Chapter 406: Look at the Thatched House Again
Making Scream free was part of Jeno's plan, and once the energy was activated, Scream was no longer the only way to connect Piltover and Zaun.
At first, he just wanted to bring cheap labor from Zaun to Piltover to replenish the construction team and participate in the reconstruction work. But as his head moved, he inevitably thought of something deeper.
As the only passage between the ground and the underground, the Screaming Lift, powered by precious Hex energy, turns the threshold of the Zaun to the ground into an expensive gold coin, unattainable. He knew that Picheng and Zuan were an inseparable whole, so why should the Screaming Elevator continue to be an insurmountable dividing line between the rich and the poor?
Under the popularization of new energy, this restriction will be broken, and the threshold will be greatly reduced. And this is just one of a series of impacts brought about by the development of new energy.
In order not to allow the industrial oligarchs to exploit their hard-earned money, there must be a large number of Zuans who come to work in Picheng, just enough to meet the many jobs that have spawned from the industrial revolution.
After the popularization of new energy, the demand for the mining of crystal-rich ore will inevitably decrease, and the pollution of Zu'an will also be reduced, and the industrial oligarchy alchemy barons who make a living from this will gradually be marginalized, and the gangster industry that serves them will also wither.
And this is only one of the influences that Jeno has in mind, and there are many more positive effects too late to say, but this alone is enough to greatly improve the living environment of the Zuan people.
He believed that in the industrial revolution that followed the catastrophe, Piltover and Zaun would be more closely linked and usher in a more brilliant tomorrow together.
Of course, to achieve all this, it is not only necessary to unite other families, but also to win over some important citizen scientists.
So Jeno came to Starfire Alley as soon as he was reinstated after Scream, where Piltover and Zaun were the respective genius representatives - Jace and Victor.
As for why Jeno didn't look for Heimerdinger, because he felt that the other party was a stranger after all, and he was always too low-key in hiding and tucking, so he naturally ignored it. Moreover, the brain circuits of yodelers are still clearly different from those of humans, and Jeno always feels that if Heimerdinger is included in the project, it will definitely bring some puzzling problems.
Jeno arrives at the door of the old house and deliberately stands in front of the refractive lenses so that Victor can peek into his arrival.
But after waiting for a few minutes, there was no movement in the house, so he pushed the door open and entered.
The familiar and dull smell of chemical industry came to his face, and the room was dim, and Jeno turned on the alchemy chandelier with his memory, but there was no reaction at all. After repeating it a few times, he realized that the chandelier was not actually turned off, but the lamp in the chandelier had been used up but had not been replenished, and it had lost its lighting effect.
In the dim light, he saw a motionless white figure lying on the leather gurney used by Victor as an operating table, and upon closer inspection, he realized that it was Jace in a white coat, and Victor himself was sitting on a technicpunk-style patchwork metal chair in front of the workbench, with his cheeks propped up like a sculpture.
This strange scene made a layer of cold sweat break out on Jeno's forehead, could it be that these two people slept for three days or more in a row? The room was almost exactly the same as when he left!
Jeno couldn't help but roar in his heart: Sleep! Wake up! The wave of the Industrial Revolution will depend on the two of you to lead the way!
He tapped his fingers on the workbench in front of Victor, and the distinctive sound of metal hitting each other made his eyes open instantly, and the confused eyes under the steel mask became clear after a moment.
"It's over?" Victor asked.
"yes, don't you just look at the results and don't ask about the process?"
"Yes, but not necessarily." Victor's answer adheres to Zaun's usual simple and crude style.
He got up and moved his sore arms, and then walked through the darkness with his familiarity with the environment, took off his mask and washed his face with a basin of warm water. When he returned to Jeno after washing his face, the mask was still dripping with water.
"Well, the havoc is over, new problems have arisen, and you know that the Witch Spirit has damaged most of the equipment in Leather City, even the Screaming Lift. But just now, I fixed it. Jeno said.
"What? Scream fixed?! It's finally possible to get out of this damn place. Hearing that he could go home, Jace sat up and stared at Jeno with haggard eyes, his decadent beard reaching his cheeks.
Victor didn't react to Jace's rudeness, as he didn't bother to care about these things. He looked back from Jace with an expressionless face, looked at Jano, and said:
"I'm sorry, can you revisit what your new question was?"
"In Piltover, all the technology powered by HexEnergy failed."
"It's not a big deal, is it? I remember that the witch was just plundering the energy and didn't deliberately destroy the device, in which case it could be repaired by simply replacing the function crystal. ”
"If things were that simple, I wouldn't bother you......" Jeno sighed, and Victor began to realize that things weren't easy.
"For the sake of energy depletion, presumably for this reason, Hextech will be phased out in the next few decades. No! It cannot be said to be eliminated, but it will be replaced by other technologies in the mainstream, because a cheap new energy source is about to replace the expensive HexEnergy into thousands of households. ”
"I've never heard of it." Victor remained expressionless, but Jeno could hear a slight confusion in his tone.
Jace's reaction was more exaggerated, and he came directly from the gurney to the workbench, waiting for the big and small eyes to ask, "Is there anything else I don't know?" ”
Victor's reaction was still too calm, and it didn't have the effect that Jeno expected at all, so he emphasized: "This is a new energy source that can replace Hexenergy?" Are you not interested at all? ”
"Replace it, replace it, anyway, it won't have anything to do with Zu An, even if it's cheaper, it won't be cheaper than alchemy technology. Zuan ...... Alchemy technology is enough. ”
Victor's closed-door attitude made Jeno quite speechless, and it was only at this time that he discovered that this person with advanced ideas that the world could not accept was so stubborn and xenophobic in this aspect.
Is this a moral degradation or a loss of humanity? Or is it numb and closed by the relentless blows of reality?
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