Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 212: The history of the ruins
It may be due to the relatively large population in Xinhuiji, so the infrastructure construction of the city and surrounding areas is doing very well. At least Lawrence thinks that the asphalt road on this road looks much smoother than the cinder road on the outskirts of Fort White Eagle, and the carriage running on it doesn't feel bumpy at all.
Not only are they similar in age, but they are also girls with extraordinary careers in the physics department. So after getting in the car, Safir and Okita Sakura quickly talked together. Lawrence took this opportunity to get more information about the destination of this adventure from Zhu Yan.
The ship before the wreck they are going to explore this time comes from the Peacock Empire. More than 300 years ago, Aurora, which ended the dark age, opened the era of civilized expedition. On the one hand, it is to find more living space, on the other hand, it is also to save other people who have fallen into the dark.
In this great era, Aurora has gained a lot of resources and praise. At the same time, many civilizations that were in trouble or even on the verge of extinction have been saved. For example, Yingzhou and Goryeo succeeded in getting rid of the barbarians, evil races and the invasion and enslavement of lower plane creatures at that time, and were liberated, and finally joined the Eastern Alliance with Aurora as the core.
But the process was not smooth. For various reasons, many frictions and conflicts broke out. The most serious of these was the war with the Peacock Empire.
The cause of the war was a dispute between the two sides over the ownership of Lingyamen Island, the most important strait exit of the South Sea Islands. The war lasted for three full years, and finally ended with the complete withdrawal of the Peacock Empire from the South Sea Islands.
When the war just broke out, the Peacock Empire chose to fight undeclared, and used troop carriers disguised as ordinary merchant ships to carry the army to take down Lingyamen Island in a sneak attack. After opening this passage, the Peacock Empire then sent a large number of warships northward to attack the various routes of Aurora and its allies and coastal cities.
These warships did cause some serious troubles to the Eastern Alliance at the time, but correspondingly, they were able to return to Lingyamen Island. Obviously, the habitual friendliness and restraint of the Aurora people gave the Peacock Empire an illusion. In their eyes, Aurora, who chose to trade with various forces instead of directly grabbing it by force, was a weak force. That's why they choose to disperse their fleet and try to get more.
And the part of the hull that Lawrence and the others will be looking for today is the fleet of the Peacock Empire that went the farthest back then. Back then, this fleet went through an expedition that reduced its personnel by 1/3 and then arrived in the New World. Because they had heard of how wealthy the Sinian people are in the colony of the New World before, they wanted to grab a good one here.
However, what happened later proved that they were wrong. The expeditionary fleet of the Labor Division had not seen any colony before hitting the New World Squadron of Sinian. At the same time, the extraordinary men in the fleet were also secluded in the New World. The strong Aurora was easily killed.
In such a one-sided battle, the flagship of the Peacock Empire Expeditionary Army’s Talva was quickly sunk by fire, and the spellcaster who commanded the ship also blew himself up in the siege of many Aurora powerhouses. .
It’s just that when fighting back then, no one thought that the flagship was equipped with a special escape facility. The chaos on the battlefield also made everyone too busy to take care of the escape pod with stealth facilities and choose to run from the bottom of the sea. So when the wreck of the ship was inspected after the war, traces of this thing had been found in the big hole in the bottom of the ship.
But at that time, the people who knew the details of this thing were either dead or completely escaped. No one knew what was on the deck of this warship, and naturally they couldn't attract everyone's attention. At the same time, because the Peacock Empire's expeditionary fleet was completely annihilated, there were too many post-war matters to deal with. In addition, it was said that the second batch of the Peacock Empire's expeditionary fleet was coming soon, and the Xinzhou military and even the entire colony were in an extremely busy state.
So the search for the flagship rescue capsule of the Peacock Empire Expedition Fleet was regarded as a very trivial matter, and it was gradually forgotten. Only the dusty archives are stored in the archives of the Republic. It wasn't until Zhu Yan discovered the treasure map a few days ago that with the help of the family, he used the power of the family to call up these materials that had been in dust for hundreds of years.
Of course, Lawrence and the others are also betting, after all, no one knows what's in that ruin now. The last information Zhu Yan got was only a simple route map and a message left by the only survivor with good things in it. After so many years, no one can do anything about what has changed in it. know.
After half an hour, the carriage stopped slowly. Then Lawrence and the others changed all the equipment in the carriage in turn. It's just that when everyone was fully armed and ready to set off, Lawrence and Zhu Yan smiled at each other as they looked at each other. Because the two people dressed very similarly, they both carried two short guns on their backs.
"I really didn't find that your outfit actually has the effect of disguising. It doesn't look like a warlock at all." Seeing the two men dressed almost the same, Saifei, who was wearing a set of simple plate armor, spoke to him. Lawrence quipped, "But it's okay, it can prevent possible enemies from concentrating on killing our casters in the first round."
Okita Sakura, who was standing next to her, also nodded. This time she was wearing a light-green haori just like the previous battle. It's just that Haori is wearing a Yingzhou-style chain mail called the lock foot.
According to what they looked at on the map before, Lawrence and the others first walked forward for six kilometers along the road under their feet, and then off the road to the seaside. This route will take 1/3 more than a straight line, but the advantage is that it can greatly reduce the distance traveled in the wild.
After three hours of traveling, Lawrence and the others came to the beach smoothly. I have to say that the path they just chose is indeed easier to walk, except for seven or eight scattered goblins along the way, they didn't encounter any monsters. As soon as these seven or eight goblins appeared, they were directly chopped down by Okita Sakura and Syfiel, and even Lawrence and Zhu Yan didn't have time to shoot.
"Help you save a few bullets." This is what Syfiel said, who came to Lawrence after cutting down the wandering goblins~lightnovelpub.net~ Lawrence had to admit that he was facing such a small batch. Swords are better to use than firearms, especially in terms of cost.
"The sea here seems to be a bit different from what I have seen before?" Seeing the sea under the sunset in front of him, Syfiel asked Lawrence somewhat curiously. "In my impression, the sea is blue."
As Safir said, both the sea near Eagle Fort and the sea near the capital of Briton are blue. But now the sea in front of Lawrence and them was a pale yellow like mud.
"This is caused by the nearby Huangni River continuously flushing a large amount of muddy river water into the sea." Okita Sakura said, "The seawater in this place is relatively calm, so the seawater turns yellow."
"This also makes it more difficult to find our target in a while." Zhu Yan looked at the sea in front of him and said, "The underwater visibility in this place is definitely not too high. We probably need to be close to the seabed. A little touch at the bottom to find what we are looking for."
"It's not necessary." After speaking, Lawrence summoned an ordinary murloc and an elite murloc shadow. "This is the ability given me by my blood. I can control them within a range of two hundred meters. The water depth here is not deep, so we can wait on the water in a boat in the early stage of the investigation, and then I direct them to go. Investigation."
"If that's the case, that would be great." At this point, Zhu Yan looked at the sun about to set. "But it's still a little dangerous to go out to sea in a small boat at night. Let's do it tomorrow morning."