The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#830 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing rejected the Bhairava was because the bronze statue was just a strange object accidentally created by those Bhairava cult guys during a blood sacrifice.

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

But it's not like they can'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 a little more effort.

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

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Hearing his answer, Shi Tou 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 still quite cold, especially with the cold wind blowing, Shi Tou couldn't help but shiver again.

After Lu Jing finished speaking, he planned to put the Bhairava back into the box, and even considered finding a place to dig a hole and bury it, anyway, this guy was unwilling to cooperate, and keeping it didn't seem to be of much use.

Lu Jing was not an extreme animal protectionist, and giving the Bhairava a camel as a sacrifice was not impossible.

"You better provide me with something useful," Lu Jing said, "otherwise I'll make you spit out as much as you eat later."

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

Lu Jing then asked Shi Tou to select the oldest camel and lead it to the bronze statue.

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

Then it knelt down on the ground.

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

The Bhairava brought its face closer, as if sniffing something delicious.

Afterwards, the camel put its head on the ground, and the Bhairava stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head, with just a light force, the camel's skull was crushed.

Fresh blood and brains splattered everywhere.

A greedy look flashed across the Bhairava's face, and it squatted down, sucking up the remaining bits inside the skull.

This eerie and terrifying scene made Shi Tou feel nauseous.

Especially when he thought that if Lu Jing hadn't objected just now, it wouldn't have been the camel that had its head cracked open but him, he felt a chill in his heart and quietly took two steps back, away from the bronze statue.

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

As it spoke, it glanced at Shi Tou intentionally or unintentionally, and grinned at the latter, before turning its head back to Lu Jing, "The reason why the direction keeps changing is because the position of the thing you're looking for is not fixed."

"Hmm?"

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

"What living creature?"

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

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," the Bhairava said, "Of course, that's because I'm just a wisp of divine thought descending into this bronze statue, if my main body was 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's footwork be so good?"

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

After speaking, it didn't need Lu Jing to chase it away, it obediently sat back in the box.

"Also, let me tell you some good news, I can feel that we are getting closer and closer to that bead."

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

… … … …

Although Lu Jing didn't completely trust the Bhairava, the latter's words still made everyone in the team feel a burst of excitement.

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

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

But after the group of nine wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still hadn't found the bead, nor had they seen the snail that the Bhairava mentioned.

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

Because the time left for the nine people was getting less and less.

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

Compared to when they first entered Bai Longbo, everyone's faces and skin had been tanned a lot, and even the two boxes of sunscreen powder that Wen Xiaoqian brought were almost empty.

However, the latter didn't clamor to go back, but learned from Shi Tou and wrapped two more circles of black cloth under the veil hat, only revealing a pair of watery eyes.

As for the camels in the team, they had been eaten by the Bhairava and only nine were left.

For about ten days, it hadn't been able to provide any useful information, only repeating that it was very close, but it couldn't give an accurate number for 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 off the camel to make a fire and cook.

But just then, a turbulent river suddenly appeared in front of him.

Lu Jing asked Shi Tou, who was walking in front, "Is there a river in Bai Longbo?"

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

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

"What Ghost Market?" Lu Jing asked.

"I… I'm not sure either, it's just that sometimes when we lead teams 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."

Shi Tou said fearfully, "When you encounter the Ghost Market, don't keep staring at it, quickly lower your head and pray."

Hearing him say this, a word flashed in Lu Jing's mind, mirage?

Speaking of which, this kind of thing does appear in the desert, which is not too strange.

Lu Jing did not join Shi Tou's kowtowing, but he thought of another thing.

Mirages are also related to the refraction of light, could this be related to the bead they are looking for?

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