Struggle in the Steam Age

The golden box surrounded by Lawrence and the others looked gorgeous. The surface of the box is inlaid with a large number of precious and semi-precious stone fragments to form a beautiful mosaic pattern. At the same time, the exposed gold surface is also decorated by means of coiling, pinching, silk, and stacking. There is no space for a single surface. of.

The only fly in the ointment is that there is a huge dent on one side of the box. This dent seems to be caused by some kind of external force. It completely destroys the decoration on that side of the box and makes the overall appearance and preciousness of the whole box drop a lot.

"What a beautiful box." Looking at the mosaic landscape pictures on the box that showed some kind of three-dimensional picture through ingenious collage, the two ladies made admiring voices at the same time. Lawrence and Zhu Yan also secretly admired the beauty of this box and the exquisite craftsmanship of the craftsman who made it.

"Fortunately, those mermaids have rich experience in salvage." Zhu Yan sighed after carefully looking around the golden box, "When they salvage, they will use thin steel rods to search carefully in the mud near the search location to see what is there. The scattered things, if we go into the water, we will probably miss such a treasure."

"It's really lucky." Lawrence also deepened his idea of ​​leaving professional matters to professionals this time, and then he released an identification technique on the box.

[Secret Box, a special product of the senior mana craftsman of the Peacock Empire, which can slow down the decay of the items placed inside to the greatest extent. At the same time, it has a strong anti-theft function, and it must require a specific method to open it. 】

[This secret box is only covered and sealed, and the magic defense function has not been activated, so it only needs brute force to open it. However, the contents may have been destroyed. 】

"Open it with brute force?" Lawrence silently read the last sentence identified in his heart, and then said to Safiel, "The magic on this box has completely disappeared, so we used some method to forcibly open this box. "

"Do you need to destroy this box? It's a pity, but leave this job to me." Safir first showed a regretful expression, then took out a dagger from his belt around his waist, and put The dagger stuck to the side of the gold box and slowly exerted force.

But obviously, the gold on the surface of the box is probably mixed with some other metals to make the box stronger. So even though Safir's arm was so hard that Lawrence could see her muscles bulge through the gaps in the armor on her arm. However, the enchanted dagger in her hand still only poked a groove on the surface of the box, and did not pierce the thin wall of the box as expected.

"Drink—" Safiel is naturally not the kind of guy who only relies on brute force. After a light drink, a thin layer of transparent magic power like glass wrapped the dagger blade in her hand. Then there was a sound, and the tip of the dagger blessed with magic power easily pierced through the wall of the box and sank into the box.

A few seconds later, with the movement of the tip of Safiel's knife, the entire box was cut in half from it. But just as she was cutting, wisps of black smoke with a rancid smell seeped out of the box.

After discovering that the smoke seeped out, Lawrence and the others did not rush to pick apart the upper half of the cut box, but placed it on the ground and picked it up with a stick. It has to be said that his decision was correct, because after the upper half of the box was picked apart with a wooden stick, a large puff of black smoke came out of the box, and then disappeared into the air.

Just as the black smoke was coming out, there was a stench that forced Lawrence and the others to cover their noses, because the stench was like the smell of broken eggs. When the black smoke and stench cleared away, everyone looked inside the box curiously, hoping to see what would be contained in such a precious box for the first time.

"What is this?" The things in the box surprised everyone, because what appeared in front of them was a pile of nearly carbonized organic matter. It's completely different from the precious treasure they thought should be packed in this kind of box.

"Don't move around." Lawrence stopped Zhu Yan who was curious and wanted to touch him in time. Then he took out his own medical box from the space bag, took out the tweezers and bamboo skewers, took out the messy things in the box, put it on a piece of cloth just spread on the beach, and then put it on the white cloth Spread out this pile of things little by little.

Although this thing rotted a bit because the magic defense on the gold box was not activated, the sealing of the gold box itself had a certain effect before it was completely rotted into ashes. As Lawrence opened up bit by bit, a piece of tights with a hood appeared on the beach.

"I always feel that this thing should not be in the original gold box." After squatting down and looking carefully, Saifeier expressed his point of view, "It can be seen that this dress should be made of leather, but no matter Is it the leather treatment or it is too rough, and I even feel that the leather has not been tanned well."

"This is a stealth suit made of wild quilt leather." As Safir said, this suit is a kind of emergency product made in a hurry, so Zhu Yan passed through those suits that still maintain the original biological characteristics. Leather recognized what the dress was made of.

"Wild quilt?" Both Lawrence and Safir can communicate in Sintan, but because they are not native speakers, they don't know some proper terms.

"This is an extraordinary creature that used to live in Yingzhou. Traditionally, we call such things monsters." Okita Sakura saw Lawrence's confusion, so she stepped forward to explain. "This kind of monster known as wild quilt has a bit of a bat-like habit. It is a nocturnal and social creature."

"However, unlike bats, they look more like a pillowcase. Not only do they fly silently, but they are also difficult to find in the dark."

"Among the monsters in Yingzhou, this kind of monster that eats small animals and insects is relatively friendly to intelligent creatures. Under normal circumstances, it will not attack large creatures or humans, and it can also restrain insect monsters. Overbreeding."

"That means this thing is only available in Yingzhou?" Lawrence asked after hearing Okita Sakura's introduction to the material of this costume.

"How is it possible?" Okita Sakura shook her head, "Back then our ancestors and the Sindan people came here together on the first boat and unintentionally brought these things with them. It took only a dozen years for this thing to appear on the big island. Much west of the mountains."

"In other words, this dress was probably made near here." Lawrence said a little excitedly, "Do you think this dress was put in by the person who took the treasure back then? , originally thought that the explosion would destroy the body, but I didn’t expect that the gold box was not only not blown up, but could be found again.”

"Very likely." Zhu Yan also thought of something after hearing Lawrence's words. "According to the information I checked, when the war broke out that year, there were patrols along the entire coastline to avoid the sneak attack of the Peacock Empire squad. Although they could not achieve comprehensive defense, these patrols existed. So if this It's absolutely understandable for people to get some protective gear for themselves if they want to go back to the coast and don't want to be found."

"It would be great if we could find out the exact origin of these wild quilts." Safir looked at the torn clothes in front of him and muttered, "Maybe we can find some useful clues there."

"Unfortunately, even in that era, this thing was widely distributed. Therefore, it is impossible to tell the exact location simply by relying on these furs." Zhu Yan shook his head regretfully as he said this. It really sucks to be cut off again.