The Star Knight

The Falcon Star is like a grand playground, and the celebrations and the Rotman family's arrangements in any place I have seen before are simply insignificant.The river of gold flows outside Yingjie City, and tourists from all over the empire almost fill the entire planet. This celebration is like a carnival. Never ending fireworks.

Searchlights swirled between the cities, bagpipes and falcon pipes sounded everywhere, and the flowers of the tribute sang in unison, converging into a female voice that echoed throughout the stars.Sixteen large space stations release fireworks for the daytime celebration every 5 minutes. They bloom colorfully high in the sky, dragging trails of colored smoke to swirl in the sky.

On one side of the night, there are waves of meteor showers. Every 5 minutes, there will be shining meteors all over the sky, turning into hundreds of billions of bright silver lines and flying towards the earth.

Opal just felt very chaotic, extremely chaotic.

Especially when he came down in a daze before he woke up, the sea of ​​music and flowers instantly overwhelmed him. The welcoming girls and handsome men on the tarmac sent flowers and put the special local white falcon feather hat Putting it on their heads, came up to kiss more passionately—kissed his and Raymond's lips.

Opal felt the wet lips kissing him, and his hair exploded in a flash.

"Don't do this—!" Opal said angrily, "You are bullying minors!"

Lei Meng also couldn't resist this kind of enthusiasm, and kept evading: "Okay, okay! We have business matters..."

Opal said: "Don't even kiss him!"

Lei Meng hugged Opal, and the two fled like flying.

After leaving the tarmac, there was music, dancing, and colorful confetti flying everywhere, Opal was tossed until his head hurt a little, and the music of the celebration rang in his head.The two entered the city of Bai Falcon, where drunk tourists are everywhere, and there are colorful makeup parades all over the street.

Raymond went to the celebration office to report, and Opal looked at a cart stall with a blank expression.

"Would you like some?" The boss said with a smile: "Delicious hand-baked egg pancakes, condensed milk, honey and monk soldier's butter, let you taste soft and sunny!"

Opal asked, "How much?"

The boss said: "There are three flavors, 55 credits for chocolate, [-] credits for lemon, [-] credits for vanilla..."

Opal: "I only have 37 credits, can I buy half a lemon quiche?"

The boss's enthusiasm immediately turned cold, and he said, "No."

Although Opal still wanted to eat it very much, after watching him for a while, he decided not to hypnotize him.

Bored, he walked to the corner of the street and squatted down, noticing that the Atom Pool Club was across the street, with beautiful lights flashing on the signboard, excited shouts and the electronic sound of scoring machines coming from inside.

Opal seemed to feel that someone was watching him, it was an intuition purely from belief, he hadn't encountered this feeling for a long time, he turned his head to look around, but only saw the carnival crowd passing by, and that feeling was very Brief, and gone in an instant.

After the third wave of carnival crowd passed, Lei Meng finally squeezed out from the celebration office and let out a sigh of relief.

"Okay?" Opal said.

Raymond sniffled and smelled the aroma from the omelette car, and said, "It's delicious, do you want to eat it?"

Opal said: "The money is not enough."

Raymond took another look and said, "I'll think of a way..."

His eyes were full of apology, but Opal didn't care. He asked, "If you have no money, you have no money. What can you do? Do you want to grab it? Where are you going now?"

Raymond said: "They arranged an Oak Hotel for us. We have to wait for the notice this afternoon. At that time, we will go to the White Flower Manor to attend the reception and chat with the guests in the lounge."

Opal said: "Can't you withdraw the reward in advance?"

Raymond didn't answer, Opal could only say: "Let's go."

Raymond draped Opal's shoulders, and the two were planning to use the last 37 yuan to buy something to play with. However, the price of the Falcon Star was too high, and it was comparable to the Republic. A top hat was sold on Liexing Fifty, on the White Falcon Star, it costs about five hundred. There are almost no prices lower than one hundred for food, souvenirs, and entertainment facilities.

Opal looked around, and with their money, they could only buy a thirty-credit balloon.

Raymond was still very optimistic and said, "When I finish the commission and get the money, let's go to the sea to have a meal."

Opal smiled and said, "That's a good proposal. How much is the entrusting fee?"

Raymond stopped talking again, Opal didn't know why he just wanted to laugh, he held onto the lamppost and laughed out of breath, Raymond looked helpless, remembering that he had to save the money after getting paid, because he had to buy fuel for the spaceship.

Moreover, Iszul's credit rating in IRC is too low, which is directly linked to their credit purchasing power. The entrusted reward is [-] credits. However, after converting the evaluation, there is only Two thousand four hundred.

More than 2000 points, only enough to buy half a ton of fuel.

"It's not my fault," Raymond said, "or it can't be all my fault, you know, Opal?"

"Huh?" Opal raised his eyebrows and asked.

Raymond said: "Our credit rating is too low to some extent, because the knowledge of Corolin tells me that the Republic's credit rating is the highest, with a real one-to-one ratio, while the Empire's is only [-], but it can't stand The empire is rich in resources and expensive. Heavy taxes, private land, and the skills of passing on inflation are far greater than the speed of each IRC credit evaluation."

Opal nodded, seeming to understand something.

Raymond thought for a while, and then said: "The financial tug-of-war between the two major regimes can only be paid by the neighboring small countries. In order not to pay for the high consumption of the empire, Lie Xing can only issue Lie Xing coins to compete with interstellar credits. In order to adjust the price of this star, let the employers buy the credits into star coins, and then issue an entrustment, and the remuneration will be exchanged back again according to the exchange rate of the credits on the day."

"But Emperor Kaltus has been coveting Lie Xing for a long time. Like the previous time, he formed an alliance with Azeroth, just wanting him to cancel Lie Xing coins, and the currency will be fully integrated with the Star Alliance..."

They walked slowly along the road, but they kept holding hands, Opal said: "What does that represent?"

Raymond said: "It represents the reduction of credit points, and the wrench is allied with the empire, so now the mercenaries will get less and less credit points, just like... everyone is working for the empire and the republic."

Opal said: "It's fine with Lie Xing, but why is the credit rating of the Grip of Light so low?"

Raymond shrugged and said, "Colorin has just opened the state of lockdown, so it's normal to be low. I guess he will probably resolve this matter by force."

Opal smiled and said, "Yeah, he is like you, he uses fighting to solve everything."

Raymond said: "I still hope he wins, so that he will have money. When I have money, I will buy a small planet and hold this kind of activity every day."

Opal said: "Eat fried egg pancakes every day."

The two laughed together again, both helpless and sad.

Raymond entered the Oak Hotel and booked a room with the robot at the front desk. The entrustment he got was board and lodging, but Opal had no response to the single entrustment, and the two had to open a room.

The service robot reported that the rest room was full, and there was only a public rest room, and Raymond wanted to book another bed, but there were too many people, and Opal could only live in a place far away from Raymond.

These trivial things annoyed Opal, he wanted to tell Lei Meng that he didn't need a bed several times, but how could he live without a bed?In the end, Raymond chose a relatively close one, and the robot asked them to pay a deposit of 550 credits.

So it stopped now.

Both Lei Meng and Opal laughed at the front desk. After laughing for a long time, Opal said, "Squeeze, maybe you can live in a bed."

Lei Meng suppressed a smile and said, "Let's go and have a look first... This proposal is good..."

There are too many tourists on the White Falcon Star, and even the beds are very tight. The sleeping cabin-like bed is covered with a transparent cover. Raymond is already tall, and there is not much room left after lying in it. Opal squeezes in again. The two were laughing and playing like children.

The hotel robot came over to drive people away, and issued a warning with flashing lights: "Please don't damage the hotel facilities, each bed can only sleep one person, please go to the public lounge for meeting guests."

Opal has never encountered anything more embarrassing than this in his life. Raymond thought about it and said, "I don't need to sleep. I'll sit outside the hotel..."

Opal said: "Let's go back to the spaceship and sleep, Little Q and E7 are still waiting."

Raymond said: "No, at least one person must wait in the hotel for notification."

Opal was helpless again. In fact, he could go back to the spaceship to rest, but it was meaningless.

Raymond remembered that this job included room and board, so he went to pick up the meal, but the lunch he brought back was only for one person, and it could only be eaten for Opal without asking.

Opal was eating in the public lounge, while Raymond watched blankly.

"I should eat less." Opal said, "Anyway, you can eat it at the banquet."

Raymond remembered, and said, "Yes, let's take a bag in and bring the food back to the spaceship to eat..."

When the two thought of the banquet that Raymond was going to, they were filled with anticipation in an instant. Opal didn't know if he could follow Raymond in, but this time he made up his mind that even if he was stopped by the guards, he had to use the power of faith to hypnotize him Take control of them and go in for a feast.Otherwise, this day is really impossible.

"No. 172246 - bed - guest, hello -" the service robot said: "You have a takeaway at the front desk, please sign for it."

Opal: "?"

Raymond: "??"

The two got up and went to the front desk, and found that it was a large box of three-color egg baked cakes. The sweet fragrance could be smelled through the lunch box, and Opal's saliva immediately came down.

Raymond said, "We didn't order this..."

Opal's focus was not on this, and he immediately said, "Do you want money?"

"The food delivery person has already left." A girl took over the robot's position, her eyes lit up when she saw Raymond, and she said with a smile: "He said he paid for it."

Opal decisively put away the lunch box, turned and left.

Lei Meng wanted to sign for the receipt, but the front desk said: "No need to sign for it."

Raymond was even more surprised, and came back and said, "Who sent it?"

Opal opened the lunch box, his eyes sparkled, and he said, "How do I know? It was delivered by mistake, and it doesn't even have a name. Would you like some? Is it someone you know? It was given by your employer?"

Raymond thought for a while and said, "The employer...it's possible, maybe he just came out behind me and saw..."

Opal fed some to Lei Meng, and Lei Meng said: "You can eat, I won't eat..."

While talking, the newsletter came again, this time to let Raymond go to the banquet. When Raymond came back, he had just finished eating Opal, wiped his mouth contentedly, got up and followed.

There was no special car to pick them up, and they had to drive for a long time before finding Green Wind Manor, which is located in the westernmost part of Bai Falcon City. Fortunately, they didn't spend all the 37 credits earlier, otherwise they wouldn't even have enough money for a ride, and Opal was crowded together. Among the strangely shaped tourist aliens, he said: "I can only walk back at night."

Raymond said: "Maybe we can ask Erlin for a fare... I believe he will lend us some money."

The special car stopped at the garden-like three-way intersection. It was almost dusk here, and the white falcon flowers all over the sky were gently swaying in the wind. All the noise in the urban area was far away. Opal took a deep breath and felt refreshed. , it is so comfortable.

The people of the empire are too good at enjoying themselves. Before they get close to the White Flower Manor, they can see the beautiful holographic projection. Countless illusory scenes are flying around in the sky. Sometimes it is the gentle tide that fills the sky, and sometimes it is green leaves.

"Why didn't you come here until now?!" A middle-aged man said displeased.

Lei Meng hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, it's my first time to come to Bai Falcon Star, I don't know the way, let me introduce, this is my nephew Opal."

Opal knew that the person in front of him must be the employer, Erlin. He was about to shake hands and exchange some pleasantries, but Erlin said, "Why are you still bringing the child? You are here to play? Hurry up, go this way , go make up first."

Opal wanted to thank him for the omelette, but the middle-aged man didn't even look at him, which made Opal's slight politeness disappear completely. Raymond signaled him not to be angry with his eyes, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. , going right away? Do you want to put on makeup?"

The middle-aged man said: "Of course, walk west from the Moonlight Path, don't be seen by the ladies, it's very abrupt... You can't go in! Wait outside for your uncle's work to finish!"

Opal: "..."

Raymond: "..."

Opal said: "I'm going to be an adult soon..."

Erlin said: "This has nothing to do with being a minor..."

Raymond said: "Mr. Erlin, I promise he won't cause trouble, just let him go in and stay in the garden, he will stay alone..."

The middle-aged man said: "Impossible! Those who attend the banquet must have an invitation card. If someone finds out and I let you in, I will lose my job!"

Raymond gestured to Opal with his eyes. This time Opal didn't understand, and he was a little angry. When he raised his hand to hypnotize Erlin, he saw another person coming from the side and said mockingly: "Erlin, you What about the escort you invited?"

Opal immediately withdrew his hand, and the person who came seemed to be a colleague of Erlin, which made Erlin's expression a little unnatural.

"I'll be there soon," he said, "in a few minutes."

Lei Meng took Opal aside, and said in a low voice, "After I go in, I will find a way to get acquainted with someone who has status, and then let him ask the master to let you in..."

Opal said: "I'll do it myself."

Raymond didn't speak, and Opal said: "I have my own method, and I guarantee that there will be no major problems. Let me strike up a conversation with someone outside the manor, follow him, and maybe you can go in... Solving problems requires brains and risks. It's in the home manual, isn't it?"

Raymond said: "Well, use your wisdom, you wait for my news first."

Erlin took Raymond away.

Opal was still standing at the gate of the manor, and the other young man came over to take Erlin's place and supervised several guard robots. Opal turned around and found that there were electronic guards outside the manor, which could not be crawled. Then he went back to the gate, thinking about how to get close to a guest, so that he could get close.

The young man seemed to see his intentions, and said mockingly, "What do you want to do?"

Opal said: "Oh, don't do anything, just take a look, the owner of this house is really rich."

The young man said: "Of course, this is the mansion of Descartes Master Bill. I guess you don't know who Descartes is."

Opal noticed that he looked at himself with pity and sympathy, and at the same time, there was a vague excitement of seeing the poor.

"Who is Mr. Erling here?" Opal said. "He seems to be afraid of you?"

The young man said: "He is the low-level housekeeper here."

Opal nodded and said, "I guess you are a higher-ranking butler than him."

"You guessed it right." The young man said blankly.

At this moment, a person walked out of the manor and said to the young man, "Sibyls, let this gentleman come in."

Raymond solved it so quickly?Opal is not ready to do something, so easy?

The butler named Sybils frowned slightly, and then said politely: "Yes, sir."

This attitude has also changed too quickly. It seems that Raymond is infatuated with an incredible guy. Opal entered the manor and said to the man who came to release him: "What's your name?"

The man said: "I'm just an attendant. His Royal Highness Baroque invited you in. Please come with me. We will meet him in the garden by the river."

Opal followed and saw a strong man chatting and laughing with several women, his voice was loud, like a fool.

"Ah, I've heard of it! I've heard of it there!" he exclaimed.

The attendant took Opal to the edge of the garden and stopped going in. He made a "please" gesture. Opal knew that this must be Baroque, so he walked over first, and patiently listened to the strong man molesting a group of women , during a brief silence, he opened his mouth just right and said: "Hello."

The strong man turned his head a little strangely, and Opal said, "Thank you very much for letting me in."

Baroque said: "What are you talking about? I don't know you."

A luxuriously dressed girl smiled and said, "Baroque, you just..."

"Ah!" Baroque remembered, and said, "This is that kid? You can do whatever you want."

Opal said: "I think I..."

"His Highness's friend asked him to let you in, sir." Another girl said kindly.

Baroque said: "Yes, yes, where are the others? Where did they go? Let me help you find..."

Opal thought that Raymond should have left to work, so he said, "I don't need to trouble you, I will go find him myself."

"Well, you can do whatever you want, whatever you want." Baroque blushed, ignored Opal, and said to the women: "That guy Alex is like a pretty boy, he won't give up until he makes the genetic surgery perfect , the father dislikes this the most, the genes of Kaltus' style are very important hahaha..." "Yeah hahahaha..." A group of women laughed wildly.

Opal stopped talking, and heard something from it in a short moment-could this person be a prince?

At first he thought His Highness was just a simple title, but after hearing what Baroque said, it seemed that his elder brother or younger brother was involved?And Cartes' royal status?

Opal began to understand a little bit, he pretended to get food, his ears were always alert to collect information.

However, Baroque was not stupid. He hiccupped and said, "Uh, why are you still here? Go and eat outside. The green pine forest is more suitable for you children. Go!"

Opal nodded, the attendant waiting outside was a fine man, upon hearing this, he came in and made a gesture, politely asking Opal to leave.

The place where Baroque and those women were located was a private space, Opal understood.

He decided to go to Raymond first. Just now he heard Erlin tell Raymond to go west on the Moonlight Path, so Opal asked the way, listened to the conversations of the guests from time to time, and went to look for Raymond.

The west side of the moonlight path leads to a luxurious palace. The outside is resplendent and magnificent, and the inside is completely transparent glass lanterns. The lights are brilliant. Opal saw Erlin standing and talking with a maid, so he slipped past him , went up the spiral staircase, and when walking along the carpet, happened to meet Raymond whose face was painted in various colors.

"Opal?" Raymond asked, "How did you get in?"

Opal said inexplicably, "Didn't you let me in?"

Raymond said: "I haven't started entrusting yet."

Opal couldn't laugh or cry: "What kind of makeup are you wearing?! You are so stupid!"

Raymond changed into a baggy jumpsuit, his face was painted half red and half blue, his head was covered with a nightcap, and his nose was painted red like a fruit ball.

"They let me play the clown." Raymond said: "Talk with the guests about interstellar and destiny."

Opal said: "This is simply...too insulting."

Raymond shook his finger and moved his eyebrows, indicating that it doesn't matter, and said, "I probably won't be able to eat with you anymore."

Opal said: "It's okay, just go about your business and don't always think about eating."

Raymond: "It's because you always want to eat. By the way, I met someone..."

"Has it started?" Another clown came out of the room.

Raymond said: "It's time to start."

Two clowns walked sideways up the stairs carrying a stack of wide cards, Opal always felt that the voice of the other clown was a bit familiar.He hesitated for a second, and when he was thinking about whether to use the power of faith to cut in, he and Raymond left first.

Who is that man?Opal found that the other clown was not as tall as Raymond. Raymond was wearing a red and blue one-piece suit, while the other clown only reached his shoulders and was dressed in black and white, just like the outfits of the big ace and the little ace.Since Opal was genetically modified by Corolin, his memory has been blurred a lot, and he vaguely feels that this voice seems familiar, and it should be a mercenary.

Mercenaries on a mission?play the clown?This is possible, after all, they were also entrusted by adventurers, so ask Raymond after the banquet is over, that person probably doesn't know Raymond anymore, that is to say, the memories of the mercenaries on Liexing have all been forgotten. The wrench has been modified.

Opal followed down the escalator, but when he wanted to enter the central area of ​​the luxurious hall, he was blocked by the guards.

"This is the VIP lounge, may I ask which family you belong to?" the guard in a khaki military uniform asked politely.

Opal knew he couldn't get in again, what a trouble... He replied: "I want to go to the green pine forest."

The guard said, "Go east along the Moonlight Trail."

Opal nodded, he had no choice but to come out again, he didn't dare to look back, otherwise he would look too suspicious, everything was a bit suspicious this night, he hadn't even figured out who let him in until now.

Go back and ask Prince Baroque?

Opal needed to sort out the information. He walked to the fork in the road and wanted to go to the green pine forest to find something to eat, but for some reason, he suddenly wanted to go in another direction.

It felt like there was something good waiting for him at the end of the road, as if he could get joy and happiness by walking there. Aware of the emergence and disappearance of this idea, but in short, he chose this secret path.

The dense path leads to the woods deep in the moonlight path. When he stopped, Opal saw a lake in the forest, and the lake water was shining with a meteor shower from the zenith. He immediately looked up, forgetting what he had to do, and his eyes were filled with amazement.There was another person standing by the lake.

There are dining tables, refreshments, and bramble wine under the tree.

Opal noticed that the man had been looking down at the lake, so he took the wine and snacks on the long table and said, "Hey, friend, would you like some?"

"Alcohol is easy to make people impulsive, and it is also easy to make people decadent." The man by the lake turned around and said, "But I think it's okay to have some occasionally."

Opal froze for a moment, he finally knew who let him in.

"I...I didn't expect you to be here, old, teacher." Opal said: "Teacher...how do you... teacher!"

Rector's eyes were full of complex meanings, and he said, "I wanted to avoid you, Opal, but I didn't expect you to find me."

Opal rushed up and hugged Rector tightly.