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

She came with a mission and also brought a slightly yellowed map.

"Sir, the ground area and the underground area have been blocked for several years. The relationship between the two sides may be tense. Lady Bronya asked me to ask you if you need to bring the Iron Guard with you?"

Beloberg is distributed in upper and lower areas, which Chen Lin is clear about.

There are a large number of people living in the lower district, but many years ago, Cocolia issued an order to completely cut off the flow of people between the upper and lower districts. Only the exchange of materials continues.

Chen Lin did not understand this operation, but was greatly shocked, because Cocolia not only prohibited the residents underground and above the ground from moving between each other, but also withdrew all the Silver Mane Iron Guards who were maintaining order in the lower area, causing Clipper Palace to completely lose control of the lower area, and also making it difficult for the Silver Mane Iron Guards to expand in size.

In addition, the lack of intelligence on underground areas is also a major problem that plagues the Beloberg government.

After so many years, I guess the lower-level districts must have given rise to a "provisional government" with considerable power, right?

The exhausted mineral vein they were traveling to this time was not deep in the lower levels, but at the junction of the upper and lower levels. Usually, many important roads there were guarded by a large number of Silver Mane Iron Guards, and ordinary people could neither go up nor down.

The problem is that places like mineral veins are not under the jurisdiction of the upper district, and the lower districts are too lazy to search in those mines after the mineral veins are exhausted. However, it is still possible to encounter some radical lower district people wandering around.

Because of this, Bronya sent Pera to ask Chen Lin for his opinion on whether he needed to bring guards.

In this regard, Chen Lin believed that the wonders of the mining station of the Empire needed more people to witness, so he smiled and said:

"Then I'll trouble you, Miss Pera."

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Chapter 44: Awaken the mind and arm the mind!

Space mining stations actually fall into two categories.

A mining station will enter the gravitational orbit of the asteroid belt, using the energy generated by the stars in the galaxy to ensure that the mining station can move relatively slowly. After exploring the meteorites with mineral reserves in the asteroid belt, it will use a variety of space mining methods to develop and collect the minerals contained inside.

This is a common mining station, mostly built in the asteroid belt. The minerals that can be collected are endless, and the efficiency is amazing!

Another type of mining station is built above the planet, using long-range exploration technology to determine areas with dense minerals. Then the mining station will extend a huge pipeline from top to bottom. The pipeline is equipped with all kinds of automated mining and collection equipment, which can effectively explore minerals deep inside the planet.

Just as Chen Lin realized a long time ago, the visual experience in the game is far less intuitive and shocking than on display. Often buildings and tools that are dozens or hundreds of meters tall cannot even be visually reflected in the game, otherwise it will easily lead to problems with the model's proportions being out of balance.

After much thought, it seems like a good idea to simply delete the less obvious parts of the model.

The fact that mining stations have obvious structural differences was discovered by Chen Lin when he was studying the UI in his field of vision not long ago, because there are certain differences in the model displays in their thumbnails, and these differences also limit the specific situations in which they can be used.

In the [Policy] column, Chen Lin searched carefully and even found a relatively good policy, which was called the [Module Construction Preparation] policy.

Enabling this policy will consume the corresponding resources at one time and generate a large number of building modules in a certain place in advance. It is like playing a survival game in which the shadow of a building is directly generated in a certain place, while the required materials have already been piled up on the side.

At that time, players no longer need to look for and transport resources again, they just need to put the things they have prepared according to the phantom.

[Module Construction Preparation] is just like this, but the resources consumed are more than twice the original resources required, but the construction speed can be completed within a few hours!

In order to show everyone in Beloberg the powerful construction capabilities of the "Empire", and also to give Beloberg a little technological shock.

Long before heading to the depleted mineral vein, Chen Lin reluctantly spent up to 160 points of minerals to prepare the materials for the mining station in advance and began construction.

3 hours is enough!

At noon, more than 20 fully armed guards, accompanied by Bronya, her secretary adjutant Pera, and Chen Lin, who had recently become famous, set out from the central administrative district.

The entrance to the train that used to go underground was right below the administrative area. The guards guarding this place had already received orders, and after a brief negotiation with Bronya, the team marched down the stairs in a mighty procession.

The dilapidated underground train needed to be inspected. Fortunately, Bronya had the foresight to bring a number of research staff to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the train.

The old parts were replaced, the underground power reactor was renovated and started up, and after the announcement of track safety inspection, this train that had been out of service for a long time officially set off!

The exhausted mineral vein on this trip is not far away. It is still a long distance away from the real lower area, and it only takes more than ten minutes to drive there.

Inside the car, Chen Lin and Pera, who were sitting in the front compartment, could tell that Bronya was not in a good mood at the moment. Chen Lin had already heard the reason from Pera.

To this day, the upper and lower areas have been blocked for so many years, but Bronya is still a staunch open-minded person and still disagrees with her mother's blockade order. The mother and daughter have often quarreled over this issue.

"Teacher, is it true that Mother blocked the upper and lower areas?"

In the dull air, Bronya was the first to break the calm. She stared at the fleeting concrete wall outside the window with confusion in her eyes.

"We are all citizens of Beloberg, working hard for the survival of Beloberg, but we have taken away their sword of survival, forcing everyone to live in the lower class and survive on their own..."

Chen Lin didn't say anything, just looked at Bronya quietly.

Although she was young, she had to bear pressure that was unimaginable to ordinary people. No one could communicate with her wholeheartedly about the active thoughts in her mind. Before Chen Lin came, she could only continue to accept all the knowledge and behavior styles transmitted by her mother.

Like a puppet, it allows its owner to fill in the contents.

"Mother said that the ground is the line of defense that Beloberg must defend. Only in this way can Beloberg continue to operate in danger. But I also thought about it a few days ago, using the two-sided perspective you taught me. If there is no lower area to transport earth marrow upwards, is the upper area really a necessary line of defense? Is this necessary sacrifice that mother talked about really desirable..."

After realizing something, Pera stood up from her seat and stood alone at the door connecting the carriages. She knew that many things were okay for those close to her to know, but they must not be known by outsiders, otherwise it would very likely bring danger.

She is a little petite and doesn't look like an adult at all, but these external features don't mean that she is really a child.

On the contrary, Pella has her own strengths in becoming Bronya's confidant.

Chen Lin was a little surprised. Under his instruction, Bronya seemed to have begun to learn to independently judge whether some things were appropriate or not, instead of looking at things based on the purest and simplest moral values ​​as before.

As expected of a girl chosen as the next Great Guardian, her ability to accept and understand new things is unmatched by ordinary people.

So he asked, “Don’t you think that’s wrong?”

"I don't know if it's right... but it's not appropriate to do this. It's not conducive to uniting everyone to face the Rift and the monsters in it together."

The adult world never talks about right or wrong, and naturally, struggles do not talk about correctness or wrong.

Belloberg was already struggling for survival, with no reference for every step, and every approach was a new test.

If there is a road ahead, it means you are lucky. If there is no road ahead, you can only go back and start again.

It can be seen that Bronya's subjective thinking of first denying and then arguing was not dominant. She obviously made the conclusion after a series of considerations and found that Cocolia's approach did more harm than good.

She never stopped learning from Chen Lin. When she was ignorant, she thought many things were reasonable, and even attributed many absurd things to "the superiors have their own ideas" to avoid thinking.

Because of this, Bronya studied it carefully and figured out what her mother might be hiding behind her actions.

——Divide the people and weaken their power!

Chapter 45 A surprise from outer space!

This raises the question, why would the mother of the Great Guardian choose to cut off one of her arms? Could it be that she wanted the Rift to erode the upper and lower areas at a faster rate?

When she realized this last night, Bronya was shocked. She thought she had made a mistake in some step, which led to a deviation in the conclusion.

But after re-examining the context of all the events, Bronya was frustrated to find that she seemed to have come to the current conclusion no matter how she deduced.

This led to Bronya finding a gap where they could spend some quiet time together, and she asked Chen Lin all the questions in her heart.

There was no way. Pella only had a vague understanding of many things, and others were afraid of her identity. The only person she could really talk to was her mentor, whom she had just met for less than two weeks.

He was not a resident of Beloberg, and did not care about his own identity, nor did he care about his identity as a superior alien civilization.

There is no conflict of interest between the two parties, so they can talk to each other naturally and cordially.

Chen Lin nodded and said, "I also don't understand how this would benefit Beloberg. When facing a powerful foreign enemy, people from the same camp and the same power not only did not choose to unite, but instead exacerbated the gap and caused inexplicable conflicts. As you think, I also think that this approach is completely lacking, even to the point of being unbelievable."

He has his own abilities and knew that there was something wrong with Cocolia one step ahead, which is what is called gaining a certain degree of God's perspective.

This did not seem reasonable to others, and they might even think that his understanding of Cocolia was inexplicable. Therefore, Chen Lin could not tell Bronya everything.

Everything has a "degree", neither too much nor too little, to prevent the situation of being too much or too little.

After hesitating for a while, Chen Lin's voice rang out.

"The Great Guardian system is the fundamental political system of Beloberg. Even though it is not elected but passed down through abdication, its status is sacred and responsible! The Great Guardian emerged to maintain the survival of Beloberg's civilization, and its responsibility is to persist in the struggle against the Rift and protect the people. Remember what I said before? Beloberg's various national systems and institutions are rather strange, but in line with reality. Since you have become the Great Guardian, you must fulfill your responsibilities, otherwise your sacred identity will no longer be sacred."

"So you think so too..."

Bronya breathed a sigh of relief, but soon the expression on her face became hesitant. There was a hint of temptation in her eyes, which was clearly seen by Chen Lin.

"Anything else you want to ask?"

"Teacher...if I do something wrong due to impulse one day, will you help me?"

"Ok?"

Chen Lin was stunned. She always felt that Bronya seemed to have something else to say.

"That depends on where you went wrong."

After thinking for a few seconds, Chen Lin patted her on the shoulder and said, "If lending a helping hand to vulnerable people is ideologically just and a righteous act based on simple ethical values, then, as your political and cultural enlightenment teacher, I will certainly help any student in need."

He looked up at the ceiling of the train. At the top of the ceiling was a deep concrete wall, above that was the outskirts of Beloberg, and above the outskirts was the endless starry sky.

"Bronya, you have to know that the wheel of history is rolling forward. When the time comes, everyone can become a hero who pushes history forward. The times, policies, and specific situations are like a flood. When the time comes, someone will definitely stand up and push the course of history forward."

“No one’s ability is enough to change history, but when history needs to move forward, human power will become infinite.”

"I don't know much about the human history on Yalilo-VI, but in any human history I have seen, humans have never compromised with the disasters they face. Even if it is due to people's nature of being greedy for life and afraid of death, in the face of justice, there is no shortage of people who radiate the light of humanity and stand up. Fighting crises in order to gain living space; complaining about the world and blaming others, leading to the extinction of the race."

Pera, who was guarding the door to prevent anyone from breaking in, was stunned for a moment when she heard the conversation between Chen Lin and Bronya. She and Bronya had both heard about the development history of many alien civilizations and the historical process of many civilizations before they were unified.

Although she was born in Beloberg and served in the Silver Mane Guard when she grew up, she had witnessed many people's fearless sacrifice and protection, and she deeply agreed with what Chen Lin said.

Peace cannot be achieved by simply lowering your posture; you need to rely on yourself for peace!

In an instant, the respect and admiration that had long been hidden in Pera's heart reached its peak, thinking that the gentleman's motherland had once faced a life-and-death crisis like Beloberg, but was able to survive the struggle.

Beloberg can do it too, because Beloberg has never compromised with the Rift and the Snowstorm!

Many of the Silvermane Guards were originally just ordinary residents. They went deep into the Rift to fight monsters... From the moment they put on the uniform, everyone has shouldered a heavy responsibility. To protect their homes, where they have no way to retreat, is a responsibility they voluntarily assumed!

Perhaps... this is what the gentleman meant by the brilliance of human nature.

……

The train stopped at a space opened up hundreds of meters beneath the surface. It was also the destination of their trip, a giant mineral vein that had been mined by human labor and was in ruins!

Pitch-black mine caves can be seen everywhere, and the underground mining lamps hanging at the cave entrances have long stopped working due to lack of energy.

But this does not affect the pale yellow glow and warm light emitted by the scattered earth marrow around the solid rammed wall.

The guards took out the lighting tools that had been prepared in advance from the train, and soon the mineral vein was illuminated brightly.

Chen Lin casually picked up a piece of earth marrow wrapped in many impurities. The transparent crystal ore felt warm and comfortable in his palm. It was indeed a good energy source for development. Even in the exhausted veins, scattered earth marrow ores could still be seen everywhere.

It's a pity that Beloberg mostly uses manual mining. When the main marrow in the giant vein has been mined, it is obviously difficult to obtain the corresponding marrow minerals by investing a large amount of human resources. Instead, it is easy to increase the cost of the miners' work. As a result, a large number of relatively scattered marrows have lost their mining value and are left deeply embedded in the soil with no one paying attention to them.

Everyone jumped up and down with Chen Lin, and Chen Lin naturally played his part, carrying out the survey and sampling steps exactly as planned.

About two hours had passed, and when the time at the [Mining Station] was about to hit zero, he turned around and asked:

"Bronya, since the Great Guardian gave me this mineral vein, can I give it to my research ship to explore and collect minerals?"

"can."

"That's good."

Chen Lin smiled and said, "Then I will contact the research ship in orbit and set up a research station to study this mineral vein."

"Research?"

"Well, maybe we can artificially synthesize the earth's marrow."

Chen Lin put away his phone and said, "Let's get back to the car. The higher-ups said there's no problem. They'll immediately build a research pipeline leading here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the people in the city of Beloberg saw a wonder from the sky and went out to see it from afar.

A huge metal pipe slowly descended from the sky and landed on a mountain far outside the city of Beloberg. It easily penetrated the solid ground and drilled into it...

Cocolia, who was originally resting in the palace, was attracted by the movement outside. She immediately climbed to the top of the palace and saw the strange scene in the distance with a shocked expression.

"This...what is this?"

Chapter 46 He Really Made Me Cry

The one closest to the people of Beloberg... is the supreme guardian who sits in the Kripa Palace.

The one who is farthest away from the people of Beloberg is... the star god whom they have never even glimpsed, but whose protection their city still enjoys.

Beyond the sky is an even vaster space. From another end, a huge planet appears so small that it cannot be observed with the naked eye. It is as tiny as an ant colony and will be easily overlooked if you are not careful.

Many people were stunned by the shocking scene before their eyes. They thought that the foreign enemies from 700 years ago had invaded again and that the gods would no longer favor the miserable Beloberg. Many elderly residents prostrated themselves on the ground and cried bitterly, as if they were complaining to the gods who were high above them but had no longer used their power to help them.

A heavy air slammed into the only remaining city on the planet...

"Lord Star God! Beloberg really can't bear any more damage. Please help us..."

"Will there be more monsters? Mom, I...I'm scared."