LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

The taxi took Galen and Catalina through the city roads that still smelled of fresh asphalt and drove to the Zaun Cinema in Binhai New Town.

The two of them sat side by side in the back row, very close to each other, and the atmosphere was quite warm. It's a pity that the city scenery outside the car window is still not very good.

Especially the Binhai New City they were going to. This was a new land-based city that the Leader had only invested in building in recent months in order to allow the Zaun people to move out of the gloomy underground black alleys and bottom ditch areas in the future.

Of course, the completion of urban areas is still in the future.

At this moment, this place is still a large, dusty construction site.

If the engineering team hadn't been equipped with specialized "dust collectors" who used magic to guide the wind direction, the dust from the buildings flying all over the sky would have been enough for everyone passing by to experience the authentic Shurima desert style.

"Isn't the environment here much worse than in Ionia?" Galen couldn't help but care about Catalina beside him: "I wonder if you have adapted to living here this month."

The Ionians, who grew up in the "large magic garden" of the First Land, are the most sensitive to the quality of the environment.

Almost every Ionian immigrant who came to settle in Zaun would initially become acclimated and sickly due to the poor environment here.

Smog, dust, mineral shavings, and almost ubiquitous alchemical exhaust gas... This is simply a kind of torture for the Ionians who are used to smelling the fragrance of flowers and plants in their hometown.

"Fortunately, I adapted quickly." Catalina said.

Her body has been trained to soak in poisons since she was a child. Drinking alchemical wastewater as a drink is not a problem. Of course she can adapt.

"That's good." Galen smiled: "I thought you wouldn't like Zaun, Kana."

"Don't like it? No..." Katarina seemed to have forgotten that she was on a mission. She naturally chatted with Galen: "I like it here very much."

As she spoke, she looked at the hazy sky outside the car window: "In my eyes, even the alchemical waste gas here is so joyful."

"Huh?" Galen didn't understand.

If you take just one breath of the air and lose two health points, can you taste any strange and luxurious sweet taste?

It really works.

"Did you see that place?" Catalina introduced the alchemy factories standing in the distance with great detail: "Those are factories that produce cane sugar and margarine."

"The poor people in Ionia, Noxus, and Demacia may not be able to eat cream ice cream filled with cane sugar for the rest of their lives."

"But with industrially produced cane sugar and margarine, the poorest and most destitute citizens of Zaun, even war refugees like me who have just moved here for a month, can easily afford this 'luxury noble dessert'. "

"..." Galen was a little silent.

He couldn't help but think of his maid at home. Every time, they would quietly put away the leftover desserts eaten by the ladies and gentlemen, take them back and eat them as treasures.

The Crownguard family's manor maids, even the lowest-level sweepers, are already in the top 10% of the Demacia Kingdom's living standards.

"And there..." Catalina looked at another factory in the distance: "There is an alchemy company that produces fertilizers and pesticides."

"The fertilizers and pesticides exported by the city of Zaun every year can help Noxus feed at least 10 million more people."

This is the best example of how advanced productive forces promote the progress of civilization. But except for the former Twin Cities Ziben family and the current leader, almost no one in Rune Land is interested in this.

Everyone is thinking about developing "advanced military force" instead of advanced productivity, and no one will be idle and care about whether the lives of civilians can become better.

Noxus still is.

Although compared with Demacia, Noxus is already a relatively progressive, half-feudal and half-modern empire.

But the problem is that the feudal part of Noxus, the landed aristocrats, are still immersed in the stable and high returns from land mergers and usury, and have no intention of investing in industry;

But that part of Noxus, the budding Urban Seed Group, was attracted almost all attention by another hugely profitable business - the military industry.

After all, the Noxian Empire is just a large military camp disguised as a country.

Is there any business that can make more money than selling weapons, ammunition, and military supplies in military camps?

Therefore, the city had no intention of investing in people's livelihood industries. Instead, it joined forces with the warlords and nobles to form a military-industrial complex that could stand up to this great empire.

As a result, there was a strange phenomenon in which Noxus could manufacture even the most advanced steam ironclads independently, but even a small home stereo had to be imported from the Twin Cities at a high price.

"If this continues, the empire will end sooner or later..."

Catalina looked out the window at the bustling scenery of Zuanna's factories, feeling filled with sorrow.

After coming here for a month, she learned not only the theories in the book, but also a set of tools for understanding and analyzing the world.

After mastering this set of tools, she saw the shortcomings of the Noxus Empire more clearly, and she became more painful and desperate.

Because it was only then that she discovered that the Noxus Empire, which she saw as infinitely glorious, was now simply a terminally ill patient with tumors all over his body and body necrosis.

Just to help relieve its symptoms requires a saintly king who is dedicated to the country, a great man who meets once in a thousand years, and a revolution that is destined to be accompanied by bloody storms.

And if you want to help it cure the root cause, then... I'm afraid you can only rely on the leader.

Only the leader can save Noxus.

"No, that's not right!" As she thought about it, Catalina broke into a cold sweat again: "The leader is the enemy of the empire, the enemy!"

She warned herself nervously, and then carefully called the name of the goddess Janna in her heart.

The goddess didn't respond, and no thread was pulled out.

"It's okay..." Katarina secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, she hasn't rebelled yet.

The task must be completed as soon as possible. If she doesn't complete her mission and leave here, she will probably fall completely.

Catalina turned to look at Galen, the big man who had the same problem as her.

"Galen." She made up her mind and invited: "After watching the movie, do you have any other plans?"

"No." Galen said, "I want to listen to your opinion before making a decision."

That's just right. There was a sharp flash in Catalina's eyes.

"In this case, Mr. Galen... after watching the movie, you can come and sit at my house." She issued a fatal invitation.

As long as Galen dares to go to the appointment alone, he will be dead.

"What?" Galen blushed and refused coyly: "Isn't this bad? This is our first date..."

"What are you thinking about?" Catalina rolled her eyes at him: "I live in a refugee apartment, and my brother and sister are both at home."

"Ah..." Galen breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought for a while and finally answered: "It's better not to go to your house, Kana. After watching the movie, I will take you to visit other places in Zaun. I heard from my sister that you girls all like to visit Zu'an. An Commercial Street...”

"You?!" Catalina's face darkened.

This bastard, no one in the family dares to come, and there are people in the family who don't want to come. Tam is really hard to take care of!

Still shopping? There are "Blue Bird Cameras" everywhere on the streets of Zaun. How should they start?

Still have to trick him back home. Such a stupid guy, if she just mixed some alchemy potion into the water after returning home, she would probably be able to knock him down silently.

"Mr. Galen..." Catalina gritted her teeth and said, "I just lied to you because I was afraid that you would be embarrassed. In fact, my brother and my sister have gone out to work, and now no one in my family... .”

"Huh?" Galen hesitated happily.

Catalina said: "Come to my house after the movie, Mr. Galen. I have learned a lot of cooking in Zaun these days, and I want to cook a meal for you myself."

"I..." Galen was silent for a long time.

Damn it! What kind of man is he who is coy?

Katerina secretly added angrily: "I'm just inviting you to dinner,"

"But this is still a bit too much, Kana." Galen said tangledly: "To be alone in the same room with an unmarried lady is already a very disrespectful behavior in Demacia."

"This is not in line with the ethics of knights."

Um. Although many noble ladies in Germany play more openly in private than the ladies in Pi City, this does not prevent the knights from having such moral principles.

It does not prevent a true knight from truly practicing these moral principles.

"This..." Catalina had a headache.

She just didn't know why this stupid guy had so many rules.

Not even for free. Does she still have to use those shameful tricks that LeBlanc taught her?

Helpless, Katarina complained: "This is not Demacia, and I am not a lady."

"But I am a knight of Demacia, and you..." Galen turned his head seriously and looked into her eyes: "In my opinion, you are more noble than any lady I have ever seen before. .”

"I want to take you seriously, Miss Kana."

"When our relationship gets to that point, I... will be happy to come to your house."

Catalina: "..."

She wanted to scold her in her heart.

After coming to Zuan for a month, she has already developed this habit.

However, looking at Galen's face so close to Chi Chi, she...

"Forget it." Catalina turned her head to avoid his eyes, and angrily muttered in her heart: "I'll kill you later."