Starry Sky Railway: Twin Origins

Chapter 331 Returning to the Outer Heavens

When the chaos came to an end with Katniss's death.

Aglaia quickly began the cleanup work.

She first dispatched dozens of Holy City Guards to transfer the residents stranded in the Marble Palace to temporary dwellings.

Immediately afterwards, after learning that Lin Qiong and his group had successfully retrieved the Sky Fire Seed.

Aglaia immediately summoned Tinin and entrusted her to go with Wind Violet to the center of creation to perform the ceremony of delivering the fire.

After the Holy City Guards and Feng Jin and the others left one after another, the atmosphere at the scene returned to silence.

After finishing her work, Aglaia let out a soft sigh of relief, raised her hand to rub her temples, and her tense face gradually relaxed.

However, this tranquility did not last long before it was broken by a sudden alarm clock.

"jingle--!"

The sudden alarm clock sounded particularly jarring, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly shattering the surrounding silence.

The people present looked at each other, their faces filled with astonishment and confusion, and began searching around for the source of the alarm.

"Huh? Who left their alarm on their phone?" Xing looked at the others curiously.

As someone who owns a mobile phone, she was very familiar with this alarm; it was clearly the sound of a mobile phone alarm clock.

She doesn't usually set alarms on her phone, so she's pretty sure the alarm didn't come from her own phone.

The Onphalus people used stone slabs, which, although similar to mobile phones, did not have an alarm clock function.

Therefore, this abrupt alarm could only have come from his other two companions.

Thinking of this, Xing was about to ask when she caught a glimpse of Lin Qiong beside her, who was slowly taking out his ringing cell phone from his pocket.

"Okay, it's turned off."

As Lin Qiong spoke, he tapped his phone screen a few times to turn off the continuously ringing alarm.

"Uh......"

Seeing this, Xing blinked, turned to look at Lin Qiong, and asked with a hint of confusion, "Why do you set an alarm for no reason?"

"It's used to remind me how much time I have left today."

Lin Qiong held the phone screen close to Xing's face, and saw that the time displayed on it was exactly midnight.

This means that a new day has begun.

"Hmm... I still don't quite understand..." Xing scratched his head, his confusion deepening.

Lin Qiong continued to explain, "It's always daytime here in Ohm, while it's always nighttime outside, so there's no way to tell the current time."

"So, I had no choice but to set an alarm to remind myself."

At this moment, Dan Heng, who was standing to the side, suddenly interjected: "I think what Xing wants to ask is, what is the purpose of setting this alarm clock?"

“Yes, that’s what I was asking.” Xing nodded in agreement.

"Oh, that?" Lin Qiong smiled mysteriously at everyone. "You'll find out soon enough."

After speaking, he suppressed his smile, slowly raised his head, and began to scan his surroundings.

"According to the agreed time, 'that guy' should be showing up around now." Just as Lin Qiong was thinking this.

The next second, Aglaia and Kevin in the crowd suddenly tensed up and became alert.

The two spoke in unison:

"Who?"

"who?"

Aglaia, relying on the gold threads she had laid out beforehand, could clearly sense an uninvited guest approaching.

Kevin, on the other hand, relied on his extensive combat experience to detect the subtle footsteps coming from afar.

The two warnings rang out simultaneously, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

Just then, accompanied by a slow but clear round of applause, a tall, thin figure walked over from not far away.

"Congratulations to all the Golden Descendants and guests from beyond the heavens!"

"You have now collected all twelve flames. This sacred and long journey in pursuit of fire has finally come to an end!"

Upon hearing these words, which sounded like a synthesized electronic voice, everyone immediately focused their attention on the direction from which the sound came.

A machine with a circular hole in its chest and metallic limbs walked steadily to a spot not far in front of the crowd.

It stood there with its hands clasped together, maintaining the clapping motion, its posture upright.

It's Lai Gu Shi!

Upon seeing the newcomer's face, everyone except Lin Qiong showed varying degrees of shock.

"How will you be here?"

Aglaia broke the silence first, asking the other party a question with a wary expression.

The moment the words left her mouth, the ornate gold-threaded soft sword was already in Aglaia's hand, and the tailor appeared beside her.

"Wait a minute, I have no intention of offending you here, nor do I wish to have any conflict with you."

Seeing Aglaia take out her weapon, Lai Gushi quickly raised his hand to stop her.

The electronic sound it emitted remained calm and even, making it impossible to tell whether it was out of fear or arrogance.

Lai Gushi continued to explain: "I have come here for two reasons, firstly to congratulate you all on successfully collecting all the fire seeds, and secondly to send these extraterrestrial visitors back to the outside world."

"Ah, is this strange guy actually coming for us?" Xing said with a look of surprise.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you went to participate in the Titan Trials and weren't there."

Lin Qiong then suddenly remembered that Xing didn't know Lai Gushi at all, so naturally he didn't know about the request Lai Gushi had made.

So Lin Qiong briefly told Xing what had happened at the heart of the cosmic vortex.

Upon hearing this, Xing's eyes widened in disbelief as she asked, "What?"

"This guy's condition for helping us repair the carriages is that we leave Onfaros?"

Lin Qiong nodded: "That's about right."

"Then I don't want that guy's help."

Xing refused without hesitation, shaking her head vigorously: "The problems here in Onpharos haven't been resolved yet, how can we leave halfway?"

"I knew you would say that."

Lin Qiong deliberately lowered his voice, a sly smile on his face, and explained to Xing:

"So, when I agreed to come to Gushi, I only mentioned 'Danheng and me,' and I didn't include you."

“That way, you can stay here openly and legitimately. Danheng and I will go back and explain the situation here to Ji Zi and the others.”

"When the time is right, we will get off the train with Himeko and the others, return to Onfaros, and together embark on the path of pioneering!"

As he spoke, Lin Qiong glanced at Lai Gushi not far away, then continued, "Can you handle things on your own during this time?"

"Hmph, who do you think you are!"

Xing immediately raised his chin, put his hands on his hips, and his eyes gleamed with confidence: "I am the Galaxy Baseball Man, whose name resounds throughout the world!"

"Leave this to me, you can all rest assured!"