Star Railroad: The Bizarre Adventures of the Herrscher of Knowledge

"Did something happen to that little boy's father? I don't look like he's lying.

Xi'er was very disdainful of Xing's question:

"Hmph, it is only such a simple guy as you who can be deceived." That's his usual trick, and many people have been deceived.

"This little guy not only lied, but also stole things."

"I see, Bronia was also deceived. Something to a white-eyed wolf..."

"Xi'er don't say it, I trust him."

"Hmph..." Although

Xi'er was very upset, it was not that she was deceived, but fortunately she was too lazy to take care of it, and walked ahead of them by herself.

"Damn that this road is actually blocked..."

Xi'er said breathlessly, staring at the road blocked by ruins directly in front of the market, "It seems that we are going to make a slight detour."

"Let's go, I remember there's still a way to where we're going."

Xi'er led the two around the abandoned commercial street, and then down a slope.

"It should be this road, follow the way up to the orphanage."

The rift monsters they encountered during this period were also small trash fish. Maybe the dangerous monsters that exist here are those two....

Several people climbed the stairs for another long time before they came to the orphanage.

"Unexpectedly, it is quite intact here. It's the same as

when she left..." Xi'er recalled with emotion what happened when she left.

The orphanage in that memory was just shabby compared to what it was now.

Star said: "When I look at it below, I think it's quite grand, but it's a pity that there is less pyrotechnics." When

Bronia walked into the orphanage, she felt a very reassuring feeling.

She felt strange, this feeling... What exactly is the reason?

They walked to a pile of boxes in the corner, and they moved them down one by one and laid them flat.

"These boxes have been sitting for years, right? Can the supplies inside still work?

Xi'er replied casually, "

You shouldn't think that people in the lower area still care about the expiration date, right?" Some use it is good, where else to pick and choose. "

Star stall hands and stop talking. Instead, open the stacked boxes one by one.

"Empty!"

They opened several boxes in a row, and all of them turned out to be empty without exception.

Xi'er smashed the empty box with one punch and said angrily:

"Abominable! Empty... It's all empty. Who did it?

Xing was a little speechless:

"Just take it away, and actually arrange the empty boxes neatly... Is it polite to say this?

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why do you look silly. "

Huh?!"

Bronia woke up from her stunned state, and she replied,

"I seem to have been here... This building, and these rides, feels so familiar..."

"Less come, the upper and lower floors have been blocked for more than ten years, and not a single iron guard has come down." The visit of a young lady like you underground is definitely big news.

Ciel retorted firmly, "Unless... It was before the lockdown.

Bronia stroked her eyebrows and said

, "Possibly, maybe it's too small?" I don't know, the memory is a little blurry.

Star patted her shoulder and said

, "Then don't force yourself first, look around, maybe you can find something else."

Bronia nodded, no longer forcing herself to recall things from her childhood.

Then Ciel took them to a secret place in the orphanage, a stone table.

Hoshi looked at the so-called secret base and said,

"Isn't this just an ordinary stone table?" It doesn't look like any precious ore either. A

smug smile appeared at the corner of Xi'er's mouth, and she did not speak, but stepped forward and slowly pushed the stone table.

The stone table rubbed the ground and made a "click~" sound, and the two people also stepped forward to help.

The stone table was pushed open, revealing a small hole covered by wooden boards.

Xi'er crouched down and took out several boxes from inside.

"Hmph, this is a place that only everyone in the orphanage knows. Before we left, Natasha put some things she couldn't take with her. "

After they opened the box, a crystal ornament appeared inside.

When Bronia saw the crystal ball in Xi'er's hand, the originally vague memory suddenly became clear.

She took the crystal ball from Xi'er's hand and said excitedly:

"This, this is!" Something from my childhood!

"What? Childhood... Are you sure?

Unlike Xi'er's surprised look, Xing said calmly,

"Could it be just the same model?"

Bronia replied dejectedly:

"There will be no such a thing in the world, I think of it all..." Bronia

looked a little sad, she said that she also lived here when she was a child. Later, the city builders took her away and adopted her by Kokolia.

Xi'er was confused by this incident.

"You said you're from the lower classes? No... I'm not trying to say this.

"Are you Kokolia—the adopted daughter of that Great Guardian?" Isn't that what you are..."

Bronia confirmed Ciel's speculation, saying that she was the designated heir of the Builder - the guardian who led Beloberg.

Xi'er, who was shocked by this news, did not know how to express her mood at the moment.

"Huh?! Bronia

blamed herself very much, closed her eyes in pain, and patted her head with her hand that had a headache due to memory recovery.

"Why... Why do you only think about it now? My childhood memories are so vague... My head hurts..." Star

stepped forward and grabbed Bronia's head and patted her head, taking her into his arms.

"Don't be like this, you can't be blamed for that. Maybe you were too young at the time, or maybe someone else did something to you.

Bronia quickly retorted in horror:

"No, it won't! Mother wouldn't be so kind to me... Mother she... It won't..."

Bronia said quieter and quieter, until silent tears finally flowed.

Star hugged her tightly, wanting to give her some relief.

Xi'er didn't say anything comforting, just stood dumbfounded, silent, and overwhelmed....

The atmosphere at the scene became heavy and sad.

Bronia felt better and broke free from Star's arms.

Ciel felt like she was going to say something to break up the atmosphere that felt a little bad.

"The children in the orphanage always come and go, I really didn't expect that there would be a future big guardian among us."

"I wonder if Nata knows about this? Could it be that she has been hiding from me..." Bronia

said that the selection of the guardians was absolutely confidential, and the chosen children would say goodbye to the past completely.

She said she had no other identity than Kokolia's daughter, the future guardian. But...

"But am I really qualified to be the Guardian who leads Belloberg?"

Bronia said sadly:

"I have witnessed those Iron Guard soldiers die in the rift, but I have never been able to make up my mind to change my mother's radical ideas."

"I see people in the lower districts suffering, but I can't help anything."

She kept wiping the tears from her cheeks with her hands and gazed remorsefully at the ruined town.

"The former home has become like this, but I am still in the dark."

Heartbroken, she said,

"I can't do anything... Nothing can be guarded. "

How can such a me, such a me, be competent..." Looking

at this Bronia, Xing was very distressed, in the end, she was just a girl less than twenty years old.

"Hey! Did you say enough!

Xi'er seemed to be very cold and sternly said: "Crying and crying, noisy to death!"

"I..."

"What for?" Say a few self-touching words thinking I will sympathize with you? Xing

wanted to stop Xi'er from continuing to say something hurtful, but he felt that it was better not to interfere now.

"Can't make up your mind? Ha, would you like to hear what you're saying?

"People in the lower districts are desperately trying to stay alive every day. But what are you doing? Hiding in the palace and thinking cranky?

Xi'er continued with a resolute expression,

"'Even if you are only a glimmer of light, illuminate others.'" - This is what you said yourself. Aren't you trying to protect everyone?

"Isn't there anything more important to you to do than cry here?!"

Bronia looked at Xi'er's sincere eyes, these words sounded a little harsh, but gave her some comfort.

She perked up and took a deep breath:

"You're right, self-pity won't solve anything."

"Thank you, Ciel. Thank you for knocking me awake.

"Hmph, I won't be appeased, but I am good at beating people, no matter how many times, as long as I need to, I will wake you up."

The originally heavy atmosphere was broken by Xi'er in an unusual way.

Star watched it all on the side. He felt that the two might be a good combination.

A delicate mind and a sense of responsibility, but easy to enter a dead end and drill into a bull's horn; A big grin but sharp mind and straightforward personality.

The two chatted without a ride, and said that they wanted to visit the orphanage.

Feeling a little redundant, Hoshi smiled and walked away, she decided to leave the two of them alone for a while....