The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#816 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing refused the Copper Statue was because this copper statue was just a strange object accidentally produced by those followers of the Brahma Religion through blood sacrifices.

The reason for bringing it along was to add another layer of insurance to this trip to Bai Longbo.

But it's not like they couldn't find the bead without it.

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

In the current situation, Lu Jing certainly hoped to find the bead as soon as possible, but he wouldn't be so insane as to fill the gap with human lives.

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

In a short period of time, he felt like he had been pulled out of the water, his back was wet, and the nights in the Gobi desert were quite cold, especially with the cold wind blowing, making Stone shiver.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put the Copper Statue back into the box, and even considered finding a place to dig a hole and bury it, anyway, since this guy was unwilling to cooperate, keeping it didn't seem very useful.

On the contrary, it could easily disrupt the harmonious atmosphere within the team.

But just as he was walking towards the Copper Statue, he heard the copper 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 of them brought quite a few camels with them on this deep dive into Bai Longbo, they had plenty to spare, and recently they had consumed some dry food and water, so some camels were now empty.

Lu Jing wasn't some extreme animal rights activist, giving the Copper Statue 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 everything you eat."

The Copper Statue blinked its only remaining eye and smiled, "Don't worry, I definitely won't let you down."

Lu Jing then asked Stone to select the oldest camel and lead it to the copper statue.

Although the copper statue no longer had arms, as its gaze turned to the old camel, the latter seemed to sense its fate and let out a mournful cry.

Then it knelt on the ground.

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

The Copper Statue brought its face closer, as if smelling something delicious.

After that, the camel put its head on the ground, the Copper Statue 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 look of greed flashed across the Copper Statue'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 smashed open, but him, he felt even colder in his heart, and quietly took two steps back, away from the copper statue.

After enjoying the delicacy, the Copper Statue stood up again and let out a satisfied groan, "Unfortunately, this sacrifice is still a bit lacking, it doesn't taste as good as humans, but when you're out and about, you can't be too picky."

As it spoke, it glanced at Stone intentionally or unintentionally, and even grinned at the latter, before turning its head back to Lu Jing, "The reason why the direction has been constantly changing is because the location of the thing you are looking for is not fixed."

"Hmm?"

"That thing is on a living creature," the Copper Statue said.

"What living creature?"

"I don't know what it is exactly, but from the appearance, it should be a snail," the copper statue was also a little unsure.

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," the Copper Statue said, "Of course, that's because I'm just a wisp of divine thought residing in this copper statue, if my main body were here, hehe..."

Lu Jing didn't want to listen to him bragging and interrupted him directly, "Are you making fun of us? We've already changed directions several times these days, how can a snail have such good footwork?"

"Oh, that thing does move quite fast under the sand, you'll naturally know when you see it," the Copper Statue said.

After speaking, without Lu Jing urging it, it obediently sat back in the box.

"Also, I'll tell you another good news, I can feel that we are getting closer and closer to that bead."

After speaking, the copper statue lay down in the box.

… … … …

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust the Copper Statue, the latter's words still made the people in the team feel a surge of energy.

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

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

It's just that when the group of nine wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still didn't find the bead, nor did they see the snail that the Copper Statue mentioned.

Even Kui, who was always calm, couldn't help but feel a little irritable.

Because the time left for the nine of them was getting less and less.

"We're just going around in circles," the girl said, "And we've already turned at least three circles."

As for the camels in the team, there were only nine left after being eaten by the Copper Statue.

Starting about ten days ago, it couldn't provide any useful information anymore, only repeating that it was very close, but it couldn't give an accurate number of how close it was.

Lu Jing didn't have any good ideas either, 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 down from 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 Bai Longbo?"

The expression on Stone's face was also a little dazed, but soon he thought of something, his face changed and said, "This... this is the Ghost Market."

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

"What Ghost Market?" Lu Jing asked.

"I... I'm not sure either, it's just that sometimes when we lead a team through Bai Longbo, 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 the Ghost Market."

Stone said fearfully, "When you encounter the 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 bead they were looking for?

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