"I think you can cooperate with me."
Is there something wrong with your brain?...
This thought popped up in Li Lin's mind, and he didn't know how to express it.
Fortunately, he had a mask covering his face, so Hilco couldn't tell what he was thinking from his facial expression.
Li Lin shook his head slightly, turned around and prepared to leave again, "I don't know what you are talking about."
"We are all smart people. I don't think we need to act dumb."
Hilco slightly emphasized his tone.
"To show my sincerity, I'll be frank. I have spies in Vandal's place, and I've heard everything that happened a few days ago."
As expected, I knew there must be a traitor among Vandel's men.
Li Lin frowned, didn't turn around, but didn't take another step forward either.
"So? What do you want to say?"
"You invented this armor yourself, right? I've never seen... well, armor that can be worn by a person before."
Hilco did not directly answer his question. His right eye, the only one that could see clearly, looked up and down at the power armor.
Li Lin felt that there was no need to answer this question. "If you keep talking nonsense, I'm leaving."
“It’s not very convenient here…”
"I think this place is great. No one around here dares to come here."
After hearing what Li Lin said, Xierko paused for a moment.
Judging from his tone and expression, he must be serious.
Hilco narrowed his eyes, waved to the two men behind him, and said in a low voice, "Don't let anyone else get close to us."
The two burly men nodded and crossed their arms to block the two intersections leading to this place.
As for Li Lin...
No one would dare to approach without being guarded.
Hilco took a few steps closer to Li Lin and said in a more gentle tone:
"You're smart, smarter than most Uptown people I've met, so I think you should be able to see reality clearly."
Li Lin's brows furrowed even tighter, as he felt that there was something very uncomfortable in Xierko's words.
"Fandel is a coward. For years, he lived in the peaceful dark alleys, living in his own world, forgetting what the Undercity was like... His edges have long been smoothed out.
"Look at you, you're standing up to the pressure in parliament, and your girlfriend..."
"She's not my girlfriend."
temporary.
Li Lin added a word in his heart.
"...Well, Miss Jiraman, her family is still behind you and vouching for you, just to make Zaun a better place."
Hilco took a deep breath, feeling his blood pressure rising while talking to Li Lin.
"But what about Vandel? What did he say when you asked him for help? He's the leader of the most powerful faction in the Underworld, but he's so afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice that even the chem-barons don't dare to take action.
Hilko's voice seems to have a special magic that makes people believe his words.
"Hehehe... He keeps saying everything is for Zaun, but in reality he's just a coward. He's completely forgotten how Zaun came to be."
Then, his tone emphasizing, he changed the subject: "Blood and struggle. Zaun was born from this, and so are we."
Hilko held his right elbow with his left hand and rubbed his bald chin with his right hand, pacing back and forth behind Li Lin.
"Vandel is no longer as brave as he once was. He is old and no longer fit to lead Zaun..."
"He's not suitable, are you?"
After hearing this, Li Lin felt that there was no need for him to listen any further.
To put it simply, Silko's long speech was nothing more than an attempt to instill in himself a single idea:
He is more suitable to be the boss of Zaun.
Li Lin didn't know much about Silko. He only knew that he and Vander were miners in the same mine and they were like brothers.
Later, unwilling to be ruthlessly oppressed, they led a group of people in an uprising against the upper city, thus triggering the "Day of Ashes" incident.
Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel.
How could a group of unequipped, untrained combat workers and other oppressed people, who were even malnourished, defeat well-trained law enforcement officers who used Hextech?
The struggle ended with the rebels being massacred by the law enforcers and Vandel's compromise.
It was also at that time that the compromising Vandel and Hilko, who still held out hope for resistance, broke off completely.
To be honest, Li Lin was also deeply saddened after learning about the major event that happened a few years ago.
As a child who grew up under the red flag and received compulsory education from elementary school to adulthood, he knows a lot about this matter.
Whether it was Van der Vaart or Hilco, they actually did something wrong.
The conflict between Piltover and Zaun did not arise overnight.
Moreover, due to the special geographical location of the two city-states, one above and one below, it is not easy to resolve the conflict.
If Vandel and Hilko want to lead Zaun to independence, they must at least have a guiding ideology, build their own armed forces, and mobilize the masses. They cannot confront Piltover head-on. Only then will they have a chance to win.
Of course, we can only say that there is a chance, but the chances of winning are still not high.
After all, Hextech is still far superior to Earth's current technological level in some aspects...
But what about Vandel and Hilco?
After being oppressed, they impulsively gathered more people, used inferior alchemical technology to clear the way, and rushed unarmed to the upper city to fight against the law enforcement officers armed with hextech weapons...
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