The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#835 - Take a shower and go to bed

Stone had only come to lead the way, but somehow things had suddenly escalated to 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 Stone's view, the most absurd thing about the whole affair was that Lu Jing and the others didn't even know where they were going.

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

Lu Jing would then open the large box containing the Brahman Heaven on time, and have a friendly exchange with the bronze statue inside, ultimately deciding which way to go the next day.

In the initial 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 from northwest directly to southwest.

After another six days, things started to become even more outrageous.

This confirmed to Stone that these people were just wandering aimlessly in the desert, because they had actually turned back towards Ulan City.

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

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

This time, even Lu Jing couldn't take it anymore, and after carefully choosing his words, he said, "Old man, is there any chance you might have miscalculated?"

Professor Xu glanced at Lu Jing and said, "I calculated twice this time at your request, and then had An Shi help me check it. There's no mistake."

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

Professor Xu's eyes flickered, "The starry sky here is a bit strange."

As he said that, he saw Lu Jing looking at him with a hesitant expression.

Professor Xu immediately understood what the other man was thinking, and said in annoyance, "I'm not making excuses for myself, nor am I as stubborn as you think..."

"You mean someone doesn't want us to find that bead, and has artificially interfered to change the position of the stars, but that's a bit too outrageous..."

Lu Jing looked incredulous, "Even if you brought out the existence who imprisoned that dragon, they shouldn't have such means."

Lu Jing, who had taken junior high school geography, knew better than anyone how far away those twinkling little things hanging in the night sky were.

Not to mention moving a planet from such a distance, even those cultivation novels wouldn't dare to write it that way.

"Moving the original position of the stars is of course impossible," Professor Xu also said, "but it might be possible to use some means to influence the observer."

"How to do it?"

"How would I know?" Professor Xu said irritably, "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 may have added an invisible罩子 or cover between us and those stars."

"Refraction?" Lu Jing was taken aback.

"What refraction?" This time it was Professor Xu's turn to be confused.

Lu Jing scratched his head, "It's not easy to explain, roughly speaking, we usually see objects through light, and light will be refracted when it passes 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, when we take out the chopsticks, we find that they are not broken, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's what I mean." Lu Jing nodded, muttering, "If someone really added a罩子 or cover in the sky above this Gobi desert, then his physics must be pretty good."

"But then wouldn't that star chart be useless?" Kui said, "Didn't that person leave this star chart hoping that someone could find that 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, looked at the Brahman Heaven who had come back to life inside, and said, "Do you know the reason?"

However, Brahman Heaven closed his mouth again at this time.

"Speak, what do you want?" Lu Jing said bluntly.

"A sacrifice." Brahman Heaven licked his lips, "I've helped you point the way 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 Brahman Heaven spoke, his eyes swept over Stone's body, causing the latter to shudder.

His words made Stone's skin crawl.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the boy immediately realized that this was Bai Longbo, a dead world ruled by wind and sand. Even if he turned around and ran away now, he wouldn't be able to save his life.

Because once he left the team and lost 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 was entirely in Lu Jing's hands.

And Lu Jing hadn't spoken for a long time. Now, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

As if to see what choice he would make.

At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Lu Jing's mind. To exchange the life of an irrelevant person for the whereabouts of that bead was indeed a very cost-effective deal.

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

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.

"Shut up if you don't want to talk. Go to bed early and wash up."

A look of disappointment appeared in Brahman Heaven's only remaining eye, "Such indecision can't save the world."

"Forget it, if I gave him to you, I would be falling into your trap." Lu Jing said, "After that, you will only constantly try to lower my bottom line."

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