Chapter Nineteen Paper Man

  Qin Feng groggily felt around for his phone, initially intending not to answer it, but the person on the other end persisted, knowing Qin Feng hadn't picked up, and began urging him again.

  He glanced at the caller ID and saw an unfamiliar mobile phone number. Qin Feng was puzzled, picked up the phone and asked, "Who are you!?" with a slightly irritated tone.

  "Is this Qin Feng? I'm Fang Yu's girlfriend."

  "What?!?" Qin Feng was taken aback, knowing that Fang Yu had a girlfriend who was a nurse, but he had never met her. Now hearing her say this, he didn't know what to make of it.

  "On the other end of the phone came an urgent and tense voice: 'Qin Feng, quickly come to Jingchuan City First People's Hospital, Fang Yu is ill.'"

  "Is he ill?" Fang Yu thought something big had happened, but it turned out he was just sick. Qin Feng asked in confusion: "What's the point of me going if he's ill? Can't that kid just see a doctor?"

  Yes, generally speaking, illnesses don't require a doctor's expertise, even Fangyu's nurse girlfriend could probably tell what's wrong at a glance. But the anxious tone on the phone still left Qin Feng somewhat perplexed, after all, he didn't know the real reason behind Fangyu's illness.

  "If it were an ordinary illness, it would have been cured by now, but Fang Yu's illness has even the doctors at a loss!"

  "What? What's going on?"

  This sentence suddenly awakened Qin Feng, who was in a half-asleep state. Even the doctor had no solution, wasn't that an incurable disease? Qin Feng sighed in his heart for poor Fang Yu, who had just started her life but fell deeply into an incurable disease. He quickly put on his clothes, washed up, said goodbye to Grandpa, and rushed to the First People's Hospital without stopping.

  For some reason, the hospital suddenly became crowded today. Fang Yu's girlfriend came downstairs and found Qin Feng, taking him to Fang Yu's ward. The four beds in the ward were already occupied at this time. Looking around at the other patients, he seemed to feel a little familiar.

  "Fang Yu, what's wrong?" Qin Feng came to the bedside of the innermost bed and saw Fang Yu pale and weak at this time. His stiff expression looked very uncomfortable, with obvious dark circles under his eyes, looking like he hadn't rested for a long time.

  Fang Yu opened his eyes weakly, saw Qin Feng's arrival, and suddenly became better. He said to Qin Feng in a weak voice: "Qin Feng, damn it, I really saw a ghost!"

  "What ghost?" Qin Feng came in a burst of energy and asked excitedly, "Where?"

  "No, it's not like that, Qin Feng," Fang Yu corrected.

  "What's wrong? What happened?"

  "The situation is that yesterday our archaeology department went to the western suburbs of the city for a field survey, and unexpectedly discovered several ancient tombs, but they had all been dug up, and it was also very strange." Turning his head, Fang Yu looked at the other patients on the beds, now they were all unconscious, don't know what's going on.

  "Fang Yu, you tell me, what's going on?"

  "The tomb was dug up, but the things inside were all accounted for and there was no sign of theft. So we brought back the paper people from the tomb."

  This sentence is undoubtedly the answer that Qin Feng has been thinking day and night, the paper man, it turns out that it was taken away by Fang Yu and others when they were excavating. But thinking again, Qin Feng thought that the paper man might be the reason why Fang Yu got sick.

  Without waiting for Fang Yu to catch his breath, Qin Feng eagerly asked: "Is it the construction site in the west of the city, with four graves, three of which have paper people?"

  Fang Yu was taken aback, "Wh-what? You know?"

  "I didn't just know, those several graves were dug up by me, and the paper men inside were also found by me."

  "It was you! But why are you digging things up for no reason, are you a grave robber?" Fang Yu still didn't understand Qin Feng's meaning.

  "It's not because of that, do you still remember Manager Liu? It's because he destroyed the feng shui of the graveyard on the construction site and unintentionally released the vengeful spirits trapped in the coffin, so they suffered from one disaster after another. So, taking advantage of today's holiday, I invited Manager Liu to come to the construction site, but unexpectedly found these things. And those three paper people looked suspicious, I was preparing to bring them back for research, but didn't expect you guys to take them away."

  "Three? We dug up one more, just around those graves." Fang Yu's team used a detection instrument that was much more advanced than Qin Feng's naked eye, and with just a casual scan, they discovered the grave, while Qin Feng had been searching for half a day without finding anything.

  Recalling the scene where Professor Xie and Fang Yu suddenly fainted while drinking together yesterday, Fang Yu told Qin Feng about the situation between himself and other classmates. After listening to it roughly, Qin Feng guessed that the paper man was indeed taken away by the archaeology department led by Fang Yu, and what's worse, some kind of curse might have been cast on the paper man, which also affected Fang Yu and others.

  "Are you talking about Gu sorcery?" After listening to Qin Feng's explanation, Fang Yu, who was weak and powerless on the hospital bed, was suddenly shocked, his eyes wide with fear, and he had dark circles under his eyes, as if he didn't dare not believe.

  "Hey, keep your voice down." Qin Feng was afraid that others would hear and start speculating wildly. At this point, he couldn't confirm whether it was Gu sorcery or not, but the strange and inexplicable nature of events still made him suspect that it was indeed Gu sorcery at work. "What did the doctor say?"

  Fang Yu, who had been quiet for a while, suddenly became agitated again and cursed: "Damn it, nowadays doctors are really stupid, they didn't check anything out, let alone cure the disease."

  "Who says doctors are all blockheads!"

  Just then, Fang Yu's girlfriend walked in. After listening to Fang Yu's words, she explained hastily: "I asked the doctor, it's not that the examination can't be done, but rather they simply don't know how to do the examination. Your current symptoms are all fainting and stomach pain, but there aren't any other symptoms, so you can only be hospitalized for observation."

  Fang Yu's girlfriend was named He Miao.

  "This is what Dr. Xue said. Dr. Xue is an old expert, but your illness is really unknown, and even after a full-body X-ray, nothing abnormal was found."

  After hearing this, Fang Yu's heart trembled with fear, afraid that he had indeed been affected by the Gu technique. Now, he pinned all his hopes of victory on Qin Feng, "Qin Feng, you have to help us!"

  "Don't worry, I'll definitely help you!" Qin Feng comforted the fainting Fang Yu, preparing to go back to school to take a look at the paper man, so he asked Fang Yu where they put the paper man.

  "This is the key to our archaeological workshop."

  Time was pressing, Qin Feng immediately took the key and returned to school. The archaeological workshop that Fang Yu mentioned had been there before, so he easily entered inside. Due to the weekend, it was very quiet here, which was convenient for Qin Feng's research.

  It seems that the archaeological department has discovered a lot of things, such as bronze vessels, ceramic basins, ancient tables and chairs, everywhere. Although it's unclear whether they are genuine or fake, they look like they belong in a museum. After searching around the workshop, Qin Feng finally found these paper people in four plastic boxes in the corner of the wall.

  Open the lid, Qin Feng carefully examined the four paper people with different shapes. To say that these paper people were really made to reflect the ingenuity of the ancient craftsmanship, each one was vivid and lifelike. White paper was pasted on black paper, and black paper was matched with blue paper. In short, this paper man was not simple at all. However, after taking a closer look, Qin Feng still found something wrong. "Huh? I remember that paper people are always clean and vivid, why have they become yellow and wrinkled now?"

  Although Qin Feng couldn't figure out the reason, he didn't dare to touch those paper people. He vaguely felt that some kind of curse or poison had been placed on them, which would cause the archaeology students who touched the paper people to suddenly become poisoned and faint. To get to the bottom of things, he could only go ask his grandfather for advice, understand the relevant knowledge, and then take targeted measures.