Struggle in the Steam Age

For extraordinary people, there is another way to find the source of this stealth suit through prophecy magic. But the torn clothes in front of him have been placed for more than two hundred years. If you want to find out information from this thing, you need at least a hero-level spellcaster who specializes in divination spells.

But the problem is that Lawrence and the others simply cannot pay the price of inviting such a powerful person to help them cast spells, let alone their previous speculation about the existence of the treasure.

"Hey, everyone, don't be downcast." At this time, Lawrence looked at the clothes on the ground seriously and said to everyone, because he found that the clothes on the ground were very rough in making, so he thought of the clothes he had seen in his previous life. content from an archaeological show. "I thought of a way that maybe I can find out where this thing is made."

"How do you find it?" Everyone who was depressed just now became excited, especially Zhu Yan who just felt that his adventure was going to be wasted. "If there is anything that needs our help, just say, if we can help, we will do our best to help."

"I need a laboratory." Lawrence said, "This suit is very rough. If I have the help of the equipment in the laboratory, I think I may be able to find some clues from it."

"Laboratory?" Zhu Yan thought for a while, "I just happened to know that there is a place where you can rent an alchemy laboratory. It's just that the laboratory is specially used for renting out to supernatural beings to make their own medicines, and there are only some very common ones in it. equipment—"

"It's not a big problem." After listening to Zhu Yan's talk about the laboratory facilities, Lawrence said that it was not a problem for him, because he also carried some equipment in his pocket of the portable space, and after adding the equipment in the laboratory, he had no idea what he was going to do next. Enough for work.

After the next itinerary was decided, Zhu Yan asked a murloc who went ashore to send a note to the clansmen on the barge, and then summoned a horse with a square bronze medal embossed with a horse on his body to drive to the city. past. And Lawrence also used the phantom horse bracelet to summon the phantom horse after packing everything up, carrying himself and Safir to follow.

Soon the four of them entered a park in the suburb of Xinhuiji, and then led by Zhu Yan to the entrance of a three-story building. The buildings on the New Island Republic side are often constructed with distinctive features: in the main part of the room, most of these buildings are built with bricks and cement like the Federation side, and a small number of recently built buildings use reinforced concrete .

But the part on the roof of the house is very distinctive, and you can see the unique bucket arch structure of the eastern countries headed by Sinian. Moreover, the design and the building look very harmonious after being integrated, as if it should have been combined in this way.

"This kind of building is the latest fashion in Zhendan." Seeing Lawrence and Safiel looking at the building curiously, Okita Sakura stepped forward and explained, "It is said that the traditional culture and art Combined with modern craftsmanship."

"Yes." Zhu Yan, who was walking at the front, stopped and turned his head when he heard the voice behind him, "This is better than our traditional wooden frame structure buildings, and it can be built at a lower cost. A building with a higher number of floors and better fire resistance. But many of our extraordinary people don’t like this kind of building, they think that this kind of building is dead, and only the original wooden structure is alive.”

As they spoke, several people walked through the hall and came to a gate with iron bars. With a bang, a cage-like car also made of iron bars descended from the patio above, and then the bars opened. .

"Last year, the boss here specially added this new steam elevator in the building." After everyone entered the car, Zhu Yan said to Lawrence while pressing the brass button with the number three on the side of the car. of. "Then by the way, the rental fee of the laboratory was raised for this reason."

With a clanging sound, the car quickly went up to the third floor and opened the door. Then they walked through the corridor together into an office with an open door, and soon after a brief negotiation, Lawrence and the others rented a small laboratory.

After entering the laboratory, Lawrence immediately took out the stealth suit found in the gold box from the interspatial bag, and then began to cut small fingertip-sized samples from various parts of the suit with a scalpel.

After getting these samples, Lawrence treated them with several medicines. Then he put the processed samples under the microscope to observe, and soon he found something on this sample that he hoped to find.

"Okay, I think I've found the key clue." More than two hours later, after observing the last sample and making records, Lawrence turned his head and said to the other three people who were waiting.

"Has the key clue been found?" Safiel, who was chatting with Okita Sakura, immediately stood up subconsciously and asked, "Do you already know where this thing is produced?"

"Not yet, because I don't know much about the environment here." Lawrence shrugged and picked up the notebook he just used for recording, then looked at the three pairs of curious eyes of his friends sitting on the sofa and said, "But I Basically, some characteristics of the place where this thing was made can be restored."

"Because this dress is very rough, it looks like the product of a temporary rush. Therefore, during the production process, the wild quilt leather was not properly treated, and even the most basic cleaning was not thoroughly cleaned." Lawrence introduced The process of what I was looking for just now. "In this way, I can easily find some small things in the places where the leather is stitched, such as tiny plant fibers, or pollen."

"What is certain now is the following. First of all, this costume is likely to be made in a cave, because I found a lot of fluorescent mushrooms, spores of smoke moss and shell fragments of a millipede. And these Stuff only appears in cold, damp caves."

"Secondly, I accidentally found very few spores of centipede grass and pollen of masson pine in the crevices of this dress. This means that the person who wore this dress before walked through many of these plants in April and May. The place where the war broke out in mid-April that year."

"Finally, I just burned some of the hair on the clothing and treated it with chemicals. It turned out that the arsenic content in the fur of these wild quilts was significantly higher than the standard, which shows that there should be mineral deposits containing arsenic in the place where they live."

"It's amazing." Zhu Yan, who was drowsy just now because the two ladies were chatting but couldn't interrupt, suddenly perked up, "And I think we can roughly pinpoint the place where this dress was made, after all. The fact that the person produced a garment in such haste to go into the wreckage meant that there was a high probability that he would have done it near that beach for convenience."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yan turned his head to look at the two ladies, only to find that there was a thoughtful expression on Okita Sakura's face.

"Did you think of something?" Zhu Yan asked, because he knew that the small fishing village in Okita Sakura's hometown was only three or four kilometers away from the beach they went to, and it took about two hours to walk along the mountain road. . So Okita Sakura probably discovered something after Lawrence said so much information.

"I'm not sure—" Okita Sakura subconsciously stretched out her index finger and put it on her mouth before thinking for a while, "But there is indeed a mountain near my house with a large piece of centipede grass and masson pine growing there, and someone once picked it up. The most important thing is that there are many wild quilts near that mountain. Even when it is about to rain, the wild quilts will fly over our village—”