Chapter 260 [0258] Risk Avoidance and Reading

With the surrender of the last assassin, the Talis couple (or the fiancée) finally won the raid - it was from this spineless mouth that Jace and Mel got the news that Jagu had let the wolf into the house.

"Noxus attacked Piltover? This is impossible, my mother didn't tell me this!" Mel screamed, "I just kept my engagement secret from her, it's not that serious at all..."

"Calm down, dear." Looking at Mel who was a little crazy, Jace scratched his head helplessly, "It's not your mother, he said it was Swain - the Swain who was defeated in Ionia."

"Swain, Swain, that's right, Swain." Mel rubbed his eyebrows, "Wait, I heard that Swain has been driven out of the Immortal Bastion, is this a secret move?"

Hearing what Mel said, Jace was stunned for a moment, and then soon frowned.

Obviously, they had no idea that Swain's attack on Piltover was an absolute solo move, and they could not guess that Swain was ready to bring order to Noxus. The two of them looked at each other and thought of "Noxus pretended to exile Swain for the purpose of a surprise attack".

As for the killer's confession, such as "many soldiers were disabled" and "relying on the cargo ship of the Gunnoga family to bypass the defense on the dock", they were also interpreted as "this was a prepared and premeditated attack".

In this way, after the captured killer confessed all the information, Jayce and Mel were somewhat panicked.

Jayce was worried that Piltover would fall. In his opinion, with the inner ghost leading the way, the situation in Piltover had reached the most critical moment.

Mel was worried about herself and her family - she did not receive any news in advance. Was she abandoned by her mother? Or, in order to protect herself, her mother opposed this military action, which led to the rise of the branch forces represented by Jagu?

The two fell silent at the same time.

Fortunately, Jace and Mel were not ordinary people. After a short silence, they calmed down and began to deal with the current situation.

Because he was in a newly built private laboratory and had no access to the sound transmission tube, Jace knew nothing about the situation in Piltover. In this case, it was not easy for him to rashly go to the parliament building to meet up with others - so after thinking about it, the best way was to go home and take his mother and retreat to the south.

According to the captive, the entire northern part of the city is now in the hands of the Noxians, and except for a canal, the only defensive fortresses in the entire Piltover are the academy, the parliament building, the Stillwater Prison and the newly built joint cooperation laboratory.

Therefore, Jace planned to go to the nearest joint cooperation laboratory after picking up his mother and taking Victor with him.

Mel's idea was highly consistent with his - although she still had a considerable influence on the Midalda family, under the current circumstances, she really didn't dare to go north rashly, and Heimerdinger had always had some conflicts with her at the academy, so Mel's best choice now was to go to the joint cooperation laboratory.

In this way, the two packed up the most precious materials and works in this private laboratory, tied up the unfortunate assassin, left him in the laboratory, and ran to the craftsman area together.

Because Jagu was eager to kill people and to control all the resources of the Midalda family, when the two of them took action, Piltover had not yet become chaotic. They successfully picked up Jayce's mother, packed up everything, and went straight to the joint cooperation laboratory.

When they arrived at the joint cooperation laboratory, Caitlyn had just gathered the nearby law enforcement officers and took them away. The two sides were not on the same road and missed each other perfectly.

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As the joint cooperation experiment progressed, Victor had gradually become familiar with the days of being studied as "experimental equipment".

To be honest, at the beginning, Victor was not used to this feeling, because most of the experimenters seemed a bit stupid to him. If it weren't for the fact that his working hours were strictly limited after the joint cooperation experiment began, with Kubricka's full teaching, Victor himself would probably be another Hex crystallographer after Hakim.

With the shortened working hours and the use of some targeted drugs, Victor's physical condition has magically improved a lot, and his experimental assistant Skye has also been transferred to become his life assistant.

In a sense, this period of time is the happiest time in Victor's life.

This happiness and leisure made Victor even a little overwhelmed. With Skye watching, he was not even allowed to pick up paper and pen outside the prescribed study time. In this case, he rarely began to think about life, thinking about some things that he never thought about and were closer to sensibility.

Usually Skye would read books to him, and in order to prevent Victor from having wild thoughts, Skye read him mostly novels with history and mythology as the main content.

For Victor, this can almost be regarded as another world.

Sometimes Victor even thought that even if his surgery failed and he eventually died on the operating table, perhaps his body would have an important meaning in future history books?

Born in the shabby Zaun, he entered the highest school in Piltover with difficulty, and then became one of the discoverers of Hex Technology and witnessed the rebirth of Zaun...

The much more open-minded Viktor became less and less like a lonely survivor, especially after Skye read several books published by Zaun that were about some of the non-fiction books about the Rune Wars. He even had a vague sense of The feeling of surviving a disaster.

If it was not a joint experiment, but a groping alone, he could not imagine what would happen.

When this shocking upheaval occurred in Piltover tonight, Skye was holding a hardcover copy of "Gravel Dance" and had read the last chapter to Victor.

"The yellow sand is still long, and when the wind blows, Minowe is still the same as when she was a child, wishing she could have eyelashes as long as Scarash."

"But unlike when she was little, Minowe no longer envies their wide feet."

"A smile bloomed on her face, and the corners of her mouth seemed to be like the rippling bend of the seasonal river at the head of the village every spring."

"She tapped her toes, just like she had done every year for the past ten years when she took the stage to dance for the Ascension Ceremony."

"But this time, Minowe didn't step on the gilded stage, which was sprinkled with paint and gold powder. She stepped on Pinocca's old boots, just like the two children playing the game of stepping on shadows."

"She is no longer the golden dancer playing the role of the ascended martial queen, and she no longer needs gold-plated wings."

"She laughed happily and from the bottom of her heart, looking at the shock and dullness on Pinocca's face with satisfaction. Her long hair spread out covering his slave mark, just like ten years ago, when he used a kite to The shield covered her body."

"'I...I'm not.' Pinocca's eyes were evasive, 'I'm just a slave.'"

"'The ascended Martial Queen will not allow any slaves in Shurima.' Mimicking the aria-like tone of the choir,' the smile on Minowe's face disappeared like a seasonal river, and her expression once again became the one she usually sees in Pinocca. On the stage, I imitated the appearance when I was promoted to the Queen of War, 'Stand up, warrior, stand up!'"

"'You are gold.' Pinocca whispered, 'and I am just gravel.'"

"'Gold originally comes from gravel. Someone dug out the gold and polished it until it was shining. However, in Soansa, these gold objects will be thrown into the sand waterfall, and the gold and yellow sand will become one again. .'"

"Pinocca's throat moved. That's how she is. She always has her own reasons."

"Minowe tore off her own gold threads from the expensive Nashemara silk, and embroidered Soangsa sand waterfalls swayed in the wind."

"Just like the real Soangsa Sand Falls, flowing down in the silent night."

This is the first novel with obvious love elements that Skye has read for Victor - after reading the end, the cryptic words in the text made people blush, and Skye, who put down the book, couldn't help but want to raise his hand. Pick up a book and cover your face.

Did Victor understand?

You should understand, right?

He won't misunderstand anything...

Well, no one told me that there is such content in it!

The assistant lady was almost boiling now. Reading this kind of cryptic article to her sweetheart, even if it was just a few words at the end, still made her extremely embarrassed. The moment she buried her head, her glasses All covered with a layer of fog.

Then, just when she didn't know what to say, Victor stood up without warning and took her hand.

Skye's eyes widened.

She looked at Victor in disbelief, and her heart seemed to beat out of her chest. When her mind went blank, she subconsciously closed her eyes.

However, the imagined situation did not occur.

Instead of doing what Skye thought he would do, Victor pulled her to the window.

"Look, a light appears over Zu An!"

Skye opened her eyes in disappointment and helplessness, and then saw the bright light summoned by Lux rising into the sky!

All the charm disappeared at this moment. Skye took off his glasses and wiped them quickly, and then said in disbelief: "What is that?"

"It should be a warning or something." Victor said in a solemn tone, "Miss Lux of Zaun seems to be issuing some kind of signal or order..."

At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door outside Victor's residence.

"Victor! Open the door, I'm Jace! Something big has happened!"

Kalya's Little Class·"Dance of Gravel":

This is a Shurima literary masterpiece wrapped in a love novel. Although the main plot is just a story about a pair of childhood sweethearts who care about each other and finally come together after many years of twists and turns, through the perspective of the male and female protagonists, the novel shows After the collapse of the Shurima Empire, each city-state regarded itself as Shurima orthodoxy, slavery was revived and became popular, and the nobility and the poor were completely separated. Ironically, each city-state would hold festivals to commemorate the ascended warrior queen. Self-expression as much as possible, but all this is based on the suffering of countless slaves, and Setaka himself is a staunch anti-slavery person.

This novel has a comic ending, but in the eyes of many literary critics in Shurima, it is just a metaphor of a peach blossom garden.

PS. Is this chapter considered to be sweet?