The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#841 - Take a shower and go to bed

The stone was only supposed to be a guide, but somehow he'd been fast-forwarded into saving the world.

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

Indeed, in Shi Tou's view, the most absurd thing was that Lu Jing and the others didn't even know where they were going.

Every day, after the sun went down and the starry river shone overhead, the seemingly drowsy old man would tinker with his strange instruments, while also scribbling on the ground.

Lu Jing would then punctually open the large box containing the Brahma Heaven, and have a friendly exchange with the bronze statue inside, ultimately determining which direction to go the next day.

In the first few days, their direction of travel was fixed.

But on the seventh day, there was a sudden shift, fortunately only a slight adjustment compared to the previous direction.

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

After another six days, things started to become increasingly outrageous.

Which also confirmed to Shi Tou that these people were just wandering aimlessly in the desert, because they actually turned around and headed back towards the direction of Wu Lan City.

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

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

This time, Lu Jing couldn't take it anymore, and after carefully considering his words, he said, "Old sir, 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 had An Shi help me verify it. There's no mistake."

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

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 as you think…"

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

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

Having taken a junior high school geography class, Lu Jing 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 cultivation novels wouldn't dare to write it like that.

"Moving the original position of the stars is of course impossible," Professor Xu also said, "but using some means to affect 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 bead probably 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 of the object."

Professor Xu listened in a daze.

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, muttering, "If someone really added a cover over this Gobi Desert, then their physics must be excellent."

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

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

Finally, a soft laugh came from the wooden box.

Lu Jing opened the wooden box and looked at the Brahma Heaven inside, who had come back to life, 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 Shi Tou's body, causing the latter to shiver.

Lu Jing couldn't refute.

Although he knew that the bronze statue in front of him was just a strange object, and did not truly carry the will of Brahma Heaven, death was death, but 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 coax him, "You said you want to save the world, I like what you are doing. Usually in such stories, everyone in the team will have a use, and some people's use is to sacrifice for this world."

His words made Shi Tou's body tingle with goosebumps.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the young man immediately reacted. This was Bai Longbo, 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, losing 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 depended entirely on Lu Jing's decision.

And Lu Jing had not spoken for a long time, and now 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. Using the life of an unrelated person to exchange for the whereabouts of the bead was indeed a very cost-effective deal.

Although it was a bit unfair to Shi Tou himself, seeing that the world was about to be destroyed, now was obviously not the time for womanly benevolence.

Since ancient times, those who can achieve great things must be ruthless when they should 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 look 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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