The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#817 - Take a shower and go to bed

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Shitou was just there to guide people, but somehow he had suddenly fast-forwarded to saving the world.

Moreover, while this group of people talked about saving the world, they were actually just wandering around Bailong Lake like headless flies.

Indeed, in Shitou's view, the most absurd part of the whole thing was that Lu Jing and the others didn't even know where to go.

Every day, when the sun went down and the Milky Way glittered overhead, the seemingly sleepy 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 Brahman Heaven and have a friendly exchange with the bronze statue inside, ultimately deciding where to go the next day.

In the initial days, their direction of travel was still fixed.

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

And by the twelfth day, the deviation was larger, turning directly from northwest to southwest.

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

It also confirmed to Shitou that this group of people was just wandering aimlessly in the desert, because they actually turned around and headed back in the direction of Wulan City.

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

It wasn't until the evening 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 man, 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 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."

After he finished speaking, he saw Lu Jing looking at him with a hesitant expression.

Lu Jing looked incredulous, "Even if you pulled out the existence that imprisoned that dragon back then, they shouldn't have such methods."

Lu Jing, who had taken middle school geography, knew better than anyone else how far away those 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 that way.

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

"How to do it?"

"How would I know?" Professor Xu said irritably, "This is the first time this old man has encountered this situation."

After a pause, he added, "Let me just guess, the person who hid the bead probably added an invisible罩zi between us and those stars or something."

"Refraction phenomenon?" Lu Jing was stunned.

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

Lu Jing scratched his head, "It's not easy to explain, it basically means 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 was completely confused.

At this time, the little Taoist Xie Anshi suddenly opened his mouth and said, "It's like when we go to see chopsticks inserted in water, the chopsticks will be refracted, just like 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 and murmured, "If someone really added a罩zi in the sky above this desert, then their physics must be very good."

"But in that case, wouldn't that star chart be useless?" Kui said, "Didn't that person leave this star chart in the hope that someone could find that bead?"

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

In the end, a soft laugh came from the wooden box.

Lu Jing opened the wooden box and looked at the Brahman Heaven inside, who had come back to life, 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 have been pointing you 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 Shitou, causing the latter to shiver.

"As a reward, how about I break your remaining two legs too?" Lu Jing said lightly, "I don't think you can use them anyway."

"Threats are useless to me." Brahman Heaven shook his head and smiled, "I am only descended into this bronze statue. You can destroy the bronze statue, but I won't feel any pain."

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 Brahman Heaven, and that death was death, 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, Brahman Heaven continued to entice 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 Shitou's body covered in goosebumps.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the boy immediately reacted. This is Bailong Lake, a dead 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 and lost the water and dry food on the camel, he would not be able to last for a few days.

In other words, his life or death now is entirely at Lu Jing's discretion.

And Lu Jing did not speak for a long time. 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 irrelevant person to exchange for the whereabouts of that bead was indeed a very cost-effective deal.

Although it was a bit unfair to Shitou himself, but 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.

"Shut up if you don't want to talk, go to bed early."

A look of disappointment appeared in Brahman Heaven's only remaining eye, "Such indecisiveness will not save the world."

"Come on, if I give him to you, I will fall into your trap." Lu Jing said, "After that, you will only continue to try to lower my bottom line."

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