Twin Cities: I am the man of many myths

Chapter 125: No need to be humble, in the future, they are the ones to be afraid of

"Li Ke? You, you."

"Li Ke, what's going on?"

"Hilco, won't you explain?"

"Goddess Janna, why don't you look surprised at all?"

After hearing what Jace said, Janna raised her wings and said, "I knew about this one day earlier than you did."

Hilco on the side said: "I explain? What should I explain? The person involved is right in front of you, can't you just ask him directly?"

Vandal looked at Li Ke with complicated eyes. As a father, Vandal actually wanted to rush up and punch Li Ke in the face to vent his anger for the grievances Jinx had suffered in the past year.

But at the same time, Vander also knew that Li Ke could not be blamed for this matter.

Li Ke sacrificed himself for everyone, but now, when everyone has accepted that he is dead and he has left, he has come back.
"I know you have a lot of questions, like, am I dead? If I were alive, why didn't I come back? What have I been doing for the past year?"

"It's too complicated to explain, so all you need to know is that I died, but a spirit resurrected me.

For you, a year has passed, but for me, it was just a matter of closing my eyes and opening them again. In fact, I just woke up not long ago."

When everyone heard Li Ke say that it was the gods who resurrected him, they all looked at Janna instantly.

“It wasn’t me!” Janna screamed.

Look at what I am doing!

If I could have resurrected Li Ke, would I have been sad with you?

Janna was really angry. After being a god for so many years, she rarely showed emotions, but...but she was really angry now!

Because she clearly said that it was not her, but these guys all looked at Janna with an "I understand" expression, nodded, and then their faith in Janna deepened.

Well, it’s a good thing that the power of faith has increased. Janna is very happy that these people like her, but it doesn’t mean that there will be more liars!

She doesn't want any faith power obtained by fraud!
"Well, it's not Janna, it's another god." Li Ke took the initiative to say.

If Janna is made to take the blame again, she will be really angry.

Li Ke himself didn't know how many accusations he had made for Janna.
"Li Ke, do you know any other gods?" Heimerdinger became excited and asked loudly, "What do they look like? Where are they? Can you meet us?"

"That won't work. She's very busy." Li Ke said.

He interrupted Heimerdinger who was about to ask a question and said jokingly, "Okay, everyone, I'm back anyway, and now, let's have a meeting."

The congressmen sat down excitedly and began the meeting.

Jinx was just outside the door, guarding Li Ke, waiting for him to come out after the meeting.

She wanted to be with Li Ke all the time, but meetings were so boring!
Instead of being unable to talk and listening to their meeting inside, it is better to play outside by myself, which is more fun.

Hey, does she seem to have forgotten someone?

Jinx lowered her head and thought.

"Let me go first. First of all, I think we need to cut off contact with Noxus and prepare for a war with them. To this end, developing weapons is our primary goal now."

Jace spoke first. He looked at everyone and continued:

“Jinx has developed many powerful weapons that amaze me. She has combined Hextech and Alchemy technology to create something extraordinary.

However, there is nothing wrong with her idea, and the experiment is progressing step by step. However, there are still some things we cannot do because the materials we have now are not enough to complete her idea. "

What Jayce was referring to, of course, was the army of remote-controlled killing robots made by Jinx.

This requires too many materials, and some of them are simply not available in Piltover. Victor found alternatives, but they can only be used to make small robots. Large structures will be unstable and fall apart at the slightest movement.

"So I think we should now have more contacts with some countries. Piltover has contacts with many countries, and I can do that."

"We can even consider establishing diplomatic relations with Demacia. I'm very interested in the mithril ore that they produce there."

"But isn't Demacia a blockaded country? They don't have any contact with the outside world at all."

Hilco shook his head and said, "No, privately, Demacia actually has a lot of business dealings with Zaun. Demacia's policies, after all, only work on civilians."

Li Ke listened with great interest.

"We can have business dealings with Demacia, but it will be difficult to form an alliance with them because we are too far away from the center of Valoran. Demacia has always only formed alliances with small countries around it. We are close to Noxus, so they will be wary of us."

"But privately, we can promote some business with the nobles of Demacia. I think it is feasible, slowly and steadily." Silko said to himself.

"I'll let Renata do this. Jace, write me the necessary materials later and I'll give them to her."

Jace nodded, "Okay."

"Well, let me speak next." Marna stood up and raised several issues in the community at the meeting.

Marna highlighted several shortcomings of Zaun's current community system, and believed that in the short term, the community system would not have any problems, but over time, the gap between communities and the happiness of Zaun residents would cause people in the community to stick together and begin to divide other places.

This is not good, but it is human nature and it is difficult to avoid.

Because when life is easy, humans will start to do a lot of stupid things, and Marna focused on observing these things.

Li Ke was very surprised when he saw Marna speaking.

I remember that she was able to become a member of parliament because Zaun needed a member of parliament who could integrate with the people and truly listen to the voices of the Zaun people. So the very friendly Marna was elected as a member of parliament by the members of the Lotus Gang.

But she was timid at that time and never expressed her own opinions. But a year later.
To this, Li Ke could only say that sometimes, human potential is indeed unlimited.

"I understand that. Zaun will expand its territory in the future. The land behind Piltover originally belonged to Noxus. I think it's great. There will be more and more good places." Hilco nodded.

Marna sat back down.

Heimerdinger stood up, "It's my turn, it's my turn!"

"Ahem, after my experiments, I found that Hextech is not so much borrowing magic as it is giving birth to magic. Hextech actually uses the power of runes to give birth to the use of magic.

But it's really dangerous, so Viktor is right, Jayce, Viktor is right."

"Professor, I already know about this, and I also know that I was wrong at that time." Jace said speechlessly.

Among the millions of Hextech gems created by Victor, the only Hextech Core is now hidden underground in Zaun.

The rest are normal Hex Gems, but there is only one Mutated Hex Gem, because even if you ask Victor to make another one now, he wouldn't know how to start. The fact that that thing was made is really a coincidence among coincidences.

"That's not all I'm saying. I mean, I derived new factions based on Jinx and Jayce's ideas about hextech."

Heimerdinger stood on the chair and looked up. Seeing that everyone was still looking at him straight in the eye, he simply stepped on the table and shouted, "Let Hextech magic give birth to life!"

"What does this mean?" Li Ke asked Heimerdinger.

"It means that in the future, Hextech technology can give machines life and self-awareness. Of course, I know this will be very dangerous, because if the machine gets out of control, ordinary people can't stop it."

Heimerdinger put his hands together and continued, "So we can carve his mission on the runes to protect Piltover and Zaun. This is the future mission of Hextech."

"Wait a minute, Professor, you couldn't have created a dragon?" Li Ke looked at the excited Heimerdinger, suddenly thought of something, and asked.

No way.
Did Heimerdinger develop the Hextyrannosaurus?

No, if that thing is really developed, wouldn’t the combat power of the two cities go through the sky?

You should know that in Cloud Top, the strength of the complete Hextyrannosaurus is far beyond that of the three-star, four-cost one!

"Hey, Li Ke, how did you know? I think I've never told anyone about it. Never mind. Li Ke, you're right. I am indeed researching it, but... well, I've only scratched the surface."

"Professor, I agree with your idea, but I don't support giving machines life and self-awareness." Li Ke paused as he spoke, thinking of Blitzcrank. After thinking for a while, Li Ke changed his words and said, "It's fine to have it, but it can't be mass-produced."

"When machines have self-awareness, our generation may not be that bad, but as time goes by, they will only become more and more uncontrollable. Machines were created to serve humans, but with self-awareness, it's hard to say that they won't doubt their mission in the future and come up with other ideas, right, professor?"

After hearing what Li Ke said, Heimerdinger was stunned for a moment, then frowned, then lowered his head, and finally, he nodded to Li Ke: "Yes, Li Ke, what you said makes sense."

"I almost forgot that you humans are not immortal because of my long life."

Heimerdinger sat back and remained silent for the rest of the meeting, apparently thinking about his new invention.

Vandel also stood up and talked about Zaun's military system, but because Zaun's population was still too small and people were needed in many places, the size of the army could not be expanded.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. Who made Zaan poor, poor and chaotic in the past?

However, the problem raised by Vandel is actually the easiest to solve, because as the people of Zaun live a happy life, the environment is safe, and they don't have to worry about the future, they will have children themselves.

After all, the people of Zaun are also speaking up. Is it because we don't want to have children? It's me who can't!

If you can't even secure your own life, let alone be responsible for a child's future.

Also, didn’t you hear what Hilco just said about using the land in the rear to build a new home in Zaun?

The congressmen finished talking about the matters they were responsible for one by one, and then everyone looked at Li Ke.

"Why are you looking at me? I just got back and I don't know anything." Li Ke looked at them and said speechlessly.

Hilco said, "Li Ke, what do you think we should do between us and Noxus?"

"What should be done?"

Hilco said in a deep voice: "Whether it is Zaun or Piltover, the councillors of both cities agree to be enemies with Noxus, because wolves will only be afraid if they are beaten, and the two cities have now summarized three feasible routes."

"First, show goodwill to Noxus and use some money to buy time and strive for development."

"Second, we will participate in the Noai War and launch a surprise attack on Noxus' rear. We will create trouble for them and make it difficult for them to retreat or fight. The stalemate will continue. Of course, this will also buy time for our development. However, by doing so, we will also suffer great losses ourselves."

"Third, a high-profile and comprehensive refusal to cooperate with Noxus."

As Hilco spoke, he pursed his lips. This last point was also the idea of ​​Jayce and other Piltover council members.

Because Piltover is on a high ground and Zaun is on a low ground, Piltover is more afraid of an attack from the Noxians. After all, if Noxus really attacks, the first city-state to suffer will be Piltover.

This is also one of the reasons why Piltover fully helped Zaun and assisted Zaun sincerely after Li Ke disappeared.

You have to know that in the past, Noxus and Zaun had a lot of black market exchanges, including weapons, potions, alchemy technology, ores, and various business exchanges.

So to be honest, the people of Piltover are too afraid that Zaun will abandon them and choose to side with Noxus.

As for Piltover, should it go there to show goodwill first?

Damn, Noxus is full of bandits and robbers. Piltover is like a beauty wearing golden gauze and all kinds of precious accessories in front of them. What's the difference between going there and giving it as a gift?
Noxus is kind enough to not eat any bones!
Therefore, they knew that only if Zuan completely refused to cooperate with Noxus and stood completely against Noxus could Piltover be protected.

Jayce hated politics, and he did like Zaun, but his heart was always in Piltover, so he looked at Li Ke nervously.

Li Ke said with a smile:

"Then let's go with the third one."

"From today on, Zaun refuses to have any dealings with Noxus, and all Noxians in Zaun will be driven out of Zaun within three days, and they will not be allowed to enter Piltover."

"Tell them to go back to where they came from."

"We should be high-profile. They don't have the energy to fight us right now. As for sending some small fry, Vander and I can handle them alone. So why should we be afraid of them?" Li Ke slapped the table and continued:

"Everyone, there is no need to be humble in front of a big country. In the future, they are the ones we should be afraid of."

"We'll see."

Under the firepower of artillery shells, the era of cold weapons and magic will become a thing of the past.

Of course, monsters and demigods are excluded, as they are not within Li Ke's consideration.

But if you are a mage of average ability or a strong warrior, facing hundreds of shells flying from afar, will you die?
Oh, if you don’t die, then you’re really fucking awesome!

Li Ke was not exaggerating. Maybe Valoran belongs to Demacia and Noxus now, but in the future, the most dazzling places in Valoran will definitely be the two cities.

It took Piltover three hundred years to evolve rapidly, ushering in an era of magic and technology.

Zaun also spent three hundred years steadily creating the technology of glimmer alchemy.

But all this is just the beginning. Just as it took humans hundreds of years to move from the steam age to the electrical age, humans have greatly reduced the time required to move from the electrical age to the information age.

The advancement of technology will speed up all of this.

Piltover is just a small city-state, but its productivity is no weaker than that of the entire country of Noxus, and Zaun is also developing rapidly.

The current productivity and the upper limit of future potential, these two points are enough for Li Ke to say that Shuangcheng is the best city.

Whether it's Noxus or Demacia, let's see who will be the most powerful country in the future on the Valoran continent.

Come on, let’s see!
(End of this chapter)