The monk of the way of beauty

Chapter 42

However, the legend about the Delhi purple sapphire is not over, it's just the beginning.

Although there are all kinds of bad luck legends on this sapphire, people's curiosity and desire for it are still unavoidable, so 110 years ago, the British scientist Edward Helen Allen got this gemstone and became its owner. new owner.

Edward was originally a well-known lawyer and violin maker in London, but later became a scientist. He has deep research on foraminifera, single-celled aquatic organisms.It is worth mentioning that Edward was also a friend of the famous British writer Wilde.

As expected, after Edward got the "Delhi Purple Sapphire", he also encountered a series of bad luck.

First of all, his friends were unlucky. Two of Edward's friends borrowed this gem from him to go home and watch it. After Gem watched, she suddenly began to "lose her voice", and she never sang again.

When he first heard this story, Ling Xiao noticed some strangeness in it. Except for the first owner, Phyllis, the other previous owners did not suffer any harm. It was his friends who were hurt more. , so Ling Xiao was keenly aware of the strangeness.

Just as Ling Xiao thought, Edward himself was not harmed by this matter, but even though he didn't believe in any "curse" at first, when both of his friends suffered bad luck, Edward finally became ruthless. This priceless gem was thrown into London's Regent's Canal.

Unexpectedly, 3 months later, the gem returned to his hands strangely.It turned out that a dredger had picked up the gem from the canal, and a merchant bought it from the crew and returned it to Edward "returned to its owner".

This is very interesting. Edward is just an ordinary scientist. Someone is willing to return a priceless gemstone to its former owner without any cost. There are not many of them.

Later, perhaps finally fed up with the shadow of this "cursed gem", Edward sent it to his bank administrator, asking the bank to keep it until he died and never to be seen by him again."I felt it would have an adverse effect on my newborn daughter," Edward is said to have said at the time.

Ling Xiao analyzed this matter, and he came to a terrible conclusion that this terrible "cursed gem" should indeed have some kind of curse, and if this curse is invalidated on its owner, there may even be something else Specific effect.At least, Edward got this gem 110 years ago, and he didn't die until 50, more than 1943 years later.

Ling Xiao was not able to determine the age at which Edward owned this "cursed gem", but conservatively estimated at 20 years old, then Edward had lived for at least 70 years, and such a high age was extremely rare more than half a century ago.From this, we can infer some of its magic.

After Edward's death, the 'cursed gem', like most of his other treasures, was donated to the Natural History Museum.

Even Edward left a warning note in the box, which read: "This jewel is obviously cursed, it is stained with blood, and everyone who owns it will lose honor..."

Why honor, not life, money, friendship, or anything else, after all, Edward's two friends have paid the price.

So a terrifying conclusion was drawn, especially after Ling Xiao got the list of gods and demons, he had a deeper understanding of these things. Edward should have exchanged some things from his two friends for something that shouldn't be own something.

Of course, these were just Ling Xiao's guesses, but now seeing the cursed gem, as a monk, Ling Xiao can clearly feel some extremely subtle fluctuations emanating from the cursed gem itself.

In fact, it's not just Ling Xiao, everyone in the entire exhibition hall, regardless of gender, is deeply attracted by this blue-purple gemstone. Only this blue-purple gemstone is in their eyes. The whirlpool's eyes kept attracting everyone's attention.

Ling Xiao shook his head vigorously, waking up from the temptation. He looked around subconsciously. At this time, there were not many people who could still stay awake. One was Holly Robinson next to her, and the other was Scott. West, and there is another gray-haired old man in a tuxedo that Ling Xiao has never noticed.

Well, at this time, everyone's attention was on the gemstones, and no one else noticed Ling Xiao's observation.

It's really interesting, Ling Xiao chuckled.Almost at the same time, the charm attached to the Delhi Violet Sapphire was instantly withdrawn, and everyone present woke up at the same time, but what was surprising was that they were completely unaware of their previous abnormality.

Holly Robinson and Scott West looked at the gemstone in amazement, but Ling Xiao noticed that the white-haired old man was standing there with a normal face, as if he was concerned about all this. Get used to it.

Ling Xiao's gaze instantly shifted from the old man to the gem, because at that moment, the old man had sensed other people's attention, looked around in surprise, and finally his gaze fell on Scott West. Flashing past, a look of vigilance flashed across his eyes in an instant.

The exhibition didn't end until the evening, and at this time, the museum had recovered all the gems and locked them into the depths of the museum.

This time the exhibition will last for three days, and this Sunday is only the first day. Even so, the museum will keep all the gems firmly in its collection.In addition to the protection system of the museum itself, there is also a small team of police officers who patrol the vicinity at all times to guard against any thieves who may attempt to break in and steal.

Even as the owner of the gem loaned out this time, even Scott West is not allowed to stay in the museum, and can only know a small part about the museum's protection system. Regarding the real core internal things, he is not allowed to stay in the museum. There is no way to touch half a point.

On this point, even though Scott West protested to the museum countless times, the museum did not back down in the slightest. Although all this was in his expectation, he was still a little frustrated, and hoped that all this would not destroy his original intention. There are plans.

The night was getting darker, and the fog gradually enveloped the entire museum. In the dead of night, the sound of hurried footsteps gradually approached the periphery of the museum's back wall under the shroud of fog.

Within a [-]-meter radius of the museum, the lights had dispersed the surrounding fog, and one could almost see black figures rushing towards the museum with silenced weapons in their hands, and the few security guards patrolling nearby were silent It was resolved by someone.

What is even more surprising is that the occurrence of these incidents did not disturb the museum's outer protection system at all.

Ling Xiao stood on the top of a tall building in the distance, staring sharply at everything that happened below.He knew that this happened only because there were people inside the museum echoing with the outside, covering up their whereabouts while also guiding their progress.

Ling Xiao almost watched the group of people vomit into the museum. You must know that only in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the main building of the museum are there all kinds of rare antiquities. It is a pity that these things are not easy to take away. Not a good shot.

All day today, although Ling Xiao didn't enter the main hall of the museum, he has done enough homework and knows what's going on inside.

Just as Ling Xiao imagined, as soon as the group of people entered the first floor of the Natural History Museum, two extremely tall dinosaur skeletons were full of hideousness. These were the skeletons of Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. The dim lights were lifelike, and several people who entered the exhibition hall couldn't help shivering.

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