Twin Cities: I am the man of many myths

Chapter 115 It's not that I'm heartless, it's that I'm broken

In Zaun in the evening, Wei brought the food from the tavern and sat down at the dining table with Isa.

Jinx's door was still closed. She returned to her room after taking a shower in the afternoon and locked Vi out again.

In this regard, Wei did not complain at all, because it was good enough that Jinx could come out.

Picking up a piece of meat and handing it to Isa, Wei ate the food in big mouthfuls to replenish the missing energy in her body. Isa glanced at Wei, then lowered her head and continued eating in silence.

Seeing this, Wei lowered her eyes. In the past, when she picked up food for Isa, Isa would smile sweetly at her.

But now, she doesn't.

It has been a week since Li Ke left. During this week, many things in Zaun have changed. For example, a statue is being built in the square. It is a statue of Li Ke, more than ten meters high, but now there is only a platform. The people of Zaun from various communities also go to the river every night to light the small boat lanterns they made by themselves to pray for their leader Li Ke.

To be more specific, there was no one around Wei who was not sad about Li Ke's departure.

Marsson hasn't been to work for a week. Manzu drinks in the pub every day. Willa was caught by Wei last time for taking glimmer, so Wei beat him up and forced him into a small dark room to reflect on himself.

Isa no longer smiled, Ekko was silent, and Victor, Vander, and Hilco were more devoted to researching technology that would benefit Zaun.

And Jink.
Just as she was thinking, Wei heard the sound of the door opening. She turned around immediately and saw Jinx going out.

Wearing a beautiful long dress, new shoes, a necklace on her snow-white neck, a blue coat over her dress, and her hair spread at her feet, Jinx walked straight towards Vi and Issa.

"Jinx," Wei whispered.

Jinx looked at her, smiled, and raised her voice and said, "What's up, sister? I'm hungry and want to go out for dinner. Is that not okay?"

"Of course, of course!" Wei said quickly.

Isa, who was standing by, quickly got off the stool and ran to get the bowl and chopsticks for Jinx.

Putting the dishes on the table, she stared at Jinx's thin face and pursed her lips.

Jinx reached out to touch Isa's head, rubbed it, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Isa."

"Wow--"

With an unclear sound squeezed out of her throat, Issa burst into tears, hugged Jinx's legs tightly with both hands, buried her head in Jinx's thighs, and cried in pain.

Jinx bent down, hugged Isa's head, smiled and said softly: "It's okay, Isa. Cry, it's okay. It's my fault. I ignored your feelings these days, but I won't do it again in the future."

Wei looked at Jinx quietly.

"Don't look at me, eat. I still have to go to work after dinner." Jinx glanced at Wei and said softly.

Wei was stunned and asked, "Work?"

"Yes, rebuild Zaun, and create new weapons." Jinx picked up Isa, put her on the stool, then sat down and picked up the chopsticks.

She really had no appetite, but she still suppressed her nausea and discomfort and stuffed food into her stomach mouthful by mouthful.

"Also, sister, I need your help with something later." Jinx said to Wei while chewing food.

Wei nodded vigorously and said loudly, "You tell me, I'll do whatever you say."

"Don't be so nervous, it's just a small thing." Jinx said with a smile.

This was the fourth time she had smiled since she came out. The intensity of her smile had not changed at all. Her smile was very happy, but also very fake.

After dinner, Isa took the initiative to clear the table, and Wei, with a complicated expression and a pair of scissors, came to her room with Jinx.

The lights were on in the room, and there were still a lot of broken glass on the ground, but they were all piled up in the corners. On the bed, at the head of the bed, there was a rag doll with black hair. Wei knew who it was at a glance.

Jinx sat in front of the makeup mirror and looked at Wei: "Come on, sister."

"Do you really want to cut it off?" Wei said reluctantly while looking at Jinx's hair with a pair of scissors in her hand.

“Cut,” Jinx said, grabbing the hair and handing it to Vi.

Wei took a deep breath, picked up the scissors, and started cutting Jinx's hair.

"Click."

"Click,"

"Kacha."

After a while, Jinx closed her eyes and let Wei grab her hair.

When she opened her eyes again, Jinx looked at herself in the mirror.

Her hair only reached the back of her head, and her bangs were only at eye level. Jinx brushed her hair with her hand and felt refreshed.

"It's not convenient to work with long hair. Hair like this is very convenient and looks good. Thank you." Jinx turned around, took off the hair tie on her wrist, and tied her hair up. Her hair was not long, and one hand could just hold it and tied it into a short ponytail. She smiled at Wei.

"."Wei didn't say anything. She really didn't know what to say now.

It seems that Jinx has become better, but Vi knows that Jinx is not getting better at all!
In the afternoon, Jinx, with a new look, went to the parliament building in Zaun. Hilco was shocked to see her like this, but Jinx just smiled and asked Hilco to give her a group of people as she wanted to research weapons for Zaun.

Hilco didn't refuse because he didn't dare to refuse Jinx's request now.

With this group of people, Jinx created a technology team, and Senator Heimerdinger served as the mentor of this team, helping Jinx research new weapons.

Li Ke's death also changed Heimerdinger.

If Hextech weapons are developed into powerful weapons, then Li Ke won't have to die when facing that monster?

The professor no longer talks about peace and refuses to use technology to create weapons. Instead, he chooses to help Jinx, because Heimerdinger discovered that the people of the two cities can do without weapons, but we really cannot do without weapons!

In the face of such a powerful existence, the current technology of the two cities is like a joke.

This also gave Heimerdinger an idea, a weapon that could use Hextech to assemble powerful creatures and defeat the Darkin and protect the future of Piltover and Zaun.

Time passed, and with the help of Piltover, Zaun was quickly rebuilt. Renata's policies were implemented, and Zaun's economy experienced unprecedented growth.

The seventh generation of air purifiers has also completely changed the environment of Zaun. This generation of air purifiers will not be upgraded in the short term because it has achieved the three points of low noise, low energy consumption and high efficiency.

Despite this, Zaun is still very dark, gloomy and humid, but in terms of air quality, Zaun is now no different from Piltover.

The winter of this year passed and spring came.

At the end of March, a huge statue appeared in the Hope Community in Digou in Zaun. The statue was about fifteen meters high and three meters wide. It was a smiling young man with a blue cat-ear hat on his head. He raised his left hand to touch his chin, and there was a children's watch on his wrist.

He smiled gently and kindly, looking straight ahead in Zaun.

There are three statues like this in the ditch, two in the dance corridor, and one in the middle square.

Even Piltover has built one, right at the entrance of Piltover University, which is one of the most visited places in Piltover.

What was written under the statue was: Tribute to the great hero of the two cities, the eternal king of Zaun - Li Ke.

In the Hope Community in the evening, Marna saw a familiar blue when she went out.

In two months, Jinx's hair has grown a lot longer, and the bangs on her forehead are now a little below her ears. She greeted the people in the Hope Community with a bright smile on her face.

But she was still very thin, so thin that she would fall down if a gust of wind blew past her. She was completely different from her previous body shape. In the past, Jinx was very thin, but she had muscles and was very healthy. But now, her skin was tightly attached to her bones, and her slender fingers were like dead branches, without any flesh on them.

Marna looked at Jinx's smile and listened to some comments in her ear.

Lord Li Ke has been away from Zaun for three months and seven days. Many people in Zaun still remember him, but many people have gradually begun to forget about him because of Zaun's busy construction and its rapidly growing economy.

They will slowly forget about Lord Li Ke, and Marna feels that it is not their fault.

But... they say Jinx is heartless, which means that she is the one who should be the saddest, but she smiles every day and works every day, as if she doesn't care about it at all.

Isn't she sad or heartbroken about the death of Lord Li Ke?
Marna really wanted to slap anyone who said such things and tell them to stop talking nonsense.

Because she once asked Vi about Jinx's behavior, and Vi told Marna very seriously that Jinx was sadder than anyone else. Until now, some people have moved on, but she is still sad.

She is not heartless, she just has only one expression: smiling.

"My sister is broken."

These are Wei's exact words to Marna.

And Marna also believed Vi because she saw Jinx every day. Her body, her mental state, and what she did every day told Marna that Vi was right.

Just like now, after greeting everyone, Jinx gathered her skirt and sat quietly next to the statue.

With her eyes closed, she placed her hands behind her back and tilted her head upward, enjoying the evening breeze.

She comes here every afternoon after get off work and doesn't go home until late at night.

"Li Ke, it will be very soon."

"After this weapon is completed, and after Zaun has its own defense force."

"I'll go find you."

"I miss you."

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