Struggle in the Steam Age

Realizing that contact with the outside world was now cut off, Lawrence suddenly became nervous. Because this is a very dangerous omen, and if you don't do it, you will become a new missing person. But at this time, the first officer also ran in from the outside and told him a worse news.

Although the first mate was bearded, Laurence could still see the uneasiness on his face. And after he spoke, Lawrence's inner guess was confirmed. "My lord, the speed of our ship is constantly slowing down. If there is no accident, it will only take more than an hour to hit that strange island."

"What?" Hearing that Lawrence didn't care about the communication problem anymore, he rushed out of the telegraph room in two steps and came to the deck, then leaned over the ship's side and looked down. As a result, they saw that the surrounding sea water was rushing towards the cave, and the Enterprise could barely keep up with the suction force only by turning on the boiler to the maximum horsepower.

"Can we change the angle of the ship and rush out from the side?" Lawrence asked after careful observation. Even if the ship is currently using the most advanced boilers, it is impossible to maintain the highest horsepower for too long. Time, and how long the strange suction from this island can last is hard to say. So the top priority now is to get out of this situation as soon as possible.

At this time, there is no other ship around, so if you want to do anything, you can only rely on self-help. It's a pity that moving the boat doesn't work at all. The first officer told Lawrence that the strength of the Enterprise was now in a delicate balance with that suction. If the ship turned the rudder to change the direction of the Enterprise, it would be easy to be directly sucked into that cave because of the loss of this balance.

Thinking about it, John’s ship should also have an accident after encountering such a situation, but unlike the steam-powered Enterprise, their simple sailboat basically has no resistance in the face of this situation. , and then it was directly sucked by this weird cave on the island and smashed to pieces on the reef at the entrance of the cave.

"Fuck—" Lawrence cursed secretly after hearing that there was no way to resolve this stalemate for the time being. But after venting his emotions, the matter still had to find a way to solve it. Fortunately, Nora, who had been flicking her fingers and repeatedly investigating the island with silver threads, finally achieved some results.

"Brother, I think we should go to that cave now." Nora pointed to the cave that was absorbing water and said like Lawrence, "I can feel that there seems to be something calling me, and calling The same thing that was holding me was the same thing that caused this.”

"Really?" Lawrence looked at the doll with a serious face and asked, and after watching Nora nodded to confirm, he wanted to take out the coins and cast a divination spell to predict the result of this operation, but was rejected Nora interrupted directly.

"At this time, the arrow is on the string, so I have to send it." After holding Lawrence's hand that was about to take out the coin from the interspatial bag, Nora looked at Lawrence and said with a serious face. "If the result of divination is not very auspicious, is there any possibility of inaction in our current situation?"

"You're right." After hearing Nora's words, Lawrence put away the coins and nodded seriously. Just now, his mind was a little confused due to a moment of anxiety. Now that he was reminded by the little puppet, he immediately realized that if he didn't want to wait to die on the boat, he had no other choice. If the result of divination was not good, it would affect the future It's better to just rush over and fight to see if you can survive.

The only good news now is that after Nora's inspection, she found that although there is a certain amount of magical interference around, she can still partially open the passage to the astral plane. If there is nothing to do, the two of them can give up their bodies and hide in the astral plane. But considering the importance of the body, this is obviously the worst strategy to be used only when there is nothing to do in the end, and it is not necessary to consider this method if there is a glimmer of hope.

After making the decision, Lawrence immediately called several people on board to speak about his decision. But the people on board initially expressed their opposition. Among them, the reason why humans object is that there is no way to let the subordinates hide behind while the lord runs to take risks alone, while the tauren think that when encountering such a situation, they should naturally rush to the front.

"Now is not the time to discuss. I order you as Earl Sauer." After briefly listening to his subordinates, Lawrence raised his hand to stop their persuasion, and then said. "After we go in for a while, you take good care of this boat for me. If the attraction disappears, try to drive this boat to a safe place. Otherwise, it will be too bad if I solve the problem but there is no boat. Oh no."

"Understood." After Lawrence used the military order, the people on the ship saluted and expressed that they would follow his order no matter how unhappy they were. After making sure everyone was ready, Lawrence and Nora checked the equipment one last time, saluted everyone and flew into the sky.

After mastering the third-level flying technique before, Lawrence was finally able to fly. Led by Nora, the two of them crossed five or six kilometers to the entrance of the cave in a short period of time.

At this time, the size of the cave entrance has been fixed, and it looks like a huge cave half in the sea and half above the sea. The part above the sea alone is more than ten meters high and more than 20 meters wide. It looks like a big mouth on the side of the island. And just outside this cave is covered with dense reefs, as if the teeth on this big mouth want to smash everything that is going to enter this cave.

After approaching from the air, Lawrence saw many things hanging on these reefs. For example, new and old wooden boards, all kinds of broken or complete production and daily necessities. He even saw a lot of miserable white skeletons, some of which could barely be distinguished as belonging to intelligent creatures.

Facing the rotten smell coming out of the hole, Lawrence and Lawrence lowered their altitude and flew towards the inside of the hole. The interior of the cave continued to shrink in a funnel shape, but it did not continue to shrink when it finally shrank to about the size of the church gate. Therefore, the two of them easily followed the twists and turns of the cave and continued to go deep into the interior of the island until they came to a place that was completely different from the previous space.

This is a huge space with a radius of two to three hundred meters and a height of nearly 30 meters. This space looks like a huge lake, and there are dozens of caves on the surrounding stone walls that continuously pour seawater into this lake. Lawrence and the others rushed out of one of the caves just now.

"Here—something is wrong." Nora said, because on the other side of the lake there was a small stone platform the size of a living room, and behind the stone platform was a dark hole. The most important thing is that with the eyesight of two people, they can see that there are many patterns carved on both the stone platform and the edge of the cave.

"It's really not normal." When the two of them slowly flew close to the stone platform, Lawrence found more artificial traces in the cave. Stone pillars level with the water. Much like the support columns of a trestle bridge.

Going forward along these supported arrays, you can see that at the end of the array is a row of steps cut on the stone wall leading to the top of the stone pillar. Judging from the size of the steps, the builder of this ruins is not likely to be a creature of the size of a human or an elf, but should be close to the size of a rat man.

"My detection range has been greatly limited." Nora said suddenly after going up the steps to the top of the platform, "But now I can also confirm that the limitation comes from interference, not shielding."