"Quickly, turn out the lights." In addition to Lawrence and the others, everyone else on the deck also heard the sound of a group of murlocs running over. After hearing the unique crackling sound of these murlocs walking, the second lieutenant gave an immediate order.
The captain extinguished the lights in the cab.
"Understood." There was a little trembling in the captain's reply, but this did not prevent him from quickly extinguishing the oil lamp in the cab and taking out a double-barreled shotgun from a hidden compartment under his feet and holding it in his hand.
Just as the captain was arming himself, everyone else on the deck was also ready for battle: the ensign and a crew member used the side of the ship to hide their figures, and each took out a pistol and aimed it at the only passage.
Towards the corner of the road to the pier, Lawrence and Saphire jumped directly onto the pier, ignoring the strange smell emitted by the garbage around them and hid behind the garbage dumps on both sides of the road.
There is only a fence made of broken wooden boards outside this small garbage dump that separates it from other places on this street. After all, although there is industry in this era, it is not that developed. There are only all kinds of rot inside the garbage dump.
There were only semi-rotted organic matter, broken ceramic shards, rags and some broken wood. Not even a nail could be found, so there was no need to set up any anti-theft measures to prevent someone from stealing.
So when the group of fishmen came to the outside of the garbage dump, they just pushed gently, and the ajar wooden door was pushed open, and then they swarmed in.
"They seem to be carrying something." When the broken wooden door was pushed open, Lawrence, who was hiding behind the garbage dump, discovered that the group of murlocs was not a broken army trying to escape from this inaccessible place as imagined.
This murloc team consisted of a strong extraordinary murloc warrior holding a mace in front to explore the way, while six other ordinary murlocs followed behind carrying a temporary wooden frame tied up on their shoulders.
Using dark vision, Lawrence discovered that a round cloth bag was fixed on this shelf.
Because the footsteps of this group of murlocs were very heavy before, after seeing this, Lawrence thought that these murlocs had grabbed some treasure and were preparing to evacuate early. After all, the group of murlocs attacking this time was made up of a large number of tribes.
There is no unified command at all, so it is very reasonable for a certain extraordinary fishman in charge of this area to temporarily retreat after discovering and obtaining good things.
But Lawrence soon overturned his guess, because he found that the cloth opening on the simple wooden shelf moved slightly. It was obvious that the pocket contained no gold or silver treasure, but some kind of living thing.
At this time, the murloc team had already arrived at where Lawrence and the others were hiding. After a slight nod to Lawrence, Saphiel suddenly rushed out from behind the garbage dump, and at the same time, the two-handed sword that was originally held diagonally in his hand suddenly swept across
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The two-handed sword with magic power cut through the body of the fish-man as smoothly as a hot knife cutting through butter. Before the leading extraordinary fish-man warrior could react, the three ordinary ones close to the ambush site of Saphiel
The fish-man was directly cut into two pieces from the waist by her sword.
While the surviving murlocs were temporarily distracted by Saphiel's surprise attack, Lawrence also rushed out from his hiding place and unleashed a missile storm on the remaining murlocs.
The unsuspecting murlocs were caught off guard by Lawrence's attack from behind. Even the extraordinary murloc warrior in the lead was no better than an ordinary murloc when it was suddenly attacked from behind. What was left in an instant
All four fishmen fell to the ground.
"Okay, there are no other murlocs following behind." When he was sure that all the murlocs had been killed, Sephiel jumped to the edge of the garbage dump and looked at where the murlocs were running, and then he jumped
He came down and said to Lawrence, "These fishmen should be guys who are ready to return to their lair after receiving some benefits."
"By the way, benefits." After hearing what Saphiel said, Lawrence immediately ran to the bag that fell on the ground after all the murlocs were wiped out, and then tied the straw rope tied to the mouth of the bag.
Cut it with a knife. After opening the bag, a head with thick brown hair and a beard emerged from the bag.
"Why is there a dwarf in the pocket?" Saphiel also came up at this time and used the blazing fire not far away to see clearly what was in the pocket, "I don't remember the murlocs having the habit of kidnapping hostages."
"No, you're wrong. The fish-men just don't kidnap hostages most of the time." Lawrence recalled the information he had obtained before. "But if there are extraordinary beings among the fish-men present, they are very likely to take hostages."
Might try to capture some wealthy-looking captives for ransom during the battle."
While speaking, Lawrence used a knife to open the bag and let the dwarf out completely, and then carefully inspected it. Through the inspection, he got a lot of information from the dwarf.
For example, this dwarf should have a high status, which can be seen from the various jewelry hanging on his clothes and the exquisite gold hoops at the bottom of the braids on his beard.
After removing a soft hat from his head, the reason for his current coma was also confirmed: a long loaf-shaped bulge appeared on the back of the dwarf's head. It looked like someone had hit the back of the head with a stick.
He was knocked unconscious directly.
"Fortunately, the dwarf's skull is much harder than that of humans. It was not broken even after such a severe blow." After touching the bulge with his hand, Lawrence got a rough idea of the dwarf's physical condition. It was better than he imagined.
Quite a few.
"Now let's take him back to the ship." Lawrence raised his head and said to Saifei, because this garbage dump was not suitable for further treatment. Soon, he and Saifei were on the left and right.
Carrying the unconscious dwarf back to their barge
"Is this?" After they jumped onto the barge with the unconscious dwarf, the crew and officers on the deck asked in confusion, "Weren't they a group of fishmen who just arrived? What happened to this dwarf?"
"It is indeed a group of fishmen who came just now, but this group of fishmen also carried this dwarf in a bag. Maybe he was a prisoner they captured." After placing the dwarf on the deck, Lawrence raised his head and said.
At this time, a sharp whistle sounded from the river.
"We can set off." The captain said happily after hearing the whistle. Hearing this, Lawrence raised his head and saw two all-steel ships that were larger than his own barge passing by on the river in front of him.
The searchlight on the roof of the room swept around.
"This is the armored patrol boat of the Lake Guard. They usually patrol the lake near the port area. But recently they have been retracted back to the canals in the city to prevent the stinky fish from harassing them." The captain told Lawrence with a proud look on his face.
Speaking of which, at the same time, a patrol boat in the distance began to use the small-caliber artillery on the bow to shoot at the place illuminated by the searchlight, as if it had discovered something.
Soon, with the cooperation of armored patrol boats, the military completely eliminated the harassing murloc team that landed. The small boat Lawrence and his crew were on also briefly confirmed their identities and set off on their way to the field hospital.
It might be because of the bumps of the ship, or it might be because the dwarf's body is stronger than that of ordinary humans. Just as Lawrence used alcohol to disinfect the wound on the back of the dwarf's head, he slowly woke up.
"Cough, cough, cough -" there was a coughing sound first, and then the dwarf slowly opened his eyes. "Ah, it turns out you are human beings. It seems that I am saved now. Where is this place? Where is this place?"