The Star Knight

"Let's make a deal—!" the silver giant roared.

In the deep space, a circular shock wave swept out.The spherical nebula disintegrated before the huge force of the collapse, and the atomic wind was blown far away with drifting ice crystals and iron filings.

"Teacher, I don't want to kill you."

The voice of an indifferent man in the cab of the black iron mech came from the communication channel.

The black iron mech pulled out a huge long cannon from behind with a backhand, and the muzzle sucked all the dark energy in the vast universe.

Two flames criss-crossed the nebula, the silver giant struck with a shield, the power of light and magnetism caused the space to collapse, and the transparent scene produced a strange characteristic like water waves, and the meteorite between the nebulas exploded and flew instantly under that push. shoot!

There is no sound in this secluded place, only the powerful vibration and light, all resistance disappears under the effect of the energy field, in the cold vacuum, the speed of the two ancient mechs is getting faster and faster, the gun muzzle of the black iron giant Gather energy to compress hundreds of millions of meteorites and space impurities.

It dragged an arc-shaped trajectory between the dark red nebulae. Wherever it passed, the point-shaped galaxy was pulled by a huge force, like a hurricane across the universe. The stars and cosmic dust that existed for hundreds of millions of years Destroyed under the power, aggregated, and then turned into the energy that created the world, and went straight to destruction!

A black hole appeared, and more and more matter gathered toward the muzzle.

The silver giant's long sword shone, stretched its metal limbs, and the shield spun rapidly, turning into an energy shield. The torrent of photons criss-crossed and spun towards the tsunami-like stardust hurricane.

The moment the energy collided, it caused a shock that destroyed the entire nebula, and high-intensity light burst out all around. The stars hit by the torrent of photons burned their cores, tens of millions of supernovae erupted, and the chaotic space order was full of ups and downs. of intense light and heat.

"Teacher, you lost."

The man's voice sounded from the communicator, and he appeared without warning in front of a huge star, bypassing the distorted space in the gravitational field, and four black swirling material energies enveloped the silver giant.

A sharp blade appeared from the Wujin long cannon, piercing the silver giant's body from behind.Blood burst out in the cabin, and the shot directly pierced his body.

"The self-destruct mode is triggered, the molecular memory is preserved, and the escape mechanism, the sea of ​​time, is activated."

Blood gushed out of Rector's mouth, his fingers convulsed and bent into fists, and immediately after a buzzing sound, the black iron giant blasted it into flying powder.At that instant, a speck of shimmering dust appeared in the dark universe, only to disappear in a flash.

The next moment, the dark red powder nebula collapsed towards the center of their battlefield. Under this chain reaction, the nebula with a diameter of 10 light years would coalesce into a high-density black hole, but it would take [-] years.

After 10 years, it will be a cold darkness, and who cares?

The ancient astrolabe rotates slowly in the vast universe, hundreds of billions of new stars are born and grow old, tens of thousands of galaxies only occupy a corner of the long river of time from birth to death for tens or even tens of billions of years.

There was a wave of cosmic space, and the small silver escape capsule flew out with the aftermath of the star explosion, and threw it towards the Chiyan galaxy.

It passed through the atmosphere of a rust-colored planet, dragged its flames that rubbed against the air, and fell towards the vast desert.

This is a mineral star named B-11. The planet is very barren, and the only product is a few energy minerals, rhododendron. As a pollution-free energy, it was once favored by the Milky Way Republic. B11 is under the jurisdiction of Chiyan galaxy, but its location is too remote, it takes three cosmic years to come here from the central administrative star.

Almost no one has been here since a mining company contracted it 170 years ago.

The water resources on planet B11 are very precious. Most of the area is composed of endless deserts and Gobi, scattered dry plants, and the ecosystem formed around these plants. Of course, there are also miners on the planet.They were the first immigrants, the first workers sent to the planet to mine the rhododendron mines.

The miners worked in the desert and rocky mountains against the dust and cyclone, mined the raw spar and a small amount of associated ore, and sold them at a low price to commercial spaceships who came to buy the raw ore from the commercial star.

"The dust storm is coming—!" The miners rang the bell vigorously and shouted: "Opal! Come back!"

The miners hid in the stone house one after another. Opal gritted his teeth and dragged the cart out of the sand, running towards the building where he was hiding.

In the morning, the blue sky was still covered by sand, surrounded by endless grayness, and the railroad track was covered by wind and sand. He staggered to the door of his house with sand in his nose.Opal turned the winch in front of the door hard, and the stone door slowly retreated in the sand gap. He pulled the trailer into the room, and then pushed hard on the stone door. There was a bang, and there was darkness.

When the light came on, Opal took off his coarse work gloves, sat on the edge of the bed, took off his boots and shook out the sand.

He has been a miner since he was 12 years old. He is 16 years old this year. Four years of sun exposure has given his long-term naked upper body a healthy tan, and high-intensity physical activities have exercised his body well.

The muscles in his arms and shoulders are as hard as iron, but they are not knotted. His body is slender and lean, his strength is greater than that of his peers, and his workload is also stronger.

Opal is not a resident of this planet. His mother drove a small spaceship to make an emergency landing here 16 years ago. Maybe she fell in love with a handsome miner and became pregnant with him after arriving here, or she was pregnant before landing. With him—he didn't know anything about it.I just remember that when I was a child, there was a tall miner who was very kind to himself and his mother, but he didn't live with them.

At that time, his mother, like the miners on this planet, wore hard hats and gloves to mine every day to earn money to support the family, and sometimes held him and looked up at the bright stars on summer nights, telling him "Opal, our My home is far away, and when the spaceship is repaired, I can always go back.”

However, before her wish was fulfilled, she died in a mining disaster with her miner boyfriend, and she didn't even leave a last word, whether it was about her spaceship or the hometown of her and Opal.Opal, who was only 12 years old, lost his mother and began to follow the example of his peers to go to the mines to support himself.

Occasionally he would walk out into the open space of the crimson rock bed and look up at the stars in the clear night sky.His mother had already been buried in the mine, and he didn't even know which planet she came from. The only thing left was his longing for a certain planet that might be his hometown from her few words.

Opal sorts the ores into categories and puts them on the shelf. A small part of the pure ore can be exchanged for a lot of money, and the defective ore is kept as a spare for tinkering with some mechanical gadgets.

The wind and sand outside the door became more and more intense, as if thousands of huge boulders roared and rolled across the zenith, Opal sorted out the ore, sat down at the table, flicked the switch with his fingers, and turned on a small robot on the table.

"E7, screen the ore." Opal turned on the robot switch, which was designed by his mother.

The electric current in the little robot sounds, the radar screen on the chest emits green light, and a ray rotates in a circular trajectory, and begins to screen the rhododendron brought back by Opal.

The radar screen displayed a light cluster that almost occupied the entire screen.

Opal: "?"

broken?Opal thought to himself, and patted the little robot.

Beep beep—a huge red light was on above E7's head. Opal was inexplicable, and suddenly heard a rumbling sound passing by on the roof. The sound was accompanied by a sharp sonic explosion. Shaking up and down.

A silver-white spot of light dragged billowing black smoke across the sky above the mining area and flew towards the desert.The next moment, there was an earth-shattering explosion in the distance.

what happened!earthquake?Opal got up and didn't dare to move. He pressed the E7 that was almost knocked over, and stopped for a few seconds. The world was silent, and the whining wind sounded as usual.

What's going on outside?Opal went out with E7 in his arms. The sandstorm became smaller and he could vaguely see the scene 50 meters away. He put the E7 on the ground, and the pocket robot made a beep, turned backwards, hit the wall, and fell down.

"E7!" Opal said loudly against the wind and sand: "Energy detection! Go to the place with energy!"

He jumped on a mine truck, put the E7 on the front of the car, and followed its radar instructions, driving deep into the desert in a sandstorm.

E7 didn't seem to want to work in the storm circle. Opal kicked it lightly. The little robot turned somersaults on the sand. go.

Beep beep—E7 rotates the camera around, and the small green screen radar detection on the chest is turned on.

"It's there, I saw it!" Opal said, "Don't go back! Stay here!"

The sky is full of red sand, and a silver space escape capsule lies quietly in the desert. The parachute is blown off by the wind and flies into the distance.The site of the explosion is still there, and the gravel has been burned into pitch-black crystals, showing radioactive tracks.

Opal approached the cabin door in surprise, and found that it was a very small emergency cabin, and a man was lying in the cabin, no, half a man.

The man was half naked, the body below the abdomen was completely destroyed, the rescue cabin was filled with light blue liquid, his mouth and nose were covered with a life support mask, and the blood was mixed with the nutrient solution and dispersed.The energy light next to the rescue cabin flickered to give an alarm, and Opal saw the man's situation through the transparent cabin window.

He closed his eyes and remained motionless. The flesh and tissue in his lungs were floating in the nutrient solution like tattered cotton wool. There was more and more blood, filling the escape cabin with the liquid, dyeing it purple.

The life reaction was very weak, Opal noticed that the energy lamp stopped at 3%, his only thought was: this person is dying!

Opal took a few steps back, stared blankly at the man in the emergency cabin, then turned around and ran, got into the car and drove away.

A full hour later, Opal came back with a few accumulator batteries, and his heart was beating loudly. He connected the universal interface and bent down to find the connector under the rescue capsule. The waist fumbled around on the shell, but couldn't find any place to charge it.

With a "snap", a small box popped open outside the bulkhead.

found it!Opal breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly realized that this thing opened automatically?Fitting model right?

He straightened up and took a look inside the rescue cabin. The man still had his eyes closed, with 5% of his life left, so it was impossible for him to be manipulating it.what happened?

Forget it, Opal plugged in the connector and recharged the rescue capsule. The energy recovered to 27%, and the color of the purple nutrient solution became much lighter.The blood seemed to be flowing back into the man's body, and the life response gradually increased.

Opal looked at it for a while, guessing where this person came from, maybe it was a war that forced him to land on this planet?Or maybe it's a wanted criminal... Opal felt a sense of anxiety in his heart, what if he was a bad guy?However, things have been done, he does not know his decision is right or wrong.

Hope he gets better.

Opal took a few steps backwards and returned home with E7.

The sandstorm lasted for three full days, and the weather was good and bad. Opal would take a short time every day to go deep into the desert to see the spaceship.

The man's condition gradually improved. When I visited him every day, the wound showed signs of healing, and the destroyed limbs were gradually regenerating.It is incredible that such a serious injury can be cured.Opal thought that this nutrient solution should be a very special life-support device.It keeps the blood alive and, when enough energy is available, will send it back to the injured person.

During the period, Opal was recharged twice. When the last day came, I found that the man's life response had recovered to 55%, and the energy grid lamp remained at 10%.

What's the meaning?Opal was puzzled, turned and left.The weather turned fine, and this was the last day of the sandstorm. When he was getting on the mine cart, the sound of metal disintegrating suddenly came from behind him.

Opal turned his head in a daze, only to find that the rescue capsule had disappeared!The man lay wet on the ground.

"Hello!" Opal turned and ran over, asking, "Are you okay?"

That adult man has fair skin, a well-proportioned and strong figure, and is more handsome than any miner Opal has ever seen. His hands and feet are slender and muscular. Opal can't help but marvel at his toned body. This is really a perfect man people.

However, his eyes were closed tightly and he was still in a coma. Oper got into the car and took a coarse cloth to wrap him up, carried him into the car, and put him in the back seat.He was half a head taller than Opal, and his body was heavy.Opal tried his nose - and breathed.

His chest was heaving slightly, the wound healed.

Three days later.

The dim light shone into the house, and the man who was brought home by Opal a few days ago opened his eyes, moved uncomfortably, touched the iron box above his head, and there was a bang, and the desert thorn flowers and soil poured down, making him completely woke up.

He stood up abruptly, this action irritated him, and after a hysterical cough, he narrowed his eyes and began to recall what happened before he fell on this planet.

He remembered, and began to look at the hut in the light of dusk.The overturned iron box flower pot fell to the ground, he carefully picked it up, put it back on the crooked bedside table, sat down on a wooden chair, looked at the three-legged table, and the On the other side, large rocks that have been built and glued together.

There are many crystals on the shelf. This is an ore planet. The man squinted his eyes and examined the photos on the wall.

A muscular woman wearing a hard hat, hugging a child under ten years old, smiling at him in old yellowed photos.

The man got out of bed and noticed his silver bracelet on the head of the bed. He put on the bracelet, took out a linen cloth, wrapped it around his waist as a long skirt, got up and walked around the small room.

The entire hut is less than ten square meters, except for the bed, table, bedside cabinets and storage racks, there are no more belongings.

The door opened with a bang, Opal came in carrying a large jar of water, and said happily, "Are you awake?"

The man looked up and said, "Hello, friend."

Opal put the water beside the bed: "I saw your spaceship fell in the desert."

Opal recounted the process of discovering the spaceship, and asked casually, "Are you feeling better? What's your name? How did you come here? You seem to have suffered a serious injury a few days ago, please rest for a while."

The man was silent for a moment, then he said, "Why did you save me?"

Opal couldn't tell why he saved him, he looked at the man with a strange feeling.

An adult man was sitting by the bed, his bare chest muscles, shoulders and back had masculine strength and beauty, his light gray hair was not long enough to cover his ears, his neck was clean and fair, his nose bridge was straight, and his eyes were clear.

His lips were very moist, six days of deep sleep and serious injuries caused him to lose a little blood.

Opal said: "No reason, I don't want... to watch you die. It's very dangerous, I saved it subconsciously."

The adult man said, "Did you know that the escape pod needs energy?"

Opal said: "I guess, what will happen if you don't care? Will you die?"

The adult man was silent for a while, Opal sat down, and sat beside him on the edge of the bed, thought for a while, and then said: "I guess... er, probably not. Maybe it will make you fall asleep, how do you say that word Coming? Yes, sleep."

The adult man said: "I will die, the blood cells in the life-saving solution can only survive for 72 hours."

Opal was terrified, the man almost died.

The adult man turned his head and said to him: "My name is Rector, please keep it secret for me."

Opal couldn't think of anything at all, nodded perfunctorily, and said, "Okay."

Rector said: "Promise me, definitely."

Opal felt that this man was really ungrateful, and he didn't even say a word of thanks, but he wanted to save himself, so he couldn't say anything. Instead, he had a little feeling in his heart that he had to save people to the end. After all, he had already survived. You can't drive him out.

"Sure!" Opal replied, "Would you like some water?"

Rector was also very thirsty, took the pitcher from Opal, and poured down half of the bottle of water. Opal felt distressed when he saw it, and hurriedly said: "Drink less, there is only so much water in three days."

Rector wiped the corner of his mouth with his wrist, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Why do you save so many rhododendrons?"

Opal said: "Sell for money, hold for fun."

Rector asked: "Are there spaceships near here? Ordinary small near-earth ships are fine, Phoenix A-type or A12..."

Opal said blankly: "No, what is it? Is it the latest model?"

Rector: "Small airship, Adventurer III, is there any?"

Opal shook his head.

Rector: "Aquamarine's shuttle?"

Opal finally heard the term he knew, and said with a smile, "Is it this?"

He turned on the projector above the head of the little robot E7, and a light screen was opened inside, and on it was an advertisement - the new era navigation shuttle of the water blue planet, which can be used for water, land and air.

A ten-year-old ad for a beautiful little tandem spaceship against an endless indigo sea in the background.

Rector happily said: "Yes, this is it, where is it? Take me there."

Opal: "No."

Rector: "..."

Opal said: "I only saw it once."

Rector: "Where is it?"

Opal: "It's in the electronic holographic magazine, here. A businessman who came to the planet gave it to me."

Rector was completely convinced.

Opal took out a long stick of black bread, broke it in half, and handed half to Rector. Rector was not polite, and took it and ate it. The bread was dry and rough, like swallowing sand. Rector ate some bread, I can't help but drink water to swallow, but I chew the opal in small sips, and it takes a long time to take a sip of water.

"Water resources are very precious." Rector said, "Why don't you live on another planet? You seem to be in good shape, so you can find another place to live."

Opal said: "Where are you going? I haven't left my home planet yet."

When he was talking, he looked at the delicate silver bracelet on Rector's thick wrist. Rector took off the bracelet and asked, "This is your home planet? Do you like this?"

Opal said: "I don't want it, I'm curious to see it." He took it and looked at it for a while, the bracelet seemed to be made of a special material, it should be memory alloy, and returned it to Rector.

Rector asked: "How does this connect with the central region of the Chiyan galaxy?"

Opal: "Every orbital year, there will be a spaceship to transport the ore and sell it to the miners with the necessities of life."

Rector: "How many rotation days is the revolution period?"

Opal said: "More than 1000, more than 1000 points."

Rector glanced out the window and said, "A day is about 25 cosmic hours. From just now to now, the angle of the shadow has passed by two centimeters."

Opal nodded slowly and said, "You are very good at observing."

Rector couldn't eat anymore, so he soaked the remaining bread into a small glass of water, and said: "Some planets have two suns, and some planets have six moons, which rise in the west and set in the east. Think about it?" Get out of here and go to the vast universe to see."

Opal said: "I... don't know where to go. People here can't leave at will, and the ticket is also very expensive, very expensive."

Rector frowned suspiciously.

Opal shrugged and said, "A boat ticket costs [-] energy units of spar."

Rector said: "What age is it, why are energy units still used as currency conversion standards?"

Opal was a little confused and asked, "Otherwise, what are you using?"

Rector suddenly realized something, and asked vigilantly, "This is a disguised slave planet, am I right?"

Opal said: "No." He remembered that a long time ago, a scholar who got on and off an interstellar spaceship for an assessment vaguely said this word, and asked, "What is a slave planet?"

Rector said in a deep voice, "I understand."

Opal looked at him inexplicably, and Rector said: "The interstellar slaves have been abolished, and the owner of this planet will be brought to the cosmic court."

Opal heard too many unfamiliar terms, and didn't know how to answer for a while. He asked, "Slaves mean miners like us?"

Rector was silent for a long time, did not answer his question, and finally said: "I have to get out of here."

Opal asked, "Where are you going? Do you have a spaceship?"

Rector said: "No, but I have to change my place to live tomorrow, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to you. My opponent is very dangerous and may come to this planet."

Opal's heart skipped a beat, remembering the injuries on his body the first time he saw Recter, Recter seemed to know what he was thinking, and said casually: "But at least it's safe now, you go to sleep, sorry, took your bed."

Opal hurriedly said: "No no, you sleep, your injury is not healed yet."

Opal packed his things, spread a cloth on the ground, lay down and closed his eyes, Rector asked in the dark, "Is your mother in the photo?"

Opal hummed, and Rector asked again: "Where is she? Can I talk to her?"

Opal said, "He died in the mine disaster."

Rector: "Where's your father?"

Opal said, "I don't know who it is."

In the quiet night, the carefree Opal gradually fell asleep.