The young man immediately stopped and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

After being stunned, joy began to spread in his heart.

In the middle of the night, his eyes seemed to be shining brightly.

"Kill it! Then take the blood and drink it."

"I'm really going to die of thirst."

Zhen Jin shouted in his heart.

But soon, the joy in his heart faded a little, and he hesitated again.

"Looking from a distance, this beast is very big. It seems to be lying on the sand. Even so, it is more than two meters tall."

"It's so far away that I can't feel its breath. It seems to have calmed down?"

"With such a large body, it is not easy to survive in the desert. This also means that it is powerful."

"If it is a silver-level, no, even a black-iron level monster, then I will be in great danger!"

On this extremely dangerous island, gold-level monsters are not uncommon.

Zhen Jin hesitated for a few breaths, and then made a decision.

He still chooses to attack!

Because there is no food and water, his condition will get worse and worse. The desert is barren and vast, unlike the rain forest. If Acupuncture gives up this opportunity, then he wants to meet a suitable prey for him to hunt in the future?

This chance is not great at all.

Therefore, it would be wiser to attack at this time while he still has physical strength.

"If we encounter danger, we can only rely on our ability to suddenly mutate."

Zhen Jin secretly gritted his teeth, bent down, slowed down, and quietly approached the giant beast.

In the darkness, the giant beast's body seemed to be balled up and motionless.

When the distance was close enough, Zhen Jin's expression suddenly changed slightly, and most of his nervousness and vigilance suddenly disappeared.

"It turned out to be just a huge boulder."

Zhen Jin let out a breath and strolled closer to the "giant beast" he originally thought.

Although he has outstanding physical fitness, he is still a human being in essence, and his vision is greatly affected at night. If it were a dark elf, he would have seen clearly and would not have caused such a misunderstanding.

Zhen Jin looked at the boulder in front of him.

The boulder was oval in shape, standing silently in the darkness. The surface of the boulder shone with a faint metallic luster, but it was pitted and pitted, completely insulated from the word "smooth", and there were countless small and dense holes.

What's weirder is that a warm breath is constantly coming out from these small pits as fine as sesame seeds.

Zhen Jin was stunned for a moment, and what Cang Xu had said before came to mind.

"Is this gold stone?"

Gold granite is a mixture of iron, gold, earth and other minerals. Depending on where it is produced, the ingredients and the proportions of the ingredients vary.

The exploration team had also encountered a large group of gold and granite, and Cang Xu preliminarily concluded that these gold and granite contained rich gold.

Unfortunately, extracting gold from huge and heavy hemp stones requires specific means.

The exploration team does not have this extraction ability. Of course, their most important thing is to save themselves, and then find water and food to bring to the camp.

"Golden stones often come in groups, but here there is only one."

Zhen Jin touched the surface of the boulder with his hand, feeling both disappointed and happy.

He was disappointed that there was no harvest of food and water, but he also felt lucky to find a piece of golden stone.

This kind of boulder is exposed to the sun during the day, absorbs heat and stores it in the core of the stone. Even in the freezing cold nights of the desert, the stone is still very warm.

This solved a big problem for Zhenjin.

The clothes on his body looked very thin in the middle of the night.

Just now he was worried about not having the materials to make a fire, but now he didn't need to make a fire. Just relying on this boulder could protect him from the heat and resist the severe cold.

The night passed like this, but Zhen Jin opened his eyes again and found that the sun was already beginning to appear on the horizon.

It's dawn.

Zhen Jin moved his hands and feet a little. He was delighted to find that his physical strength had recovered a lot and he had a good rest last night.

His body got a full respite, and his spirit also calmed down because of the ample time.

What comforted him was that he was not lethargic, but always alert and nervous.

He woke up two or three times during the night, all because the cold wind howling in the desert night was too strong and exceeded the warning line in his heart.

After waking up, he quickly fell asleep again.

This made him very satisfied.

"It seems that I have been trained or experienced this way to be able to stay asleep and alert at the same time."

It is actually not easy to do this.

Zhenjin gained a new understanding of herself.

This time Zhenjin woke up because he heard strange sounds again.

The movement came from the northeast.

"The sound is very strange, it seems like there is a snake?"

The gold and granite that Acupuncture lives on is located on the waist of the sand dune. As soon as Acupuncture has an idea, he slows down and approaches the top of the sand dune carefully.

At the top, he slowly stretched out his head and took a closer look.

It was dawn and there was not enough light.

First of all, what caught his eyes were pieces of gold and granite. There were hundreds of these stones, with different spacing and different sizes, as if they were chess pieces, placed on a chessboard made of sand dunes.

This undoubtedly confirms what Cang Xu said - things like gold and granite appear in pieces. The piece of gold and granite where needle gold rests is just the edge piece.

Then, Zhen Jin's pupils shrank slightly.

He saw two groups of beasts confronting each other in the gold and stone group.

One herd is green-skinned lizards, and the other is golden-skinned scorpions.

Lizards are as big as war horses, while scorpions are smaller.

The lizard made a snake-like hiss, while the scorpion made a rustling sound. Both sides were intimidating the other.

Awakening of Zhenjin is a mixture of these two sounds.

Zhen Jin's heart tightened.

He sensed the life breath of these two beasts. Both the lizard and the scorpion were at least the black iron level, and the leader of the beast group was at the silver level.

"Not counting mutations, a single silver-level monster can pose a fatal threat to me."

"When the number of black iron monsters reaches a certain level, I can lose my life."

The principle of mutation has not yet been clearly explored in Acupuncture.

He is now unable to use his fighting spirit, his prayers have not been answered, and he has no armor on his body. The only thing that gives him some comfort is the weapon in his hand.

But this silver-level weapon also continued to wear out over time.

The legs of the blade spider are indeed an excellent material for making weapons. However, this material must be processed to stabilize the magic power in it and retain its sharpness.

The needle gold is simply used, crudely made, and has not been processed at all. As time goes by, this spider-legged sword will become weaker and weaker.

Therefore, Zhen Jin did not act rashly, but squatted on the spot and observed quietly.

He still doesn't know why the two groups of beasts are confronting each other. No matter which side they are, he doesn't want to provoke them.

As the boy peeked, he secretly prayed: "If these two herds start fighting, maybe I can create a chance to harvest some food."

As if they heard Zhenjin's prayer, the two groups of beasts that were about to move finally became impatient and began to fight.

But it was not a large-scale battle, but the leader of the herd rushed into the center of the battlefield alone and started a one-on-one contest.

"Sa!"

The green-skinned lizard let out an extremely unpleasant cry, then opened its mouth and spat out a stream of thick green acid.

The acid hit the golden scorpion directly.

The golden scorpion immediately used its huge pliers to block his face like a shield, successfully protecting his eyes.

Sigh...

A stream of white smoke immediately rose from the surface of the two giant pincers of the golden scorpion.

Zhen Jin narrowed his eyes, and he keenly discovered that some acid splashed onto the gold and granite, and within a few breaths, it corroded the gold and granite into a fist-sized hole!

"If this were sprayed on my body, without the fighting spirit to protect my body, I'm afraid that after two or three breaths, I would be left with only bones."

What made Zhen Jin feel relieved was that after spitting out the large jet of acid, the lizard leader immediately became sluggish and took the initiative to retreat.
To be continued...