Struggle in the Steam Age

Just as Lawrence and the others sat around a tablecloth covered with food and began to enjoy a hearty breakfast, the sound of wings flapping suddenly came from the mist. Then two metal owl constructs flew out of the mist one after the other.

"Don't do it, it's an owl letter from the special post office." Seeing that Nora was about to fly up to intercept the two constructed owls that were too close, Lawrence immediately stopped her. Because before the owl broke out of the mist, Lawrence felt the magic power for identification released by these two big constructed birds.

This owl-shaped construct is a product of the Magic Association, and is often used for short-distance emergency communications in places where there is a Magic Association. If the recipient of some urgent mail is not present after being delivered to the receiving location, the members of the Magic Association will ask these owl constructs to deliver the letter to the nearby recipient.

Of course, this method of using prophecy magic to find people is also easily blocked. It's just that Lawrence and the others didn't have any targeted defenses to block this very simple search magic.

Because they feel that although they are doing a very important thing now, they need to avoid all kinds of prying eyes. But completely shielding his figure at this time would easily arouse suspicion. So there was no defense as usual. Naturally, when the construction owl took off from the Huguang City Post Office, it quickly found Lawrence and the others.

Sure enough, the two mechanical owls painted brown didn't make any dangerous movements, but quickly landed beside Lawrence and the others, and then twisted their necks to scan over Lawrence and the others.

However, Lawrence knew that the two owl constructs did not look at them with the two glass beads carved into the shape of eyes installed on the front of their faces, but used some kind of magic circle installed on their heads to detect the recipients on the opposite side. Certain information is used to determine the identity of the recipient.

Soon after scanning everyone, the two owl constructs jumped in front of Lawrence like two fat chickens, and then a metal plate on the chest snapped open, revealing the letters inside. .

After Lawrence took out the letters from the bodies of the two owl constructs, the metal covers on the chests of the two owls were immediately covered, and then they flapped their wings and returned to the direction of the city.

"If I remember correctly, such a letter costs 50 cents at the cheapest price. If there is no important matter, most people will not spend this money to send a letter." Seifel looked at the two letters in Lawrence's hand and said of. "I think it's an owl flying over from Huguang City. Is it Kogg who needs to find us?"

"Probably not." Lawrence opened the envelope of the first letter, pulled out the letter paper, and shook his head after taking a look, "The first letter was from my father. He said that if you want to visit him, it's best to wait a month later." , he has something to do now and needs to travel far away."

"Uncle Lambert is going on a long trip, and he will go out for a month?" The news made Safiel's eyes widen suddenly, because in her impression, in the more than ten years since she remembered Lawrence's adoptive father never left the town at all, and even spent most of his time in his chapel doing various experiments except for some necessary time to go out, which can be said to be a standard Otaku.

So after hearing that Lawrence's adoptive father was going on a long trip suddenly, Safiel was naturally a little surprised, and even worried that there might be some problems.

"Yes." Lawrence nodded, then looked at Safiel who was showing a nervous expression and said. "But don't worry, my father is going out this time because he has made an important breakthrough in the mastery of extraordinary power."

"In the letter, he said that he had invented a technology that uses stencil printing. After offering sacrifices to the God of Knowledge, he obtained divine grace, and then successfully became an expert priest. So now he must go to the Great Salt Lake Temple To complete the necessary training to master these powers and receive the new priesthood, based on usual experience, this process plus the time on the road will take about a month."

"So that's the case, that's good." Safiel nodded, then turned to look at Lawrence. "Then what shall we do in the next 20 days or so? Before the two of us took a look at the surrounding attractions, although it was just to cover up our actions at the time, but it is definitely very important to look at it again. boring."

"I'm not sure either—" Lawrence opened the second letter, and after roughly scanning the entire letter, he immediately turned his head and looked at Safir's face. "Okay, I think we have somewhere to go now. Because in this letter Zhu Yan invited us to the Republic of New Island, and he went on an adventure with a ruin together."

It is not surprising that Zhu Yan was able to find him. After all, when he was visiting Huguang City, Lawrence sent a postcard to his relatives and friends. After receiving it, they knew where Lawrence was now.

"Ruins, adventure?" Safiel felt a little strange after hearing Lawrence's words. "Then what did he ask us to do? If I remember correctly, he comes from a big family of Cathaan origin in the Republic of New Island, so he shouldn't be able to find suitable teammates in this kind of adventure."

"He explained this problem in the letter." Lawrence pointed to a paragraph in the letter and said to Safir and Nora who just flew above his head out of curiosity.

"He also wanted to find his own family members at the beginning, after all, this is the most attractive. But just now, those people in his family have received help from the Ice Bear tribe in the Northern Extreme North State and their family alliance, so The powerful mobile forces of the entire family have all gone north to aid their allies, and the rest of them need to guard their ancestral land and cannot spare enough time."

"Those younger peers of his can leave, but it's a pity that their family is better at the manufacture and operation of various magic props. There are not many real spellcasters, and now the young people among those spellcasters are basically Shangdu joined the reinforcements going north or guarded the ancestral land, there is no way to help Zhu Yan."

"As for his friends who are not from the same family, they are basically people who are as good at machinery as he is, or warriors. There is really no reliable spellcaster, otherwise he would not ask for help from us."

"It turns out that's the case, then it's understandable." Nora nodded seriously, and then said to Lawrence with one hand on her chin, "After all, the two of you worked together happily before, plus you Both belong to very prestigious people, and both of them can trust each other. So it is very reasonable for him to write to invite you."

"Of course, according to my analysis, there may be other reasons that are not easy to disclose." Speaking of which, Nora leaned on Lawrence's sitting body and made a Conan's iconic pose. "But don't worry, Zhu Yan's hidden things will definitely not hurt you. The reason why he didn't say anything is probably because these things need to be interviewed."

"It should be like this." Lawrence also nodded, because he really couldn't think of a reason why Zhu Yan would lie to him.

In this way, the itinerary for the next month is naturally determined. They decided to return to Huguang City today, and then take the New Continent Express over the mountains to the largest port city in the north of the Xinzhou Republic, which is also the city where Zhu Yan and the others are currently located. , New Kuaiji.

Of course, they are not short of money now. However, for superhumans, taking risks together is a part of socializing. If you want to integrate into the normal life of superhumans, sometimes you have to participate in this kind of thing.

"I hope we can buy tickets now." After deciding on his goal, Lawrence began to worry that he might not be able to buy tickets in a short time. After all, this train is very popular. In some peak seasons, travelers often need to buy tickets for this train three or five days in advance.

So after returning to Huguang City as quickly as possible, Lawrence and the others went straight to the train station. Unfortunately, as expected, all the tickets for this afternoon are sold out. Fortunately, there are still a few tickets for tomorrow afternoon. Just when they were helplessly preparing to buy tickets for tomorrow, the sudden quarrel at the ticket refund office attracted their attention.