Old Cannery, entrance.
After Vi helped an old man who was still breathing to the entrance, she slightly caught her breath.
Powder looked at the previously dud bomb, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Why didn't it explode just now?"
Powder threw the bomb on the ground, and it suddenly trembled slightly.
A flicker of panic appeared in Powder's eyes, but she realized it wasn't the bomb about to explode, but the ground shaking.
"Run fast!"
Duke, covered in Water, carried an unconscious Vander and rushed out of the underground laboratory, warning Vi and the others as he ran: "That bastard Silco blew up the windows of the underground laboratory.
The river Water is pouring in.
If we don't run, we'll all drown here!"
Upon hearing Duke's warning, Vi quickly went to help the others escape.
Janna offered her help at this moment, and Duke also carried several people on his back, stacking them like a human pyramid as they rushed out of the cannery.
The mutated creatures, trapped by Spider Silk, could only watch helplessly as the surging river Water engulfed them.
"Roar!!"
Amidst unwilling roars, the cannery disintegrated due to the river Water.
Duke and the others also left the cannery before it collapsed.
Standing on higher ground, they looked at the raging river Water, a hint of lingering fear on their faces.
"Now it's truly over!"
Duke murmured something unclear, and Vi also breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, it's over!"
Duke gazed at the cannery submerged by the river Water, his chest filled with an inexplicable emotion.
It wasn't entirely pride, but also a hint of relief.
The Destiny of Vi and Powder changed at this moment; the future where the two sisters went their separate ways would no longer appear.
But is it really okay for Jinx and Enforcer Vi to just disappear like that?
Duke mused for a moment, then smiled indifferently.
Who cares?
At most, Fist will delete the heroes!
Making two game characters disappear in exchange for a pair of sisters having a good life, this deal was worth it!
"Don't move, hands up!"
Marcus, holding his sidearm, suddenly appeared from the darkness.
Uncharacteristically, he wasn't wearing a respirator.
He looked at the cannery, then at Duke and the others, his expression somewhat uncertain.
"You guy...."
Vi clenched her fist, about to charge forward, but Duke stopped her, patting her shoulder, "Don't be impulsive, let me handle it!"
Duke walked towards Marcus with a smile, ignoring the other party's sidearm.
Marcus growled in a low voice: "Stay there, don't move!"
"It's you who shouldn't move, isn't it!"
Duke came before Marcus, pulling out a qingniao amulet and a chillingly gleaming hand axe from his inventory.
"Enforcer Marcus, colluding with Undercity criminals isn't a good thing!"
"What are you talking about? I don't understand!"
Marcus's eyes flickered, and he quietly stepped back. Duke stretched out his arms and said to Marcus, "We just saved the entire Twin Cities, brought the villains who secretly plotted terrorist crimes to justice, and their secret Base was flooded by the river. The four suspects in the Upcity bombing were even swept away by the river and disappeared!"
Duke stepped forward, and Marcus's gun was pressed against Duke's chest. Duke held a qingniao amulet in one hand and a cold light hand-axe in the other. "What do you say, Enforcer Marcus?"
"I...."
At this moment, Vi and the others stood silently behind Duke. Marcus glanced at the flooded cannery, then at Vi and the others, whose eyes were flashing with ill intent, and swallowed.
"That's right, you're right. The four suspects in the Upcity bombing have been....." Marcus closed his eyes, hardened his heart, "swept away by the river!"
"Now that's a smart person!"
Duke put away his hand-axe and placed the qingniao amulet in Marcus's hand. "May the gray haze not enter your home, and Janna protect you!"
Marcus took the qingniao amulet, and a sky-blue bluebird on his shoulder tilted its head, meeting his gaze.
Marcus's last shred of hope vanished.
"May... the gray haze not enter your home!"
"Janna, protect us!"
Duke's face showed a different kind of smile. Now, the last unsettling factor was also resolved, and the incident ended perfectly.
"It's just....." Duke turned around, looking at the scene of the river overflowing, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes, "Silco escaped!"
"Is it really over?"
...
Undercity, a certain stinking ditch.
Pah!
Sevika, who had climbed out of the Water, threw the two burdens onto the bank and then, panting, climbed ashore herself, collapsing on the ground to rest. In her struggle against the river, all the Shimmer in her body had been used up.
She had now returned to her normal appearance, and she never wanted to use Shimmer again.
"Cough cough cough....."
Silco, who had removed his mask, coughed a few times. Sevika looked at the gloomy sky above and whispered, "What do we do next, boss?"
"Zaun is no longer safe. This time we were completely defeated. I never expected Vander to have the help of a favored one of the gods; I completely didn't foresee this!"
"But where do we go next?"
"We go to Noxus!" Silco's eyes sparkled with an inexplicable light. Wiping his face, he looked at Singed and said, "Our biggest trump card is still with us!"
"Go to the territory of those Warmasons?" Sevika sat up directly, her face full of disbelief. Silco whispered, "I know an executioner there who often provides intelligence to the Noxus Warmasons he dispatches in exchange for funds. We'll find him there; he can take us in. With Shimmer and Singed, we can quickly rise again, and then we can come back and fight!"
"I'm fine with anything!" Singed coughed, having no objection. Sevika lay back down, waving her hand weakly, "Then I'll follow your lead. Anyway, I'm with you!"
"By the way, what's the name of the executioner you know?"
Silco looked at the Sun slowly rising in the distance, his eyes gleaming with an unclear meaning.
"Urgot!"
...
Morning.
Colin Workshop, attic.
Duke, having showered, walked into his room, a clean towel draped over his head. Three hours had passed since he left Zaun.
When a soaking wet Duke, dragging his weary body, returned to Colin Workshop, he was greeted by Colin's furious scolding, telling him not to leave the house until he produced a work for the Blue Lavender Manor evaluation meeting.
But at the same time, he also gave Duke a big hug, telling him not to take such risks again.
Janna had informed Colin of the situation before Duke returned, a censored version of course. Duke wasn't sure of the exact details, but Orianna's adoring gaze already revealed Janna's embellished and heavily modified story.
It was three hours later when Duke, having showered and eaten, returned to his room.
"I'm so damn tired!"
Duke threw himself onto the bed. On his desk were the manuscripts from before he left last night. Although his body was tired, Duke felt very excited inside, because what could be happier than changing someone's tragic Destiny?
Vi was the first champion he ever played, and Jinx was the first champion he got a pentakill with.
His love for these two was heartfelt!
This trip was not in vain!
"Janna, go and look after Vi and the others. Tell them I'm busy lately and need to seclude myself to create my work!"
Waving his hand, Duke treated Janna as a mouthpiece. Janna, in her form as a blue bird, pecked at her feathers and unhappily said, "I'm not your mouthpiece!"
"You can go find them, perform a divine miracle in front of Vander. With Vander's help, more and more people will believe in you, and you'll be able to protect Zaun again!"
"This is called a win-win!"
Duke rolled over and looked at the blue bird with a smile on his face. The blue bird helplessly rolled its White eyes, and Duke wondered how Janna, in the form of a blue bird, managed to make that gesture.
"Alright, alright!"
"I'm afraid of you, I'll go right away!"
Janna, leaving through the window, quickly went to Zaun. Duke also lay on the bed, closing his eyes and resting.
Duke slept until evening, waking up completely refreshed.
He jumped off the bed and stretched vigorously, his bones cracking. Feeling as if he had been resurrected, he absorbed the wealth value from all the Shimmer he had previously obtained.
Duke didn't know the system panel's criteria for determining the wealth value of items, but Shimmer was within the system panel's judgment range, though its value was much lower than Hextech Gem.
One Shimmer was worth three hundred in wealth value, and he had obtained twenty of them, totaling six thousand in wealth value.
"Six thousand!"
Duke looked at the wealth value on the panel and chose to unlock several modules he would definitely use, leaving four thousand in wealth value. He didn't touch the rest. Besides wealth value unlocking knowledge and blueprint modules, increasing fusion also unlocked them.
He would definitely pass the Iron Man's Recognition quest, and the 20% fusion he would gain would be enough to unlock some modules. The remaining four thousand would be used for gacha pulls.
"One hundred for a ten-pull, one thousand for a two-pull, and one thousand kept as backup. Let's see what I can get!"
Duke, having clearly allocated his four thousand, began his ten-pull.
You obtained: Torbjorn's Wrench
You obtained: Whiplash's Discarded Whip
You obtained: Deathstroke's Sidearm
.....
You obtained: Wonder Woman's Uniform
All ten draws were trash, just items or weapons belonging to characters Duke was familiar with, and some more humorous, ridiculous things.
Rolling his eyes, Duke took out two thousand and performed two thousand-level Krypton Gold draws.
Two blue question mark orbs flew out of the Krypton Gold pool, vibrated intensely, then quickly split open, revealing their prizes.
You obtained Knowledge Inheritance — Gun Kata
"Oh, wow, a big one!"
Duke's eyebrows lifted, and joy appeared on his face; after the second orb shattered, his expression became even more ecstatic.
You obtained: dionysium (one milligram)