Struggle in the Steam Age

"I think, I might have a way to get close to the source of pollution without alarming these evil masterminds." The people in the conference room started arguing immediately after the priest of Fortune Church proposed to go to the place where the source of pollution was. After listening to everyone discuss for a while about how to approach the pollution source secretly, Lawrence raised his hand and said.

"Oh, you said you have a solution?" After hearing Lawrence's suggestion, the priests next to him looked at Lawrence in surprise. Then the priest of Fortune Church who seemed a bit impatient just now asked. "Can you tell me what you can do now? If the way you said is feasible, I will fully support your approach."

"Different from everyone, although I also came here to solve the pollution of the evil gods on this cotton field. But what I announced to the public was Aunt Mia who came to visit me." Seeing everyone in the conference room staring at him, Lawrence didn't keep it secret, but directly stated his plan this time. "So the other party may not pay attention to me."

Viscount Doropia did not make it public when he invited Lawrence to help inspect the cotton fields. He just asked him to come here under the pretext of meeting relatives and friends. After all, they not only grow cotton, but also run cotton mills. Therefore, at that time, they hoped to hide the news that the cotton fields were damaged and avoid raising prices from outside merchants who sold cotton.

However, with the discovery of traces of divine power pollution, Viscount Doropia's plan to hide this incident naturally fell through. Because for those churches, preventing the pollution of the evil gods as much as possible is the most important thing. For them, those things on the market are not what they need to pay attention to.

But also because of the preparations made by Viscount Doropia before, Lawrence and Nora still used the excuse of visiting relatives when they came. So if you want to find the source of these divine power pollution, Lawrence is probably the only one in this tent who is not likely to be noticed by the other party.

"If it's your name, the situation shouldn't be a problem." The High Priest of the Agricultural Church sitting on the main seat said after thinking about it. "However, there is still a small problem here. What kind of name do you use to go to our destination? After all, that place is a large and desolate Gobi Desert. If there is no reasonable reason, it is very worthwhile just to get close to it. Doubtful things."

"Well, let me think about it." Lawrence showed a thoughtful expression, just like what the priest said, it is always a strange thing to go deep into the desolate Gobi Desert inexplicably, so there must be a more reasonable reason. After a few minutes, he suddenly raised his head and said. "I think, I have a good idea."

After hearing this sentence, most people in the conference room focused their attention on Lawrence. Seeing this, Lawrence said after coughing twice. "I think I am a member of the White Eagle Federal Science Association besides being a nobleman and a warlock. Therefore, I can use the excuse of investigating the ecosphere in the inland area of ​​the New World to go deep into the Gobi Desert."

"If this is the case, I think it should be possible." The high priest of the Agricultural Church said after thinking for a while. "We will select some elites to follow you into the Gobi Desert disguised as staff and logistics personnel. Others will stay here to cover for you."

After making a decision, everyone immediately took action. The church began to select a group of people to disguise overnight. They sneaked out of the camp overnight and rushed to another settlement more than 100 kilometers away overnight through some extraordinary means. Prepare to pretend to be the assistants and staff recruited by Lawrence and arrive here by train tomorrow.

On the other hand, Lawrence himself and Nora left the manor with great fanfare and returned to the city to go to the telegraph office to send a message. The content of the message was to send a message like the Enterprise in the direction of the capital as discussed with these church personnel before, saying that he had found in this area. I bought a lot of interesting things to prepare for the expedition, and let the expedition team on the ship come over.

Because everyone didn't think that the group of guys who engaged in this kind of divine power pollution had enough strength to extend their negative sphere of influence to the capital, and the warship that Lawrence was on when he came here happened to be parked there now. Therefore, it is just possible to use this ship as a cover to summon the Church's troops.

After finishing all the work, Lawrence and Nora found a railway-affiliated hotel near the train station in the urban area to live in. It was not until noon the next day that I greeted the two teams that rushed over from the train station, and then left the train station with a dozen of them and more than 20 camels. Many camels are carrying big and small bags on their bodies, showing a look of preparing for a long journey.

"Your Excellency, what do you think of our operation this time?" Under the curious eyes of the citizens, Lawrence and the others drove the camels to the outside of the city. Just after they left the city and found that no one was following or spying on them, a paladin belonging to the Church of Fortune caught up with Lawrence and asked.

"It's okay for the time being, although some of the people who play the role of workers in the back look too good-looking, but at least you know that the people who are disguised as preparing to enter the Gobi stall will wrap their heads and hands with cloth, and they should not be discovered. No." Lawrence slightly turned his head to look at the people behind and said to the paladin disguised as a security guard.

"Actually, we have considered this kind of problem before, so we are dressed in this way." The paladin said, "Because we also encountered a lot of experiences of pretending to be people from all walks of life when performing tasks, so in Before we set off, we were ready to make up according to the roles we were going to play."

"If you are well prepared along the way, then the overall problem should not be too big now." After hearing what the paladin said, Lawrence smiled, and then returned to seriousness. "Next, we will go directly to the Gobi of Death, and we will not stop at the manor in the middle."

"Of course, I can understand why we did this. After all, we have to hide all our connections with the church." The paladin next to him nodded and said. "If there is no accident, today we will spend half a day rushing to the foot of the mountain in the west, tomorrow we will spend a day climbing over the mountain, and then we will spend five or six days crossing the distance of more than two hundred kilometers to reach our destination .”

Although it may take longer to do so, the overall situation will appear more reasonable in this way. After all, it would be normal for a not-too-rich earl like Lawrence to organize a camel caravan if he wanted to investigate, but it would be too strange to rent an airship or something.

"I hope that Safiel won't ignore me after I go back because I've exceeded the agreed time this time." Lawrence thought to himself after reading the ten-day plan. It's a pity that all of this was derived through reasoning, so Lawrence and the others had to come to scout for confirmation, otherwise they would have directly called the Tribunal to airdrop them.

What followed was a long trek. On the first day, they successfully reached the mouth of a valley in the western mountains, and then stayed in a hotel there. Unexpectedly, the fence at the entrance of the hotel was crowded with cattle of various shapes, and after entering the hotel, they found several horsemen who came to the city from the west of the mountain range to do business in the hotel.

The land on the west side of the mountains is a bit dry because the mountains block a lot of precipitation from the ocean, but the overall water and heat conditions are not bad near the mountains. Although it is impossible to plant crops, a small area over there Grasslands are adequate enough for grazing.

These horse people are the ranchers on that grassland. In this area, humans are mainly engaged in industry or planting, while the horse people are engaged in animal husbandry. Lawrence, they saw this group of horses now. The people should be the ranchers who drove their cattle to the city and sold them on the railway line.

"I think we can get some news from them." Seeing these tall horsemen standing by the bar and drinking beer and chatting wildly, Lawrence said to the paladin next to him, "What can you do? Invite them over to talk to us?"