Struggle in the Steam Age

I don't think we need to go into the water for the time being. Looking at Zhu Yan and the others' bitter expressions, Lawrence cast a glance at everyone and raised his doubts, Don't you think there is anything wrong?

Where— Zhu Yan stopped halfway through his words, suddenly thinking of something, and then took out the notebook that recorded the information of this remains from his arms and compared it with the map that Lawrence had drawn just now.

What's wrong? Okita Sakura asked after seeing Zhu Yan's movements. Did you find something?

Yes, it's right here. Zhu Yan put together the map he drew based on the content in his notebook and the one Lawrence drew just now, and then looked at Lawrence and said. You are right, there is indeed a big problem here.

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the two maps and said to the two ladies who were still confused: Look, this cover shows the location where this section of the cabin was abandoned here, and on the map that Lawrence just drew However, the position of the entire cabin is a few hundred meters to the west.

According to what you said, hundreds of years have passed since this cabin sank. Safiel seemed a little puzzled after hearing Zhu Yan's explanation. It's impossible for the sea to be as calm as the artificial lake in the park, so what's so strange about the wreckage shifting under the impact of the current?

Safeel, you don't live by the sea. You may not know it. Although the currents in the sea are powerful and can easily wash away everything, they are regular. Okita Sakura carelessly put her elbow on Sai On Phil's shoulder, he raised his other hand and pointed to the mouth of the river in the distance. For example, in this place, after the impact force of the river enters the sea, the impact force is likely to extend thousands of meters into the sea—

I understand. After listening to Okita Sakura's words, Safir lowered his head and glanced at the changes in the ship's position on the two maps, and then showed a clear expression on his face. Because of the impact force at the river's estuary, even if the wreckage is affected by the current, it should be far away from the river's estuary, not close to the river's estuary like this.

Yes. Lawrence nodded. And I'm ordering those phantoms to clean up the mud at the break of the wreck, trying to see if I can enter the cabin through the break to find more clues.

After more than an hour of busy work, the four monster phantoms cooperated with Nora to clean up a breach and entered it. Soon, they found a valuable harvest.

But when the thing was salvaged out of the water, everyone else on the boat was puzzled. Because apart from a large pile of rusty and even marine life-covered sundries in the large bag that was brought up this time, there was also a twisted and damaged iron door.

Those guys from the Peacock Empire back then were really rich. Zhu Yan first looked at a few research utensils that were in good condition, but completely corroded into a ball due to the damage of the ship and soaking in seawater for too long. Then he pulled out the bayonet from his waist and scratched the surface of these things before making a sound of emotion.

Indeed, this is good news for us. It means that our expected harvest this time will be more than expected. Lawrence nodded, because Zhu Yan scraped off a part of the rust layer attached to the vessel, so Lawrence They found that these magical implements were inlaid with many filigree for decoration.

After inspecting the salvaged items, Lawrence began to introduce the discovery that had just been made at the bottom of the sea. He first pointed to the iron door and said, This is the most important discovery just now. It took a lot of effort for my monster phantom and construction doll to remove this thing from the debris of the hull.

Look here— Lawrence pointed to the deformation on the iron door and said, From the iron door and the fracture of the wreck, we can see that the break of the ship wreck was not to protect the ship from the sea water and time after the magic power disappeared. It was naturally broken under the attack of the attack, but it was blasted apart by a very precise internal attack.

You're right. As a magic gunner who deals with explosives all day long, Zhu Yan quickly saw the problem from the door, Obviously, this door was destroyed by the explosion, and the power of the explosion It came from the interior of the cabin. At the same time, the fracture of the wreck that was just cleaned up looks a bit too neat.

—In other words, someone has already been here before us. Lawrence explained to the two women who were still in a daze. Now I just don't know who this person is and what he took from here.

But don't worry, we still made money from this adventure. Zhu Yan said as he picked up the rusted metal block. Obviously, the person who blew up the wreckage didn't empty out the wealth in the wreckage. I found that these salvaged equipment used a lot of raw materials of precious metals and even magic metals in their manufacture, even if they were just recycled. It can also make us a lot of money, but now I just don’t know how many similar things there are.”

Zhu Yan's family is famous for manufacturing all kinds of weapons, and naturally the research and smelting of metals is indispensable. Even the most important wealth of this family is neither the special steel smelting factory and the gunpowder factory, nor the famous weapons and the inheritance of the magic musketeers and mechanism masters who use these weapons, but the family members and their ability to study various material formulas. graduate School.

So he naturally knew that if he could find enough of this kind of thing from the wreckage, it would be a lot of money to pull it into the family's factory, and he would earn back his capital and interest from this adventure.

In fact, in real adventures, at most 1/3 of people can achieve their desired goals. In many cases, adventures not only fail to obtain benefits, but also pay for it. Therefore, the adventure that Lawrence and the others seem to be expected to make a profit this time is considered a relatively good one in terms of the outcome of the adventure.

After thoroughly figuring out the situation, Lawrence and the others first rowed the boat back to the shore to eat something to deal with internal affairs, and then rowed the boat back, and Lawrence controlled the monster phantom to search underwater.

Probably because God Harbi possesses the priesthood of the river god, Nora is also very interested in launching into the water, especially when this water area is at the mouth of a river, and at the same time Nora also finds that she can control fresh water underwater.

So with her help, the cleaning work has become much easier, especially after Zhu Yan figured out the general situation underwater, he took out a lot of explosives that can be used underwater to help with the demolition, which greatly accelerated the speed of cleaning. .

When night fell, Lawrence, who had completed the investigation of all cabins in the ship, climbed off the ship with Zhu Yan's support. After all, summoning and manipulating the phantoms of these monsters for several hours without interruption is really a huge mental drain on Lawrence, even if the magic power can support people, it can't support them.

However, the overall search was quite fruitful, because the hold used as the escape cabin was the lowest level on the ship back then, so it was loaded with a lot of things. In addition to some dead animals, rotting food, timber ropes and some tools that may have been used to repair the ship, they found eight compartments containing potentially valuable items.

Three of them are warehouses containing various utensils, except one is filled with various high-value props and precious metal utensils used in alchemy and magic experiments, and the other two are filled with various exquisite pottery and glass. making utensils. According to Zhu Yan, these items are very popular antiques in the market now, and they can be sold for a good price.

The other four warehouses are basically filled with all kinds of raw materials, because the immersion in sea water and the passage of time have made most of the things in them completely useless, but there are still some things that can be used.

The most important warehouse is located in the center of the wreckage and has been reinforced with steel plates. Lawrence found a lot of tableware and utensils made of precious metals, as well as two small boxes of more than 2,000 silver coins of the Maurya Empire.