The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#814 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing refused Poluo Tian was that the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by those Poluo religion guys through blood sacrifice.

The reason for bringing 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 pearl without it.

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

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

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

In a short period of time, his whole body felt like it had been pulled out of the water, his back was wet, and the nights in the Gobi Desert were still quite cool, especially when the cold wind blew, causing Shi Tou to shiver involuntarily.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put Poluo Tian 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 felt like it wouldn't be of much use.

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

But just as he was walking towards Poluo Tian, 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 in his tracks upon hearing this.

The nine of them brought quite a few camels with them on this deep dive into Bai Longbo, there was a surplus, and recently they had also consumed some dry food and water, so some camels were freed up.

Lu Jing wasn't an extreme animal rights activist, and giving Poluo Tian a camel as a sacrifice wasn't out of the question.

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

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

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 down on the ground.

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

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

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, Poluo Tian 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 Poluo Tian's face, and it squatted down, sucking up the remaining things in the skull.

As he said that, 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 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 Tian said.

"What living creature?"

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

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Poluo Tian 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 directly interrupted him, "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 pretty fast under the sand, you'll know when you see it," Poluo Tian said.

After saying that, without Lu Jing having to drive it away, 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 pearl."

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

… … … …

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust Poluo Tian, 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 a group of nine people wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still hadn't found the pearl, nor had they seen the snail that Poluo Tian 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 instead learned from Shi Tou and wrapped two more circles of black cloth under the veiled hat, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

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

Starting about ten days ago, it couldn't give any useful information anymore, 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 star-gazing results.

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

Lu Jing also stopped practicing his 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 little dazed, but soon he thought of something, and his face changed, "This… this is the Ghost Market."

As he said 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 the team through Bai Longbo, we will see some things here 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 stare at it all the time, quickly lower your head and pray."

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

Speaking of which, these kinds of things do appear in the desert, which is not too strange.

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

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

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