Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

"He is greeting us outside the window, or rather, it seems like he is greeting you." Yuexia retracted his gaze and looked at Pella.

Pera's sharp eyes instantly turned to the window and locked onto Sambo Koski, who was waving at her with a grin.

Seeing that Sambo was about to turn around and run away, Pera narrowed her eyes and said in a low voice, "Sambo, these people want to do business with you."

Everyone stared in amazement at the blue-haired man who was about to run away from Pella, who was at least six or seven meters away and a wall, but suddenly retracted his legs.

Then, he turned around, straightened his clothes, and strode to the door of the machinery room. After knocking softly, he pushed the door open and walked into the machinery room. He immediately looked at Pera, "Madam Clerk, hey, thank you for helping old Sambora with his business. If this order is successful, I'll give you 20%."

"Hey, what's wrong with this guy?" San Yue Qi looked at the man with a hunched back, hunched neck, and clasped hands rubbing back and forth, with a look of disgust on his face.

"Maybe, this is what Wen Shiling said, greasy?" The Star Core Spirit seemed to have seen something eye-catching, with a subtle expression, "The man below?"

Sambo Koski did not take the two girls' comments to heart, and it could even be said that they went in one ear and out the other. The man turned his gaze to the five people on the train, and his eyes swept through them one by one, and finally fixed on the captain. "So, old Sambo, can I know what you guys want to buy?"

The captain looked at the man named Sambo with some suspicion. He felt that the timing of his appearance was too coincidental and subtle, and... he felt that he couldn't see through him, but...

"We, five people, want to go to the downtown area. Do you have any ideas?" The captain didn't care about other people's secrets. At least he had more important things to talk to Sambo about right now.

"Lower Town?" Sangbo was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed awkwardly, "Stop joking, everyone. There's nothing good about going to a place like Lower Town."

"Is this the attitude to do business?" The captain raised his eyebrows slightly, and with just one sentence he made Sambo feel awkward.

"This..." Sangbo pursed his lips, "It's no problem to go down, but how many people are you going to send?"

"Five people." The captain raised an eyebrow.

"Too many, at most two." Sangbo shook his head, "And I have to tell you in advance, this is a one-way trip, old Sangbo can take people down, but he can't bring people up."

"Would you consider it?"

Sambo looked at the [Abundance] Envoy in front of him and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Where did this guy come from?

Chapter 24: The Beloberg Euthanasia Plan

Only two people can go down?

The captain raised an eyebrow and turned his gaze to his companions.

"Then the question is, if there are only two people, which two will follow this Sambo?"

"You are the team leader." Dan Heng raised his hand and twisted the hair hanging in front of his forehead.

"Hmm..." The captain hesitated for a moment, then turned back to look at Sambo, "My request is to send three people down."

Danheng, Sanyue and Xing looked at each other and guessed the captain's plan.

"This... you are really forcing me to do what I want." Sangbo said bitterly, "There are rules above and rules below. This is a bit over the line."

"Tell me, what do you want?" The captain didn't buy into the bargaining at all and just stared at Sambo.

Sambo hesitated visibly, but his hesitation was not about challenging the so-called rules. What were the rules of this planet meant to an envoy? What he really hesitated about was whether he should take this opportunity to make the [Abundance] envoy in front of him owe him a favor.

Each and every one of these [Abundance] messengers is capable of bringing the dead back to life... With this vote, maybe they can really do the trick!

"Well, you see, I can't guarantee that I can take your three people away for the time being, but old Sambo can try. If this succeeds, we can settle the accounts later, what do you think?" Sambo looked at the captain.

The captain also stared at Sambo.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and the captain nodded. "Okay, Sanyue, Danheng, Xing, you will cooperate with Sangbo and go to the lower city to take a good look at what the complete Beloberg looks like. Be careful and cooperate with each other. Listen to Danheng for major matters, and discuss minor matters among yourselves."

Dan Heng raised his eyes and glanced at the captain, but said nothing.

"Don't worry, after the matter is completed, Old Sangbo will take the initiative to come to you to settle the bill."

"Okay, I'll wait for you." The captain nodded to Sambo and watched Sambo lead the three young men out of the machinery house, quickly merge into the crowd, and disappear around the corner.

After the Iron Triangle left, only Pella, Shiluva, the Captain, and Yuexia were left in the machinery house.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, until the captain put down his teacup and suddenly said, "I forgot to remind them."

Secretary Pella and mechanic Silva both looked at the captain.

"Let them go and observe whether the people in the lower city have bread to eat." The captain laughed softly.

Xiluwa looked embarrassed and a little angry, but she held it back.

But the Iron Guard's secretary Pera didn't tolerate this inexplicable sarcasm at all. The girl raised her hand and pushed her glasses on the bridge of her nose. "Sir, if I remember correctly, just now, Xiluwa and I helped you a favor, right?"

"Of course, how could I forget." The captain turned and smiled gently at Pella, but there was no smile in the captain's eyes, instead there was a feeling of scrutiny.

"Then I would like to ask, what do you mean by what you just said?"

"No, I didn't mean anything. I just meant it literally." The captain shrugged innocently. "If what I said just now offended you, I apologize."

Pera frowned, she didn't feel that the young man in front of her was sincere in apologizing.

"But in fact, I think it is totally unnecessary. After all, the communication between the upper and lower levels has been cut off for so many years. They are no longer the so-called Beloberg people. Why should Your Excellency the Secretary get angry for those abandoned and worthless people in the underground?" The captain talked eloquently, looking around at Shiluva and Pella.

Perla was stunned for a moment, and the girl was almost instantly furious, "As an outsider, I don't think you have the right to comment on us."

"As a rational, intelligent, and intellectual being." The captain narrowed his eyes and looked at Pera, "I feel I am qualified to express any opinions and views on a [inhumane betrayal]."

"The owner of the Goethe Hotel told me that in the past history of Belloberg, living underground was an honor. The underground people endured hardships, worked hard, and mined for the continuation and survival of the city of preservation. It can be said that the underground people are the cornerstone of the city of preservation. The underground people provide the people on the ground with earth's marrow and minerals, while the people on the ground provide the underground people with living security and safety."

"But your great guardian betrayed the oath and honor of these seven hundred years."

"When the underground can no longer be mined, when the underground part has lost its value, blockade, cut off contact, withdraw the Iron Guard..." The captain raised an eyebrow, "[Inhumane betrayal]."

"This is not my summary, but the indignant words of the owner of the Goethe Hotel from the bottom of his heart."

"This is the evaluation of the Beloberg people themselves, and I just relayed it to... you two."

"That's all."

Pera was completely stunned. As the secretary and intelligence officer of the Iron Guard, she always had to integrate various information and opinions in the entire city, but she had never heard of what the captain just said.

"How do you know that the underground mineral reserves are exhausted?" Xiluwa noticed another key point in the captain's words.

"It's a very simple guess." Yuexia joined the topic. "The Rift has even eroded your city, so there is no reason why the underground should remain the same. We know more about the [Star Core] and the [Rift] than you do. The information that you need time to speculate and verify is like common sense to us. We can come to a conclusion by simple inference based on the current situation."

"By the way, Miss Pera is an intelligence officer. Do you know that some citizens in Beloberg have begun to hoard earth marrow privately?" Yuexia's gaze turned to Pera again. "Ten grams of earth marrow, eight hundred shields. This is the handwritten bill information of a certain household that our companion found in the trash can yesterday." "That's impossible!" Pera retorted immediately. "Earth marrow is distributed on demand by Klipperburg. Every bit of dispatch is handled by a random person. Once there is a discrepancy between the record and the actual object, it will directly alarm the entire Klipperburg!"

"The original source of the earth's marrow is underground. Perhaps the inventory in Klipperburg has indeed not been touched." The captain looked at the two of them, "But didn't we just meet a trader from the lower city who claimed to do all kinds of business?"

Sambo Koski.

Pyra couldn't refute it, so she could only take a deep breath and lean back on the sofa to sort out her thoughts.

Xiluwa cast a complicated gaze towards the captain and Yuexia, "What do you want to do?"

"I want you to wake up." The captain looked at Shiluwa, "Ling Ke is right to be wary of the Great Guardian. Your Great Guardian may be doing something very dangerous."

"What's the matter?" Pella opened her eyes and looked at the captain.

"Although it's just a guess, we still gave it a name..."

“Belloberg Euthanasia Program.”

Chapter 25: Snowstorm, Rift, and Star Core

Belloberg...euthanasia?

Shiluwa was stunned by the words that came out of the captain's mouth.

She stared at the indifferent man in astonishment, her lips moved for a moment, but she couldn't utter a word.

"Of course, this is just our guess." The captain spread his hands in front of the two cats, "Maybe we guessed wrong, maybe we misunderstood the intention of the Great Guardian, or something else."

Yuexia glanced at the captain, but finally just looked away.

Cocolia, this name is not unfamiliar to the two people who travel through the world bubble. After all, there are always similar yet different individuals in different worlds. This is a kind of [law] of the world bubble in the quantum sea.

There is also a pattern behind the name Cocolia. If a person is in a high position and has great power, then she will definitely do something strange. But if she is in a low position and has little influence, Cocolia will always be a good mother and a good woman.

I don’t know if Cocolia Rand of Beloberg can break this rule.

"Shiluwa..." Pera turned his gaze to Shiluwa Landau, his expression serious and low, "I, kind of believe in the captain's guess."

Shiluwa's pupils trembled and she turned her gaze to Pella.

"The prices in Belloberg have been falling for three years."

"Wow..." The captain blinked and exclaimed.

"But, this is not a good thing..." Xiluwa frowned.

"No, this is not a good thing at all." The captain glanced at the mechanic who failed sociology. "You live in a small place. Whether it is raw materials or industrial products, the output is limited. For your city, it is a good thing for prices to remain constant for thousands of years or have only slight fluctuations."

"Besides, your population is limited. Lowering prices will lead to more people consuming, which will bring pressure on output. In order to fill the pressure, some of the means of production and production capacity will inevitably be called upon..." The captain shrugged, "Isn't this obvious?"

"Population and productivity reflect a society's ability to resist risks, and your land area is limited. The upper limit of population can be said to be fixed, and productivity only fluctuates within a certain range. In this case, the source of earth marrow is cut off, society is directly torn in half, prices continue to fall...all signs indicate that your society, under the control of the Great Guardian, is sprinting towards an unknown direction with all its might." "And this unknown direction..." the captain shrugged.

"Euthanasia..." The seemingly free and unrestrained elder sister Shiluwa was silent for a while, and murmured, "But, why would Kokolia do this? She is the great guardian."

"Perhaps she has run out of options." Yuexia looked at Shiluwa who seemed to be in urgent need of an answer. After all, she could not be as ruthless as the captain. The girl sighed softly, "Even your once prosperous civilization could not resist the Star Core. Seven hundred years later, you still cannot resist it. The Great Guardian is just a status and position, not the power to suppress and pacify the Star Core."

"No, that's not right!" Xiluwa shook her head vigorously. "If that's true, then why did she..."

Why resist and stop my research?

The words that Xiluwa was about to say finally stopped at her lips.

The Captain, Yuexia, and Pella were all looking at Shiluwa, who was breathing heavily after her hasty rebuttal.

"No, something must be wrong." Shiluwa's rebuttal ultimately became meaningless opposition and resistance to the facts.

She could tolerate Kokolia's betrayal and accept that her former friend was now a stranger, but she could not accept Kokolia's betrayal of her duties as the Great Guardian, because if she accepted this, then the excuse that Shiluva used to comfort herself would no longer exist.

The captain looked at the dazed Shiluwa, shook his head and sighed, "We are planning to go meet your great guardian now."

Xiluwa turned her gaze to the captain and Yuexia.

"Perhaps, a face-to-face confrontation is necessary." The captain looked at Shiluwa, but ultimately did not point out that Shiluwa was still hiding a secret. "At least for us, if she still has a normal mind, then Beloberg's demands are consistent with ours [the Nameless Guest]."

"Regardless of where the snowstorm comes from, if we eliminate the [Star Core], we can at least make the rift gradually fade away. As long as the rift fades away, the living space will no longer be squeezed step by step. If we expand the city little by little, you will eventually be able to conquer the snowstorm." The captain's eyes turned from Xiluwa to Pera, "Ms. Pera, you have a public office, can you help introduce me?"

"Okay." Pella nodded, and turned her gaze to the window of the machinery room. She glanced at the sky which was already getting a little dim, and exhaled softly, "I will go and convey the message to you now. If everything goes well, we will go to the Goethe Hotel tomorrow morning to take you to meet the Great Guardian."

"Thank you." The captain nodded and watched Pella stand up and prepare to leave.

At this moment, Shiluwa stopped the intelligence officer who was about to leave and said, "Pera, do you really believe that Kokolia is doing such a crazy thing?"

Pella glanced at the depressed Shiluwa, and was silent for a moment before she sighed softly, "Senior..."

Xiluwa's eyes fluctuated slightly.

"She is no longer the senior sister Cocolia who performed on the stage with us back then." Pera left after saying this and pushed the door open.

The door opened, and cold light poured into the warm mechanical house. Pera left, and Shiluwa laughed bitterly, "Ha... Indeed, I can't imagine Cocolia Rand listening to music."

"Did you have a good relationship with Cocolia in the past?" Yuexia turned and looked at Xiluwa.

"Yeah." Xiluwa nodded. "We were classmates, in the same grade, and lived together. We formed a band together. She and I were both guitarists, Pera was the drummer, and there was a guy from the Iron Guard who played the bass."

"She and I have always been good friends. I am the best scholar, and she is the top student in the military academy. Our future is bright. She will inherit the position of the Great Guardian, and I will be her right-hand man. We will face the snowstorm of Beloberg together, and we swear together to calm the snowstorm."

"but......"

"She stopped my research and expelled me from [the City Builders]. I couldn't understand it, I resisted and questioned it, but she didn't even want to see me."

The captain raised an eyebrow, looked at Xiluwa, and remained silent.

"When I was a researcher in the City Builders, my research topics were... "The Origin of Snowstorms" and "The Rift and Its Creations." Before I was expelled from the [City Builders], I vaguely realized this by summarizing the documents left by my predecessors and my own research topics."

"Snowstorm, world rift, and star core, these three are definitely interconnected."

"But before I could verify my guess, everything came to a halt."

Chapter 26: Good habit of taking photos~

The captain and Yuexia bid farewell to the troubled Shiluwa, left the machinery room, and returned to the Goethe Hotel.

Shiluwa needed quiet time to sort out her thoughts and take time to accept reality.

The captain and Yuexia also need to reorganize the current information and prepare for meeting the great guardian, Cocolia Rand, tomorrow.

And just at the dusk when the sky was dim in Beloberg, following in the footsteps of Sambo Koski, Danheng, March and Xing finally spent more than two hours walking up the extremely long spiral staircase in the huge vertical pit, passing through what Sambo called the "furnace core", and coming to the lower city from the upper city of Beloberg.

"Beloberg's technology can obviously build an elevator, so why... such an important passage should be made into stone steps?" After walking for more than two hours, March muttered words of complaint and stepped into the light outside the dark pit.