The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#820 - Refraction of light

The main reason Lu Jing refused the Copper Statue was because this statue was just a strange object accidentally created by those in the Brahma Sect during blood sacrifices.

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

But that doesn't mean that without it, everyone wouldn't be able to find the pearl.

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

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

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

In a short period of time, he felt as if he had been pulled out of the water, his back was soaked. The nights in the Gobi Desert were quite cold, especially when the cold wind blew, Stone couldn't help but shiver.

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

Although the Copper Statue no longer had arms, as its gaze fell on the old camel, the latter seemed to foresee 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, and the Copper Statue stretched out a foot and stepped on the camel's head. With just a light force, the camel's skull was crushed.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere.

A greedy look flashed across the Copper Statue's face, and it squatted down, sucking 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 had its head cracked open, but him, he felt even colder in his heart, and quietly took two steps back, away from the Copper Statue.

After enjoying the delicious meal, the Copper Statue stood up again and let out a satisfied groan, "Unfortunately, this sacrifice is still a bit lacking, it's 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 Stone intentionally or unintentionally, and grinned at the latter, before turning its head back to Lu Jing, "The reason why the direction has been 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 a little uncertain.

"Snail?"

"Don't underestimate that snail, even I don't want to provoke it," the Copper Statue said, "Of course, that's because I am now just a wisp of divine thought descending into this copper 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 foot power be so good?"

"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 having to drive it away, it obediently sat back in the box.

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

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 everyone in the team feel a surge of excitement.

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

They were indeed getting closer to the goal.

It's just that after the group of nine wandered in this Gobi Desert for another month, they still hadn't found the pearl, nor had they seen the snail that the Copper Statue mentioned.

Even Kui, who had always been 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."

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 Xiaochuan brought were almost empty.

However, the latter didn't shout about wanting to go back, but instead learned from Stone and wrapped two more circles of black cloth under the veiled hat, only revealing a pair of large, watery eyes.

As for the camels in the team, they had been eaten by the Copper Statue, leaving only nine.

Since about ten days ago, 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 as to 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's back to make a fire and cook.

But just then, 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 he quickly 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 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, you must not 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 can appear in the desert, which isn't too strange.

Lu Jing didn't join Stone's kowtowing, but he thought of another thing.

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

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