Chapter 104 Alchemist Baron Lenata (please subscribe~)

The time to part ways has finally arrived.

None of the children in Zuan can escape the fate of becoming child laborers.

One by one, Zeli's childhood friends "grew up" and entered the factory, then completely disappeared from her life.

Others have been going out to work to earn money since they were 7 or 8 years old.

A kid like Chuck, who had a relatively free childhood and didn't work in a factory until he was almost 14 years old, was already considered a "young master" from a well-off family in Zaun.

"Can't we go later?" Zeli was a little disappointed.

"No." Chuck said, "Actually, I have signed the contract and will officially start working in the factory today."

"Well" Zeli became even more lonely: "But if you go to work too, then we will never see each other again."

Her former friends who worked in the factory never showed up again after they left.

Zeli was a little worried whether they were dead.

Although her mother told her that they were just too busy at work and had no time to see her again.

But if a person doesn't even have a few minutes of free time to meet friends because of work, what's the difference between death and death? Zeli is still young, and she can't imagine that kind of machine-like life.

"Chuck, you'd better start working later."

"I can go to your house and help you talk to your mother."

"My mother is dead." Chuck replied calmly.

Zeli: "."

This news should be shocking, but Zeli is surprisingly calm.

Because she had heard similar news countless times from her friends, relatives, and neighbors.

People die every day in Zaun.

If she was shocked to tears every time she heard such news, then Zeli's eyes would have been swollen from crying.

"Chuck, I'm sorry." Zeli sighed lonely.

"It's okay." Chuck smiled and comforted her: "Zelie, you don't have to worry about me."

"The job I'm looking for is actually good. It's in Lady Lenata's alchemy potion factory - I heard that you only need to work 12 hours a day there, and the income is much higher than other factories. You can get a full salary after working for a week

Where’s Yinlun!”

"Really?" Zeli's eyes lit up.

Although this treatment is far inferior to that of Zaun apprentices in Piltover, it is already a very tolerant and kind condition in Zaun.

If she only needs to work 12 hours a day, then maybe Chuck can still have some free time every day to meet and chat with her old friend!

"That's great!" Zeli couldn't help but feel happy for her friend.

"Well, Chuck." She gathered her mood and said goodbye to him reluctantly: "We'll see you later."

"Well, I'll see you later."

Chuck left anyway.

Only Zeli was left.

Then Zeli suddenly realized that she seemed to have nothing to do.

Although there are many things to play with, no one will play with her anymore.

Maybe "I should make more friends?" Zeli is a familiar person, and she actually knows a lot of people.

If she really wants to find someone to play with her, it's not impossible to find someone.

But she didn't want to feel the feeling of loss anymore when her friends left her one by one.

That is simply more unbearable than being alone.

Because Zeli's family conditions are better than others and she does not have to work in a factory before she reaches adulthood, so as long as she makes friends, she is destined to be "abandoned" by her friends one by one in the future.

"Forget it, let's go home." Zeli sighed.

She walked back home alone, with acquaintances greeting her along the way.

The uncle in the shop, the homeless kid, the neighbor's grandmother, there was no one she didn't recognize.

But Zeli still felt lonely.

She was still worried about something and couldn't let go.

Finally, Zeli returned home.

And her home in Zaun can be said to be the only one with "luxury configurations".

because

"Dad! Mom! Grandma!" As soon as Zeli got home, she greeted her parents who came back from the night shift and her grandma who was resting at home.

Yes, not only are her parents still alive, but she also has a grandmother who is still alive and kicking in her 60s.

This kind of family configuration is rare in the entire Runeterra, not to mention Zaun.

"Zeli, you're back so early?" Grandma hugged her lovingly and smiled kindly: "Why don't you play outside for a little longer?"

"No." Zeli sighed: "Chuck has also gone to work, and there will be no one to play with me in the future."

"That's right." She didn't need any comfort from her family. Zeli cheered up and asked her well-informed parents:

"Mom, Dad, Chuck said he was going to work in Baron Lenata's alchemical potion factory."

"I just forgot to ask him - is it far from our home? If there is a chance in the future, can I go to the factory to find him?"

As soon as the question "this" was asked, the expressions of her family members became a little subtle.

"Baron Lenata's pharmacy factory," my mother was silent for a long time with a complicated look on her face, before finally replying: "It's quite far from our home, and it's in the Diggy District. The security is very bad."

"Zelie, don't bother Chuck."

"Yes." Dad then echoed: "Zelie, you don't have to worry about Chuck. Baron Lenata is a famous philanthropist in our Zaun. Chuck is lucky to be able to work for her. He doesn't

Something will happen."

"Yes, I understand." Zeli nodded, as if she was finally relieved.

"Dad, Mom, I'm going back to the room to rest first."

She walked back to the bedroom easily as usual.

Back in the bedroom, Zeli casually hung her dirty coat and jacket on the chair, stepped on her heels and threw her shoes to the ground. Wearing dirty socks with holes in them and exposing her toes, she lay down on the bed like a salted fish.

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Then she took out her beloved homemade Walkman, put the tape of "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor" inside, put on her headphones, and quietly enjoyed this beautiful melody that belonged only to her.

Zeli was immersed in the world of music and gradually forgot about the troubles in reality.

But, suddenly.

The music stopped suddenly and the sound in the headphones disappeared.

"Damn it!" Zeli suddenly became nervous: "Isn't it broken?"

She was about to take off her headphones and turn on her homemade Walkman to check it carefully.

But outside the bedroom door with extremely poor sound insulation, there was a faint conversation:

"If we say this now, Zeli won't hear it, right?"

It was her father who spoke.

It was her mother who answered in a lowered voice: "It's okay. Zeli is listening to music with headphones in the house."

"Alas," my mother began to sigh as she spoke: "I didn't expect that kid Chuck to actually enter Lenata Gorask's alchemy factory."

"Husband, do you think we should find a way to help him?"

Zeli's father was silent for a while.

Then he helplessly replied: "Help? How to help?"

"Golask Industry is not a place where you can come in and leave whenever you want."

"That kid probably signed a contract to sell himself--"
Chapter completed!