Is it really okay to click on the Starry Sky technology tree in Star Railway?

"Yes, this stuff is a mineral sent up by people underground a few years ago. They said there are a lot of it deep underground, but it has no use other than burning."

After saying that, several people looked at Chen Lin intently, as if they were expecting what judgment this man from a mysterious alien planet would make.

Chen Lin did not directly say that he knew this kind of coal mine, but stretched out his hand and said: "Please give me the combustion heat data, ore layer thickness data, and texture-related physical property data of this mineral."

Aren't these people curious about what else coal can be used for besides burning? Chen Lin will give them a new perspective on the crooked era technology, and let them experience the charm of the steady development from the steam age to the electrical age!

Although we have a basic grasp of electrical energy, the rest of the technology tree is crooked and needs to be drastically corrected!

Coal? That's good stuff!

Chapter 28: Backfire

After leaving the research institute, Bronya did not go directly to find March Seven and the others. Instead, she returned to her residence and rested for a long time before getting up and heading to the administrative hall.

This is the office location of all the ministers, and it is also the government affairs processing center of the current Grand Guardian Cocolia!

The surrounding desks were filled with ministers handling official business. Bronya walked straight to the huge square table on the podium without any further pause. There, Cocolia was standing in front of the window, looking out with her hands behind her back.

"Mother mother..."

"Have you sent the person over?"

"He has been sent to the laboratory. I saw him enter the laboratory with my own eyes. He should be chatting with the senior researchers now."

Bronya couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Chen Lin... do those outsiders really need to confirm their identities this way? There are only a few of them. Even if they really have bad intentions, they can't cause any trouble, right?"

Cocolia pulled a chair over and gently pushed Bronya onto it, explaining gently:

"Bronya, this is the first time in hundreds of years that outsiders have visited Beloberg. Even though there are only four of them, I have to verify their identities as a guardian. Beloberg... can no longer withstand destruction."

The erosion of the Rift has caused many Rift creatures to appear in the now blocked blocks of Beloberg. This generation of Beloberg is no longer as comfortable as before.

Bronya could see that the area where people lived was being compressed more and more severely, and the number of monsters in the rift was increasing and becoming stronger!

No one knows how these monsters appeared, and no one knows how many of them there are.

Whenever Cocolia ordered the Silvermane Guards to attack the streets that were eroded by the Rift, Bronya, who had been to the front lines and had entered the Rift, knew that the safest way was to build defense platforms to defend the areas that had not been eroded by the Rift, rather than sending those young people to die in areas full of monsters.

These are meaningless sacrifices, sacrifices without the slightest value!

But the mother would not listen to what she said, and still stubbornly sent the young and strong men to the cliff. After each defeat, she would spread the news to the city that the Iron Guards had eliminated many monsters and won great victories in the fight against monsters, thereby inspiring people and recruiting a new batch of Iron Guards to continue sending them to the front line...

My mother is... too stubborn, to an unbelievable degree.

Last night, Bronya was summoned by Cocolia and asked about the content of her conversation with Chen Lin's scientific expedition team. She just repeated the general content of the conversation between Chen Lin and her. Cocolia inexplicably began to doubt the other party's true identity and whether they were a scientific research team.

He also took out the project approval report that the research department had submitted some time ago. After approving the contents of the report, he designed this play to test whether Chen Lin was a scientist.

How ridiculous!

Even though Bronya had not studied this area, she knew that the field of scientific research was very broad, and not every scientist could get involved in research outside of their area of ​​expertise.

According to my mother, if Chen Lin and others were not a scientific expedition team, then their existence would become an unstable factor threatening Beloberg, which would be detrimental to uniting the people of Beloberg. They are bad people and enemies!

Anything that is not conducive to the unity of Beloberg must not happen, and people who are not conducive to the unity of Beloberg must not exist!

She explained the situation to her mother, and even analyzed that if there was a backer behind Chen Lin's team that Beloberg could not resist, when the other party discovered that the people they sent were missing, would Beloberg really be able to resist the world-ripping monsters while resisting a force of unknown strength?

It was obvious that the Iron Guards had already exhausted all their strength just to resist the world-ripping monsters, and fighting on two fronts was the most unwise choice.

But who would have thought that Cocolia would say that the wind and snow would bury all invading enemies, just like it did seven hundred years ago?

Bronya couldn't understand this...

"Mother."

Bronya hesitated for a moment and asked, "If outsiders solve these problems, will you continue to embarrass them?"

"How could that be? If they can solve the problems that plague Beloberg's survival, they will be Beloberg's heroes. Beloberg will no longer have to worry about the depletion of the earth's marrow veins. They will be our friends! Our most distinguished guests!"

Cocolia gently ruffled her daughter's hair with a gentle smile.

"Silly child, do you think I'm an unreasonable person? I just sit in the position of the Grand Guardian, and I must be responsible for all the people of Beloberg. This is the responsibility of the Grand Guardian, and you will understand it in the future."

"I understand, Mother."

Bronya heaved a sigh of relief. She really didn't want to receive an order from her mother to ask the Iron Guards to arrest Chen Lin and others, and she didn't want to bring any terrible enemies into the hands of the lingering Beloberg.

Bronya had a good impression of the gentle and elegant young man. She felt that the stories he told her and his conversation and behavior were all very fresh.

It turns out there are so many stories outside the sky...

Especially Chen Lin's attitude towards me. Different from those who asked me for something, different from those who were afraid of my identity, he could talk to me as an equal and call me by my name. This... is this the first real friend I have ever made?

She understood that with her status and position, when dealing with many things, there would not be too many personal emotions, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates was enough to handle everything.

Just like what Cocolia had told her when she was a child, the poorer and humbler you are, the friends you make are your true friends, because they know that you have nothing and naturally have no other intentions.

A relationship without any intertwined interests is the purest and most precious.

The conversation between mother and daughter continued as time passed. No one knew how much time had passed before the door of the administrative hall was pushed open by an old man with a white beard. He knelt on the ground and handed over a thick stack of design drawings and data files.

"Guardian, we are saved. We have found a substitute for the earth's marrow!!!"

A minister brought up the things in the old man's hand, and Cocolia straightened her posture and looked at the documents in her hand.

Bronya stood straight behind her mother, also glancing at the stack of drawings and documents.

"City underfloor heating system? Steam engine? Thermal energy?"

Cocolia, like Bronya, couldn't understand the pile of incomprehensible things above, and asked:

"what is this?"

"Master Guardian, just go to the research department and you will know!"

Chapter 29 It doesn't matter, I will take action

Without Chen Lin, the atmosphere in the pioneering team suddenly became dull.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that approaching Chen Lin would definitely be a troublesome matter, and their true identities might be exposed at this time.

Having lost interest in sightseeing, everyone returned to the Goethe Hotel under the apologetic leadership of Pera and gathered in the house.

"Hey... Ah Lin was taken away by them. If his identity is exposed, he won't be in danger, right?" Sanyue lay on the table, very dissatisfied. "It must be the idea of ​​the guardian. The guards are very aggressive. They are completely different from yesterday."

"It's okay, I will jailbreak him." Xing said, waving the stick in his hand.

While the two were talking, Dan Heng leaned against the wall, staring at his phone without saying a word. It was hard to see any extra emotional fluctuations from his expression.

Sanyue looked up and couldn't help asking, "Danheng, do you think we should wait here for A-Lin to come back?"

"..."

Dan Heng raised his eyes and said calmly, "Just wait here."

Seeing Sanyue opening her mouth to say something, Danheng sighed helplessly. Knowing Sanyue's character well, he knew what she wanted to ask.

"Chen Lin gave me a code. If I was in danger, he would send me a message of '0', and if there was no danger, he would send me a message of '1'."

"Huh?! When did you two discuss this?"

"He sent me a message not long after he left."

As he spoke, Dan Heng placed the phone in front of the two of them. On the screen was Chen Lin's portrait, with the agreed method of the secret code clearly written on it.

There is no unnecessary complicated means, just sending a message to inform.

Just as a fake business war requires all kinds of intrigues to fight a financial war, a real business war actually only requires rushing into the other party's company and snatching the official seal.

It's a really simple operation...

Sanyue was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Then what were you doing just now when you looked like you were thinking?"

"Consider how we will reunite if Chen Lin is exposed. If he is not exposed, then we will continue to act. He is a man full of surprises. I will listen to him."

"Mmmmm! Lin is so soft and sweet, so I'll listen to him."

As soon as Xing said this, Sanyue and Danheng immediately moved a few steps away from the woman and took action to cut off ties with her.

She lowered her head, but we didn't.

"By the way, Xing, why do you always stick to A-Lin? You two haven't known each other for long, right?"

Now that communication was guaranteed, Sanyue no longer worried about Chen Lin's safety, and instead asked the girl next to her.

Xing shook his head in confusion.

"I don't know, I just feel that Lin is very kind, like a family member."

"The brother and sister kind?"

"The kind of mom and dad."

March, Dan Heng: “?”

All this was still too abstract, and the two said they couldn't understand it.

Dan Heng continued to run while waiting for Chen Lin to reply. Sanyue was bored and started chatting with Xing about other topics, such as which snacks the staff of the Black Tower Space Station sent last time were delicious...

Not long after, Dan Heng, who was leaning against the wall and staring at his phone, suddenly moved.

"News is coming."

The conversation between the two came to an abrupt halt, and then they rushed forward.

"How is it? Is A-Lin okay?"

"information?"

"See for yourselves."

Dan Heng covered his head, handed the phone to the two girls, and walked out the door, reminding them: "Remember to return the phone to me after reading it. I'm going back to my room to sort out the information."

I saw Chen Lin sent a '1' on the phone, followed by a string of concise text.

"I just helped them click on the branch technology, nothing more."

“Yeah!!”

The two girls jumped up and clapped their hands in unison, looking extremely happy.

Facing the unknown and overcoming the difficulties it brings is always so inspiring.

Perhaps this is the charm of traveling around the world!

……

In front of Clipper Palace, Chen Lin opened the communication list in front of him and saw that the item that reduced the relationship, [Suspicion of Threat -50], had not disappeared, but there was an item [Unexpected Help +70] that increased the favorability of both parties.

Theoretically speaking, since I solved the problem myself, the entry that reduced favorability should disappear, but since I barely earned some favorability, it's not a loss.

When Chen Lin was in the research department of Clipper Palace, what puzzled him was... when everyone else was surprised and excited about the research direction and design drawings he gave, why did the guardian's smile seem more and more forced?

The perceptive Chen Lin also noticed that Cocolia seemed to have a feeling of regret slowly emanating from the bottom of her heart. Others could not notice it, but Chen Lin, who possessed superhuman physical and emotional perception, could clearly sense that this was not consistent with the normal reaction of her as a person in power.

Not to mention that Chen Lin also felt that the essence of this incident was actually that Cocolia was looking for trouble with them. With a series of unusual circumstances, even if Chen Lin was slow-witted, he could still find the problem.

There's something wrong with that woman.

"Mr. Chen Lin, please wait a moment!"

Chen Lin, who was walking down the stairs, was stopped by a voice behind him. Without any surprise, the other party was Bronya, with a smile blooming on her pretty face.

The child spent most of his time wandering between the military and government affairs. This was the first time he saw how the simple steam engine made by Chen Lin and several senior researchers worked.

At first, she didn't quite understand what charm a steam-emitting device had that could make the entire research department so excited, but after Chen Lin gave a simple explanation, she realized some of the secrets.

The energy of steam can drive the machine to operate, and the heat of steam can be transported in pipes. After a series of conversions, it can flow into residents' homes in the form of warm air, providing a temperature suitable for human life.

The key is that heating seems to allow the people of Beloberg to get rid of their dependence on "conservation"! They can expand outward!

Bronya didn't quite understand what the radiator was, but the old people in the research department said that it could be done in theory, so there would be no problem.

Not to mention that there are many other things that heating can do, such as the greenhouse plant cultivation that Chen Lin talked about in the research department.

For her, what Chen Lin casually provided to the research department could change the basic operating mode of the entire Beloberg. If all this continued, Beloberg would no longer be trapped in the cage of food and population like it is now. As long as there are enough people, there will be motivation to expand outward, and the defense against the erosion of the Rift will be more certain!

He... is like a miracle sent down by God. Maybe if he can just take out something, he can save Beloberg from the dire straits?

Chen Lin had just finished meeting with Cocolia and was about to go back to tell everyone about the situation and discuss in a collaborative way what everyone should do next, but unexpectedly Bronya stopped Chen Lin.

"What's the matter, Miss Bronya?"