Struggle in the Steam Age

Various mosses and lichens grew on the stones on the ground. Stepping on the soft moss, Lawrence looked at the building that was getting closer and closer to him, and his heart was trembling. Because such weird places in the movie are often the lairs of some kind of monsters, the team where the protagonist is in always finds out such places and rushes in without listening to people's advice, and then encounters all kinds of weird monsters with heavy casualties , In the end only a man and a woman ran out. And now he acts like the kind of protagonist who wants to die.

The closer he got to the building, the more nervous Lawrence became. But until he reached the entrance of the tower, the surrounding area was still silent, and nothing strange came out.

"It seems that my luck is not that bad." Lawrence muttered in a low voice to cheer himself up, and then he gripped the handle of the gun after drying his hands on his coat.

Turning around the tower-like building, Lawrence found that the main body of the building was not built by manpower, but a tower formed by hollowing out the huge stone pillar connecting the roof and the wall of the cave. shaped building.

In fact, this is not a good choice, because this place is near a coal mine, so the rock inside the mountain is relatively loose, which is not suitable for digging various spaces for accommodation. If there are any benefits to doing so, it can only be said that it is less difficult to dig holes in this type of rock, and the progress of the project will be faster.

However, the consequences of doing so are also obvious. For example, Lawrence discovered that the 1.5-meter-diameter hole near the first floor was blasted by an ordinary fireball technique. If it is a normal granite or even a brick wall, the crater will be as big as a washbasin at most.

After finishing the environmental inspection around the building, Lawrence climbed in through the 1.5-meter-diameter hole in the wall. This is just like the reason why you should try to avoid rushing directly through the door as much as possible in street fighting, because the door is the easiest place to set up various traps and focus fire.

After entering the building, everything in front of his eyes confirmed his guess just now: the walls are very thick, and the space inside the room is also irregular. The most important thing is that the walls everywhere in the room can be seen with the naked eye as the ground is uneven, the walls are of different thickness, and there are traces of potholes everywhere.

These all show that the people who built this place did not intend to live here for a long time, so they just made a rough hole in this big pillar like a wild beast to settle down.

The first floor of the building looked like an ordinary living room. Although there were various signs of damage caused by the casting of spells on the walls and floor, Lawrence did not find any traps in this place after checking around.

"It seems that normal people don't like to put traps in their living room. Of course, it may also be that the owner of the room dare not place traps in this place." Thinking of this, Lawrence lightly patted a place that was obviously affected by the fireball technique. After hitting the blackened wall, he saw a large pile of sand and gravel that had been fried by the explosion crashing to the ground after he slapped it.

"Have the stones in the building been destroyed to this extent?" Lawrence was startled when the sand and stones fell, and he backed away, then looked around at the dense traces on the surrounding walls. At the same time, I told myself in my heart that I should try my best to drag out the battle after encountering something, otherwise, if this place collapsed, I would probably die.

Turning around briefly, Lawrence came to a slope like a chiseled staircase with both hands empty. I don't know if it's because the place is simple or because the people who came before searched it. Except for some broken parts that could barely be seen in shape, Lawrence found nothing of value in the living room on the first floor.

However, this does not mean that he found nothing. For example, he found a small piece of dusty, palm-sized yellow and brittle old newspaper in a pile of broken furniture that had been smashed into pieces. Although the newspaper was only a fragment, Lawrence found a date more than 60 years ago from it.

"Does this mean that this place has been abandoned for more than 60 years?" Lawrence thought after throwing away the piece of newspaper, and then he released [Detection Magic] again.

Unsurprisingly, the magic detected in the distance just now reflected on the top of his head, and after the close inspection this time, he found that the magic aura seen in the distance was actually a lot of magic gathered together. It was formed by aura, and there were a few clusters of unexpectedly strong magic aura.

"It seems that there are still some monsters upstairs." While releasing the detection magic, Lawrence found that some of the magical auras kept changing positions. So he took out a large wrist-thin fireworks from the interspatial bag and went to the stairs. After a little calculation in his heart, he stretched out his right hand to hold the wooden pole at the end of the firework so that it aimed at a section of the wall at a special angle, and then lit the fuse with the match he carried with him.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thereforehhhhh thereforeh!" When the lead wire burned to the end, the firework flew out of Lawrence's hand and hit the wall on the side of the stairs, then bounced and flew upstairs as he had calculated. Just after the flames at the end of the fireworks disappeared around the corner of the corridor, Lawrence heard a strange movement upstairs.

Realizing that something was wrong, Lawrence's first reaction was to retreat to the exit of the building. But just as he retreated to the edge of the big hole he came in, the first monster had already appeared in front of him.

"Zhi——" It was a mouse the size of a piglet, with messy black-gray manes all over its body, and two sharp fangs protruding from the corners of its mouth. The most striking thing is that it has a lot of white bone spurs piercing out from under the skin at each joint, adding a bit of hideous feeling.

"Demon Rats!" Lawrence immediately recognized the species of the monster in front of him, so he jumped over the big hole in the wall and backed away when the other party stared at him with blood-red eyes. Because the "Monster Handbook" once said that this dangerous extraordinary creature is a herd animal, and it is definitely not a wise move to fight this kind of herd animal in a small space.

As soon as he exited the building, Lawrence took off the rifle from his back and loaded a buckshot into it. Rape Rat is a gregarious omnivorous animal, and its vitality is no different from that of piglets of the same size. To say that the only thing that can pose a threat is that their teeth carry a lot of germs, and it is easy for people to be infected with various messy diseases.

And after they are demonized, their vitality and defense do not increase but decrease, but their attack power and attack speed will greatly increase. The filthy magic power also makes them have a magic power that is difficult to remove no matter in the process of biting or clawing. In addition, their souls have been polluted by the magic power of the lower space, and they have completely lost their original biological characteristics, and they will not be afraid of any dangerous fanatical attacks on all creatures that approach them.

Sure enough, just after Lawrence retreated seven or eight meters, the group of demonized violent rats also surged out of the hole in the building. Fortunately, because their vitality was weakened by demonization, only one shot of deer bullets made the three demonized violent rats fall to the ground.

But these rats sprinted so fast that Lawrence only had time to fire two shots with his rifle even if he stepped back and fired. Then he had to drop his rifle and pull out two pistols to name the rats one or two meters away from him. .

Fortunately, with his hard work, the number of rats decreased rapidly. It's just that in such a rush, what he didn't notice was that when the killed mice fell to the ground, the green blood on their bodies flowed along the ground to the building.

At the end of the fight, all the bullets in the two pistols were also exhausted, and the demonized Rats were pressing on every step of the way. They didn't give Lawrence time to reload the bullets. In this case, he could only use magic to fight hard. resistance. Fortunately, because of his perfect shooting, there are not many surviving mice left.

[Acid Splash], as a cloud of acid smeared on the face of a violent rat, the battle was finally over. Lawrence looked at the dead Rat Rat on the ground and shook his head, then went to pick up the firearms that had been thrown on the ground in an emergency. It's just that when he bent down to pick up the two pistols, there was a shrill scream from above the tower.