Chapter 843 The Second Attack

After a long and careful search, the hunters were reunited.

"Have you found anything?" Kurt Az asked eagerly.

"There are none in the area I'm responsible for." Anhil shook his head, "At least I didn't find any obvious traces of excavation."

"I kind of found out."

Hayata led his companions to a corner of the ruins, pointing to the remaining wall roots and the ground, "Does this trace look like part of the claw mark of some super giant creature?"

Everyone came closer and finally looked at Gordon.

He is the best at analyzing monster traces here.

Gordon's face wrinkled, "It's hard to say. Due to the collapse of the wall and the long-term flame burning, the edges of the traces are too blurry.

You said it was possible that some kind of giant monster grabbed a claw on the city wall, shattered the city wall, and left a scratch mark on the base of the wall and the ground.

But to be honest, I think it is more likely to be caused by other reasons.

If, if this mark is really a scratch, judging from the depth, width and angle, the length of the complete claw mark should be close to or even more than ten meters.

The size of the monster will be close to that of Laoshan Dragon.

A monster of this size would definitely shake the earth when it came over. If you were to dig a hole, you would have to dig a huge pit. It has been found long ago. Flying. Uh, can such a big monster really fly? "

Hayata pinched her chin, "It seems like this mark is a claw mark and it's probably not that big."

"No, leave that possibility open."

Kurt Aziz took out a pen and paper and quickly wrote down: "The Great Elder specifically emphasized that any possibility should not be dismissed easily.

Is it a super giant monster that is close in size to Laoshan Dragon?

Although it is difficult to explain how it came and went without a trace, from the perspective of destroying the castle in a short period of time, this possibility is quite reasonable. "

"That's right." Gordon scratched his chin, "It's not surprising that this magical nature has produced anything."

"I also made an important discovery, meow!" Pig Chop raised his paw.

Everyone's eyes focused on him.

"One thing may have been overlooked. The gunpowder stored in the arsenal was not exploded or burned. It should have been taken away by the attackers."

"Why do you say that?" Kurt Aziz asked hurriedly.

"I checked the warehouse where the gunpowder was stored. Of course, the warehouses were destroyed. But the problem is, the warehouse was not destroyed by bombs, but more like it was destroyed from the outside.

The reason is the same as a city wall. If it is blown up from the inside by gunpowder, the broken bricks should be radioactive. "

"So that's it." Kurt Aiz closed his notes, "Our guild knights did ignore this point when we first investigated.

But there is one thing that is difficult to explain. If the gunpowder was taken away and there was no explosion, why would the ruins made of masonry burn brightly?

ah! Those dark grease! "

Kurt Az and the hunters all reacted.

He said: "The amount of black oil left in the ruins may have been far greater than what we see now. That was the real cause of the burning of the ruins, so the smell of tar in the air has not dissipated for several days!"

"If there is a lot of black oil, then another suspicion can be easily explained." Gordon opened his palms and showed the oil stains on his gloves that had not been wiped clean for a long time.

"This substance that is suspected of being heavy oil is very sticky. There are also a lot of oil residues in the ruins of the warehouse. The missing crossbow bolts and iron tools should have been stuck by this grease.

To be honest, I feel more and more that the culprit is not the praying mantis. If it were the praying mantis, it should be able to use silk thread to stick to iron objects, but we couldn't find any trace of the silk thread. "

"That black oil should be the key to confirming the identity of the attacker. Let's take as many samples as possible and bring them back to the city for scholars to analyze and examine. Maybe there will be relevant records in the Gulong Observation Bureau's data?" An Xi Er suggested.

"OK."

In the next few days, Gordon and others went to the ruins of the arsenal twice more.

The investigation did not make any breakthrough progress, but it did find some clues. For example, Ancier picked up two crossbow arrows stuck together with black oil in the corner of a certain warehouse.

This may provide evidence for the attacker's theory that he used black oil to stick to the iron running machine.

The analysis results of scholars have also come out.

Black oil is not heavy oil. The composition of the two is very similar, but black oil is also mixed with many substances that cannot be determined at the moment, which gives black oil many very special characteristics.

For example, it has a consistency and viscosity similar to that of asphalt, and is more dangerous and explosive than heavy oil. This may be because black oil contains a large amount of sulfur.

Just when the investigation reached a deadlock, another piece of bad news came.

Located in the southern part of the Geocrook Inland Sea and on the west side of the continental bridge, the trading city of Giovardreo was attacked. (later called Jicheng)

The situation is almost exactly the same as in Dondoruma.

Jicheng itself was unharmed, but the Jioris Village, located dozens of kilometers west of Jicheng, was destroyed.

Unlike a small castle like the "Arsenal", Gioris Stronghold is a real fortress, built to defend Ji City from monster attacks from the Metabe Jungle (Old Jungle).

Described in the report submitted by Jicheng Association.

The attack came very suddenly. The Georis Village did not receive advance warning, the number of garrison personnel was small, and the powerful defensive weapons such as the dragon gun were not warmed up and could not be activated.

The main city wall was destroyed, the gunpowder and metal devices in the warehouse were looted again, and the dragon-shooting gun originally installed on the fortress wall was also missing.

Coupled with the descriptions of the raging fire, the entire garrison being wiped out, no surviving witnesses, the black oil left at the scene, etc., it is easy to conclude that the mysterious monster that destroyed the Georis Stronghold was the culprit of the attack on the arsenal. .

No one's face looked good when they got the news.

Before the original incident could be investigated, a new attack had already happened again. One and two, then three, four, five and six might be behind.

In the Great Hall, Gordon and the others watched with their own eyes as the Great Elder smashed the marble floor with his sword, and then issued an order with a black face, requiring all guilds to be under full martial law.

When things have reached this point, the identity of everyone in Yinbian as the "investigation team" seems a bit unnecessary.

At present, the suspicion of Ge Mantis has been basically eliminated, so Silverborder Team no longer has any special characteristics in this incident. It is better to let the Guild Knights take over their investigation and let them do other more critical things.

Gordon and the others actually thought so too.

However, two days later, the contents of the second investigation report sent by the Yicheng Guild to the guild headquarters firmly put the Yinbian Team back into the position of "Mysterious Monster Investigation Team".

This is what the report says -

After further cleaning and investigation of the ruins of the Georis Walled City Wall, we collected the remains of some kind of golden thread.

At the same time, beneath the ruins, tunnel holes large enough for large monsters to pass through were discovered, as well as traces of dragging heavy metal instruments such as dragon guns.

The characteristics of the remaining silk thread samples matched those of the Mantis silk thread sample extracted from the ruins of the ancient village. It was initially confirmed that the attacker of the Georis Village was an ancient dragon-level creature, the Mantis Mantis. (Ancient dragon level, not an ancient dragon species)