Struggle in the Steam Age

After feeling a little bit of emotion under the nutmeg tree, Lawrence and the others began to take out the rough map hand-drawn by the organizer of the previous competition to determine where their current position is.

"Our location is not very close to the volcano, maybe more than ten kilometers away." After releasing his robot to fly to the top of the tree for investigation, Cog said to everyone, "So the first plan we made before A plan to go straight to the volcano mine can be put aside, and in such a short time I have seen at least three teams land much closer to the volcano than us."

After the investigation was over, Lawrence and the others immediately began to shift locations. On the one hand, it was because the location they were in was flat and there was no water source, so it was indeed not suitable for a seven-day campsite. On the other hand, although they can see a lot of things after they just released the robot, the robot flying high is equivalent to exposing its position.

After packing up their things and marching through the jungle for more than an hour, Lawrence and the others found a hidden place in a small valley two kilometers away from the landing site and set up camp. With the help of the robot and John's guidance, the five of them quickly built three shacks covered by various plants.

After all the things were dealt with, everyone was a little hungry after tossing all morning. However, because there was no sun in this space, it was not until Lawrence took out his pocket watch to check that it was already noon. So at his suggestion, everyone decided to eat something before proceeding to the next step.

Lawrence originally planned to take out the dry food and water he had prepared before, but he was surprised to see that John and Leto actually took out the tableware and prepared to start cooking.

"When in the wild, it's more important to eat as well as possible." Looking at Lawrence, Cog and Laka looked at them with surprised eyes, John and the others explained. "Especially try to treat yourself better when conditions permit, whether it's food or housing. This is conducive to maintaining a good state in subsequent actions."

Lawrence and the others nodded. They all belonged to Transcendents who had only been active in urban settlements before. Although I have learned a lot about outdoor adventures through study, understanding and actual operation are two different things after all.

So while John and the others were lighting the fire, the others went to the surrounding area to complete the preparations for cooking. For example, Lawrence took a leather folding bucket to fetch water from the stream more than 100 meters away. Although everyone brings drinking water, when going out in the field, under normal circumstances, if there is a water source, try to use as little reserve water as possible.

There are many shrubs and knee-high green grass growing on the edge of the creek, but it is strange that the entire creek is very quiet. Lawrence found nothing in the place except the sound of the wind blowing through the plants and the running of the stream.

This is not normal, because when they went here just now, they heard the calls of many animals along the way, and saw their figures flashing past in the woods. As the most important water source in the wild, not to mention that there are no small animals drinking water around this creek, even the traces of animal activities, such as footprints and feces, seem a little abnormal.

"Huh, this is?" After carefully looking at the footprints left on the ground and the animal trails in the surrounding bushes, Lawrence discovered another very abnormal place, that is, more animals came to the water's edge than returned. Some. In addition, he didn't find many traces of animals crossing the creek on the other side of the creek, so it can be judged that there are indeed some problems in this creek.

"It shouldn't be poisonous in the water." Lawrence judged after observing the stream, because he saw that the stream was transparent and clean, and at the same time, there were various and complex aquatic organisms living in it.

[Detect toxicity], after using magic to check, Lawrence confirmed his judgment. But when he got close to the creek, he suddenly felt an inexplicable cold feeling on his body, just like when he was ambushed before.

"This is—" Lawrence frowned, because the situation was obviously wrong now. After thinking for a while, he stopped his progress, and then released a spell towards the front.

[Detect Undead Creatures] As soon as the magic was released, Lawrence immediately discovered that there was an obvious magical aura under the water in the creek in front of him, and around this magical aura was surrounded by a circle of much dimmer magic aura .

"It's really cunning." Lawrence also had to admire the cunning of this undead creature. Hiding himself under the flowing water to ambush those creatures who came to fetch water can hide the smell of death to the greatest extent and greatly improve his own ability. The probability of a successful attack.

After confirming the location of the monster, Lawrence ran along the stream to the upper reaches of the stream, finished fetching water, and then quickly retreated to the campsite.

"Why did you run in such a hurry?" Laka, the Ratman who was peeling potatoes, asked Lawrence as he trotted back to the camp with a bucket in his hands. "Did you encounter something dangerous?"

"I found an undead monster hiding under the water surface of that stream." Lawrence narrated to everyone, "If I read correctly, it is an official-level monster and no more than twenty apprentices. And apprentice-level monsters."

"Then, have you seen how many of the twenty little monsters are apprentices?" John, who was stirring the bacon soup in the pot with a clean branch, raised his head and asked. Of course, this is just a random question, after all, it is difficult for ordinary spellcasters to make accurate judgments in this regard.

However, Lawrence's answer exceeded his expectations, "I can guarantee that there will never be more than five apprentice-level monsters lurking under the stream. I can see this very clearly."

"If that's the case, then our first target in this space is those damned undead creatures." John smiled at Lawrence and continued to stir the soup in the pot, while the others also showed smiled.

After all, as a paladin, John was born to restrain those undead creatures, and this kind of monster that is good at hiding itself is easier to deal with once it is discovered. Not to mention that a professional-level monster can bring their team a full 50 points.

After eating this hot meal and resting for half an hour, Lawrence and his whole team rushed to the place where the undead monster was found before. The strange thing is that after the [Detect Undead] magic, the undead in the water just now All the magical auras of the creatures disappeared.

"You should have alarmed that guy just now." Looking at the obvious trace at the bottom of the stream, John immediately saw what happened here before. As a paladin, most of the creatures he faced before were such undead creatures, so he naturally accumulated a lot of experience in facing such things. "You know, undead creatures are very sensitive to the breath of the living."

"And this undead creature has a certain amount of intelligence, it's not the kind of brainless guy." John's partner fighter Lei Suo added. "Not to mention anything else, that guy is smarter than most of the monsters I've seen when he found you and knew how to escape."

"But I don't think it's too smart, at most it's like a smart beast." Seeing the nervous expressions of the Ratman and the dwarf teammates, Lawrence pointed to the creek and said. "If he had a slightly higher IQ, he wouldn't have left such an obvious mark on the bottom of the creek."

He was not simply consoling, because now everyone could see that the bottom of the gravel under the surface of the creek left an obvious mark as if it had been plowed.

This trace made everyone feel a lot more relaxed. Soon following this trace, Lawrence and the others found a monster door hidden under the water surface again in a small pool upstream of the stream.