"If they weren't taken away, where would the batch of spinel raw stones be?" Li Xiu saw that the outside was surrounded by evil spirits and it was unlikely to escape. Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he casually studied it.
Judging from the extent of the collapse of the house, it must have been damaged by external forces. In addition, the house itself was not built very well. There are broken pieces everywhere in the house, and the furniture has long been decayed. The wood of the table is rotten, and the drawers are crumbling at the touch.
After looking around for a while, I didn't find any place to hide the gems, and I didn't see any safes or anything.
Come to think of it, this place has been abandoned for who knows how many years, and many people must have been here. If there really was something here, it would have been looted long ago. Instead of wasting time, it would be better to take a break and think about how to escape from the encirclement of the evil spirits.
"I'll kill you if you move again." Li Xiu pinched the things in the bag, trying to get it to be quiet and stop moving around.
Unfortunately, the thing inside didn’t understand human language and kept twisting and turning, trying to rush out of the bag.
Taking a look at the situation outside, there were more demons surrounding the building. Some of them secretly climbed up from the back of the building, but they were all dealt with by the Jedi Knights and the demigod Setsuna.
The Chrysanthemum Knight stood in the front, not at all afraid of the swarms of demons.
Of course, this is because he has no brains and is just a tool. If he really had intelligence, he would have betrayed us long ago.
"I hope Sha Chu can win." Li Xiu has seen many demons and knows that the groups of demons outside are not real demons, but split bodies of the demon fighting Sha Chu.
Li Xiu had encountered evil spirits with the ability to split several times before, and he had also encountered evil spirits with even stronger abilities than this evil spirit.
The clones summoned by the evil spirit could almost be called a sea of evil spirits. If Li Xiu had not acted quickly and eliminated the evil spirits in a short period of time, the entire city would probably have been eaten up by the evil spirit's clones without leaving anything behind.
The clone of this evil spirit is much weaker than its original body. It is obvious that its ability is still not enough and is much worse than those Li Xiu has encountered before.
As long as the original body of the evil spirit is destroyed, these evil spirit clones will quickly age and die, so it still depends on whether Sha Chu is strong enough.
Looking at the group of demon clones outside, Li Xiu was suddenly stunned.
He discovered a strange phenomenon. In addition to this building, there were several other buildings not far away.
Those small bungalow-like buildings, although even more dilapidated than here, were also built with reinforced concrete.
Li Xiu previously thought that these evil spirit clones could only come out of the soil, and that reinforced concrete had a certain impact on the evil spirits' abilities, so they came here to take refuge.
Facts also verified Li Xiu's guess that those evil spirit clones could not drill out from under the concrete foundation of this building.
But now Li Xiu discovered that there were demons coming out from the concrete floors of the buildings not far away. The concrete floors, like the dirt floors next to them, seemed to have become soft and sticky.
Even the walls and roof of the building were like slowly melting chocolate, slowly flowing down.
"Why is this house the only one that is not affected by the power of the evil spirit? Is there something special about this house itself?" Li Xiu felt strange.
Li Xiu stood up and carefully studied the dilapidated house again. It was a two-story building with five or six rooms in a row. There were only about ten rooms on the two floors combined. The second floor was basically about to collapse, but the first floor was relatively intact.
The room where Li Xiu is located is the second room on the left on the first floor, which is also the one where the dry bones were found.
The rooms are not suites, they are all old-fashioned bungalows. If you want to go to other rooms, you can only go through the door. The ladder to the second floor is also outside.
After Li Xiu walked out of the room carrying the things in the bag, the evil spirits immediately screamed when they saw Li Xiu. The evil spirits surged in waves, as if they would rush up and devour Li Xiu at any time.
"If you dare to come up, I will kill it." Li Xiu raised the bag in his hand and said viciously to those evil spirits.
He knew that these evil spirits should be able to understand. To be precise, it was not them that could understand, but the original bodies of these evil spirits' clones that could understand.
For demons like this one that have the ability to split themselves into two, their original body and the clone share vision and hearing.
Sure enough, after being frightened by Li Xiu, the evil spirits became much quieter and only barked outside and did not dare to rush up.
Li Xiu walked up the steps at the door, climbed over the messy ground, and entered the room on the far left of the first floor.
After looking around, I didn't find anything valuable.
Li Xiu went to several other rooms, and they were basically a mess, with nothing valuable in them.
However, Li Xiu still found some strange things. He found that the three rooms on the left were normal, but the ground in the two rooms on the right was a little soft, as if affected by the power of the evil spirit.
Especially in the room on the far right, the ground had become soft and sticky, and even a demon clone came out from underneath and was cut in half by a Jedi Knight who was following Li Xiu.
"There is indeed something wrong with this house. The power that affects the rooms should be in the room I was just in. If it was in the third room, then the two rooms on the right should also be affected and should not have changed. Now the rooms on the left have not changed, only the two rooms on the right have changed, and the further to the right, the stronger the influence of the evil spirit's power. This is very telling." Li Xiu returned to the second room on the left and started searching the room again.
"It would be great if Shalai was here." Li Xiu didn't know much about things like mechanisms, and there didn't seem to be any place in the room where they could be installed.
Li Xiu had already moved everything that could be moved, but still found nothing. He could only use the most stupid method.
Li Xiu called the Jedi Knight over and asked him to dig the ground with a samurai sword to see if there was anything hidden underneath.
If the Jedi Knight had emotions, he would probably be in tears now.
They dug and dug, one hole after another in the ground, and almost dug through the foundation, but they didn't find anything.
"It's really strange, how could there be nothing?" Li Xiu believed in his own judgment, there couldn't be nothing, there must be something.
Li Xiu looked around and finally fixed his eyes on the wall: "Since there is nothing underground, the only thing left is the wall."
Li Xiu decided to go all out and called in the Chrysanthemum Knight, who charged in directly and knocked down a wall.
Fortunately, the second floor had almost collapsed a long time ago. After the Chrysanthemum Knight knocked down the dry ground below, the concrete floor on the roof also tilted down and broke into several pieces when it hit the ground.
Li Zheng was about to ask the Chrysanthemum Knight to collapse the remaining walls, but when he looked at the broken floor slabs, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He asked the Chrysanthemum Knight to stop temporarily, walked to the broken concrete floor, and felt into the hole in one of the concrete floors. He soon took out something wrapped in tinfoil.
"There really is something hidden here." Li Xiu discovered that there was something inside when he saw the exposed tin foil.
He then reached into the other holes but found nothing, so he asked the Chrysanthemum Knight to come over and break down all the floor slabs to see if there was anything else.
While the Chrysanthemum Knight was working there, Li Xiu looked at the thing wrapped in tin foil in his hand.
This is a cylindrical object. When you peel off the tin foil on the outside, you will find a cylindrical box similar to the one used to hold badminton. When you open the lid, you will immediately find a plastic bag stuffed inside.
When Li Xiu pulled out the plastic bags, he was overjoyed. Several plastic bags were filled with pink crystals of different sizes and shapes, which looked like pink gummy candies.
Of course, these are not real fudge, but raw gemstones that have not been polished or cut, and these gemstones do not have much luster yet.
There is no doubt that the pink raw stones here are most likely the pink spinels mentioned in the diary.
There were four plastic bags in total. One of them contained dozens of small raw stones. The other two bags contained several relatively large raw stones. The last bag contained only one raw stone. The raw stone was slightly smaller than an egg, but it was big enough to be scary.
Spinel is generally not too large, especially this kind of pink spinel, which rarely has clean large particles.
However, this pink spinel rough stone is not only large, but also looks quite pure without being cut or polished, except for some slight impurities and flocs on the outer surface.
"Is this thing really a spinel?" Li Xiu looked at the absurdly large pink spinel rough stone and pondered in his heart.
The spinels in the other three bags were obviously divided into three sizes by their original owners. The smallest size was probably a spinel rough stone of about one to three carats. After cutting and polishing, it would definitely be smaller. There were at least two hundred pieces in this bag. Li Xiu did not count them, but just made a rough estimate.
This is a slightly larger model, with a total of seventeen rough stones, estimated to weigh between four and ten carats. I don’t know how much they will weigh after being cut and polished.
There are a total of eight rough stones in the largest bag, all of which are over ten carats.
Regardless of size, the quality of this batch of raw stones is quite good, with not too many impurities, and the consumption of cutting and polishing will be relatively much less.
With so many pink spinel crystals, it is estimated that they can be sold for a large sum of money according to the current market price, especially the super large pink spinel crystal rough stone, which is probably nearly 100 carats in weight and is absolutely a priceless treasure.
When Li Xiu saw this huge pink spinel rough stone, he felt hungry. It was obvious that this thing was definitely not ordinary. It was another gem with magic spirit.
The other smaller raw stones did not make Li Xiu feel hungry, as they were just ordinary gems.
"Is it this huge pink spinel rough stone that has an impact?" Li Xiu took the pink spinel rough stone and walked around it.
Sure enough, wherever this pink crystal went, the soft ground slowly became hard, but the range was very limited, with a radius of only a few meters.
Even so, it is already very beneficial for Li Xiu. At least he doesn't have to worry about getting trapped again.
Li Xiu did not eat the gem because he was not sure whether the ability would still exist after the gem was transformed into a magic spirit.
If after transforming into a demon spirit, it could only ensure that it did not fall, just like the demigod Shanshan, that would not be good.
And this thing is a bit too big and hard to swallow.
Keeping all the gems close to his body, Li Xiu climbed up to the second floor and looked towards the place where the roar came from in the distance. Sha Chu was still fighting with the evil spirit, and the outcome was still unknown.
…
Bang!
Sha Chu's body fell to the ground and was immediately entangled by the sticky mud.
The red dress she was wearing was torn in many places, with holes cut at the waist, back and front, revealing her snow-white skin and bloodstains.
This was just the place where the evil spirit's wings accidentally scratched during the battle. If it was a head-on battle, Sha Chu would have been torn to pieces by the evil spirit long ago.
On the ground not far away, the two-headed demon and the demon rolled into a ball and bit each other.
The body of the two-headed demon is sinking into the mud. If its body is completely pulled into the ground, it will probably have no chance of turning over.
"Damn it!" Sha Chu didn't know why he was so unlucky.
In a place like this, she actually encountered such a terrifying demon spirit. Even her S-rank Punisher of Good and Evil couldn't gain any advantage, and the contracts on her body were also damaged to varying degrees.
But now she had no time to think so much. If the Punisher of Good and Evil was pulled underground, not only would it die, but Sha Chu would also find it difficult to escape.
Sha Chu was furious and had already made a decision.
Following Sha Chu's thoughts, the Punisher of Good and Evil, who was being pulled into the mud, had red light in his eyes and his abdomen swelled rapidly.
The iron-like body gradually became like a red-hot iron block, emitting a golden-red magic light.
Shachu no longer resisted sinking, but instead drilled under the soil on his own.
The strange evil spirit seemed to sense the danger and tried desperately to escape, but it was bitten by the two heads and grabbed by the four claws of the Punisher of Good and Evil, and for a while it could not break free.
boom!
The body of the Punisher of Good and Evil exploded like a nuclear bomb, blasting the evil spirits that were entangled with it into pieces, without even a complete scale left.
The bodies of those groups of demon clones exploded one by one, turned into ashes and disappeared, and the soft and rotten ground returned to normal.
A huge hole appeared on the ground. Not far away, Sha Chu struggled to crawl out from under the mud. He was covered in dirt and wounds. His sexy clothes were tattered and hung on his body like several pieces of rags connected together.
Looking at the ring without the magic gem, Sha Chu's face looked extremely ugly.
She had finally upgraded the Punisher of Good and Evil to S-rank, but it was gone just like that.
Changshengtian is a place where strength is respected. Without the S-level punisher of good and evil, her status in Changshengtian will definitely decline significantly, and she may even become someone else's subordinate. This makes her unhappy no matter what.
She had been planning in Taro City for so long before she found an opportunity to obtain a large number of gems and upgrade the Punisher of Good and Evil to S-level, but in the end it was all in vain.
Moreover, her "contract" was severely damaged, and it would require a lot of resources to repair it. Now she had very few resources available. If she returned to Changshengtian in this state, not only would she not get any help, but she might even be taken advantage of by others.
"Alas, I'm afraid Li Xiu is already dead, otherwise he could have entered the S-level frenzy trial to get some benefits, maybe he could have gotten an admission ticket, and then he would have a chance to get some resources back..." Sha Chu thought that Li Xiu had already died in the group of demons, and he felt even more upset.
If Li Xiu didn't die, with his ability as a magic costumer, he could help her stand more firmly in Changshengtian and not be at the mercy of others.
Unfortunately, with Li Xiu's death, she was left with nothing.
Sha Chu endured the pain in his body and walked into the exploded pit to look for the magic core of the demon spirit. The magic core should not be so easy to destroy. An S-level magic core is a considerable fortune for Sha Chu now.
Soon, Sha Chu saw a gray-white magic core lying in the big pit. When he was about to pick it up, he saw a hand picked up the magic core first.
"Li Xiu, you are not dead?" Sha Chu was shocked at first, but when he saw the person who picked up the magic core, he was immediately overjoyed.
She holds Li Xiu's blood seal, and Li Xiu is equivalent to her slave. In her opinion, Li Xiu is now her greatest asset and wealth.
"Maybe I'm just luckier." Li Xiu smiled and put away the magic core and put it into his pocket.
When Sha Chu saw that Li Xiu dared to do this, his face suddenly darkened. He stared at Li Xiu and sneered, “You shouldn’t take things that don’t belong to you.”
"What is something that doesn't belong to me?" Li Xiu looked at Sha Chu and asked with a smile.
"It doesn't matter. You will soon know what doesn't belong to you and who you belong to." Sha Chu reached out and touched the hairpin on her hair.
The hairpin was inlaid with a blood-red gem, which was the tool used to control the blood seal. She wanted to teach Li Xiu a lesson and let him know who was in charge here.
She had disliked Li Xiu for a long time. If she hadn't seen that Li Xiu was useful, she would have taught him a lesson long ago.
Sha Chu activated the blood seal and looked at Li Xiu coldly. She wanted Li Xiu to completely surrender to her.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, the time passed by second by second, but the imagined scene of Li Xiu lying on the ground in agony and begging for mercy did not happen.
Li Xiu was still standing there, looking at her with a smile.
"Don't you want to tell me who I belong to? Who do I belong to now?" Li Xiu asked with a smile.
"You are not controlled by the blood seal? It's Ximen Guan... He is not crazy... He is just pretending to be crazy..." Sha Chu's face looked a little unhappy, she had understood.
"What do you think?" Li Xiu said slowly.
Without saying a word, Sha Chu pulled out the Tang sword, held the sword in his hand and walked towards Li Xiu, his eyes full of coldness.
Li Xiu's mind moved, and the Chrysanthemum Knight immediately appeared in front of him.
"Use the things I gave you to stop me, do you think he can stop me?" Sha Chu said coldly.
"Can't stop it." Li Xiu smiled and summoned the Jedi Knight again.
"You actually have another demon spirit?" Sha Chu was slightly stunned. She didn't expect that Li Xiu actually had other demon spirits.
"Indeed there is more." Li Xiu said, and summoned out the demigod Setsuna again.
Looking at the brilliant demigod in front of him, Sha Chu's eyes changed completely, and he blurted out subconsciously: "This... This is a glorious demon spirit... How could you have a glorious demon spirit..."