Chapter 581 How Did This Happen? (2/2)

Holding this piece of opal, he cheered, ”Hey buddies, found it. I found this!”

The crowd of hunters glared at him with jealousy. They cried out, ”This jerk is lucky!””He found a gemstone again!””He's gonna be rich!”

They were now also even more won-over, and so they stopped watching, took out their mobile phones and prepared to conduct the transaction.

”Hey, Christopher, give me this piece. I'll buy this piece.”

”I'm eying this piece. This is mine, sell it to me!”

”We'll buy this piece . . . ”

Christopher was busy accepting the transfers, and he couldn't stop beaming with delight.

Beside the hunters who had been won-over, some others continued to watch Li Du.

To them, the boulder opal that Li Du was holding was shiny. What they couldn't see was a little black bug lying on top of the stone absorbing its time energy.

Li Du continued to wave the boulder opal in his hand, as though he were celebrating in excitement.

One of the hunters was irritated and grumbled, ”God please make that the gem in his hand fall apart.”

Opals were neither known for being hard nor brittle—it was a delicate gem. Its value was solely dependent on its bright colors. If it fell to the ground, it could break easily.

God must have heard him—the boulder opal in Li Du's hands did not get flung out but as he waved his hand, the opal inside the boulder flew out instead!

The opal flew out and fell onto a piece of granite. With a crisp smack sound, the opal instantly broken into a few pieces!

At this scene, those who had been focusing on Li Du gloated at his misfortune and laughed gleefully. Then a few seconds later, as though someone had pressed the stop button, they suddenly all stopped laughing—a look of surprise came across their faces.

Not far away, the people who were crowded around Christopher and trying to transact with him did not see what happened. They noticed the mood had become strange and asked, ”What happened?”

A hunter said feebly, ”The opal in that Chinaman's hands flew out and shattered.”

The rest of the hunters laughed out loud. Someone said, ”That's a shame. It still shattered even though it was wrapped. How unlucky.”

The broken opal pieces were still stunning, but their value would be slashed. There was a type of opal that was made by piecing broken opals together.

That hunter said, ”No, no boulder. It's … it's the opal dropping out from inside the boulder!”

”Impossible!” someone instantly countered.

Yes, it was impossible under normal circumstances. After millions of years of binding, the layers of stone and opal had already been integrated into one. Thus, it was impossible to extract the opal out, causing its value to be lower than that of pure broken opals.

However, this would be possible for counterfeits, because they had used glue to bind the opal with the layers of stones.

Li Du was having little bug absorb the time energy and damage the glue so it was no longer sticky.

The shattered fake opals on the ground still emitted dazzling brilliance. He looked at the rock in his hand in bewilderment and asked, ”How did this happen?

Brendan and Alicia went up to console him. ”It was possible that your gem and the boulder had not been tightly bound together—”

Li Du interrupted them and said, ”You're right—they're not tightly bound. It looks like glue was used to bond them together. You guys, look!”

In the boulder was a layer of marks left behind by solidified glue, like a layer of plastic.

At this sight, Brendan and Alicia were perplexed. Brendan posed the same question as Li Du: ”How did this happen?