Struggle in the Steam Age

After Flame Ax decided to extort wealth through kidnapping, he immediately directed his subordinates to act.

On the one hand, considering that my own manpower was active around Sword Bay before, the reason for the lack of manpower due to the policy of elite soldiers. He began to command his thieves group to attack the surrounding thieves groups on a large scale, and through this fire to gather enough manpower for himself.

On the other hand, they began to find reliable people to forge a large number of fake maps, and put them into the urban area of ​​Jianwan through various channels they own to attract some wealthy people.

In order to confuse others as much as possible, Flame Ax specially disguised part of his wealth as treasure and put it in this cave. Then let a randomly selected adventure team find it.

In this way, even if other people find that there is a problem with the map, they will think that this may be a so-called adventure location for the rich that some people specially sell, and will not think of other places.

There is only one disadvantage of doing this, and that is that they will completely expose their previous spies and dark lines in the urban area and various places.

However, considering that these gangsters are basically self-respecting existences, and that the flame ax will run away directly after finishing this vote, there is nothing wrong with treating these spies as disposable items.

It's just that what the other party didn't expect was that so many things he set up failed in the end.

The reason for the failure was that Lawrence found out about it when he was taking Safir to the underground Transcendence Market, and wanted to have some fun for himself, but he didn't expect such a long list of things to be involved.

And the next thing is what Lawrence knows. The flame ax indeed successfully gathered the group of rich people, but then it was completely destroyed by the people led by Lawrence.

And he was ambushed by Lawrence and the others when he planned to sneak attack the defenders in the valley from the rear and lost his life.

"So our luck is really great - of course, thanks to your help." After the interrogation, Viscount Surrey walked to Lawrence and said after a standard noble bow.

"I can't imagine what would happen to us without your help—"

"Yeah, but this time we were just lucky. If it wasn't for me and my fiancée who felt bored staying here, I wouldn't have been chasing this matter and investigating it."

Lawrence shrugged his shoulders and said, "So I think this may be because everyone's luck is really good, otherwise this time there will definitely be a big news."

Just like in the movies, the reinforcements always come out when the last thing is over, and this time is no exception.

When a mixed garrison and police team from the city of Sword Bay arrived, Lawrence and the others had already started cooking the lunch that was delayed due to the bandit invasion just now.

This kind of attack is a complete nightmare for the security department of Jianwan City, because a very important source of wealth in this city comes from the vacation consumption of those rich people.

For these people, safety is very important. But what happened today can be said to have seriously affected various word-of-mouth in the region.

At the beginning, the guy who led the team wanted to find fault with the reinforcements brought by Lawrence. After all, it is inappropriate to have an organized armed force that is not owned by the country on federal territory.

Fortunately, the army brought by Lawrence came here under the pretext of participating in the civilization expedition. At the same time, as a foreign nobleman, Lawrence himself has the right to have his own guard on the land of the Federation. That's why the other party couldn't take advantage of this opportunity to challenge him.

The reason why this person started to lose the pot as soon as they met is also very simple, because this incident can be said to be one of the most serious accidents that have occurred in Jianwan City since it became an important tourist attraction.

So for those of them who are responsible for the safety of the city, this incident can be seen as a disaster. This is true both for the city and for these people present.

Therefore, after realizing how bad this incident is, these responsible people subconsciously want to shift the responsibility to others, or at least part of it.

For example, the trouble of finding the reinforcements brought by Lawrence was part of their subconscious plan to shirk responsibility. Unfortunately, this plan was directly interrupted by Lawrence.

This led to the process of taking statements and receiving prisoners. The commanders of the reinforcements who rushed over from the Sword Bay area all looked very ugly.

This was especially true for those who seemed to be in charge of the police and security. The whole person looked as if they had aged ten years all of a sudden.

"The reason why they came here looking for trouble this time is also very simple." Viscount Surrey approached Lawrence and whispered.

"Because if I remember correctly, this attempted crime is probably the worst and extremely rare case that this region has encountered in the past century. Therefore, as those directly responsible for urban security, these commanders now have a high probability Will be punished by demotion or dismissal."

"They do have some responsibility." Lawrence also said in a low voice.

"In any case, when those gangsters sold so many maps with different roads but the same goal in a short period of time, they should wake up to the problems inside. Instead of rushing to try to make up for it after something happened now .”

No matter what the belated reinforcements thought, in the end they had nothing to exonerate. So he could only take the group of service group captives and left dejectedly after finishing the notes.

After they left, Lawrence and the others immediately continued the interrupted lunch.

I ate this lunch for two hours. On the one hand, the battle just now really consumed too much energy, so I wanted to eat something to make up for it.

On the other hand, many people feel that they have just narrowly escaped death, so they desperately hope to have a good vent through this kind of dinner.

Of course, the content of this meal is not rich, or it does not meet the consumption standards of nobles at all. Because a lot of things were destroyed or consumed in the battle just now.

Fortunately, in addition to weapons and ammunition, Lawrence also carried about three days of emergency dry food with him in the equipment distributed to the soldiers, so it happened to be able to hold a lively luncheon.

"This is one of the simplest meals I have eaten since I was born." Nibbling on a piece of dried capybara meat that had just been boiled in a large pot on the plate, the Viscount Surrey walked to Lawrence's side and said.

"But this meal is also one of the few meals that I feel the happiest when I eat in my life. The last time I felt so happy when I ate was the dinner after the discovery of minerals in my territory five years ago."

"It's normal. After experiencing life and death, people often have some new feelings about some common things in our daily life." Lawrence said after taking a sip of the black tea in his cup.

"Especially after this kind of thing that I thought I was going to die, but managed to survive in the end happened."

After chatting for a while with the Viscount who fought side by side just now, more people surrounded Lawrence and the others. After recovering from the shock just now, the rescued merchants and nobles quickly gathered and greeted Lawrence and the others.

Because based on their experience, they quickly realized that through the incident just now, there was another special connection between everyone. And that connection might bring them something unexpected later on.

So in the rest of the banquet, everyone quickly connected with each other through this incident. It may be because everyone has similar identities, so the content of the chat soon began to shift towards various transactions and cooperation.