Two Cities: I am building a mecha in Pi City

"I'm going to build a whole set of exoskeleton powered armor, and this arm is just a part of it."

After hearing Li Lin's remarks, Jess pondered for a long time, "For a set of power mechas, Hextech batteries alone are not enough as energy source. Cost alone is a problem, and Hextech crystals are so unstable. …What do you want to apply it to?”

He made a simple evaluation of Li Lin's ideas objectively.

"Its main function is to protect the wearer and enhance the human body's ability. In fact, it can be applied to many aspects, such as porters at Hinnomon Pier, miners working in mines, and other workers who specialize in manual labor."

Li Lin paused for a moment and continued: "But I personally tend to apply it to the military field."

"You have experienced war, so I can understand your thoughts." Jess shook his head and disagreed with his point of view, "But as scientists, isn't what we want to do to create a beautiful and peaceful era of progress? Why? Develop arms?”

"Peace? No, Jess, your vision is too limited." Li Lin responded in a low voice, "The crisis is approaching, but you haven't noticed it yet. If we want to have a better future, we must start now be prepared."

Jace opened his mouth with a complicated expression, but in the end all he could say turned into a sigh.

Speaking of crisis, he recalled a rebellion a few years ago when the lower city resisted the upper city's oppression.

Jace was just coming of age at the time, and he would never forget what he saw.

Bloody smoke covered the sky, and the entire Piltover Canal was almost stained red with blood. Countless dead bodies floated on the river, rushing along the current into the Sea of ​​Watchers in the east, becoming food for undersea creatures.

That day was called the "Day of Ashes" by people in the two city-states. It was also the day when the law enforcement officials in the upper city ruthlessly massacred the rebels in the lower city.

Although the relationship between Shangcheng and Bottom City has tended to ease in recent years, he actually knows very well in his heart that this is just peace on the surface.

The accumulated conflicts between the two city-states will break out again sooner or later, it is just a matter of time.

And this time it will be even more serious.

crisis?

maybe……

Maybe Li Lin is right.

Jace took a deep breath and slightly changed his heavy mood.

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let's just talk about the problems it currently has... How do you plan to solve it in terms of energy?"

Li Lin took out the Hex crystal fragment from his power arm and shook it in front of Jace. "Actually, I have already researched some results. If there is a complete crystal, I have...well, 90% certainty. Stabilize it.”

He didn't say anything too harshly, lest he get slapped in the face.

After all, it was the first time to make a Hex energy crystal. It was reasonable that something unexpected happened and the production failed.

"...Huh?" Jace showed an expression of disbelief, "Are you sure you're not kidding?!"

It took me half a month of research to make almost negligible progress!

You guys only studied the fragments for a few days and then you said that you are 90% sure that you can stabilize the complete crystal?

I suspect you are deceiving my feelings...

Jace frowned and looked at Li Lin with a trace of suspicion in his eyes.

Li Lin patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "Why am I lying to you? It's not good for me...

"Oh, by the way, I suddenly remembered that the Hex Crystal I ordered should have arrived. Do you want to go to Zaun with me?"

Jess: "???"

…

…

Almost an hour passed.

Li Lin and Jace took the screamer down to the middle square of Zaun and returned to the dark alley again.

The haze produced by industrial waste gas and alchemical chemical poisons still envelopes this urban area, eroding every Dicheng person living here.

As soon as he got off the scream machine, Jess immediately put on the Hex Technology breathing filter, looked at Li Lin and asked angrily: "Who did you entrust to help you find the crystal?"

"An old acquaintance of yours." Li Lin, who had the previous experience, also put on a breathing filter, "This is where you bought the crystal fragments."

"You mean Bensuo?" Jace thought for a moment, then showed a surprised expression, "Didn't that guy say he has to wait until next year to get the crystal?"

"That's because you didn't give me enough money."

"Tsk, this is a profiteer." Jess smacked his lips, "Last time he sold me 50 silver wheels for just a piece of crystal fragment. If you want him to get a complete crystal in advance, it would cost a lot of gold, right?"

"3 gold seas and a complete crystal. Before the evolution day, if you don't get it, it will be reduced to 1 gold sea." Li Lin glanced at Jace in surprise, "You also know that he is a profiteer? Then what did you do last time? Not counter-offer?"

"It's not necessary. This little money doesn't matter to the Giraman family."

What you said is really shameless. People who don’t know better think you spent all your own money...

Li Lin complained silently in his heart.

"Where are we going? The Bensuo grocery store isn't in this direction, right?" Jess suddenly realized that Li Lin was going in the wrong direction and asked in confusion.

"Let's go to Forgan's Bar first. I have a favor to return."

"What happened last time you and Caitlin were attacked?"

Jess remembered that he had also helped find Caitlin a few days ago, and combined with the meaning of Li Lin's words just now, he couldn't help but frown.

"I heard that you didn't get out of trouble on your own? How did you come to interact with the people in Dicheng?"

Jess is a native of Piltover and has been taught the three basic laws of a progressive city since she was a child:

Invent, discover, and stay as far away from Zaun as possible.

Therefore, when he heard Li Lin say that he wanted to repay the favor of the people in Dicheng, his first reaction was "trouble".

Li Lin noticed the expression on Jace's face, "From your tone, it seems that you are quite prejudiced against Zu An?"

"I don't think this can be called prejudice, because it's not just me, most of the people in the upper city think that Zaun is a trouble, right?"

Jace secretly looked around to make sure that the people in the city closest to him couldn't hear their conversation, and then lowered his voice.

"Then have you ever understood that Piltover was once part of Zaun?"

"How is this possible?! Piltover has been a city for 216 years this year..."

"What about before Piltover was founded? Didn't it exist here?"

Li Lin chuckled lightly and immediately added without giving Jace a chance to speak:

"Oshra Vazuan was once a trading post in the north of the Shurima Empire. Due to the failure to dig a canal, seawater poured in, and part of the city sank underground, while another part stood on the cliff.

“The wealthy and powerful families moved to the more stable upper city, built the present-day Sungate Sea Lock by taking advantage of the geographical and environmental advantages, and named this re-emerging city ‘Piltover’.

"The so-called upper city and lower city were originally 'sisters' who were in harmony with each other. The fate of the people in the twin cities is even more so. Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to admit it publicly."

Li Lin's words left Jace speechless, and he didn't know where to refute.

After being silent for a long time, he said without confidence: "But there is no record of this in the history books in the Piltover Library..."

"I think with your intelligence, you should be able to tell that what I said is indeed the truth."

Jace was silent again.

His mother told him many bedtime stories when he was a child, one of which was the legend of Janna, the goddess of wind, appearing more than two hundred years ago to save the people from the torrent.

Save the people of Zaun...

Back then, there was no Piltover.

"Like I said before Jace, your vision is too limited to one place."

Li Lin's tone was deep, but there was no irony in his words.

"We are all frogs at the bottom of a well, but it is our own choice whether to stay at the bottom of the well and just look up at the large area above our heads, or to jump out of the well and meet a wider world.

"Since you have chosen to take risks and open up a new era, it proves that you are not a conservative and complacent person. You should understand what impact this profound prejudice will have on your thinking..."

Li Lin didn't finish what he said. He wanted to give Jace some time to think for himself, and he believed that Jace could understand what he meant.

The entire journey was speechless.

After more than ten minutes, the two of them finally stopped in front of a bar on the outskirts of the dark alley.

"Forgan's Tavern" is engraved on the plaque in front of the door. The bar is open for business, and there are a few people sitting in the shop who are drinking or entertaining.

Li Lin glanced up, then turned his gaze to Jace, who was still "doubting life", and said with a smile: "Are you going in? Or are you waiting here?"

"..." Jace looked at him hesitantly, "I'll go with you."

Since the timeline of the Battle of Two Cities does not match the setting of the main universe, the current timeline of the main universe is 997, and Jinx Wei and the others should have just reached adulthood by now, so the Battle of Two Cities in this book will be substituted into the year 997. In the main universe time, Bangbao stole the Hex Crystal in 988, which is the current timeline.

If you still can't figure out the current timeline of the Alliance, I can also speculate on some of the details I compiled, starting from Sion killing Jarvan I a hundred years ago, or starting from the creation of the universe by the Dragon King. Come out, what kind do you want (°°)