Struggle in the Steam Age

Considering the situation of the whole team, Lawrence nodded and allowed Nora's investigation activities, and then watched her disappear into a cloud of khaki dust. Then, the members of the entire small team lay quietly on the sand dunes and waited. Fortunately, after waiting for an hour, Nora successfully completed the reconnaissance mission and flew back.

"How's the situation?" Seeing the dusty little puppet flying in and out on the sandstorm, Lawrence quickly took out wet towels and a pot of water and handed them to her, feeling distressed at the same time. asked. "Also, you didn't encounter any danger when you flew over to investigate just now, right?"

"No accident." Nora replied while taking off the khaki cloak on her body and wiping the dust on her hands, head and face with this wet towel, "I checked just now, and the other party is in those places What is buried are some magic props for reconnaissance, these magic props can detect the existence of nearby life and the movement of some large objects. If we rushed directly to it just now, we would probably be discovered by the other party."

"Besides, I found out that the other party has planted landmines in some places." As she spoke, Nora took out a piece of paper from her bosom, on which was a sketch of the area, with many red dots on it. "The distribution of these mines is relatively regular, and they are mainly distributed here. At the entrance of the crater."

"The terrain of the entire crater is very special, and it has only one entrance." Nora said as she picked up the sand and stones on the ground and piled up a small sand table according to the results of her investigation just now. "This entrance and our current location just form a 90° included angle, and I saw a canyon that zigzags toward the interior of the crater."

"There are about ten people stationed at the mouth of this canyon with a diameter of only about ten meters. Their clothes and weapons are very messy, but they are also very sophisticated. They should be gunmen who make a living in this area. Six of them are stationed in the canyon. There is a turn of seven or eight meters, and the other four people are distributed on the mountain walls on both sides. The distance between these posts is relatively far, and if you want to attack by force, it is difficult to guarantee that they will be killed in an instant without letting them send out a signal. "

"However, the good news is that apart from the entrance, there are only extremely scattered alarm devices and some preset explosives on the mountain walls." After Nora said this, she stretched out her right hand imposingly on the sand table Draw a circle. "Although these mountains around the crater are more difficult to climb, I think it should not be an insurmountable natural barrier for most of us. At least from my personal point of view, when we attack later, it is best to choose from Climb up the mountain."

"Aren't those commanding heights on the top of the mountain not guarded?" When Nora said this, a young Holy Knight of the Mother of the Earth suddenly interjected and asked. In this day and age, paladins of various churches often have formal military training in addition to small-scale adventure experience. So the paladin was quite curious why no one was stationed at the commanding heights of this mountainous area.

"No." The little puppet shook his head and said, "This is what I'm going to talk about next. Although this place is called a crater, it's actually not the same as a crater or a crater. There are very few flat lands inside this kind of crater. , are all mountains. Rather than a crater, it is better to say that it is a group of circular mountain ranges composed of a large number of hills."

"Because of this reason, it doesn't make much sense for the opponent to station on the commanding heights. Because no matter which commanding height it is, there will be a lot of dead spots, and it will take a lot of manpower to completely eliminate the dead spots. I don't think the opponent may be able to waste so many people in above this."

"And when I flipped through the outer mountains and flew close to the ground for spiral investigation, I could feel a special power in the space around the central area of ​​the crater. It felt like it belonged to some kind of god. So in order not to alarm the other party, I simply gave up on the investigation and withdrew."

After finishing his statement on the content of his investigation just now, the little puppet floated obediently beside Lawrence and drank water. And these team members gathered together to discuss. According to Nora's statement, they can basically be sure that their goal this time is close at hand, and the next question is about how to act.

After a brief discussion, everyone quickly decided to climb up from the side of the entrance of the crater, that is, the side facing them, according to Nora's suggestion just now, and then by approaching Nora just now from the side, they discovered that the area of ​​existence. As for the next action, it can only be decided after on-site observation.

After making a decision, Lawrence and the others retreated to join the main force. After briefly introducing the specific situation outside now, the whole team quickly split into two parts. Among them, the smaller part was responsible for staying in place to guard the camels while guarding the back road, while Lawrence and the others were responsible for leading the camels. The main force of the team launched a surprise attack.

With the help of the priests of the Mother Earth Church, Lawrence and the others easily bypassed the magic reconnaissance facilities located on the flat Gobi Desert. I don't know if it's because of the opponent's inexperience or other problems, but the detection ranges of these reconnaissance facilities don't overlap with each other as they feared before. With the guidance of the priest of the Mother Earth, they easily watched the safe area in the middle of the detection range quickly approaching the mountain.

Because of the cover of the sandstorm, Lawrence and the others approached the mountain of the crater very smoothly and then started climbing. Although there are some extraordinary people in the team who seem to be at least 50 years old, their extraordinary strength makes them run on the mountain no worse than young people like Lawrence.

After spending a little time over the valley, they began to follow a series of mountains towards the center of the crater. Because they were worried about the existence of fortification points inside the mountains, Lawrence and the others chose to advance a little bit along the small mountains inside the craters, and used the rocks on these mountains as cover.

The process of their progress along the way can be said to be very smooth. If there is an accident, the only accident is that they found fresh camel droppings and footprints on the ground in several sheltered places under the mountain, which further confirmed that this place should be what they are looking for.

"It's here." When everyone walked to the center of a mountain range that was not much different from the surrounding small mountains, Nora, who was flying at the forefront, suddenly raised a hand to signal everyone to stop. "Just a dozen meters in front of us is the space shrouded in divine power."

After hearing Nora's words, the whole team stopped. Then Lawrence and the priests in the team went forward to the edge of the area to check. After a brief perception, they found that the space in front of them was filled with some kind of power belonging to the gods, which was a little strange to everyone.

However, because he is a non-professional, Lawrence can only feel that this power has a special vitality and some kind of power related to water. But these professional priests in the team quickly roughly determined what this group of divine power represented.

"The power of this god is a bit wrong." After checking it, a priest of the Goddess of Wealth came over and said, holding a golden, gem-studded, magical instrument similar to a celestial globe, "This is not that The power of the zerg prince Obox Obo should be the power of some kind of water-related god."

"Then what should we do next?" Hearing that there seemed to be something wrong with the target, Lawrence immediately became nervous and asked the oldest priest in the team.

"Of course we acted according to plan." The priest said without hesitation. "Anyway, it's too suspicious to do this kind of thing in such an inaccessible place. Since we encounter it, we must not let it go."