The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#821 - Take a shower and go to bed

Stone had only come to guide people, but somehow things had suddenly sped up to saving the world.

Moreover, while these people talked about saving the world, they were actually just wandering around Bai Longbo like headless flies.

Indeed, in Stone's view, the most absurd part of the whole thing 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 tinker with his strange instruments, while scribbling on the ground.

And Lu Jing would open the large box containing the Brahma Heaven on time, and have a friendly exchange with the bronze statue inside, finally determining which way to go tomorrow.

In the first few days, their direction of travel was fixed.

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

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

After another six days, things began to become more and more outrageous.

It also confirmed to Stone that these people were just wandering around in the desert, because they actually turned around and headed back in the direction of Ulan City.

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

It wasn't until the evening, when Professor Xu observed the stars again, that he 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, "I calculated it twice this time at your request, and then I had An Shi help me check it, there's no mistake."

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

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.

Professor Xu immediately understood what someone was thinking, and said unhappily, "I'm not making excuses for myself, nor am I as stubborn as you think…"

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

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

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

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

"How would I know?" Professor Xu said unhappily, "This is the first time I've encountered this kind of situation."

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

"Refraction?" Lu Jing was stunned.

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

Lu Jing scratched his head, "It's not easy to explain, it roughly means that we usually see objects through light, and light will be refracted when passing through a medium. In theory, 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, 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 muttered, "If someone really added a罩zi in the sky above this Gobi Desert, then their physics must be well-learned."

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

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

In the end, a chuckle came from the wooden box.

Lu Jing opened the wooden box and looked at the Brahma Heaven who had come back to life inside, "Do you know the reason?"

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

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

"A sacrifice." Brahma Heaven licked his lips, "I have 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 Brahma Heaven spoke, his eyes swept over Stone, causing the latter to shudder.

"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." Brahma Heaven shook his head and smiled, "I am only descending into this bronze statue, you can destroy the bronze statue and 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 Brahma Heaven, and that death was death, the latter, as a strange object, obviously would never realize this.

So the other party really didn't care much about his threat.

Seeing that Lu Jing didn't speak, and seemed to be lost in thought, Brahma Heaven continued to lure 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 Stone's body tingle with goosebumps.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the boy immediately reacted again. This was Bai Longbo, 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 wouldn't be able to last for a few days.

In other words, whether he lived or died now was entirely at Lu Jing's discretion.

And Lu Jing didn't speak for a long time, and 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. It was indeed a very cost-effective deal to exchange the life of an unrelated person for the whereabouts of that bead.

Although it was a bit unfair to Stone 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 being silent for a moment, Lu Jing spoke again.

"Shut up if you don't want to talk, go wash up and sleep early."

A look of disappointment appeared in Brahma Heaven's only remaining eye, "Being so indecisive 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 keep trying to lower my bottom line."

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