"Can you take me to see the person who dug up the pink spinel crystal?" Li Xiu asked the fat man.

"Who are you? Why do you want me to lead the way for you?" The fat man widened his eyes, with an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Do you know what this is?" Li Xiu took out a magic core and shook it in front of the fat man.

"Tsk, it's just a magic core, everyone has seen it." The fat man said with a sneer.

"Lead me the way and it will be yours." Li Xiu threw the magic core to the fat man.

After the fat man caught the magic core, he immediately laughed: "It's just to lead the way, no problem, follow me."

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

"Brother, I think you are not bad. I have to give you a piece of advice." The fat man said as he walked, "That guy's disease is very evil. You'd 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: "Brother, you are really straightforward. I usually don't tell them about this. Seeing that you are so straightforward, I will tell you the truth. The disease that guy has is not ordinary..."

The fat man told Li Xiu the whole cause and effect of the incident, which made Li Xiu even more suspicious that the evil might be in that person.

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

As a result, dozens of miners dug for several days, but all they dug out were useless stones, and not even a single inferior raw stone was found.

The fat man thought that he would never be able to find any gems in this shabby place, and since it didn't cost him much money anyway, he didn't care much about it.

Who would have thought that during the time when Fatty was not there, a few miners secretly went down to the mine to dig, and they actually dug up some pink spinel rough.

Of course, Fatty didn’t know this at the time. Later, the miners who found the pink spinel took the raw stone out and sold it.

Someone noticed that the miner suddenly became rich, spent money lavishly, and even paid off all his previous debts. The news reached Fatty, who did a little investigation and discovered the problem.

At that time, the fat man called a group of people together. He was going to cause trouble for the miner and make him spit out all the raw stones he had stolen.

A group of people rushed to the miner's home in a rage, only to see the miner lying half-dead on the bed with many sores on his body, some of the wounds were infested with maggots.

The scene scared the fat man and his group so much that they were afraid of being infected, so they ran away without asking any questions.

"Brother, why 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." said the fat man.

"I have something to ask him. I hope he is still alive." Li Xiu said casually.

The fat man took them to a row of wooden houses on the outskirts of the city and said, "Originally, there were several other miners living here, but they were afraid of being infected, so they moved away a long time ago. They would rather sleep in tents than come back. He lives here alone, and we don't know if he's dead or not."

The fat man was talking, but he refused to move forward: "Brother, I won't go over there. You guys go find him yourself."

After saying that, the fat man turned around and trotted away.

"Wait for me outside." Li Xiu said to the bandit, and then walked towards the wooden house that the fat man mentioned.

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

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

The wooden house was very simple and small. As soon as I entered the door, I saw a wooden bed on the left with a person lying on it.

The man had long been so thin that he was unrecognizable. He was covered with a sheet, and his arms and face, which were exposed, were covered with festering sores. Waves of foul odor were felt in the air.

"The fatty really isn't exaggerating." Li Xiu almost vomited when he saw that there were actually maggots crawling on the ulcer on his arm.

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

"No... need... anymore..." The man's lips trembled and he spoke a few words with difficulty. His throat seemed to be rotten and his voice sounded very strange.

"Don't you want to live anymore?" Li Xiu asked.

“I…can’t…live…anymore…that…thing…is…almost…eating…up…my…body…” The man’s words were eerie and terrifying.

"What is it?" Li Xiu asked hurriedly.

"Treasure...gem..." The man wanted to cough, but after stretching his neck a few times, it seemed as if his throat was blocked and he couldn't cough out.

"Let me take you to the hospital first." Li Xiu said as he walked towards the man.

The man shook his head with great effort to refuse: "Really... it's... not... necessary... I deserved it..."

The man seemed to be in better spirits, and spoke more fluently than before, slowly saying out what he had been holding back in his heart.

He didn't care who Li Xiu was. He was about to die anyway, so he just wanted to finish what he was saying.

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

Later, the fat man no longer cared about the mine, and all the miners were sent back.

But this miner was a gambler and owed a lot of debts. Thinking of the fat man's mine, he found a few other miners and wanted to try his luck again.

Who knew that they actually dug up some spinel rough stones, but there were not many. Each person only dug up a few not-so-large spinel rough stones.

At that time, this guy unexpectedly discovered a very high-quality and large spinel rough stone. He became greedy and secretly swallowed the rough stone. He did not want to share this high-quality rough stone with other miners.

I originally thought that after I came back, I would take some laxatives and then pull the gem out.

Who would have thought that after returning, after taking so much laxatives that he was almost dehydrated, he didn't even see the shadow of the gem.

The guy didn't take it seriously at the time. He thought that he would wait until he felt better and then take some drastic measures to get the gem out no matter what.

Who knew that after he sold the raw stones he was given, he would have health problems after just a few days of living a carefree life. Not only did his whole body slowly become dehydrated, which no amount of water could replenish, but he also developed pustules all over his body.

Within a few days, he turned into this horrible appearance, and it became worse day by day.

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

"If you come for the gems, I beg you to kill me and give me a quick death. After I die, you can do whatever you want. Just cut open my stomach and you should be able to find the spinel raw stone." The miner said with difficulty.

"Okay." Li Xiu nodded.

He didn't mind getting his hands dirty with blood. The miners' current situation was indeed worse than death, and living on would only be suffering.

"Okay, then hurry up and do it. I can't stand it for another second." The miner's lips trembled, as if he was enduring great pain.

Li Xiu put his hand on his waist, and saw a flash of red light. The Fire Lotus Sword had pierced his head, causing the miner to lose consciousness and his life.

"This is all I can do for you." Li Xiu drew out his sword, without a single drop of blood left on the blade.

After making sure that the miner was completely dead, Li Xiu looked at his abdomen.

Li Xiu guessed that the spinel stone swallowed by the miner might be host to "evil". After he swallowed the spinel stone, it was equivalent to the evil parasitizing his body.

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

Therefore, the miner was not infected with any virus or curse. It was just that he could not withstand the parasitism of evil that caused this situation.

This is because the evil had already been parasitic in the gem before, instead of directly in his body, otherwise the situation would only be worse.

Li Zhengxing wanted to dissect his body and take out the spinel inside, but suddenly he saw a bulge in his stomach.

Because his body was covered with a sheet, Li Xiu couldn't see what was going on underneath. He only saw that there seemed to be a pillar inside his stomach, pushing his belly up.

As Li Zhengxing was staring at it, he heard a "pop" sound, and the miner's belly split open, and something rolled out from inside.

Li Xiu took a few steps back and when he looked carefully again, he found that a pink raw stone the size of a pigeon egg had rolled to the ground.

The pink raw stone was like a dirty jelly, rolling around on the ground, as if looking for something.

After a while, the pink raw stone seemed to have found its position and rolled towards Li Xiu.

Li Xiu picked up the glass on the table next to him and dropped it on the ground, trapping the pink raw stone inside.

The pink raw stone spun around in the glass, making the glass clink.

After a while, the pink raw stone suddenly calmed down, and then clear water-like liquid was seen seeping out from the pink raw stone.

The raw stone was only the size of a pigeon egg, but the liquid that seeped out was almost filling up the glass. No one knew how it got into the raw stone.

"It's really it!" Li Xiu was overjoyed. Seeing that this guy was trying to get into the gap in the wooden floor, Li Xiu simply turned the glass over and then used the base of another glass to block the mouth of the glass.

"Little guy, don't be afraid. I will find a good host for you." Li Xiu glanced at the miner's body, pondered for a moment, and walked out of the wooden house.

"A Fei, please help me hire a few people to bury the bodies of the miners inside." Li Xiu said to A Fei.

The bandit responded and turned to walk towards the village in the distance.

Not long after walking, I saw Fatty standing not far away looking over here. When he saw Ah Fei coming over, he was wearing a mask and asked from a distance, "Why did you come back alone? Where's that brother?"

"The miner is dead. Go find a few people to bury the body. You will get some benefits for sure." The bandit said.

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

"Don't worry, he doesn't have any infectious disease." said the Fei.

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

"Everyone who comes will be given a magic core. I don't care how many people you find or how much you give them. It's up to you." Ah Fei said with a frown.

"This..." The fat man hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Ten magic cores, I will help you do this."

"Okay, go ahead and do it." Ah Fei didn't want to waste time on such things. Their time was more valuable than these lowest-level magic cores.

The fat man was very skillful. After a while, he called seven or eight young villagers wearing masks. Those villagers bravely went to the miner's house. When they saw the miner's body, two villagers couldn't help but vomited.

Fortunately, their money was strong enough, and the villagers cautiously wrapped the body with a mat, then carried the body out on a bed, found a nearby cemetery, dug a hole and buried him.

The fat man then came over with a smile on his face to ask for money, with the mask still covering his face tightly.

The bandit gave him ten magic cores and originally wanted to send him away, but who knew that the fat man would not leave and even rubbed against Li Xiu.

"Brother, are you interested in these miners? I also know where several other miners live. Do you want to go and take a look?" the fat man said to Li Xiu.

"Are the other miners also sick?" Li Xiu asked.

"Not really." The fat man shook his head.

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

"You want to see a sick patient? Then you should have told me earlier. I know a lot of sick people. No matter what disease you want to see, I can find one for you." The fat man hurriedly followed, talking about the patients he knew as he walked.

"Maybe later. I have something else to do. Come see me next time." Li Xiu was too lazy to pay attention to him.

The fat man had tasted the sweetness and was still unwilling to give up. He racked his brains and said, "Brother, you are a doctor, right? If you want to treat difficult and complicated diseases, I know a lot about it. Not long ago, the daughter of a big mine owner in the city got a strange disease. I'm sure you will be interested. How about I tell you about it?"

Seeing that Li Xiu was silent and kept on walking, the fat man moved his bloated body to catch up with Li Xiu's pace. While wiping the sweat from his forehead, he said, "The big mine owner has several gem mines at home. He has rubies, sapphires and so on. He has everything he wants. But his little daughter doesn't like these. She only likes cobalt spinel. But this makes the big mine owner feel troubled."

"Although Guyue City is the origin of top-grade cobalt rare-crystal, he just doesn't have any cobalt spinel ore. You know cobalt spinel, right? It's extremely rare. Ordinary blue spinel is colored by iron, so the blue spinel is a bit gray. But cobalt spinel is colored by cobalt, the blue is bright and pure, and the fire color is not inferior to blue diamond. It is known as the blue enchantress among spinels."

"The daughter of the big mine owner likes this rare cobalt spinel. The big mine owner is not short of money. He always spends a lot of money to buy cobalt spinel jewelry for his most beloved little daughter. I heard that his little daughter's room is full of cobalt spinel decorations. One room is enough to buy a small city."

"After talking for so long, what exactly do you want to say?" Li Xiu had been listening to him talking about cobalt spinel, but didn't hear any illness.

Of course, Li Xiu didn’t want to know what the illness was, he just thought it was a bit noisy.

"Listen to me. Some time ago, about one or two months ago, the big mine owner's youngest daughter turned eighteen. The big mine owner gave her a very valuable necklace. Blue diamonds and red diamonds are valuable enough, right? In that necklace, the valuable blue diamonds and red diamonds are just supporting roles. The real protagonist is a round-cut cobalt spinel of more than 20 carats. That is the protagonist of the whole necklace."

"Let me tell you, I've never seen such a beautiful spinel. The blue color is simply amazing... What's more amazing is that the cobalt spinel is a color-changing cobalt spinel. In the sunlight, it is an enchanting blue, and under the incandescent light, it is a mysterious purple. Anyway, it is the kind of gem that is so beautiful that it is indescribable. In front of it, I feel that blue diamonds and sapphires are all rubbish. Only it is the peerless beauty among sapphires..." The fat man's eyes were shining, and they were about to turn into the shape of coins.

"If you don't tell me the point, I'm really leaving." Li Xiu had also heard of cobalt spinel, but the cobalt spinel on the market was very murky. Many of them were processed, and natural cobalt spinel was not that easy to buy.

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

"Here comes the point. Ever since the mine owner's little daughter got the necklace, she loved it so much that she wore it all day. But after that, some strange things happened..."

Li Xiu felt that it was a pity that the fat guy didn't go to tell stories. His ramblings made people want to listen more.

"The mine owner's little daughter was originally a very innocent, lively and kind girl, but since she put on the necklace, her personality has gradually changed. During the day, she became taciturn and liked to lock herself in the room, not even leaving the house for the whole day. Moreover, her personality became very cold and ruthless. Those servants who used to like her very much would be severely punished by her for the slightest thing. I heard that someone was killed."

"At night, the little girl seemed like a different person. She was so charming. If the big mine owner hadn't discovered something was wrong in time, I guess all the young men in the surrounding villages would have been seduced by her..." At this point, the fat man couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "The doctors who came to treat the little girl said that she had schizophrenia or split personality or something like that. But many people here privately said that she was possessed by a ghost. They all said that there was a ghost in the color-changing cobalt spinel on the necklace..."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiu could not help but stop and thought to himself, "Could it be that there is a demon spirit inside that color-changing cobalt spinel?"