Struggle in the Steam Age

Going all the way down the road, Lawrence and the others didn't find much about ancient civilizations. If you have to say it reluctantly, there are only two small buildings in the middle of the road that are probably left by that ancient civilization. However, due to the passage of time, those two small buildings have become a pile of ruins.

It's just that as Lawrence's communication with the tauren people gradually deepened, the tauren people used the stones and foundations left on the two ruins to build two small fortifications to protect this road that is more important to them. trade route. Just now Lawrence saw that each of the newly repaired outposts had a team of five or six tauren stationed there.

It can be seen that Lanhua, as a shaman, has a relatively high status among the tauren, and is quite respected by others. Because when everyone passed the outposts, the Tauren standing in the gates of the outposts would raise their weapons to salute the orchids.

Lawrence noticed that this group of tauren could be regarded as armed to the teeth. They wore rough breastplates made of iron plates, and held a huge ax or a mace reinforced with a large amount of metal in their hands. There is also a bundle of heavy javelins with cast steel heads on the back, which looks like steel fortresses.

All these weapons were purchased from Lawrence. Of course, they were not some kind of standard equipment, but were all temporarily made by the small repair shop using the tools and materials at hand. After all, it was hard to find armor in this era, not to mention that tauren couldn't wear human armor at all, nor could they use human weapons.

However, as a real fighting race, the tauren who have been using all kinds of stone tools and wood tools showed a special desire after seeing a lot of steel in the human world. So after the tauren worked, they expressed their hope to use their wages to obtain weapons.

But because they couldn't find armor in stock and weapons suitable for the size of the tauren, Lawrence and the others could only start to make a batch of weapons temporarily by using the steel bars and steel plates sent to the island after learning the needs of the tauren. Fortunately, those tauren people were very satisfied with this batch of temporary products, and there were no accidents.

According to the results of Lawrence's previous inquiries about the tauren, their ancestors had also obtained a batch of useful metal tools and weapons in their interactions with humans. It's a pity that after humans evacuated from this land, their metal sources were cut off, and there were no metal mines there, so that after that batch of metal objects were exhausted, they returned to the previous era of using stone, wood and bone tools .

Therefore, after regaining contact with humans and obtaining various metal tools and weapons, these tauren armed their hunters and guards as quickly as possible, and the ones on the sentinels that Lawrence saw on the roadside now The weapons were bought by the tauren who worked in the ports and farms before.

"In addition to these things, I also customized a batch of firearms for you." After greeting a tauren in an outpost and walking forward, Lawrence said to Lanhua, "If there are no accidents, we will send them to you next month. It will be sent over with the ships from the White Eagle Federation."

The tauren had expressed their request to Lawrence to order firearms, and Lawrence naturally agreed to them. Unlike the safe world in his previous life, there were too many dangerous creatures in the wild in this world, so ordinary people holding guns were not because of political correctness or legal regulations, but because they had to do something to survive.

It's just that after trying the current human guns, the group of tauren found that the largest human muskets on the island are not suitable for them. For example, they can only barely get their fingers into the trigger guard of the largest rifles, but the slightest movement of the gun will cause it to go off.

Moreover, the caliber of firearms commonly used by humans is too small for the tauren, and the tauren hope to obtain weapons with larger calibers. Seeing that they would be his future allies, Lawrence specially purchased a batch of large single-shot rifles modified with 23mm small-caliber rapid-fire guns through his weapon factory.

At the beginning, Lawrence felt that such a transformation might require a lot of money and energy, but then the dwarf Eugene, the director of the munitions factory, told him that although this kind of transformation is rare, it is definitely not rare, because many superhumans and some special All races have a need for this kind of large-caliber weapon, so the difficulty of this kind of transformation work can be said to be very low under everyone's research. The reason why Lawrence hadn't heard of it before was because most people didn't change it like this.

So after getting a positive answer, Lawrence commissioned him to manufacture a batch of such weapons by telegram and sent them over. However, due to the small batch production, it will take a while to get your hands on it. This is why this group of tauren only have cold weapons now.

However, these cold weapons are enough for the tauren to easily crush the scattered goblins. According to the tauren at the outpost just now, they only sent five fully armed tauren to easily crush a group of 30 goblins. Left and right groups of goblins, then cut off the heads of 25 of them.

Also because of the tauren guarding the post and the tauren patrols regularly patrolling the road, this road is as safe as a tree-lined path in the city. Taking this opportunity, everyone also enjoyed a good view of the beautiful tropical rainforest.

The golden sunlight shining on the ground through the gaps in the leaves and the sounds of various birds in the forest felt the beauty of nature, not to mention the scent of green grass and earth in the jungle. The air makes everyone in the team feel that the fatigue from the trip just now has been swept away.

"It's a pity that jungle tourism is not popular in this era, otherwise this place is definitely a good place to travel." Looking at the tropical rainforest scenery of the previous "National Geographic" on both sides of the road, Lawrence thought silently in his heart . "In my previous life, I would have spent at least 300 to 400 yuan a day to go around this kind of place."

"By the way, it should be better if you rub this on your temples and under your nose. After all, it's still a little too humid in the woods." Hearing the gasping of some people in the mission became thicker and louder, Lanhua stopped walking from her waist In the meantime, he took out a wooden jar and handed it over.

Unscrewing the lid of the jar, Lawrence found that the jar contained more than half of the emerald green transparent ointment. Stir up a little bit with your fingers and apply it on the temples and under the nose, and immediately feel that the place where it is applied is cool, and then this cool feeling slowly spreads to the whole body. There is a cool breeze blowing in general.

"The effect is very good." Lawrence said to Lanhua after handing the jar to other members of the mission. "Is this ointment a kind of potion?"

"It is indeed a kind of potion, only us shamans can make it by casting spells." Lanhua said, "However, there is a weakened version of this potion circulating in the tribe, which can be made without any magic, and the output is still low. Not small."

"That's good." Lawrence nodded in satisfaction when he heard that there was a version that could be produced without magic. In any case, the main purpose of his visit this time was to help the tauren find something that could be used to trade with humans for a long time, and this potion met his requirements.

After everyone applied the potion and drank some water, they continued to walk forward. Ten minutes later, Lan Hua, who was leading the way, turned around a small hill and shouted loudly: "Okay, everyone, hold on, now I have Once you see the Horde, you can go there right away."