Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 229 But I Refuse

There is a saying in Piltover: As long as Philos has a good life, Piltover has a good life.

This is the slogan that the Philos family must have when they advertise in the Piltover Daily, and most people in Piltover basically understand this sentence.

Although the Philos family was left behind by the first family Mydarda in terms of assets.

But Midarda became the wealthiest family in Piltover entirely by relying on the dividends of the grandparents who presided over the construction of the Sun Gate Sea Gate and the piston patent.

Now, times have changed.

The Hexgate has been built, and the way most families ship their goods around the world will change.

Compared with the smooth and safe way to reach the destination in just a few seconds, who would choose the long-term and risky sea transportation?
What's more, the Philos family has also reached a cooperative relationship with the Gilaman family in the manufacture of energy crystals.

Karina is more inclined to the Ferros family in terms of investment and construction of the Hex Flying Gate, so the share of Philos is much larger than that of Myrdalda.

In addition, the Patriarch Jagu did not expect the birth of the Hex-Flying Gate technology, so he hesitated to build hydropower turbines in the Sun Gate.

However, the Philos family saw the right opportunity and vigorously built a power plant together with the Gilaman family, leading the Midarda family in the development of basic electricity.

It won't be long before the Philos family will catch up with the Myrdalda family in terms of financial resources, and become number one in Piltover in terms of overall strength.

With the promotion of Li Lin's various new inventions and technologies, the comprehensive strength of the Gilaman family who has received dividends will also rise rapidly, and it is only a matter of time before they surpass the Midarda family.

If more in-depth cooperation is carried out in the investment of flying armor, the status of the Gilaman family will reach the second place faster...

However, Li Lin did not intend to allow the Gilaman family to be promoted in this way.

What's more, the elite law enforcement officer of the Piltover Police has the charged armor, and the simplified version of the power armor worn by the dock workers or miners is already his biggest concession.

Li Lin only intends to firmly grasp the technology of Project Yuan Infinity Warframe in his own hands.

Li Lin was not in a hurry to answer Yabus' question, and turned his attention to Karina who was beside him first.

Karina gave him a look, and the meaning was very clear, that is, everything should be left to him, and there is no need to seek his own opinion.

She knew Li Lin's character very well, and she also remembered the agreement she had made with him.

The Infinity Armor is a dangerous technology, and it is impossible for him to hand it over, so there is no plan to force him in this regard, not to mention that Li Lin is still half of her family now.

Yabus seemed to feel that Li Lin was hesitating, and continued: "We have already discussed with Councilor Gilaman, and she said that she will respect your wishes, so you don't need to consider family issues.

"You can be like Talis. Each of our families will give you a lot of sponsorship and provide various materials and technologies for free. You only need to continue to research and perfect the invention, and you don't need to think about other things."

Yabus's conditions are very attractive, if it were someone else, he would definitely agree.

After all, this can be called "pie in the sky" treatment.

But Li Lin is different from others, "Your offer is very good, but I refuse."

"Hmm~~ Then let's discuss the contract...wait a minute!" Yabus, who suddenly reacted, looked surprised, "You refused?"

This is the first time someone has turned down sponsorship investment from the Philos family.

If Li Lin knew what Yabus was thinking, he would definitely dismiss it:
Last time your grandma Camille wanted me to join the Philos family, but I refused. Now you want to buy my armor technology just by sponsorship?
Sorry, I don't need money right now, all I need is time.

"Mr. Philos' offer is so superior, how can you refuse?" A woman in her 40s was speaking, wearing the Kewold family crest on her chest.

Immediately afterwards, the representative of the Joycen family said: "Don't be ignorant, boy, the Philos family can see that you are giving you face, so many people are trying to put their names on the back of their heads." Fellowes is not qualified enough, you actually rejected Mr. Fellowes?"

After these words came out, the scene was suddenly quiet, only the sound of gasping and the energy sound of the armor function.

The representative of the Joycen family spoke in a strange tone, Li Lin frowned, and suddenly lost his temper.

Not only him, Karina, Erro, including Caitlin, all frowned at the same time.

Even most of the smile on Yabus' face disappeared, revealing a little bit of displeasure.

The strength of the Joysen family is not as strong as that of the Gilaman family, but their own strength should not be underestimated.

To get rid of them completely, Gilaman had to work hard.

They often use other families to belittle Gilaman on certain occasions, and they can be regarded as the family with the worst relationship with Gilaman's family, except for the Odilunk family who planned the kidnapping case and were expelled.

It doesn't matter if I can't beat you, anyway, if you are determined to kill me, then I will disgust you.

Li Lin didn't know much about the Joysen family, and he didn't know about the festival between the two families.

And Karina didn't intend to lose face in front of many family representatives.

But before she opened her mouth, Li Lin had an idea in her mind, and took the lead in expressing her difficulties, "I don't agree to the cooperation on the battle armor, but other aspects..."

He directly skipped the crowd and opened the door of the workshop, but he didn't invite them in, but snapped his fingers on purpose.

In another room of the workshop, among the 15 existing storm robots, one of Chenguang turned on and floated out quickly.

A considerable number of people present have heard of the air combat machine Storm from the craftsmen who returned from the family Shurima, but have not seen it in detail.

And the strangely shaped Chenguang is even more mysterious. He only walked through the lineup on the street when he followed Li Lin on the boat to Shurima half a year ago, and floated high in the air when he came back.

Li Lin basically never used it in front of craftsmen in Shurima, and almost no one knew its specific purpose.

Looking at its shape and the barrel on the right arm, it is obviously a weapon used in combat.

Yabus twirled his big mustache under his nose, raised his eyebrows, and fell into deep thought.

If investment in battle armor fails, this batch of robots seems to be a good choice?

"Heh, what the hell is this? It looks so ugly." Joycen sneered, still relentlessly saying.

Li Lin stared at him coldly. The other representatives standing beside Joysen sensed the smell of gunpowder in the air, and moved away from him intentionally or unintentionally.

This happened to be convenient for Li Lin.

He gave an order to the storm robots, and 15 robots activated the "overcharge" function at the same time, with blue lights flashing all over their bodies.

They drew an arc in the air and flew straight towards Joysen.

The storm robot was very fast, and by the time Joycen reacted, he was already surrounded by them.

"You you you... what are you doing?!"

He dodged in embarrassment, but there was no way to escape, and he was forced to suffer from the tail flame of the propulsion device.

Li Lin intentionally controlled the distance of the storm so that they would not hurt Joysen, but could just touch his clothes.

Within a few seconds, most of the clothes on his body were scorched, exposing his blackened skin.

"Damn it! I'm the representative of the Joysen family! How dare you humiliate me in front of so many families!"

Li Lin ignored Joycen at all, just smiled and looked around the other family representatives.

These families all came to him for cooperation, and he now dominates.

Other family representatives would not offend him for a second-rate medium-sized family.

In addition, this is Gilaman and his territory.

This is where Li Lin's confidence lies.

"I seem to hear a dog barking... I really don't know who is so incompetent that they can't even train a dog well."

"you you!"

Joysen wanted to speak back, but with every word he said, the storm got closer and closer to him, and it had already started to burn his skin.

"It's just a dog. Since the master's family is not well trained and comes to my house to bark, it's not too much for me to educate the master, right?"

Li Lin deliberately showed distress, and said to himself as if no one else was there: "Well, it is also possible that he has a mad dog disease, which is difficult to deal with... It is better to kill it to eliminate harm for the people."

"You, you, you... how dare you kill people in public... ahhh!"

While Joysen was speaking, the storm got closer, and he seemed to be able to smell the burning smell of his own flesh and blood.

He turned to the representatives of other families for help, but they all pretended to be deaf and dumb, and even Yabus seemed to regard him as air, as if he was angry about what happened just now.

It suddenly occurred to Joysen that an old friend from another family had said that when this kid traveled to Shurima, he traveled with a group of Noxians who ate people and didn't spit out their bones. When he returned, it was only him and a servant. The head of the corps, with a god warrior by his side, has a very good relationship with him...

Killing people in the desert is an extremely common thing, and in Picheng, he is only a small figure in a second-rate family, and he cannot compare with a well-known craftsman like him in the city.

Even if he kills himself, not only the Gilaman family will wipe his ass, but other families will also treat him as if he never existed...

Seeing that Li Lin really didn't care about his own life, Joycen almost cried.

Originally, this time it was at the request of the Patriarch to deliberately make things difficult for the Gilaman family, but I didn't expect that instead of taking advantage of it, they suffered a disadvantage, and it was still the kind that could lose their lives.

"You, you can't do this...it's against the law!"

"Yabus, I think we can discuss the cooperation of Chenguang."

"Oh~~? Morning light is..."

Li Lin pointed to the floating device behind him.

The storm robot continued to approach.

"I'm sorry! I was wrong... Please let me go!" Joysen shouted desperately for his own life.

"Come on, Li Lin, he has already been punished, let him go." Karina suppressed the excitement in her heart, and reminded: "You are a public figure now, pay attention to your influence."

As she spoke, she leaned closer to Li Lin's ear, and added in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Anyway, he won't live for a few more days, that old guy Joycen can't keep him."

Li Lin nodded, and with a big wave of his hand, ordered the storm to return to his side.

Joysen, who was in tears, stretched out his hands to cover his naked body, and ran away despondently, facing everyone's mocking eyes.

His eyes stayed on the representative Joycen who was running away for a moment, and Li Lin looked back at Yabus, with a polite smile on his face again.

"Okay, the troublesome mad dog has left, we can continue to discuss our cooperation."

"Well... can we only cooperate on this floating device?" Yabus was obviously not very reconciled, "Can't these robots work?"

He still cares about the air combat machine Storm.

Piltover does not advocate the development of weapons, but it does not mean that every family has no weapons.

Firearms are one aspect, and the emerging energy weapons are dominated by the Gilaman family, almost monopolizing the market.

It's not that they haven't thought about the problem of combat robots.

However, since there was no smart chip before, the auxiliary chip only reduced the process of inputting program instructions, and it is already very good to let the robot do some repetitive and simple tasks.

Now Li Lin has developed a smart chip and applied for a patent, but the first few batches of chips have been purchased by him for other purposes and will not be sold.

The Philos family is not willing to lag behind, and if they can buy the storm, the artisans will be able to avoid many detours.

"I participated in a parliamentary meeting before. At that time, most families did not advocate the development of weapons."

"Is there still this?"

Albus glanced at Polpok and the Wothraton family intentionally.

Both of their families are arms families, but they have nothing to do with opposing the development of weapons.

Representatives Polpok and Voslaton intentionally or unintentionally missed the line of sight with Albus, as if they hadn't heard anything just now.

"The peace that Piltover hopes for, these machines of mine will only bring strife, so let's avoid it."

Li Lin let the morning light fall between himself and Yabus, and smiled slightly: "The morning light is different..."

(End of this chapter)