Struggle in the Steam Age

"Boom, boom, boom—" Following the sound of crisp footsteps, a figure who didn't look tall and strong walked out of the dark hall of the police station.

This is a woman who can be reminiscent of something that needs to be coded as long as she sees a blurry silhouette, and her whole body reveals a strange allure.

It was only when she walked through the broken door into the last ray of sunset on the street that Lawrence realized that the woman's clothes were torn like strands of rags. But her exposed skin was covered by a layer of strange red scales, and the different shades of colors on the scales outlined patterns on her body that made people feel uncomfortable just by looking at them.

The most eye-catching thing was her feet. When he heard the footsteps just now, Lawrence thought she was wearing the more fashionable high-heeled leather shoes. But when she walked out of the police station and appeared in the afterglow of the setting sun, Lawrence was shocked to find that her knees had turned into anti-knuckle hooves like herbivores. And that burst of crisp footsteps is the sound of hard hooves hitting the ground.

Standing on the street, she just glanced slightly at the fainted policemen, and then turned her head to stare at the street tree behind Lawrence.

Lawrence noticed that her red eyes were as calm as stagnant water, but he felt an unspeakable evil and madness from this calmness.

"Hehe—" A sound like a silver bell came out of the mouth of this woman-like monster and penetrated into Lawrence's ears, making Lawrence feel as if a cold poisonous snake wrapped itself around him.

"So you noticed something was wrong, little guy. Sister, I have a question to ask you, that is, how did you discover the mind control I exerted on those people?"

As soon as the monster spoke, Laurence felt his mind go berserk. A voice that seems to come from the heart has been calling: "Speak, speak quickly—"

Just as he was about to open his mouth subconsciously, the phantom of Bai Ze in his mind radiated light again to wake him up. Taking advantage of the fact that the other party didn't notice this, Lawrence jumped out from behind the tree with lightning speed, and at the same time raised his hand slightly to pull the trigger.

"Boom—" After a dull gunshot, a cloud of blood exploded on the monster's chest. Then he squeezed the trigger with his right hand, and quickly pressed the hammer with his left hand to hit another five blood flowers on the monster's chest.

"Hiss————" The monster retreated again and again after being hit by the pistol with large-caliber black powder bullets, and at the same time, its upper body suddenly folded back around the waist. But when Lawrence fired the last bullet, it immediately stood up straight and opened its mouth to Lawrence.

A terrifying roar erupted from the monster's mouth. Although Lawrence subconsciously added [Protection from Evil] to himself at this time, the phantom of Bai Ze in his mind also provided part of the protection. But he was still dizzy from this sound wave, and he felt some warm liquid flow out of his nostrils and ears.

"It's really unlucky!" Lawrence thought to himself, he didn't expect that the first monster he encountered after becoming extraordinary was not in the simple monster illustration book before. From this simple blow, he knew that the monster in front of him was definitely not the kind of guy who was easy to deal with.

Fortunately, the monster in front of him seemed to be out of harmony with its body and soul. For example, after launching this sound wave, he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, but stood there weirdly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lawrence quickly dropped the empty pistol in his hand, then ran to the two fallen patrolmen, drew out their sabers, and rushed towards the monster standing in place.

"Ding, ding——" Just as Lawrence charged towards the monster, he was shocked to find that scales quickly appeared on the monster's body where there were no scales before. At the same time, its muscles and bones also wriggled and deformed rapidly. .

In just a few seconds, the bullet that was shot into its body just now was squeezed out by the changed muscles. At the same time, its body swelled up like a balloon, and its appearance also lost its human form.

At this time, Lawrence had already rushed in front of the monster, and released two [Magic Missiles] at its chest one after another, forcing it to cross its arms in front of its chest to block it.

"Drink—" Just as the monster blocked his chest with his arms and his left arm was blown off by two consecutive magic missiles, Lawrence clenched his swords tightly and stabbed upwards into the monster's red eyes.

The sharp point of the sword first touched the nictitating membrane of the monster's eyes, and immediately a smooth and tough touch was transmitted to Lawrence's hands along the accessories, which also scattered most of his strength.

Fortunately, these nictitating membranes may be newborn and not as strong as scales, so Lawrence's two swords still pierced the nictitating membrane smoothly and pierced into its eyes with a puff.

However, the tip of the sword moved forward less than half a palm width before it was caught by the hard bone. Lawrence once again felt that the crisis was approaching, so he immediately let go of the hilt and sprinted to the side deftly. to avoid.

"Aw—" The moment he stepped away, the monster howled again. Even though Lawrence tried his best to avoid the front of the sound wave and rushed out three or four meters, the aftermath still made his chest tight and he spit out a mouthful of blood.

This time the howling also caused damage to the surrounding environment: the stone floor was plowed to a length of one to five or six meters, and the flowers, plants and trees facing the monster also had leaves, petals and branches falling to the ground as if they had been destroyed by a tornado. .

The only good news is that this police station is located in a remote place in the northeast corner of Central Park, and there are not many pedestrians and houses around. This prevented the attack from causing greater collateral damage.

At this time, the monster had completely lost its human form, and turned into a creature more than three meters tall with knotted muscles and a snake's head and tail.

After the transformation, the monster grabbed the two sabers embedded in the eye sockets with its front paws and pulled them out. Blood that smelled like sulfur and liquids of other colors spurted out from the wound at the same time, and then fell to the ground together with the two swords.

The stone floor was corroded by blood immediately, and at the same time, the blades of the two alloy steel sabers were also corroded and riddled with holes, breaking into several pieces the moment they hit the ground.

"Hiss—" Seeing this scene, Lawrence sucked in a breath of cold air. If he hadn't gotten out of the way, he would have died immediately.

After the body deformed, the monster's humanity just now seemed to have also disappeared. It first spit out its thin tongue to sense the surrounding environment. Then he aimed in Lawrence's direction and spit out a mouthful of blood-red corrosive mucus, and finally took advantage of his chance to dodge and rushed over with his bloody mouth open.

"Look at me." Knowing that he couldn't escape in this place, Lawrence immediately stood up straight after avoiding the bloody mucus, and then stared at the monster's eyes that had turned into two blood holes with his own eyes.

At the same time, he used his will to communicate with the phantom of Bai Ze in his mind, and that phantom absorbed half of Lawrence's remaining magic power as if it had come to life, and then this magic power gushed out from both eyes after being contaminated with Bai Ze's breath. In an instant, a holy white light containing the breath of Bai Ze flashed in his blue eyes.

The monster in front of him froze there immediately after being irradiated by the white light on his face. As a beast that wards off evil and exorcise ghosts, Bai Ze was born to restrain himself from such evil creatures.

Seeing this, Lawrence immediately threw the last two bottles of exorcism powder and holy salt in his pocket into the bloody mouth of the monster in front of him. Just as the two glass bottles entered the monster's mouth, Lawrence squeezed out the last bit of mana in his body, raised his hand Aim at the two bottles with your fingertips and release the last [Magic Missile].