The volcano in the distance spewed out huge amounts of red magma.

The magma erupted so high that based on visual inspection, it was at least 800 meters.

Thick black smoke covered half of the sky. The bright red magma rushed to the highest peak and began to splash and fall.

"Fortunately we are still on the outskirts, let's go quickly." Cang Xu urged.

Zidi walked slower and slower, turning her head to look behind her from time to time.

Before the girl set out, she thought she was in danger, but she and Cang Xu really escaped from the cave, and the process went smoothly beyond imagination.

All this happened because the avatar attracted all the gun scorpions.

"How safe I am here, how dangerous it is there!"

"How is he doing now?"

Reason told Zidi that the substitute was probably killed in the battle. But her emotions hindered her steps. Even if there was a glimmer of hope, she wanted to wait.

In fact, the thought would appear in her mind: "Even if you let me see his body, let me see it for the last time to make me give up!"

"Master Zhenjin's physical condition is very poor. He has not eaten all the time and lacks physical strength."

"Facing the scorpion swarm's pursuit and siege, physical exertion will be very intense. The longer the time goes by, the slimmer his chances of survival will be."

"Alas..." Cang Xu sighed.

Zidi was extremely irritable and wanted to scold Cang Xu to shut up.

continue waiting.

Just when the girl was about to despair, a figure appeared in her field of vision.

This figure left the deepest impression on Zidi.

So much so that when it first appeared, Zi Di doubted whether she was hallucinating.

But soon, she screamed out in surprise.

Her knight is back, as beautiful as those stories about heroes.

"He also brought Bai Ya back." Zi Di sighed with a complicated tone.

"This is the Templar Knight!" Cang Xu admired from the bottom of his heart.

When the two sides met, Zi Di immediately healed the substitute.

In the process, she saw the new injuries suffered by the double due to the Gun Scorpion, and was also keenly aware that the double's mental state was completely different.

"Could it be that at the critical moment of life and death, he was stimulated and turned into a beast again?"

"That's how it should be."

"He cannot use his fighting spirit. Only by turning into a beast can he defeat the scorpions!"

Although they got rid of the scorpion swarm, only the substitute, Zi Di, Cang Xu and the unconscious Bai Ya were left in the entire exploration team.

"Is this the center of the Mysterious Island?"

"Will the alchemy factory be here?"

Zidi had such a guess, but she never thought about exploring this place.

The environment here is too dangerous, with erupting volcanoes, terrifying magma, and the golden monster lava giant turtle I witnessed not long ago...

Also, she had no reason to persuade others to go deeper.

She couldn't really be sure that the alchemy factory was hidden here.

Although Cang Xu persuaded the substitute to give up the unconscious Bai Ya, the substitute would rather bear it on his own than abandon his companions.

Stand-in: "I once said that I will do my best to save everyone and will not give up anyone. This is my promise and my responsibility."

"Sir, your noble character has dimmed the bright stars in the night sky!" Cang Xu sighed from the bottom of his heart, "You are a model among the Templar Knights."

The substitute smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Seeing such an expression, Zidi became more and more aware: "My previous guess must be the truth. He defeated the scorpions by transforming into a beast. But he must be distressed and suspicious because of this."

"The body of a Templar will never undergo such a mutation."

The trouble and suspicion of the substitute made Zidi very sad.

"I should have told him the truth."

Last night, Zidi quietly made a decision to tell the substitute all the truth at dawn.

But at dawn, she hesitated again: "If I tell him the truth, will it disturb him? Make him feel confused and complicated? He wants to lead away the scorpions, and his situation is more dangerous than us!"

In this hesitation, she lost the opportunity.

"I should tell him the truth! Even if he is not a needle gold or a Templar, he was originally a knight. It's just his original identity, and I only know this." Zidi made up her mind again.

Due to severe lack of food, the four returned to the desert with only a small lizard and a jerboa in their hands.

The substitute gave up all the precious meat to Zidi and Cangxu, and Bai Ya's condition became worse. Not only did he remain comatose, but he also developed a high fever.

"There's some movement." The substitute's face darkened, "You guys eat first, and I'll go on guard and drive away or kill any wild beasts that may be there."

The stand-in disappeared for a while and then came back.

"He seems to be a little different." Zidi was keenly aware of some changes in the substitute.

Zi Di and Cang Xu both left the meat skewers uneaten and gave them to their substitutes.

"Do you want me to break my oath? Will my knight's honor be damaged?" Zhenjin's expression became very solemn.

Zidi and Cangxu both looked at Zhenjin, feeling as if his whole body was glowing with holy light. For a moment, both of them were shaken physically and mentally and remained silent.

"belch."

At this moment, Zhen Jin couldn't help but burped.

Cang Xu, Zi Di:???

Zidi's eyes widened: "What did I just hear?"

"A burp?"

"Is he full? What did he eat?"

"No, it's impossible. He is a knight and will not eat alone behind our backs. Maybe this is not burping, but just flatulence caused by acid reflux."

"But if he really ate something, could it be said that he... turned into a beast?"

At dawn, the four set out again.

Seeing the Jinma Stone Group again, the substitute left the team early and went deep into the stone group: "I will go back as soon as I go. If you have to move, use pink potion to mark the route along the way."

Soon after, he returned successfully and told that he had solved the lizards in the stone group.

Soon, under his guidance, Zidi, Cang Xu and others arrived at the battlefield.

Cangxu couldn't help but praise repeatedly: "Master Zhenjin, now I begin to believe Master Zidi's guess."

"I'm afraid you are really not just a silver cultivation level. It's very unusual that you can have such a strong combat power under such poor physical conditions. There are at least thirty lizards in this group, but you just forced yourself to

Shengchi relied on an ordinary knife and killed five of them without using his fighting spirit, and forced the entire group of lizards to flee."

…

Zidi was quietly sizing up the battlefield.

Soon, her eyes narrowed slightly, focusing on the impact marks on the gold stone and the stone holes that were suspected to be stabbed by the tail of the spear scorpion.

In such a short period of time, the effect of a substitute in cleaning the battlefield is actually limited.

"There is no gun scorpion in his narrative. Could it be said that he turned into a beast and transformed into a scorpion tail and defeated the lizards?" Zidi's heart moved.

Her eyes glanced around, then suddenly froze again, then her heart beat faster and her cheeks quickly became hot.

She saw the holes in the stand-in's pants at the buttocks.

The hole is faintly visible because the stand-in has exposed the bottom of his shirt, so the motive for covering it up is very obvious.

"All the clues are correct!"

"Wait a minute, he burped last night. If it was lizard meat, according to his character, he would definitely take it back and share it. But he didn't... He had something to hide."

"His food should be gold and stone!"

"He can transform into a scorpion tail, and I'm afraid he can transform into more beasts. After transforming into a beast, he can use gold and stone as food."

"But he can't share the golden stone, because normal people can't eat this kind of thing."

Zidi continued to think, and then recalled that before leaving last night, the substitute specifically asked Cang Xu about the knowledge of the gun scorpion's digestion of food.

"He made preparations in advance. That is to say, before leaving, he knew that he could transform into a beast and become a gun scorpion or part of a gun scorpion."

"But he wasn't sure whether he could really eat gold and stone. That's why he asked Cang Xu."

"This means that he can actively transform into a beast."

"Perhaps it's because he has transformed into a beast so many times that practice makes him perfect. Or maybe it's because the battle with the Gun Scorpion this time was so exciting that he made a breakthrough and can freely control the ability to transform into a beast!"
To be continued...