The Star Knight

"I didn't expect him to be the Pope at all..." Opal whispered to Raymond across the dining table, "It doesn't look as big as Sid."

Raymond's fork twirled between his fingers, his face seemed to be thinking, and he asked after a while, "Has he arranged accommodation for you?"

Opal pointed to the distance and said: "Let me live in the Forgotten Corridor, just me. I asked him if he could let you come over, and he said yes, but you can only go in during the day, and you have to go back to the dormitory at night .”

Opal and Raymond were arranged in different places. Raymond said: "Let's wait and see."

Opal said: "He also asked me to call him 'Your Majesty', I wonder if the shepherd is also in the grip of the light now."

Raymond said: "Just now when I went to go through the formalities, I contacted Iszul and the teacher in the Huanfeng Galaxy once."

Opal said: "How to say?"

Raymond said: "I contacted in your name. Corolin is not in the Grip of Light, and has not returned yet. The Shepherd is already in the Meteor Palace."

Opal asked again: "What did the teacher go to Huanfeng? Didn't he originally plan to stay on Alex's administrative star province?"

Raymond said: "He went to find a man named Justin Rodman..."

"Uncle!" Opal said in surprise.

Raymond nodded and said, "After the incident we had on the Falcon Star last time, the empire may have been instructed by the higher-ups to let Justin enter the military system."

Opal narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly.

Raymond asked: "When does your homework start? I follow you?"

Opal suddenly remembered, looked at the time, and said, "Oh no, the time will be up soon, hurry up."

After Raymond ate his lunch in twos and threes, the two walked quickly through the garden. Opal's footsteps slowed down as they passed the Forgotten Corridor, and they came to a door.

"This is his study." Opal whispered to Raymond.

Raymond nodded, and opened the door for him, seeing Drummond sitting in a large velvet armchair, Opal said: "Sorry for making you wait so long, Your Majesty."

Grebini said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, tens of thousands of years have passed, and these few minutes are not bad. Let's start today's lecture."

Opal nodded, and Grabini said: "You can sit wherever you want, be more comfortable, don't be too restrained. What are you still standing there for?"

Raymond bowed, closed the study door consciously, and stood outside as a guard.

Opal looked around, the study room was very classically decorated, he thought of Tifeng and the prophet's library he had mentioned.

"I have a lot of questions to ask you, sir." Opal walked to the table by the window, where there was a coffee pot with only one cup.

In the study room, large and small crystal balls are suspended using anti-gravity technology, and each crystal ball is filled with water. One or more goldfish are kept in the spherical goldfish tank, reflecting the gorgeous sunlight.

"That's what I have for you," said Grabini.

Opal looked up at the goldfish bowl and asked, "Can someone bring in another cup?"

Grebini said, "No, I don't drink coffee, I need medicine later."

Opal's heart moved, drink medicine?Corolin also mentioned earlier that the Pope's time is running out... Will he die?But according to Rector, this person's soul is truly immortal, and the weakness of his body is just a matter of changing his body.

Grebini yawned and said, "Let's draw a card, compare the size, and ask who wins."

Opal: "..."

Opal thought this was indeed his style, so he drew a card in the past, Opal drew a K, and Grabini drew a 2.

Opal said: "Sir, I want to ask about the wheel of time..."

Grabini: "No, 2 is bigger than King. When playing thirteen cards, 2 is the biggest. I should ask you."

Opal didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Okay."

Grebini said, "Did Cologne mention a phantom star prince named Igna? What did he say?"

Opal: "!!!"

He didn't expect that Grebini would ask the question so straightforwardly. After thinking for a long time, he replied: "Teacher... he thinks Nolan is his mentor, and he exists to pursue the truth in the universe... Makes me think think……"

Opal told Grabini in detail what he mentioned about Nolan when he was living with Coroline.The Pope just closed his eyes and listened. His frail figure was huddled under the blanket. The sunlight poured in from the window and shone on his body, making him appear extremely thin.

Opal said, "That's about it."

Grabini did not speak, and seemed to be asleep.

Opal: "..."

"Your Majesty?" Opal felt like being tricked.

Grabini opened his eyes wearily and said, "You know less than I thought."

Opal was speechless.

Grebini yawned and scratched his neck in boredom. Just as he was about to say something, there was a knock on the door outside. A bishop wearing glasses and a golden robe pushed the door in, holding a silver bowl in his hand, and said : "Your Majesty, take the medicine."

Opal saw the dark green potion in the bowl, like the body fluid of an acid beast, and Grabini held the bowl in one hand, signaling Opal to draw a card with his eyes.

"It's time for me to ask." Opal held a Q, while the Pope's card was a 7.

The pope drank the medicine, handed the silver bowl to the bishop, and nodded.

I don't know why, Opal glanced at the bishop and changed his question. He originally wanted to ask about his father, but there were others around, he didn't want to discuss it in front of others, and said: "The pastor Same last name as you?"

"Yes." Grebini nodded appreciatively in his eyes, "In a sense, he is my adopted son, or he would have become another me, but the timing was wrong, and he met me at the time. Got into another thing and I had to get out and not occupy his body, so I ended up adopting him."

Opal nodded slowly. He remembered that Rector said that the life of Pope Drummond continued in different bodies. According to his understanding, this kind of continuation should be to cultivate a fetus and enter the body of the fetus...

The archbishop bowed to leave. After leaving, Opal remembered the question just now and said, "The teacher didn't tell me anything. He knows a lot."

Grebini touched a cube of sugar and put it in his mouth, and said, "Colorin? I suspect that he has almost no idea of ​​what he is about to do, and is just obsessed with using force, sabotage and other means to solve all problems ..."

Opal said: "No no, Your Majesty, I think the teacher's belief is stronger than anyone else..."

Grebini said: "Faith belongs to the Star Knights. Only Recter believes in it. Even Igna, the founder of the Star Knights, never mentioned the word 'faith'. It is just a five-dimensional thing. The soul in the world is just a projection in our branch universe, are you sure there is such a thing in the world?"

Opal: "Yes...well, I don't understand what you're talking about."

Grabini said, "Forget it, if you say yes, then let's go to the next question."

Opal said: "Wait, can you explain in detail?"

Grebney said, "Wait a minute, I will answer your questions when it is your turn."

The two drew cards, and Opal asked a question.

He raised the most important question of the trip.

"My father's name is Logan." Opal said, "Your Majesty, I don't know if you still remember him. He is related to the Wheel of Time."

"I remember." Grebini said, "I may forget the others, but I always remember about the wheel of time. You are Logan's son, and Cologne sent someone to send it to me in five years." A letter. It mentioned your life experience. I think why you were discovered by Corolin should be a very interesting story."

Opal said: "The teacher also wants to ask this question, where is the Wheel of Time now?"

Grabini shook his head.

Opal asked again: "What mission did it set off with? Is it just for exploration?"

Grebini closed his eyes, and said after a long time: "It can be said to explore the origin and meaning of our world."

Opal said: "I know it brought back the phantom star people when it returned for the first time. What does this have to do with the star knight? The teacher didn't tell me everything he did. Is it related to the phantom star people? They are from the fifth dimension Spatial?"

"Yes." Grabini said: "Strictly speaking, the world where the Phantom Star's home star is originally a four-dimensional universe that is almost the same as ours. It is one of many parallel universes. In another mirror universe, there are some people like us, their time passes faster than this universe, their history is longer, and they slowly evolve, and finally become phantom star people who have no body but only soul."

Opal narrowed his eyes and asked, "And then? How much do you know about the wheel of time and the migration of the Phantom Stars?"

Grebini snapped his fingers and said, "Then, these intelligent beings began to explore the five-dimensional world, and some accidents occurred in the process, wandering in the gap between the four-dimensional and five-dimensional, they were found by the wheel of time, and brought Back to our universe."

Opal nodded, keenly feeling that his father's third exploration must be related to this matter, so he asked, "What happened?"

Grabini suddenly fell silent, and winked at Opal.

Opal: "?"

Someone eavesdropping?

There were only the two of them in the study, and Raymond was standing outside. Opal's heart was pounding, and he felt that Grabini's move seemed to have some deep meaning.

However, before he was allowed to think about it, Grebini said: "I will give you a homework, there are three questions in it, take it back and think about it, of course, you can also ask your guards for help, when you get these three questions I think you'll understand a lot of things when you get the answer to this question."

Opal knew that there must be some kind of wiretapping mechanism here, and even Grabini couldn't say more about it, but who could install a bug in the Pope's study?Is it this serious?

He nodded thoughtfully, and Grebini said: "The first question, there is a group of monkeys living in a greenhouse with special restrictions..."

Opal: "?"

Grabini: "?"

Opal heard a term he had never encountered before, and asked, "What is a monkey?"

Grabini: "..."

"Monkeys are..." Grebini was a little hard to say, and then changed his words: "There is a group of booms."

"Oh." Opal said.

Grabini said: "Forget it, let's use monkeys. There is a group of monkeys living in a greenhouse. They can eat the food produced in the greenhouse every day. It is not too rich, but they can barely survive."

Opal nodded slowly, and Grabini said: "The rules of this greenhouse are: you can only go out, you can't enter. After leaving the greenhouse, the outside world may be a desert, or it may be an orchard with more food and a wider area. Of course, there may be nothing, the monkeys don’t know what’s out there, and occasionally some monkeys leave the greenhouse, but without exception, they never come back.”

Opal asked: "Do the monkeys know this rule?"

"Very good..." Grebini's voice seemed hypnotic and said, "They don't know any rules of the greenhouse area itself, or even why the boundaries of the greenhouse exist. They only know one thing—leave The greenhouse companions just disappeared."

Opal hummed, and Grabini said again: "This is from the perspective of monkeys, but from the perspective of us, the experimenters, there is a wider living space outside, and there is no need to worry about any danger. Suppose you are a monkey One of them, you know this from a certain way, what method do you think needs to be used to make the monkeys live a better and happier life? Is it necessary to do this? And the motivation for doing so. This is first question."

Opal: "..."

"Second question." Grebini asked, "Do you believe that man has a soul?"

Opal nodded and said, "I believe."

Grebini said: "What is the soul, answer me now, don't use what Cologne taught you, tell me with your own understanding."

Opal thought for a while, and said: "The soul is gradually formed from birth... The sign that distinguishes a person from other individuals, I think so, it is the spirit of independent existence of a person."

Grabini said, "So do you think animals have souls? For example, a monkey."

Opal said: "I still don't know what a monkey is."

Grabini: "That doesn't matter, say a Pom?"

Opal said: "Should... yes? Yes."

Grabini said again: "Then a bird?"

Opal: "Yes, of course birds do."

Grabini: "Does an earthworm have a soul? Or an ant, an insect?"

Opal: "..."

"It seems... yes." Opal said, "Do ants have brains? They can think and move things. Yes, what about earthworms? I don't know, Your Majesty."

Opal thought of the earthworm that once attacked him and Raymond. The earthworm seems to know something. There is always a difference between one earthworm and another earthworm. If two earthworms are copied, then the clone is equal to two Ontology?impossible.

He simply gave a definition of the soul, saying: "Things that have life have souls."

"What about microbes?" Grabini asked.

Opal was stunned.

Grabini said, "What about the virus?"

Opal: "..."

Grebini said: "It's too far away, now I ask you the second question - when does a person have his own soul?"

Opal also knows a little about the formation of life from the knowledge he has learned before, but this question seems to be more complicated. Is it the first second when a newborn leaves the mother's body and enters this world?So what about the babies in the incubator?Open your eyes and see the first moment of the world?It doesn't seem quite right either.

Is it the moment when sperm and egg combine to become a fertilized egg?

No, the fertilized egg was not conscious at that time.

"The third question." Grebini separated his fingers and put them against each other in front of him, thinking, "Human life is made of carbon."

Opal said: "Yes, I know this. Carbon-based life is the most common life form in the universe."

Grabini's fingers moved slightly, and he asked, "Why is the carbon base giving us the wisdom to think about all this, and not something else?"

Opal said: "This... because the number of outer electrons of carbon...is only four? It can interact with many elements..."

Grabini interrupted Opal's explanation and asked, "Why does carbon have four outer electrons?"

Opal said: "It was created when the universe was formed..."

Grabini added: "Atoms, electrons, molecules, and photons all have their own characteristics and laws."

Opal said: "Yes, the rules!"

Grabini: "Why is there such a complex law that makes the world just start like this, and then evolve like this, and finally reproduce life as complicated as human beings?"

Opal: "!!!"

Grabini said: "Where do the laws come from? They existed in this world from the beginning? The four basic forces constrain the operation of all particles. Are these rules naturally produced? Sociology, economics, Physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc...why do these complex laws exist?"

Opal said: "The laws are actually summed up by people."

"But even if no one has been summarizing it, the laws are still there," Grabini said.

Opal: "..."

"Yes." Opal suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

"Three questions, take them back and think about them." Grebney said, "I believe you will soon know what your father thought."