Gu Chen's expression was solemn: "Professor Li, please don't be impatient. If you have any questions, please tell me slowly."
"I didn't know how to talk about it at first." Professor Li paused on the phone for several seconds, and suddenly said in a daze: "There are two members of our scientific expedition team, and there seems to be something abnormal."
"You mean...the behavior is abnormal?" Gu Chen asked.
"No...no." Professor Li suddenly denied it and said: "They...they seem to be sick, but...but it doesn't look like it."
"Do I need to contact the hospital for you?" Gu Chen asked again.
Professor Li seemed to have been hesitating. He was somewhat interested in answering the question, and then immediately said: "Maybe it's not necessary for the time being. We'll talk about it if the situation worsens."
The more Gu Chen listened, the more confused he became...
At this time, Qi Tian on the side also felt a little unbelievable and walked up to ask about the situation: "A call from the scientific expedition team?"
Gu Chen moved the phone and said: "Yes, this is from Professor Li of the scientific expedition team. It seems that something strange happened at the base. Two scientific expedition team members are in some condition, but Professor Li has no plans to send him to the hospital for the time being. He wants to
Let's go there."
"That's it." Qi Tian touched the newly grown stubble and hesitated for a few seconds before saying, "Tell him that we will be there soon, so they don't have to worry."
"Okay." Gu Chen nodded, picked up the phone again and said, "Professor Li, wait for us there. Don't worry, we will be there soon."
"Then it's all your fault."
After the two briefly exchanged greetings, they hung up the phone.
At this time, many old comrades who came to work walked into the office, only to see Gu Chen and Qi Tian put on their equipment again.
Officer Tan, an old comrade, couldn't help but exclaimed: "Hey, Gu Chen, great sage, where are you two going?"
"Something happened to the scientific expedition team. Senior Brother Qi and I went over to take a look at the situation." Gu Chen walked as he spoke and quickly ran out of the building.
"Something happened to the scientific expedition team?" Officer Tan hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "But aren't they both off work? I seem to be taking over now, right?"
Just as he was thinking about it, a police siren suddenly sounded outside the window, and Gu Chen drove away.
Not long after, we arrived at the outskirts of the uninhabited village.
Several security personnel were chatting outside the cordon.
Seeing police cars approaching, they all gave way to both sides.
Gu Chen parked the car at the door of an old house, which was a place set aside by the scientific expedition team for Professor Li to rest and work.
As soon as I got off the bus, I found Professor Li standing at the door with a solemn look on his face.
"What's wrong, Professor Li?" Gu Chen asked as he got out of the car.
The Professor Li now is completely different from the Professor Li yesterday, at least in terms of mental state.
"Officer Gu, Officer Qi, you will know if you follow me." Professor Li didn't say anything, just lowered his head and silently walked towards another ancient house.
Pushing the door open, Professor Li stepped aside and said, "Usually at this time, they would have gotten up to work, but today, they have been acting like demons, sleeping until now and still haven't woken up."
"This is easy to handle." Qi Tian also smiled, thinking that such a trivial matter could stump Professor Li?
It is certain that scientific research excavation work is hard...
The workload was heavy yesterday, so it's normal to not get out of bed today, right?
A closer look revealed that those sleeping on the side-by-side beds were Professor Li's assistant Xiao Zhang and Professor Peng's assistant Xiao He.
Qi Tian walked up to Xiao Zhang first, stretched out his palm and slapped Xiao Zhang back and forth on the face: "Get up, get up, your master is too busy, get up, do you hear me?"
At first, Qi Tian thought it was a trivial matter, but after the beating, he discovered that Xiao Zhang, who was lying on the bed, did not wake up no matter how hard he was beaten, as if he had completely lost consciousness.
"What's going on?" Gu Chen said at the side.
Qi Tian was also stunned: "I...I don't know what's going on?"
Then Gu Chen hurried to Xiao Zhang's side and observed his breath and pulse, only to find that everything was normal again.
Qi Tian was unwilling to give in and slapped Xiao He's face a few more times, but he was still unable to wake up this sleepy Xiao He.
"It's strange." Qi Tian was really confused now: "What happened to these two people? Weren't they fine yesterday?"
"I don't know what's going on. Yesterday, these two people were indeed fine, but today... today they were like dead people, lying motionless on the bed. At the time, I thought these two people were snoozing, but later I found out
I can’t wake up no matter what, I feel like I’m really in trouble.”
"It must be evil, it must be." At this time, everyone discovered that Professor Wang's assistant Ah Fu was standing at the door, looking at Xiao Zhang and Xiao He with blank eyes.
"Ah Fu, if you don't go to work, what are you doing here?" Professor Li couldn't help but said when he saw this.
Ah Fu shook his head and said solemnly: "Professor Li, this... this place is really evil. I have asked the nearby residents, and they all said that it is unlucky for this village to be built here, and disasters always happen.
"
"Think about it, if this place can make people live richly, then why did they move? Why are there ancient tombs here? Maybe those who died from disasters back then were buried underground, and they died because of the plague.
"
"Look at this Feng Shui layout again." Ah Fu suddenly pointed to the nearby mountains and said, "Judging from this terrain, the place where the village is located must be a dead place. Building here is a complete mistake."
"I have long said that there must be a curse here, but you don't believe it. Now Xiao Zhang and Xiao He are unconscious. How do you explain this?"
"That's enough." Professor Li also slammed the table and said angrily: "Afu, don't confuse people with your lies here. You must believe in science. What kind of curse? Have you read too many supernatural novels?"
"I……"
Ah Fu wanted to quibble again, but Professor Li retorted angrily: "A Fu, do you still want to do it? Don't you need money for your mortgage, car loan, and these things? If you don't want to do it, get out of here."
Ah Fu was so angry that his liver ached.
Originally, Professor Li, as the leader and person in charge of the scientific expedition base, had a heavy burden on him.
Thinking about the press conference in a few days and the progress of the work on site, Professor Li didn't want to be screwed up.
But Ah Fu came and said some inexplicable curses at this time, which Professor Li couldn't accept.
"Alas! If you don't listen to me, you will suffer a loss sooner or later." Ah Fu also looked helpless and left with a sigh.
"This Ah Fu is a bit interesting!" Gu Chen was also confused by the conversation between the two.
Professor Li shook his head and said: "This Ah Fu didn't have much education at first, because he worked for Professor Wang before and was discovered by Professor Wang. He was very good at digging cultural relics, so he was trained by Professor Wang.
Assistant, he just likes to talk about gods and ghosts all day long, which is very troublesome."
"You also know that in our field of archeology, the most taboo thing is these fallacious theories. If you talk about these things all day long, isn't that a curse on yourself? We do archeology to study history."
"Professor Li, don't worry. Maybe these two people are really too tired. How about I call a doctor to come over and take a look later. If there is no big problem, forget it. I will just come over and check everyone's health. If there is anything,
, then I can just take it away for treatment, do you think that’s okay?”
Qi Tian was comforting Professor Li while giving his own opinions.
Professor Li is very helpless. He seems a little at a loss now and doesn't know how to deal with this situation.
Gu Chen, on the other hand, was carefully studying the situation of the two of them.
Although there are basic characteristics of various ways of death in Forensic Doctor Liu's handwritten notes, they do not exist here.
Assistants Xiao Zhang and Xiao He were both asleep. Judging from their condition, there was nothing suspicious about them.
"Gu Chen, have you noticed anything?" After discussing countermeasures with Professor Li, Qi Tian turned to ask Gu Chen.
"No." Gu Chen stood up and sighed: "This is the first time I have encountered this state. Both of them are in good condition, but they look weird. Let the doctor come and take a look later.
.”
"Okay, we can only do this for now." Professor Li couldn't come up with a better solution, so he could only reluctantly agree.
With the fruitless police information, Gu Chen drove Qi Tian back to Haitang Police Station.
Everyone is busy doing their own thing.
Since Gu Chen and Qi Tian worked the night shift last night, they had time off during the day.
Qi Tian chose to go back to the dormitory and take a nap, while Gu Chen chose to drive to the Jiangnan City Library to look for medical books.
But the situation of Xiao Zhang and Xiao He in the uninhabited village of Haitang Town is very rare.
Gu Chen worked from afternoon to evening, but still had no results, so he had to drive back to Haitang Police Station again.
It's early morning again.
When Gu Chen and Qi Tian finished breakfast and returned to Haitang Police Station, the landline phone in the office rang again.
This time, both Gu Chen and Qi Tian chose to remain silent for a few seconds, as if they both had an ominous premonition.
"Gu Chen, go pick her up," said Qi Tian, who was sitting on the sofa.
"No problem." Gu Chen stepped forward and pressed the hands-free button: "Hello, this is the duty room of Haitang Police Station. How can I help you?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and then Professor Li's somewhat trembling voice was heard: "Yes...it's Officer Gu, right? Professor Li from my scientific expedition team."
"Oh?" Gu Chen was stunned and looked back at Qi Tian.
At this moment, Qi Tian was just like him, his eyes were confused, and he felt that it was not a good thing.
"Is there something going on here again? Have Mr. Zhang and Mr. He woke up?" Gu Chen asked.
Professor Li said helplessly: "No, I haven't woken up since yesterday."
"You haven't woken up yet?" Gu Chen couldn't help but was stunned, and then asked: "Then was there a doctor there yesterday?"
"Yes, yes." Professor Li hesitated for a moment, and then said calmly: "The doctor said there was nothing wrong during the examination, but he just didn't know what was going on and couldn't wake up no matter how hard he called. Later, the doctor did some simple physical examinations for everyone on the scientific expedition team.
Then he left."
Qi Tian felt it didn't make sense and asked: "Then we should send these two people to a big hospital in the city and see what the doctors there say."
"I also have this idea, but... the key point is." Professor Li hesitated, and was silent for a few seconds before saying: "But the key point is that early this morning, the logistics driver Master Xiao also started to wake up. He
Now his symptoms are exactly the same as those of Xiao Zhang and Xiao He."
"What...what? Master Xiao is also unconscious?" Qi Tian was also stunned for a moment, feeling completely confused.
There were two yesterday and one today. What kind of fuss is going on?
Gu Chen on the side quickly asked: "How is the archaeological base now?"
"What else can we do?" Professor Li also said helplessly: "Now the entire archaeological base has stopped working. No one knows who will be next. Everyone is starting to panic. It feels like it is really a curse. How many people are there?
A small number of workers have stopped working, and those who remain... don't dare to continue working."
"Is it so serious?" Gu Chen was also surprised.
A lethargy incident caused so many things, which was completely beyond my expectations.
"Then what if we don't start construction? The time of your press conference has been notified in advance, do you want to cancel it temporarily?" Qi Tian was also worried about the scientific expedition team.
"I don't know what to do, so I don't dare to tell others. I have ordered all personnel working at the archaeological base not to spread this information to avoid being over-interpreted."
Across the phone, Gu Chen and Qi Tian could feel the helplessness and helplessness in Professor Li's heart.
"Just wait, we'll go there right away." Gu Chen pressed the hang up button and turned around: "Senior Brother Qi, it seems this is not an accidental incident. I think there must be something weird in it."
"You mean...man-made?" Qi Tian asked.
"Yes, I'm sure it's man-made, because it can't be such a coincidence." Gu Chen has never believed in evil.
Contact the assistants Xiao Zhang and Xiao He about the situation on the previous day, plus today’s driver, Master Xiao.
It seems to indicate that other things will happen next.
Without any time to think about it, Gu Chen drove to the uninhabited village again.
The difference from yesterday is that there seems to be no sign of work in the uninhabited village today.
Everyone was sitting in groups in front of and behind the house, and many people were packing their luggage as if they wanted to leave.
Gu Chen parked the car at the door of Professor Li's residence again, got out of the car and asked a staff member: "Excuse me, where is Professor Li?"
"That room." The staff pointed to an old house.
"Thank you." Gu Chen ran quickly with Qi Tian before he had time to think about it.
At the door of the old house at this moment, Professor Li was sitting alone on the threshold, holding his head in his hands, seeming to be deep in thought, or waiting.
"Professor Li." Qi Tian walked over first.
Professor Li raised his head, pointed into the room and said, "The people are inside. Go in and see for yourselves."
Qi Tian looked back at Gu Chen, and the two quickly walked into the house.
Like yesterday's assistants Xiao Zhang and Xiao He, today's driver, Master Xiao, is also lying on his bed at the moment.
"You can't wake him up, right?" Gu Chen turned around and asked Professor Li.
"That's right, it's the same as yesterday." Professor Li looked very haggard, and his speech became weak.
When everyone first entered the uninhabited village a few days ago, everyone had smiles on their faces.
But now everything has changed...
One after another, scientific expedition team members showed such strange symptoms, which made the originally confident scientific expedition team lose their fighting spirit as if overnight.
Qi Tian frowned and said: "I suggest that the construction should be stopped immediately and the surrounding situation must be investigated."
"Officer Qi." Professor Li couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "You don't need to tell me now, they won't do it again."
"In order to protect everyone's safety, I have ordered everyone to stop what they are doing and wait quietly for the police investigation."
"Now some people are ready to pack up and go home, and many people don't dare to stay here anymore."
"They don't know when this strange bad luck will happen to them."
Seeing that Gu Chen was staring at him, Professor Li simply stood up, walked to Gu Chen and said, "Officer Gu, do you know? When people know that they are going to die tomorrow, they will have nothing to fear, because that is escape.
Unforgettable bad luck."
"But on the contrary, when people don't know what bad luck they will face tomorrow, it will be a very terrifying existence."
"This kind of fear will make people lose their fighting spirit and their denial of the truth they believed in in the past, just like... just like him."
Professor Li suddenly pointed to Ah Fu, who was spreading the curse theory to people not far away, and said: "Just like this Ah Fu, he has always believed in the existence of the curse. At first, everyone thought he was talking nonsense."
"But now everyone is starting to get scared, because Afu's curse seems to be coming true, and everyone is starting to switch from disbelief to belief. Now I can no longer direct everyone to continue working."
"This place is a mess right now, and people are divided. Everyone wants to leave this damn place as soon as possible. What do you think I can do?"
Listening to Professor Li's helpless complaint, Qi Tian's face turned dark and he said angrily: "It must be this Ah Fu. I'll go find him and ask him."
After Qi Tian finished speaking, he turned around and walked quickly towards a big tree.
"I'll go take a look too." Gu Chen didn't dare to slack off and followed him in two steps.
At this moment, under the big tree, Ah Fu was still chattering in front of everyone.
"I'm telling you, this place is really unlucky. The feng shui is not good. There must be a curse here. Believe me, you'd better find a reason to take leave and leave. You can't stay here. Really...eheheheh?"
Ah Fu wanted to continue talking, but Qi Tian grabbed him by the collar and carried him back.
"Eh? Officer Qi, you... what are you doing? Don't pull my clothes. Officer Qi, please help me."
Qi Tiancai ignored him and dragged Ah Fu to Professor Li like a piglet.
The people who had just listened to Ah Fu's instigation were also confused at this moment, and started to discuss it heatedly without knowing why.
"Why did the police arrest Ah Fu?"
"I don't know. Ah Fu committed a crime?"
"Does this matter have anything to do with Ah Fu?"
"I don't know. Why don't you go and take a look?"
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go."
Many people put down their things and followed Ah Fu to Professor Li.
"Ah Fu, are you making trouble in this matter?" Qi Tian shook Ah Fu hard and asked him angrily.
