Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 213: Unexpected

Because Lawrence and Zhu Yan both had space equipment on their bodies, they quickly built a temporary camp above the highest tide line on the beach, and then took out a kerosene stove to heat up field food.

   After a simple meal mixed with flour, bacon, dried vegetables and cheese, everyone chatted around the kerosene stove for a while and went to sleep, and then everyone worked in shifts as usual.

   Lawrence and the others got up early the next morning when the sun just jumped from the sea level. After a simple wash and the same simple breakfast, they started to act. Zhu Yan took out a 30cm-long wooden box from his arms and placed it on the beach. After saying something, the box quickly expanded. A few seconds later, a small wooden boat about five meters in length floated on the shore one or two meters from the sea.

   "This is a folding boat, a permanent magic item, and it can also be called a strange thing." Seeing everyone looking at the small wooden boat curiously, Zhu Yan explained aloud. "It has two forms, because now it is sailing on the sea and may encounter some wind and waves, so I made it look like a big ship."

   "Of course, I can't afford this kind of luxury. The one you see now is borrowed from the family." At this point, Zhu Yan shrugged. "Fortunately, there are no powerful creatures in the data in this sea area. Otherwise, once this kind of thing damages me for a quarter, it is equivalent to nothing."

   After all four of them got on the boat, Okita Sakura went to the stern and shook the scull, and refused Lawrence and their help. "My father has been fishing for a living since he was injured and retired. Before he was chosen by my master Mr. Kondo as his disciple at the age of nine, I grew up on a fishing boat. No one here knows how to navigate this kind of boat better than I do. , So you don’t want to be a disservice."

   Ten minutes later, the ship came to the top of the position recorded in the book. Then Okita Sakura's ship slowly expanded its search range in a spiral around this place, and Lawrence activated a powerful force in his eyes.

   With the help of the ability equivalent to the third-level magic [Secret Vision], Lawrence quickly saw the magical reactions scattered on the seabed. Then he summoned the phantoms of two murlocs and two extraordinary fishes on the Baize map, and then ordered them to go to the bottom of the sea to check each magic point.

   Soon, Lawrence received a large amount of information from the seabed through the perception of these phantoms. For these natural aquatic creatures, the turbid sea water and the dim light of the seabed cannot hinder their inspection. But with the passage of time, Lawrence obtained more and more information, and this information also made his brows frowned slowly.

   "What did you find?" Zhu Yan, who was squatting on the bow of the ship with an automatic rifle in his hand, noticed that Lawrence's face was getting more and more ugly, so he asked after getting closer. "What did your monster ghosts see? Did they find the wreckage we were looking for?"

"I haven't found it yet, but some of the discoveries now give me a bit of a foreboding." Lawrence shook his head, and then ordered the underwater phantoms to gather the things they just picked to a murloc phantom. Shadow’s hand, and then the murloc phantom brought things up.

Soon, the side of this seemingly lacking texture fish boat showed its head, and then extended its two clenched front paws out of the water, and threw some scattered things in the front paws onto the bottom of the boat. .

   "What is this?" Except for Okita Sakura who needs to hold the ship's direction behind, the other two people on the ship gathered around to look at the things that had just been salvaged. Lawrence threw a net to the murloc phantom and continued to direct it to salvage the underwater things.

"Why don't these things seem to be complete?" When Lawrence sat back in his original position, Syfiel asked in a puzzled manner. At this time, she had already sorted out the things that had just been picked up in front of her, naturally. I saw what was wrong.

   There are dozens of things that appear on the hull board. The big ones are as big as a palm of a person, and the smaller ones are as big as the tip of a pinky finger. Most of them are wooden boards with some kind of gold and silver wire inlays, metal fragments or marble fragments. The other part is relatively complete semi-precious stones, such as moonstone, sunstone, and citrine.

   But from the traces above, it can be seen that these semi-precious stones are not cut semi-precious stones that are usually used for trading or as a raw material, but fall from a place where they were previously set.

"The situation is not right! This should be something in the cabin." Zhu Yan picked up a palm-sized piece of transparent crystal vessel and took a closer look. The magic reaction of this piece is because it is inlaid with three mung bean-sized pieces of purple. crystal. It seems to have fallen off from some kind of test equipment.

"It's true that the situation is a bit abnormal." Lawrence took the fragment and nodded. He recognized that the fragment should have fallen from the grinding bowl commonly used in the Peacock Empire hundreds of years ago, and such things are naturally Will not appear on the deck. At the same time, many of the salvaged items are those that theoretically belong only to the cabin.

   And so many things in the cabins scattered on the seabed is not a good sign, which shows that the cabin they are looking for has a high probability of being broken, so there are so many things in the cabins scattered all over the seabed.

"Maybe the situation is not that bad." Seeing that the two men on the ship became a little frustrated, Safir exasperated them, "I remember that there should be a watertight cabin in the ship, even if that cabin is really exhausted because of energy consumption. Losing the magic protection and breaking, I also believe that so many watertight compartments should have survived."

   "You're right." Lawrence nodded, and then continued to manipulate the phantoms of those aquatic monsters to search underwater for all magical reactions. Ten minutes later, when the murloc elite phantom explored a magic reaction point under the silt with his spear, he found that there seemed to be a big thing under the silt.

   "I seem to have found it." Lawrence happily said to everyone on the boat after ordering the remaining three phantoms to explore together for five or six minutes.

   "What?" Everyone was attracted now~lightnovelpub.net~Even Okita Sakura took back the scull on her hand and walked to the front cabin to participate in the discussion.

   "What's the situation underwater?" Zhu Yan was the first to ask, and the others looked at Lawrence and wanted him to answer.

   "It's terrible." Lawrence said as he summoned the book charm of the space agent and took out a lot of paper and pens. "The hull is five or six hundred meters westward than the news we received. It is now within the range of the underwater impact fan of the river. Most of the structure has been buried under the mud."

   "I now let my book charm draw a little bit of what I see." Lawrence said to everyone while controlling the phantoms to continuously expand the detection range. "This may take a while, because hundreds of years are enough time to put a thick layer of silt on the things we are looking for."

  Cleaning silt underwater is a very troublesome task, especially since the amount of silt accumulated on the wreckage of the ship that has been placed on the river impact fan for more than two hundred years far exceeds Lawrence’s previous estimates.

   Fortunately, the little doll Nara really doesn't want to wait too much time. So Lawrence waved after a brief exchange, and then she jumped into the water like a normal puppet. With the help of a master-class transcendent construct, Lawrence finally cleared the outline of the entire underwater ruins and drew it through the book charm in the second hour after going to sea.

   "We are in big trouble now." Zhu Yan looked at the broken ship remains on the picture with a distressed expression, especially after knowing that the cabins were full of silt.