Chapter 1343: Piltover's Void Crisis
Six days after the study of Active Flesh officially began, a major safety accident caught the attention of all of Piltover, and a cable car connecting Pietville and Zaun derailed.
For unknown reasons, the cable car detached from the tracks, and the safety rope broke, and the cable car, which was full of people, plunged headlong into Shimozuan, and all the people in the car were not spared.
In the immediate aftermath of the accident, Zaun and Picheng set up a special investigation team to find out the cause of the accident - and no one noticed that one of the victims was the only child of a front-line participant in the Living Flesh Research Project.
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When Legrand learns that his son has died in the cable car accident, his whole body is on the verge of collapse.
As Piltover's top Hexbiochemist, Legrand was a winner in life - he had a wife who was in harmony with him, a son who inherited his wife's appearance and his own wisdom, and was recently involved in a major project, and could be a key figure in driving the next phase of Hextech's progress.
However, the plan had just begun, and the family suddenly suffered a catastrophe.
Unlike the two-way secrecy and absolute security of the ignition project, the secrecy of the active flesh research is one-way, and the outside world does not know what is going on in the plan, but the participants of the plan have not been cut off from the outside world, and when Legrand saw his son's name on the headlines appear on the list of victims, his heart sank to the bottom.
Soon, the news was confirmed that the young man who died was indeed Legrand's youngest son.
In this case, Legrand did not hesitate to take a temporary leave of absence - although this is a bit unpleasant, but Legrand knew that he could no longer devote himself to work.
Originally, this kind of leave should not be allowed, but due to Legrand's identity and the support of some people, he successfully left the Living Flesh Project after some checks.
No one bothered a poor middle-aged man who had lost a child, even those who had secretly helped him out of the project, hoping to get some latest news from his mouth, suppressed the excitement in their hearts and chose to wait in silence.
Unbeknownst to them, however, Legrand's departure was like opening a Pandora's box, bringing calamity to Piltover.
That night, Legrand, who was with his son's body, had auditory hallucinations in his ears, and a voice asked him if he wanted to see his son come back to life.
And Legrand, who was disturbed by excessive sadness, subconsciously expressed what he wanted.
So, at the moment of answering "yes", the seed that had been lurking in Legrand's body for a long time finally sprouted.
Twisted tentacles poured out of Legrand's body, and although he briefly realized that something was wrong, it was too late—he didn't even have time to make a sound before his consciousness was completely annihilated by the irresistible will of the void.
Legrand, who had turned into a Void minion, embraced his son's cold corpse with what was left of his subconscious, and as a result, his son also got up, also twisted into a servant of the Void.
In the dead of night, a father and son begin their journey, "visiting" all the hosts almost from house to house, in every room, and then turning all the visitors into their own kind with their warm hugs.
Although these twisted guys are not worth mentioning in front of the Third Commando, in the residential area, no one has the ability to resist their visit.
Thus, an army of visitors appeared—dragging twisted bodies and staggering steps as they walked through the dark city of Leather (the street lights of the city would go out in the second half of the night), and then spread the will of the Void to more people, so that more people became the minions of the Void.
Although there were occasional sporadic resistances, these resistances did not make much of a splash in the end.
It wasn't until the warped army met the patrolling Leather City Police that the Void conspiracy was revealed - the Leather City Police, realizing that something was going on, joined the army a few moments later, but at least before he could join, he fired a flare that represented the urgency of the matter.
However, reinforcements were a bit slow to arrive.
It's not because of the efficiency of the police in Picheng, but because on the side of the Active Flesh Project, even the experimenters and the guards have all had an accident, and the police in Picheng are already fully operational, and now they don't have much time to care about the affairs of the residential area, and it was not until half an hour after the flare exploded that a garrison squadron arrived at the scene - and the situation on the scene had already deteriorated completely, and a squadron was completely useless.
In this way, Piltover's Void Crisis has a tendency to blossom twice.
When it finally dawned, the garrison of Picheng and the commandos who had mobilized heavy troops worked together to eliminate all the infected people of the Living Flesh Project, but on the residential side, the situation began to be uncontained.
Since the residential area is not closed, no one can confirm at this moment how many people have been infected by the Void, and more importantly, as it stands, there is an incubation period for this infection - the infected person may be distorted at first time, or it may be delayed until seven days later.
Piltover is in an unprecedented crisis.