I, on the Starry Sky Railway, change everything

Chapter 177 A Pitiful Plight

While in the upper district, Bronya was concerned about the situation on the front lines of the Iron Guard. Beneath her resolute and capable warrior demeanor lay a host of worries.

But she believed in her mother and in the Great Guardian's ability to lead Belloberg to a better future.

Therefore, even though Cocolia's personality changed drastically for some reason, she fell out with Hilva, and her communication with Bronya became businesslike. Without the closeness of the past, Bronya could still find a psychological support and would not completely become a lost and helpless child in the darkness.

The arrival of the extraterrestrial visitors has clearly brought about changes, and Hua Yi is trying his best to steer these changes in a positive direction.

Bronya felt her mother's warmth again, even if it wasn't as simple and direct as before, it was still there.

She was genuinely happy, and even began to blame herself.

Knowing full well that the battle in Belleburg is tense and my mother is busy with official duties, with no leisure time at all, I don't know how to help her solve her problems, but instead I'm thinking about these trivial things. How awful.

This complaint wasn't a genuine negative emotion; Bronya was motivated by it.

However, the reality of the lower levels hit her like a bucket of cold water, chilling her to the bone.

My mother has become a tyrant.

The girl, who idolizes the Great Guardian, is now pleading for proof that "she is not a completely evil person."

The radiant image in her heart had crumbled. Bronya bent down, trying to pick up the pieces. She didn't shed a tear on the surface, but she was already crying bitterly inside.

Poor and helpless.

She had lost the imposing aura of the Iron Guard leader, second only to Cocolia, and was now just a cowering little animal.

Hua Yi sighed and reached out to rub the girl's head.

"I understand, I understand everything. That's why we've adopted this strategy of primarily dealing with the rift. If we considered Cocolia the source of all suffering, wouldn't it be more direct to turn around and attack Kripper Castle?"

"……real?"

"real."

"I want to eliminate as many monsters as possible, is that alright?"

To contribute to the lower classes and make up for the mistakes made by Mother.

Bronya sought Hua Yi's permission, fearing that acting on her own would only compound her mistakes.

This does not meet the basic requirements of a future Great Guardian. How can someone who bears the fate of Beloborg lack opinions and decisiveness?

However, the mother she admired and pursued was also wrong, and the girl really didn't know what to do.

"If we've already filled our stomachs, we'll go to the large mining area, which is the foundation for the lower classes to make a living. The source of the mineral is of great significance."

"Ok!"

In fact, Bronya interrupted her ongoing shopping trip.

But who can blame her?

Anyway, many treasured photos were taken on March 7th, and Hoshino also witnessed the delicious food and terrible cuisine of the lower district. It was impossible for Shiluwa to blame the girl she had watched grow up.

Conversely, whether for the sake of the entire Beloborg or considering that Hua Yi had finally managed to relax for a while before being begged by Bronya to go to the Rift Erosion Zone, Hilva needed to be on high alert.

“Leave the monsters in the large mining area to us. You don’t need to do anything, nor do you need to use any protective abilities on me and Bronya.”

The mature older sister speaks very seriously.

"I don't need Hua Yi's protection either!"

Not to be outdone, Xing nodded in agreement on March 7th.

"Yes, me too."

"There's a subtle feeling of being disliked."

It was just a little joke. Seeing Bronya's flustered attempt to explain, Hua Yi smiled and shook his head at her.

"Let's go. While it's still early morning, let's quickly take care of the rift in the large mining area and give the people in the lower districts a surprise."

The underground area was originally dotted with mining areas, but as the rift erosion spread, many mines were damaged and could no longer be mined.

This effectively imposes additional range restrictions, leading to more intensive mining of veins within the safe zone.

There was no other way; mining was the miners' only livelihood. The remaining mineral resources meant that jobs were scarce, and people would inevitably fight tooth and nail for them. Moreover, after the fall of Rivet Town, a large number of homeless people flocked to the only remaining safe mine, so there were far more human resources than job opportunities.

In this situation, even if the first mining team recently discovered a new vein with amazing reserves, it would not bring hope, but rather scramble and chaos. Miners would inevitably fight tooth and nail for it, and wanderers would also yearn for a job.

“I told the mine manager a long time ago that we shouldn’t have let those homeless people mine with us. If you give one person a job, the others will want one too. How can we manage them all? Besides, they’ve settled down in the limited safe camps in the large mining area. The mine carts can’t move around properly, which affects our own mining efficiency. How are we supposed to support our families?”

"I remember your uncle escaped from Rivet Town. He was a wanderer too. Do you want to kick him out as well?"

“That’s different! He’s my family, but I don’t care about other homeless people.”

"Quiet! Haven't you heard that Rivet Town has been recaptured by the heroes? Now, Earthfire is busy organizing people to repair the houses, roads, and scrapped machinery there. Many homeless people have rushed there to rebuild their homes, and you're still making a racket here."

As someone loudly proclaimed the news of the recapture of Rivet Town, the increasingly chaotic situation was brought to a standstill.

"I've heard about it too, but I don't know if it's true or not."

"How could this be fake? If you just went to Rivet Town and took a look at the rift that was suppressed by the power of preservation, you wouldn't have any doubts."

"Preservation...The Amber King performed a miracle?!"

"It was the apostle of the Amber King who personally intervened."

"The Great Guardian has arrived?"

The miner who was sharing the information simply pursed his lips when asked by others.

"Are you out of your mind? If the Great Guardian were coming, he would have come long ago. The one I'm talking about is neither a Silvermane Iron Guard nor an official of Cripperburg. How could such a pampered big shot come to the lower districts? Only a savior who cares about the people would come here to rescue us."

"I'm going to Rivet Town to take a look!"

"Those who want to mine, go mine. Those who want to go to Rivet Town, go there. There are plenty of jobs there too. Before long, the homeless will return to their homes, and everything will be alright. Don't create trouble for yourselves."

As Hua Yi and his group passed by the large mining camp, they heard the miners' chatter.

The words spoken to the High Guardian and the Silvermane Iron Guard were somewhat disrespectful, but Bronya had no intention of going over to argue with them.

She understood that only the facts were truly convincing.

The girl has grown up, though at the same time, she has developed a dependence on Hua Yi.

Chapter 178 The Great Mining Area, Clara

The safe zone near Panyan Town is not a single open space; heavy iron blocks are welded into pillars, supporting iron plates to form roads that connect areas of varying elevations.

The underground rock formations occupy most of the field of vision; they are hard, cold, and unforgiving.

Although the mining area is more open than Panyan Town, there is a different kind of oppressive and cramped feeling when you are in it.

Surrounded by rock walls from above and below, the slightest disturbance would crush a human's fragile flesh and blood into powder.

Fortunately, the people in the lower districts have enough mining experience, so accidental collapses are rare. The Rift Monsters are their biggest threat.

Bronya wanted to venture deep into the Great Mine and take on the task of eliminating monsters and finding the Rift Rift all by herself. Hilva immediately offered to accompany her and look after each other.

Star and March 7th can also team up.

The four girls suddenly became very much in sync, unanimously agreeing that Hua Yi should take more walks and enjoy the scenery around him. If he felt he hadn't rested well, it wouldn't be a problem for him to return to Rocky Town for a nap. They were sure that when he woke up, they would have cleared out the monsters and found the exact coordinates of the Twisted Rift.

It looks so familiar.

There's a kind of tiredness that girls feel you have to endure.

The Black Tower space station scenario is repeated on Bey 907 Loberg.

Facts speak louder than words, but Xing and Bronya clearly didn't intend to specifically check if Hua Yi was tired, nor did they plan to give him a chance to argue. They each chose a direction and began a carpet-style clearing of the depths of the large mining area.

Since they wanted to contribute as much as possible, Hua Yi readily accepted the arrangement and gave up the monsters roaming the mining area.

As for suppressing the rift, only he could do it from beginning to end.

Following the distorted spatial fluctuations, they walked across the road paved with iron plates, left behind man-made facilities such as pipes and supports, and entered a mine pit with a clear goal.

Unlike the Goethe Hotel, the Great Mining Area truly lives up to its name. The journey of the girls, who are paired up to eliminate monsters, is not in the same direction as the Rift.

Hua Yi felt reassured that ordinary enemies posed no threat to them.

Throughout the entire mining area, apart from the rift itself, only the cluster of stagnant phantoms within the rift emitted strong imaginary number fluctuations.

Rifts mimic the things they come into contact with, forming shadows of reality. Their outward appearances are vastly different, and they generally possess a strong sense of exclusivity, attacking everything outside of what the Rift creates.

Many robots had gathered in the gap in front of Hua Yi. Their appearance was no different from the automated mechs used by the Silver Mane Iron Guards in the upper district of Belloborg.

The Iron Guards protect the people, while the Automaton soldiers protect the Iron Guards.

They are the Iron Guard's loyal comrades, who do not bleed or fear, and have significantly reduced human casualties in the fight against monsters for hundreds of years.

Logically, the automatons should be rescued from the rift.

However, the distorted fluctuations they emit indicate that they are nothing more than toys made by the Rift.

Just like the Shadow of Eternal Winter, the Rift uses the warriors who fight against it as models to create works that wreak havoc on civilization and trample on order.

It's not about provocation, it's just the operating mechanism of the rift.

However, ordinary people are prone to misunderstandings, believing that the fallen warriors are controlled by the rift and turn their weapons against the things they once protected. This misconception will undoubtedly further fuel the despair in people's hearts.

Hua Yi examined the frozen creation of the rift for a moment. The imaginary numbers surged according to his will, but instead of condensing into oars as usual and creating waves in the torrent of fate, they maintained a pure imaginary energy state and transformed into spears that pierced into the rift.

Chaos and order are colliding, and the normal and the abnormal are clashing.

For Hua Yi, imaginary energy is the medium for exploring destiny, but the destiny travelers in the universe are actually the opposite.

Stepping onto the path of destiny, borrowing great power, the result is the stirring up of a vast, imaginary torrent.

The difference in order means that Hua Yi can launch powerful attacks without relying on destiny. It's just that there were many people involved in the previous battle to retake Rivet Town and the earlier attack on the Black Tower Space Station by the Antimatter Legion. Only when the power that fits the characteristics of destiny follows the universal axioms.

At this moment, imaginary energy is both a spear that pierces through monsters and a tool for Hua Yi to analyze the rift.

By excluding the etheric information belonging to the automated soldiers, we can filter out the characteristics of the rift that appear chaotic on the surface but actually follow a certain rule.

Fictional historians shroud history in mist, mystifying clear memories, and the resulting rifts create unknowns in terms of space and cognition.

It is not the physical manifestation of that destiny's power, but I can use it to get closer to the [mystery] and thus create a happy ending for Belloberg.

This is not contradictory to preservation. Hua Yi's attempt to uncover the [mystery] is ultimately aimed at achieving the desired preservation scenario.

The understanding still needs to be deepened, and deepened even further.

The shadows created by the Rift, mimicking real-world things, have all been annihilated by the spear of imaginary numbers, leaving only distorted spatial gaps.

The spear disintegrated, but the imaginary energy that constituted it did not collapse. It remained under control, dispersing in wisps and strands, leaving no corner of the rift untouched.

After a long while, voices could be heard coming from the branch mine tunnel outside.

"Hey...hey...found it, it's right here! Thank you."

"You're welcome, Clara."

The girl who thanked him had a soft and pleasant voice, but the one who answered her was a mechanical electronic voice.

Just as Hua Yi had made some progress and dissipated his control over the imaginary energy, a traffic light-shaped guard robot passed by the mine and discovered the rift and the figure standing in front of it.

"Warning, warning. Threat detected—Protect Clara, activate active defense mode."

The Automaton Beetle is an automated machine unit cobbled together by Belloborg using technology left over from the Old World, which was once used for gathering or construction operations.

Now it is the guard of those around it.

The girl, with white hair and red eyes, and about the same height as the traffic light guard robot, was startled. She hadn't expected to encounter a stranger deep in the already overrun area.

Clara was at a loss, but Hua Yi had already turned around and was showing a friendly smile.

"Hello, Clara. I'm Hook's friend, or rather, I guess you could call us friends. We just played hide-and-seek today."

"Is that so?"

Lord Hook, in his jet-black attire, lived up to his reputation, his power resounding throughout the lower districts.

The girl, who had been tense and somewhat timid, relaxed considerably when she heard Hua Yi mention a familiar name. She quickly instructed the guard robot beside her to deactivate its security mode and then turned her attention to her friend's friend.

"This place is dangerous, brother, you should go back quickly."