On Saturday, July 1st, in the square in front of the fountain of Far Harbor Comprehensive University, Lawrence, fully armed, sat on a bench by the fountain and basked in the sun. According to the previous agreement, today was the day the expedition team set out.
After sitting on the bench for a few minutes, a young man with brown curly hair and eyes of the same color walked over from the direction of the school gate. After arriving at the fountain, he first looked around, and then walked towards where Lawrence was sitting.
"Are you Mr. Lawrence August?" After walking to Lawrence, the young man bent down slightly and stretched out his right hand and asked. "I am the team doctor of Baron Gonzalez's expedition."
"Yes, I am." Lawrence quickly stood up, shook his outstretched right hand, and then asked. "I don't think I have seen you in school before. Are you—"
"My name is Jonas Lister. I opened a clinic in Eagle Castle." The young man introduced. As soon as he finished speaking, Lawrence opened his eyes wide.
"You are the legendary sharp knife Lister? The famous senior who amputated a leg in 25 seconds in the school operating room the year before last. I met Professor Liston a while ago, and he kept telling me that you are
His most proud disciple will definitely achieve more than him in the future.
"Ah, those are just things in the past." Liszt pulled up the corners of his mouth and showed a kind smile. "Those glory are things in the past, and I am just an ordinary surgeon now.
That's all. By the way, I remember you are the junior who invented the Far Harbor First Aid Method——"
"It's just because of my good luck and the careful guidance of my mentor -" Lawrence said with a smile, and time passed quickly as the two people complimented each other, until a voice interrupted them.
"Good morning, gentlemen." Baron Gonzalez appeared in front of the fountain and waved hello, "Are you all ready? If you are, just follow me!"
Because the ruins were not far from the outskirts of the city, and a road had been built directly leading there before as a future industrial zone, the expedition team just rented an ordinary public carriage as a means of transportation.
In the compartment of the carriage, Baron Gonzalez began to introduce each other to the members of the expedition team. During the introduction, Lawrence learned that there were 16 people in the entire expedition team. Except for the two team doctors Lawrence and Jonas Lister, the rest
14 people came from three places.
The first wave of people was a professor surnamed Edward and his two students. They came from the School of Archeology of Miska University and specialized in local history. They were the core members of the expedition team. After entering the ruins, the main investigation and research work was carried out by
They are done.
The second wave of people were two people wearing cowboy hats and leather jackets. According to their self-introduction, Lawrence learned that they were a brother and sister. The brother and sister had a short sword and a pistol hanging on both sides of their belts.
He also carried a double-barreled shotgun on his back, and the bullet belt hanging on his body was filled with bullets for the gun.
Each of them had a silver badge pinned to their clothes at the heart position on their left chests. The crossed rifles and short swords on them showed their identities: Witchers.
Demon hunters are one of the extraordinary professions that gain powerful strength through a series of magical body transformations. They can skillfully use a variety of weapons, potions, and some simple spell-like abilities.
Of course, the result of such comprehensive development is overall mediocrity, which makes it much more difficult for them to become high-level extraordinary beings than others. But among low- and mid-level extraordinary beings, the combat effectiveness of these all-rounders is second to none. At the same time, they are able to deal with all kinds of evil.
Creatures have extra damage.
The remaining eight people were the gunmen in Baron Gonzalez's plantation. Each of them carried at least two guns, one long and one short. And from the bullet belts on their bodies, you can see that they were more or less prepared.
Extraordinary bullets.
Because everyone was unfamiliar with each other, the carriage became quiet again after the self-introduction. In this silence, the carriage drove into the gate of a construction site.
The construction site was as quiet as the carriage. After the ruins were discovered, all the construction work at the construction site stopped, and the workers also went to work at other construction sites in the city. Except for a few who were left to look at the site
Apart from the workers, no one is left on the entire construction site.
After bypassing the stacked bricks and a large pile of wood at the entrance of the construction site, the carriage stopped in front of the work shed. After the carriage stopped, everyone filed out of the carriage.
After getting off the bus, Baron Gonzalez shouted something in their unique southern Castilian language, and a dark-skinned Yanzhou man wearing only a pair of trousers, shirtless and with pigtails immediately walked out of the work shed.
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Gonzales was the first to get out of the car and shook hands with him, and then the two of them said a few words. After that, the Yanzhou man ran directly into the work shed, while Gonzales turned his head and faced
Everyone in the expedition team said: "This is Bubu, one of the workers who discovered this ruins at that time. In a while, he will take 20 workers to go down with us to do some chores."
The baron's words naturally won the favor of everyone in the expedition team, because although the White Eagle Federation is a republic and claims to pay more attention to fairness and equality than the old continent, there are still obvious class divisions in real life.
Therefore, members of the expedition team naturally do not want to do some chores themselves. In this case, it is naturally a great thing to have workers who can do it for them.
Soon, the Yanzhou man named Bubu emerged from the low work shed with a dozen workers who were also dark-skinned and taciturn. Lawrence noticed that these people all had a snake-like tattoo on their shoulders.
"The workers under Bubu are all from the same tribe as him." After noticing that Lawrence and several others were paying attention to the tattoos on the shoulders of the workers, Baron Gonzalez quickly came up and explained. "They
That tattoo on the shoulder is a symbol of their tribe."
"So that's how it is." Lawrence and the others nodded. It's no wonder they were nervous. After all, among the sources of culture in the New World, whether it is the culture of Sparnia, Briton or Cathay, snakes
Neither is a symbol of justice.
However, in Yanzhou and various wild areas of the Old World, there are a large number of tribes that worship primitive natural totems. They will worship various things as their belief totems, especially some natural spirits. In this case, snakes
It doesn't mean evil.
After explaining a small misunderstanding, the tense atmosphere that had just seemed relieved. After a final check of their equipment and necessary tools, everyone followed Bubu to the location of a sewer pipe manhole cover.
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Opening the manhole cover, Bubu and two workers jumped down first with lanterns. Then the entire expedition team and the group of workers filed down. At the end of the team was a gunman who closed the manhole cover when he went down.
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But what everyone didn't know was that shortly after they entered the underground pipe, an unmarked carriage came to the construction site and unloaded several people.