Struggle in the Steam Age

Because this mine has been abandoned for more than 20 years, nature has used this time to recover from the trauma caused by human mining: a large number of weeds grow densely on the very solid dirt road that was previously crushed by a coal cart On both sides of the road, the woods on both sides of the road that were previously cut down by the coal mines for pumping water and using steam engines as fuel have grown again.

Lawrence, who was walking on the road with a lantern, heard the rustling of wind blowing through the woods and weeds. There were only continuous bugs and occasional calls made by some nocturnal animals, especially the owls. Ugly.

　　 But from time to time there are traces of human activities emerging from the bushes or grass pits on the side of the road, such as a small pile of blackened and decayed wood on the side of the road, or some tattered railings at a corner.

After all, at the time when the mine was at its peak, it supplied 1/5 of the slum living coal in Eagle Fort. Although everyone who used the coal produced here did not have any good comments on the coal, they had to admit it. It is the coal here that allows many families to survive the cold winter of Eagle Fort.

　　 Even if the dirt road under my feet was crushed by a cart loaded with coal, it was very solid, but it was damaged very badly after decades of maintenance. In some places, Lawrence even needs to bend down and use a lantern to carefully observe the traces on the ground before he can determine the direction of his advancement.

　　 "Huh?" After Lawrence climbed up the last small mound before reaching the mine, he saw the mine gate appear below the slope. At this moment, suddenly a faint cold breath began to slowly and covertly spread to him. Let him have a feeling of being stared at by a beast.

[Dark Vision] [Protection from Evil], Lawrence felt that something was wrong and the first reaction was to bless his body with two magics, then he extinguished the lantern in his hand and quickly moved a few steps to change the position while sending a cold breath. A [Detect Undead] was released in the direction of.

　　 For an instant, several magical auras appeared in Lawrence's field of vision. These auras were distributed near the road from where he was now to the entrance of the mine, as if he was about to ambush someone passing this road.

"If you rush through, you won't be so smart." Lawrence stood there thinking for a while and ran into the nearby woods. A few minutes later, with a gunshot, he dragged his limbs and was interrupted and opened his mouth desperately. The howling wild boar came out of the forest.

　　 Then he tied the four hoofs of the wild boar firmly with the body amid the unpleasant howling of the wild boar, and then used a wooden railing that was pulled up from the side of the road to pry hard.

　　 For an instant, the strapped boar rolled down the small mound in the direction of the gate of the mine with a hoarse howl.

　　 Just as the wild boar approached the first place where the magical aura had just been emitted, a ground covered with weeds suddenly exploded from the bottom up, and a ragged figure suddenly burst out of the ground.

　　 The figure's movements were a bit clumsy except for the one that broke out of the ground, so that when the wild boar rolled faster and faster under the action of gravity, it did not catch it at all. This made it hurriedly trying to pull the lower part of its waist from the ground, and then limped to chase the wild boar.

"I thought it was something, it turned out to be just some zombies!" Lawrence can see what the monsters that climbed up from the ground are. Looking at the tooling on these zombies, Lawrence suddenly thought of the coachman just now. The miners who died in the mine.

"The problem is that the miners were obviously trapped in the mine when the mine collapsed, and in the end they didn't even **** their bodies back. So why did they appear here now?" Lawrence frowned when he thought of it and looked at the hills. Under the chaos scene. "It seems that this mine may not be as simple as it seems."

　　 Under Lawrence's attention, the wild boar hit the gate post of the mine gate after rolling all the way and stopped, and then the seven or eight zombies who had been lured out just now screamed and surrounded him. Suddenly the roar of the wild boar at the gate of the mine was mixed with the howl of the zombie, as noisy as a busy cross street.

　　 Seeing this scene Lawrence intended to go straight to kill the chaotic group of guys below, but just as he was about to get up, the sudden movement from the mine made him bend down and back two steps to watch the change.

　　 After waiting a few seconds, a calf-like monster sprang out of the darkness in the mine. It swooped to the side of the group of zombies in a circle, raised its front paws and shot the two zombies in front of it, then it walked to the wild boar and opened its mouth to bite.

In an instant, the howling of the wild boar stopped abruptly. While the zombie dog lowered his head and began to feast on, Lawrence tiptoed forward for a few meters, and then took out a sheet wrapped in cowhide from the waist space pocket. The brass telescope carefully observed the monster.

　　 Looking through the crystal lens of the binoculars, he found that the appearance of the monster that appeared at the entrance of the mine was very similar to that of a dog, with yellow and black fur on his body, and many cuts. However, through the wounds on his hair, Lawrence could see the blood-red muscles under the wounds that were obviously abnormal and the transparent agate-like blood vessels distributed on the muscles beating like living things.

"This seems to be a subspecies of an undead dog." Looking at the dog-shaped monster dedicated to gnawing the wild boar, Lawrence quickly connected it with the pattern on a book in his mind. . Then he took off the rifle from his back and loaded it with an exorcism bullet. "No matter what it is, now is a good opportunity."

　　 The moment the monster dog's head was put into the sight, the undead dog who was eating a lot of food underneath seemed to feel something and suddenly raised his head and looked at Lawrence's position.

　　 Suddenly, the shadow of the man holding the rifle on the top of the mountain caught the sight of the undead dog. But before it had time to make any action, it saw a flash of fire at the muzzle, and then it seemed as if a red iron rod passed directly from its left eye socket to its brain. UU reading www.uukanshu.com didn't hear a rapid scream of wind until this time.

　　 "Woo-" After a whine, the zombie dog that suffered a fatal attack fell to the ground. The small group of zombies surrounding the wild boar straightened up at the same time and turned to the direction where Lawrence was, then roared and charged.

　　 After killing the Undead Dog with a single shot, Lawrence put the rifle on his back as before, and then drew two pistols to meet the group of rushing zombies.

　　 When the first zombie rushed to a place five or six meters away from him, the pistol in Lawrence's hand rang. As he opened the bow with both hands, the heads of zombies exploded and fell to the ground.

　　 If placed in the past, this time these zombies will be difficult to destroy without extraordinary power. Because they move at the same speed as people walk in small steps, but they can endlessly chase the target.

In addition, they have at least three or four times the strength of ordinary people and their skin like raw cowhide gives them a great advantage in hand-to-hand combat. Especially the only weakness of zombies is their brains, and in the cold weapon era, no matter it is It is very difficult to open them through their fragile eyes or violence.

　　 So in that dark age, the main army of many evil liches were these rough-skinned, powerful zombies who would not fear.

　　 But with the invention and large-scale application of gunpowder weapons, zombies have gradually become weaker. Because bullets can easily destroy their strong skulls, and their slow speed allows shooters to easily blow their heads.

　　 After eight gunshots, all the zombies fell to the ground. Lawrence also took the opportunity to activate the Baize phantom in his body to harvest and purify the souls of these monsters.