Starry Sky Railway: Starting with a furious outburst at Aha

Seeing the string of question marks sent from the other end, Zhou Yuan nodded in satisfaction and put his phone away.

He speculated that Luca's unusual behavior was likely because he had been overheard cursing Aha, and Aha had given him some punishment on the spot; otherwise, Luca's behavior would be hard to explain.

Why did Aha happen to notice him? It's very likely because Luca and Sambo, the Masked Fool, were too close at the time.

With this in mind, Zhou Yuan decided to give the clueless Sangbo a small punishment.

Why are you getting so close? You should be punished!

It's absolutely not because he wanted the mask, absolutely not!

Zhou Yuan entered the mine shaft from yesterday. The miners guarding him recognized him but did not stop him.

Zhou Yuan retrieved an old minecart from the miners, broke off nearly a hundred pounds of earth marrow ore from the central mine pillar, put it into the minecart, and dragged it back to the Earth Fire Base.

"Young Brother Zhou Yuan, what's going on?" Oleg asked, scratching his head in confusion.

“I need to trouble Chief Oleg with something,” Zhou Yuan said, patting the orange-yellow earth marrow ore with his gloved hand, feeling the warmth emanating from it. “Does the chief know about earth marrow extract?”

"Of course I know, do you need it?"

"Yes, I need more than ten liters." To be honest, Zhou Yuan didn't know much about the energy contained in the Earth Essence Extract, so he only gave an approximate amount.

"So many?" Oleg pondered. "That might take some time."

How long will it take exactly?

“At least three days,” Oleg held up three fingers. “There aren’t many instruments or tissues needed to extract the earth’s essence, so this time is an estimate. Under normal circumstances, it might take four or five days.”

There's not enough time... It seems we'll have to look around elsewhere... Zhou Yuan sighed and said to Oleg, "Then I'll trouble you."

"It's not too much trouble."

As Zhou Yuan walked through the town after leaving the Earthfire base, pondering how to obtain more extraction equipment, he saw Sang Bo emerge from a corner.

He saw Zhou Yuan, his eyes lit up, and he quickly approached.

"My good friend~ Your stuff is ready." He handed Zhou Yuan a palm-sized silver metal box. "Made of alloy, absolutely sturdy and durable."

His expression remained unchanged, seemingly without any objection to Zhou Yuan "confiscating" his mask.

Zhou Yuan opened the iron box and immediately saw a stack of cards inside. He poured them out and unfolded them, revealing two cards of each of the seven basic colors, for a total of fourteen cards.

The card has a uniform and lustrous color, a moderate weight, and a comfortable feel. All four sides are polished, and the side view looks imposing.

Zhou Yuan held a black card, tapped the ground with the corner of it, and easily cut into it with almost no resistance. When he pulled the card out, the edges were intact and the color was still there, without any damage.

"This is good stuff," Zhou Yuan exclaimed, raising an eyebrow.

“Of course, I made this myself,” Sambo said cheerfully, “and it also has a function.”

"What?" Zhou Yuan asked, quite intrigued.

"Do you see the long black strips on the top and bottom of the tin box? Pinch them with your fingers and peel them off."

Following Sang Bo's description, Zhou Yuan pinched the long strip, which seemed to have glue on it. When Zhou Yuan released his fingers, the strip also fell off the tin box and stuck to Zhou Yuan's thumb and forefinger respectively.

"This is..." After attaching the long strip, Zhou Yuan suddenly felt a strange connection between himself and the card.

"That's right! This is the automatic recycling device! As long as you bring the two long fingers close together, the cards on the outside of the metal box will fly towards you."

Zhou Yuan, with a serious expression, casually tossed the card in his hand more than ten meters away, then pinched his fingers together.

call out!

The card in the distance suddenly accelerated, squeezing into Zhou Yuan's fingertip at a speed far exceeding the speed at which it flew out, emitting a dinging sound.

"Awesome... awesome," Zhou Yuan exclaimed, stunned, looking at the still-vibrating card in his hand. "This is really a good thing."

"You must have something to ask me, right?" Zhou Yuan put the card back in the box and turned his gaze to Sang Bo.

Judging from the design of this card set and the way it is recycled, it is obviously based on the appearance of Zhou Yuan's light cone. Zhou Yuan does not believe that Sangbo went to great lengths to create this without any ulterior motives.

Sure enough, upon hearing Zhou Yuan speak, Sang Bo immediately said with a smile:

"My good friend is so insightful... I just wanted to ask you guys what you're doing here?"

"After all, you know that I'm worried about Ariello joining your group of geniuses..."

“It’s the star core,” Zhou Yuan thought for a moment and then explained the train crew’s plan in detail. After all, in his opinion, Sang Bo wasn’t a bad person. “Our goal is to seal the star core…”

"Is that so?" Sambo pondered for a moment, then asked with interest, "Is there anything I can help you with? I know this lower district very well."

"I need a consciousness shielder, can you get one?" Zhou Yuan asked cautiously.

“A consciousness shielder… oh, that thing, it works,” Sangbo said.

"Really? Wow, Sambo!"

"But what do you need it for?" Sambo countered.

With success within reach, Zhou Yuan no longer concealed his plan and immediately said, "I need it to help me shield myself from the Star Core's consciousness and eliminate its influence on Cocolia."

“Alright,” Sambo said with a smile, as if he had just thought of something, “I can give it to you tonight.”

"Thank you for your help." Zhou Yuan nodded in thanks.

“It’s what I should do.” With that, Sambo turned and left.

Zhou Yuan put away the card box and was about to continue pondering the extraction solution when his phone suddenly rang.

I took it out and saw that it was a call from Xing.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Zhou Yuan took the phone and asked.

He knew that Xing preferred texting to calling unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Zhou Yuan." However, Schwarz's voice came from the other end of the phone.

“Swarovski? What about Star?” Zhou Yuan asked.

"Your companions are all fine now, but I can't guarantee that in a little while." Schwarz's voice remained cold and mechanical.

"Are you planning to breach the contract, Schwarzkopf?" Zhou Yuan said calmly, his expression turning cold. "If something happens to them, there's no need for your mechanical settlement to exist."

However, Schwarzro seemed unconvinced: "I was in breach of the non-aggression pact from the very beginning, which is why I haven't pursued your repeated breaches."

"I'll be waiting for you in the Mechanical Settlement." With that, Schwarzlo hung up the phone.

"They underestimated us." Zhou Yuan didn't understand why the entire pioneering team was captured, nor did he understand why Schwarzkopf suddenly "betrayed" them.

Where does its confidence come from?

Zhou Yuan couldn't figure it out, but he didn't think about it much. Forgetting about maintaining his elegance, he pushed off the ground, leaping dozens of meters into the air and flying towards the mechanical settlement.