Struggle in the Steam Age

"Quick, turn off the lights." Except for Lawrence and the others, everyone on the deck also heard the sound of a group of murlocs running over. After hearing the peculiar crackling noises of these murlocs walking, the ensign ordered decisively. The captain turned off the lights in the bridge.

　　 "Understand." The captain's answer sounded a little trembling, but this did not prevent him from turning off the oil lamp in the driver's cab quickly and at the same time taking out a double-barreled shotgun from a secret under his feet and holding it in his hand.

Just when the captain armed himself, the others on the deck were all ready for battle: the ensign and a crew member used the ship’s side to hide their figure, and each took out a pistol from their bodies and aimed at the only pass. At the corner of the road to this pier, Lawrence and Syfiel jumped directly onto the pier on the boat, ignoring the strange smell of the surrounding garbage and hid behind the garbage buckets on both sides of the road.

There is only a fence made of broken planks on the periphery of this small garbage dump to separate it from the rest of the street. After all, although there is industry in this era, industry is not so developed. There is only a variety of rot in the garbage dump. Semi-rotted organic matter, broken ceramic shards, rags and some broken wood are nothing but even a nail, so there is no need to set up any anti-theft measures to prevent someone from stealing.

　　 So when the group of murlocs came outside the garbage dump, they just pushed gently, and the concealed wooden door was pushed open, and they swarmed in.

　　 "They seem to be carrying something." When the broken wooden door was pushed open, Lawrence, who was ambushing behind the garbage bucket, discovered that the group of murlocs were not the ruined army trying to escape from this inaccessible place in his imagination.

This murloc team consists of a strong and extraordinary murloc warrior holding a mace in the front to explore the way, and the other six ordinary murlocs carrying a temporarily strapped wooden frame on their shoulders and following behind, passing Darkvision, Lawrence found a chubby cloth pocket fixed to this shelf.

　　Because the footsteps of this group of murlocs were very heavy before, after seeing this scene, Lawrence thought that this group of murlocs were grabbing some treasure and prepared to evacuate in advance. After all, the group of murlocs in this attack was made up by a large number of tribes improvised, and there is no unified command at all, so after discovering and acquiring good things, the extraordinary murlocs in charge of this area will temporarily retreat. reasonable.

　　 But soon Lawrence overturned his guess because he found that the cloth mouth on the simple wooden shelf moved a little. Obviously, the pockets are not gold and silver treasures, but some kind of living things.

At this time, the murloc team had reached the location where Lawrence and the others were hiding. After a light nod to Lawrence, Syfiel rushed out from behind the garbage bucket, and at the same time the two-handed sword held diagonally in his hand swept across. .

The two-handed sword with magical power cuts the murloc body as smoothly as a hot knife slicing butter. Before the extraordinary murloc warrior in the lead had not reacted, the three ordinary ones near the side of the ambush of Syfiel The murloc was cut into two pieces directly from her waist with a sword.

　　 While the surviving murlocs were temporarily attracted by Syfel’s surprise attack, Lawrence also rushed out of his hiding place to release a missile storm against the remaining murlocs.

　　 The defenseless murlocs were caught off guard by the attack from behind Lawrence, even if the extraordinary murloc warrior in the lead was attacked suddenly from behind, the murlocs were no better than ordinary murlocs. All the remaining four murlocs fell to the ground in an instant.

"Okay, there are no other murlocs following." When it was determined that the group of murlocs were all killed, Syfiel jumped to the edge of the trash bucket to look at the place where the murlocs were running, and then he jumped Then he said to Lawrence, "These murlocs should be the ones who prepared to return to their lair in advance after gaining some benefits."

"That's right, good." Hearing these words from Syfiel, Lawrence immediately ran to the side of the pocket that had fallen to the ground after all the fishmen were wiped out, and then tied the straw rope at the mouth of the bag. Cut it off with a knife. After the pocket was opened, a head with thick brown hair and beard emerged from the mouth of the bag.

　　 "Why is there a dwarf in your pocket?" Syfiel also leaned forward at this time and saw what was in his pocket with the help of the blazing fire not far away, "I don't remember the murloc's habit of kidnapping hostages."

"No, you are wrong. Murlocs just don't kidnap hostages most of the time." Lawrence recalled the information obtained before and said, "But if there are extraordinary murlocs present, they are very They may try to capture some seemingly wealthy prisoners in the battle for ransom."

When 　　 was speaking, Lawrence used a knife to cut open the cloth bag to completely release the dwarf, and then checked it carefully. Through inspection, he got a lot of information from the dwarf.

　　 For example, the identity of this dwarf should not be low, which can be seen from the various jewels hanging on his clothes and the delicate golden hoops at the bottom of the pigtail on his beard.

After removing a soft hat on his head, the reason why he is now unconscious has also been confirmed: the back of the dwarf has a long loaf-shaped bulge, which looks like it should be pushed to the back of the head. I was knocked unconscious directly.

"Fortunately, the skull of a dwarf is much harder than that of a human, and it hasn't been fractured after being hit so badly." Lawrence probably understood the physical condition of the dwarf after touching the bulge with his hand, which was better than he thought. A lot.

　　 "Let's take him back to the boat now." Lawrence raised his head and said to Syfiel, because this garbage dump is not suitable for further treatment. Soon, he and Syfiel carried the unconscious dwarf back to the barge they were on.

　　 "This is?" When they jumped onto the barge with a comatose dwarf, the crew and officers on the deck asked in a puzzled way, "Isn't the group of murlocs who just arrived? What's the matter with this dwarf?"

"It was indeed a group of murlocs who came just now, but this group of murlocs also carried this dwarf in a pocket~www.ltnovel.com~ maybe they were the captives they caught." Lawrence lifted the dwarf after putting the dwarf on the deck. Speaking at the beginning. At this moment, there was a sharp siren from the river.

　　 "We can go now." The captain said happily after hearing the whistle. Hearing that Lawrence raised his head, he saw two all-steel boats larger than his own barge passing by the river in front of him, and at the same time sweeping the searchlight on the top of the cab to the surroundings.

"This is the armored patrol boat of the Lake Guard. It usually patrols the lake near the port area. Recently, they have shrunk back to the canal in the city to prevent harassment by the stinky fish." The captain looked at Lawrence with pride. Speaking of, at the same time, a patrol boat in the distance started shooting at the place illuminated by the searchlight with the small-caliber artillery on the bow, and it seemed to have found something.

　　 Soon, with the cooperation of the armored patrol boat, the military completely eliminated the group of murlocs that had landed and harassed. The boat that Lawrence and the others took also simply confirmed their identities and set foot on the way to the field hospital.

　　 may be because of the turbulence of the ship, or it may be because the body of the dwarf is stronger than ordinary humans. When Lawrence used alcohol to disinfect the wound on the back of the dwarf's head, he slowly woke up.

　　 "Cough, cough, cough—" There was a coughing sound, and then the dwarf slowly opened his eyes. "Ah, it turns out that you are humans. It seems that I am saved now. Excuse me, where is this place, and you are—"

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