Struggle in the Steam Age

After the shower, Laurence waited for his hair to dry before climbing into bed and going to bed. Because of the boring trip before and the game in the morning, he slept soundly this time. It wasn't until it was getting dark that he was awakened by the sound of the doorbell.

"Mr. Gear is back, and he invited you and your female companion to have dinner in the restaurant downstairs in 20 minutes." After opening the door, the maid appeared outside and said, "By the way, Mr. Just let me remind you that it is enough to wear casual clothes. It is really easy to dress for dinner with your own people, and there is no need to wear that kind of cumbersome dress."

"This is really good news, it means that I don't have to wear that troublesome evening dress." After the maid left, Safiel, who also just came out of the room and stood beside Lawrence, said. At this time, because the two of them were very close, Lawrence could even smell the delicious fragrance from Safir's hair.

"What do you think of my shampoo?" Because the two of them are so familiar, Lawrence just sniffed his own nose and Safiel guessed what Lawrence was doing, but she was not like ordinary women Shy or something, he brushed his short gray hair with his hand and asked directly.

"I feel that the new shampoo you use is very good. Is it the one that Fatina configured before?" Since Safiel asked directly, Lawrence naturally asked his own question directly. "I remember a while ago Fatina kept saying that soap was too dry for washing hair, and I wanted to make a good shampoo. Then I smelled this on your hair in the laboratory that Fatina used taste."

"You guessed it right, this citrus-flavored shampoo was indeed made by Fatina." Saifeier said, "Fatina has always complained that it is too much trouble to soap the whole body when taking a bath , so she successfully made this shampoo for bathing. It's a pity that some alchemy skills are needed in the manufacture of this liquid, otherwise selling it would be a good business."

After chatting for a few words to drive away the sleepiness in their minds, Lawrence and Safiel went back to their rooms and changed their clothes before heading to the restaurant downstairs. At the door of the restaurant, they met Cog, who was here in uniform to greet them. The large robot was also followed by him.

"Welcome, welcome to my house." Cog said, stretching out his right hand and shaking Lawrence, then bent slightly and stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation to invite them into the restaurant.

Walking into the restaurant, Lawrence found that the entire restaurant was dominated by gold and red, and there were many beautiful artworks around it. The whole restaurant looks magnificent, which fits perfectly with the style of the whole building.

When everyone sat down in their seats, Cog looked at Lawrence and they said: "After receiving your telegram, I asked the chef and servants to prepare the dinner tonight. Fortunately, they succeeded I bought the most delicious local specialty of this season: rainbow salmon. This is a delicacy worth tasting here-"

"Yes, autumn is indeed a harvest season." Lawrence said, "Just like there are several kinds of sea crabs on the market at Eagle Fort, and each one is very fat—"

The whole dinner was spent in such a harmonious atmosphere. I have to say that the taste of grilled sockeye salmon is really good. It has a unique fresh and sweet taste of high-end aquatic products, and it also has a little nourishing effect on the body. No wonder a About 3 kilograms of fish will cost 12 yuan. Lawrence felt that the fish was indeed worth its price.

After the last drink, the hot cocoa from Sea of ​​Stars was served. Cog raised his glass and took a sip, then leaned on his special chair and asked: "By the way, why did you choose this time to travel here? Now there are murlocs everywhere here, and you can go anywhere except the city." inconvenient."

"Don't mention it, I didn't expect to encounter a murloc attack at this time, and this year is another big year for murloc attacks." Lawrence shrugged helplessly. He naturally did some homework before coming. However, the time when the murlocs attacked was always a time period rather than a specific day, and he didn't expect to hit it just right.

"You are really unlucky." Cog showed sympathy on his face. He had known what Lawrence had done in Eagle Fort through the newspaper before, so he ran to stop Lawrence just after participating in a high-intensity game. The plague broke out, and he showed great sympathy for the unfortunate event of being attacked by murlocs after finally finishing his busy work.

Lawrence also smiled helplessly, but soon he remembered something and asked Cog. "By the way, we plan to visit Hupan Town in addition to our trip to Huguang City this time. What do you know about that place?"

"Hupan Town? Which one are you asking?" Cog asked after hearing Lawrence's question, "What you outsiders may not know is that before the establishment of Huguang City, the names of the nearby settlements were very random. There is no unified plan. So there are four or five lakeside towns in this area called Lakeside Town as far as I know."

"Uh——" Lawrence was indeed not very clear about this matter, but soon he said as if thinking of something, "The lakeside town I mentioned is more than ten kilometers east of the city, and there is a cruise ship in the town pier."

"The one you're talking about is the lakeside town with hidden treasures." After hearing Lawrence's description, Cog gave an answer that surprised him. "It's indeed a place that attracts tourists, but you can't go there now. Because after discovering that this year's murloc attack was a large-scale attack, these places are too close to the lake, and they don't have much defensive value or defense capability. People in towns and settlements have retreated to the city."

"Wait, you just said that there are treasures hidden in the town?" Safir naturally knew that Lawrence came out this time to hunt for treasures, so she asked in surprise after hearing that there was a treasure in the town from Cog. come out.

"Could you have been fooled by our travel brochure?" Cog immediately guessed what she was thinking from Safir's expression. "Actually, when I was young, my father and I were attracted to that place by the brochures, but we found nothing but a broken cave."

Having said that, he found that Lawrence and the others seemed a little frustrated after hearing the news, so he quickly added. "Of course, the town's travel brochures are not deceiving, but the treasure has long been taken away."

After hearing this sentence, Lawrence and Safir glanced at it. They had imagined many possibilities before, but they never thought that this most important stronghold in the scarlet sky was not only dug up but also turned into a scenic spot.

"Can you tell me the specific situation?" Lawrence asked, he was really curious about the situation here. Because although the treasure map has a long history, it is easy to tell from the difference between the red dots drawn on the map that these strongholds were not drawn on the map at the same time.

According to Lawrence's careful observation of the treasure map and the information he found from the Church of Knowledge, he can infer that when the Scarlet Sky Organization was destroyed hundreds of years ago, the two earliest strongholds were also destroyed at the same time, but those of the Scarlet Sky The remnants have rebuilt their strongholds many times in the long time since then.

However, whether it is the earliest stronghold or the later stronghold, in the records of the Church of Knowledge, various forces took a lot of effort to take it down, and this place is suspected to be the last stronghold of Scarlet Sky, so there are only two possibilities. , or it was not discovered, or the intensity of the battle was too low, so that it was not qualified to be recorded.

Obviously, it is impossible for a well-known treasure to have not been discovered, it can only be because the fighting intensity is too low. However, the temporarily fleeing Scarlet Sky mage found in the coal mine before was wiped out by the chasing elite team, so how could it be possible to break through this place, which can be regarded as the last stronghold of a certain branch of Scarlet Sky? The fighting intensity is very low?

This kind of contradictory information made Lawrence a little puzzled, so he was very curious and told Cog the story about the treasure spot. And Cog, as a local transcendent, does know some news that has not been circulated outside, and today he is very talkative. So after Lawrence asked him this question, he immediately started talking like a chatterbox.

"It's right for you to ask me." Cog said after getting himself a new cup of hot cocoa, "Because of my childhood wish, I have also studied this matter—"