Silco read for a long time, much longer than Soona and the others.
Because Silco's position was different from Soona and the others. As the nominal uncrowned king of Zaun, although Silco had been sidelined a lot because the Chem-Barons were eating from both sides, the technology regarding Shimmer was still firmly in Silco's hands.
This put Silco in an naturally invincible position—Shimmer was the core energy source for almost all chem-tech.
Standing high, looking far, seeing things more clearly and comprehensively.
Just like now, Silco could clearly recognize what a huge amount of information this leaflet in front of him contained.
"This is a methodology, a methodology most suitable for Zaun, and even Piltover."
After a long silence, Silco said:
"The industrial factories of the Chem-Barons exchange high profits by oppressing the blood and sweat of Zaun's bottom-layer slaves. Destroying these factories will only affect the Chem-Barons' income, but will directly cause the slaves to lose their jobs, forcing them to sign even harsher contracts and lowering their income..."
"But if we follow what he says..."
Silent for a moment, Silco put down the leaflet and shook his head.
"What's wrong? No good?" Sevika raised an eyebrow on the side.
"...He didn't finish writing it." Silco pursed his lips and said, "Perhaps because he doesn't understand Zaun enough yet, or perhaps because the solution would be too radical. So many solutions involving deep-seated problems were deliberately blurred out or omitted by him. But undeniably, he is a cautious person and didn't jump to conclusions about things he doesn't understand."
"..." Hearing this, silence. Then Sevika sighed, frowning and said, "I don't understand what you're saying. Just tell me directly if what he said is right or not."
"..." Looking at Sevika, Silco sighed helplessly, "What he said is right, at least the one closest to being correct among those who want to change Zaun."
"We should go help him." Jinx's voice came from the side.
Hearing Jinx's voice, a look of surprise appeared on the faces of Sevika and Silco.
Because unlike before, Jinx's voice used to carry some madness more or less. But now, somewhat surprisingly to them, Jinx's voice was full of calm.
Following the gaze, Jinx had jumped down from the beam at some point. Wearing hot pants, squatting on the chair with a pair of long snow-white legs, her face, pale and morbid but with a decadent beauty, was written with thoughts.
Her originally morbid eyes were now full of calm. Looking at the leaflet in her hand, Jinx gnawed her finger while saying:
"He needs help. He doesn't know the situation in Zaun, he doesn't know he has many potential allies... We have to let him know... Haha~ Look what we found! Sevika, Silco! We found hope, a faint hope that might go out if we're not careful! So we have to protect him well."
Jinx spoke while gnawing her finger. Hearing Jinx's words, sometimes normal and sometimes crazy, Silco and Sevika were not surprised. Because Jinx was like this... perhaps usually crazily difficult to approach, but when it came to serious business, especially serious business between Zaun and Piltover, she was always exceptionally reliable.
It was just that...
Although they all thought about the rise of Zaun, the words that truly touched Silco and Jinx were completely different.
"Let Piltover face up to Zaun's contribution in the process of building the Sun Gates, restore Zaun's rightful rights to the Sun Gates, and make due compensation for mistakes made in the past."
Watching quietly, the chaotic night where he launched an assault towards the Sun Gate Bridge with his compatriots just to reclaim their rightful rights emerged in Silco's mind—that time, they failed.
"But no one will die in vain." Silco stared blankly, feeling the smell of gunpowder lingering at the tip of his nose, his breathing becoming increasingly rapid.
It wasn't until Sevika noticed Silco's strange state and picked up a Shimmer injector from the side to inject it completely into Silco's eye, which was already blind and turned dark purple due to chemical pollution, that Silco woke up from the hallucination.
This sobriety didn't make the illusion before Silco's eyes disappear... he saw many people, his friends, his partners, and even once intimate brothers...
"I won't be like you... I won't betray Zaun."
Silco muttered to himself.
In contrast, Jinx didn't see too many things, nor any grand narrative. She just stared silently at the sentence: 'Let Zaun rise, welcome common prosperity, let everyone live with dignity, let every child grow up in hope and joy.'
Among the many lengthy arguments about Zaun's reform, this sentence, the most boring vernacular, touched Jinx the most.
The reason it touched her wasn't that Faen was the first to say this, but that while having those methodologies, this so-called 'Azure Demon' was still willing to state this as the ultimate ideal.
And Sevika...
Well, Sevika's education level was limited.
But no matter how limited Sevika's education level was, being Silco's right-hand woman, Sevika naturally had her own thinking. Looking at the muttering Silco in front of her, and glancing at Jinx whose face changed continuously while staring at the leaflet, Sevika shook her head and said, "Alright, tell me what to do next."
"Find him first." Silco said, "I want to have a good talk with him."
"I'll go find him too." Jinx moved her neck twice, then put her hands in her pockets and turned to walk towards the door.
"I have something to ask him clearly."
In contrast, on the other side, a few days had passed since the leaflets were distributed, but Faen and the others were as busy as ever.
Especially in equipment development.
Because for Zeri, a weapon wasn't just about being easy to use. To perfectly utilize the various efficiencies of the weapon, these Hextech Crystals also needed to be customized for Zeri's arc sparks.
Considering that Zeri's arc intensity varied according to her emotional state, Zeri's equipment development also required Zeri to maintain high spirits for a long time to ensure that the energy output of the Hextech Crystal was stable and reliable in all of Zeri's states.
This required Zeri to consume excessive joy factor during this period. Although it wouldn't lower immunity or affect the nervous system, the constant secretion of endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, and oxytocin, coupled with the joy factor itself as Faen's spirit realm secretion having the effect of deepening the user's feelings and attitude towards Faen, Zeri's changes during this period could be said to be very obvious. Sometimes even Soona would lament that young people nowadays were really passionate like fire.
Especially today, to simulate the output efficiency of the Hextech Crystal when Zeri was exhausted, Zeri cooperated with the work under mental pressure for a long time after taking the joy factor.
As the testing time lengthened, the pressure accumulated in Zeri's body increased, and her desire for joy became stronger.
In the end, before the test was finished, her mind was already confused and unable to communicate normally, just staring at Faen foolishly and saying some nonsense that even Soona, Zeri's mother, couldn't help but feel ashamed of.
So, Faen simply took Zeri back to the small single room where they rested at night.
Sitting on the bed in the bedroom, Faen rubbed Zeri's little head.
Swallowing the joy factor suppressant whole, the rough and hard capsule shell of the suppressant made Zeri's throat instinctively start the swallowing reflex. The oral cavity and esophagus contracted and relaxed rhythmically, constantly squeezing the liquid medicine in the capsule deep inside.
Intense aggressive breath constantly impacted Zeri's nerves from the nasal cavity and oral cavity, filling Zeri's eyes with haze. One hand rubbed the ping-pong balls hitting her chin, while the other hand rubbed the swollen red bean.
The suppressant took effect, but Zeri's body convulsed violently. Accompanied by brief and rhythmic spasms, the already trickling soy milk sprayed out.
"Mmph! Mmn!!"
Seeing Zeri's eyes lose focus due to the side effects of the suppressant, Faen took out the applicator of the suppressant unhurriedly.
Although she didn't swallow it whole, the liquid medicine inside had been injected. Zeri covered her mouth and swallowed several times in succession before breathing a sigh of relief. Then, under Faen's smiling gaze, she hummed twice, obediently raised her head and opened her mouth, revealing her small tongue to show Faen her clean mouth, indicating she absolutely didn't hide any medicine in her mouth to spit out secretly.
Seeing this, Faen nodded, then smilingly picked up Zeri, who was wearing a sports bra, and comforted her in his arms.
Calling it comfort, it was actually intimacy after the end. Men care more about their time in the process and the explosion at the final moment. After the explosion ends, they often fall into a long sage time. But correspondingly, after experiencing the same process, women fall into a strong emotional state due to excessive hormone secretion.
Like now, her small body wrapped in Faen's huge frame, Zeri felt a sense of security from the inside out, while also letting out a series of rapid breaths because of Faen's teasing large hand.
If it were just hands, it would be fine, but Zeri could also feel a hard heat source slowly rubbing back and forth between her legs.
Sandwiched between the narrow entrance of the waterway, accompanied by the sensory enhancement of the joy factor, Zeri could even feel the uneven surface on the suppressant injector, and the vigorous heat.
The already precarious dam constantly leaked liquid as her rationality collapsed. Breathing accelerated, face flushed, eyes dizzy. Strong impulse made Zeri twist her waist involuntarily, wanting to sit up immediately.
Compared to Zeri's arousal, Faen asked gently, "Are you ready?"
Hearing Faen's question, Zeri, whose eyes were originally full of haze, recovered a bit of clarity, but then twisted her waist even more reluctantly.
"But, but I want it now... No, can't want, we haven't married yet... But, but anyway we will be together sooner or later... But I'm scared..."
Zeri breathed rapidly, sometimes following her desire and impulse, sometimes tensing the string of reason tightly so she wouldn't fall easily.
Seeing this, Faen straightened his body slightly.
"It's still not too late to refuse now." Faen's voice rang in Zeri's ear, making Zeri swallow involuntarily. She opened her mouth several times, but every time she wanted to say it, the words just got stuck in her throat without coming out an inch.
"Not much time left." Faen reminded gently.
"Mmn... um..." Feeling Faen's large hand playing tricks in her mouth, Zeri struggled in her heart for a long time, but finally just said aggrievedly, "I'm scared..."
Towards the end, Zeri's voice was like a mosquito's hum; one couldn't hear it without listening carefully. Along with her ears dyed red, her pretty and charming face buried deeply into the crook of Faen's arm, responding with her hot breath, but the timidity and worry in her eyes were real.
Sensing Zeri still hesitated inside, Faen retreated his spear slightly, aiming at another weak point, then pressed gently.
"Wait!" Zeri was startled, then swallowed and whispered, "It's dirty there!"
"Then clean it up first."
Faen said, then controlled the flowing water to enter Zeri's body from her mouth. Not long after, amidst Zeri's exclamations, it brought out a large amount of metabolic waste and flew into the bathroom to disappear.
"Now?" Faen asked.
"Hmph hmph..." Zeri didn't speak, just lowered her head and hummed.
Sensing Zeri's meaning—a point of cold light arrived first, then the spear shot out like a dragon!
Going deep inside, the narrow pipe was nailed by thick wood, like stuffing a 20mm screw into a 5mm nut. But before this intense pain could be generated, under the action of the joy factor, it was all converted into unimaginable extreme pleasure.
Even though she kept telling herself in her heart to endure, to hold on, not to let Faen look down on her, not to let Faen actively open the floodgates to relieve the flood just to take care of her like before...
But under the excellent matching mechanism, this being the first time, Zeri received such a strong sensory impact.
Her snow-white neck raised high, looking at Faen's side face above, Zeri's mouth opened and closed constantly, wanting to say something like a drowning person, but in the end, it just turned into whimpers and weeping like sobbing and complaining.
Physical strength drained massively. Zeri felt like a lone boat in a storm. In the end, even her thinking became intermittent under the joy conversion of the joy factor. Held in Faen's arms like an exquisite doll, under the strong sensory impact, she could only rely on instinct to issue some uncontrollable responses.