Chapter 1478: The Beginning of the Cursed Night (36)

On the surface of the door to the treasure room was a simple digital turntable, with a slightly rusty old iron handle on the rim of the turntable that opened the door.

It was originally a rather rudimentary design, but Palamides only needed to look at it to quickly determine that the internal structure of this gate was anything but simple. Rosetta held the surface of the turntable, turned it at an angle to the left and turned it to the right, and after about two hundred steps of complex input, a heavy, low clicker sounded from inside the door.

Squeak - With the grinding sound of several old, slightly rusty door hinges, the door finally opened. It shook off a lot of dust, and Rosetta had already taken a few steps back smartly, lest the dust fall on her pretty clothes.

As the treasury opened, some kind of red light seeped out from the depths of the vault, beginning to imprint Palamides' retina.

The origin of that red light, needless to say, was the gem stored in the middle of the treasure room, which was safely kept in a glass case.

Heart of Africa.

That, not so much "one" ruby, is it more of a collection of delicately constructed rubies?

Inside a fist-sized transparent ruby, there were about twenty translucent blood-red rubies glittering, and at first glance there seemed to be water inside the large gem, because the twenty shimmering blood-red rubies were floating, and their positions were constantly changing. Among the hollow large gemstones, more than 20 small gemstones of different shapes are dazzling, each of which is carefully carved into tens of millions of mirrors.

Each of them emitted a shimmer of light, which emanated from these small light sources one by one, and refracted countless times between the prism surfaces of other gemstones, and at the same time seemed to merge into the liquid without any bubbles of the large hollow gem, and illuminated the liquid that seemed to be water as if it was self-luminous. These rays of light are refracted and absorbed between the small gems and the liquid countless times before finally penetrating through the highly transparent hollow rubies, which are actually no longer as bright as they were at first, but with a strange tenderness, slowly spreading to the outside world like the waves of water on a clear lake.

It's beautiful. But Palamedis always felt that the beauty that glowed red was a kind of calamitous beauty. Looking at this gentle and dangerous red light, Palamides suddenly thought of the image of the whole world being consumed by fire.

Palamides had heard of the dazzling glow of precious treasures in the dark, but he had never known that the heart of Africa could shine in such a unique light, even if the surroundings were not very dark. What kind of light is it? It feels like some kind of huge energy stored in a ruby, because it is oversaturated, and it is constantly glowing with excess light.

With such a unique structure, such a stunning shape, Palamides knew that this gemstone could not have been naturally formed. But who could put twenty small gems inside a huge hollow ruby? I guess only the ancients could do it.

"As you know, this gem is actually an ancient artifact that was excavated from the underground ruins of Egypt a long time ago. Rosetta walked up to the Heart of Africa, reached out and touched its glass cover, and whispered, "We don't know what it really does, and who made it for what purpose." But we were able to infer from the impact the gemstone had on its surroundings that it was supposed to be a storage device. ＂

"Storage?"

"More precisely, a device for storing photons. Rosetta further explained, "Even now, the gem is constantly absorbing photons from its surroundings, compressing them to a high degree and storing them inside the gem in a structure similar to intrinsic photons. The concentration of photons in this room is lower than in any outside space, because the photons in this room are continuously sucked away by it. ＂

In this way, Paramides did feel a little heavy when he stood in this treasure room. In fact, this heavy feeling is really only a slight point, after all, the photons present in the human body are relatively stable, and it is impossible to be sucked clean as soon as they are sucked away. But the power in the body is drained little by little by something else, which always makes people feel very uncomfortable.

"It's like epic," Paramides muttered under his breath.

"Perhaps. Rosetta nodded, "Other epic creatures can absorb photons from the environment into their bodies, solidifying free photons into intrinsic photons. And the principle of this gemstone is the same, the only difference is that it is inorganic and has no life. ＂

So ancient people have long invented this inorganic device to absorb photons from the environment. Palamides sighed: "If a similar device were to be used in the military on a large scale, the impact would be unimaginable. ＂

"Anyway," the Queen of Gems continued, "this gem has been drawing photons from its environment all the time to the present. If it's just one day or two, this amount is nothing, but after thousands of years of accumulation, the amount of photons stored in it will be very terrifying. If we had a precise measurement method, we might have measured the astronomical amount of photons in the hundreds of millions of trillions. ＂

Rosetta turned her head and looked at Palamides with a serious expression: "Although the structure of this gem is extremely stable, it is almost impossible to destroy it by ordinary means, and it is impossible to extract the huge amount of photons that exist in it.

But God knows if there will be any way in the world to break it, or detonate it?

If these photons, which have been stored for thousands of years, are detonated, they can flatten all of Africa and even half of Europe. So, depending on the user's usage, this tiny gem can be an ornament or a weapon of mass destruction that will destroy the world. ＂

Rosetta opened the glass shield of the Heart of Africa, carefully removed the gem from its heavy protection, and placed it in the hands of Palamides: "So, I beg you one last time, please take good care of this gem no matter what. I will tell you that our meeting here today is an absolute secret. However, the existence of the secret is to be revealed, and one day, the secret will still leak out.

When people know that the Heart of Africa has fallen into your hands, there will definitely be forces from all sides to trouble you, and they will try their best to get this gem from you.

Please think twice on that occasion. Whether you are going to do everything in your power to protect this gem or entrust it to the next person you trust, before you do so, make sure you think about how important this gem is and how much harm it can cause. Trust your judgment, Palamides. I know you're going to protect the heart of Africa. ＂

"Hmm. The leopard warrior took the gem in his hand as if he felt the weight of an entire world. He took a deep breath and made up his mind: "Lend me a dagger." ＂

"What are you going to do?" Rosetta pulled out a small silver dagger with a hidden sharp talisman from his belt.

"I would hide the gems in the safest place in the world. That's—" Palamides took a few small buttons from the collar of his shirt, "inside me." ＂

He took the dagger and coldly slashed his chest open.

Blood didn't spill out much. Palamides basically avoided his own arteries to cut them. He opened his chest wide and buried the gem in his body. Then, as an emerald knight, Palamides's already powerful self-healing ability began to automatically glue the gap on his chest. Except for a small amount of blood on Palamides' chest, everything was so seamless that no one could have known that the big cat had hidden such a precious gem in his body.

"Definitely. Hiding in that kind of place, no one can find it. Rosetta sighed, "There is no other way than to hand it over on your own initiative, or to take the gem out of your body after the other party kills you." It's safe. ＂

Palamides clutched his chest. With that kind of foreign body embedded in the body, the big cat was a little unaccustomed to it for a while. But he is an emerald knight, and he can constantly change his body structure. After he planted the gem in his chest, he only needed to reduce and shorten some of the ribs nearby, or let the rib structure grow and merge with the gem, and he would soon be able to completely eliminate the discomfort of burying foreign objects in his body.

"Hmm," he said with a sigh of relief, "and I guess you're going to tell Daddy Sphinx about it, right?"

"Yes, I will. Rosetta smiled bitterly, "I would want to have a complete fight with the Sphinx." In the future, he will definitely find an opportunity to urge me to sell the Heart of Africa to him. I'll try to keep it a secret from him and stall for time. But when the time comes, I will tell him the truth and tell him that I have entrusted you with the jewels. ＂

"And at that point, it's up to me to negotiate with the Sphinx. Palamides shuddered. Rosetta left the most difficult problem to Palamides, and the Queen of Jewels is a good old fox who has been in the business world for many years.

"So," Rosetta smiled at Palamides with a little confusion, seeing that the matter to be explained was almost finished, "I have indeed given the Heart of Africa to you. Now that you've done what needs to be done, it's time to send you back. ＂

"Thank you. "Just send me outside, and I'll open the portal myself and go back to the battleship of Great Britain, and from there back to the hotel." This will try to keep outsiders from seeing me haunting your turf - hopefully I'll be in trouble with hot spots. ＂

"As you wish. The Jewel Queen nodded, "I'll take you to the top floor of the fortress, which is sparse and open, just right for you to teleport out in secrecy." Come with me. ＂

"Okay. Palamides only snorted and followed Rosetta, the queen of gems, out of the treasure room.