Chapter 142 [0140] A Walk in the Night

Lux is working overtime.

Ino is waiting for her to finish overtime.

Camille left the manor for the first time and walked in the night.

In the past, Camille liked to walk in the haze of Zaun - it was full of inhalable particles that made people unable to breathe. Ordinary people could not walk in it, but Camille's modified respiratory system could breathe freely.

This kind of walking alone in the haze always makes Camille have a strong feeling of "I am still alive".

After all, she is already an old man over a hundred years old.

Even after the transformation of Heike's body, her body will not become weak due to aging, but the aging of her mentality is as inevitable as the rust and fatigue of parts.

In order to avoid this trouble, Camille has made a lot of efforts. She strengthens many of her daily behaviors (such as drinking tea) and makes them her own habits, and embellishes her every day through these habits.

And walking in the haze was once her habit.

Unfortunately, she had to give up this habit in the past two years - because of Zaun's vigorous governance, the haze disappeared.

It was quite sudden.

Thinking of this, Camille shook her head, activated the grappling hook on her leg, the claw at the end grabbed the eaves, and the whole person quickly rushed out.

In the moonlight, a lonely figure crossed the Sun Gate Strait like a dragonfly skimming the water and came to the edge of the college area.

Here, Camille saw the familiar haze again - although the scale and concentration were not as large as Zaun, it still created a hazy atmosphere in the night.

Here are several newly built Hextech crystal primary processing factories in Piltover.

Before everything happened, Camille never thought that Piltover would lose Zaun one day - she let go of Zaun and handed it over to the Noxians to toss, expecting that Zaun would be severely damaged by the toss, and then realize its weakness and eliminate the rebellious heart that should not have been there.

After all, everything in Zaun depends on Piltover.

But just as she was cleaning up the mess in the parliament, the situation in Zaun was completely beyond her expectations.

In fact, after hearing the news from Finn, Camille had already realized that Zaun was out of control, but when she freed her hands and wanted to teach the arrogant Zaun people a lesson, she was shocked to find that Zaun had a young protector at some point.

That's right, Camille couldn't understand the ideas brought by Lux. Compared with "believing that Lux would bring fairness to everyone in Zaun", she was more willing to believe that Lux was the protector and ruler of Zaun.

Three years ago, Camille and Lux ​​had a small conflict. In the end, Camille did not teach the Zaun people a lesson as she wanted, but the hook on her left leg needed a major repair.

Since then, Piltover has lost Zaun.

Later, as Zaun closed the sewage channel and stopped selling the raw materials needed to make hex crystals, several members of the parliament had expressed their desire to teach Zaun a lesson.

Camille said nothing about these proposals.

Then, these discerning councillors stopped talking and shut up.

Losing Zaun brought a lot of trouble to Piltover, but fortunately Jayce lived up to Camille's expectations - with the launch of the Hextech Accelerator, Piltover ushered in a new economic growth point.

The problem of losing Zaun was soon covered by the prosperity of Hextech, and the Sun Gate still opened and closed on time every day, and a steady stream of wealth still flowed into Piltover on time.

In Piltover, there is money to be made, and any contradiction is not a contradiction, and any problem is not a problem.

And... look at these newly built Hextech crystal factories - Piltover, which lost Zaun, also needs a place to carry extra manpower.

Walking through the thin haze, Camille first inspected the factories of the Ferros family for a week, and then stretched out the grappling hook and sent herself to the tallest bell tower in the college area.

News has come from Bilgewater that the Noxians suffered a great defeat in Ionia. It is said that their commander had one arm removed by the Ionians.

Some people say it was two, but it is not important anymore.

Considering that the number of Noxian military supplies passing through the Sungate Strait has been decreasing in the past two months... I am afraid that the situation of the Noxians in Ionia is irreversible.

Since the defeat of Noxus is a foregone conclusion, Camille needs to consider how to deal with the reduction of Sungate's income.

Without the military supplies of the Noxians, the port will start to cry poor again.

Originally, in order to prevent this situation, Camille took the initiative to contact the Bilgewater people, hoping that those guys with ships could run more transportation after the Noxians were finished.

As a result, those water rats in Bilgewater can only be described as having no ambitions, especially that bastard named Gangplank. Even if the parliament is willing to provide him with tax incentives, he is still unwilling to get involved in the business field.

He owns the Hook Gang, a huge pirate group that controls the entire Bilgewater, but his mind is as narrow as a needle tip. He only thinks about plundering, collecting tickets, and attacking any pirates who show up...

Trading with that guy is definitely the worst investment Camille has made in the past three years.

He deserves to be poor for the rest of his life.

Without the pirates taking action, the cargo throughput of the Sungate will definitely drop sharply after the Noxian military funds are gone, and the wealth flowing into Piltover will also decrease.

As the largest source of wealth in Piltover, the turmoil of the Sungate is likely to cause turmoil in the entire Piltover.

What a trouble.

Piltover is not peaceful in the moonlight.

Camille's eyes lit up red, and her sight passed through the relatively thin haze and quickly looked at the factory in the night.

The rapid development of Hextech has prompted the factory to work overtime. The workers hope to increase overtime pay, but the factory owners obviously don't think so - and this contradiction that was once everywhere in Zaun now appears in Piltover.

And it is getting worse.

This makes Camille a little worried.

Although reason tells her that everything that happens in Zaun is almost unrepeatable, without another Lux as the protector of these Piltover workers, they can only fight a little.

But then again, even if it only caused these workers to have unrealistic ideas that they shouldn't have, it would still cause a lot of trouble for Piltover.

The experience of those reckless Zaun people rushing to the Sun Gate and finally encountering failure would make people give up the idea of ​​trying again.

But the success of Zaun under Lux's leadership would only make people want to copy and try again.

Camille had a headache when she thought of this problem.

The increasingly high price of crystal ore and transportation costs have caused the owners of Hex Crystal and Hextech factories to become more and more dissatisfied, and they have repeatedly asked the Sun Gate Strait and Piltover Port to reduce the fees for "their own people".

But how could the port staff allow this to happen?

The two sides have been arguing in the parliament for several days - Hextech and Sungate Port are the two legs of Piltover and the foundation of this city. This kind of quarrel is meaningless, but it is enough to illustrate the problem.

In Camille's eyes, this thriving city is facing a huge crisis.

Camille, who had undergone Hextech transformation, believed that Hextech was the future of Piltover; but as a member of the Ferros family, she knew better than anyone that the Sun Gate was the present of Piltover.

As for Piltover's past...

In theory, Piltover's past was Zaun.

So, when the future and the present conflict, we can also look back at the past?

Do you want to talk to the protector of Zaun?

She raised her head slightly, and at this moment, Camille's eyes flashed red again.

After calculating the chips in her hand, the Gray Lady gave up the idea of ​​meeting Miss Lux in person - it was obviously not a good choice to take the initiative to come to the door. Piltover needed Zaun, but not to that extent.

Before the formal contact, maybe I need a little preliminary test... maybe?

As for the manpower used for the test...

Hasn't that little guy named Victor been submitting applications to go to Zaun recently?

Let him go back and take a look - after all, he was born in Zaun, and he did this to a large extent for Zaun.

It would be the best thing to send such a person to Zaun to test him.

Well, it's decided.

Thinking of this, Camille simply threw out the grappling hook, jumped down from the clock tower, and then floated steadily outside the window of an office with lights on, and reached out to knock on the glass window.

A moment later, the glass window was opened, revealing a very surprised face.

"Who are you?!" The other party never expected that someone would knock on the window in the middle of the night. He was obviously startled when he opened the window. "I'm going to call security--"

"Don't be nervous, Skye." In front of the operating table, Victor, who was already thin and almost unrecognizable, raised his head, "This is Ms. Camille, one of my... friends, if she is willing."

"It's an honor to be Mr. Victor's friend." Camille's body quickly "slid" into the laboratory through the window, "It's so late, are you still continuing your experiment?"

"Time waits for no one." Victor shook his head, "I still haven't got the data I want..."

"Artificial Hextech crystals are difficult to support Hextech body transformation. I told you this before." Camille frowned slightly, "Your experiment is in vain."

Victor turned a deaf ear, but Skye subconsciously wanted to refute-but after seeing Camille's body, she finally shut up embarrassedly.

After all, according to her and Victor's calculations, the use of artificial Hextech crystals for body modification is only a "theoretical possibility", but the woman in front of her is obviously a real Hextech body modifier.

However, after hesitating for a moment, she still spoke in a low voice.

"Ms. Camille, if you are really Victor's friend, can you please persuade him to work less overtime..."

"I heard that even Jayce couldn't persuade him about this matter, so I can't do it either." Unfortunately, Camille gave a negative answer at the first time, and then her eyes passed Skye and looked at Victor again, "Or, you can refer to something else, such as alchemy technology?"

"I don't have a pass to Zaun, and the parliament believes that I will be in danger in Zaun-"

"Now, you have it." Camille elegantly tore off a piece of white paper with data recorded, and signed her name on it fluently, "Take it, no one will stop you."

"..."

Victor was stunned, he blinked, looked at Camille, and then looked at the signed note.

"Why, Heimerdinger didn't tell you my identity?"

"He just asked me to stay away from you." Victor answered subconsciously, and then quickly realized that he seemed to have said something wrong, and hurriedly began to make amends, "Well, I don't think the professor meant that."

"That's what he meant." Camille smiled indifferently, "Rest early today, get yourself tidy, and go to Zaun tomorrow to see the mentor you mentioned who may help you."

"Thank you very much, Ms. Camille." Victor quickly collected the signature and took the initiative to turn off the experimental equipment, "I promise to go and come back quickly!"

"Don't be so anxious." Camille blinked, "Besides, some of the ideas of the council are good. It is indeed a bit dangerous to be alone, so this assistant lady-"

"My name is Skye!"

"Very good, Miss Skye, are you willing to follow Mr. Victor to Zaun tomorrow?"

"I'm very happy!" Skye tried to suppress the excitement in her tone, "I promise he will be fine!"

"That's good."

Hearing this, Camille nodded with satisfaction. The next moment, she opened the window again and rushed out quickly. In a leap, she disappeared into the night of Piltover.

Seeing Camille leave, Victor subconsciously reached for the experimental equipment-then, Skye rarely and forcefully stopped him.

"We're going to Zaun tomorrow." She pushed her glasses. "You need to have a good rest today. It's best to shave and change clothes."

"I'm fine now..."

"This is Ms. Camille's request." Skye finally found a way to check and balance Victor, "Be more decent - let's go, I'll take you home!"

Victor wanted to say something, but Skye had already packed his belongings very quickly, pulled him to the door, and turned off the lights.

"Let's go!" The assistant repeated in a cheerful tone, "This is Ms. Camille's request!"

Victor blinked, and finally had to tuck his file bag under his armpit, followed Skye, and temporarily left the laboratory.

Karya's small class· Piltover's Hextech Crystal Primary Processing Factory:

In the past, the highly polluting work of the primary processing of magic crystal mines was done by Zaun. When the people of Piltover began to take over this task, in order to recruit workers willing to work in a harsh environment, they had to pay high salaries and provide special insurance - fortunately, Hextech technology has brought these crystal clear crystals with extremely high added value, otherwise they might even give up this industry.

PS. Extra update 3/30, a genuine 4,000-word extra update, hahahaha!