Chapter 20: Pride and Prejudice
Jace and Victor, the two most intellectually brilliant people in Piltover and Zaun, used to be partners, something that everyone in the older generation knows, and it was with this in mind that Stanwyck asked Jace to play the friendship card.
He sent a number of men to investigate the situation, but to no avail, but they all said that they had been thwarted by a strange wind, which caught Steinwick's attention.
His instincts told him that the storm aggregator might really exist.
If Jace could see the real thing, it wouldn't be long before Victor's invention could be copied with his intelligence, and then Stanwyck would be able to sit back and pry it out of Jace's mouth, which would be much easier than inventing a weather-class weapon.
People with excellent IQ tend not to have very high emotional intelligence.
If Jace didn't succeed, then it would have no effect on him, he didn't have direct contact with Victor, even if Victor really developed the Storm Aggregator, if he wanted to take revenge on Picheng, it wouldn't be his turn for the time being, wouldn't Jace be hated more than him? When the sky fell, there was a tall man on top, and this person could only be Jace.
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Following the map provided by Stanwick, Jace came to the door of Victor's lab, but the door was locked, and he shouted as he didn't know what Victor was doing inside.
"Anyone?"
No one answered, but Jace heard the sound of the machine working.
"Victor, are you in there?"
There was still no response, the green poisonous mist obscuring his vision, and he couldn't see what was going on inside.
Jace's lab had a number of blasting devices that could easily blast through the rusty iron door in front of him, but he hadn't brought them with him today.
But don't think that's going to stump him, with just a multi-tool, he can create a key on the spot, or a bolt cutter to clip the lock.
"Why didn't I add a bolt cutter function to the multi-tool?" Jace pulled out the multi-tool he had with him and prepared to build a bolt cutter on the spot.
"What do you want to do here?"
A cold voice came from the lab, clearly entering his ears, and the tone of the voice was so low and flat that it was almost impossible to hear that he was asking.
"Who's talking?"
Jace stopped what he was doing and looked around, and soon he found an inconspicuous piece of glass in the corner of the window, which was actually a set of reflective lenses, and he pressed his eyes to the lens, but all he saw was pitch black.
"I'm Victor."
The voice rang out again.
"Nope! This is not Victor's voice. Are you...... Britz II? Jace heard something strange...... It was no different from the sound of a tape emitted by a robot, without any emotion, but the fact that the other person could communicate with him simply reminded him of Blitz.
Combining the two, he thought that Victor had created another artificial intelligence similar to Britz.
"A decade can change a lot of things, but your stupidity hasn't changed at all."
"Stupid? Only Victor dares to say that about me, but I want to correct it a little, please replace the word stupid with handsome. ”
Seeing that the other party was silent, Jace smiled smugly.
"Victor, what's going on with your voice? Got a cold? ”
"It's none of your business, just talk about it."
"Hey! What is your attitude? When an old friend I haven't seen in years visits, shouldn't I be invited in for a drink? Just leave me out to dry? Although I am not at all interested in the crude, anise-flavored drink you made, which is a mixture of donkey fat and milk powder. ”
Jace's face was arrogant, and he said impatiently.
"I don't have any friends."
"Looks like I misunderstood." Jace's face was furious: "I ask you, why did you make a false statement, the Storm Aggregator can't be built at the current level of technology. ”
"No comment."
"Are you trying to intimidate the association or to inflate your value? Did you make a new discovery? You can say it, and as long as it has that value, you can be accepted into Piltover, where state-of-the-art laboratories await you, instead of being in this abandoned factory with no future. ”
Jace was lying on the iron door and slapping so hard that his patience was about to run out.
"You go, there's nothing more to talk about between us."
The indifferent mechanical sound was heard again, igniting Jace's anger once and for all.
The multi-purpose tool in his hand quickly transformed into a hammer and slammed into the iron door, where the rusty iron door was deformed with a squeaky blow.
Call!
A strange wind whipped up a pile of sharp rubble and slammed into Jace's transparent visor.
Cracking sound!
There was a dense crash, and Jace noticed an extra scratch on his mask.
Jana was a little surprised, she didn't expect this seemingly fragile transparent mask to be so hard, and she immediately urged the air flow to condense together, forming a high-density air arm, sweeping towards Jace.
Jace took the blow solidly, rolling on the ground a few times in a slump of arms, his head bleeding, but a handsome face was protected by the mask and was not harmed.
He staggered to his feet, his face uncertain.
What did he see? A green solid arm? He didn't remember what magic Victor could do, magic was about talent, but he knew neither of them had that talent.
Magic wasn't unleashed by Victor!
For a moment, he almost believed in the existence of the Storm Aggregator but when he thought about it, it was impossible for such a large weather weapon to achieve such fine air flow control.
Victor would do it to himself, and Jace was not surprised, they had often quarreled and even fought in the past because of their incompatible personalities, and Jace's arrogance and genius were well known throughout the academic world, and almost no one could stand his character.
This time, he just wanted to provoke Victor to come out to fight, pride and prejudice, and his ability to act, so that he could take the opportunity to see what was going on in the laboratory, but what he didn't expect was that Victor didn't play his cards according to the routine, and kept hiding in the laboratory and didn't come out, and used a means he didn't know about to drive magic to attack him remotely, and he didn't even see Victor's people.
What did Victor go through? Jace didn't know, he only knew that he was really angry this time, but he didn't give up thinking, he weighed it, he had no chance of winning against Victor now, and there was probably a spellcaster hidden in the laboratory, so Jace left silently.
"Just go back to Stanwick and tell him that the Storm Aggregator doesn't exist, and when you understand the Shurima Crystal, you'll come to Victor to settle accounts."
Jace made a mental note of the book.
After Jace left, Victor thanked Cana, he didn't want Jace to come in, because he knew that Jace would definitely act aggressively when he saw the miserable situation of the patients in the laboratory, and once he fought in the laboratory, it was easy to accidentally injure these helpless patients.
But Jana said to him,
"Someone else is coming."