Struggle in the Steam Age

Obviously, no killer jumped out of the waiting crowd to attack Lawrence and the others at this time. The two of them took the train to Ruster Town smoothly, and when they walked out of the train station in Ruster Town and boarded a carriage for shopping in Fir Town, Nora's voice appeared in Lawrence's mind.

"My lord, I have now found some clues from the corpses of these killers and the things they carried with them. Do you want to listen to them now?"

"Of course, now I really want to know where these people came from, and why did they come to kill me?" Lawrence felt very strange about this assassination, because he didn't offend too many people except the Church of Disease. And the assassination method of this group of people is obviously not the method used by the Church of Disease.

After all, if the Church of Disease wants to kill Lawrence, they will definitely use their most common methods to poison or cast spells or divine spells related to diseases, because only in this way can the power of the church and gods be demonstrated to warn others. Instead of hiding their heads and showing their tails to carry out assassinations like they are doing now.

"These people are likely to be professional killers, because most of the firearms and weapons they use are high-end goods. There are even several guns that are pieced together from parts of multiple guns, and the inscriptions on the parts are all It is basically impossible to track down." Sai Feier said that the first characteristic of these people did not exceed Lawrence's expectations. One of the most basic knowledge in the killer business is not to carry the kind of identity that is easy to reveal when killing people. s things.

"And the stabbing sword used by the extraordinary man before the battle was temporarily coated with a special potion oil to make it have a magic-breaking effect during the battle, but the sword itself is just a piece of steel with good overall data. It’s just a cane rapier, which is considered excellent among ordinary weapons.”

"Because the steel used to make rapiers has a wide range of applications, there are users in almost all walks of life. And we don't have metallographic samples of steel from various places for comparison. Therefore, it is impossible for us to obtain more information by analyzing materials." After saying this, Nora suddenly became excited.

"However, I can be sure that the opponent should be a group of organized people rather than a mob. Because when I took apart the hilt, I found a three-digit number engraved on the body of the sword that was previously covered by the hilt."

"In other words, this kind of rapier sword, at least the blade of the rapier sword, is mass-produced." Lawrence subconsciously tapped his thigh with his index finger while thinking. "And this means that the opponent has a relatively complete logistics system behind it."

"That's right." Nora's voice echoed in Lawrence's mind. "And those firearms that were all assembled from several gun parts also revealed the same information. After all, the interchangeability of different gun parts will affect the performance of the firearms. If one or two of the seized firearms are very It’s normal. But it’s a bit self-deprecating if it’s like this every time.”

"In addition to these weapons, the potions they carry with them are obviously standardized products. But excluding these things needed for assassination, they carry very little on them, even the few people who came back from the same airship as us before The suitcases they carry are empty, and they are obviously just props to conceal in their hands." Nora finally summarized the items carried by these people, and then shared the biggest discovery from these belongings.

"Although these things are all products of industrial production, I found some potions used to repel mosquitoes and conceal odors from the group of people who ambushed you. At the same time, I also found a lot of them in the mud stuck to the soles of their shoes, which can only be found in the wild. There are things, so I suspect that this group of people should have been active in the wild before."

"Besides that the two teams that ambushed me and Safir may come from the same strict internal organization, and they may have been active in the wild before, have you found anything from those corpses?" After discussing the things carried by those people Lawrence asked further.

"I suspect that these people have served in the military before." During the time just now, Nora not only carefully checked the things carried by these killers with the help of the group of jackals, but also performed an autopsy on those corpses. Through the careful dissection of the killer's corpses, Nora obtained more clues.

"Did you find calluses on their index fingers, shoulders and knees?" Lawrence asked. In this era, soldiers often practice shooting in line because of the rate of fire of firearms. Even the Britons proudly called their ranks of soldiers in red uniforms the insurmountable thin red line.

Under such circumstances, a soldier who often practices combat will leave obvious marks on the shoulders that are against the butt of the gun, the index finger that pulls the trigger, and the knees that often touch the ground when practicing shooting in a kneeling position. That's why Lawrence asked Nora if she found any differences from civilians in those parts.

"You guessed wrong, my lord." After hearing what Lawrence said, Nora's voice suddenly became naughty. "Or maybe not all of them right, because I didn't find many marks on their knees from practicing kneeling shooting. But they had calluses on the inner thighs, and they had calluses on the index fingers of both hands. Possess cocoons."

"The most important thing is that I found that all the left arms of this group of people had a trace of being scalded by a soldering iron. And according to the remaining paint and traces on those traces of scalding, I restored a small half of the horseshoe. coat of arms."

"That is to say, they probably served as cavalry before and did not receive regular infantry training. They are probably some kind of special cavalry." Lawrence immediately guessed the possibility of the other party after hearing the last pattern of the coat of arms. identity of. After all, there are only certain churches, gangs or the army who have tattoos on certain parts of the body.

And at least in the Federation and the western part of the Old World, when different types of organizations choose body tattoo patterns, they basically all choose according to the heraldic rules of the western part of the Old World, and this kind of tattoo with a horseshoe pattern on the shield belongs to cavalry unit.

Of course, the information that can be deduced from the remnants of the tattoo is limited to this. Because the coat of arms of the cavalry unit basically adds a horseshoe pattern on the shield, it is impossible to further lock the identity of the opponent through the residual tattoo after the burn.

But from the fact that the opponent has received two-handed shooting training, it can be inferred that these killers are not ordinary cavalry, because now even cavalry have to undergo certain infantry training, and only some special troops can be exempted. At the same time, ordinary cavalry need to free one hand to control the mount when fighting on horseback, and not many people can use weapons with both hands. "

"My lord brother, you are right. And based on the memory of the entire battle you sent me and the information obtained from the autopsy, I think that the other party is very likely to be a scout before, and that group of people is still an adult. Formal scout squads. Because they are the only ordinary people in the army who can practice this kind of close-quarters skirmish combat techniques in an organized way."

"It's an organized team, are you sure?" Lawrence asked, frowning sharply upon hearing this. After all, the nature of hiring scattered soldiers after training as a killer is completely different from the nature of having a whole team of elite troops as a killer. The former method only needs enough money, but the latter method not only needs enough money, but also needs enough influence.

And once a certain force is involved, the complexity of the events behind Lawrence's encounter with the killer will inevitably exceed his previous imagination, and it will also be more difficult to pinpoint the true identity of the other party.

"I'm not 100% sure. It's also possible that the other party spent a lot of energy training a group of killers according to the internal training methods of the army, and then branded this tattoo on their bodies to confuse other people's sight. Because I have nothing from their souls before. Read it, this is probably the result of being restricted by some kind of soul magic." Nora said, "But don't you find that the hidden facts behind these two possibilities actually point to the same fact for us?"

"Yes, you are right." Lawrence also reacted at this time, whether he was commanding a whole retired or even active military elite squad or a squad trained according to that training method. It all shows that there are very complicated things behind the assassination of himself this time.

"Although I offended a lot of people, after thinking about it carefully, those people either don't have the ability to send such a small team to assassinate, or they have the ability, but they will never attack me in this way." Lawrence thought, " It feels like things are getting more and more complicated now.”

"Don't think about the successors of these killers, my lord brother." Nora comforted Lawrence after noticing that Lawrence was frowning and thinking. "Don't forget that this assassination happened after your father suddenly sent you a letter. You might be able to figure out what's behind it after you get home and ask your father."