Chapter 118 [0116] Split Into Two Groups

Controlling the huge plant construct, Lux quickly completed the clearing work.

Just like playing whack-a-mole, once Lux found the Noxian soldiers, she would immediately drop her giant fists from the sky. If she couldn't hit them, she would just sweep them on the spot. After two moves, no one could escape.

However, because they were unable to split their forces, the Noxians with dogs on the periphery and the law enforcement officers who turned around and ran away when they saw the situation was not good still managed to escape - with Talon's help, Cassiopeia and Jagu also escaped smoothly.

Although Lux had been targeting people who looked like officers from the beginning, in the end she only eliminated the commander of this Noxian army.

Cassiopeia, who really planned the whole incident, was too far away from the mine and ran fast enough. In the dark, Lux failed to catch her after all.

Even... Lux didn't know there was such a person as Cassiopeia!

Finally, when the beam in Lux's hand swept past and there were no more Noxian soldiers around, the crushing battle finally ended.

After calming down, a question was placed in front of Lux - should we save the explorers who are now buried.

Originally, everyone was planning to return to the Fulgrim Tavern, and the little yellow-haired boy who did not return to the tavern also planned to separate from them here, but when he left, Ezreal's words "What about the explorers who are still buried below" made Lux stunned for a moment.

Yes, what about the explorers buried below?

"Of course, let them fend for themselves!" Hearing the question from the little yellow-haired boy, Milo once again showed an expression of "You are here to eat dirt," and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "They ran here by themselves, and we didn't bury them. Miss Lux is not their mother, why should we care about them?"

Although the words were too vulgar, making the little yellow-haired boy blush, Milo still made the truth clear.

These mines were originally Zaun's mines. A group of Piltover explorers came here by themselves and were buried... Why should they be rescued by Zaun people?

"Maybe they have something that can save their lives." After staring at Milo, Ezreal turned to Lux, "Well, although I am not familiar with them, I believe you don't want this passage to be full of smelly corpses, right?"

This reason is more realistic.

It is better to get rid of a group of living people than to deal with a group of rotten corpses later.

Hearing what the little yellow-haired boy said, Fandel also came to Lux and whispered a reminder: "I don't know if those Piltover guys died of poisonous gas, but what this kid said is not wrong. Letting the corpses ferment in the mines is not a good choice..."

Lux's face was calm, and he did not give an answer immediately. Instead, he asked Ezreal a seemingly irrelevant question.

"You should also be a member of the Explorers' Association, right? Did you receive any orders to come to Zaun this time?"

This question made the little yellow-haired man look even more grim.

"Not yet." He curled his lips, "Originally, that necklace was my application for membership, and it was a relic I had in Kumangla..."

"So you don't know why they all came here in droves?"

"I know." Ezreal, who was interrupted, felt uncomfortable all over, but still answered Lux's question honestly, "It's because a woman named... called Oppaia, she seems to be very powerful and has a high status in the association. She said that this is a relic of her ancestors."

"And then you spent a lot of money to hire explorers?"

"Not really." Ezreal shook his head, "Those explorers all brought their own dry food and didn't seem to be after money."

"Not after money?"

"For people!" The little yellow-haired man said in a matter-of-fact tone, "At the very least, she is a very wealthy sponsor. At the most, I bet many people want to be her husband..."

Lux nodded, stood with her sword, and seemed to be lost in thought.

In this situation, although the little yellow-haired boy was anxious and the others were reluctant, they still gathered around Lux ​​and waited quietly for her to make a decision.

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Lux was of course not just thinking.

Standing with her sword in hand, she was also discussing this matter with Kalya - and this time, Kalya did not give any advice or decision, but asked Lux ​​what she thought: "What do you think?"

"I think I should get those explorers out." Lux thought for a moment and finally responded, "If nothing unexpected happens, that Oppaia is the planner of this explosion - at least one of the direct executors."

"So?"

"Although Ezreal said that they entered the mine for Oppaia, if they knew that Oppaia wanted to bury them all alive, they would definitely not stand on Oppaia's side anymore."

"Most of them should be like this." Kalya agreed, "But what does this have to do with us?"

"Information!" Lux's thoughts were extremely clear, "From the point of view of the appearance of Noxian soldiers, the Noxians played a very important role in the whole incident - but we have no idea what they did, but these explorers trapped in the mine will know something more or less!"

"What about the follow-up?" Kalya continued to ask, "After getting the information we need from them, what should these explorers do?"

"This... I haven't thought about it yet." When it comes to this problem, Lux couldn't help shaking her head, "They are not good people, so it's a bit wrong to let them go like this; but they are not guilty of death."

"This mine needs to be cleaned up again." Karya had already thought of a way, "and the passage leading to the laboratory needs to be re-dug-since they are here, wouldn't it be a loss if we don't dig up the treasure?"

Hearing Karya say this, Lux couldn't help blinking.

It seems... this is indeed a good idea?

In the end, under the command of Lux, everyone split into two groups.

Vander took the children, the most tired miners and the wounded to return to Fulgrim's Tavern first-Vander and Hilko are here, and Zaun is probably a bit chaotic now.

Ino will also take Karya back to Fulgrim's Tavern to preside over the situation-with the Noxians intervening, the situation in the Twin Cities has exceeded everyone's expectations, and Fulgrim's Tavern also needs someone who can give advice.

Benso took a few of the most capable people with him, and after Lux dug out the explorers trapped in the mine, he controlled them.

Later, these explorers will stay here and be responsible for the subsequent excavation and cleaning of the mine until the road leading to the laboratory is sorted out.

The two teams quickly divided the work, and Lux ​​once again controlled the construct to start digging, while Fandel and Ino took the tired miners and sleepy children and went straight to Fulgrim Tavern.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

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Unlike the previous time when she dug all the way up, Lux needed more sophisticated construct manipulation technology to open up the collapsed mine and rescue the trapped explorers.

Fortunately, she dug all the way up from the underground and smashed a group of Noxians. Lux is already very familiar with this construct.

With Janna's help here, and Lux ​​is already very familiar with this mine, so if it's just to save people, it's not a big problem.

Anyway, they are all driving Gundams, digging holes or embroidering, there is not much difference!

It seems that it will take some time to dig out those explorers. The Zaun people who stayed here to act as "supervisors" looked at each other and decided to lend a hand and clean up the area around the mine first. The weather in Zaun is not too hot, but they can't just let them attract flies here.

However, when they turned on the mining lamps and wanted to start working, they found that the difficulty of this job exceeded their expectations.

It's impossible to do that.

The destructive power of the construct is too strong. Before, they didn't feel anything when they watched from a distance behind Lux. Now they approached and wanted to clean up the mess, but they found that the Noxians were everywhere.

Really everywhere.

This scene was so exciting that even though they had rushed to the Sun Gate with Fandel, they couldn't help but retching now. In the underground laboratory, everyone just drank some water and ate some dry food, and there was nothing to vomit.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared with the scene in front of them, the bullets of Mrs. Piltover on the Sun Gate seemed gentle.

In the end, after vomiting enough, these people finally returned to the entrance of the mine reluctantly.

If they followed Lux ​​before because "Lux knew more about the underground situation" and more out of respect, then now they looked at Lux with a little fear.

At this moment, the only thing that made them feel fortunate was that Lux was one of them,

at least now it seemed that she was on their side.

In the darkness, someone lit a cigarette.

As if it was contagious, one red dot after another lit up, and a group of Zaun people leaned against the entrance of the mine as if they had just finished work in the mine, and began to smoke.

The smell of tobacco mixed with the smell of the sewer and blood passed through their lungs, and then, someone exhaled a cloud of smoke and said with emotion:

"If we had this thing when we were at the Sun Gate, it would be great - I could rush from one end of the dam to the other!"

"Then we still need a Miss Lux." Someone took a deep puff and smiled and continued, "Otherwise, no one will open it."

"You can learn it. I haven't seen anyone who can mine right after birth."

"That's magic, something that the wizard has, can you learn it?"

"Why can't I learn it? I've been digging here with Miss Lux for a while. She often said that magic should benefit the public... If you can't learn it, how can it benefit the public?"

"Come on, those Piltover councillors said the same thing during their election campaign."

"Being a councillor is for making money, how can this be the same?" A red light suddenly lit up, "Didn't you hear her tell Vandall before that she wanted to plant trees in Zaun, make some rune steel..."

"It sounds like she is no different from those alchemy barons." Another red light suddenly lit up, "Mining, doing things that Piltover people don't want to do - they are all big shots, unlike Vandall, big shots have big shots' considerations."

"But at least you don't have to work overtime when working for Miss Lux, and the pay is reasonable." A red light went out, and then a new one lit up quickly, "If she wants to build a mine, I will definitely be the first to go."

"High pay? Daily pay?"

"Rijie, we cleared this mine together - one gold hex per day, settled on the same day."

Half of the surrounding red lights suddenly burst into flames.

Some even inhaled so hard that they couldn't help but cough.

Good guys, one gold hex every day!

"You didn't even say a word about this? You eat alone, right?"

"Fander didn't let me tell you - this is a secret excavation. Unfortunately, the Piltovers' noses are really good. I don't know how they got there."

"Those grave diggers in Pi City always know some weird secrets. What's the point? Silko, that guy came here with a group of law enforcement officers and wanted to cause trouble..."

"Hilko... I really don't know what that bastard is doing mysteriously."

"It's better to stay away from that kind of bastard."

"However, I heard that the money you get from working with him is quite a lot. It's not as good as working with Miss Lux, but it's still pretty good."

"Money is good money, but you have to pay for it with your life - before I rushed into the mine with Fandel, I saw a group of crazy guys fighting with Pi City's policemen, many of them were Silko Your bastard."

"He has a lot of bad guys, and they all get into fights a lot, but few of them are willing to put in the effort when it comes to work."

"Those bastards took some kind of drug, and none of them look like humans anymore!"

"I heard him mention this drug in the mine. It seemed to be called Shimmer... Shimmer? Ugh - it's a drug that makes people addicted. Does it deserve to be called light?"

"Hey, you, a bastard who doesn't know a single word, still look down on other people's names?"

"Why don't you look down on her? Look at Miss Lux, that's the light! Hilko knows how to hide behind and make people work for her, and even make some fancy things."

"Yes, one Golden Hex a day, she is the brightest light..."

"Okay, stop smoking and go take a look in the mine. I guess those Picheng guys are about to be dug out."

"Immediately, immediately... My dear, one gold hex a day is so rich, I can't even look at the butt of a cigarette!"

"Shut up and no one will think you are dumb - hurry up!"

"..."

"..."

One red dot went out one after another, and the miner's lamp lit up one after another.

The construct crushed pieces of soil and rocks, and finally dug out the first survivor.

The Zaun miners who were ready at the back quickly took it out and sent it outside the mine for unified custody - and then turned back and picked up the next one.

Just like that, before you know it, the long night is coming to an end.

Kalya's Little Classroom·Zun's Working Hours:

In order to reduce costs as much as possible, most alchemy barons adopt a twelve-hour work system, with people working in two shifts without stopping the machines.