Chapter 273 The Era of Change

When Camille killed her brother, she removed the last piece of weakness in her heart.

The weak-hearted woman she once was no longer exists, and now there is only darkness and coldness in her heart.

In Li Lin's opinion, Camille now has almost no weaknesses, which is in line with the true image of the "Grey Lady" in his mind.

Of course, she just has "almost no weaknesses".

Camille's former lover actually died of old age, and Li Lin still knew this.

The only one left that can be used as a threat to her is the Philos family.

Li Lin really didn't want to use this to coerce Camille, but judging from the current situation and her actual thoughts, it was completely impossible.

The Gray Lady has never been a qualified behind-the-scenes ruler. She keeps saying that she wants to maintain the stability of the Twin Cities, but her actual approach is obvious to all.

Are the Twin Cities stable?

Unstable.

Without Li Lin, Zaun’s alchemy barons, Lenata Gorask, inferior and unstable alchemy technology, and even Fander Warwick who became the Raging Beast of Zaun, and Urgot among the hooks All will be threats.

In Piltover, the smuggling of large quantities of Hex technology, the invasion of the Noxian War Masons, the monopoly of power and property by the Council and the Great Houses, the decadence of the entire city, the large-scale destruction of Jinx...

Later, the golden demon of Ionia, Kadar Jhin, came to Piltover to cause trouble, and was hunted down by a group of elite law enforcement officers led by Camille.

Even so, she allowed the opponent who had been prepared to escape and failed to capture him.

No matter which point it is, it threatens the stability of these two "twin sister" city-states.

But since Camille took over as the head of the Feros family and became the true ruler behind Piltover, none of these matters have been resolved.

She didn't even contribute as much as Caitlin, who would become Piltover's police chief in the future, in maintaining Piltover's stability.

Camille has always been a selfish person. Everything she does is for the Philos family. Even when she looks at the Twin Cities, she puts her family first.

In other words, a person like her who only focuses on one corner of the world and is fighting for power and profit is nothing more than a frog in a well.

However, Li Lin understands Camille quite well. After all, she does not know about the upcoming world crisis and has never considered it.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Lin was so unceremonious about Camille's idea of ​​​​taking control of Piltover.

I've almost gotten the Twin Cities back on track, you want to cause trouble for me?

Almost done.

Although Camille was very dissatisfied with Li Lin's tough attitude, there was nothing she could do.

What he said is indeed good and reasonable. He really thinks about the Twin Cities and wants to lead the Twin Cities to rise.

Of course, this was just one of the reasons why she compromised.

There is also a more important reason...

She couldn't beat Li Lin at all.

Not only in terms of individual strength, since the aid to Zaun some days ago, the batches of fully functional and huge number of intelligent robots are not something Camille can compete with.

Besides, she also heard that Li Lin was "hooking up" with Janna, the legendary goddess of wind...

Looking back on the past, Camille realized that in just over a year, Li Lin had gone from being a handyman in a clock repair shop to where he is now.

Looking at Piltover's past, even Zaun had never given birth to a genius like him.

Perhaps Li Lin can really bring changes to the Twin Cities and lead the Twin Cities to the top of the world.

Camille thought to herself.

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The next day, under Camille's instruction, the Philos family announced the news of the "passing away" of the family leader Stevan.

The new head of the family will be his great-niece Abir Feros.

Karina seemed a little panicked. She ran to Li Lin's room early in the morning, knocked on his door, and almost discovered that he was in Caitlin's room last night.

She just wanted to know in detail what happened last night:

Why did this old guy die after Li Lin attended the party invited by Stevan?

Although Karina hated Stevan, she wouldn't just kill him, right?

Li Lin was helpless and stated the facts to Camille as agreed with her.

Stevan died of a heart attack at the banquet. It happened so suddenly that no one expected that such a thing would happen.

After hearing that Stevan's death had nothing to do with Li Lin, Karina was relieved and asked him to prepare in advance and attend Stevan's funeral some time later.

In fact, it was not just Gila Mann, but the entire Piltover, especially the major parliamentarians and powerful families, exploded.

Philos is the ruler behind the scenes in the upper city, and they all know it.

Now that the head of the family, Stevan, has died, Yabus, as they expected, has not taken over, but has been replaced by his sister as the head of the family. All the big families have their own evil thoughts.

If they can bring down the Philos family, they can truly control the lifeblood of Piltover.

However, when they saw Camille appearing in public at Stevan's funeral, those little thoughts were instantly abandoned and replaced by panic.

The Gray Lady unexpectedly stopped covering her whereabouts and became the head of the family together with an innocent little girl who was not even an adult...

They probably guessed why Camille stopped hiding herself as an agent.

Stevan's funeral was very grand, and almost all the famous Piltover families sent representatives to attend his farewell. It was also Camille's last confession to her brother.

The Gila Mann family in attendance were Karina, Elro, Lilin and Caitlin.

Kasha did not belong to the Gila Mann family, and Li Lin had many considerations, so she was not allowed to attend such a funeral.

Taking this opportunity, Li Lin also met many people he had never met before.

For example, Jal Midarda, the son of Jagu Midarda, the head of the Midarda family, received the news that he finally returned from his expedition to Shurima, which made his old father relieved.

and Lemire, a well-known archeology professor at the University of Piltover.

He is the uncle of little yellow-haired Ezreal, and he is also the main person in charge of going to the Howling Abyss to participate in excavation and archaeological activities in the future. He is also the shop owner of the red side in the battle.

Beside him, there was a younger-looking couple chatting and laughing with him.

According to Jess's introduction, they were also well-known archaeologists from the School of Archeology. They had just returned from Shurima and were related to Professor Lemire.

Only then did Li Lin realize that they were Ezreal's parents, and it was their disappearance during the Shurima archaeological activities that prompted Ezreal to embark on the path of an explorer.

What made Li Lin feel confused was that he didn't know whether to stop Ezreal's parents from continuing to go to Shurima for archaeology.

After all, in the original world line, Ezreal had been searching for them for many years, but no trace of them was found. There was a high probability that they died accidentally.

Doing nothing to save them was not what Li Lin expected, but he didn't know which archaeological expedition the couple would "disappear" in, and it wasn't easy to persuade them.

After careful consideration, Li Lin temporarily gave up the idea of ​​getting acquainted with them and persuading them.

Being inappropriate at a funeral is one thing, not knowing what reasons to advise them on is another.

You can't say that I know the plot. If you continue to do archaeology, you will be buried in the sand in a certain operation, right?

Moreover, since they chose the path of archeology and dared to explore dangerous places like Shurima, they basically knew their possible end.

Even if Li Lin tried to persuade them by saying "you might lose your life", they would just laugh it off and not take it to heart.

After almost a busy day, Stevan was finally buried in the "family cemetery" behind Lanxun Manor, and the funeral came to an end.

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Until now, the Twin Cities are truly in a stable state, and all threats have been completely resolved.

Li Lin can finally let go and improve the technological level of the twin cities.

As for Piltover's "twisted" institutional problems, big families are in power, leading to corruption in the city from all aspects, etc.

This cannot be changed in a short period of time. We can only improve the law step by step, and we need the help of Congressman Karina.

What needs to be done most now is to first improve the combat effectiveness of the twin cities so that they have the strength to deal with various upcoming world crises.

More than a month later, Li Lin first handed over all the daily furniture design drawings he had mentioned to Karina and asked her to arrange production issues.

In addition, Zaun is an oil-rich place, and this strategic resource has been dug out in many places in the trench mines.

Li Lin sent men and mechanical engineers to continue exploring for oil in the ditch, and discovered a new mine with high yield and good quality.

It's just that these mines belong to the former alchemist baron Adrian, and Li Lin has sent people to negotiate with him to acquire the mines.

With a large amount of petroleum fuel, plus the two refineries Li Lin currently has on hand, ordinary motorcycles that can be used to replace the very expensive Hex ring bikes and Hex two-wheel motorcycles can be produced.

In addition to bicycles for daily travel, motorcycles will also become a great convenience for people to travel.

As for four-wheeled vehicles, given Piltover's current densely populated buildings and road traffic conditions, it is highly likely that it will not be possible.

Unless Piltover can expand outwards and demolish and transform the main city, it may be possible to use cars as the main means of transportation like on Earth.

The development of the upper city is orderly, and Zaun is even more so.

The first church of the Goddess of Wind has been built in the middle square. Devout believers selected by Li Lin and Janna serve as bishops and godfathers, guiding the believers who come to pray every day.

According to Zhinao's statistics, there are currently more than 20,000 people registered as believers in the Goddess of Wind Sect, and this number is still increasing rapidly.

The church in Piltover has not yet begun construction, and many believers from the upper city take the elevator from time to time to come to the middle square to worship.

Janna's divine power is recovering rapidly, and it won't take long for her to return to her peak, or even far beyond it.

As a result, Li Lin quickly produced a new batch of mechanical engineers and asked them to start large-scale construction of wind power stations in the Piltover Grand Canyon.

With Janna's help, this power station will provide most of the electricity to the Twin Cities, far more than the current tidal power station and several thermal power stations combined!

Not only that, the Gilaman family's expedition team has returned, and the first batch of ores collected from Shurima that can be used to extract nuclear fusion elements are already in place.

Coupled with the special magic materials that Rambo mined and transported from the outskirts of Bandel City, Gaboga's energy is no longer a problem.

It is expected that it will only take a few weeks for Gaibuga's right arm, which Li Lin is focusing on, to be completely completed.

If we put aside the future world crisis, everything in the Twin Cities will be prosperous.

The time for change has arrived.

Thanks to the loser for the reward as he is still tired today

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The extra chapter of Chapter 234 has been written in more than 2,000 words. I understand everything you need to understand (°°)