the next day.

The sporadic sound of engines broke the tranquility of dawn, and the whole city gradually woke up under the rising sun.

Zaun's apprentices are finally off their night shift and can go home to sleep.

They are like a group of exhausted ants, slowly pouring out of the factory.

The small vendors who also came from Zaan stood guard at the gate of the factory early in the morning, setting up early stalls like flies.

The stalls sell cheap food that locals in Piltover won’t even glance at, such as moor frogs, trench rats, stinky cheese sauce sandwiches, and second-hand croutons.

Li Wei picked and picked from the inside, and finally picked the cheapest and most durable black bread.

Then, like his fellow workers...get together in twos and threes, find an open space on the curb, and sit down directly, eating and chatting with the fresh exhaust fumes from the road.

"Li Wei, don't eat that crap! The black bread sold here is harder than a stone. Is that horse eaten by humans?"

As soon as Li Wei sat down, someone behind him patted him on the shoulder.

Looking back, it was his monkey-like coworker, Baku, who was also from Zaun.

"Get lost! Who are you calling inhuman?" Li Wei only thought that he was joking with himself: "Black bread is not good, so why don't you treat me to some good ones!"

"I invite you." The guy who was very stingy in the original owner's memory agreed without hesitation.

Then Baku sat down next to Levi and waved a hot soft sandwich in front of him.

"Damn it, it's still with eggs and sliced ​​ham?!"

Li Weizhen was shocked by this luxurious package.

A sandwich made of soft toast, with eggs and ham.

As soon as you hold this thing in your hand, the eyes of the people around you are obviously different.

"You really invited me, did you take the wrong medicine?" Li Wei looked suspiciously at Baku's brain.

"Bah! Daddy feeds you like this, and you still talk so much." Baku laughed and scolded him, "You can take it if you please. Anyway, we probably won't have a chance in the future, so we won't have breakfast together like this again... "

Smiling and laughing, this guy couldn't laugh anymore.

"I said, Li Wei..." Baku forced the sandwich with meat and eggs to Li Wei, snatched the piece of black bread from his hand, and bit down bitterly:

"Why didn't you tell us that you borrowed usurious loans from those grandsons!"

"Now everyone has found the factory... In this way, even Mr. Erwin will not protect you!"

"..." Li Wei couldn't help being silent.

He knew why Baku was so emotional all of a sudden.

Because in the world of Zaun apprentices, whoever gets involved in the usury of those Zaun gangsters is basically done.

From Baku's point of view, if he left like this today, he might never be able to return to work in the factory.

"Don't worry, I have a solution..."

"Don't worry! You have a trick! When will those gangsters play lightly? If you owe them usury and don't pay it, the result will be worse than death!" Baku couldn't help cursing.

Then he said there self-consciously: "Li Wei, are you stupid for riding a horse? What kind of work are you here at this time? Hurry up and pack your things, and take your sister back to Zaan!"

"Going back to Zu'an can at least avoid those bastards, otherwise..."

"I know, I know..." Li Wei echoed with complicated emotions.

He knew he couldn't convince Baku that he could still stand up.

So Li Wei had no choice but to promise him: "I will return to Zaan in two days...don't worry."

"Well..." Baku lowered his head and gnawed on the black bread again. This time he chewed hard for a long time before he spoke again: "Be careful when you go back to Zaan, don't die there..."

"In short, live well. Maybe after I get the identity of Picheng, I will have the opportunity to bring you to Picheng."

"Bah, what are you dreaming about?" This time Li Wei was sure that this guy was joking again.

How could Picheng's official status be so easy to obtain? Even if he could get it, he wouldn't be able to bring someone from Zaun.

Legally immigrating from Zaun to Piltover is extremely difficult and costly. Not to mention the people of Zaun, even the average Picheng family couldn't afford that money.

"This..." Baku thought about it seriously: "I have a way."

"At that time, I will be a native of Picheng. I can adopt you as my son and marry your sister as my wife. I will call you brother-in-law, and you will call me father. Let's go through the channel of relative immigration and spend less money."

Li Wei: "..."

"I'm fucking fucked!"

...................................

Across the road, next to the factory, stands a garden house with an independent courtyard wall.

This is the home of Mr. Erwin, the factory owner.

He was having breakfast with his wife, and his precious daughter was sitting beside them.

This girl is about 16 or 7 years old, with thin cherry lips, a straight nose, and big blue eyes with watery eyes, as if she can talk. A cascade of smooth long pink hair hangs over her shoulders, making her milk-like skin smooth and white.

Coupled with her princess-like gorgeous dress, this girl's style of painting looks different from others.

It seems that you have traveled from a mansion in a modern metropolis, and come here to perform a metamorphosis.

"Ah, ah...open your mouth, good boy~ it's time for breakfast."

The girl forked a piece of fresh and tender tuna fillet, and fed the pet cat in her arms with a doting expression.

But the fat cat just lay lazily in her arms, not even opening its mouth.

"There, Seraphine!"

Mr. Erwin put down the newspaper and called out his daughter's name angrily:

"This cat is about to be turned into a pig by you - don't feed it, eat your own food first!"

"How old are you, you have to be taught even to eat."

"Yes, Dad~" Seraphine stuck out her tongue mischievously, and then put down the fat cat who had eaten too much.

The two maids who were waiting on the side immediately stepped forward, one took the cat from her arms to help take care of it, and the other removed the remaining half plate of tuna, took it back to the kitchen and threw it away.

As for Seraphine, she reluctantly picked up the knife and fork, between the pear wheat chicken breast salad, oil-free scrambled eggs, black forest smoked ham slices, caviar nigiri sushi... Hesitant, pick and choose.

In the end, I took a few mouthfuls of chicken breast and vegetable salad, and put down the knife and fork happily.

"You child... don't eat more!"

"Look at you, how thin you have become."

Mrs. Erwin taught her daughter a painful lesson, but Seraphine just rubbed the corners of her eyes with a haggard look:

"I'm sorry, Mom. I didn't sleep well last night...I really don't have an appetite."

"This..." The Erwin couple's expressions became tense: "Salafini, have you heard those 'voices' again?"

"Yeah." Seraphine nodded haggardly.

She was born awakened with the special ability to listen to the "voice of the soul", and can hear the "melody" of other people's souls.

This kind of magical talent, which is similar to mind reading but more mysterious, is undoubtedly the best gift given to her by God.

But it is a pity that Seraphine has no ability to control her talent.

So this gift became a curse instead.

She can always hear the soul melody of the people around her uncontrollably. But those melodies are not elegant, let alone rhythmic, but full of darkness and pain, full of heaviness and torture.

These chaotic noises have always tormented Seraphine, making her gradually afraid to even go out. Otherwise, the more people she saw, the more painful melodies she heard.

But even though she hid at home day and night like this, those voices still haunted her like a shadow.

"Hey..." Seeing that her daughter couldn't even sleep well, Mrs. Erwin felt very distressed.

She couldn't help but look at her husband: "Husband, how is your research on the method you mentioned earlier?"

"You mean the Hex magic auditory suppression device?"

"It hasn't been successfully developed yet... The mana density of the artificial Hex gem is not enough, and it can't always drive the device to operate successfully... Now I'm still researching how to solve this problem."

"What's there to study..." Mrs. Erwin frowned, "Since it's a matter of mana density, if artificial hex gems don't work, try using native hex gems."

"That means you can try it..." Mr. Erwin sighed: "My wife, you don't know what the original Hex gem is."

"That thing is so expensive that there is no market for it! We have worked hard for half our lives and only opened a small factory. If we really go to buy one, I am afraid that we will have to build our entire factory."

"Get in and get in!"

"Is your factory more important than our daughter?"

"I..." Mr. Erwin's face hurts: "I need to think about it more!"

"What are you thinking about! We stayed in Picheng desperately, so that Nini could live a good life here. But now she is so uncomfortable every day that she can't even leave the house, so we still have the money What's the use!"

"You can't talk like that. Why is money useless... The pain of not having money, haven't we had enough in the first half of our life?"

Although they have been rich for more than ten years. But when he thought of the past, he still couldn't stop crying.

I dreamed about those things in the middle of the night, and even the pillow was wet when I woke up.

"No money is the most intractable disease..." Erwin smiled wryly.

"Bah!" Madam had a different opinion: "You stingy old man, you already remember your 'illness'! What about our daughter?"

"Do you want money or Seraphine?"

"I... I just want to wait and see... Our family's audio business has become more and more prosperous, and even nobles from Noxus have begun to come to Piltover to order from us. I want to give it another go , if we can expand the factory in the past two years and earn more money, then we will be able to afford native Hex crystals!"

"Fuck you! We can afford it now! You bastard, I think you just want money but not a daughter!"

The couple quarreled and even used the native dialect of Za'an that they hadn't spoken for many years.

"Dad, Mom, stop arguing!"

Seraphine tried to persuade the fight, but to no avail.

In the end, it was she who suddenly trembled for some reason and hugged her head violently, calming down her parents who were about to pinch.

"Nini!" The couple immediately crowded around nervously: "What's wrong? Did you hear those 'voices' again?"

"Hmm..." Seraphine clutched her head in pain.

Her talent was activated uncontrollably again.

Countless voices of souls gathered from all directions, some from factories, some from the streets, and some from farther ports, shops, apartment buildings...

Some are happy, some are happy, but most of them are heavy.

"Hey!" Mrs. Erwin glared at her husband angrily, "What are you still doing? Go play music!"

Beautiful music can relieve Seraphine's symptoms and help her relieve pain.

This is one of the reasons why she loves music.

"Wait—" Just when the couple were eager to help her relieve her pain, Seraphine suddenly raised her head.

"What's wrong?" the couple asked worriedly.

"I... heard singing."

"Singing?" They haven't played music yet.

"Yes, there is singing!"

Seraphine suddenly looked out the window in a daze:

"Over there, over there!"

She walked to the window excitedly, and pulled open the curtains:

"There's a very special soul in there—"

"His soul is singing!"

"Singing a song I've never heard before!"

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