Ten days passed in a flash.
Unfortunately, since the death of the daughter of Count Will, the military department must absolutely ensure the completeness and reliability of the investigation report, so the military achievements that Lei Luo had hoped for have not yet arrived.
On duty for 10 days of altar and obtain 3 military merits.
Even if you want to exchange for the Fire Heart Wand, which requires the least military merit, you need to complete 20 duty tasks, which is 200 days, and more than half a year has passed.
Not to mention that the upgrade assessment time has passed, I can't even exchange a bottle of D-type body quenching agent.
This is because Lei Luo, as a "magic", is a scarce person in the fortress and it is relatively easy to earn military merits. It is almost several times more difficult for ordinary soldiers to earn military merits than Lei Luo!
Fortunately, through these 10 days of altar duty, Lei Luo not only clarified his future path to pursuing truth knowledge, but also considered a first-hand approach to the study of energy runes. When it comes to altars and magic weapons in the future, he will not know nothing, and he will get twice the result with half the effort when learning.
Bai Xing and Yulia went out to perform secret supervision tasks, which had exceeded the connection between Magic Mirror.
Xiao Kang's logistics and material inspector's errand is so rich that he doesn't know what this guy has promised the old man that he has obtained such a task that needs to be managed and can't take risks with Lei Luo on his trip.
Helplessly, Lei Luo had to take the task of "Investigating the Death of Heiyan Mountain" after thousands of choices.
Black Rock Mountain is located at the foot of the Melting Furnace Mountains, and there is a remote town.
Overall, although it belongs to the territory of the Principality of Gran, it has almost never paid a silver coin to the Principality, and even the Principality of Zeland is too lazy to harass the remote place.
If it weren't for the war now, the fortress needed to unite all forces to fight against the Principality of Zeland, if it were normal, even if the residents of Black Rock Mountain were dead, the fortress would never have sent an investigator to issue a related task.
"Dear Master Wenlai, I am Lero, a first-year student at the Gran Academy of Natural Sciences. This is my mission scroll."
Lei Luo saluted the elderly scholar respectfully, looking shy as a student at school.
Master Wenlai is a magician consultant who has been stationed in the Fortress for a long time. He is very old, but he is still only a natural scholar degree. If he is at the Gran Academy of Natural Sciences, he can only work as a tutor, a laboratory research clerk, etc.
But in the furnace fortress, he had already entered the ranks of middle-class officers.
If we count the title, Master Wenlai's status is even higher than that of ordinary viscounts.
Lei Luo's mission on this trip was to follow Master Wen Lai as an investigation assistant to investigate the mysterious death of residents of Heiyan Mountain.
"Um."
Master Wenlai was wearing a black dragon pattern robe, leaning on a ruby ​​wand, and was riding a mutated red-eyed goat monster under his crotch. He was amazing in shape, similar to a flatterer, and his pair of sheep horns were majestic.
"I heard that the Academy of Sciences has issued a task on military merit assessment?"
Lei Luo said respectfully: "Yes, it lasts for three months. After the assessment, I will be a second-grade student."
"We must maintain the necessary humility and learn more from the soldiers here. They are all elites who come out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. They can teach you a lot of things that you cannot learn in the academy, such as... killing! Haha, don't be afraid, treat this kind of thing rationally, just treat it as dissecting a special specimen."
The old man comforted Lei Luo.
Lei Luo smiled shyly again and didn't say much.
There were seven soldiers beside Master Wenlai, just like soldiers from the Principality of the West, who were hijacking the airship, fully armed elites. Knowing the power of these soldiers, Lei Luo came to the captain and said humbly: "Hello, my name is Lei Luo, please take care of everyone along the way."
The team leader was a man in his thirties. Seeing that Lei Luo didn't think of the arrogant little guys he used to, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
If they offended these Saint Granburg magicians, it would be really troublesome. Not to mention their influence on the fortress tower, they might be the powerful family of some family. Such precedents have appeared in the fortress before.
"Mr. Magician, don't be polite. You can call me Ivan. Along the way, we will do our best to be responsible for your safety and the Master's safety and assist you in completing the investigation."
After a while, a few people left the majestic gate of the fortress, walked on a remote path, and disappeared into the vast mountains.
A few hourglass time is lonely and the journey is quite calm.
"Climb this mountain and you will reach Black Rock. I heard that the barbarians there were very bloodthirsty. Before the furnace fortress was established, many of the tourists passing by were eaten by those guys. Later, because of the faith and education of the Temple of Wisdom, they gradually became citizens of the Duchy Kingdom."
All the way to the mountains, no one was riding a horse, only Master Wenlai's mutated goat monster was like walking on flat ground.
Finally, we are about to arrive at Black Rock Mountain.
Looking around, there were red and black rocks everywhere, as if they were covered in blood. The vegetation was sparse and pitiful. At first glance, it was a barren land with strong customs. Everyone stopped and looked at the surrounding environment.
"careful!"
Suddenly, the longbow knight who was behind the team shouted, but a piece of gravel fell from the steep ridge.
After the center was panicked and avoided it, I looked over my head and saw nothing. I just thought it was just an ordinary landslide. Only this archer showed a little panic.
"I seemed to see a human-shaped black-haired monster. I just peeked at us. Although I didn't see clearly a few hundred meters apart, I could still feel the coldness of the bone marrow. It was definitely not an illusion!"
A human-shaped black-haired monster?
Everyone looked at Master Wenlai, but Master Wenlai just frowned and did not express anything.
"Maybe it's some kind of monster?"
Lei Luo guessed the true identity of the monster mentioned by the archer, but suddenly noticed something and said in surprise: "This place... seems too quiet! Even the birds and insects are gone."
After Lei Luo said this, everyone suddenly realized the outrageous and strange quietness of Zhou. When they thought of the panicked archer's narration, they couldn't help feeling cold behind their backs, as if they were staring at something terrible, and they felt chilling.
"It's winter now, and it's so desolate here. It's very likely that there are some special magnetic fields under the mountains, and it's normal to have no birds and insects."
Master Wenlai looked at Lei Luo and said, "Are you scared?"
"No, no."
Lei Luo hurriedly said, "It's just that I feel it's not normal. I'm responsible for assisting the master in this mission. I'll go wherever the master goes."
As a natural scholar, the power of this Master Wenlai is naturally not comparable to that of Lei Luo.
Although Master Wenlai has a low bachelor's degree, he is at least a secondary energy magnetic field.
As far as Lei Luo knows, the secondary energy magnetic field is a kind of gasification higher energy, and is also called an energy force field. In addition to being able to support academic power, it also has the ability to independently release the protective layer of the energy cover. It has an amazing strength and has a very long lasting maintenance period. I am afraid that the energy cover on the balloon airship is also less powerful.
After all, the area of ​​a scholar's energy cover is much smaller, so the defense strength per unit area is naturally better.
Everyone took a deep breath and continued to walk forward.
For some reason, Lei Luo's right eyelid twitched wildly, and his heart was indescribable anxiety, as if these red and black rocks were filled with terrifying and unknown aura. In the shadow, countless pairs of eyes were staring at him coldly. As he turned his head and looked at him, these eyes flashed in the dark again.
After half an hourglass time.
From a distance, everyone saw the town built on the hillside.
The house materials of the town are also nearby red and black rocks. From a distance, there are about a hundred cottages. You can even see the church of the Goddess of Wisdom, which is the tallest building in the town.
Ivan took out his telescope and frowned and said, "No one."
However, when he turned around, he was shocked to find that the magic apprentice who joined the team finally used his weird magic to create two bubbles and formed a larger telescope with a paper tube, which seemed to be more clear.
After a while, the magic apprentice shook his head in a heavy mood and looked at the Brunei Master silently.
I looked up at the sky and it was already evening. The sky had completely dimmed and dark clouds were covered with dark clouds. It seemed that a heavy rain might be possible at any time.
What...
The red-eyed goat monster under his crotch screamed uneasy. After a moment of silence, Master Brunei said firmly and quietly: "Continue to move forward."
No one said anything more. The whole team was terrifyingly quiet, and only the sound of stepping on the stones was heard. It seemed that everyone was frightened by the strange atmosphere here.
Although Master Wenlai and Lei Luo also felt a vague feeling of indescribable uneasiness, as scholars, they must be realistic. This investigation task is to investigate the unknown situation in Heiyan Mountain. We cannot be scared and retreated in a hurry because of some possible dangers.
"Damn it! No wonder the mission reward is given 5 to 20 points of military merit based on the survey results. It turns out that the people from the military headquarters have already realized some of the possible dangers here, and they are ignorant."
Thinking about how he should face unknown dangers, under Lei Luo's sleeve robe, he held the energy cover scroll tightly with one hand, and took out the Feng Ke's fan with the other hand.
Finally, everyone walked into the town.
It turns out that there is no one!
The town was so quiet that there were no obvious signs of battle. Everyone was moving one after another. With the friction and collision of metal armor, they searched from house to house. However, the more they searched, the colder they felt in their hearts, and they gathered together after a moment.
"The food is still there, but all the livestock and people are gone, and there is not even a dog!"
"It's like... everyone disappeared suddenly overnight. Could it be a wizard?"
"It didn't disappear overnight, but it disappeared in batches! There was a temporary fortress there. They should be very scared and knew that they could not escape, so they desperately stood in the fortress for help... You should go over and take a look in person."
In a heavy tone, everyone followed the soldier.
In a short 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 place for the people of the town to defend.
Walking into the fortress, everyone was immediately smoky by the smell of shit and urine inside. Master Wenlai's face did not change at all, and he walked in front without saying a word.
On the black stone wall on the second floor of the house, countless blood claws were reflected in the fear of the deceased during his lifetime.
"In the end, they were completely scared by something, and they didn't even dare to leave the room. They shitted and pissed in the room, but they were still killed by what they feared. Moreover, what they feared should have been broken from the room, then rushed to the second floor, and killed 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 the room.
However……
Chapter completed!