Teyvat's Otherworldly Adventurer

Chapter 214 Shimmer and Hex
Along a strange-colored river, Victor took Jace to find Singed's laboratory.

"This is!"

As soon as he entered the door, Jess was taken aback.

It wasn't because Singed was too ugly, but because of the extremely huge and deformed strange fish that was crawling in the center of the laboratory floor, covered with pipes, and was pumping purple liquid back and forth.

Revisiting the old place, Victor's mood is very complicated: "It's called Leo, and it was my playmate when I was young, until it became like this..."

He stepped forward slowly, reaching out and gently stroking Leo's skin just like when he was a child, not caring about the muddy mucus on the other's body surface at all.It's a pity that Leo can no longer stick out his tongue to lick him as he did back then.

Is living like this still considered living?
"You're back? Have you figured it out?"

Singed, who was busy at the experiment table, asked without looking back.

"No, not yet,"

Victor shook his head, was silent for a while, and added, "Maybe only a little."

"Ha ha,"

Singed smiled, "Then why did you come back to me?"

"I want to ask you for some information."

Victor didn't hide much from his childhood teacher, "A batch of hex gems was lost in the laboratory of Jess and me in Piltover. According to eyewitnesses, the thief was a four-and-a-half-year-old child. Fleeing all the way into Zaun, pursued by the guard. Do you know about this?"

"I only knew after hearing what you said,"

Singed said he did not know.

Jess was a little anxious, but Victor stopped him: "People from the security team came down to investigate today. This matter should spread in Zaun soon. If there is any news by then, please let me know, okay?"

Singed did not agree directly, but turned to look at Victor: "Are you... joining the police?"

Hearing the unfriendliness of the other party, Jess finally opened his mouth and said loudly: "This matter is related to Victor's innocence. Many members of the council suspect that Victor has colluded with Zaun and guarded himself. As long as these prisoners can be caught, the truth can be restored. , wash away the stigma!"

"Stigma?"

Singed was a little disappointed, "Are you still at this level?"

He waved his hand disinterestedly, and issued an order to evict the guest: "Okay, I'll let you know if I have any news."

Leaving Singed's laboratory, the two went back to the large force of security guards, and were pleasantly surprised to find that Sergeant Grayson seemed to have a clue.

Black Lane Tavern.

Grayson, as the highest officer of Piltover's garrison, is different from those high-ranking councilors. She has an extraordinary understanding of Zaun.He also has a certain degree of tacit understanding with the leader Vandel who is closest to Zaun Black Lane in Picheng.

She knew very well that massacres on the blockade bridge were not the best way to maintain the law and order of Piltover, and it would be more effective for Vandel, who controlled the order of the black alley, to suppress those blindly crossing the bridge.

They've worked pretty well together over the years.

So this time, Grayson came to negotiate with Van der with the mentality of going through the motions.She believed that with Fandre's power, it would be easy to find those Zaun thieves, even if a few fake scapegoats were thrown out, as long as the gems were recovered, the matter would be over and everyone would be happy.

But she never expected that the identity of the offender was very different this time.

Vander's two daughters were involved!

For them, Fandel went from being a militant faction who led his men to violently charge across the bridge at the slightest disagreement, to a peacekeeping faction that is now trying hard to suppress the Zaun people and start a war.

Therefore, it is impossible to hand them over!
It stands to reason that with Vander's status as the overlord in Zaun, it is understandable that he is unwilling to hand over his daughter, but it is also easy for him to send people to other places to arrest a few people of similar age and stature to take the blame.

Unfortunately, since adopting two daughters, Vander's heart seems to have softened a lot, and he is unwilling to do this kind of routine operation.After reluctantly procrastinating until the end, the solution he came up with was to top the bag by himself!
Judging from this point alone, he is almost useless as a leader.He seemed to have never thought that without him, who could continue to maintain order in the dark alley, and who should protect his daughters?
Fortunately, Grayson is really special. Although she represents Piltover, she is really willing to take into account Zaun's difficulties.

"Vander, at least I have to get back all the stolen Hex gems, otherwise the congressmen won't let it go."

She had almost told Vander her bottom line.

But Van der was also very helpless, he was willing to accept Grayson's kindness, but when he went to find his two daughters, he was told that because he was intercepted by other gangsters on the way back, he stole the money during the fight. Almost all of the Hex gems were lost, except for the last one.

Of course, this amount cannot meet Grayson's request, so the two sides froze here.

Until Jess and Victor came over.

After learning what happened from the other guards, Jess became visibly excited.

"Since the clues have been found, what is the sheriff talking to them about? Why don't we just rush in and search for them?"

"Forehead……"

Several security guards were a little embarrassed, and explained to Jess in a low voice, "Boss didn't plan to do anything this time, and we didn't bring many weapons. If we really had a conflict with Van der, we might not win."

Jess was speechless after hearing this, is Piltover's guard so useless?

"Then... how about you just hold it here while I go back and call for reinforcements?"

The security guard froze, the sheriff is here, without her order, what reinforcements can you call?
Apparently, this young security officer didn't know that there was something called member's privilege.

Jess is obviously going to go back and ask Mrs. Gilaman for help. The power of the Councilor in Piltover is very great, and the Hex gem is related to Piltover's most cutting-edge technology. No one will come out on this matter. hold back.

Victor is moved, but stops Jace anyway.

"I don't want to cause a vicious conflict between Piltover and Zaun because of me. Trust Chief Grayson, she is a person worth trusting."

Victor said while coughing. Although he has experienced a lot of unbearable pain, he has always been a gentle person.

"you……"

Jace hates iron but not steel. To him, the people of Zaun are nothing at all. As long as Victor's stigma can be washed away, what if he wronged them?
But Victor always remembered that he was a Zaunite, especially after the unwarranted frame-up in Piltover.He seemed to understand right away that no matter how good his relationship with Jess and Hai Xi was, no matter how outstanding his scientific research ability was, Piltover would never truly accept him... just because he was from Zaun.

Although under Victor's persuasion, Jess temporarily gave up the idea of ​​forcibly arresting people, but in the chaotic and violent Lower City of Zaun, there is no shortage of conspiratorial people.

The news that Fander had broken up with Piltover Sheriff Grayson spread quickly and fell into the ears of interested people.

"Interesting, my former brother." In the shadows, a man with a thin figure and a horrible scar on his face smiled half a smile, "Let me help you recall that passionate memory."

Behind him, there were deafening roars like beasts.

……

……

Sheriff Grayson, whom Victor and Jess placed high hopes on, still disappointed them.

She talked to Fandre many times, and later even led the sheriffs of the security team to search the dark alleys, but she still couldn't make the man as strong as a brown bear change his mind.Hex gems, as well as the children who committed crimes, were not found at all.

The pressure on her was getting bigger and bigger.

"Hey, shall we continue to wait?"

Jess inquired in a low voice, and the two of them knew each other for a while, and they already had a lot of experience in the legend of Zaun, and Grayson didn't even find out that they were following them.

"Chief Grayson seems to really have nothing to do with that Fander."

Victor can naturally see what he said, and he sighed: "I heard that one of those children is his daughter."

"so what?"

Jace didn't have the same complicated emotions towards the Zaans as Victor, "They were the ones who made the mistake, and they deserve to pay the price and be punished for it! Not to mention that they also implicate you."

Victor was silent.

The truth is true, but unlike Jess who completely pinned these slanders on those few Zaun children, Victor felt that they were just a fuse, and the most fundamental reason for his encounters was Piltover’s opposition to Zaun. discrimination.

But the two of them, one from Picheng and one from Zaun, if they really want to discuss this issue, it is impossible to make it clear.Besides, Jess did his best to help him, and Victor was very grateful for that, and he didn't want to have a dispute with him.

Just when he was hesitating in his heart, Grayson returned without success again and was sent out of the tavern by Van der.

The two were just about to exchange their final pleasantries, when a creepy and dangerous aura suddenly came from the alley at the door.

An aura intertwined with madness, wildness, and desire to kill slowly floated along with the smell of blood, covering the surroundings.

"what's the situation?"

Secretly, Jess and Victor didn't know why. The two of them had no combat experience. At this moment, they just felt cold all over, as if something bad was about to happen, but they didn't have a clear enough judgment on where the danger came from.

But Fandre was different. His status in Zaun and in the black alley was achieved entirely by his own punches and kicks.Although after adopting two daughters, Wei Aolai and Baobao, she became more restrained and restrained, and stopped being violent easily, but the sense of danger developed by rolling among dead people has not been lost.

He immediately found a piece of discarded large gear at hand and clenched it as a glove, looking warily into the depths of the night.

pop, pop, pop...

It seemed that the sound of ill-fitting slippers slapping the ground was getting closer and closer, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

When the shadow of the monster in the dark night just emerged, Sheriff Grayson immediately raised his musket and fired.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
Three consecutive developments showed her superb shooting skills, but unfortunately, judging from the sound of feedback, none of the bullets hit the target.

The next second, the tall figure of the monster appeared above the two of them like a flash, and its left arm, which was mutated and deformed to the point of being bloated and terrifying, was slammed down hard.

boom!
Fandel barely blocked it with his gear glove, and his arm immediately made a crisp sound of fracture. The difference in strength was really too big.

Thanks to the monster's fast speed and strength, but its lack of fighting skills, the two of them rolled and avoided with the least cost.

"Who sent you here?"

Enduring the severe pain in his arm, Van der tried to negotiate with the other party.

It's a pity that he didn't get any response, no, what responded to him was a faster and more violent impact.

This time, it was Sergeant Grayson who barely saved the lives of the two by placing the barrel of the police rifle sideways just in time.But after receiving the blow from the monster, the hard rifle was directly beaten into a "U" shape, and Grayson was torn apart, and was sent flying out together with Van der, falling heavily.

Seeing, the two have lost the ability to resist.

However, when the monster was planning to carry out the final touch-up under the command of the mastermind behind the scenes, the situation was disrupted.

It was Jess and Victor who shot.

They didn't care about Fandel's death, but Sheriff Grayson could still save him if he could.

Jess took out a light silver hex cannon with a small and exquisite handle but an astonishing muzzle diameter, and pulled the trigger against the ground.

Although he has no combat experience, he has a deep memory of Sergeant Grayson's three consecutive shots.He didn't feel that his marksmanship was comparable to Grayson, who had been a sheriff for most of his life, so to be safe he aimed at the ground where he would not dodge.

boom!
The blue hex cannon sprayed out, landed in the center of the alleyway, and soon exploded into a bright spherical shape, almost dividing the entire street in two.

Taking advantage of this moment, Victor called on the two people who were seriously injured lying on the ground to follow them and escape, while he casually took out some machine parts and threw them on the street corner or in the shadows.

These are small gadgets that they made with the leftover hex crystal shards from polishing during their rest. They are definitely not powerful, but the effects are very interesting. It is very useful to block the enemy for a period of time.

This is indeed the case, the monsters stopped by the hex cannon will get into new troubles every time they walk, and eventually lose them completely.

"I've never seen weapons and traps... Fandre was actually saved by the people of Piltover?"

Hilko, who failed in the raid, laughed angrily, "It seems that not only is my former brother really unable to come back, but he has also embarked on a path that surprises everyone. This is really... so interesting!"

The mouth said it was funny, but the expression was gnashing of teeth.After a while, he finally calmed down: "Forget it, if that's the case, I will completely take over Black Alley and Zaun. I will lead you to truly live with dignity!"

His words caused many people to cheer, while Fander's subordinates who were originally entrenched in the dark alley remained silent.He looked at the number two person in the Black Alley Tavern, Sevika.

"If you can do it."

Severka's statement completely declared that Fandel, who had ruled the Black Alley for more than ten years, was a thing of the past.

Zaun seems to have ushered in a new era.

(End of this chapter)