After Yi Qiu chatted with the two guards at the sentry tower for a while, he followed the entrance of the western valley and walked in.
Yi Qiu turned around and took a look. The light from the sentry tower had disappeared under the towering cliffs of the valley.
According to what the older sentinel said, there are a large number of beasts with violent blood in the wilderness outside.
Compared to ordinary beasts, they are more ferocious and extremely aggressive.
Yi Qiu thought for a while, and he suspected that those who followed it before were probably monsters like raging rats.
No one knows how many violent beasts exist in the vast wilderness.
According to the predictions of the kingdom's scholars, if all these violent beasts flood into the kingdom.
So for the kingdom, it is undoubtedly an epic disaster that is enough to overturn it.
After listening to the advice of scholars, the rulers of the kingdom at that time negotiated with many churches, and finally spent huge sums of money to build a series of watchtowers on the edge of the kingdom.
The sentry towers are equipped with specific magic that can repel the entry of wild beasts.
And each sentry tower dispatches at least two guards to guard the sentry tower and be responsible for the daily operation and maintenance of the sentry tower.
But so far, the raging beast disaster predicted by scholars has not happened.
This also caused some complaints within the kingdom about the decision of the ruler at that time, because the establishment of the guard tower cost a lot of money, which led to a stalemate in the subsequent war with the enemy due to funding issues.
The old sentry seemed a little worried. He had been guarding this sentry tower for almost twenty years.
If the current ruler of the kingdom decides to cancel or reduce the number of people in the guard tower, then he will undoubtedly be in a very bad situation.
Yi Qiu was very suspicious that there was some kind of large-scale branch line in that area, and the older sentry among the two guards in the sentry tower had an "I have a story, do you have a drink" expression on his face, which also increased Yi Qiu's suspicion.
However, due to his charm, Yi Qiu did not receive any relevant task prompts after chatting for a while.
Maybe the arrival of the paladin will trigger related side tasks, but for Yi Qiu, this is obviously not very reliable.
However, Yi Qiu really doesn't have much interest in doing a branch line, unless that branch line can provide enough rewards to make Yi Qiu excited.
Because generally speaking, the rewards from tasks are not as good as those dropped by bosses of the same level - after all, there is no middleman to make the difference in the boss's drops...
After touching his bald head, Yi Qiu opened the map and looked at it.
It was already dark at this time, and because the phone could not be turned on due to subtle changes in certain substances, Yi Qiu could only make vague calculations based on the countdown of the temporary team copy.
It should have been almost 2 to 3 o'clock in the morning. Yi Qiu looked up at the sky. Except for a full moon, the stars in the sky were dim.
Fortunately, the full moon had gotten rid of the entanglement of dark clouds at this time, and Yi Qiu's vision became a little clearer.
Maybe it was the previous flight that stimulated Yi Qiu's nerves, or maybe it was the long-term meditation practice that improved Yi Qiu's energy. For some reason, Yi Qiu didn't feel too tired now.
Yi Qiu was going to take a look at the location of the parchment left by the mercenary that he got from the treasure chest of the goblin leader. It happened to be not very far from where Yi Qiu was now.
In the cool night wind in the early morning, Yi Qiu moved quickly.
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After disturbing the nightlife of three goblins and being chased for a distance by the angry goblins, Yi Qiu found the location recorded on the parchment.
There is a dead tree here, and part of the trunk has been cut down. Maybe the passing mercenaries took some and used it to light the bonfire.
In the valley, there are some scattered dead trees like this.
Although it is not common, it cannot be said to be rare either.
Perhaps it is due to long-term exposure to the sun and rain, or perhaps it is due to the material of the tree itself. Although such dead trees are easy to burn, they will produce very pungent smoke.
Most of the time, if there is no dead grass or the like nearby, the mercenaries will take some and use it to fuel the fire.
Yi Qiu searched nearby and found no unusual clues.
There were no ferocious monsters as Yi Qiu expected, or terrain full of murderous intent, just nothing...
It seems that there is no difference between this place and other areas in the valley, it seems very ordinary.
After thinking about it, Yi Qiu took out the parchment, looked at it, and compared it with the map.
There should be no problem with the address. Yi Qiu did not find the wrong place.
After looking around, Yi Qiu finally focused his attention on the dead tree, which was the only slightly different thing nearby.
Relying on intuition, Yi Qiu determined that there was something wrong with the tree.
Without checking to see if there was any hidden information on the dead tree, Yi Qiu decided to smash the dead tree open.
Anyway, it's just an unexpected gain. It's better if there is gain. If there is no gain, forget it. Yi Qiu doesn't intend to put more energy into it.
Yi Qiu took out Shi'e from his waist, then transformed it into a heavy stick, and hit the remaining tree body with a stick!
"bump!"
As pieces of wood flew everywhere, an iron box that he didn't know how to put inside appeared in Yi Qiu's field of vision.
There was originally a lock on the iron box, but it was now rusty. Yi Qiu pulled the lock off without any effort.
Then, Yi Qiu stepped back and prepared to use Shi'e to push the iron box open.
Although he felt that it was unlikely that a mercenary would cast any magic trap on the box, after all, only two books in the Druid's hut had magic traps placed on them.
But in order to prevent the boat from capsizing in the gutter, Yi Qiu thought it was better to be on the safe side.
"Kacha!"
Just after Yi Qiu used Shi'e to push open the iron box, there was a burst of dazzling silver light.
Suddenly there was a slight triggering sound of the machine spring from the iron box, and then a crossbow arrow was shot out with a sharp wind sound hidden in the silver light!
"Bang!"
Because Yi Qiu retreated, the crossbow arrow flew a certain distance and hit the mountain wall behind Yi Qiu.
Then after a dull penetrating sound, most of the crossbow arrows missed the mountain wall!
Yi Qiu touched his bald head and fiddled with the box again with Shie, but there was no other movement.
Under the faint moonlight, the opened iron box exuded a dazzling silver light.
Yi Qiu took a closer look and saw that the iron box was almost full of kingdom coins!
Because of the protection of the iron box, these kingdom coins look very new.
In the middle of the iron box, there is a modified crossbow. It seems that the crossbow arrow was shot from this crossbow.
Because there were too many, Yi Qiu did not count the kingdom coins for the time being.
He temporarily put the kingdom coins into his backpack, and suddenly the iron box seemed empty.
Yi Qiu tried to pull the iron box out of the dead tree, but it didn't move. It seemed that the iron box was firmly fixed inside with some special craftsmanship.
However, although Yi Qiu cannot observe the size of the iron box too intuitively, from the current point of view, Yi Qiu feels that the space he sees is smaller than the specific size of the iron box, which means that this iron box should have a mezzanine.
However, after Yi Qiu tapped all the areas, there was no empty response.
Obviously Yi Qiu's clumsy techniques and the experience gained from certain film and television works were not enough for Yi Qiu to discover the hidden layers.
After thinking about it, Yi Qiu decided to smash it open with Release.
According to Yi Qiu's idea, if it is a precious magic item, it will not necessarily break under Shie's blow.
If not, then it is obviously of no use to Yi Qiu.
So Yi Qiu raised Shi'e and smashed it hard against the iron box!