Struggle in the Steam Age

Because Lawrence and Zhu Yan both carried space equipment, they quickly built a temporary camp above the highest tide line on the beach, and then took out a kerosene stove to heat up field food.

After a simple meal of flour, bacon, dried vegetables and cheese, everyone chatted around the kerosene stove for a while before going to bed, and then everyone took turns to stay on duty at night as usual.

Early the next morning, Lawrence and the others got up just as the sun had just risen above the sea level. After a simple wash and an equally simple breakfast, they started to move. Zhu Yan took out a 30cm-long wooden box from his arms and placed it on the beach, and after saying something, the box quickly inflated. A few seconds later, a small wooden boat with a length of about five meters floated on the coast one or two meters away from the sea.

"This is a collapsible boat. It's a permanent magic item, and it can also be called a strange thing." Seeing everyone looking at the small wooden boat curiously, Zhu Yan explained aloud. "It has two forms. Because it is going to sail on the sea now, there may be some wind and waves, so I made it look like a big ship."

"Of course, I can't afford this kind of luxury. The one you see now is borrowed from the family." Having said that, Zhu Yan shrugged. "Fortunately, I checked the information in this sea area and there are no powerful creatures. Otherwise, once this kind of thing destroys me for a season, it will be equivalent to nothing."

After all four people boarded the boat, Okita Sakura went to the stern and shook the scull, and refused Lawrence's help. "My father has been fishing for a living after being injured and retired. I grew up on a fishing boat until I was nine years old and was chosen by my master Mr. Kondo to be his apprentice. No one here knows how to steer this kind of boat better than me. , so don’t be too kind to help me.”

Ten minutes later, the ship arrived above the position recorded in the book. Then, the ship manipulated by Sakura Okita slowly expanded the search area in a spiral shape centered on this place, while Lawrence activated the powerful power of the eyes.

With the help of the ability equivalent to the third-level magic [Mysterious Sight], Lawrence quickly saw the magical reactions scattered on the seabed. Then he summoned the phantoms of two murlocs and two extraordinary fish on the Bai Ze map, and ordered them to go down to the bottom of the sea to check every magic power point.

Soon, Lawrence received a lot of information from the bottom of the sea through the perception of these phantoms. For these naturally aquatic creatures, the turbid waters and the dim light of the seabed are not a hindrance to their patrols. But as time went by, Lawrence obtained more and more information, which made his brows slowly wrinkle.

"What did you find?" Zhu Yan, who was squatting on the bow of the boat with an automatic rifle in his hand, was guarding. He noticed that Lawrence's face was getting uglier, so he approached and asked. "What did your monster phantoms see, did they find the wreckage we were looking for?"

"I haven't found it yet, but some discoveries now give me a bit of an ominous premonition." Lawrence shook his head, and then ordered the underwater phantoms to gather the things they just picked up into a murloc phantom. Shadow's hand, and then the phantom murloc brought the things up.

Soon, the head of this slightly lacking-looking fish boat was exposed, and then the two clenched front paws were stretched out of the water, and some scattered things held in the front paws were thrown on the bottom of the boat .

"What is this?" Except for Okita Sakura who needed to grasp the direction of the ship, the other two people on the ship gathered around to look at the things that had just been salvaged. And Lawrence threw a net to the phantom murloc and continued to direct it to salvage underwater things.

"Why doesn't any of these things seem complete?" Safiel asked in a puzzled manner when Lawrence sat back to his original position. See what's wrong with it.

The dozen or so things that appeared on the hull plank were as big as a person's palm, and as small as the tip of a pinky finger. Most of them were planks of wood with some kind of gold and silver wire inlay on them, scraps of metal or pieces of marble. The other part is relatively complete semi-precious stones, such as moonstone, sunstone, citrine.

But these semi-precious stones can be seen from the traces above that they are not the kind of cut semi-precious stones that are usually used for trading or as some kind of raw materials, but fell from a certain place where they were inlaid before.

"The situation is wrong! This should be something inside the cabin." Zhu Yan picked up a palm-sized fragment of a transparent crystal vessel and looked at it carefully. The reason why this fragment had a magical reaction was because it was inlaid with three purple mung bean-sized pieces. crystal. It looked like it had come off some kind of experimental equipment.

"It's true that the situation is a bit abnormal." Lawrence took the fragment and nodded. He recognized that the fragment should have fallen from the grinding bowl commonly used by the Mauryan Empire hundreds of years ago, and such things are naturally Will not appear on deck. At the same time, many of the things salvaged in this batch are things that theoretically only belong to the interior of the cabin.

And it is not a good sign that so many things in the cabins are scattered on the bottom of the sea, which shows that the cabin they are looking for has a high probability of being broken, so there are so many things in the cabins scattered on the entire seabed.

"Maybe the situation isn't that bad." Safir encouraged the two men on board after watching them become a little frustrated, "I remember that there should be a watertight cabin in the ship, even if the cabin is really exhausted because of energy. It lost its magic protection and broke, and I also believe that so many watertight compartments inside should have survived."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded, and then continued to manipulate the phantoms of those aquatic monsters to search for all places with magical reactions underwater. Ten minutes later, when the murloc elite phantom explored a magic reaction point under the mud with the spear in his hand, he found that there seemed to be a big thing under the mud.

"I seem to have found it." Lawrence happily said to everyone on the boat after ordering the remaining three phantoms to explore together for five or six minutes.

"What?" Now everyone was attracted, even Okita Sakura took back the oar in her hand and walked to the front cabin to participate in the discussion.

"What's the situation underwater?" Zhu Yan was the first to ask, and the others also looked at Lawrence, expecting him to answer.

"It's worse." Lawrence said, summoning the book charm of the space agent and taking out a lot of paper and pens. "The hull is 500 to 600 meters westward from the information we received. It is now within the range of the underwater impact fan of the river. Most of the structures have been buried under the mud."

"Now I let my book charm draw a little bit of what I see." Lawrence said to everyone while manipulating the phantoms to continuously expand the detection range. "It might take a little while, because a few hundred years is long enough to have a thick layer of silt on top of what we're looking for."

Cleaning up the silt underwater is a very troublesome job, especially the amount of silt accumulated on the shipwreck that has been placed on the river impact fan for more than 200 years far exceeds Lawrence's previous estimation.

Fortunately, the little puppet Nora really didn't want to wait too long. So after a simple exchange, Lawrence waved her hand, and then she jumped into the water like an ordinary puppet. With the help of a master extraordinary construct, Lawrence finally cleared up the general outline of the entire underwater ruins and drew it through the book charm in the second hour after going out to sea.

"Now we are in big trouble." Looking at the wreckage of the ship broken into three pieces in the picture, Zhu Yan showed a troubled expression on his face, especially after knowing that these cabins were full of mud.