Me? The director of the Asylum of All Heavens!

Chapter 49 This is a trap

Time passed by minute by minute.

The survivors under the airship lined up in several orderly teams, patiently waiting for the Noxian soldiers to escort them onto the airship using ropes.

With so many survivors, Mel had considered the possibility that there were virus-infected people mixed in.

The only method she could think of was to check whether the survivors had any scars. If there were any scars, she would observe how quickly the wounds healed. If there were no scars, she would let the Noxian soldiers cut a wound on the palm of the survivor's hand and observe how the wound healed.

This exposed a huge hidden danger of insufficient intelligence. Mel had no idea that there was a group of people infected with the Laughing Virus in Zaun whose self-healing ability was very weak but whose disguise was almost the same as that of ordinary people.

Lin Zizhi was a little nervous when he learned that the standard for boarding the airship was to check the self-healing ability, while the survivors around him were praising Mel's method for being simple and practical.

"Hey, brother, it looks like we'll be safe soon. Don't forget you promised to treat us to a drink!" Pete said happily while hugging Lin Zizhi.

"Tsk, Piltover's wine is not as good as Zaun's. Look at this - Glimmering Wine. This is the kind of wine that can make people feel intoxicated and infatuated!"

As Old Peter spoke, he took out a small wine flask from his arms and took a sip of the mysterious liquid with purple fluorescence.

"I knew Old Peter had some hidden stuff! But... Glimmer Wine is too addictive, you should drink less!"

The fat butcher came over with a grin. He wanted to make a few jokes about Old Peter and alcohol, but when he saw that he was drinking Glimmer's Wine, he tried to dissuade him with a complicated expression.

"What do you care what kind of wine I drink! This stuff can give me a dreamy and mysterious experience, just like the ecstasy my old woman had when she was young. You little brats don't understand." Old Peter cursed and hid his glimmering wine.

"We can't let our guard down. As long as we're not on the airship, we must remain alert." Lin Zizhi frowned and said, "You guys hurry up and line up in the front. I'll go to the back to guard against possible dangers."

Pete and the others were stunned for a moment. They were used to seeing the sinister human nature of intrigue and deception in Zaun, but at this moment they seemed to be blinded by the brilliance of human nature.

"With great power comes great responsibility!" Lin Zizhi did not forget to act cool and cool before leaving.

He stood at the end of the line under the pretext of covering everyone's retreat, and secretly cut a wound on the palm of his hand.

At first glance, the wound seems normal, but if you look carefully, you can clearly see slight movements at the edge of the wound.

Seeing that the wound was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, Lin Zizhi quickly clenched his fist and hid himself.

"What's wrong?" Harley Quinn approached Lin Zizhi and asked.

"My self-healing ability seems to be having some problems. I might be mistaken for a zombie when I check it out later." Lin Zizhi whispered in Harley Quinn's ear.

"What are you afraid of? We're at the end of the line anyway. If something unexpected happens, we can just follow the chaotic crowd. At worst, we can just force our way in. Those idiots can't stop us anyway. The only thing we have to worry about is that the airship doesn't fly away early."

Harley Quinn whistled and said nonchalantly.

"I still feel a little uneasy." Lin Zizhi said with a frown.

"Since you're so worried, here's what I'll give you. As they say, Janna is above, and may the goddess of storms bless you."

Harley Quinn took out a round iron plate like a magician, with a simple chicken carved crookedly on it.

"What is this? A chick?" Lin Zizhi asked as he took the chicken iron sheet.

"Bluebird, this is an amulet I carved when I had time. It saved me just now, so I thought it would be a good idea to make one to protect myself. As for whether it works or not, I don't know." Harley Quinn waved her hand with a smile.

Lin Zizhi's mouth twitched, and he took the little chicken iron sheet that couldn't even be recognized as a bluebird and put it into his coat pocket.

Mel was on the airship, using a stopwatch to keep a close eye on the situation at the Alchemy Glimmer Factory.

"It's been fifteen minutes, and there's still no information." Mel anxiously stroked the ring with the family emblem on his hand, closed his eyes and prayed silently.

At this moment, a disheveled law enforcement officer ran out of the Alchemical Glimmer Production Plant.

"What's going on?" The Noxian soldiers raised their weapons and looked at him warily.

"Report, report to the commander, we found the missing law enforcement officers yesterday. Hilco controlled the zombies to surround the law enforcement officers. He found us and killed everyone!" The law enforcement officer fell to the ground. "J-Jace commander saved me. He asked me to escape and pass the message! Run! This is a trap! Let me go up! I want to report to the commander in person!" The law enforcement officer shouted frantically.

The Noxian soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment. They immediately arranged for one person to go up and deliver the message, while the others closely monitored the law enforcer to prevent him from suddenly going berserk and mutating into a zombie.

Beneath the law enforcement officer's mask, there was a hint of mockery in his scarlet eyes.

"You are quite alert, but you can't escape now."

Lin Zizhi was a little far away from the front and could not hear the law enforcement officer's report clearly, but he had a vague bad premonition.

On the airship.

"What? Found Jace?" Mel didn't have much hope at first, but suddenly he got the good news, and his hands couldn't stop shaking.

She tried to calm herself down, took a deep breath, regained her rationality, and calmly analyzed the intelligence information with her chin in her hand:

"It seems that the virus leak was really caused by Hilco. But since Hilco surrounded them, why didn't he kill them right away? Instead, he only killed the soldiers who came to support him? And why did only this law enforcement officer escape? Didn't Hilco send zombies to hunt him down and kill him?"

"Surround the area for reinforcements!"

Mel's mother, General Midalda, came over with her guards:
"In military theory, this is called siege and attack. It's obviously a trap! His goal is to use Jace as bait and eliminate as many law enforcement officers as possible. This law enforcement officer is also a bait he released to attract more reinforcements into the trap."

Mel turned to look at his mother, unsure for a moment.

She cared about Jace's safety, but she also cared about the safety of the people of the two city-states. There were still a certain number of survivors waiting to board the airship.

If someone infected with the virus sneaks into the airship, Piltover will also be threatened by the virus. If someone is sent to rescue Jayce, there is a high possibility that the whole army will be wiped out again.

"Since we know this is a trap, should we return to Piltover and call in more law enforcement officers to participate in the operation?" Mel asked.

"What about Jace?" asked General Midarda.

"Since Hilco wants to use them as bait, then Jace... should be fine." Mel gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

"There's no need to go through so much trouble. Hilco's idea is good, but he underestimated the military strength of Noxus. Now that it has come to this, I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. The army I brought is far more than the ones you see now." General Midarda said with a sneer.

"I have hundreds of Noxian soldiers hidden in this airship!"

"What? How dare you!" Mel was furious. His mother actually brought so many soldiers into his city-state!
Right under my nose!
This was my own fault! I was so immersed in the joy of reunion that I ignored my mother's ambition!
"I have confidence in my soldiers. As long as we work together with Jace and the others, we can wipe out Hilco and his zombie subordinates in one fell swoop." General Midarda gave the order decisively.

For her, Jace, the inventor of Hextech weapons, must not die here.

She turned to look at her daughter who was glaring at her, her expression softened a little, and she turned to the deputy general Rectors who was protecting her and said, "You stay here and protect my daughter's safety. By the way, keep an eye on her and don't let her do anything stupid."

At this time, on the bridge of the airship, Lloyd Folger fiddled in the operating room for a long time and finally figured out how to operate the airship powered by Hextech.

He can indeed fly a spaceship, but there are subtle differences in the operating systems of airships in different worlds, the first of which is the power source.

In his world, spaceships rely mainly on the buoyancy of hot air balloons and the power provided by internal combustion engines to control their direction.

The airships here have hard metal hulls, and their buoyancy mainly comes from the magical power of Hextech runes.

"Are we ready? How long will we have to stay here?" Jinx said boredly while sitting at the console next to Lloyd Folger.

"Okay, I've figured out how to do it. All we have to do next is release this Hextech carrier pigeon, and we can follow it to find Ike's tree house base. Your sister Wei is there."

Lloyd Folger wiped the sweat from his head and patted the Hextech carrier pigeon beside him.

"Report..." Suddenly a Noxian soldier rushed in through the door.

(End of this chapter)