Chapter 1288: The Final Step, Discovering the Key is Fake

The pendant is the key to opening the Treasure, and he has always kept it on his person.

Perhaps both are real.

Perhaps one is real, and the other is fake.

One of these two pendants was obtained by tricking Shi Youxuan into handing it over when Zhu Qingxiang kidnapped Shi Ran.

The other was ripped from her neck when Shi Youxuan and her husband were abducted to Shark Island!

Identical pendants; one of them must be fake.

So he brought them both, but what he didn't expect was—both were fake!

"Sorry, the command you entered is incorrect again. A friendly reminder: you have one last chance. If you enter it incorrectly, please come back in half a month." The pendant is the key to opening the Treasure; the door won't open, and there is an electronic command prompt.

Zhu Qingrui was furious and smashed both pendants onto the ground hard.

"Bastard, you actually lied to me? Fake, it's all fake!"

He never expected that Shi Youxuan had actually deceived him for so many years with two fake pendants.

Revitalizing the Zhu Family requires a massive amount of money, and the Ji Family's Treasure was his only hope, but now that hope is shattered!

Through all the hardships and toil, he had painstakingly schemed for so many years, all for this very moment!

But he never dreamed that a problem would arise at the most critical moment.

The big guy: "Vice President, don't be anxious. We'll go and demand the real key from Shi Youxuan."

The others looked at him as if he were an idiot.

The dwarf: "If you want to go, go yourself. I'm not going to accompany you in your madness."

The big guy realized it then too; going to ask for the key now was no different from walking straight into a trap.

Zhu Qingrui could not bear to fail like this and ordered the computer genius: "Now is the time for you to play your part. If you can open the door, you will have performed a great service."

"If I can open the door, you must find a way to rescue the sharpshooter, how about that? This request isn't too much, is it?" The computer genius proposed the condition at the appropriate time.

"Fine, it's not too much. I will definitely rescue him!" He agreed immediately.

Jian Family Hospital.

Wan'er was sent to the hospital. After the doctor finished the examination, he smiled and reported to Jian Yining: "Rest assured, your wife has not been abused; there are no problems at all."

Jian Yining did not believe it and asked nervously: "If there's no problem, why hasn't she woken up yet?"

Doctor: "That is because the Madam was fed a high-potency sleeping pill. The drug's effect is currently very strong, so she is sleeping very deeply."

The Jian Family members all breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she was fine, that was all that mattered; now they just needed to wait for her to wake up.

But Shi Youxuan's brows remained furrowed, never relaxing!

She hesitated for a while, but still made up her mind to tell Ji Yingjie about this matter.

"What?"

The aunt on the other side of the video call had her eyes wide with rage. Upon hearing that Zhu Qingrui had obtained the whereabouts of the third map, her first concern was not whether Wan'er was safe, but the first thing she asked was whether the Treasure had been stolen by Zhu Qingrui.

Shi Youxuan felt her heart go cold, so her tone was icy as well.

"I don't know, I'm at the hospital."

"The hospital?"

When Ji Yingjie heard her niece was at the hospital, she was even more furious than before, almost roaring at her: "Shi Youxuan, are you sick? Has your brain been flooded? Such a big thing has happened, and you're actually at the hospital?"

"I order you, go stop him immediately. Don't let him take a single cent from the Ji Family. The Treasure is the lifeblood of how many generations of the Ji Family? Do you know how hard we have worked to protect the Treasure?"

"You must stop them at any cost, even if it means death, you cannot..."

The image was gone; the video call was interrupted.

Ji Yingjie thought the signal was bad and hurriedly dialed again.

But the call was hung up as soon as it was dialed. After a few times, Ji Yingjie realized that it wasn't a lack of signal; her niece had refused to answer her call.

She was so angry she started wailing.

Ji Yingjie ordered Nianyin: "Dial her immediately. Once it connects, give the phone to me. I'm going to give her a good scolding."

She thought too much; Shi Youxuan didn't even answer Nianyin's call.

Shi Youxuan stood in the hospital corridor, still fuming. Answer it? Why bother?

Treasure this, Treasure that all day long—are you short on money?

What is the use of having so much money?

Can you take it into your coffin later?

To help her keep the secret of the Treasure, how much suffering and hardship did Wan'er endure?

She didn't care about any of that.

She didn't even ask a single word about it; every other sentence was about money. She might as well be buried in a money pit.

If Shi Youxuan wouldn't answer the phone, she had other ways.

Ji Yingjie called her husband, Shi Yucheng, and as soon as it connected, she said: "Go find Xuanxuan immediately and make her stop Zhu Qingrui from taking the Treasure. Tell her that if even one thing is missing, she will be a sinner of the Ji Family!"

Shi Yucheng was shocked: "What did you say? Zhu Qingrui came to Jiangzhou? No, you can't let Xuanxuan go. We must call the police immediately and have them throw him into Prison."

Of course, he wouldn't let Shi Youxuan go; no father would watch his own daughter put herself in danger!

Ji Yingjie was almost angered to the point of fainting by her husband.

"Shi Yucheng, are you an idiot? You can't call the police! I warn you, you are not allowed to call the police! The secret of the Treasure is the highest classified information; how can you call the police? If you call the police, everything will be ruined..."

Her body swayed violently, and she almost fell.

This damn man!

At first, she thought he was unique and someone she could entrust her life to, but now she saw he was just a blockhead. Looking at his face made her want to hit him.

Unfortunately, she couldn't hit him; the distance was too great.

"Mother, Mother."

"Yingjie, Yingjie, what's wrong? Don't scare me, don't get agitated, let's talk this through calmly."

Nianyin and Shi Yucheng were both incredibly anxious.

Shi Yucheng reminded Nianyin to get her blood pressure medication.

Ji Yingjie was no longer young and had high blood pressure, but her temper never changed; she was still the type to flare up at the slightest provocation, which was truly a headache.

"Get lost, I won't take it!"

She knocked the blood pressure medication away and forced Shi Yucheng to call Shi Youxuan.

Although he was ten thousand times unwilling, he couldn't just watch her suffer a burst blood vessel from anxiety and anger.

"Alright, I'll make the call, I'll make it right now. Calm down, take the blood pressure medication first, and I'll make the call as soon as I see you've taken it."

Shi Yucheng coaxed and persuaded her, finally managing to get her to swallow the blood pressure medication.

Turning on the video call, Shi Yucheng dialed his second daughter's phone; when Shi Youxuan saw it was her father calling, she was ninety percent sure it had to do with her aunt, but she couldn't not answer.

Shi Yucheng explained the purpose of his call, and it was indeed as she had thought.

She said to her father: "Do you know where I am right now? I'm at the hospital; Wan'er was kidnapped by Zhu Qingrui and nearly died, and she is still in a coma."

"Aunt is too much. In her eyes, there is only the Ji Family Treasure, only cold, heartless wealth and money. She spends all day scheming for those dead objects, yet she doesn't even ask about her own niece."

"Her actions are truly chilling. Dad, even if you are the one calling me, I will not risk my life to do this. My life is very valuable; even if Aunt doesn't care, my family—my husband, my children, and my parents-in-law—do not want me to take such risks."