Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

Sanyue's eyes, which had adapted to the darkness, suddenly stepped into the light, causing her to close them abruptly. Even through her eyelids, she felt as if her eyes were burning and she couldn't help but urge to cry.

"Am I blind? Why can't I see anything?" Xing's voice was confused. "What happened?"

"In fact, the more important something is, the simpler and easier it should be to build." Dan Heng's calm voice reached Sanyue and Xing's ears. "Elevators are good, but if there is a technological fault in Beloberg and the elevator breaks down, the passage will directly become a 'dead end'. For this kind of straight pit, even if there are no stairs, by building ladders little by little, the people below will be able to return to the ground one day."

Dan Heng closed his eyes and answered San Yue's question calmly. He then turned his head to the direction where the Star Core Spirit had just spoken. "It's normal that you can't see. You need to get used to the light."

While saying that he needed to adapt to the light, Dan Heng had already slowly opened his eyes. The young man's originally pair of black pupils had now shrunk into a vertical slit.

If he had a choice, he would not take the risk of exposing his differences in front of anyone, but Dan Heng opened his eyes, proving that he had no choice.

Sambo Koski, who was responsible for leading the three people, has been silent since he led everyone out of the huge pit of the [furnace core].

After looking around at this moment, Dan Heng found helplessly...

Sambo Koski, who was responsible for guiding the three people, disappeared.

The young man sighed helplessly in his heart and closed his eyes again.

Sanyue and Xing were still unable to see. I was alone and couldn't be in two places at once, so why bother going to look for them and chase them?

After a brief period of confusion, Sanyue and Xing gradually regained their sight, and Danheng also told them that the man who led the way had run away.

"I just feel that guy is unreliable!" Sanyue stamped her feet angrily, "He disappeared just as we arrived. He must have taken advantage of the moment we became blind to run away."

"But he was only responsible for bringing us down here, right?" Xing turned around and looked at the angry March, "He has already done it."

"Xing is right." Dan Heng also agreed with Xing's opinion, "[Exploration] [Understanding], this is our own business."

"Okay." Sanyue only complained a little. This child is quite optimistic and doesn't take anything to heart. "Then the question is, where should we go now? This place... looks like an ice field, but the lighting is quite bright."

"No matter what, let's move forward. Since Sangbo does business both above and below ground, there must be gathering places for people underground."

Since Dan Heng had made the decision, Xing and Sanyue followed Dan Heng's instructions and moved forward. However, when the three of them were less than 300 meters away from the [furnace core], several alarms suddenly exploded in the dirty-looking excavation area.

"I remember that guy Sambo said that the underground has its own rules...right?" March 7 looked at the alarm that was flashing red and blue lights.

"Yeah." Dan Heng always cherished every word he said. He didn't even waste words. He just waved his hand and took out his spear. He took a defensive posture and looked far away. "Someone is coming."

The Star Core Spirit also took out a baseball bat and looked vigilantly at the figure approaching in the distance.

"Human?" Sanyue looked up, his serious expression gradually becoming weird, "That's a robot." Yes, as the tall and strong figure gradually approached, Danheng and Xing also saw clearly that the person coming was a huge, one-eyed robot covered with mechanical structures, and wearing an extremely large windbreaker.

Behind this robot, there is an army of at least dozens of small and medium-sized robots.

"What should we do? I don't think we can win." San Yue Qi narrowed his eyes and asked his companions in a low voice, "Should we run away?"

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. Some robots have structures similar to gun barrels. Do you want to try to communicate?" The Star Core Spirit also came to Dan Heng's side holding a baseball bat and lowered his voice.

Dan Heng pursed his lips. Talk? Talk to a robot?

Run? He also saw the gun barrels on the robots that Xing saw.

Just when Dan Heng thought he still had some time to think of a countermeasure, the tall robot stopped a little further away, and then a low synthetic sound reached the ears of the three.

"Question: Who are you?"

The three of them were stunned for a moment and did not answer the robot's question immediately.

"Repeat the question, who are you?" the robot continued to ask, and after this question, many robots with gun barrels behind the tall robot all made noises similar to loading guns.

"Train passengers! We are passengers on the Starry Sky Train! [Unknown Guest]! Do you know him?"

The robot paused for a moment, "Searching...Searching..."

"Search failed, there are no keywords in the database." The tall robot slowly raised his right hand, "The threat from the upper area will be eliminated soon!"

A threat from the upper zone? Dan Heng clenched his spear and squinted at the energy ball gathered in the palm of the tall robot.

"Isn't this unreasonable! We are not native to your planet!" March complained loudly and drew his bow and arrow.

However, none of the three expected that March's complaint would calm the energy gathered in the robot's palm.

"Question: You are not Belobergs?"

"Of course not!"

"How to prove it?" the robot continued to ask.

This question stumped Sanyue. She tentatively looked down at the photo hanging on her chest, then looked up at the giant robot. "Photo? Can it be considered evidence? A photo of your planet taken in space?"

Although these photos have been effective twice before, this time they are going to be shown to a robot, and March herself is unsure.

But to the three's surprise, the giant robot nodded slowly, "Okay."

March took off her camera and walked carefully towards the huge robot.

For the first time, she felt from the bottom of her heart that her habit of taking photos and recording things on a daily basis could come in handy at such a critical moment.

Chapter 27: Breakfast time, same question

"Mr. Goethe, what's for breakfast today?"

The male voice with a light smile made old Goethe, who was immersed in the newspaper, raise his eyes.

Mr. Goethe had a very deep impression of the man standing in front of the counter at this moment. Although he was just one of his countless customers,... there was a subtle temperament in the other person that was difficult to describe.

"Breakfast, croissants and jam."

"Jam?" The captain looked at Old Goethe with a hint of surprise. "Does Belloberg still have jam?"

"Not many, but there are some." Old Goethe laughed in a low voice, not taking the captain's unusual question seriously. In the short two or three days, the old man had already discovered too many trivial anomalies. "There are still some fruit trees that can grow in the greenhouse."

"Then the jam must be very expensive, right?"

“It’s not very expensive, but it’s limited, so you have to queue up in advance to buy it.”

"You can always find some strange evidence." The captain only remembered to ask this question after hearing about the jam, but he got an unexpected reward.

"Come to think of it, the jam was also a result of a few years ago." Old Goethe smiled and said, "Please enjoy it."

"Yeah." The captain smiled, turned and left the front desk, went to the breakfast room in the lobby, found Yuexia, and at the same time saw Pella, who had said last night that if everything went well, she would come to pick her and Yuexia up this morning to go to Krippoburg to meet the Great Guardian.

And it's not just Pera.

There is also a handsome young man with blond hair, a silver-haired girl with a silver drill hairstyle, and... dozens of Iron Guards.

Moreover, after Pella made eye contact with the captain, she pursed her lips with a gloomy look and shook her head slightly at the captain.

Although I don't know Pella's specific intention, but... it doesn't feel like a good thing.

However, the captain just smiled and took the initiative to greet Pella without fear, "Hey, good morning, everyone."

Pera didn't say much, she also had her own stance. She had already given implicit reminders, and since the captain had rushed over headfirst, she would not worry about these mysterious alien visitors.

As soon as the captain opened his mouth, he immediately attracted everyone's attention, including Yuexia, who was sitting in her seat, not even having breakfast and feeling a little irritated.

"You're also what Pella said, an alien visitor?" The girl with the silver-haired drill looked at the captain, her voice was stiff and cold, and her tone was questioning.

The captain raised an eyebrow and stared at the girl with three drills in front of him, "If I'm not mistaken, you should be Bronya?"

The silver-haired girl felt like she was a celebrity in Belloborg, so she admitted as a matter of course, "I am."

"Yes, you should be Bronya." The captain nodded, and his words sounded a bit confusing to everyone. Under everyone's puzzled gaze, the captain walked to the sofa and sat down, "Then, can I ask a question?"

The captain picked up the bread slice and slowly spread the jam on it. "My communication with Ms. Pera and Ms. Sylva yesterday should have gone smoothly. Logically speaking, the purpose of your coming here should be to take us to see the Great Guardian..."

"That should be the case, right?" The captain raised his head slightly, his eyes sweeping over Bronya, the blond young man, Pella, and a dozen Iron Guards armed with weapons.

"Yes, the Great Guardian is waiting for you in Krippenburg." Bronya responded stiffly.

"So they were waiting for us." The captain nodded, as if he had suddenly realized something. "If you didn't know, you would think the Great Guardian was waiting to interrogate us."

"You misunderstood." Bronya continued the captain's words.

"Misunderstanding?" The captain raised his eyebrows, and his gaze with a strong sense of oppression met Bronya's emerald eyes. "It's just to lead the way, is it necessary to bring so many fully armed soldiers?"

"Guiding the way or escorting? You should know better than me." The captain retracted his gaze. "I must remind you, everyone, that the [Star Train] and the [City Builders] have always maintained friendly exchanges, and your world was opened up by the [Nameless Guests] and merged into the civilization of the universe."

"Although the past glory is long gone, we shouldn't look up the past now, but the protection of our predecessors should make us all maintain some dignity and restraint." The captain shook his head and looked at Bronya, "At least breakfast time, can the Great Guardian wait?"

Bronya pursed her lips and didn't respond.

The handsome blond young man took over the captain's words, "Of course there is time for breakfast."

He spoke sincerely, and his attitude was gentler than the stiff Bronya. "But you really misunderstood. For seven hundred years, we have been fighting against the wind, snow and monsters. Your appearance was too abrupt and coincidental. We have to be vigilant."

"It's normal to be vigilant. I understand that." The captain turned his gaze to the blond young man again, "But putting such vigilance directly on the table, such a sharp vigilance, is like a knife to the face. I'm sorry to say that I find it too offensive."

"I understand. Guards, disarm and line up outside the hotel." The blond young man was also an honest man. He turned around and gave orders to the guards in the breakfast room.

Then, more than a dozen fully armed guards lined up and filed out of the breakfast room of the Goethe Hotel.

Yuexia frowned and snorted as she chewed the bread, "Just a show of force."

The blond youth, the Silver Mane Iron Guard officer Jeppard Landau, and the intelligence officer Pella watched intently, pretending not to hear.

Bronya narrowed his eyes, but finally endured it.

It took more than twenty minutes to finish eating the jam bread. The captain and Yuexia looked at each other and understood each other's vigilance and determination.

The captain had not even forgotten the question that he had been asking before. At this moment, when he was about to meet the Great Guardian, he asked Jeppard and Bronya his question with great meaning, "By the way, Ms. Bronya, I have a question. I wonder if you can answer it for me. I asked the same question to Ms. Silva and Ms. Pera before, but unfortunately they could not give me an answer."

"What?" Bronya looked at the black-haired young man and naturally followed the captain's words.

"Do the people in the lower city who were abandoned by the Great Guardian have bread to eat?"

The captain asked this, completely ignoring Bronya's dark expression, and added another sentence.

"Oh, yes, now we have to add another jam."

But Bronya did not respond. With a sullen face, he walked away from the captain.

"It seems you don't have an answer either."

"what a pity."

The captain shrugged helplessly, and followed Bronya with Yuexia.

Only Jeppard Landau was left looking back thoughtfully at the dishes on the breakfast table.

Chapter 28: Right? Right? Are you worthy?

Fort Clipper.

The fortress named after the star god [Protector] is located in the heart of Beloberg.

Hundreds of long steps lead up to the gate of Klippe Castle.

"Yuexia, how do these stairs make you feel?" The captain suddenly spoke on the long stairs, causing Yuexia to pause and making the Iron Guards, including Bronya and the other two, all turn their attention to the captain.

"What?" Yuexia tilted her head in confusion, not understanding what the captain wanted to express.

"It's just the feeling, given our status." The captain raised his head slightly and looked at the stairs that were still halfway up and would take about another ten minutes to walk.

"The Great Guardian doesn't like to leave her fortress." Moony shrugged.

The Valkyrie, or rather, the physique amplified by vampire + Valkyrie + Valkyrie armor, made Yuexia feel tired when walking up these stairs. It was not physical fatigue, but mental fatigue.

Mechanical physical exertion can make people feel physically and mentally exhausted.

"She probably doesn't like to have fun with the people." The captain shrugged.

Bronya, who was leading the way in front, subconsciously stopped in his tracks. Following behind Bronya, Jeppard Landau, the garrison officer and deputy to the commander-in-chief of the Iron Guard, also unexpectedly discovered something.

Bronya Rand seemed to have very little patience today.

So the garrison officer did not stop. He continued to move forward and subtly bumped his superior's arm with his shoulder. Then, he immediately apologized, "Sorry, Commander, I didn't notice..."

After being interrupted by Jeppard, and especially after turning around and seeing Jeppard shaking his head at him, Bronya exhaled hard and shook his head, "It's okay."

The girl turned around and looked at everyone, "We have to speed up. The Great Guardian's time is precious."

Finally, she glanced at the captain and Yuexia and added, "Our guests' time is also precious."

The captain turned his head and looked at Yuexia. He didn't say anything, but both of them laughed happily.

Bronya's counterattack, which was too light, failed to provoke the two men.

Before everyone arrived at Klippeburg, the Iron Guards who had been following them disbanded on their own. Jeppard and Pera stopped outside Klippeburg. In the end, only Bronya, Yuexia and the captain entered the huge fortress of Klippeburg.

After walking through the fortress for several minutes, they finally arrived in front of a big door. As Bronya raised his hand and knocked on the door, a sharp voice came from inside the door, "Come in."

Bronya pushed open the door, then walked into the room with the captain and Yuexia.