Me? The director of the Asylum of All Heavens!

Chapter 8 Ekko and Jinx
The other side of Zaun.

"I'm so hungry! Is there anything to eat?"

A crazy little girl with blue hair and two long braids kept shouting. She was being carried on someone's shoulders with her hands tied behind her back, but she still refused to behave herself.

"Jinx! Behave yourself! If you move again I'll throw you into the river! But since you're awake, just leave by yourself!"

Ikelai threw her heavily to the ground indifferently.

"boom!"

Jinx was knocked to the ground and clenched her teeth in pain. The blood on her face that had not yet been wiped off made her look even more embarrassed.

"Tsk, hiss~ Ha... Haha! A brat is just a brat, small in stature and small in heart. Are you still holding a grudge against me for killing your Wildfire Gang's men? If it was the red-haired one, then she should blame herself for imitating that person! You know who I'm talking about."

Jinx gasped in pain but didn't scream. Instead, she chose to hide her pain with laughter and viciously exposed Ekko's scars.

Ike grabbed Jinx's collar and glared at her angrily.

However, there was only a cynical sneer on Jinx's face.

"Don't make me regret saving you!" Ike raised his fist and said word by word with gritted teeth.

Jinx didn't appreciate it at all and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva:
"You beat me up in the face, and you expect me to say thank you? Well, thank you for your soft fist. Hey, have you eaten? If you're full, you might be able to beat me to death."

At this moment, Ike understood that she was just trying to provoke him on purpose.

Either death or escape, that was her goal.

It's really not worth it to bother with a madman who has suicidal intentions.

Ike lowered his raised fist, loosened Jinx's collar and sighed heavily:
"Why did you become like this?"

Seeing that the provocation was useless, Jinx couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Haha, why? Because I'm Jinx, I was born to be a nuisance."

"You weren't like this before."

Ike shook his head, ignored Jinx, and limped forward.

This was a good opportunity to escape. Jinx took a few tentative steps back as she looked at Ekko, who was not at all on guard against her escape.

After making sure that Ekko wasn't noticing, Jinx turned and ran, but the image of Vi helping Caitlyn leave suddenly flashed through her mind.

Wei's eyes were filled with disappointment and fear. She seemed to be unable to believe that the person who killed so many law enforcement officers was really her innocent sister.

Wei's eyes hurt Jinx, and Caitlyn, who was being supported, mutated into a cunning demon in her mind, giving her a smile of success.

[Wei chose that female law enforcement officer. She abandoned you again! ]

Jinx's steps became heavier and heavier, and chaotic auditory hallucinations began to appear in her mind, as if the souls of those she had killed were chattering in her ears.

"Shut up!"

She saw the shadow of Milo, her childhood playmate whom she had killed. His terrifying and ferocious expression seemed to be silently shouting, "You are a disaster!"

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

Jinx's hands were tied behind her back and she couldn't cover her ears. She fell to her knees and curled up, trying to escape the hallucinations that made her desperate.

On the other side, Ekko looked at the Hextech gems he found from Jinx, and just wanted to meet up with Vi and the others as soon as possible to resolve the conflict between the Upper City and the Lower City.

He didn't want to bother with Jinx anymore, but he didn't expect that this guy would follow him from a distance after talking to himself crazily for a while, with no intention of leaving at all.

He shook his head, hid the Hexgem, and continued walking along the river bank, looking for his lost flying board.

Suddenly he found someone posting something on the wall. Upon closer inspection, he saw not only his own portrait but also the portrait of a stranger he had met yesterday.

This is the person sent by Hilco to post his bounty order! Ike stopped in his tracks with caution.

"...Silco's bounty this time is really generous! I heard that some of the Alchemist Baron's men are tempted."

While the gang members who were posting the bounty were chatting with their companions, Ike quickly hid in the shadow of the building.

"Yeah, it's all because of Jinx. In the past, she just messed up and left a mess. Now, Jinx has messed herself up."

"When will Hilco realize that she is a liability?"

The gang members are still gossiping.

Jinx didn't do anything out of the ordinary. Instead, she followed Ekko and hid obediently.

"Aren't you going out? They are most likely here to look for you."

Ike couldn't help but look at Jinx who was following him all the way.

Subconsciously, he hoped that Jinx could escape on her own because he really hadn't figured out what to do with her.

Ike couldn't bring himself to kill her, but letting her go would be like letting a tiger go back to the mountains, which would be unfair to the dead comrades of the Wildfire Gang. Jinx didn't say anything, but turned around to show her hands tied behind her back.

In fact, Jinx didn't know where she should go. Her sister abandoned her again, and Hilco deceived her. Zaun was so big but she couldn't find a place for herself.

It would be better to just follow Ike. He went to the bridge with Wei yesterday. Maybe I can find my sister by following him.

“Look, you got me!” Jinx made a heart shape with her tied hands.

Ike couldn't help but frowned, looking at Jinx with a question mark face: "What a lame excuse! I just tied your hands, not your feet!"

Jinx stuck out her tongue and didn't give a direct answer. Instead, she moved closer to Ekko to see what he was looking at.

"Hahahaha! Is that you with the rooster comb they drew? So ugly... Ugh!"

Jinx's laughter almost attracted the enemy's attention, but fortunately, Ekko covered her mouth and dragged her back.

The gang members in the distance didn't notice them and continued chatting.

"...Speaking of which, these people in the portrait look quite unfamiliar. Are they members of the Wildfire Gang?"

"It must be them! They are wearing masks and dare not show their faces. They are causing trouble for us everywhere. We must teach them a lesson this time when we catch them!"

Ike, who was eavesdropping, shook his head. Those two mysterious men were not members of his Wildfire Gang.

He clearly remembered that one of them even had the power to control time.

"So time can be controlled by humans?"

The future time assassin, Ike, has awakened his desire to explore time in advance.

"If I had this power, I could save more people. Maybe I could go back to the past, back to when everything hadn't happened yet, save Benso, save everyone, and Bakubaku wouldn't be like this now."

"No! I have to find them before Hilco's men find them! And then ask for the method of manipulating time."

Ike couldn't help but clench his fists and walked forward along the wall, trying to eavesdrop on more valuable information.

"...You know what? I heard that someone almost got the reward if they hadn't acted on their own."

"Really? Who's that lucky?"

"Lucky? You wouldn't say that if you knew what happened.

"Huh? What happened?"

"There is a group of people, seemingly the subordinates of the Alchemist Baron Finn. They found clues from somewhere and wanted to capture the target and hand him over to Hilco for the reward, so they surrounded the doctor's laboratory privately."

"and then?"

"And then? And then they all died. The only one who reported the news was stimulated by something and kept shouting blood! Monster! I think they were too greedy. They thought they could get more money by catching the monster themselves, but they ended up losing their lives."

"Yeah, you can get a lot of money just by providing clues."

"This really pissed Finn off. He already had a problem with Hilco because so many of his men died because of a bounty, and the conflict between the two became even more difficult to reconcile."

As the group was talking, they finished posting the rewards in this area and went to the next location carrying the plastic buckets.

Ike retreated back into the shadows, pondering the clues he had just heard.

What we can be sure of now is that the two people we saw yesterday were not Hilco's men, nor were they men from some Zaun force.

But strangely, the last place they appeared was Dr. Singed's laboratory.

Ekko was not very clear about who Singed was, but he knew that there was a doctor in Zaun who had been providing Shilko with glimmer reagents.

If I'm not mistaken, this doctor is most likely the evil alchemist under Hillco's command.

This made Ike a little unsure of the two men's positions, and he could only hope that they would have less disputes with Hilco.

"But these two guys are pretty powerful. Regardless of whether they really wiped out all the enemies, they are already very capable to escape from a group of people. If I want to find them, I still have to be fully prepared."

Ike turned around and looked at Jinx who was smiling innocently and winking at him, and he couldn't help but frowning.

"Forget it, let's leave this problem child to her sister first and then go find them!"

With this in mind, Ike untied the ropes that bound Jinx. "Listen, if you want to see your sister, just follow me. If you have other opinions, get out of my sight!"

Jinx nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

Ike sighed heavily.

"Deal with this big problem and return the broken stone to the parliament. If the female law enforcement officer's friends in the parliament really care about the lower classes as she says, everything can still turn around."

(End of this chapter)