Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

She refused to trust, but kept leaking information to her group.

"I have enough status to take you into the city." Ling Ke stared at the group of outsiders, "But first, I must explain it to you clearly."

"Please." The captain was a little surprised, but he held back.

At the same time, I felt that Lingke's attitude was increasingly strange, or to be more precise... contradictory and weird.

"First, after I bring you into the city, I will immediately hand you over to someone who is 'powerful' enough, but not our supreme leader, the Great Guardian."

"Secondly, if you show any abnormality in the city, I will call the Iron Guard directly, and then you will probably have to face the Great Guardian directly."

"Third, you must change your clothes. We natives don't have enough warm clothes. We will freeze to death in the snow. You must eliminate any suspicious points on your bodies."

The captain frowned slightly, looked at Lingke's little face, and finally just nodded.

She doesn't seem to trust their leader very much?

why?

Moreover, she not only distrusted them, but even instilled this in herself and others through words, hoping that we would be on the necessary alert against their leader.

It took some time for everyone to change their clothes, and Lingke took the opportunity to quickly tidy up her camping site while everyone was getting dressed.

"Ling Ke, can I just call you by your name?"

"You've already called me." Ling Ke turned her head and glanced at the silver-haired sister whose appearance and figure were almost impeccable. She retracted her gaze and picked up the heavy backpack. "In exchange, I will call you by your name. I remember it was Theresa, right? Do you have anything you want to ask me?"

"You seem to come from a wealthy family in the city?" Yuexia asked with a chuckle.

"Yes." Ling Ke nodded gently.

"So, you have access to your supreme leader? The Grand Guardian?"

Ling Ke was silent for a while, and then she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she nodded gently, "Compared to the general public who hear things from hearsay, I have some channels and am closer to the real Great Guardian, but to say that I understand... I can't say."

"It's better than what you hear from others." The captain took off the hood of his robe for a rare occasion.

The clear black pupils met Lingke's azure blue eyes.

"Yes, I understand a little bit." Ling Ke retracted her gaze and gently lifted the backpack on her shoulder, "Let's go when you are ready."

"Well, let's go."

Chapter 17: The Captain Enters the City of Protection

The six-member team, led by Ling Ke, walked in a straight line in the snow.

After walking through the vast snow and wind and passing through the long canyon, there was a steep cliff in front of them. When Lingke turned the corner of the cliff, the view suddenly became clear. Lingke stopped for a moment on the mountain pass platform halfway up the mountain.

"Welcome to Belloberg." Ling Ke turned her serious face to the five people behind her, "This is our city."

As far as the eye can see, in the vast snowy valley, the city's dividing zones are nested in circles, and the traces of gears, partitions, and towering city walls can be seen everywhere in the city.

"The imaginary energy is wrapping your city like an eggshell." The captain sighed softly, "You should have perished, but the blessing of [Preservation] has protected you."

"Yes, Belloberg, the city that stands, the city that protects." Lingke sighed softly, responding to the captain's words that should be rather rude to her, "If it weren't for the protection of the [City Builders], this city would have been destroyed long ago, before the cold wave."

"Destruction...before the cold wave?" The captain raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Before the cold wave, our planet was invaded by monsters." Ling Ke was silent for a moment, "But that was something long ago recorded in history books. I haven't studied it in depth. I only know that there were monsters invading, and the [City Builders] provided help to help us resist the monsters. After the cold wave, the things left by the [City Builders] helped us resist the cold wave. That's all I know."

After a brief silence, the captain spoke softly, "Thank you."

"What?" Ling Ke was stunned.

"You are willing to tell us this." The captain looked at Lingke, seriously and gently.

"Once you get into the city, you can get the news from many places. It's not worth your thanks."

"But you took the initiative to say it, which is a sign of trust." The captain smiled.

Ling Ke did not respond, but picked up her backpack, took a step, and walked towards the downhill path, "Do you still remember your identities? Don't reveal them in front of the Iron Guards later."

The five people on the train followed Lingke's footsteps silently.

Yuexia came closer to the captain and lowered her voice, "Are you tired of rubbing?"

She must be referring to Lingke's attitude towards everyone.

"Probably." The captain smiled.

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"Ms. Ling Ke, welcome home." The sentry in an ice-blue uniform, holding a spear and wearing an iron helmet took the initiative to greet the group of six people near the city gate, and then turned his eyes to the five people behind Ling Ke, "Who are these people?"

"Explorer." Ling Ke gave an answer in a calm tone that sounded outrageous to Tiewei.

"Explorer?!"

"I'm sorry, we've been in the snowfield for more than two months. We met Ling Ke on the way home." The captain said according to the script, "I heard that the Great Guardian seems to have introduced a new decree..."

"All explorations outside the snowfield are..." Before the stupid iron guard could finish his words, he was hit on the waist by the crutch of his tall companion who was standing guard with him. The originally stiff words immediately turned into a gasp.

"Ms. Ling Ke, this new recruit is a bit stupid, it's okay, you can go home now. The two of us brothers have been on guard here today, and no one has seen us."

"Thank you." Ling Ke nodded. She didn't expect it to be so smooth. Mainly because she didn't expect there would be such a servile guy in the Iron Guard.

After calmly expressing her thanks, Ling Ke easily led the five people on the train through the city wall pass of Beloberg and entered the city. Many of the scripts that she had prepared in advance were not used at all.

"You guy, why did you just...?" The guard on duty, who had finally recovered, looked at the tall colleague next to him.

"Let me ask you, Miss Lingke is our Chief Jeppard's sister, right?"

"Ah."

"Ms. Lingke is with those five adventurers. If this matter gets reported, what will be Ms. Lingke's status?"

"......this."

"The order of the Great Guardian is to strictly prohibit any unofficial exploration of the snowfield. Miss Lingke, no matter what her identity is, she has returned from outside."

"..."

"So when we were on guard duty today, no one saw us. This is good for everyone, right?"

"Indeed, no one has seen it." The shorter and thinner iron guard also came to his senses and nodded slightly.

"That's right." The tall iron guard chuckled, patted his colleague on the shoulder, walked back to his post and stood still. He turned his head to glance at Lingke Landau and the people on the Xingqiong Train who were about to disappear from his sight.

Strands of blue hair peeked out from the gaps in his helmet, fluttering in the wind and snow, and then he averted his gaze and let out a deep laugh that only he could hear.

It seems that my disguise was very successful.

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"Where are we going now?" The captain leaned forward slightly, lowered his voice, and asked Ling Ke who was standing side by side with him.

"Let's go to my sister's workshop first." Ling Ke glanced at the captain. "My sister may know what you are looking for. She was once an outstanding scholar at Klipperburg. If she doesn't know either, you may have to consider contacting the Great Guardian."

The captain hesitated for a moment, thinking that the question that he had not been able to ask before should be mentioned now.

"You seem to have some doubts and vigilance towards your Great Guardian?"

Ling Ke glanced at the captain and said, "If you are really curious about this question, you may be able to find the answer in this city. My thoughts are not mainstream, and even unorthodox. In this city, most people trust the Great Guardian."

"Including your sister?" the captain asked.

"...I, don't know." Ling Ke shook her head, "My sister and the Great Guardian were classmates and friends, but for some reason, they eventually parted ways."

"Well, it seems we have to [explore] and [understand] these things ourselves."

Walking along the clean cobblestone streets and passing through one street after another, the crowd gradually approached the center of the city of Beloberg. The moment they walked out of the alley, their eyes were attracted by a huge sculpture that was a mixture of gears, furnaces, and crystals.

This city has a warm and pleasant environment. The city center is bustling with voices, pedestrians are hurrying back and forth, and there are even young men singing on the streets.

If the captain had not just stepped into the city from the snow, he would have felt like he had just walked into a bustling, bustling, and vibrant city.

"This way." Ling Ke led everyone across the square and came to a big door at the corner of the street.

【Perpetual motion mechanical house】.

Chapter 18: Shiluva Memorizes the History of Beloberg

【Perpetual motion】Mechanical house.

It was opened by Silva Landau, the elder sister of Lingke Landau who led the train group.

Ling Ke, who had brought a group of people to the outside of the mechanical house, had no intention of knocking on the door. She pushed the door open and shouted loudly, "Sister? Sister, are you there?"

The five people following Lingke looked at each other for a moment, and finally followed Lingke, the local boss, into the mechanical house.

The moment the captain stepped into the machinery room, he sensed a very strange atmosphere.

"Wait a moment, my sister should be in the inner room. I'll go call her." Ling Ke looked back at everyone.

"Okay." The captain answered casually, he was more concerned about the strange feeling he was feeling.

A very crisp but loud "ticking" sound like a huge bell, carrying with it a certain invisible and intangible but real "force", lingered in this mechanical house.

The captain slowly moved his gaze, and finally, his eyes fixed on a huge display cabinet.

Table clocks, standing clocks, alarm clocks, watches, pocket watches... There are nearly a hundred watches in that large display cabinet.

Their hours and seconds are... all the same.

"Dan Heng, I have a strange feeling." The captain narrowed his eyes, staring at the clocks in the cabinet, and spoke softly to Dan Heng who also noticed the clocks on the wall, "There is imaginary number energy fluctuation, but it is very slight."

"It's the traces of 'travels'." Dan Heng glanced at the captain, "As an envoy, you are more sensitive than ordinary travelers. Those clocks are probably the proof of the owner of this room's last 'travels'."

"Those, can also be called traces?" The Star Core Spirit heard the conversation between the two and immediately turned to look at the clock on the wall.

"Any traveler who has set out on a journey of destiny has 'desires' that far exceed those of ordinary people. I think Ji Zi and Mr. Walter should have told you about this." Dan Heng explained softly, "And when a traveler completes a task and feels satisfied from the bottom of his heart, when this 'desire' is partially filled, then the event itself will become a journey."

"I mean, these clocks are also OK?" The Star Core Spirit looked at the cabinet full of clocks of various shapes. "I thought they had to be at least some... um, big things, right?"

Dan Heng glanced at the star core spirit that had no AC number, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Clocks are very precise mechanical mechanisms." The captain explained to the Star Core Spirit in a low voice, "And the clocks right now are so close to one hundred percent, their time and seconds are truly 'accurate', they move forward together on the scale of time, and to the naked eye they appear to be dozens of clocks, but to some extent, they are completely integrated, enough to be called a man-made miracle."

"Hahaha, talking about a man-made miracle is a bit exaggerated." A high-pitched laugh, a lightly raised ending, a smiling and carefree female voice, accompanied by the crisp sound of high heels hitting the ground, came from the side door of the machinery room. "It's just a simple matter of being more patient."

Everyone's eyes turned to the side door and watched a tall woman with shiny blonde hair, wearing a black T-shirt, hot pants, black stockings, and high-top shoes, walk into the mechanical room.

Ling Ke, with a stern face, followed the visitor.

Of course, to some extent, the people on the train are the newcomers.

"I'm Xiluwa, the owner of this mechanical shop. Are you Lingbao's friends?" Xiluwa had a bright smile on her face, and her eyes swept over the five unfamiliar faces in front of her. "Is there anything you want to buy? Or do you want to repair something?"

The captain looked at the tall woman with a queenly demeanor and smiled softly, "It seems that Lingke didn't tell you about us."

"What about your business?" Shiluwa raised her eyebrows and turned her gaze to Lingke beside her.

"They claim to be aliens. I met them in the snowy plains." Lingke and Shiluwa met eyes. "They seem to be looking for some kind of [foreign object]."

"Aliens?" Shiluwa was stunned for a moment, her eyes swept across the people on the train, but she immediately turned to look at Lingke, her tone filled with reproach and concern, "You ran into the snowfield again?!"

"Is this the point?" Ling Ke frowned slightly.

"......" Xiluwa was silent for a moment, and the expression on her face became restrained. She turned her eyes to the people on the train and looked at them seriously and silently. "So, Lingbao, why did you bring them to me?"

"Wasn't my sister a scholar at Beloberg? You might be able to help them. Of course, I can't make decisions on many things. I brought them to you and you can handle them." Ling Ke said, lifting the straps of her backpack, "It's almost time for me to go home."

Ling Ke walked to the opposite side of the captain and raised her head slightly, "As agreed, I have brought you to the place. Goodbye."

"Thank you, be careful on the road." The captain nodded.

In the machinery room, Xiluwa watched her sister leave before sighing softly and looking at the captain and his companions. "Well, aliens, it's really strange. According to our history, it has been more than 700 years since the invasion of the [Legion] and the [Snow Disaster]. This world seems to have been forgotten by the [City Builders]... So, are you [City Builders]?"

"But unfortunately, we are not city builders, we are [Anonymous Guests], do you know that?" The captain walked to the opposite side of the bar where Shiluwa was, pulled out a chair and sat down.

"[Unknown Guest]..." Xiluwa looked at the group of people, and finally retracted his gaze to the captain's face, "I seem to have read in history books about the [Pioneer] who opened up a route to our universe."

"Yes, you are struggling against the disaster in your own world, and many things have happened in the outside world. [Kaipei] has fallen. We are currently tracing the ancient route to retrace [Kaipei]'s journey and find you." The captain sighed softly, "But unfortunately, due to the disturbance of [Star Core], neither we nor you can leave the current universe at present."

"[Star Core]..." Xiluwa muttered the damn name.

"Do you know it? Or rather, is there any record of it in your history? Logically speaking, you are a civilization under the [City Builders] faction, and you should have a certain knowledge and understanding of [Cancer of All Worlds]."

Shiluwa narrowed her eyes and looked at the captain. "Of course I know. The [Star Core] fell, and with it came the [Antimatter Legion]. The [City Builders] provided us with some help to resist the [Legion], but in the end, we were still defeated until a sudden cold wave froze the civilization and the [Legion], and commuted the sentence of Beloberg, who was about to be exterminated, to 'suspended death sentence', which has been suspended until now."

Chapter 19: We haven't explored enough yet