The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#839 - Take a shower and go to bed

It seemed absurd that Stone, who was only supposed to be a guide, was suddenly caught up in 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 thing was that Lu Jing and the others didn't even know where they were going.

Every day, as soon as the sun went down and the starry river shone overhead, the seemingly drowsy old man would fiddle with his strange instruments, while scribbling on the ground.

Lu Jing would then punctually open the large box containing the Brahma Heaven and engage in friendly communication with the bronze statue inside, ultimately deciding which direction to head the next day.

In the initial days, their direction of travel was fixed.

However, 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 even more outrageous.

It also confirmed to Stone that these people were just wandering aimlessly 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 nightfall 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, "Professor, is it possible that you miscalculated?"

Professor Xu glanced at Lu Jing and said, "I calculated twice this time at your request, and An Shi helped me check it. There's no mistake."

"Then why is the direction so different from before?" 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 in annoyance, "I'm not making excuses for myself, nor am I as stubborn as you think…"

"You mean 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, isn't it…"

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 away those little things hanging in the night sky were from them.

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

"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 do you do that?"

"How would I know?" Professor Xu said annoyedly, "It's the first time I've encountered this situation."

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

"Refraction phenomenon?" Lu Jing was taken aback.

"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 basically 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 in the object."

Professor Xu was completely confused.

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 they must have studied physics very well."

"But in that case, wouldn't the star map be useless?" Kui asked, "Didn't that person leave this star map hoping 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, and said, "Do you know the reason?"

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

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

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 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, "You say you want to save the world. I like what you are doing. Usually in such stories, everyone in the team will have a purpose, and some people's purpose is to sacrifice for this world."

His words made goosebumps rise on Stone's body.

He couldn't help but take a few steps back, but the young man immediately reacted. This was Bai Longbo, a desolate 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, his life or death now was entirely at Lu Jing's whim.

And Lu Jing didn't speak for a long time. 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 unrelated person to exchange for the whereabouts of the pearl 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 they should be ruthless.

After a moment of silence, 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, "Such indecisiveness cannot save the world."

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

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