The Star Knight

Era VI broke through the atmosphere dragging flames, emergency lights came on in the cabin, and the entire spaceship spewed out high-speed airflow, spinning and falling to the ground.

Black smoke billowed, airbags were thrown out from the bow, a parachute was opened at the stern, the anti-gravity device alarmed, and the hull instantly glowed with blue light.

Three seconds later, the loud noise was like a sonic boom shock wave, stirring up the entire desert and spreading in a circular manner.

Opal rested his hands on the driver's seat and couldn't stop panting, kicking away the silver barrier in front of him.

"Ramon?" Opal said in the dark.

"Yes." Raymond said helplessly.

The cabin door of the spaceship opened, and in front of him was a boundless blue sky, so blue that it made people dizzy, and there were hot sand and gravel under his feet, stretching into the distance.

Opal, Lei Meng, and Yin Jian stood on the desert. Opal's eyebrows were wrinkled anxiously in the sun, and all he could see was a smoky horizon.

"Report the damage factor, E7." Raymond said.

E7 projected the damage of the hull, 37%, the energy pool was blown up, and the backup energy pool was also thrown away during the forced landing.

"What kind of place is this?" Yin Jian asked.

"Sphinx." Opal pointed to the light screen above E7's head: "The central point of the endless desert."

After Raymond drank the scented tea, he got up and went into the spaceship to repair the damaged parts. Opal thought about it and asked, "Can it be repaired?"

Raymond didn't answer.

Yin Jian whispered: "Brother, is yours angry?"

Opal waved his hand to indicate that it’s okay, and went in and said to Lei Meng: "Xiu...can't do it."

Raymond asked back, "What do you say?"

Robots also have tempers. I don't know why, Opal suddenly thought of this sentence, and found it very funny. Of course, Raymond is not a robot.

Opal stood awkwardly for a while, Rector put on the goggles, found the welding machine, and repaired the damaged part of the hull, Opal said: "Let's leave here first and go to the town to find supplies."

Raymond still didn't answer.

Yin Jian said outside: "Hey, Raymond, don't be angry, I'm sorry it was my fault, I will find someone to fix it."

Opal hurriedly frowned to signal him to stop talking, Yin Jian smiled and went out to wander in the desert.

Opal picked up the laser scanning locator to help Raymond locate the missing parts, and the casting was short of materials. When he was trying to find a way, another loud noise came from outside.

Opal immediately put down the instrument and went out to look, only to see a flaming meteor across the sky, falling towards the middle of the desert not far from them.

"What is that?" Opal asked alertly, "Is it a pursuer?"

Yin Jian shook his head blankly.

Opal went back to get the big sword, Yin Jian asked in surprise, "You still know how to play this?"

Opal said, "Go and have a look?"

Yin Jian pulled out the short stick from his waist, pressed a button, and the short stick unfolded, becoming a long stick of electromagnetic fine steel.

"Wait and see what happens." Yin Jian said, "Where's your partner?"

Opal looked sideways into the spaceship and said, "Raymond, I'll go out and have a look."

Raymond took off his goggles and frowned suspiciously. The three of them looked at the sky, and saw a group of flying robots chasing a person under the blue sky, rushing towards Times VI.

"It's a chasing soldier." Yin Jian murmured, "But it's not the one chasing us...not good! I know that guy!"

The man shouted: "Help me! Do you want to die together!"

Before the words finished, Opal and Yindang rushed out!The man was chasing after the mecha soldiers who were shooting wildly, and there was even a mecha!The upper body of the mecha spun rapidly, and dense shells like raindrops covered the entire area. The man rolled on the ground with his head in his arms. Opal and the silver fence passed by him from left to right. Opal swung his big sword and jumped up.

Blocking the long stick with Yinlong, he shouted: "Get up!"

Opal kicked the weapon in front of Yinlong's chest, turned somersault in the air, and swung the big sword, bringing out a flash of lightning, triggering a series of explosions of small robots.

Immediately afterwards, a shot from behind pierced the sky, piercing the belly of the mech, and Raymond closed the shot, and the man shouted again: "It's an unmanned combat aircraft!"

The mecha buzzed and fired tens of thousands of micro-tear gas bombs. Opal dragged his sword to dodge, and Lei Meng kept dodging in the rain of explosive bombs. He turned the impact muzzle and fired three shots in succession.

All three shots hit its waist, the upper body of the mecha was blasted into two pieces, and it fell down in the desert. There were explosions one after another everywhere. Opal coughed loudly, and finally broke out of the smoke circle, and everyone was smoked. His eyes were red.

Raymond pulled up his coat to cover his mouth and nose, turned around and entered the spaceship.

"Cough...cough..." The man straightened up.

Yin Cang coughed like crazy and couldn't stop vomiting.

Opal said: "You...you..."

He met the man face to face, staring at him blankly, his eyes filled with tears from the tear gas bombs.

That is Xun.

In an instant, Lie Xing's past came to mind, Xun was no longer what he was before, and he had also grown up.

"Xun?!" Opal said in disbelief.

Xun's eyes were also red from choking. He was tanned a lot, and there was a hooligan-like temperament between his eyebrows and eyes, as if everyone owed him money. Down to the chin, they were no longer the teenagers they used to know each other.

With tears in his eyes, Xun stared blankly at him for a while, as if in a daze for a moment, and said, "I know you?"

Just when Opal was about to say something, the ground in the distance trembled, and the shock spread from the extremely far horizon to his feet in an instant. The next moment, the entire desert was overturned, and the sky and the earth seemed to have turned around!

"What the hell!" Yin Dong shouted.

Raymond shouted in the distance: "The robot just now alarmed it! Opal! Be careful——!"

The three of them got up and charged into Times VI, the huge monster behind spewed out acid, like raindrops on the desert, Opal roared: "Can you hide in the spaceship?!"

Xun's shoulders were corroded by acid, and he yelled in pain. Raymond rushed towards Opal from the spaceship tens of meters away. At that moment, Opal's heart trembled. The moment they hugged each other, Opal pushed Raymond to the ground and protected him with his body.

The four of them fell to the ground, and the giant beast chasing them appeared in full view—a giant acid-spitting object covered in barbs, with its head and tail indistinguishable. Raymond shouted: "Run towards the spaceship!"

"No!" Xun said loudly, "Run to an open place! This is a desert acid beast! It can create acid lakes!"

They couldn't help backing down, the desert acid beast spewed out another wave of strong acid, which surrounded the escape range of the prey, and quickly stepped into a pool of strong acid, roaring in pain, Yin Jian staggered away with his shoulders on his shoulders, Lei Meng shouted : "Is there no way to kill it?"

Yin Jian said: "You can only run! Once the skin is broken, all the acid will come out!"

Opal was panting, seeing the acid beast opened its mouth under the spiny skin, the strong acid rolled in its body, and sprayed the last wave of overwhelming acid towards them.

At that moment Opal had no way out, he pushed forward with both hands, the power of faith rolled the entire desert, and the sand and stones covering the sky were lifted up in an instant.

The sky and the earth are pitch black, sharp sand, stones and dust are swirling, and with the sunlight shining through the tornado sandstorm, a spectacular sand wall is built to block the corrosion of the sand acid beast The body fluid, and the next moment, the layer of sand and gravel weighing [-] tons pressed the acid beast into the ground.

Opal panted slowly, looking at his hands in disbelief.

"God..." Yin Jian said, "What happened just now?"

Era VI was also buried in the sandstorm. Raymond looked around and said, "Where's the spaceship?"

Opal: "I'll try to get it out..."

Lei Meng pondered for a moment, and said, "No, we can't stay in this place for too long, we have to leave immediately, I'm afraid there will be pursuers coming."

Half an hour later, the four of them were walking on the desert under the scorching sun, followed by two small navigation robots, limping quickly, and hanging on Yinlong's shoulders.

Xun: "You...you didn't act according to the plan, Yinlong..."

Yin Jian said: "You are...not the commander-in-chief, Xun, I don't need to listen to you..."

Xun said: "You... what did you do to that child? Sid... is very angry now..."

Yin Jian: "Your sweetheart was... cuckolded, and you had to come and save me..."

Xun cursed an extremely nasty swear word, twisted the collar of Yinlong and threw him to the ground, drew his weapon and shouted: "You bastard!"

Opal turned around and said, "Hey, wait! I said, Xun!"

As soon as Yindang got up coughing, he was beaten to the ground by Xun Yistick. It was so real, Opal could even hear the sound of the electric baton hitting Yindang's head, and immediately said: "Don't hit him! You want to kill him Did you kill him!"

Yin Jian was hit by Xun's stick on the head, and just about to get up to fight back, he was stabbed by Xun again in the stomach, and immediately knelt on the ground and couldn't help vomiting.Seeing this, Opal went forward to drag Yindang away, but Xun beat Yindang to death recklessly.

Opal drew out the big sword, and when Xun was about to add the third stick, the big sword slashed straight, and quickly dodged it, and then Opal threw another sword, knocking him to the ground with a bang.

Xun yelled and cursed, and stepped forward angrily, desperately, Opal made another move, and the door-like sword slapped Xun's face, causing his nose to bleed, and he was in an unspeakable embarrassment.

Xun Shake was about to get up, but Opal pressed his big sword against his chest and gently pushed him back to the ground, saying: "Brother, I wish you a long life."

Xun's eye sockets were red and swollen, and Yin Jian was beaten like a pig's head, and he simply lay down in the desert and did not leave.

"This damn desert, it doesn't matter how far you go." Raymond said.

Opal said, "Let me see..."

He walked up the sand dunes, looked up at the scorching sun above his head, identified his position, and said, "E7, open the map."

E7 fired a holographic map, and Opal said, "We should head northeast, there's a small oasis there."

"It's too far." Raymond said, "It will take at least ten days to get there."

Opal said: "No, this is a large oasis irrigation site, I mean here...a place not marked on the map, there is a small village about two days away from us, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers ...the place where the population gathers. Resupply there, find a ship..."

Xun said: "Are you a Sphinx?"

Opal stared at the light screen and shook his head.

Sphinx is a desert planet with endless sand seas, 47 oases dotted in the middle of the desert, the strange climate forms highlands with an altitude of [-] meters and bottomless canyons, and several rivers flow down from the tops of snow-capped mountains , irrigating the oasis belts on both sides of the river, the water volume continues to decrease as it goes deeper into the desert, and eventually dries up completely.

Under the sand is an extremely valuable interstellar raw material - ancient oil.

Petroleum was one of the four main fuels in the human world before the Era, but in the modern Era, it has become an indispensable additive in industrial and military production.

The Sphinx was originally a green planet full of vitality. The Association of Astronautics used computers to deduce its appearance tens of billions of years ago. The entire planet was covered with lush green vegetation and inhabited by countless primitive organisms. At a certain turning point in the long river, the star around which the Sphinx orbited experienced a weak shock.

This shock may be produced by the thermonuclear reaction of the planet, or it may be affected by the gravitational force of other celestial bodies. In short, it has changed the orbit of most planets in the entire galaxy, including the Sphinx.This caused the temperature on the planet to rise suddenly, and 99% of the plants and animals died out.The crust shifted and 70% of the planet's water escaped until it stabilized again in a new orbit.

This is undoubtedly the doomsday for the aborigines of the planet, but after the doomsday, the preserved new life is resurrected again.

Some scholars even suspect that there was intelligent life on the ancient Sphinx, and it was this group of intelligent life that kept the seeds of plants and animals. If this conjecture is confirmed, then the first residents of the Sphinx may be It is the oldest intelligent civilization in the universe, but unfortunately, they did not survive in the end, leaving only a large natural mine buried with 7% of the total oil production in the universe and rich in silica resources.

However, it is not easy to exploit the oil on the Sphinx, because the days here are too long.

Yin Jian said, "Why is it always noon?"

"This place is similar to Lie Xing." Raymond said, "The days are very long."

Questions such as "Are you also mercenaries?" have been asked many times, but Opal was so sunburned that he didn't have the energy to answer him at all. His thirst and hunger made him keep walking blindly, sometimes Any problem can only be waved to let Xun go.

"Go into the canyon." Opal said, "Victory will be won immediately."

"I'll carry you," Raymond said.

Opal waved his hand and pointed at Xun, which meant that Xun's feet were already disabled, so taking care of me would be better than taking care of him.

Lei Meng glanced at Xun, but said nothing.

Xun lay on the ground, gasping for breath, his feet smelled bad, and the parts below the knees were all rotten.

Yin Jian's shoulders were scorched black.

Opal used to pick up Xun on his back, reluctantly carrying him and walking towards the canyon.

"Let me do it." Raymond said, he carried Xun on his body, and walked through the canyon, and a village appeared in front of him.

Opal breathed a sigh of relief, and walked for nearly thirty hours, almost collapsing from exhaustion.

However, the village is heavily guarded, and many soldiers with robots can be seen vaguely searching the village.

"Oops." Opal narrowed his eyes.

"The Imperial Army." Raymond said, "When did it come?"

"We have to find a way to treat them." Opal said, "It's almost unbearable, the body fluid of the acid beast is poisonous."

Previously, Xun drove the Future Overlord to chase and save Yinlong. The spaceship was destroyed by the mecha, and he had to abandon the ship and fall in the escape pod. Unexpectedly, the Empire knew that this matter was very important, and immediately sent a search force to go there as soon as the era VI was lost. sphinx.

Raymond said, "I'll go find a way."

Opal said: "No, I'll go."

"You've got to stay and take care of them, try to strengthen their beliefs and hold on until I come back," Ramon said.

Opal thought about it, he might not be able to find the ray therapy device, and Lei Meng guarding Xun and Yinlong in the Gobi is not a solution.

Lei Meng was gone, and Xun was the most seriously injured. He could not breathe while lying down, his eye sockets were sunken, his cheeks were pale, and the toxin had already invaded his whole body.

"Hello." Xun moved his lips towards Opal.

Opal sat in front of the stone, holding one knee and looking into the distance, Raymond had become a small black dot.

"Will you die if you say thank you once in a while?" Opal asked.

Xun said: "Yes, sometimes...it is an insult to say thank you to your comrades. I...I know you are a mercenary."

Seeing that Yinjian had fallen into a coma, Opal couldn't help thinking that the toxin was so strong?I hope Raymond will come back soon, he won't die...

Xun said: "No...no. You take this."

He took out a book from his pocket, Opal took it, it was Xun's mercenary diary, it was not the same as before, it seemed that the cover had been changed, and he seemed to have seen the cover of this diary somewhere.

"Hold it." Xun said: "Yin Jian is dying too. You go to Lie Xing and give it to Luo Sen... I... failed his expectations."

Opal: "..."

He knelt down on one knee and opened Xun's mercenary diary, which contained 73 A-level mercenary captains and the joint mercenary king's commission signed by Rosen and Urka.

"Urka, Haitang, Wrench..." Xun said: "As long as... as long as Haitang is found, as long as Haitang... as long as Haitang signs... more than half of them...Wrench can no longer...can no longer collude with the empire... But I couldn't find her... I tried my best..."

"Appointment certificate of the mercenary king." Opal panted, "You, Xun...you are the mercenary king?!"

"I am..." Xun's voice gradually lowered, and when he was dying, he said intermittently: "My name is Xun Azeroth...I want to make up for the mistakes my father...made...I want to report to the... Empire The dog...revenge...on...Colorin..."

"Xun." Opal trembled, pressed his hands on his chest, and said, "Xun! You have to live!"

At that moment, Opal's power of faith forcibly invaded Xun's mind.

He saw countless scenes passing by intermittently, and something seemed to emanate from Xun's spirit. The soul was like a ball of light, covering his body and shaking unceasingly, and like a faint wind, drifting towards the blue sky.

Opal hugged Xun's broken body and closed his eyes. He prayed tremblingly in his heart. In the small world he and Xun lived in, a vast number of stars and a boundless universe emerged. The stars and rays intertwine like a cage. , suppressed Xun's soul.