Collapse of iron, but I am the Supreme Strange

Chapter 69: An Yi is much more useful than your Iron Guards!

Let's go back a little in time to Natasha's clinic.

After An Yi and Sangbo left, Natasha was counting the boxes of medical supplies in her room.

To be honest, these bandages, surgical forceps, disinfectant and medical alcohol really solved Natasha's urgent problem. After she finished counting, she took out a large bag of new bandages and fracture plates, and prepared to remove the cloth strips on some of the wounded and replace them with clean tourniquets.

As soon as she walked out of the room, she heard a nauseating vomiting sound.

"Oh-"

She took a step back and looked at the cat left behind by An Yi - oh no, it should be the Yuan-devouring Beast, standing there twitching strangely.

“Ugh…Ugh—”

The cat stretched its neck, and then its upper and lower jaws opened wide, and then the tentacles that emerged pulled out a figure.

With a thud, a young girl was thrown to the ground and hit the leg of a table nearby, causing the reagent bottles on the table to shake a few times.

Natasha walked up slowly and looked at the girl - perhaps this was the "companion" that An Yi asked her to look after?

But... why is this girl wearing the clothes of the Silver Mane Guard? Didn't An Yi say that he and his friends are not Belobergs?

"Ah——" The girl opened her eyes and tried to stand up, but her body was covered with slippery mucus, which made her look a little disgusted.

"What is that..." She shook her hands to get the liquid out of them: "Is it cat's saliva?"

"Meow~"

"what!"

Gus walked up to her and shouted, but this small action caused so much damage that Bronya was so scared that she rolled back and bumped her head against the corner of the table.

"Well, the cat's owner said that he won't swallow you again." Natasha said with a smile behind her: "Are you a Silver Mane Guard? It's really rare. No Guard has come to the lower area for more than ten years."

The girl was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up when she found someone next to her.

"My name is Bronya. This is—"

"Natasha," she said, "I'm a doctor in the lower boroughs."

"The lower district?"

Bronya's eyes suddenly widened.

"Beloberg Lower District?"

I was actually brought here by this cat. So... An Yi and those aliens are also here?

"Doctor Natasha, who did you just mention as the owner of this cat?"

Bronya straightened her expression, then raised her arm to indicate a height of about the same height: "Is it a young man about this tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and... uh, a good-looking guy?"

"Yes." Natasha nodded: "An Yi said that you will all be vomited out soon, so he asked me to take care of you. How are you? Are you feeling unwell?"

"...No...No, I'm fine. Where is that person named An Yi?" Bronya said anxiously: "I have something important to find him for!"

Bronya's thoughts were a little confused. She just wanted to find Anyi to clarify the matter - what happened to his mother? Why did he help Beloberg before? And...what was their purpose in coming to Beloberg?

"He's been gone for a while, but Panyan Town is not big, so it's easy for you to find him." Natasha answered truthfully.

"That's great—" Bronya took a breath, then turned and walked towards the door: "Thank you, Dr. Natasha."

"Are you leaving, Miss Bronya?" Natasha asked, leaning against the wall. "You are a Silver Mane Guard. You might get into trouble if you go out wearing this."

"......Hmm?" Bronya was a little confused: "Why? Would someone cause trouble for the Silver Mane Guards?"

So Natasha frowned, then remained silent for a while before speaking:

"This is the Lower Town. Miss Bronya, the Silver Mane Guards have been away from here for more than ten years. Do you really know what the Lower Town looks like now?"

"...I don't know, but I really want to know the current situation in the lower city." Bronya frowned and took her hand off the door handle: "How is everyone in the lower district doing?"

"Honestly, it's not good." Natasha paused: "No, I should say we are having a terrible time."

Natasha slowly walked to the table and straightened out several medicine bottles that Bronya had knocked over. "This is the only hospital in the lower city. Supplies are scarce, and wounded people are constantly sent in every day. The medical facilities are so scarce that I have to tear old clothes into strips to use as bandages."

Bronya was stunned for a moment. She looked at the beds in the clinic - they were all full, and the gauze wrapped around the civilians was stained with blood. The situation was not optimistic.

"The rift erosion, mining accidents, cold wave impact, food shortage... a small clinic like mine can hardly survive." After Natasha finished speaking, she lowered her head and pressed on the table, then slowly turned back and spoke to Bronya:

"But now the situation at the clinic has been alleviated. An Yi gave me several hundred boxes of medical supplies, which is enough for me to use for a few more years. From this point of view, he alone is countless times better than you Silver Mane Iron Guards."

"Several, hundreds of boxes?!" Bronya raised her eyebrows: "Where did he get them? ... And why did he do this?"

"He said he was a magician, so these things appeared in the blink of an eye. As for the reason... I don't know, but I can't care about it. Saving patients' lives is much more important than any reason."

Natasha's words made Bronya fall into deep thought.

Is An Yi...the next person to help Beloberg?

On the one hand, he was assisting Beloberg, and on the other hand, he was in conflict with the Great Guardian. Isn't this... contradictory? Or does one of An Yi and Mother have ulterior motives?

Mother definitely wants Beloberg to survive, but Anyi saved her life and helped people in the upper and lower districts in a real way - it's too complicated, I must find An Yi and ask her everything!

Bronya stood up straight and prepared to leave the clinic again.

"Thank you, Dr. Natasha." Bronya opened the door and walked out: "Thank you for everything you have done for the people in the lower class."

Natasha looked at Bronya's back and smiled.

"Just consider this as a reminder from me - Miss Bronya, you are the only Iron Guard who has been taken to the lower level area in the past ten years. Everyone has accumulated a lot of resentment towards the Silver Mane Iron Guards over the years. You'd better be careful."

"...I will."

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Chapter 70 Isn’t a bubble gun the coolest toy?

Bubronia realized what Natasha meant.

The most eye-catching and discussed clothing is the uniform of the Silvermane Iron Guard - at least in the lower districts.

Bronya was walking on the streets of Rock Town, with everyone's eyes focused on her, as if she was running naked.

She frowned, enduring the miners' stares, and at the same time using her own eyes to observe this world that had been buried underground.

These miners were pale and thin, covered with scars, and most of them were covered with dust and dirt.

They were dressed like the upper-class tramps—even worse, because tramps didn't have so many scars and wounds.

Bronya felt very upset. Just by walking around the street, she realized how bad the current situation of the lower class area was.

As a member of the Silver Mane Iron Guard, and the daughter of the current Grand Guardian, the next Grand Guardian of Beloberg, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife, and her shoulders and brows were so heavy that she could hardly breathe.

Why did Mother set up a blockade order in the first place?

Bronya couldn't help but think so.

It's not that she didn't try to persuade her mother, but she was brushed off by her mother with the excuse that "all the Silver Mane Iron Guards need to concentrate their strength to deal with the erosion of the Rift."

At the time, she really believed what her mother said, but now that she has seen the living conditions of the lower class districts with her own eyes, she realizes how wrong her mother was.

From this perspective...An Yi and that group of aliens, do they have a better way to solve Beloberg's dilemma?

Some children ran past Bronya. Bronya was stunned for a moment and looked back -

These children were generally not as tall as those in the upper class area. They spoke rough miner slang that she could not understand and were as dusty and sallow-faced as the adults.

Bronya frowned. She decided to discuss the matter with her mother as soon as she returned to the upper area, and to convince her mother to lift the blockade order no matter what.

She didn't dare to imagine what kind of environment these children grew up in, and could only use her own actions to make up for the guilt of being the heir to the Great Guardian.

"Hey, why is there a Silver Mane Guard here?"

A wanderer spoke to his companion beside him.

"Wow! This is a rare thing. I haven't seen this kind of clothes in more than ten years."

"Are they coming here to rob?"

"It's hard to say. Is it because we haven't been supplying enough earth marrow recently that they are coming here to take it by force?"

"Tsk, the people in the upper district don't care about our lives anyway." Another miner shrugged. "Those with bare feet are not afraid of those with shoes. If anyone dares to steal our things, I won't let her go, no matter if she is a Silver Mane Iron Guard or a Gold Mane Iron Guard!"

Bronya paused. Those wanderers did not pay attention to the volume of their voices and even raised their voices deliberately, as if to warn her.

Bronya took a deep breath - as expected, everyone in the lower district had a lot of resentment towards the Silver Mane Guards, and she had to persuade her mother to make the right decision as soon as possible.

She didn't want to pay attention to these miners. She just wanted to find An Yi as soon as possible, ask him about the matter, and then return to the upper city immediately.

But at this moment, another word made her pause.

"Is this Iron Guard sent by the Great Guardian? The Great Guardian in the upper area...what's his name?"

"Cocolia! That old bastard, I will never forget her name even after I die!"

"She is such a jerk. She has been driving our lower district into a dead end. A rock lizard caught on the street is more suitable to be the Great Guardian than her!"

"That's right, we should throw her into the downtown area to let her experience what it feels like to be on the brink of famine every day!"

"Oh! It's easy to tell. That girl is spoiled. I bet she wouldn't even survive three days if thrown into the lower city! She's probably lying in Kripal Castle now, being well fed and well cared for by the Silver Mane Guards!"

So Bronya frowned, turned around, and shouted at the wanderers: "You - are not allowed to insult the Great Guardian in front of me!"

After hearing Bronya's words, the wanderers were a little surprised. It seemed that they didn't expect Bronya to pay attention to them.

But the wanderers soon smacked their lips and retorted in dissatisfaction:

"Isn't it?! How come I insulted her just because I told her about what she did? I have even more nasty things to say!"

"Heh, you Silvermane Guards and the Great Guardians are all the same! Is it nice to be Cocolia's dog? You don't have to worry about having food to eat like us miners!"

"You Silver Mane Iron Guards are probably doing the same thing as that guy Cocolia, using the minimum amount of food and resources to exchange for almost all of the earth's marrow we mined! I guess you're enjoying life in the upper area every day!"

"You—" Bronya gritted her teeth and said, "How can you humiliate the Silver Mane Guard like this! We have been fighting on the front line against the Rift! To protect Beloberg—"

"Protect Beloberg? Hahaha!" The laughter of the wanderers interrupted Bronya's words.

This made Bronya even more angry: "What's so funny about this? Do you know how much the Iron Guards sacrificed on the front lines? Life in the upper districts isn't that good!"

"Hey, let me ask you, am I a Beloberg?" the wanderer asked, "Are the miners in our lower district considered Beloberg?"

"..." Bronya frowned, then took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in her heart.

“Whether we are from the Upper Town or the Lower Town, we are all the people of Belloberg,” she said, closing her eyes.

"In that case——" the wanderer shouted at Bronya angrily:

"When our town in the lower district was occupied by the monsters from the Rift, where were you, the Silver Mane Iron Guard? When my wife was injured and died, where were you, the Iron Guard? When my child was crying with hunger and I could only feed him moldy lizard meat, where were you, the Iron Guard? The front line against the monsters from the Rift? Pah, pah, pah, do you think the people in the upper district are the real people and the cities in the upper district are the real cities?!"

"That's right! The Silver Mane Guards never cared about the lives of us in the lower city, and that old witch Cocolia is even worse! She even requires us to hand over a sufficient amount of earth marrow every month, otherwise we won't get any supplies. Are they trying to starve all of us in the lower district to death?"

The vagrants became more and more excited as they talked. Many onlookers, even some thugs who looked malicious, came over.

Bronya clenched her fists. She wanted to refute these people very much, but found that she had nothing to say - the lower area had been out of management and supplies for more than ten years. It was hard for her to imagine how these people survived day by day.

The resentment of those wanderers turned into words, but they also knew that it was useless to target a little girl from the Silver Mane Iron Guards here, and it would not change the current situation of the upper and lower districts at all.

But a group of thugs didn't think so. What they liked most was to play a game with an advantage. After looking around and confirming that there were no members of [Underground Fire] around, the man simply took out a homemade gun and pointed the black muzzle at Bronya.

"Hmph! Stop talking nonsense!" He shouted, "You, the Silvermane Iron Guard, have failed in your duty! Now that you are here today, don't even think about leaving easily! Hurry up and hand over all the valuables you have! Also, food and weapons! Consider it as compensation from the Silvermane Iron Guard to our Lower City!"

"?!"

Bronya was stunned for a moment. She knew that everyone was dissatisfied with the Silver Mane Guards, but there were people in the lower districts who took the opportunity to rob? The lower districts... didn't have an agency responsible for law and order?

So she stood up straight and looked straight into the man's eyes: "The Silver Mane Guard will make changes - but I, personally, will never give you anything!"

"Huh? You're pretty stubborn!"

the thug shouted, then put his hand on the trigger.

The wanderers around couldn't help but be shocked and took a step back at the same time.

They knew this guy. He had been punished by Dihuo several times before for petty thefts. They didn't expect that he would dare to pull out a gun and rob the Silver Mane Iron Guards this time!

Bronya frowned, showing no fear, and took a step forward.

"The Silver Mane Guards are indeed very sorry to everyone in the Lower City, and... I believe that Mother - Lady Cocolia will soon revoke the blockade order." She said slowly: "But this does not mean that I will surrender to a bad guy like you. Just shoot! Let's see if I can knock you down first!"

"you--"

The thug spoke through gritted teeth.

The two stared at each other, Bronya's eyes didn't tremble at all, which made the thug even more upset.