Outside the winery, three figures, one big, one medium and one small, used the lighting equipment installed on Li Lin's power armor to run quickly in the winery where it was so dark that one could hardly see one's hand in front of one's face.

Because Li Lin's power armor was too conspicuous and made a loud noise when walking, and they didn't know what was going on inside the winery.

So long before entering the Welsh Brewery, Caitlin had planned to let Li Lin stay outside to provide support, while she and Jace would sneak into the brewery to investigate.

But to their surprise, before they even stepped into the factory gate, a loud bang of a stun bomb exploded was heard from inside.

There seems to be someone fighting inside!

The three of them looked at each other for a moment, then quickly reacted and ran towards the source of the sound.

"Li Lin, Jess, hurry up!"

There were a few more intermittent loud noises of stun bombs exploding, and then everything calmed down.

Realizing that the battle was most likely over, Caitlin became nervous and hurriedly urged Li Lin and Jace who were left behind.

"You should slow down, Kate." Li Lin said helplessly, "It's dangerous for you to rush ahead so rashly..."

"Yeah, there's obviously a force here that we don't know about. We have to be careful and not be so ostentatious." Jace advised breathlessly.

"Of course I know this, but my parents..."

Caitlin didn't know what she was thinking about, and she stopped talking halfway. At the same time, she slowed down her pace and kept pace with Li Lin and Jace.

Li Lin thought she was in a hurry and wouldn't be so easy to talk to, so he was stunned for a moment, "Uh... what are you doing?"

Caitlin's eyes flickered with doubt, "I think I know who I just fought."

"Hmm?" ×2

"The riots C started have shaken the stability of Upper City, so Lady Gray has taken action," she said quickly. "Judging from the fighting just now, it's very likely that Lady Gray has killed C..."

"Gray Lady..."

Jace glanced at the hammer in his hand, then glanced at the power armor on Li Lin, and his throat couldn't help but move.

"If the one fighting just now was really the Gray Lady, then we are..."

You weren't afraid when you were researching hex crystals before, so why are you so scared now?

Li Lin was amused. "What are you afraid of? Even if the Gray Lady comes looking for me, right? I invented the Hextech Energy Crystal."

"Go to hell, you said before that I played an important role in providing you with ideas, and now you want to take all the credit for yourself."

After being interrupted by Li Lin, Jace's nervousness was relieved a lot, and he cursed with a smile.

Caitlin turned around and glared at them, "Shh, stop joking, there's something going on here."

Li Lin and Jace immediately stopped talking and followed Caitlin, who suddenly stopped, back to the fork in the road they had just passed.

She walked a dozen steps in the other direction, then returned to the two of them and pointed to the side of the forked corridor ahead. "Do you feel anything?"

"Feeling what? I don't feel anything."

Apart from being extremely talented in scientific research, Jace seemed a little slow in other aspects, as if he had put all his potential in science and didn't understand what Caitlin meant at all.

Caitlin rolled her eyes at him speechlessly, then turned her gaze to the big steel man beside her, "What about you, Li Lin?"

Li Lin raised his eyebrows slightly. "Uh, if I must say it, there's a sour taste of rotten metal in my mouth..."

Caitlin's eyes showed approval, "That's right! My training of you these days was not in vain."

After a brief pause, she pointed to the corridor they had just entered and returned to, then pointed to another fork in the road. She put her right index finger on her chin and quickly analyzed:

"Just now when we were coming here, a strong metallic, rancid taste suddenly came out of my mouth. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, thinking it was my own problem.

"However, when I passed this fork in the road and headed this way, the taste in my mouth suddenly faded a lot. This sudden change made me feel a little unusual, so I called you.

"When we returned to this fork in the road, the smell reappeared. Then, as I walked along this corridor, the sour taste in my mouth became stronger and stronger..."

Caitlin stopped talking here. She believed that Li Lin and Jace could understand what she wanted to say.

"Now that you mention it...I do feel the same way."

Jace gripped the hammer handle and placed it upright on the ground, a thoughtful expression on his face.

"But the thing is, I've often had this inexplicable metallic, rancid taste in my mouth before, right? It's just not as strong as it is now. So what's going on here?"

"Think carefully, when did you have a sour taste in your mouth?" Caitlin guided Jace to recall.

"Uh, using my hammer just now, and standing next to Li Lin after arriving at the bottom city tonight...

"Oh, right, I had the same feeling when I was researching Hextech crystals before!"

At this point, Jace's eyes suddenly lit up and he realized, "Could it be that the Hextech crystal caused this situation?"

this……

Is this true?

Even Li Lin, who knew the official background story, was a little confused.

Maybe I didn't pay attention to some details, or maybe there are differences between the real world and the background novel.

However, he felt that the culprit for the rancid metallic taste in his mouth was unlikely to be Hextech crystal.

"Anyway, that's indeed the case based on the current situation," Caitlin said in a deep voice.

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