Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

Manipulating the huge plant construct, Lux quickly completed the clearing work.

Just like playing whack-a-mole, as soon as the Noxian soldiers are discovered by Lux, they will immediately rain down giant fists from the sky. They can't hit them anymore and sweep across them. After two moves, no one can escape.

However, due to lack of resources, the Noxians holding dogs on the periphery and the law enforcement officers who saw the situation was not good and turned around and ran away successfully - with the help of Tyrone, Cassiope Ya and Jia Gu also slipped away smoothly.

Although Lux targeted people who looked like officers from the beginning, she only managed to eliminate the commander of the Noxian army.

Cassiopeia, who really planned the whole incident, was too far away from the mine and ran fast enough. Lux was unable to catch her after all.

Even... Lux doesn’t know that Cassiopeia exists yet!

Finally, when the beam in Lux's hand swept across and there were no more Noxian soldiers around, the crushing battle finally ended.

After calming down, a question was posed in front of Lux - whether to save the explorers who were now buried.

Originally, everyone planned to go back to Fulgan's Tavern, and Xiao Huangmao, who did not return to the tavern, also planned to separate from them here, but when he left, Ezreal said, "What about the explorers who are still buried below?" "Lux was stunned for a moment.

Yeah, what about the explorers buried underneath?

"Of course, let them fend for themselves!" After hearing Xiao Huangmao's question, Milo once again showed an expression of "You are here to eat dirt, right?" and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "It's not like they came here on their own. We buried them, Miss Lux is not their mother, why should we care about them?"

Although the words were too vulgar and Xiao Huangmao couldn't help but blush, Milo still made it clear.

These mines were originally Zaun's mines. A group of Piltover explorers ran over on their own and were buried... Why should Zaun people rescue them?

"Maybe they also have something that can exchange for their lives." After glaring at Milo, Ezreal turned to look at Lux, "Well, although I am not familiar with them, I believe you must You don’t want this passage to be filled with stinky corpses, do you?”

This reason is more realistic.

It is always better to get rid of a group of living people than to collect a group of rotting corpses later.

Hearing what Xiao Huangmao said, Fandel also moved closer to Lux and reminded him in a low voice: "I don't know if those Piltover guys died from the poison gas, but what this kid said is quite right. Let the corpses lie there." Fermentation in a mine is not a good choice..."

Lux had a calm expression on her face and did not give an immediate answer. Instead, she asked Ezreal a seemingly completely irrelevant question.

"You should also be a member of the Explorers Association, right? Did you receive any orders when you came to Zaun this time?"

This question made Xiao Huangmao's complexion even worse.

"Not yet." He curled his lips, "Originally, that necklace was my membership application, and it was one of my relics in Kumangla..."

"So you don't know why they came here all at once?"

"I know." Ezreal felt uncomfortable after being interrupted, but he still answered Lux's question honestly, "This is because of a woman named... Oppa. She seems to be very powerful. It also has a high status in the association, and she said that here is one of her ancestral relics."

"And then spent a lot of money to hire explorers?"

"No." Ezreal shook his head. "Those explorers all brought their own dry food. They don't seem to be interested in money."

"Don't care about money?"

"Young lady!" Xiao Huangmao said in a matter-of-fact tone, "At the very least, she is a very wealthy sponsor. At the most, I bet that many people want to be her husband..."

Lux nodded and stood with her sword in hand, seemingly lost in thought.

In this situation, although Xiao Huangmao was very anxious and the others were very reluctant, they still gathered around Lux ​​and waited quietly for her to make a decision.

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Of course Lux is not just thinking.

Standing with her sword in hand, she was also discussing the matter with Kalya - but this time, Kalya did not give any suggestions or decisions, but asked Lux ​​what she thought: "What do you think?"

"I think I should get those explorers out." Lux thought for a moment, and finally responded, "If nothing else, Oppa is the planner of this explosion - at least one of the direct executors."

"so?"

"Although Ezreal said they entered the mine for Opea, if they knew that Opea wanted to bury them all alive, they would definitely not side with Opea again."

"Most of it should be like this." Karya agreed, "But, what does this have to do with us?"

"Information!" Lux's thoughts were extremely clear. "Judging from the appearance of Noxian soldiers, the Noxians played a very important role in the entire incident - but we have no idea what they did. What, on the contrary, these explorers trapped in the mines will know something more or less!"

"What about the follow-up?" Kalya continued to ask, "After getting the information we need from them, what should these explorers do?"

"This...I haven't thought about it yet." When asked about this question, Lux couldn't help but shook her head, "They are not good people, so letting them go like this is a bit wrong; but they will not die for their crimes."

"This mine needs to be cleaned again." Kalya had already thought of a way, "and the passage leading to the laboratory also needs to be dug again - now that they are here, wouldn't it be a big loss if they don't dig out the treasure? ?”

Hearing what Kalya said, Lux couldn't help but blinked.

It seems...this is indeed a good idea?

Finally, under the command of Lux, everyone divided into two groups.

Fandel took the children, as well as the most tired miners and the wounded, back to Fulgen's Tavern first - Fandel and Silko were both here, and Zaun was probably a bit chaotic now.

Ino will also take Kalya back to Fulgrim's Tavern to preside over the situation - with the Noxians stepping in, the situation in the Twin Cities has exceeded everyone's expectations. Bian also needs someone who can come up with ideas.

Bensuo, on the other hand, led a few of the most capable people to control the explorers trapped in the mines after Lux dug them out.

Later, these explorers will stay here and be responsible for the subsequent excavation and cleaning of the mine until the road leading to the laboratory is sorted.

The two teams quickly completed their division of labor, and Lux ​​once again controlled the construct to start digging, while Fandel and Ino headed straight for Forgan's Tavern with the tired miners and sleepy children.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

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Unlike when she dug all the way up before, Lux needed more sophisticated construct manipulation techniques to open up the collapsed mine and rescue the trapped explorers.

Fortunately, she dug all the way up from the ground and smashed a group of Noxians. Lux was already familiar with this construct.

With Janna helping here, and Lux ​​already being familiar with this mine, it wouldn't be too much of a problem if we were just rescuing people.

Anyway, they are both driving Gundam, digging holes or embroidering, there is not much difference!

It seems that there is still some time before those explorers are dug out. The Zaun people who stayed here to serve as "supervisors" looked at me and I looked at you, and simply decided to help first and simply clean up the surroundings of the mine - —The weather in Zaun is not too hot, but we can’t let them slowly attract flies here.

However, when they turned on the miner's lamp and wanted to start working, they sluggishly discovered that the job was more difficult than they expected.

You can't do that at all.

The destructive power of the construct was too strong. Before, they didn't feel anything when watching it from a distance behind Lux. Now they got closer and wanted to clean up the mess, but they found that Noxians were everywhere.

Really everywhere.

This scene was so exciting that even though they had rushed to the Gate of the Sun with Fander, they still couldn't help but started retching. In the underground laboratory, everyone just drank some water. , ate some dry food, but couldn't vomit anything.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared with the scene in front of me, Mrs. Piltover's bullets at the Gate of the Sun seemed gentle.

Finally, after having had enough vomiting, the men reluctantly returned to the entrance of the mine.

If they followed Lux ​​before, it was because "Lux knew the situation underground better" and more out of respect, then now they looked at Lux with a bit of fear in their eyes.

At this moment, the only thing that made them feel lucky was that Lux was one of their own.

At least now it seems that it is from my side.

In the darkness, someone lit a cigarette.

As if contagious, red dots lit up one after another. As if they had just returned from working in the mine, a group of Zaun people leaned against the entrance of the mine and began to smoke.

The smell of tobacco mixed with the smell of ditches and the smell of blood passed through their lungs. Then, someone who didn't know who was exhaling a cloud of smoke said with emotion:

"It would be great if we had this thing when we were at Sun Gate - I could rush from one end of the dam to the other!"

"Then we still need a Miss Lux." Someone also took a deep breath and continued with a smile, "Otherwise, no one would be able to open it."

"You can learn it. I haven't seen anyone who knows how to mine from birth."

"That's magic. Can you learn what Master Mage taught you?"

"Why can't you learn it? I've been digging here with Miss Lux for a while. She often said that magic should benefit the public... If you can't learn it, how can you benefit the public?"

"Come on, those congressmen from Piltover said the same thing when they were campaigning."

"Being a member of Parliament is for making money, is this the same?" A red light suddenly lit up, "Didn't you hear what she told Fander before? She wanted to plant trees and make rune steel in Zaun..."

"It sounds like they are no different from those Alchemy Barons." Another point of red light also flashed suddenly, "Mining, doing things that Picheng guys don't want to do - they are all big shots, different from Fander , big people have big people’s considerations.”

"But at least you don't have to work overtime when working for Miss Lux, and the pay is reasonable." A dot of red light went out, and then a new dot quickly lit up, "If she wants to build a mine, I will definitely be the first to go. .”

"The pay is high? Is it paid daily?"

"Rijie, we cleared this mine together - one gold hex per day, settled on the same day."

Half of the surrounding red lights suddenly burst into flames.

Some even inhaled so hard that they couldn't help but cough.

Good guys, one gold hex every day!

"You didn't even say a word about this? You eat alone, right?"

"Fander didn't let me tell you - this is a secret excavation. Unfortunately, the Piltovers' noses are really good. I don't know how they got there."

"Those grave diggers in Pi City always know some weird secrets. What's the point? Silko, that guy came here with a group of law enforcement officers and wanted to cause trouble..."

"Hilko... I really don't know what that bastard is doing mysteriously."

"It's better to stay away from that kind of bastard."

"However, I heard that the money you get from working with him is quite a lot. It's not as good as working with Miss Lux, but it's still pretty good."

"Money is good money, but you have to pay for it with your life - before I rushed into the mine with Fandel, I saw a group of crazy guys fighting with Pi City's policemen, many of them were Silko Your bastard."

"He has a lot of bad guys. They all fight a lot, but few of them are willing to put in the effort when working."

"Those bastards took some kind of drug, and none of them look like humans anymore!"

"I heard him mention this drug in the mine. It seemed to be called Shimmer... Shimmer? Ugh - it's a drug that makes people addicted. Does it deserve to be called light?"

"Hey, you, a bastard who doesn't know a single word, still look down on other people's names?"

"Why don't you look down on her? Look at Miss Lux, that's the light! Hilko knows how to hide behind and make people work for her, and even make some fancy things."

"Yes, one Golden Hex a day, she is the brightest light..."

"Okay, stop smoking and go take a look in the mine. I guess those Picheng guys will be dug out soon."

"Immediately... My dear, one gold hex a day is so rich, I can't even look down on the butt of a cigarette!"

"Shut up and no one will think you are dumb - hurry up!"

"..."

"..."

One red dot went out one after another, and the miner's lamp lit up one after another.

The construct crushed pieces of soil and rocks, and finally dug out the first survivor.

The Zaun miners who were ready at the back quickly took it out and sent it outside the mine for unified custody - and then turned back and picked up the next one.

Just like that, before you know it, the long night is coming to an end.

Kalya’s Little Classroom·Zun’s Working Hours:

In order to reduce costs as much as possible, most alchemy barons adopt a twelve-hour work system, with people working in two shifts without stopping the machines.