Struggle in the Steam Age

"What a beautiful starry sky!" After walking out of the warehouse door, Nora looked up at the dark blue sky. Perhaps because of the relatively strong wind at the seaside, the clouds that originally existed in the sky were blown away by the wind, and a little bit of starlight began to be revealed. Then a crescent moon emerged from the edge of a mountain in the distance.

"It's really beautiful." Lawrence looked at the starry sky and said, no matter when, where, or even what world. The starry sky can always bring people a shocking feeling.

So he took out his pocket watch and looked at it by the starlight, and found that it was not too late. Lawrence simply carried the little puppet on his back and climbed to the top of the warehouse along the ladder next to the warehouse, and then sat on the roof. Enjoy the sparkling sea under the starlight and the bright starry sky that seems to be connected with the sea.

"I feel like we can come together in Safir next time." Lawrence looked at the starry sky and thought, "At least in this atmosphere, it will feel great to sit on a high place with my sister and watch the stars."

Because it was completely different from the starry sky in his previous life, Lawrence looked at this sky full of novelty to him very excitedly. Fortunately, because I wanted to hide the secrets of the astral world, I specifically asked Zhu Yan to find an inconspicuous warehouse area next to the small port, so there are only a few weak street lights on the main road at night, so that the clarity will not be polluted. Sky.

Just as he was looking for the stars representing the gods and gods, the puppet sitting beside him suddenly floated up and pointed to a road not far away. "What are you doing over there?"

"Let me see." Lawrence looked along where Nora pointed, and found a group of people driving a vehicle pulled by two horses and covered with a thick black cloth sneaking along the road. go ahead.

The reason why this group of people were sneaky was not because of Lawrence's prejudice, but because he didn't think that the guy who was still covering his face at this time was a righteous person. Not to mention that the port itself is relatively depressed and inconspicuous, and there are no ships at all when it gets dark.

"What do you think these guys do?" Lawrence raised his head and asked the little doll. The people at the bottom of him became curious. After all, the behavior of moving items in the dock that was closed at night was indeed very strange, not to mention that the group of people did not look like dock workers or crew members.

"I don't know either. The distance here is too far. I can't feel what's hidden under the black cloth." Nora shook her head helplessly.

"However, this is the second-ranked port city in the New Island Republic and even the west coast of the entire New World. I think there must be many guys who use this place to make trouble. For example, today's group of people transports smuggled goods from gangsters to evil cults to prepare conspiracy. , but what does this have to do with us?"

"You're right, we're just here to look at the stars." When Nora said this, Lawrence realized it all at once. After all, this place is not my hometown, and the people below have nothing to do with me. So the group of people below had nothing to do with him. When I go back, I just need to mention it to Zhu Yan and the others.

But sometimes things don't go as best as they think, just when Lawrence and the others are preparing to get the roof down to the ground and leave this port warehouse area to stay away from right and wrong. Suddenly, two people in the group raised their rifles at Lawrence and the others and pulled the trigger.

Ding, whoosh - when he saw the two men raise their arms, Lawrence subconsciously hid behind the roof ridge. And Nora also gave up the ability to float in an instant and fell like an iron ingot. As a result, the two bullets were all empty, one hit the tile, and the other flew directly from the sky.

"Let's go—" Lawrence swallowed his anger through the spiritual connection and was about to find Nora, who had just settled the score with the shooter, and then jumped directly from the roof to the ground with the help of [Feather Fall]. He realized that the reason why the other party shot was because he and Nora climbed too high to see the stars, so the silhouette of the two sitting on the roof against the background of the night was really an obvious target.

"They're catching up." Just as Lawrence and Nora were quickly retreating to the outskirts of the warehouse area along the aisle between the warehouses, Nora said suddenly. "Six ordinary people, all with guns on their bodies."

"Ordinary person, let's get him a guy." After confirming the level of the pursuer, Lawrence immediately decided to fight back. The reason why he stopped the little puppet before was purely because he was worried about some experts in the group, but now that it was just a few ordinary people chasing after them with guns, Lawrence naturally decided to fight back and grab a prisoner to ask about the situation.

The ensuing battle was lackluster. It was almost impossible for extraordinary beings like Lawrence and Nora to ambush ordinary people. So in just seven or eight seconds, the six pursuers were all successfully captured by Lawrence and the others, and these pursuers didn't even shoot a single bullet.

"Okay, let's ask you to answer." Lawrence took out his pistol and pressed it on the forehead of a pursuer and asked. "Tell me, who are you and why are you hunting us down?"

"Don't say it, save—" Before the guy who was holding a pistol to his head by Lawrence said anything, a guy with a slightly more decent costume than the people around him stopped him loudly, and tried to shout to inform others. But before he uttered the first syllable, a thin glass-colored thread flew out of Nora's sleeve and wrapped itself around his neck.

Then Nora flicked her fingers gracefully, and the thin thread wrapped around this guy's neck was suddenly tightened. In less than a second, the thin thread cut the guy's neck like a sharp knife.

In an instant, a large amount of blood gushed out. Seeing this, Lawrence dodged to the side in time to avoid the bloodstains. But the few captives who were tied to the ground were poured with blood all over their heads and faces.

"You should notify me next time." Lawrence looked at the little doll and complained. He had no objection to Nora's direct killing. After all, the way this group of people shot indiscriminately when they saw the figure made him feel that there was nothing inappropriate to kill them all now.

"Next time." The little puppet shrugged after saying the mantra of the prostitute party in its previous life, and then stood on the chest of the person Lawrence pressed just now, and asked with a toe on the other person's throat, "Okay , answer my elder brother’s previous question, otherwise—”

"I'll say it, I'll say it all—" The prisoner, who was frightened by Nora's ruthless behavior just now, shook his head vigorously, expressing that he would absolutely cooperate, but just as he was about to speak, Lawrence temporarily stopped him, Then the mage rolled up the soil on the ground and covered the ears of others.

"Well, tell now, but I'll ask your companions the same question in a moment. If you turn out to be a liar—you know what I'll do?"

"Understood, I promise to fully cooperate." After expressing his determination, the prisoner simply said everything he knew, and Lawrence confirmed him after asking these questions to other people. Not lying.

This group of people are all gang members from Anchorage, the capital of the Northern Aurora Province of the Xinzhou Republic, and that city is the largest city and the most densely populated area in the Aurora Province, gathering more than 40% of the entire province's population.

And as a small local gangster, they are engaged in some not very legal cargo transportation work, and the only purpose of coming to Xinkuaiji this time is that their boss took over a transportation job.

As the elite thugs in the gang, these prisoners naturally don't know too much about the specific situation. They only knew that the boss really attached great importance to this job this time. Not only did he select the most elite members of the gang and carry guns, he even sent the only two extraordinary people in the gang besides the boss to escort them.