The current situation is very strange, hundreds of soldiers are stationed in the well-defended fortress, but they can only watch their comrades being captured one by one, but they seem helpless, and even frightened......

This shows that the scene they watched last night really frightened them.

"When did this monster come to capture the soldiers last night?" Li Ming asked in detail.

"It was around the wee hours of the morning because it was the time for the changing of the guard." The Captain replied.

"Is the captured soldier the soldier on guard?" Li Ming asked.

"You're right, it's the soldier on the guard post, and he was on duty at the watchtower at the time." The town guard nodded, and stretched out his hand to the watchtower standing tall on the mountainside on the left......

The base of the watchtower is made of stone, and it sits on a small platform halfway up the mountain, with a small platform made of wood at the top, on which soldiers can be stationed to look around and detect the arrival of the enemy.

"There was only one sentry last night?" Li Ming asked.

"Yes, in non-combat situations, there is only one soldier on guard at each of the two watchtowers." Captain Commander said.

"Thank you, sir, my questions are only so many for the time being, and I will discuss with you if I have new questions." Li Ming said.

"As long as you can find out about this matter, if you need any cooperation, please feel free to speak." The town guard nodded and said.

Li Ming ended the task dialogue plot, and at this time, some of his teammates were still continuing the conversation, and some had already ended the task in advance to ask questions, and were standing aside and waiting.

"Understood, brother, did you ask what happened?" Caribbean kelp hurriedly asked.

"You guys ended the conversation so quickly, do you know everything?" Li Ming looked at them curiously.

"What can you ask, it's a soldier who was captured by a monster, let's go out and have a look, look around, maybe we can find some clues, this Captain doesn't know anything, it's just a big fear, I want to go back and send reinforcements quickly." Tianya Piao shrugged and said.

"You're right, it's a good idea to go out and have a look, but wait until I go up and have a look." Li Ming's gaze was locked on the watchtower on the left.

Since the captured soldier was there at the time, perhaps some clues can be found here......

At this time, Fan Hua and Lonely Ruyan also ended the task dialogue and turned around to get together with them.

"I asked clearly, this fortress has taken a total of 5 soldiers, but 1 soldier was dragged outside into the desert and disappeared by their own eyes, maybe we can find a boss again this time!" Fan Hua said excitedly.

"Yes, this boss can hide under the desert, and he is very strong, and he can climb to that watchtower to catch people." Lonely as smoke, he seemed to ask as carefully as Li Ming.

"Then let's go there and find out first." Li Ming smiled and nodded.

To get to the watchtower, you first have to enter the fortress and climb the stairs all the way up to the top platform of the fortress, where there is the only stone path leading to the watchtower.

Of course, the Captain of the Town Guard was responsive, and led the group into the empty space on the first floor of the fortress, and went up the stairs on one side to the second floor, then the third floor and the top floor.

Following the town guard, everyone cautiously followed the steep stone staircase path that was only half a meter wide, and slowly approached the location of the watchtower......

Li Ming was the first to drill into the hole of the watchtower, and from here he climbed a circle of wooden ladders to climb the top platform of the tower up to more than ten meters.

However, he felt a little strange, the stairs here were very steep and the space was small, and if the monster could easily take a stout soldier, it should be not small, and the possibility of climbing the stairs to catch people was almost non-existent.

The teammates excitedly climbed the stairs one by one to find clues, but Li Ming stayed in the middle of the stone tower on the first floor, looking around curiously.

After carefully searching the space here, and it seemed that nothing was found, he walked out of the stone tower and looked at the steep slope less than two meters ahead, although the sand mountain here looked like it was full of yellow sand on the outside, but in fact the sand layer was a hard rock inside, otherwise the watchtower would not have been built here.

Judging from the environment here, there are only two directions to get to the vicinity of the watchtower, one is the stone path they climbed up just now.

The second way up is to slide down from the top of the sand slope......

Thinking of this, Li Ming's eyes suddenly lit up, and he squatted down to look at the soft sand pile on the ground......

At this glance, it seemed that he immediately made a new discovery!

It seems that between the watchtower and the sand slope, the sand layer has become very thickened, especially near the foot of the hillside, and there is a small pile of yellow sand.

Someone slipped down from the surface, causing the sand grains to fall, which is why it piled up in the current situation.

Li Ming stretched out his short staff to stir the sand layer in front of him, slowly pushing away the thick layer of yellow sand......

With a clink, his short staff seemed to collide with something, making a metallic striking sound.

Quickly peeling away the fine sand, a slightly shiny metal-like cyan nail appeared in front of his eyes......

It was a palm-sized, thin, hard piece of armor, not made of metal, and it looked like an animal's scales!

Damaged Scales: Shattered material, useless.

……

The introduction of the properties of the system is also very simple, in a word, this is a useless prop that can't even be made of materials.

But for Li Ming, the system is three hundred taels of silver here, since it is a useless prop, why should it be placed here?

This scale armor may be the key clue to find the monster!

Holding this pale blue-gray scale armor, Li Ming continued to search in the sand, but he never found anything useful.

Standing up in disappointment, what role can this piece of armor play?

At this time, the teammates had just climbed down from the platform one by one, curiously surrounding Li Ming, looking at the armor piece in his hand.

"What is this, it looks like some scales on an animal, but it's definitely not the scale armor of a fish." Lonely as smoke said curiously.

"Do you know this scale armor?" Li Ming asked in surprise.

"Of course, the scales of fish are not so heavy, and this scale armor is so large, and it is divided into layers of fine lines, which shows that its size is also very large, like the scale armor of a python or a snake." Lonely as smoke said.

"I can't see that the smoke beauty is still an animal connoisseur." Fan Hua said with a smile.

"By the way, where did you find this scale armor, if you don't know it, it might have fallen from the monster." Lonely as smoke hurriedly asked.

"I found it here, and now there's nothing in it......" Li Ming shook his head.

"I'll see." Lonely as smoke, holding a long staff and fiddling with the sand, trying to find ......

Bite!

Another slight sound sounded, and as soon as he bent down as lonely as smoke, he picked up a cyan scale from the sand, which was exactly the same as the one in Li Ming's hand, no difference at all!

"No, you found it." Li Ming's eyes widened, he had indeed looked for it carefully just now.

"I'll try it too." Fan Hua bent over, his hands were groping in the sand for a while, his face was stunned for a moment, and when he withdrew his hand, he was also holding a piece of cyan scale armor in his hand!

"I see, this is a task prop given to us by the system, and everyone we receive a task can pick up a piece, which shows that our method of finding clues is correct!" Lonely as smoke said excitedly.

(End of chapter)