Chapter 213 [0211] The Days When Lux Was Away

After Lux left, although each department prepared a work plan, when everyone's responsibilities overlapped or even conflicted, a reliable person who could solve the problem was still needed.

Ino played this role.

At dawn, Ino, who got up early, had already arrived at Zaun's government building.

As Lux's secretary and Zaun's municipal secretary, her usual work was closely related to Zaun's core information, and it was natural for her to take on heavy responsibilities when Lux was away - and because she couldn't let go of the secretary's work, she was now in a state of "one person doing half a person's work".

However, although the task was heavier, objectively speaking, Ino did a good job during this period.

To outsiders, Zaun now seemed to be competing with Piltover through joint cooperation experiments, but in fact, for Zaun now, the second three-year plan is the top priority.

The specific content of the three-year plan has to wait for Lux to come back. At present, Zaun is in the summary stage of the first three-year plan, and a large amount of data needs to be summarized and a large number of work reports are being submitted.

Processing these data and information is undoubtedly a headache.

Fortunately, Ino was the secretary-general. At the beginning of the first three-year plan, the specific implementation plans of each plan were released by her - so when she was summarizing the data and sorting out the information, she was somewhat at ease.

Everything seemed to be in order, as if without Lux, the sun of Zaun still rose as usual.

However, Ino knew very well that this was just an appearance.

The Zaun people who could not contact Lux did not change at all, but those Zaun senior leaders who could contact Lux and knew that Lux was not there were somewhat worried - going to work early to calm people's hearts.

As the person who was most familiar with Lux and had always been inseparable from Lux, Ino should have been the one who was least adapted after Lux left.

But in fact, Ino did not have such a big gap as others.

Not only did she not feel uncomfortable, she even took the initiative to release others, so that everyone would not have too much psychological pressure - because she knew from the beginning that she and Lux ​​would leave Zaun.

Most Zaun people regard Lux ​​as the savior of Zaun and the true king of Zaun.

But only Ino knew that Lux's goal had never been this.

At the beginning, Ino's ideal was just to be Lux's maid - at most the head maid.

In her eyes, Lux is the real light among lights, and even if she exhausted all her strength, she might only be able to barely catch up with her.

However, as she spent more and more time with Lux and got to know Lux more and more, Ino's thoughts finally gradually changed.

It is difficult to say whether this change came from Lux or from Kalya, but it is certain that Ino's ideal now has nothing to do with the head maid.

It took Ino several months to go from looking forward to the dazzling Lux to accepting the imperfect Lux.

It took Ino two whole years to accept Lux, who was not perfect, and understand Lux's dream.

Ino was not Lux. She grew up in an ordinary peasant family. Being a maid in the lord's house was a way to broaden her horizons, so her perspective was completely different from Lux's.

If it weren't for Kalya's guidance, Lux, who had been living a life of luxury since childhood, would probably regard most of the hard-earned things as ordinary.

And Ino probably couldn't understand what kind of life the superior people would live.

Although Lux's aunt Tiana almost sacrificed Ino for Lux, she was her aunt after all, and Lux ​​really couldn't tell Ino directly what kind of creatures the nobles were - or what kind of existence the superior people were.

So, until Zaun was reborn, Ino helped Lux ​​manage Zaun and saw a lot of ups and downs, and she clearly realized what Lux's ideal meant.

Lux had this ideal based on her kindness and her inability to accept injustice.

Ino agreed with her ideal because she herself had changed.

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Take out the key, open the office door, and sit in her own seat.

She had bought breakfast on the way, and took today's newspaper when she went upstairs - she made herself a cup of milk powder while chewing bread and flipping through the newspaper that still exuded the aroma of ink.

It was not a Zaun newspaper - because the information in the newspaper was difficult to be more detailed than the documents summarized in front of Ino - but the Piltover Daily.

First, the first page.

Well, as always, the style, the joint cooperation experiment, Piltover has made another major breakthrough... This is the fifth major breakthrough this month, but even with five breakthroughs, Viktor's Hextech body transformation plan has not been finalized.

On the second page, a large area of ​​​​a flowery article was published, the theme of which was to praise peace and look forward to the future - this was an extremely politically correct article, and it started with "peace will bring trade prosperity", and did not mention the fact that Piltover reaped the benefits of the war in the Ionian War.

Page 3 is the gossip section. Although Ino knows the protagonists of this issue (Jace and Mel, and the news says that they are on the verge of breaking up), she is obviously not interested in this part at all.

Pages 4 and 5 are new inventions. Even though the most professional Hextech scientists have been transferred away, Piltover still has a steady stream of inventions.

Although these inventions may not be really useful, their birth itself marks a kind of civilization evolution.

Although the advertisements on pages 6 and 7 are trivial, Ino still quickly scanned them from top to bottom.

Compared with the previous ones, there are obviously fewer job recruitment information, while there are a lot more job search and investment information. Even if Piltover on pages 1 and 2 is thriving, the paid advertisements on pages 6 and 7 will not deceive people.

Squinting his eyes slightly, Ino glanced at the news briefs on page 8, as well as the jokes and political satires in the corner, then ate the last piece of bread and closed the newspaper.

There was a knock on the door, and a secretary brought the documents that needed to be processed and confirmed today. Ino nodded and took the thick stack of papers, stretched his waist, propped up the burden on his chest on the table, picked up a pen, and officially started today's work.

"Three-Year Plan Achievement Exhibition", "Fifth Block Sewer Renovation", "Alchemical Power Plant Official Trial Operation", "Joint Cooperation Experiment Request to Start the Second Phase of Experiment"...

Ino patiently flipped through page after page of documents, wrote instructions on the documents that he could decide, and kept the important ones in the middle.

When the stack of documents was simply classified and written, time had unknowingly come to noon.

There was another knock on the door in the office.

"No need to deliver food today." Ino lowered his head to sort out the stack of documents, and subconsciously said, "I'll just go to the cafeteria to eat - I heard there are new dishes today."

The next moment, the door opened.

Ino raised his head with some surprise, and then saw a familiar figure with surprise.

"What new dishes are there in the cafeteria?" Lux, wearing a cape and taking off her hood, was looking at her with a smile, holding a sword. "Ino, you have become a little plumper. It seems that the food in the cafeteria has been getting better and better recently... Well, let me go, I'm going to be suffocated to death-"

Karlya's Little Classroom Piltover Newspaper Sales Strategy:

As a commercial city, everything in Piltover needs to be based on money, even newspapers.

So, even a newspaper like the Piltover Daily needs a lot of gossip and advertising pages to maintain the salaries and bonuses of reporters and editors.

Added 17/30, the perspective returns to the Twin Cities-but there is not much about the Twin Cities.