Struggle in the Steam Age

As an armed smuggling ship transporting all kinds of important items on the Sea of ​​Stars, such a sailing ship itself has powerful force to deal with possible sea beast attacks or some pirates' black-eating behaviors.

Not to mention that their trade this time is seriously taboo even from the perspective of smuggling, and once they are discovered, they will definitely die very rhythmically. Therefore, before departure, a comprehensive reinforcement of the ship and the personnel on board was specially carried out.

For example, after the battle, Nora took Lawrence into the lower deck of the ship for a visit. As a result, Lawrence found that the lower deck was indeed equipped with some additional artillery in some cabins as Nora had guessed before. Moreover, these artillery seem to be of the latest style, and are equipped with sufficient propellant packs and shells.

In addition, there are several magic scrolls for reconnaissance or attack along with the ship, as well as extraordinary people who joined specially for this voyage. It's a pity that they didn't expect that the attacker would be a top legend peak powerhouse, and they didn't expect that this strong man would actually use a sneak attack method that completely disregarded his identity when facing the absolute weak like them.

As a result, under this series of accidents and unexpectedness, the people on board let alone stopped or even counterattacked. Before they could even activate the final self-destruct system, they were all controlled by Nora. Then the whole ship fell into the hands of Lawrence and the others in such a complete way.

"If I'm not mistaken, this boat should be a relatively rare out-sea designated smuggling boat. It's the rarest kind of smuggling boat."

Lawrence and the others met a smuggling ship that turned into a drifting ship in the port area before, so out of curiosity, Nora went to the Church of Knowledge after that incident to get a detailed record of all the pirates in the area from the church. Therefore, after capturing the fast sailing ship, Nora immediately recognized the specific identity of the ship.

"The smuggling ship on the outer sea, what is that?" Lawrence didn't know much about these things, so he asked curiously after hearing what the little puppet said. "I know that at least half of the ships sailing on this ocean often or occasionally do smuggling business, so what is the biggest difference between this ship and ordinary smuggling ships?"

"The biggest difference between this kind of boat and other smuggling boats is that this kind of smuggling boat is unique to certain forces, such as the nobles around or the white gloves of the island controllers. It doesn't have any external missions."

Nora answered Lawrence's question as soon as he heard it. "At the same time, in order to hide, these ships basically do not enter ordinary ports. They often only sail between some special hidden ports."

"No wonder the whole ship is dyed black." Lawrence said to Nora after returning to the upper deck. That safe and the hidden steam engine all accentuate that too."

On the lower deck of the ship just now, Lawrence found a small steam engine and a small safe made of steel in addition to some not-so-large supplies.

Among them, the cabin around the small steam engine has been reinforced by a series of steel structures, and a shaft is connected to drive the propeller at the stern. And for the sake of concealment, even the chimney of the steam engine on this ship was specially made into a retractable folding chimney.

Of course, Lawrence also discovered some important information from the details. For example, he found that the supplies in the cabin below the ship were very scarce, and they could only be used for about a week at most. From this point, it can be inferred that the place where the ship departed should not be too far from this place.

And then the torture of the captives confirmed this, because it can be confirmed that these guys are raped. So naturally there is no need to abide by many humanitarian ideas during interrogation.

So Nora quickly released her silk threads and stuck them into the captive's brain, and then began to read the information inside.

"Hey, I've never seen your method of interrogating prisoners before." Lawrence asked curiously after seeing Nora controlling the nearly ten prisoners in front of her like a puppet. "Why haven't I seen you do this before? Is it because this kind of magic is too difficult to cast?"

"Of course not." As a puppet, Nora naturally has the ability to use one mind at a time, so she said to Lawrence while reading data from these people's brains,

"For me, it is not difficult to read the memory in the brain of intelligent creatures through this method, but this method will also seriously damage the life and soul of the subject during the reading process. Therefore I'm not a good fit to use such magic against guys who used to be less serious crimes."

The three views of the puppet are actually very close to Lawrence, so the application of his own power will be self-controlled and will not abuse his own power. Therefore, only under such circumstances will she fully reveal her power, in order to obtain the secrets hidden from them in the shortest possible time.

"I probably know what's going on." Nora said to Lawrence after reading the information in the minds of the captives on the ship. "Our luck is not bad. One of the captives here is a representative sent by the cargo owner to escort the cargo. And he has a lot of information about this operation stored in his brain."

According to the hidden information in this guy's mind, his immediate superior is a semi-independent noble territory in this area. Some improper economic transactions have been maintained with these sahuayu people before. And this time, those sahuayu people used the evidence of the previous transaction as a threat to force the other party to sell a large number of magic props and magic scrolls!

"A large number of magic props? This can indeed change the situation of the war." Lawrence immediately cheered up after hearing Nora's words. After all, magic is the primary productive force in this world. And a large number of magic props and magic scrolls are enough to change the current situation on the battlefield. "By the way, which aspect of magic are these things?"

"The magic in the things they sell this time is mainly phantom magic and a batch of simple combat magic scrolls, similar to low-level magic such as dancing shield, activation rope, jumping technique and sharp hand." Nora said, "By the way, the other party also specifically asked for a lot of stone-shaping scrolls. It feels like the sahuagin are doing some kind of project."

"And according to the information I got from this person's mind, their departure this time can be regarded as very hasty. They set off from the island and headed here as soon as they received an order during the day." Nora finished speaking. summed up.

"The previous behavior of this ship is not normal. For smuggling ships, these ships will only take such a route when they receive orders very hastily and the delivery time is very tight. Otherwise, they will try their best to If possible, avoid going straight to expose your own lair."

"That is to say, the sahuayu people probably issued a trade request late last night or early this morning." Lawrence closed his eyes slightly and muttered, "If I remember correctly, we made an agreement with that loca fish last night. They violated the rule of escape and sent those locathians back, hoping that they can get some locathans out of the war."

"My lord, are you saying that those rocagins yesterday were lackeys of the sahuagins, and they want to use this to launch a surprise attack?" Nora frowned after hearing Lawrence's words. "But yesterday I clearly felt that their request should be from the heart, rather than trying to set a trap for us."