My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 25 Patterns

Although the mission had been reset, Li Jiuhe still felt as if he had been crushed by that immense force, and his whole body felt uncomfortable.

At the same time, he was greatly alarmed.

Because the mission reset will only be automatically activated when he actually dies.

In other words, the stone man crushed him to death with the weight in one go, without any prior warning.

If one didn't possess the ability to define the mission, but was just an ordinary person or a sequencer with other abilities, they would die instantly without any chance of resistance.

So what appears to be a balance puzzle is actually fraught with danger at every turn; a moment's carelessness could lead to disaster!

It seems that this giant weight cannot be moved for the time being, otherwise it will provoke the stone golem to come back to life and attack him immediately.

Li Jiuhe walked around the bronze balance scale, his gaze settling on the scattered incense burners.

"The living are judged by their own standards, and others are judged by their own standards..." he murmured to himself, silently reciting the eight characters on the stone tablet outside.

After saying that, he stepped onto one of the trays of the bronze balance and then turned to look at the stone figure.

The stone figure remained motionless.

However, because one side of the scale had gained weight, it began to slowly tilt towards the side where Li Jiuhe was standing.

Li Jiuhe then turned his gaze to the pile of incense burners.

He jumped off the scales, went to the pile of incense burners, picked up a few of the heavier ones, and placed them on the other side of the scales.

These incense burners were all different sizes and weights. He estimated that after placing dozens of incense burners on the balance tray, the weight should be about the same as his own weight.

He then got up and climbed back onto the tray on the other side of the balance.

The bronze balance scale was already severely tilted with dozens of incense burners on one end. Now, after Li Jiuhe climbed onto the tray on the other end, the scale began to tilt towards him.

Li Jiuhe originally thought that the scales would stop at the middle after they reached equilibrium, but his estimate was wrong. The number of incense burners on the opposite tray was obviously too small.

The scales kept tilting in his favor, which means that his weight was greater than the total weight of all the incense burners.

With a click, the balance stopped tilting, but it was clear that the weights on the two trays were not balanced.

Almost at the same moment, a familiar cold snort rang out.

In a panic, Li Jiuhe turned his head to look and saw that the stone man next to him had come back to life again. Without any hesitation, he raised the weight in his hand and smashed it down on him.

This happened just as suddenly. The moment he had the thought of escaping, he was struck by the weight and half of his body was instantly turned into minced meat.

The scene before him changed, the mission was reset, and Li Jiuhe, feeling like he was in pieces, was standing two meters away from the stone man again.

He gasped and instinctively touched his body. Only the wounds on his abdomen and heart remained, though they had already clotted. The rest of his body was intact.

"Holy crap, I died twice."

However, at this moment he had already figured out some patterns.

Firstly, for some unknown reason, one cannot directly touch the weight, otherwise it will anger the stone golem and cause it to revive and kill one.

Then, when using the balance scale to "judge others by oneself", it is best to succeed on the first try so that the weights on both sides of the scale are equal. Otherwise, the stone golem will be resurrected and killed by you.

As for why one's own weight is to be equal to the weight of the incense burner, that remains unknown.

He took a deep breath, recalled the number and size of the incense burners he had placed on the tray at the other end of the scale, and began to place them back on the tray.

Because his own weight is 132 jin (approximately 66 catties), he needs to make sure that the weight of the incense burners piled on the tray is also 132 jin (approximately 66 catties), otherwise the balance will tilt and bring the stone figure to life.

This process was entirely based on intuition and trial and error. Fortunately, Li Jiuhe had the ability to reset the mission; otherwise, he would not have been able to find any other more suitable method.

……

Wangchuan City Museum, second floor lobby.

At this moment, four or five people are standing in the place where the Erqi Morning Bell was originally displayed.

The entire museum has been sealed off, and yellow police tape has been put up outside the second-floor lobby. However, this tape does not belong to the police department, but to the Special Incident Investigation Bureau.

Xu Wei stood next to a tall, square-faced man, both of them staring intently at the recess where the February 7th Morning Bell had originally been placed.

They just went to the monitoring room to retrieve the video footage.

Xu Wei felt somewhat guilty, not expecting that Li Jiuhe would suddenly snatch the morning bell away shortly after she left.

This suggests that the other party has definitely been coveting it for a long time, but she didn't realize it when she talked to them.

By reviewing the surveillance footage, they discovered that the area outside the side door was not captured, suggesting that the surveillance cameras in that area had been tampered with and were not displaying anything.

So they didn't know where Li Jiuhe had gone, or who the little girl who was meeting Li Jiuhe was.

"Have you found out the little girl's identity?" the square-faced man asked.

Xu Wei shook her head: "We are having an artist draw a portrait based on the descriptions given by the museum staff, and there are no results yet."

The square-faced man's name is Chen Haizheng, and he is the leader of Xu Wei's investigation team.

He rested his chin on his hand, looking at the empty display case: "When you came here, didn't you notice the strangeness of this 27th morning bell?"

Xu Wei shook her head in self-reproach: "My attention was entirely on Li Jiuhe, and I didn't notice the Morning Bell at all. After all, I've been tracking down the person who killed the Terror Eater these past few days, and I just happened to discover that Li Jiuhe has a sequence ability mark, so I've also been investigating this person."

"It's not your fault," Chen Hai said. "The Morning Bell of the Second Seventh is an artifact with over a thousand years of history. If such a thing becomes a Sequence User, it is generally extremely powerful. If it wanted to hide its Sequence Mark from you, you would never have noticed it."

Xu Wei sighed: "Team Leader Chen, in your estimation, what is the sequence level of this 'Morning Bell of the Second Seventh Month'? Regional level?"

"Not only that." Chen Hai shook his head. "Last year, a 500-year-old artifact was discovered in Qingpeng City, which is already the highest level of Level II. This 27 Morning Bell has a history of 1,000 years and is at least a Level III city-destroying artifact."

"City-destroying level?!" Xu Wei exclaimed in astonishment.

She suddenly realized that if the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh was truly a city-destroying level, even if she had noticed something unusual about it at the time and guessed that it might be a Sequencer, she probably wouldn't have been able to contain it.

On the contrary, it could cost them their lives.

The problem now is that we don't know what Li Jiuhe is doing, or why he wants to steal the Morning Bell.

The Bureau of Investigations even suspected that he might have joined an underground organization formed by some evil sequencers.

"Find out the little girl's identity as soon as possible; that should help us determine Li Jiuhe's motives," Chen Zhenghai advised. "Start by investigating the people around Li Jiuhe."

Xu Wei nodded: "It's been checked. He's been living alone since his wife died in an accident three years ago, and he only recently awakened as a Sequencer."

"Did Li Jiuhe and his wife not have any children after they got married?"

"no."