Admiral of Hogwarts

After the company made its judgment, the ship girls immediately went down to the bottom of the mud pit to search. Fortunately, it's winter now, so the smell at the bottom of the mud pit is quite acceptable.

Just a few minutes later, the ship girls who entered the bottom of the pit to search found some valuable clues in the mud. "I remember that you should have mastered magic. Why don't you use magic to dig?"

Seeing the ship girls jumping directly into your pit to dig out various items with their hands, Hugo asked with some confusion to Buduo, who was holding a ball of something wrapped in frozen mud and threw it up.

In fact, he originally planned to dig in the mud pit with the ship girls, because he felt that his style of watching the ship girls work was not in line with the education he had received before.

But when he found that he couldn't dig through the ice that was as hard as stone, he could only stand on the edge of the pit feeling quite depressed and watch the girls working enthusiastically below.

"As I said before, safety first." As the temporary commander of the ship girls, Enterprise answered Hugo's question. "If magic is used here, I'm worried that it may attract the attention of the Ministry of Magic in Sweden and Norway."

"At least from the fact that Trace Silk can be sensed across the country, we have every reason to suspect that the Ministry of Magic of various countries has built a magic surveillance network in the country that is not very sensitive but has a wide coverage."

"The Ministry of Magic of various countries may not pay much attention to casting spells in most areas, but it is hard to say in key surveillance areas like this. Therefore, for safety reasons, I think our current excavation by purely physical means is more appropriate. "

"And to be honest, the efficiency of our manual digging is not much worse than using magic." After the company finished speaking, Budu waved a lump of black ice in his hand and said. "And now we've discovered something far beyond what we previously expected."

After 20 minutes, the ship girl ended the search of the mud pit and collected various items that could probably fill a gasoline barrel. Then they began to use small chisels, drills or climbing to remove the dirty ice wrapped around the items. piece.

Soon, a lot of stuff was cleared out. There are some that were obviously thrown in by ordinary people without magic, such as various daily items and weapons from the Middle Ages to the present day. Several of them should have the value of certain cultural relics. But about 15 things were screened out, because these things can clearly show the traces left by the magical world.

"These things are the main objects of suspicion." Buduo said to Hugo after pointing to the pile of things that could be confirmed to be from the magical world. "According to my identification, these things should have been thrown into that pool 50 years ago. If there are no accidents, these things should be directly related to the incident that year."

"What do you see here?" Hugo asked with some confusion. Because the things he saw in front of him included bones, metal fragments, broken gold jewelry and even broken wooden sticks. They looked like a lot of historical garbage. Basically, I can't see what it has to do with wizards and the magical world.

"Details, my admiral, the core is the details." Bu Tiao said, taking out a half of a beef shoulder blade and pointing to the missing part. "If you look carefully, you will find that the missing part of the cow's shoulder blade was directly bitten off."

"There is nothing wrong with a cow being killed by a wild beast. There should be no cows in this place." After being reminded like this, Hugo quickly saw something wrong with the cow's shoulder blade.

"And the tooth marks on it are wrong. It doesn't look like an ordinary beast." After taking over the bone that had just been washed away by the ship girl, Hugo quickly saw the problem.

"It looks familiar, etc. This tooth mark seems to have been made by a large person."

"Yes, in addition to this large tooth mark, other things found at the scene also point to this point." Bu Tiao said and pointed to the pile of things that had just been discarded aside like garbage.

"Everything is one size larger and looks like it was meant for large humanoids like giants or trolls."

"That's it." Hugo snapped his fingers. "My grandfather's father said that what he saw was something like a hill moving around the lake. If it was these giant creatures, everything would make sense."

"Obviously, some well-equipped giant humanoid creatures appeared near this lake and probably died here." Looking at the large quagmire in front of him, Hugo roughly guessed what might have happened here.

"And we think it was trolls and not giants who were active here back then." Enterprise said, kicking the bones next to him. "

These bones all have marks left by cutting with sharp tools or teeth, proving that these things should have been the food of those giant creatures back then. However, all the bones at the site were raw and there were no traces of cooking. It's not like something a giant would do. "

"Yes, you are right." After recalling some books about trolls and giants that he had seen before, Hugo immediately understood the reason why the company made this judgment.

"Although giants are barbaric, they are accustomed to using fire. At the same time, they basically eat cooked food, but trolls generally eat raw food like wild beasts. At least well-equipped giants like this must eat Delicatessen.”

"But why would a group of heavily armed trolls appear in such a desolate place?" Hugo looked thoughtful after looking at the pile of things piled on the ground. "And why did they die here in a battle?"

After confirming the specific identity of the creature that died here, Hugo and the others checked the information on all the valuable fragments present.

From the fragments of weapons and equipment on the ground, people present carefully inspected and found that almost all of the broken metals were fragments of various weapons and equipment made for these giant monsters, with various signs of damage on them.

"If you look carefully, you will find that there are different scars left at the gaps of these fragments. Some of them are in a molten state due to the high-temperature flames, while others are cut directly by some extremely powerful force. "

After carefully examining each item, Bu Fu obtained more information from the fragments. "This is obviously caused by magic. Otherwise, it would be impossible to leave such traces on these items mixed with trace amounts of magic metal."

"You know, trolls are very poor at making weapons on their own. Leather aprons and sticks are the limit. Therefore, the equipment on them must have been made for them by people who are similar to wizards or goblins in terms of magic. "

"So the group of heavily armed trolls who were here back then should be mercenaries of a certain big force. Considering that this equipment is not cheap and the fragments we found came from at least eleven or two different sets of equipment, I think there are only a handful of forces that can do this in the past hundred years."

"Yes, there are not many people and forces who can invest in arming giant monsters." Hugo nodded.