Struggle in the Steam Age

"This may be the garbage left by John's boat. From this, we can infer that John and his team deviated a little for some reason two hours after the first day of contact." After looking at the can, Lawrence said that what he had in his hand was an empty tinplate can that was bigger than a fist, and the remaining label paper on the box showed that it was a can of citrus in syrup from the Republic of New Zealand.

It is not surprising to find this can, after all, only a few small spots have been corroded on the top of the can, and the whole is still shiny silver. And now the sun is so bright here, it is easy to spot such a metal can glistening in shallow water under the sunlight.

"How is this determined?" Lei Suo asked in shock. "I can only tell that this box is very new, and it has been thrown into the water for less than half a month, but I can't tell who the previous owner of this box is. After all, this is just a box, and there is no written name on it. Name."

As they spoke, the Enterprise slowly stopped. Because if you go further, the density of the reef will already be able to threaten the hull. And now the whole ship is very close to the reef beach, and Lawrence's magic range can already cover the sea area of ​​this reef.

After the ship anchored, Lawrence directed the monster phantoms to continue searching for various suspicious targets, while explaining to Lei Suo how he judged the direction of Paladin John and the others from such an empty tin can.

"This kind of deduction is also very simple." Lawrence said while pointing to the text on the box, "Because this can is imported from the New Island Federation, such a small 600-gram can is sold in the White Eagle Federation. It costs 20 cents. Considering that it is very close to the east and west sides of Xindalu North Road, it may be as cheap as 17 or 8 cents.”

Speaking of this, Lei Suo still looked at a bewildered expression. Lawrence could only helplessly continue to explain: "Although people who go to sea now bring a lot of canned food as food on the road, considering the price issue, most cargo ship owners often only buy some cheap canned food. "

"Even if you are on a passenger ship with an expedition team or ordinary tourists, the canned food prepared on board is similar to pineapples in syrup, which is both grade and cost. Only this kind of luxury cans imported from overseas will appear.”

"According to the information I inquired before, although there are sixty or seventy ships sailing nearby during this period, most of them are fishing boats, whalers or cargo ships. The only passenger who can afford this canned food Yes, only John's sloop."

Lawrence's analysis was unanimously approved by the people around him, but in order to confirm the news more accurately, he took out the coin and did the divination again. As expected, the result of the divination showed that the tin can was in John's place. It was thrown off the boat after being eaten.

After simply searching the reef, Lawrence, who found no other clues, pulled anchor and set sail again. However, considering that the route had shifted, Lawrence crossed out two locations in other directions from the remaining five locations waiting to be searched.

"Our next target is Jinquan Island." Nora pointed to a small dot on the chart with a stick and said, "This island is very small, a pocket island with a diameter of only about 500 meters. But because the island There is a miraculous freshwater spring, which makes this small island a place for those offshore fishing boats to replenish freshwater."

"However, because this island is more than 40 nautical miles south of the route planned by John's expedition team, we did not list Jinquan Island as a key search target at the beginning." After the little puppet introduced the specific situation of the island , Lawrence continued. "But now that they've confirmed they're off course, the island is worth a visit."

Four hours later, Jinjin appeared near Jinquan Island. But what I didn't expect was that before approaching the island along that channel, a group of uninvited guests stared at their ship and launched an attack.

"Damn it, why are there so many murlocs in this place?" Lawrence stood on the side of the ship, manipulating the phantoms of those aquatic monsters to kill every murloc who tried to approach the ship below the waterline and tried to destroy the ship, frantically He complained a lot, and beside him, a group of people with weapons kept shooting at the blue-gray murloc figures.

The only good thing is that the seabed of this place is a relatively gentle sandy slope, and the water depth is not deep. Therefore, there is not much room for the murlocs to hide and move around. Therefore, these people on the boat are sure to kill this group of around 1,000 fish crowd with their weapons.

"Something is really wrong." Nora, whose ten fingers were all stained with silver thread, used the thread to cut up several murlocs who were too close to the boat, and then said to Lawrence through soul connection, "From these murlocs Judging from the clothing and weapons on their bodies, they don't seem to come from the same tribe."

"Waterproof grenade, throw it!" Considering that there may be underwater operations this time, Lawrence prepared a batch of specially modified bombs that can explode underwater. Although it is called a grenade, its size is more like the anti-frogman pocket depth charge that Lawrence encountered in his previous life. Only the group of large tauren on board can throw this thing with their hands.

After the order was given, 12 tauren under the command of Lanhua took out a long metal bomb with a thick and thin human forearm from the box, and then pulled a metal ring at the end of the bomb and threw it out.

These bombs quickly drew an arc in the air and fell into the sea 20 to 30 meters away from the ship, splashing out more than a dozen sprays. After waiting for a few seconds, a dull explosion sounded. At the same time, more than a dozen sprays exploded on the surface of the sea, which looked like fountains from a distance.

The effect of this explosion was much better than expected. The murloc's seemingly crazy attack was immediately interrupted, and then dispersed in a crowd. Even if Nora was the first to react and start chasing, she only had time to kill five or six murlocs who ran behind.

Soon, Lawrence and the others figured out what happened. Because a large number of blue murloc corpses surfaced one after another. Obviously, the shock wave formed by the batch of grenades that exploded underwater just now caused severe internal rupture and internal bleeding in a large number of murlocs. And this large-scale death also completely destroyed the morale of other murlocs, causing them to flee.

Because it is very close to Jinquan Island, Lawrence and the others moved the boat close to the island and started post-war finishing work. After everyone was busy examining the bodies of the murlocs, the staff on the ship brought an unusual result.

"We just checked the bodies of those murlocs, and besides being able to confirm that they came from six to seven tribes, we made another big discovery—" the tauren shaman Lanhua said, and she and the tauren just used iron hooks The long stick hooked the murlocs to the deck for inspection, and now they naturally ran to report to Lawrence after getting the first-hand information.

"You mean that this group of murlocs are all ordinary warrior murlocs, without a leader, let alone a caster?" Lawrence frowned after listening to Lan Hua's detailed report. Because this is completely inconsistent with the usual state of the murlocs.

In addition, according to the information he got before, there were no murlocs in the local area before. Otherwise, this place will not become a freshwater supply place for those offshore fishing boats. Combining this information, he realized that there was a problem in the entire nearby sea area, and it was probably related to John's team.