"Do we really leave them like this?"
On the way to the control room, the two encountered many people who were poisoned and unconscious.
The gentle Orianna seeing the poor souls just lying there, she couldn't help but ask Lilin whether they can tend to the impaired guests.
"It won't help." Lilin looked back at Orianna, who looked sad, "Unless you want to give them your respirator?"
Orianna hesitated, "I..."
In fact, she did have this thought when she met the first person unconscious on the ground.
But Lilin seemed to see through her thoughts and gave her no chance to think about it at all.
She was very worried about her father, which held her back from helping these people.
Lilin also knew that in her lore, Orianna, the innocent and kind girl, even gave her own breathing filter to a child in order to rescue the Zaunite who were suffering from a poison gas leakage.
This later led to her serious lung infection, and thus embarked on the road of replacing her organs with bionic parts and gradually becoming the Lady of Clockwork.
But since Lilin met her before this terrible incident, he naturally wouldn't let her do a similar stupid thing and let this kind of tragedy repeat itself.
"Let's not mention whether there are enough respirators for the time being. Even if we had enough, can we really help so many people without hindering our actual mission of eliminating the source of the toxin?"
Lilin stared at Orianna, who pursed her lips silently, and explained patiently: "I know you want to help them Orianna, but going directly to the control room to start the ventilator and begin filtering the air will do much more good. So that. Everyone. Can be saved."
Orianna nodded gloomily, "…I understand."
After a while, the two walked quickly around the back of the auditorium, and finally reached the outer corridor on the other side.
"Shh, there's someone ahead." Lilin and Orianna hid behind the wall at the corner of the corridor.
Afterwards, he peeked out slightly and looked at the corridor leading to the control room.
Through the plants and decorations of the hallway, he saw two men, one with a rifle in his hand, the other carrying a blood-stained metal rod over his shoulder.
They had punk hairstyles, and the dark silver metallic luster reflected under the worn coat, going for a armor look these pair of gangsters.
Not only that, but there are some metal cans on their necks and chins, and the liquid inside is bubbling, revealing a yellow-green light.
It's a common chemtech augment in Zaun, used to filter poisonous gases.
Clearly, their place of origin.
And they are unlikely ordinary street gangsters, because those ones can't afford chemtech enhancements at all.
Orianna, who had never encountered such a situation, was obviously a little flustered and whispered, "What should we do now?"
"Give me a moment..."
Lilin calmed Orianna, and then continued to probe into the corridor.
There's only two guards outside. I don't know how many people are in the monitoring room, I might alarm their reinforcements. The question is how do I eliminate them without hurting the two fainted staff on ground...
Lilin was analyzing the countermeasures when he noticed a pool of dark red where the staff was lying.
He quickly opened [HUD mode], and the information of the two staff members appeared on the system panel.
[Status: Dead]
Lilin's face turned cold.
Orianna noticed his expression and asked anxiously, "What, what's wrong?"
"They killed the guards."
Orianna covered her mouth to avoid making too much noise.
Although he knew very well that this world was unlike his peaceful upbringing, death was a very common thing, but this was the first time in his life that he witnessed, first hand, the bodies of innocent people killed by others.
Lilin clenched the handle of the gun, "If that's the case, I have nothing to worry about."
His training with Caitlyn only allowed him to gain a general familiarity of using firearms, the accuracy and marksmanship haven't been improved much.
But accuracy is not an issue with the hextech revolver, it is essentially a hitscan weapon, ignoring gravity and normal projectile factors.
Lilin took a deep breath and waited for an opportune moment, the two Zaun people were not particularly vigilant.
When the two of them looked away, he quickly stepped out from behind cover, holding his raised gun, and pulled the trigger twice.
The two uncharged energy shots blasted towards the two gangsters without anytime for them to react.
Only one of the two energy bullets hit the guy with the metal stick, opening a fist-sized blood hole directly in his chest.
The other shot hit the wall.
"The fu..."
Before the man with the gun could fire back, the shot exploded, and two light blue shock waves, visible to the naked eye, sandwiched him one after the other, penetrating his body.
The man was knocked flying and hit the wall, his internal organs were torn to shreds by the collision energy, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground unconscious, but obviously he would not live for long.
"Stay here, I'll call you when it's safe." Lilin asked Orianna.
"You have to be careful!"
Hearing the commotion from outside, the door of the control room was pushed open, and three men, all equipped with chemtech augments, got out of the room.
Seeing the chaos outside, one of them yelled "Intruder!", and then they noticed a young man with a respirator and a pistol at the far corner of the corridor.
Predicting that there would be more of them from inside the room, Lilin quickly pulled the trigger and fired three uncharged shots in quick succession.
Unless he's just spraying, the hextech gemstone recharges itself much faster than the energy consumption, there's no need for conserving ammo at all.
Bang bang bang!
"Ugh!"
With three loud explosions and screams, the three were also knocked back by the shock wave, one person flew into the control room upside down, and the other two flew to the sides and hit the wall, blood splashing.
[Congratulations! You kill 5 Mercenaries, level up by 1 and gain 1 skill point. ]
[Current Level: Level 6]
[Remaining skill points: 4]
Mercenary... I was right.
Lilin ignored the system prompts, and continued to watch the control room with the door open, preparing if there were still people inside to make a surprise attack.
He took his steps lightly, pointed his gun at the control room and slowly approached.
He stepped over the corpse on the ground, with his back against the wall, stopped at the door of the control room and cleared one side of the room first.
There are no enemies in sight.
Then, he quickly went to the other side of the door, readying his gun, to observe the situation inside again.
No one else is here.
Lilin was still worried, afraid that someone would hide in a dark corner to make a sneak attack.
So, he fired two shots at the ground inside the house.
Under the noise of the shock wave, apart from the sound of some metals and other debris falling to the ground, no human screams were heard.
Immediately afterwards, he quickly ducked into the house, using the overturned table closest to the door as a cover, raising his gun to observe left and right.
After confirming that there were no threat left, he came to the door and shouted to Orianna: "Come in, it's safe now."
The girl trotted all the way and hurriedly got into the room, her face was very pale, and she looked like she was about to vomit.
Obviously it was the first time she saw blood and corpses everywhere.
"How are you feeling? Do you need to rest?"
Orianna shook her head, signaling that she was fine.
Lilin sighed, closed and locked the door, then went in front of the console, where he found several rows of buttons that controlled the central hex-core powered ventilator.
Without hesitation, he changed all the ventilators to the outward exhaust mode.
As the thin veil of purple mist in the house is slowly inhaled by the air vent above the head, the polluted air circulated, the toxin will disappear no time.
Those sedated by this poisonous pollen will gradually wake up.
Lilin's gaze turned to Orianna, who had not yet recovered from the trauma of the bloody corpse, standing aside, and quickly considered his next move.
The top priority objective is completed, the next step is to find Caitlyn, Jayce and the Kiramman couple, and help Orianna find her father...