Two Cities: I am building a mecha in Pi City

After watching Zack transform into a liquid form again, get into the hole and leave, Li Lin and Caitlin returned to the oil tank factory.

Caitlin first wrote a letter and asked a law enforcement officer to go back to the upper city to contact Chief Grayson and ask her to send an elite team down to implement the encirclement and suppression plan.

However, Li Lin also asked her to add one more sentence, and bring the "Air Combat Machinery Storm" to the workshop of Gila Mann's house, along with hundreds of rounds of rifle bullets.

In places like sewers, where the environment is claustrophobic and narrow, and there are large vertical drops in many places, it is difficult to move when there are many people.

It will be much easier to solve the problem with this kind of flying robot, and it can just be used to test the performance.

Later, with the help of Cord and Steinbeck, Li Lin and Caitlin rinsed the power armor and boots with water for a long time.

Caitlin even used up a bottle of perfume specially prepared by the law enforcement officers and sprayed it all on her clothes.

Time passed by minute by minute.

After almost an hour and a half, Sheriff Grayson led three elite teams of law enforcement officers to the factory.

When Code saw the heavily armed law enforcement officers, he immediately ran into a certain employee dormitory and alerted Li Lin and Caitlin who were taking a break and chatting.

As soon as she went out, Caitlin happened to bump into Grayson walking towards her and said hello to her: "Good afternoon, Chief Grayson."

She and Grayson have a pretty good relationship.

At a field shooting competition in Piltover three years ago, Caitlin narrowly beat Grayson.

Since then, the two have become friends.

"Caitlin, do you have any clues?" Grayson's tone sounded solemn.

"There are clues. The murderer probably followed the sewer to the middle of the trench." Caitlin glanced at Li Lin beside her, "But Li Lin found a way."

"Well, it would be great if there is a way... By the way, Caitlin, let's take a look at this first."

Grayson took a folded piece of paper from the adjutant Marcus behind him, unfolded it and handed it to Caitlin.

"This is……"

Caitlin raised her eyebrows and recognized the style of paper used by the Piltover Law Enforcement Department to write reports.

"The confession of the survivor whose half body and chin were dissolved by alchemical venom, the murderer is not human..."

As Grayson explained, Caitlin quickly scanned the contents on the paper:

[Update: La Centava, written testimony]

[Suspect profile, as stated in the confession]

[Name/known name: Tucci]

[Gender: Male (unconfirmed)]

[Age: unknown]

[Height: about 1.5m (hunchback)]

[Weight: less than 45kg (wet)]

[Distinguishing feature: a giant rat]

[Status: absconding; armed; chemical poison; extremely dangerous, do not provoke]

【……】

Caitlin's face turned a little ugly, "Damn it, is it really a mouse..."

On her list of dislikes, the first one she hates is cockroaches, and the second one is rats.

"Yet?" Grayson caught a key word in her words, "Did you also find out that the murderer was a rat?"

"Yes, in the murderer's hiding place in the sewers, I found the hair of a plague rat. Combined with the testimony of survivor Valorie O'Lantern, I speculated that it was a giant rat."

Caitlin added, "I think it is most likely a mutation caused by exposure to alchemical chemical liquids that were discharged into the sewer."

"But can alchemical liquid do this? Can it mutate a plague rat into a being with human emotions and thinking?"

Grayson obviously didn't know much about alchemy technology. "Ollante and Qintawa both mentioned that the mouse can still talk..."

What's a mouse? I have seen life forms formed from pure alchemical venom...

Caitlin glanced at Li Lin beside her with twinkling eyes, but did not answer Grayson's question.

"Now that we know the characteristics of the murderer, it will be much easier for us to consider plans to target him."

As he spoke, Grayson looked away, turned to Li Lin next to Caitlin, and pointed behind him.

"Mr. Li Lin, is this the robot you mentioned in Caitlin's letter?"

Li Lin looked in the direction she pointed, "Yes, thank you for your hard work."

"No, it's just a robot. It's not too heavy. It's not a problem for elite law enforcement officers who have undergone strict training, but..."

Grayson paused for a moment, and his tone was full of curiosity: "It should be a combat robot, right? But I have never seen the gun installed on its left hand."

"It's just a light machine gun that can be loaded with a large amount of ammunition to provide continuous fire suppression."

Li Lin gave her a rough explanation, "This is also the main reason why I asked you to bring a few hundred rounds of ammunition."

After saying that, he walked straight towards the 'Storm', took out the magazine slot specially designed for loading ammunition, and asked several law enforcement officers to load bullets into it.

Grayson waved towards the distance, asking the law enforcement officer to follow Li Lin's arrangements, and then asked in a low voice next to Caitlin:

"We are not at war now. Mr. Li Lin is developing such a dangerous weapon... Senator Gila Mann actually agreed?"

"This is the agreement that mother and Li Lin made before. They cannot interfere with his research."

Caitlin looked at the young man's back in the distance, her eyes softening.

No matter what, she will always stand by her lover and speak for him.

"He said that peace is based on the guarantee of force. Having weapons but not using them and having no weapons are completely different concepts."

Grayson opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Li Lin's words made sense, and she didn't know what reason to use to refute it.

After the logistics law enforcement officer filled the "Storm"'s ammunition slot, Li Lin pressed a few buttons on a hidden position behind the robot to activate its energy supply.

With several fleeting arcs of electricity, blue energy light gradually spread to the robot's body.

Under everyone's shocked gazes, Storm's back and leg propellers sprayed, slowly pushing its heavy body into the air.

Caitlin had already seen Storm's test, so there was no surprise.

But Grayson next to her was different.

"It, it..." She stuttered a little, her eyes filled with astonishment, "It can actually fly?"

Li Lin, who was walking back, heard Grayson's words and explained with a smile: "This is just a prototype. I use it for experiments. I want to add a flight function to my power armor later."

Just like Iron Man's Mark series armor...

He added in his mind.

As soon as Li Lin said these words, Caitlin's face, which had just been calm, changed slightly, "Do you still want to fly?"

"It's not that difficult, it's just an energy limitation." Li Lin chuckled, "As long as the energy problem is solved, let alone flying, long-distance teleportation like a mage won't be a problem."

"..."

Caitlin and Grayson both shook their heads, not taking Li Lin's "crazy" remarks to heart.

After all, in this world where the overall technological level is only at the level of the steam era, a personal flying device like his is no different from the whims of people in this world.

Li Lin could tell from the emotions reflected in their eyes that they didn't believe in this kind of thing.

But he wasn't prepared to explain too much.

It is empty talk and there will be no more doubts when the new energy core is produced and finished.

"Mr. Li Lin, I heard from Caitlin that you have a way to track the mutant mouse. When will we start taking action?"

It has been some time since Grayson led the elite law enforcement officers to arrive at the factory.

In order to prevent the killer from remaining at large, Grayson, who wanted to kill it before it attacked the next victim, couldn't help but ask.

Li Lin shook his head and waved his hand to calm her down, "Don't worry, my informant hasn't..."

Before he could finish his words, a roaring voice suddenly came from the ground, interrupting their conversation:

"Li Lin, Li Lin! I found the mouse with negative emotions you mentioned!"

In the past two days, the old problem on the right side of my right wrist has started to hurt again. When I press the bone seam, it is even more sore and painful (*)