The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#850 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing rejected the Boruo Heaven was because the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally produced by the blood sacrifices of those Boruo Sect fellows.

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

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

Lu Jing believed that since that being had left a star map tens of thousands of years ago, it meant 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 frantic as to fill it with human lives.

Hearing his answer, Shi Tou 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 soaked, and the nights in the Gobi Desert were quite cold, especially when the cold wind blew, making Shi Tou shiver again...

After speaking, Lu Jing planned to put the Boruo Heaven back into the box, and even considered finding a place to dig a hole and bury it, anyway, since this guy wasn't willing to cooperate, keeping it didn't seem very useful anymore.

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

But just as he walked towards Boruo Heaven, 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 had brought quite a few camels with them on this deep dive into Bai Long Lake, there were extras, and recently they had also consumed some dry food and water, so some camels were freed up.

Lu Jing wasn't some extreme animal rights activist, giving Boruo Heaven a camel as a sacrifice wasn't out of the question.

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

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

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

Although the bronze statue no longer had arms, as its gaze fell upon 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.

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

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

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A greedy look flashed across Boruo Heaven's face, and it squatted down, sucking 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 but him who had his head cracked open, his heart felt even colder, and he quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

After enjoying the delicacy, Boruo Heaven stood up again and let out a satisfied moan, "Too bad, 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 it spoke, it glanced at Shi Tou intentionally or unintentionally, and even grinned at the latter, before turning its head back to Lu Jing, "The reason the direction keeps changing is because the position of what you're looking for isn't fixed."

"Hmm?"

"That thing is on a living creature," Boruo 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 also a little uncertain.

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Boruo 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 directions 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," Boruo Heaven said.

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

"Also, I'll tell you another good news, I can feel that we're getting closer and closer to that bead."

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

...\n...\n...

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

Compared to when they first entered Bai Long Lake, everyone's faces and skin had been tanned a lot, even the two boxes of sunscreen powder that Wen Xiaoqian 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 veiled hat, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

As for the camels in the team, Boruo Heaven 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 for 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 his sword control 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 Shi Tou, who was walking in front, "Is there a river in Bai Long Lake?"

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

"What Ghost Market?" Lu Jing asked.

"I... I'm not sure either, it's just that sometimes when we lead a team through Bai Long Lake, we will see some things that shouldn't exist in this world, but we can never get close to them, nor can we touch them, the older generation calls this the Ghost Market."

Shi Tou said fearfully, "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, so it's not too strange.

Lu Jing didn't join Shi Tou'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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