Chapter 29 Zaun will not be independent in your hands, but will rise in my hands
In the room, without comment, Hilko took his hand out from under the table and propped it on the table. He touched his thin chin with three fingers and looked at Li Ke without saying a word.
"Hilko, I mean, uncle, do you really think you can make Zaun independent and autonomous?"
Li Ke first asked Hilko a question.
Hilko was silent and looked at Li Ke. Seeing Li Ke looking at him with a sincere expression, Hilko reached out and pinched his eyebrows and said:
"To be honest with you, Li Ke, I don't know if I can make Zaun really independent, but compared to letting Fander take charge of Zaun, I think my probability of success will be higher."
The gap between the upper and lower cities is now as big as the sky, and there is no comparability at all.
Now, with the Hex Flying Gate linking the whole world, Piltover has officially become the pearl of world trade, with ships constantly coming and going. In the past, Piltover would recruit a large number of workers from Zaun, but now In recent times, many Zaunians have lost their jobs.
The wealthy factory owners used assembly lines to replace manual labor, and the income from businessmen from all over the place exceeded the income of the entire city of Zaun alone.
The gap is getting bigger and bigger, and sometimes Hilko will inevitably feel that the future is dark, but he is moving forward firmly.
He has no way out. If he retreats now, he will really become Zu'an's sinner. He knows this better than anyone else.
He even knew that after he died, no matter whether he succeeded or not, future generations would not erect a statue for him, and he would never be as respected as Fander in the hearts of the Zaans, but so what?
"Shimmer is our only trump card. With Shimmer, we can at least make Shangcheng fear us and gain the right to speak. Without Shimmer, we wouldn't even have the right to be on the Piltover negotiation table."< br>
"But you should have heard the voices outside, Hilko. Everyone is afraid of you now, and has established an organization privately to resist you. You said it was for the good of Zu An, but what you did Isn’t it making Zaun more chaotic?”
"It's just a little fight." Hilko said nonchalantly. He picked up the wine on the table, took a sip, put the cup on the table, reached out and wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand, and said in a deep voice. ：
"They have forgotten the past and who brought them to where they are today. All this is not only the credit of Fandel, but also my credit."
"But they have forgotten that in their hearts, Fandel is the great hero of this city-state, and I am a traitor. But in fact, these things don't matter, because I don't care what others think of me, or in other words, they are afraid I will be better." Hilko looked at Li Ke calmly and then said:
"Friendliness cannot buy dignity, Li Ke, but fear can."
Li Ke had a headache.
Silko is not an idealist, he is a realist. In his mind, in order to achieve his goals, the current turmoil and internal strife in Zaun are acceptable, and he is deliberately promoting it.
If Zaun is not in chaos and makes no big noise, how can Piltover pay attention to Zaun?
You can tell the character of Silko just by taking a look at the forum. Some people say that he is a person who is really working for Zaun, while others say that he is just a drug dealer. The evaluation of him can be described as polarized.
But in the anime, Hilko did rely on Shimmer to obtain "autonomy" from Piltover. Although Li Ke felt that it was not solid and unreliable, because Piltover could do it at any time. They can flip tables, but in the hundreds of years since Zaun split into two parts of Pizu, Silko was indeed the only one who could do this.
He did get some dignity back for Zu An.
Therefore, Li Ke suddenly found that it was really difficult to gently persuade Hilko to give up and cooperate with him.
Perhaps, except Jinx, no one can make Silko change his mind.
So, Li Ke took a deep breath and said to Silko: "But have you ever thought that what you are doing now is the same as what the people of Piltover did to us."
"You let inferior shimmer products flow into the black market, exposed ordinary people to shimmer, and caused countless families to perish. Have you ever thought about them? You keep saying you want to boycott Pi City, but what you are doing now is Just like what the Piltovers did to us.”
"Even looking at it now, the waste water they released is not as big as the damage you caused. Yes, Zuan has become rich in recent years, but where did the money and power go? It all went to the fucking gangs and alchemists. In the Baron's hands
The lives of you middle- and high-level people have gotten better, but what about the ordinary people at the bottom? You said that Fandel did a lot of wrong things, but when he was in office, everyone lived well.
At that time, we had to avoid Pi Lao, and we could only watch Pi Lao come to our territory to show off his power, but we would not fight each other for a silver coin, let alone kill familiar people because of a potion. people around you. ”
Hilko was silent and poured himself a drink. He took another sip, then placed the glass on the table and closed his eyes. After a while, he said quietly: "These are necessary sacrifices."
"Sacrifice? So why do you let them sacrifice for your cause?"
"If I don't do it, will their lives get better?"
"At least it won't be worse than it is now." Li Ke affirmed.
Li Ke knows best how harmful Shimmer is. In his memory, after Hilko came to power, in just a few years, the people Li Ke once knew in the black alley have changed.
Some are dead, some are crazy, some are missing, and some can only be like Marson. In order to survive, they can only join gangs to survive, and then start hurting the people around them.
"Stop it. Stop half of the shimmer factory first. You can continue to let your doctor study shimmer, but he can no longer sell it. I can't control how you use your own people in private, but if you let me If I see the glimmer of light circulating in the black market, I will destroy all your factories and leave no one behind.”
Li Ke said, reaching out and grabbing a decoration on Hilko's table. It was an iron product, weighing more than ten kilograms, and a huge animal head. Looking at Hilko, Li Ke began to pinch it with both hands. Iron products.
He saw the beast head constantly changing shape in his hand, and finally turned into an iron ball only the size of a fist. Li Ke had no expression on his face, but veins popped out on his exposed arms wearing short sleeves. breaking the iron ball.
"Kacha——"
The iron ball shattered. Li Ke looked at Hilko, put the two pieces of iron on the table, and said: "I find that you and I can't cooperate. We have different ideas. Therefore, this is not a cooperation application now; I am making a unilateral threat to you.”
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Hilko leaned back and looked at the two iron balls placed on the table, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
This thing may not be able to deform even if it is blown up with a bomb, but Li Ke gave it a full face with his bare hands, and then broke it in half.
This is something that the Glimmer Transformers under him are completely unable to do.
He took a deep breath and looked at Li Ke with a change in his eyes.
There is no fear in the eyes, but questions, full of-how did you do it?
"Then, let's stop here."
After Li Ke finished speaking, he looked at Hilko and saw that he was still looking at the iron ball.
Li Ke looked at him and said:
"Hilko."
"Zaun will not be independent in your hands, but will rise in my hands."
"We'll see."
Taking Isa with him, Li Ke left Fulgen's Tavern.
This place was familiar yet unfamiliar to him.
After Li Ke and Isa left, Hilko looked at the iron block on the table, reached out to pick it up, and touched the broken marks on it. His expression was a little unnatural.
"Okay, let's see."
Hilko said to himself.
(End of chapter)