175 Double pupil
◎She is not her◎
"Wait!" None of the players present wanted Qi Qiuxue to go through this. As if on a whim, Liu Ge hurriedly asked, "What if we only extract a portion of the treasure and burn it?"
【Can't. 】
The system responded quickly.
【Please ensure the integrity of the treasure. 】
"What about the extent of the burning?" Wu Shanyue asked anxiously, "Does it have to be completely burned?!"
System: [Yes.]
[Players, please remember the following three points when collectively burning treasures: 1. The treasures you put in must be the original treasures. Copying, impersonating, or any other attempt to alter the original nature of a treasure is illegal.]
[2. Must be a complete item. Note: If the item is broken or incomplete before being collected by the player, this rule can be ignored as long as the system passes the judgment (applicable only to a single item).]
[3. All collected treasures must be burned to ashes. Before this, no human intervention is allowed.]
[You only have one chance to burn. Please follow the above rules and do not try to break the rules or take shortcuts. Otherwise, you will not be able to obtain the silk thread, which will affect the crafting of the Thousand Knots.]
The words have been made very clear.
“…”
The atmosphere fell silent at this moment. After a while, Wu Shanyue opened his mouth but could not make any sound.
The system's notification continued, the cold voice sounding quite inhumane: [If there are no further questions, please continue...]
"I have another question," Qi Qiuxue interrupted. "We only need to follow these three points, right? What about the treasure's condition?"
"If a treasure was originally a living entity, but its state changed during incineration, becoming a lifeless object, while its original properties remained unchanged, would this violate the rules?"
The system quickly responded: [No, as long as the treasure is itself—]
[Whether it is life or death, it is all right.]
This also left some room for her to choose how she died and at whose hands she died before being completely burned.
"I have no further questions."
After a moment, Qi Qiuxue nodded and said softly.
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Li Yiqing arrived quickly.
Even though she knew she could not escape death, Qi Qiuxue remained calm and there was no fear on her face. On the contrary, Li Yiqing, who rushed over, had complex emotions in his eyes.
Their eyes met in mid-air. Li Yiqing stood in front of her, as if he had a lot to say but didn't know how to start.
After a while, the first three words that came out were: "I'm sorry."
Qi Qiuxue knew what she was talking about, and also knew what kind of mood the other person was in when she said this. In fact, pain can never be measured by life and death. Sometimes, whether it is life or death, no matter what choice you make, it will hurt.
So Qi Qiuxue raised her hand and gently stroked Li Yiqing's cheek, responding to her with a smile.
Said: "It doesn't matter."
“…”
Qi Qiuxue didn't let the heavy atmosphere continue. She looked at Li Yiqing and the other players present, and quickly changed the subject: "Fortunately, we have a god-level item. With its help, things won't get too bad."
"There are still four days until the time to sacrifice Qianqianjie. In order to prevent any missed clues from affecting the final rating, my suggestion is that we search this house as thoroughly as possible in the next two days."
"Two days later, if no new clues emerge, I will be killed by A-Qing as a treasure. Then everyone will burn my body along with the other treasures, and rush to create the Qianqian Knot before my birthday."
"good."
"Understood."
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded, then turned her gaze back to Li Yiqing and asked with concern, "Did you encounter any danger while collecting the Third Miss's treasures?"
"No." Li Yiqing shook his head. "On the contrary, everything went smoothly. When I arrived at her residence, Li Zhinuo was not in the room."
"Not here?" Qi Qiuxue's voice was filled with doubt. They walked shoulder to shoulder towards the guest room. "Where could she be going?"
You know, from the time they entered the game until now, except for that day's meal, the third young lady has never left her residence.
"I had no idea at first," Li Yiqing said. "She didn't even accept any servants to accompany her. She left alone. The absence of the main NPC made everything much easier. I used my identity as the eldest daughter to easily enter her room and quickly searched for any suspicious items before she returned."
"The first thing I found were a few letters hidden deep under the bed. There were no words on them, only strings of Braille. I quickly read through them and found out the writer wasn't from the Li family. She was from outside, and her identity was probably a member of an underground moneylender. Her job was related to printing, which is generally speaking, loan sharking."
"Does Li Zhinuo owe any debt?" Su Wen wondered.
"No." Li Yiqing shook his head. "On the contrary, she is the owner of the underground bank and the one who lends money."
"This bank was recently established and has managed to amass a large amount of funds in a short period of time. It was established around the time Li Zhinuo was found after his disappearance."
"This timing is very strange." Bai Shien said.
Li Yiqing: "Yes, I later found more information from various places in the room, including some newspapers, documents, letters, and several photos."
"The writer of the letter is basically the same person. She and Li Zhinuo finalized everything in the letter. They would meet secretly on a certain day and at a certain time. Li Zhinuo would give her the gold, silver, and jewelry he had looted from the Li family as capital for running the bank."
"But there are more clues worth exploring. Through those newspapers and documents, I discovered that she was intentionally collecting information about herself, even down to her height, weight, clothing style, daily habits, hobbies, tastes, and so on."
"This is so strange." Wu Shanyue was stunned and muttered, "It's as if... she doesn't understand herself."
"Didn't they say that she had memory problems after being found and forgot a lot of things?" Su Wen took a deep breath. "If that's the case, then her actions don't seem to be wrong."
"Indeed." Li Yiqing said quickly, "I thought so too, until I carefully examined those photos."
"Those photos were taken a few years ago. The girl in the photos looks basically the same as Li Zhinuo now, but she is younger."
"The only thing worth noting is the eyes," Li Yiqing said. "The person in the photo has extremely rare double pupils."
As the name suggests, double pupil means there are two pupils in one eye. This situation is rare in life and is a congenital disease.
Qi Qiuxue suddenly recalled the photos she saw in Mrs. Han's room. Unlike what Li Yiqing described, Li Zhinuo in those photos had completely normal pupils.
“…”
"So the Third Miss isn't the Third Miss." Qi Qiuxue finally understood. "The Li Zhinuo before she disappeared and the so-called Li Zhinuo who was found are actually not the same person at all. They just look very similar."
"Yes," Li Yiqing confirmed her thoughts. "Wherever the real Third Miss Li went, whether she's dead or alive, we still don't know. But what is certain is that based on these detailed records and the dates in the newspapers, we can roughly infer that her disappearance is inextricably linked to the current 'Li Zhinuo'."
"She had been planning this all along, determined to replace the Third Young Lady and become a member of the Li family. She could use various excuses to conceal some minor details, but not her eyes."
"So she gouged out her own eyes," Li Yiqing said. "Only in this way could she fully become Li Zhinuo and fulfill her wish."
"So the answer to what her treasure was was already clear. Later, I found a secret compartment in her room. When I opened it, I found a small bottle of liquid, and within that liquid, there happened to be two eyeballs."
After saying that, she took out Li Zhinuo's treasure and showed it to everyone. As she moved, the two eyeballs floated up and down in the liquid.
——There are four pupils in the two eyeballs.
【Author’s words】
Here we go! I'll try to update more tomorrow. It's so late today and I'm so tired. Everyone, go to bed early!
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