Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 468: Signs and big fish

Because of the discovery of the weird fish, Lawrence immediately began to mobilize the forces on the island to prepare for defense. What he did was not a certain degree of fuss or pure nervousness, but because the picture of the unmanned drifting boat suddenly popped out of his mind when he saw the fish.

For the transcendents, illusion is not just illusion, it may represent many things. This is especially true for the White Zeal Warlock like Lawrence, because Bai Ze has the ability to seek good fortune and avoid evil, and the images that appear in his mind at this time are often harbingers of the future that are related to him. .

Because of this incident, Lawrence used the ability of the quincunx to start divination after sending off the priest Hans. With the help of the fish bone, Lawrence easily figured out that there might be some comparisons recently. Bad things happen, and many people and things will be involved.

After reading the results of the divination, Lawrence immediately prepared a guide for this possible outbreak, but considering that once a panic is created, it is likely to cause more damage to the island than a real attack, and he does not want the entire island Development has been hit too severely. So he did not issue a formal warning order, but only fine-tuned the current situation of the island.

For example, he stopped the construction of the earl’s mansion and a series of construction projects that were not urgently needed, and then concentrated all those people on the construction site at the entrance of Sauer Harbor. It is hoped that the meter-gauge railway can be repaired in the shortest possible time to provide sufficient defense capabilities for the largest town on the island.

Another example is to concentrate the power on the island to modify the three existing steam sailing ships, and temporarily install hedgehog bombs for these warships. At the same time, two of the three sailing ships that were previously assigned as fast-armed merchant ships were re-armed, so that they could all be restored to a state where they could enter battle at any time.

That is, when Lawrence was busy making various preparations on the island, due to his previous warnings, the church and some of the island lords became vigilant, and even bought such marine creatures from everyone by offering a reward. Therefore, under the premise of consciously collecting information, the churches and lords around this sea area have also received reports from many people in the surrounding waters about the strange marine creatures that have died but are still swimming in the sea.

Over time, this kind of information has become more and more, and the various grassroots temples, churches and lords that have sniffed the danger signals from this information have also begun to prepare. In addition, a large amount of information also gathered from the various settlements in this sea area to the local court.

"How is the situation now?" In the headquarters of the Star Sea Tribunal on Antilles, the largest island in the Sea of ​​Stars, a senior magistrate dressed in a black velvet robes with gold trim walked into a large conference room and spoke to the surrounding people. The staff asked. "Are there any specific statistics on the undead marine creatures that suddenly emerged in the entire sea area?"

"Now there have been more than 200 similar incidents reported in various places within a week. According to statistics, they are mainly concentrated in the seas southeast of the Star Sea." A judge wearing a black robe with silver rim raised his hand and said in a salute. , "The infected creatures do not have any regularity, from all kinds of fish, soft creatures to murlocs."

"Have you been to the Murloc?" The senior judge showed a serious look on his face. Based on the results of the previous inspection, they have discovered that all these marine creatures are affected by the combination of death and disease. The mutation that occurs after power pollution, and when faced with this pollution, the weaker the creature is, the easier it is to be polluted. And if it can pollute the murlocs, then the strength of this force may reach the level of polluting human civilians in a short time.

"There is a murloc, but the situation may not be that bad." The magistrate wearing a black robe with silver rims led the person in charge to a nearby house and introduced at the same time. "Because this murloc is different from other similar creatures, it was accidentally discovered and brought back by an expedition team during the expedition."

"According to the expedition team, at that time they found a group of marine creatures moving in one direction. They also felt a slight death force in the surrounding environment. So they thought of the bounty announcement issued a few days ago before leaving. He shot and caught such a murloc outside the group of creatures."

"Did they say what they found other than a group of marine creatures moving in the same direction?" the most senior local magistrate asked. "I mean, apart from the strange sea creatures, did they find anything special?"

"When we asked the team before, they described a lot of monsters to us, but unfortunately, they are not naturalists, so the information they said is simply a mess." This person is wearing silver. The judge in black robes pushed open the door of a room next to him and said.

"Ah, I can understand this. Because many sea creatures look like monsters. It is really difficult for people without special training to judge their true identity. Seriously, even if I see something strange sometimes The strange-shaped marine fish will think that they have encountered an extraordinary monster."

The highest commander of the court said as he walked into the room, the room he walked into now was much brighter than the one just now, and there were several researchers walking around in a hurry. And dozens of fish tanks and iron cages were temporarily placed on those tables, and some animals made of bones were moving as if they were alive inside.

"We have made good progress in the research of these things. At least it has been confirmed that all the samples here are infected by the same source of pollution, and if there is only one source of pollution, for us, we want to stop this situation. Deteriorating this matter will become a lot easier." Silver Edge Magistrate said.

"So have you inferred the specific identity of the pollution source now?" the person in charge asked. "If there is no specific conclusion, some more reliable conjectures are OK. After all, we will face it later, and it is better to make the corresponding preparations a day earlier than to do so when the matter comes."

"The specific identity cannot be determined for the time being, but we probably inferred some important information about the pollution source." The Silver Edge Magistrate said after holding a document from a researcher. Although the adventurous team of the parade could not describe to us what they saw before ~lightnovelpub.net~, it was very fortunate that there was a priest from the Passion Church in that team."

"So after we told him about the weird situations that are happening everywhere, he agreed to open his soul to us to let us see what they saw at the time. And we found a marine creature composition in his soul. An extremely huge shadow in his team."

"A huge shadow?" The chief of the court frowned. "Can you be sure what that dark shadow is, for example, is it a creation of some intelligent creature or some kind of extraordinary marine monster?"

"No, because there was a huge pressure on the dark shadow at the time, this team did not dare to approach at all, and naturally did not see the specific image of the other party." Silver Edge Magistrate said. "But based on the part of the knowledge we extracted from the memory of the priest of the crucifixion church, the dark shadow is most likely a fish sea beast."

"Extraordinary sea beast? It sounds terrible." said the person in charge of the referee's income, "because it means that if we want to deal with it, we may need some extra firepower, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with these normal conditions. Defense is still a guy whose size is far larger than humanoid creatures."

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