Another few hours passed.

The sky is getting darker and it's approaching evening.

Levi finally breathed a long sigh of relief and closed the notebook that he and Janna had jointly created and filled with dozens of pages.

Just at this moment, there was a sound of approaching footsteps outside the door.

The footsteps quickly stopped at the door, and after a while, a black-haired girl wearing glasses opened the door with a key.

"Brother, I'm back."

The girl is none other than Levi's sister, Lina.

Because her ancestors were Eastern immigrants from Ionia, she has beautiful black hair and black eyes like Li Wei, and her facial features and skin are more delicate and delicate than those of the Zaun natives.

Unlike her sloppy brother, Lina wears a simple and quiet thick ponytail and a Piltover University uniform. She is clean from head to toe without any stains.

The slim-fitting women's suit and knee-length skirt, paired with white stockings, black leather shoes and gold-rimmed glasses... made her look more like a lady from Pi City, rather than a young girl who came here to make a living with her apprentice brother.

Sister Zuan.

"Lina!"

Levi imitated the feeling in his memory and welcomed her in with a smile.

That Li Wei loved her sister very much. Before he died, he originally felt relieved, but when he thought about his sister having no one to take care of him after his death, he quickly struggled to take a big breath of air.

"Brother...where did your pet bird come from?"

Lina noticed the petite blue bird lying on Levi's shoulder.

But she seemed to be in a bad mood at this time, and even the lovely Janna could not arouse the girl's interest.

So before Li Wei could answer, she frowned slightly:

"Brother... have you gone through my box? Why are my books and notebooks outside? You can barely read, what are you doing with these things? There are only a few free notebooks and pens issued by the school.

There is only one...I still need to use it when I go to school."

Lina muttered, but Levi wasn't angry at all.

"You must be tired after a day of class, right?"

"Lina, let's eat first."

As he spoke, he carefully set up a chair as a dining table and took out a lunch box from under the bed.

"Today is your favorite food——"

"Raw pickled devil swamp frog!"

Levi opened the lunch box in a ceremonial manner, but what was revealed was not a golden light, but a large pile stained with all kinds of strange and colorful spices. It looked very much like the magic marsh frog meat, a specialty of the Ganges.

The marsh frog is a magical creature that lives in the sewage ditches of Zaun.

Although it looks very poor and is disliked by the upper class people in Piltover, its taste is surprisingly good. It is the Zaun people's favorite delicacy and one of the few meats they can afford.

That Li Wei came back from working an all-night shift. Although she was tired and sleepy, she still lined up in a long line when she saw a vendor selling devil's marsh frog meat on the street and packed a box for her sister.

"Demon Swamp Frog?!"

For some reason, Lina's brows furrowed even deeper:

"Brother, didn't I say... I don't want to eat this kind of thing anymore!"

"It's because we keep eating these weird things that those Piltover people look down on us and call us 'gutter rats who eat everything'!"

"..." Levi finally stopped laughing.

He didn't preach, he just handed the fork to his sister:

"The landlord came to press for rent today."

Lina: "...."

All her resentment was stuck in her throat, and she couldn't say a word.

Li Wei then asked quietly: "Have you been wronged in school again?"

"Well..." The corners of Lina's eyes were a little wet.

"I'm sorry, brother..."

"Tell me about it, it's not good to hold it back."

"She's not the eldest lady of the Philos family! Just because she has a bullshit family behind her, she always makes trouble for others... She just scolded me, and even scolded us Zaunites as garbage-eating gutter rats.

They say we are stinky people from out of town and have come to Picheng to beg for food..."

"You really have shit in your mouth. This Bichi was born but not taught by her mother...ahem!"

Lina cursed a lot in Zuan, but she covered her mouth in embarrassment.

"Hahaha." Levi encouraged and touched his sister's hair: "Don't pretend to be at home."

"Look - no matter how you pretend, you are still a Zaunite."

"Well..." Lina blushed and lowered her head.

Then she didn't say anything, just held a fork and showed off the marsh frog.

The eating was quite elegant at first, but as he continued to eat, he revealed his true colors and began to perform a show of tearing apart the magic swamp frog with his hands.

"Brother." After a while, the girl raised her head belatedly: "The landlord came to collect the rent this time, didn't he say anything?"

"He won't just call the law enforcement officers to drive us out, right? If that's the case... we'll have to go back to Zaun."

"Don't worry. Mr. Bill promised that he won't go to that point." Levi comforted him without changing his expression: "Just study with peace of mind. I will take care of the money matter."

"Well..." Lina nodded.

She seemed to want to continue eating, but after hesitating for a moment, she still said to Levi:

"After dinner, I will go back to school."

"There is an interview test in the evening. If I can pass it - brother, do you know? I can be a key training target and be admitted to Professor Jess Tallis's research group."

"Members of the research team will receive additional subsidies..."

"Brother, our family will be rich by then!"

"Professor Jace..." Levi also heard that this was indeed a great opportunity.

Jestalis, the founder of Hex Technology, is now Piltover's most popular scientific research star.

Whenever Levi went downstairs to buy a pack of cigarettes, he would see dozens of different promotional posters of Mr. Jess.

I really didn't expect it...

If he had heard the name Jace before time travel, Levi would have thought, "How dare little Jace try to do what he does best", and then sneered and asked him to get a monitor to let the other side know what Ionia's high spirits and immortality are.

But now that he has traveled through time, Jace has become a big shot that is beyond his reach. It is really sad.

But no matter what, this is indeed a huge opportunity.

If Lina could become Jace's student, then the siblings would no longer be afraid of being driven back to Zaun by law enforcement officials.

"But it's not easy, right?"

"Huh?" Lina's forced smile froze.

Levi touched her head again and said, "Just do your best tonight and don't put too much pressure on yourself."

"Even if we fail, we haven't lost anything."

"Well..." Lina was speechless and just bit her lip tightly: "Yeah!"

"You eat first." Levi stood up slowly, moved to avoid his sister, and squeezed to the door: "I'm going to work the night shift."

"Go now?" Lina was a little reluctant. Her and her brother's schedules were completely staggered, and they could only see each other in the evening every day.

"Well, I'm going to see if Mr. Erwin is here."

Levi works in a Hex audio factory, and Mr. Irwin is his boss.

In the memory of the original owner, this boss, who was quite dignified in front of the workers, was actually a good man with a cold face and a warm heart.

A good man who sympathizes with the workers of Zaun - a rare animal among Piltover's business owners.

"If possible, I will go to Mr. Erwin to advance next month's salary. He should agree."

Although this amount of money is not enough to pay the rent, it can at least be used to ask the landlord for a little more grace, so that he will not be kicked back to Zuan by the law enforcement officials tomorrow.

"What about next month?"

My sister still asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, I can solve it." Levi is very confident. After all, he is also a well-informed earthling. As long as he can buy time first, he will naturally think of ways to make money.

"Please give your defense tonight and don't think about things at home."

After giving his final instructions, Levi opened the door and walked out with Janna, the blue bird, lying on his shoulder.

"Hey, brother, don't you want to eat?" Lina called to him before he could stop, and the door was already closed.
To be continued...