchen said, "Director Chen, when I discovered this human skin painting, I also found a scroll made of some kind of leather. It was indeed recorded with the same symbol on it. Unfortunately, before I could copy that text, the scroll turned into pieces."

I immediately caught the loophole in Qi Xiangchen's words: "You said some kind of leather? But you must be that it's not human skin?"

Qi Xiangchen said: "In fact, I can't be sure that the thing carrying this painting is human skin. When I first discovered this painting, he still carved it on a complete human skin. The human skin was folded very strange at the time, just like curling up the limbs and hugging the painting on my chest tightly. After I discovered this painting, the human skin turned into powder on its own. Only this human skin painting was left. And..."

Qi Xiangchen pointed to the painting and said, "Look at the color of the human skin, the color of this human skin is obvious, which is much brighter than other parts of the human skin. According to my observation, the method of making the leather should be special. In other words, the person who made the human skin painting may have only made the human skin limbs and head, leaving only the position of the chest."

Many people know that the newly peeled cowhide is not easy to preserve. It should be made from nitrate to remove moisture before it is stored until it needs to be processed. The same is true for human skin. The popular skin peeling grass in the Ming Dynasty was not to stuff grass into the newly peeled human skin. It also requires nitrate to be made into human skin.

Nitr leather is usually processed in the whole piece of skin, so there is no reason to make only the limbs, regardless of the front chest.

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

Qi Xiangchen said, "I don't know anyone with the surname Qian."

"Huh?" Ye Xuan said: "You don't know someone with the surname Qian? That's a family that lives by fortune telling."

Qi Xiangchen said with disdain, "I never believe in fortune telling. The most superstitious thing is fortune telling. That kind of thing has fooled the Chinese people for thousands of years, but it has continued to fool it. It is simply the sorrow of the Chinese people. The country should issue laws, punish those fortune tellers heavily, and sentence them to severely, and cut off such superstitious activities from the root."
Chapter completed!