Chapter 156 [0154] Piltover Reporter

No matter where it is, the opening ceremony is often accompanied by a long speech.

This time, the joint cooperation between the two cities is no exception.

Or, because this is the only official communication between Piltover and Zaun, both sides are holding back their energy and want to show their superiority, which leads to an exceptionally long opening speech...

In the Zaun laboratory, the great alchemist Lady Renata raised her left arm and spoke incessantly; in the Piltover laboratory, Kubricka, who is already an octogenarian, also rarely cheered up and added a lot of content that was almost like advertising in his speech according to Camille's request.

In this case, the opening ceremony was dragged on for a long time.

Reporters from Zaun and Piltover acted separately on both sides, taking shorthand notes of the two people's speeches in sections, intending to go back and summarize them and make a big news.

And Wei and Caitlyn, who were responsible for security, focused their attention and blocked these overly energetic reporters outside the cordon.

Fortunately, there were no accidents at the opening ceremony. After the project leaders on both sides finished their speeches, Renata and Kubricka formally exchanged cooperation agreements on the elevator and sent a technical support team. The entire cooperation project was finally officially launched.

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Seeing Renata return with the cooperation agreement and several Piltover Hex scientists, Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was not easy.

She thought that Fandel's long and boring speeches before every meeting were the most annoying, but she didn't expect that Ms. Renata, who was always polite, would also give people a headache when giving a speech.

Could it be that the small podium has some special magic?

Anyone who climbs on it will talk endlessly?

Shaking her head, Wei excluded this unreliable idea from her mind and looked at the reporters who rushed to take pictures of Renata.

Wei didn't like reporters from Piltover.

Not only because they were from Piltover.

More importantly, in their reports, Zaun seemed to be a barren land with nothing to lose.

Wei empathizes with the criticism of Zaun cuisine.

Reports on Zaun's poor supply of materials can barely be considered "easy to cause misunderstanding."

But apart from that, a large number of reports claiming that Zaun people are ignorant and ignorant, as well as news with obvious map cannons, are simply nonsense.

Moreover, it seems that for the sake of sales, these Piltover reporters are particularly fond of making gossip. Although they dare not directly make big news against Lux, they have no scruples when it comes to making rumors and causing trouble in Zaun except Lux.

In just the past year, Vandel inexplicably has more than a dozen old lovers in Piltover newspapers - some of these people are reporters' hearsay, some are people who can't make it in Piltover and want to sell news to make some money, and some are closely related to the few alchemy barons who were lucky enough to escape to Piltover...

Even when he was running a tavern, Vandel was not as popular as the newspapers said.

In this situation, it was difficult for Wei to have any good feelings towards these bastard reporters from Piltover - she really didn't understand why Lux had to allow these reporters to make up stories and actively allow them to enter Zaun?

Shaking her head, Wei stopped thinking about these messy things, and began to check the reporters' belongings after they finished their interviews.

This was necessary inspection and management, and Wei didn't think these reporters had any bottom line.

"This is interference with freedom of speech!" A guy wearing glasses shouted loudly, "What are you Zaun people hiding?"

"This is a necessary review of public opinion." Wei shook her head indifferently and focused her eyes on the other party's badge, "Jorfo, a reporter from Piltover Culture Weekly, right? Very good, everyone will know tomorrow that you have lost the qualification to interview this cooperation, and all the news in your newspaper is fake news - now, you can leave."

Hearing Wei say this, the other party's face finally changed.

"We are not afraid of power!" Although his body was shaking, Jorfo still maintained his tough expression, "You are manipulating public opinion and creating biased reports..."

"Yes, yes, yes, well said." Wei looked nonchalant and even took the initiative to pat him on the face, "Stick to your freedom of the press, Piltover... people, let me see your draft, the exploration of Renata's identity..."

Wei simply read out the title he prepared on the draft.

"Alchemy family, tacit approval by senior management, low-price mergers and acquisitions, power-for-sex transactions..." Wei rubbed his temples, "You just asked Ms. Renata a question, and it was about the prospects of alchemy technology. Mr. reporter, you know so much through one question?"

In such an embarrassing situation, even other reporters from Piltover couldn't help but want to cover their faces - but Jorfo didn't feel embarrassed at all, and continued to be stubborn.

"This is necessary association and reasoning..."

"Compared to being a reporter, you should be writing novels." Wei snorted, "Besides, Ms. Renata once wrote a semi-autobiographical novel "Twenty Years". If you really want to understand her and show her to Piltover, you should just read the book carefully instead of just using the title of having participated in an interview and then making up stories without any scruples!"

"Autobiographical novels are all self-praise..."

"You haven't even read it, and you say "Twenty Years" is self-praise?" Wei finally couldn't help but raise her voice, "Are all your Piltover reporters so unskilled?!"

"I have interviewed the exiles of Piltover!" The reporter who was forced into a corner finally spoke subconsciously and said something he shouldn't have said, "They said Renata maliciously acquired their industry--"

As this sentence came out, the Piltover reporters who were still whispering and exchanging opinions before suddenly became silent.

If fabricating gossip and smearing someone's private life based on hearsay is still within the scope of tacit acceptance, then the topic this guy just mentioned is a real sensitive issue.

This idiot's reckless words raised the severity of the whole incident by more than one level-Zuan and Piltover did carry out some cooperation, but this does not mean that the two sides have bridged the contradictions.

Confrontation and competition are the main theme.

As for the chem-barons who fled to Piltover and were protected by Piltover, it is a very sensitive topic in the relationship between the two cities.

After all... why would Piltover protect these chem-barons?

Even according to Piltover's laws, these chem-barons are a group of scumbags - but they just protected these scumbags!

Obviously, the purpose of their doing this is to use them to influence Zaun as soon as they have the opportunity!

In the context of the beginning of cooperation, this kind of problem should not be put on the surface.

When the chem-barons were mentioned, Wei gave an order in a straightforward manner and directly detained all the reporters present.

Wait, wait for Piltover to come and pick them up!

Karya's Little Classroom Renata's Hostile Takeover:

When Zaun was turning upside down, the cunning Renata claimed that she had a way to escape, and bought a chem-baron factory at a low price in this way - but she did not really help the chem-baron leave, but handed him over to Lux.

The result was that after Finn arrived in Piltover, he was shocked to find that the Alchemist Baron who had vowed that "he had found a way to escape to Piltover" did not come to Piltover, but was hanged on a lamppost in his own factory.