he came from the void

She chewed, the chocolate broke under the pressure of her teeth, and then melted in the warmth of her mouth, her tongue was covered with a bittersweet taste, reminding her of the first half of her life she spent with Kahn, the same Bitter before sweet.

Because of the bitterness, the sweetness becomes even sweeter.

A kind of emotion welled up in my heart. It turned out that Kahn had always remembered—everything he had promised her.

Chapter 478 Shrieking

The map was transferred to Kahn's hands, while Kaisha was holding a bag of chocolates, and kept following him like a hamster, just because Kahn said that the hot chocolate will melt in the weather, and it's not good if it melts have eaten.

"Help me eat some, you bastard." Seeing that no one was paying attention, Kaisha quickly squeezed a piece of chocolate and stuffed it into Kahn's mouth. At this moment, he heard him say, "I'm wondering if we should buy a breather." Put on the mask."

"Chew, chew...why?" Kaisha asked.

"Didn't you notice that we are going to Zaun?" Karn pointed to the mark on the map-Zuan haze contains pollutants, and it is recommended to wear a breathing mask before entering.

"Chew, chew...but I can't eat with the mask on, why don't you wait until I finish eating? Or go tomorrow?" Kaisha tightly clutched the bag in her hand, she definitely wouldn't waste food of.

Kahn took a look at the chocolates that were still left. Indeed, he bought too much. He bought some of various flavors and used them as jelly beans for Kaisha.

"Forget it, it's still too early to go back, and the breathing mask is not required. You can continue to eat, and the haze won't affect us with our physique." He raised Kaisha's chin and looked at it carefully: "Eating you like this I'm not afraid of swollen cheeks or a double chin."

"What nonsense are you talking about, I won't get fat." Kaisha also stared at him, continuing to chew her food so that he wouldn't be able to kiss her in public.

Falling in love requires a battle of wits and courage, and these are some tricks when getting along.For some things that you don't like or want the other party to take the initiative, it is more interesting to guide the other party to do it than to say it clearly.

Following the directions on the map, they came to a place called the Border Market.Pedestrians have become much more noisy, and there have been more roadside stalls.Kahn took her through the streets and alleys, and came to a circular platform in the center of the market to wait.

The railings on the platform were oiled, and Kaisha deliberately kept a distance, obediently standing beside Kahn, listening to him introduce the function of the platform they were on.

Steam and smoke curl up from the rusty pipes, weaving the sky covered by various ventilation pipes or bridge buildings into a gray color, and through the gaps in the steel grille, you can occasionally see white pigeons passing by. figure.

She looked around and could tell at a glance that this was a place full of fish and dragons.

Outside the market, smooth marble, bronze grids and gleaming glass make up the new buildings, while the scattered old buildings next to each other are structures of rough stone and aged timber.

In the area near the center of the market, bridge buildings with steel grids are connected to each other. The iron used in these buildings either comes from boiling furnaces or recycled waste from above.People came and went under the building, the iron frame of the fence was greased, and the surface of the masonry was covered with green alchemical substances, which glowed fluorescently under the dim street lamps, and there was not even a place to stop.

The borders of the two cities meet here. From the architecture alone, you can see the difference between the old and the new, and the style changes. The pedestrians are also bustling and different.

One by one, the student workers in wrap-around coats clutched their inventions tightly, and quickly walked across the street back to their apartment, for fear of being bumped into by someone or seeing the core idea of ​​the invention if they took a step too late.

The courier quickly shuttled through the crowd, with several sound transmission tubes loaded with sound information in the package in his arms, and then he threw these metal tubes into the corresponding sound transmission pipeline system one by one, and the information would eventually flow along the pipeline Rolled all the way to a recipient in Zaun.

Seeing guards in blue uniform jackets, black leather shoes, and checkered trousers patrolling the street, those homeless tinkerers immediately packed their parts into canvas and fled.

The roar of the machine came from behind, interrupting Kai'Sa's thoughts.Loud sounds poured into the ears, rattling, rattling, and the sound of metal scratches and gears snapping together, which made people's brains ache.

A gust of wind gushed upwards from the underground cavity in the middle of the circular platform, blowing through the gap in the fence and making a scream-like sound.The scorching steam rushed towards her face, and Kaisha quickly grabbed the bag in her hand, fearing that the hot steam would pour in and melt the chocolate.

The screeching machine that Kahn spoke of rose from the void, climbing along three thick steel longitudinal rails, and the spiral oil-soaked grooves were tightly meshed with the three shaft machines.Through the strong hex power, the shaft machine rotates clockwise synchronously, driving the machine to rise steadily.A golden wolf looking up to the sky and screaming is cast directly above the machine, as if the huge screaming sound of the machine is coming from its mouth.

This is where the name "Screaming" comes from. The full name of this machine is called the Hex Pressure Transporter, which is really a bit long.Those who want to reflect their professional qualities will choose to call it by its full name, while the rest will use a more convenient colloquial name.

The machine slowly stopped in front of them, the glass cabin door opened, and a group of passers-by hurried out of the egg-shaped cabin, crowding the platform.

Some of Zaun's trench orphans illegally took the screeching elevator to the top. They let go of the steel grille, slid down the platform from the sloping glass bulkhead, and dispersed into the crowd to wait for an opportunity. Searching for the target of cutting the package.

Kahn protected Kai'Sa from them, firstly to prevent the chance of being stolen, and secondly to prevent the dirty things they brought on her body.

"Let's go in." Seeing pedestrians entering the screaming one after another, Kahn and Kai'Sa also entered the cabin through the steps.

The interior of the cabin is divided into four floors. It doesn't matter which floor you stand on, as long as you don't stand outside the cabin... That's what people who evade fares will do. Hanging outside a high-speed lifting machine is a very dangerous behavior, not only If you have to be watched by the people inside and suffer psychological pressure, if you are accidentally strangled into the steel rails or fall, you will die tragically.

"The elevator is going down, and the next stop is the dance corridor." The administrator wearing goggles operated the machine, and at the same time amplified the sound with a horn, reminding pedestrians going to the dance corridor to prepare in advance.

As the machine roared again, a sense of weightlessness came from the soles of her feet. Kaisha paused and continued eating.She had already experienced the feeling of weightlessness while flying, and she didn't think it was very new. On the contrary, a few screeching little ghosts outside the glass cabin above her head, making faces at passengers, caught her attention.

Looking at the rapidly rising cave wall through the glass, Kahn suddenly realized that he did not have a proper reason to approach the target and establish a good relationship.

He began to think about how to match what he liked.

Chapter 479 Temporary Entrustment

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After thinking about it on the screaming machine for a while, Kahn still didn't have a more mature idea. He knew that the other party was short of money, but he didn't just give him the money in the past, right?You can't make friends like this.After stepping out of the screaming machine, Kahn has decided to let nature take its course.

The platform outside the cabin and the streets of Zaun were shrouded in a gray chemical haze, and the visibility was less than ten meters.When the cabin door was opened, the haze poured in. As soon as it came into contact with the turbid air, a pungent smell penetrated into the nasal cavity and caused a cough.

This is the trench area, the lowest and most polluted area in Zaun.

There was a burning pain in the throat, and the two coughed for a while, leaning forward and back, and it took a while to get used to the dirty air. If there were not many pedestrians around, the two of them would have attached their helmets.

After leaving the platform, Kahn found a little boy wearing broken goggles on the side of the road staring at them intently.This must be a local, accustomed to the stale underground air, and can breathe freely here even without a mask.

So with the attitude of giving it a try, he went over and asked.

"Little brother, do you know a man named Ike?"

The little boy obviously reacted when he heard the name, but didn't answer.Kahn thought he was shy or dumb at first, but he understood when he noticed the boy's eyes were fixed on the bag in Kaisha's hand.

"You know Ike, right?" Kahn said while taking the bag from Kaisha, opened the opening and gave the little boy a look: "This is filled with chocolates, if you tell me where Ike is , I’ll give you a few pieces to try.”

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Hearing this, the little boy stood up and said to Kahn, "I can take you to Ike, but you have to give me the whole bag of chocolates."

Unexpectedly, this dumbfounded little boy was quite clever. Kahn looked back at Kaisha and asked for her opinion.

"It's already melted a bit, why don't I give it to you? I'll buy it for you tomorrow."

"Take it, take it." Kai'sa glared at Kahn, and then smiled at the little boy.Although he knew that this was just a joke, Kahn couldn't help curling his lips.

"Lead the way." Kahn handed the bag to the little boy, who took out a piece of chocolate and took a bite, as if inspecting the goods, then nodded and held the bag for the two to follow.

The boat was naturally straight when it reached the bridge, and Kahn's worries were a bit unnecessary.Interpersonal relationship is like a net that connects everyone. People have many connections in the dark, as long as you are good at discovering them.

The two followed the little boy to a garbage dump, where discarded mechanical parts piled up into mountains, and the bottom was soaked in a layer of turbid rusty water, which can only be described as barren land and evil water.

A crude plank road meanders through the mountains of parts, leading to the depths of the garbage dump.

When the two found Ike, he was picking up and disassembling useful technological waste on a garbage mountain, trying to collect the parts that were still intact and assemble them into useful inventions for sale.

Ike has dark skin, a white mohawk, and white graffiti on his face. He looks like a teenager from a bad neighborhood.

"Boss Ike! I brought you something good!"

Hearing someone calling him, he turned his head and pulled down the veil, hanging it around his neck to expose his mouth and nose, and called out the little boy's name.

"Ayuna, why don't you finish work so early today?"

Ayuna jumped off the garbage dump from the plank road, stepped on the fallen parts and came to Ike, and opened the bag for him to see.His hands are dirty, and he dare not feed the things he has touched to others. Although Ike's hands are also dirty, this is not something he considers.

The contents of the bag had already melted a little, and lumps of black sticky stick together, but Ike still recognized that it was the chocolate they couldn't usually afford.

"This is a good thing. It looks like the packaging is from the Picheng guy. Did you pick up Screaming?" Ike praised Ayuna as if he had found a treasure, and then he stretched out his hand to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth. Taste it happily.

"No, it wasn't stolen this time, it was given by them." Ayuna pointed at the two of them: "They said they wanted to find you, so I asked for their chocolate, and I want you and the other members to taste it. "

"A few pieces of chocolate bought you?" Ike suddenly felt that the food in his mouth was not tasty, and he covered his face deliberately annoyed, but observed the two through his fingers.

Not Picheng?

This discovery made him slightly surprised, and then he asked, "Hey, what do you two want from me?"

"You are the famous Ike, right? I've heard of you, a special inventor, a future wizard."

Kahn came up with a flattery first, Ike is actually not famous, and the famous name is only relative to the circle of trench children.He is special because he is an inventor of waste products, at a very young age, his future is boundless.

"Everyone in the gutter area knows me." Ike grinned, slightly exaggerating his popularity: "Do you have something to fix? Or are you here to buy an invention? The price is absolutely fair."

"I'm very interested in your invention, but I didn't come here for this, but I want to entrust you to help us inquire about someone."

"Looking for someone? Who are you looking for?" Ike was stunned for a moment, for someone would actually come to him for such a commission.

"In an asylum for patients with irreparable trauma in Zaun, there is a teenager who is undergoing all kinds of inhuman human experiments by doctors and nurses, just because he is special... I need you to find him and rescue him, Let him live a normal life. You are here because no one would suspect a bunch of kids running around the door. As for the pay, well...enough to keep you eating desserts for a month."

Although this excuse was thought up by Kahn on the spur of the moment, it has a tenable logic.

He asks Ike to save a miserable teenager, which will make Ike think he is a caring and good person, leaving a good impression and making a good relationship later.In addition, the target that Ike was looking for was still the next person he wanted to contact, which directly saved the effort of looking for it himself.

Killing three birds with one stone not only stabilized the position, but also drew in the relationship, and saved trouble.

Hearing that he was going to rescue a Zaun boy who was tortured by human experiments, Ike felt it was his duty to do so. His gang "Zuan Lost Boys" were full of orphans, vagrants, or kings of children. Natural closeness.And the temptation of money made him have no reason to refuse Kahn's commission. Zaun Lost Children needed this stock of funds to maintain their operations. They couldn't let the children keep picking up trash and stealing food, otherwise they would get sick sooner or later.

"Although it is the first time for us to accept this kind of commission, we will definitely complete it." Ike took the commission vowedly, and patted Ayuna's shoulder excitedly.

This is a good start. If Zaun fans can receive various commissions, then the members will not have to worry about food and clothing in the future.

"Tell me, what kind of person is the boy we are looking for?"

"Tall and strong, purple skin, mentally handicapped." Kahn replied after thinking for a while.

"I know it in my heart." The target has such conspicuous features, and Ike thought it was stable in his heart.Looking at the purple hair and pupils of the two, he suddenly thought of something.

"Excuse me, is this purple-skinned boy your brother or sister?"

"..." Kahn covered his face and suddenly felt a pain in his head.

Chapter 4 Eighty Hex Technology Converter

After releasing the commission, Kahn did not leave immediately.

He first took out part of the remuneration as a deposit to Ike, and then listened to how he arranged the plan.

The first step is to mobilize people to search for the location of the almshouse. There is nothing to say about this.

Then let a few younger children use binoculars to monitor the situation in the courtyard in rotation day and night.After finding out the situation and confirming the target, look for opportunities to use his invention of harmless smoke bombs, reinforced catapults and other gizmos to catch the opponent by surprise and bring the hostages out smoothly.

Zaun fans are a group of urchins. They raced in the border market, challenged to climb from the trench area to the dance corridor with bare hands, and squandered endless experience. It should not be a big problem for a group of medical staff who do not have much security.

In addition, Kahn also heard from Ike that tomorrow there will be a lecture by a professor named Heimerdinger in the classroom of Piltover University to introduce his new invention, and Ike is going to observe and observe. He will go to Professor Heimerdinger's lectures every time.

"Professor Cecil B. Heimerdinger was like no other professor in sharing knowledge and in teaching those who aspired to it. His inventions made him famous, but his lively lecture style , and the unpredictable and dreadful teaching demonstrations that left an indelible impression on the minds of the wise minds of Piltover."

Yes, this sentence is translated—Professor Heimerdinger's design concept is correct, and he also gave Ike a lot of inspiration, leading him to make many conscious gizmos.But the works he invented often have problems. Ike went to watch the lectures with the intention of studying and watching the theater. He wanted to see the professor's invention accidentally embarrass the Piltover.

That must have been a great show.

Being in the depths of the ground cannot perceive changes in the outside world, but time will not lie. The third bell of the clock tower told the two that it was getting late.Night in Zaun wasn't much safer than the wild, so they set off to take the elevator back to the surface.

Passing the newspaper office, Kahn spent two copper rings to buy a newspaper, took it back to the hotel and read it slowly.

Piltover has a currency system similar to Bilgewater. According to purchasing power, it is divided into gold hexcoins, silver wheels, and copper rings. The gold coins here are not engraved with portraits of rulers, but The gears are printed on it, implying that the city is constantly advancing and creating wealth like a huge machine.

Kahn first washed off the dust brought back from Zaun, then lay on the bed and read the newspaper comfortably, while Kaisha, who also came out of the bath, lay in his arms and watched together, with the bathrobe on his chest half open , exposing the delicate collarbone, making people unable to focus on the text.

Luckily Kai'Sa was his eyes.

"Kahn, the time of the lecture is published in the newspaper." Kaisha pointed to a piece of news and said, the accompanying picture was a golden statue in the university, Kahn glanced at it, isn't this Heimerdinger himself?

"At ten o'clock tomorrow morning, let's go too, see if we can get in touch with people from the big family and help Sarah close the business."

The next day, they changed into decent clothes and went to visit the lecture at the famous university in Piltover.

Many people gathered in the meeting place of the school, including businessmen, scholars, journalists, etc. Of course, the most students are the students.Wearing blue-gray uniforms, these students came to the open-air meeting place full of expectations, and gathered together in groups holding books.

Kahn and Kai'Sa held each other's arms decently, and stood at the edge of the crowd, making it easier for them to observe the crowd in the venue.He hoped that there would be some question-and-answer sessions during the lecture, some members of the big family would introduce their identities and ask questions, and then he would talk to these questioners about business.

Then they saw that Ike also came to the venue, but he was wearing an iron helmet to block the cockscomb head that stood out from the crowd.

As the bell of the Sun Gate rang, Professor Heimerdinger also arrived on time.Kai'Sa was stunned when she saw the appearance of the professor's dwarf with big ears.

Thick hair and beard have covered the whole head, if not for a pair of big pointy ears and doubtful height, Kai'Sa would not be able to discover his secret.

"Heimerdinger turned out to be a yordle??"

She was amazed not by seeing a yordle, but by the absurdity that a yordle could be a professor in a human academy.

Kaisha remembered the image of Heimerdinger published in the newspaper, so her ears were only smaller than now, but her head was still very big, as if it was filled with infinite wisdom.

"Although the yordle is different in the perception of ordinary people, but his popularity is so high, isn't it true that none of so many people see his true face?"

"You're still young." Kahn raised his sunglasses: "You may not be able to tell if you see it. Is there any benefit to Piltover to drive away such a great inventor?"

"That's right." Kai'Sa was thoughtful. Heimerdinger didn't work for any chaebol group, and he was willing to share knowledge generously. Such a talent made a huge contribution to Piltover.

Heimerdinger walked to the booth and introduced to a large box covered with a red cloth.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am very glad that you are here to see my latest invention. This time I will bring a hextech product that is completely different from any previous one, and you will never think of it effect."

"So what is it?" Kahn muttered in the audience, listening to Heimerdinger's talk for a long time before getting to the point.