Struggle in the Steam Age

In the lobby of the detective agency, everyone gathered at a table and watched Lawrence use a small blade to pry along the cracks on the statue after burning. With the movement of the knife, the crisp surface of the statue that had been burned by the fire also began to shake.

"Crack." When Lawrence picked up the knife again, a piece of coke the size of a thumb fell from the body of the statue. Looking in through this gap, Lawrence saw some silver-gray fur.

"It feels a little strange, it looks like the fur of some kind of animal." Safiel, who also saw what was inside, frowned. "But this fur should be a very precious thing. Come to think of it, it has no trace of excessive fire after being burned."

"That makes sense." Lawrence nodded, and then began to clean up with the hole as the core. Fifteen minutes later, Lawrence had cleaned a mass of soft, silvery-gray fur from the center of the coke.

"We made a lot of money this time." After releasing the identification again, Lawrence raised his fur and said to the two ladies. Safir and Fatina found that this thing looked like a pocket.

"This is a space bag made from the nest mouse's pouch." Lawrence said directly without making a fuss. "The nest mouse is an extraordinary creature unique to the southern continent. Its social structure is similar to that of bees or ants. Among them, the nest mouse that is the queen is responsible for giving birth and directing the group of mice."

"Among them, the nest mouse queen has a pouch with spatial capabilities. Once their underground nests are destroyed but cannot be stopped, the queen mouse will put all the young mice in this pouch and escape. And the local After the aborigines discovered this, they killed the rat and removed its pouch. Then they used some special techniques to make the space pocket we see now."

"Let me see how much space is inside this thing?" After explaining, Lawrence put his mental power into the space bag in his hand. He just passed the [identification technique] and already knew that it was a safe and unowned interspatial bag. It turned out that it did have magic traps, but the traps disappeared as time went by.

"It can hold 30 cubic meters of things." After checking it, Lawrence said: "And it's a space of two meters by three meters by five meters. We're lucky."

Lawrence said that for a reason. Because there are a lot of space equipment that is not square and square, which leads to insufficient space utilization, and this cube is the shape with the highest space utilization.

"30 cubic meters." Safiel's eyes widened. She knew what this meant. "I remember that when such a large space is required and the space is very regular, a space bag costs at least 20,000 yuan."

"Yeah, I didn't expect that miser to give us a good thing. It can be seen that good luck or bad luck is always changing." Lawrence showed a smile on his face. He was very angry, but now it seems that God sent this good thing to him.

After feeling a lot, the palm-sized interspatial bag was tied to Lawrence's belt. After a brief discussion, everyone agreed that the space can be shared by three people, but Lawrence usually carries it.

In the midst of excitement, everyone ate the lunch that Saifeier bought from a stall in the next block. After the meal, Lawrence originally planned to go to St. Gutenberg Cathedral to see what tasks were suitable for everyone. As a result, before he went out, he saw a middle-aged woman who was wearing a dark green outing suit, wearing a soft hat of the same color and holding a small parasol in her hand and came in through the door.

"Is this the Transcendent Detective Agency?" She was taken aback when she saw Lawrence after entering the door, and then asked with some doubts. "I remember that the owner of this shop should be a lady."

"You're right, the owner of the store is a lady." Lawrence called Safir upstairs and left the room after finishing speaking. After all, he knew that sometimes it was not appropriate for a man to be around when women were talking.

When he came to St. Gutenberg's Cathedral, Lawrence found that there were not many tasks suitable for him. Because he was worried that the problem encountered by the lady Bu who came to the door just now was more complicated, so he just wanted to find a short, flat and quick task to complete. But there are not many such tasks in the urban area.

"That's it." After a brief inspection, Lawrence selected a mission, which was related to the sewers in the dolphin area. Some Ratmen found that there were a lot of ooze monsters in the sewer near the cave where they lived. So hopefully someone can look into how these things actually come from.

"Suddenly more silt monsters? It doesn't sound like a big threat." After accepting the task, Lawrence drove to the dolphin area in the south in a public carriage, and soon he arrived at the predetermined location. A gray-haired ratman received him.

"Are you from the Church of Knowledge? You came so timely. In the past week, the number of silt monsters running down the sewer to the entrance of our cave was nearly ten times that of the past. Although they are easy to deal with, they are really dangerous There are so many that it has now affected our usual business and production of alchemy products.

"Please take me there directly, I'm ready." Lawrence said and went down into the underground sewer with the rat man, and then they raised the bull's-eye lantern they had prepared in advance and walked forward.

As they advanced, ooze monsters the size of washbasins crawled out of the building's cracks and sewage. In this way, Lawrence and the others had to pay attention to avoiding them. Although these monsters can be turned into a puddle of slippery organic matter with just two taps with a stick, Lawrence and the others don't want to waste time on these guys right now.

Seven or eight minutes later, they came to the edge of an underground pool, surrounded by several tunnels. At the entrance of one of the deeper tunnels, there were two rat men wearing leather armor, daggers hanging around their waists, and holding a short-barreled shotgun in their hands, standing there guarding the entrance.

"Here we are," said the rat man who led the way. "This is the place where a large group of ooze monsters came out from here a week ago. But we still haven't found out where they came from."

"Let me see—" Lawrence nodded to the leading rat man, and then turned around the pool the size of a basketball court.

[Detect Magic] Lawrence cast magic after turning around but found nothing. With the magic cast, he found a trace of magical aura on the water surface.

"Over there—" Looking at the trace, Lawrence greeted and chased after the magical aura, because he found that the aura was slowly dissipating. The rat man who had led the way for him immediately took out a copper whistle from his body and blew it vigorously after hearing the greeting, and soon five or six fully armed rat men rushed out of the tunnel guarded by two people, and then Chased in the direction Lawrence ran just now.

Following the trail left by Lawrence, the group of rat men chased them out for nearly 200 meters from the dense pipe network. Suddenly, they heard a gunshot ahead, followed by a burst of flame from a side pipe.

"Zhi, hurry up and follow." The Rat Man who led the way turned his head and said to the heavily armed Rat Man team behind him. "Our friend just now may have encountered some problems, let's go over and see what happened now."