Struggle in the Steam Age

Because of the discovery of the weird fish, Lawrence immediately mobilized the island's forces to prepare for defense. He did this not because of a certain degree of fuss or pure nervousness, but because when he saw this fish, the picture of the unmanned drifting boat suddenly popped up in his mind.

For extraordinary people, hallucinations are not just hallucinations, they may represent many things. This is especially true for Bai Ze warlocks like Lawrence, because Bai Ze itself has the ability to seek good luck and avoid evil, and the images that appear in his mind at this time are often omens of the future related to himself .

Because of this matter, Lawrence activated the ability of Plum Blossom Yishu to start divination about this matter after sending Priest Hans away. With the help of the fish bone, Lawrence easily predicted that there might be some comparisons recently. Bad things happen, and many people and things will be involved.

After reading the results of the divination, Lawrence immediately prepared a guide for this possible outbreak, but considering that once panic is created, it is likely to cause more damage to the island than the actual attack, and he does not want the island as a whole to Development has been hit too hard. So he did not issue a formal warning order, but only made minor adjustments to the current situation on the island.

For example, he temporarily stopped the construction of the Earl's Mansion and a series of construction projects that were not urgently needed, and then concentrated all those manpower on the construction site at the entrance of the Port of Sauer. It is hoped that the meter-gauge railway can be repaired in the shortest possible time to provide sufficient defense capabilities for the largest town on the island.

Another example is to concentrate the power on the island to refit the three existing steam sailboats, and temporarily install hedgehog bombs on these warships. At the same time, two of the three sailing ships that were previously assigned as fast armed merchant ships were re-armed, so that they could all be restored to a state where they could enter battle at any time.

That's when Lawrence was busy making various preparations on the island. Because of his previous warning, the church and some island lords became vigilant, and even bought such marine life from everyone by offering rewards. Therefore, under the premise of consciously collecting information, the churches and lords around this sea area have also received reports from many people in the surrounding sea area about the strange marine life that is dead but still swimming in the sea.

With the passage of time, more and more information of this kind has been obtained, and various base-level temples, churches, and lords who have sniffed out danger signals from this information have also begun to prepare. In addition, a large amount of information also gathered from various settlements in this sea area to the local court.

"What's the situation now?" In the headquarters of the Star Sea Tribunal located in the Antilles Island, the largest island in the Star Sea, a senior judge wearing a velvet black robe with gold trim walked into a large conference room, and then asked the surrounding asked the staff. "Are there any specific statistics about the undead sea creatures that suddenly appeared in the entire sea area?"

"Now, there have been more than 200 similar incidents reported from various places within a week. According to statistics, they are mainly concentrated in the southeast sea area of ​​the Sea of ​​Stars." A judge wearing a black robe trimmed with silver raised his hand and saluted. , "And the infected creatures don't have any regularity, ranging from all kinds of fish, mollusks to murlocs."

"Have you arrived at the murlocs yet?" The senior senior judge showed a serious look on his face. According to the results of the previous inspection, they have found that all these sea creatures are affected by the force of death and disease. The mutation that occurs after power pollution, and the weaker the creature is, the easier it is to be polluted in the face of this pollution. And if the murlocs can be polluted, then the strength of this force may reach the level of polluting human civilians in a short period of time.

"There is a murloc, but the situation may not be that bad." The judge in black robe with silver trim led the person in charge to a nearby house and introduced at the same time. "Because this murloc is different from other similar creatures, it was accidentally discovered and brought back by an expedition team during the expedition."

"According to the expedition team, they found a group of marine life mixed together and moving in one direction. At the same time, they also felt a slight death force in the surrounding environment. So they thought of the reward notices issued a few days before departure. And captured such a murloc outside the group of creatures."

"Did they say what else they found besides a group of marine life moving in the same direction?" the local most senior magistrate asked. "I mean did they find anything special besides the weird sea creatures?"

"When the team asked us before, they described a lot of monsters to us, but unfortunately, they are not naturalists, so the information they gave is simply a mess." The magistrate in black robe pushed open the door of a room next to him and said.

"Ah, I can understand this. Because many sea creatures really look like monsters. It is indeed difficult for people without special training to determine their true identities. To be honest, even if I sometimes see some strange A sea fish with a strange shape would think that it encountered a supernatural monster."

The supreme commander of the referee said as he walked into the room that the room he walked into was much brighter than the room just now, and several researchers were busy walking around in it. Dozens of fish tanks and iron cages were temporarily placed on those platforms, and some animals made of skeletons were moving inside as if they were alive.

"Our research on these things has made good progress. At least we can confirm that all the samples here are infected by the same pollution source. If there is only one pollution source, it is very important for us to stop this situation." It will be a lot easier to get worse," said the silver-edged magistrate.

"Then have you deduced the specific identity of the pollution source?" asked the general manager. "If there is no specific inference conclusion, some more reliable conjectures are fine. After all, we will face it later. It is better to make corresponding preparations one day earlier than to do it when the event comes."

"The specific identity cannot be determined for the time being, but we have roughly inferred part of the important information about the pollution source." Silverside Magistrate took a document from a researcher and said, "The person who was exposed to marine life before Although the adventure team in the parade couldn’t describe to us what they saw before, it was very lucky that there was a priest of the Church of Suffering in that team.”

"So after we told him about the weird things that are going on everywhere, he agreed to open his soul to us and let us see what they saw at that time. And we found a part of the sea life in his soul. A huge black shadow in the ranks."

"A huge black shadow?" The head of the referee frowned. "Can you be sure what that black shadow is, for example, is it the creation of some intelligent creature or some kind of extraordinary ocean monster?"

"No, because the black shadow was carrying a huge pressure at that time, so this team didn't dare to approach at all, and naturally they didn't see the specific image of the opponent clearly." The silver border judge said. "But according to the part of the knowledge we extracted from the memory of the priest of the suffering church, that black shadow is most likely a fish sea beast."

"Extraordinary sea beast? It sounds terrible." The person in charge of the referee said, "Because it means that if we want to deal with it, we may need some extra firepower, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with these under normal circumstances. The defense or the size is far larger than that of a humanoid creature."