In a corner of the city, the red light of the octagonal lantern lit up again, and someone burned the first fireworks of the year.
Looking at the beautiful fireworks blooming in the sky, Li Xuan breathed a long sigh of relief.
Lai Cang came over and said in a low but serious voice: "Master Li Xuan, I hope you can send a letter to Princess Xia Ruixue and invite her to come to Maplewood City to take charge."
"Why?"
Li Xuan asked.
Lai Cang snorted coldly and said: "This monster attack on the city is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster! For such a major event, Her Royal Highness must be invited to investigate in person!"
Li Xuan said: "How are you sure it's not a natural disaster?
Is there any evidence?"
"Of course."
Lai Cang waved and led Li Xuan to the corpse of a blood essence beast.
This blood-elf beast's claws were still holding onto half of a human arm, and its head was chopped off in pieces. It died a very miserable death.
Lai Cang took out his knife and stabbed it into the blood essence beast's neck with a "puff", and blood poured out along the wound.
He pointed at the light purple blood and said: "The blood of the blood essence beast should be red, and it only turns purple when it is in heat.
Other monsters also have signs of estrus.
But it’s winter now, so it’s not the monster’s estrus period at all?”
"you mean?"
Li Xuan opened his mouth in surprise.
Lai Cang sneered: "Someone used some means to make these monsters go into heat, and buried something in Maple Forest City to lure them to attack the city!"
Although monsters bear the word "monster", their habits are not much different from those of their close relatives, wild beasts.
At the turn of spring and summer, it is the estrus period of monsters, and it is also the most ferocious and aggressive time of the year.
Experienced mercenaries will never enter the forest when monsters are in estrus. When monsters are in estrus, they may explode with two or even three times the power. Even some monsters that are usually docile will become cruel.
If you fight, the risk will be greatly increased.
Li Xuan found several senior hunters who knew the habits of monsters very well, and got the same opinion as Lai Cang from them.
It is now the harsh winter season that alternates the year, and no monsters are in estrus at this time, so someone is obviously doing something wrong! After hearing about Lai Cang's discovery, the prefects An Rulong and Ding Zhensarang were shocked.
A few of them got into the headquarters of the city defense station together, closed the door tightly, and discussed in low voices.
"How could such a thing happen! Oh my god, if this is true, then who is so insidious?"
An Rulong cursed, "He actually lured monsters to attack the city during the New Year. Does this person have a dark heart?"
"Anyone who can do such a thing is simply a lunatic."
Ding Zhen said angrily.
The mansions and estates of the Ding family and the Sa family and most of their property are located in Maplewood City. If the city is attacked by monsters, their losses will be a very terrifying figure.
So they were more angry than anyone else in the city, and rightly so.
Lai Cang waited for them to scold him and vented his anger a little before he said: "Master Magistrate, the two heads of the family and Mr. Li Xuan, judging from the current situation, although this crazy guy did not succeed, it is inevitable that he will
I will not continue to secretly endanger the safety of Maplewood City.
I suggest that Maplewood City’s alert status be raised to the highest level, and while eliminating the remaining dangers in the city, we request support.”
"Your advice is great!"
An Rulong was the first to express support.
"Lai Qianhu is right. There must be something in the city that attracts those monsters. To find that thing, you have to dig three feet into the ground to find it!"
Ding Zhen also nodded repeatedly.
Only Li Xuan did not express his position. He vaguely felt that this matter was not that simple.
After some discussion, several important figures in Maplewood City ordered the entire city to be under martial law, and at the same time mobilized all citizens to search for the culprit who attracted the monsters.
Otherwise, God knows whether there will be a second wave of monsters attacking the city again! The entire city has been mobilized, and even three-year-old children are following their parents, searching for them all over the city.
With more people and greater strength, someone found a strange object in a sewer that afternoon and sent it to the city defense station.
Looking at the glands in front of him that looked like animal viscera, and then twitching his nose to smell the strange smell emitted by the thing, Ding Zhen's face became very ugly.
"Does Master Ding recognize this thing?"
Li Xuan sniffed and smelled only a very light aroma, and asked strangely.
Ding Zhen nodded and said: "I had an adventure experience when I was young and saw something like this by chance.
This is the scent sac of the Civet Cat, which can secrete a peculiar aroma.
This kind of fragrance has great appeal to the monsters in estrus, no wonder those monsters will come to Maplewood City after they are in estrus!"
"Is it effective even from such a distance?"
Li Xuan was surprised.
Ding Zhen snorted coldly and said: "Maple Forest City is less than forty kilometers away from the edge of the forest, and this thing does not need to attract all the monsters. It only needs to attract a few high-level monsters.
Don’t forget, the armored beast’s nose is the most sensitive and can easily distinguish the smell of humans from dozens of kilometers away!”
Li Xuan suddenly realized that this is the "top horse effect".
As long as the Civet Cat's sachet can attract the armored beasts with the most sensitive sense of smell, other monsters in estrus will all swarm in like a snowball.
When they arrived near Maplewood City and their sensitive noses smelled the aroma secreted by the sachet, the situation inevitably got out of control.
"Burn this thing immediately!"
Ding Zhen said disgustedly.
"Can you give it to me?"
Li Xuan hurriedly stopped him.
If he didn't know that this was the civet cat's sachet, Li Xuan would have been the first to agree to burn it, but now he had another idea.
There is a kind of elixir whose main ingredient is the sachet of the Civet Cat. Now that you have encountered him, how could you let him go?
"If you don't burn it, it might attract monsters."
Lai Cang said.
"It should be fine if you put it in a private plane, right?"
Li Xuan smiled.
"Of course that's no problem...but does the Imperial Envoy already have a private plane?"
Lai Cang was obviously taken aback.
"That's not true.
Anyway, please rest assured, I won’t let this thing harm Maplewood City again.”
Li Xuan said.
No one would embarrass Li Xuan over such a trivial matter, and everyone acquiesced to it.
It seems that the monsters will no longer attack the city, and the city has returned to calm.
The next step is to clean up the mess. Everyone divides the work. Lai Cang is responsible for rectifying the city defenses and repairing the city gates. Prefect An Rulong is responsible for appeasing the citizens. Ding Zhen and Salang need to summon the nobles and businessmen in the city to ask them to contribute money and efforts.
Li Xuan was also assigned the task. At Lai Cang's insistence, Li Xuan wrote a letter to Xia Ruixue, asking her to lead the elites from the Six Sects to Maplewood City as soon as possible.
After the discussion was over, everyone left separately.
As soon as Li Xuan walked out of the headquarters, Lai Cang hurriedly chased after him.