Chapter 42 Together
However, the legend of Delhi purple sapphire is not over yet, and it is just the beginning.
Although this sapphire has all kinds of bad luck legends, it is still inevitable that people will be curious and eager for it, so in 1890, the British scientist Edward Helen Allen got this gem and became its new owner.
Edward was a well-known lawyer and violin maker in London, but he became a scientist with a deep understanding of foraminifera and single-celled aquatic organisms. It is worth mentioning that Edward was also a friend of the famous British writer Oscar Wilde.
As one might expect, Edward also suffered a series of bad luck after getting his hands on this "Delhi Purple Sapphire".
First of all, his friends, two of Edward's friends had borrowed the gem from him to look at it at home, but one friend had been in trouble ever since, and the other friend was a singer, and since she borrowed the gem to watch, she suddenly began to "lose her voice" and never sang again.
When he first heard this story, Ling Xiao noticed some of the strangeness, except for the first owner Ferris, the other previous masters themselves were not harmed, and it was his friends who were hurt, so Ling Xiao was keenly aware of the strangeness.
As Ling Xiao thought, Edward himself was not hurt by this incident, but although he did not believe in any "curse" at first, when his friends met with bad luck, Edward finally threw the priceless gem into London's Regent's Canal.
Unexpectedly, three months later, this gem was mysteriously returned to him. It turned out that a dredger had recovered the gem from the canal, and a merchant bought it from the crew and returned it to Edward "as it belonged".
It's interesting to note that Edward was just an ordinary scientist who would return a priceless gem to its former owner at no cost, and there were few such people in the entire history of mankind for thousands of years.
Later, perhaps fed up with the shadow of the "cursed gem", Edward sent it to his bank administrator, asking the bank to keep it until he died. Edward allegedly said at the time: "I feel that it will have a detrimental effect on my newborn daughter. ”
Ling Xiao analyzed this matter, and he came to a terrible conclusion, this terrible "cursed gem" should indeed have some kind of curse, and it was ineffective against its owner, and it was even very likely that it had other special effects. At least, Edward got the gem in 1890 and did not die until more than fifty years later, when he died in 1943.
Ling Xiao couldn't be sure of the age at which Edward possessed this "cursed gem", but conservatively considering that he was 20 years old, then Edward had been alive for at least seventy years, which was extremely rare more than half a century ago. From this, some of its wonders can be deduced.
After Edward's death, the "Cursed Gem" was donated to the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom, like most of his other collections.
Even Edward left a warning note in the box that read: "This gem is clearly cursed, it is stained with blood, and everyone who owns it loses honor......"
Why honor, not life, money, friendship, or whatever, after all, both of Edward's friends paid for it.
So a terrifying conclusion came out, especially after Ling Xiao got the list of gods and demons, his understanding of these things was even more profound, Edward should have exchanged some things from his two friends for something that he shouldn't have.
Of course, these were originally just some kind of speculation on Ling Xiao's part, but now that he saw the cursed gem, as a monk, Ling Xiao could clearly feel some extremely subtle fluctuations emitted by the cursed gem itself.
In fact, I don't know if it's Ling Xiao, everyone in the entire exhibition hall, both men and women, are deeply attracted by this blue-purple gem, only this blue-purple gem in their eyes, the deep tone, as if it is an eye with a whirlpool that keeps attracting everyone's attention.
Ling Xiao shook his head vigorously, sobering up from this temptation, he subconsciously looked around, there were not many people who could still stay awake at this time, one was Holly Robinson next to her, one was Scott West, and the other was a white-haired old man in a tuxedo dress that Ling Xiao had never noticed.
At this time, everyone's attention was on the gem, and no one else noticed Ling Xiao's observation.
It's really interesting, the corners of Ling Xiao's mouth flashed into a chuckle. Almost at the same time, the charm attached to the Delhi Purple Sapphire said was instantly retracted, and everyone present came to their senses at the same time, but it was surprising that they were completely unaware of their previous one.
Holly Robinson and Scott West looked at the gem in amazement, but Ling Xiao noticed that the gray-haired old man was standing there with a normal face, as if he was accustomed to all this.
Ling Xiao's gaze instantly shifted from the old man's body to the gem, because at that moment, the old man had already sensed the attention of others, and looked around with a suspicious expression, and finally his gaze flashed over Scott West's body, and the look of vigilance instantly swept over his eyes.
The exhibition did not end until the evening, by which time the museum had reclaimed all the gems and locked them into the depths of the museum.
This is the first day of the three-day exhibition, and even then, the museum will keep all the gems firmly in store. In addition to the museum's own protection system, there is also a small team of police officers patrolling the neighborhood at all times, guarding against any thieves who might try to break in and commit theft.
Even as the owner of this loaned gem, even Scott West was not allowed to stay in the museum, and even knew only a small part of the museum's protection system, and he couldn't touch the real inner core of the thing.
Even though Scott West protested to the museum countless times, the museum did not back down in the slightest, and although he expected all this, he was still a little frustrated, hoping that all this would not destroy his original urgency.
As the night deepened, the fog gradually enveloped the entire museum, and in the dead of night, a rush of footsteps gradually approached the periphery of the back wall of the museum under the shroud of the fog.
Within a radius of 100 meters from the museum, the lights had already dispersed the nearby fog, and it was almost possible to see black figures rushing towards the museum with silencer weapons, and the few security guards patrolling nearby had been eliminated silently.
What is even more surprising is that these things happened without alarming the museum's perimeter protection system.
Ling Xiao stood on the top of a tall building in the distance, staring at everything that was happening below with a sharp gaze. He knew that this could only happen because there were people inside the museum who were echoing each other with the outside, covering up the whereabouts of these people and guiding them forward.
Ling Xiao almost watched the group of people vomit into the museum, you must know that only in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the main hall of the museum, there are all kinds of rare antiquities, but unfortunately these things are not easy to take away, and they are not easy to sell.
Today, although Ling Xiao did not enter the main hall of the museum, he had done his homework and knew the situation inside.
As Ling Xiao imagined, as soon as the group of people entered the first floor of the Natural History Museum, two extremely tall dinosaur skeletons came into view full of hideousness, which were the skeletons of Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex, which came to life in the dim light, and several people who entered the exhibition hall couldn't help but shudder.