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Chapter 53 The Trolley Problem
The Laughing Evil Rat snapped his fingers, and the iron guillotine gate at the factory gate fell down and rose up in an orderly manner at a certain frequency.

Countless remaining Noxian soldiers at the gate were killed, and they were suddenly caught in a dilemma.

If we rush forward into the factory at this time, our team may be cut into pieces again by the guillotine, and if we retreat outward, we will not be able to support the missing large force.

The bearded deputy captain Rectors, who was still on the airship protecting Mel, decisively took over the responsibility of commanding the entire army. At his command, the entire army retreated.

With the front army and the commander out of contact, holding on to the spot would not only allow them to retain enough troops to deal with the clown army that just rushed out, but also to find a way to guard a relatively safe escape exit for the army trapped in the factory.

"Oh? Good reaction! I really hate these smart people." The Laughing Rat monitored the situation at the door and sneered.

"Let's do our best to wipe out the clowns. Leave a team behind to carry the explosives and blow up the wall!" The deputy captain decided to open another entrance and exit on the side of the gate while dealing with the clowns.

At this time, the clown Noxian zombies were brutally slaughtering the survivors.

The survivors had never seen such a cruel scene before. They all shouted and wanted to run to the airship. Some were so shocked that they had a mental breakdown and fled in all directions.

"Calm down! The Storm Goddess will protect us!" The leader of the survivors, Pete, tried to calm the crowd.

But the crowd, who were deeply terrified, would not listen. They just wanted to escape onto the airship and save their lives.

On the gangway connecting the airship to the ground, the Noxian soldiers on duty raised their weapons as a warning and deterrence in the face of the survivors' attack.

Behind the survivors were crazy clown soldiers who were laughing wildly and killing people. Their creepy pale faces and crazy, twisted and weird laughter made people lose their sanity just by listening to them.

Moreover, the living people bitten by the clowns will be transformed into new clowns. The survivors' hair stood on end and fear eroded every pore of their bodies.

If you move forward, you may die; if you move backward, you will definitely die. At this point, no one needs to bet on human nature to know what to choose, and the survivors rush towards the airship like crazy.

The Noxian soldiers decisively killed several survivors who rushed to the front and blocked the entrance of the airship. But this still couldn't stop the survivors who were frightened by the clown zombies from wanting to escape to the airship.

Meier didn't know what to do for a moment. As a member of the Piltover Council, it was her responsibility to protect the safety of the people.

She couldn't bear to watch people die in front of her, but if she allowed virus-infected people to sneak into Piltover, more people would die in front of her.

At the moment of life and death, every survivor burst out with a strong desire to survive.

The Noxian soldiers were armed with cold weapons, and the survivors were also armed with sharp weapons. Due to the numerical disadvantage, the Noxian soldiers were unable to withstand the impact of these crazy survivors.

"Mel, your mother is not here, you need to make the right decision." The bearded Rectors patted Mel's shoulder and said.

Mel covered his eyes and tried not to look at this cruel scene.

Reason told her that allowing them to board the airship without screening would be irresponsible to more residents of Piltover, but she really couldn't bear to watch them being killed like this.

"Let them come up!" Meier said in relief. She softened her heart and waved her hand to let them go. "But take away their weapons and keep them strictly on the deck. The survivors who have not been checked must be kept under strict supervision! Then send me more people to check the survivors' healing abilities and their facial expressions."

Rectors faithfully carried out the order, and the Noxian soldiers on the airship obeyed his orders and allowed the survivors to board the airship.

Lloyd Folger, who was far away, watched this scene and shook his head. At this moment, he had already foreseen the fall of Piltover.

This is why he was determined not to let the airship land. The camouflage of the laughing virus was too strong, and no one could tell whether there were latent virus carriers among the crowd.

Once these rational antisocial lunatics blend into the crowd and escape detection, they will infect normal people at an incredible speed.

If the situation really came to a point, for the sake of the safety of more people, Lloyd Folger might sacrifice everyone on the airship and blow it up on the way back to Piltover.

He really didn't want to make such a cruel choice, but this was a real trolley problem.

From a rational perspective, this is the only way to ensure the safety of more people and safeguard peace.

Lloyd Folger was in a state of confusion at this moment.

Jinx was so heartless that she didn't even consider the lives of others. Ziggs, the culprit, only then realized that he was a little uneasy: "Did I do something wrong again?"

Lloyd Folger took a deep breath, suppressed his anger and smiled, saying, "Don't think too much. Let's focus on the task at hand."

"Then let me blow it up to my heart's content!" Giggs had been holding back for too long and finally had the chance to let loose. He couldn't wait to throw the bomb out of his backpack.

The round bomb bounced and fell into the group of clown zombies and exploded, sending broken limbs and arms scattering everywhere.

"Wow?! Watch your step!"

Giggs laughed loudly as he laid a circle of induction minefields. If a zombie stepped on it, the bomb would blow it to pieces, and even the undead zombies would not be able to revive for a while.

"Stop playing! Let's go!" Jinx urged.

"Blast it up and leave~" Ziggs laughed and threw out a few more bouncing bombs, then turned and left.

They came to a wall and Giggs pulled out a pack of dynamite from the back of his backpack and stuck it to the wall.

He quickly stepped back and covered his ears, and the explosive pack exploded at a targeted point, destroying the wall.

"Well done!" Jinx happily high-fived Ziggs.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Giggs counted the bombs and it seemed like there was one less explosion outside.

"Hey, where did that bomb go?"

Just then, the last bomb that Ziggs had thrown happened to roll in front of the wall that the Noxian soldiers were about to blow up.

They all dodged, and after a loud bang, a huge hole was blown in the wall.

"You unrighteous fellow, do you think you will be safe if you don't enter through the main gate?" The Laughing Evil Rat sneered and without observing the situation in the lobby on the first floor, he went down the stairs to the lower level of the Alchemical Glimmer Factory.

The previous Noxian army fell into the mechanisms on both sides.

The drop mechanism on the left leads to a material handling area with numerous small liquid storage tanks.

Most of the materials in the material handling area are non-lethal. At most, they are stained with skin color, have a foul odor, or grow luxuriant hair.

But there are also several pools that are fraught with danger.

There are pools of highly corrosive raw materials, pools of scalding hot raw materials that require high-temperature treatment, and pools of raw materials that have been blended with the Lazarus Pool concentrate.

The Noxian soldiers who had fallen into this level were cushioned by the pool water, so the casualties were not serious.

Some Noxian soldiers who fell into the strong acid pool were left with only piles of bones before they could even scream. Although the Noxian soldiers in the high-temperature raw material pool screamed incessantly, they still had a chance to climb out alive.

Even if they crawled out, they would not be able to survive for long due to the severe burns on their skin. The iron-blooded Noxian soldiers could not bear to see their comrades suffer, so they would choose to end their painful lives directly.

However, the Noxian soldiers who fell into the Lazarus Pool were surprised to find that the pool could heal their injuries.

They pulled their comrades who were burned in the boiling raw material pool into this pool, and soon their burns began to heal and their skin returned to normal.

Witnessing the magical effect of the Pool of Lazarus, some injured Noxian soldiers also jumped into the pool.

However, they didn't know that this pool also had strong side effects.

Just as they were greedily enjoying the healing power of the pool water, a mysterious evil power was accumulating in their bodies, and a subtle change was quietly taking place.

(End of this chapter)