The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#836 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing refused the Pora Heaven was because the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by those Pora sect guys through blood sacrifice.

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 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 use human lives to fill the gap.

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 wet, and the nights in the Gobi Desert were quite cool, especially with the cold wind blowing, which made Stone shiver again.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put Pora Heaven 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 didn't seem to be of much use.

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

But just as he was walking towards Pora 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 brought quite a few camels when they ventured deep into White Dragon Lake, there were spares, and they had also consumed some dry food and water recently, so there were camels that were empty.

Lu Jing wasn't an extreme animal rights activist, so giving Pora Heaven 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 later."

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

Lu Jing then had Stone choose 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.

Pora Heaven brought its face closer, as if smelling something delicious.

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

Blood and brains splattered everywhere.

A greedy look flashed across Pora Heaven's face, squatting down and 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 even colder in his heart, and quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

After enjoying the delicacy, Pora Heaven stood up again and let out a satisfied groan, "Too bad, 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."

Saying that, 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," Pora Heaven said.

"What living creature?"

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

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Pora 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…"

After saying that, without Lu Jing needing 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 saying that, the bronze statue lay down in the box.

… … … …

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust Pora Heaven, the latter's words still made everyone in the team feel a surge of energy.

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

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

It was just that 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 Pora Heaven mentioned.

Even Kui, who was always calm, couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

Because the time left for the nine of them was getting less and less.

"We're just going around 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 Xiaochuan 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 veiled hat, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

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

Since about ten days ago, it hadn't been able to provide any useful information, 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 the 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 Stone, who was walking in front, "Is there a river in White Dragon Lake?"

The expression on Stone's face was also a little dazed, but soon he thought of something, his face changed and said, "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 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 a ghost market, you must not stare 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 can appear in the desert, it's not too strange.

Lu Jing didn't join Stone'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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