Chapter 52: The Shadow
Everyone soon noticed Duke's strange appearance, and followed his gaze to find the guards who were galloping towards him, and the sharp-eyed Lenia found that this guard was one of the guards who had been arranged by Duke to guard the veins of the energy supply magic stone.
Seeing him running in a panic now, she couldn't help but chuckle in her heart.
The guard turned over and dismounted, hurried close to Duke and whispered to his ear, "My lord, the mine ...... The hunting ground was attacked by unknown creatures, and two people were seriously injured. ”
Duke had previously set up the area around the mine as his own private hunting ground, and had the soldiers in the know also use the hunting ground to refer to the mine there, and had carried out several reconnaissance and clean-up activities, which had already completely mapped out the distribution of the surrounding creatures and eliminated all potential threats.
Now an unknown creature suddenly appeared, and it also attacked the guarding soldiers, causing two people to be seriously injured, which has to be said to be a very strange and urgent event.
He nodded quietly, and then said to the others: "There were some small accidents during the army patrol, Lenia and I will go over and deal with it first, and you and old Neil will communicate more, especially in improving the quality and yield of steel." ”
With that, he and Lenia went out with the guards who had come to pay their respects, and asked them to lead their horses and run in the direction of the mines.
"Can you tell me in detail what the hell is going on?" asked Duke as he asked the guards half a body behind him on the way to the scene of the incident.
"When we changed shifts today, we found that the two secret sentinels that were originally arranged near the depths of the Dark Mountains were missing, and when we went to investigate again, we found that the two of them were already injured and unconscious. ”
"Then how do you know if it's an unidentified creature and not a man-made attack?"
At this, the guard's face instantly turned pale, as if he remembered some unbearable memory, and he paused for a while before he said, "Those wounds...... It can never be artificial!"
"Especially one of them had a wound on his body that had been gnawed by sharp teeth, and his whole stomach was about to open, and I didn't dare to watch that scene a second time. ”
Duke frowned when he heard this, and had some guesses about the identity of the unknown creature.
As he was about to reach his destination, Duke noticed that there was another group of people who were also dying on the side of the mine, and he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Who are those people?"
The guard looked at it for a moment before saying, "That should be the doctor someone else called from the city." Then he added: "Don't worry, my lord, we will not lead him to the interior to treat the wounded." ”
Duke shook his head and didn't care, in his eyes, human life was more important than ore, and he didn't expect to be very strict about secrecy, and in the end, it had to be made public.
They followed the doctor to a halt in front of a huge cowhide tent, and the figure of the captain of the guard came out, and he first took the doctor's hand with joy, and then found the lord following him, and was about to salute.
Duke waved his hand to hurry up and save people, and then went straight to open the tent curtain and went in to check on the situation.
As soon as he entered the tent, a smell of sour rot came straight to the surface, and he rolled his eyes, and the doctor behind him just frowned, and then took out a bird's beak mask and put it on his face in Duke's surprised gaze.
Duke really didn't expect to be able to see this medieval magic product here, and seriously doubted the doctor's professionalism, but the current situation did not allow him to think too much, so he could only stand silently behind the doctor with his mouth closed and watch him operate.
I saw him walk to the bed of the person who was finally injured, and took out a bottle of pale green liquid from the medicine box for him to drink, and after a while, the soldier who was still ** became calm and breathed evenly.
Immediately, he took out a bottle of reddish viscous liquid from the medicine box and gently applied it to the wound between the soldier's stomachs, which soon stopped the blood that kept flowing out, and there was a faint tendency to scab.
After all the wounds stopped bleeding, a faint fluorescence suddenly emitted from his hand, and swept towards the huge wound that was torn open, the originally small wound actually began to heal automatically, and the wound that was bitten open in the abdomen was no longer so hideous.
Then he took out a green herb, gently pounded it with a mortar, took out a paste-like herbal paste and applied it to the wound that had not healed, and finally bandaged it with clean white gauze.
Duke watched in amazement as he watched the series of operations of what seemed to be a medieval quack in front of him, and in just a few minutes, he was able to deal with a wound that was considered a relatively troublesome wound in the age of technology.
Duke saw that the doctor had already put away the medicine box and walked towards the other wounded, and he himself was relieved to step out of the tent and summon the captain of the guard to understand the situation.
"My lord, I suspect that there may be some unwiped monsters left in the depths of the Dark Mountains, and it is possible that they roamed to the location of our sentinels last night and attacked them. You know that the power of Warcraft is not something that ordinary soldiers can resist. ”
The captain of the guard told Duke about his guess with some concern. And this is also in line with Duke's conjecture, because it is impossible for the beast tide to envelop all the demonic beasts in the entire Dark Mountain Range at once and attack the northern fortress, and finally be taken away by one of his own magic scrolls.
Moreover, if the legendary erosion does appear in the depths of the Dark Mountains, then it is a monster maker that never stops, and all creatures that come close to it will be transformed into monsters and finally return to the Dark Mountains.
Duke pondered for a while and asked, "Have you sent someone to search for suspicious traces around the location of the attack?"
"Yes, I organized it once in the morning after I found out about the situation, but I didn't find any valuable clues. Just now, Lord Lenia went to search with a team of men. ”
Duke breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Lenia had already led the team to investigate, and if she led the team, safety would be guaranteed, and he would be able to search a larger area and find more possible clues.
"From now on, the vigilance will be in the form of a five-person squad, and the changing of the guard will be changed from two changes a day to three changes a day. And also...... Give the two wounded soldiers a more comfortable environment, let them eat and drink well, and go to Joseph for the money. ”
Duke thought for a moment and then instructed the captain of the guard, the situation is not clear enough now, and he can't rashly organize a large group of people to enter the depths of the Dark Mountain Range, and he can only focus on strengthening defense, and there is no other better way.
"Praise be to your merciful Lord!" The captain of the guard saluted, and then said.