Danger at the Conference
Sleeping gas?
Lillia!?
Lilin breathed heavily, attempting to regain strength. He didn't expect that someone would dare to attack the Progress Day Conference.
He's fairly sure that he's not the target, since the public perception is that he's the inventor for the electric generator. Only the Kirammans and Heimerdinger knows about the hextech gemstone.
What's more, he hasn't made the speech to showcase the gemstone yet, so to most people, he's just a nobody.
If it's not me...
Lilin leaned a tree beside him, trying to prop up his weakened body, and looked back at the building that was still full of people.
Caitlyn, Jayce, and the Kirammans are in there...
Suddenly, Lilin's eyes widened, and Caitlin's background lore flashed in his mind.
During one of the Progress Day when she was young, she returned home to find all the servants in the house had been killed and her parents disappeared.
After many trial and tribulations, Caitlin, finally found her parents in the laboratory of a rival family.
As for the mastermind who planned all this, she only found out the code name with the initial "C".
Years later, Caitlin, who became a detective, helped the Piltover Police solve many major cases and was recommended as the sheriff of Piltover, was still chasing this so-called "C"...
The target are the Kirammans!
After the last kidnapping and the Kiramman family taking out a rival clan, Lilin thought that this chapter was over.
Could it be the butterfly effect that caused the time line to change?
I've been so obsessed with the hextech gemstone and the mech suit lately that I've been ignoring these things...
Lilin gritted his teeth, clenched his fist and hammered the tree beside him.
Now's not the time to complain, there are more important things to deal with right now.
Lilin focused on the system prompts in his mind.
In the panel prompt, there are still some time before he falls asleep.
He has to find a way to wake himself up.
Lilin rushed to check the entries for the "drowsy" and "sedated" debuffs.
[Drowsiness: In a state of extreme sleepiness, the mobility decreases by 70]
[Sleep: Complete loss of consciousness, falling into deep sleep (can be awakened by external force). ]
Although there weren't anyone around, he thought of a way to wake himself up.
As panel counts down seconds until he goes from "drowsy" to "asleep".
If I threw a rock up into the sky at the last second, fell asleep, the rock will fall and wake me up.
It might hurt a little but it's worth a shot.
Quickly thinking about what to do next, Lilin sees that there are only a few seconds left in the countdown.
Lilin picked up a palm-sized stone to make sure that he could feel enough pain when it hits him.
Afterwards, Lilin turned on the [HUD mode] to accurately calculate the strength he needed, the time and location of the stone's landing.
The idea is fine, but in reality, complications are inevitable.
There was only three seconds left, Lilin was about to throw the stone into the air when his arm drooped down.
"No..." Before Lilin could react, his consciousness was blurred, and his weak hand could no longer hold the stone.
Immediately afterwards, his blacked out, his entire body flaccid, and fell to the ground with a thunk.
...
...
Unconscious, Lilin heard that someone who seemed to be shaking his shoulders.
"Sir... sir, wake up!"
It sounded like a girl, an unfamiliar one.
What happened?
What's wrong with my...
Lilin felt that his head was in severe pain as if it had been split in half, and his body was limp and processed nothing but the slightest strength.
"Wake up, sir, you shouldn't sleep here!"
Under the girl's call, Lilin's consciousness gradually returned.
He slowly opened his heavy eyelids, and in the dark, the blurred world gradually returned to normal.
Lilin stared blankly at the source of the sound.
It was a girl who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old.
She had light makeup on and was dressed in a delicate white evening dress, her shoulder-length brunette hair was tied behind her head with a hairpin, and her sapphire blue eyes were full of concern.
Just like an elf walking out of a fairy tale.
The girl kneeled beside Lilin, and a small, cold hand gently patted his face.
Seeing that he finally opened his eyes, the girl could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, "By the gears turn sir! You are awake!"
Lilin was still a little confused, "Who...are you?"
"My name is Orianna Reveck, and I was just walking around campus and found you lying on a path in the woods."
Orianna... Ori? !
Lilin stared at the girl's blue pupils for a long time.
Hasn't Orianna been transformed into a mechanical body due to illness?
Seemingly embarrassed by Lilin's gaze, Orianna's face flushed slightly, she avoided the gaze that met her eyes, and said with some discomfort.
"Sir, since you are drunk, don't hang out outside. If you sleep here in winter, not only your relatives and friends will worry about you, but you will also get sick."
She paused and continued: "You have come to participate in the Progress Day Conference, yes? Shall I will send you to find your relatives or friends?"
Lilin drank some wine during the entertainment.
Although not enough to make him drunk, there is still a faint smell of alcohol on his body.
Thus, Orianna concluded that he must have been drunk and wanted to come out to breathe, but accidentally fell asleep outside.
"I'm not … here because I'm drunk..."
With Orianna's help, Lilin struggled to sit up and pressed his hands a few times on his aching temples.
... how did I pass out?
The fragments of his were recollected, and Lilin recalled everything that happened before, "Poisoning... Yes!"
He grabbed Orianna's shoulder, "How long have I been in here!?"
Orianna was taken aback by Lilin's actions, "I… I just arrived... it's been five minutes since I saw you..."
"Five minutes..." Lilin hurriedly stood up.
The toxin lingered in his body, and he has not fully recovered.
Taken just a step forward, his legs became weak and he almost fell to the ground again.
Fortunately, Orianna quickly gave him a hand, "Sir! Are you all right?"
"It's nothing..."
Lilin glanced at the status bar:
[Personal status: Paralyzed]
[Effect: Temporary loss of perception and motor function for 10 minutes. ]
Damn it!
Lilin cursed, then looked at Orianna, and asked, "Did you just come out of the auditorium? Did something happen? The guests are in danger."
"Huh?" Orianna was stunned by the question, then shook her head, "No, I thought it's too stuffy inside, so I came out to take a walk more than half an hour ago..."
Seeing Lilin's serious expression, she thought of her father who was still in the auditorium, and she couldn't help but get nervous, "What happened?"
"I'm not sure yet." Lilin sighed, "But Miss Reveck, I urgently need your help."