Struggle in the Steam Age
Chapter 261: ambush
After the carriage finally drove into the gate of the city, Lawrence couldn't bear his inner curiosity and asked the judge sitting across from him: "I just saw that the fortune-teller seems to have failed the divination, why is the investigation team at the end? I have to thank me. They probably didn't get any information."
"Sometimes no information is the most important information." The judge on the opposite side showed a profound smile. "It is important to know that there is only one way to make divination invalid or even backlash against the divination, and that is to have enough defenses for the divination object. There are not many people who can have this type of defense all the time while using this luxurious textile. ."
"It turned out to be like this." Lawrence nodded, not to mention that this is Wendo Bona, the capital of the empire. There are a large number of nobles living in this city. But he knows that people who can meet the above two prerequisites should not exceed three digits. After all, it is impossible for ordinary people to carry a divine soul of the earth with them to help cover it all the time. It is even more unlikely to have extraordinary props that can provide this type of effect.
"But it's troublesome enough now," said the judge opposite Lawrence. "After all, it can be seen that some evil supernatural powers played an important role in this incident. If you consider that you just found I worry about the clues that came out—"
Although the judge did not speak out, Lawrence also knew what he was worried about. After all, once the evil supernatural powers are mixed with a certain part of the ruling class, it will be much more difficult for them to eradicate these evil powers than before.
For example, the neighboring countries to the east and south of the Holy Visby Empire are the puppet states with human populations established under the support of wild forces. After the evil forces control these countries from behind the scenes, these countries have not weakened power. . Now basically every year the empire will clashed with them on the border.
"I don't think it will be the worst result." Lawrence shook his head and comforted the young judge sitting across from him, "Otherwise, this time, the parties would not use such an elite team to investigate this. Incident. But—"
Having said this, Lawrence suddenly stopped his words. Because he suddenly felt something staring at him. But what was strange was that when he released the phantoms of the fire bee and stinger hummingbird and left the car for inspection, he found that everything around him was normal, and no one was staring at them.
"What do you think of the surroundings?" The inquisitor was startled by Lawrence's sudden spell casting, and even stretched his hand to the weapon on his waist. But it was soon discovered that Lawrence was casting spells to investigate the surrounding situation.
"I don't know." Lawrence shook his head, "I can feel that someone has been staring at us since we came out of the cemetery, but after investigating, we didn't find any suspicious people around."
"I think your feeling may not be wrong. We didn't find the stalker because we didn't find it." The judge who had experienced a lot of actual combat seemed more nervous than Lawrence himself. He immediately ordered the carriage to slow down, and then took out a piece of drawing. The stone with runes smashed into pieces.
"Sometimes it’s not a bad thing to be slightly neurotic. After all, one of the experiences I have gained from working in this industry for several years is that often just a small change in the surrounding environment may be a precursor to an attack. So I am now The action team personnel of the referee must be notified."
After sending the signal using the internal method of the court, the judge explained to Lawrence, "Before I set out this time, my boss reminded me that you are likely to be attacked by a new round, so let me If you find something wrong, you immediately call for support. Even if a false alarm is a waste of manpower, it is acceptable."
"I think there should be real danger waiting for us this time." Lawrence took this opportunity to take out a few coins and looked at the results of the divination and said, "The abilities attached to my bloodline made me predict it. The danger ahead."
The judge did not have any objection to what Lawrence said. After all, the power of the warlock's bloodline awakening can be said to be varied. Although this kind of foresight ability is not many, it is definitely not rare.
Therefore, Lawrence and the others immediately prepared for the battle that might break out. Among them, a little doll with a heterochromatic pupil beside Lawrence sat there cleverly. The judge and the coachman of the court also placed their weapons in the most convenient place. Although the carriage still follows the scheduled route, its speed is much slower than at the beginning.
Just as Lawrence and the others let the carriage slow down and move forward slowly, in a dilapidated residential building in front of them, a group of masked men in all kinds of clothing hid behind the window and talked in a low voice.
"Are the little guy and the running dog of the referee?" a guy wearing a black breastplate and looking like a leader asked to a person wearing a gray costume and a matte black metal mask on his face. "The group of people who we went to the New World missed last time. This time we definitely can't miss it again."
"They are almost here, and they have appeared at the last intersection now." At this moment, the cry of a sparrow came. The man with a metal mask on his face showed a relaxed expression after hearing the cries of the sparrow, and said, "After all, the distance from the cemetery is not close, and there is a city gate in the middle. And this time just happened to be Time off work. So it’s normal for the carriage to be a few minutes later than we expected."
"That's good." The black-clad warrior in the lead nodded. "The last miss in the New World was purely because of some serious loopholes in our intelligence, but the good news is that we have already Knowing the opponent's true strength and making targeted arrangements. He is absolutely dead this time."
"Don't be careless, the above said that even if our intelligence was wrong last time, but all the people we sent were missing, it shows that the level of the other party is not average, let alone that we are in Wendobona this time. Acting within the city wall, there are a large number of churches and various organizations that may intervene, and there will not be much time left for us to act," a masked person wearing a black windbreaker reminded.
"It doesn't matter, we prepared a forbidden zone on the road, and we also prepared a lot of explosives. After the blast, we will turn on the magic to interfere with the magic circle assault~lightnovelpub.net~ Even if he can't be killed, our assaults can also let him cast this spell. The player is fighting with us without the ability to cast spells. Hum, we have several physics professionals here, this time he is dead..."
For the upcoming battle, these ambushers appear very confident. Only the man in the windbreaker who had just reminded him frowned. He felt a little uneasy after discovering that the carriage had not arrived as scheduled. But I have not been able to grasp where this anxiety comes from.
At this moment, the carriage appeared at the intersection of this path, and the attackers who were still discussing just now quieted down. Only the leading black-armored warrior specifically lowered his voice and said: "The few in the window go back a little bit, and everyone underneath can see you."
Then he turned his head and shouted to a young woman beside him: "Blood Rose, it's up to you next. Remember to slow down the other party's carriage."
"No problem." The young woman who was dressed like an ordinary worker woman picked up a baby doll wrapped in a swaddle, and then nodded to the black armored soldier.
But at this moment, a stern shout suddenly came out from the person who was investigating upstairs. "The other party suddenly accelerated and rushed towards us."