Struggle in the Steam Age

After arriving at the place where the puppet spider was first discovered yesterday, Lawrence and the others immediately searched around this place. Because of the size of the spider, they could easily trace the traces of the spider's movements.

"There's a cave here—" Just after everyone searched in a spiral direction for 20 minutes from the place where the puppet spider was first discovered yesterday, the Ratman rogue Laka was the first to discover the target in the area they searched for. possible locations. After hearing her exclamation, everyone gathered around and looked at the hole he had found before.

This is a hole that appeared on the side of the small hill. It looks like it was left when some kind of creature drilled out of it. The hole is only the size of a tabletop, and there are some scattered soil and stones attached to the hole. From the color of the soil at the entrance of the cave, we can roughly judge that it took about half a year for the entrance of the cave to be dug.

"Let me go in and see what's going on inside—" Laka volunteered to enter the investigation with a dagger in his right hand and a pistol in his left hand, because the hole is too small, and there is basically nothing for others to do after entering of space. But just when she was about to charge, Lawrence held her back.

"Don't worry, I don't need you to go in and take risks for now, I can use a safer method to investigate first." After speaking, Lawrence took out a stack of rough yellow paper from the space bag, painted with a kind of red paint With some strange runes.

When Lawrence took a few sheets from the top and pinched them with his index and middle fingers, the team members found that each sheet of paper had been cut into small paper figures the size of a palm.

"This is a magic from Cathay." Lawrence explained to everyone. After several months of self-study, he finally figured out part of the magic in the notebook he got from the perverted painter before.

Although he encountered great difficulties in learning because the magic from Cathay was single and fragmented, he finally mastered how to use this magic by relying on the powerful learning talent of Bai Ze in his blood.

Of course, the various usage skills developed in such a short time can only be regarded as the most basic, but this is enough to be effective at critical moments. Under everyone's gaze, Lawrence took out three paper figurines from the stack of papers and blew on them, then threw the paper figurines on the ground.

The paper figurines stood up immediately after touching the ground, and then formed a small group and walked into the cave in front of them. Lawrence closed his left eye and manipulated the little paper figurines.

"There seems to be no danger inside." Lawrence opened his eyes five or six minutes later, and the little paper people had already reached the end of the small cave under his control. Through these paper people, he found that the cave was an ordinary cave. There is nothing dangerous in the earth cave, and it is quiet. He didn't even see a single worm.

"Wait... I saw something." Just as Lawrence was manipulating the paper man at the end of the cave. When I searched around and found nothing and was about to withdraw, I suddenly found something at the bottom of the cave that seemed to be shining.

"What is that?" Cog asked next to him, "Is it a treasure?"

"I don't know, let me go over and investigate carefully." Lawrence flicked his fingers a few times in the air as he spoke, but soon he dropped his fingers weakly. "My paper figurine has been destroyed, the moment I touched that thing. I only had time to tell that what destroyed my paper figurine was the death breath attached to that thing."

"That means there is really something inside." Leto said excitedly after hearing Lawrence's words, "Have you seen what it is?"

"I didn't see it clearly. Things changed too fast at the time." Lawrence rubbed his temples and said, the worst point of this kind of paper doll magic is that after using the magic, the paper doll is destroyed and he will also receive a little bit of negative feedback. Fortunately, the intensity of this negative feedback was very weak, so Lawrence quickly returned to normal.

"So what do we do next?" John asked. "If there is a powerful self-defense magic attached to that thing, it may be difficult for us to take it out. Or we can try to dig a hole from above. I think this cave is only five or six meters away from the top of the small hill. distance."

"There's no need to make such an effort, John." Lawrence said, turning his head. "It was just a very weak impact of death breath just now. With our level of death power, it would not be a problem to keep it in our hands for a whole day. It was just because my paper doll was a one-time Detective props, the defense strength is at most equivalent to a piece of paper, so they will be destroyed by the death breath on it."

Speaking of this, Lawrence took out a slender and strong rope from his pocket and said to the team members, "We can tie a looper at one end of this rope, and then let me manipulate the paper man into it to put on that thing, and finally put it on from the outside. It pulls out."

"That's a really good idea." Laka snapped his fingers. "However, you are still too slow to manipulate the paper doll, so let me put it on next."

After speaking, she quickly tied a sheath on one end of the rope, and then went straight into the hole. It only took three minutes for her to get everything done and get out of the hole.

"Your observation just now is correct. The further you go into the cave, the colder it will be. When you go inside the cave, the temperature is almost the same as the winter in the north." After coming out, Laka said to Lawrence, "I observed that After seeing something, I feel that this breath of undead should be just the power attached to that thing itself, not some kind of magical mechanism."

The next thing was much simpler, Lei Suo went directly to the entrance of the earth cave, grabbed the thin rope and pulled it hard, and soon the things inside were pulled out from the cave wall, and then half a A piece of metal the size of a washbasin was pulled out of this small hole in the soil, dragged on the ground and collided with gravel and pebbles, making an unpleasant sizzling sound.

"We have been busy for a long time to make this?" After the piece of metal was dragged out of the hole, Cog expressed everyone's inner doubts. "It looks like a piece of debris that fell from something."

The piece of metal that appeared in front of everyone was very thin, and the thickest part was only close to 1cm thick. On the whole, it reveals a dark color like obsidian. After Lawrence turned the curved metal plate over with the butt of his gun, he clearly saw a palm-sized shallow shield-shaped groove on the chest of the metal plate, which should have been a place where a badge had been inlaid before.

"This looks like the chest part of a pair of armor. To be precise, it's half of the armor that was broken after being severely injured." After a simple inspection, Lawrence probably saw what it was. "And this thickness can only be used by extraordinary people."

"The Knights of the Shield of Light." John, who was standing aside, said suddenly, "This is the armor of the Knights of the Shield of Light, and it is still the style of 400 years ago."

"How do you know?" Lakka asked a little puzzled, "There are no words or marks on it!"

"As a paladin, I naturally learned about these possible allies, including several important tactical habits of the knights and their equipment styles. Now this piece of armor is obviously belonging to the The equipment of the Bright Shield Paladins, one of the most powerful legions under the Lord of Dawn."

"And the piece of armor in front of us should belong to an expert-level mid-level commander of the Light Shield Paladins, but it was polluted after staying in the negative energy environment for too long." John emerged. Shengguang raised the piece of armor in front of him with both hands, inspected it carefully, then frowned and said, "The question now is, why did this thing appear here?"