Struggle in the Steam Age

After the carriage finally drove into the gate of the city, Lawrence couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart and asked the judge sitting opposite him: "I just saw that the fortune-teller seemed to have failed the fortune-telling. Why did the investigation team fail at the end?" Thanks to me. They probably didn’t get any information.”

"Sometimes no information is the most important information." The judge opposite showed a profound smile. "You must know that there is only one way to make divination invalid or even counterattack the diviner, that is, the object of divination has sufficient defense. However, there are not many people who can have this kind of defense all the time and can use this luxurious textile .”

"So that's the case." Lawrence nodded. Regardless of the fact that this is the capital of the empire, Wendobona, there are a large number of nobles living in this city. But he knows that the number of people who can meet the above two prerequisites at the same time should not exceed three digits. After all, it is impossible for ordinary people to carry a divine soul of the earth with them like themselves to help cover it all the time. It is even more impossible to have extraordinary props that can provide this type of effect.

"But it's troublesome enough now." The judge opposite Lawrence said, "After all, the current situation shows that some evil superpowers played an important role in this incident. If you consider that you just found The clues that come out, I worry about—”

Although the judge didn't say it out loud, Lawrence knew what he was worried about. After all, once the extraordinary power of evil is mixed with a certain part of the ruling class, it will be much more difficult for these evil forces to eradicate than before.

For example, the neighboring countries to the east and south of the Holy Visby Empire are puppet countries established with the support of wilderness forces. After the evil forces control these countries from behind the scenes, these countries have not weak strength. . Now basically every year the empire will break out conflicts with them on the border.

"I don't think it should be the worst outcome." Lawrence shook his head and comforted the young judge sitting opposite, "Otherwise, this time, all parties would not have drawn out such an elite team to investigate such a case. Incident. But—”

Having said that, Lawrence suddenly stopped his words. Because he suddenly felt something staring at him. But the strange thing is that when he released the phantoms of the fire poisonous bee and the stinging hummingbird to leave the carriage to check, he found that everything around him was normal, and no one was staring at them.

"What do you think of the surroundings?" The judge was startled by Lawrence's sudden spellcasting, and even reached for the weapon on his waist. But it was soon discovered that Lawrence cast the spell to detect the surrounding situation.

"I don't know." Lawrence shook his head. "I can feel that someone has been staring at us since we came out of the cemetery, but after investigating just now, I didn't find any suspicious people around."

"I don't think your feeling is wrong. It's probably because we didn't find the stalker." The judge, who had experienced a lot of actual combat, seemed more nervous than Lawrence himself. He immediately ordered the carriage to slow down, and then took out a piece of drawing The stone with the rune was crushed violently.

"It's not a bad thing to be a little nervous sometimes. After all, I have worked in this industry for several years and have gained experience that in many cases, only a small change in the surrounding environment may be a precursor to an attack. So I now The referee's operations team needs to be notified."

After sending the signal using the special method inside the court, the judge explained to Lawrence, "Before I set off this time, my superior reminded me that you are likely to be attacked again, so let me once If you find something wrong, call for support immediately. It is acceptable to send out manpower in vain even if it is a false alarm.”

"I think there should be real danger waiting for us this time." Lawrence took out a few coins to do a fortune-telling and said after looking at the results of the fortune-telling, "The ability attached to my blood allows me to foresee danger ahead."

The judge didn't have any objection to what Lawrence said. After all, the awakened power of a warlock's blood can be said to be varied. Although there are not many such predictive abilities, they are definitely not uncommon.

Therefore, Lawrence and the others immediately prepared for a possible battle. Among them, there was an extra doll with different-colored pupils beside Lawrence, sitting there obediently. The judge and the driver of the court also placed their weapons in the most convenient place. Although the carriage still followed the scheduled route, its speed was much slower than at the beginning.

Just as Lawrence and the others slowed down the carriage and moved forward slowly, in a dilapidated residential building in front of them, a group of masked people in various costumes hid behind the windows and discussed in a low voice.

"Have the little guy and the lackey of the referee come?" A guy in black breastplate who looked like a leader asked the man in gray clothing with a matte black metal mask on his face. "The group of people we went to the New World last time actually missed. This time we must not miss again."

"They are almost there, and they have already appeared at the previous intersection." At this moment, a sparrow's cry came. The man with the metal mask on his face showed a relaxed expression after hearing the sparrow's cry and said, "After all, the distance from the cemetery is not close, and there is a city gate to pass in the middle. And this time is just It's off-duty time. So it's normal for the carriage to be a few minutes later than we expected."

"That's good." The black-armored warrior in the lead nodded, "The failure in the New World last time was purely due to some serious loopholes in our intelligence, but the good news is that this time we have Knowing the real strength of the opponent and making targeted arrangements. He is absolutely dead this time."

"Don't be careless, as the above said, even if we made a mistake in intelligence last time, the ability to make all the people we sent disappear also shows that the level of the other party is not average, let alone that we are in the city of Wendobona this time. Actions within the city wall, there are a large number of churches and various organizations that may intervene, and there will not be much time left for us to act," a masked man wearing a black windbreaker reminded.

"It doesn't matter. We prepared a magic forbidden area on the way, and we also prepared a lot of explosives. After the explosion, we will activate the magic power to interfere with the magic circle assault. Even if he can't be killed, our assault will make him, a spellcaster, lose the ability to cast spells." Fight us under any circumstances. Heh heh, we have quite a few physics professionals here, this time he is doomed..."

For the upcoming battle, these ambushers seemed very confident. Only the man in the windbreaker who reminded him just now frowned. After finding out that the carriage did not arrive on schedule, he felt a little uneasy. But I have never been able to grasp where this anxiety comes from.

At this time, the carriage appeared at the intersection of this small road, and the attackers who were still discussing just now immediately fell silent. Only the leading black-armored soldier remained and said in a low voice, "The ones at the window step back a little, and the people below will be able to see you."

Then he turned his head and shouted to a young woman beside him: "Xue Meigui, it's up to you next. Remember to slow down the other party's carriage."

"No problem." The young woman, who looked like an ordinary worker's woman after makeup, picked up a doll wrapped in swaddling clothes, and then nodded to the black-armored soldier.

But at this moment, a shrill cry suddenly came from the mouth of the spy upstairs. "The opponent suddenly accelerated and rushed towards us."