Struggle in the Steam Age

Because this mine has been abandoned for more than 20 years, nature has used this time to restore the trauma caused by human mining: the very solid dirt road that was previously rolled over by the carts pulling coal has a lot of weeds growing densely On both sides of the road, the forests that had been cut down by the coal mines for pumping water and steam engines as fuel grew again.

Holding a lantern, Lawrence was walking on the road. Apart from the rustling of the wind blowing through the woods and weeds, there were only the continuous chirping of insects and the occasional calls of nocturnal animals, especially the calls of owls. ugly.

But from time to time on the side of the road, some traces of human activities emerged from the bushes or grass nests, such as a small pile of blackened and decayed wood piled up on the side of the road, and some dilapidated railings at a certain corner.

After all, when this mine was in its heyday, it supplied 1/5 of the domestic coal in the slums of Eagle Fort. Although everyone who used the coal produced here did not have a good evaluation of the coal, it has to be admitted It is also the coal here that allows many families to survive the cold winter in Eagle Fort.

Even though the dirt road under our feet was very solid when it was crushed by a cart loaded with coal, it was severely damaged after decades of no maintenance. In some places, Lawrence even had to bend down and use a lantern to carefully examine the traces on the ground before he could determine the direction to go.

"Huh?" Lawrence climbed up the last small mound before reaching the mine, and he saw the gate of the mine appear at the bottom of the slope. At this moment, suddenly a vague and cold aura began to spread towards him slowly and subtly. It made him feel like he was being watched by a beast.

[Dark Vision] [Protection from Evil], when Lawrence sensed something was wrong, he first buffed himself with two magic spells, and then he extinguished the lantern in his hand and moved quickly a few steps to change positions, and at the same time came towards the cold breath Released a [Detect Undead Creature] in the direction.

In an instant, several magical auras appeared in Lawrence's field of vision. These auras were distributed near the road from his current position to the mine gate, and it looked as if he was about to ambush someone who passed this road.

"It won't be so smart if you force your way through." Lawrence stood still and thought for a while, then ran into the nearby woods. A few minutes later, with a burst of gunfire, he dragged one of his limbs, was broken, and opened his mouth desperately. A howling boar came out of the woods.

Then he tied the wild boar's four hooves to the body firmly with ropes amidst the wild boar's ugly howls, and then used a wooden railing that was easily pulled from the roadside to pry hard.

In an instant, the bundled chubby wild boar rolled down the small mound and rolled towards the gate of the mine amidst howling hoarsely.

Just as the wild boar approached the first place where the magical aura was emitted just now, a piece of ground covered with weeds suddenly exploded from bottom to top, and a ragged figure burst out of the ground.

The movement of this figure was a little clumsy except for the moment when it broke through the ground, so that when the wild boar rolled faster and faster under the force of gravity, it didn't catch it at all when it rolled past it. This made it frantically trying to pull the part below its waist out of the ground, and then limped to chase the wild boar.

"I thought it was something, it turned out to be some zombies!" Now Lawrence could see what those monsters crawling up from the ground were. Looking at the overalls on these zombies, Lawrence immediately thought of the driver. Said miners who died in the mines.

"But the problem is that those miners were obviously trapped in the mine when the mine collapsed, and they didn't even get their bodies back. Then why are they here now?" Lawrence frowned at this thought and looked at the hill A messy scene. "It seems that this mine may not be as simple as it seems."

Under Lawrence's attention, the wild boar tumbling all the way hit the gatepost of the mine and stopped, and then the seven or eight zombies that had been lured out howled and surrounded it. Suddenly, the howling of wild boars and the howling of zombies at the gate of the mine mixed together, making it as noisy as a busy intersection.

Seeing this scene, Lawrence planned to go directly to kill the group of chaotic guys below, but just as he was about to get up, the rapid movement from the mine made him bend down and take two steps back to wait and see what happened.

Within a few seconds, a calf-like monster sprang out from the darkness in the mine. It jumped to the side of the group of zombies in a circle, raised its front paws and slapped the two zombies in front of it, and then walked to the side of the wild boar, opened its mouth and bit it down.

The howling of the wild boar stopped abruptly in an instant, and while the zombie dog lowered its head and began to eat, Lawrence tiptoed forward a few meters, and then took out a single bag wrapped in cowhide from the space pocket at his waist. The barrel brass telescope carefully observed the monster.

Through the crystal lens of the telescope, he found that the monster that appeared at the entrance of the mine looked like a dog. The yellow and black fur on its body was tattered, and there were many scratches. However, through the wounds on his fur, Lawrence could see the obviously abnormal blood-red muscles below the wounds and the agate-like transparent blood vessels distributed on the muscles that beat like living creatures.

"It seems to be a subspecies of undead dog." Looking at the blood-spattered dog-shaped monster that was devoting itself to gnawing on wild boars, Lawrence quickly connected it with a picture in a certain book in his mind. . Then he took the rifle off his back and loaded an exorcism round. "Whatever it is, now is a good opportunity."

The moment the monster's dog's head was put into the sight, the undead dog who was feasting below suddenly raised his head and looked at Lawrence's position as if he felt something.

Suddenly, the figure holding the rifle on the top of the mountain came into the eyes of the undead dog. But before it could make any movements, it saw a flash of fire at the muzzle of the gun, and then it seemed that a red-hot iron bar went straight from its left eye socket to its brain. It wasn't until this time that it heard a whistling wind blowing quickly.

"Woo--" After a wail, the zombie dog that had suffered a fatal attack fell to the ground. Meanwhile, the small group of zombies surrounding the wild boar raised their bodies and turned towards Lawrence's direction, then roared and rushed over.

After killing the undead dog with one shot, Lawrence put the rifle on his back as before, and then drew out two pistols to meet the group of rushing zombies.

When the frontmost zombie rushed to a distance of five or six meters from him, the pistol in Lawrence's hand rang. As he bowed left and right with both hands, blood sprayed from the heads of zombies one after another and fell to the ground.

If you put it in the past, these zombies would be very difficult to destroy without supernatural power. Because although their speed of action is about the same as that of people walking in small steps, they can chase their targets endlessly.

In addition, their strength is at least three or four times that of ordinary people and their rawhide-like skin gives them great advantages in hand-to-hand combat, especially the only weakness of zombies is their brains. It is very difficult to open them through their fragile eyes or by violence.

So in that dark age, the main forces of many evil liches' armies were these rough-skinned and thick-skinned zombies who were extremely powerful and fearless.

But with the invention and large-scale application of gunpowder weapons, zombies have gradually become weaker. Because bullets can easily destroy their solid skulls, and their slow speed allows shooters to easily blow their heads.

After eight gunshots, all the zombies fell to the ground. Lawrence also took the opportunity to activate the phantom of Bai Ze in his body to harvest and purify the souls of these monsters.