This Place Is Different!

Wearing clothes printed with graffiti, Vi escorted Caitlyn to the Screaming Elevator. Vi remembered this thing used to be dilapidated, but now, paired with Hextech, although its structure hadn't changed, it looked plump and round.

Not to mention, compared to how Vi knew it before, the current Screaming Elevator was actually much cuter. She never expected this thing could ever be described as cute.

After all, this thing used to be a big cage.

"I'll only take you this far. The rest of the way, you'll have to walk yourself." Vi looked at Caitlyn, whistled, and then said, "Can you find your way home? Cupcake."

Caitlyn looked at Vi, then at the group of people following behind Vi. They wore various clothes – short sleeves, long sleeves, jackets, denim pants, and even knitwear. It was impossible to tell what season it was. But what they had in common was the graffiti on their clothes--

Pink and blue intertwined, painted into pink and blue petals. The graffiti was very beautiful.

"Don't call me that. And, Vi, remember this: I let you go. I will definitely catch you and your wicked sister." Caitlyn took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, the expressions of the people around Vi changed. They looked at Caitlyn with hostility.

But Caitlyn did not back down. She took a step forward and met Vi's gaze.

Vi looked up at Caitlyn and smiled. "Don't be like that. Since I've already let you go, what's the point of me going back to arrest you? As for you, if you want to go to that kind of place again, just come find me anytime, and I'll take you."

"You—" Caitlyn was furious, her face flushed red. She gritted her teeth, glared at Vi, and snorted before turning to board the Screaming Elevator.

She had been away from Piltover for a week. Her mother and father must be very worried. If she didn't go back soon, it would be troublesome.

Vi silently watched Caitlyn's retreating figure until she disappeared into the crowd.

Caitlyn. Very upright, perhaps too upright. And, she would be soft-hearted.

Catching her and Jinx?

Vi didn't believe it.

Then, Vi turned around, raised her hand, and said, "Let's go, time to get to work."

"Vi, who are we going to beat up today?" a skinny figure approached Vi and asked excitedly.

"Bang!"

"What the hell are you talking about? The Boss said we're not going to fight, we're going to reason with them." Manzu, behind Vi, flicked the guy's head. He said, "We're not gangsters, kid."

"Yes, yes, yes, I misspoke."

"Of course, when reasoning fails, we have to resort to action," Manzu added.

Vi heard this and burst into laughter, rubbing her hands together. She walked at the front, waved her hand, and said, "Let's go, back!"

Vi herself never expected that five days ago, she was still mocking Li Ke for being foolish, mocking Li Ke for doing useless things. Did he think he was Vander? Trying to bring Zaun back to its former glory? No, he said he wanted to make it better.

Stupid to the max!

But now, she herself was also enthusiastic about doing this.

Now, Jinx was still the first in her heart, but at the same time, Vi also liked this job very much.

She liked the feeling of being respected, helping others, and protecting her home.

Shark District was the original name, but recently, a group of people in red, pink, and blue graffiti clothes appeared here and insisted on renaming the community, changing the name of Shark District to – Hope Community.

This naturally caused dissatisfaction among the local gangs, so in three days, various small-scale street fights broke out in Shark Community. But what was unexpected was that in this war involving over a hundred people, apart from the deaths of two gang leaders, everyone else only suffered minor injuries. Damn it, this was truly infuriating. The local residents wished these people would fight to the death, preferably all those bastards dying in this war.

However, the reality was that those who survived were driven out of Shark Community.

And regarding this, Shark – no, it should be called Hope Community now.

The local residents were already numb to this.

They were accustomed to being exploited, accustomed to their homes losing power and being affected when the Alchemical Barons mined ore, and accustomed to gangs coming to their doors to extort things and beat them.

What difference did it make to change the community's name and have a different group of people ruling?

In the end, they would only face endless exploitation.

But a miracle appeared. After taking over this area, this group of strange people did not gather the residents to start making rules. Instead, every day, a group of people in pink and blue graffiti clothes, carrying weapons, would patrol the community.

Even more miraculously, these people who walked around the community every day not only did not extort anything from the residents, but instead...

Were they protecting them?

My God!

They were truly protecting them, protecting this community!

No, was this still Zaun?!

And today, Marna, a middle-aged woman from Zaun, was holding a plate with some homemade pastries on it. Her husband was a worker in Zaun, working at a power plant under an Alchemical Baron, and she made pastries to sell on the street to supplement their income.

In the past, she would walk on the street cautiously, avoiding the gangsters. But in the past few days, Marna's courage had gradually grown.

Although Marna didn't know what the future would hold, for now, this group of people who suddenly appeared and renamed Shark District to Hope Community truly did not exploit or bully them.

This was good, this was good enough.

Her eyes suddenly lit up, and Marna saw a group of people returning from outside the community. Two of them were being supported, injured, but laughing heartily. Not only Marna, but people all around also saw them.

"It's Vi."

"She looks like she's been in another fight. My God, her clothes are covered in blood."

"Quick, quick, where's the water? Is there any water?"

When the residents of Hope Community saw Vi and her group, they immediately gathered around.

It wasn't that they had truly accepted this group in just a few days, but rather that the community would only get worse after these people left.

Moreover, the community was indeed getting better now.

"It's fine, it's all other people's blood." Vi took a tissue from someone, wiped her cheek, and said with a smile, "Alright, next time you go to Purple Brass Alley, the people there won't dare to cause you trouble anymore."

"But you have to bring our community's icon." Vi wiped the bloodstains from her face, then crumpled the paper into a ball and put it in her pocket.

This was also a rule set by Li Ke, who said trash shouldn't be littered.

Damn it, it was also a very stupid rule, but surprisingly, when the streets started to get cleaner and the stench in the alleys began to weaken, everything was actually very good.

"Can we really go there now?" someone asked.

He used to go to Purple Brass Alley to do business, but he had been severely cheated by the Alchemical Baron's thugs.

"Of course," Vi patted her chest and guaranteed.

She chatted with the residents, while Marna gave her snacks to others.

These people didn't refuse, they reached out and took them, and ate more and more, until the snacks on the plate were gone. Marna felt a little heartbroken seeing this.

But then, a man walked up. Marna remembered him; he was called Manzu, a minor leader. He walked up to Marna and said apologetically, "Sorry, they were all hungry. Here's the money. If it's not enough, I'll get more when I go back."

Saying that, Manzu took out a handful of coins and placed them on Marna's plate.

Marna was stunned and quickly shook her head, "No, I can't accept this."

"It's okay, please take it. If you don't accept it, and my Boss finds out I ate and drank here for free, I'll be in big trouble."

"Our Boss doesn't allow us to eat and drink for free," Manzu said with a smile.

Marna nodded, then accepted the money.

While Vi was happily chatting with the residents, she didn't notice at all a short figure wearing a green coat and a hat passing by her side.

In broad daylight, there was a click, like the sound of flowing electricity.

Under the hat, the corners of her mouth turned up, and the girl murmured in a pleasant voice:

"Here. It's really different!"

"I like it here!"