Two Cities: I am building a mecha in Pi City

Fandel looked confused when Li Lin looked at him with strangely shining eyes.

Not only Li Lin, he found that even his subordinates all focused their fiery eyes on him after listening to Li Lin's words.

"You...what do you think I'm doing?" Fandel put out his pipe and put it on the table, "I didn't want to..."

"Fander." Severka's hoarse voice interrupted him, "Don't you want to make the city better?"

"What you said is the wish we made together..."

Fandel's eyes briefly contacted each of his men in the room, but he found that they all seemed to agree with Li Lin's statement.

Before he could open his mouth to explain anything, everyone spoke first, all trying to persuade him:

"The bottom city is Fandel that you built. Those alchemy barons should listen to you."

"Yes, Fander, you gave the Alchemy Barons their territory, and you should be the boss of the bottom city!"

"I think this young man is right. If Bottom City wants to become better, it should have a leader."

"A few years ago you led us and the alchemy barons to rebel against the upper city. Although they failed, I believe they will still obey your orders..."

"Hmph, let me tell you, if we can change the current situation in the bottom city, what's the harm in being enemies with those alchemy barons? We have more people than them, and we are not vegetarians."

"..."

Because of Li Lin's sincere words just now, he also hopes that Fandel can take over Dicheng again and become the sole leader.

Except for some people who still don't believe him or are hostile to the people of Piltover, most of his subordinates are willing to speak for him.

Seeing everyone talking and making noise, Fandel lowered his face, raised his arms and waved his hands a few times to make everyone quiet down.

"I know what you guys mean, but you also know that I have been staying in the dark alley for the past few years and have basically cut off all contact with the alchemy barons.

"Nowadays, they have developed their own power, and they have strong soldiers. Even if they give me a little favor, the probability of them listening to my orders again is slim."

He took a long breath and looked quite helpless.

"Then let them see your strength and prove that you are not old yet, Fander."

Sevika's face was expressionless, with a hint of cruelty in her eyes. She spit out the cigarette butt in her mouth and stamped it out with her foot.

"If they are unwilling to cooperate, you should use your fists to speak like you did when you conquered the bottom city."

She raised her eyes and looked at the upper right corner of the bar, indicating the pair of steel gloves that had been found last night and hung up again.

Fandel frowned, knowing that he couldn't make sense with these somewhat stubborn men, so he looked up at Li Lin again.

"It may not be appropriate to say this now, but you are from Ionia and have witnessed war. You should understand that as long as there is struggle, there will be sacrifices.

“And I think you should have heard about the ‘Day of Ashes’ a few years ago. After that day, I returned to the bottom city, integrated my forces, and established the Black Alley.

"I have witnessed too many familiar people fall in front of me and have their souls taken away by Qian Jue, so I established this place to provide a safe haven, unite everyone, help each other, and protect everyone."

"If you have something to ask me for help, I want to help you from the bottom of my heart, but those alchemy barons cannot listen to me. If you want to be tougher, they will not sit still and wait to die. Struggle and bloodshed are indispensable..."

Fandel didn't speak too directly, but the meaning expressed in his words was quite easy to understand.

In short, he didn't want his men to take the risk...

However, Li Lin's idea was different from his: "You misunderstood me, Fandel."

Fandel raised his eyebrows in confusion, "...huh?"

"I don't need your men to take risks or bleed. I just want your attitude." Li Lin explained.

"Attitude?" Fandel still couldn't understand. "If you don't shed blood and don't fight against the alchemy barons, how can you convince those people?"

However, Li Lin did not answer his question, "If you call them to a meeting with a certain name, will they respond to your call?"

"this……"

Fandel stroked the dark gray beard on his chin and said in an uncertain tone:

“There are a total of five people who worked hard in the mines with us and have now become Alchemy Barons, but in recent years there have been new people who have climbed to the top of power and become new Alchemy Barons.

"With my current influence, the five people I mentioned should come, but the remaining alchemy barons I don't know should give me face, but I don't think most of them will respond to my call. …”

"That's enough, first call as many people as you can, and forget about the others who don't want to come."

"What are you going to call them for?" Fandel asked doubtfully.

Li Lin thought for a while and slowly said a few words: "Alchemy Baron Meeting."

After a brief pause, he added: "I am going to use my own method to 'persuade' them."

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After the negotiation, Li Lin agreed with Fandel for a month.

Because Fandel is unlikely to provide much help, he needs to prepare everything as much as possible during this period.

The first batch of small generators need to be built as much as possible, at least so that they can be shown to the alchemy barons at the alchemy baron meeting that day.

According to Li Lin's idea, replacing power generation equipment needs to be done step by step.

Alchemy technology power generation cannot be shut down and rebuilt all of a sudden. Not only would the alchemy barons not be able to agree to this, but even the citizens of Zaun would not be happy for them to do this.

After all, this will seriously affect their daily lives, and a considerable number of people will even lose their jobs.

First, a replacement power plant must be built.

Based on Zu'an's geographical environment, Li Lin felt that tidal energy could be developed first.

Utilize the movement of nearby tidal currents under Zaun, or the rise and fall of tidal sea levels, to obtain energy from them.

Compared with conventional hydropower stations, tidal energy power stations are less expensive to build and faster, which can minimize the time cost of putting them into use.

As for why not use wind power…

The sea breeze blowing from Piltover Canyon is not stable and can be strong or weak depending on the season and weather.

If you want to obtain stable wind power, you need to turn to Zaun's patron god, the goddess of wind, Janna.

But time is running out now, and Li Lin doesn't know how to call her yet. Even if he can call her out, it's not certain whether she will agree.

As for large power stations such as thermal power stations, he is prepared to wait until the alchemical power generation facilities are dismantled and then rebuild them as replacements.

This is not a task that can be completed in the short term, so there is no need to think too much about it at this stage.

In addition, Li Lin previously learned from books that Piltover's sewers lead to a certain area of ​​the Zaun trench, and are then discharged into the sea after simple treatment.

This is a complete waste.

He planned to take some time to survey the terrain in the ditch drainage area.

If possible, building a biogas power station in the trench would also be a good choice.

In the elevator returning to Piltover, Li Lin in the power armor let out a long sigh.

There are still many things to be busy with...