The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#847 - Take a shower and go to bed

The stone was only supposed to lead the way, but somehow it had fast-forwarded to saving the world.

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

Indeed, in Shi Tou's view, the most absurd 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.

Lu Jing would then open the large box containing the Brahma Heaven on time, engage in friendly communication with the bronze statue inside, and finally determine where to go the next day.

In the first few days, their direction was fixed.

But on the seventh day, there was a sudden deviation, 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 increasingly absurd.

It also confirmed to Shi Tou that these people were just wandering around in the desert, because they actually turned around and went back in the direction of Ulan 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 I had An Shi help me check it. There's no mistake."

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

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

After saying 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 want to say that someone, because they don't want us to find the pearl, artificially interfered and changed the position of the stars, but that's a bit too outrageous…"

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

Lu Jing, who had taken a junior high school geography class, 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 that way.

"It's certainly impossible to move the original position of the stars," Professor Xu also said, "but it might be possible to use some means to affect the observer."

"How to do it?"

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

After a pause, he added, "Let me just guess, the person who hid the pearl probably added an invisible罩子 (zhào zi - cover/shield) between us and those stars."

"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's roughly saying that we usually see objects through light, and light will refract 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 refract, 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 cover over this Gobi Desert, then their physics must be good."

"But in that case, isn't the star map useless?" Kui said, "Didn't the person who left this star map hope that someone could find the pearl?"

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

Finally, a soft laugh came from the wooden box.

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

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

As Brahma Heaven spoke, his eyes swept over Shi Tou's body, 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 need 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 the will of Brahma Heaven, and that death was death, the latter, as a strange object, was obviously never aware of 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 entice him, "You said you want to save the world. I like what you're 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 gave Shi Tou goosebumps.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the boy immediately realized that this was Bailongbo, a desolate 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 and lost the water and dry food on the camel, he wouldn't be able to last for a few days.

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

And Lu Jing hadn't spoken for a long time, and now everyone's eyes were focused on him.

Seemingly wanting 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 was indeed a very cost-effective deal.

Although it was a bit unfair to Shi Tou himself, seeing that the world was about to be destroyed, now was obviously not the time for a woman's kindness.

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.

"If you don't want to say it, shut up and go to bed early."

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

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

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