Chapter 9: The Creator's Eye
"What should I do?" Professor Charles sat in his office and sighed as people from the museum arrived at the scene, along with some British police. Zhao Qi and Lili, two outsiders, were taken care of, and they were pulled over for questioning one by one, but they were all guaranteed by Professor Charles.
Professor Charles and Lily were not without suspicion of Zhao Qi, but after thinking about it carefully, they found that it was impossible. First of all, Zhao Qi came to the UK on his first day today, and even Lily told him about the vampire bones, and followed Lily to the Natural History Museum and so on. If Zhao Qi was premeditated, it would be too far-fetched.
"Professor Charles, the person who stole the body should be a vampire." Zhao Qi said.
"Oh? How do you know? Charles asked.
"When I followed him out, I saw that he could walk without gravity by stepping on a wall, and after spotting me, he also stretched out two black wings from his back and left directly from the sky." Zhao Qi told Charles some of the characteristics of vampires, which can be regarded as some compensation for his research on vampires.
"Ah, this is indeed a symbol of vampires, it turns out that there are real vampires." After hearing Zhao Qi's words, Charles became excited again, turned around and went to check the information.
Zhao Qi glanced at Lily and said, "It's almost twelve o'clock, shouldn't we go to bed?" ”
"Who wants to sleep with you, you are not small." Lily said viciously.
"Well, you misunderstood, there is a time difference from Hong Kong here, and it's already morning in Hong Kong, aren't you sleepy?" Zhao Qi was in a cold sweat.
"That's right, let's go to the inn now. I don't know if the room I ordered is still preserved. Lily said and dragged her suitcase outside.
"Hey, what about Professor Charles?" Zhao Qi glanced at Charles, who was still flipping through the information, and said.
"Leave it alone, that's what he is. If he's sleepy, he'll sleep on his own. Lily seemed to have known Charles's habits for a long time, and said without caring at all.
"That'...... All right. Zhao Qi glanced at Charles again and went out after Lily.
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When Zhao Qi and Lily took a taxi to the front of the hotel, Zhao Qi was dumbfounded. The reason is that the name of this hotel is Hotel 41, which is a fairly famous five-star hotel in London.
A five-star hotel is nothing, but Lily's stay in a five-star hotel as a journalist is very weird.
"Can you afford to pay?" Zhao Qi asked in confusion, and had some doubts about Lily's net worth.
"Of course you can afford it, but you can handle your share."
"You're too stingy, aren't you?"
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There was still a room, and Zhao Qi didn't pay for it, so Lily took care of it.
Early the next morning. Zhao Qi got up. The vampire has also finished reading, and the news that should be obtained is almost understood, and it is time for Zhao Qi to continue the journey.
"Are you really leaving?" Lily asked, sitting in the taxi.
"I'm here to travel, and now there are no vampires here, so why don't you leave."
"And where are you going next?" For a mysterious oriental man like Zhao Qi, Lily is still quite curious.
"I don't know, where to go. I travel for no purpose, and I'm leaving after I say goodbye to Professor Charles. By the way, thank you for your hospitality last night. Zhao Qi said that it was naturally Lily who paid for the hotel.
"It's okay, so how am I going to contact you in the future?" Lily asked.
"My phone is Chinese, so it doesn't work here. Besides, the places I go to are places where I can't communicate, so give me your contact information and I'll contact you when I'm free. In just two days, Zhao Qi's senses for Lily are still good. Judging from yesterday's hotel. Her net worth is definitely not expensive, but just such a rich child is all over the world to explore those unsolved mysteries. Zhao Qi really admires her. After all, Lily is just an ordinary person, and although she has learned some self-defense skills, she is still a girl after all.
Lily nodded, tore off a piece of paper from the small notebook on her body, wrote her contact information and her addresses in Canada and the United States, and handed it to Zhao Qi.
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In the British Museum of Natural History, Professor Charles is still working tirelessly in his office, and looking at his current appearance, it seems that he never slept last night. This made Zhao Qi sigh at the crazy energy of these scholars.
"If there were a few more such people in China, it would have caught up with the United States a long time ago." Zhao Qi thought to himself.
"Professor Charles, how are you doing?" Zhao Qi handed the British style he bought back to Charles early.
"Oh, thank you." Charles was also polite, took it and took it and ate it in a big gulp.
"It seems that the one I met yesterday was the legendary vampire, I checked a lot of information, and it is the same as what you described." Charles said as he sat on the bench.
"So vampires are real?" Lily asked.
"No, you can't say that, after all, I haven't seen a real vampire yet, and I still need to research in many ways."
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"Professor Charles, I'm here today to say goodbye to you." Zhao Qi saw that the two of them were chatting enthusiastically again, so he interjected.
"Qi, are you leaving?" Charles asked.
"Yes, my purpose is to travel the world, and now that the vampire's corpse is gone, it's almost time for me to leave." Zhao Qi replied.
"Okay then, what's your next stop?"
"I don't know, let's just take a walk in the UK for the time being, anyway, it's tourism, it's the same everywhere you go."
"Oh, yes, Qi, I have a plan in the near future, I don't know if you'd like to participate." Charles seemed to think of something and said to Zhao Qi.
"What's the plan?" Before Zhao Qi could answer, Lily asked curiously.
"I was going to tell you about it, but yesterday's incident came so suddenly that I forgot about it all of a sudden, so I'll tell you about it now." Professor Charles sat back on the bench.
"Do you know the 'Cursed Gem'?" Professor Charles took a sip of the coffee brought by Zhao Qi and asked.
"Cursed Gem?" Zhao Qi really didn't know what it was.
"There are five cursed gems in the world, which are the Mountain of Light, the Eye of the Creator, the Scarab Beetle-shaped Jewelry, the Blue Diamond of Hope, and the Murder Mirror. What are you talking about? Lily was an expert in the field, and she told the origin of these gems in one bite.
"I'm talking about the Creator's Eye." Charles said lightly.
"What's wrong with it?"
"Now the gem is in the Natural History Museum, and I've studied it carefully. I figured out that this gem is related to the legendary child of the sun, so I wanted to organize an expedition, I wonder if you two would like to participate? ”
"Ah, really? Of course I'd like to participate, when? Ready to go? Lily's face was excited, as if she was about to leave.
"No, no, even if you have to go, it's not now, it will take at least three or four months." Charles didn't have much idea about whether or not Lily would attend, according to what he knew about Lily. Whenever Lily hears about expeditions, secrets, legends, etc., she is definitely the first to participate.
"Qi, I know that you are also exploring the world now, and you are so good at it, I wonder if you would like to join my expedition?" Charles still hopes that Zhao Qi can participate, after all, the delegation is not all scholars, and there may be many dangers on the way. Zhao Qi can have such good skills, I believe that it should be much better in terms of safety.
"I ...... Let's talk to me about the Creator's Eye. "Zhao Qi is very interested in exploring or something, but he is not very willing to be with other people, after all, it is faster and easier to do things by himself. But if you bring someone else with you, it won't be so free, so Zhao Qi still has to listen to what this Creator's Eye is first.
"The Creator's Eye, also known as 'Black Orloff', is a rare and significant black diamond weighing 67.5 carats. Originally the eye of the Hindu god Brahma, it originally weighed 195 carats and was quietly removed by a money-hungry monk. The monk later disappeared mysteriously, and his fate is unknown. Since then, the folk have begun to circulate that the gods blamed the gods for this incident and cursed the black diamond. This series of events has made the Creator's Eye a famous diamond in the world of jewelry. ”
Later, all three holders of the gem eventually committed suicide by jumping off a building. The three were the 18th-century Russian princesses Nadia and Leonira, who committed suicide in 1947; Paris, a New York-based jeweler who imported the diamond to the United States, also committed suicide by jumping off a building shortly after the black diamond was sold. According to folklore, the owner of the gemstone was blamed by the gods, so he placed a curse on the black diamond. In order to break the legendary curse power, people split the Creator's Eye into three pieces, and then it was collected by folk collectors, and the owners of the black diamond after it was divided into three pieces escaped the curse. "Like a textbook, Lily gave out all the information about the Creator's Eye.
"Lily is right, the Eye of the Creator stored in the museum is only one-third of the 'Black Ollov' at that time, and although there have been no more accidents with the three gems after being divided, many people believe that if the three gems are put together again, bad luck will once again loom over the holder. After studying this gem during this time, I also speculated that this gem has a lot to do with the legendary child of the sun. Professor Charles continued Lily's words.
And Zhao Qi couldn't help but feel a little moved when he heard this, and the reason was the son of the sun that Charles said. After all, Edward had said last night that he was a descendant of the sun god, so what kind of relationship would there be between the two? (To be continued......)
PS: I won't go into detail about the other four pieces of the five cursed gems.,I'll open a single chapter in the work.,If you're interested, you can take a look.。 In addition, it's the end of the month.,The monthly pass will be lost if you don't use it anymore.,What's that?,Vote for me!!