Struggle in the Steam Age

　　 July 1, Saturday, in the square in front of the Great Fountain of Far Harbor University. Lawrence was fully armed and sat on a bench by the fountain basking in the sun. According to the previous agreement, today is the day of the expedition departure.

　　 After sitting on the bench for a few minutes, a young man with brown curly hair and eyes of the same color walked over from the school gate. When he came to the edge of the fountain, he first looked around and then walked to where Lawrence was sitting.

　　 "Are you Mr. Lawrence August?" After walking to Lawrence, the young man bent slightly and stretched out his right hand to ask. "I am the team doctor of this Baron Gonzalez expedition."

　　 "Yes, I am." Lawrence quickly stood up and shook his outstretched right hand, and then asked. "I didn't seem to have seen you in school before. May I ask if you are—"

　　 "My name is Jonas Liszt. I opened a clinic in Eagle Fort." The young man introduced that Lawrence opened his eyes as soon as he finished speaking.

"You are the legendary slasher Liszt? The famous senior who cut off a leg in the school operating room in 25 seconds the year before. I saw Professor Liston a while ago and he kept telling me that you are His most proud disciple will definitely achieve more achievements than him in the future.

　　 "Ah, that's just something from the past." Liszt tugged upward, revealing a kindly smile. "Those glory is a thing of the past, and I'm just an ordinary surgeon now. By the way, I remember that you are the schoolboy who invented the Far Harbor First Aid—"

　　 "It's just because of my luck and the meticulous guidance of the instructor -" Lawrence said with a smile, and time passed quickly between the two people to praise each other, until a voice interrupted them.

　　 "Good morning, gentlemen." Baron Gonzalez appeared in front of the fountain and waved his hand to say hello, "Are you all ready? If you are ready, follow me!"

　　Because that ruin is not far from the city, and a road has been built to connect it to the future industrial area, the expedition team just rented an ordinary public carriage as a means of transportation.

　　In the carriage of the carriage, Baron Gonzalez began to introduce the members of the expedition to each other. In the introduction, Lawrence learned that the expedition had a total of 16 people. Except for the two team doctors Lawrence and Jonas Liszt, the remaining 14 people came from three places.

　　 The first wave of people was a professor named Edward and his two students. They came from the School of Archaeology at Miska University, specializing in local history, and were the core members of the expedition. After entering the ruins, they will complete the main inspection and research work.

　　 The second wave of people are two people wearing cowboy hats and leather jackets. According to their self-introduction, Lawrence learned that they are a pair of siblings. The siblings have a dagger and a pistol on each side of their belts, and a double-barreled shotgun on their backs. The belts on their bodies are full of bullets for the guns.

　　 A silver badge is attached to the clothes on their left chest and heart, and the rifles and daggers crossed above illustrate their identity: the demon hunter.

　　The Demon Hunter is a kind of extraordinary profession, and has gained powerful power through a series of magical body transformation. Can skillfully use a variety of weapons, potions, and some simple spell-like abilities.

　　 Of course, the result of such a comprehensive development is comprehensive mediocrity, which makes them much more difficult than others when they become advanced transcendents. But among the low- and middle-level transcendents, the combat power of these all-rounders is second to none, and at the same time they have additional damage to various evil creatures.

　　 The remaining eight people are gunners in the Baron Gonzales plantation, and each one carries at least two guns, one long and one short. And from the bullet belt on them, you can see that they have prepared some extraordinary bullets.

　　Because everyone is not familiar with each other, the car returned to quiet after the introduction of myself. In this silence, the carriage drove into the gate of a construction site.

　　 The construction site was as quiet as the carriage. After the ruins were discovered, all the works on this construction site stopped, and the workers went to other construction sites in the city to work. Except for a few workers who were left to visit the site, no one stayed here on the entire site.

　　 After bypassing the piled bricks and piles of wood at the entrance of the construction site, the carriage stopped in front of the work shed. After the car stopped, everyone filed out of the carriage.

After getting out of the car, Baron Gonzalez yelled something in their southern Casti language, and immediately walked out of the work shed, a dark-skinned flaming European man wearing only a pair of trousers, shirtless, and a pigtail. .

　　 Gonzalez was the first to get out of the car and shook hands with him, and then the two said a few words. After speaking, the Yanzhou native ran directly into the work shed, and Gonzalez turned his head and said to everyone on the expedition: "This is Bobu, who was also one of the workers who discovered this ruin. . In a while, he will take twenty workers down with us to do some chores."

　　 The words of the Baron naturally won the favor of everyone on the expedition, because although the White Eagle Federation is a republic, it claims to pay more attention to fairness and equality than the Old World. However, there are still obvious class divisions in real life.

　　 Therefore, the people of the expedition team naturally don't want to do some chores by themselves. In this case, it is a great thing to have workers who can do it for you.

　　 Soon, the Yanzhou native named Bubu got out of the low work shed with a dozen of the same dark-skinned and taciturn workers. Lawrence noticed that these people had a tattoo like a snake on their shoulders.

　　 "Boob's workers are from the same tribe with him." After discovering that Lawrence and a few others had paid attention to the tattoos on the workers' shoulders, Baron Gonzalez hurried up to explain. "The tattoo on their shoulder is a sign of their tribe."

"It turned out to be like this." Lawrence and the others nodded. It's not that they were nervous. After all, in the culture of the New World, whether it is the culture of Sbania, Briton or Aurora, snakes Neither is a symbol of justice.

　　 However, there are a large number of tribes advocating primitive natural totems in Yanzhou and the wild areas of the Old Continent. They worship all kinds of things as their belief totems, especially some natural spirits. In this case, the snake does not represent evil.

After 　　 explained a small misunderstanding, the tension that seemed a bit nervous just now eased. After checking their own equipment and necessary tools for the last time, everyone followed Bubu to the location of a sewer manhole cover.

　　 Opening the manhole cover, Bobo and the two workers jumped down with the lantern. After that, the entire expedition and the group of workers filed down. At the end of the team was a gunman, and he covered the manhole cover when he went down.

　　 What everyone didn't know was that shortly after they entered the underground pipeline, an unmarked carriage came to the site and unloaded a few people.