Jero squirmed in fear in his dream, the only part of his body that could move, his eyeballs, but all he could see was a chaotic, blood-red mess.
He felt like an ornamental fish locked in a crystal fish tank, helpless, confused, lonely and timid.
This scalp-numbing dream lasted for an unknown amount of time until Jero suddenly saw a large, dark, constantly deforming shadow on the other side of the boundless blood-red chaos.
He immediately excitedly looked towards the place where the shadow was, hoping to see the true face of the shadow.
Finally, with his desperate efforts, the blood-red fog of chaos began to dissipate, and the image of the shadow became clearer and clearer little by little.
Until the end, when the image of the shadow completely appeared in front of Jero's eyes, all the excitement and ecstasy in his heart were replaced by a deep-seated chill.
He saw that the true face of the shadow that appeared in front of him was his own face lying on his side sleeping on the bed!
...
It turns out...he is the eye trapped in the blood-red gem ball?
The huge fright made Jero suddenly wake up. He suddenly sat up from the bed, panting heavily with cold sweat all over his body...
Huh...huh...
Jero swallowed dryly, feeling that his throat was extremely dry and hoarse, so he turned back to get the water glass on the bedside table. As soon as he turned around, he saw the blood-red gem ball placed quietly beside his pillow.
...
That night, Jero sat on the head of his bed all night. At dawn the next day, without saying a word, he picked up the stone ball beside his pillow and rushed towards the mage's laboratory where the scholars were.
And when he rushed into the door of the mage's laboratory with the stone ball in his hand, all the scholars who saw what he was holding were stunned!
Together with Jero, they immediately took the ruby ball and rushed to the experimental hall where the ruby ball was supposed to be stored. There should have been two scholars there last night, studying the secret of the ruby ball all night long.
As a result, when they pushed open the door of the experimental hall, they were immediately stunned by the sight in front of them.
On the stone platform in the center of the experimental hall, the red gem ball was still sitting there quietly...
what happened?
Are there really two gem balls?
Jero thought this in his mind, but when he lowered his head, he was horrified to find that the red gem ball he had just held in his arms had quietly disappeared without knowing when...
..
This series of mysterious phenomena that happened to Jero aroused keen interest among the scholars, and they began to help Jero find a solution and try to figure out why the red stone ball kept clinging to him.
But until the very end, scholars did not figure out why the red stone ball was entangled with Jero, because after being entangled with the gem ball for three consecutive months, Jero suddenly woke up one morning.
, he never saw the ruby stone ball again...
Everything ended suddenly and without warning on that day, as if the gem ball had accomplished some mission. It no longer persisted in fighting Jero, and it never showed any miracles from then on.
The strange phenomenon is that the eyeball in the center of the gem stares straight ahead in most cases, never moving its gaze for anyone.
The scholars' research was ultimately proven to be useless, and the ruby sphere was finally returned to the royal treasury by King Wood I, and it never saw the light of day again.
until today......
Jie Luo hid in the shadow behind the pillar, with a hint of sadness and lingering fear in his tone, and slowly told Xue Hua this past event that had been buried in the long river of history.
In the world of Sanctuary at that time, the invasion of demons was becoming more and more intense, and no one had the time to pay attention to other things besides the war.
So this strange anecdote in King's Port was only circulated in the local area for a few years. As the war further expanded, even the people in King's Port no longer talked about this strange thing, so the incident slowly
It has been forgotten by people, and the scholars who studied the strange beasts and ruby balls have also passed away. Only the legendary person Jero still remembers that strange and bizarre past event.
However...Xue Hua suddenly noticed something wrong when he listened to Jero's story. Jero finally said that when the ruby ball no longer bothered him, the sight of the eyeball returned to facing straight forward.
Staring look...
But when Xue Hua just got this blood-red gem, the eyeball inside was indeed turning in his direction?
He told Jero about this matter, but in exchange he got a look from behind the stone pillar that said, "You wish for your own good."
"Congratulations, it seems that you have also been entangled by it..."
"...what??"
Xue Hua's hand shook and he almost threw the bag in his hand.
"Don't throw it away, it won't work anywhere... I've tried it many times..."
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he always felt that there was a hint of gloating in Jero's tone when he said this...
"Damn it...why didn't you remind me before I went in?" Xue Hua reluctantly took out the ruby ball from the bag, and sure enough, he found that the eyeball in the center of the ball was staring blankly with a blank look.
Staring at his face...
His scalp was numb just looking at it...
"How long has it been? I have long forgotten that there is such a ghost thing in the king's treasury. Besides, no one who has entered the king's treasury has ever been entangled by it before. Who knows what it is interested in you?
, actually got entangled with you directly..."
Jero scratched his head in embarrassment: "How about...are you going in to choose one?"
"...Forget it, I don't want to go into your royal treasury anymore. Who knows what other deceptive things are in there..."
Xue Hua held the gem ball and the eyeballs inside, staring at it with big eyes. At the same time, in the main nest mind, he asked Abathur to help him check this thing carefully.
He didn't want to get up tomorrow morning and find a big eyeball staring at him next to the pillow, otherwise it would scare him into trouble...
Abathur took advantage of the connectivity of Xue Hua's spiritual universe, carefully extended a few limbs from the spiritual universe, quickly and carefully struck the gem ball, and then told him an unexpected and unexpected
News that makes sense.
The essence of this ruby-like mineral crystal is not a crystalline mineral at all, but some kind of solidified organic tissue crystal. Moreover, the organic tissue structure of this crystal is genetically the same as anything in the Sanctuary World.
All living things are not of the same species.
In other words, this ruby-like organic sphere or the huge alien beast that Jero and the others saw back then were not native products of the Sanctuary World at all, but came from distant outer space...
.
And most importantly, Abathur told him that the eye-shaped tissue in this organic biological tissue crystal is a special biological sampling organism and is also the biological core of this organic sphere.
And the fact that it can still work proves that this creature is not dead at all. There was no movement in the king's treasury before, just because it was dormant...