Two Cities: I am building a mecha in Pi City

Ten minutes later, other congressmen and representatives from the family arrived one after another.

Li Lin, Caitlin and Jess, who had just arrived, stood in the auditorium with other spectator representatives.

With bursts of friction sounds as mechanical gears drag chains, the closed metal plates on the top and walls of the parliament hall slowly separated.

The rising sun in the morning passes through the thickened glass embedded with bronze grids, refracting and diffusing in the large indoor space.

The people who were whispering to each other stopped talking, and the noisy parliament hall gradually became quiet.

Councilors Salo, Hoskal, and Voslaton had sullen faces.

Heimerdinger was blowing his beard and staring. After what happened last night, he seemed to be in a bad mood as well.

Representative Polpok had no expression on his face because he had transformed himself into a machine.

Mel, who was accustomed to smiling for thousands of years, also calmed down his expression. At this time, he was holding his chin on the table with his right arm and sitting on the chair expressionlessly.

After a while, Karina looked around at everyone, her voice was sonorous and powerful, and she slowly said:

"I think everyone should know what happened last night, or in other words, a considerable number of people have experienced it personally."

As the most direct victim of last night's incident, she has the most say, so she will chair this meeting.

Since law enforcement officials and congressmen have not yet announced that the real target of the mastermind behind the scenes is actually Gila Mann.

Except for those who have the ability to understand the truth of the case themselves, most families are blind-eyed and don't know anything they ask.

Coupled with the fact that several councilor families deliberately leaked wrong information to the outside world, they really thought that it was Zu An who deliberately targeted the Shangcheng family and conspired to attack last night.

"The impact of this incident is very bad. Not only the aristocratic families in Shangcheng, but also all those who participated in the Evolution Day Conference, including citizens..."

Then, Karina picked up the list that had been prepared on the table in front of her and read out the names of all the affected families.

After a while, she cleared her throat and continued:

"Piltover is a city of evolution, a city of wealth and dreams. Since the Sun Gate opened more than two hundred years ago and Piltover's birthday - Evolution Day, we have continued to carry out technological revolutions. and innovation, with world-leading technology.

“Evolution Day is our most important annual holiday. Every year’s most significant technological innovations will be widely publicized on this day. These new technologies will be put into use and jointly promote the city of progress to move forward...

"But just last night!" Suddenly, Karina changed the subject and her words suddenly became fierce.

"Just before we were about to announce this year's greatest epoch-making invention, a group of bandits from Zaun used Ionia's Hypnosis Flower to poison us all and plundered all our research results!"

Li Lin, who was standing in the auditorium, couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Even though Mrs. Karina had already told him in advance, she still couldn't help but complain in her heart when she said it in public:

This is too ridiculous!

Shen Te Miao snatched up all the research results. How could those few mercenaries empty out such a large warehouse...

Next to Li Lin, Caitlin's expression was a little absent-minded, obviously not paying attention to her mother's speech.

Jace's expression did not change, because he received the communication tube from Mrs. Karina last night and knew the process of today's meeting very well.

And he doesn't like politics, and he doesn't like to think too much about trivial matters that have nothing to do with science. Today he was just ordered to complete the task.

Immediately afterwards, when Mrs. Karina successfully aroused the emotions of the delegates present, Salo, Polpok, and Representative Voslaton immediately listed the various restlessness and targets in Zaun in recent times. city ​​measures.

Some Zaun gangsters carried out armed robberies, some gang members beat up lone law enforcement officers, and even Zaun ditch orphans who "smuggled" themselves into the city to steal things can be used as examples.

In fact, except for the seizure of Hilko's batch of shimmering potions that can greatly improve a person's combat effectiveness, these cases occur every year on Evolution Day.

However, they did have one thing that they caught on to, that is, Silko was really secretly preparing to lead Zaun to fight against Piltover.

Gradually, the emotions of the spectators present were inflamed by the righteous words of the congressmen, and they began to discuss in low voices.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Councilors Salo, Polpok and Voslaton motioned to Karina.

"Ahem..." Karina put her right fist to her mouth and cleared her throat.

The scene became quiet again.

Then, she turned her eyes to Li Lin, Caitlin and Jess in the front of the auditorium, and said:

"Next, I would like to ask the three people who rescued me from the criminals in Bottom City last night, Miss Gila Mann, Mr. Li Lin, and Mr. Tallis, to tell us what happened at that time."

Under the eyes of everyone mixed with various emotions, the three people walked to the center of the round table of members.

"These three are my daughter and the two talented craftsmen of the Gila Mann family. As I said before, it was the two of them who developed the invention that transcended the times. They also assisted my daughter in rescuing us last night. It’s also the two of them.”

Karina briefly introduced the three of them to everyone.

Immediately afterwards, the audience representatives present were in an uproar and were extremely surprised.

Some of them lamented that they were young and promising, some were surprised that Senator Gilamann was rescued by a member of his own family, and some wanted to know what kind of device they invented to win the favor of the Gilamann family so deeply. Love...

The noisy conversation lasted only a short time, and they all knew that now was not the time for them to talk.

"Li Lin, you are the biggest contributor last night, please tell me first."

Li Lin nodded to Karina, glanced sideways at Jace, who was standing with his hands behind his back, a little nervous, and then turned his face to the other side, just in time to look into Caitlin's sapphire eyes.

Her eyes flashed with complicated glints, as if she was worried about what he would say next.

Li Lin gave her a reassuring look, then turned around seriously and faced the auditorium.

The eyes of hundreds of people were focused on him, and there were many families whose status was not at the forefront, but who were equally wealthy and powerful.

It would be a lie to say I'm not nervous.

Li Lin took a few deep breaths slowly, tried to relax, and started brewing the draft in his mind.

After preparing for a moment, he slowly said: "I think the remarks of several congressmen are biased..."

There was another commotion at the scene.

Hearing this, Salo, who couldn't hold back his temper at first, slammed the table hard, "Do you know what you are talking about?!"

Immediately afterwards, Hoskal, who always liked to confront Salo, also frowned and couldn't help but ask: "After what happened last night, why are you still speaking for the people of Dicheng?"

Heimerdinger tilted his head, exhaled and blew away the beard from the corner of his mouth, and stared at Li Lin's back in confusion.

Although Representatives Voslaton and Polpok did not speak, it could be seen from their frowning brows and their fingers tapping the table rhythmically that they were not satisfied with this statement.

Even Mel raised his eyebrows slightly, with a rare look of dissatisfaction on his face.

Karina, who was a bit embarrassed, put her hands on the table and stood up. With hints in her eyes, she deliberately emphasized her tone and accused him:

"Li Lin, you should tell everyone the true situation at that time."

But Li Lin acted as if he hadn't heard what they said and still thought to himself:

"I think that for Piltover and Zaun, the fate of the two city-states is one and the same, and we all know this.

“The development of Zaun is inseparable from Piltover, but Piltover’s industry is basically concentrated in Zaun, and most of the cheap labor force is also from Zaun. If Zaun is separated, where can Piltover prosper?

"Although I have not personally experienced the Day of Ashes a few years ago, I have heard about the tragedy of that day... Rivers of blood flowed everywhere, corpses were everywhere, and there was even a strong smell of blood in the air throughout Pi City.

"If we exploit the Zaun people in this way, it will only lead to more serious consequences and allow the second 'Ashe Day' to come."

Li Lin paused for a moment, without giving anyone else a chance to speak, and immediately continued:

"What is our original intention in pursuing progress and development? For peace, for people to live a good life! If the development of science and technology does not benefit the people, then what is the meaning of scientific and technological progress?

"The Picheng people are human beings, but the Zaun people are also human beings. Since we want to benefit the people, why can't we bring the Zaan people with us? Why are we born in Zaun inherently inferior to the Picheng people?

"I think this is unreasonable and deviates from our original intention of pursuing progress! In addition, we should know that as early as the founding of Piltover, when the two city-states were still one, its name was Zaun.

"In other words, without Zaun, Piltover would not be possible..."

Li Lin said everything he wanted to say in one breath. Including Karina, the faces of Salo, Hoskar, and Voslaton were already gloomy.

The representatives in the gallery below were all silent. No one dared to stand out at this time and offend the congressmen.

"Absurd! It's simply ridiculous!" Councilor Salo's face turned red. He slammed the table and stood up and shouted at the door: "Guard, where is the guard?! Give him to me..."

"Wait a moment, Representative Salo." Salo was about to call the guards to drive Li Lin out when Mel interrupted him.

"What's wrong Mel, do you still want to listen to this guy's nonsense?" Because the person talking was Mel, Salo's tone was slightly calmer.

After listening to Li Lin's words, Mel's brows relaxed, and there was even a hint of curiosity on his face.

She ignored Salo, but asked Li Lin to turn around with a calm look, looking at him up and down with a scrutinizing eye.

"So...you have said so much, what do you want to express?"

Li Lin met Mel's gaze and uttered a sentence that was neither humble nor arrogant:

"My wish is...world peace."

To be honest, this chapter was difficult to write. I deleted, deleted, and wrote for several hours before writing the final product, but I still didn’t get the effect I wanted.

Class conflict is an unresolved problem in real society. Shuangcheng is a classic class conflict. As a young author, I naturally don’t know how to solve this contradiction... I can only follow my own ideas. If there is a problem, definitely. . . There's nothing I can do to avoid it.

However, I don’t plan to solve the problem of the twin cities in the first volume, because the time is too hasty, and this kind of contradiction requires a long time to adjust, and it cannot be solved by just talking about it. .

I'll try my best to make these plots as good as possible. . Please feel free to scold me if there is anything wrong (*)