Struggle in the Steam Age

"Quickly, turn off the lights." Except for Lawrence and the others, everyone on the deck also heard the sound of a group of murlocs running over. After hearing the unique crackling sound of these murlocs walking, the second lieutenant ordered decisively. The captain extinguished the lights in the wheelhouse.

"Understood." There was a little trembling in the captain's answer, but this did not prevent him from swiftly extinguishing the oil lamp in the cab while taking out a double-barreled shotgun from a hidden compartment under his feet and holding it in his hand.

Just as the captain was arming himself, everyone else on the deck was also ready to fight: the second lieutenant and a crew member used the side of the ship to hide themselves, and at the same time took out a pistol from their bodies and aimed at the only channel. At the corner of the road to the pier, Lawrence and Safiel jumped directly onto the pier, and hid behind the garbage bins on both sides of the road regardless of the strange smells from the surrounding garbage.

There is only a fence made of broken wooden boards on the outside of this small garbage dump to separate it from other places on this street. After all, although there is industry in this era, the industry is not so developed. Half-rotten organic matter, shards of broken pottery, rags and some broken wood, not even a nail, so there is no need for any anti-theft measures to prevent someone from stealing.

So when the group of murlocs came outside the garbage dump, they just pushed lightly, and the half-hidden wooden door was pushed open, and then they swarmed in.

"They seem to be carrying something." When the broken wooden door was pushed open, Lawrence, who was lying in ambush behind the garbage bucket, discovered that the group of murlocs were not the defeated army that was trying to escape from this inaccessible place as imagined.

This murloc team consisted of a strong extraordinary murloc warrior holding a mace to explore the way ahead, and the other six ordinary murlocs followed behind with a temporary wooden frame on their shoulders. With dark vision, Lawrence found a chubby cloth bag fixed to this shelf.

Because the footsteps of the group of murlocs were very heavy before, after seeing this scene, Lawrence thought that the group of murlocs had stolen something and planned to evacuate early. After all, the group of murlocs that attacked this time was put together improvised by a large number of tribes, and there was no unified command at all, so it would be very difficult for a certain extraordinary murloc in charge of this area to retreat temporarily after discovering and obtaining good things. reasonable.

But soon Lawrence overturned his guess, because he found that the opening of the cloth on the simple wooden shelf moved slightly. Obviously, what was in the pocket was not gold or silver treasure, but some kind of living thing.

At this time, the murloc team had reached the hiding place of Lawrence and the others. After lightly nodding to Lawrence, Safiel suddenly rushed out from behind the garbage bucket, and at the same time swept across the two-handed sword that was originally held at an angle .

The two-handed sword with magic power was as smooth as a hot knife cutting butter when cutting the body of the murloc. Before the leading extraordinary murloc warrior could react, the three ordinary murloc warriors near the ambush site of Safir The murloc was cut in half by her sword from the waist.

While the surviving murlocs were temporarily distracted by Safir's raid, Lawrence also rushed out from his hiding place and released a missile storm at the remaining murlocs.

The unsuspecting murlocs were caught off guard by Lawrence's attack from behind, even if the extraordinary murloc warrior in the lead reacted no better than ordinary murlocs when they were suddenly attacked from behind. In an instant, the remaining four murlocs all fell to the ground.

"Okay, there are no other murlocs following behind." After confirming that the murlocs were all killed, Safiel jumped to the edge of the garbage bucket to look at the place where the murlocs came, and then he jumped Come down and say to Lawrence, "These murlocs should be the ones who are going to return to their lair after gaining some benefits."

"By the way, it's good." Hearing what Safir said, Lawrence immediately ran to the side of the bag that fell to the ground after all the murlocs were wiped out, and then tied the grass rope tied at the mouth of the bag. Cut with a knife. When the pocket was opened, a head with thick brown hair and beard emerged from the mouth of the pocket.

"Why is there a dwarf in the pocket?" Safir also leaned over at this time and saw the contents of the pocket clearly with the help of the raging fire not far away, "I don't remember that murlocs have the habit of taking hostages."

"No, you're wrong, the murlocs just don't take hostages most of the time." Lawrence recalled the information he obtained before and said, "But if there are superhumans among the murlocs present, they are very Might try to capture some wealthy-looking captives in battle to hold for ransom."

While speaking, Lawrence cut open the cloth bag with a knife to release the dwarf completely, and then inspected it carefully. Through inspection, he got a lot of information from the dwarves.

For example, the status of this dwarf should not be low, which can be seen from the various jewelry hanging on his clothes and the exquisite gold hoops at the bottom of the braids on his beard.

And after removing a soft hat on his head, the reason for his unconsciousness has also been confirmed: the back of the dwarf's head has a long bread-like bulge, and it looks like he was hit by a stick to the back of the head Knocked out directly.

"Fortunately, the dwarf's skull is much harder than that of a human, and it has not been broken after such a severe blow." After touching the bulge with his hands, Lawrence probably understood the dwarf's physical condition, which was better than he imagined. Not a lot.

"Now let's bring him back to the ship." Lawrence raised his head and said to Safiel, because this garbage dump is not suitable for further treatment. Soon, he and Safir carried the unconscious dwarf back to the barge they were on.

"This is?" When they carried the unconscious dwarf onto the barge, the crew and officers on the deck asked a little puzzled, "Aren't the murlocs who arrived just now? What's the matter with this dwarf?"

"It was indeed a group of murlocs who came here just now, but this group of murlocs also carried this dwarf in a bag. Maybe it was a prisoner they captured." Lawrence raised his head and said after putting the dwarf on the deck. At this moment, a sharp siren sounded from the river.

"We can set off." The captain said happily after hearing the siren. Hearing this, Lawrence raised his head, only to see two all-steel ships that were larger than his own barge passing by the river in front of him, and at the same time swept the searchlight on the top of the cab around.

"This is an armored patrol boat of the Lake Guard. It has been patrolling the lake near the port area. Recently, they have shrunk back to the canals in the city to prevent the stinky fish from harassing them." The captain said proudly to Lawrence Speaking of which, at the same time, a patrol boat in the distance began to shoot the spot where the searchlight was illuminated with the small-caliber artillery on the bow, as if it had discovered something.

Soon, with the cooperation of the armored patrol boats, the military completely wiped out this group of murloc squads that landed and harassed them. The boat that Lawrence and the others were on boarded their way to the field hospital after simply confirming their identities.

It may be because of the turbulence of the ship, or it may be because the body of the dwarves is stronger than that of ordinary humans. Just as Lawrence used alcohol to disinfect the wound on the back of the dwarf's head, he slowly woke up.

"Cough, cough, cough—" There was a coughing sound first, and then the dwarf slowly opened his eyes. "Ah, so you are human beings, it seems that I am saved now, where is this place, and you are—"