Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

So, Swarovski is indeed difficult to deal with.

Seeing the worries of the three people, Natasha sighed.

"This time, [Earthfire] will be on your side."

The doctor picked up the teacup and took a sip of water, but she didn't explain much.

The living space underground has been compressed to the limit, and the shortage of materials cannot be simply summarized as a lack of food and clothing.

But Swarovski held on to the channel of the [furnace core] tightly, and firmly refused any communication that opened the channel of the [furnace core].

This almost made it the target of public criticism, and public opinion was almost impossible to suppress.

The underground fire...is on the verge of erupting.

Chapter 33: Naive, but also ambitious

"What should we do?" Danheng held the teacup and looked at the silent Natasha.

"Clara, you have to find Clara. She is a kind of insurance for Swarovski. In other words, as a robot, Boss Swarovski has much more patience with Clara than ordinary people." Natasha took a sip of tea and sighed helplessly. "Although it's strange to say this, in Swarovski's eyes, the demands of dozens of people together are not as useful as Clara's request."

"The rational faction of the Earth Fire will gather outside the mechanical settlement first. We will try to negotiate with Svarro, but it will most likely be useless."

Sanyue sensed some emotion from Natasha's words, but she couldn't express it well. She could only scratch her hair and forced a smile, "Is Sister Natasha so pessimistic?"

"When [Underground Fire] took over the power of the underground city, it took a long time to negotiate with Boss Swarovski. This is not pessimism, but a fact. From what we have observed, the only person who can change Swarovski's attitude is Clara." Natasha said, and took out a letter with extremely fragile paper from the pocket of her yellowed white coat and pushed it in front of the three people.

The Star Core Spirit glanced at the envelope, then looked up at Dr. Natasha, "This letter?"

"Clara is not a girl who is easy to persuade, but this can persuade her to stand on our side, or at least not stand on Swarovski's side and strengthen Swarovski's will." Natasha smiled.

"You have prepared a lot." Danheng looked at Natasha meaningfully.

"The underground needs supplies, and the supplies come from the upper areas. We have been accumulating strength and suppressing public opinion, but everything we do has its limits, and these preparations are used to divert conflicts before the limit is reached, when order is on the verge of collapse." Natasha didn't mind telling the three young people in front of her at this time. "The passage of the [furnace core] is the only hope for the underground people. In order to survive, everyone has no choice."

"Whether it's the upper or lower class districts, everyone can only choose between the bad and worse options, and they have to choose one with great difficulty."

"Is there no perfect solution?" Xing said in a low voice.

She learned a lot at the Black Tower Space Station. She helped many staff members solve problems and absorbed a lot of knowledge like a sponge day and night. Unfortunately... one of the knowledge she learned was the concept of "war".

What Natasha said has made Xing realize [Earth Fire]'s final choice.

[Underground Fire] will flow into the [Furnace Core], spewing the fire called war to the upper areas.

"You, you are the perfect solution." Natasha looked at the three people. "I don't want Beloberg to collapse from the inside in the end, but in order to survive and avoid extinction, many people have no choice. Many of them are not afraid of dying now compared to the wall collapsing one day in the future. What they fear most is that their children and their children's children will struggle forever in this dark underground, and never even see the howling wind and snow."

The star core spirit was silent.

She thought of Hook's adoptive father, the old and frail man from the Great Gathering, who dismantled the lens of his mineral survey device, which he treasured, and sold it just to buy a better meal and celebrate Hook's birthday.

In fact, that wasn't even his birthday; it was just the day Hook was adopted by the old man.

The meal was not good, not as good as the bread and tea in the upper class area, and it was so crude that it was difficult to eat. But according to the old man, it was enough to make Hook happy for a few months, although his act of dismantling the lens and selling it for money made Hook very angry.

"We don't have many choices. Even if it's just a lifeline, we have to grab it to avoid the worst outcome."

"I believe it." Xing figured it out. Or rather, after figuring out a certain point, she simply stopped thinking about it further. "Let's go find Clara."

March turned and looked at Xing, who had a serious expression and determined eyes.

Dan Heng also glanced at the star core essence in surprise.

"Hook, she trusts you very much." The Star Core Spirit looked at Natasha, "Oleg also trusts you. The people in the underground city may be dissatisfied, but they still recognize the word [Underground Fire]."

"If everyone believes it, then we can do it too."

"Fighting is not good." The Star Core Spirit turned his head left and right, looked at Sanyue and Danheng, and retracted his gaze, "We will deal with Clara, you go to deal with Swarlow, and finally, we will go to the upper area together to deal with the Star Core."

"Then there is no need to fight. Children like Hook and his children, the children of future children, will all have a future." The Star Core Fairy said as a matter of course. Then, she stood up and stretched out her hand to Natasha, "Sister Natasha, what do you think?"

Natasha listened to Xing's words, which sounded so innocent and even ridiculous at first, and her extended hand, and opened her mouth.

Who has not been naive?

Natasha once naively hoped that her ability could cure all diseases, and her brother was even more naive and wanted to develop some kind of human body modification to allow humans to adapt to low temperatures and snow.

Those naive thoughts are just like the words that Xing said at this moment.

But...is it really that simple?

"Really?" Natasha questioned when the time came. "Can it be that simple?"

"Maybe it's simple, maybe it's difficult, but this is what we have to do, isn't it?" Xing Cheng's clear eyes met Natasha's eyes full of fatigue and struggle.

"Since we are going to do it, then no matter what lies ahead, it can't stop us. We will deal with Swarovski, Clara, and finally the star core."

"I'll join." Dan Heng stood up and looked at Natasha. "There's no need to hesitate. Just like Xing said, the goal is there. Just do it and do it to the best of your ability. That's enough."

"I think so too, but 'get it done' sounds too harsh. It should be 'convinced!" March also stood up, and a bright smile swept away his tired look. At this moment, March was full of fighting spirit.

"So, Sister Natasha, what about you?" Xing was still waiting for Natasha.

"I will join with [Earth Fire]." The doctor smiled and stood up.

What’s wrong with being a little naive?

If we lose this innocence, we will lose our spirit. If we really lose our spirit, then the downtown area will really have no future.

"Then it's settled." Xing exhaled forcefully, "We will convince Clara to stand on our side."

"That..." Sanyue seemed to have thought of something, and the smile on her face froze, "If, I mean if, Boss Swarovski doesn't have any clues about the star core..."

"We still have the Captain and Miss Yuexia." The Star Core Spirit turned to look at March Seven, "We are working hard, and so are they."

March hesitated for a moment, but considering that making any more unrealistic guesses would be tantamount to destroying his own ambition, he nodded vigorously.

In fact, in the rift boundary of the upper area.

The captain's discovery was far more extensive and more exaggerated than what the trio who were now preparing to act discovered.

Although they will also get similar information from Swarovski.

Chapter 34: Someone is about to go crazy

"Star core, I... know."

The tall woman who tried her best to stay rational was suspended in the air. Under her military cap, her eyes were full of struggle and trance. She looked down at Yuexia and the captain.

"The Great Guardian has been entangled with the Star Core since the beginning, whispering... bewitching..."

"I was never qualified from the beginning. I shouldn't be the Grand Guardian... I'm not qualified."

"Those bewitching words and whispers made me feel dazed and I couldn't even tell the difference between reality and fantasy. I shouldn't be called Rand..."

"You..." Yuexia just opened her mouth when she was interrupted by the captain. She turned around and looked at the captain.

The captain shook his head towards the moon.

The Hillel in front of him was not a person with whom he could communicate. Her mumbling was nothing more than the echo left over from some kind of stellar core disturbance. At least, the Hillel Rand in front of him was not a being with intelligence and the ability to communicate.

"Perhaps the only thing I did wrong was not to give in to those temptations. That's the only thing I can do..."

"My sister can do better than me..."

Shirley's figure was about to dissipate. Her eyes were filled with chaos, and even the slightest trace of spiritual light was already extremely dim, like a candle that was about to go out.

Yuexia understood what the captain meant.

At this moment, they could only witness Hillary Rand's final echo and end.

However, God always seemed to like playing jokes. Just when Hillary's figure was about to disappear, a heavy sound of footsteps came from behind the two of them.

Hillary, who was already disappearing, instinctively raised her head and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

The moment when the silver-haired Bronya rushed out of the street corner with the Iron Guards.

Hillary's confused eyes regained clarity for a moment. She stared at Bronya and suddenly screamed, and the captain and Yuexia, who were closest to Hillary, were the first to be hit.

"lie!!"

“Everything is a lie!!”

"The Great Guardian prayed for the Star Core!! The Star Core brought the snowstorm!!"

"The star core has entangled the Rands! All the Rands! Every one of them!!"

"This last name is a curse!"

"I shouldn't have had to endure that!! Beloberg should have been destroyed seven hundred years ago!!"

"Everything is a lie!"

"They are all... lies..."

The screams and roars finally calmed down, like a last burst of light, and Shirley's final madness gushed out towards Bronya.

Is that anger? Some kind of resentment? Or something else?

At this moment, no one knows.

But everyone heard what Hillary said and watched her disappear into thin air.

"What is that?" Behind Bronya, Pera pushed her glasses up on her nose and squinted her eyes at the captain who was surrounded by blue Mars.

"Hilary Rand, that's her self-proclaimed name." The captain dusted off the fire powder on his body and looked at Bronya. "I remember seeing her portrait in the corridor when I entered Klipperburg this morning."

"How is that possible! Tyrant, as the eighth great guardian, was a man who lived three hundred years ago!" Bronya raised the gun in his hand, pointed the gun at the captain, and retorted harshly.

"The Great Guardian prayed for the Star Core, and the Star Core brought snow and wind. The name Rand is a curse..." The captain turned his gaze to Bronya. He was not afraid of the fire stick in Bronya Rand's hand. He was knowledgeable and had learned a lot of complicated knowledge from the Black Tower. He already had a reliable guess in his mind, "It was the Star Core that recorded the reverberation of Hillier Rand. Everything in the Rift was disturbed by the Star Core. Her reverberation was reproduced within the impression range of the Star Core. That's all."

"Three hundred years ago, Hillier Rand knew clearly about the star core and even mentioned the influence of the star core. She whispered and bewitched it all the time, and even made people unable to distinguish between illusion and reality..." Yuexia also cast her eyes on Bronya Rand with a sympathetic expression, "The eighth one, four hundred years ago, that is, the eighth one in the three hundred years of inheritance. According to the average time calculation, each great guardian is in office for no more than forty years. So, Cocolia Rand is currently the eighteenth great guardian?"

"She is almost forty years old, am I right?" The captain said, but his eyes were looking at the two people beside Bronya.

Jeppard, and Pera.

"The Grand Guardian is already thirty-five years old." Pera answered the captain's question calmly.

Pera's cooperation made Bronya frown and Jeppard look sideways.

"That's not surprising. Her life is about to end, but she has seen the end of Beloberg." The captain stared at the three people in front of him, silent for a moment, suppressing his emotional agitation. "The temptation and whisper of the star core follow the Rands like a curse. The star core has appeared in the entire universe for thousands of years, and no force has ever mentioned that the star core has this characteristic..."

"What on earth are you talking about?" Jeppard stepped forward, squinting his eyes and staring at the captain.

"Cocolia has realized that the overthrow of Beloberg is irreversible, so she is planning to give it a push and speed up the process." As the captain said this, Jeppard's lips moved and he fell silent.

Pera just pushed up her glasses and said nothing.

Even the Iron Guards standing behind the three commanders fell into silence, and the hands holding their weapons dropped unconsciously.

Only Bronya, only Bronya Rand, refuted fiercely, "Ridiculous! Mother is the Great Guardian, she exists to ensure the survival of the City of Preservation!"

"I told you, she is beyond redemption!" The captain turned his gaze to Bronya Rand, his tone suddenly became fiery, and he roared in a low voice, "Your City of Preservation is not equal to the god [Cripe]! Your Great Guardian is just a position, not power!"

"The fact that the rift has spread to your city also proves that Klipper's protection is no match for the erosion of the star core! The Great Guardian can't even conjure up the earth's marrow out of thin air!"

"Otherwise, why would she seal off the upper and lower city areas? Could it be that the Great Guardian thinks there is too much earth marrow?!"

"She's just a mortal! Your adopted mother, Cocolia, who you think is omnipotent, is just a mortal!"

"She has limits to her abilities!"

"Her life has limits!"

"Her energy has its limits!"

"Her thinking! Her vision! There are limits to all of this!"

"You firmly believe that a person who has limits to everything can do something that no one has been able to do in seven hundred years!"

"Then tell me......"

The captain's tone suddenly dropped, and he looked at everyone, sweeping over Bronya, Jeppard, Pella, the Iron Guards, and so on...

"If she can really do everything and think of a solution to any problem..."

"Will she still need you?"

"Why does she need you as her successor?"

"Seven hundred years! It's about time that Rand couldn't take it anymore and went crazy!"