Chapter 6: Car Accident 06

  Gu Wenkai returned to the kitchen, filled a glass cup about three inches high with cold water, and then searched in the study for half a day before finding a medium-sized purple hair brush pen.

  "There's no small script, let's just use this medium-sized one." Gu Wenkai took out the purple hair brush from its packaging box and handed it to Gu Wenchang.

  The brush was new and had never been used before. After Gu Wenqing took the purple hair, he first let the pen tip dip into the water in the small cup to make a simple opening for the purple hair. Then, from his own arms, he took out a yellow small paper package. When the paper package was opened, it could be seen that inside was some yellow powder, and it was not clear what the composition was. After those powders were poured into the clear water in the small cup to dissolve, the water did not change color at all.

  Gu Wenqing picked up the purple brush, dipped the tip in clear water mixed with yellow powder, and looked at Qin Fei, "Roll up your left sleeve, palm facing upwards."

  Qin Fei did as he was told, rolling up his sleeves and revealing his small arms.

  Gu Wenqing picked up the purple brush and began to draw characters on Qin Fei's arm. Qin Fei watched as the tip of the brush moved along his arm, tracing the paths of his meridians. The sensation was strange - when the brush touched his skin, he felt a normal coolness like cold water, but after it left, the area that had been touched felt warm. By the time Gu Wenqing finished and put down the brush, Qin Fei's entire body was warm and cozy from the heat generated by the invisible characters on his arm.

  After Gu Wenqing put down the pen, his gaze did not leave Qin Fei's arm, where he had drawn the characters. However, his eyebrows soon furrowed. In general, an unstable soul is usually caused by yin energy entering the body. The characters he drew on Qin Fei's arm were a yin curse, and if it was just an ordinary case of an unstable soul, this exorcism curse would not guarantee to expel all the yin energy from the body, but at least it should have expelled some of it. Moreover, the character curse seal on Qin Fei's arm must have changed. However, he did not see even a hint of yin energy coming out of Qin Fei's body, nor did the character curse seal change at all.

  "How could there be none?" Gu Wenqing was still thinking about the reason why the yin energy had not been expelled, while Gu Wenkai, who had been watching from the side, couldn't help but ask.

  "What's wrong?" Qin Fei turned his head and looked at Gu Wenkai with a puzzled expression.

  "It's just yin energy!" Gu Wenkai said.

  Qin Fei shut his mouth, as an outsider in the field of mysticism and ghostly arts, even if Gu Wenkai answered him seriously, he would still be confused, and asking was pointless.

  "How is your body feeling?" Gu Wen asked Qin Fei after a moment of contemplation.

  Qin Fei: "Mmm, warm and cozy, very comfortable."

  Gu Wenqing adjusted his glasses and revealed a helpless smile: "......Alright, it seems that it wasn't completely useless after all. At least I was able to warm you up once."

  "Second Brother, what's going on?" Gu Wenkai looked at Gu Wenchang.

  Gu Wenqing put down the purple hairpin in his hand, moved the small cup with clear water to one side, and gestured for Qin Fei to roll up his sleeves. Only then did he speak: "Qin Fei's ability to see those things from the underworld is indeed because his soul is unstable, but the reason is beyond my abilities to discern."

  "How could that be? Generally speaking, if the soul is unstable, isn't it just a matter of extracting the yin energy that has entered the body?" Gu Wenkai frowned and said.

  "You also saw that the exorcism spell didn't work, which means it's definitely not an ordinary reason for the soul instability." Gu Wenkai's thoughtful gaze swept across Qin Fei's body and finally stopped at a red string peeking out from his collar. "The amulet you're wearing, would you mind showing it to me?"

  "Uh-huh, okay." Qin Fei said, taking off the amulet from his neck and handing it over to Gu Wenqing.

  Gu Wenqing took out the talisman from the goodie bag and unfolded it to take a closer look. Gu Wenkai walked around the tea table and also came over to take a look at the talisman. There were two talismans, the outer one was a relatively common evil-warding charm, while the inner one was a less common soul-calming charm. The soul-calming charm was used to calm unstable spirits, which seemed to match Qin Fei's symptoms, but ordinary soul-calming charms could only have a temporary effect and were difficult to work for a long time, so they were not usually carried as amulets.

  "This Soul-Sealing Charm looks a bit familiar......" Gu Wenkai's gaze swept over the Evil-Repelling Charm before fixing onto the Soul-Sealing Charm, unmoving.

  "Can't you recognize the Qi family's soul-calming charm? " Gu Wen Qing gave a glance and looked at Gu Wen Kai with a bewildered expression, folding up the charm. "Only the Qi family's soul-calming charm can be used as a protective amulet."

  "My main job is a police officer, it's normal that I can't remember this kind of thing, right?" Gu Wenkai defended himself.

  "Your main job is a high school history teacher, did you choose to forget?" Gu Wenqing put the amulet back in the pouch and handed it back to Qin Fei, "Wear this protective charm well, the soul-calming charm inside isn't something that can be easily obtained."

  "Although the Qī Jiā Zhèn Hún Fú is rare, Qin Xiǎo Fēi can't always rely on this charm, right?" Gu Wén Kǎi brought the topic back again.

  "I'm out of options." Gu Wenqing said with a helpless gesture.

  "Second brother..."

  "Thank you, Second Brother. I've troubled you today." Qin Fei interrupted Gu Wenkai's words and calmly thanked Gu Wenchang.

  Gu Wenkai ground his teeth and walked over to mess up Qin Fei's hair, "Are you taking this seriously? It's a matter of life and death! Big brother!"

  "But Second Brother has done his best." Qin Fei pushed away Gu Wenkai's hand that was messing with his hair, turned around and said to him with a reasonable expression.

  "Then you should also put on a worried expression for me, don't look so calm and collected as if it has nothing to do with you." Gu Wenkai lowered his head and glared at Qin Fei.

  Qin Fei was taken aback, then hesitated and said: "This kind of thing... is there any use in rushing?"

  Gu Wenkai: "......"

  "In fact, Qin Fei's problem I couldn't solve, doesn't mean others can't solve it." Gu Wenqing said slowly.

  Gu Wenkai suddenly looked up at his second brother, "Who has a solution?"

  Gu Wenqing smiled slightly and said: "Our big brother, the heir of the Gu family."

  As soon as Gu Wenqing's voice fell, Gu Wenkai, who had been making a ruckus, suddenly fell silent. The study was instantly plunged into silence. Qin Fei turned around in confusion to look at Gu Wenkai standing behind the sofa where he sat, only to find that his face was like a weathered rock, on the verge of crumbling into sand at any moment.

  "I absolutely don't want to go find him! You know that my brother and I have always been like strangers!" After a long silence, Gu Wenkai finally regained his ability to speak. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he rejected Gu Wencheng's proposal, expressing complete resistance to seeing his own older brother.

  "Doesn't the king see the king?" Gu Wenqing snorted with laughter, "Don't you think it's more fitting to use the phrase 'the sheep doesn't see the wolf' instead?"

  "In short, I'm not going."

  Gu Wenqing shifted his gaze to Qin Fei's body, "Don't you care about Qin Fei?"

  Gu Wenkai's face showed a tangled expression.

  Gu Wenqing continued: "The Zhang Jianqiang you mentioned, I went to the hospital this afternoon and saw him. Along with his little ghost, I also met her. The condition of that little ghost is a bit strange, I couldn't help but exorcise her, let alone you. Moreover, you want to find clues from that little ghost's mouth, so you have to go see Big Brother no matter what."

  Gu Wenkai's face turned completely pale like a dead man's, looking at Gu Wencheng with no energy he said: "Can't you go find big brother for me?"

  Gu Wenqing's face changed, and he firmly refused: "I absolutely won't go!"

  Qin Fei looked at Gu Wenqing, then turned his head to look at Gu Wenkai. Both brothers had a solemn expression as if they were facing a great enemy - what they said was really going to see their elder brother, not some kind of monster or ghost?