Chapter 191: Section 191: I Should Trust Him More


    As the young boy and girl were talking, a swarm of Fire Poison Bees suddenly attacked. Sёarch* The ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    “How could there still be a Fire Poison Bee swarm here?!” Zi Di panicked, almost losing her composure.


    Right now, she had no loyal guards by her side, only a substitute with an unclear character who had lost his memory.


    Under the threat of death, if the substitute chose to abandon Zi Di and run away, she wouldn’t be surprised at all.


    “My life now hangs on his actions,” Zi Di thought in a flash of insight at this critical juncture, “I’ve got it!”


    “These are Fire Poison Bees, sir, you must run. I’ll cover our retreat!”


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    “Hurry, sir!!” Zi Di shouted urgently, revealing a willingness to sacrifice herself.


    “Sir, you go ahead. I have potions that can detoxify!” Zi Di urged again.


    “You go! I’ll deal with these Fire Poison Bees.” The substitute chose to stay, standing in front of Zi Di.


    Zi Di secretly breathed a sigh of relief.


    But soon, under the swarm’s attack, the substitute was engaged in a bitter struggle.


    “Could today be the day I am destined to die?”


    Just when Zi Di was nearing despair, Zhenjin suddenly performed the Combat Skill Hundred Needle Wind.


    “What is this?!” Zi Di lifted her head, her face showing shock mixed with joy.


    Zhenjin’s counterattack gave her hope.


    “As expected of sir!” Zi Di blurted out, cheering for Zhenjin.


    One by one, the Fire Poison Bees fell to the ground, the Hundred Needle Wind Combat Skill proving to be quite effective against these venomous bees.


    “Sir…” Zi Di, well-protected, watched Zhenjin’s silhouette, her eyes reflecting the dimming bonfire and shimmering brightly.


    “It seems that at least some information has been instilled by the Memory Crystal, but it required a strong stimulus or a specific trigger.”


    “He has been protecting me all this time; he must have complete faith in what I said.”


    “In the short term, he seems reliable.”


    “No good, he’s been stung too many times. The Fire Poison is accumulating too much in his body, and even with potions, I won’t be able to save him.”


    Zi Di stood behind the substitute, watching him closely and growing increasingly worried.


    The last small wave of Fire Poison Bees attacked, and knowing he couldn’t continue fighting, the substitute took Zi Di’s hand and they both turned to flee.


    The two plunged into the dark jungle.


    “Sir, let me stay behind. I will lead them away…” Zi Di gasped urgently.


    “Be quiet!” Zhenjin suddenly stopped, turned, and faced Zi Di.


    The girl let out a startled cry and bumped into Zhenjin’s chest as a result of inertia.


    The next moment, the girl was dizzy, her view altering dramatically.


    When she came to her senses, she realized she was already in Zhenjin’s arms, running wildly.


    Zi Di pressed against the substitute’s hard, broad chest, feeling the strong masculine scent he emitted from his strenuous activity.


    She had never been held like this by a young man before!


    In her field of vision were dark shadows rushing towards her.


    Those were the branches and vines of the rainforest.


    As the substitute crashed through, branches and vines along the path were broken off and torn down.


    “Is this what it feels like to be protected?” A strange emotion rippled out in Zi Di’s heart.


    But soon, she collected herself and calmly pulled out a potion from her bag. Using the glow of the potions, which resembled the light of fireflies, she tried her best to help the substitute see enough to run.


    Then, she used one potion after another, attempting to delay the pursuit of the Fire Poison Bee Swarm.


    Transportation happened at this stage, but both the substitute and Zi Di were under extreme stress and didn’t notice it.


    Eventually, they were forced by the Fire Poison Bee Swarm to seek refuge in a cave.


    The Fire Poison struck, and the substitute was in very bad shape.


    Zi Di gradually lost hope.


    With a mere thread of consciousness left in his mind, the weak substitute told Zi Di, “You run, get out of here quickly.”


    But the girl shook her head fiercely, her eyes brimming with tears, and with a sob-laden voice she insisted, “No, sir! I will never abandon you. It wasn’t easy to find you, and we’ve come this far together, how can we give up now!”


    (Without you, the substitute, how could I ever escape Mysterious Monster Island alone? If it comes to it, I am ready to die. I’m just losing a bet; I underestimated Mysterious Monster Island and the War Merchant, but I accept the outcome and it doesn’t mean I can’t afford to lose.)


    Then, something unexpected happened.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear, feeling its territory invaded, charged out, driving the Fire Poison Bee Swarm out of the cave.


    Zi Di and the substitute were temporarily safe, but the condition of the substitute worsened, and he was at death’s door.


    The substitute urged her again, but Zi Di shook her head in refusal, “I won’t go, I won’t give up. Sir, I can mix potions, I will definitely be able to concoct the right medication! We still have hope, please don’t give up either!”


    “Quick, move faster!”


    Zi Di internally screamed while pulling out one pharmaceutical bottle after another.


    To save time, she directly poured the potions onto the ground, corroding a small pit.


    “Simple potions can’t save the substitute now, I need to quickly mix a more effective and specific one!”


    “Come on, Zi Di!”


    “You must succeed! By saving the substitute, you still have a chance to live and escape from here!!”


    The girl’s movements were unprecedentedly swift, the content of the Barbarian Potion that she knew by heart roiling rapidly in her mind.


    She mixed several potions together, then took out many kinds of dried grass leaves and roots from her bosom, first grinding them into powder, then pouring them into the pit.


    Gurgle, gurgle…


    The mixed potion in the pit began to bubble, smoke swirling around.


    Zi Di knew that her chance for survival lay in this moment—it all depended on whether she could take control.


    Enormous pressure forced her to tears as she concocted the potions.


    To pursue a fierce medicinal effect, she risked adding a large quantity of Frenzy Potion. She had no confidence in her heart, but she knew the other methods stood no chance at all.


    Fortunately, the potion she compounded successfully woke the substitute and neutralized a large amount of Fire Poison in him. However, the components of the Frenzy Potion were also draining the substitute’s life force.


    Once the effects of the potion wore off, Zi Di had no assurance whether the substitute would live or die.


    The substitute, carrying Zi Di, tried to escape the cave but ended up witnessing the deadly battle between the Scale-Horned Black Panther swarm and Monkey-tailed Brown Bears.


    Blocked by the beasts, the substitute and Zi Di’s plan to escape failed, forcing them to retreat back into the cave again.


    The victorious Monkey-tailed Brown Bear returned and ate ore to heal its wounds.


    Faced with another difficult choice, the substitute once again invoked a segment of Zhenjin’s memory. Finally, he made up his mind and, undaunted, charged at the Monkey-tailed Brown Bear.


    A brutal battle!


    It was a fight to the death.


    The substitute’s arms were completely broken, the muscles turned to mince, with multiple fractures throughout his body and severe internal bleeding.


    The Monkey-tailed Brown Bear’s sharp claws pierced through the substitute’s abdomen, pinning him to the ground. The scorching claws instantly seared his intestines and flesh.


    In the end, the substitute and the Brown Bear bit each other to death—a mutual demise!


    “Are… are they all dead?!”


    Zi Di stood there in a daze before her body trembled violently, snapping back to reality.


    She rushed to the substitute’s corpse, checking him with a slim hope, and after confirming his death, Zi Di’s emotions became incredibly complex.


    She had never witnessed such a violent battle up close before, her heart filled with shock.


    At the same time, she felt gratitude toward the substitute.


    “He died for me.”


    “He died like a true Knight. No, the War Merchant once said that he was a Silver Knight before the transformation!”


    “I should have… trusted him more.”


    Then, loneliness and fear gradually expanded.


    “Now… it’s just me left!”


    The substitute had been awoken, but after spending merely a day and a night together, he was dead.


    On the vast Mysterious Monster Island, amidst the dense jungle, surrounded by endless fierce Magic Beasts, only Zi Di remained alone.


    What path should she take? How could she survive?


    Zi Di had no answers, no direction; she was enveloped in despair.


    She sat on the ground, leaning against the substitute’s corpse, reflecting on her life, thinking of her father’s vengeance, then recalling the shipwreck.


    Her emotions fluctuated between anger, hatred, regret, and disbelief, as if she were in a dream.


    After all, she was just a fifteen-year-old girl!


    She curled up, hugging her legs with her arms, feeling as if the silent cave had become her tomb.


    Time passed quietly, and who knows how long it took.


    Suddenly, Zi Di lifted her head, her face still streaked with tears, but her eyes regained their determination!


    “No, it’s not over yet. I can’t give up now!”


    “Even if I’m alone, I still have a chance to escape from here.”


    “Even if the odds are extremely slim, I will do my utmost to seize that chance.”


    Zi Di reignited her fighting spirit, fiercely wiped away her tears, and started to take action.


    The first thing she did was to collect materials for concocting potions.


    In this Magic Ban environment, potions were the most helpful, particularly those from the Barbarian scrolls.


    However, as she knelt on the ground to gather the blood from the bear’s corpse, she heard a faint thump.


    Zi Di’s heart skipped a beat. She quickly turned around and, to her shock, saw the substitute awoken.


    A fierce shock rushed at her, and she inwardly exclaimed, “Impossible, he was clearly dead just a moment ago!”


    Resurrected from death?!


    For a moment, Zi Di found it difficult to believe her own eyes.


    There was no magic here, no Divine Arts—how could he have resurrected out of thin air?


    “Wait a second.” Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind, “The substitute was personally concocted and transformed by the War Merchant, who admitted that this was his proudest creation!”


    “Could this be one of the effects of the War Merchant’s transformation?”


    “Think about it, it seems very likely! The War Merchant wanted to use the substitute to replace Zhenjin, even using the bloodline of the Golden Bee Queen. It’s quite reasonable that his full-effort transformation granted the substitute the ability to resurrect.”


    In the span of a breath or two, Zi Di came to her senses.


    The girl immediately rushed to the substitute’s side, exclaiming with joy, “Lord?! Lord Zhenjin, you’re awake!”