It was noon.

Over the yellow desert, the sun hung high.

Waves of heat kept coming, and the sand under the feet was terrifyingly hot.

Hunger, thirst and lack of physical strength make people dizzy.

Cang Xu and Zi Di staggered as they walked, and on several occasions, they almost fell to the ground with weak knees.

In view of this, Needle Gold and the others had to hide in the shadow of the sand dunes to rest.

Bai Ya was still unconscious, and the remaining three were struggling to breathe.

It seems that the gods have shown mercy to these poor people in a rare way - the desert is blowing.

Although the wind was not strong, it was a little bit hot.

Under the blowing of the wind, the windward side of the sand slope is swept by fine sand, and the back of the sand slope is like quicksand.

The sound of the sand rolling makes a rustling sound, and the resting Chinese cannot appreciate the beauty of the silence of the sound itself.

A large amount of physical energy was consumed, which made the people who had an empty stomach feel very tormented.

Needle Kim felt so hungry that her chest pressed against her back.

As soon as he entered the shadow on the back of the dune, he placed the unconscious white bud on the ground.

When he first set off, he was carrying the white buds on his back, and he didn't feel a heavy burden. But now, he feels like he's carrying an elephant on his back.

The burden disappeared, and Needle Jin suddenly felt a sense of relief all over.

He did not forget to check the state of the white buds.

"I had a high fever again. Needle Jin's eyes darkened.

The state of the white buds is repeated and very bad.

Needle Gold wanted to help him, but Bai Ya had already used Zidi's potion.

If there is enough food and water, the body of the white sprouts can be well nourished.

But the current situation is that the people only drank a few sips of water on the way, and did not eat at all.

In this regard, needle gold is really helpless.

He could only open the mouth of the water bag and open Bai Ya's mouth and pour a small stream of water into it.

The water has long been divided into three equal portions, and everyone has a water bag. The needle gold is given to Bai Ya, and it is his own share.

Cang Xu and Zi Di watched Needle Gold do this, but neither spoke.

Both of them sat on the ground, motionless, not wanting to speak at all, or not even having the strength to speak.

Needle Gold also remained silent.

He sat quietly, feeling like an hourglass, and his physical strength was like a grain of sand, falling into his body one by one, accumulating reserves.

Since awakening on this island, Needlegold has never been more hungry and thirsty.

The closest thing he got was the day he broke free from being buried in the sand. But at that time, he had food—it was a desert viper that didn't have long eyes.

Now he looked at the yellow desert, at the vastness of heaven and earth, and looked forward to something like a viper to attack him.

Once, he had just wiped out the rat colony, and he had food and a subordinate to return to. It was teleported that night, and all the fruits of all efforts became a bubble. He emerged from the bottom of the sand, was attacked by a viper, and his heart was filled with sorrow.

And now, as he sat on the gravel, recalling the scene he had had, and felt that perhaps the viper's attack was a gift from nature or the mercy of the gods.

A sudden realization occurred in the heart of the needle.

"Huh. He chuckled.

The voice aroused the confusion of Zidi and Cang Xu.

Sensing the gaze of the two, Needle Gold opened his mouth and explained: "There are many times, many times, when the blow and torture of fate happened to me. Each time, I thought I had suffered the heaviest suffering in the world. ”

"However, in fact, it is not. ”

"There are no most difficult moments, and there will be even more painful hardships in life. ”

"I'm in a worse situation now than I was when I was attacked by a viper. Maybe in the future, I'll be even more embarrassed. ”

Zidi was silent.

They had exchanged information for a long time, and the girl knew what had happened to her after she was separated.

Cangsu laughed too.

"My lord, hearing you say this, I am also inexplicably relaxed. ”

"Your mindset is no longer optimistic, but open-minded. ”

Zi Di thought for a moment and spoke softly: "Suffering is a kind of wealth. The difference is whether people can extract this wealth from suffering. ”

Needle Jin thought back to the scenes he had experienced on the island since he woke up, especially the demon core in his heart: "If that's the case, then I'm a millionaire." ”

This is the end of the conversation.

After talking these few words, everyone immediately felt tired and deepened.

For a long time afterward, they were silent.

Time passed, and the power of the vicious sunlight weakened.

With white buds on his back, he continued to hurry with Purple Hair and Cang Whisker.

Their luck turned for the better.

On the ensuing journey, they found a dead sand willow and a number of spiders and scorpions, the latter of which became valuable food.

They also spotted a desert lizard, as well as a desert jerboa.

This jerboa was just an ordinary beast, it was small, about the size of an ordinary mouse, with wide ears and a keen sense of hearing. It has yellow fur that is very close to the desert. Its hind limbs are well developed, and with a slight jump, it can jump a distance of one or two meters.

After a chase, its body was placed in Needlegold's pocket.

The lizards and jerboas did not immediately get into their stomachs, and the others basically went into the mouths of Cang Whisker and Zi Di.

Despite this, these supplements simply did not keep up with their physical exertion, so much so that they had to stop several times to rest along the way.

The efficiency of the march was greatly reduced, and when night fell, everyone did not reach their destination, the golden granite group.

Greybeard surveyed the terrain around him, looked at the stars, and drew a map on the gravel.

"I don't know much about astrology. But the surrounding terrain has become familiar, and we have only been in and out of the lava landscape for a few days, and the dune terrain should not change much. ”

"So, we're not far from the Granite Massif. ”

"Tomorrow morning, a short walk will take you there. ”

"Let's rest here tonight, my lord, we can't go any further. ”

The old scholar sighed, the night wind blowing his snow-white beard trembling slightly.

Zidi and Cangsu both knew the benefits of rushing to the granite group, but the two of them really couldn't walk.

In fact, needle gold is not much better.

The young knight nodded: "We have the firewood we get from cutting the sand willow, and the night in the desert is very cold, but we can light a campfire and deal with it overnight." ”

The sparks collided with each other, the firewood was dry, and the bonfire burned smoothly.

The crowd sat around the campfire.

The bodies of the small lizards and jerboas are pierced by two wooden strips, which are held by needles and allowed to be heated and grilled on the fire.

Smelling the aroma of barbecue, Zidi couldn't help but roll her Adam's apple.

"This must be the most delicious dish in the world!" Zidi began, her eyes easing with longing.

Cangsu also stared at the two barbecues, and he looked away with difficulty, grabbing a handful of sand under him: "When I look at this handful of sand now, I think they are extremely cute." It's so cute that I can't help but want to swallow them. ”

Zidi laughed and echoed with deep sympathy: "I think those black lava rocks, they look a lot like fluffy, toasted chocolate bread. ”

"I've read some historical records of the famine in the empire, and many of the refugees ate themselves to death by eating dirt. ”

"I understand their feelings immensely now. Hunger can really drive people crazy, and they don't think about anything but eating. I want to take a bite of everything I see, eat grass, eat soil and sand. ”

Cangsu let out a sigh: "It is true that someone eats soil. The southeastern and southwestern coasts of the empire were plagued by famines every few years. The refugees on the seashore collect mud and mix it with butter and salt to make mud biscuits. ”

"The Shata family once sent me to deliver a batch of relief supplies. I went to the local area and also tasted this kind of mud biscuits. ”

"Speaking of which, this kind of mud biscuit actually has a very delicate texture. But as soon as you eat it, you will feel the dampness peculiar to the seaside. ”

"The mud biscuits are basically the size of an adult's hand, and the refugees spread them on the ground and exposed to the sun. ”

"I just took a small bite, and that earthy smell remained in my mouth for hours. ”

"The local refugees have been eating these things for a long time, and the elderly and children have eaten it for a long time. So, they are all skinny and have chronic diarrhea. Almost every day, a child dies of diarrhoea. ”

"You know what? When I'm on the road during the day, I'll swear again: But now if there were mud biscuits, I'd eat them until my stomach can't hold them anymore!"

As he flipped the meat skewer in his hand, he asked, "Speaking of digestion...... Mr. Greybeard, how are the beasts digesting? What kind of beasts have the strongest digestion powers?"

Cang Xu muttered, "Compared to humans, the digestive ability of beasts is very strong. ”

"Hyenas are notorious for eating bones, so almost all the corpses that hyenas visit are gone. ”

"The bearded vulture has a highly corrosive digestive juice, which makes it easy to digest bones and bone marrow. ”

"Pythons swallow food raw, whether it's a crocodile or a baby elephant, and it can be digested. ”

"Generally speaking, birds are actually the most digestive. Eating insects, the digestion time only takes fifteen minutes. Eat foods such as berries and you can excrete them in 30 minutes. Some seabirds eat fish, and some fish have just swallowed the tail with the tail still in the mouth and the head already dissolved in the stomach. ”

"And what about the scorpion's digestive power?" asked Needle Gold again.

Cangsu said: "Very strong! The spear scorpion is a demonic beast, and its own ability is better than that of ordinary beasts." It eats metal, has an extremely strong digestion ability, and can completely ablate and decompose metal. According to my dissection, the digestion speed is also very fast, it only takes about five minutes to digest the metal stone that has been eaten. ”

Needlegold nodded, no more talking.

When the barbecue of the jerboa and the lizard's meat skewers was almost hot, Needlegold's expression suddenly changed, and he made a gesture of listening.

This action immediately aroused the vigilance of Zidi and Cang Xu.

"There's movement. Needle Gold's face was slightly gloomy.

Zidi and Cangsu didn't hear anything, but they knew that Needle Gold was a Dou Qi cultivator, and his physical fitness was far beyond that of ordinary people, and it was normal to hear some sounds.

"You eat first, and I will go and be on the alert, and drive out or kill any wild beasts that may exist. ”

"Try to stay where you are and don't move around. ”

After taking care of the two of them, he handed them the meat skewers and slowly stood up.

"Your Excellency, you must be careful. Zidi was very concerned.

Needle Gold nodded, and walked quickly, and the figure quickly disappeared into the night.

He first circled around, and after making sure that there was no sign of the beast, he pointed in one direction and ran quickly.

No longer carrying white buds on his back, and no purple pedicles and whiskers slowing down, the needle gold came to the golden granite group soon after.

The granite group is also safe and does not have any gun scorpion activity.

Needle Jin took a deep breath, a hint of hesitation on his face.

But in an instant, he made up his mind.

He began to undress.

Soon, he took off all his clothes and became naked.

The next moment, he urged the heart core, and his whole body glowed red.

A rich red light obscured his face and body, leaving only the red outline of a humanoid figure.

Soon, the red humanoid silhouette collapsed like a stream of water, turning into a scorpion-shaped silhouette.

The red light faded, and the needle gold in place was gone, replaced by a spear scorpion.

The breath of life at the silver level overflowed.

Needle Gold has become a spear scorpion leader!

This was the first time that his body had completely changed, and there was no trace of a human being on his body.

It was actually risky, but Needle Gold had to do it.

He was so hungry.

He was at least a silver-level Dou Qi cultivator, and the only two meat skewers he had were of no avail. In fact, even if Zidi ate them all, she wouldn't be able to eat enough.

So, the needle decided to take a different approach.

Gneiss is not human food.

Then, he will turn into a complete spear scorpion and try it.

Needlegold's perception has changed drastically at this moment.

The night was not so deep for him. With the help of the eyes of the spear scorpion, he was able to see far in the dark.

The spear scorpion also does not have only one pair of eyes, the main eye is directly in front of the scorpion's head, and the two pairs of attached eyes are distributed on both sides of the spear scorpion's head.

Therefore, the vision of needle gold at the moment is very broad.

The spear scorpion also has a good sense of smell, and the needle gold immediately smells a rich fragrance.

He soon discovered that the scent came from the granite around him.

People don't smell anything from the granite, at most it smells of stone or metal. But at this moment, the needle gold, which turned into a spear scorpion, smelled a wonderful aroma that had never been smelled before.

This wonderful aroma immediately tempted Needlegold to lift the scorpion tail behind him.

The scorpion's tail shot out with lightning, piercing the granite through the granite.

Needlegold used his giant pincer-like chelicerae and scorpion tail to smash the pitted granite into many pieces.

Chelicerae crushes the fragments and places them in the scorpion's mouthpiece.

Needle gold chewing.

"Oh oh oh!"

"Delicious!"

"It's like chocolate-flavored cookies. The taste is crunchy and the finish is silky. ”

Needle Gold almost screamed.

It turns out that for the spear scorpion, granite is such a delicacy!

The taste system of the gun scorpion is not the same as that of a completely human.

Needle gold eats a lot and chews constantly.

He was very hungry.

After eating two large pieces of granite in a row, he stopped.

He lay on the ground in the form of a spear scorpion, motionless for a long time, making sure that all the golden granites in his body had been digested.

A tingling and itchy sensation began to spread all over the body.

"What's going on?" Needle Jin felt strange, obviously he had been paying attention to his internal organs, and digesting the golden granite was very smooth and thorough.

"Excuse me?"

Needle gold's heart suddenly flashed with inspiration.

He thought of what Cangsu had said, to the effect that the spear scorpion had eaten the golden granite and was able to absorb the metal in the stone, making its scorpion shell stronger.

Needlegold immediately flicked the scorpion's tail and stabbed into the shell of his back.

However, they are all part of the body of the needle, and the scorpion tail is the same strength as the scorpion shell, so it does not cause any damage.

The needle gold mobilizes the heart core and restores the human form, but retains the scorpion shell on the chest.

Perhaps it was because there was only this small piece of scorpion shell left, and the tingling and itching sensation concentrated on the chest, and it became extremely intense.

The five fingers of the needle turned into a spider blade and stabbed into the chest.

The new spider blade is very sharp, piercing the scorpion shell and stabbing through the incisions.

Suddenly, the strange feeling that made the needle gold unbearable tingling and itching was mostly relieved.

But after a few breaths, the sensation intensified again.

Needle Gold looked at his chest and saw that the wound on the scorpion shell on his chest had healed most of it.

But there was joy on the face of the needle.

Because, he has proven his conjecture right.

He immediately stabbed himself in the chest again with the spider blade.

Poked again and again, poked out a lot of small holes.

The scorpion shell healed quickly again and again, and the tingling and itchy sensation gradually weakened, and finally disappeared completely.

Needle Gold touched his chest and noticed that the newly grown scorpion shell had become a little stronger than before.

"That's probably why the silver spear scorpion is chasing after me. ”

"So it wanted to get beaten and injured!"

"I used to lure them to the granite group and let them eat again, but I hurt myself. ”

Realizing this truth, the joy on Needle Gold's face disappeared, replaced by a wry smile full of helplessness.

He didn't linger too long, and when he had eaten his fill, he hurried back.

Re-enter the campfire and meet Purple and Beard.

The jerboa and lizard skewers had long been grilled, but neither Purple Di nor Crowwhiskers had eaten them, even though they were already very hungry.

"My lord, you can eat. ”

"Lord Needle Gold, don't be unnecessarily humble. Only if you have enough physical strength can you keep us all safe, won't you? Even if we had enough physical strength, we wouldn't be able to deal with the ferocious monsters. ”

Although Zidi and Cangsu were very hungry, they still agreed and tried their best to persuade Needle Gold to eat the two meat skewers.

Of course he refused, he was already full.

The two sides pushed each other, but this time Zidi and Cangsu were resolute.

Needle Gold had to change his face: "My physical strength is still sufficient, and my physical condition is much better than that of the two of you." You've eaten so little food that if you don't eat it, you might not even survive tonight. It is likely that this firewood will not last a night. ”

Speaking of this, Needle Gold gazed at Zidi affectionately: "I said, I will guard you until the end of your life." ”

Then, the young man looked at Cangsu again: "Old scholar, even if you don't want to be attached to me and don't want to be my subordinate, I will do my best to save you." I once vowed to do everything in my power to save everyone. Including you, but also the white buds. ”

"Are you going to make me break my oath, and let the glory of my knights be ruined?" said Needlegold's expression became very solemn.

Zidi and Cangsu both looked at the needle, feeling that his whole body seemed to be emitting holy light, and for a while, both of them were shocked physically and mentally, and they didn't make a sound.

"Hiccup. ”

At this moment, Needle Gold couldn't help but burp.

Greybeard, Purple Pedicle: ???