The Truth of Magic

Chapter 187: Something That Doesn't Exist

To be honest, Dire Rat was not very powerful in combat. As long as he was wearing armor or cast mage armor spells, with Dire Rat's attack power, it was only 50-50 to really attack Zhao Xu.

Not to mention, the cloak of stars on Zhao Xu's body was enough to make him immune to the bite attack of the dire rat.

Unless it was a more powerful race whose natural weapons could be regarded as magic weapons, Zhao Xu's cloak was immune to ordinary weapons, which was equivalent to being immune to the natural weapons of those monsters.

Naturally, they couldn't impress Zhao Xu.

This is exactly the power of the seventh-level spell "Star Cloak".

That's why Zhao Xu dared to come in ahead without fear.

Zhao Xu observed the nearly one-meter-long lower body, which seemed to be an extremely large ferocious rat to outsiders.

This kind of animal with an average HP of about 5 can only be considered a small creature, about the size of a goblin. With the blessing of the four magic missiles just now, the dire rat died on the spot.

Even the most basic near-death process has not been experienced.

It's a pity that mice are disgusted. If it were wild boars, Zhao Xu could still use the meat and sell it for money, from the meat to the fangs.

"Do you know this animal?" Zhao Xu looked at the two women and said, but all they got was shaking their heads in shock.

Zhao Xu didn't expect him to ask about the intellectual weaknesses of the two women.

But this is also reasonable, after all, genius must have a certain limit.

The knowledge of mysticism and all kinds of knowledge alone are extremely complex, and no genius can understand them all in a month.

"This is a dire rat, an omnivorous scavenger. It usually only attacks to protect its own nest territory. It is estimated that the sentry tower we came in was considered an offense to its territory."

Zhao Xu tried to push the "Organ Man Goggles" on the bridge of his nose, "The biggest risk is that once it is bitten, if it fails to resist toughly, after a one to three-day incubation period, it will be subject to 1- 3 points of agility damage and constitution damage."

When the Maple Leaf team encountered that ghost, they didn't resist the other party's supernatural ability. Their team received attribute damage, and they recovered only after relying on natural recovery, but their combat effectiveness must have declined during that time.

At this time, Eswig finally stood up with lingering fears, and by the way pulled Wang Ningwei who was squatting on the ground just now with an indecent posture.

"The size of this dire rat is not big enough to pass through the gap in the wooden door just now." Eswig regained his composure and analyzed.

At this time, Wang Ningwei also observed the ground conditions on the first floor of the sentry tower, wondering if she should use the detection secret door to search.

There was no food in the sentry tower, so it was impossible for this dire rat to gain weight after coming in as a child, and the vines on the wall did not show any signs of being eaten.

As for the debris on the floor of the wooden door just now, it also means that it was not caused by ordinary rats, but eaten by the vicious rats in front of them.

So this may indicate that there is a mysterious passage in the sentry tower that the dire rat can enter.

But Zhao Xu looked at the two girls and couldn't help laughing.

Sure enough, once a smart person lacks the information of basic reasoning, it is easy to think astray.

"This dire rat's climbing skill is as high as the 11th level bonus." Zhao Xu said simply.

The dire rat's agility is not high, but it can't help but have the racial innate ability of climbing, and their climbing is very stable, as long as it is the kind that can go up, it will basically not miss.

Only then did the two women suddenly come over.

In fact, they also noticed that the window-sized hole on the second floor was just enough for the dire rat to pass through, but they didn't expect that the other party's bulky body could actually climb up it.

"I found this notebook in the gravel." At this moment, Zhao Xu took out the notebook from his pocket, and the scream just interrupted him.

Now that it's confirmed that the Dire Rat is dead, let's get back to the topic.

At this moment, the faces of the two women blushed, but they immediately observed the black-covered notebook in Zhao Xu's hand, which was tightly fixed with a cable tie.

Zhao Xu also loosened the wrapped tie, and then opened it gently under control.

However, the pages in the notebook were already tattered, turning into many small pieces of paper that were not glued together, and even the handwriting on them was blurred.

"Captain, how long ago was that story?" Wang Ningwei asked with a little confusion.

Zhao Xu frowned slightly and recalled, and said in a suspicious tone: "It should be there in four hundred years."

At this time, Eswig interjected, "I just searched, and the knowledge and skills failed. But I have read the history of Mystra's thousand-year-old capital. Can you tell me the name of the barracks or general? Maybe I have a little impression. "

"The name of the commander of the Southern Land Banner Corps seems to be Sweet Les." Zhao Xu said.

Eswitch nodded slightly, "That was indeed 400 years ago. It is recorded in the history of the city's coat of arms of Mystra that the Sweet family migrated over the Tianduan Mountains 500 years ago. Now their descendants People still live in Mistral. Mistral issued a law 300 years ago, prohibiting any external legions from stationing within 300 miles."

Eswig immediately compressed the time to the interval from 500 years ago to 300 years ago, which was exactly in line with what Zhao Xu said was 400 years ago.

Zhao Xu quickly used his knowledge (nobility and royal family) to search for the name of the family, but found that the results failed.

Then I'm afraid the other party can know this, it really depends on a strong memory.

But it's just that Zhao Xu didn't intend to solve it on purpose, otherwise he could use Zhao Xu's previous spells, or use Wang Ningwei's book that can improve the results of knowledge checks three times a day.

They can still retrieve results by relying on knowledge and skills.

This is also the reason why the knowledge skill is even one of Arthur's strongest skills, because it represents a strong intelligence work.

Zhao Xu, on the other hand, carefully analyzed the building materials of this floor. It can last for four hundred years without much damage, and the quality of this sentry tower is indeed very good.

wrong.

After seeing something familiar, Zhao Xu's expression changed. He looked at the two women and said, "It is absolutely impossible for this sentry tower to have been abandoned 400 years ago to the present."

As he said that, Zhao Xu pointed to the revolving staircase and said, "This red-fired brick technique was improved and invented by master craftsman Nafort 200 years ago. How could it appear in buildings 400 years ago?"

The two women couldn't help looking at Zhao Xu in amazement at this moment, knowing when the architectural design style appeared, they could still do it.

But even knowing the crafting time of a brick is a bit out of the ordinary.

Unless there are investment points in the two skills of craftsmanship (brick making) and profession (masonry research), it is unlikely to know the details of the history of masonry.

It's unlikely that the man in front of him has the knowledge (architecture and engineering) skill point above level 10, and he just relies on the big classification of knowledge and skills to retrieve it.

But they never guessed that after Zhao Xu's previous life time travel, relying on his own power, his parents almost monopolized the operation of a "brick burning factory" in a small town.

At that time, Zhao Xu was the one who went to a big town to find a friend to drink and ask for a relationship, and then spared a few hands before begging for the craftsmanship of the infiltrated red-fired brick.

He was naturally impressed by this.

At this moment, the two women also looked seriously at the revolving staircase leading to the second floor.

If it was really what Zhao Xu said, there were only two explanations.

One possibility is that this staircase was refurbished later.

Another possibility is that this sentry tower, from the very beginning, was not the watchtower it was five hundred years ago.

At this time, the three of them thought of these two possibilities and looked at each other in blank dismay.

At that time in the "Forest of Lying Words", everyone was still dubious, so when they encountered strange phenomena, they felt okay.

But this is a real sentry tower, but there is still such a weird and unreasonable scene.

Who would spend a hundred years deliberately doing this disguise?

Seeing that the two women were panting slightly nervously, Zhao Xu said as the captain, "Well, let's go all the way to the top floor first, and make sure that there are no outsiders in this sentry tower."

At first they didn't search first, because the door was opened very narrowly, and it was unlikely that there were people here, but they didn't expect dire rats to enter through the window that climbed to the second floor.

After confirming the plan, Zhao Xu continued to take the lead and stood in front, and the two women followed him step by step.

The sentry tower has five floors, and this kind of military facility is different from a private building. There are no hand guards on the spiral stairs, and the three of them can only climb up against the wall.

The next few layers didn't look too different.

The second floor is the meeting place, where there is a collapsed conference table, which was also gnawed to pieces by the vicious rat.

The third floor is the resting place for sentries or officers, and the fourth floor is the armament room. Some weapon racks are still there, but the valuable weapons have long been emptied and taken away.

Only two holding stone blocks for exercise were not picked up, and they were still piled up in the corner.

Zhao Xu didn't think much about it, and continued to take the two women to the fifth floor, which was also the highest level of the guard tower.

Zhao Xu walked up the stairs, and suddenly his vision became extremely wide, and the entire wilderness on the other side fell into his eyes.

When this sentry tower was built, it was mainly used for warning purposes, so the field of vision on the fifth floor was completely empty without any hindrance.

Above is a shed roof made of wooden frames, which was used to shade the sun and rain before, but it has collapsed long ago, leaving only some wood chips left on the ground and half of the wooden pillars on the surrounding low walls.

Even the lookout post on the wooden roof that can continue to climb up has disappeared.

"Those dire rats won't eat wood slag, will they?" Eswig said looking at the few pieces of wood left on the ground.

"This stone pier is a bit strange." At this time, Wang Ningwei stood in the middle and said, in front of her was a one-meter-tall stone mill-like thing.

The two immediately walked forward, and found a stone cone erected on the surface of the stone pier.

At this time, the morning sun was quite good, shining on the stone cone, and the shadow of the tip of the cone just covered a number, which was the number ten written in the common language.

Said it was ten o'clock.

"Ningwei, this is a sundial, relying on the fact that the sun is in different positions in the sky at different times, so that the current time can be judged based on the shadow—" Aisweixi's voice stopped abruptly.

Zhao Xu looked at the sundial with a solemn expression.

He raised his head, the sun was shining gently on his face, making people feel warm and fuzzy.

But Zhao Xu's back was chilly.

There used to be a wooden roof cover for a high lookout post above here, and the sun couldn't shine at all.

Why build a sundial like this?

It's too late, continue to +1, I will count how much I owe later.