Chapter 246 Grand Appearance

The time is getting late and dusk is approaching.

The campus of Piltover University was lively. Some people with invitations to the Evolution Day Conference arrived on campus and visited and wandered around the campus.

The security of the academy this year is much tighter than in previous years. Sheriff Grayson is personally on duty, and all elite law enforcement officers wearing rechargeable armor and fully armed are dispatched to perform patrols within the school.

Li Lin and Caitlin took Kaisha around the academy for a while, and happened to meet Colin and Orianna, the father and daughter who came to attend the Evolution Day Conference.

After Li Lin's introduction more than half a year ago, Caitlin and Orianna became good friends and often interacted with her in their spare time.

However, since Li Lin came back and the Evolution Day was approaching, the number of people looking for her to handle cases increased sharply, and Caitlin had no time to look for Orianna again.

Today, after Li Lin's introduction, Orianna became friends with Kaisha again, and they chatted with Caitlin about small topics between girls.

Li Lin chatted with Colin about some household matters, as well as the Hex flying door device that has been vigorously promoted by major families recently.

When the announcement in the college auditorium rang, announcing that the Evolution Day Conference was about to begin and guests were invited to enter, they headed to the auditorium together.

In the stepped hall, Colin and Orianna's seats were in the middle, while Li Lin, Caitlin, Kaisha, Jace, and other congressmen were seated in the first row.

Before Li Lin and Jess went on stage to give their speeches, there were still two or three hours to watch other exhibits.

After the host finished his opening remarks, he quickly entered the main body.

The first few devices displayed on stage were invented by several small family craftsmen. They still have their own shortcomings and need to be improved, but they are more practical in some fields and have been accepted by everyone.

To Li Lin's surprise, there was a small family of craftsmen who invented an electric bicycle.

It's just that it doesn't use conventional basic electricity, but Hex batteries, so it's too expensive.

Currently, only the aristocratic children in the northern urban area can afford it, and the market share and popularity are far less than the ordinary bicycles invented by Li Lin.

After a few more insignificant inventions, Jess's "Mercury Hammer" was displayed on the stage. This was an arrangement jointly discussed by Karina and Mel.

Mercury's Hammer has been improved by Jace. In addition to the "electric shock" energy cannon, it also has the "lightning field" electronic halo force field and the "super charge" that accelerates the launch of energy bombs.

This was also what he had been mainly busy with during his return to Piltover.

As for the "Acceleration Gate" device in Jace's game that must be used in conjunction with electric energy shock to cause tons of damage and accelerate cannonballs, Li Lin asked him about it indirectly, but he has not considered it yet.

Although Mercury's Hammer will not be mass-produced and will return to the mine where it is supposed to function, this transformative energy weapon is another milestone in energy weapons after all, and it is still quite valuable.

To this end, Jess also personally went on stage to demonstrate how to use the hammer and change its form, causing people in the audience to exclaim and applaud.

Several subsequent exhibits were contracted by the University of Piltover. Professor Heimerdinger personally showed everyone the new energy coastal defense gun he developed for Piltover.

Since the war mason spies from Noxus were captured some time ago, the councilors were worried that Swain, the newly appointed Noxian commander, would send troops to invade Piltover at all costs, so they wanted to strengthen Piltover's defenses.

This somewhat surprised Li Lin, but it was also reasonable.

Heimerdinger does not advocate the development of weapons, but he is devoted to new scientific inventions. As long as he has novel ideas, he can actually make weapons without any mistakes, but he is not allowed to mass-produce them.

For example, with the auxiliary chip technology mentioned by Li Lin before, Heimerdinger made several mini turrets to test their intelligence.

What's more, Heimerdinger understands the madness of Noxus and the inhumane things they did in Ionia.

When asked by other congressmen, he agreed without much consideration.

As the Evolution Day Conference comes to an end, Karina sends a servant to remind Li Lin and Jace to go backstage and get ready.

As soon as they arrived at the preparation area backstage, they saw a huge robot that was three to four meters tall and had a copper-yellow body.

Jess glanced at Li Lin in surprise, "Is this your new invention again?"

Before Li Lin could reply, Victor emerged from behind the robot and responded: "No... to be precise, it's mine."

Today, he is not using a cane, his face is rosy and his complexion is good, and his body is far from the weak posture before, and has become extremely strong.

Li Lin knew that his physical condition had greatly improved after drinking the gene-enhancing potion.

Jess was also surprised by this, "You are..."

"Thanks to Li Lin for his help." As he said this, Victor smiled and nodded to Li Lin.

"I originally wanted to wait for you to come to Gila Mann's house to try the gene enhancement potion, but unfortunately you are too busy." Li Lin looked at Jace and explained.

"Gene...enhancement?"

Jace gasped and looked at Li Lin as if he were a monster.

"We have only been back for a few days, and you have already created the flying armor, the Tyrant aliens, and the Tyrant warrior that can transform into a car, and now you have a genetic enhancement potion? How did you do it? I don't even know. I know you actually do research on genes."

"Allocate your time reasonably, it's not that difficult...and genetic enhancement is just a name. In essence, it is almost the same as an enhanced version of the shimmer potion, except that the duration is permanent."

"Then you are really a master of time management." Jess crossed his arms and sneered, not believing a word of Li Lin's words, "Can you teach me how to do it?"

When Jace and Li Lin said this, Victor's eyes widened again, and a look of astonishment flashed across his face, "You did all this in the past few days?"

Fortunately, my mechanical engineer was not displayed, otherwise your jaws would be dropped...

"Ahem..." Li Lin looked a little embarrassed and quickly changed the subject: "You'd better introduce Blitzcrank to Jace first."

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, although Jace and Victor were itching to know how he did it, they didn't ask any more questions.

Then, Victor looked at Jace intently, "This is my new research, an intelligent steam robot. I named him Blitzcrank."

"Smart robot?" Jess looked even more surprised, "Why are you researching this? Didn't Li Lin invent the smart chip? Or he researched it in the desert..."

"I didn't use a smart chip, I just used a device made of primitive crystal." Victor explained.

"How is this possible? Isn't the original crystal just a magic stone that supplies energy? Does it also have this function?" Jace's tone was full of doubts.

"The college professor has already certified it, otherwise Blitzcrank wouldn't be able to get on the booth at the Evolution Day Conference."

"They're just a bunch of pedantic guys. Most of them were put in by big families, and they have absolutely no real material of their own."

Upon hearing this, Victor seemed a little unhappy.

What Jace meant was as if he had paid those people off.

But Victor knew that Jace didn't really mean it, it was just that his words were a little inappropriate.

Moreover, he had already adapted to Jace's straightforward character, which did not pay attention to etiquette. Bickering was just their daily conversation.

He just sighed and shrugged helplessly, "Do I need to lie to you about this? I don't want to quarrel with you at this time Jace, how about I take it apart for you and take a look?"

As soon as Victor finished speaking, the host outside called out the names of Victor and Blitzcrank.

"Okay Jace, Blitzcrank did only use the original crystals, the ones we brought back from Shurima. I was there at the time."

When Li Lin said this, Jace fell into silence, but his twinkling eyes were still full of suspicion.

Why can the original crystal provide computing power to a machine?

"Blitzcrank, are you ready?" Victor ignored Jace and turned around to ask the robot in front of him.

Blitzcrank nodded stiffly, making a noise of mechanical metal twisting, and then said in a mechanized and emotionless voice: "You can go at any time."

When they got to the booth, Li Lin and Jace could clearly hear a burst of exclamations and comments from the audience outside.

Victor waved his hand timidly, and everyone in the audience fell silent, waiting for his introduction.

Although he was not good at dealing with such a situation where big people gathered together, he recalled Skye's instructions to him and just regarded this as a classroom for students to teach, and he quickly calmed down.

In the following time, Victor explained the various functions of Blitzcrank incessantly and ordered it to demonstrate.

Blitzcrank even showed some ability to learn, which really surprised the audience.

Backstage, Li Lin and Jess stared at Victor from behind the curtain.

Jace couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart and asked, "Li Lin, this... eh?"

"Blitzcrank."

"That's right, Blitzcrank, what's going on? You gave Victor the patent for your smart chip?"

"Why did you think of this?" Li Lin shook his head helplessly, "What I just said was not very clear. Is this the influence of the original crystal?"

"But..." Jace scratched his head.

He has never studied the relationship between the original crystal and the shell people, and there is almost no information about this in Piltover, only sporadic records in the college library.

Li Lin could understand Jace's doubts and explained in another way: "Victor has studied the history of the original crystal and found that it has a deep connection with a magical race called the Shell People in Shurima. Blitzcrank is very intelligent. It might have something to do with this.”

"Shell people... I seem to have heard this name in Bergun."

Jace reached out and rubbed his bald square chin, "The local Noxian service officer said that a certain Noxian expedition lost contact in the Crystal Scar, and it seems to be related to the Shell people."

It's the King of Totali...

Oh no, did Crystal Pioneer Skarner do it?

Li Lin's eyes flashed with light, and he felt a little more urgent about the problem of the original crystal and the Shell people.

"Crystal Trace... Our expedition excavation team did not dig the original crystal there, but Karina is going to send people there next."

Li Lin said solemnly, "If it is dangerous there, I suggest giving up digging for the original crystal for the time being."

"Well, you are right." Jess nodded in agreement, "But we have to discuss this issue with Mrs. Karina."

While the two were talking, Viktor had already demonstrated Blitzcrank's function, receiving cheers and warm applause from the audience.

When he got off the booth from the other side, the host on the stage read out two more names: "Next, let us invite the Gila Mann family, who are also the two youngest and most outstanding craftsmen in the entire upper city. ——Jace, Li Lin!”

Jess suddenly felt nervous, "We're here, Li Lin, have you prepared your speech?"

"Go up first and help me buy some time. Wait for me for a moment." With that said, Li Lin walked straight to the waiting room.

Jace stared at Li Lin's leaving figure for a moment.

By the time he reacted, Li Lin had already walked away, "Hey! It's already this time, where are you going?"

Just as he was about to catch up and stop Li Lin, the host on stage had already come over to urge them to come on stage.

Jess gritted his teeth and walked to the stage by himself.

Feeling the surprised and confused eyes of Karina, Erro, Caitlin and even Mel in the audience, his already nervous mood felt even more constrained, and a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead and temples.

Li Lin... isn't he usually the one who misses the mark at critical moments?

What on earth is he doing?

Jess walked to the podium in front of the stage, put the speech notes on the table, patted the microphone gently, and cleared his throat: "Ahem, hello everyone, my name is Jess Tallis, and I am currently under the supervision of Gilaman Funded by the En family.”

When he started speaking, the audience in the audience began to whisper to each other, as if they were wondering where the "Li Lin" that the host mentioned that they cared about most was.

Li Lin!

You really made me miserable!

Jace took a deep breath, suppressed his nervousness, and forced a smile on his face, deliberately not mentioning Li Lin's whereabouts.

"This is my first time giving a speech on such a grand occasion. I hope everyone will forgive me if I am not thoughtful in anything.

"Many of you may have heard of my name, after all, I have invented many weird gadgets in the past ten years.

"For example, a wrench that can turn into a crowbar, a pickaxe that can turn into a shovel, and many prototype tools of Hex Technology..."

Jace caught a glimpse of his mother sitting next to Karina and Elro, and looked at her expression of relief and encouragement. His mood was much more relaxed, and his tone was much calmer.

"I actually come from an ordinary family. My family's factory makes hammers. The floor under your feet may have been hammered out with my hammer..."

While chatting awkwardly, he was urging Li Lin in his mind.

Originally, according to Karina's arrangement and the proportion of speeches in the speech, this opening and most of the time were spoken by Li Lin. He was only used to "make up the numbers" and only needed to focus on the principle of Hex's Flying Gate later. Enough with the prospect.

But when Li Lin came out like this, it completely disrupted the plan, and Jace didn't know how to proceed.

Fortunately, Li Lin didn't embarrass him for too long.

Just as Jess was looking at his speech, he wondered what he was going to say next.

Just hearing a "buzzing" sound of energy penetrating the air, a figure wearing a blue-black armor and a six or seven-meter-tall humanoid mecha flew over the auditorium for a week, then fell from the sky and landed smoothly at the front. on the booth.

"Li Lin?!"

Jace and everyone in the audience were shocked. They didn't expect that he would appear in such a grand way.

The scene was silent for two or three seconds. Jess was the first to react. A smile immediately appeared on his face and he spoke loudly into the microphone:

"Let's invite today's protagonist, Li Lin!"

Thanks to 54 Killing Super God for the reward!