Chapter 005 Chapter 5

When Qingtong arrived at class the next day, the classroom was already in a mess, with the main topic being the bizarre incident that was live-broadcasted at the night market last night.

"It's absolutely true!" Li Wen raised his hands, "After being pulled in, the computer couldn't do anything! I could only watch the live broadcast! That scene!!"

"Is this true?" The girl with a long ponytail didn't believe it. "You must be talking nonsense."

"I'm not talking nonsense!"

"I know about this, too." A boy said, "Someone in the dormitory across from us also had his computer pulled into the live broadcast. I went over to see it."

"I also recorded a clip." The boy took out his phone and said with a smile, "Look."

A group of classmates came over and stared at his mobile phone screen.

"I should have recorded it earlier." Li Wen scratched his head, "What a pity!"

“Maybe there will be a next time.”

Li Wen folded his arms, with a knotted look on his face: "Next time... If there is a next time, I will definitely record it, but it won't be a good thing if this happens again, right, Lao Qin? Lao Qin?"

Qin Yi was lost in thought, his head lowered. Li Wen patted him and he came back to his senses: "Ah?"

"What are you thinking about, Lao Qin?"

"Nothing, I just miss... Qingtong!" Seeing Qingtong walking into the classroom, Qin Yi waved to him.

Li Wen's eyes lit up when he saw Qingtong, and he immediately trotted over: "Hey, Qingtong, did you know about the live broadcast incident last night?"

"Live broadcast?" Qing Tong looked confused. "What live broadcast?"

"Look, there are still people who don't know!" Li Wen smiled proudly at Qin Yi, pulled Qingtong to find a seat, and then told him in detail about his computer being pulled into the live broadcast last night.

Qingtong was very surprised. Although he had known from the system that the live broadcast would attract a lot of people to watch, and there might be people around him, it was a coincidence that Li Wen, who was his closest friend in the class, was caught in the first live broadcast.

A group of classmates behind me watched the recorded video and were still chattering about it.

"That person in white is the center of this incident."

"No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a human, especially after the fire dragon in the back, the white clothes turned black, and the color of the eyes is wrong."

“Is this the end of the world?”

"What should I do? Stock up on salt or sugar?"

"What happened to the people who were turned into paper figures and taken away?"

"The news said they were found in the suburbs, both unconscious, but in good health."

"Well, I have some inside information. Among the people who went to the night market and were turned into paper dolls and taken away, there was one who was my junior high school classmate. He woke up this morning and told me that he was still conscious after being turned into a paper doll, but he didn't remember anything after the fire dragon appeared. And the place where they were found seemed to be a cemetery."

"So, they turned into paper dolls and followed the funeral procession to the cemetery?"

"Wow, that's scary."

"Is that the hometown of the man in white?"

"I don't know, but later someone went to that place and found that the area had been cordoned off and it seemed that they were investigating."

"How to investigate? Dig a grave?"

Qingtong put the book on the table and listened quietly to the discussion of the classmates behind him. In his heart, he quietly asked the system: "Is that place a cemetery?"

Last night, he used the identity of a paper man to lead a group of paper people out of the city. He only wanted to walk to a place that was not too far away and drop them off casually. He didn't want to be too close to the crowd to see him disappear, but he also didn't want to be too remote to find the group of people and make it difficult for them to go home. As for where, it was a little dark at the time, so he didn't pay attention.

The system replied cheerfully, "Yes, it's just a long-abandoned cemetery. No one worships there anymore. The tombstones are all covered by weeds, and the head of the grave is not clear. Eh? Didn't the host go there on purpose?"

Qingtong lowered his head and rubbed his brows, and said in his heart: "No... I just found a random place."

After that, he quietly asked the system: "When was the grave there?"

"Please wait while our system checks."

After a while, the system replied: "During the late Qing Dynasty, this was the ancestral tomb of a family surnamed Li. At that time, the Li family was a powerful family in this area. During the war, they declined and their descendants moved away. The ancestral tomb was completely abandoned in the suburbs and no one worshipped it."

Now only the incomplete stone tablets and graves are left standing here. It is estimated that even the descendants of this family no longer remember that their ancestors were buried here.

"Do you think the owner of the grave is too lonely and wants someone to accompany him? Is the man in white the ghost of the deceased in the grave?"

"Stop talking about it." One girl took a few steps back in disgust, "I won't be able to sleep at night."

"If you can't sleep, go find your boyfriend to accompany you."

A group of people started laughing.

It was time for class. The teacher came in with a textbook and saw a group of people chatting together. He knocked on the table and said, "Okay, class is about to start."

"Teacher, do you know about the live broadcast last night?" a boy asked loudly after sitting down.

The teacher glanced at the boy and said, "These are just rumors. You are all college students. Don't just listen to one side and believe it..."

"Teacher!" Li Wen raised his hand and said, "I was pulled in to watch the live broadcast last night."

The teacher paused and looked at Li Wen: "Maybe it's a video made by hackers, made to look like a live broadcast."

"But teacher..."

"That's enough." The teacher interrupted the students, "I'm not here to chat with you. Open your textbooks and let's continue with the topic from last time."

Seeing the teacher's serious expression, no one dared to play around. The credits were still in the teacher's hands. They all lowered their heads and opened their textbooks, but their hands under the table were still secretly chatting with friends in the group.

Qingtong sat in the front row, looking down at the textbook, but was actually talking to the system quietly: "Has what happened last night become a hot topic on the Internet?"

"Yes, but the higher-ups seem to be suppressing this matter." The system does not understand the twists and turns of human beings, and its voice is full of doubts. "The uploaded videos have been deleted, and many posts are deleted after only a few minutes. Everyone is discussing this matter privately."

"I understand." Qingtong's fingers groped the pages of the textbook.

Such a bizarre and terrifying incident, if spread widely, is likely to cause panic, so we want to suppress it as much as possible. If there will be no more changes in the future, this choice is correct.

However, the future is destined to be filled with a lot of strange things, and covering up the peace has become the most wrong choice. There is nothing worse than not making any preparations when the disaster comes.

Today there are classes only in the morning, and the rest of the time is blank. Qingtong decides to use the paper man's role card to go out and show his face again.

The boring class ended with the students' nonchalant expressions. Seeing that everyone looked daydreamy, the teacher frowned unhappily and finally said nothing.

He put away the textbooks, reminded everyone to review what they had learned today and to read more, and then left.

There was one thing the teacher didn't mention. Last night, when he was using his computer to check the courseware for today's lecture, he was also pulled into the live broadcast. He was one of the hundreds of thousands of viewers.

But this morning, he received a message from the principal, asking the school to monitor the information on the campus network and deal with similar videos and posts as soon as possible. Do not talk to students about related topics and pretend that nothing happened. For the sake of his job, the teacher did so and even deleted the videos he recorded with his mobile phone.

But will the matter really fade away from the world just because they avoid talking about it? Without knowing who the strange man in white is, what his purpose is, and why he appears and disappears, the teacher believes that all this will not end like this.

The world is changing quietly, and there are many people who think like him.

After class, the students were still discussing the live broadcast. After all, the incident happened in Heng City. Unlike people in other places, they were not shocked when they saw the news in the news, but would discuss it a few more times and then ignore it.

This is happening in the city where they live and even to people they know.

Qingtong went home with his schoolbag on one shoulder. He received a call before he even left the school gate. He looked down and saw that it was his younger brother Yanjun calling.

Yanjun is Qingtong's half brother. When his parents divorced, Qingtong was still very young and lived with his mother. Later, when his mother remarried, he followed her and did not move out until he graduated from high school.

Yanjun is eleven years old this year and has just entered junior high school. He is in his second year of middle school and a bit naughty, but he has a good relationship with Qingtong.

By the way, Qingtong has a half-sister named Qingxia, and the relationship between the two is very cold. Because they have only seen each other a few times since they were young, and boys and girls don’t have much in common, so at most they just nod and say hello when they meet.

As soon as I answered the phone, there was a wolf roar on the other end: "Brother! Have you turned into a paper man!!!"

Qingtong: ...

Once the truth behind the scenes was revealed, he really turned into a paper man.

But Qingtong knew that this was not what his brother wanted to ask.

"No, I didn't go to the night market last night." Qingtong replied.

"Oh, that's a shame." Yan Jun on the other end of the phone was obviously relieved, but he still said, "I also want to ask you how it feels to become a paper man. Why do you want to go to Heng City to study, and even book a house there? Isn't Sui City good? There are many delicious foods."

Qingtong: "I want to settle down in a place with beautiful scenery."

"Brother, I'll come to see you this weekend. Heng City and Sui City are close to each other, so I think..."

"No, if you don't want to, don't come." Qingtong hung up the phone immediately.

He didn't want to save the world and take care of a naughty child at the same time.

However, his brother's call also reminded him that Sui City was very close, so he could let the paper man walk around there to spread its influence.

"System."

"Um?"

Qingtong put the phone in his pocket and puffed out his chest: "I'm not someone who might not be looked for if I lose contact for three days!"

System: ...

You still remember that sentence.