A few people looked closely at the ruby on the golden mask, and soon realized that there was indeed something wrong.

Most gemstones, the bigger the better, the fewer inclusions in the better, but this ruby is quite large, but the inside is not particularly clean, faintly you can see some paste-like inclusions.

"Is this a fake pigeon's blood ruby? Was it burned or colored? Kunsha asked.

In the past, rubies were heated to reduce the inclusions inside the rubies, making the color of the rubies more beautiful.

This heat-treated ruby is called a burnt ruby, and a ruby that has not been heat-treated is called an unburned ruby.

Burnt rubies are not fakes, but they are worth much less than unburned rubies. There are also unscrupulous profiteers who sell burnt rubies as unburned rubies, which is a fraud.

As for the treatment of color injection and the like, that is a real fraud, and it is an extremely bad behavior.

How could such a precious gold mask be used on such a rich ruby, so Kunsha felt that this was a fake ruby, and the ruby that was originally on the gold mask might have been replaced.

Who knew that Sha Lai shook his head and said, "No, this is a real ruby, and it is also a pigeon's blood ruby." The current standard for pigeon blood red is as clean as possible, but in that ancient country, the real pigeon blood red was like this. ”

"Is that ancient country so low in terms of pigeon blood red standards?" Kunsha was surprised.

"Then you are wrong, the standards at that time were not only not low, on the contrary, they were very high. You don't think that any kind of inclusions and ribbons can be called pigeon's blood rubies. Sha said, took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight function of the phone, and shone at the ruby on the golden mask.

A few people were surprised to find that under the illumination of the light, the magma-like color inside the ruby actually showed the effect of flowing fireworks.

The marquise-shaped ruby was full of red light, like a burning flame.

Legend has it that the princess bride already had a sweetheart, but was forced by the emperor to marry a powerful person, and on the day of the wedding, she jumped into the raging fire wearing a golden bride mask and defended her love and dignity with her own life. After the fire was extinguished, people only found the golden bride mask in the ashes, and the original pure ruby on the mask became like this, and then the pigeon's blood red standard of that ancient country became like this, and only this kind of ruby, in that ancient country, can be called pigeon's blood red, representing the top ruby. Sha Lai stroked the golden mask and said: "Although it is just a legend, it is difficult to say whether there is a golden bride mask and that princess, but the ruby on it is indeed priceless, and it is not comparable to the pigeon's blood ruby in the ordinary sense." ”

When Li Xiu heard this, he already understood why Qin Shi had a high fever.

It's just that Li Xiu still doesn't quite understand why Qin Shi has a princess mask and what is the reason why she collects rubies.

Although the ruby on the princess's mask is precious and the story behind it is very poignant and moving, the legend of the story is not worse than the Doom Diamond.

Why was he able to contract a doom diamond, but was resisted by this ruby?

Qin Shi's high fever does not go away, and his body temperature is still slowly rising, if he continues like this, he is afraid that he will be ripe in a few days, and he can't contract with Ruby, and Qin Shi will be helpless.

In fact, Li Xiu was very suspicious, even if she saved Qin Shi now, her brain might have been burned out.

With a high temperature of more than 50 degrees, how can the body of an ordinary human be able to withstand it.

Li Xiu stretched out his hand and asked for the golden bridal mask in Sha Lai's hand, and then directly pulled off the ruby.

"No, this thing is sold with the Golden Mask, and it will cost more." Sha Lai said with some distress.

Li Xiu ignored him, turned around and put the golden mask back in the box, and at the same time quietly stuffed the ruby into his mouth and swallowed it directly.

Since the blood is not easy to use, you can only use the original primitive.

The ruby was forcibly swallowed by Li Xiu, but fortunately, his body was strengthened enough, otherwise such a large ruby would be really hard to swallow.

What's more, this ruby has sharp ends, and if ordinary people swallow it, they may scratch their esophagus.

When the ruby went down to his stomach, Li Xiu suddenly felt as if he had swallowed a fire, and there was a burning sensation in his stomach.

Li Xiu's mind moved, and his body emitted a white fluorescence, which was the light energy from the forbidden spear.

With the blessing of light energy, Li Xiu suddenly felt that the burning sensation in his stomach had been reduced a lot, and it slowly eased down.

As the burning sensation in the stomach eased, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that the high temperature on Qin Shi's body began to slowly drop.

"Li Xiu, you can, is this the light of your symbiosis contract? Can it even save people and cure diseases? Sha Lai looked at Li Xiu in surprise and asked.

"Ordinary people can't be saved, and ordinary diseases can't be cured, but they just happen to be able to help Qin Shi." Li Xiu didn't have the heart to chat with Shalai.

Although the burning sensation in the stomach was gone, the ruby had not turned into a demon spirit ring and appeared on Li Xiu's fingers, and it seemed that it had not been completely tamed.

Li Xiu did this, and the effect was more effective than special antipyretics, but after a while, the fever on Qin Shi's body subsided, and his body temperature quickly returned to normal.

"I'm so thirsty......" Qin Shi miraculously woke up from a coma, her brain didn't seem to burn out, but she looked weak, her face was pale and bloodless, like Lin Daiyu in a serious illness, which was very different from her appearance from time to time.

Several people were busy pouring water for Qin Shi, and brought gruel, Qin Shi drank some water, ate a little gruel, and his mental state was obviously much better, at least he was able to sit up by himself.

"Li Xiu, why are you back?" Qin Shi was a little surprised when she saw Li Xiu.

"If Li Xiu hadn't come back, your life would have been gone." Kunsha recounted what had happened.

Qin Shi was fine at first, but when she heard that Li Xiu took out her golden bride mask, her face suddenly changed greatly.

"You go out first, I have something to say to Li Xiu." Qin Shi bit her lip and said.

"What words can Li Xiu listen to, but we can't listen to them?" Sha Lai teased.

"I'll have a few words with Qin Shi, and we'll talk about the old days later." Li Xiu knew what Qin Shi wanted to say, and said to Sha.

"Okay, I'll go and get someone to prepare the food first." Sha Lai obeyed Li Xiu's words, and immediately turned around and went out.

When Kunsha finally went out, he also brought the door intimately.

As soon as they left, Qin Shi immediately took the box over, and when he opened the box, he saw that although the golden mask was still inside, the ruby on it was gone, and his face suddenly turned even paler.

"What did you do with that ruby?" Qin Shi looked at Li Xiu, biting her pale lip and asked.

"I'm not going to dispose of it, can you be okay?" Li Xiu was a little surprised, it seemed that Qin Shi knew that her illness was related to the Demon Spirit Gem, but she didn't know how much she knew, whether she knew about the Demon Spirit Gem.

"It's over, it's all over." Qin Shi's face was like ashes, and he muttered to himself.

"What the hell is going on? If you believe me, let me know and maybe I can help you. Li Xiu said.

"You can't help me." Qin Shi's face was full of bitterness, but he still continued: "Do you know why I have been collecting rubies all these years? ”

"Does it have something to do with that ruby?" Li Xiu followed her words and said.

Qin Shi nodded: "Almost, I collected those rubies, just to feed the princess golden mask." ”

"Feeding?" Li Xiu was a little puzzled by this word.

The ruby hadn't turned into a demon yet, so how was she going to feed it?

Qin Shi sighed and told the whole story.

Qin Shi's father is also a magic costume master, but he is not very brilliant, just an ordinary E-level magic costume master, the kind of cannon fodder.

In a battle with the demon spirit, Qin Shi's father was unfortunately killed.

Originally, the death of the demon costume master at the hands of the demon spirit was a matter of course.

But later Qin Shi learned that the reason why her father died was because he was deliberately abandoned by the commander, just because his father had offended the commander, so when fighting the demon spirit, the commander who should have given the order to retreat deliberately did not give Qin Shi's father a retreat order, which caused Qin Shi's father to die.

Qin Shi knew the truth of the matter, but he didn't have the ability to seek justice for his father, so he could only leave his hometown to avoid being persecuted by that commander again.

Although Qin Shi also has the talent of a magic costume master, she has no financial resources and the support of big forces, and she lacks systematic training, so she can only take on some private work to barely make a living, relying on a spare set of E-level magic clothes left by her father.

I can't even get a high-end magic costume, let alone get justice for my father.

Until one time, Qin Shi took a job and joined a team of gem hunters to explore the ruins of an ancient city.

In the ruins of the city, they found the ruins of an ancient palace where the golden mask of the princess bride was found.

While discovering the princess bride's golden mask, the Gem Hunter team is attacked by demons, and the entire team is dead.

The magic costume left by Qin Shi's father was also damaged in that battle, and Qin Shi thought he was dead.

The strange thing was that the demon spirit glanced at Qin Shi who fell to the ground, and didn't give her the last fatal blow, so he turned around and left.

When Qin Shi came back to her senses, she crawled out of the tattered magic costume, only to find that the golden mask was pressed under her body, it was stained with her blood, and the ruby on the golden mask shimmered with a demonic brilliance like flame and blood.

Since Qin Shi got the golden mask, it suddenly became a lot smoother, and every time he took on a private job, he was able to save the day, and he quickly made a lot of money.

But soon Qin Shi discovered a serious problem, the ruby on the gold of the mask would become very hot every once in a while, and sometimes the heat could burn his hands.

Only when the ruby is placed with the gold mask will its temperature slowly decrease, and the ruby that with the gold mask, will disappear into thin air after a while.

Since then, Qin Shi has been feeding the golden mask with rubies, and she has also tried to sell the golden mask, or even bury it.

But as soon as she left the Golden Mask, a lot of unfortunate things would happen around her, and it wasn't until she got the Golden Mask back that those unfortunate things would stop happening, and then she would start to get smooth again.

For so many years, Qin Shi has been using rubies to feed the golden mask, but the appetite for the golden mask is getting bigger and bigger.

At first, an ordinary one-carat ruby can satisfy it, but later ordinary rubies can no longer satisfy it, and it must be a high-quality ruby.

In the last two years, it has been necessary to have pigeon's blood red quality gems to cool down the rubies on the gold mask, which is why she only accepts pigeon's blood rubies as a reward.

Qin Shi also thought of many ways to solve the problem of the golden mask, and she also inquired about the origin of the golden mask.

In the area where the ancient kingdom used to be, Qin Shi learned a legend about the princess mask from an old man.

A woman wearing a princess mask must find a man who truly loves her in order to dissolve the curse of the golden mask.

Otherwise, the Golden Mask will remain attached to the host until it dies.

Until the curse is lifted, if the Golden Mask is damaged, the host will also suffer misfortune.

Qin Shi had already tasted the misfortune brought to her by the golden mask, not to mention damaging the mask, even abandoning it would suffer misfortune.

Now that Li Xiu had lost the gems on the golden mask, Qin Shi thought that he was already in a catastrophe.

Qin Shi was not afraid of death, she was just afraid that she would die before she could get justice for her father.

"Don't worry, with me here, you won't suffer any more misfortunes." Li Xiu knew very well in his heart that Qin Shi's misfortune was not because of the golden mask, but because of the demon spirit in that ruby.

Now that the ruby has been swallowed by him, although it has not yet been able to turn it into a demon spirit ring, it has been suppressed, and Qin Shi should not be affected by it in the future.

Of course, Li Xiu was still not very sure if Qin Shi was completely unaffected, so he planned to let Qin Shi stay by his side for a while, so that it would be convenient for him to continue to observe, after all, this ruby was the first demon spirit gem that had not been directly contracted by him.

Qin Shi listened to Li Xiu's words, his pale cheeks flushed slightly, obviously misunderstood what he meant.

She had just told Li Xiu that she had to find a man who really loved her in order to be able to dissolve the curse of the Golden Mask.

Li Xiu told Qin Shi with such certainty now that with him, Qin Shi would not suffer any more misfortunes.

What else could this be if this is not a confession? Li Xiu was hinting at her that he was the man Qin Shi really loved.

"Just in case, you can follow me for the time being these days." Li Xiu said to Qin Shi.

"I see." Qin Shi lowered her head and said, now she is blushing so much and her heart is beating so hard that she doesn't dare to look at Li Xiu.

Li Xiu didn't see Qin Shi's face, and when he saw her head down, he thought she was tired, so he said, "You rest first, and go back with me tomorrow." ”

"Isn't it a little too fast?" Qin Shi was a little flustered in her heart: "Are you going to confirm the relationship with him soon?" Isn't that too fast? We don't seem to know each other very well yet...... But if the curse is lifted...... That means he truly loves me...... Even that was a little too fast...... What if he wants something to happen to me...... What should I do......"

"No way, I still have a lot of things to do over there, I can't stay here for too long, I can only bring you back. The conditions on my side are a bit harder, if you don't mind, you can sleep in my room, the bed and furniture are all left by the previous city lord, they are all high-end goods, the bed is big and soft. Li Xiu said.

"Then how can you ......" Qin Shi's heart beat even harder, and she couldn't help complaining a little in her heart: "How can you say such things to me, do I look like that kind of casual woman?" ”

Seeing Qin Shi's appearance, Li Xiu immediately realized that what he said seemed to be a little ambiguous, smiled and said, "There's nothing wrong with it, you sleep in my room, I can sleep in the guest room." ”

Qin Shi knew that she would be wrong when she heard this, she was a little embarrassed, she just wanted to say something, but before she could speak, she heard Li Xiu answer again: "Of course, if you want to sleep alone and are not used to it, I can also sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman, but there is a word first, the gentleman can only move his mouth, not his hands and feet, it is okay to chat, and then there are other requirements...... That's going to have to add money......"

"Get out!" Qin Shi's apology just now suddenly turned into shame and anger, and he directly grabbed a pillow and smashed it at Li Xiu.

"Get out, you can get some rest." Li Xiu caught the pillow, gently placed it on the side of the bed, turned around and left Qin Shi's room, and closed the door outside.

"Is this really the one who can lift the curse of the princess mask for me?" Qin Shi looked at the door that had been closed with a complicated expression, and he didn't move for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

Sha Lai had already prepared wine and food waiting for Li Xiu, Kun Sha and Pa Shan were also sitting, a few people had not seen each other for many days, so they were not unfamiliar at all, and they were not happy to drink wine and eat meat and brag.

"Li Xiu, are you interested in going to the trial ground with me? Recently, my luck is really not ordinary, I have been in the trial ground no less than 20 times during this time, but I have not met a single ticket, and I have not become a real trialist until now. Sha Lai had already drunk a little too much, and said with his shoulders on his back.

"Which proving ground? Crazy Ball Proving Ground? Hearing Sha Lai mention the trial ground, Li Xiu immediately became interested, except for the Black Death City, he had not been to other places of trial, in case of luck, he could meet the admission ticket, he could see other places of trial.

"No, the Crazy Ball Proving Ground is not for me, I'm still suitable for a wilder trial, I've been to the Boxing Proving Ground lately, and it's much more interesting than the Crazy Ball Proving Ground." Sha Lai said with a smile.

"Boxing Proving Ground, I don't seem to have heard of it before, what rules?" When Li Xiu was in Tailuo City before, he hadn't heard of this trial ground.

"Rules? There are no rules, the only rule is to see whose fists are hard ......" Sha Lai said with a twinkle in his eyes: "That thing is much more interesting than playing football, there are not so many rules, just do it." ”