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

"Did you find anything?" Kut-Azi asked more eagerly.

"There isn't one in the area I'm responsible for." Anhill shook his head, "At least there are no obvious excavations. ”

"I've kind of found out."

Hayatta led her companions to a corner of the ruins, pointing to the remnants of the wall and the ground, "This trace, like part of the claw marks of some giant creature?" ”

The crowd gathered over and finally looked at Gordon.

He's 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 prolonged burning of the flames, the edges of the marks were too blurred.

You say it's some kind of giant monster that grabbed a claw on the wall, shattered the wall, and left a part of the scratch on the base of the wall and the ground.

But to be honest, I think it's more likely to be due to other reasons.

If, if the mark is really a scratch, the full length of the claw mark should be close to or even more than ten meters in terms of depth, width and angle.

The size of the monster will be almost close to that of the old mountain dragon.

A monster of this size must have shaken the ground when it came over, and if you dig a hole, you have to dig a huge pit to come out, and it has already been found, flying. Uh, can such a big monster really fly? ”

Hayatta pinched her chin, "In this case, it is unlikely that this mark is a claw mark."

"No, leave that possibility open."

Kut'az took out a pen and paper and said as he quickly recorded it, "The Great Elder has specifically emphasized that no possibility can be easily vetoed.

A super giant monster that is close to the size of the old mountain dragon?

While it's hard to explain how it managed to come and go without a trace, it's a plausible possibility from the point of view of the fact that the castle was shattered in a short period of time. ”

"Yes." Gordon scratched his chin, "It's not strange that this amazing nature has bred something. ”

"There's also an important discovery in the next meow!" The pork chop raised its paws.

All eyes were focused.

"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 attacker."

"Why do you say that?" Kut Aze asked busily.

"I inspected the storehouse where the gunpowder was stored, and of course, the storeroom was destroyed, but the problem is that the storeroom is not a blown up meow, but more like a meow that was destroyed from the outside.

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

"I see." Kut'Eze closed his notes, "We guild knights did ignore this when they first investigated.

However, it is difficult to explain why the ruins of masonry are burning if all the gunpowder is taken away and not exploded.

Yes! Those pitch-black grease! ”

Kut-Izz, as well as the hunters, reacted.

He said: "The amount of black oil left in the ruins may be far more than what we see now, and that is the real reason for 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 explained." Gordon opened his palms to show off the grease stains on his gloves that hadn't been wiped clean for a long time.

"This substance suspected of heavy oil is very sticky, and there are also a lot of oil stains left in the ruins of the warehouse.

To be honest, I feel more and more that the culprit is not the Pavilion Mantis, if it is the Pavilion Mantis, it should be using silk threads to stick away the ironware, but we have not found any traces of silk threads. ”

"That kind of 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 the scholars to analyze and examine, maybe there will be relevant records in the data of the Ancient Dragon Observatory?" Anhill suggested.

"Okay."

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

There were no breakthroughs in the investigation, but some clues were found, such as Anhill picking up two crossbow bolts stuck together by black oil in the corner of a storeroom.

This may provide evidence for the assertion that the attackers used black oil to stick away the iron objects.

The results of the scholars' analysis are also in.

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 for a while, which makes black oil have many very special characteristics.

For example, the consistency and viscosity similar to asphalt, for example, are more dangerous and explosive than heavy oil, which may be due to the large amount of sulfur in black oil.

Just when the investigation was at an impasse, another piece of bad news came.

Located in the southern part of the Gio Crook Inland Sea, a trading city on the west side of the Continental Bridge, Giovardereo was attacked. (Later known as Jicheng)

The situation is almost exactly the same as in Dondoruma.

Jicheng itself was unharmed, but the Geollis Tower, located dozens of kilometers west of Jicheng, was destroyed.

Unlike small castles such as the Arsenal, the Giollis is a true fortress built to defend the city from monsters from the Metabe Jungle (Old Jungle).

It is described in the report submitted by the Jicheng Guild.

The attack came very suddenly, and the Gioris was not given early warning, the number of garrisons was small, and powerful defensive weapons such as dragon guns were not warmed up and could not be activated.

The main city wall was destroyed, the gunpowder and metal components in the storehouse were looted again, and the dragon spears originally installed on the fortress walls were also missing.

Coupled with the raging fires, the total destruction of the garrison, the absence of surviving witnesses, and the black oil left at the scene, it is easy to conclude that the mysterious monster that destroyed the Giollis is the culprit who attacked the arsenal.

When I got the news, it didn't look good for anyone

Before the original incident was investigated, a new attack had already occurred again, and if there were two of them, then three, four, five, or six might all follow.

In the Great Old Hall, Gordon and the others watched the Great Elder smash the marble floor with his sword, and then issued an order with a black face, demanding that all guilds everywhere be under full martial law.

At this point, the identity of the "investigation team" of the Yinbian people seems a little unnecessary.

At the moment, the suspicion of the Pavilion Mantis is basically ruled out, so the Silverside Squad 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 himself actually thinks so.

However, two days later, the contents of the second investigation report that the Jicheng Guild hurriedly sent to the guild headquarters pressed the silver-edged team back to the position of the "Mysterious Monster Investigation Team".

Here's what it says in the report -

After further cleaning and investigation of the ruins of the walls of the Gioris Wall, we have collected some kind of golden silk thread.

At the same time, underneath the ruins, tunnels and pits large enough for monsters to pass through were found, as well as traces of heavy metal equipment such as dragon guns.

The residual silk thread sample matched the characteristics of the pavilion mantis silk thread sample extracted from the ancient ruins, and it was preliminarily confirmed that the attacker of the Giollis was an ancient dragon-level creature, the pavilion mantis. (Ancient dragon level, not ancient dragon species)

(End of chapter)