Jeno was facing the carved image on the glass, and the Gray Lady was draped in a cloak of pale purple glass, rusty gears, and blackened pistons. Whenever the craftsman was frustrated by his own failures or incompetence, he would call on her name. And her grace necessarily requires sacrifice.

Jeno closed his eyes and meditated.

As for the flesh and blood heart he had taken out after the heart change, Jeno didn't know exactly where it had been placed, only that it was being sealed in a safe in the Philos vault.

Soon, when the meditation was finished, Jeno took out another golden sea and asked Zavel for an oil lamp, lit a votive lamp, and gave it to Zavel to fiddle with.

After completing the procedure, Jeno asked directly:

"How much does the monk know about the continuous death of many alchemy barons in Zaun......"

Zavel flicked his tongue: "Since the poison gas accident, Zaun's alchemy barons have begun to die one by one, the first is the scarlet baron, the poison gas is spread from his laboratory, and now several alchemy barons have died, and all their forces have been swept away." ”

"Sounds like doing good."

Jeno also has some knowledge of the alchemy barons, their wealth is based on the exploitation of the low-level people, and if a few die, no one will be sad, but will attract a lot of applause. Jeno took two steps back to make way for Zavel, who was sweeping the altar.

"How did they die?"

"Died in a head-on conflict, first using poison gas to weaken the resistance of the baron and his men, and then harvesting them one by one." The dust was flying, and Zavel continued to sweep unaffected.

Black smoke filled Jeno's vision, and he felt that it was like the poisonous gas that Zavel had spoken of, enveloping him without warning.

"Do you know who the murderer is?" Jeno covered his mouth and nose, otherwise black dust would pour into his mouth and nose.

"I don't know...... But there should be a lot of people, like gangsters, but the strength is one-sided, the loser is on the street, and the winner is nowhere to be found, leaving only a bloodstain, which is simply a massacre. ”

"Last question, where is the location of the crime? Did you leave any evidence? ”

"One is one, two is two, you are two questions." After making sure that the votive lamp would not be blown out, Zavel said slowly:

"The body of the Scarlet Baron was found in the Wonder Bazaar, his body was broken and stuffed into the exhaust pipe of the poison gas laboratory, and the dead Alchemy Baron was cut into several pieces. But you'd better not go to the site and find anything, where even the discarded shells have been picked up by the scavengers.

Their corpses were thrown into the stinking ditch, and now they have long been corroded by the highly toxic gutter water or eaten by the plague rats, and they will not leave you with even bones, because there is no better material for grinding teeth, and the idea of analyzing the wounds of the corpses to find the murderer should be abandoned. ”

Jeno's eyes narrowed, and his thoughts were all rejected by Zavel before he could say anything, as if his eyes had the power to see through people's hearts.

"The most recent massacre happened in Starfire Alley, you can go over and check it out. However, I suggest you find a hotel in Zaun for a few days, and maybe wait until the next fire. ”

The hum of the rally was gone.

"Today's testimony is over, and I have something to do."

Brother Zavel clapped his hands, straightened his black robes, and walked back to the main hall, leaving Jano alone.

"Thank you, monk." Although he felt that the golden sea was a little unworthy, Jeno politely watched Zha leave through the dark corridor.

After thinking for a moment, Jeno decided to go to the ditch to check on the situation first, he was still familiar with it, after all, he was a ditch scavenger.

It took another gold sea to catch the screaming elevator, and Jeno didn't stop at the halfway point, and sat directly to the last stop.

The screaming charging model is similar to that of the bus, no matter where adults and children go to Zu'an, as long as they sit on it, it is a uniform fare, which is relatively cheap.

And once you get off the train in Piltover, the fare rises to as much as a sea of gold.

This was to limit the large number of Zaun people from emigrating to Piltover, knowing that most Zaun families could not save a single gold hex coin a month.

Scream was divided into two levels, and Jeno had a habit of sitting close to the door in the car, so he went to the lower level and found a place to squat by the hatch, thinking about the alchemy baron.

What Jeno didn't notice was that on his head, on the upper deck of the Screaming Pod, a woman in a trench coat and wearing a breathing mask was silently observing his every move through the holes in the metal-mesh floor.

When Scream reached the ditch, there were few people left in the cabin, and Jeno hurried out of the hatch.

He looked around and understood what the most primitive darkness was like only at the very bottom of the abyss, but there were still bright alchemy street lamps, constantly emitting bleak light to drive away a small part of the darkness.

Today's haze is particularly thick, it is now evening, the trench has been completely dark, due to the topography of the canyon, resulting in less than two hours of daylight here twenty-four hours, and the presence of haze makes the sunlight in the trench become a luxury that money cannot buy.

And Cana won't work until dawn, inviting the monsoon to clear the haze.

So the timing of Jeno's arrival was a bit bad, in time for half the day with the thickest haze of the week.

"Visibility is less than ten meters, and you can feel the dust in your throat when you take a breath." Jeno spat out a mouthful of gray phlegm, then closed his mouth and nose.

"Hex, I'm going to hold my breath, and I'll leave the ventilation to you."

"Roger!"

Holding his breath is a technique that Jeno has just trained, and Hex can pump a certain concentration of oxygen out of the extracted air and into the bloodstream, allowing Genor to greatly extend the interval between breaths.

The continuous light of the street lamps formed a dim path of light, and along this row of street lamps, Jeno walked towards the sewer junction of the trench.

The reason why Jeno went to such a remote place was because there were no mass graves and crematoriums in Zuan, and the corpses would be thrown into the sewers and eventually bumped into the sea.

And the death of each alchemy baron is accompanied by the slaughter of a large number of his subordinates, so many corpses flow into the sewers, there are definitely some clues to be found in it.

Standing at the entrance to the sewers, Jeno fiddled with the Hex's core to make it glow blue enough to illuminate the terrain, kicked away the rusty iron frame that stood in his way, and stepped into the dirty, weedless realm.

It's very quiet, and no one wants to come down the drains except for the cleaners who are desperate for money to fill their stomachs, except for the little hooligans who don't know which tendon is wrong and wants to prove their mettle.

If you are in danger here, it is useless to call for help, because no one will hear your cry for help.

Within a few steps, he was alarmed by a number of plague rats, these guys had beanie eyes that reflected scarlet light in the light, and sharp front teeth that could even gnaw screws.

They are the natives of the sewers, searching for anything to nibble on to fill their stomachs, and they are the biggest reason why scavengers would rather sleep on the streets than spend the night in the sewers.

The sewer is divided into a waterway and a dry channel, the waterway is the ditch through which the sewage flows, floating green and faint oil stains and broken clothes, and the cleaners wear protective clothing and stilts to walk in it, emptying the accumulated debris; The dry road is on both sides of the waterway for people to walk, but it is full of all kinds of garbage.

Walking on the dry road, Jeno kept his eyes open to see if there were suspicious corpses floating on the water. As he stepped over an abandoned lamppost, a piercing scream broke the silence of the sewers, and Jeno was startled to see a black shadow emerge from the hollow lamppost beneath his feet and swoop down on his thigh.