Zaun?

The second inventor of Hextech, the deputy leader of the Hextech Applied Research Research Group, a top scholar who ranks among the top three in the entire Piltover scientific community...is he from Zaun?

"No, it's impossible..."

The two Piltover aunts opened their mouths in disbelief.

Even the many Zaun students present couldn't accept this shocking fact for a while.

But Victor was very firm. For the first time in his life, he stood unabashedly in the middle of the public's sight, and unabashedly declared to everyone: "Yes, I am from Zaun!"

"You two, you should apologize." Victor repeated it word for word.

The aunts are still standing there stubbornly, as if some invisible force is supporting them, making them still refuse to let go of their pride as Mrs. Piltover.

But Victor broke their pride with one sentence:

"Please sincerely apologize—"

"Otherwise, I will directly contact my teacher, Principal Heimerdinger, to expel the two of you."

"Don't!" The aunts panicked for a moment: "I apologize...we apologize!"

"Yes... sorry!"

"Please be more sincere!"

"Yes, sorry, we were wrong!"

"Speak louder, so that everyone can't hear it." Very rarely, Victor deliberately made things difficult for others.

But those two aunts completely lost their previous stubbornness. They were as honest as a Zaun student.

No matter how difficult Victor was, they just shouted harder and harder: "I'm sorry!"

"Let's go!" Victor finally spared them: "I will let everyone pick up the rest of the stationery."

"Yes..." The two aunts immediately ran away with their tails between their legs as if they were being pardoned.

Only a group of Zaun students who were stunned and dumbfounded were left behind:

They... won?

Mrs. Piltover, apologized to them?

The students of Zaun all boiled over.

Some of them cheered loudly, while others clenched their fists excitedly, with mixed reactions.

But all looked gratefully and adoringly at the man on the steps:

"Professor Victor!"

It turned out that the people of Zaun were not inherently inferior to the people of Piltover, and they were not born to be scolded as "barbaric", "low-quality", and "not innovative".

Among the Zaan people, there are also wise, civilized, and able to lead scientific progress, such a great and proud figure!

It turns out that Zaun people have always been active in the upper floors of Piltover, which they didn't even dare to think about!

"Professor Victor, thank you!"

"Professor Victor—"

"You are the pride of us Zaun!"

Such a voice rang out from the crowd.

Victor did not enjoy the worship of these students, but asked instead: "Everyone, please be quiet..."

"Why do you say that I am the pride of the people of Zaun?"

"Huh?" The students of Zaun, who were so hot-blooded for the first time, didn't expect Victor to ask them such a question.

Why?

Of course, it is because there are tens of thousands of Zaun people, and there are also tens of thousands of Zaun people working hard in Picheng, so there is only Victor, a top scientist who can achieve such achievements.

If they are not proud of Victor's appearance, who should they be proud of?

"No, you are wrong." Victor shook his head: "I can tell you a secret that is not a secret—"

"At Piltover University alone, at least one-fifth of the scholars and professors you meet are Zaun immigrants from across the canal."

"What, what?" The students all stared in surprise.

There are so many Zaunites among the school's professors?

But why...they usually don't feel the care from professors and schools at all, instead they are discriminated against and excluded everywhere?

Why do those professors from Zu'an look so like Picheng people? Why didn't anyone stand up and admit it, even people couldn't tell, which one of them came from Zaun?

"Because they, including me—"

"We all look like Zaunites, your 'ones.' But we're not."

"So we don't need to speak out for you. I don't have to stand up today-just like I have done in the past ten years."

"Standing up for you will not only do me no good, but will only harm my interests. This is because we are no longer 'one of us'."

Victor suddenly said something incomprehensible.

The students are gradually unable to understand.

"Think about it again," Victor asked persuasively: "The two vulgar ladies just now, they thought they were the noble Mrs. Piltover, and they thought that the people of Piltover should be honored by the ancestors—"

"But why, when faced with deliberately making things difficult for me, a Zaunite, or even being rude and humiliating, these two Picheng people have no temper at all and dare not speak?"

"Think about it carefully, me and them, me and you, they and you, me and those big men in Piltover, who is their own?"

"This..." This sentence is a bit confusing.

However, the students of Zaan, who have personally experienced the turmoil just now and are generally good at thinking, have gradually discovered something:

Why are they afraid of Mother Piltover?

That's because they are afraid of causing trouble and being expelled by the school's senior management, not because they are really afraid of some aunt.

Why is aunt afraid of Professor Victor?

Because Professor Victor himself is a senior member of the school, the aunts are like grasshoppers that can be strangled to death in front of him.

"I see..." Some of the students realized something.

"Tell me?" Victor encouraged the students to speak as if he was in an open class, "What did you think of?"

I only heard the student answer: "Professor Victor, you are educating us, there is no need to feel inferior to us Zaun people."

"As long as we study hard, study hard, and rise to the top like you, even those Mrs. Piltover will have to look up to us in the future!"

Victor: "..."

He hesitated to say something, but before he could speak, someone gave an answer.

It's Lena.

She recalled everything she had experienced, thought about the questions Victor raised, and finally realized something vaguely:

"Professor Victor, you may want to tell us:"

"Close or not, is it one of us, maybe not by region, but by...status?"

"Those Zaun native professors usually don't want to stand up for us, and they don't want to show their identity as Zaun people. In fact, it's because...they are already rich in Piltover, not poor in Zaun. "

"The discrimination against the Zaun people by the people of Piltover usually doesn't fall on them, and even if it does, it won't have much impact on their good life..."

This point of view was very novel, and immediately set off a wave of discussion at the scene.

So someone soon found out that it was wrong:

"Student Lina, according to your point of view, we should get closer to those two Picheng aunts, shouldn't we?"

"But why is it still Professor Victor, who is a big shot, who stands up to speak for us, and it is Aunt Piltover who is not much better than us who makes things difficult for us?"

"Eh..." Lina lost her temper all of a sudden.

She can't answer questions of this level.

"You have answered well, Lena." Suddenly, Victor smiled at her encouragingly: "It seems that you have indeed carefully read the article in your notebook."

"Huh?" Lena was startled.

At this time, Victor slowly opened the briefcase, took out a notebook from it, and solemnly handed it back to Lena.

"This is... my thesis design?" Lina finally remembered the business: "Professor Victor, are you... are you here to inform me of the results of the discussion last night?"

Victor fell silent suddenly.

And the silence said it all.

Lina's face was ashen, and the hope that had just been ignited in her eyes was also extinguished.

But Victor told her: "Don't be discouraged, Lena."

"You were not selected by the professors of the research group, not because your thesis design is not good."

"It's because of the article in your notebook, the article we were discussing just now."

"This..." Lena pursed her lips angrily:

"Why?"

"Because of that article, they were all scared."

"Huh?" Lina didn't understand.

And the Zaun students present, whose eyes were attracted by Victor, also became curious:

The research group should be the research group of Professor Jess.

That research group gathered the world's top scientists and smartest geniuses.

What kind of article is it that makes these geniuses terrified?

"Do you want to see it?"

Victor wanted to guess what they were thinking, and turned to ask everyone.

Everyone nodded. Curiosity was aroused, and of course they wanted to see it.

"Then we can find a classroom—"

"Talk about this article well."

With that said, Victor took out another bundle of bound documents from his briefcase.

"This, this is..." Lena's eyes widened:

Isn't this a photocopy of that article?

Judging by the thickness of that pile of manuscript paper, I am afraid that dozens of copies have been reproduced.

Her brother's article... Victor actually carried dozens of copies with him like handing out leaflets?

"Professor Victor, why did you..."

"I was planning to find an opportunity to share this article with everyone."

Victor looked at these Zaun students who had been aroused and started to think, gathered together:

"Now, the opportunity is right."

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