The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#822 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing refused Poluo Heaven was that the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by the blood sacrifices of those Poluo sect guys.

The reason for bringing it along was to add another layer of insurance to this trip to White Dragon Lake.

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

Lu Jing believed that since that being left behind 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 a little more effort.

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

Hearing his answer, Stone also breathed a sigh of relief.

In a short period of time, he felt like he had been pulled out of the water, his back was wet, and the nights in the Gobi Desert were quite cold, especially when the cold wind blew, which made Stone shiver.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put Poluo Heaven back into the box, and even considered finding a place to dig a hole and bury it, anyway, this guy was unwilling to cooperate, and keeping it didn't seem to be of much use anymore.

On the contrary, it would easily disrupt the harmonious atmosphere within the team.

Lu Jing was not an extreme animal rights activist, so giving Poluo Heaven a camel as a sacrifice was not impossible.

"You better provide me with something useful," Lu Jing said, "otherwise, however much you eat, I'll make you spit it out."

Poluo Heaven blinked its only remaining eye and smiled, "Don't worry, I definitely won't let you down."

Lu Jing then asked Stone to pick 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 foresee its fate and let out a mournful cry.

Then it knelt on the ground.

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

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

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, Poluo Heaven stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, with just a light force, the camel's skull was crushed.

Fresh blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A greedy look flashed across Poluo Heaven's face, and it crouched down, sucking up the remaining things in the skull.

This eerie and terrifying scene made Stone 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 cracked open, but him, he felt even colder in his heart, and quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

After enjoying the delicacy, Poluo Heaven stood up again and let out a satisfied moan, "It's a pity, this sacrifice is still a bit lacking, it doesn't taste as good as human flesh, but when you're out and about, you can't be too picky."

As it spoke, it glanced at Stone intentionally or unintentionally, and grinned at the latter, before turning its head back to Lu Jing, "The reason why the direction keeps changing is because the position of the thing you're looking for is not fixed."

"Huh?"

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

"What living creature?"

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

"A snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Poluo Heaven said, "Of course, that's because I'm 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's footwork be so good?"

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

After speaking, without Lu Jing urging it, it obediently 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.

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Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust Poluo Heaven, the latter's words still made everyone in the team feel a jolt of excitement.

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

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

It was 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 Poluo Heaven mentioned.

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

Because there was less and less time left for the nine of them.

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

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

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

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

For about ten days, it hadn't been able to provide any useful information, only repeating that it was very close, but it couldn't give 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 just then, a turbulent river suddenly appeared in front of him.

Lu Jing asked Stone, who was walking in front, "Is there a river in White Dragon Lake?"

The expression on Stone'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 don't know either, it's just that sometimes when we lead teams through White Dragon Lake, we will see some things here that shouldn't exist in this world, but we can never get close to them, or touch them, the older generation calls this the ghost market."

Stone said fearfully, "When you encounter a ghost market, don't stare at it, quickly lower your head and pray."

Hearing him say this, a word flashed through Lu Jing's mind, mirage?

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

Lu Jing didn't join Stone's kowtowing ranks, but he thought of something else.

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

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