Cyberzaun, Machinarium

The woman left Enoch's room happily, no longer hiding what she wanted, and her cheerful laughter echoed in the heavy corridor.

"She will open her greedy mouth and keep devouring, no matter it is flesh, blood, marrow, or broken body parts." Hilco stood quietly by the door, watching the Noxian soldiers march away, smoking a cigar quietly, not knowing what she was thinking.

"When did you become a poet?" Enoch looked at Hilco, he was curious, the man who voted against didn't seem to be hurt.

"It all started when that woman asked you for that troublemaker." Hilco exhaled a puff of smoke, revealing a hazy appearance under the refraction of light. "I guess you must be unhappy now. That crazy woman is your lifeblood..."

Enoch did not answer, but changed the subject. "You didn't resist? I remember that you always wanted Zaun to be independent."

"I resisted, and Sevika was almost beaten to death by them... They thought that since I was going to attend the meeting this afternoon, I couldn't have any obvious scars on my body." Hilco laughed harshly, and it was hard to tell whether he was laughing at the hypocrisy of Noxus or at his own embarrassment. "They warned me that I'd better cooperate."

"Or I'll kill you?" Enoch raised his eyebrows. He was curious about how the man would answer.

"No, they said that no matter who interferes with the meeting, if there is no peaceful transition, they will recruit soldiers in Zaun or Piltover, and those who resist will be hanged, but if you cooperate, they will not interfere in our internal affairs."

"You give in?"

"It's just that no one is ready to follow me... They see no hope of defeating Noxus, and they don't know who to ask for help." Hilco put out his cigarette. "Let's go, help me check on Sevika and bring her back to Zaun later."

Enoch was a little confused. "Do you have a way to go back?"

"They don't care where you go. There are less than two hours left anyway. They want to show that after internal discussions, we all agree that Noxus is the savior... What's more, they have already said what the consequences of resistance will be. Meaningless death will not achieve any effect. It is better to preserve the fire." The one-eyed man combed his hair and sighed. "I suddenly understand Fandel. Once a person has concerns, he will fall into weakness."

Enoch looked at Hilco in disbelief. It was like he was meeting this fox-like man for the first time. For the first time, he began to waver in his plan. After a moment of silence, Enoch asked, "What if you could change everything? What would you pay?"

"Any price," Hilco said firmly. "I will give everything I have, but now it's too late. We don't know who is a traitor and who is a coward."

"I always thought you knew who had a problem"

Looking at the somewhat surprised Enoch in front of him, Hilco snorted, "Before taking action, anything can happen. Without action, how can you distinguish loyalty from betrayal? I know you don't like my way of doing things, but remember one thing, always show confidence or even arrogance. People will not follow a self-doubting person. See? I bluffed you."

“If I want to do something, but I’m not sure whether it will succeed or fail…”

"Then do it," Hilco interrupted Enoch's hesitation, "If you have a choice, do it. It's better to move forward than to stand still."

"Even if there's a chance of collateral damage? Even if it's worse than it is now? Even if there are casualties?"

"I don't see how the situation could be any worse than it is now... If you have the means, do it. If you feel you can't make up your mind, just treat it as my order and do it, Enoch."

Enoch looked at the determined man in front of him, and Hilco did not hesitate at all.

"Thank you"

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When did it become like this? Perhaps it was the disagreement between the two cities that made everything so bad, Heimerdinger sighed. He thought that advanced technology could allow humans to easily have a better life. At least these human creations were much safer than arcane runes.

No, maybe he was wrong from the beginning. The real danger was not the runes, but the human ambition to dominate others.

He could already imagine that after Noxus took over, Jayce and Victor's inventions would be used in the war. And as for the arms dealer in the lower city, it was dangerous enough for him to abandon his well-made prosthetic limbs and turn to weapons, and now he had to get on the express train of Noxus.

Maybe after doing these things, I can consider resigning from the position of member of parliament - if there are still members of parliament at that time.

He didn't like Noxus, not at all, but look at the students of the academy, what crime have they committed? Even for the safety of these students, he had to obey the words of these rude soldiers.

Heimerdinger patted Poro's head. It was time to set off. The so-called "peace summit" was about to begin.

After tidying up his clothes, Heimerdinger just walked out the door when he saw a gray-haired boy running towards him with a large package in his arms. "Professor, please wait a minute."

Heimerdinger looked at the young man who ran up to him and took out a skateboard. "I'm sorry to bother you, Professor Heimerdinger, but I seem to have a problem with this skateboard, but I can't solve it."

Heimerdinger looked at the skateboard glowing green in front of him and thought for a moment, "There seems to be something wrong with its blades..."

"Then could you please help me?"

Heimerdinger thought for a while, and soon the curious nature of the Yordle took over. It shouldn't be a big problem to be 5 minutes late. Thinking of this, he waved his hand and took the young man to the laboratory.

He didn't notice that after he led people into the laboratory, several people suddenly appeared from the corner, locked the door tightly, looked at each other, and walked towards the student dormitory.

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"She's not well, but she's still alive." Singed checked Sevika's body and replied to Hilco who was smoking beside him.

"That's good." Hilco blew out a smoke ring. This was rare good news.

"Who did she offend? Was it the crazy girl under Enoch? She was seriously injured this time."

Silko shook his head and said nothing. There was no need to disturb the scientist with his troubles, and calculating the time, he should set off.

The thick fog in Zaun is as difficult to clear as ever. I wonder if Iscariot has put any effort into purifying the air other than making money all day long.

However, soon these will no longer be his concern. Hilco is now considering how Zaun will respond after the Noxian army enters. He may be able to hold out for a while if he is alone, but now most people may have been bribed. Perhaps as soon as he gives an order, the Noxian command will have received the news and responded.

Let's take it one step at a time. He believes that Zaan is naturally incapable of being enslaved, and that someone will unite to resist.

After crossing the bridge connecting Zaun and Piltover, I walked a few steps and a happy passerby handed me a brand new newspaper. It reported the huge success of the concert, the dialogue between the two cities putting aside discrimination, and the peace conference that was about to be signed by the Piltover councilors and the Zaun Baron.

There is not a trace of Noxus here. It seems that they hide it very well. They are just like a foot cloth. When it gets dirty one day, they will just throw it away.

Throwing the newspaper far away, Hilco finally arrived at the venue. Several Noxian soldiers who had been showing off in front of him before changed into law enforcement officers' uniforms and fiddled with new gadgets around their waists.

Just as he was about to enter the meeting room, a loud shout rang in his ears: "I am ashamed of your weakness."

From a distance, Jace shook off Enoch's arm on his shoulder and walked into the meeting room angrily without looking back.

On the contrary, Enoch waved his hands as if nothing had happened, and even waved at the reporters who were rushing over.

He is in a good mood now. Hilco realized this. Enoch only pretends that he can still feel the touch in his hands and makes the same hand-shaking reaction as a human when he is in a good mood.

"What did you do?" Hilco asked Enoch casually.

"Nothing. I just provided the law enforcer's uniform. It's just a formality, so we can just arrange for Noxians to run errands on site. There's no need to disturb the law enforcer's normal work."

Hilco stared at Enoch quietly for a while and said, "I hope you know what you are doing."

"Of course," Enoch nodded. "By the way, let me ask you one last time. Even if there is a possibility of failure, you will give up your life and give it a try, right?"

"You asked a boring question." Hilco shook his head, walked into the meeting room, stood in the corner by the window, not paying attention to the written documents in front of him, he just waited for time to pass.

Soon, the Noxian woman walked towards the crowd with a disgusting smile. She must be at her happiest moment now.

The moment Cassiopeia stepped into the conference room, a huge fireball shattered the floor beneath her feet. The heat wave and shock wave swept through the entire conference room. In an instant, Hilco seemed to have lost all consciousness.

"boom"

Hilco didn't react at all and was thrown away like a bundle of straw. His body felt numb as he drew an arc and fell heavily on the lawn outside.

The surrounding spirits were all shrouded in smoke, and a sharp buzzing sound came from his ears. Hilco felt the severe pain coming from his body. He rubbed and took out a tube of glimmer from his pocket, trembling and trying to pour it into his mouth.

But a prosthetic arm with electronic components reached out from the side, picked up the tube of light and shook it up and down. Hilco opened his eyes wide and looked at the person standing next to him. "Is it you?"

"Yes, I planned it. Sorry, you may not be able to use it."

Chapter 135 Rember, NO Zaun

one day ago……

Enoch handed a deposit slip of Zodiac Bank to Jinx mysteriously. She took it and looked at it. It was a bearer ticket. In theory, whoever brought it to the bank would directly give her the contents of the safe. If it was lost, there was no place to apply for a replacement.

"Tell me what you want me to do." Jinx was a little unhappy. Seeing that things were getting dangerous, she was worried about leaving Littlefinger alone. Although he could always come up with interesting things, Littlefinger's reaction was always not as fast as Jinx's. Sometimes he would look a little stupid when he was suddenly attacked. Although Jinx thought it was very interesting, it was better to be smart at this time.

"It's simple, just make use of your talent," Enoch smiled, but Jinx raised her eyebrows, "What talent? Please explain it clearly."

"A little trick about gunpowder." Enoch took the opportunity to gently scratch Jinx's small nose. "You will be very busy tonight. Go to the warehouse and take out some explosives to sell to Noxus. Make some decorations to make them look more Noxian. Then, find a way to put the explosives in the homes of all the congressmen - just make sure that the explosion happens in these people's manors, and don't put yourself in too much danger."

"Okay, no problem, and then what?" Jinx bit her lower lip tightly, controlling herself from screaming in excitement. She loved to cause trouble with Enoch the most. It was more exciting than anything else. After all, at this time, Enoch's evil little secret belonged to Jinx alone.

"Equip them all with remote control receivers and make sure they are detonated by me. Then, after dawn tomorrow, find a smart person who looks like a student and have him wander around the venue for a while. Let him take the opportunity to stop Councillor Heimerdinger - the Yodel. It's best not to let him attend the meeting."

"Okay, stop the furry little guy, then what?" Jinx nodded quickly.

"Then take Tamara to do one last job"

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Tamara silently wrote down the data on the blueprint and rubbed her forehead.

She smiled bitterly. When she first received the task from Noxus, she thought it was just a simple map drawing. Until now, she has just memorized the general idea.

A war mason sounds like an engineer who digs the earth, and that is indeed her mission. However, what she builds are not fortifications in front of the two armies, but the streets of the enemy's city.

With the help of Noxus, she and her companions easily made it to Zaun. The two agreed that he would be the younger brother and join the Piltover students, and the tough ones would be left to him.

Enoch, an enemy who had just destroyed two legions of the empire, not only lost a large number of mages and vanguard warriors, but even his staff officer lost an arm in the chaos he created.

She originally thought that when she became his secretary, she could seduce him a little, and even if he didn't obey her every word, at least he would become her confidant.

The idea turned out to be brilliant, but basically the first attempts failed.

The crazy girl next to Enoch was the biggest problem. Several times, when she had reported her work to Enoch privately, she could be seen sitting on her desk, twirling a knife casually.

In fact, the madwoman really tried to kill herself. The two narrow wounds on her waist and ribs were caused by Jinx. The reason for her action was simply to see if Tamara was the same as she introduced, a weak little girl.

She really felt that she almost died at that time, but in order not to expose another spy, she tried hard to restrain her actions. Fortunately, Enoch told her something in advance, and she was finally treated when she was close to death.

Afterwards, when Enoch learned about the situation, he just nodded, without any intention of punishing the girl. He even took the initiative to pour Jinx a glass of wine.

From then on, Tamara gave up on competing with the two lunatics. She worked hard to use her old skills and carefully memorized the blueprints of a large number of weapons.

This is not easy. The blueprints of these tanks and artillery can easily fill up several boxes, not to mention that after the one-day war between Zaun and Piltover, all these blueprints were handled by Jinx herself.

In fact, if Jinx hadn't sometimes gone crazy and extracted some confidential items, Tamara would not have known that Littlefinger actually had a secret warehouse.

However, once Noxus takes over in full, all these weapons will serve the Empire, and the V plan that he had once glimpsed in Jinx's hands will be exposed.

Thinking of this, Tamara felt a little better. She pretended to organize the documents and put them away.

“Are you busy?”

A sweet and hoarse business voice came from behind. Tamara was startled and turned to see Jinx sitting at the table, playing with the electromagnetic pistol in her hand. The sunlight shone down from behind the girl, and the blue cloud tattoo looked alive.

“I didn’t do anything, just sorted out the documents.”

"Hmm, organize the files."

"Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with? Does Mr. Enoch need any documents?" Tamara laughed dryly. She felt that the person in front of her was not a crazy woman, but something much more terrifying and purer.

"Let me think... How about we play a game? Um, let me think about the rules..."

"I still have to sort out the documents so..."

"Don't interrupt me!" Jinx roared, but in the next moment she looked pitiful again. "Oh, sorry, did I scare you?... I didn't mean to. By the way, what were we talking about... ah, yes, the rules~~"

Jinx picked it up from the table and said, "Rules are made to be broken - come with me and help me."

Tamara followed Jinx, changed into the law enforcement officer's uniform, and walked slowly towards the parliament. Seeing Jinx carrying a large box crookedly, Tamara was about to go up to help, but was rejected harshly.

"Just do your job well," Jinx glared at Tamara, glanced up and down, and then smiled and reminded her.

"Rember, NO Zaun"

Before Tamara could understand what he meant, Jinx took her through the parliament's security protection and walked to a remote power room without saying a word. They went down the stairs into a tunnel that led to nowhere.

Only then did Jinx throw the box on the ground, searched the map in her hand for a long time, and then waved to the secretary to follow.

"Press this thing here." Jinx used a flashlight to indicate a range, and then quietly waited for Tamara's action. She had no choice but to do it. She opened the big box and found that this was the bomb that had just been exported to Noxus through Cassiopeia.

"What's wrong? Don't you know how to install it? Do you want me to help you?" Jinx deliberately shone the flashlight in Tamara's eyes, but the words she said were very cold.

"No, I know what to do." Tamara anxiously attached the bomb to the top of the tunnel, wondering what was up there. Even though she was anxious, she still installed the bomb. With a girl watching, she couldn't even make a small move.

"Let's go," Jinx nodded and walked out first.

“What are we doing?” Tamara felt uneasy. The tunnel was dark and only the sound of Jinx’s boots could be heard.

“It’s a message,” Jinx’s tone rose with cruel glee.

"What"

"The place above that bomb is where today's peace summit will take place. When that processed Noxian-style bomb is detonated, the senators, the barons, the disloyal law enforcement officers, and the troubles of Noxus will all be blown into the sky, and the frightened people will be guided to unite because of anger, and everyone will clamor for revenge."

"Just one bomb? We can't defeat Noxus at all." Tamara tried in panic to dissuade the girl from thinking this. She had no idea what would happen after the bomb exploded. You know, Noxus is currently in the midst of a bloody and cruel internal struggle and has no time to deal with outsiders. Who knows how things will develop after this bomb is dropped.

"Who and you and us?" Jinx suddenly stopped, turned slightly, and stared at Tamara fiercely with one eye.

Tamara quickly argued, "I mean, using this bomb as a message is really unreliable."

“Yes, I know.” Jinx walked up to Tamara. “Actually… you are the one who left the message.”

Tamara felt like she was hit hard. She looked down and found that Jinx had made a big hole in her chest with a revolver. The blood was flowing out uncontrollably. She fell to the ground unwillingly. When she was dying, she heard the girl's vague figure.

"When they clean up the scene and find the body of the Noxian female spy, everyone will be in an uproar, and everyone will clamor to execute your spy 'brother' hidden in the Piltover trainee."