When 'God' Decides To Start Over
Chapter 99 - 84 Pink Apatite_2

Chapter 99: Chapter 84 Pink Apatite_2

"If only Shale were here." Li Xiu didn’t really understand things like traps, and besides, there didn’t seem to be any place in this room capable of hiding traps.

Li Xiu had moved everything that could be moved and still found nothing, so he had to resort to the most clumsy method.

Li Xiu called over the Jedi Knight and asked him to use the Samurai Sword to dig into the ground, hoping to see if something was hidden beneath it.

If the Jedi Knight had feelings, he would probably be tearing up right now.

After digging multiple holes in the ground, almost breaking through the foundation, nothing was found.

"This is really weird, how could there be nothing at all?" Li Xiu trusted his instincts; it was impossible that nothing was there. There had to be something.

Li Xiu surveyed the surroundings and finally fixed his gaze on the wall: "If there’s nothing underground, then only the walls are left."

Without hesitation, Li Xiu called in the Knight of Chrysanthemum and had him charge straight in, smashing down one wall.

Fortunately, the second floor had long since mostly collapsed. After the Knight of Chrysanthemum smashed the bottom, the concrete ceiling tilted down, breaking into several pieces as it hit the ground.

Li Xiu was about to have the Knight of Chrysanthemum smash down the remaining walls when his eyes suddenly lit up as he glanced at the broken slabs.

He told the Knight of Chrysanthemum to hold off for a moment, walked over to the broken concrete slab, and reached into one of its holes, quickly finding something wrapped in tinfoil.

"There really is something here, hidden like this." Li Xiu only noticed it when he saw the exposed tinfoil.

He rummaged through other holes but found nothing else, so he asked the Knight of Chrysanthemum to break all the slabs into pieces to see if there were any other items.

While the Knight of Chrysanthemum was laboring away, Li Xiu examined the tinfoil-wrapped item in his hand.

It was a cylindrical object. Removing the tinfoil, he found a canister resembling a shuttlecock tube. Opening the lid, he immediately found plastic bags stuffed inside.

Pulling out the plastic bags, Li Xiu was overjoyed. Several plastic bags contained pink crystals of varying sizes and shapes, resembling pink gummy candies.

Of course, these weren’t really gummies, but raw gemstone uncut and unpolished; currently, these gemstones had no luster.

Undoubtedly, the pink raw stones inside were very likely the Pink Apatite mentioned in the diary.

There were four plastic bags in total, one containing dozens of small raw stones, two others with a few relatively larger stones, and the last with just one stone slightly smaller than an egg, but already large enough to be alarming.

Spinel stones generally aren’t very large, especially pink ones, which rarely come in clean large pieces.

But this Pink Spinel Raw Stone wasn’t just large; even uncut and unpolished, it appeared quite pure, with only a few minor impurities and inclusions on the outer surface.

"Is this really spinel?" Li Xiu pondered as he looked at the absurdly large Pink Spinel Raw Stone.

The other three bags appeared to be sorted into three sizes by the original owner, the smallest being about one to three carats of raw spinel. After cutting and polishing, they would be slightly smaller. There were at least two hundred pieces in this bag, Li Xiu didn’t count them, just estimated.

The slightly bigger size had seventeen raw stones, estimated to weigh between four to ten carats, with unknown weight after cutting and polishing.

The largest bag contained eight raw stones, all over ten carats each.

This batch of raw stones, regardless of size, was of high quality, with few impurities, making cutting and polishing likely less wasteful.

So much pink spinel would fetch a fortune at current market prices, especially the extraordinarily large Pink Spinel Raw Stone, which might weigh close to a hundred carats and be truly priceless.

When Li Xiu saw the ultra-large Pink Spinel Raw Stone, he felt a hunger rumbling in his stomach, clearly indicating it was no ordinary item, but another gemstone possessing magical powers.

The other smaller raw stones didn’t evoke any hunger; they were just ordinary gemstones.

"Could it be this ultra-large Pink Spinel Raw Stone causing the effect?" Li Xiu carried the Pink Spinel Raw Stone around nearby.

Sure enough, wherever the Pink Spinel went, the soft, mushy ground gradually hardened, though the range was very limited, only a few meters radius.

Even so, it was tremendously advantageous for Li Xiu, at least meaning he needn’t worry about sinking again.

Li Xiu didn’t consume this gemstone because he wasn’t sure if, after transforming it into a magical being, the ability would remain.

If, after becoming a magical being, its ability were like Demigod Shana’s, only preventing itself from sinking, that wouldn’t be ideal.

Moreover, it was also somewhat too large to swallow comfortably.

After securing the gemstones on him, Li Xiu climbed to the second floor, looking toward the distant source of the rumbling. Sha Chu was still battling with that magical being, with no end in sight yet.