The substitute was lying down, having fallen into a deep sleep.
Zi Di softly called "Sir" several times, but the substitute didn't respond at all and fell into a deep sleep.
Zidi sighed in her heart: "He fought fiercely last night and ventured deep into the forest to hunt down the remaining Warcraft legion, completely squeezing his physical strength and energy. He really couldn't hold it anymore, so he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he came back. But he didn't deal with it.
The wound is too messy."
Zi Di cautiously came to the stand-in, half-knelt on the ground, and slowly stretched her fingers toward the stand-in's clothes with slightly trembling fingers.
By the time Zidi started to take off her clothes, her movements had become more stable.
She kept encouraging herself in her heart: "Zidi, have the courage, you can do it!"
"He can risk his life to chase him, but you can't do this?"
"Anyway, you've done it once before, in the cave where you encountered the monkey-tailed brown bear."
"This isn't the first time!"
"But it must be done as soon as possible. The longer the delay, the greater the chance of being discovered."
"Especially if you can't be discovered by Zhenjin, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable!"
After a while, Zidi's face was covered with sweat and she began to pant.
The substitute fell into the deepest sleep, and his whole body was as heavy as death. Zidi felt very strenuous when moving.
While working hard, she also felt a kind of inner happiness and excitement, as well as a hint of excitement that Zi Di might not be able to detect, secretly acting behind her back.
"Huh?" Zidi was very surprised after fully checking the body of the substitute.
There were no injuries on the stand-in at all. Despite his bloody and scary appearance, he was actually in very good physical condition.
Zidi blinked repeatedly and was stunned on the spot.
She suddenly thought of last night, when the substitute refused her treatment due to time constraints, and immediately called on everyone, eventually leading Zong Ge and others to pursue her.
"Can it be said that he was not injured?"
"Indeed, according to other people's accounts, he was not obviously injured in the previous fight. After that, the camp was ablaze, and no one saw him fighting."
"So, after he transformed into a beast, his combat power was so strong that he was unscathed. But this is obviously inconsistent with common sense, so why did he pretend like this?"
"Humph, you deceived me so much!"
Zidi gritted her teeth and felt completely relieved.
Looking at the still sleeping substitute, who was as cute as a baby, Zidi suddenly had the urge to bite his cheek.
"So, you are brave and resourceful."
"You were always confident, that's why you went after the blue-haired evil wolf and the Warcraft Legion."
"You call on others to follow you. In fact, you want to get rid of your own suspicion, right? After all, if you do it alone, people will be very suspicious."
"You made me worry so much, you bad guy!"
Zi Di ran her fingers across the substitute's exposed chest, bit her lip with her teeth, and finally felt unbearably itchy, and she suddenly leaned down and got close to the substitute's face.
But she didn't bite him after all, but kissed him briefly.
After doing this action, her whole body felt like it was burning.
"What's wrong with me?!" She subconsciously covered her cheeks, feeling like hot steam was rising from her ears and nose.
Her heart was beating wildly, excitement and happiness came over her, making her head fall into a wonderful and slightly dizzy feeling.
It wasn't until she left the stand-in's tent and felt the evening wind that she gradually woke up.
"Did I button his clothes?"
Zidi found that she had no memory of this at all. During that period of time, her emotions were too turbulent.
She wanted to confirm, but at this time, someone approached.
"I should tie it up for him." Zidi hesitated for a moment, feeling guilty as if she was a thief, and hurriedly left here with her head lowered.
At nightfall, the bonfire burned.
While everyone was eating dinner, they were discussing the substitute with great enthusiasm.
What people are discussing the most is no longer the Templars, but the Divine Knights!
Cang Xu even speculated: "It's actually not surprising."
"Master Zhenjin himself is an extremely good practitioner, and his talent is very outstanding."
"He has noble blood and is a Templar Knight. He has devoted all his faith to the Holy Emperor."
"These already make him unique, but what's more valuable about him is that he always adheres to the way of the knights, hoeing the strong and supporting the weak, punishing the evil and promoting the good, and taking care of the weak. Even if he sacrifices himself, he does not violate the principles of the Templars!
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"He is brave and fearless, fair and just, willing to accept anyone and treats everyone as a companion. From this, you can see his broad mind, as well as his compassionate and kind nature."
"Isn't it right for such a person to receive the favor of the gods?"
Then, Cang Xu mentioned the general trend of the empire invading the wilderness continent, and analyzed the political situation and concluded that the divine knights would definitely appear.
Zidi listened and felt strange.
The stand-in is obviously a beast-turned-human, but in the end he is boasted as a divine knight. This is outrageous! But what Cang Xu said, as long as those who don’t know the truth, will basically think that it makes sense!
Zidi was both happy and worried in her heart.
She is happy that the substitute has gained more recognition and popularity from everyone. What she is worried about is that once the truth is exposed, the psychological gap between everyone will be even greater than before. By then, it is difficult to predict how they will react.
The substitute woke up and came out of the tent.
Zidi shrank her head guiltily, but the naturalness of the substitute made her gradually feel relieved, and she secretly guessed: "It seems that I did tie his clothes and pants, but I forgot. He probably didn't notice that I was here.
There he is."
The substitute came to the crowd and was warmly praised by everyone.
But the substitute chose to come to Zong Ge, San Dao, and Lan Zao, and took the lead in person, cheering their names.
The crowd was excited, roaring and cheering along with the substitute.
The atmosphere is as warm as a campfire.
Zidi stared at the stand-in who raised his arms and shouted in the crowd, her mind swaying: "He is a real knight and an absolutely excellent leader!"
The next day, everyone dissected the body of Blue Dog Jackal.
"If this wolf corpse doesn't have much value, I want to use it as a sacrifice to my Lord, the great Shengming Emperor." After the stand-in dissected it, he proposed to take away the wolf corpse.
The atmosphere in the tent immediately became solemn.
"Of course!" After reacting, Cang Xu answered first.
Zong Ge also agreed very much and said: "Templar, this is your trophy."
Zidi's heart suddenly moved, and she remembered that the substitute had asked her for bear blood, secretly deducted the body of the bat monkey, and then asked for bear meat from Zong Ge and others.
"Now it's a wolf corpse...wait a minute, does it mean that only when a substitute eats part of a certain magical beast can it have the corresponding ability to transform into a beast?"
"Is this a kind of growth or a kind of stimulation? Stimulating his inherent abilities?"
"He is the war dealer's most proud work, and these man-made monsters are also made by the war dealer. Perhaps the war dealer concentrated all the animal transformations on him? After being stimulated, his abilities will be stimulated?"
"At the beginning, he fought to the death with the monkey-tailed brown bear. It was extremely fierce. In the end, he died without transforming into a beast. However, when facing the blade spider, he could not transform into the sharp claws of the monkey-tailed brown bear. Maybe... it was what I once said in the cave.
Have you infused him with bear blood?"
"He analyzed all this. No wonder after leaving the cave, he made insinuations to me many times and asked me about the situation at that time."
With thoughts flooding in her mind, Zidi supported the substitute's decision without hesitation: "We were able to survive and win thanks to the protection of Emperor Shengming. We should indeed sacrifice to Him!"
Under the leadership of the substitute, the exploration team left the forest and rushed to the beach where the main force was located.
Along the way, they passed through the territories of countless herds. These blade spiders, monkey-tailed brown bears, etc., all mysteriously disappeared.
Most of the people in the team are guessing that there should be a legion of Warcraft commanded by the Blue Dog and Fox Wolf nearby, which is constantly following and gathering the beasts in the wild.
Only Zidi gradually guessed the truth.
"It's you, substitute."
"If it's a Warcraft Legion, and it's getting bigger, it's impossible that our increased scouts haven't noticed the slightest trace."
"Every night, you have to patrol at night and go out alone. It was you who secretly solved these obstacles and allowed us to collect the spider webs unscathed. It was you who eliminated all the monkey-tailed brown bears and turned into bear claws to secretly mine.
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"You have shouldered too much and secretly paid more than others imagined! All of us have benefited from you, but most people don't know it!"
Zidi felt bitter and aggrieved for the substitute, but also felt admiration and pride for it.
Led by a substitute, the exploration team was under pressure and the journey was arduous, but the number of members was very small, and the trip was generally very smooth.
They collected a lot of supplies along the way and gradually moved from the forest to the rainforest.
Xinsuo took refuge in the substitute and gave up embarrassing Zongge.
Zong Ge also temporarily surrendered.
The entire exploration team was as harmonious as one.
The hidden worries in Zidi's heart have never diminished, but have accumulated more and more as time goes by.
"I am Zhenjin! He is a fake!!" Zi Di, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly heard Heijuan's cry from outside the tent.
"No!" Zidi quickly got up and ran out, only to see the substitute surrounded by people and tied to a cross. There were large amounts of dry firewood piled around.
"Stop!" Zidi shouted.
But the next moment, Kurojuan smiled cruelly and threw out the torch in his hand. The torch fell and immediately lit the firewood.
A raging fire burned.
The substitute shouted, telling Zidi to run quickly.
Zidi subconsciously ran into the fire, and the flames near her went out.
The crowd was stunned.
Then, frost spread from Zidi's shadow, and a broken corpse slowly rose up.
"Father!" Zidi was shocked.
"My... daughter... I'm sorry, father is here... to protect you!" Zi Di's dead father rushed towards the crowd.
Everyone was shocked and angry.
The black curly finger pointed at Zidi and screamed: "Undead! You are a necromancer. Quick, kill her and burn her to death!"
Zidi's father was soon chopped down and cut into pieces.
The flames became stronger again, burning Zi Di, her clothes and hair.
In despair, Zidi finally ran to the substitute's side.
She hugged him, and the substitute kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, I'm not your knight, I'm sorry!"
Then the substitute changed, and he transformed into a beast, transforming into a bear head, bear claws, and bat wings.
Kurojuan laughed: "Have you seen it? Now believe me, he is not a knight of the gods, he is just a monster."
"No, he's not!" Zidi was angry and frightened, and refuted in a hoarse voice.
But everyone was roaring: "Burn him, burn him! He is the one who brought the beasts."
"Burn these losers and men to death!"
"We were all fooled by both of them!"
In the flames, the substitute shed tears. He was extremely disappointed: "It turns out that I am really a monster, not a needle gold. Zi Di, why did you lie to me, why did you lie to me?"
"No! No!!" Zi Di suddenly woke up and sat up with her upper body suddenly.
The light inside the tent was dim and the camp was peaceful.
"I have this similar nightmare again..." Zi Di panted for a long time, and her heartbeat gradually slowed down.
"I shouldn't run away anymore! I should tell the substitute all the truth."
"Besides, I have to do something for him."
Zidi found a tube of medicine from her purse.
The potion is thick and dark, and if you look carefully while it is shaking, you can see an evil red glow in the black oil.
What she got from the war dealer was more than just a substitute.
This tube of bestiality potion is also one of them.
Seeing this tube of potion, Zidi hesitated again.
She has hesitated many times about this.
But this time, she finally made up her mind: "Compared to you, no one else is important, right?"