The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#840 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing refused the God of Wealth was because that bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally produced by those Brahman cult guys during a blood sacrifice.

The reason he brought it along was to add another layer of insurance to this trip to Bai Long Po.

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

Lu Jing believed that since that existence 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 mad as to fill it with human lives.

Hearing his answer, Shi Tou 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, making Shi Tou shiver.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put the God of Wealth 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 would easily disrupt the harmonious atmosphere within the team.

But just as he walked towards the God of Wealth, 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 to Bai Long Po, there were spares, and recently they had consumed some dry food and water, and some camels were freed up.

Lu Jing wasn't an extreme animal rights activist, and it wasn't impossible to give the God of Wealth a camel as a sacrifice.

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

The God of Wealth 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 on the ground.

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

The God of Wealth brought its face closer, as if smelling something delicious.

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, and the God of Wealth stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, with just a light force, the camel's skull was crushed.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A hint of greed flashed across the God of Wealth's face, and it squatted down, sucking up the remaining things in the skull.

This gloomy and strange 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 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 delicious food, the God of Wealth stood up again and let out a satisfied moan, "Unfortunately, this sacrifice is still a bit lacking, it doesn't taste as good as humans, but when you're out, you can't be too picky."

As it spoke, it glanced at Shi Tou 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 position of the thing you're looking for is not fixed."

"Huh?"

"That thing is on a living creature," the God of Wealth said.

"What living creature?"

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

"A snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," the God of Wealth 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 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," the God of Wealth said.

After speaking, without Lu Jing urging it, 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 the God of Wealth, 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 when the group of nine wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still couldn't find the bead, nor did they see the snail that the God of Wealth mentioned.

However, the latter didn't shout about going back, but learned from Shi Tou 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, there were only nine left after being eaten by the God of Wealth.

Since 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 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 Long Po?"

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, but sometimes when we lead teams through Bai Long Po, 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 fearfully, "When you encounter a ghost market, don't stare at it all the time, 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 were looking for?

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