A few people took a closer look at the rubies on the golden mask, and soon discovered that there was indeed something wrong with it.

For most gems, the bigger the better, and the fewer inclusions inside, the better. However, this ruby ​​is quite big, but the inside is not particularly clean. You can faintly see some color paste-like inside.

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"Is this a fake pigeon's blood ruby? Is it burned or colored?" Kunsha asked.

In the past, rubies were heated through a process to reduce the inclusions in the ruby, making the color of the ruby ​​more beautiful.

This kind of heat-treated ruby ​​is called burned ruby, while ruby ​​that has not been heated is called unheated ruby.

Burnt rubies are not considered fake, but their value is much lower than unburned rubies. There are also unscrupulous traders who sell burnt rubies as unburned rubies, which is considered fake.

As for processing such as coloring, that is true fraud and an extremely bad behavior.

How could such a precious gold mask use such a rich ruby, so Kunsha thought it was a fake ruby. The ruby ​​originally on the gold mask might have been replaced by someone.

Unexpectedly, Sha Lai shook his head and said: "No, this is a real ruby, and it is also a pigeon blood ruby. The current standard of pigeon blood red is that the cleaner the better, but in that ancient country's era, the real pigeon blood red was like this."

"Does that ancient country have such low standards for pigeon blood red?" Kunsha asked in surprise.

"Then you are wrong. The standard at that time was not only not low, but on the contrary, it was very high. Don't think that any kind of inclusions and ribbons can be called pigeon blood ruby." Sha said, taking out

He picked up his cell phone, turned on the flashlight function of his cell phone, and shined a light on the ruby ​​​​on the gold mask.

Several people were surprised to find that under the illumination of light, the color of the ruby, which looked like magma, actually showed the effect of flowing fireworks.

The horse-eye-shaped ruby ​​has red light flowing all over it, like a burning flame.

"Legend has it that the princess bride already had a sweetheart, but was forced by the emperor to marry a powerful man. On the day of her wedding, she jumped into the blazing fire wearing a golden bride's mask and defended it with her own life.

Your own love and dignity. After the fire was extinguished, people only found the golden bride mask among the ashes. The original pure ruby ​​on the mask became like this. Later, the pigeon blood red standard of that ancient country also became

This kind of ruby, only this kind of ruby, can be called pigeon blood red in that ancient country, which represents the top ruby." Sha Lai stroked the golden mask and said: "Although it is just a legend, is there a golden bride mask and that?

It’s hard to say for a princess, but the rubies on this are indeed priceless, and are not comparable to ordinary pigeon blood rubies.”

When Li Xiu heard this, he already understood why Qin Shi had a high fever.

It's just that Li Xiu doesn't quite understand why Qin Shi has a princess mask and why she collects rubies.

Although the ruby ​​on the princess mask is precious and the story behind it is very poignant and touching, in terms of the legendary nature of the story, the Diamond of Doom is not inferior to it.

Why was he able to contract the diamond of misfortune, but was resisted by this ruby?

Qin Shi's fever persists, and her body temperature is still slowly rising. If this continues, in a few days it will be overcooked, and she will not be able to make a contract with Ruby, and Qin Shi will be hopeless.

In fact, Li Xiu was very suspicious that even if Qin Shi was saved now, her brain might have been burned out.

How can an ordinary human body withstand a temperature of more than 50 degrees?

Li Xiu reached out and took the golden bridal mask from Sha Lai's hand, and then directly pulled out the ruby.

"No, this thing is sold together with the golden mask, and the price is higher." Sha Lai said with some distress.

Li Xiu ignored him, turned around and put the golden mask back into the box. At the same time, he quietly stuffed the ruby ​​into his mouth and swallowed it directly.

Since blood is not easy to use, we can only use the original one from the beginning.

The ruby ​​was forcefully swallowed by Li Xiu for a long time. Fortunately, his body had been strengthened to a high enough level, otherwise it would have been difficult to swallow such a large piece of ruby.

What's more, this ruby ​​has two pointed ends. If an average person swallows it, it may scratch the esophagus.

After the ruby ​​​​went into his stomach, Li Xiu suddenly felt as if he had swallowed a ball of fire, and there was a burning sensation in his stomach.

Li Xiu thought, and his body emitted white fluorescence, which was the light energy from the forbidden gun.

Under the blessing of light energy, Li Xiu immediately felt that the burning sensation in his stomach was much relieved and slowly eased.

As the burning sensation in the stomach eased, everyone was surprised to find that the high temperature on Qin Shi's body began to slowly drop.

"Li Xiu, you can do it. Is this the light of your symbiosis contract? It can actually save people and cure diseases?" Sha Lai looked at Li Xiu in surprise and asked.

"It can't save ordinary people, nor can it cure ordinary diseases, but it just happens to be able to help Qin Shi." Li Xiu had no intention of chatting with Sha Lai.

Although the burning sensation in his stomach has disappeared, the ruby ​​has not turned into a demon ring and appeared on Li Xiu's finger. It seems that it has not been completely tamed.

What Li Xiu did was more effective than a special antipyretic drug. It only took a while for Qin Shi's fever to subside, and her body temperature quickly returned to normal.

"I'm so thirsty..." Qin Shi miraculously woke up from a coma. Her brain didn't seem to be burned out, but she looked very weak. Her face was pale and without any blood, like Lin Daiyu who was seriously ill, and she talked with her from time to time.

The look is very different.

Several people were busy pouring water and porridge for Qin Shi. Qin Shi drank some water and ate some porridge. Her mental state was obviously much better, and she was at least able to sit up on her own.

"Li Xiu, why are you back?" Qin Shi was a little surprised when she saw Li Xiu.

"If Li Xiu hadn't come back, your life would have been lost." Kunsha told what happened.

Qin Shi was fine at first, but when she heard Li Xiu took out her golden bride mask, her expression suddenly changed.

"You guys go out first, I have something to say to Li Xiu." Qin Shi bit her lip and said.

"What words can Li Xiu listen to but we can't?" Sha Lai teased.

"I'll have a few words with Qin Shi, and we'll talk about old times later." Li Xiu knew what Qin Shi wanted to say, so he spoke to Sha Lai.

"Okay, I'll ask someone to prepare the food and drinks first." Sha Lai obeyed Li Xiu's words and immediately turned around and left.

When Kunsha finally went out, he thoughtfully closed the door.

As soon as they left, Qin Shi immediately took the box over and opened the box. Although the golden mask was still inside, the ruby ​​​​on it was missing, and her face suddenly turned even paler.

"What did you do with that ruby?" Qin Shi looked at Li Xiu and asked, biting her white lips.

"How can you be okay if I don't get rid of it?" Li Xiu was a little surprised. It seemed that Qin Shi knew that her illness was related to the demon gem, but she just didn't know how much she knew and whether she knew about the demon gem.

matter.

"It's over, it's all over." Qin Shi muttered to himself with a face ashen as death.

"What's going on? If you believe me, you can tell me, maybe I can help you." Li Xiu said.

"You can't help me." Qin Shi's face was full of bitterness, but she continued: "Do you know why I have been collecting rubies all these years?"

"Is it related to the ruby?" Li Xiu followed her words.

Qin Shi nodded: "More or less, I collect those rubies to feed the princess Golden Mask."

"Feeding?" Li Xiu was a little confused about this word.

That ruby ​​hasn't turned into a demon yet, how can she feed it?

Qin Shi sighed and told the whole story.

Qin Shi's father is also a magic costumer, but he is not very outstanding. He is just an ordinary E-level magic costumer, the kind that can be regarded as cannon fodder.

During a battle with a demon spirit, Qin Shi's father was unfortunately killed.

Originally, it was only natural for the magic costume master to die at the hands of the demon spirit.

But later Qin Shi learned that her father died because he was deliberately abandoned by the commander. It was just because his father had offended that commander, so when fighting the demon spirit, the commander who should have given the order to retreat was

, but deliberately failed to give Qin Shi's father a retreat order, which resulted in Qin Shi's father's death.

Qin Shi knew the truth of the matter, but she did not have the ability to seek justice for her father, so she had to leave her hometown to avoid being persecuted by the commander again.

Although Qin Shi also has the talent of a magic costume master, she has no financial resources, support from major forces, and lacks systematic training. She relies on a set of spare E-level magic costumes left by her father and can only do some private work to survive.

He can't even get a high-end magic suit, let alone seek justice for his father.

Until one time, Qin Shi took a job and joined a team of gem hunters to explore the ruins of an ancient city.

Among the ruins of the city, they discovered the ruins of an ancient palace, where the golden mask of the Princess Bride was found.

When they discovered the Golden Mask of the Princess Bride, the team of gem hunters were attacked by demons, and the entire team died.

The magic costume left by Qin Shi's father was also damaged in that battle. At that time, Qin Shi thought she was dead.

The strange thing is that the demon spirit glanced at Qin Shi who fell to the ground, but turned around and left without giving her the final fatal blow.

When Qin Shi came back to her senses, she climbed out of the tattered magic costume and found that the golden mask was pressed under her body, covered with her blood, and the ruby ​​​​on the golden mask shone like flames.

The eerie brilliance of blood.

Ever since Qin Shi got the golden mask, everything suddenly became much smoother. Every time she took on a private job, she was able to avoid danger and quickly made a lot of money.

But Qin Shi soon discovered a serious problem. The ruby ​​​​on the gold mask would become very hot every once in a while, sometimes so hot that it could burn her hands.

Only when the ruby ​​and the gold mask are placed together will its temperature slowly decrease, and the ruby ​​placed together with the gold mask will disappear out of thin air after a while.

Since then, Qin Shi has been using rubies to feed the golden mask. She has also tried to sell the golden mask and even bury it.

But once she leaves the Golden Mask, a lot of unfortunate things will happen around her. Until she gets the Golden Mask back, those unfortunate things will stop happening, and then things will start to go smoothly for her again.

For so many years, Qin Shi has been using rubies to feed the Golden Mask, but the Golden Mask's appetite is getting bigger and bigger.

At first, an ordinary one-carat ruby ​​could satisfy it, but later ordinary rubies could no longer satisfy it, and it had to be a high-quality ruby.

In the past two years, pigeon blood red gems were required to cool down the rubies on the golden mask. This is why she only accepted pigeon blood rubies as payment.

Qin Shi also thought of many ways to solve the problem of the golden mask, and she also found out about the origin of the golden mask.

In the area where the ancient country once stood, Qin Shi learned a legend about the princess mask from an old man.
To be continued...