The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#823 - Take a shower and go to bed

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Shitou was only supposed to lead the way, but somehow he's suddenly been fast-forwarded into saving the world.

Moreover, these people talk about saving the world, but in reality, they're just wandering around Bailongbo like headless flies.

In the first few 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 directly from northwest to southwest.

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

Which confirmed to Shitou that these people were just wandering around in the desert, because they actually turned back, heading back towards the direction of Wulan City.

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

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

At this point, Lu Jing couldn't take it anymore, and after carefully considering his words, he said, "Old Xu… 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, puzzled.

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

As soon as he said that, 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, and I'm not as stubborn as you think…"

"You mean someone doesn't want us to find the pearl and is artificially interfering to change the position of the stars, but that's a bit too outrageous, isn't it…"

Lu Jing looked incredulous, "Even if you pulled out the being who imprisoned that dragon in the first place, they shouldn't have such means."

Lu Jing, who had taken junior high school geography, knew better than anyone 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 immortal cultivation novels wouldn't dare to write it like that.

"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 do you do it?"

"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 who hid the pearl probably added an invisible罩zi 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 hard to explain. It's roughly saying that we usually see objects through light, and light will be deflected 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 listened in a daze.

At this time, the little Taoist Xie Anshi suddenly said, "It's like when we go to see chopsticks inserted in water, the chopsticks will be deflected, as if they are broken, but in fact, we find that the chopsticks are not broken after taking them out, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's what I mean." Lu Jing nodded, muttering, "If someone really added a罩zi over this Gobi Desert, then their physics must be pretty good."

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

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

Finally, a chuckle came from the wooden box.

Lu Jing opened the wooden box and looked at the Brahma Heaven inside, who had come back to life again, "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've been pointing the way for you 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 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." Brahma Heaven shook his head and smiled, "I'm just descending into this bronze statue. I won't feel any pain even if you destroy the bronze statue."

Lu Jing couldn't refute.

Although he knew that the bronze statue in front of him was just a strange object and didn't really carry the will of Brahma Heaven, death was death, but 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, Brahma Heaven continued to tempt him, "You said you want to save the world. I like what you are doing. Usually in such stories, everyone in the team will be useful, and some people's use is to sacrifice for this world."

His words made Shitou's body tingle.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the boy immediately reacted. This is Bailongbo, 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 at all.

Because once he left the team, losing the water and dry food on the camel, he wouldn't be able to last a few days.

In other words, his life or death now is 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. Using the life of an irrelevant person to exchange for the whereabouts of the pearl is indeed a very cost-effective deal.

Although it is a bit unfair to Shitou himself, but seeing that the world is about to be destroyed, now is 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 being silent for a moment, Lu Jing spoke again.

"Shut up if you don't want to talk, go to bed 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'll be falling into your trap." Lu Jing said, "After that, you will only constantly try to lower my bottom line."

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