Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

Chapter 58: My luck is so bad...

"It's time! It's time to wake up!"

"Cocolia!!"

The girl's roar, the heat wave, and the home run that happened again lifted everyone's spirits. Although the captain also felt that Xing did the right thing, but...

It seems like she hasn't realized that Cocolia is out of control now?

However...the ice rock that was blown away by Xing was ignited by a blazing red flame in mid-air, and then the red flame was ignited again, transforming into blue fire from the inside out, and finally hit Cocolia and crushed her.

"Are you still going?" The girl with fiery golden eyes held the rock spear in one hand and slowly walked towards Cocolia who was lying on her back on the ground with a shattered ice cap and cracks all over her body.

On the ground, Cocolia was struggling hard to support herself and raise her body, staring blankly at the amber rock spear with a bright red flame in Xing's hand.

"There has never been a savior, mother." Bronya, covered in dust, followed behind Xing. She noticed Cocolia's gaze and cast a complicated look at the rock spear in Xing's hand.

"I guess you are asking yourself now, if you can hold on until this moment, until the moment when the Amber King drops his hammer, can you rely on Beloberg himself to save Beloberg?" The captain also slowly approached.

Those who still had the strength to move came closer and walked in front of Kokolia. "I can't do it..." Kokolia was no longer able to support her body, so she fell on her back on the ground, staring at the eye of the storm on the Everfrost Ridge with a distracted look, repeating the same four words in a hoarse voice, "I can't do it."

She is the kind of person who fears darkness and seeks another way out. It is impossible for her to stride forward knowing that there is a dead end ahead.

Just like Xing said, she is a timid person.

but......

"Maybe someone else can do it." Yuexia looked at Cocolia with a complicated expression, her body was broken, and golden light was floating between the cracks. Then her gaze turned to Bronya who walked out of the group.

"Mother...it's all over." Bronya half-knelt down and gently held Cocolia's right hand, which had evolved into sharp claws and was still twitching and struggling to gather strength.

"How... is it possible..." Cocolia gasped with difficulty and spoke hoarsely.

Xing subconsciously tightened his grip on the rock spear, and the others also became alert.

Only the captain and Yuexia, one lowered his gun and the other sighed.

They have witnessed the end of the ferryman, so they understand that at this moment, it will be the final confession of a madman and the trace of kindness that cannot be abandoned.

"In the future, there will be many difficulties...waiting for you." Kokolia laughed hoarsely twice, but then she coughed a series of times.

"I did a lot of wrong things, but I had no choice... hehe..."

Cocolia turned her head slightly and faced the direction of Xing who released the rock spear. "Or maybe I don't have the courage to make such a choice..."

"I'm sorry, Bronya..."

"I am not qualified to be a...Grand Guardian."

"She's not a good mother either."

"..." Bronya pursed her lips tightly, letting the tears flow down her cheeks, but she couldn't say anything.

"Let's take a last look at Bronya..." The captain standing outside the crowd suddenly said, "You are already a qualified mother. Otherwise, who would have taught Bronya Rand to be what she is now?"

The captain's sighing words stunned Xing for a moment.

The gray-haired girl holding the rock spear hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke, "I saw the will of the great guardians in the [Narrow Space of Fate]..."

Cocolia, whose life had come to an end, turned her gaze with great effort and looked at the gray-haired girl whose face could not be seen clearly in the sunlight.

"They don't blame you, they just say..."

"[All this was bound to happen to a child named Rand, and Cocolia Rand just happened to run into this most desperate moment, that's all].

......

Everyone fell into silence.

Until, a trance-like whisper sounded, "Ah... then my luck is really bad..."

"Right..."

The words spread out in the cold wind that blew across the Everfrost Ridge at some point, mixed with the light spots of the shattered body of the world-ripping monster, and they all floated towards Beloberg.

Bronya clenched his empty palms, as if trying to hold on to something, but in the end.

There was no trace of Cocolia left.

Only the star core, which was spreading with waves, fell lightly into the snow.

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"My mood is so bad..." Sanyueqi sat on the sofa, feeling shrouded in low pressure and weak. "Everything has been resolved, but I just feel so upset."

"Because we are just passers-by, Cocolia left a deeper impression on us." Xing's eyes were also lowered, staring at the amber rock spear standing by the door, leaning against the door frame, the dim color seemed to show its mood, "But for those people in the underground city..."

"[Cocolia heroically sacrificed herself in the fight against the star core. The new Great Guardian Bronya will soon take office and will reopen the passage between the upper and lower city [core] to make up for all the mistakes that have been made]..." Xing murmured about the recent notice of [City Builder] circulating in Beloberg, "The people in the lower city should be confused and happy."

"Because there is hope for their future again, although there will definitely be many contradictions that will emerge sooner or later." Dan Heng, who was leaning against the wall, also raised his head slightly and looked at the ceiling.

The topic ended, and the atmosphere between the three people in the luxurious room of Goethe Hotel fell again.

"Speaking of which, Captain and Sister Yuexia, what are they doing now?" Xing turned his gaze from the rock spear to his two companions.

"I met them just before I got here. It seems that they are planning to go for a walk around the city." Dan Heng glanced at the two girls, "If you have nothing to do, I'm planning to go out for a walk too."

"I don't want to move at all." San Yue Qi threw himself on the long table, sighed with a bitter face.

"That's why we should go out for a walk." Dan Heng glanced at the two people who seemed to have no intention of doing so, sighed slightly, and said meaningfully, "At least go and see what Beloberg is like now, and see whether we did it right or wrong."

"Besides, maybe you don't know, Ji Zi and Uncle Yang are also getting off the car. There will be a banquet at Klipperburg tonight."

Xing and Sanyue turned to look at each other, and after confirming each other's thoughts, they nodded together and stood up.

"Then let's go shopping."

Today is the third day after the Battle of Everfrost Ridge.

After three days of being cooped up, it’s time to move around.

Chapter 59: Fuel-efficient Lamp

Cocolia died, and the star core was temporarily sealed by Walter using gravity.

Everything seemed to have been settled in the entire Beloberg, but that was only for the few outsiders on the Star Train.

The noise caused by the successive activities of the Creation Engine, the exaggerated snowstorm surrounding Beloberg, the blockade above and below the ground, the noise of Cocolia breaking out of Klipperburg, Bronya's succession, how to unify the tone to release information to the public, how to live in the future...

There are so many things waiting for Beloberg's [City Builders] to deal with.

However, the passengers on the train would naturally not get involved in these matters, as it would not be appropriate.

After leaving the Goethe Hotel, Dan Heng went straight to the lower area and the mechanical settlement to find Clara and Swarlow to organize and collect the think tank information of the Star Train.

Xing and Sanyue seemed to be stopped by Pella and no one knew what they were doing. However, they met in the central administrative district of Beloberg and greeted each other.

At this moment, the captain and Yuexia were sitting in Shiluwa's machinery room, drinking tea and chatting with Shiluwa.

"The snowstorm in Beloberg will gradually subside, and the rift will stop expanding. Without the disturbance and support of the star core, the rift will eventually be smoothed out under the stable tide of imaginary energy. However, this will take time..."

"I guess it will be a very long time." With a bandage on her head, Shiluwa turned her head and glanced at the sunlight outside the window of the mechanical house, which was rarely seen in decades.

The disturbance in the star core subsided as Walter sealed the star core, and the wind and snow finally dissipated a little after three days of brewing.

Today is a sunny day in Belloberg.

The sky cleared for the first time in hundreds of years.

Shiluwa's mechanical house was on the corner of a street outside the central administrative district. Outside the huge floor-to-ceiling window, the three of them could see countless people taking to the streets, looking up at the wisps of clouds and the azure sky. Some even closed their eyes, feeling the warmth of the sun.

"Before we came, we heard the [City Builders] discussing whether to set a festival for today." Yuexia noticed the smile on Xiluwa's face and spoke with a smile.

"Probably." Shiluwa was silent for a moment, then looked away and sighed, "Beloberg really needs something to cheer him up."

"It's difficult. Your generation will probably have to live a hard life for half of your life. In my opinion, you don't have to worry about anything in the next 20 to 30 years. Just adapt to the gradually warming climate and slowly resume production. In 20 years, the impact of the cold wave will almost disappear, and the permafrost should be able to melt partially, so you can at least grow potatoes." The captain held up his right hand, kneading a ball of faint bright yellow energy.

"Hmm..." Xiluwa nodded, but her eyes were unconsciously attracted by the ball of energy in the captain's hand. She asked with some confusion, "What is that?"

The captain casually threw the ball of light in his hand towards Shiluwa. Before this dashing mechanic could react, he was shocked to feel a mysterious rhythm bursting out of his body. The pain in his head, which was broken by the impact of the ice and rock in the battle on the Everfrost Ridge, suddenly disappeared.

"This is..." Xiluwa touched her wound carefully, a little doubtfully, "Is it healed?"

"Yeah." The captain nodded, a smile unconsciously appearing on his face, "I helped you, and I also gained something myself."

This is probably what Black Tower mentioned to him, the so-called power of action.

The so-called footprints refer to the feedback that a traveler can get when he walks on the path of destiny and completes one [goal], [achievement] or even [great deed] after another.

The deeds recorded by different people will make the imaginary energy under the destiny show different characteristics. According to the captain's superficial understanding, it is probably to obtain skills with different effects.

Of course, in terms of the skill tree, the imaginary energy that one controls now has a real port through which it can be released.

And the result of feedback is treatment.

However, after engraving the traces, the real gain is not the healing skill, but...

"Heavenly fire..." The captain clenched his palms and muttered softly. Yuexia suddenly turned his head, and a surge of heat instantly spread across Xiluwa's face.

The mechanic stared in astonishment at the huge sword that had formed an illusory shape in the captain's hand, his mouth wide open.

"Captain, this is..." Yuexia had never seen the captain use such a trick, but in her memory, there was someone who could do what the captain was doing at this moment.

At the cost of burning imaginary singularity energy, various weapons are constructed...

That is the ability the ferryman developed regarding imaginary singularities.

“Heavenly Fire Judgement.” The captain let go of his hand, and the illusory sword lost its energy and dissipated into the air, leaving only the surging heat in the machinery room for a long time. “Or, in other words, the simulated Heavenly Fire Judgement.”

After engraving the traces, the captain was able to stably release and control imaginary energy through this port. Finally, he no longer had to shake the water tank to see how much water would spill out, but now had a faucet to stably control the output.

"My guess is correct. Even though they are different worlds, because [Upgrade] will occur, the basic rules of the two worlds are still similar. The imaginary energy under the fate of [Star God] has too many similarities with the [Imaginary Singularity]." The captain exhaled hard, with an expectant smile on his face. "To be honest, I really want to go back to the space station [Black Tower] and dive into the database to swim."

Yuexia looked at the captain's excited and expectant smile and shook her head with a bit of amusement, "That also depends on where Sister Jizi, the navigator, wants to take the train."

"Ji Zi, is this the red-haired girl who came yesterday?" Shiluwa, who was removing the bandage on his head, glanced sideways at the two people sitting opposite him.

"Yes, the navigator of the Starry Sky Train." Yuexia nodded slightly.

"I heard that Bronya seems to want to ask you for help again." Shiluwa also told the two people opposite him directly something that perhaps should not be said.

"Ask us for help?" The captain raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't you say before that we'll have a hard time in the next 20 years?" Xiluwa said, paused, and sighed, "I don't know much about these areas. Lingbao is the expert in geology, biology, etc. I gave my previous laboratory to her directly. I heard that Bronya hopes Lingbao can come up with an analysis report on the future environmental changes in Beloberg."

The captain was silent for a moment, then looked at Xiluwa and said with emotion, "You, the Landau family, are really a bunch of incompetents."

Chapter 60: Icefield Exploration Report

Outside the snowy area of Belloberg.

San Yue Qi was crawling on the snow, blinking his beautiful big eyes curiously, and looking at a little bear cub who was sitting on the ground, tilting his head and looking at him.

"Ouch?" Little Sanyue opened her mouth and made a strange sound.

The little bear tilted his head in confusion, then lowered his head, sniffed the compressed biscuits he was holding, and turned hesitantly to look not far away.

Where the ice bear cub's sight fell, the star core spirit was holding the rock spear in both hands, gritting his teeth, wrestling with a huge white bear with a sturdy body and an upright upper body.

"Hold on a little longer~" Ling Ke commanded the Star Core Spirit in a slightly cold voice, "How much do you feel you have done now?"

"Almost...90% done..." The Star Core Spirit said with difficulty, "If this continues, I will really lose control."

It means that you can't control yourself and have to use the power of the Destiny Walker.

"It's the last few seconds." Beside Lingke, Pera was holding a huge notebook with one hand, writing furiously, and from time to time she would look up to glance at the scene of the wrestling between the Star Core Elves and the Ice Bears.

"This is the first time we have discovered a previously recorded species. If you hurt it, you might become a criminal."

Listen to this, a new species previously recorded.

March, who was teasing the little bear, burst out laughing. The little bear, who had already started to eat some dry food, raised his head in confusion and glanced at March. He found that this strange animal was not looking at him, but at his mother, so he lowered his head and continued to eat the dry food.

"That's...light...speaking."

The Star Core Spirit gritted his teeth and almost couldn't help cursing.

Finally, he couldn't help it anymore and called upon a little imaginary energy to blow the big white bear in front of him away.

"Roar!" The white bear rolled on the snowy field, but just shook its head for a while, then stood firm. It stared at the stars for a while, then glanced at its own disappointing cub and let out a low roar.

The little polar bear was startled. He dropped the dry food he was holding and crawled towards his mother.