Struggle in the Steam Age

"This situation is obviously abnormal." After Lawrence and Safir shared the map and information they had just bought from the market with everyone, the priest named Hannah said immediately.

"I know that sometimes there may be multiple teams selling the same information, but it is very abnormal for so many merchants to work together at the same time like now, and what is sold is a relic that has been cleaned up. "

"You're right." Lawrence nodded in approval. Although he didn't have much experience in various adventures, he found a lot of records about it in the church back then.

According to those records, this kind of large-scale map falsification often occurs before those important treasures appear, and some people want to muddy the water, and this behavior of selling so-called ruins maps after knowing that the treasures have been dug is obvious and normal. The situation is different.

"Then why is this happening now?" Safir asked a little puzzled. "It's obviously just an empty underground labyrinth. I'm curious, who else would choose to venture to that kind of place, except for me who is really free these days—"

"Wait, there really are." When Safiel said this, Lawrence suddenly reacted with a cleverness. Then he looked at the tauren in front of him and asked. "I remember you said before that you pick customers when you buy things."

"Indeed." said Hannah, the priest of the Goddess of Wealth. "Because those things in the underground labyrinth have been emptied, and after we checked at the time, we found that there should be no dangerous supernatural creatures along the way. So I asked Hammer to find these things for rich people to see if they can be sold. go out."

"After all, except for some extraordinary people, at least half of the people who come to this place are high-society people who don't have much extraordinary combat power, but are quite wealthy nobles."

I think for them, this kind of place that is not dangerous, but where they can take risks should be very popular with them. Because it allows them to show their strength, but I don't put them in danger. "

"For example, I think the reason why Hammer decided to sell you is also very simple, because your sense of unfamiliarity with the local market and the tone of your voice are really different from those nobles and rich people who come here for vacation. It looks very similar."

"It's worthy of being the priest of the Goddess of Wealth!" Lawrence sighed silently in his heart. At least in his opinion, this priest named Hannah can be said to have sold the goods on hand at the highest price. It even opened up a new market from a place that most people didn't realize at all.

But also because of her story, Lawrence realized a blind spot in his thinking that he hadn't noticed before, so he hurriedly asked. "That is to say, according to your experience, those who are willing to buy this kind of map are often not regular extraordinary adventurers, but just some high-society people who are looking for excitement."

"That's right, at least that's the case based on my decades of adventure experience." The middle-aged soldier who introduced himself as Karen just now said.

"And according to the experience here in the past years, this kind of relic information that we consider to be 'harmless' has been selling well in the past few months. After all, many rich people will come to this place to enjoy the hot springs at this time. Take a look around in the underground market."

"Especially this month, because the previous snow has almost melted now, so it is not as difficult as before. But the weather temperature is still very cold. So those who travel from these hot spring areas at this time to travel to various regions have Money people are the most in a year."

"So there should be a lot of people selling those maps and buying them at this time." Lawrence continued, "It's definitely not right that there are so many maps suddenly appearing at this time. Maybe there is some conspiracy that we don't know about."

"Then what should we do next?" After hearing what Lawrence said, Safiel immediately turned his head to look at Lawrence and asked, "Should we report this situation to the people in Sword Bay immediately?"

"No, of course not." Lawrence waved his hand and rejected Safir's idea. "Just selling this kind of map together does not explain anything. Although this matter looks suspicious, without definite evidence, it is impossible for us to directly find various official organizations to deal with this issue."

"This is indeed a problem." Hannah nodded after listening to Lawrence's words. As a professional clergyman, she naturally knew what kind of procedures needed to be followed to get an existence like the church to take action.

"But we can't turn a blind eye to this abnormality. Obviously these things look a little wrong now, and there may be some dangers now—"

"Then we can go and see for ourselves what the current situation is in that place." Lawrence said seriously, and this suggestion was quickly agreed by everyone.

Because for adventurers, the current abnormal situation often means that there are some things behind the scenes that everyone does not know. And this kind of thing often turns into some new adventures, and brings some new and valuable gains to the participants of those adventures.

Soon, everyone made an appointment to meet at a rest stop between the two districts of Jianwan City at around 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Then the two sides parted ways to find their own reinforcements.

Lawrence, who trotted down the hill, quickly found Bach waiting there in the parking lot not far down the hill, and told him what happened just now, and then asked if he could mobilize all the troops in this place in a short time. What is the number of manpower?

"We have a lot of manpower here, but it's not so easy to find reliable and capable ones." After being asked by Lawrence, Bach also showed a very serious expression on his face. "By the way, Your Excellency, can you tell us about the general situation of the enemy we are going to face?"

"Because I'm just suspicious of the overall situation now, so I don't know what the enemy's situation is." After hearing Bach's question, Lawrence showed a helpless expression on his face.

"However, I feel that since the opponent's target this time has chosen those rich people who seem to have little resistance instead of regular adventurers, I feel that they should not be some powerful existence."

"Your analysis makes sense, Your Excellency." Bach nodded. "And judging from the most likely target of the other party's action, I don't think there will be too many high-level transcendents if someone really plans to attack."

This analysis made both Lawrence and Safir nod their heads. After all, extraordinary people or organizations with relatively high extraordinary levels often have high vision. The indirect method is set up.

To give the simplest example, Lawrence can now be regarded as a high-level transcendent in the world of ordinary people.

Even if he is just an ordinary person now and does not have various identities, this extraordinary level is enough for him to obtain a lot of wealth or some extraordinary items that are common at low levels.

That's why Lawrence and the others thought that if there were really some people behind this incident who planned to take some kind of conspiracy, there shouldn't be many high-level Transcendents.

From another point of view, if extraordinary power is excluded, the other party will definitely need a lot of people to make big news. So in order to avoid catastrophic consequences, Lawrence and the others also need to gather enough people.

Especially when the existing enemy in modern times is likely to have an advantage in numbers, Lawrence and the others feel that they must recruit enough people if they want to participate in this matter.