Struggle in the Steam Age

Jack's words woke Lawrence up from his thoughts, and he followed Jack's finger. What appeared in his eyes was a dilapidated residential building, and the place Jack was pointing at was one of those small buildings.

This is a small red brick building that looks very cramped on the side of the road full of potholes, sewage, and garbage, and it is closely next to two small buildings of similar length on the left and right. The mottled and moss-covered walls, the doors and windows complemented by wooden boards, and the rusted outdoor fire escape all illustrate the decay of this place.

The most striking thing is that a spindle is painted with red paint on the walls of nearby buildings, which means that this area belongs to the Spindle Gang.

"Okay, you can wait for me here, or you can leave by yourself." Lawrence knew that it was really not suitable for Jack to move forward at this time, so he let him leave here first, while he slowly walked towards the building with a vigilant expression. Go in the direction of the building.

Maybe it was because there was not much oil and water in this place and there were undead in the room, so Lawrence didn't find any traces of human activities nearby.

After walking along the wall to the gate, Lawrence took out a revolver loaded with exorcism bullets from his arms and held it in his left hand, then tried to push the front door of the room with his right hand.

Sure enough, the group didn't forget to lock the door before leaving. Lawrence, who failed to open the door after pushing twice, gave up his plan to break in, but climbed upstairs along the fire escape.

Although the stairs were badly corroded, Lawrence still made it to the top of the building smoothly. Then he broke open the somewhat tattered wooden door on the roof and entered the building.

The room was very dim, only the light from the gaps in the wooden boards nailed to the windows formed beams of light in the dust suspended in the air, barely illuminating the surrounding environment. After carefully looking at the surrounding environment, Lawrence cast a [Detect Undead Creatures].

A special energy was emitted from his finger, and then Lawrence swung his finger like holding a flashlight, so that the beam of energy could scan as far as possible to every corner of the building.

"Found it." Tens of seconds later, Lawrence saw a dim aura appear in a room on the third floor. After seeing this, he immediately rushed down the stairs in three steps in two.

When he descended the dilapidated stairs to the third floor, a translucent, indistinct object floated out of the wall. Lawrence could see that the floating thing maintained a human shape, but it was indistinct, like a cloud of mist. But the fog, as gray as a dark cloud, suggested that it wasn't as harmless as the report said.

After discovering Lawrence, the ghost who looked like a wet middle-aged man opened his mouth wide. Seeing this, he immediately dodged to the side, and then raised his arms to aim at the ghost.

In an instant, a screaming sound like breaking glass erupted from Undead's mouth. However, Lawrence had successfully avoided the ghost's front at this time, and at the same time, the [protection against evil] added to himself after detecting it before had an effect.

While a gust of cold wind blew from the side, the pistol held by Lawrence's right hand continuously shot silver exorcism bullets at the shadow floating in the air, and his left hand also released the magic of [Strike Undead].

In an instant, three marks glowing with white light exploded on the ghost's chest, and at the same time, half of the head hit by the magic of [Strike the Undead] turned into dots of white light and disappeared completely. "

"Squeak—" After a scream, the ghost immediately spun crazily on the spot. Lawrence saw that the wounds on its body not only did not heal, but were getting bigger and bigger.

The deadly weakness of undead creatures is not necessarily where they were before they were alive, but newborn undead often habitually place their deadly points at the same place as before. So the newborn ghost in front of him was fatally injured immediately after half of its head was blasted off by Lawrence's magic.

In just a few seconds, the ghost completely turned into nothingness. Then a few wisps of gray mist were sucked in by the phantom of Bai Ze in Lawrence's mind.

It's just that the ghost this time is not as powerful as the monster last time, so Lawrence didn't notice any more changes except that he could vaguely feel that the source of magic power was slightly stronger than before.

"How can you increase the magic cap every time you kill a monster?" Lawrence laughed at his greed, then bent down and picked up the spoils.

After the ghost disappeared, a handful of transparent sand-like things were left on the ground. Lawrence took out a crystal bottle and carefully put the bone-chilling sand like ice into the crystal bottle.

"I'm lucky. The phantom dust harvested this time is at least about ten grams, and the quality is very good." After putting the transparent gravel on the ground into the bottle, Lawrence looked at the sunlight through the window. "Whether you use it yourself or sell it to the church, it will be a good choice."

After collecting the loot, Lawrence began to inspect the house seriously. With the help of the [Detect Magic] spell, he quickly discovered that there were two places in the entire building emitting magical auras.

One of them was on the second floor, which was more luxurious than all the other rooms in this building. After entering the door, judging by the surrounding decoration, Lawrence felt that this should be the place where the gang leader lived in the past.

Following the guidance of the magic aura, he came to the wardrobe with the door open, and after a careful look, he used a small knife he carried with him to pry open the back panel on the side of the wardrobe against the wall.

After a clanging sound, a large pile of messy things fell from the hole in the wall covered by this backboard onto the wooden board below the cabinet.

"Let me see, this is—" Lawrence counted in the dim light from the window. "Paper bills, coins, two gold rings, a broken sapphire-encrusted gold necklace with a simple self-cleaning enchantment, no wonder you found a magical aura here just now—"

"Hey, isn't this the bronze mirror that was stolen from me?" During the inventory, Lawrence found something familiar to him. This also made him realize that the two guys who attacked him at that time came from here.

"Now it's all mine." Lawrence happily put the 32 yuan and 17 cents he cleared into his wallet, and then he packed all the rest of the soft bed with a torn sheet on the bed. He carried a small package on his back.

Although this amount of wealth, which should be the private money of the gang leader, is not much, considering that these guys are all drunk guys, it was already a pleasant surprise for Lawrence to find their savings here.

"It seems that choosing this mission is completely correct, and there is still some extra money to be earned." Lawrence thought as he walked downstairs to another place where a flash of light flashed, "The next step is to see what will be in another location I hope to find as much wealth there as here."