Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 122: Strange harvest

   After arriving at the place where the puppet spider was first found yesterday, Lawrence and the others immediately searched it around this place. Because of the size of the spider, they easily traced the movement of the spider.

"There's a cave here—" Just 20 minutes after everyone spiraled outward from the center where the puppet spider was first found yesterday, Raqqa the Ratman rogue was the first to find the target in the place they searched. Possible locations. After hearing her exclamation, everyone gathered around and looked at the hole he had found before.

   This is a hole that appears on the side of the small mountain bag. It looks like it was left by a certain creature when it got out of it. The hole is only the size of a tabletop, and there are some scattered dirt and stones attached to the hole. From the color of the soil at the entrance of the cave, everyone can roughly tell that it took about half a year for the entrance to be dug out.

"Let me go in and see what's going on inside——" Raqqa, holding a dagger in his right hand and a pistol in his left hand, volunteered to enter the investigation, because the hole is too small, and there is basically nothing to move about after entering. Room for it. But just when she was about to rush, Lawrence stopped her.

"Don't worry, you don't need to go in for the risk for the time being, I can use a safer method to investigate first." After speaking, Lawrence took out a pile of yellow rough paper from the space bag and painted it with a red paint. With some strange runes.

   When Lawrence took off a few sheets from the top and clamped them with his index finger and middle finger, the team members found that each piece of paper had been cut into small palm-sized paper figures.

   "This is a magic from Aurora." Lawrence explained to everyone that after months of self-study, he finally figured out part of the magic in the notebook he got from the abnormal painter before.

   Although this single and fragmented magic system from Aurora made him encounter huge difficulties in learning, he finally mastered the skills of how to use this magic with Bai Ze's powerful learning talent in his blood.

   Of course, the various skills developed in such a little time can only be regarded as the most basic, but this is enough to work at a critical moment. Under everyone's gaze, Lawrence took out three paper figures from the pile of paper and blew a breath, then threw the paper figures to the ground.

   The paper men stood up immediately after touching the ground, and then formed a small group and walked into the cave in front of him, while Lawrence closed his left eye and manipulated the little paper men.

"Inside—it doesn’t seem to be dangerous." Five or six minutes later, Lawrence opened his eyes. Under his control, the little paper people had reached the end of the small cave. Through these paper people, he found that the hole was just ordinary. There are no dangerous things in the earth hole, it is quiet. He didn't even see a bug.

   "Wait...I saw something." It was at the end of the cave where Lawrence was manipulating the paper man. When I searched for nothing and prepared to withdraw, I suddenly found something at the bottom of the cave that seemed to be shining.

   "What is that?" Kogg asked next to him, "Is it a treasure?"

   "I don't know, let me go over and investigate it carefully." Lawrence flicked his fingers and drew a few imaginary strokes in the air, but soon he dropped his fingers weakly. "My paper man has been destroyed, at the moment I touched that thing. I only had time to tell that it was the breath of death attached to that thing that destroyed my paper man."

   "That means there is something in it." Resso said excitedly after hearing Lawrence's words, "Did you see what it was?"

   "I didn't see it clearly, things changed too fast at the time." Lawrence rubbed his temple and said that the worst part of this paper man magic is that when the paper man is destroyed after using the magic, he will also receive a little negative feedback. Fortunately, the intensity of this negative feedback was very weak, so Lawrence quickly returned to normal.

   "Then what shall we do next?" John asked. "If there is a powerful self-defense magic attached to that thing, it may be difficult for us to take it out. Or we can try to dig a hole from above. I think the cave is five or six meters from the top of the small mountain bag. the distance."

   "No need to put so much effort, John." Lawrence turned his head and said. "It was just a very weak death breath impact. At that level of death power at our level, it won’t be a problem even if we keep it in our hands for a whole day. Just because my paper man is a one-off The detection props, the defense strength is at most equivalent to a piece of paper, so they will be destroyed by the breath of death above."

Speaking, Lawrence took out a slender and strong rope from his pocket and said to the players, "We can tie this rope with a looper at one end, and then let me manipulate the paper man into it and put it on, and finally put it on from the outside. Pull it out."

   "This is a really good idea." Raqqa snapped his fingers. "But you are still too slow to manipulate the paper man, so let me put it on next."

   After finishing talking, she quickly tied a sleeve on one end of the rope, and then went straight into the hole. It only took her three minutes to get everything done and got out of the hole.

"Your observation just now is correct. The more you walk into the cave, the more gloomy it will be. When you walk into the cave, the temperature is almost the same as the winter temperature in the north." After coming out, Raqqa told Lawrence, "I observed that. After the thing, I feel that this undead breath should be just the power attached to the thing itself, not some kind of magical organ."

The next thing was much simpler. Reso walked directly to the mouth of the earth hole and grabbed the thin rope and pulled it hard. Soon the contents were pulled out from the wall of the cave, and then half a time. A piece of metal the size of a washbasin was pulled out of this small dirt hole, and it was dragged on the ground, colliding with gravel and pebbles, making an unpleasant noise.

   "We have been busy for a long time to make this one?" After this piece of metal was dragged out of the hole ~lightnovelpub.net~Courg said everyone's inner question. "This seems to be a piece of debris falling from something."

  The piece of metal that appeared in front of everyone was very thin, and the thickest part was only close to 1cm thick. On the whole, it revealed a black color like obsidian. After Lawrence turned the arc-shaped metal plate over with the butt, it was clear that there was a palm-sized shallow shield-shaped groove on the chest of the metal plate, which was supposed to be the place where a badge was inlaid.

   "This looks like the chest part of a pair of armor, to be precise, half of the armor that was broken after being severely injured." After a brief inspection, Lawrence probably saw what it was. "And this thickness can only be used by extraordinary people."

   "Light Shield Paladins." John standing aside suddenly said, "This is the armor belonging to the Light Shield Paladins, and it's the style of 400 years ago."

   "How did you know?" Raqqa asked in a puzzled manner, "There are no words or marks on it!"

"As a Paladin, I naturally learned knowledge about these possible friendly forces, including several important tactical habits of the Knights and their equipment styles. Now this piece of armor clearly belongs to One of the most powerful legions under the Lord of Dawn, the equipment of the Light Shield Paladins.

"And the piece of armor in front of us should belong to an expert-level middle-level commander of the Light Shield Paladins. It's just that it has been contaminated by staying in a negative energy environment for too long." John revealed a layer. Shengguang's hands raised the piece of armor in front of him and checked it carefully, then frowned and said, "The question now is, why does this thing appear here?"