Nine idlers

"At least 800 million rubles or more," Vera quickly gave a quotation, and after thinking for a while, she said, "If it is polished by a master and is accompanied by a gesture designed by a master jewelry designer, the price should be more than [-] million yuan." It will increase by more than three to five times."

Hearing Vera's words, everyone couldn't help but gasped, even the well-informed Yakov couldn't help showing surprise, and looked at the gem with a hint of greed in his eyes.

"Give it back to me, I found it, it's mine." The young man ignored the fear of Vera's identity, snatched the gem from Vera's hand, held it in his arms, He stared fiercely at the people around him.

"If you don't want to get hurt, you'd better throw this thing away." Xu Changqing's tone was flat, giving people a feeling that he didn't have any thoughts about this gem, but the meaning of his words was completely opposite, which sounded very confusing. People feel threatened.

The people around also thought that Xu Changqing wanted to snatch the gem for money. Although they despised Xu Changqing's appointment in their hearts, they couldn't make any resistance to the gun held by Yakov.The young man holding the gem tightly was completely dazzled by greed, hugged the gem even tighter, and even put his hand on the shotgun beside Yakov's muzzle, completely wanting to Money doesn't matter.

Yakov also thought that Xu Changqing had taken a fancy to this gem, and was going to teach the young man a lesson, and help Xu Changqing get this gem by the way.However, Xu Changqing raised his hand to stop him, looked at the young man meaningfully, and signaled Yakov to move Victor and others lying on the ground to the bed in the corner, then he picked up a stool casually, When he reached the window next to the bed, he looked at Vera and the others with an expression as if he was waiting to see some good show.

Vera and the others all carried the prejudice and discrimination of Westerners against Chinese people. At first, they thought that he was a bit bullying and fearful of toughness. After their companions showed a tough attitude of seeing death as home, they gave in.But soon they discovered that their guess was completely wrong.Xu Changqing didn't give in at all, but just vacated the venue to watch the show, because right next to him, the companion holding the gem became a little bit wrong.His expression was extremely ferocious, and his eyes turned blood red. It looked like a blood gem was embedded in it. The originally thin blood vessels on his body became thicker by ten times, and became entangled together.Let his whole body swell up, and twisted and deformed, especially the high bulge of the back, which almost tore the clothes on his body, feeling like the Hunchback of Notre Dame described by Hugo.

Even a fool can see that something is wrong with the young man. The people who were still around him all moved away from him, and they also picked up all the weapons they could see and aimed at their previous companions. .

"Gem, it's that gem!" Years of special education have made Vera's psychological quality surpass that of ordinary people, even in such a critical time.She was still able to observe calmly, and discovered the reason for such a strange change in her companion.

Following Vera's reminder, everyone's eyes were focused on that priceless gem, but compared to the greedy desire to keep it for themselves just now, they now have more fear in their hearts , Frightened.

I saw that the gemstone was still crystal clear, still so beautiful and attractive, but the things attached to the surface of the gemstone that looked like associated minerals produced some kind of chemical reaction, and some petroleum-like black viscous minerals continued to ooze out. thing.When these black sticky substances touched the wound on the young man's hand, they penetrated into his blood vessels along the wound and merged into his blood.It made him produce such a terrible change.

Just when everyone thought that the young man who had turned into a monster would attack all the living things in the house, that incomparably ferocious body that swelled to twice its size shrank at an extremely fast speed like a deflated ball. He went back, and quickly turned into a mummy under the astonished gaze of everyone.

This anticlimactic change stunned everyone.They originally thought that there would be a life-and-death fight, but they never thought that the crisis would be resolved in the blink of an eye, and that monster-like companion could no longer threaten their lives.The dramatic change in this scene made them unable to react emotionally for a while, and everyone stood there blankly, including Yakov, who was completely at a loss.Only Xu Changqing, who had expected this result a long time ago, was not affected in any way.This also allowed him to see that when the black sticky substance was absorbed by the gem-associated mine again, some blood-like patterns flashed in the gorgeous gemstone, which looked extremely strange.

"This, this, what's going on? How did he become like this?"

"The devil! The devil's jewel! Damn it, I knew it was the devil's jewel."

"Lord, forgive my sins!"

After a while of silence, Vera's group of people all yelled at one another, asked questions to themselves, cursed with fear, and prayed for repentance. They did this more to calm down Let go of your fears.Even before, they had all seen those horrible things, and they all had a certain amount of psychological endurance, but the unexplainable changes that happened to a living person just now under the gaze of all of them finally turned into A mummy, and this person is still one of their companions, a companion who was able to talk to each other just now, this momentarily exceeded their psychological tolerance, and fear was injected into the depths of their hearts at the moment their defenses fell.

Xu Changqing ignored the yelling of these people, and walked to the side of the mummy. Under the fearful eyes of everyone, accompanied by exclamations, he picked up the crystal that had been regarded as a devil gem, and put it on the Take a closer look in your hand.

The death of the young man just now made the greatest contribution to Xu Changqing in that it provided some evidence to prove his various speculations about the gem in his hand.At first, Xu Changqing guessed that this gemstone was the same as the obsidian in his hand, but due to some other unknown reasons, some changes occurred and it became a completely different form.But after seeing the changes in the young man, he realized that this gem-like thing has nothing to do with gems at all, it is just a derivative of another substance, and this substance is the seemingly inconspicuous gem Derivative mines, so the relationship between the two should be reversed.

The petroleum-like substance that overflowed from the ore just penetrated into the human body or any living thing, absorbed all the liquid in the living thing, and at the same time swallowed the spirit of the living thing. The unexplained evolution process extracted all the devoured tangible and intangible objects, and quickly condensed them into this gem-like object.The whole process is similar to alchemy, but compared to the complicated method of alchemy, this method of refining almost natural ability is obviously much simpler, and the final effect is naturally much worse, which is almost flawless in the eyes of outsiders. Gemstones are actually filled with a lot of impurities. Even if ordinary people know this thing, it may be difficult to use it.

However, Xu Changqing is not among ordinary people.In his eyes, this gem-like condensate contains a large amount of energy extracted from living things. As long as some impurities that are not good for people are removed, this thing can be used as a medicine.If some of the prescriptions he improved for Yakov and other people with ancient blood were supplemented with this thing as a medicine guide, the final effect might be several times or even ten times that of the medicine alone.

As for the removal of impurities, it is not difficult for Xu Changqing. He can easily transform those impurities he does not need into another kind of aura by relying on the way of mutual generation between heaven and earth, and even use this to further improve the gemstones. The quality of medicine cited.

However, although gem medicine is good, what Xu Changqing is more interested in is the ability to produce minerals of this gem.Judging from the situation where this kind of mineral body attacked the youth just now, it should be a natural monster or natural elf transformed from earth spirit energy, similar to a stone spirit.It's just that the level of this kind of monster or elf is very low, it can be said that it is the lowest type, and it has no intelligence, only instinct.It just devoured all the liquid and energy in the young man's body, not deliberately attacking, but instinctively attracted by the blood from his wound, so it launched an attack, devouring its prey, and even condensing this energy gem was also an instinct.

It's just that this kind of earth spirit monster has never been seen in human classics, and Xu Changqing has never seen this kind of monster from the classics of the Kunlun Three Realms, including various classics of the Holy Ruins. The only one similar to it The monster is a kind of slime monster that grows in the swamp recorded in the ancient books of the Holy Ruins.This kind of slime monster devours the carcasses of animals trapped in the swamp to produce a crystallized ore that has a strong hallucinogenic effect but can also enhance the perception of ordinary people's souls. Shamans and priests often take it in some rituals mixed with The medicine of this ore, to communicate with the gods.

Although the ore-shaped monster is very different from the slime monster in Xu Changqing's memory in terms of appearance and function, but judging from its core talent of devouring living things and condensing essence, Xu Changqing faintly feels that the two should be the same It's just that due to some external reasons, the slime monster has mutated and turned into what it is now.

"Tunguska explosion!" An answer immediately appeared in Xu Changqing's mind.

"Why are you okay holding it?" Just as Xu Changqing was thinking about things, Vera, who recovered faster than the others, looked at Xu Changqing in amazement holding the devil's gemstone, and couldn't help asking in amazement road.

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