Twin Cities: I am the man of many myths

Chapter 250 Li Ke, do you have some kind of weird quirk?
Previously, Zaun was shrouded in darkness in the mornings, but in recent years, Zaun has adjusted the canyon walls above, and Piltover has also improved some of the original buildings, bringing sunlight into Zaun.

But the most important thing is still the control of smog. After all, if smog continues to heavily pollute Zu'an, then no matter how much external adjustment is made, the sun will still not be able to shine into Zu'an.

Now, as the first rays of sunlight pierced through the walls of Zu'an, Li Ke sat up from his bed.

Seeing the glaring red stain on the bed sheet, the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up, and he felt blissful!

Just as Li Ke was about to raise his hand to tidy his messy hair that Jinx had grabbed, he found that his hand felt smooth and soft. He looked down and found that his hand was on a fair calf that was peeking out from under the blanket.

Looking up and ahead, Li Ke had a wry smile on his face.

I saw Jinx sleeping at the foot of the bed. God knows how she managed to sleep like that. Anyway, her sleeping posture was extremely ungraceful. She was lying curled up at the foot of the bed, her little hands holding the edge of the blanket over her head. Judging from the upper half of her face that was exposed, Jinx slept quite well last night. Although her sleeping posture was ungraceful, her sleeping face was extremely peaceful.

Li Ke pulled back the covers and looked at the naked Jinx. He saw Jinx instinctively shrink back and scratch her little hands, as if she was a little cold.

It's winter right now, and it's not that Zu'an doesn't have heating. With the technology in both cities these days, installing heating equipment is a piece of cake. It's no exaggeration to say that every household in the alleys has heating.

The reason for this was that Jinx felt hot in the latter half of last night, and when she got close to Rick, she felt sticky, so she simply turned off the heater.

No wonder they fight over the blanket while sleeping.
Lee stood up, patted Jinx's thigh, and whispered, "Jinx, Jinx."

Jinx responded to Li Ke by turning her face away and shrinking her body.

Seeing this, Rick chuckled, bent down, leaned close to Jinx, and whispered in her ear, "Wife."

It was a very soft sound, but it was much more effective than calling out Jinx's name directly.

As soon as those two words were uttered, Jinx, who had been fast asleep, immediately opened her eyes.

Jinx's beautiful eyes widened, still a little dazed. She turned her head to look at Rick, and when she saw him smiling at her, she grumbled, "What did you just call me?"

"Old, wife," without looking at her body, just looking at Jinx's face, Li Ke always felt like he was committing a crime, and also felt an indescribable sense of shame.

Sneaking a shout while Jinx is asleep is a completely different matter from shouting at her while she's staring at you with wide eyes.

At least that's what Rick thinks. Right now, he feels a little awkward looking at Jinx, but when he thinks about how they're already married, and how he married Jinx in front of the gods and so many diplomats from various countries, what's there to be embarrassed about?
Is it Jinx's fault that she looks so young?

certainly not!
Besides, isn't this clearly an advantage?

So even if that guy Hilk were standing right in front of him now, and Rick called Jinx "wife" to his face, what could Hilk say?

No matter how unhappy he was, he had to put up with it. Yesterday, he had personally entrusted Jinx to him!

Damn it, I've already registered our marriage!
The census bureau in Twin Cities has detailed records of Rick and Jinx's names; they are a legitimate, official couple!
Therefore, after calling out to Jinx, Rick's discomfort immediately dissipated.

He reached out and ruffled Jinx's messy blue hair, which was mostly hanging off the edge of the bed, and said gently, "It's time to get up. I need to make breakfast, and you should go and bring Isha back."

“No, that won’t do. Let her stay outside for a few more days,” Jinx said after thinking for a moment.

As she spoke, she shifted her body and nuzzled Li Ke's thigh with her head like a cat. Then, her eyes flickered: "Why are you up now?"

"It stopped working after a few uses," he muttered under his breath, but the impact was so strong that Li Ke almost vomited blood.

The warm atmosphere that had just been created vanished instantly. Lee took a deep breath, reached out and gently grasped Jinx's ear with two fingers, pulling it up to stop her from trying to get her face close to him, and said to her with utmost seriousness:

"Say it again, Jinx, was it me who couldn't perform yesterday, or you? Didn't you yell 'No, no,' and apologize, which is why I stopped?"

"Really? How could I be so pathetic! It's clearly you who's no good."

Li Ke was so angry he wanted to grind his teeth. Was it me?
Are you kidding me?! His current physical abilities are practically superhuman, so his prowess in that area is off the charts! If he hadn't deliberately suppressed the flow of magic and restricted his physical condition, given Jinx's small frame, Rick would have given her a piece of his mind!
As for what happened right after going in, you can't blame yourself, okay? It's normal to be a little fast the first time, right?

"Alright, get up, stop whining. We have to meet a lot of people today." Li Ke patted Jinx's smooth back and set an example by getting up first.

"Ugh, I feel all sticky and smelly." Jinx frowned, then stretched out her arms towards Rick on the bed, grinning, and said, "Carry me to a bath~"

Rick bent down and picked Jinx up.

Soon, after taking a shower and changing his clothes, Rick squatted on the bed and began to blow-dry Jinx's hair, who had changed into a nightgown. He held a bunch of her beautiful blue hair in his hands and carefully blew it.

"Your hair grows really fast. It looks like in another year or two it will be as long as it used to be."

Jinx sat on the edge of the bed, her hands resting on her knees that were exposed outside her nightgown, leaning against Rick. She thought for a moment and said, "Actually, short hair is quite nice too."

“No, it took me a long time to grow it long,” Li Ke said seriously. Although Jinx looked good with short hair, she looked more familiar and pleasing to the eye with long hair.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jin sighed. Personally, she actually preferred short hair.

She doesn't care much about her hair. She used to not cut it, not because she liked long hair, but because she was too lazy to cut it. She just let it grow. But long hair is much more difficult to manage than short hair.

Take blow-drying hair for example. When she had short hair, Jinx would take a shower, cover her face with a towel and rub it vigorously a few times, then blow-dry it for a minute or two, and her hair would be almost dry.

But what about long hair? Not to mention the time and effort it takes to wash, just blow-drying it requires grabbing it section by section and blow-drying it takes at least forty minutes.
Jinx's hair is especially thick and long.

But it seems like Rick really likes her long hair? Especially after remembering what happened in bed last night, Jinx's expression gradually turned serious.

She thought of something.

Li Ke is so strange! He's just like me, so why does he know so many different positions? How does Li Ke know so much... weird knowledge?
It wasn't that she suspected Li Ke of doing something behind her back. Although Li Ke knew a lot and made her cooperate, taking advantage of her and making her do many positions, it was one thing to talk about it, but when it came to actually doing it, Li Ke was very clumsy and had a kind of theoretical knowledge.

However, this made Jinx a little unhappy.

They won't let me look at those books and pictures, saying I'm a bad influence, but you secretly read them all the time, right?

In addition, there's the habit of pulling hair.
Jinx no longer hesitated and said seriously, "Li Ke, do you have some kind of perverse sense of humor?"

"What do you mean?" Rick, who was blow-drying Jinx's hair, was taken aback.

Xiao Jin moved her neck, turned to look at him, and opened her mouth, "Tell me, is it because you don't want me to cut my hair that you want me to wear pigtails next time?"

"Bullshit!" Li Ke coughed, choked, and then immediately launched into a long, serious speech.

I'm a gentleman, I don't have any bad tastes, and it's not a quirk, it's a normal thing, twin tails are so cute and pretty, blah blah blah, and so on.

Jinx listened to Li Ke's long speech in silence, only letting out a long sigh after a long while.

Then she said, "Okay, Li Ke, you don't need to say anything more. I understand. I'll tie my hair in pigtails tonight."

"What do you mean? Didn't I just say that I think your hair is too long? It's inconvenient to tie it up in a single ponytail, and it's easy to get it flat if it's loose. As for tying it into a bun or a princess hairstyle, it will come loose in no time." Li Ke said with a righteous expression.

He spoke with great conviction, and Jinx actually listened, agreeing that Rick seemed to be right; her long hair was indeed inconvenient. Then, just as Jinx was wondering if she had misunderstood Rick, his voice suddenly rang out.

"I'll listen to you and let Isha stay with Vi for a while. Um, cough, Jinx, is it really okay to wear pigtails tonight?"

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Jinx responded to Li Ke with a slightly disdainful look.

And yet you dare to say you have no quirks!

At nine o'clock in the morning, after a quick breakfast, Rick and Jinx dressed up and arrived at Fugen Tavern.

Hilco didn't go to the Capitol today; he was waiting for Rick and Jinx to come see him.

On the second floor of the Fugen Tavern, Rick pushed open the door and entered. Behind him, Jinx had tied her hair into a large bun and returned to her usual attire: a stylish waist-length coat over a black wool sweater, black trousers, and her favorite kind of boots with metal plates that jingled when she walked.

Hilcone was initially pleased to see Rick and Jinx appear, but then he became somewhat annoyed.

Because in the past, when Jinx came to his place, she would bring Lik in with her. In a way, this private space of Shirley's was like home to Jinx.

But this time was different. Jinx followed behind Li Ke with her head down and eyes downcast, looking rather obedient.

"Are you going to see Vander later?"

After sitting down, Hilko spoke first.

When he asked the question, he specifically looked at Jinx, waiting for her answer.

But Jinx remained silent in response to Hilcone.

Then, it was Rick who answered Hilko's question.

"Well, after we meet with Vander, Jinx and I will go to Upper Town to see Jessmael and the others."

Hilko glanced at Rick, wanting to say to him, "Who asked you?"

But after thinking about it, Hilko held back, picked up the glass in front of him, took a sip of water, and said, "You can rest well these few days, but Rick, you'll be busy soon."

“I understand.” Li Ke nodded, sitting on the sofa and nodding.

The busyness that Hilko mentioned refers to the most important thing for Twin Cities during this period: completely drawing the entire Runeterra to the Twin Cities' front, and for the first time publicly announcing the existence of the Void.

As Li Ke's "secretary," Hilko naturally knew about the existence of the Void, which Li Ke had specifically told Hilko.

As the Twin Cities grew stronger, Hilko's next thought was naturally to make them even stronger, and to that end, the Twin Cities would have to devour other nations.

To put it simply, the Hillcosh at the time planned to emulate Noxus by launching an invasion, uniting Zaun and Piltover to form a powerful empire.

To expand the land area and occupy more resources.

However, Rick immediately dismissed Hilko's idea.

Because compared to the struggles between humans, the greater enemy lies beyond the stars. It's not that Li Ke looks down on wars between humans, but those crises are always a sword hanging over Li Ke's head.

The Void, the Protoss, and even Orion Thor.

Li Ke naturally didn't believe he had the ability to fight the Dragon King. Even if all the demigods in Runeterra were tied together, they would still be nothing more than a speck of dust in the Dragon King's eyes.

Olivia could destroy Runeterra with a sneeze, but that's precisely why Lee is in such a hurry.

When we lacked the ability, it didn't matter if we gave up. After all, if a being like the Dragon King were to appear one day, it would be the end of the world.

But things are different now. As he gradually entered that circle, Li Ke's perception and way of thinking naturally changed.

With the Celestial Spirits involved, the Dragon King is unlikely to show himself for a short period of time, or even a very long time. Therefore, what Li Ke needs to do now is to reveal the existence of the Void to everyone in Runeterra.

We must make sure everyone on Runeterra knows that the Void is our enemy!
And this was precisely the deal that Li Ke and Lissandra made in private.

“It’s good that you’re confident. We already have some clues about those monsters you mentioned.” Hilko calmly put down his cup and continued, “They’re deep in the Shurima desert. That place has become a no-man’s land. No matter how much money we spend, we can’t find anyone willing to take the risk.”

“I will go there in person,” Li Ke said.

He hasn't been to Shurima yet.

"You're going there yourself?"

“Well, besides capturing an Exysa corpse as proof, I have other things to do over there,” Rick said, as the black and red greatsword he placed at his feet trembled.

Hilco was used to this; he had seen gods before, so what was a little trembling of a sword?

“You can make your decision.” Hilko didn’t object, but then said softly:
"Then let's set it for the day you return from Shurima."

"After finding the body of Exysa, the matter was announced to the world."

"it is good."

Li Keying said.

Unbeknownst to him and Hillco, Jinx, sitting next to Rick, moved her eyes.

Shurima
She just made a new friend yesterday, I think... someone from Shurima?!

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"Aqiu~~~"

In the new district of Zuan, a girl with dark skin rubbed her nose while queuing. She shivered involuntarily, but she didn't feel that she was losing body temperature.

And when the little sparrow from Shurima looked up at the food supply area ahead, it showed a delighted expression.

"I'm going to have a full meal again today!"

Taliya said happily.

(End of this chapter)