Struggle in the Steam Age

Since the airship took a detour to avoid some powerful extraordinary creatures when flying over the mountains, it was already six o'clock in the morning when it arrived at the airship station in Missoula, and the sky was completely bright.

When they finished all the procedures and walked out of the airship station, Lawrence and the others saw a crowd of people crowded at the entrance of the airship station. .

"The number of people picking up passengers here is really too much." Safiel muttered after finally squeezing out from the group of people blocking the door, "Look, those people are blocking the road so that people can't get out at all." Not coming."

"Because most of the people who take the airship are rich and powerful, there will definitely be a group of people to greet them when they come out." Lawrence pouted at the entrance of the airship station. The walrus-like rich man led a young woman into the carriage before a group of servants who almost blocked most of the street. "And these people may not be of high quality."

Unlike New Kuaiji City, which set up the airship station in the suburbs, the Missoula City airship station was simply built on a riverside open space at the edge of the city because of its much smaller scale. Because airships, especially those using high-pressure liquefied gas propeller engines, still have some noise in flight. So there is a huge park near the airship parking lot, and there is a sewage treatment plant next to it.

At the entrance of the airship parking lot, there is no public carriage or place that sells food and drinks that are common in general transportation hubs. After all, people who use airships as a means of transportation often do not need such services, so naturally there will be no people who provide these services. Therefore, if Lawrence and the others wanted to take a carriage to the train station, they could only walk down the road between the park and the sewage treatment plant for a hundred meters to a small square to find a rental carriage.

Fortunately, Lawrence and Safiel didn't reject walking this road. They chatted and walked slowly to the other end of the road. After Lawrence finished talking about the embarrassing story of getting lost at the train station for the first time when he was just in college, Safiel first laughed unladylike, and then asked as if he had suddenly thought of something: "I see you were on the airship just now. The parking lot has reserved a train ticket, what time shall we take the train back?"

"Let me see." Lawrence said as he took out the old wallet that didn't match the current clothes, and then took out a handwritten note from it.

"It should be in the afternoon—" Lawrence glanced at the note and put the note into his wallet. Just as he was about to put the wallet into his pocket, a man with his hat lowered suddenly rushed out from the side. The man grabbed the wallet in his hand and rushed to the park next to him.

"You wait for me here, I'll get my wallet back." Lawrence said, using the hand on his chest covered by his body, he did something to Sefiel when they were playing together when they were young. A gesture of agreement. Then let the little puppet Nala on the shoulder come down and stand beside Safir.

"I asked Nora to stay with you here, and I'll be back soon." After speaking, Lawrence stepped forward and chased in the direction where the thief fled just now.

I don't know if it's because Lawrence himself took so little time to explain to Safir just now that he didn't delay the timing of the chase or because the thief was not very professional. After chasing into the park, Lawrence quickly found the trace left by the thief , and then chased after the trace left by that guy.

However, Lawrence naturally didn't bury his head in the chase when he was chasing him. While observing the surrounding situation, he took out a pistol from the interspatial pocket and stuffed it into the two large pockets on the left and right sides of his windbreaker. Fortunately, the pockets of this kind of travel windbreaker are large enough, even if a pistol is put in, it is difficult for others to see it.

After chasing for more than 100 meters, Lawrence finally saw the thief running wildly in front of him through a gap in the bushes. The thief was wearing a coat that didn't fit well and was panting and running ahead, holding his wallet in his hand. He looked back from time to time to see if Lawrence had caught up.

"Stop!" Lawrence shouted, raising his vigilance to the highest level. Because he obviously felt that the other party was not running with all his strength.

Sure enough, after running forward for more than ten meters, Lawrence felt that there were people hiding in the surrounding bushes and big trees. So he held the pistol in his hand with his right hand that was originally in his pocket, then directly adjusted the direction of the muzzle in his pocket and pulled the trigger. At the same time, he also quickly activated magic to add mage armor to himself.

"Bang, bang, bang—" As the surroundings were scorched black, even bullet holes with sparks appeared on the pockets of their clothes. Lawrence specially got the magical steel core pistol from Zhu Yan this time, and flew out of the gun chamber.

Fortunately, the pockets of the travel windbreaker were large enough, and the marksmanship Lawrence learned from Anne Oakley was also very good at blind shooting with this pistol on his waist. So after the six bullets were fired, the thief who lured him over just now fell to the ground. And the four figures with guns also fell out from behind or from a tree when they were shot in critical positions.

It’s just that, different from what Lawrence expected before, one of the six bullets that he thought was sure to hit missed one: a black shadow who was leaning on the big tree just now avoided hitting the heart by twisting his body at the critical moment. parts of the bullet.

However, because Lawrence shot directly in his pocket when he shot before, that person didn't see the movement of his hand, so he dodged a little slower by half a beat. As a result, what should have been five ordinary gunmen plus a superhuman besieging Lawrence suddenly turned into a one-on-one duel between a superhuman whose arm was scratched by a bullet.

At this time, Lawrence did not let down his vigilance, but quickly added a [Camouflage] to himself before the six bullets were fired, and then fired at the next tree when the last bullet was fired. He hid behind the big tree, because he knew that this kind of injured lone wolf would be more difficult than the original state.

"Boom!" The moment Lawrence dodged, a black three-edged business card was firmly nailed to the ground where Lawrence had just been. Lawrence, who was hiding behind the tree, looked in shock at the long-handled business card that was still "buzzing" on the root of the tree, and felt like he had narrowly escaped death.

Because he saw a lot of blood-red runes on this hand card, and these runes seemed to be drawn with fresh blood that was flowing. Give him a very ominous feeling.

If he hadn't dodged in advance just now, he couldn't guarantee that the layer of [Mage Armor] on his body would be able to block this attack, not to mention that the business card seemed to be carrying some kind of poison or evil curse.

Lawrence, who escaped unharmed, did not stay where he was, but moved quickly. Because he knows that it is very important for him as a caster to keep a distance from the enemy.

After realizing that Lawrence dodged the blow that he was supposed to hit, the man with the injured arm immediately drew a rapier from the cane beside him and rushed towards him.

"So in this case, after seeing you, the enemy keeps expressing disbelief or scolding you. It's purely a novelist's interpretation. How can you talk about it on the battlefield?" In this case, not only did Lawrence escape, he should Some of that nervousness, but feel that I have countless slots and want to vomit.

The distance between Lawrence and the assailant was only twelve or thirteen meters, so after dodging the two bullets fired from the pistol that Lawrence pulled out from his left pocket, the opponent quickly approached him, and then slammed out of his own hand. The arm holding the sword drove the point of the sword straight into Lawrence's chest.