Struggle in the Steam Age

In the lobby of 　　 Detective Agency, everyone leaned at a table and watched Lawrence use a small blade to pry along the cracks in the burned statue. As the knife moved, the surface of the crisp statue that had been burnt began to shake.

　　 "Pop." When Lawrence picked the knife again, a thumb-sized piece of coke fell from the idol's body. Looking inward from the gap, Lawrence saw some silver-gray fur.

　　 "It feels a bit weird, it looks like some kind of animal fur." ​​Saifei, who also saw the contents inside, frowned. "But this fur should be a very precious thing, think about it, after it was burned by the fire, there is no trace of it."

　　 "It makes sense." Lawrence nodded, and then began to clean up with this hole as the core. 15 minutes later, Lawrence cleared a soft silver-gray fur from the coke.

　　 "We made a lot of money this time." After releasing the appraisal again, Lawrence raised his fur and said to the two ladies. Syfiel and Fatina found that this thing looked like a pocket.

　　 "This is a space bag made from the baby pouch of the rat queen." Lawrence said directly instead of selling it. "The nest mouse is an extraordinary creature unique to the southern continent. Its social structure is similar to that of bees or ants. Among them, the nest mouse, which is the queen of mice, is responsible for breeding and directing the rat colony.

"Among them, the rat queen has a nursery bag with space capabilities. Once their underground nest is destroyed but cannot be stopped, the rat queen will put all the pups into this nursery bag and escape. And the local When the aborigines discovered this, they killed the rat and removed its nursery bag. Then they used some special techniques to make the kind of space pocket we see now."

　　 "Let me see how much space is in this thing?" After the explanation, Lawrence reached into the space bag in his hand. He had just passed the [Appraisal Technique] and already knew that this was a safe and unowned space bag. It turned out that it did have magic traps, but the traps disappeared with the passage of time.

　　 "It can hold 30 cubic meters of things." After checking it, Lawrence said: "And it's a space of two meters by three meters by five meters. We are lucky."

　　 Lawrence said this sentence for a reason. Because there are a lot of space equipment that are not square, which leads to insufficient space utilization, and this kind of cube is the shape with the highest space utilization.

　　 "30 cubic meters." Saifei's eyes widened, she knew what it meant. "I remember that with such a large space and the space is very regular, a space bag costs at least about 20,000 yuan."

"Yes, I didn't expect that miser to give us a good thing. It can be seen that good luck or bad luck is always changing." Lawrence showed a smile on his face. He was very angry, but now it seems that this is a good thing from God to his hands.

　　 After sighing, the palm-sized space bag was tied to Lawrence's belt. After a brief discussion, everyone agreed that the space can be shared by three people, but it is usually carried by Lawrence.

　　 In a state of excitement, everyone finished the lunch that Syfier bought from the stall in the next block. After the meal, Lawrence had planned to go to the St. Gutenberg Cathedral to see if there were any tasks suitable for everyone. As a result, before leaving the house, I saw a middle-aged woman wearing a dark green gown, wearing a soft hat of the same color and holding a small parasol in her hand, pushing the door and walking in.

　　 "Are you Tuofan Detective Agency here?" After entering the door, she saw Lawrence for a moment, and then asked with some doubts. "I remember the owner of this shop should be a lady."

　　 "You're right, the owner is a lady." Lawrence finished speaking and called Syfiel upstairs and left the room. After all, he knew that sometimes it was not suitable for men to be nearby when women were talking.

　　When he arrived at the Cathedral of St. Gutenberg, Lawrence found that there were not many missions suitable for his mission. Because he was worried that the problem encountered by the lady just now was more complicated, so he just wanted to find a short and quick task to complete. But there are not many such tasks in the urban area.

　　 "That's it." After a brief inspection, Lawrence selected a task, which was related to the sewer in the dolphin area. Some rat people noticed that a lot of silt monsters suddenly appeared in the sewers near the cave where they lived. So I hope someone can investigate how these things come from.

　　 "Suddenly more silt monsters? It doesn't sound threatening." After receiving the task, Lawrence drove over to the dolphin area in the south in a public carriage, and soon he arrived at the predetermined location. A rat man with gray hair received him.

"Are you from the Church of Knowledge? You came too timely. The number of silt monsters running down the sewer to the entrance of our cave in the past week is nearly ten times as many as in the past. Although it is easy to deal with, they are really There are so many that it has affected us to go out for business and make alchemy products.

　　 "Please take me directly, I'm ready." Lawrence said and went down the underground sewer with the rat man, and then they raised their prepared bull's eye lantern and walked forward.

　　 As they progressed, a basin-sized silt monster crawled out of the cracks in the building and the sewage. So Lawrence and the others had to pay attention to avoid them. Although these monsters can turn into a pool of slippery organic matter with just two taps with a stick, Lawrence and the others don’t want to waste time on these guys now~www.ltnovel.com~ Seven or eight minutes later, they came to an underground catchment. There are several tunnel openings around the pool. At the entrance of one of the tunnels deeper, there were two rat men in leather armor, daggers hanging from their waists, and a short-tube shotgun in their hands, standing there guarding the passage.

　　 "We're here." said the mouseman who led the way, "this is the place where a large group of silt monsters ran out a week ago. But we haven't found where they came from."

　　 "Let me see—" Lawrence nodded to the mouse man who led the way, and then turned around the pool the size of a basketball court.

　　【Detection Magic】Lawrence cast a magic after turning around but found nothing. As the magic was cast, he found a trace of magical light on the water.

　　 "Over there—" Looking at this trace, Lawrence greeted and followed the magical aura, because he found that the aura was slowly dissipating. The ratman who had led him before heard the greeting and immediately took out a brass whistle from his body and blew it vigorously. Soon five or six heavily armed ratmen rushed out of the tunnel guarded by two people. Chased in the direction Lawrence had just ran.

　　 Following the traces left by Lawrence, the group of rat people chased them out of the dense pipe network for nearly 200 meters. Suddenly, they heard a gunshot from the front, and then a fire burst out from a pipe on the side.

　　 "Squeak, hurry up and follow." The scavenger who led the way turned his head and said to the heavily armed scavenger squad behind him. "Our friend just now may have encountered some problems. Let's go over now and see what happened."