Two Cities, I build mecha in Picheng

Chapter 115 The Trace of Tuqi

Li Lin turned on the lights on the power armor and looked at the pothole in the corner.

His current location is about two meters away from the ground of the sewer below which exudes a foul smell and the sound of running water.

Finding the right location, Li Lin squatted down, stretched out his hands to support the ground, and entered the hole.

He tried to avoid jumping in too directly and splashing the filthy liquid too high.

With the sound of "噗嗤" footsteps in contact with the slightly viscous sewage, Li Lin unconsciously felt a chill spread all over his body.

Even with the breathing filter device with a mask, he could still smell a relatively clear odor.

Fortunately, the sewers in Zaun were designed by the excellent craftsmen of the big family of Piltover, so the height of the top and bottom is not bad.

At least 1.8 meters in armor, he doesn't have to bend over to walk.

But the passage is also only two meters wide, which makes it difficult for two adults to walk side by side.

This is also the main reason why Caitlin said that there are too many people and the movement will be greatly restricted.

"Ouch... so disgusting!" Li Lin forcibly endured the retching feeling, "I can't have this suit of armor after I get out..."

I don't know how the law enforcement officers of the investigation team endured such an environment this morning.

"Hey, how's the situation below?" Caitlin's voice came from Li Lin's head.

He glanced back and forth quickly, the lights scattered a few meters ahead, and it was still pitch black further forward.

Nothing out of the ordinary for now.

However, Li Lin knew very well that Tucci had a skill to enter the [stealth] state in the game.

Although I don't know how this "stealth" type of skill is achieved in reality, and I don't know if Tuqi can still be invisible like in the game.

Li Lin still kept an eye out and turned on [Data-based Thinking] in advance just in case.

"No problem for now." He raised his head and responded to Caitlin.

"Okay, then I'll go down, pick me up."

Li Lin looked up at the hole above his head, raised his hands, and tried to get as close as possible to Caitlin.

When she adjusted her position and slid down, she just landed in Li Lin's arms.

"Should I let you down?"

"Of course, you asked that..."

Caitlin glanced at the muddy ground below her, a moment of hesitation flashing across her face.

However, adhering to the spirit of professionalism, she still gritted her teeth and asked Li Lin to lower his arms and step on the ground lightly.

"Tch, it's a good thing I'm wearing boots today." Caitlin complained in a muffled voice.

It's just that I can't take this clothes when I go back...

She was very depressed and had the same thoughts as Li Lin.

Immediately, Caitlin, who quickly adjusted her state, patted the arm of the armor, then walked behind him and raised her gun to enter the alert state.

"If you are wearing armor, go ahead, and I will be careful behind you."

Li Lin nodded, "If you find anything abnormal, you must remind me, that guy is using a bow and crossbow, and there are alchemy poisons."

"Ah."

After receiving Caitlin's response, he walked forward slowly.

This filthy environment without much human influence is a paradise for countless creatures.

Bloodthirsty flies, plague rats, shadow rabbits, green beetles, and even the larvae of the magic swamp frog...

Along the way, both Li Lin and Caitlin remained silent and kept a high level of vigilance.

Caitlin had difficulty fully concentrating due to the influence of the environment and various creatures.

Li Lin was afraid that Tucci, who had been "invisible" in some way, would suddenly jump out of a corner and throw an alchemy poison bottle at them.

Fortunately, there are no other branches in this section of the sewer, so the two of them only need to pay attention to one direction.

After walking for more than ten minutes in the dark and smelly environment, they finally left the narrow and oppressive sewer channel and came to a relatively spacious transfer platform.

After Li Lin confirmed that there were no abnormalities around, Caitlin walked out of the passage, turned over and walked onto the relatively clean platform, frowning and stomping her feet.

Then, she turned her gaze and quickly surveyed the surrounding environment.

A metal frame and rotten wood planks from an unknown dump were made into a small item rack.

In the cleanest corner on the innermost side of the platform was a pile of crumpled dirty rags and damp newspapers, which seemed to be a resting place for the murderer.

There was also a large pile of broken glass bottle slag that was randomly discarded on the side near the sewage, mixed with a green liquid that was exactly the same as the residual alchemy poison that corroded the instruments underground in the factory.

As for the glass jars filled with fingers and toes, the romance novels marked with crayon doodles, the tightly sealed chewing gum and the unlabeled glass bottles of green liquid that the investigation team reported in the case report, they have all been arrested by law enforcement officers. Take it back to the Law Enforcement Department as evidence.

"This is the hiding place of the murderer that the law enforcement officers of the investigation team said..."

Caitlin lowered her brows and walked to the "bed" in the corner first, carefully looking for any possible clues on the ground.

Li Lin, whose detective thinking is not very good, quietly stood by her side, turned on the weapon system, and looked around several branches of the sewer channel vigilantly.

As a transit platform, the level of danger here is much more dangerous than the passage they just came in.

After a while, Kaitlyn got up, looked down and summarized the problems she found:
"Judging from the imprints left on the ground, the murderer is about 1.4 meters tall, and the height of a yordle is generally no more than one meter, so it can be determined that he is a dwarf."

In fact, it was really just a mutated giant mouse...

Li Lin wanted to tell Caitlin that the survivor Hua Luoli's description of the murderer was correct.

But judging from Caitlin's performance in the office today, unless she saw it with her own eyes, it was obviously impossible to convince her of this.

After thinking about it, Li Lin gave up on this idea.

In the following time, they stayed on the platform for a long time.

After the information was almost collected, Caitlin walked up the decayed metal steps by the wall that could lead to the ground.

It's a pity that this sewer platform seems to have been abandoned long ago, and the stairs were cut off halfway, and they couldn't reach the surface at all.

"This should be the place where trench scavengers live, right? No wonder the facilities on this platform are abandoned and no one maintains them."

Li Lin sighed.

It has been more than half a year since the five-year agreement with the congressmen.

Although Under Silko's control, Bottom City is much more stable than before, but the hostile attitude of Zaun people towards the people of Upper City has not diminished in the slightest.

Even though he had asked Silko and Van der to try their best to publicize that they still had the name of the Gilaman family, the effect was minimal.

As long as the most basic environmental problems in Zaan are not resolved for a day, the conflict between the two city-states will not be eased in the slightest.

Li Lin is very clear that the main source of the haze is the Hex crystal production factory of Philos's family.

Rao has improved it to produce energy crystals with less pollution, and the production of ordinary crystals has only been reduced.

After all, the upgrading of a product cannot be accomplished overnight.

Even the Philos family, as the major shareholder, has also participated in the power plant, and is planning to make the improved energy crystal go high-end.

However, there are still many places that need Hex crystals in the market now, and it cannot be banned for the time being before electricity is popularized...

"Now I really don't want to go against the Philos family. Why don't we study an air filter first..." Li Lin muttered to himself.

Caitlin's soft call not far away brought his attention back to reality, "Li Lin, what are you still doing? We should go to the next place."

Li Lin looked up, and Caitlin had already reached another fork in the passage, and was waving to himself.

"Come on, I can basically determine the direction of the murderer's escape."

　Set a small goal, add the number of people in the group to 200 and start writing Caitlin's episode, now there are 82 people in the group

　　
　
(End of this chapter)