Struggle in the Steam Age

Although standing in the warm morning sun now, Lawrence felt a chill lingering around his body. Because Nora's words showed that today's incident was not an accidental attack, nor was it some kind of conspiracy created by a few people. It was an attack against itself by a very likely very well-organized organization.

After all, the opponent was able to follow all the way from the New Island Republic and set up a trap on the Federation side, which means that the opponent has a complete team running behind the scenes, so that they can accurately track themselves and gather so many people. Lawrence was besieged and killed at the right place.

"We should get out of here quickly." Lawrence said, smelling the increasingly thick smell of blood around him, then turned his head to look at Nora and asked, "Can you open that plane now under the premise of ensuring the safety of the plane?" , and then put all these and the bodies of the killers who attacked us and everything related to it?"

"No problem." Nora Duan nodded seriously after thinking briefly, "I guarantee that no one will be able to find traces of our plane."

Nora dared to say this not because of her arrogance, but because the astral plane they controlled was equipped with a series of anti-tracking and anti-search measures by the gods when it belonged to Harbi. Not to mention that this non-fixed plane entrance and exit itself is difficult to lock.

Therefore, unless a hero-level transcendent can consciously check the place where the space channel was opened in a very short time after the space channel is closed, no one will find the existence of the astral plane at all.

So the three of them watched no one around and quickly stuffed the carriage, the two horses in front of the carriage, and several corpses in the carriage into the astral plane, and then went to the place where Lawrence fought just now. Several corpses were also stuffed into the astral plane. Then they walked out of the park to the small square at the end of the road.

Before leaving the park, Safir changed into the denim clothes he used to wear at home and dressed himself as a boy, while Lawrence used disguise to become a middle-aged man who looked like he was in his 40s. However, because the disguise technique can only change the face, Safiel took out a cosmetic box and began to paint Lawrence's exposed skin.

"Who did you learn this from? In my impression, you never wear makeup." Seeing Safier skillfully put on makeup into a handsome young man, and then turned his hands and forearms into Lawrence asked in surprise after seeing the rough look of the middle-aged man.

"I learned it from my swordsmanship teacher, and she said at the time that makeup is one of the skills that must be mastered in adventures." Safir puffed up his chest and said proudly, "Since I learned this, I have climbed over the wall and left school to eat. Things are even more convenient, once I was sitting opposite the dean in the restaurant and she didn't recognize me."

In the end, Lawrence put a gold-rimmed flat mirror on the bridge of his nose, and then took a gold-headed ebony cane that Nora took out from the space, leaning on it with the two girls. left the park.

More than an hour after they left, two middle-aged men wearing windbreakers with the brims of their hats pulled down came to the clearing where Lawrence had fought the six men before. Then an animal that looked like a mink ran out of one of the men's pockets and onto the ground, sniffing around.

Soon, the little animal was spinning around on the ground. If Lawrence was here, he would recognize this place as the place where the previous killer had finally fallen.

"It seems that Carlo should also be dead." Another person picked up a handful of soil from the land and said after sniffing, while his face became very ugly. "If I remember correctly, that brat from the August family is just an apprentice-level warlock. How did he manage to quietly kill an official-level dark swordsman who set up an ambush circle in advance? ? Not to mention that this shadow warrior also has a well-trained gunner team to help."

"There should be a problem with our intelligence." The man who looked like an animal trainer summoned his little mink and said, "Rozier, who was going to ambush the cub's companion, also mysteriously disappeared. Like Carlo, only a little blood was left on the side of the street. I suspect that the information we got was deliberately leaked to us by someone to set a trap for us."

"Deliberately? But all this information is from the Duke's steward himself—" When he said this, the middle-aged man who grabbed the dirt before slowly had a look of fear on his face. "You mean—"

"Now we can't say anything, we can't even think about it." The man who looked like the animal trainer put the mink in his pocket and stopped his companion from starting to think. "After all, that lord endowed us with status, wealth, and power. We should repay all of this with our absolute loyalty and even our lives. Other things are beyond our consideration."

After speaking, the animal trainer took the lead and walked out of the forest. Seeing this, the other person hurried forward a few steps and asked. "Where are we going now? Continue to follow the orders from above to chase those two little brats?"

"Of course not. We should leave here as quickly as possible and report to our superiors." The animal trainer shook his head and said, "The order given to us is to kill that man named Lawrence August. During this process, we can The female companion who kidnapped him had no more than a little martial arts training to threaten him."

"However, the two groups of people who prepared in the two directions before should all have failed now, which has also led to the fact that only the two of us are still alive among the people sent to Missoula." While talking, Tamer The movement of the beast master's feet became faster and faster, and finally he even started to trot. "This shows that the previously planned target is definitely not something we can handle as in the intelligence, so we should notify the headquarters of these new changes as soon as possible so that they can make a more reasonable plan instead of rigidly executing orders."

"In addition, I also found that our target is a warlock who has a powerful bloodline of a sacred and extraordinary creature. This also confirmed our previous conjecture that the little boy is probably the illegitimate son of the second son of the earl. Just give him a legal status."

"This is indeed very important news, so where should we go next? The telegraph office?" The middle-aged man who followed the animal trainer asked.

"Of course not, don't forget how we obtained the target's whereabouts before." Maybe because he was a friend, the animal trainer explained to his companion. "We can intercept other people's telegrams, which means that this kind of intelligence gathering method can naturally be used on ourselves, so we can only guarantee the security of the information if we report it face to face."

For Congxin's sake, the last two surviving members of those who were sent to Missoula to assassinate Lawrence this time boarded the train and rushed to the east headquarters because they had important information to report in person. It seemed that he couldn't care about Lawrence for a while.

However, Lawrence and the others didn't know that the assassination crisis had been resolved automatically. After disposing of the corpses, the puppet immediately got into the astral plane and began to carefully examine the corpses of the attackers, trying to find enough information from them. Lawrence and Safir rushed to the small square as quickly as possible, boarded the train and headed to the train station.

When they came to the train station building, they mixed with a large group of passengers into the waiting hall, and then bought a train ticket to Rust Town an hour later.

Rust Town is located more than ten kilometers south of Lawrence's hometown Fir Town, and it is a well-known spa center. And there is a road between this small town and Lawrence's hometown. According to the plan that Lawrence and the others had discussed before, the two would pretend to be father and son going on vacation in Rust Town, take the train to that town first, and then drive home along the road.

Soon, Lawrence and the others bought tickets and sat in the waiting hall. But until they got on the bus, they all stared at their surroundings vigilantly, ready to face the killer who jumped out of the waiting crowd at any time.