The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#849 - Take a shower and go to bed

It seemed absurd that Shitou, who was only supposed to be a guide, had somehow been swept up into saving the world.

Moreover, these people talked about saving the world, but in reality, they were just wandering around Bailongbo like headless flies.

Indeed, in Shitou's opinion, the most absurd part of the whole thing was that Lu Jing and the others didn't even know where they were going.

But on the seventh day, there was a sudden deviation, although it was only a slight adjustment compared to the previous direction.

By the twelfth day, the deviation was more significant, shifting from northwest directly to southwest.

After another six days of walking, things started to become even more outrageous.

It confirmed to Shitou that these people were just wandering aimlessly in the desert because they actually turned around and headed back in the direction of Ulan City.

However, this time they only walked for half a day before stopping.

It wasn't until the evening, when Professor Xu finished observing the stars again, that he overturned his previous conclusion and pointed out a new direction.

This time, even Lu Jing couldn't take it anymore. After carefully considering his words, he said, "Old Professor, is it possible that you miscalculated?"

Professor Xu glanced at Lu Jing and said, "This time, at your request, I calculated it twice, and then I had An Shi help me check it. There's no mistake."

"Then why is it so different from the previous direction?" Lu Jing asked, puzzled.

Professor Xu's eyes flickered, "The starry sky here is a bit strange."

As soon as he said that, he saw Lu Jing looking at him with a hesitant expression.

Professor Xu immediately understood what someone was thinking and said unhappily, "I'm not making excuses for myself, nor am I as stubborn and unwilling to admit mistakes as you think…"

"You're saying that someone, because they don't want us to find that pearl, artificially interfered and changed the position of the stars, but that's a bit too outrageous, isn't it…"

Lu Jing looked incredulous, "Even if you brought out the being who imprisoned that dragon in the first place, they shouldn't have such means."

Lu Jing, who had taken a middle school geography class, knew better than anyone how far away those twinkling little things hanging in the night sky were from them.

Not to mention moving a planet from such a distance, even those immortal cultivation novels wouldn't dare to write it like that.

"Moving the original position of the stars is certainly impossible," Professor Xu also said, "but using some means to influence the observer might be possible."

"How to do it?"

"How would I know?" Professor Xu said unhappily, "This is the first time this old man has encountered such a situation."

After a pause, he added, "Let me just guess, the person hiding the pearl may have added an invisible cover between us and those stars or something."

"Refraction?" Lu Jing was stunned.

"What refraction?" This time it was Professor Xu's turn to be confused.

Lu Jing scratched his head, "It's not easy to explain. It's roughly saying that we usually see objects through light, and light will be refracted when passing through a medium. Theoretically, by changing the material or thickness of the medium, it will bring about a visual shift in the object."

Professor Xu was completely confused.

At this time, the little Taoist Xie Anshi suddenly opened his mouth and said, "It's like when we look at chopsticks inserted in water, the chopsticks will be refracted, as if they are broken, but in fact, after taking out the chopsticks, we find that the chopsticks are not broken, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's what I mean." Lu Jing nodded and muttered, "If someone really added a cover over this Gobi Desert, then their physics must be very good."

"But in that case, wouldn't that star chart be useless?" Kui said, "Didn't the person who left this star chart hope that someone could find that pearl?"

Everyone was puzzled by this question, and no one answered.

In the end, a chuckle came from the wooden box.

Lu Jing opened the wooden box and looked at the Brahma Heaven inside, who had come back to life again, and said, "Do you know the reason?"

However, Brahma Heaven closed his mouth again at this time.

"Speak, what do you want?" Lu Jing said bluntly.

"A sacrifice." Brahma Heaven licked his lips, "I've been pointing the way for you for so many days, but you haven't given me anything, so it's not too much for me to make this request now, right?"

As Brahma Heaven spoke, his gaze swept over Shitou's body, causing the latter to shiver.

"As a reward, how about I break your remaining two legs?" Lu Jing said lightly, "I don't think you can use them anyway."

"Threats are useless to me." Brahma Heaven shook his head and smiled, "I'm just incarnated in this bronze statue. If you destroy the bronze statue, I won't feel any pain."

Lu Jing couldn't refute.

Although he knew that the bronze statue in front of him was just a strange object and didn't truly carry Brahma Heaven's will, and that death was death, the latter, as a strange object, obviously would never realize this.

So the other party really wouldn't care about his threats.

Seeing that Lu Jing didn't speak and seemed to be lost in thought, Brahma Heaven continued to lure him, "You say you want to save the world. I like what you are doing. Usually in such stories, everyone in the team will be useful, and some people's use is to sacrifice for this world."

His words made Shitou's body covered in goosebumps.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the teenager immediately realized that this was Bailongbo, a desolate world ruled by wind and sand. Even if he turned around and ran away now, he would not be able to save his life at all.

Because once he left the team and lost the water and dry food on the camel, he wouldn't be able to last for a few days.

In other words, his life or death now was entirely at Lu Jing's discretion.

And Lu Jing hadn't spoken for a long time, so everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Seeming to want to see how he would choose.

At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Lu Jing's mind. Exchanging the life of an unrelated person for the whereabouts of that pearl was indeed a very cost-effective deal.

Although it was a bit unfair to Shitou himself, seeing that the world was about to be destroyed, now was obviously not the time for a woman's benevolence.

Since ancient times, those who can achieve great things must be ruthless when it is time to be ruthless.

After a moment of silence, Lu Jing spoke again.

"If you don't want to talk, shut up and go to bed early."

A hint of disappointment appeared in Brahma Heaven's only remaining eye, "Such indecisiveness cannot save the world."

"Come on, if I give him to you, I'll fall into your trap." Lu Jing said, "After that, you will constantly try to lower my bottom line."

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