Struggle in the Steam Age

　　 With a sweet ringtone, Lawrence walked into the antique shop. Unlike what he imagined, this antique shop is not crowded and messy, but everything is neatly arranged like a jewelry shop.

　　Of course, this does not mean that there are not many things in the store. Every cabinet and glass cabinet is filled with antiques according to the type and grade. There are even a few pieces of exquisite furniture that are old at a glance. There is a small staircase on the side of the shop that leads directly to the second floor. According to the sign next to it, there is a staff dormitory and some expensive antiques.

　　 The bell when the door opened also alarmed the staff in the store. When all three of them walked into the antique shop, a young man with brown curly hair and freckles on his face walked over and asked. "May I ask you who came to our shop——"

"Ah, that's it." Lawrence stepped forward and showed his credentials, and at the same time said to the clerk, "We were commissioned by the vice president of the Lime Tree Street Self-Government Committee to solve the problem in your store a few days ago The mysterious dark shadow incident."

　　 "Oh, I see." After reading Lawrence's certificate, the clerk told Lawrence and the others the strange things that had happened here before, like a bamboo tube poured beans. After listening to his narration quietly, Lawrence and the others had some guesses about the specifics of the matter.

　　 After the clerk had said everything, he gave the keys to Lawrence and they left the shop. Fatina looked at the key in Lawrence’s hand and asked strangely: “Squeak, did he just believe that you gave you the key and then left? You know that those people even had one No copper plates will be loaned to others."

"That's because we also have real estate on this street, so his boss naturally trusts us." Lawrence shook his head slightly, "In this world, people often associate a person's wealth or identity with his reputation. . And whether we are college students or the real estate on this street, it is easy to think of our good reputation."

"Okay, we won't discuss these now." Lawrence shook his hand to start the next topic, "The most important thing for us now is to find out the reason for the strange shadow floating around in the room, and to move faster. .Because the clerk just now said that he is more likely to fall into a tired state in the room than elsewhere, I am worried that the dark shadow is gradually getting stronger by absorbing people’s energy."

"This matter is not particularly complicated." Saifei did not have much nervous expression on his face. "You know, he just said that all the strange situations started a week ago. This time is already very clear. It needs to be investigated. If anything happens here, it’s best to start investigating something unusual on the day of the accident."

"I think things related to customers should be eliminated first." Lawrence said, "because according to the store clerk's memories just now, there was no business in the store from the day of the accident until it was pushed forward for three days. At most, only A few guests came in for a round and then went out, without even asking him about the price of the goods."

　　 "So the focus of our investigation should be on the goods. According to the previous inquiry, the owner of this store just bought a batch of goods from the southern continent just one day before the black shadow appeared." Lawrence added. "Then the next day the goods were sorted and placed on the shelves, dark shadows appeared."

　　 Now that they had the suspect Lawrence, they immediately went to the shelf to check those things. Fortunately, the clerk left them with a receipt indicating the location of the products before they left, so that they could check the items one by one.

　　Because less than ten items were purchased that time, Lawrence and the others quickly checked the items on the first floor. After gaining nothing, Fatina was left on the first floor to monitor the situation on the first floor, while Lawrence and Sefil went up to the second floor together. For safety reasons, Lawrence added a [Protection from Evil] to himself before going upstairs, and then walked at the front of the team.

　　 Just as Lawrence had just stepped onto the stairs on the second floor, a black shadow suddenly flashed across the corridor in front of him, and immediately made him feel a faint breath of death floating in front of him.

　　【Fighting the Undead】, Lawrence subconsciously raised his fingertips to aim at the black shadow and fired a positive energy ray. As a result, the black shadow was hit by the positive energy ray and made a sound like a nail scratching the glass.

　　At the same time because of this blow, the black shadow paused in the air and then moved backwards to the other end of the corridor and quickly drifted past, but at that moment, Lawrence and the others could see the black shadow clearly.

　　 Under the light of the gas lamp outside the window, they found that the monster was a tall evil spirit floating in the middle of the corridor, wearing a black tattered robe made of plant stems and leaves like auspicious clothes. When it floated quickly in the other direction of the corridor, everyone found its two hands exposed from the robe.

　　 The skin of the exposed hand of the monster is brown, as thin as the skin directly wrapped on the bone, and the exposed skin is covered with scabs, like the claws of a mummy dug out of the desert.

Seeing this scene, Lawrence sprinted towards the monster's escape direction and chased after it, aimed at the monster and once again released a spell of "Breaking the Undead", and then stretched his left hand to his waist and took it out of the belt while the monster was in the air. I crushed a thumb-sized capsule made of hard oil paper and threw it out.

　　 In an instant, a puff of sacred salt enveloped the monster from Lawrence's hands. After touching the sacred salt, the spot where the monster was hit immediately lit up with dots of silver light, which was as beautiful as the stars in the night sky.

　　 But the monster doesn't think this scenery is beautiful at all. As a kind of negative energy spirit creature, it obviously lacks resistance to targeted forces like positive energy rays or holy salt. Lawrence noticed that after being hit in turn, the volume of this astral body had shrunk visible to the naked eye, and at the same time the whole appearance was much more blurred than before.

Just when Lawrence made another effort to hit the third [Fighting the Undead]~www.ltnovel.com~ the monster suddenly took a deep breath, and then a negative energy impact was sent from under his turban to Lawrence. Come here.

　　 Lawrence had already found something wrong when he saw the monster taking a deep breath, but considering that Syfiel was behind him, he could only slightly sideways to avoid the vital point, and then released the [secondary deflection position] in front of him.

　　 After a soft collision sound, the negative energy impact shattered the magical force field wall that Lawrence was blocking in front of the [secondary deflection position]. However, after the force field wall collapsed, this shock became the end of the crossbow. The remaining negative energy for Lawrence, who has a layer of [protection from evil] magic, just felt a slight cool breeze on his arm.

　　 Lawrence saw that the body of the monster in front of him looked more blurred, and at the same time, strands of black smoke were evaporating from his body and dissipated in the air. Obviously, this undead monster couldn't stand it even after eating three Dao [Strike the Undead] and getting his face covered with Holy Salt.

　　 At the same time, Syfiel also rushed to Lawrence's side and sprinkled the holy water in an opened bottle with white light on the evil spirit in front of him.

　　 After touching the holy water in the bottle, the evil spirit finally couldn't hold it. After making a scream, it turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared into the air, and at the same time a trace of gray mist was sucked in by the white shadow in Lawrence's mind.

　　 "Well done." Lawrence said, turning his head to look at Syfiel who was still holding an empty bottle in his hand. "I think we have completely eliminated this evil spirit."

　　 After listening to Lawrence, Syfiel also smiled on her face, but when she wanted to open her mouth to say something, a fire suddenly lit up in a cabinet next to her.