Struggle in the Steam Age

On the second morning on the airship, Lawrence was awakened by the little doll Nora. Opening his eyes, looking at the darkness in front of him, Lawrence wanted to sleep again, but he heard the little puppet shout, "It's already seven o'clock, my brother, if you don't get up again, the breakfast in the restaurant should be gone."

"What? It's seven o'clock?" Lawrence, who had just closed his eyes, suddenly opened them again, only to find that there was still darkness in front of him. But at this moment he realized that he was in the airship, and this cabin had no windows, so naturally he couldn't see the rising sun during the day.

After waking up Safiel and going to the bathroom in the corridor outside the door to wash up, they came to the dining room with Nora. Unexpectedly, the waiter in the restaurant not only did not show any surprised expressions after seeing the little dolls talking to Lawrence and Safir, but brought a set of small tableware that seemed to be used by children to put on it. In front of Nora.

Lawrence thought about it for a while and thought it might be because his appearance was a bit different after awakening his bloodline, so he was naturally recognized as a warlock. And the habits that Safir cultivated in the girls' school also made her easily mistaken for the eldest lady of a wealthy family. In this case, it is also very reasonable that they carry some kind of rare transcendent item.

And in this world, there is a kind of construction puppets called companion puppets. Although they have no soul, they can communicate with intelligent creatures or do other things. Some wealthy or noble families will have one or two of these puppets as a luxury to flaunt their status, and family members often regard them as part of the family.

Obviously, Nora should look like that kind of constructed puppet. The conversation between Lawrence and Safir and Nora also made the waiter mistakenly think that they are the kind of people who treat the accompanying puppets as family members, so they naturally took out another set of tableware for Nora to use.

However, this happened to allow Nora to satisfy her desire to enjoy delicious food aboveboard. Perhaps because people traveling by airship are both rich and expensive, the breakfast on the airship is indeed very good, and even everyone can have one. Definitely not a bad caviar accompaniment. After the meal, there are fresh strawberry cream cake and sweet low-alcohol sparkling wine as the finale.

Since most of the guest rooms have no windows, almost all the passengers stay in the restaurant, observation deck or small bar to pass the time after eating. Under such circumstances, Lawrence naturally didn't want to go back to that fake small cabin without windows, so he and Safir and the others read books in the cleaned-up dining room.

In the rest of the journey, except when crossing the mountains, the captain asked every passenger to return to their own cabin and put down the armor covers on all the glass windows. For the rest of the time, as long as it is not sleeping time, Lawrence and the others will stay in these places with viewing windows and do their own things.

Of course, in the past few days, Lawrence also roughly estimated that there were nearly 150 passengers on the airship. During the day, they basically move around in these cabins that can see the outside scenery. Naturally, under such circumstances, Lawrence would see many passengers in the same space as him during the day.

"Did you feel that someone was watching me during the day?" On the second night on the spaceship, Lawrence, who was lying on the bed in the cabin, asked Safir and Nora who were sleeping on the upper bunk. Because he felt as if someone was staring at him throughout the day, but he couldn't find the person staring at him.

"Yes." The two ladies sleeping on the upper bunk uttered the same words from the bed above Lawrence. Then he heard the two girls laughing and arguing for a few words, and Safiel said first, "In fact, at least half of the people in the house have paid special attention to you. After all, your appearance and your image attract everyone's attention." strong."

What Safir said is very reasonable. After becoming a warlock, Lawrence's distinctive appearance and personal charm continue to increase with the increase in level, not to mention that he also has a companion puppet who is suspected of being a top luxury. Therefore, Safiel thinks it is normal for him to attract people's attention in public spaces.

"Sister Safir is right. There are a lot of people watching you during the day. Even if there are people who are watching you intently like you said, I can't lock the target from so many people." After Safir finished speaking Nora added, "But if you really feel that way, we'd better pay attention these few days. Think about Mr. Lambert's somewhat weird letter—I suggest you do a fortune-telling."

Because of the special spiritual relationship between the two, Nora knew a lot of things that no one else knew except Lawrence himself, for example, he had recently acquired a bloodline related to divination. That's why she suggested to Lawrence at this time to have a look at the divination.

"Good idea." Lawrence slapped himself on the forehead and got up from the bed, then put down the movable table and turned on the light in front of the table. Maybe because he just acquired the divination ability, he didn't think about it before, until the little puppet reminded him.

After sitting on the small stool, Lawrence held the coin and meditated silently for more than a minute to calm down. Then he activated his talent for easy counting with plum blossoms and threw the coin onto the table.

"Are you divination?" Hearing the sound of Lawrence throwing coins on the table, the two ladies sleeping on the upper bunk poked their heads out of the edge of the bed curiously, and then Safiel asked. "I've seen divination people before, and they either use a crystal ball, or some kind of card, or a pendulum. I've never seen a direct coin toss like yours."

"This is a unique skill I have mastered." Lawrence briefly explained, picked up the coin on the table and tossed it again, and then recorded the results of the two coin tosses.

"Go down the ridge and go up to Kun, this is Shi Gua." Lawrence closed his eyes and began to think after reading the hexagram. Maybe it was because he was quiet for a long time, so Nora asked anxiously: "My lord brother, did you find anything out of divination?"

"Yes, I found something through divination." Called by Nora, Lawrence opened his eyes and picked up the scattered coins on the table, and then said, "If we combine our current actual situation, the result of this divination Tell me not to be arbitrary and opportunistic in my previous encounters, because there are potential enemies."

"That is to say, today you feel that someone is paying attention to you, probably because the other party has malicious intentions." Watching Lawrence turn off the light and crawl back to the bed, the little puppet stretched its body forward and poked its head down. "However, there were so many people present at the time, not to mention that some voyeurs did not need to be present. How can we judge who is the malicious person under such circumstances?"

"It's really hard to judge, but we don't need to find that guy." Lawrence pursed his lips and said, "Anyway, it's less than two days before we get home, if the other party wants to do something There shouldn’t be too much time for anything, so we only need to be more vigilant during this time.”

"After all, if the other party can catch up to the airship, it means that the tracker wants to do something. If the time schedule is very tight, the other party should be more anxious than us in this case." After a brief thought Later, Lawrence analyzed, "Therefore, we just need to be steady and wait for the other party to take the initiative to show their flaws."

After making the decision, Lawrence and the others remained vigilant throughout the rest of the journey. But what was unexpected was that they disembarked the airship safely on the third day, and nothing unexpected happened.