Their commission was suspicious.

To the right of March 7th is Xing, and to the right of Xing is Danheng.

"I didn't expect that the people in the upper district also have a lot of troubles. However, it is obvious that the troubles of life in the upper district are very different from the survival troubles in the lower district." Dan Heng was making notes.

Danheng has a notebook given to him by Chen Luo that can automatically record what he is doing, and Danheng is currently adding to it.

"I'm more looking forward to the reward Chen Luohui will give us. Also, it seems we still have a commission to complete."

"Sigh, what else?" March 7th froze on the spot.

No way, there's another mission?

"Oh, it's not a difficult task, but... I need to go to Hiluva's machine shop to repair some machinery." Xing took out the crumpled request form from her pocket.

"Wait a minute, we've already completed 10 requests, why is there still one left?"

"Because this request wasn't a mandatory question as required by Chen Luo, but rather an optional one. He said we might be able to get some information about the star core from Hilva."

"Hey, is that so? Why didn't you bring it out sooner?"

"Because this request is printed on the back of the 10th request form. I just discovered it myself; I didn't see it when I was looking through it a while ago," Xing said after blinking.

"Huh? Could Chen Luo have done this on purpose?" March 7th asked suspiciously.

"No doubt about it, it was definitely Chen Luo who did it on purpose."

“Great minds think alike…” March 7th gave a thumbs-up to the person on his left, then froze.

On March 7th, he discovered that he was the person sitting on the far left of the bench in the train trio.

"Chen Luo, what brings you here? No, I should say you actually came?" Xing looked at the fourth person on the bench in surprise.

"What's wrong with me? I came here specifically to deliver intelligence to you." Chen Luo said as he handed the light cone he had just copied to March 7 beside him.

"What's inside here..." March 7th asked after taking the light cone.

All the light cones have covers, and the one that March 7th received had a cover showing a picture of a virtual screen projected by Schwarz, but it was hard to see what was being displayed on the virtual screen.

"These records contain information about the world's research on star cores. They might be helpful to you, but more likely they'll be useless and just give you some gossip," Chen Luo said.

After all, the only way to solve the problem of the star core is through force; it's impossible to resolve it through dialogue.

"But how do you see it?"

"Here's the reward I promised you. Since the mission I entrusted to you this time was a great success, I'm giving you an extra reward." Chen Luo handed two items to March 7.

"The camera on your left is used to create a light cone from the captured images, but it only leaves an image and doesn't have the real power of a light cone. The player on your right is used to play the light cone images," Chen Luo explained.

"What about mine?" Xing raised her hand.

"This is yours."

"...A trash can ornament? Who would want that?" Xing said with a look of disdain.

"Press the bump on top," Chen Luo reminded him.

Xing followed Chen Luo's instructions and pressed the protrusion. Then, the trash can ornament, which was less than half the size of a palm, suddenly expanded into a real trash can.

Xing's eyes lit up as she looked at the spotless trash can, while San Yueqi and Dan Heng beside her almost simultaneously wore expressions of despair.

I'm so tired of living, I don't want to live anymore!

Because in the past day and five hours, Xing had to deal with trash cans almost every hour except when she was sleeping, and sometimes she even went to tease phone booths.

March 7th and Danheng genuinely didn't understand what was so fun about the trash can, let alone the phone booth. They also didn't understand why Xing would try to retrieve coins from the fountain…

Considering that Xing is only a few days old, March 7th and Danheng could only attribute the problem to genetics.

The two thought that after completing all of Chen Luo's requests, the days of worrying about Xing faking accidents with trash cans would finally be over. Unexpectedly, Chen Luo delivered another trash can.

Are you sick in the head?

"Open it and see, there's a surprise inside," Chen Luo said.

Upon hearing Chen Luo's words, Xing lifted the lid of the trash can, and San Yueqi and Dan Heng also curiously peeked inside.

Then I saw a piece of paper.

"This is..." Xing picked up a form.

“Sometimes something strange pops out of this trash can. I’m not sure what it is, because it’s always a surprise,” Chen Luo said.

Chen Luo wasn't sure what it was, because he had left the task of creating a surprise to the humanized plugin.

"A surprise? I like it." Xing was very satisfied with the trash can Chen Luo had given her.

It's a trash can that can also yield surprises; the only downside is that there's not much stuff in it.

"This table seems to be Bronya's daily schedule, right?" March 7th concluded after looking at the table for a while.

I get up at 6:00 AM

6:10~6:20 Simple shower

6:20~6:40 Breakfast

6:45~7:45, Morning combat training (see Miss Bronya's morning schedule and instructor schedule for details).

……

"Wow, Bronya takes three baths a day!" March 7 exclaimed in surprise.

"I'm more interested in that Silvermane Iron Guard officers' ball and what Bronya might be secretly doing in bed," Xing said.

“I’m more concerned about where my compensation comes from,” Dan Heng said.

Danheng usually doesn't care about the pay, but Chen Luo's 10 orders really didn't treat the train crew like human beings.

"Oh, your mission reward will be delayed a little. I'll give you a big one later!" Chen Luo said.

"No need, I'm already very satisfied with this real-time recording notebook you gave me. I don't want any reward." Dan Heng's heart skipped a beat, and then he decisively refused Chen Luo's big reward.

Dan Heng instinctively felt that this was not a good thing.

"No, the reward must be given. Alright, let's go, it's time to head to Hilva's Mechanical House. We've been doing side quests for so long, it's time to get into the main story," Chen Luo said.

"But we haven't seen our light cone yet."

“Let’s take a look as we go. The light cone doesn’t record where the star core is, but Hilva should know, because Hilva has studied star cores before,” Chen Luo said.

Meanwhile, Cocolia was making coffee for Chen Luo, a hardworking office worker, while also worrying about Bronya.

Cocolia is a good mother outside of work, but only outside of work.

Now, Cocolia seems more like an assistant, while Chen Luo is more like the Great Guardian.

Meanwhile, a Fool's Mask had appeared in Chen Luo's hand without him noticing.

"Are you already eager to see the show? But you want to sit in the front row without paying? Ha, dream on!" Chen Luo wiped his hand on the mask, instantly dispelling the power of pleasure.

Chapter 1680 The Bewitching Concubine Who Brings Disaster to the Country—The Wise Man

"Chen Luo, where did you get that mask? It looks... a lot like the mask worn by villains in storybooks." When Cocolia, who had been resting for half a day, looked at her assistant, she found that he was not working, but was examining a mask.

"First of all, don't call me Chen Luo. I've already said not to reveal my name. Call me Sage. We're in an equal partnership, so you need to respect my reasonable demands." Chen Luo raised his first finger.

"Secondly, I'm not the production team's donkey. You should at least do some work. Don't dump all the work on me. How can you live with yourself?"

"In the end, aren't we the villains anyway?"

Chen Luo put away three fingers and looked at Cocolia, wanting to hear her answer.

“I understand, Sage. Also, I don’t think we’re the villains. Aren’t you the messenger of the Star Core? Shouldn’t you think the new world of the Star Core is wonderful?” Cocolia said.

However, Cocolia avoided discussing the second matter.

It seems that Cocolia has no qualms about having Chen Luo handle her official business.

That's true. Cocolia has worked so hard for so many years, and her great undertaking is about to be completed. Shouldn't Cocolia be allowed to enjoy herself?

Of course, Cocolia didn't want to see others continue playing music and dancing. Cocolia was taking a break mainly because she had been having some migraines lately.

"Come on, while stepping into the new world is indeed the best option among the unavoidable measures, if given a choice, who would want to touch a star core?" Chen Luo scoffed.

Just like Cocolia now, if there were a third option, she wouldn't be able to lead Arilo to the new world.

Isn't it better to live a good life? But because the power of protection is getting weaker and weaker, it is difficult to maintain the status quo, so Cocolia defected to the enemy.

Every one of those chosen to succeed the Great Guardian is selected through a rigorous process and undergoes a series of demanding educational procedures.

Cocolia is like that, and so is Bronya.

The smarter a person is, the more desperate they are about the current situation.

However, Bronya was luckier than Cocolia because Bronya met the right person at the right time.

Cocolia didn't have a choice at first, but now that she has a choice, she still has to issue a warrant for the train crew's arrest. Cocolia deserves to get beaten up.

"..." Listening to Chen Luo's story, Cocolia seemed to be thinking about something and did not refute Chen Luo, while Chen Luo slowly put on the Fool's Mask in his hand.

"Remember, never call me by my real name," Chen Luo warned.

"Why are you so worried?" Cocolia asked, somewhat puzzled.

Is there anyone on this planet that Chen Luo is afraid of?

"You'll understand after today," Chen Luo said.

Chen Luo then didn't say anything more, but began to deal with official business, while also accumulating anger.

That damned Cocolia!

Why would she let a traveler act as her 007?

That Cocolia is no human being!

Meanwhile, Chen Luo was also taken by the three members of the train crew to Shiluwa's mechanical house.

In fact, the trio from the train visited the machine shop as soon as they arrived in Belleburg, and were even invited inside to repair things.

This time, I was quite familiar with repairing things at the machine shop, but more important than repairing things was gathering information.

On their way to the mechanical house, the three of them had already read the information about the star core inside the light cone that Chen Luo had brought.

Although the three felt somewhat regretful about the world's attitude towards the Star Core, they realized that covering up the truth for political purposes was something they had no choice but to do, even though it did violate the fundamental principles of the Great Guardians.

They came to the mechanical house in Silva hoping to get more information.

The good news is that, thanks to her past experience repairing mechanical items for Hilva in the machine shop, and Hilva's less-than-close relationship with Cocolia, Hilva successfully allowed the train trio to enter the machine shop.

Although Hilva and Cocolia were roommates in college and had an extremely close relationship, they completely broke up due to the Star Core issue.

Cocolia also conveniently kicked Hiluva out of the ranks of the city builders.

Their relationship can be described as one of bitter enmity.

Therefore, despite Cocolia issuing a warrant for the arrest of the three members of the train crew without providing any substantial evidence, Hilva maintained a neutral stance towards the train crew. Hilva knew very well that if there were truly substantial evidence, the Builders would have already released it.

Hiluva was once a city builder, so those who know, know.

The bad news is that Chen Luo has been kicked out.

The reason given was that Chen Luo looked a lot like Cocolia's damn lover!

"..."

What did Cocolia do to you?

Oh, Cocolia really did piss you off.

However, after Chen Luo changed his clothes and appearance, he successfully entered.

The clothes Chen Luo was wearing were Imperial Arms forged by Liu Wenxuan himself. After being enhanced by the River God's power, the golden clothes had reached the five-star level. The effect was very simple: to conceal his aura and change his appearance.

However, because the effect is very singular, the effect is also very strong.

The clothes worn by Chen Luo's inner demon clone were the original clothing-type Imperial Arms forged by Liu Wenxuan, so the clothes were very similar. In addition, Chen Luo and the inner demon clone were originally the same person, with identical appearance and temperament. Therefore, when walking on the street, no one would doubt that Chen Luo was the sage who brought disaster to the country.

After all, the Sage had accompanied the Great Guardian Cocolia to appear before the people in the past few days.

Although the Sage's reputation is getting better and better, it's normal for Hilva to dislike anyone who is close to Cocolia.

However, after being reminded by Xiluwa, Chen Luo also remembered this matter.