Chapter 222: Twelve bejeweled eggs.
"I don’t know. I was just told that someone was carrying something and I needed to intercept it and take the package." She answered nonchalantly and even shrugged to show how unbothered she was. "So, are you telling me that this thing is cursed?"
She snatched it from him and put it back in the case. If it was cursed, she did not want to risk them being infected.
Jingzhe shook his head. "I don’t know. I would need to break it apart and take a look inside to know what is going on. Of course I cannot prove a curse as I am not gifted with yin yang eyes but if the problem is scientific, I can figure it out.
Maybe there is a toxic gas in the compass that makes those that hold it for a long time lose their minds. The desert prince did set two of his wives on fire, accusing them of being possessed by demons.
They say he was never without the compass in his hands or on his person. Perhaps he was the first victim of an unknown toxin."
"How come I have never heard of this compass?" She frowned.
He tried to touch the clock again and she slapped his hand. Then she closed the case and glared at him. He had just talked about toxins and he wanted to touch it again. Was he crazy?
"There are hundreds of millions of historical relics in the world. Only about three million are known and of them, about only one or two million are very famous. Like the bejeweled dragon egg of our royal family, everyone knows about it but what people don’t know is that there are twelve bejeweled mythical eggs."
When he mentioned the bejeweled egg, she sat up because she was familiar with it. Her mother was obsessed with that stupid egg. A few times, under heavy guard, the egg had taken trips from the royal vault to their ancestral home just so her mother could look at it and make moon eyes.