The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#834 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing rejected Poluo Heaven was because that bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by the blood sacrifices of those Poluo Sect guys.

The reason he brought it along was to add another layer of insurance to this trip to White Dragon Lake.

But that doesn't mean that without it, everyone wouldn't be able to find the pearl.

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 pearl using the star map, it just might take more effort.

In the current situation, Lu Jing certainly hoped to find the pearl as soon as possible, but he wouldn't go so far as to be mad enough to fill it with human lives.

Hearing his answer, Stone also breathed a sigh of relief.

In a short moment, 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 when the cold wind blew, causing Stone to shiver.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put Poluo 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 very useful anymore.

Instead, it could easily disrupt the harmonious atmosphere within the team.

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

Lu Jing wasn't an extreme animal rights activist, and giving Poluo 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."

Poluo 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 down on the ground.

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

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

Afterwards, the camel put its head on the ground, Poluo Heaven stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, it only used a little force, and the camel's skull was crushed.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A hint of greed flashed across Poluo Heaven's face, it squatted down and sucked 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 delicious food, Poluo Heaven stood up again and let out a satisfied groan, "Unfortunately, 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 he spoke, he glanced at Stone intentionally or unintentionally, and grinned at the latter, before turning his head back to Lu Jing, "The reason why the direction has been changing is because the position of the thing you are looking for is not fixed."

"Huh?"

"That thing is on a living creature," Poluo Heaven 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.

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," Poluo Heaven said, "Of course, that's because I'm just a wisp of divine thought descending into this bronze statue, if my main body was here, haha…"

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust Poluo Heaven, the latter's words still made everyone in the team feel excited.

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

They were indeed getting closer to their goal.

It's just that when the group of nine people wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still hadn't found the pearl, nor had they seen the snail that Poluo Heaven mentioned.

Even葵, 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're just going in circles," the girl said, "And we've already 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, she just learned from Stone and wrapped two more circles of black cloth under her veil, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

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

Starting about ten days ago, it couldn't give any useful information anymore, it only repeated that it was very close, but it couldn't say an exact number for how close it was.

Lu Jing didn't have any good ideas, 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 he soon thought of something, and his face changed, "This… this is Ghost Market."

As he spoke, he knelt down and began to kowtow to the river.

"What Ghost Market?" Lu Jing asked.

"I… I don't know, 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 Ghost Market."

Stone said fearfully, "When you encounter Ghost Market, don't keep staring 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, mirages do appear in the desert, so it's not too strange.

Lu Jing didn't join Stone's kowtowing ranks, but he thought of something else.

Mirages are also related to the refraction of light, could this be related to the pearl they are looking for?

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