Lux and Ino lived in the backyard room of Fulgan Tavern, next to the tavern's warehouse.
Judging from the furnishings and decoration of the room, it seems that... a lot of people have lived here.
There were a lot of graffiti on the walls of the room. Although the room seemed to have been specially cleaned, there were still many traces left by the previous residents. What surprised Lux and Ino was that the mattress in this room
The bedding and bedding were both quite good, completely exceeding their expectations.
"The environment here is not bad." After Lux carefully explored the entire room, Kalya commented, "However, from a decorative point of view, this does not seem like a hotel, but rather like a home.
"
"My own home?" Lux thought for a while, and then agreed with Karya's point of view, "If you put it that way, it really looks a bit like it - if it is just a double room, this place is really too big."
"It's even more than enough to accommodate a family." Ino added, "Four or five people will be fine."
"Do you think the people who lived here before were the children who committed the bombing in Piltover?" Kalya reasoned, "I remember there was one with red hair and one with blue hair?"
"What, are you looking for any hair left behind?" Lux rolled her eyes speechlessly, "Forget it, Kalya, this place has been cleaned very clean, and even if there is hair, it doesn't mean much.
...In comparison, what I am more concerned about now is how to conduct the investigation of Zaun. Your data should be sorted out soon, right?"
"It's sorted." Kalya couldn't help but smacked his lips at the data from the Piltover survey. "The data is amazing. If our survey didn't have too much water, then for now, the entire Piltover would be a huge
Passing through the port, it seems that everything in it is built on the three sea locks of the Sun Gate."
"What do you mean?" Lux was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect Kalya to come up with such a conclusion, "Built on three sea gates? Gate of the Sun?"
“From an overall perspective, Piltover is a city that relies heavily on imports and has almost no exports.” Kalja explained, “Even the businessmen of Piltover only export Piltover.
It's just a transit point, and the people of Piltover don't seem to produce anything."
"But I remember that Piltover maintains an astonishing number of various laboratories, as well as an astonishing academy of scale." Lux blinked, "And it also sponsors a large amount of cultural and artistic research?"
"But these have been digested internally. The wealth of the entire Piltover comes almost entirely from the Sun Gate." Kalya explained, "From the information we inquired from the port porters at the Sun Gate, and from the port management
Judging from the data obtained by the personnel, the Three Sun Gates can bring Piltover an astonishing net profit of more than 30,000 gold hex every day."
"Thirty thousand gold hex?!" Even Lux was stunned by this astonishing income at this time, "Are you sure you didn't make a mistake in your calculation, Kalya - or there is something wrong with our statistics.
…”
"I've been rounding down. Unless everyone we met at the dock is bragging, the specific data will only be more than this, not less than this." Kalya sighed, "Using one is not very appropriate.
In other words, the Sun Gate alone brings an income of nearly more than one gold hex to everyone in Piltover every month."
"But the Gate of the Sun is not in the hands of every Piltover person." Lark thought for a moment, "We have inquired for a long time, but we have not been able to figure out where the income from the port work goes. We only know that this part of the income should be
Part of it belongs to Parliament, part of it goes to private individuals.”
“No matter whose pocket the money goes into,” Kalja continued, “most of it ends up in Piltover’s market, which ultimately contributes to the amazing prosperity here.”
"But the money has not flowed into Zaun." Lux followed Kalya's words and continued, "Even Piltover is still making money from Zaun."
"This is not about making money from the Zaun people." Kalya used a more serious word, "For this kind of relationship, I usually call it exploitation."
"Ah, this -" Lux was stunned for a moment, "Is it that serious?"
"From the current point of view, it will only become more serious."
……………………
Lux's stay at Fulgan's Tavern was not kept secret.
Soon, Hilko, who was thinking about how to make Ino see Piltover as his enemy, received the news.
"They live at Fandel's place?" Hilko was quite surprised after hearing Mr. Shadow's answer. "What are these two people doing?"
"..."
Mr. Shadow did not speak - obviously, Hilko was just talking to himself and did not ask for his opinion.
"It's really interesting." Hilko reached out and touched the scar on his chin, "I thought these were two bold brokers who wanted to play a trick of eating both ends, but now they are colluding with Fandel...
…However, it’s a good thing.”
"..."
"The Pilgrim guys won't let those bastards off easily, right?" Silko returned to his seat, "I remember that there are no guest rooms in Fandel's kennel, that is to say, that
Two little girls moved into the same place where those bastards lived before?"
"..."
"Perhaps we can let Fandel push the one named Lux out?" Hilko casually picked up the eyelash curler on the table, "Well, it seems that we need to find a reliable way-"
"It's all up to you, you are the leader." Mr. Shadow finally said, "You have the final say."
"In that case, then don't run into the dark alleys every day and keep an eye on Fander more." Hilko let out a long breath, "Once the Piltover guy finds him, tell me immediately.
"
"No problem." Mr. Shadow shrugged, "However, those two little girls are not simple - mages cannot use common sense to judge."
"You said a lot, mages are not ordinary people." Mr. Shadow rarely took the initiative to speak. Hilko was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "Wouldn't that be better?"
"...Okay, you can do whatever you want."
Mr. Shadow left the room quietly.
"However, let me remind you that this matter is not simple. The origin of Lux cannot be traced at all. Maybe it is a terrifying dragon crossing the river - the world is far bigger than you think."
"Before reminding me, you should pay more attention to yourself!" Hilko sneered nonchalantly, "I don't want to collect your body in a dark alley or from a woman's belly one day."
