To be honest, the Dire Rat's combat power is not very strong. As long as he is wearing armor or has a mage armor spell applied, with the Dire Rat's attack power, if he wants to really attack Zhao Xu, it will only be a 50-50 hit.
Not to mention, the star cloak on Zhao Xu is enough to make him immune to the bite attacks of dire rats.
Unless it is a more powerful race whose natural weapons can be regarded as magic weapons, the cloak on Zhao Xu's body that is immune to ordinary weapons is equivalent to being immune to the natural weapons of those monsters.
Naturally, they couldn't defeat Zhao Xu.
This is the power of the seventh-level spell "Star Cloak".
This was also the reason why Zhao Xu dared to come in from the front without fear.
Zhao Xu observed the nearly one meter long ferocious rat under his body, which looked to outsiders as extremely large.
This animal with an average HP of about 5 can only be considered a small creature, about the same size as a goblin. With the blessing of the four magic missiles just now, the dire rat died on the spot.
He failed to understand even the most basic process of dying.
It's a pity that rats are despised. If it were a wild boar, Zhao Xu could still use the meat and sell it for money, from the meat to the tusks.
"Do you know this animal?" Zhao Xu looked at the two women and asked, but all he got in return was a shocked shake of the head.
Zhao Xu didn't expect that he would actually ask about the two women's intellectual weaknesses.
But this is reasonable. Genius must have a certain limit after all.
Just the occult knowledge and even all kinds of knowledge are so complicated that even a genius would not be able to understand them all in a month.
"This is a dire rat, an omnivorous scavenger. It usually only attacks to protect its nest territory. It is probably because we came to this sentry tower that it thought it had offended its territory."
Zhao Xu tried to push the "Ghost Goggles" on the bridge of his nose. "The biggest risk is that once bitten, if there is no strong resistance, after an incubation period of one to three days, you will suffer 1- 3 points of agility damage and constitution damage.”
When the Maple Leaf team encountered the ghost, they did not resist the opponent's supernatural ability. Their team received attribute damage and relied on natural recovery to recover. However, during that time, the combat effectiveness must have declined.
At this time, Eswig finally stood up with lingering fear and pulled Wang Ningwei, who was also squatting on the ground in an inelegant posture just now.
"This ferocious rat is not big enough to pass through the gap in the wooden door just now." Eswig regained his composure and analyzed.
Wang Ningwei also observed the ground conditions on the first floor of the sentry tower at this time, secretly wondering whether she should use the secret detection door to search.
There was no food in the sentry tower. It was certainly not possible that the ferocious rat had gained weight since it was a child. There were no signs of being eaten by the vines on the wall.
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 was eaten by the ferocious rats in front of you.
So this may indicate that there is a mysterious passage in this sentry tower through which the ferocious rat can enter.
Zhao Xu looked at the two women and couldn't help but laugh.
Sure enough, smart people will easily think wrong once they lack the basic information for reasoning.
"This dire rat's climbing skill has a bonus of nearly 11 levels." Zhao Xu said simply.
Dire rats are not very agile, but they cannot help but have the racial innate ability to climb, and their climbing is very stable. As long as they can climb up, they 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 big enough for the ferocious rat to pass through, but they didn't expect that the other party's bulky body could really climb up.
"I found this notebook in the gravel pile." At this time, Zhao Xu took out the notebook from his pocket, and was interrupted by the scream just now.
Now that the Dire Rat is confirmed to be dead, let's get back to the point.
At this time, the two women's faces turned red, but they immediately noticed the black-covered notebook in Zhao Xu's hand. There was a tie tightly fixed on the cover.
Zhao Xu also loosened the tie, then controlled his strength and gently opened it.
However, the pages inside the notebook were all torn and torn, turning into many small, non-adhesive pieces of paper, and even the writing on them was blurred.
"Captain, how long ago was that story?" Wang Ningwei asked with some confusion.
Zhao Xu frowned slightly and recalled it, then said in a skeptical tone: "It should have been there for four hundred years."
At this time, Eswig interjected, "I just searched it, and the knowledge skills failed. But I have read the thousand-year capital history of Mystra. Can you tell me the name of the military camp or the general? Maybe I have some impression. "
"The name of the commander of the Southland Banner Corps seems to be Sweet Les." Zhao Xu said.
Eswig nodded lightly, "That was indeed 400 years ago. It is recorded in the history of Mystra city heraldry that the Sweet family migrated across the Tianduan Mountains 500 years ago, and now their descendants People still live in Mystra. And Mystra issued a bill 300 years ago, prohibiting any external organized legions from stationing within 300 miles."
Eswig immediately compressed the time to the range from 500 to 300 years ago, which is exactly in line with the 400 years mentioned by Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu quickly used his knowledge (nobility and royal family) to search for the name of this family, but found that the result failed.
I'm afraid that the other party's ability to know this really depends on his strong memory.
However, this is just because Zhao Xu did not deliberately solve it. Otherwise, it would be combined with Zhao Xu's previous spells, or Wang Ningwei's book that can improve the knowledge test results three times a day.
They can still rely on their knowledge and skills to retrieve results.
This is why the knowledge skill is even one of Arthur's strongest skills, because it represents powerful intelligence work.
Zhao Xu, on the other hand, carefully analyzed the building materials of this floor and found that it had lasted for four hundred years without much damage. The quality of this sentry tower was indeed very high.
wrong.
After seeing something familiar, Zhao Xu's expression changed. He looked at the two women and said, "It is absolutely impossible that this sentry tower was abandoned 400 years ago."
As he spoke, Zhao Xu pointed at the spiral staircase and said, "This red-fired brick technology was improved and invented by the craftsman Nafur 200 years ago. How could it appear in a building 400 years ago?"
The two women couldn't help but look at Zhao Xu in surprise at this time, knowing when the architectural design style appeared, it could still be done.
But knowing the crafting time of each brick is a bit bizarre.
Unless you invest points in the two skills of craftsmanship (brick making) and profession (masonry research), it is impossible to learn the details of the history of masonry.
It’s impossible for the man in front of me to have the knowledge (architecture and engineering) skill set to level 10 or above, and just rely on the large classification of knowledge and skills to retrieve it.
However, they never could have guessed that after Zhao Xu traveled through his previous life, he relied on his own power to allow his parents to operate a "brick-burning factory" in the small town with a near-monopoly.
At that time, Zhao Xu specially went to a big town to meet friends over a drink to build a relationship, and then he begged for some mercy before the red-coated bricks were made.
He was naturally impressed by this.
At this moment, the two women were also looking seriously at the winding staircase leading to the second floor.
If it is true as Zhao Xu said, there are only two explanations for this.
One possibility is that this staircase was renovated later.
Another possibility is that this sentry tower, from the beginning, was not the same sentry tower five hundred years ago.
At this time, the three of them all thought of these two possibilities and looked at each other.
At that time, everyone in the "Forest of Whispers" was still dubious, so they felt okay when encountering strange phenomena.
But this is a real sentry tower, but there is still such a strange and unreasonable scene.
Who would spend hundreds of years deliberately making this disguise
Seeing the two women breathing slightly nervously, Zhao Xu, as the captain, said, "Let's go all the way to the top first. Let's make sure there are no outsiders in this sentry tower."
They didn't search first at first. Even though the door crack was very small, they thought it was unlikely that there was anyone here. They just didn't expect that a dire rat would get in 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 a total of five floors, and this kind of military facility is different from a private building. The spiral staircases are not equipped with hand guards, and the three of them can only go up against the wall.
The next few layers don't look too different.
The second floor is the meeting place. There is a collapsed conference table there, which was also chewed to pieces by the ferocious rat.
The third floor is where sentries or officers rest, and the fourth floor is the armament room. Some weapon racks are still there, but the valuable weapons have long been emptied out and taken away.
Only two hand-held stones used for exercise were not picked up and were still piled in the corner.
Zhao Xu didn't think much and continued to lead the two women to the fifth floor, which was also the highest security floor of the sentry tower.
Zhao Xu walked up the stairs, and his vision suddenly became extremely wide, and the entire wilderness scene on the other side fell into his eyes.
When this sentry tower was built, it was mainly for security purposes, so the view from the fifth floor was completely open and unobstructed.
Above is a shed roof made of wooden frames, which was used to protect it from the sun and rain, but has long since collapsed, leaving only some residual wood chips on the ground and half wooden pillars on the surrounding low walls.
Even the observation post on the top of the wooden roof, where one could continue to climb higher, disappeared.
"Those dire rats won't eat wood slag, right?" 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 said, standing in the middle position. There was a one-meter-high stone mill-like thing in front of her.
The two people immediately walked forward and found an erected stone cone on the surface of the stone pier.
The morning sunlight was quite good at this time, shining on the stone cone. The shadow of the tip of the cone just covered a number, which was the number ten written in Common Language.
It means ten o'clock.
"Ningwei, this is a sundial. Based on the fact that the sun is in different positions in the sky at different times, we can judge the current time based on the shadow-" Eswig's voice stopped abruptly.
Zhao Xu looked at the sundial with a solemn expression.
He raised his head, and the sunlight was shining gently on his face, making people feel warm.
But Zhao Xu's back felt chilly.
There used to be a wooden roof for a high lookout post above this place, so the sun couldn't reach it at all.
Why build a sundial like this
It's too late, keep adding +1, I will calculate how much you owe later.
(End of chapter)