"Can you take me to see the guy who dug up the pink spinel?" Li Xiu looked at the fat man and asked.

"Who are you, and let Young Master Ben show you the way?" The fat man's eyes widened, and he had a look on his face if you were mistaken.

"Any idea what this is?" Li Xiu took out a magic core and shook it in front of the fat man's eyes.

"Cut, isn't it the magic core, who hasn't seen it." The fat man pouted and said.

"Lead the way, it's yours." Li Xiu threw the demon core to the fat man.

After the fat man caught the magic core, he immediately laughed: "Isn't it just to lead the way, no problem, follow me." ”

"You guys stay here and watch, whoever dares to come to my mine to dig gems again must pay money, and if you don't pay, you will beat me to death." The fat man asked everyone else to stay here, and he took Li Xiu and the bandit to the outside of the mine.

"Brother, I think you're not bad, brother, I have to persuade you." The fat man said as he walked, "That guy is very sick, you better not enter his house." ”

"Why?" Li Xiu took out another magic core and threw it to the fat man.

The fat man took the magic core, and said with a smile: "My brother is really refreshing, I don't tell them about this, seeing that you are so refreshing, I will give you a real explanation, that guy's illness is not ordinary......"

The fat man told all the causes and consequences of the matter, which made Li Xiu even more suspicious that the evil was likely to be in that person.

The fat man spent some money to get this abandoned mine mouth under his own name, intending to try his luck and see if he could dig something more.

As a result, I found dozens of miners to dig for several days, and all the stones that were dug up were useless, and I didn't even see a single inferior rough stone.

I thought that this place must not be able to dig up gems, anyway, it didn't cost a lot of money, and the fat man didn't pay much attention to this side.

Who knew that during the time when the fat man didn't come, a few miners secretly went down the mine to dig ore, and they really dug up the powder spinel rough.

Of course, the fat man didn't know it at the time, and later the miners who dug up the pink spinel took out the rough and sold it.

Someone found out that the miner suddenly became rich, spends money and spends lavishly, and pays off all the debts he owes before. The matter reached the fat man, and the fat man investigated a little and found the problem.

At that time, the fat man called a group of people, and he was about to go to the trouble of the miner and ask him to spit out all the rough stones he had stolen.

A group of people ran to the miner's house in a rage, only to find the miner lying half-dead on the bed, with many rotten sores on his body, some of which were maggots.

That scene scared the fat man and his party a lot, for fear of being infected, so they hurried away without asking anything.

"Brother, what are you looking for him, no one dares to go to his house now, no one has seen him for several days, maybe he is dead." The fat man said.

"There's something I want to ask him, I hope he's still alive." Li Xiu said casually.

The fat man took them to a row of wooden houses in the suburbs and said: "Originally, there were several other miners living here, but they were afraid of being infected, so they all moved away a long time ago, and they would rather sleep in tents than come back. ”

The fat man was talking, but he refused to move forward: "Brother, I won't go, you can go to him yourself." ”

With that, the fat man turned around and trotted away.

"You wait for me outside." Li Xiu said a word to the bandit, and then walked towards the wooden house that the fat man said.

I knocked on the door and asked if there was anyone, but there was no response.

The simple wooden door was not locked, and Li Xiu directly pushed the door open and walked in.

The wooden house is very simple and small, and when you enter the door, you will see a wooden bed on the left, on which a person is lying.

The man was already thin and formless, his body was covered with sheets, and his exposed arms and face were covered with pus-draining sores, and a foul smell came to his face.

"The fat man really didn't exaggerate." Li Xiu saw that there were really maggots wriggling on the rotten sores on his arm, and he almost vomited.

"Dude, just say something if you're still alive, I'll take you to the hospital." Li Xiu saw the man lying on his back, his eyes half-open and half-closed looking at the ceiling, not moving, and he didn't know if he was dead or not.

"No...... Use...... ......" The man's lips trembled, and he said a few words with difficulty, and his voice seemed to be strange as if it were rotten.

"You don't want to live anymore?" Li Xiu asked.

"Live...... No...... Finish...... Finish...... That...... That...... Stuff...... Take my ...... Body...... Body...... Fast...... Eat...... Empty...... ......" The man's words made people feel eerie.

"What's that?" Li Xiu hurriedly asked.

"Treasure ...... The man ......wanted to cough as he spoke, but he stretched his neck a few times, but he couldn't cough out as if his throat was blocked.

"I'll take you to the hospital first." Li Xiu walked over to the man as he spoke.

The man shook his head effortlessly and refused: "Really...... Target...... No...... Use...... Finish...... I'm self-inflicted......"

The man's spirit seemed to be a little better, and his speech was a little smoother than before, and he slowly said some words in his heart.

He didn't care who Li Xiu was, he was about to die anyway, and he just wanted to finish speaking.

Li Xiu knew from his words that this guy was really the same as the fat man said, and he was one of the miners hired by the fat man.

Later, the fat man didn't care about the mine, and the miners were all dismissed.

But this miner is usually a gambler, and owes a lot of debts, and when he thought of the fat man's mine, he found a few other miners, wanting to try his luck again.

Who knew that they had really dug up some rough spinels, but there weren't many, and everyone dug up a few rough spinels that weren't too big.

At that time, this guy actually found a very high-quality, and quite large spinel rough, and at that time he became greedy, and secretly swallowed the rough stone, not wanting to share this extremely high-quality rough stone with other miners.

Originally, I thought that when I came back, I would take some laxatives and pull out the gem.

Who knew that after coming back, there was no shortage of laxatives, and people were about to become dehydrated, but they didn't even see the shadow of the gem.

This guy didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that when his health got better, he would have another pill and get the gem out.

Who knew that after he sold the rough stones he had shared, after a few days of chic, his body had problems, not only was his whole body slowly dehydrated, and he couldn't make up for it no matter how much water he drank, but he also grew pus all over his body.

Within a few days, he had become like this, and it was getting worse day by day.

He could even feel as if his internal organs were about to rot.

"If you come for the jewel, I beg you to kill me and give me a good deal. After I'm dead, you can do whatever you want, just cut open my stomach and you should be able to find the spinel rough. The miner said with difficulty.

"Yes." Li Xiu nodded.

He didn't mind getting stained with blood, the miner's current situation was indeed worse than death, and any longer living would only be suffering.

There is no mistake

"Okay, then hurry up and do it, I can't stand it for a second." The miner's lips twitched, as if he were in great pain.

Li Xiu pressed his palm on his waist, and with a flash of red light, the Fire Lotus Sword had already pierced his skull, directly causing the miner to lose consciousness and life.

"That's all I can do for you." Li Xiu pulled out his sword, and not a drop of blood was left on the sword.

Determining that the miner was completely dead, Li Xiu looked at his abdomen.

Li Xiu guessed that the spinel rough stone that the miner swallowed was likely to contain "evil", and after he swallowed the spinel rough, it was equivalent to evil parasitism in his body.

Evil parasitism is a good thing for demons, but the human body may not be able to withstand this kind of parasitism.

So what this miner has on him is not a virus, nor is it a curse, but it is only because he can't bear the parasitism of evil that this situation will occur.

This is also because the evil has been parasitic in the gem before, not directly in his body, otherwise the situation will only be worse.

Li Xiu wanted to dissect his corpse and take out the spinel rough inside, but suddenly saw his stomach rise up.

Because there was a sheet covering his body, Li Xiu couldn't see what was going on below, only saw that there was a pillar in his belly, pushing his belly up.

While Li Xian was staring, he heard a pop, and the miner's belly cracked, and something rolled out of it.

Li Xiu took a few steps back, and when he looked at it again, he found that it was a pink rough stone the size of a pigeon's egg that had rolled to the ground.

The pink rough was like a stained jelly, rolling around on its own as if looking for something.

After a while, the pink rough stone seemed to have spotted its location, and it rolled towards Li Xiu.

Li Xiu picked up the glass on the table next to him, and with a snap of it on the ground, he clasped the pink rough stone inside.

The pink rough stone was dripping and turning in the glass, and the cup clanged when it was touched.

After a while, the pink rough suddenly fell silent, and then I saw a liquid like clear water seeping out of the pink rough stone.

The rough stone was only the size of a pigeon's egg, but the oozing liquid was about to fill the glass, and I don't know how it got into the rough stone.

"It's it!" Li Xiu was overjoyed, and when he saw that this guy wanted to get into the gap in the wooden floor, Li Xiu directly flipped the glass, and then used the base of another glass to jam the rim of the cup.

"Don't be afraid, little one, I'll find you a good host." Li Xiu glanced at the miner's corpse, and after a moment of silence, he walked out of the wooden house.

"Bandit, you go and hire a few people for me and bury the bodies of the miners inside." Li Xiu said to the bandit.

The bandit answered, turned and walked towards the village in the distance.

I didn't go far, I saw the fat man standing not far away and looking over here, and when he saw a bandit coming over, he actually wore a mask, and asked from a distance: "Why did you come back alone, what about that old brother?" ”

"The miner is dead, you go to a few and bury the miner's body, and you will benefit from it." A bandit said.

"I want to make this money, but no one dares to go." The fat man said helplessly.

"Rest assured, he doesn't have a contagious disease." A bandit said.

"I believe what you say, but others may not believe it, it's not that I don't help you, it's really that no one dares to go, I don't believe it, you go to the village and ask to see if anyone dares to go. No matter how much money you have, you have to spend it. The fat man said helplessly.

"The people who come, one person has a demon core, I don't care how many people you find, and I don't care how many you give them, you can do it yourself." A bandit frowned and said.

"This ......" The fat man hesitated a little, and finally gritted his teeth: "Ten demon cores, I'll help you do this." ”

"Okay, you can do it." The bandits didn't want to waste their time on this kind of thing, their time was worth more than these lowest-level demon cores.

The fat man's hands and feet were very nimble, and after a while, seven or eight young villagers wearing masks were called, and those villagers were brave enough to go to the miners' houses, and when they saw the appearance of the miners' corpses, two villagers couldn't help but vomit.

Fortunately, the money ability was strong enough, and the villagers still trembled and wrapped the corpse in a mat, and then carried the corpse out directly with a bed, found a nearby cemetery, dug a pit and buried him.

The fat man came over to ask for money with a smile on his face at this time, and the mask on his face was still tightly covered.

The bandit gave him ten demon cores, and originally wanted to send him away, but who knew that the fat man didn't even leave, and rubbed against Li Xiu.

"Brother, are you interested in these miners? I know where a few other miners live, would you like to check them out? The fat man said to Li Xiu.

"The other miners are sick too?" Li Xiu asked.

"That's not the case." The fat man shook his head.

"What's so nice about not being sick?" Li Xiu turned around and left.

"If you want to see someone who is sick, then you should have said it earlier, I know a lot of sick people, and I can find you any disease you want to see." The fat man hurriedly followed, talking about the patients he knew as he went.

"Later, I still have something to do, let's come back next time." Li Xiu was a little lazy to pay attention to him.

The fat man tasted the sweetness, but he was still unwilling to give up, and said while searching his intestines and scraping his belly: "Brother, you are a doctor, right?" If you want to see incurable diseases, I also know a lot, not long ago, the daughter of the big mine owner in the city had a strange disease, you will definitely be interested, why don't I tell you about it? ”

Seeing that Li Xiu didn't speak, he had been hurrying, the fat man moved his bloated body, followed Li Xiu's footsteps, and said while wiping the sweat on his forehead: "There are several gem mines in the big mine owner's house, rubies, sapphires and everything, what do you want." But his little daughter doesn't like these, she likes cobalt spinel. But this made it difficult for the big mine owner. ”

"Although Guyue City is the production area of top cobalt and few crystals, he does not have a cobalt spinel mine in his hands. Cobalt spinel you know, right? This thing is very rare, and most blue spinels are colored by iron, so the blue spinels are a little gray. However, cobalt spinel is the color of cobalt element, the blue is bright and pure, and the fire is not inferior to the blue diamond, known as the blue enchantress in the spinel. ”

"The daughter of a big mine owner loves this rare cobalt spinel. The big miner didn't lack this amount of money, and every time he spent a lot of money to buy cobalt spinel jewelry or something for his favorite little daughter. I heard that his little daughter's room was full of cobalt spinel decorations, and it was almost as fast as one room could buy a small town. ”

"After talking for a long time, what do you want to say?" Li Xiu had been listening to him talk about cobalt spinel, but he didn't hear anything sick.

Of course, Li Xiu didn't want to know what the illness was, he just felt a little noisy.

"Listen to me, some time ago, about a month or two ago, on the eighteenth birthday of the youngest daughter of the big mine owner, the big mine owner gave her a very expensive necklace. Blue and red diamonds are expensive enough, right? In that necklace, the precious blue and red diamonds are only supporting roles, and the real protagonist is a round-cut cobalt spinel of more than 20 carats, which is the protagonist of the whole necklace. ”

"I'll tell you, I've never seen such a beautiful spinel, that blue, it's like a cap...... What's even more amazing is that the cobalt spinel is still a color-changing cobalt spinel, when it is in the daylight, it is a bewitching blue, and when it is in the incandescent light, it is a mysterious purple, anyway, it is the kind of gem that is beautiful and cannot be described. In front of it, I think that any blue diamonds and sapphires are all scum, and only it is the peerless enchantress in sapphires...... "The fat man's eyes are shining, and they are about to turn into coins.

"Without getting to the point, I'm really leaving." Li Xiu has also heard of cobalt spinels, but the cobalt spinel water on the market is very deep, and many of them are acquired, and natural cobalt spinel is not so easy to buy.

I have to admit that the fat man's story attracted him a little, otherwise he would have left just now.

"The point is coming right away, since the youngest daughter of the big mine owner got that necklace, she likes it so much, she wears that necklace all day long, who knows that after that, something strange happened......"

Li Xiu felt that it was a pity that the fat guy didn't go to tell the story, and what he was talking about made people feel like they were eager to listen to it.

"The youngest daughter of the big mine owner was originally a very innocent, lively and kind girl, but since she put on that necklace, her personality has gradually changed. During the day, she became reticent and liked to lock herself in the house and stay out of the door all day. And the personality has become very ruthless, those servants who originally liked her very much, she will be severely punished by her for a little thing, and I heard that there are also deaths. ”

"At night, the little daughter seems to have changed a person, it is called a charming person, if it weren't for the big mine owner to find out something wrong in time, it is estimated that the young man in the village of ten miles and eight villages will be hooked by her......" Speaking of this, the fat man couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "The doctors who came to treat the little daughter all said that she had schizophrenia, and what kind of split personality or something, but our people here, many people privately said that she was possessed by a ghost, It is said that the color-changing cobalt spinel on that necklace has ghost ...... in it."

When Li Xiu heard this, he couldn't help but stop, and said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that there is a demon spirit in that color-changing cobalt spinel?" ”