Struggle in the Steam Age

"Are you here to hunt for treasure? You've found the right place here." Just as Lawrence and the others set foot on the cobbled street at the entrance of the town, a chubby middle-aged man carrying a large box directly met them. Obviously, the clothes the two of them were wearing and the luggage they were carrying allowed the middle-aged man to immediately judge that they were travelers.

After hearing Lawrence explain their intentions, the man greeted them very enthusiastically, "Come with me, my hotel is the one closest to that treasure spot, and my ancestors were involved in that Fight. I would love to share the stories of my ancestors with you, if you will."

Considering that I plan to live here for a week or so to search for this treasure, I really need a temporary residence. So Lawrence and the others followed the hotel owner to his hotel.

"Look, this is my hotel." After following the boss along the cobblestone street for three or four minutes, they came to the edge of the town, and a two-story building built by the lake appeared in front of the two of them.

This small building has light gray walls and dark gray roofs. The windows and doors are all white wood. At the same time, there is a small but exquisite small garden in front of the small building. Since the entire building is located on a small mound by the lake, half of the guest rooms can see the sparkling lake as long as the windows are opened.

It's just that because of the previous murloc invasion, thick wooden boards were nailed to the outside of the hotel's glass windows, and two or three people who seemed to be the staff here were using tools to take down the glass windows of the hotel one by one. Boards nailed to it. After seeing their boss back, the workers greeted him one after another.

"We just opened today, and you are the first batch of guests after the reopening of the Lakeside Hotel. So I can give you a 50% discount." The owner of the hotel looked like a construction site with a very embarrassed look. However, as a seasoned businessman, he quickly adjusted his mentality and made a very tempting proposal.

"Okay, give us a double room with two single beds. We will stay here for a week." After entering the lobby, Lawrence said to the boss who walked behind the counter and took out the register book.

"We have all kinds of rooms here now." Glancing at the two young people in front of him, the boss suddenly said something that seemed to imply something, but Lawrence insisted on it under Safir's half-smile eyes made his own choice.

It may be because there are basically no tourists now, so when Lawrence and Safir put the luggage used for cover in the room and went downstairs. The shop owner sat behind the counter just like before, except that he had an extra novel to pass the time in his hand.

"Excuse me, can you tell me about those treasures?" Lawrence first bought a large pot of beer and a plate of nuts, and then motioned for the boss to come over and have a chat. "We came here from Eagle Fort thousands of miles and have a very important purpose to see the hidden treasures of this place."

"Local treasures—" the boss suddenly became excited when the topic came up, and after taking a sip of beer from his exquisite tin wine glass, he began to talk endlessly. "It's a very old story, one that was only told by word of mouth in our lake town at first—"

From the boss, Lawrence heard some details that outsiders were not clear about. According to him, all the events that year occurred were only caused by an accident.

The town is located by a lake, and murloc attacks are a very common occurrence for the residents of this place. Although it is basically impossible for three or five murlocs to cause any harm after landing on the shore, there is no doubt that this is no different from cockroaches in the house, and it is a very annoying and annoying thing.

So since the establishment of the town, the town has maintained a volunteer patrol team to stop those murlocs who attacked sporadically. At the same time, it can also provide valuable early warning before murlocs or certain monsters attack on a large scale.

According to the boss, his ancestor was a member of the patrol team and an extraordinary warrior. The patrol team was patrolling the lake on the day it happened, and they found a small boat by the lake slowly heading towards the middle of the lake. Because there was a murloc tribe active nearby at that time, the captain kindly yelled to remind the people on that boat to be careful of murlocs.

But unexpectedly, after discovering the patrol team, the small boat drove back, and then the people on board jumped off the boat and actively attacked the patrol team.

The patrol team was hit hard as soon as they fought against each other. On the one hand, it was because the patrol team didn't expect this group of people to launch a sudden attack, so they were caught off guard. Especially the arquebus carried by the patrol at that time, which was the only arquebus that could allow ordinary people to pose enough threats to low-level transcendents, did not even light the matchlock, so that most of them faced the four transcendents and eight ordinary people. Forming a squad is no different than facing a beast with your bare hands.

But fortunately, the sound of battle here attracted a team of adventurers who were trying to hunt stone-skinned crocodiles on the nearby shallows. , The group of guys who made a surprise attack on the ship were wiped out.

"You mean the attackers were wiped out?" After taking a sip of beer to ease the dryness in his throat caused by eating those dried fruits, Lawrence looked suspiciously at the boss sitting across from him. "Could it be that the opponent just fought to the end like this, and no one surrendered?"

"The group of extraordinary people did fight to the last moment." Speaking of this, the hotel owner also showed a skeptical expression. After all, in that era, the supernatural beings were high above them, and if they just killed a few ordinary people, they only needed to lose money and accept some punishment. So it seems a bit strange to fight to the death like this.

"As for those ordinary people, only two survived at the end of the battle, but because their sudden attack made everyone very angry, the battle was very fierce. So when they were captured alive, they were seriously injured. My ancestors and the others The two captives died before they could get any news or confession."

"Afterwards, my ancestors and the expedition team inspected the ships of these people and the things left behind, and found a lot of jewels on the ship by accident. The jewels are equivalent to about 10,000 yuan according to the current currency value." Said At this point, the boss took down the glass display case behind him, then opened the lid and took out a few things from it.

"My ancestor also got a loot back then. It's just that because the patrol team was completely at a disadvantage at the beginning of the battle, he was also seriously injured. Especially the enemy's rogue used The arrow that hit his knee with the poisonous crossbow seriously affected his actions, so that he soon gave up his job as an adventurer to marry a wife and have children in this small town, and opened a tavern to support his family. "

"You know, Transcendents who work as adventurers often don't save money when they are young. So my ancestor can only sell most of the jewelry allocated to him to open this hotel. But he also left these few not very valuable gadgets as souvenirs."

Lawrence and the others focused their attention on the few pieces of jewelry they took out at this time, only to find that these jewelry were just a very simple silver brooch, six buttons inlaid with amethyst and a pair of red spinel inlaid gilt silver cufflinks.

"This is a very common style in that era." Saifeier said after carefully looking at these silver ornaments, "And they are all made by ordinary jewelry craftsmen, and the place of origin is basically invisible."