Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence could understand why the church kept the target of the operation secret, after all, the previous call for help was sent to everyone around. Then this group of people is very likely to have evil people and extremely unreliable people trying to fish in troubled waters. Therefore, it is understandable for the church to hide some news in order to keep some secrets.

In addition, even if the identity of Lei Suo is relatively reliable, but there are only one or two people, the church will hide the specific situation. After all, boats are definitely needed in this kind of area, and if there are too few people, you can only rent a boat, then it is very likely that this information will be accidentally disclosed to those with evil intentions.

However, considering such a large sea area, it is definitely too late to search with the power of the church alone, and John Knight, as an official-level paladin, will be recruited. It can be inferred that the extraordinary level of this incident will not be too high, so it is difficult to invite The power of the gods. Therefore, if the church local church wants to find the missing team, theoretically speaking, it should find some reliable allies to help find it.

Lawrence thought that he had a good relationship with those Orthodox churches, so he felt that if the Church of Suffering really needed to find a reliable helper, he should also be qualified. So shortly after the ship went to sea, Lawrence ordered the telegraph operator on the ship to explain the situation to the Church of the Passion and introduced himself, hoping to obtain specific information.

Fortunately, there is a special set of secret codes inside the Human Orthodox Church, and Lawrence happens to know it. So he translated the telegram to be sent and handed it to the telegrapher on the ship for him to send to the Church of the God of Suffering in the New Netherlands. Even if the telegram sent in this way is received by outsiders, they can only receive a lot of random codes.

Ten minutes later, the telegraph on the ship rang, and Lawrence received a telegram from the Church of the God of Suffering. After taking the bunch of garbled codes to his room and taking out the codebook to translate them one by one, a smile appeared on his face. I don’t know if it’s because of my own identity or the pleasant experience of working with the church before. The Church of the God of Suffering thanked him for participating in the search, and at the same time told him part of the details about the team's search.

As he imagined, this team set off to find a demi-artifact that might exist related to their church. Because two days before the team's departure, an adventure team belonging to the church inadvertently felt some kind of divine power belonging to the God of Suffering on an uninhabited island where almost no one had set foot before.

But because they had just finished an adventure and were not fully prepared, the adventure team had to go around the island and return to the Church of the Passion in the New Netherland Islands.

Since the team encountered several pirate ships when leaving the island, the church worried that dragging for too long might lead to unnecessary risks. So after getting the news, they hurriedly sent people to search for it. Considering what happened to the team before, they sent corresponding people. But what I didn't expect was that the entire search team disappeared this time.

"Our target is Charleston Island." After translating all the contents of the telegram, Lawrence walked into the meeting room on the ship and said, "The church sent me a telegram, telling me that the team's target is Charles. Ton Island. It will be much easier for us to plan our course of action."

"Charleston Island?" Lei Suo, who has been active in the Sea of ​​Stars in recent months, thought carefully for a while, and a series of information emerged in his mind. "It is a small island with a diameter of only a dozen kilometers and a little fresh water on it. There are also some shrubs and moss on the island. If it is characteristic, it can only be said that the surrounding reefs are too much, so ordinary ships Nowhere near that island at all."

"This kind of terrain is indeed very reasonable for hiding things." Lawrence said after listening to Lesso's introduction to the island, "In this way, it is more likely that John and the others went to the island to search for treasures. And now we know With their targets in place, it should be easier to find where they might have gone missing."

After all, the recent period of time in this sea area has not been very stormy, and there are no observation reports on the activities of large marine supernatural creatures in various islands. Therefore, the probability of ships being inexplicably in distress at sea is not high. So knowing the route, they were able to narrow down their search to a very small number of locations.

After taking out a nautical chart of the surrounding sea area and doing some homework on the map, Lawrence used the red and blue in his hand to draw a few circles and lines on the chart, and then took out three coins and tossed them all over the place. Then he held a pencil and clicked on one of the circles. "We only need to search for six points now, and if all goes well, we will be able to search for the first point the day after tomorrow."

"Skull Reef?" Nora asked curiously looking at the place that Lawrence circled. "Why is it here? If I remember correctly, the water depth in this place can reach 2.5 meters when the tide is high, and it will only emerge from the water when the tide is low. It can't hold people at all."

"According to the result of my previous contact with the church, because this place is a bit off the course, no one is going to check it now." Lawrence explained, "I am worried that their ships may encounter some special circumstances and divert on the road." Lawrence explained, "And I just used prophecy-type magic to tell me that going here may be rewarding."

In fact, the last sentence was Lawrence's determination to go there to have a look. He believed that his own Bai Ze bloodline plus the magical Plum Blossom Yishu divination should be no problem. This unremarkable reef area on the map is likely to contain clues to the disappearance of the team.

Now that the destination was decided, the Enterprise quickly adjusted its direction and headed straight for Skull Reef. Considering that this operation is to save people, and saving people is like fighting a fire, speed is very important. In addition, there are many islands in the surrounding sea area that can be used to replenish fuel and fresh water. So Lawrence simply ordered the ship to turn on the steam engine and move forward at full speed.

With the help of the machine, the whole ship sails across the sea at twice the speed of an ordinary sailboat. In less than three days, they successfully crossed the voyage of about five days for a normal ship to a place a few nautical miles away from the Skeleton Reef, and then folded the sails and moved forward at a low speed only with the propellers.

Fortunately, it was daytime at this time, and the tide had receded, and most of the reefs were exposed to the sea. So the ship was able to circumvent these obstacles carefully and move forward step by step. However, to be sure, Lawrence walked into the cockpit and recruited the phantoms of those aquatic monsters to scout the underwater situation near the ship to help the Enterprise. navigation.

"This is really inconvenient." Lawrence thought while manipulating the monster phantoms. "Next time I have to find a way to solve this matter."

In fact, when he was in the Old World, Lawrence saw something called a scouting chart for sale in the Spellcasters Guild. After it was placed somewhere and activated, it could show the surrounding situation with itself as the core.

It's a pity that that kind of thing is really too expensive, and the price of an ordinary ship of five or six hundred tons may be cheaper than it. Not to mention that additional magic power is required to activate it when using it. Therefore, it is often only used to defend important areas or equip certain magic ships and the leader ships of large merchant fleets.

Just as Lawrence was thinking about these things, the phantom of the molar fish that he had placed more than a hundred and one meters away from the port side of the ship suddenly sent him a notice. Because it found something unusual.

After receiving the notification, Lawrence immediately ordered a murloc phantom next to him to quickly approach the molar fish to retrieve the thing he found. A few minutes later, an empty tin can that looked brand new was thrown from the sea onto the deck. Then it was picked up by guard members waiting on the deck and brought into the cab.