Chapter 75 Mysterious Death

Ten days passed by in a flash.

Unfortunately, because it involves the death of Earl Will's daughter, the military must absolutely ensure the completeness and reliability of the investigation report, so the military glory Lei Luo expected has not yet arrived.

Guard the altar for 10 days and obtain 3 points of military merit.

Even if you want to redeem the wand of Flame Heart, which requires the least military merit, you need to complete 20 duty tasks, which is 200 days. More than half a year has passed.

Not to mention that the upgrade assessment time has long passed, and even a bottle of D-type body quenching agent cannot be exchanged.

This is because Lei Luo, as a 'magician', is a scarce member of the fortress and it is relatively easy to earn military merit. For ordinary soldiers to earn military merit, the difficulty is almost several times that of Lei Luo!

Fortunately, through these 10 days of guarding the altar, Lei Luo not only clarified his future pursuit of truth knowledge, but also got a first glimpse of the research on energy runes. When it comes to altars and refining magic tools in the future, , you won’t know anything about it, and you will get twice the result with half the effort by learning.

Bai Xing and Yulia went out on a secret surveillance mission and were beyond the contact range of the magic mirror.

Xiao Kang's job as a logistics materials inspector is simply lucrative. I don't know what this guy promised that ghost old man. He actually got such a task that requires building relationships. He will not go out with Lei Luo. An adventurous mission.

Helpless, Lei Luo had no choice but to be alone. After thousands of choices, he accepted the task of "investigating the death incident in Black Rock Mountain".

Black Rock Mountain, located at the foot of the Furnace Mountains, has a remote town.

Generally speaking, although it belongs to the territory of the Principality of Glen, it has hardly paid a single silver coin to the principality, and even the Principality of Sealand is too lazy to disturb this remote place.

If it were not during the war, the fortress needed to unite all forces to fight against the Principality of Sealand. In normal times, even if all the residents of Black Rock Mountain were dead, the fortress would never send an investigator and issue a related task.

"Dear Master Wenlai, I am Lei Luo, a first-year student of the Gran Academy of Natural Sciences. This is my mission scroll."

Lei Luo saluted the old scholar respectfully, looking like a shy student at school.

Master Wenlai is a magician consultant who has been stationed in the Furnace Fortress for a long time. He is much older, but he still only has a degree as a naturalist. If he were at the Grant Academy of Natural Sciences, he could only work as an adjunct tutor, laboratory research clerk, etc.

But in Furnace Fortress, he had already entered the ranks of mid-level officers.

In terms of title, Master Wenlai's status is even higher than that of ordinary viscounts.

Lei Luo's mission on this trip is to follow Master Wenlai as an investigation assistant to investigate the mysterious deaths of residents of Black Rock Mountain.

"Um."

Master Wenlai was wearing a black dragon-patterned robe, holding a ruby ​​wand, and riding a mutated red-eyed goat monster on his crotch mount. The figure was astonishing, almost the same as a horse, and a pair of majestic horns.

"I heard that the Academy of Sciences issued a task regarding military merit assessment?"

Lei Luo said respectfully: "Yes, it will last for three months. After the assessment, I will be a second-year student."

"You must maintain the necessary humility and learn more from the soldiers here. They are all elites who came out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They can teach you many things that you cannot learn in the academy, such as... killing! Haha, don't be afraid. , to treat this kind of thing rationally, just treat it like dissecting a special specimen."

The old man comforted Lei Luo.

Lei Luo smiled shyly again and said nothing more.

Next to Master Wenlai, there were seven soldiers, just like the soldiers of the Principality of Zealand who hijacked the airship, they were fully armed and elite. Knowing how powerful these soldiers were, Lei Luo came to the team leader and said humbly: "Hello, my name is Lei Luo , please take care of me along the way."

The team leader was a man about thirty years old. Seeing that Lei Luo was not as arrogant as the previous little guys, he was secretly relieved.

It would be really troublesome to offend these magicians of St. Grant's Castle. Not to mention their own influence in the fortress tower, they themselves might be dignitaries of some family. There has been such a precedent in the fortress before.

"You're welcome, Mr. Magician. You can call me Ivan. Along the way, we will do our best to take care of your and the master's safety and assist you in completing the investigation."

After a while, a few people left the grand gate of the fortress, walked on a remote road, and disappeared into the vast mountains.

The lonely journey for a few hourglass hours was quite peaceful.

"Crossing this mountain, you will reach Black Rock Mountain. I heard that the barbarians there are very bloodthirsty. Before the Forge was established, many travelers who passed by here were eaten by those guys. Later, because of the Temple of the Goddess of Wisdom, Only through faith and education did they gradually become citizens of the principality."

Along the mountainous terrain, no one was riding horses, only Master Wenlai's mutated goat monster was walking on flat ground.

Finally we are about to reach Black Rock Mountain.

Looking around, there are red and black rocks everywhere, as if they have been soaked in blood. The vegetation is sparse and pitiful. At first glance, it is a barren land with strong folk customs. Everyone stopped for a moment, maybe looking at the surrounding environment. .

"careful!"

Suddenly, the longbow knight at the back of the team shouted, but a piece of gravel fell from the steep ridge.

After the center panicked and avoided it, he looked above his head and saw nothing. He thought it was just an ordinary landslide. Only the archer showed some panic.

"I seemed to see a human-shaped black-haired monster spying on us from above. Although I couldn't see it clearly due to the distance of several hundred meters, I could still feel the coldness that penetrated my bones. It was definitely not an illusion!"

A humanoid black-haired monster?

Everyone looked at Master Wenlai, but Master Wenlai just frowned and said nothing.

"Maybe some kind of monster?"

Lei Luo guessed the true identity of the monster the archer said, but suddenly noticed something, and said in surprise: "It seems... it's too quiet here! Even the chirping of birds and insects has disappeared."

After Lei Luo said this, everyone suddenly noticed the eerie and strange silence of the Zhou people. When they thought about the panicked archer's narration, they couldn't help but feel a chill running down their backs, as if they were being stared at by something terrible, and they shuddered. Feel.

"It's winter now, and it's so desolate here. It's possible that there is some special magnetic field under the mountains. It's normal that there are no birds chirping or insects chirping."

Master Wenlai looked at Lei Luo and said, "Are you scared?"

"No, no."

Lei Luo hurriedly said: "It just doesn't feel normal. I am responsible for assisting the master in this mission. I will go wherever the master goes."

As a natural scholar, the power of Master Wenlai is naturally not comparable to that of Lei Luo.

Although Master Wenlai has a lower bachelor's degree, he is at least a Level 2 energy magnetic field.

As far as Lei Luo knows, the secondary energy magnetic field is a kind of gasified advanced energy, also known as the energy force field. In addition to blessing academic power to a certain extent, it can also independently release the energy shield protective layer. The ability is astonishing in strength and lasts for a long time. I am afraid that even the energy cover on the balloon airship is not as strong as it is.

After all, the scholar's energy shield has a much smaller area, so the defense strength per unit area is naturally superior.

Everyone took a deep breath and continued to move forward.

For some reason, Lei Luo's right eyelid was twitching wildly, and he was feeling indescribably anxious. It was as if these red-black rocks were filled with a terrifying and ominous atmosphere. There were countless pairs of eyes staring at him coldly in the shadows, and he looked around as he turned his head. , these eyes flashed in the darkness again.

After half an hourglass time.

From a distance, everyone saw the small town built on the mountainside.

The houses in the town are also made of nearby red-black rocks. From a distance, there are about a hundred huts, and you can even see the Church of the Goddess of Wisdom, which is the tallest building in the town although it is simple.

Ivan took out the telescope and frowned: "No one."

However, when he turned back, he was shocked to find that the last magic apprentice to join the team used his weird magic to create two bubbles and used paper tubes to form a larger telescope, which seemed to allow clearer observation. .

After a while, the magic apprentice shook his head with a heavy heart and looked at Master Brunei silently.

I looked up at the sky, it was already evening, the sky had completely darkened, the clouds were thick, and it seemed like a heavy rain might fall at any time.

What...

The red-eyed goat monster on his crotch screamed uneasily. After a moment of silence, Master Brunei said firmly and lowly: "Keep going."

No one said anything. The whole team was eerily quiet. They could only hear the sound of their feet stepping on stones. It seemed that everyone was frightened by the weird atmosphere here.

Although Master Wenlai and Lei Luo also vaguely felt some unspeakable uneasiness, as scholars, they must seek truth from facts. This investigation mission is to investigate the unknown situation of Black Rock Mountain. They cannot be blamed for some possible dangers. , was so frightened that he retreated hastily.

"Damn it! No wonder the mission reward is 5 to 20 points of military merit based on the investigation results. It turns out that the people in the military department have already noticed some dangers that may exist here, and they are ignorant."

Thinking about how to face the unknown danger, Lei Luo held the energy shield scroll tightly in one hand under Lei Luo's sleeve robe, and took out the Wind Kite Fan with the other hand.

Finally, everyone entered the town.

Sure enough, there was no one!

The town was eerily quiet, but there were no obvious signs of battle. Everyone took action one after another. Amidst the friction and collision of metal armor, they searched house to house. However, the more they searched, the colder their hearts became. After a while, they gathered again. Together.

"The food is still there, but all the livestock and people are gone, not even a dog!"

"It's like... everyone suddenly disappeared overnight. Could it be a wizard?"

"They didn't disappear overnight, but disappeared in batches! There was a temporary fortress there. They must have been extremely scared and knew they could not escape, so they desperately stayed in the fortress waiting for help... You'd better go and see for yourself Look."

With a heavy tone, everyone followed the soldier.

After a while, everyone came to a house that was temporarily reinforced with stones. There were many traces of human activities around it. This was obviously the last stronghold of the people in the town.

Walking into the fortress, everyone was immediately hit by the stench of feces and urine inside. Master Wenlai's expression did not change at all, and he walked at the front without saying a word.

On the black stone wall on the second floor of the house, there are countless bloody claw marks, telling the fear of the deceased during his lifetime.

"In the last period, they were completely frightened by something. They didn't even dare to leave the house and pooped and peed in the room, but they were still killed by the thing they were afraid of. Moreover, the thing they were afraid of should have come from Break into this house, then rush to the second floor, and kill them one by one in this enclosed space."

Captain Ivan's tone was heavy, and everyone seemed to be able to feel the despair of the survivors in this room with no way to escape.

However……

In such a huge fortress, except for countless bloody claw marks on the wall on the second floor, there is not even a single skeleton?