The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#825 - Take a shower and go to bed

Stone was just there to lead the way, but somehow it suddenly fast-forwarded 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 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 Milky Way shone overhead, the seemingly drowsy old man would fiddle with his strange instruments, while scribbling on the ground.

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

In the first few days, their direction was fixed.

But on the seventh day, there was a sudden shift, 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 started 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 back towards the direction of Ulan City.

However, they only walked for half a day this time 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 bear it a little, 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 asked An Shi to 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."

Lu Jing looked incredulous, "Even if you pull 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.

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

"How to 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 hiding the bead probably added an invisible罩子 [zhào zi, cover/shield] or something between us and those stars."

"Refraction phenomenon?" Lu Jing was stunned.

"What refraction phenomenon?" This time it was Professor Xu who was confused.

Lu Jing scratched his head, "It's not easy to explain, it probably 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 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 it means." Lu Jing nodded, and muttered, "If someone really added a 罩子 [zhào zi, cover/shield] over this Gobi desert, then his physics must be very good."

"But in this case, wouldn't that star map be useless." Kui said, "Didn't that person leave this star map hoping 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 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'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 Brahma Heaven spoke, his eyes swept over Stone's body, 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 descended into this bronze statue. If you destroy the bronze statue, 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 Brahma Heaven's will, 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, 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. 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 would not be able to last for a few days.

In other words, his life or death now depends entirely on Lu Jing's decision.

And Lu Jing did not 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 in exchange 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 it is time to 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, "You can't save the world with such indecision."

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

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