The current situation is very strange. There are hundreds of soldiers stationed in the heavily defended fortress, but they can only watch their comrades being taken away one by one, but they seem helpless and even terrified...
This shows that the scene they saw last night really frightened them.
"When did this monster come and capture the soldiers last night?" Li Ming asked in detail.
"About early in the morning, because it happened to be the time for the changing of the guard," the guard captain replied.
"Is the soldier who was captured serving as a guard?" Li Ming asked.
"You are right, it was the soldier who was on guard duty, and he was on duty at the watchtower at that time." The guarding captain nodded and pointed to the tall watchtower halfway up the mountain on the left...
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The bottom of this watchtower is made of stones, and it is located on a small platform halfway up the mountain. A small platform is built with wood at the top, where soldiers can be stationed to look around and detect the enemy's arrival in advance.
"There was only one sentry up there last night?" Li Ming asked.
"Yes, in non-combat situations, there is only one soldier on each of the two watchtowers." said the guarding captain.
"Thank you, sir. I only have so many questions for now. If I have any new questions, I will discuss them with you," Li Ming said.
"As long as this matter can be clarified, if you need any cooperation, please feel free to ask." The guarding captain nodded and said.
Li Ming ended the mission dialogue plot. At this time, some of his teammates were still continuing the conversation, and some had ended the mission questions in advance and were standing aside waiting.
"I understand, brother, did you ask what happened?" Caribbean asked quickly.
"You ended the conversation so quickly. Do you know everything?" Li Ming looked at them curiously.
"What can I ask? It's that a soldier 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. He is just scared and wants me.
Hurry back and send more reinforcements." Tianya shrugged and said.
"You're right. It's a good idea to go out and take a look, but let me go up there and take a look first." Li Ming's eyes were fixed on the watchtower on the left.
Since the captured soldiers were there at the time, maybe there are some clues here...
At this time, Fan Hua and Lonely Ruyan were the last two to finish their mission conversation and turned around to join them.
"I asked clearly. A total of 5 soldiers were captured in this fortress, but 1 soldier was dragged and disappeared into the desert outside with their own eyes. Maybe we can find another BOSS this time!
"Fan Hua said excitedly.
"Yes, this BOSS can hide under the desert, is very powerful, and can even climb up the watchtower to catch people." Lonely Ruyan seemed to be asking as carefully as Li Ming.
"Then let's go there and look for it first." Li Ming smiled and nodded.
To get to the watchtower, you first have to enter the fortress and climb up the stairs to the top platform of the fortress. Then there is the only stone path leading to the watchtower.
Of course, the guarding captain responded to requests and led everyone into the open space on the first floor of the fortress. He went up from the stairs on one side to the second floor, then to the third floor and the top floor.
Following the guarding captain, everyone carefully followed the steep stone path that was only half a meter wide and slowly approached the watchtower...
Li Ming was the first to get into the hole of the watchtower. From here, he climbed up a circle of wooden ladders to reach the top platform of the tower, which was more than ten meters high.
However, he felt a little weird. The stairs here were very steep and the space was small. If the monster could easily capture a strong soldier, then it must be quite big. It would be possible to climb the stairs to capture someone.
Sex is almost non-existent.
The teammates climbed up the stairs excitedly to look for 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, he didn't seem to find anything. He walked out of the stone tower and looked at the steep slope less than two meters in front of him. Although the sand mountain here looked covered with yellow sand, in fact, the sand mountain was covered with yellow sand.
The interior is made of solid rock, otherwise the watchtower would not be built here.
Judging from the environment here, there are only two directions to get to the observation tower. 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 brightened, and he squatted down and looked at the soft sand pile on the ground...
At this glance, he seemed to have made a new discovery immediately!
It seems that between the watchtower and the sand slope, the sand layer has become very thick, especially near the foot of the slope, there is a small pile of yellow sand.
Someone slipped down from the surface, causing the sand particles to fall, so they accumulated into the current situation.
Li Ming stretched out his short staff and fiddled with the sand layer in front of him, slowly pushing aside the thick layer of yellow sand...
There was a clang, and his short staff seemed to collide with something, making a metallic knocking sound.
Quickly peeling away the fine sand, a slightly shiny metal-like blue armor suddenly appeared in front of his eyes...
This is a thin, hard piece of armor about the size of a palm. It is not made of metal and looks like animal scales!
Damaged scale armor: broken material with no use.
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The introduction to the properties of the system is also very simple. In a word, this is a useless prop that cannot even be made with materials.
But for Li Ming, the system has three hundred taels of silver here. Since it is a useless prop, why put it here?
This piece of scale armor might be the key clue to find the monster!
Holding this piece of light blue-grey scales, 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, his teammates had just climbed down from the platform one by one, and gathered around Li Ming curiously, looking at the armor plate in his hand.
"What are these? They seem to be some scales on animals, but they are definitely not fish scales." Lonely Ruyan said curiously.
"Do you know this kind of scale armor?" Li Ming asked in surprise.
"Of course, the scales of fish are not so thick, and this scale is so big, and it is divided into layers of fine lines, which shows that it is also very large, like the scales of a python or a snake.
." Lonely Ruyan said.
"You can't tell that Beauty Yan is also an expert on animals." Fan Hua chuckled.
"By the way, where did you find this scale? Maybe it fell from a monster." Lonely Ruyan asked quickly.
"I found it right here, and now there's nothing inside..." Li Ming shook his head.
"Let me take a look." Lonely Ruyan took a long stick and fiddled with the sand, trying to find...
Ding!
There was another slight sound. Lonely Ruyan bent down and picked up a piece of blue scale from the sand. It was exactly the same as the one in Li Ming's hand, with no difference at all!
"No, you found it anyway." Li Ming's eyes widened. He had indeed searched carefully just now.
"Let me give it a try too." Fan Hua bent down and fumbled around in the sand with his hands. His face was stunned for a moment. When he took his hand back, he also held a piece of blue scale armor in his hand!
"I know, this is the mission prop given to us by the system. Everyone we receive the mission can pick up one, which shows that our method of finding clues is correct!" Lonely Ruyan said excitedly.