Chapter 264: Night at Levi's House
At night, at Levi's house.
Because leaders grow so fast, administrative efficiency can never keep up with overexpansion.
Therefore, since the establishment of the Wind Leader Association, almost every Wind Leader cadre has been working as two people, women as men, and men as steam robots. The intensity of the work is so high that even the old alchemist baron in Zaun would have to admit defeat.
Levi was the same. Since becoming the president of the Leaders Association, he had endless work to do almost every day. Overtime became a common occurrence, and even at night he had endless documents to read.
But Levi didn't want to stay in the office at night.
With the help of the "Bluebird Remote Online Office System", he would rather pack the documents in a box and take them home to deal with them.
This way he can work and spend time with his family at the same time...well, he doesn't have much family to spend time with.
Lina seemed to like the "collective life" of living in the dormitory with Jinx, and did not return to her brother's house after moving to Zaun. Mr. Erwin still disliked his future son-in-law and did not agree to live with him and Seraphine.
So Levi went home to be with his girlfriend.
Or, to be more precise, Seraphine had to work overtime with him after get off work, just like his personal secretary.
"Levi, this is the first list of Zaun troops going to Ionia to support the battle drawn up by the General Staff..."
Seraphine was more relaxed at home, still like the innocent little girl she was half a year ago, wearing a pretty short dress that made her look very girlish . But her long pink hair that fell like a waterfall had been tied into a neat long ponytail, and she had a pair of exquisite gold-rimmed glasses on her straight nose. At first glance, she looked much more mature and capable than when she and Levi first met half a year ago.
She handed Levi a faxed document with a person's name and a unit number on it.
Levi took it and examined it carefully. After a brief thought, he crossed out all the unit numbers. "Ask the Bluebird Avatar to help fax it back and tell everyone that we don't need to send regular troops to support Ionia. We only need to send some elite soldiers and sufficient military equipment."
Well...Janna has a "fax" function.
The specific operation is to let the bluebird incarnation on this end of the "phone" scan the document visually, and then let the bluebird incarnation on the other end of the "phone" drive the typewriter with the breeze to "print" out a document with the same content at high speed.
"Not sending any troops?" Seraphine took the document and confirmed with some concern.
"Yeah." Levi said, "Our conventional combat power is too far behind Noxus, and sending troops over there won't have much effect."
"Compared to Zaun's recently established combat troops, Ionia's civilian masters are more powerful. We only need to support them with supplies and weapons, integrate them and train them, and we can achieve better results than the support troops."
"But..." Levi thought for a moment and added, "In order to prevent Noxus from using its naval superiority to blockade Balue Island and ensure the long-term supply of materials to the rebels on the island, our navy still needs to be dispatched."
"Then let the navy change to the pirate flag and support Ionia as 'passing knights of justice'."
"Pirates?" Seraphine walked to the side with the documents and scanned them one by one for Janna's special "office bird". She couldn't help laughing and asked, "Will the Noxians believe it?"
"It doesn't matter whether they believe it or not. The key is that the war-weary generals are willing to believe it." Levi said as he picked up another document in his hand.
Seraphine slowly sat back next to him, resting her chin on her hand, blinking her eyes, and watching him work diligently.
Levi lowered his head in thought, and she just watched quietly.
But Seraphine didn't wait too long. Because Levi liked to discuss business matters with her and listen to her ideas.
This girl is no longer the pink-haired naive girl who had never even stepped out of the house. Her current practical experience and political vision are no worse than any senior leader in the association.
"Regarding the solicitation of opinions on the full launch of the intelligent steam robot research project..."
"Seraphone, what do you think about this?"
“Intelligent steam robot?” Seraphine read the document carefully before asking, “Professor Victor wants to conduct in-depth research on AI technology and realize mass production of artificial intelligence robots in the future?”
When Viktor and Orianna were doing research not long ago, they accidentally used Hextech crystals to create a steam robot with real artificial intelligence. They named it "Blitzcrank".
Victor's idea is to achieve mass production of intelligent robots in the future through reverse research on Blitzcrank, a special individual, so as to further liberate productivity, so that one day robots can completely replace human physical labor.
This sounds like a good idea and has received support from many people in the meeting.
But Seraphine was a little hesitant.
She pursed her lips and said after a moment's silence, "I've also seen the steam robot Blitzcrank. It seems to be more than just an intelligent machine - it is alive. I can hear the song in its soul."
"If we use robots with souls to completely replace human labor in the future, would that be considered making them our slaves and exploiting these mechanical lives?"
"Uh..." Levi was also confused by this question.
"I think so." The goddess Janna on his shoulder spoke: " 'Blitzcrank is not only an intelligent life, he is even a leader with faith. I have confirmed this with my own eyes.'"
"Ah, Blitzcrank can also generate the power of faith?" Levi was inspired by Janna's words: "Then if we can master the technology to mass-produce Blitzcrank in the future, wouldn't we be able to continuously 'manufacture' Leaders and generate unlimited power of faith almost out of nothing... cough cough..."
He stopped his fantasy in time.
Because he realized that we are still far from the ideal harmonious society. Humans cannot even eliminate the barriers of gender, identity, nationality and race, let alone the barriers between humans and robots that transcend species.
Once this kind of mechanical life that can be quickly mass-produced and has no limit on numbers fills human society, and even far exceeds humans in population, all kinds of unimaginable contradictions will surely erupt in the future.
"Let's put this matter aside for now. I will hold a meeting with the experts from the Science and Equipment Department and everyone from the Standing Council tomorrow to discuss it further."
Levi put the document aside for the time being and asked Seraphine to help put it into the black file box waiting to be processed.
Then, Seraphine helped him take out the next document from the red file box to be reviewed.
The cadres of the Leader are not like the civil servants of Piltover in the past, who liked to mix important official documents with a bunch of irrelevant documents to waste the leaders' office time and indirectly compete with the leaders for power.
The rule of the leader is to put the important matters that need to be dealt with at the top of the pile of documents, and the small matters at the bottom. So after Levi dealt with several important matters in succession, the next thing was some miscellaneous matters:
For example, Jayce, Heimerdinger, and Professor Heimerdinger's new student Ekko, three talented scientists, jointly proposed a "Zaan Sun" plan.
"By erecting a giant mirror above the city, we can provide sunlight to the dark alleys and trenches in the sunken area of Zaun... Yeah, yes, this project is very necessary to advance research."
For example, the Leader recently found a muscular man who called himself "Dr. Mundo" in an abandoned mental hospital in the old city of Zaun.
This guy was so stupid that he would use a kitchen knife to "treat" a "patient" as soon as he saw a stranger. As a result, he went crazy and injured several staff members of the Leader, and also chopped down more than a dozen onlookers.
The discussion in Zaun society right now is: Do mentally ill people like Dr. Mundo need to be held accountable for his unconscious violent crimes?
"I can't comment on this. As for legal matters, let's wait until the Leaders' Conference to discuss them publicly."
There are many other miscellaneous things besides this:
For example, during the civilization and hygiene campaign, the leader captured a mutated plague rat that could speak human language; everyone was discussing whether the mutated plague rat was considered a human being, and whether it should be sent to a zoo or a prison.
For example, due to the arms cooperation agreement with Noxus, the Leader is not allowed to sell the extended-range Calamity-class rocket with a range of more than 50KM to any country outside the Empire.
Therefore, rocket expert Jinx suggested that she could specially manufacture an export model with a theoretical range of only 10km, which "must not be modified privately after purchase, otherwise the effective range will increase several times."
For example, Wei, who had become a law enforcement officer in the newly established Zaun Police Station along with Caitlin, who was the police chief, suddenly jointly proposed opinions to the organization with Caitlin...
They suggested that the Windleaders should take the lead in legalizing marriage for sexual minorities before setting a precedent in Zaun and Runeterra.
Levi: “…”
He processed so many documents in this way, and finally finished the red file box after working all night.
Seraphine accompanied him and helped him tidy up the table that was piled with various documents with ease.
Levi watched her skillfully organizing the documents and couldn't help but feel moved.
He held her hand from behind.
"Hmm?" She didn't blush or feel nervous as before. She just turned her head naturally and looked at him with concern.
"You've worked hard." Levi said in a complicated tone: "Seraphini."
He had heard several love songs that Seraphine had composed in the past. At that time, she was a little girl full of illusions and longings for love, dreaming of a sweet life with a prince and a princess.
But after being with Levi, Seraphine only suffered with him.
“No.” Seraphine smiled and squeezed his hand tightly: “I am much happier now than before.”
"In the past, I was always surrounded by the painful sounds outside, so I could only hide in my room and rely on fantasy love stories to relieve the pain. But now, the melodies I hear from all around are sunny, warm, and full of positivity... So I am very happy."
"Of course, the most important thing is..."
Seraphine took Levi's hand and placed it against her heart.
Fighting for a common ideal with the person you love is more romantic than any love story a girl could imagine.
She said this in her heart.
Levi couldn't help but be moved.
"Are you sleepy?" he asked, looking at the dark night outside the window.
"Hmm..." Seraphine glanced at him with a blushing face.
She is a mage, and Levi is the chosen one. It doesn't matter if they don't sleep for a year, of course they won't feel sleepy.
Even if you are really sleepy, you can restore your energy by meditating for a few minutes.
So, even though the two of them work longer hours than the Zaun slaves of the past, they still have a lot of personal time left every day.
And this private time is, of course, their date time.
However, sometimes this private time is not so private.
Because of the existence of extraordinary powers and various alchemical potions, most of the leaders' cadres are like Levi and Seraphine, who are horrible workaholics who can stay up for 24 hours.
"Levi, there's news from Miss Mel—"
With the help of the Midarda family's trade network throughout Runeterra, Meier has been in charge of the Leader's overseas intelligence and diplomatic work since Zaun's independence.
Seeing that Levi had already picked up Seraphine by the waist and was preparing to go back to her music class, Janna seized the opportunity to report the important information sent by Miss Mel in a timely manner:
"Guests from the Kingdom of Demacia will arrive in Zaun tomorrow."
