The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#848 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing rejected Brolok was because the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by the blood sacrifices of those Brolok followers.

The reason he brought 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 had left the star chart tens of thousands of years ago, it meant that there was a way to find the bead using the star chart, it might just take more effort.

In the current situation, Lu Jing certainly hoped to find the bead as soon as possible, but not to the point of being so mad 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, Stone couldn't help but shiver…

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put Brolok 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 him didn't seem to be of much use.

Instead, it would easily disrupt the harmonious atmosphere within the team.

But just as he walked towards Brolok, he heard the bronze statue sigh and compromise, "Then give me a camel… Give me a camel and I'll tell you what I know."

Lu Jing stopped when he heard this.

The nine people brought quite a few camels with them on this trip into White Dragon Lake, there were extras, and they had also consumed some dry food and drinking water recently, so there were empty camels available.

Lu Jing wasn't an extreme animal rights activist, and giving Brolok 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."

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

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

Brolok brought its face close, as if smelling something delicious.

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, Brolok stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, it only used a little force, and the camel's skull was crushed by him.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A look of greed flashed across Brolok's face, squatted down, and sucked 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 be the camel that was being cracked open, but him, his heart felt even colder, and he quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

After enjoying the meal, Brolok 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 and about, you can't be too picky."

Saying that, 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 has been changing is because the location of the thing you are looking for is not fixed."

"Huh?"

"That thing is on a living creature," Brolok 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," Brolok said, "Of course, this is because I am now just a wisp of divine thought residing in this bronze statue, if my true body was here, hehe…"

Lu Jing didn't want to hear him boasting and interrupted him directly, "Are you making fun of us? We've already changed directions 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," Brolok said.

After saying that, it didn't need Lu Jing to drive it away, it obediently sat back in the box.

"Also, I'll tell you another 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 Brolok, the latter's words still made everyone in the team feel a surge of energy.

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 Brolok had mentioned.

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 White Dragon Lake, everyone's faces and skin had been tanned a lot, and even the two sunscreen powder boxes that Wen Xiaoqian 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 the veil, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

As for the camels in the team, Brolok 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, 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 Stone, who was walking in front, "Is there a river in White Dragon Lake?"

The expression on Stone's face was also a little dazed, but soon he thought of something, his face changed and said, "This… This is the Ghost Market."

While saying that, 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 teams through White Dragon Lake, 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."

Stone said in fear, "When you encounter the Ghost Market, don't keep staring at it, you must 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 Stone's kowtowing ranks, 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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