The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#844 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing rejected Borotian was because the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by those Boror Cult guys through blood sacrifices.

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 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 more effort.

In the current situation, Lu Jing certainly hoped to find the bead as soon as possible, but he wouldn't be so insane as to fill the gap 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 soaked, and the nights in the Gobi Desert were quite cold, especially with the cold wind blowing, which made Stone shiver again…

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put Borotian 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 anymore.

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

But just as he was walking towards Borotian, he heard the bronze statue sigh and compromise, "Then give me a camel… Give me a camel and I will tell you what I know."

Lu Jing stopped in his tracks upon hearing this.

The nine people brought quite a few camels with them on this deep dive into White Dragon Lake, 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 Borotian 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."

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

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

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, and Borotian stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, with only a light force, the camel's skull was crushed by him.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A look of greed flashed across Borotian's face, and it squatted 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 was having its head cracked open, but him, he felt a chill in his heart, and quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

After enjoying the delicacy, Borotian stood up again and let out a satisfied moan, "It's a pity, 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."

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 the direction has been constantly changing is because the position of the thing you are looking for is not fixed."

"Huh?"

"That thing is on a living creature," Borotian 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 unsure.

"A snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Borotian said, "Of course, that's because I am now just a wisp of divine thought residing in this bronze statue, if my true body were 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 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," Borotian said.

After speaking, it didn't need Lu Jing 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 bead."

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

… … … …

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust Borotian, the latter's words still made everyone in the team's spirits lift.

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

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

However, 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 Borotian 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 are completely going in circles," the girl said, "And we've 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 had 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, Borotian 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 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 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 bit blank, but he quickly 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, but 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 or touch them, the older generation calls this the Ghost Market."

Stone said fearfully, "When you encounter the Ghost Market, you must not stare at it, you must 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 too strange.

Lu Jing didn't join Stone's kowtowing ranks, but he remembered 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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