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Chapter 573 Crystal Stone
Zhu Yu picked up the substance with tweezers and examined it in the sunlight. It was extremely translucent, which was definitely not the state that normal blood would be in after crystallization.

Zhu Yu asked Fu Wen to take a white porcelain dish, placed the "blood bead" on it, and then cut open another square of cloth next to it. Sure enough, there was another dead insect inside.

After working tirelessly for half a day, Zhu Yu's chill from the morgue was long gone, and he was now covered in sweat.

Lu Qing felt sorry for her as she worked so hard with her back bent, and wanted to take over, but unfortunately, Zhu Yu's small pair of scissors was made exactly to the thickness of her own finger, and Lu Qing's finger couldn't even fit inside, so she had to give up on that idea and instead helped her take out the dead bug.

By the time Zhu Yu had cut off the lining of the dress piece by piece, she was covered in sweat and her back was aching. She straightened up to rest, wiped the sweat from her brow, and saw Lu Qing helping to deal with the dead insects.

It's no exaggeration to say that there were at least a hundred insects inside this garment. The first one Zhu Yu took out was located on the hem of the skirt, so it was much smaller. The insects taken out later from the front and back were much larger, and they were the larger kind that were placed inside watermelon seeds.

Because the insect is relatively large, breaking the shell will naturally result in a larger blood-red crystal being extracted from the insect's abdomen, making it look more like a slightly dull red gemstone.

"Wait a moment." Zhu Yu stopped Lu Qing's movements, picked up a dead worm that was as big as a large watermelon seed, and the dead worm was round and plump, just like a teardrop-shaped soybean.

After so long, Zhu Yu was no longer afraid of these dead insects and was not worried that they might suddenly come back to life. He picked one up with his fingers and tried to crush it, only to find that the shell of the dead insect was extremely hard and could not be crushed by hand.

"No wonder these insects weren't crushed or torn apart even though the He family's daughter wore them day and night when they were hiding inside the clothes. Their bodies are so tough!"

Zhu Yu muttered to himself as he carefully observed the insect: "The mouthparts of this strange insect are also strangely shaped."

Generally speaking, if there is a needle-like mouthpart, there are no two small pliers-like parts; if there are two small pliers-like parts, there are no needle-like parts.

After all, an insect can only have one way of feeding: either suck the bodily fluids of its prey or bite open and eat the flesh. There's no reason for it to have two mouthparts.

Unless… each of these two things has its own purpose.

She gestured to Lu Qing, and at the same time carefully touched the mouthparts of the strange insect with the small scissors in her hand: "I am not an expert in insects, so I can only make a guess."

These long, needle-like mouthparts were naturally used to suck human blood.

However, such a hard insect swells up the more blood it sucks, becoming both hard and bloated. It's hard to hide it in the lining of clothing without being noticed, so I guess those two small pincer-like mouthparts aren't for biting through the skin to eat the flesh, but rather like the fangs of a venomous snake.

Those two small pincer-like things on it may contain some kind of toxin that can numb the body and make people lose their sense of touch, so they can't feel the foreign objects inside their clothes.

The reason why Zhelufang bought Hongyu Shengxiang at high prices in the previous few times was probably because of the insects in the interlayer.

Or perhaps it's for the crystal formed from the blood within the insect's body. Since the insect can form a translucent crystal after sucking blood, this crystal must possess some kind of power; it's definitely not just ordinary blood clots.

After saying that, she set aside the unusually plump, strange insect in her hand and then worked with Lu Qing to deal with the others.

"This one...?" Lu Qing looked at her in confusion.

Without much thought, Zhu Yu subconsciously said, "None of us know the name of this insect, so let's keep one and let Yan Daoxin take a look later. Maybe he'll recognize it..."

As she spoke, she paused in her actions, slowly inhaled, and then exhaled. She looked up at Lu Qing, as if seeking confirmation from him: "He will definitely recognize me, won't he?"

“Yes.” Lu Qing understood what she was thinking and nodded without hesitation.

The insect was preserved intact and placed in a small, specially emptied white porcelain bottle, which was then sealed.

The rest had their outer shells broken, and a handful of dark red crystals were gradually extracted.

Zhu Yu picked up the garment on the stone table, the lining of which had already been cut off, and looked at it against the setting sun. He found that the material was quite remarkable. It didn't feel particularly heavy in his hand, but the fabric was woven exceptionally finely, and light could hardly pass through the other side of the fabric.

No wonder the He family's daughter wore that outfit day and night, yet the insects inside didn't die because she was exposed to sunlight during the day while wearing that outfit.

Zhu Yu was also somewhat relieved that they had hung the clothes with the lining facing up when they were drying them. Otherwise, if they had turned them inside out and left them to dry for a long time without any reaction, it wouldn't have been the worst thing if they had carelessly cut a section open and let the bugs out. But if they had actually been bitten, that would have been quite alarming.

After all, this thing is so strange that no one can say for sure whether it is poisonous or not.

"When Zelifang sold this so-called Red Jade Fragrance, it seemed like their plan was to sell it first and then buy it back."

Looking at the many small red crystals, Lu Qing frowned: "Whether people stop wearing them because their complexion worsens after wearing them, or they encounter people offering to buy them back at high prices without even noticing anything, these things are inherently expensive. The buyers are usually not powerful or wealthy people, but just ordinary rich people. Being able to buy them back at a high price is a considerable temptation."

The clothes had already been worn and were bought back at a high price. Regardless of what happened before, people would let it go for the sake of money and not bother with it. As a result, the item never caused any sensation.

Until He Min's daughter, because she was so anxious and eager after being engaged, she was drained of the most blood. Before the people from the shoe store could offer a high price to try to buy her back, she died.

It was only after He Min caused a ruckus that we had the opportunity to discover the secret of the fragrant red jade.

It seems that, whether it's this thing or the women rescued from the small mountain building, what the other party is after is the blood of those women.