Chapter 254 Alchemy Poison Leakage Incident
Li Lin's negotiation with Serafani's parents about her sponsorship went smoothly.
Not only is Seraphine herself willing, but also because Li Lin has vigorously constructed Zaun to improve the lives of the people of Zaun, Mordmoore and Clarana have already agreed with him.
As for reconciling the conflicts between the people of the two cities and bringing the two cities to the top of the world...
The two laughed it off and didn't take it too seriously.
Regardless of whether Seraphine can achieve this level in the future, Li Lin's behavior can be regarded as "free" sponsorship.
With their daughter's future secured, they didn't think too much about it.
The rest is just to wait for Li Lin to arrange for someone to pick up Seraphine to study at Piltover University.
The sun and moon change, time flies.
More than a month has passed since Li Lin arranged for Seraphine to go to school to control magic.
The Twins officially enter Piltover Year 218, which is also Noxus Year 990.
During these days, Li Lin developed all kinds of low-power home appliances used daily on the earth, and handed the design drawings to Karina, who arranged the production line.
He has not yet designed drawings for high-power electrical appliances, such as microwave ovens and ovens.
According to the current power supply level in the twin cities, the power consumption of these daily appliances alone will increase several times or even more than ten times, and it is very likely that there will be insufficient power supply.
High-power electrical appliances will have to wait at least until the hydroelectric generator at the Hi-nomon Sea Gate in Myrdalda is installed and put into use in order to ensure the supply of electricity.
In addition, Li Lin completed the Oswald Machinery Factory, Wells Machinery Parts Processing and Assembly Factory, and the Old Can Arsenal in Zaun.
Coupled with her cooperation with the alchemist Baron Rannar, she provided Li Lin with ready-made technology for the robot production assembly line.
After his upgrades and improvements, various factories quickly went into production, and the first batch of several hundred mechanical engineers was completed not long after.
In addition to supplying the production operations of each factory, Li Lin dedicated a considerable part of his mechanical engineers to support Piltover University's Geboga project.
Heimerdinger, Jace, Victor, Rambo, and the other professors and construction team were all shocked and silent.
Li Lin's current skills have reached this level. How many trump cards does he have yet to reveal?
If Li Lin knew their thoughts, he would definitely cry out for injustice.
Except for the combat drones that have not yet been put into production, he has already developed all of his technologies.
A mechanical engineer is enough to be worth several ordinary workers, and it can also work 24 hours a day.
With their assistance, the progress of Gaboga's plan has been greatly improved.
In just over a month, Geboga's overall body frame and bones have basically taken shape.
The construction speed and efficiency of the parts modules that other teams are responsible for have been improved by more than a little.
The Geboga project is proceeding normally, and the satellite projects Li Lin and Heimerdinger have not been put on hold.
Construction has begun on a satellite base and launch vehicle launch site in the plain area south of the Piltover Canal.
Li Lin sent the first batch of more than a dozen mechanical engineers there to provide assistance. Later, after the factory completed production, mechanical engineers were dispatched in batches one after another.
According to Zhinao’s estimates, the satellite base and launch vehicle launch site will be completed by the end of this year at the latest.
After a while, the exploration of the artificial satellite's sky eye and the construction of the launch vehicle will be put on the agenda.
In fact, these can be built without manpower completely and only with mechanical engineers who can almost be described as "all-powerful".
By the end of the year, the satellite base will be completed, and artificial satellites and rockets will be completed almost simultaneously and launched directly into space.
As for the launch failure, Li Lin was not worried at all.
Products produced by the system must be of high quality.
The data of artificial satellites and launch vehicles are very accurate.
In this case, unless there is an error in the calculation of the brain, there will be problems with the launch.
But the artificial intelligence made a calculation error... It can basically be described as a fantasy.
Three poles high in the sun, and a new busy day officially begins.
Kai'Sa has already mastered the common language of the Twin Cities and the fighting skills of Piltover's elite law enforcement officers. There is no need for further classes, and she is not at home at this time.
In her free time, she would either find Seraphine and accompany her to classes at the academy, or wander around the northern city with Orianna.
This was a reluctant concession from Orianna's father, Colin, who allowed her to leave the commercial street where her family's workshop was located, but she was not allowed to cross the Piltover Bridge to the southern city.
Under Kai'Sa's introduction, Seraphine and Orianna also became good friends.
Caitlin would occasionally join them when she was not busy with a case, forming a four-person team that became a beautiful sight in the northern neighborhood of Piltover.
Li Lin continued to study the recent minor problems in the Gebojia plan in his workshop.
After a while, he had to go to Silko to discuss the arrest of Lenata.
The Piltover police have mastered specific criminal evidence of Gorask Industries, but specific operations need to have accurate and comprehensive intelligence before they can begin.
Gorask Industries is currently the backbone enterprise of Zaun. Any mistakes may lead to the unemployment of thousands of Zaun people, thus triggering turmoil.
Even though Li Lin guaranteed that he could take over Lenata's business, Sheriff Grayson didn't dare to make a decision too easily, and repeatedly sought out Karina and Mel to confirm relevant operational matters.
After all, Lenata is an unscrupulous alchemist baron, and even Hilko can't do anything to her, which is enough to witness her abilities.
Li Lin didn't know what this guy had behind him, so he didn't dare to directly locate her and arrest her.
She was afraid that when the time came, she would have no way to escape, and she would drag the entire Zuan to be buried with her.
However, recently, Piltover police finally clarified the specific actions to capture Gorask.
At Li Lin's request, it was also because he was worried that there was a spy arranged by Lienata in the Piltover police.
Sheriff Grayson did not reveal anything about the operation to anyone else. He only reported it to Li Lin and Caitlin, the main players involved in the operation, and to the congressmen.
But for some reason, Lenata seems to have sensed a crisis recently and has gone into hiding again and no longer appears in public.
Even the detectives who usually pretend to be residents of the Gorask Industrial Complex can't figure out her location.
This makes the task difficult.
It was for this reason that Li Lin made an appointment to meet with Hilko.
After completing the work at hand, he put on his armor and asked Zhinao to inform the servants at home about his departure.
When the skylight was fully unfolded, the armor's plasma jet device spurted out flames, and Li Lin soared into the sky.
Then, he went down the Piltover Grand Canyon and came to the Border Market on the upper level of Zaun, the building where Hilko usually worked.
After telling his subordinates, Li Lin took the elevator to the top floor and entered Hilko's smoky office.
He was sitting in his office chair, his legs crossed on the desk, holding a glass of whiskey with ice cubes in one hand, holding a cigar in the other hand, and staring at the recently configured computer screen with his right eye.
"Have you found out where Gorask is?" Li Lin asked straight to the point.
"No, this old fox is very cunning."
Hilko glanced up at Li Lin, stretched out his hand to put out the cigar, and had almost no expression on his face as usual.
"I heard that you said at the Evolution Day Conference that you were going to build a device that could fly out of Runeterra and lock onto anyone on the planet?"
"Are you confused? The thing that can lock everyone is the miniature rune land, a device of another professor in the academy."
Li Lin took off his armor and parked it in a corner of the room. He walked straight to his desk, pulled out a chair and sat down.
"The device I'm talking about is called an artificial satellite, and it is used to explore resources and assist in research. It does not have the function of locating someone for the time being."
"For the time being." Hilko rubbed his chin with a smile on his face, "It's only been a year and you have reached this level. It's beyond my expectation."
"I didn't come to you today to listen to your emotions and talk about such irrelevant topics." Li Lin leaned on the back of the chair and tapped the chair's deputy with his fingers. "The longer the Gorask matter is delayed, the worse it will be for us. .”
"Did someone in the Piltover police leak about this operation?" Silko asked a question, "You know, the glimmer of light on Gorask's hand has the function of making people reveal the truth."
"It's impossible. We didn't place any undercover agents in Gorask Industry at all, and the plainclothes officers who monitored Gorask didn't understand our actions."
Li Lin shook his head and rejected, "Besides, Sheriff Grayson has not revealed any information about this operation. The only people who know about it are her, Caitlin, a few congressmen and me."
"This is strange..." Hilko frowned and thought, "Is it possible that Gorask's hiding is not because of this incident?"
After saying this, Li Lin suddenly felt uneasy for some reason.
At this point, even Camille is no longer his opponent. Even though he has not yet completely controlled the Twin Cities, everything is basically under his control.
There shouldn't be any big events here...
etc!
Li Lin's breath froze, and a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
According to the original world line, the leakage of alchemical gas in Zu'an probably occurred in the past two years!
This was an unexpected event with extremely negative consequences.
Although the death toll is not worth mentioning compared to the "Great Collapse" event that failed to build the canal two hundred years ago, the impact on Zaun was far-reaching.
Under the influence of the highly toxic haze and chemical liquids, not only the area near the incident, but almost the entire Zaun was affected.
This incident was not only the most depressed period for Zaun in more than ten years, but the economy, people's daily lives, and the quality of the living environment were greatly reduced, making it even more difficult for them to hold their head high in front of Piltover.
In the original world line, the reason why Orianna accepted her father's Hex-enhancing transformation and became the later Clockwork Demon was because of this incident.
She went down to Zaun to repair breathing station equipment to help others, and even gave her breathing filter device to a child, causing her lungs to be eroded by an alchemical poisonous infection and her life was in danger.
According to Lenata's winning people's hearts and her unscrupulous style of acting, what is the easiest way for her to control Zaun?
Save the people of Zuan from fire and water.
But now that alchemical technology is being replaced by safer modern earth technology, the accidental leak of alchemical gas in the original world line will probably not happen.
But for Lenata...
Thinking of this, Li Lin stood up suddenly. The sudden move startled Hilko, "What are you doing?"
he asked in confusion.
"Are there any clusters of alchemy workshops now?" Li Lin's expression and tone were serious.
"What you are asking... I understand your desire to replace unstable alchemy technology, but it is undeniable that there are still many people who need to eat this bowl of rice."
Hilko didn't understand what was going on with Li Lin, but he still answered his question.
"To get to the point, I want to know where some dangerous alchemy technology workshops gather, especially those places with great safety risks!" Li Lin said almost in a commanding tone.
Silko can become half of the leader of Zaun and conquer a group of alchemy barons with his own personal charm and strength. Naturally, he cannot be a fool.
He didn't pay attention to Li Lin's tone and quickly reacted, "Do you suspect that Lenata might be tampering with this?"
"That's right."
Li Lin walked to his armor parked in the corner of the room and put it on again.
"Today, Zu An is becoming more and more different from what she expected. With her character, she will definitely arrange an event that can greatly win over people's hearts."
Hearing what he said, Hilko's brows furrowed even more tightly.
Lenata is indeed such a crazy person.
She is different from people like Fander and herself who have also been bullied by the upper city.
They think about Zaun and want to lead Zaun to rise and bring a good life to the people of Zaun.
But Lenata...
She has been completely swallowed up by hatred and only wants to avenge her parents and her own tragic past.
If she could overthrow Piltover, she would do it even if the entire Zaun was buried with her, and she wouldn't even blink an eye.
Hilko held the mouse, clicked a few times on the computer, and showed the map of Zaun that Li Lin had passed to him before.
"The green area is where alchemy workshops gather. I plan to negotiate with the technicians to transform these areas into factories in the future.
"As for the red part, I focus on it..."
Before he finished speaking, the two of them suddenly felt a very obvious vibration coming from the floor under their feet.
Hilko quickly stood up from his chair, "Is this... an earthquake?"
"It's impossible. Although the topography of the Twin Cities is special, the crust here has been stabilized. Unless the Piltover Canyon is dug..."
Just as he was speaking, Li Lin's expression suddenly changed and he clenched his fists.
Inside the armor, Zhinao received a message from the mechanical engineers in the lower city of the middle square:
[Master, a very serious explosion occurred in the alchemy workshop area connected to the middle-level square and the ditch area. Alchemy gas and chemical poison leaked seriously. 】
[Mechanical engineers are currently performing search and rescue missions, and the number of casualties has not yet been determined. 】