In the city of Piltover, the streets were filled with calls for demonstrations. People held high the banners of "No Peace!" and "No War!" and accused the authorities of the arms deal. In the last Rune War, Noxus' army sent only one partial division in the direction of Zaun. After a very small tentative offensive, the end of the war was ushered in. Piltover is a city-state with a strong news media, and the people here have not experienced much war, but they are still extremely wary of the devastation it brings.

In order to maintain law and order, Catherine and Vi are too busy to deal with Ezreal. And that Camille, who is also busy with policing. The high-level officials of Picheng, under the pressure of public opinion, held one meeting after another.

Ezreal was not interested in any of this.

Public opinion is the power of language after all, and this time it is a miscellaneous number of voices spoken by many people, both in intensity and composition, which belong to the lowest level of power. There is one exception, if language can resonate with people's hearts and achieve the effect of "harmony" of all people, the power of formation should not be underestimated. And Leather City, where the top brass wants to sell arms to Noxus, people have just experienced the decline of the housing bubble and are forced to find an outlet for their emotions. The top and bottom are not docked, and there is no play.

The economy of Picheng is on a downward path, and people's purchasing power is weakening, making it difficult to sell a large number of goods. Oddly enough, prices remain high.

Ezreal examines the economy of Phi City. Discovering the taxation model of Picheng is really familiar!

What Picheng has adopted is to levy taxes on behavior. If the same product is repeated in the same behavior, it will be taxed twice. If the price is raised once, the tax will be levied once.

For example, a pound of rice comes out of the land for one dollar, and the businessman who buys it sells it must include the labor cost, right? (The drivers and workers hired by the businessman always have to eat, right?) The transportation cost should be included, right? The cost of seven, seven, eight, and eight should be included, and the price should be raised to at least 1.5 yuan to ensure that there is no loss. The increase of 0.5 yuan will be levied 20% VAT, so that the cost becomes 1.6 yuan. If you want to make money, at least raise the price to more than 1.8 yuan, and the tax will rise with the tide, and the result will be more than 2 yuan. This is just a businessman who does procurement, and then puts it on the shopping bar of the supermarket, and the supermarket has to calculate a wave of store rent, labor costs, and another price increase, and a price increase and a VAT...

Therefore, it is not unusual for a piece of rice to be sold for four or five yuan in the supermarket.

On the streets of Picheng, people shouted slogans such as "Don't waste taxpayers' money", and the police who maintained them were scolded to the point of red-necked, and from time to time they replied "Does your income meet the tax standard". Actually, that standard is for the personal income part, which is another type of tax.

A person always has to consume firewood, rice, oil and salt, and these most basic things have to pay VAT several times. From a VAT point of view, everyone is a taxpayer. It's just that the vast majority of people don't know that they are taxpayers.

High prices lead to high pressure and high psychological load on people's lives. Under the glamorous modern appearance, the people of Leather City are on the heavy side. They are irritable, distrustful, anxious, neurotic, and more.

When it comes to collecting taxes, Ezreal tends to collect profits once a year and keep prices low.

Ezreal shook his head and withdrew his gaze from the window, those are the business of the people of Leather City, why bother with himself? Besides, Ezreal is a spy, a person who is an enemy of Leather City, what does it matter to him how the people of Leather City live?

Phi City, the modern city-state of Valoran, bears a strong resemblance to Earth, but it is not.

Ezreal sighed and returned to the mission.

The exposure of that batch of arms touched the bottom line of the top level of Picheng. This time the other party reacted greatly. A large number of journalists have been suspended, including television anchor Jana.

Another piece of news also worries Ezreal.

Noxus ended a coup d'état with a duel. The winner of the coup d'état, Svein, expressed his intention to make a friendly visit to Ionia, and the Ionian side responded with a warm welcome.

Svein, the instigator of the invasion of Ionia, a friendly visit?

Ezreal almost thought that history had changed. After calming down, he understood that this was a smoke bomb released by Svein, in order to paralyze the upper echelons of Ionia. Just like Hitler on the Earth plane, he deceived Chamberlain and provoked World War II.

Svein also had the advantage of covering up the arms deal. Peel City is from the Demacia camp, and people would never have imagined that Peel City would make a private deal with Noxus. It is customary for the people of Picheng to believe that the arms race was prepared by Demacia to take revenge on Ionia, fearing that Picheng would be involved in the war.

The plot hasn't changed.

Ezreal worries General Durkkao again. Svein's trip to Ionia probably had another purpose, that is, to target Durkkao. Ezreal was also an Assassin before! Also an Assassin, Ezreal could deeply feel what an assassination opportunity Svein had to visit Ionia! If successful, the rune war would be stopped.

Is it going to be that good? No, that's a trap!

Ezreal wanted to convince General Durkkao, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Worried, Ezreal had a dream.

In the dream, it was desolate, dark and dark, and there was silence. Ezreal stomped through the sand and walked through the dilapidated high-rise buildings. These ruins, recognizable by their shapes, appear to be leather cities. The city of lights, which never sleeps, seems to have been abandoned for hundreds of years, weathered, and about to be buried in the desert.

"This is the city of Leather two hundred years later. ”

Ezreal turned his head in shock, and it was Duke Kao standing behind him.

"If Valoran continues to settle disputes in the same way as a large-scale rune war, not only the city, but all the city-states will become like this. ”

Ezreal saluted, "General." ”

Duke Kao appeared in the form of the Lord of the Shadow Stream, and Ezreal thought for a moment, and instantly understood what was going on.

Duke Kao is robbery, robbery is Duke Kao!

Seeing through his thoughts, he said, "After the Elemental Ascension, there is a chance to be reborn, and if you give up, you will turn into a humanoid with animal characteristics with the operation of magic power. ”

Ezreal was surprised and nodded.

"You're looking for me?"

Ezreal explained his intentions, pointing out that Svein's visit to Ionia was a trap.

Zai: "I know. "It's dangerous, but I'm going to give it a try." If successful, it can prevent a rune war from happening. ”

Ezreal dissuaded, "You stopped the rune war once, but you can't stop the second. I'm thinking of a permanent solution to the rune wars. ”

Zhai was curious: "What method?"

Ezreal explains: "The city beneath our feet will be in ruins of the desert in a hundred years, just as the once-glorious Nurima was hundreds of years ago. The changes in the pattern of mankind are controlled by one hand behind the scenes, and it is the Protoss! If I can win the theocratic war..."

"How do you win?"

Ezreal was silent for a while, and recounted the disagreements he had seen within Hera and the Protoss.

After thinking for a long time, he said, "Your strength is far from enough. Now you are not as strong as me, how can you win in the theocratic war?"

Speaking of which, in the end, strength determines everything.

Kidnapping Ezreal, a nightmare move "ghostly", through countless desert terrain, to the seaside.

Zai: "Do you remember that I was going to teach you telekinesis? You learn telekinesis first, and then talk about your "great" ideas. ”

Mental power is the pressure of spiritual formation, also known as spiritual pressure. Valoran's telekinesis is divided into magical elements, which are roughly divided into water, earth, fire, wind, and electricity. The water is wavy, the earth is dense, the fire is hot, the wind is cutting, and the electricity is folded. The division is not absolute, for example, the ice attribute telekinesis is cryogenic.

This is very similar to Ezreal's impression of the Thirteenth Team of the Guardian Court in the Grim Reaper.

But then it was different.

Talking about his own cultivation perception, he believes that interference and control are greater than lethality. Once the opponent falls into the illusion, the moment he loses his mind, the main body can end the battle by giving a fatal blow.

The calamity released a wave of mental power, and the calm sea surface stirred up waves that were higher than one layer of waves: "This is the water attribute mental power, if you focus on lethality, it is nothing more than a larger amount of water and heavier water." But what I want you to see is something else - "Raise your hand in a concentrated gesture, put up two fingers, and an incredible scene appears, the violently undulating sea suddenly stops, the waves several meters high hang in the air, and if you look closely, you can see water droplets isolated in the air."

Ezreal wondered, "This is... Hallucinations?"

A hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes, and he said, "Yes, it's an illusion! The waves are still moving, and the reason why you see that they are still is because I interfered with you." I refine the wave into ripples to make it more penetrating and more disturbing. ”

"The rippled telekinesis corresponds to the flow of blood. When people are angry, their hearts beat faster and their blood flow increases; when they are afraid, their hearts beat hard, their chests are tight, and their blood flow slows down; when they are greedy, their minds are hot, and their blood flows backwards to their heads; when they are jealous, they can't see their own positioning and strength clearly, and the blood flows in the palms of the hands and feet. ”

"The power of water telekinesis corresponds to the unfathomability of the human heart like water. ”

The knowledge of illusion is relatively broad. And the thirteenth team of the Guardian Court is almost a blank sheet of paper in terms of illusion, so they will be hung and beaten by the blue-dyed mirror flowers and moons in the plot.

He teaches Ezreal about illusions.

The densely arranged earth telekinetic power, "ghosts hitting the wall", and the corridor of dreams, repeatedly circle in one place. Earth telekinesis corresponds to pressure, and targets that do not relax are easy to hit.

Fire Mind is a rare buff that can inspire the target to fall into a frenzied combat state, tyrannical and bloodthirsty, on the contrary, Ice Mind is a cold current that can make people calm, calm, and composed.

Electric telekinesis and wind telekinesis are the rarest.

Electrotelekinesis is out of control. The human nervous system is controlled by electrical signals, and electrotelekinesis is to break the reserve of the target. An intoxicating, yearning current, lingering, unstoppable, electric telekinesis is... Enchantment. Electrotelekinesis corresponds to desire.

Wind telekinesis is the highest combat power. A person's life is inseparable from language, and the power of wind is voice control. And the wind mind power is restrained by the fire mind power because people who fall into madness are "unreasonable".

Zai: "I have three kinds of water power, earth power, and fire power. If you want to defeat the opponent with your mental power, you must master at least two or more to avoid being restrained. Or to master compound telekinesis. I have a trick, the Wall of Crystals, which is a mixture of earth and fire made of tempered glass, obtained from a fragment. ”

He also reminded Ezreal that if he confronted Svein again, he should be careful of Svein's mixed wood telekinesis of water and earth. Wood telekinesis has the power to wither enemies and regenerate itself.

Zai: "What do you have to ask?"

Ezreal thought about it, and there was nothing to ask about cultivation. Instead, he remembered a question, looked around at the desert, and asked, "What will Picheng become like this in two hundred years?" So, two hundred years from now, where will the opposing human city-states be? According to the consistent method of the Protoss, there will definitely be two opposing camps, right?"

Tribulation: "The polluted land of voodoo, the furnished of dust." The Voodoo Land has a fairy secret realm, which is actually the Protoss deliberately revealed the method of purifying pollution to the Faerie Witch, and Nurima has a tunnel to the underground world, and the Protoss covets the abundant magic power of the underground. ”

Voodoo Lands and Nurima? Without Freeljord, Ezreal felt that luck was on his side. The Protoss is undoubtedly the most powerful in Valoran, and if Freljord is in the plan of the Protoss, then it will undoubtedly be extremely difficult for him to make trouble there again. On the contrary, a blind spot, quickly occupied and managed, is enough to make it a force that can change the pattern of Valoran.

Before leaving, Azreal also told Ezreal that Caterina had arrived in Phi City.

Waking up from a dream, Ezreal washes and dresses under Cana's service.

After Ezreal poked the hornet's nest of public opinion, he played missing. Cana disappeared with her. As for Picheng, there is still no arrest warrant for the two people, only a notice that journalist Jana has been suspended. The two hid in a remote church on the outskirts of the city.

Returning to Ezreal's side, Cana sees "There's a female vampire by the master's side!", "Suck 400 ml of blood a day!" "Losing more than 400 ml of human blood is life-threatening!"

So, according to Caterina's instructions, Jana sent back a secret letter. Caterina received the news and immediately set off for Phi City. Ezreal knew all this, and was about to make a move on Picheng immediately, but he didn't expect Caterina to come so quickly.

Originally, Ezreal promised Miyue 100 milliliters of blood. Mi Yue has been in the court for many years, and is good at speculating on people's hearts, observing words and feelings, and estimating that Ezreal's bottom line is much higher than this. In fact, Ezreal fed Miyue with a blood transfusion, and then used healing magic to restore the lost blood, which consumed far less mana than directly transferring mana to Miyue. In addition, Ezreal wants to send Miyue to spy on the military stronghold of Picheng, so under Miyue's soft grinding and hard bubbles, he has given a full share.

"Master~~"

As Ezreal enjoyed breakfast, Miyue looked over with a look of antiquity with an empty wine glass. She was going to drink blood again, 100 milliliters of blood in the morning, noon, and evening.

"Humph——!"

Cana glanced at the female vampire, and said in her heart that when the master mother came, she had to destroy you, the goblin. She took out a cross, held her hands in front of Mi Yue, and dangled the cross around.

Cana: "Damn! Why doesn't the silver cross work, is it all a lie in the movies?"

Cana took out a small box and opened it, the smell of it almost bringing tears to her eyes. It's garlic!, holding back the pungent taste, Jana grabbed a few and threw them into her mouth and chewed vigorously.

Jana slurred her words and said, "You vampire, be afraid, don't leave your master quickly!"

"Ahh

Mi Yue pretended to be panicked, and with a slight stroke, like a falling feather, fell into Ezreal's arms, and trembled: "It's the cross and garlic that restrain the vampires, the mourning family is so afraid, master, quickly! Feed more blood, otherwise the mourning family will be ruined." ”

Morgana glanced at it and said, "You are a blood clan summoned by the First Ancestor-level virus, and the strength of the blood activity and ferromagnetic field are all at the First Ancestor level, and ordinary garlic and silver crosses are useless at all." ”

Morgana gave Ezreal a meaningful look. She guessed Ezreal's intentions. Ezreal summoned Miyue with the intention of making Caterina immortal, at the cost of turning Caterina into a Bloodline.

Morgana looked at her sister Kyle again. Generally speaking, dinner parties are part of etiquette, and Kyle is stern against grinding between men and women during meal times. Kyle's acquiescence is probably not giving up on the plan to establish your Circle of Blood.

Morgana sighed, too lazy to care.

At this moment, someone kicked open the hall door, and it was a woman with two knives stuck in her back. Pale hair, pale skin, black leather trousers, black leather corset, green coat. She had a shocking scar on her left eye, adding to her sinister face. (See Katerina's Bounty Hunter Skin)

Kyle: "Who dares to break into my church?!"

Kyle really didn't recognize Katarina. Morgana and Cana didn't recognize it.

The hair color has changed, the skin has changed, the clothes have changed, and this is unrecognizable?

Ezreal recognized it at a glance, looked down at Miyue in his arms with a smile, let go of his hands, and stood up.

"Ah" Miyue, who lost her arms, fell to the floor with her buttocks.

Ezreal said embarrassedly, "Miss, why are you here?"

Caterina said with a calm face: "If I don't come again, you will be sucked dry by a monster and die!"