Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

Chapter 35: Major discovery!

"Someone is going to go crazy!"

"What do you think they inherited from their predecessors?" The captain stared at Bronya. "It's not glory, it's not power, it's not what you think it is. Let me tell you what they inherited."

"despair."

The two low words echoed in the empty streets stained by the rift.

When the two light words came out of the captain's mouth, Bronya Rand suddenly felt as if her heart was being squeezed.

"No matter how the Rands initially felt when they took over the role of the Great Guardian, in the end, they would all feel despair."

"Because you can't quell the Rift, because you can't fight the [Star Core], and because all of you rely on the Great Guardian!"

Jeppard fell into silence, holding his violin case. The blond young man lowered his head with a look of shame on his face.

Perla pushed her glasses up on her nose, pursed her lips and looked away.

Behind the three men, the Iron Guards looked at each other for a moment, but in the end, they all remained silent and lowered their heads.

They fought on the front lines of the Rift, always facing endless monsters, and from time to time had to witness the corpses of their own people transformed into monsters. They understood very well the despair of fighting hard but to no avail.

Bronya's lips trembled for a long time. In her eyes, her mother, Cocolia Rand, was definitely not a desperate person, but she could not refute the facts told by the captain.

At this moment, the girl has lowered the gun. She no longer has the firm will to point the gun at the captain and Yuexia.

"You, why do you know..." Bronya Rand's lips trembled. She was no longer able to resist the captain's words, but she was still questioning.

But it wasn't the captain she was questioning.

She just wanted to maintain the glorious image of her mother in her heart.

"Because I have saved the world, not just one, not just once. Sometimes I even had to struggle through reincarnation thousands of times as an ordinary person. One tiny mistake would lead to all my efforts going to waste. And every time I have to treat it as the last time, because I don't know when I will fall on the road." The captain looked at Land Duck calmly. "Of course I will feel frustrated if my efforts are wasted once or twice. Of course I will feel desperate if I fail thousands of times."

"What doesn't defeat me makes me stronger, so I can still stand here now."

"But when I was saving the world, no one relied on me or hung themselves on me. I just acted for my own beliefs. I didn't have so much pressure on me to save the world for one or two people. More importantly, even if I didn't know if it was the last time, as long as I could hold on, that failure would definitely not be the last."

"Now, Beloberg's successor, Bronya Rand, tell me, do the Great Guardians have a so-called second chance?"

Bronya shook his head hard.

The Great Guardian cannot fail, because failure will disappoint and panic the people, which will result in the collapse of the [city wall]. With just a tiny crack, Beloberg will be finished.

She is well aware of this.

"Then tell me, facing a situation where there is no solution at all, and even the cost of trial and error is zero, how can a so-called great guardian ensure that he does not despair?"

The captain sighed in a low voice.

With this sentence, he was not only asking Bronya, but also asking himself.

Cocolia Rand's euthanasia plan was not the end of all her plans. She...had a more specific goal that was placed behind the euthanasia plan.

And in this silent scene, a clear and monotonous bell suddenly rang from the pocket under the moon.

At this moment, everyone's eyes turned to Miss Yuexia.

Yuexia also blinked blankly and took out her cell phone from her pocket. She glanced at the screen and turned her gaze to the captain, "It's Xing."

The captain nodded, and Yuexia answered the call from the Star Core Elf and turned on the speakerphone directly.

"Sister Yuexia! Major discovery!!!" The roaring voice of the Star Core Spirit echoed in the Rift Realm.

"What?" Yuexia took a look at the scene she and the captain were facing and responded softly.

"Star core! We found clues to the star core in the lower city!! The scientists of the fourth-generation Great Guardian have already found the star core, and they are sure that the first-generation Great Guardian, Alisa Rand, prayed for the star core in Beloberg, and the star core caused a cold wave and brought snow and wind, killing the vanguard of the [Lord of the Burning Wind]'s legion. Beloberg should have been destroyed together, it was originally just a shelter from the [Antimatter Legion]."

"Where is the source of this clue?" the captain asked.

This is indeed a major discovery, and the three people in the underground city have undoubtedly made great contributions.

"Svarro! A two-meter-tall robot in the underground city. It was the bodyguard of the chief scientist during the Fourth Great Guardian's time. It witnessed many things. Later, something unexpected happened and it shut down and went into hibernation until it was found by the Ninth Great Guardian and sent to the underground pioneer group. It connected to some database by itself. Although the internal records were cleared once, he downloaded all the data back by himself."

"Do you know?" The captain turned his gaze to Bronya, who looked extremely shaken.

"What?" The Star Core Spirit's voice paused for a moment.

No one cared about the Star Core Essence. Bronya shook his head with difficulty, "No, no one in Beloberg knew about this."

"Of course no one knows! The inheritance has been broken." The Star Core Spirit was still chattering, "The fourth-generation Great Guardian is dead! She ordered the scientific research team to secretly study a way to solve the Star Core. If they can't find a way, then the truth can't be made public. But the chief scientist of the fourth-generation Great Guardian also died. She died of old age. The old scientist's disciple inherited the research, but she had an accident during the experiment and died, so the secret disappeared completely! In the end, only Swarovski knew about it."

"Is there no inheritance among the great guardians?" The captain raised his eyebrows.

"I don't know about this." The Star Core Spirit was stunned for a moment.

"Probably not." Dan Heng's voice rang out on the phone, answering the captain's question. "From the footage left by the Ninth Great Guardian and recorded by Swarro, the Ninth Great Guardian knew Swarro's identity, but she only knew that Swarro was a bodyguard of a scientist many years ago. She led people to find the dusty laboratory, but she had no idea what was being researched in the laboratory, otherwise she would not have sent Swarro to the lower city to mine."

"Judgement... Correct your statement, the ninth-generation Great Guardian [scholar], you did not accurately recognize the uniqueness of this machine..."

"Speciality?" Sanyueqi's voice came from afar, "What is it?"

"This machine is directly connected to the [Creation Engine] database."

The captain's eyes turned to Bronya again, "I think, this creation engine..."

Bronya shook her head before the captain could finish his words.

Obviously, she also didn't know what the Creation Engine was.

Chapter 36: The idea of a head-on confrontation

"Bronya Rand."

"Jepard Landau."

"And finally..." the captain's eyes turned to, "Pelageya Sergeyevna."

"My companions have found some... information in the lower city, pointing to the star core, including information about the snowstorm and the rift."

Looking at the captain who was choosing his words carefully, Jeppard narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You might as well be more direct."

"Are you interested in going to the downtown area together?" The captain looked at the three people present. "I have said everything I should have said just now. You have also learned most of what you should know from my companions. At most, you haven't seen it with your own eyes."

"At this point, I don't think I need to emphasize who is the real problem in the entire Beloberg." The captain looked at Bronya, "You really should think about what you are going to do."

"What should we do?" Bronya was a little dazed for a moment.

She once looked at her mother's back and tried her best to achieve the four words "Great Guardian", but at this moment, it seemed that everything had vanished into thin air.

The captain looked at Bronya and subconsciously turned his head to look at the two people beside him... well, should we say adjutants? Or assistants? Probably Jeppard and Pera, who were positioned in this way, and couldn't help frowning.

Yuexia also frowned slightly, but then she turned her gaze to the captain.

Yuexia felt that she was not a brain person, but at least she had the captain by her side. Rather than using her brain to solve the problem, she preferred to swing a chainsaw to solve the source of the problem. Even she could see the problem with Bronya. With the captain's subjective initiative, he would definitely speak up if he wanted to intervene.

"Bronya Rand!" The captain called out the name of the girl in front of him seriously, solemnly, and word by word, his voice like a huge bell.

The bewildered girl turned her gaze to the captain.

"You are the heir to the regime. Now there is a problem in Cocolia. You just went to see Jeppard and Pera. What does that mean?" The captain's gaze was extremely oppressive, but it was not some kind of coercion, but a kind of scrutiny and disappointment.

At this moment, Bronya even had the illusion that Cocolia was standing in front of him.

"If you want to ask for their opinions, you should speak up and think about it after listening." The captain looked at Bronya with a frozen expression on his face, "But what were you doing just now? You wanted to rely on them? You were exposing your weakness and powerlessness."

"..." Bronya took a deep breath, trying to boost his momentum.

The continuous bombardment of information made her mind confused.

"However, the confusion you just saw might be what Cocolia has been experiencing every day and night for more than a decade, and she knows very well that that kind of mood cannot be seen by anyone. If it were you, are you crazy?" The captain narrowed his eyes and with one sentence, he let out the anger in Bronya's heart.

"Sir, that's enough." Jeppard suddenly stepped forward, put the violin case in his hand on the ground, and looked at the captain with a deep and serious look. "Captain Bronya is absolutely a qualified successor. Her hesitation is entirely due to your constant provocation of her nerves."

"You have a good adjutant." The captain turned his head and glanced at Jeppard, then retracted his gaze and looked at Bronya, "Time waits for no one, don't worry about it. The more you think when you are not calm, the more mistakes you will make. It is better to do something quickly."

Bronya also took a deep breath. It was obvious that she was not completely calm and composed, but at least she seemed to have forced herself to accept the fact.

"I'm going to go downtown, but...please give me some time to arrange for staffing."

"can."

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[The results of many years of research are before you, Lord Guardian. The evidence is irrefutable. That [Star Core] is the source of all disasters.] This is the hoarse and low voice of a middle-aged man.

[It is difficult for the public to accept such a result, Doctor. If the people of Beloberg knew that it was the great Alisa Rand, the first Great Guardian of Beloberg, who activated the source of this disaster and buried the entire world in ice and snow...] The female voice sounded a little older than the male's, and it was also deeper and even trembling.

[The truth, sir...] The man's voice became even deeper, mixed with sighs and helplessness, [The truth will not change with people's thoughts. This report is the result of the hard work and sweat of several generations of the best talents of Beloberg. Even if you don't accept it, it is the truth.]

[…I don’t mean to question you, Doctor.] The woman’s voice was filled with fatigue and sighing, [On the contrary, I have full confidence in the results you submitted.]

[Ever since I took the position of Great Guardian, that voice... the voice of the star core, has been lingering in my mind.] The woman sighed, but it seemed that her fatigue and helplessness were swept away, and her voice became firm again, [I shouldn't mention this. Before I became the Great Guardian, my mother had warned me countless times about what I would face in the future.]

[Let’s get back to the research, Doctor. This truth cannot be made public unless...] The woman hesitated for a moment.

[Unless what? Sir, I am listening.] The middle-aged man's voice was very calm. It seemed that the voice of the star core mentioned by the great guardian he knew, including the result he was facing at the moment, did not surprise this man.

[Unless Beloberg has a way to completely solve the star core disaster, otherwise revealing the truth at this moment is tantamount to overthrowing a century of persistence with our own hands, and overthrowing the walls of Beloberg with our own hands. ]

[Ha...] The man's voice did not show any disappointment due to the fruitless result. Instead, he revealed a sense of ease and a smile. [You are still the Great Guardian we know. I understand. In the name of [preservation], I will definitely fulfill my mission.]

"Data number 15547, playback completed." The rigid electronic synthesized voice sounded after the translucent image in mid-air paused.

Everything is clear. The two people conversing in the video are undoubtedly the former great guardians.

In the underground city, in the square deep in the mechanical settlement, no one spoke.

The people of [Underground Fire] and the underground city, including Dan Heng, Sanyue, and Xing, had already read it and spent a lot of time to digest these secrets.

The captain and Yuexia remained silent. They believed in the clues found by Xing and the others from the very beginning.

As a result, everyone's eyes unconsciously glanced at the only person in the square who was still immersed in shock.

Bronya Rand.

The next successor to the Great Guardian. "So, after seeing it with your own eyes, what do you think?" the captain spoke, breaking the silence.

Bronya pursed her lips, "I have a lot of questions..."

"I want to ask my mother."

Chapter 37: Rebellion? No, this is called restoring order!

"According to the visitor's identity, the retained files are retrieved. Encryption level: Top Secret. File number: 558677."

Swarovski's rigid mechanical voice sounded again after Bronya expressed his wish to have a meeting with Cocolia.

Everyone turned their eyes to the picture projected by Swarovski.

[I am Cocolia Rand, the eighteenth Great Guardian of Beloberg.]

The picture starts out in pure black, with only a woman's tired and low voice sounding like a voice-over.

[I leave this record...] Kokolia hesitated for a moment, [Perhaps to keep a share of my guilt, or to prove myself? Or something else. I just hope that the Belobergs of the future will still know how to use the Creation Engine.]

The picture gradually became clear, and the scene in the picture, the captain, Yuexia, and Bronya were all familiar.

The office of the Grand Guardian in Kripal Castle, the room where the library and the palace are mixed together.

[Maybe I just want to talk, but I can't tell anyone. Today, I finally made up my mind and implemented the blockade order in the upper and lower city. ]

Lockdown order!

Doctor Natasha, Oleg, Hill and other members of [Earth Fire] were all alert and staring at the scene in front of them intently.

The tall woman slowly walked from outside the screen into the screen. She sat down on a chair behind the huge desk. She seemed to curl up. Her plump and perfect figure now looked extremely slender and thin. [There were too many voices opposing the blockade of the upper and lower city, but I had no choice.]

[It is no longer possible to mine the earth's marrow and minerals underground, and a large part of the industry on the ground has also stopped, but I can't do anything about it. ]

[I have to make a sacrifice, and it's selfish, I know.]

Cocolia fell silent. She seemed to be examining her own heart. Her tone became cheerful again. [Perhaps the people in the lower districts can survive after the city wall collapses.]

[After all, although there are rifts underground and it is cold, at least it is not like the snowfield that can freeze people into ice sculptures alive. ]

But that kind of self-deceiving self-entertainment is not an outlet at all, but a heavy pressure. The condemnation of one's own conscience will make even those who are watching the video recording at this moment feel suffocated.

[But I withdrew the Iron Guards...]

She sighed.

[But I can't do anything about it. After all, there are too many monsters in the Rift, and too many people have been sacrificed. Watching the fallen comrades turn into monsters and attack themselves, it is really not easy for the Iron Guards to hold on...]