Struggle in the Steam Age

"My lord brother, I feel that the other party is chasing us now." Just after the boat started and sailed for five or six minutes, Nora, who had been floating beside Lawrence with her eyes closed, suddenly notified Lawrence through the spiritual connection. "And I smelled a very familiar smell from him. If I guessed correctly, that smell should belong to the gods."

"God, you mean the god?" Lawrence's eyes widened in surprise. If there is the power of the gods in this moving island, then everything makes sense. In the main plane, there may only be the power of the gods. Can make this island have such a magical effect.

"Well, no problem, it's the power of the gods." Nora said as she twitched her left ring finger, and then a line of fire quickly stretched out from the sea to her finger. Fortunately, she flicked her fingers decisively as if cutting off something, and successfully made the faint blue flame fall into the sea as if it had lost its support.

"What happened just now?" Lawrence turned his head nervously to stare at the little doll. He could see that Nora had fought with the island in the water just now, but he couldn't figure out who just took it. Cheap. However, considering the huge size difference between the two sides, he was still a little worried about Nora.

"I tried to touch it with my own strength, and then got two good news and one bad news." Hearing Lawrence's concern, Nora turned her head with a smile and said mischievously, "The bad news is that although we all belong to A divine creature. But that island is much stronger than me, and if I fight head-on, I will definitely not be able to win."

"It does sound bad." Lawrence pursed his lips and said, although he always felt that he was the protagonist, but now the most powerful fighter on this ship is indeed the little doll. You can't win if you fight together. "But you just said there was good news, what is that?"

"The good news is that although I don't know what's going on, the temptation just now proved that the opponent only has the most basic instincts left. Otherwise, the attack with the breath of the gods just now is normal. The opponent will use various means Counterattack, not what it is now, it's obviously just a basic reaction to return the power in a chaotic manner along the path of my attack just now."

"If that's the case, we still have hope." Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief. If the opponent didn't even have the instinct of a beast, then it would be much easier to deal with it. To die is just a piece of meat full of powerful special power. Not that there is no way to beat it.

To be honest, when he first learned that the fighting power of that thing is far better than that of the little doll Nora, he wanted to go back directly. It is one thing to seek the truth in wealth and insurance, but it is another thing to die. While rescuing friends is important, sending in more heads just to save friends is obviously not worth it.

"Port side, seven o'clock direction, eight kilometers." Ten minutes later, a sharp roar suddenly came from the lookout post. Everyone on the deck and in the cabin immediately turned their attention to the direction of the stern after hearing the words. As a result, everyone who stayed on the deck saw a scene that shocked them extremely.

A small hill that looked as if it was only the size of a boat rose from the water without warning, and the waves of the water even made the Enterprise shake. As the island slowly rises, more and more parts come out of the water. Lawrence and the others also began to gradually see what the island looked like.

This is a deserted island with a diameter of only about 3,000 meters. Except for a small hill in the center, the island is basically flat, but because it has just floated to the surface of the sea, the surface of the island is basically It was all puddles and swamps, big and small.

In short, this small island looks like countless uninhabited islands scattered in this sea area, basically there is nothing special about it. If he hadn't just seen the island rising from the water, even Lawrence would have ignored it as he did other similar islands.

Just a few seconds after the island rose from the water, Lawrence felt the Enterprise vibrate slightly under his feet, and then the speed slowed down. You know, when Lawrence and the others discovered that the island was floating just now, they had already accelerated the boat to flee in the opposite direction of the island at the fastest speed. But now, the speed of the ship that was still advancing at the highest speed just now slowed down greatly as if it was caught by something.

"That island, that island is opening its mouth." At this time, the lookout post issued another warning. Everyone on the ship heard an ominous smell from the lookout's terrified voice. Lawrence grabbed the binoculars and looked at the island, only to see a big mouth slowly appearing on the edge of the island facing him.

It is called Big Mouth, but to be precise, it is a cave that slowly appears on the edge of the island. A large amount of sea water poured into the cave quickly, even forming a huge vortex in front of the cave. However, the speed of the Enterprise's departure from the ship was greatly slowed down because of the abnormal water flow caused by the water absorption in this cave.

"The water absorption of this small island should be aimed at us." After briefly looking at the location of the cave, Nora immediately judged the current situation. "It seems that the basic will of this thing still swallows all the living things around it, and we are now being targeted by the other party."

Speaking of this, Nora suddenly narrowed her eyes and looked at the cave. Then he patted Lawrence's forearm and said. "Look at the place on the left side of the cave, is there any metal thing there? I seem to have observed a metal guy bigger than a person stuck behind a rock a little inside the entrance of the cave on the left."

Lawrence raised the binoculars again and looked in the direction of his finger. As a result, he saw the silvery reflection of the steel after the collision. After careful observation for a few seconds, he was surprised to find that the large metal object was actually a relatively complete anchor, but the anchor chain had broken for unknown reasons.

"It should be the kind of old-fashioned anchor used by sailboats of about 100 tons." The first officer who was comforting the sailors on the deck who seemed a little nervous because of the sudden accident of the ship also raised his binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the little puppet. , as an old seaman, he recognized the specific condition of the anchor at a glance.

"About 100 tons." After hearing this word, Lei Suo seemed to think of something and took out a palm-sized silver medal from his arms, which was inlaid with a crystal with metallic light. But now, the crystal was rapidly vibrating at a very high frequency, and the silver medal made a crisp buzzing sound.

"That's right, we found the place." After briefly fiddled with the silver medal a few times, Leto looked at Lawrence excitedly and said, "That's right, we found the place, John is in that cave. And he's still alive. "

"Really? Hurry up and send a message to the Church of the Suffering for help." Lawrence quickly ran into the telegraph room and shouted to the telegraph operator after confirming it. He knew that the best way at this time was to ask Yuan Jun to come over to help while he took advantage of it. . But shortly after the telegraph operator received the order to press the button, sweat dripped from his forehead, then he looked up at Lawrence and said, "There is strong electromagnetic interference around us, so we can't send a report right now."

"Damn it." Lawrence lightly hammered the door frame with his hand, and then took out a communication card. It turned out that the communication card that could originally cover 1/5 of the Sea of ​​Stars actually had an effective communication distance of less than 500 meters.

This made him immediately understand why John and the others failed to send out the signal. Obviously, their ship should have been attacked by this island. Although they were killed and fell into the cave and survived, the island itself The powerful interference ability of the belt completely cut off their hope of calling for help.