Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 4 Hextech Crystals
After reaching an agreement with Mrs. Karina, Li Lin stayed at Gilaman's house.

It has to be said that the Gilaman family is really rich and powerful, and the room arranged for him actually has a living room, a room and an independent bathroom.

Not only that, Mrs. Karina also specially equipped him with a not-so-small studio, complete with all kinds of mechanical facilities.

His studio is not far from Jess's. Mrs. Karina intentionally brought the two geniuses closer to each other so as to facilitate the exchange and collision of scientific thinking and invent better devices.

But it's a pity that Li Lin didn't have many ideas to actively communicate with Jess, because the technology tree he wanted to research was completely different from Piltover, let alone Jess.

Besides, Jess doesn't live in Gilaman's house, and Li Lin generally likes to stay up late to study things, so they basically don't meet a few times.

But since staying at Gilaman's house, Kaitlyn has come to him often for unknown reasons.

The sun sets and the night falls, and the gentle moonlight covers the long night with a layer of silver-white tulle.

As Evolution Day approaches quietly, the streets of Piltover at night are bustling with activity.

dong dong dong...

There was a light knock on the door of Li Lin's studio.

Caitlin is at it again.

Reluctantly, he temporarily stopped the work at hand, took off the Hex headlamp, "The door is unlocked, come in."

With the sound of "squeaking" teeth, the door was slowly pushed open.

To Li Lin's surprise, it was not Caitlin who came to visit him tonight.

"Uh, good evening Li Lin, I'm sorry to disturb you so late..." A familiar young male voice came into his ears.

Li Lin turned his head in surprise and looked towards the door.

There stood a tall and burly young man with his hair combed back, looking at him with embarrassment.

"Talis? You haven't come home so late?" Li Lin got up and invited him into the room. "What do you want from me?"

"You can just call me Jess..." Jess opened his mouth, with a slightly hesitant expression, as if there was something hard to say.

He paused for a moment, turned around and closed and locked the door, then met Li Lin's strange eyes and hurriedly explained:

"I have something very, very important to discuss with you..."

"Looking for me? Are you sure?" Li Lin sat back on the chair in front of the workbench, full of doubts in his heart, "I have only been here for a few days. If there is something important, shouldn't you go to Mrs. Karina?"

"No, we can't let her know about this!" Jess gritted his teeth, "I looked for her before, and she didn't allow me to do that..."

Li Lin raised his brows slightly, "Mrs. Karina doesn't allow it, I'm afraid I can't help you much?"

Jess shook his head, "I think, since you can design something like a 'generator' that can lead the change of the times, then you can definitely understand me."

Li Lin, the generator, has already been manufactured. Although Mrs. Karina asked to keep it secret and wanted to wait until the Evolution Day Conference to announce it, it is not unusual for Jess to know about it.

I can't guarantee this. Before I developed it, I was still quite timid, so I didn't dare to play casually anymore.

Li Lin resisted the desire to complain, and asked patiently, "Tell me, what is it?"

"You have to promise not to leak this matter."

"Okay, then please go back, I can't guarantee it." Li Lin shrugged and spread his hands, "I'm different from you, Madam doesn't fully trust me yet, if Madam finds out by then, I won't be able to bear it and walk away .”

Li Lin still knows about Jess's background, but the official biography doesn't tell much.

Just like now, he really doesn't understand what this "riddler" has done, and he still wants to sneak around to avoid being discovered by the Gilaman family.

Noticing that Jess's face was becoming more and more depressed, Li Lin finally sighed, "You must at least tell me what it is about first?"

"I think it's also a way to start a new era, but there's not much of a clue yet."

"You mean the Hextech crystal?" Li Lin guessed what he wanted to express right away.

Jess' pupils shrank slightly, "How do you know?"

Of course it is clearly written in your background.

Li Lin smiled, "Isn't this very simple? Doesn't Piltover only have Hextech crystal energy in addition to steam energy?

"Using steam as an energy source is obviously behind the times. You said this is a way to usher in a new era, and you can't let Madam know. I can't think of anything other than Hextech crystals.

"Of course, I'm just guessing, but obviously I'm right."

Jess felt a little discouraged when Li Lin exposed his small thoughts.

He randomly found the nearest chair and sat down, propping his face with his hands, and let out a long sigh.

"I'm curious, you actually want to study Hextech crystals, isn't this a technology monopolized by the Philos family?"

Are you not afraid that Mrs. Cinder will come to your house to drink tea with you in the middle of the night?

Li Lin added another sentence in his heart.

"The Hextech crystal is not stable. I've been researching it recently, and I think I've discovered a new...uh, substance?"

"Huh? New substance? No... You said you were researching Hextech crystals?!"

Li Lin was stunned by Jess's words, almost jumped up from the chair and pushed him out and said: Sorry, we don't know each other well!

I thought that I had taken enough risks to come up with so many designs at once just to get sponsors, but I didn't expect you to be even more savage than me, and you started researching Hextech crystals.

"Since Mrs. Karina doesn't support you, where did you get the crystal? Didn't the Philos family not allow individual crystals to circulate in the market?"

"There are so many things that are not allowed to circulate in the market, so why do some people still buy them?" Jess asked rhetorically.

"You went to the black market in Zaan?" Li Lin frowned tightly, "It's very dangerous, do you know that?"

"What's that little risk for a better future? And that's not the point."

Jess glanced at Li Lin angrily.

"I looked for a lot of black market dealers who bought stolen goods in the bottom city, but I didn't find a complete crystal. I only found a fragment the size of a fingernail in a grocery store in a dark alley.

"However, the boss told me that his people can get the complete crystal, but they have to wait for the evolution day to pass, and it will be March or April next year at the latest."

Stop it, Jess, there are green steel shadows outside...

Li Lin's eyes widened, and finally took back the words of advice that came to his lips, and listened silently.

"For a while, I have been studying this crystal shard, analyzing its energy composition, trying to find a way to stabilize the crystal.

"But after thoroughly analyzing the composition of crystal energy, I found that it cannot fully explain its principle from a scientific point of view."

Jess paused for a moment, and his expression suddenly became serious, "That's a kind of magic."

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