He Comes From the Void

The two were at the university again, looking through the window, and when they saw that Heimerdinger was already working on the next round of inventions, it was telling that the event hadn't had much of an impact on his life.

"Meow~" A white cat jumped onto the window suddenly and called out to them in a childish voice. Heimerdinger also looked up, just in time to find the two coming.

"Why are you here? Come in and have a seat." Heimerdinger gestured to him for a few chairs newly moved into the laboratory, and there was finally a place to sit.

Kahn and Kai'Sa looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

They didn't want to disturb Heimerdinger. They wanted to come quietly and leave quietly, but they were disturbed by a cat. I can't help it, I've seen it all, so why don't I go in and sit down for a while.

"Wait a minute, I'll finish the work at hand first."

The two went in and sat down, and Heimerdinger asked his assistant to bring refreshments. This treatment was much better than before. It seems that Heimerdinger still made some changes.

The white cat I met at the window before walked to their feet and buried itself in eating cat food.

"Professor, you adopted Professor Feng's cat?"

"It's just a surrogate for a few days. The information I received is that he should be able to come out after the investigation. This food bowl was taken from his laboratory, and we will return it together in a few days."

Kaisha picked up the cat, while Kahn looked away from the white cat and looked at the workbench.

"Professor, what are you developing?"

"I'm going to make a change on the basis of the mine thrower and make an automatic feeding machine."

"How about making another cat teaser?"

"Good idea, then I don't have to bother to tease the cat, let it play by itself." Heimerdinger was quite happy, and then he took the wrench and focused on his work.

After sitting for a while, just when Kahn thought that Heimerdinger had forgotten the two of them, the latter suddenly jumped off the chair and came to the two of them.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Heimerdinger scratched his head, and then took out a shiny object from his unkempt hair. "Here, this is for you."

"What is this?" Kai'Sa blinked, it was a piece of blue crystal, exuding not weak magic fluctuations. Moreover, this magic power always gave her a familiar feeling.

"I disassembled the Hex Technology Converter. This is the crystal that was removed from it. I will give it to you as my thank you."

After what Heimerdinger said, Kaisha suddenly remembered... When she got the pocket watch for the first time, she felt this kind of magic power, and every time she took the scream, listening to the roar of the machine, she also felt the magic power. Feel the magic.

"But I heard that this thing is very expensive."

"It's okay. Hex crystals are also divided into original crystals and artificial crystals. The original crystals are pure blue, and you can't buy them if you have money. And this one with a little green impurity is artificially refined crystal, which is not too expensive. Take it."

"Then I won't be polite." Kai'Sa and Kahn met each other's eyes, and then accepted the crystal.

They didn't take out the crystal until they got back to the hotel.

"Did Pilt City's advancement rely on such a spar? It allowed a group of ordinary people to do many impossible things."

The sunlight passed through the blue-green crystal, refracted by multiple mirrors, and cast the light into Kai'Sa's eyes. In the brilliant light, she saw the reflection of the city.

"I seem to see the rise of this city."

"The rise of Piltover is based on sacrifices. This city is not as bright as it looks." Kahn took the hex counter he bought before and came to the window, watching the scale gradually rise, testing the The power level of a hex crystal.

Seeing Kai'Sa's suspicious look, he said unhurriedly, "The two crystals used by Hextech are not clean."

"I don't need to elaborate on the artificial crystals. They are mined from the rich crystal mine in Zaun and refined in the foundry. The pollutants produced during the process are left underground, and the finished products are sent to the ground... and the original crystals are from the shell people. Snatched from him."

"The shell people are an ancient intelligent race living in a certain valley in Shurima. Because of the Rune War, they hid underground and fell asleep, but they were dug out by the people of Piltover, took out the energy crystal in their bodies, and died innocently. The crystals taken out , called the original crystal. This race was originally small in number, and after this disaster, it is even on the verge of extinction..."

"It's so pitiful...that's why the original crystal became so rare and expensive?" Kai'Sa weighed the crystal in her hand, suddenly feeling much heavier.

"Well. The technology of Piltover relies heavily on this kind of crystal. When the resources are exhausted, people can only find other ways to maintain the operation of the city. Artificial crystals came into being, but because of this, Zaun is in dire straits."

"I don't understand... why Zaun is so barren, and people continue to live in pollution and darkness, even though Piltover is so vast, why don't they move to those places and start over?"

In Kai'Sa's view, dark and barren Zaun was no better than the void-infested subterranean caverns of Shurima.

Not only is it heavily polluted here, let alone cats, cats and dogs, the plants can’t even be kept alive, the sun can only shine into the narrow and long canyon at noon, and most of the day can only live in the dying dim of the alchemy street lamps. under the lights.

And not far from the outskirts of Picheng, there is a large plain, with mountains and water, without the threat of wild animals, the conditions are much better.

"It's not easy to start over." Kahn sighed. He didn't have any intention of changing the status quo, but he also felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

In fact, the situation in Zaan is very complicated. Those mines, factories, and medical facilities are all set up underground. In order to make money conveniently, they can only start a family underground. Once they take root, it will be very difficult to move out.

He can only pick the main ones: "The people of Zaun actually didn't live underground from the beginning. They also lived on the ground with the people of Picheng regardless of each other... until the day the canal was opened, people used explosives It blasted through the barrier between the two seas, but also caused half of the city to sink into the ground."

"So, the people of Zaun didn't take the initiative to settle underground, but were forced to live underground."

From the hotel's high-rise windows, the rift leading to Zaun can be seen directly, like a scar carved into the center of the city. At this moment, Kahn and Kaisha looked at it together.

"What kind of explosive caused an earthquake that can sink half of the city to a depth of 100 meters?" She murmured, preferring to believe that this was a natural geological movement from ancient times.

"Because this was once a port city in ancient Shurima, the city below was hollowed out as a tomb, and the executor of the Earth Splitting and Sea Gathering Project didn't know about it, so this led to a fall far beyond expectations."