Struggle in the Steam Age

After listening to Nora's consolation, Lawrence didn't feel much relaxed. After all, where to go like Conan is already considered the top level of broom star, even if it is a little better than this, it is not something to celebrate.

"But to be honest, I do look like the protagonist of the story, otherwise it would be impossible to encounter so many problems from the past to the present." Lawrence complained to himself in his heart while seeking letters from the torn envelope After all, he has encountered so many things in only a few months since he traveled to the present, which is almost as good as what a normal extraordinary person has encountered in a few years.

"But considering that all the extraordinary events I have encountered can be summed up as fighting monsters and upgrading, I know that if I am really the protagonist of the story, I must have come out of a certain work, otherwise this experience will not be so obvious. Monotonous. Now the only thing I hope is that if my experience is really a book, it must not be the kind of abuse master, it is better to be the kind of powerful and invincible YY text, I really don’t mind lying down and winning.”

After thinking about these messy things in his mind, Lawrence finally calmed down and opened the letter that didn't look very flat, only to find that there were only a few short lines written on the letter.

"What did your father write in the letter?" Safir looked at Lawrence and asked a little nervously. "There's nothing serious wrong with Mr. Lambert, is there?"

"I don't know." After reading the letter, Lawrence felt even more confused. "He only asked me to hurry home as soon as possible and said that he wanted to find me for something important, but the letter didn't say what happened specifically, he just asked me to return as quickly as possible."

"Then let's go back quickly." Sai Feier took off the picture that Shumei had just drawn and stuffed it into his small bag, and then said to Lawrence. "After going down the mountain, let's go to the hot spring hotel to pick up our luggage, and immediately go to the train station to see when we can get the earliest tickets."

Because they were of course thinking of taking the train home after they had finished their tour, so they had a farewell dinner with Zhu Yan and the others before they set off to save time, and they carried their luggage with them. And this approach is obviously much more convenient now.

Lawrence and the others chose a place where no one was around and let the little puppet Nora take the two of them to fly down the mountain quickly. After picking up their luggage at the hot spring hotel, they boarded a carriage and headed straight to the East Railway Station of Xin Kuaiji.

But they didn't have the good luck of last time this time. After asking at the ticket window, they found out that the nearest train to the city near the small town in their hometown was the two tickets they had booked before, and the other trains Either you have to wait longer, or you need to spend a lot of time reversing.

"If you can afford it, you can try an airship. This type of airship for international flights has a pressurized cabin and a magic engine. When crossing a large mountain range, it can fly to more than 12,000 meters and avoid most of the airships. Dangerous extraordinary monster. It’s really not that dangerous, and it’s much faster than the train.” Seeing Lawrence and Safiel looking anxious, a hostess in a red dress came over and said to them, by the way Handed them a flyer.

After opening the leaflet, Safiel immediately leaned over to look at the contents of the leaflet with him. A huge cigar-shaped airship was printed on the background at the bottom of the leaflet. Apart from some advertisements and details about the ship, the text on it was In addition to the description of the data, the location of the airship factory and an airship timetable are also attached at the end.

"What's written on it?" Safiel, who can speak Sintan but can't write, looked at Lawrence looking at the list in his hand without saying a word, so he asked anxiously.

"This is the size and basic performance of the airship." Lawrence read this list to Safiel. "The timetable above shows that the airship we are going to take will arrive at the city at 1:00 am. After replenishing some supplies here and loading and unloading passengers, the airship will take off at 2:30 am."

"It only takes 76 hours to get to Missoula, which is the closest to our hometown, which is more than twice as fast as the train. After arriving in Missoula, we only need to take the train for 5 hours to get home. "

"Just take this airship, let's set off now!" Safiel made a decision immediately after hearing Lawrence read out the contents of the advertisement. "Uncle Lambert can write to you in this way, he must be looking for you urgently, so don't use the slow one when there is a fast one at this time. Now is not the time to worry about money."

"You're right." Lawrence nodded in agreement, and then went to the airship station in a carriage with Safir. Perhaps because taking an airship is a relatively luxurious behavior in this era, there is actually a free direct carriage at the train station to the airship station. The carriage also provides snacks and various promotional materials related to the airship.

After more than 40 minutes, the carriage arrived at the gate of the airship station. After getting off the car, several huge airship garages and a silver-white airship floating in the air appeared in front of Lawrence and the others. After following the flow of people into the departure hall, Lawrence quickly went to the ticket office to check in for the boat.

The international airship that Lawrence and the others will take is very expensive. Lawrence spent 10 times the price of the first-class train on the previous train to buy an ordinary airship cabin with two beds. According to the content shown on the ticket, this is a pocket cabin with only six square meters and needs to share the bathroom with more than a dozen people.

Fortunately, people who can take an airship are not ordinary people, plus expensive tickets. So the overall level of the waiting room is very good, no worse than the waiting room of the first-class train on the previous train.

"Is there any document introducing the airship we are going to take here?" After drinking a cup of tea, Safir pulled Lawrence's arm and pointed to a pile of magazines on the bookshelf next to him. "I'm curious what the airship we're going to ride in looks like?"

"Most of the books here seem to be related to airships." Lawrence said after looking at the books on the bookshelf. In fact, he was also quite curious about airships in this world. After all, in the world of his previous life, passenger airships were eliminated by airplanes very early on, and he had only seen some photos and a few rare videos of these behemoths.

After searching on the bookshelf for more than ten seconds, Lawrence found a book introducing the airship they were about to ride and read it in a low voice, while Safiel leaned on his shoulder quietly and earnestly as he did when he was a child. listen.

"The Prydwin airship uses light alloys obtained through alchemy as the skeleton material, and the airbags on the hull are made of high-grade enchanted cotton cloth, which is a special product of Cathay's West Frontier. The outermost layer is also covered with the same excellent enchanted light alloys. Armor."

"In addition, the airship is equipped with a variety of guns, small-caliber machine guns and six magic cannons for self-defense. At the same time, there are also two elite extraordinary teams on board to provide passengers with protection anytime and anywhere."

"And what we are most proud of is the mysterious energy core installed on the airship, which can provide sufficient energy for the entire ship without interruption for 15 years. In particular, it drives the six magical lift engines and The four magic thrust engines can make this airship climb to an altitude of 12,000 meters and fly quickly, avoiding most of the evil extraordinary creatures, and at the same time, the surging magic power can also provide the airship with a powerful enough magic shield."

"This airship is the crystallization of the labor and wisdom of all intelligent creatures involved in the construction, and represents the strength of the Republic of New State. We believe that this airship represents the future of transportation on this planet."

"Sure enough, such an era of rapid progress did not appear out of thin air." After reading the last content about the airship in the book, Lawrence closed the book and thought, "I think the reason why a civilization can progress is because of these components. Civilized intelligent creatures have the courage to explore the unknown and innovate."