The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#824 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing rejected the Brahma Heaven was because the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by those Brahma sect guys through blood sacrifice.

The reason he brought it along was to add another layer of insurance to this trip to Bai Longbo.

But it's not like they couldn't find the bead without it.

Lu Jing believed that since that being left the star map tens of thousands of years ago, it meant that there was a way to find the bead using the star map, it just might take more effort.

In the current situation, Lu Jing certainly hoped to find the bead as soon as possible, but he wasn't so crazy as to fill the gap with human lives.

Hearing his answer, Shi Tou also breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Jing stopped when he heard this.

The nine people brought quite a few camels with them on this trip into Bai Longbo, there were spares, and they had also consumed some dry food and water recently, so there were empty camels available.

Lu Jing wasn't an extreme animal protectionist, giving Brahma Heaven a camel as a sacrifice wasn't impossible.

"You better provide me with something useful," Lu Jing said, "Otherwise, I'll make you spit out as much as you eat later."

Brahma Heaven blinked its only remaining eye and smiled, "Don't worry, I definitely won't disappoint you."

Lu Jing then asked Shi Tou to select the oldest camel and lead it to the bronze statue.

Although the bronze statue no longer had arms, as its gaze fell on the old camel, the latter seemed to sense its fate and let out a mournful cry.

Then it knelt on the ground.

Fresh blood flowed continuously from its nose, mouth, and eyes.

Brahma Heaven brought its face close, as if smelling something delicious.

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, Brahma Heaven stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, it only exerted a little force, and the camel's skull was crushed.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A look of greed flashed across Brahma Heaven's face, it crouched down and sucked up the remaining things in the skull.

This eerie and terrifying scene made Shi Tou feel nauseous.

Especially when he thought that if Lu Jing hadn't objected just now, it wouldn't have been the camel that had its head smashed, but him, he felt even colder in his heart, and quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

After enjoying the delicious meal, Brahma Heaven stood up again and let out a satisfied groan, "Unfortunately, this sacrifice is still a bit lacking, it's not as good as the taste of humans, but when you're out, you can't be too picky."

As he spoke, he glanced at Shi Tou intentionally or unintentionally, and grinned at the latter, before turning his head back to Lu Jing, "The reason why the direction has been changing is because the position of the thing you are looking for is not fixed."

"Huh?"

"That thing is on a living creature," Brahma Heaven said.

"What living creature?"

"I don't know what it is, but from the appearance, it should be a snail," the bronze statue was a little unsure.

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Brahma Heaven said, "Of course, that's because I am now just a wisp of divine thought residing in this bronze statue, if my main body was here, hehe…"

Lu Jing didn't want to listen to him bragging and interrupted him directly, "Are you making fun of us? We've already changed direction several times these days, how can a snail have such good footwork?"

"Oh, that thing does move quite fast under the sand, you'll know when you see it," Brahma Heaven said.

After speaking, without Lu Jing urging it, it honestly sat back in the box.

"Also, let me tell you some good news, I can feel that we are getting closer and closer to that bead."

After speaking, the bronze statue lay down in the box.

… … … …

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust Brahma Heaven, the latter's words still made everyone in the team feel a burst of energy.

Because it meant that their previous efforts had not been in vain.

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

It's just that after the group of nine wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still hadn't found the bead, nor had they seen the snail that Brahma Heaven said.

Even Kui, who was always calm, couldn't help but feel a little irritable.

Because the time left for the nine people was getting less and less.

"We're just going around in circles," the girl said, "And we've already turned at least three circles."

Compared to when they first entered Bai Longbo, everyone's faces and skin had been tanned a lot, and even the two boxes of sunscreen powder that Wen Xiaochuan brought were almost empty.

However, the latter didn't clamor to go back, but learned from Shi Tou and wrapped two more circles of black cloth under the veil hat, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

As for the camels in the team, Brahma Heaven had eaten them until only nine were left.

Starting about ten days ago, it couldn't provide any useful information anymore, only repeating that it was very close, but it couldn't say an accurate number of how close it was.

Lu Jing didn't have any good ideas either, so he could only continue on his way according to Professor Xu's stargazing results.

Seeing that it was almost evening, it was another fruitless day.

Lu Jing also stopped practicing the Imperial Sword Technique and planned to get off the camel to make a fire and cook.

But at this moment, a turbulent river suddenly appeared in front of him.

Lu Jing asked Shi Tou, who was walking in front, "Is there a river in Bai Longbo?"

The expression on Shi Tou's face was also a bit blank, but soon he thought of something, and his face changed, "This… This is the Ghost Market."

As he spoke, he knelt down and began to kowtow to the river.

"What Ghost Market?" Lu Jing asked.

"I… I'm not sure, it's just that sometimes when we lead a team through Bai Longbo, we will see some things that shouldn't exist in this world, but we can never get close or touch them, the older generation calls this the Ghost Market."

Shi Tou said in fear, "When you encounter the Ghost Market, don't keep staring at it, quickly lower your head and pray."

Hearing him say this, a word flashed in Lu Jing's mind, Mirage?

Speaking of which, this kind of thing does appear in the desert, it's not too strange.

Lu Jing didn't join Shi Tou's kowtowing, but he thought of another thing.

Mirages are also related to the refraction of light, could this be related to the bead they are looking for?

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