On the premise of promising a good reward, the bearded bald boss hesitated for a moment and dialed his wife again.

After more than ten minutes of communication, the bearded bald boss got a response from his wife's client who promised to meet.

Subsequently, under the arrangement of the bearded bald boss, Ji Sheng came to meet in a coffee shop not far from the villa.

If he went to some hidden place, Ji Sheng might still suspect whether there was fraud, but in a public place like a coffee shop, he was not afraid at all.

Coffee shop entrance.

Ji Sheng and his entourage of four people had just gotten off the taxi.

A well-maintained white woman in her forties immediately greeted her and greeted, "Excuse me, is it Mr. Ji?" ”

Ji Sheng looked over and responded, "Yes, is it Mrs. Smith?" ”

The white woman smiled and said, "Well, come with me, Mr. Sharma is waiting for you." ”

Sharma?

How does this surname sound a bit like an Indian surname?

Ji Sheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but he still reacted quickly, "Okay, thank you, Mrs." ”

Mrs. Smith said nothing more, and took the initiative to lead the way in.

Cheng Hailin followed behind and whispered: "Boss, the surname Sharma is a bit like the high caste of Indian Brahmins, it shouldn't be an Indian who buys the bearded bald boss's house, right?" ”

Because Cheng Hailin uses Mandarin, Lao Ji and Master Cheng can understand it.

Lao Ji wondered: "What's wrong with the Indians?" ”

Master Cheng didn't understand it very well, and took the initiative to guess, "Isn't the law of the beautiful country that doesn't allow Indian high-caste people to buy houses?" ”

Ji Sheng was amused by his father and Master Cheng and laughed helplessly.

Cheng Hailin explained, "There is no shortage of money in India's high castes, especially people with Brahmin surnames, in ancient Indian society, they were born as gods, even if India has abolished the caste system now, Brahmin surnames are still noble, and they are generally rich." ”

Oh, yes.

The Brahmins are not short of money.

So Ji Sheng seemed a little helpless.

If the person who bought this mansion was replaced by someone else, he might still think that he was greedy for the low price of the luxury villa in the rich area, and then bought it at a high price, but if the other party is a person with a Brahmin surname, it will be troublesome, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get the villa from the other party just by quoting a high price.

Lao Ji and Master Cheng also understood what was going on under Cheng Hailin's explanation, and they were still very happy, because this was a murderous house, and they did not support Ji Sheng to buy such an ominous property at the beginning.

A few people chatted and came inside.

Mrs. Smith led them to a table in the corner, where sat a strangely dressed Caucasian Indian man, a trait that was almost easily recognizable to anyone who had watched Indian movies and television shows.

This Caucasian Indian man was probably in his fifties, with a bare head, a long beard, and more importantly, this man looked very thin, not normal thin, a bit like a sadly masochistic thin.

"Mr. Sharma, these are the people who want to see you." Mrs. Smith introduced the crowd, "This young gentleman is Mr. Ji. ”

As for the others, Mrs. Smith did not know the information, so naturally she did not introduce them.

Sharma squeezed out a smile and stretched out his thin palm, "Hello, Mr. Ji." ”

Ji Sheng shook hands with him, "Hello, Mr. Sharma. ”

After a brief acquaintance, Ji Sheng and his entourage of four sat down at the coffee table.

Sharma stared at Ji Sheng for a long time and didn't say anything.

Ji Sheng originally wanted to order a few cups of coffee, but when he saw Sharma's strange eyes, he was a little frightened, and forgot to call the waiter.

After staring at him for about two minutes, Ji Sheng couldn't stand it a little and was about to ask.

Suddenly, Sharma spoke, and he said hoarsely in a broken gong voice: "You are also here for the fragments of Black Orlov?" ”

Ji Sheng: "??? ”

Black Orlov shards?

What's that?

He was really confused.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Hailin spoke, "Black Orlov? Isn't that black diamond at the Natural History Museum in London, England? ”

As soon as these words came out, Sharma instantly became disinterested, "Oh, that's nothing. ”

Ji Sheng didn't understand what it meant, and took the initiative to say: "Then I don't know if Mr. Sharma can transfer this house to me?" The price is negotiable. ”

"Nope." Sharma shook his head and refused directly, and even he didn't seem to want Ji Sheng to bother anymore, so he cut off all back roads, "I won't sell this suite if you pay 10 billion, okay, I'm still a little bit of a departure in advance." ”

After speaking, he got up and left without giving Ji Sheng a chance to speak.

Lao Ji and Master Cheng couldn't understand English, and they were a little confused when they saw Sharma suddenly get up and leave.

Not to mention the two of them, even Ji Sheng is very confused, what's the situation? Willing to see me just to ask if you came for the "Black Orlov Shard"?

Mrs. Smith also said apologetically at this time: "Mr. Ji, I'm really sorry, I have already signed a contract with the other party, otherwise I can let you bid." ”

Cheng Hailin saw that Ji Sheng cared about this house very much, frowned and said, "Isn't it a lot of process to buy real estate in a beautiful country?" Generally, it takes about 30 days to complete the whole process, right? If my boss is willing to pay liquidated damages, can you default and sell the house to us before closing? ”

Ji Sheng is clear about this, buying a house in a beautiful country generally has to complete a lot of procedures such as paying a deposit, handling a loan, final inspection of the house and signing the transfer, according to the reason, as long as the transfer is not handled, it can be breached, and it is a big deal to compensate for liquidated damages.

But he didn't have any hope for it, because Sharma was so resolute just now, it was obvious that the transfer had been completed.

Sure enough, Mrs. Smith said helplessly: "I have already settled with him, he didn't even ask to inspect the house, let alone apply for a loan, after I offered a price of 10 million dollars, Sharma didn't even pay back, signed a contract with me directly, and then called someone to transfer money to my husband's pawn shop account, about two hours ago to go through the transfer procedures, I don't know how long it will take to complete the transfer procedures in Huaxia, but one hour in New York." ”

Hearing this, Ji Sheng's heart sank, it seems that this house and that Sharma are determined to win.

If you say that, I'm afraid that the "best place to farm energy" that I envisioned before will basically have nothing to do with me.

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It was an hour or two late.

Ji Sheng felt very helpless, but there was no way to do it, after all, an hour or two ago, he was still in the plane, how could he come over? Even if he had the two magic skills of time reversal and positioning teleportation, it would be impossible to turn things around.

After all, according to the current maximum value of the system, Ji Sheng can only go back a few minutes.

Mrs. Smith said her apologetic words and left.

The distraught Ji Sheng ordered a few cups of coffee casually and sat there depressed.

Master Cheng wanted to comfort him, "Boss, if you can't buy this house, you can buy something else." ”

Cheng Hailin agreed: "Yes, there is not only this one mansion in the wealthy area of Manhattan, which one to buy is not to buy." ”

Lao Ji also pointed not far away and said: "On the way here just now, I saw that the apartment building at No. 740 Park Avenue is good, do you want to buy an apartment?" ”

Master Cheng said in surprise, "Huh? Boss, haven't you ever been to New York? How do you still know about Park Avenue? ”

Cheng Hailin also said happily: "Isn't it, the apartment building at No. 740 Apartment Avenue is not cheap, and the median price of an apartment is $44.6 million, which is more expensive than buying a villa." ”

Lao Ji was taken aback, "So expensive? ”

Cheng Hailin explained: "The building you just saw is very big, right? In fact, there are only 31 apartments in total, and it seems that 3 have been sold so far, and the 14 that are temporarily listed for sale are relatively simple duplex apartments, with only 14 rooms, and the price tag is almost 30 million US dollars. ”

Lao Ji was stunned: "Obediently, the 30 million US dollars for fourteen rooms has not reached the median price?" How luxurious do the apartments have to be? ”

Of course, Ji Sheng knew how luxurious the apartments in the cooperative apartment building built in 1930 were, and he went to see it when he was about to buy a house in the 80s, for example, the apartment he had seen had 34 rooms and a total area of more than 1,800 square meters, but he preferred a single-family villa, so he didn't buy it.

Listening to the conversation between his father, Master Cheng and Cheng Hailin, Ji Sheng couldn't help but sigh again.

Indeed, according to what they said, even if you buy a house casually, you can also brush energy values at will with the function of positioning and teleportation, but the problem is that it is not safe.

First of all, there are other residents in this apartment building, and they are all political or business tycoons, such as Schwartzman, the CEO of Blackstone's current plane.

What does this mean?

The representative is very safe.

In other words, there is nothing to say about the property in terms of protecting the owners, there will be a large number of security personnel patrolling and a tight monitoring system.

Secondly, because everyone knows that this apartment building is inhabited by wealthy people, there are often first-class thieves who come to visit, and these thieves are not built at a high level, even if they are closely monitored and patrolled by many security personnel, they cannot be found, according to Ji Sheng's knowledge, in 2013 alone, there were four jewelry thefts in the building.

If he brushes energy in such an apartment, he will be found flawed if he is not careful, and don't expose the system at that time, then Ji Sheng will not have a peaceful life.

In the end, Ji Sheng bought an apartment here, and when he returned to the eighties, he had to buy another one, which was very troublesome.

And the previous villa was different, Ji Sheng had already bought it in the eighties, plus the murder house, there had been more than one homicide, and no one even wanted to sell it at a low price, let alone a thief.

Who would steal a house that no one lives in? Besides, the curse of this house is so serious, there have been three or four homicides in succession, and the thief can't steal the money, not to mention, and there may be a "curse", and ordinary people really don't want to patronize it, after all, the vast majority of people in the beautiful country are religious and quite superstitious.

Therefore, this mansion is the best choice for Ji Sheng to brush energy.

It's just that Sharma refuses to sell the house, and Ji Sheng can't do anything about it.

was struggling, an important piece of information suddenly came to his mind, and he hurriedly looked up at Cheng Hailin, who was talking to his father about the society and humanities of the beautiful country, "Xiao Cheng, I want to ask you something." ”

Cheng Hailin hurriedly stopped talking, "What's the matter?" ”

"What was the black Orlof that Sharma was talking about?" Ji Sheng asked.

Cheng Hailin was surprised: "Boss, aren't you engaged in the collection industry, you don't know such a famous rare treasure?" ”

Master Cheng scolded angrily: "Your father is also engaged in the collectibles industry, don't I know something?" Where is there so much nonsense, the boss asks you to answer well. ”

"Eh, Lao Cheng, what are you doing here? Xiao Cheng just felt surprised and asked Xiao Sheng casually, what are you doing? Lao Ji persuaded.

Ji Sheng knew that Master Cheng was maintaining the majesty of his boss, but he didn't care about this kind of trivial matter, he took the initiative to explain, "This thing sounds like a treasure in the West, and Sharma only said it was a black diamond just now, and I don't know much about the rest." ”

"Boss, you should know, I'll give you another name for this rare treasure." Cheng Hailin paused, and then said solemnly: "Founder's Eye, have you heard of it?" ”

it!

It's this thing!

Of course Ji Sheng had heard of this.

The Eye of the Creator is a rare and weighty black diamond, originally weighing 195 carats, it was originally the eye of the Hindu god "Brahma", and then it was quietly taken down by a greedy monk, and then the monk disappeared mysteriously, life and death are unknown, since then the folk began to circulate this matter was blamed by the gods, leaving a curse on the black diamond, this series of changes completely made the "Eye of the Founder" become a famous diamond in the jewelry world.

This "curse" is not just talking.

According to Ji Sheng's knowledge, the previous owners of this black diamond all suffered accidents, and they all ended their lives by jumping off the building and committing suicide, and these three former owners are all famous and traceable, and no one made them up.

For example, the 18th-century Russian princesses Nadia and Leonilla both committed suicide in 1947, and Paris, a New York jeweler who imported the diamond to the beautiful country, also committed suicide by jumping off a building shortly after the black diamond was sold.

Because of this, the next owner of the black diamond was afraid of being cursed again, and in order to break the legendary evil power, the owner found a monk to guide him, and then divided the Eye of the Creator into three, and then it was held by a private collector, and no more accidents were reported.

However, after being divided, the Founder's Eye became mysterious, and only one of the 67.5 carat black diamonds was reproduced at the 1990 New York auction, and the other two were missing.

The 67.5-carat black diamond is now in the Natural History Museum in London.

After learning this information, thinking about what Sharma said, Ji Sheng blinked his eyes and said: "Xiao Cheng, you said that there were so many murders in that villa, and the Brahmin high caste bought this murder mansion desperately, could it be because one of the three pieces of the Eye of the Creator was in the murder mansion?" ”

Cheng Hailin was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said: "According to the legend of the Eye of the Creator, there have been murders in this house one after another, and what you said is really possible." ”

Lao Ji and Cheng Hailin didn't understand what was going on at first, so they asked about it, and Cheng Hailin explained it to them.

The two men shuddered when they heard this.

Lao Ji trembled a little when he spoke, "Xiao Sheng, if this is really the case, then you can't buy this house." ”

Master Cheng nodded thoughtfully, "Isn't it, according to what Hailin said, this black diamond was divided into three pieces, among which the well-known 67.5 carat black diamond holder did not have any accidents, indicating that the curse is not in that black diamond, then there is only one possibility, the curse is actually in the other two black diamonds, and the mansion you want to buy has murders one after another, if there is indeed a fragment of the Eye of the Creator, I'm afraid the curse is in that black diamond, you must not be stupid." ”

"Look at your superstitions." Ji Sheng sneered and said: "If there is really a curse in this world, what do you need aircraft cannons for?" ”

Lao Ji said: "It's better to believe it than to believe it." ”

Master Cheng nodded in agreement, "That is, human beings should be in awe of unknown energy. ”

Cheng Hailin disagreed: "I think the boss is right, people, they should be materialistic, where are there so many supernatural events in the world?" ”

"What happened to the previous masters of the Eye of the Creator?"

"It must be a coincidence, hey, Dad, old boss, don't be superstitious all day long, look at the boss, more materialistic."

The three of them talked about superstitions over there, and the conversation gradually returned to the peerless black diamond of the Creator's Eye.

People who play antique collection are somewhat superstitious, especially when Master Cheng is old, and he is even more superstitious.

Ji Sheng is also a college graduate, of course, it is impossible to easily accept this fact, what age is this, it is no longer the era of demons and feudal superstition, superstition will only harm people, people who have gone to school know this, to be a man, you must believe in science, you must be firm in materialist thinking.

So, Ji Sheng saw that the three of them were chatting happily, and didn't notice his actions, he nodded slightly, his eyes became serious, he took out a coin from his pocket, and then recited the words very reverently and quietly: "If it is positive, it means that the black diamond curse is real, and if it is negative, it is fake." ”

With that, he put the coin on the table and turned it around.

Jingle bells.

The coin spun for a short while, and finally fell down without any follow-up.

Ji Sheng looked at it fixedly, and almost didn't recite it in one breath, why is it actually positive?

Lao Ji, Cheng Hailin and Master Cheng were originally talking about the Eye of the Creator, but they were all stunned when they inadvertently saw Ji Sheng's action.

Lao Ji asked curiously, "Son, what are you doing?" ”

Ji Sheng sneered, "I'll tell if the curse is real." ”

Lao Ji: "......"

Master Cheng: "......"

Cheng Hailin: "......"

Nima, just now you kept telling everyone not to be superstitious, and as a result, you divination yourself?

Especially when Cheng Hailin heard Ji Sheng's words, his head was full of black lines, and he had been fighting for Ji Sheng and his father Master Cheng for a long time just now.

All right.

Ji Sheng is a little superstitious, but this is something that can't be helped, after all, he has even obtained the system of traveling through time and space, who knows if there is a curse in this world?

Of course, although the coin finally fell on the head, Ji Sheng was still determined to get the suite.

The curse is only for the black diamond, not the house.

He lived in the eighties for so long, and it was okay to prove that the house was fine.

And Ji Sheng was also inspired by this, there is a way to successfully get the mansion from Sharma, the way is very simple, the other party's purpose in buying this house is nothing more than to see if there is a creator's eye in it, as long as he can prove that the founder's eye is indeed not in the mansion, the other party will soon be willing to sell the house?

But how do you prove that the Founder's Eye is not in the mansion?

Ji Sheng thought of a key clue again, didn't he auction a fragment of the Creator's Eye in 1990? Wouldn't it be okay to find a seller in advance in the 80s and buy the black diamond?

As for why it's exactly the same, does the question matter?

As long as Sharma needs the Eye of the Creator, what he brought back is also true, and he can't change it for another house?

And Ji Sheng can foresee that if he brings back the Eye of the Creator, he may not only change to the house he wants, but also make a lot of money from it.

Well, I'll search for information about the owner of the Eye of the Creator later, and then go back to the eighties to buy it at night while everyone is asleep.

While Ji Sheng thought of an idea, he wondered if he would turn his villa inside out in the eighties, don't really have a black diamond when there is a curse, this thing has a curse, he doesn't want to be cursed.

Regardless of whether the curse is superstitious or not, even if it is only one in ten thousand, Ji Sheng will not gamble, it is still more important to live a small life, and he thinks that it is difficult to say whether there is a black diamond of the Eye of the Creator in the mansion of this time and space, but it is very likely that the time and space in the eighties will exist, after all, according to the normal timeline, there were three homicides in that house within a period of time after he took over.

It's a hot potato, after all, it killed so many people.

Ji Sheng must find a way to deal with it.

Well, he's a little superstitious.

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