Two Cities: I am building a mecha in Pi City

"What...are you doing! I don't know the difference between men and women."

Entering the room, Caitlin, whose delicate little face was already red, withdrew her little hand, pouted her cherry-pink mouth and groaned dissatisfiedly.

However, the alchemy technology chandelier in Li Lin's room was dim, and his attention was not on Caitlin, so he did not notice her expression.

By the time he took something out of the drawer of the workbench, Caitlin had taken a deep breath to calm down, allowing her hot cheeks to return to an almost normal level.

"What's this?"

Caitlin saw a very exquisitely crafted small box in Li Lin's hand, and her slender eyebrows couldn't help but raise.

A guess came to her mind, but she was not sure, so she didn't say it out loud. Her little heart beat with excitement again.

"A gift, haven't you always wanted it?"

Li Lin grinned and slowly opened the box.

In the small boutique gift box, quietly lying was a mechanical watch in Caitlin's favorite violet color with very exquisite workmanship.

Different from Li Lin's watch, this mechanical watch is more compact and mini. The strap is not made of metal, but is made of high-quality genuine cowhide.

Caitlin's breathing stagnated slightly, her eyes filled with disbelief.

After a moment, she couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wow! Is this for me?"

Li Lin smiled and nodded, remaining silent, and his expression was enough to express his affirmation.

"That's so kind of you, Li Lin!"

Caitlin was very happy, but due to her family's upbringing, she didn't show much excitement.

She just stretched out her little hand to pick up the watch and look at it carefully, but a sudden thought flashed through her mind and she froze her arm.

"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Li Lin noticed her reaction and asked nervously.

"No." Caitlin opened her lips slightly and shook her face, "I like it very much..."

Before Li Lin could say too much, she lowered her eyes shyly and handed her left hand to him.

"Can you, can you put it on for me?"

As if she was afraid that Li Lin would misunderstand something, Caitlin quickly added: "Well...don't get me wrong, I just don't know how to put it on..."

How can a genius detective like Caitlin, who has rigorous thinking and strong learning ability, not know how to wear a watch...

Li Lin scratched his head.

Why do I always feel that her recent behavior is weird? Maybe she likes me...

No, no, no, this must be one of the three major illusions in life!

Li Lin quickly stopped his chaotic thoughts, put the gift box on the table, then picked up the watch, untied the strap, and took a deep breath.

Under the dim light of alchemy technology, Li Lin suddenly noticed that Caitlin's exposed half of her arm seemed to be dyed strangely pink.

His eyes gradually moved up Caitlin's arms, finally stopping at her shy little face that was about to be buried in her chest.

Something is wrong, very wrong...

This doesn’t really look like the three major illusions…

However, we have only known each other for more than a month...

She doesn't have any feelings for Jace, who she has been with for so long and is also very handsome. How could she like me?

Although we are similar in age, and since my body has returned to normal from malnutrition, my appearance is no worse than Jess...

Li Lin shook his head invisibly and smiled bitterly.

He liked Caitlin very much as a hero before traveling through time, let alone meeting a real person.

Even if Li Lin's suspicion is true and Caitlin does like him, he will not expose this relationship now.

At least until he has done something good enough to be on an equal footing with the Gila Mann family...

It seemed that Li Lin had hesitated for too long, and Caitlin couldn't help but urge: "Hurry up, my arms are sore."

"immediately!"

Wearing a watch for others inevitably involves skin contact.

Caitlin pays great attention to skin care. Even if she often goes out hunting, her skin is still delicate, soft...and hot.

The elegant fragrance of violet flowers wafted from her body, entering Li Lin's nose from time to time, stirring his heartstrings.

The time it took to put the watch on her seemed to have been stretched infinitely, it seemed very long, almost frozen in this moment.

Not only for Li Lin, but also for Caitlin.

Only the ticking second hand still reminds them that time is still flowing normally.

Both of them were very quiet and tacitly did not speak, breaking the somewhat ambiguous atmosphere that seemed to outsiders.

"...Ahem, I'm fine now."

After a while, Li Lin tied the watch strap, withdrew his hand and gently cleared his throat to remind Caitlin, and then Caitlin recovered from her trance.

"Um……"

She made a soft nasal sound, seeming to be nostalgic for the feeling just now, reluctantly retracted her arm, and then raised her wrist.

Under the refraction of the dim light, the violet watch seemed to reflect a star-like brilliant color, making Caitlin slightly in a trance.

"So beautiful," she murmured.

Immediately, her sparkling eyes turned to Li Lin, and the corners of her lips curved, "Thank you Li Lin, I really like it."

"As long as you like it." Li Lin responded to Caitlin's smile, but then the conversation changed: "But are you satisfied with this?"

Caitlin was slightly startled, "...Huh?"

Before she could react and complain about why Li Lin wanted to ruin the atmosphere, she saw him walking to the shelf covered with white cloth in the corner of the room.

He turned back with a faint smile on his face, "Did you forget? You wanted more than just a watch at that time."

"You...really?!" Caitlin gasped.

Of course she remembered the gift she wanted that day, but she didn't expect Li Lin to actually do it and so quickly.

"It took me almost a whole day to make your sniper rifle."

With that said, Li Lin pulled off the white cloth on the shelf.

A sniper rifle with a total length of about 1.2 meters, a dark red color, and a rather strange appearance appeared in Caitlin's field of vision.

Its gun body is slender and has a long and narrow optical sniper scope that can be manually switched with the mechanical sight that comes with the gun body, and can be adjusted up to 8 times.

There is a spherical groove in the middle of the gun body, and a round and dim Hex energy crystal is fixed inside.

The most peculiar thing is its barrel part.

Unlike common rifle barrels, the barrel of this sniper rifle is composed of three one-third metal cones that can be pieced together tightly.

At its top, only the sharp apex of the cone was revealed, and there was no "muzzle" that could fire bullets, which puzzled Caitlin.

But she didn't question it.

Since Li Lin personally made the rifle for himself, it must have something special about it.

Caitlin picked up the sniper rifle and felt it for a while.

It weighed only a little more than the Bilgewater Mauser rifle her father had given her.

Caitlin fumbled around with the gun for a while, and even without Li Lin's guidance, she quickly found a turnable knob just behind and below the energy crystal groove.

Caitlin glanced at Li Lin, and under his encouraging eyes, she gently turned the knob.

For a moment, the energy crystal in the groove of the gun body was activated, flashing a dull blue light.

Immediately afterwards, under Caitlin's shocked gaze, the three one-third cones at the muzzle quickly separated and rotated.

A third of the metal cone is on the top, and the other two are on the bottom, showing a symmetrical triangle shape, and revealing a hole connected to the gun body that shines with blue light.

At the same time, the blue electric arc between the cones jumped, and an energy ball drilled out of the hole, and hovered at the position where its head had just emerged.

It's obvious that this is an energy weapon.

"Oh, the gears are turning! Is this the Hex vinyl gun invented by Vishra?! Did you improve it?"

The Hex vinyl gun she was talking about was manufactured more than ten years ago. It was Piltover's first attempt to use Hex crystal as the energy core to invent energy weapons specifically for law enforcement officers.

However, due to a series of very serious safety issues, the production of this energy rifle was stopped, and all rifles were sealed.

Of course Li Lin knew about such a low-end weapon. There was a design drawing of such a weapon in the library of the Gila Mann family, and it was placed on the top of the bookshelf to collect dust.

It's no wonder Caitlin mistook it, after all, this sniper rifle looked too much like a Hex vinyl gun.

But as far as Li Lin is concerned, he will never use this kind of junk weapon to fool Caitlin.

With the help of the skills [Introduction to Mechanic] and [Digital Thinking], Li Lin had studied for a long time before designing the blueprint of this rare-quality laser sniper rifle.

It was just because he didn't have time and energy crystals before that he had the chance to make them in these three days.

"No, to be precise, I designed this gun myself, specifically for you."

Li Lin smiled.

"I named it...Iron Blood."