Chapter 185: Dark Harbor
Zaun is known to be an underground city that divides Piltover into north and south halves, and this city is attached to a huge canyon that opens east and west.
Dark Harbor is located in the eastern corner of the canyon, just a few tens of meters thick from the Sea of Watchmen to the east.
For the sake of the city's tax laws, the profit-seeking merchants provided the alchemy baron with funds and tools to carve a passage into the mountain to the Guardian's Sea on the east side and build a dock.
This pier was the original dark harbor.
Since the advent of the wharf, smuggling, smuggling, and tax evasion have become the main role of the wharf, and the things that Piltover could not tolerate have intensified here, and the illegal activities are extremely rampant.
The wharf brought considerable wealth to the lawbreakers, and gradually became famous in the underground circle, where the outlaws gathered, and this small wharf grew bigger and bigger, and became the dark harbor that is now known to the insiders.
There are several mercenary policemen standing in front of the mouth of the mountain tunnel, and they can be recognized by the metal nameplate on their chests as the subordinates of Baron Walvetin Lannal, a female baron whose main business is the research and development of robotics, so there are several machines on standby outside the tunnel mouth.
Jeno spent only a small amount of money, and the mercenaries let them go, and the heavy metal valve at the mouth of the tunnel was wide open and closed by steam power.
These heavy steel valves that block the tunnel are by no means simply a toll booth.
Because the unique and secluded geographical location of the dark harbor is deep underground, a harbor hidden by mountains.
The Sea of Watchmen's Sea backs up into the tunnels at high tide, and if it weren't blocked by valves, it would have flooded the Zuan Trench.
Correspondingly, at high tide, the harbor will also be flooded and cannot be activated.
In that case, why not open a dark harbor on the west side of the canyon as well.
That's because the sea level of the Conqueror's Sea in the west is a full dozens of meters higher than the Sea of Watchmen in the east!
The two seas are separated by the Piltover Gate Gate, which is a magnificent dam because of the huge height difference between the east and west sides of the sea level!
Therefore, if the dark harbor is opened to the west and the sea water is poured back, it will not only be the ditch that will be submerged, but the entire Zu'an, and the alchemy barons will not be greedy enough to risk their lives.
In the dark and cramped tunnel was a long staircase that sloped upwards, and at the end there was another valve, but it was also open.
Jeno stepped up the dark steps, and after a few hundred silent steps, the front suddenly opened up, and the damp sea breeze blew from the dock in front of him.
A large cavern had been carved into the mountain, and the pier was attached to it, and if the tide was high, the whole cavern would be submerged by the sea, and nothing could be seen from Piltover down the cliff.
The word "dark" in the dark harbor is reflected here.
Then the light of the canopy lamp on the top of the cavern, Jeno saw Graves carrying oil drums to a fishing boat.
There was a hut on the fishing boat where they could rest, and Jeno guessed that Caitlyn and Trist were in it.
When I stepped on the wet dock, it was often flooded by the tide and never dried out, so there was a lot of seaweed and barnacles growing on the pier, which was extremely slippery, so if you didn't pay attention, you would fall.
"Ouch!"
Jeno was just trying to keep his feet steady and not fall, when he heard a call behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that Nieko had fallen like "all wishes have come true".
"Jeno, this floor is so slippery!" Niko fell on a buttock, but immediately stood up with her tail propped up, and walked on all fours instead, her tail dangling in the air to keep her balance.
"That's not how cunning is used." Jeno replied.
But the cry that Neeko made as she fell caught the attention of Graves, who stopped carrying and stood on the deck and shouted:
"Why did you bring a little girl with you? Do you want to be with her mother? This escape is about to turn into a trip for your family! ”
Before Jeno could speak, a shameful warning came from the lounge:
"I don't have a daughter! If you talk nonsense, I will arrest you for defaming the police! ”
It seems that our police lady is still very energetic and speaks with a lot of energy.
"I'm so scared, Miss Police, but please see the situation clearly and threaten me." Graves yelled back at Caitlin, then looked at Jeno again, and shouted:
"Throw the box up and check it out for me!"
Jeno did so.
Graves first opened the box full of Hextech weapons, and immediately his eyes lit up, picking out the largest Vishra musket and clamping it under his armpit, provocatively glancing at Jeno.
Jeno was expressionless.
Ignoring Graves, he got angry and kicked open another box full of tools and materials that he couldn't read.
He closed the box, dragged it into the hold, and hooked his finger at Jeno to signal him to get on board.
As Jeno hugged Neeko and prepared to board the ship, Griffos spoke again.
"This kid is not allowed on the boat! We don't have that in our agreement. ”
"It doesn't take much weight to bring a child, and Niko is very well-behaved. Right, Niko? Jeno secretly pinched Niko's little fat hand.
"Uh-huh! Niko is very obedient! Realizing that she might be left behind, Niko hurriedly replied, her little face nervous.
"No! We have no such obligation. ”
"She has no family, how do you let a little girl survive in the dangerous Piltover? So I have to take care of her! ”
Jeno's voice was firm and reached the cabin, where Trist was resting on a mat in a paralyzed position due to his frequent use of card magic.
"Family......" he groaned, opening the hatch and looking out.
The word reminded him of the great river-wandering people who had abandoned him in the filthy streets of Bilgewater.
The river nomads were a group of trading people who lived on ships for generations, whether they ate, drank, slept or married and had children, they all carried out their activities on the boats, and only stopped briefly ashore during the time of trade.
Probably, he remembered it like this.
As a teenager, Trist was abandoned because he used magic to make them fight each other by using magic against a group of gamblers who beat up their own people because they lost a good light, violating the rule that the clan cannot take revenge violently.
Originally, he almost forgot about it, but he was inadvertently recalled by Jeno, and he didn't think so much about it at the time.
And now, if he was asked to make a choice, he would still choose to teach the group of gamblers a lesson, because the feeling of revenge was very pleasant.
But the little girl in front of him, it seems that there is no need to go through what he has experienced again, and she doesn't look like a person who knows card magic.
"No, I can't ...... if I say no," Graves refused again in a rough voice, but this time was stopped by Trist.
"Let her get on board too." Trist said lazily.