The Star Knight

Ugo's wife panted slowly on the curved metal chair, opened her eyes, and muttered something.Anya carefully wiped the sweat off her forehead.

"Anya." Opal whispered, "I have a plan, but it needs your cooperation."

Anya looked up at Opal.

Opal said: "The teacher said that anyone in the territory of the Republic must abide by the principles of interstellar humanitarian assistance. We do not have identity certificates, but we are human beings just like them, and B11 is also one of the jurisdictions of the Republic."

Anya listened blankly, and Opal said: "So you have to take her to the hospital later, and let the people in the hospital cure her. Although the anti-inflammatory drugs temporarily suppressed her inflammation, her condition is still very serious. On Scarlet Star, life is very important, as long as they go to the hospital, they will not ignore it, and they will call the police next time."

"What do you mean by calling the police?" Anya asked.

"Notify the police." Opal explained: "The police..."

"It's the police." Rector corrected.

Opal: "'Police' are people who keep order, like a foreman, but the order they keep, unlike ours, will take you away and ask you questions, including how you came to this planet, You just have to answer truthfully, tell them I brought you in, and everything can be resolved."

Anya said: "Is there really such a good thing? What about you?"

Opal nodded, patted her shoulder with a hand wearing a fingerless glove, and said: "I still have things to deal with, and I will come to see you as soon as it is resolved."

Rector stood in the center of the spaceship, a round box suspended and rotated in the air, which was exactly the heart of the universe that Opal saw a long time ago, which Rector used to charge.

Rector said: "This is the core operating system of Dragon Ray, and it can be responsible for all instructions most of the time."

Opal asked, "Can we pass the immigration check?"

Rake nodded, indicating that there is no need to worry.

Opal stared at Rector's star map, and Rector explained: "I used to have two star maps, and I gave them to you. They used to be one of my souvenirs."

Opal said: "I will make good use of it."

The silver dragon ray passed through thirty-five thousand astronomical units and appeared outside the atmospheric space station of Crimson Star.Its flat metal body undulates slowly, like a mysterious ancient creature in the ocean. When approaching the space station, it folds its wings and folds them, becoming an ellipsoidal space shuttle. There are countless patterns.

The crimson star is surrounded by densely packed space stations, forming a sequence between two, with a distance of thousands of kilometers.When the silver dragon ray gets close to one place, four space stations emit bright electric arcs at the same time, forming a net to prevent the space shuttle from advancing further.

The communicator on the spacecraft sounded an electronic voice: "Welcome to Crimson Star, please enter your pass number and submit the entry application."

The indicator light at the front of the space shuttle lights up with a red dot, and a beam of light shoots out from the top of the blue crystal. Amidst the messy electronic sound, the sound wave is emitted along with the electric wave, passing the identity verification.

Rector didn't speak, but his voice sounded in Opal's mind: "Every time you enter a planet, you must fill out an entry declaration form, so as not to bring some prohibited items in the universe. Usually, administrative planets manage this. Stricter."

Opal nodded slowly, thinking about the declaration form?Didn't see Rickett doing anything.

Rector seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and communicated with his consciousness: "Dragon Ray has its own intelligence, and has already transmitted the contents of the declaration form to the immigration center through radio waves, including the contents of the spaceship's carry-on, crew members, and luggage. .”

Opal thought: what about our identities?

Rector replied consciously: "The declarations of you guys have not been carried out."

Opal thought to himself: Then what should we do?

Rickett didn't answer him any more.

"Welcome, Mr. Bai, a technical advisor from the Republic's Atomic Billiards Club." This time, she changed to a gentle female voice and asked, "Please tell me the purpose of your visit to the Crimson Planet."

Rechter said: "Come to visit an old friend, ID code is RU301707."

After a moment of silence, the female voice replied: "Your friend lives in No. 17 Street, Heaven Fire Garden. She has been notified and welcomes your visit. After entering the country, please abide by the interstellar peace treaty. The weather on Crimson Star is fine today. ,I wish you happy."

Rector said: "I also wish you a happy day."

The ring arc is withdrawn, and the space shuttle enters the atmosphere and descends towards the ground.

"Advisor of the Atomic Pool Club..." Opal asked, "What is it?"

Rector said lightly: "It's just a convenient travel status, sounds funny?"

Opal smiled and said, "A little bit."

Rector smiled: "Atomic billiards is an entertainment activity, using machines to collide atoms in the microcosm to earn points."

Opal asked: "You enjoyed this activity very much? Did you have a good time?"

Rector said: "Barely passable."

Opal looked at him suspiciously, and said, "But you never taught me this."

Rector twitched his eyebrows, and said: "Indulging in entertainment can easily make people neglect what he should do, and I haven't played for a long time."

The spaceship landed slowly, the heart of the universe dinged and lit up, Rector immediately signaled him not to speak.

The electronic prompt sounded again in the communicator: "Attention, the immigration personnel report and check."

Rector announced a name and pass code, and the electronic voice said: "Now conduct a radio scan."

Rector made a movement towards the control crystal with one hand, and the shell of the silver dragon ray became transparent. Opal seemed to feel a net covering it, and then the blue crystal transformed into liquid-like ripples, forming a light shield. Caged Opal, Anya and Ugo's wife.

"It's a spoofing mechanism," Reckert said. "It will get past most radio scans."

Opal said: "Thanks for having you, teacher. If I came by myself, it might make the situation even more difficult."

Rector said: "No, I think that if you come here in a spaceship, the method may be more direct. You will be intercepted outside the defensive space station. You have no identity certificate. After filling out the entry declaration form, you will be arrested. The attention of the executive star."

Opal said: "So they will listen to my report?"

Rector nodded and said, "Usually this kind of thing will be resolved, but if it takes too long, it's not good for the situation on the B-11."

After a few words, the small flying robot outside had scanned and left, and the silver dragon ray slowly descended towards the airship landing pad and stopped in an open area.

Opal said, "Did you go down?"

Rector waved his hand and made another movement, the dragon ray shrunk again, the space inside the ship was compressed layer by layer, and then turned into a small alloy magnetic sports car, Rector sat in the driver's seat, and Opal sat in the co-pilot's seat , the shell of the long car reflected the bright sunlight, and the four people left the tarmac with them.

Even the ground vehicle was spared. Rector folded his arms and didn't need to drive. The silver dragon ray left along the dedicated ground traffic lane.Opal leaned in front of the car window, looking at this beautiful world curiously.

The sky is like washed blue, the sun is shining orange red in the afternoon, and the sides of the magnetic levitation driveway are full of gorgeous flowers, each flower is five meters high, and the calyx is huge and showing a flame-like red.

"This kind of flower is called the Scarlet Maiden." Rector said, "Only planets in the Chiyan galaxy have an environment suitable for seeding."

Opal said: "It's so beautiful. I remember reading that its nectar can be used to make wine."

Rector nodded happily and said, "The Crimson Maiden Wine is also a famous wine in the Milky Way."

The Dragon Ray sports car slowed down before the third checkpoint. A human in uniform came over, holding a pen-shaped pocket projector, and waited politely by the side of the road.

Opal said, "Still checking?"

Rector said: "Maybe."

Opal said: "Your car is so perfect and so conspicuous."

Rector said: "It could have been disguised a bit tattered, but this was done just to make people less confident in interrogation. I didn't expect people in this galaxy... It seems that they don't like this."

Opal said, "Should I hide?"

Rector said: "No need." After finishing speaking, he took off a pair of sunglasses from the front of the sports car and put them on.

The sports car stopped slowly, and the side windows were lowered. Opal looked outside and then at Recter. Recter was still wearing the black sandbat skin cape. Originally, their simple clothes would only fit in such a luxurious car. It looks very rustic, but when Rector puts on sunglasses, he has a different kind of masculine beauty.

"Mr. Bai from the Perseus Galaxy of the Interstellar Republic?" The man said, "I need to check your means of transportation."

Rector looked at him and said casually: "This is a retro silver sports car, and the license plate number has already been filled in the declaration form."

The inspector said: "Yes, but this is a routine inspection. It is not because of your car... Please adjust the transparency of the window, let me see..."

Before he had time to check the back seat, he met Opal's eyes.

He turned on the pocket projector and projected a three-dimensional light screen, saying: "According to your entry declaration form, you are only one person, but..."

Opal knew that Rector must have a solution, so he smiled at the inspector and said, "Hello."

The inspector frowned and said, "Who is he?"

Rector took off his sunglasses, looked into the inspector's eyes, and said, "He is my student."

Opal: "..."

The inspector's eyes were only distracted for a moment, and then he regained his focus, fell on Opal's face, and murmured: "He is your student."

Rake nodded, and the inspector said to himself, "Yes, he is your student."

Rector said: "Can I pass?"

The inspector said: "I wish you a pleasant journey on the crimson planet."

The windows were raised, the sports car hit the road, and sped away.

Opal said: "What did you do to him just now, teacher?!"

A narrow smile appeared on the corner of Rector's handsome mouth, and he said, "Look, there are many layers of roads here, hey, don't make trouble!"

Opal came to grab Rector's hand in disbelief, Rector raised his arm to move away, and said casually: "This is not what you should know."

Opal said: "Can you control other people's thoughts?"

Rector nodded, and Opal said, "Is it the effect of the power of faith?"

Rector shook his head, looking out the car window thoughtfully.

Leaving the tarmac, all the roads criss-crossed, and there was a lot of traffic. The roads of Scarlet Star's vehicles started from the ground, intertwined with each other, one on top of the other, and all the roads together were hundreds of meters high.All the roads float in the air in the form of light tracks. The maglev sports car only needs to adjust the height to drive on different roads with different classifications and different destinations.

The ground is the passage for transport vehicles and trains, and the upper part is public transportation, large suspension vehicles, and small private vehicles, which are categorized and organized in an orderly manner.

Opal saw the giant electronic signboard, the silver dragon ray was driving in the torrent of vehicles, and a small rotating box was suspended in front of the driver's seat, and the whole picture of the crimson galaxy was projected on the round box.

Rector pointed one of them with his finger, and the map zoomed in on that place, and another area was selected—zooming in again until they were in their position.

Opal said: "You have to go to the hospital first."

Rector nodded slowly and said, "What are you going to do?"

Opal said: "Anya, I'm going to put you at the gate of the hospital, and then it's up to you."

Anya nodded nervously in the back seat.

Opal said: "Come on, Anya."

The silver dragon ray stopped at the entrance of the hospital passageway. Opal hugged the dying wife of Ugo, put her on the metal platform outside the hospital, and motioned for Anya to stand beside her. Leaning the car on one side, floating up the driveway, galloping in the other direction, making a circle, and coming back from the other side.

Recter and Opal both stared at Anya on the metal platform.

Anya grabbed the corner of her clothes nervously, with a cloth turban wrapped around her head, she looked very awkward standing on the platform.

"Is anyone there?" she cried uneasily. "Help! Help her!"

A robot galloped out of the passage, beeping to detect Anya and Ugo's wife who was lying panting.

More medical robots galloped out, Anya took a step back in fear, the lights of all the robots turned on, a woman ran out of the passageway, motioned Anya not to move, knelt on the ground, took out the testing equipment from the utensil box on the robot's chest, and began to test Ugo's wife checks.

Opal said, "Is that human a doctor?"

"Yeah, your plan wasn't perfect, but it worked out well," Rechter said.

It wasn't until the two medical robots stretched out the iron pipes to form a stretcher and sent Ugo's wife to the hospital, followed by Anya, that Opal really felt a big stone in his heart.

Opal said: "Everything will be fine, right, teacher."

Rector said approvingly: "The society of the Republic also has a dark side. Although there are many ugly things lurking in it, at least on the surface, many things still have a positive side. What's next? Continue with your plan? "

Opal took a deep breath, looked out of the car window, and looked at the flashing projected billboards on both sides of the road.

[Fulfill your dream of traveling around the universe in 70 years, a new generation of spaceships with jump function. 】【Cultivate your next generation genetically, perfect the latest technology of gene chain.Life medical company, to create the best life for newborns. 】【The new model of environmentally friendly smart home robot will make your home no longer cold and give you an emotional home. 】Gorgeous world, bizarre, this planet is full of countless unknowns and novelties, Opal wants to see it for a while.But he was pressed for time, and every minute and every second seemed precious.

"My original idea." Opal said, "I wanted to bring the chip and evidence with Anya to come here for help."

Rector responded casually, parked the car in front of an entertainment building with flashing neon lights, took out a card from the drawer in front of the car, and swiped the card on the robot outside.

"Continue." Rector opened a small cover in front of the console of the sports car, and a progress bar was displayed on it.

Opal continued: "But Ugo entrusted his wife to me, and I changed my plan again. Instead of going to contact him myself, it is better to let the police find Anya, and I will hand over the evidence... This robot is really interesting. The E7 I made is much better." Opal noticed that the robot came again with a box wrapped in tin foil, and asked, "Teacher, what are you doing?"

Rector said casually: "When buying newspapers and dinner, plans are not as good as changes. This is a normal thing. You need to be flexible, and you have done a good job."

The car window was closed, and Rector handed Opal a tinfoil packet. After Opal opened it, he found a piece of soft bread with a meat sausage sandwiched inside. Rector said, "How about some virgin jam?"

Opal took a small bottle and imitated Rector to squeeze it. This thing is called a hot dog, he had seen it on a hologram.

Rector ate a hot dog, turned on the projector in the car, and the light screen unfolded, filled with real-time information, and said, "Stop working during meal time, think about something else."

Opal's thoughts had strayed tens of thousands of light-years away, and he said with a smile, "It tastes really good."

Opal devoured the hot dog, it was really delicious, better than all the food he had eaten on B11, it was almost indescribably delicious.

"Teacher." Opal suddenly thought of another question, and asked while chewing: "Since the technology is so advanced, why are there still people in the hospital? Are the police also robots?"

"No." Rector said: "Since the revolution of humanoid life 8000 years ago, the Republic and the Empire have concluded an intelligent life agreement. No matter in any corner of society, the use of robots must be strictly controlled. After all Human beings cannot completely give up work, besides earning a living, work itself has more important sustenance.”

Opal remembered that this was the history of the universe mentioned on the chip, but he read it all by himself, and had almost forgotten it. 8000 years ago, the Empire and the Republic produced a large number of robots and put them into use.

However, no matter how high the processing power of the optical brain is, intelligent robots are still unable to have emotions and think spontaneously.This rule was predicted by a great scientist 2 years ago—a computer with a speed of [-] times is even worse than an earthworm in its ability to think independently.

Robots cannot have themselves, and scientists have proposed a very bold method: imitating human biological cells to synthesize and produce a new type of human-shaped computer with robot strength.

After hundreds of years of research and evolution, this kind of "humanoid life" has gradually taken shape. They have the physical strength of a robot, and have a biological brain that is almost exactly the same as a human being. To gain consciousness, and be controlled by the central chip to control the behavior pattern.

These humanoid robots set off an intelligent revolution, and were finally destroyed in batches.

Opal said, "They have no soul."

Rector hummed, and after eating the hot dog, he threw the tin foil into the trash can for destruction. The trash can is connected to an atomic decomposition furnace, which can convert it into environmentally friendly energy.

Rector said: "Emperor Philoin Cartes has always opposed the large-scale application of humanoid intelligence, but he has nothing to do with his nobles."

Opal nodded and said, "They were all destroyed in the end?"

Rector replied: "A new weapon was developed in the ivory tower, using nuclear magnetic resonance, to restart the central chips of all biological robots, making them kill each other."

Opal had never read this paragraph before. He asked curiously, "What? Ivory tower?"

"The ivory tower, it is at the junction of the six black holes' centers, beyond the horizon of the future, where light can never reach, and can only be reached through the starry sky gate of a higher dimension. There are a group of mad scientists living in it. Thinking about how to destroy the universe." With his legs crossed, Recter flipped through the newspapers on the screen absently with a pocket cursor projector, and the holographic projection also made beeping sounds.

Opal frowned and asked, "How do you know this?"

Rechter said: "Because I participated in the war of the intelligent revolution, of course, I am on the side of the Republic."

Opal said in disbelief: "You defeated them by yourself?!"

Rector said: "It's two."

Opal asked: "Who is the other one? Is it your friend? I remember you said that there are three Star Knights..."

Rector didn't answer any more, motioned Opal to read the newspaper, and said, "Today's information has been updated synchronously, Opal, take a look."

Turn over a page of the holographic newspaper, and the entire planet on the crimson star is covered with an extremely developed information network. You only need to buy a newspaper once, and you can see all the news that is happening or has happened is constantly updated, every minute, every second , The news of thousands of magazines is constantly scrolling, and now almost all news pages have the same headlines.

[B-11 star, a dark place where the glory of the Republic cannot shine. 】

The accompanying picture is a color photo of Anya. Her face is haggard and pale, and her eyes are full of tears, which seems to be a silent accusation.

The news content tells how a young girl escaped from the B-11 planet and brought her seriously ill friend to seek medical treatment on the Scarlet Star.Rechter said: "The most direct way to understand the political atmosphere and conditions of a planet is to read their newspapers."

Opal said: "What happened to Anya has alarmed many people, and action must be taken immediately."

Rector said: "Take you to the police station? The planetary police station is only responsible for local affairs, you have to go to the interstellar police station headquarters. Longyu, look at the coordinates."

The silver dragon ray started and walked along the road to the equator of the crimson star.

Opal hummed, and began to think about how to deal with it. Rector scrolled down the newspaper screen, and Opal saw another piece of news.

[The annual auction of Mineral Planet will start in three days, the business war between Black Rock Mining and Hollens Mining Company. 】"Wait." Opal said: "Teacher, I have changed my mind."

Rector stopped the car, and in front of him was a huge building. In front of the office building was the Galaxy Police Station. Many cars surrounded the police station. Opal asked, "Who are those people?"

Rechter said: "Journalism is a difficult profession to deal with."

Opal had a bold idea and said, "Hollens Mining Company, is Black Rock Mining's competitor?"

With appreciative eyes in Rector's eyes, he asked, "Do you want to revise your plan again?"

Opal nodded and said, "I want to go to the Hollens Mining Company with the chip, or they are willing to pay a sum of money to buy these evidences."

Rector asked, "What do you want money for?"

Opal said: "Give it to Aman, let him arrange everyone. If it doesn't work, I have prepared another copy. Teacher, look, here are two copies."

The silver dragon ray turned around and ran towards the business district. Many mining and commercial companies have their headquarters on Crimson Star, and Black Rock Wilderness and Hollens Company are no exception.When the night came, the dragon ray flew over the beacon track at a very high speed, like a red cloud chasing the setting sun, and gradually, it galloped into the time and space of the evening again.

Rector stopped the car in the parking lot and said, "Then, you first have to think about how to use the resources in your hands."

Opal said: "Teacher, how did you do it?" He imitated Rector, looked into his eyes, and waved his palms in front of him.

"You can't do it." Rector snorted.

"I can do it," Opal insisted.

"No." Rector said seriously: "Now I tell you very seriously, Opal, the power of faith is definitely not for you to steal people's thoughts and hypnotize people who disagree with you. So Doing so violates the Star Knight's creed."

Opal said, "But you just did the same."

Rector said: "I did it as a last resort. I don't want you to do this. If you rely too much on the power of belief, sooner or later you will destroy yourself."

"Just think about it." Rector's voice was heavy and serious, with a threatening meaning: "Once, twice, the enemy was hypnotized by the power of faith and surrendered in front of you. If this continues for a long time, you will lose the courage to fight , once you meet a strong-willed opponent, or even a special life form that is not affected by the power of faith, you will die in humiliation at their hands."

"The reason why I don't teach you forced hypnosis and mind reading." Rector said seriously: "It's because I don't want to see you become a waste without any will to fight. You must control your spiritual world and cannot rely on it To get what you don't deserve. The result of misusing your beliefs is that your beliefs gradually become worthless, and you end up in a world of permanent darkness."

Opal vaguely understood something, but he was very at a loss, but for him, every word of Rector was already a dogma that no one could change, and it was firmly engraved on his heart. He replied: "I will Do as you say, sir."

Rector's face was still very serious, and he nodded slowly.

Opal took a deep breath, took out the chip, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll try it first."

Rector said: "Go." He raised his hand and touched Opal's head, saying, "I will give you courage."

The car door opened, and Opal ran out of the parking lot, walked up the overpass in the fiery red dusk, and walked towards the headquarters of Horrance Corporation.