Chapter 130 [0128] Alchemist and Alchemist Baron
Fandel was quickly persuaded by Lux, and instead brought Seveka along with him, and started internal cleaning according to Lux's request.
Then, almost as soon as Fandel left, Silko came up - he didn't rush directly to the Sun Gate with shouts, but brought an unexpected news to Lux.
"Boss, I got news from the Alchemist Baron." Although there was no one else in the room, Hilko lowered his voice, "They have joined forces."
"It's expected." This news didn't surprise Lux. "Even those selfish people must be frightened after today's turbulent whole day."
"They also found Singed." Silko continued, "That guy is very difficult to deal with... The shimmering potion I used before was obtained from him, and it cost a lot of money."
"Singed? That alchemist?" This name made Lux, who was holding the sword hilt, slightly raise his eyebrows. "I remember Mr. Shadow said that he also provided arms to the Noxians?"
"It's that Singed - he is different from those alchemy barons, he really has something in his hands." Silko lowered his voice, "He sent me a message, saying he hopes to talk to you. "
"Talk to me?" Lux was a little surprised, "What are you talking to me about?"
"He didn't say anything specific." Hilko wasn't very sure either. "He seemed to have his own considerations... That guy has a lot of special alchemy techniques. Although he is very close to the alchemy barons, he shouldn't be of the same mind as them. …”
Hearing what Hilko said, Lacus finally narrowed her eyes slightly.
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As Hilko said, Singed was hanging out with a group of alchemy barons at this time.
In other words, it should be that the trembling alchemist barons are hiding in Singed's factory, asking the alchemist for protection.
In just one day, these arrogant alchemist barons became bereaved dogs who lived in panic all day long. The reason for all this was not only the anger and resentment of the workers under the blockade of Piltover, but also their own delays. pot.
At first, when they discovered that workers were gathering at Forgan's Tavern, the Alchemy Barons just sent some cannon fodder to find out more.
Even if the cannon fodder was caught and locked up in the basement of the tavern, these Alchemy Barons did not have any sense of crisis - when they finally realized that something was wrong, they spent money to bribe some foremen and learned what Fulgen's Tavern was talking about. By that time, the situation was already urgent.
At this time, if they can quickly unite, with a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, maybe the workers may not truly unite around Lux.
But after getting the news, although these greedy guys knew that letting workers unite was not a problem, they were still unwilling to cut their flesh to appease the workers.
You can't use your mouth to appease the workers, you need to use gold hex!
Piltover has blocked trade, many factories have stopped working, and our Alchemist Baron has no food left at home!
Are you asking them to cut meat to appease the workers?
How is that possible!
The result is that these alchemy barons got together in the name of "solving the problem" and began to scheming skillfully, trying to choose an unlucky guy, everyone would kill him together, and then use his assets to appease those who were getting more and more excited. workers.
As long as someone is finished, his liquid assets will calm the workers, and the fixed factory and market share will not be enough for everyone to share the cake!
No alchemist baron would refuse if he could tear off two pieces from his colleague's corpse.
As a result, the internal fighting on the Alchemy Baron's side has not yet concluded, and the workers have taken action first - the situation in Zaun is developing rapidly like an avalanche, and the ranks of workers are getting bigger and bigger. In just one day, Most of the factories were demolished.
Kill a colleague and tear off two corpses?
Before the alchemy barons can find the unlucky guy who tops the vat, they will form a group and be buried by the avalanche and become corpses together!
And even that's not the worst.
What's more troublesome than the sudden turn of events in Zaun is that even if the Alchemist Baron wants to run away with the bucket, he has no way to escape.
There are only two directions to leave Zaun, one is to go north to Piltover to go to the sea, and the other is to go south to Kumangla or Kalduga.
Now the road north to Piltover is blocked by Piltover. Even if you can escape, you will be eaten up by the Piltover guys!
The south passage is tightly controlled by the workers because it is related to grain transportation, and it is also blocked!
In addition, the incident happened suddenly, and when they got the news, it was too late to take advantage of the chaos. In the end, they were pushed and shoved, and they could only escape to Xiazuan and a remote place.
He ran away and fled to Singed.
The alchemy barons actually have little relationship with Singed.
In the past, Singed was an out-and-out fringe person in Zaun. He did his own research and everything was of its own accord - it's hard to tell whether he was ostracized by others or simply looked down upon others. It seems that from his perspective, only his alchemy experiments are meaningful, and as for more... he doesn't care at all.
Therefore, these alchemist barons could not confirm Singed's attitude at all.
But now they have no choice - except for a few who had a way out and left halfway, the alchemist barons who ran all the way to Singed's factory are now penniless.
In the past, they relied on only a group of thugs and a few factories. Now the thugs are dead or fled, and the factories are completely occupied by Zaun workers. After falling into the dust, they suddenly found that they had nothing after the avalanche.
In this situation, Singed, who had done business with them before, became the only hope for these alchemist barons.
In a desperate state, the alchemist barons finally had a rare efficiency.
They found Singed, exaggerated the destructiveness of those workers, and promised various benefits, hoping that Singed would stand on their side.
According to these alchemist barons, "We only need to ensure our own safety. We can be assistants in your laboratory. Believe us, our level is definitely much higher than those workers outside who only know how to operate the machines rigidly."
Singed did not comment on what the chem-barons said.
He did not care about what happened in Zaun. For him, it was not important who ruled Zaun - he himself had no ambition or need to rule Zaun.
If he had to say, the only thing that interested him in Zaun now was the construct mentioned by Cassiopeia.
Well, at most, Lux.
Singed was obsessed with alchemical technology - but that did not mean that he only had alchemical technology in his eyes.
If possible, he would also like to study the construct technology of ancient Shurima.
As the saying goes, one can polish jade with stones from other mountains. Constructs also have their unique advantages. Singed is not narrow-minded.
This time, Singed acquiesced to keeping the chem-barons, mainly because they and Cassiopeia mentioned the same person - Lux.
In Cassiopeia's mouth, Lux is a difficult and cunning spellcaster.
In the mouth of the chem-baron, Lux is an inflammatory conspirator.
Combining the two, it was not difficult for Singed to find that this little girl named Lux, whom he had never seen before, might become the de facto ruler of Zaun in a short period of time.
And unlike those alchemist barons who nominally ruled Zaun, she was full of confidence, had fists, and skills.
This made Singed somewhat interested in Lux.
Although he had verbally promised Cassiopeia to allow her to become his sponsor, Singed knew very well that, at least now, this sponsor was also a dog in the water, and could not provide anything except some information from unknown channels.
As a qualified alchemist, he had no psychological burden to change sponsors.
Especially this kind of sponsor who was actually useless. When he promised Cassiopeia, he was only interested in the gold hex and market that she could provide, and Lux could provide more of these.
If possible... let Lux rule Zaun and then become his sponsor, wouldn't it be countless times better than this whining Noxian woman?
With this idea in mind, he found Silko and directly told him that he wanted to talk to Lux.
Singed did not reveal his conversation target, but simply said "those alchemy barons are on his side" - the implication was that if everyone could talk, I would leave those unlucky guys to you.
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Faced with this invitation, Lux thought for a while.
However, whether considering the glimmer potion mentioned by Silko, the sewer gas mentioned by Mr. Shadow, or considering cleaning up all the alchemy barons in a neat and tidy manner, Lux had to make such a trip.
What's more, Kalya seemed to care about Singed.
So, before Silko finished talking about all the pros and cons he thought, Lux nodded decisively and agreed.
"Then contact him and we'll meet." As she spoke, Lux's finger slid across the map she had spread out before, and finally landed on a relatively remote location, "Right here, Glass Alley, that glass factory was abandoned because of toxic pollution - tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock, I'll have a good talk with Mr. Singed."
"Tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock, Glass Alley Glass Factory." Hilco repeated in a low voice, "Boss, what about guards?"
"Just me and Singed." Lux held the hilt of the sword with a smile on her face, "It's just a simple conversation, no big deal."
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