Struggle in the Steam Age

After a brief chat in the small square in front of the church, everyone boarded the two-masted sailing boat through the boat ferry and checked it out. It may be because of the specialization factor in the art industry, only ten minutes after the group of clergymen boarded the ship, they discovered some clues that Lawrence had never discovered before.

"The things that this ship used to transport should be related to a certain cult church, because I can feel the evil power circulating in this secret room." After checking the small secret room on the bottom floor of the cabin, a paladin of the Church of Suffering With a serious face, he said,

"It's a pity that because this ship has been contaminated with too many sources of evil power before, it is more difficult to pinpoint what the missing thing should look like."

"It's really bad. Why can such a ship still sail on the sea?" A young priest of the Agricultural Church whispered. After all, it is normal for these clergymen to use the breath of evil gods to lock each other's identities. It's a sure thing, but I didn't expect to encounter a nail this time.

"After all, people always have some goods that are not convenient to transport with other things, so as long as the trade exists, this kind of secret transport ship will not end." A priest of Fortune Church said. "I have already contacted the bishop in this area. If there is no accident, we will know the specific identity of this boat soon."

In addition to feeling the breath of the evil god, these priests also accurately judged the time when those people left the ship: it was two days before the ship was found at the lighthouse on the island.

And these messages were also sent to various churches to help each church determine as much as possible the path that the ship passed before and determine the specific identity of the ship.

Although the two-masted sailing ship tried to hide its identity through a series of modifications and camouflage of all supplies on board, this camouflage did not have much effect under the joint investigation of various churches. Soon, the Commercial Church found out the specific identity of the ship through a dark spot of the Church in the black market in the northwest.

"The information has been found." At this time, everyone had completed the inspection and returned to the shore and gathered in the conference room below Lawrence's office. While everyone was discussing, a young trainee priest of the Fortune Church ran over and spoke with a piece of paper.

"According to the information from the church in the north, this ship was previously registered as an ordinary transport ship, but in fact it is a secret transport ship belonging to the fleet of the Thieves Guild. Some dangerous and obviously illegal things are transported around."

"I don't think this ship would only transport dangerous things before." Nora whispered beside her. "Because if this thing is really as dangerous as it is said, this ship should not be in such an unexpected situation."

"This situation is hard to say." Lawrence shook his head and said. "Because there are too many types of supernatural items, especially some of them have special hidden abilities. Therefore, it is normal to accidentally bring some dangerous goods on board when transporting these supernatural items. This is The boat should just be too unlucky to encounter something that can play an effect on the sea or send out some kind of signal."

At this time, the trainee priest had already informed everyone present of the information that had just been investigated. Apart from the faction that the ship belonged to, they also found out the identity of the consignor by following the clues. Unlike what I imagined, this group of people is not a cult or a devil worship organization, but a group of guys called sea walkers.

Seawalker is a general term for the personnel sent to the shore by marine intelligent creatures, some of which come from forces that are closer to humans. And the other part is the spies sent to the shore by those guys who are extremely hostile to everything on the shore. According to the investigation, the group of people consigned this time came from a certain marine life force that expressed hatred for everything on the shore.

"So I think the disappearance of the people on board and the things on board may be a result that the shipper hoped for." Mr. Lambert said to Lawrence. "Because the various churches mobilized a special force just now to find the group of entrusters and receivers, but all of them were in vain. Judging from the situation in the empty house, they probably left after assigning tasks."

"Leaving directly, it's really suspicious." Safiel asked a little puzzled, "Since they sent that thing away through the channel of the Thieves Guild, didn't the Thieves Guild feel that there was something wrong? ? At least if it is me, I will definitely suspect these things when I find out that the guests leave suddenly."

"If you transport something through normal means, this behavior is very suspicious. But for the underground transportation network of the black market dominated by the Thieves Guild, such guests are really normal."

Mr. Lambert shook his head and said. "Don't forget, those who need to transport something through this transportation network have various reasons to avoid the sight of most people, so it is very common to disappear directly after completing the consignment procedures. kind of operation."

"They didn't ask—" Lawrence had just said half a sentence before suddenly reacting, thinking that facing a group of guests who wanted to hide everything about themselves, there is probably a basic principle behind the operation of this underground transportation network today Just don't inquire about any customer's privacy, otherwise this underground network would not be able to run until today.

"Yes, the information we got through the Thieves Guild didn't give us any more information except that it was confirmed that the delivery was a metal box about the size of a watermelon." Mr. Lambert said.

"But they can be sure that the metal box is made of a common demon-hating metal. In other words, the body of this thing is likely to have some special magic radiation, which is basically consistent with Lawrence's previous guess."

"Your Excellency August, there is new news from the church headquarters." At this moment, a trainee priest from the Church of Knowledge walked in with a thick stack of documents. "This is a ship that has recently disappeared in the vicinity. As you guessed before, only one ship has disappeared recently in the place you are looking for."

"Thank you." Lambert took the document from his subordinate and nodded to him, then distributed the documents to everyone present, and then said. "This is what I asked the headquarters to ask for the recent passage records of ships in the area where the ship may have disappeared. Obviously, all other ships have arrived at their destinations smoothly."

"If it is a sea beast attack, there are likely to be other victims. Even if there are no victims, there will be a large number of witnesses. Because sea beasts often don't take the initiative to hide themselves."

As the person who has the most dealings with all kinds of extraordinary creatures, the priest of the Agricultural Church present said immediately. "The behavior of precisely locking a ship on the route and taking away all the people and goods on board can basically be determined not to be done by sea beasts."

However, after the discussion reached this step, the matter reached a stalemate, because now everyone has nothing more to do except to confirm that someone has bypassed various supervision and sent some supernatural items to some sea tribes who are hostile to ground creatures. Naturally, it is impossible to deduce more detailed content about this matter.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone does nothing. At least the church has decided to organize an exploration team to go to the place where the ship disappeared within three days to see if they can find more clues. In addition, they will also send people to Lawrence to take away the ship and the barnacles found on the ship.