Struggle in the Steam Age

"This ship should be a special transport ship." Lawrence said, at this time everyone has all arrived in the silo.

But when he got here, Lawrence discovered a design on this ship that was completely different from the normal ship: the ship's lowest deck was reinforced by a large number of steel bars, and there was a small cabin wrapped in metal plates. Obviously, this ship should be prepared to transport some special things, so the lower space of the hull was specially modified.

The steel bars for reinforcement are painted with black asphalt, just like the bottom of the surrounding ship. It would be difficult to find if it hadn't been specifically pointed out by Nora. This is especially true for that small cabin. The entire cabin is hidden behind a large pile of food and fresh water supplies. It seems that the other party should have added a partition at the back of this warehouse to create a dark room.

Even the other party prepared a thin layer of wood to cover the exterior of this small cabin as a disguise. If it weren't for Nora's silk thread to be almost pervasive, maybe they would only find this secret compartment as a mezzanine after dragging the ship back to clean up everything on the ship.

"It's no wonder that this ship is almost unarmed." Saifeier also saw the characteristics of this ship, "If I am not mistaken, this ship is a kind of disguised transport ship. Transporting some may not be so legal at the same time. There are some dangerous things. That’s why it is strengthened on the lower deck, but considering the total load of the hull, they can only give up those firepower."

Obviously, this boat has paid a lot of money in order to prevent others from discovering. For example, loading wooden cannons to balance the increased weight of the bottom cabin, or adding secret cabins to the supply cabins. All these modifications made this ship look no different from ordinary merchant ships of the same class, even if Nora did not go to the bottom of the ship just now and did not find anything wrong with this ship.

As Syfiel spoke, Lawrence took a few steps forward and pulled the door of the small cabin. It turned out that the door was not locked at all, so he pulled it open directly. Since the entire cabin was only a dozen square meters, everything in the cabin appeared in front of Lawrence after the door was opened.

"That's it when I checked." Seeing Lawrence turned to look at herself, Nora immediately pointed to the rows of empty shelves in the room. "There should have been some things on these shelves, but it should have been missing when the people on the ship were missing."

"Can you tell what those missing things are?" Lawrence walked into this small secret room and checked it. Unfortunately, even after using the identification technique, it can only be shown that this is a special secret room. A thin lead plate is sandwiched between the walls to hide certain magical reactions, but there is no clue as to what was placed before this place.

"Sorry, elder brother, no. Because there have been a lot of things in this secret warehouse." Nora said with regret. "Therefore, although there are a lot of traces in this house, because of the complicated magical reflection, we can't judge exactly what was missing in this accident."

"It sounds terrible." As Lawrence said, he began to summon a large number of phantoms of fire poisonous bees and soil ants, and then commanded the phantoms of these monsters to scatter and search in all directions of the ship.

Then he walked to the upper gun position and pushed open the cannon window, and then summoned a large number of phantoms of molar tooth fish in the sea water for them to inspect the part of the ship below the waterline.

According to habit, Lawrence summoned a large number of ghost shadows to scatter around and inside the ship to try to do a final inspection. Theoretically speaking, constructs tend to have a stern look when they do anything, without much omission.

But Nora is not the kind of normal constructed creature, in a way she looks more like a person. So when doing some things, there will be omissions and even mistakes like people.

However, because Nora is a constructed creature, the omissions in many places are completely different from humans. So after discovering this, Lawrence also developed the habit of letting himself and the doll check each item as much as possible. Because this can check each other's weaknesses as much as possible to complete a perfect investigation as much as possible.

Nora's previous inspection was very serious, and Lawrence's monster phantoms found nothing in the cabin. But the molars swimming in the water found something unusual under the hull. After discovering these things, Lawrence immediately summoned several murloc phantoms and asked them to fetch them for themselves.

A few minutes later, the phantoms of two murlocs came up from the water, and at the same time they held a stone object the size of a basin that looked like a model of a volcano. Then the two murloc phantoms furiously carried this stone-like object from the open cannon window.

"This is—what?" After the wet stone was placed on the floor of the middle deck, Syfiel and Nora curiously squeezed in at the same time, and found that this thing was indeed like a small volcanic. What is even stranger is that there seems to be something alive in the groove in the middle of this thing.

"This thing should be a barnacle." As the most researched naturalist among the three people present, Lawrence quickly recognized what this stone was. "In addition to this, there are three or four similar animals of the same size under the boat. I just took one up as a specimen."

"You said this thing is a barnacle?" Saifei's eyes widened. Although she was born in the interior of the White Eagle Federation, she spent her college days in the girls' school in the island nation of Briton. So during that time, she and those classmates went to the beach more than once and naturally knew the normal size of barnacles.

"This thing is indeed a barnacle, but its volume is a little bigger." Looking at the barnacle the size of a small washbasin, Lawrence explained to ~www.wuxiahere.com~ and it can be seen according to the situation at the bottom of the ship. The ship had just been maintained once before leaving, and there were not many marine life attached. So where should these barnacles stick to the bottom of the boat. "

"That is to say, the missing persons on the ship may have something to do with the seemingly abnormal barnacle." Nora said immediately after hearing Lawrence's explanation. Although there is no connection between the two events for the time being, the possibility of two abnormal events happening in the same place at the same time is too low, so Nora directly connected the two events together.

"Where did you say this barnacle came from?" Now that he found a possible clue to the missing persons on the ship, Syfiel immediately went to the side of the large barnacle and lifted it up, and then a little serious Check this barnacle.

"By the way, Lawrence. I remember you have a way to determine where something was previously located by observing microorganisms. Can you use it on this barnacle now?"

"Let me try, but you don't have too much hope." Lawrence said as he took out a series of test tools from the space bag and placed them on the ground, and then took the barnacle from Syfiel for inspection. Up.

"After all, I could check it out the previous time because the things stored in the box are very stable, but these barnacles have been in contact with the surrounding seawater at the bottom of the ship. So the information left on them should not be as obvious as the directivity of the last time."

Sure enough, after inspection, the microorganisms he isolated from the barnacle can be said to belong to the common microorganisms in the entire star sea, and it is of little value for determining the source of the barnacle. But Lawrence's analysis of barnacle shells has made important progress.