Chapter 43: Today's Headlines
From an early age, Ike showed a genius for creativity, he learned to make simple machines before he learned to climb, he loves to invent, and he wants to use invention to change the status quo of Zaun.
As Ike grows older, his inventions become more magical and complex, requiring rare parts that can only be "rescued" from a privately run garbage factory, but he is flexible in his view of trespassing.
It didn't take long for Zaun's fierce thugs and brutal guards to keep an eye out for Ike and his wacky gang, often staging happy chases with the kids.
Ike had always been amused, wondering why the Leather City Lab and the Alchemy Baron Factory were all heavily guarded with their garbage.
They don't really take advantage of these discarded technological devices. On the contrary, in his hands, all this garbage can be cleverly turned into treasure.
In this way, Ike can already remember the shift times of the guards in various garbage dumps, the distribution of troops, the time of garbage disposal, and the safe secret passages.
But the ruins in front of you are like an undiscovered virgin land! Without the guards, there could be treasures hidden under every stone.
Ike and his friends sprang into action and began to quickly search the ruins for useful parts.
Soon they found quite a few reinforcements in bulk.
Ike's attention leads him to discover a treasure like no other: a crystal shard of azure light with magical light!
"It's ......" The glow of the crystal shard reminded Ike of a familiar story.
Every child of Zaun has heard the story of the Hex Crystal, the source of power for the gods and heroes. They can generate energy on their own, and they have the potential to change the world.
And now he had a broken Hex crystal in his hand.
He ordered the other children to do a quick search of the neighborhood and found other debris.
The shards seem to be humming in a low voice, trying to sing a broken melody, and the song grows slightly louder each time the pieces come close to each other.
He patiently worked on the crystal fragments of the ruins, some of which were buried deep in the ruins, and he had to burrow into all sorts of stinking garbage heaps, even if he was dizzy from the smoke.
Then a scream diverted his attention.
Someone finds the robot's head and opens it, revealing a brain that has turned into a mushy one, a broken brain that scares everyone out, and they're just a bunch of kids.
Ike realized that some kind of terrible experiment might have been going on here, and now, they had to leave.
He immediately evacuated with everyone and destroyed the footprints they left behind to ensure that no one would follow.
For the most part, Ike's instincts were accurate, and they helped him escape many times surrounded by guards, and this one didn't disappoint him either.
Shortly after they left, the place was surrounded by a group of fierce men, who were conducting a carpet search, apparently looking for something.
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Jeno ate Oriana's breakfast as he looked at the daily newspaper that the dispatcher had just placed at the door.
The most prominent plate caught his attention:
"Victor is suspected to be the initiator of the Zu'an poisonous fog accident, and he directed and acted to kill the people of Zu'an to obtain a large number of human brains, snatch the Hex crystal to make a mechanical army, and intend to counterattack Picheng!
The genius inventor Jace single-handedly broke into Victor's evil base, broke through the siege and killed Victor, and escaped with serious injuries! ”
Seeing this, Jeno almost squirted a mouthful of milk on Oriana's face.
"I don't give a picture at the beginning, and the content is all up to me. This group of stinky books has gone too far. ”
Jeno, who knew the cause and effect of the incident, wanted to send a blade to the newspaper, and in order to maintain the glorious image of Picheng, he couldn't be so shameless.
"What's wrong?"
Orianna had been keeping an eye on Jeno, and naturally saw him almost squirting milk on herself, so she handed over the tissue with a strange expression and craned her neck to look at the contents of the newspaper.
"Victor, it's not this kind of bad guy, you can't just because you found Victor's traces at the gas leak site (as mentioned earlier, Victor went to the leak point to recover the dead Britz) to put such a big hat on his head, and he shouldn't kill people indiscriminately, right?"
Looking at the puzzled Oriana, Jeno directly explained the cause and result of the incident to her, and as for why Jeno knew the real situation, he used the shield of Cana to prevaricate the past.
"It's too bloody, why is it all a misunderstanding!"
The bizarre story of two people falling in love and killing each other almost made Oriana cry, and sure enough, the sadistic plot of men and men is extremely lethal to girls, and the effect is outstanding.
Jeno can't change what has happened, and as an outsider, he also wants to help Victor and Jace clear up the misunderstanding and get back together.
Victor's ideal is to transform the human body so that it becomes strong and not disturbed by emotions; Jace believes that technology should serve humanity, not transform humanity itself, and that the two ideas are in serious conflict and cannot be reconciled.
Jeno didn't want the two of them to become mortal enemies and provoke a war between Piltover and Zaun, but many times, the wheel of history is too fast to catch up.
Some things are predestined, Zaun's environment has created Victor's extremism, and Leather City's has nourished Jace's arrogance, if you want to change the fate of the two, you may have to start before Zaun's collapse.
Jeno doesn't have the ability to turn back the clock.
"Human life is full of misunderstandings, too many misunderstandings constitute the thread of our life, and sometimes we insist on that misunderstanding again and again, and as a result, it becomes a part of our life...... It's like life is a misunderstanding...... This misunderstanding is precisely what we call fate...... Life itself is made up of a series of misunderstandings, depending on how you face it and how you choose. ”
"Wow, you can tell such a profound thing as fate, are you secretly going to make up for the cultural class without me?"
Orianna asked curiously, holding her glass.
"No, you're stupid!"
"You're stupid! Seventy percent of yesterday's work was done by me. ”
"That's the blueprint I'm taking time to design the communicator!"
"Do you dare to speak out openly in private affairs?" A slender, white hand brutally twisted Jeno's ear.
"Don't make a fuss, finish eating and get to work!"
Orianna always likes to use her hands and feet, and the frequent physical contact made Jano sigh and calm down to get ready for today's work.
"What do you sigh for? Feeling unfair for Victor? ”
"No, I'm lamenting that the crystal that was smashed by Jace, it's all money, now that the reports have come out, it proves that those crystal fragments have been recovered, and my overnight wealth has been wasted!"
"It's funny, how did it become your thing."
Orianna sneered, and sat down next to Jeno after packing up her dishes, and put in the hard work of the day.
Jeno knew that the crystal from Shurima was actually a Hex Crystal, and it was a natural one, known as the Primordial Crystal, which the Philos family first discovered from a canyon in Shurima.
Although artificial crystals can imitate the original crystal in all aspects, and have some of its effects, there is one thing that cannot be imitated.
They can absorb magical energy from the air on their own! A steady stream of energy!
And the heart that Jeno wants to make needs a complete primordial crystal, and only the heart made of it can never stop.
Although the crystal has been shattered, the fragment can also be used to make a communicator, and if the original crystal fragment is used as a battery, the communicator can achieve permanent standby.