Struggle in the Steam Age

In the next week, Lawrence spent a lot of time on the construction of various venues and facilities required for making black tea. Considering that some of the processes require the help of machines, he also needs to customize a batch of machines from the three surrounding industrial countries.

Fortunately, after welcoming the first batch of exiles, Lawrence found that many of them were skilled mechanics who had previously worked in factories and received professional training. So he doesn't need to worry about the embarrassment that there are machines but no one can operate them.

Different from the previous life, now everyone is in an era of pursuing technological development, machinery and industry. Therefore, unlike the time period in the world where Lawrence lived in the world where luxury goods pursued handmade products, the addition of industrial elements to the production of luxury goods in this era will not only not depreciate them, but also increase their value from certain angles.

This is an important reason why Lawrence chose mechanized production. On the other hand, the biggest advantage of mechanized production is that the quality of the products can be maintained, and it is more convenient to improve the quality of the products. After all, human production will have obvious fluctuations in the production level, and it cannot guarantee that the product will always be in the best condition.

After dealing with an important question about the future direction of New Shaw, Lawrence finally had some time to rest. He originally wanted to take a boat to revisit the contents recorded in the logbook captured when he eliminated those pirates to see if there were pirate treasures waiting for him, but often the plan did not change quickly. Just as he was getting the Enterprise ready, an unexpected visitor visited New Shaw.

"My friend, why is it you?" Lawrence looked surprised when he saw the burly man who came to the door. Because this big man is the old acquaintance warrior Lei Suo who was in his team when he went to the astral plane to hold the competition. Before he became the Earl, he had written letters and invitations to his former teammates, and most of them replied, but Paladin John and Warrior Reso never replied.

Of course, Lawrence didn't feel that there was anything wrong. After all, these two have been wandering around and living in uncertain places, taking it as their vocation to eliminate supernatural monsters in various places. So even if the contact addresses left are the locations of the Demon Hunters Guild and the Church of the God of Suffering in several areas, if they want to receive letters, they can only wait for them to return to the city.

In this case, it is understandable to not reply for a long time after receiving the letter. Since Lawrence has been busy since he came to the island, he gradually forgot about this incident. But what Lawrence didn't expect was that Lei Suo would suddenly come to visit him today without any notice.

"I'm very sorry. In theory, we should visit you after you come here. But because we happened to encounter an inexplicable undead riot on a small island when you wrote to us, it was not resolved until two days ago. The problem is when we return to the city." The soldier Lei Suo showed an embarrassed look on his face.

"It's okay, it's okay." Lawrence shook his hand and said that it doesn't matter. For paladins of the Orthodox Church and fighters of the Demon Hunters Guild, the most important thing is to eliminate evil and save the innocent. Far less important than this sort of thing.

Therefore, Lawrence didn't think there was anything wrong with them not responding before. After all, this was the habit of paladins and those extraordinary people who belonged to the Demon Hunters Guild. Lawrence also knew that there was a superhuman from the Demon Hunters Guild who suddenly encountered an old hag on the eve of the award, and in order to eliminate this evil creature, he even released the king who was going to be knighted for himself the next day. Pigeon.

But in the end, the king held an award ceremony another day. After all, the reason why everyone respected the extraordinary people in the Demon Hunters Guild was because of their courage to fight evil to the end. So even if they have some problems in their daily behavior, everyone will try their best to accommodate them.

"By the way, why are you alone?" Lawrence asked at this time. If he remembered correctly, Ser Lesso had been acting with Paladin John before, but it was obviously a little strange that he was the only one here now. normal. "Aren't you with John? Why didn't he come."

"That's why I'm looking for you today." Lei Suo said helplessly. "Originally the two of us came here together, but when he received an urgent order from the Church of the God of Suffering at Halfhand Port, New Netherlands, which was four or five days away from here, he asked me to come here first, and he followed People from their church went to take care of things."

"This order is indeed a little troublesome." Lawrence nodded after listening to express his understanding. After all, his father is a priest of the church, so he naturally knows how unreasonable this kind of church order is. When he was a child, several times when he was about to eat, he encountered an emergency call from the church, and in the end he ran to other people's homes in the town to have a meal.

"But I have nothing to do with this kind of call." Lawrence thought that Leto wanted to call his friend back, so he explained with a helpless expression on his face. "The assignment of this kind of task is generally taught to deal with internal matters, even if I am a hereditary nobleman, it is impossible to intervene in such matters."

"I don't mean that. In fact, it is an honor for us to carry out the order of the church to eradicate evil. We even hope to be recruited by the church." Lesso quickly explained to Lawrence. "Because I heard that he could come back in three or four days, so I was waiting for him to come back to you in Port Halfhand. But on the third day after he left, I heard that the church formed by the suffering The squad went missing in the middle of a mission, and he was with that squad."

"What did you say, he disappeared?" Lawrence stood up with a surprised expression. "What kind of mission did they perform to disappear immediately? What happened here, and how did they disappear."

Lawrence was shocked when he heard that the paladin was missing, because unlike ordinary self-employed adventurers, each Orthodox church has a very powerful intelligence system. In this case, as long as it is not an emergency, they will be fully prepared, even if they cannot win, they will spread the news. It is indeed very strange to disappear suddenly like this.

"Yes, the whole team is missing." Lei Suo also looked blank. "Since John joined the team to carry out the task and left, I went to the Church of the God of the Crucifixion to inquire about the situation every day. The first two days were normal, but the church seemed a bit chaotic when I went there on the third day, because they and the dog The team completely lost contact without warning."

"A team disappeared without warning. It's really troublesome." Lawrence frowned. He realized that the problem was not simple. At least under normal circumstances this kind of squad will have some simple one-time emergency contact tool in addition to the daily contact tool, and failure at the same time often means that the situation has become very bad.

"The church has announced that it has sent people to search for the missing team." Lei Suo said, "They contacted the church's New World headquarters in Erysion to ask for reinforcements, and at the same time asked all the surrounding forces for help."

"You said they asked all the surrounding forces for help?" Lawrence asked. "But I haven't received any news from here."

"This is normal, my lord." Nora, who had been looking at the document just now, flew up and said. "The dozen or so islands on the outermost edge of the Sea of ​​Stars on our side have always been considered the fringes of civilization, and their strength is extremely weak. According to the documents I read before, they generally would not ask for help in our direction."

"Well, that makes sense." Lawrence shrugged helplessly. "But this time, I'm definitely going to help."