Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Inside the house, Annie was sitting in front of the fireplace with the bear doll in her arms, staring at the crackling and burning fire in a daze.

Sitting at the table, Li Lin and Amolin remained silent.

Through "digital thinking", he has seen through that the flame demon is attached to Anne's doll bear "Tibbers", whose name is Timberk.

Not long ago, Annie and her father had a serious illness, and they were so hot that even Amoline couldn't touch them.

But even so, she still got up early the next day safe and sound, and sat in front of the burnt fire with the teddy bear in her arms while the embers were still warm.

When Amoline and herself were naming the little bear, Amoline and her husband, who was a little shaky and hadn't fully recovered from the illness, wondered why she recovered as before in just one night, and even named her teddy bear. a strange name.

Looking at it now, all this is no coincidence.

The wind outside the window became more urgent, and every snowflake falling from the sky was much bigger than when Li Lin had just arrived.

The drone he sent had found Gregory who was hunting outside and was returning home, and he would be back in about half an hour.

Amoline anxiously took a sip of the tea made with herbs on the table in front of her, her absent-minded eyes soon regained their melancholy brilliance, and looked at Li Lin.

"To be honest, I've seen it more than once...if it's what you call a demon."

She paused for a while, glanced at her daughter who was still in a daze, and took a deep breath.

"I don't know what it's name is, but I saw its real body in the flames - the monster is huge, with countless thick arms all over its body, each of which spews out flames.

"It guided me to escape from Raven Bloom Academy, which is far away from the Immortal Fortress, and has always led me to meet Gregory..."

Seemingly recalling an unpleasant past, Amoline didn't want to get too involved in this matter.

"Before I was pregnant with Annie, I was lured into the fire more than once by the guy in the flames, but at that time, the flames couldn't hurt me, and even Gregory was very surprised.

"It wasn't until Anne was born that I realized that the closeness between me and the flame seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and even my own magic power had faded a lot."

While talking, Amoline shifted her gaze back to Anne, the doting light of mother's love radiated from the depths of her pupils, but was soon overwhelmed by worry.

"I beg you, you must help Annie, no matter what the price..."

The more she spoke, the less confident she became. In the end, even Li Lin's voice was as thin as a mosquito, even though Li Lin's hearing was very good, he couldn't understand what she was saying.

But combined with the previous context, he can guess roughly.

"I don't need your rewards. To be precise, I actually want to ask for your help."

Amoline: "...?"

Noticing the doubt flashing across her face, Li Lin didn't explain too much.

If the three of them are not infested by demons, they are just ordinary people, and the world crisis should not be their consideration.

But this flame demon is likely to be the product of Black Rose, and it may even be related to Lamo and Mordekaiser, which Li Lin must figure out.

"Let's talk about your past first." Li Lin said.

Amoline's eyes dodged a little, as if she was reluctant to recall the past, "You won't be interested, but if you can save my daughter..."

She took a breath, drank the cold tea in one gulp, and remained silent for a long time, conceiving and reconstructing the memories of the past in her mind.

She used to be just a child in a remote village living with her elderly grandmother.

A few years ago, her elderly and frail grandmother failed to survive the last winter. After her death, the villagers in her village chose to exile her because she was a "witch" with magic skills.

Noxus generally recognizes the value of mages, but most outlying villages or towns still cling to ancient suspicions and dare not share mages.

A few weeks later, a man who claimed to be the chief scout of Laven Bloom Academy, named Finn Ritrick, came to Amoline's cabin and brought her hope——

He dedicated himself to finding people of her caliber to join Noxus and give them a home.

At that time, Amoline had had enough of enduring loneliness and being excluded, and followed Finn to the academy without the slightest hesitation, which was a choice she regretted for the rest of her life.

One day, Ters, the principal of the college, stood at the door of her dormitory, followed by an arbitrator in thorns.

They dropped a drop of flame-like liquid on Amoline's forehead, muttering "You are the chosen one", "The empire needs a weapon like you", "You will be crowned as queen" and so on.

The painful burning sensation swallowed it almost instantly, and it was the last memory she ever wanted to recall.

After that, the academy's training became more rigorous, to the point where Amoline couldn't bear it at all.

Coupled with the bewitching voices that sounded in her mind from time to time, it didn't take long before she stole enough food from the kitchen to support her escape from the dangerous area, hid in the dark, and took advantage of the lack of attention of the instructors and guards, from a corner of the campus. Found a gap to escape.

The next day, before meeting Gregory who happened to be passing by and was about to settle in the north of the Ironthorn Mountains, Amoline avoided many crises under the guidance of the voice in her mind, and finally took the first place in a bonfire that was born. For the first time, I saw its real body - the flame demon Timberk.

The flames flickered, and it showed her pictures of past history.

At the gate of a tall and majestic stone temple, an iron giant with a mace was fighting with a group of mortals.

It was followed by two ferocious beasts, one was a pitch-black shadow, and the other was burning with angry flames.

Immediately after the scene changed, the steel giant fell to the ground, fragmented, and a woman with pale skin smiled beside him.

Accompanied by the cast of some indescribable language spell by the human mage group, the power of the two beasts of the steel giant was extracted, the soul was compressed, and finally turned into two black and crimson droplets.

After listening to Amoline's narration, Li Lin couldn't help but frowned and fell into deep thought.

First of all, the flame demon Timberk really has a great relationship with Mordekaiser as he expected.

But unlike Ramo, who was imprisoned in the depths of the Immortal Fortress, it seemed to be loyal to the Iron Armor Wraith who once ravaged Valoran.

Or, Lamo is actually loyal to Mordekaiser, so he said that Swain's power was borrowed.

Of course, this is just Li Lin's personal guess at present, and there is no conclusive evidence.

Besides, if Lamo is really loyal to Mordekaiser, there is no need for him to take the initiative to find Swain and show him the disaster that the Iron Armored Wraith will return to the Immortal Fortress in the future, which will bring disaster to Runeterra.

This undoubtedly provided great help to Swain.

In addition, what surprised Li Lin the most was that the Immortal Fortress actually imprisoned another Shadow Demon who was completely different from Nocturne.

According to the description given by Amoline, the flame demon Tibek is mainly difficult to control, so Ters, who is related to the black rose, will find a host for it to imprison and add shackles to it.

It's just that they didn't expect Timberk to use her to escape from Laven Bloom Academy.

But the shadow demon is not necessarily the case.

It is likely to be controlled by the black rose, that is to say, LeBlanc and Vladimir still have a shadow demon hole card that is no less powerful than the flame demon.

According to Brain's assessment of Timberk's energy index, the strength of this demon was even higher than that of Nocturne Li Lin had faced.

But for him now, this level of demons is no longer a threat at all.

Fortunately, through Anne and Amoline, I know that Black Rose still has this hand, or else they will be liquidated in the future, and it may cause a lot of trouble.

Li Lin glanced out the window, and according to his perception of the magnetic field, Gregory could arrive at the door in less than 3 minutes.

He got up from the chair, and Amoline, who was very nervous from the beginning to the end, also hurriedly stood up, "Master Li Lin..."

"Don't call me your lord, just call me by my first name, Mrs. Amoline."

He pointed out the window, "Your husband has come back, you can talk to him about Annie, if possible, I hope you can come back to Piltover with me."

"The city of progress?" Amoline asked in surprise.

She still knew the name of Piltover. When she was in college, one of her classmates told everyone about this technological city.

But soon, her face was covered with worry again, she was very worried that Li Lin would be like Finn Ridrick before, coaxing their family into a situation of "doom".

"Let's put it this way, I am an enemy of the Black Rose organization that founded Laven Bloom College. Besides, you can know my reputation just by asking. I won't lie to you about this kind of thing."

Then, Li Lin took out a communicator-style device with the Gilaman badge printed on it from his pocket, and pointed to the only button on it for Amoline.

"You can talk to your husband about this first, and then find Li Lin in any town with a Hexfly Gate.

"If you make up your mind, press the button above, and I will come to pick up your family of three."