Two Cities: I am building a mecha in Pi City

Black Lane Boundary Quay, in the middle of the old cannery.

The scorching light of the fire echoed in the factory along with the sound of hammers hitting metal objects. Several gangsters were forging saws, long swords, scimitars and other combat weapons in front of a furnace.

Not far from the forging furnace, a roaring instrument was continuously pouring purple luminous liquid into small glass test tubes, which were then carefully packed into wooden boxes by several other people.

Hilko, who was passing by, took a bottle of potion from the box and asked the men dragging Fandel behind him to follow him to the iron bridge on the second floor.

Although Fandel had woken up from his coma at this time, he suffered a heavy blow from the monster on his left eye, and his consciousness is still a little hazy.

"Do you know what this is?" Silko waved the purple potion in Fandel's eyes, which was the only one that could open his eyes. "Power."

He slowly mouthed a word.

"The strength of us people in the lower city...with it, we have the ability to compete with the people in the upper city."

"Just, based on this?" Fandel's tone was very weak, "A bottle of broken alchemy potion?"

"I named it Shimmer. Even a faint light will be our hope for survival...and you have just seen how powerful it is."

Hilko asked his men to leave Fandel beside him, then put his hands on the handrails and looked downstairs at the people busy in front of the low-light machine.

Fandel spat out a mouthful of blood, "Oh, even if you raise a group of monsters, you still can't beat Piltover... That was true a few years ago, and it's even more true now."

"I don't need to fight, I just need to scare them."

Hilt's expression was indifferent, and he glanced at Deka, who was spitting out purple blood on the second floor, and his bald tattooed men who were laughing at him.

"You will kill many people...what are you trying to do? Just to save face?"

"What I want is respect!" Hilko emphasized his tone, "I want opportunities and everything Shangcheng refuses to give us!"

"You have received the respect I gave you, and you have also received the respect of the entire dark alley...but you are just not satisfied." Fandel retorted, suppressing the dizziness in his head.

As soon as he heard this, Hilko lost his temper and pointed angrily at Fandel who collapsed on the ground.

"We once had a common vision, Fander, and we all dreamed of freedom! This is not just for the dark alleys, but also to unite the people of the entire city!"

He slowly knelt down and became more and more excited as he spoke:

"Why are we inherently inferior to the people in the upper city and want to be exploited by them? Why should the garbage in the upper city be discharged into the lower city? Why should those industrial facilities that produce smog and toxic gases be built in our homes? To poison and erode our people?!"

Many complicated emotions flashed across Silko's face, "Have you forgotten the ideal we once promised to help Zaun rise?"

Fandel was silent, seeming to recall the vows he and a group of brothers made together.

All for Zu An...

but……

Is that really the right path?

After so many people died but failed to have any impact on the upper city, he had been feeling confused.

"I once trusted you so much..." Hilko's eyes showed a hint of pain, "And what about you? You betrayed me."

In the poisonous river in Zaun that was polluted by alchemical and chemical waste, a strong man grabbed another thin man by the neck and pushed him into the water.

If the thin man hadn't touched the dagger in the dagger holster of the strong man's belt before he died, and scratched him severely...

At this moment, there would be no Hilko.

Fandel recalled this unforgettable scene, and a strong guilt arose spontaneously, "I have never been able to forgive myself for the things I did to you. You were my brother..."

Hilko's breath froze, and then he sighed: "No, I think you still don't understand."

He pointed to his scarlet left eye, "Can you imagine that feeling? Can you imagine that your body is polluted by dirty water, and even your nerves are eroded by the poison in the river...

"I just hated what you did to me, but as time went by, this hatred faded, and I realized a truth in my heart.

"There is only one way to defeat a powerful enemy, which is to become the embodiment of their fear at all costs."

Silko paused for a moment, gritted his teeth and continued: "I did hate you, but I respected you from the beginning to the end, until you joined the Piltover people and became a lackey, completely forgetting the suffering we have suffered! "

"I had no choice at the time..." Fander responded weakly.

"Even so, but now you have it." Hilko raised the glimmer in his hand, and his expression gradually returned to calmness, "You and I can finally realize our original dreams, brother."

He emphasized "brother" once.

"You simply don't understand... Hex Technology is not something we can compete with!"

Fandel still had only a hint of luck and wanted to awaken his brother's conscience.

"Those brothers who once rebelled against us in the city, when they fell in front of you one by one and were mercilessly slaughtered by the law enforcement officers, didn't you feel any regret in your heart? You regretted leading them to resist and letting them die in vain..."

"For the sake of resistance and our future, this sacrifice is inevitable, Fander!"

Hilko stood up with a cold snort and waved to a subordinate on the side of the iron bridge.

The subordinate slowly pushed open the iron sliding door.

In the room, a seat with metal handcuffs and shackles welded to it was placed in the center.

"Xilko, I can kill or chop you as many times as you like, but I beg you, please leave the dark alley alone..."

This lowly plea made Hilko furious, "Would you rather die for your ideals than fight for your ideals?!"

"Ha...I am no longer the same person as before..." Fandel chuckled, his words full of bitterness and helplessness.

"Then let me awaken your true nature."

Silko looked away and nodded to the bald tattooed henchman who came to them.

The bald man with tattoos grabbed Fander's arm, dragged him to the side of the room, and fixed his hands and feet to the iron shackles of the seat.

"Do we need to use a shimmer on him now?" After tying him up, the bald man with tattoos stood up and asked Hilko.

"No, using low light will restore his injuries and greatly strengthen him. Then no one can stop him." Silko shook his head, "Besides, his men will definitely come back to rescue..."

Before Hilko finished speaking, he heard a loud bang from the door of the factory, followed by a series of gunshots and a series of screams.

"What happened?" He frowned, feeling a bad premonition in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, a subordinate with a broken arm and most of his body stained red staggered to Silko and said very weakly:

"Yes, there is a mechanical monster that came in with Fandel's men..."

Happy New Year's Eve!