My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 20, Section 27: The Morning Bell

The winning amount is 66,000, while the grand prize in this type of scratch-off lottery is one million.

The other major prizes, which are slightly lower in denominations, are 880,000, 660,000, 330,000, and 100,000.

Then come the 88,000, 66,000 and 33,000, while those in the tens, hundreds and thousands of dollars are just consolation prizes.

So strictly speaking, this prize of 66,000 yuan is not a big prize.

However, Li Jiuhe made a huge profit with a small investment, winning 66,000 yuan with just 3,000 yuan, which seemed like a great deal no matter how you looked at it.

This time he did not reset the mission. On the contrary, because he completed the mission, he also received a 2-point reset point recovery reward, which restored his used reset points to 5 points.

The shop owner was very happy. He plucked a few sparse hairs from his head and quickly pulled Li Jiuhe to take a picture with him, hoping to share in the joy.

They then enthusiastically promoted the lottery at the store entrance, attempting to attract more customers to come in and buy tickets.

He quickly assisted Li Jiuhe in providing his identity information, completing the offline verification and online prize redemption.

Li Jiuhe only needs to go home and wait; he will receive a text message notification that the money has been deposited within one business day.

After seeing Li Jiuhe off, the shop owner still stood happily at the door, promoting the shop to everyone he met. However, he noticed that there seemed to be far fewer pedestrians on the street.

A neighbor walked past his shop with his hands behind his back and said, "Old Zhao, you're still up so late?"

The shop owner was taken aback, and only then did he notice the time, realizing that it was almost 11:30.

His shop usually closes at 10 p.m., but he didn't realize the time today.

The shop owner didn't feel anything was amiss; he just thought the day had gone by too quickly.

While agreeing, she told her son to close the shop door.

On the other hand, Li Jiuhe was also happy, planning to try his luck at other lottery shops in a couple of days using the same method.

Of course, not every lottery shop can offer scratch-off prizes worth tens of thousands of yuan; it all depends on luck.

However, as long as you have the ability to define tasks, you're sure to encounter similar big prizes again if you visit a few more places.

He returned home happily, only to find that Li Yi had not yet come back.

I immediately dialed the other party's number, but no one answered after it rang for a long time.

I then sent another text message, but waited a moment without a response.

I dialed the number again, but this time I couldn't get through.

Li Jiuhe felt uneasy and sat on the sofa, trying hard to recall his previous conversation with Li Yi.

He was confident that he hadn't given anything away when handing the cannibal's tongue to her, and that Li Yi probably didn't know he had set up a task at the time.

Upon careful reflection, Li Yi's explanation before the mission reset sounded quite reasonable, and he had not yet found any loopholes.

"So, is Li Yi still lying to me? Did she not tell me the truth back then?"

Suspicious, he went to his daughter's room, opened the wardrobe, and immediately felt a sense of foreboding.

I noticed that some clothes were missing from the wardrobe, and the small travel bag I bought for my daughter was also nowhere to be found.

He searched his daughter's bedroom thoroughly and was certain that Li Yi had run away from home.

She deliberately created the illusion that she was only out for a short while and would be back soon, during which time she even answered her own calls and replied to messages.

By the time Li Jiuhe realizes something is wrong, she might already be far away.

Everything was premeditated, so this time traveler is very likely not Li Yi from twenty years in the future, but someone else entirely.

Li Jiuhe felt a chill run down his spine.

At this moment, the other party is using his daughter's body somewhere, and he is most worried that the body will be damaged beyond repair.

This guy was too cunning; his lies were almost flawless, causing Li Jiuhe to lower his guard at that moment.

She probably also realized that Li Jiuhe might have defined her questioning as a task, and deduced that Li Jiuhe was definitely on guard against her, so she simply chose to run away from home after obtaining the Tongue of the Fear Eater.

After sitting on the sofa and thinking for a long time, Li Jiuhe decided to go to the city museum tomorrow.

As long as the 27th Morning Bell is still in the museum, Li Yi will definitely try every means to get this item, so she shouldn't go far, but will go to the museum at any time.

He took out his phone, opened the mini-program, and booked an appointment to go to the museum tomorrow.

Li Jiuhe didn't fall into a deep sleep until late into the night.

I woke up promptly at nine o'clock the next morning and immediately picked up my phone, which was charging, to check it. I found that Li Yi had not called or texted me again.

However, the bank sent me a message that the lottery winnings had been deposited into my account. After deducting taxes and fees, I received a total of more than 50,000 yuan.

This money temporarily solved Li Jiuhe's urgent problem.

He first transferred over three thousand yuan to pay off this month's mortgage, then quickly got up, washed up, fetched a basin of water, and went downstairs to clean his electric scooter.

Then he slung his bag over his shoulder, put on his helmet, and rode his electric scooter away from the neighborhood.

Just as Li Jiuhe drove out of the residential area, he was slightly taken aback when he saw the figure of investigator Xu Wei appear across the street.

Xu Wei wasn't looking this way; instead, she was looking up at the street scene on the other side.

It's clear that the woman hasn't given up and is still searching for clues about the person who killed the Fear Eater in the vicinity.

Fearing being discovered, Li Jiuhe glanced across the street before quickly looking away and heading towards the city museum.

The next second, Xu Wei turned her head and looked at his departing electric scooter, her delicate eyebrows furrowing slightly.

Soon they arrived at the city museum. Li Jiuhe parked his electric scooter in the parking lot outside and then showed his reservation information to enter the museum.

He pretended to look around for a while, and soon found an ancient object called "The Morning Bell of the Second Seventh" on display in a hall on the second floor.

He breathed a sigh of relief. As long as this thing was still there, it meant that Li Yi wouldn't have gone too far.

The object in front of me is made of bronze, about the size of a spittoon, and even its shape is somewhat similar, with a mottled surface.

According to the description of the exhibit, this morning bell was unearthed from a collapsed ancient temple with a history of thousands of years, but its original name is unknown.

However, it is said that if you listen closely to it at 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. every day, you may hear a deep, ancient chiming sound.

Of course, you should just take this with a grain of salt; it's probably just a gimmick for naming things.

Since the February 7th Morning Bell exhibition began, no visitor has had the opportunity to hear the bells ring, because the museum is closed at both times.

Perhaps only the staff here, if they are curious, will wait until the appointed time to listen and verify.

Li Jiuhe did not linger in front of the morning bell for long, worried that Li Yi might be hiding in the shadows observing him, so he quickly walked away to a distance.

I found a good angle and started to secretly observe the tourists coming and going nearby, while also keeping an eye on the morning bell.

Taking this thing away won't be easy. There are many surveillance cameras in the hall, and if the glass display case is forcibly opened, it will definitely trigger the alarm.

If Li Yi wants to take it, she might use some unexpected and special methods.

This time traveler was hiding her secrets so well that even Li Jiuhe didn't know what secrets she was hiding.

As I was pondering this, suddenly my vision blurred, and the sky outside the museum quickly darkened, turning into night in an instant.

The surrounding environment seemed to have completely changed, and it was completely unfamiliar to Li Jiuhe.

Then the dark space suddenly lit up again, and the scene returned to the museum hall. A person appeared in his sight, walking slowly towards him.

Li Jiuhe came to his senses and realized that the person who was near him was Xu Wei.