The Star Knight

Opal said: "Listen, I know Azeroth, how dare you deduct our points..."

Clerk: "Who's afraid of you! You know Azeroth as a person! He even wrote a love letter to my grandma last time!!"

Opal: "..."

Raymond: "..."

The two quarreled for a full 10 minutes, and finally applied to the trade union office for arbitration. The points were postponed before they could be claimed, and they all got angry. Opal went to overhaul the weapon and prepare it, and Raymond took the task in the union hall.

"Opal." Raymond pressed his finger on the ear button: "We have to accept tasks with more points, and earn more money by the way."

Opal is looking at a new sex toy box fantasy movement in the entertainment store, which includes twin dolphins, a pair of blue jellyfish transparent penis condoms and a connector.

The boss said: "Why, do you want to buy one? I really want it? I know you want it very much! You have seen it several times, this is a fantasy movement for two people! It is for men! Let you and your good friend Dude, good playmates have an orgasm together, the two only need [-] credits..."

"Oh." Opal hurriedly put down the box, waved his hand to tell the boss not to say more, the corners of his mouth twitched, and said casually: "You want to advance quickly?"

Raymond thought for a while and said, "That's not what I said... Forget it, try to get some rich people. Do you want to take a vacation?"

Opal said: "I'm casual, actually doing missions is kind of like a vacation."

Raymond looked up at the bulletin board and said, "There is a 20 team entrusted to find someone."

Opal said: "I know that task, released by Sid, is too difficult, our rating is not up to the requirement, don't accept it."

Raymond said: "Well... the mission deadline is ten cosmic years, which is not worthwhile."

Raymond raised his head, and the light screens in the circular hall flew back and forth. Every time a rectangular light screen flew out, a team received a task. Raymond asked: "Investigate dangerous creatures on uninhabited planets, 160 points, one Six thousand six hundred rewards, how about this?"

Opal: "Sounds okay, how many days is the journey?"

Raymond said: "Explore from the photon star towards Orion..."

Raymond's slender index finger was pressed against his ear button, and the outsider seemed to be talking to himself, when a person next to him came over and said, "Hello, sir."

Raymond moved his index finger away, nodded at him, and looked at him questioningly.

"I heard you talking about this commission." Sid said, "Are you willing to accept it? I saw you and Opal arguing just now..."

Raymond said: "It's not me and Opal who are arguing, it's the two of us who are arguing with the office staff, we won't accept this entrustment."

Sid had no choice but to say, "I've been waiting here for six days."

Raymond raised his eyebrows and said, "We are not high enough in rank, and now is not the time to accept the entrustment of people. It will take ten years."

Sid said: "But you can also help me find someone while accepting other commissions...you can bring me..."

"Listen." Raymond said: "I understand how you feel, but we really can't do it. Our deputy head is a deadhead. Once he accepts this commission, he will definitely find it and bring you more Impossible, we can't even protect ourselves."

"You can seek help from other people." Raymond made a gesture and said, "There are many high-level mercenary groups in the country of mercenaries, especially B-level and above... Many of them no longer accept commissions for money and ratings. There might be interest in those challenges."

Sid nodded perfunctorily, and Raymond heaved a sigh of relief. He then accepted a survey commission and went to meet with Opal to complete the mission.

The mission this time was unexpectedly smooth. The two only needed to take a survey machine to go around the uninhabited planet. However, it took a long time to go back and forth to the new wasteland, and it was also far away from the starry sky gate. , Opal was so bored that mushrooms grew on his head.

Thirty cosmic days later, they returned to Liexing smoothly, and the magnetic storm came.

The last wave of spacecraft landed on the tarmac, and there was a sea of ​​people waiting for the train to carry passengers.All the small shuttles on the ground were canceled to avoid accidents. When the train sent them back to the union headquarters, it was already dark.

"Hurry up!" The clerk closed the door, leaving two small doors for the mercenaries to enter and exit, and shouted: "It's time to get off work soon! Hurry up!"

Raymond ran into the hall dripping wet to deliver the commission. Opal sat down in a corner, took off his boots and poured out the water.Noticed one person - Sid.

he is still here? !Opal remembered his request to find someone, 38 days had passed since they first met.During the period, there was no mercenary group to accept his commission. Was it too difficult?

The information bulletin board was closed, Sid anxiously said something to Raymond at the window, Raymond waved his hand and said, "No, no."

He turned and walked towards Opal, with Sid chasing after him, saying, "I beg you."

Opal stood up, and Raymond said, "Let's go have a glass of wine."

Opal was almost frozen and said, "Sid, come together."

Raymond glanced at Sid and acquiesced to Opal's invitation.The three sat down in the restaurant.

Sid has been living in the inn in the alley opposite these days. Opal ordered food, and Raymond said: "You don't need to wait here. Once someone picks up the entrustment, the union will use the long-wave communicator to notify your."

Opal nodded and said: "I also think you should go to other planets to relax, even if you guard it, it's useless."

Sid sighed and said, "Help me, I bet everything I can entrust."

Opal and Raymond looked at each other, and someone outside the door shouted: "Sid!"

Sid got up immediately and said, "What's wrong?"

A young man came in, it was Xun, and he glanced at Lei Meng and Opal maliciously.

Sid said, "Let's have a drink together."

"No." Xun said with a cold face, "Let's go."

After Xun left, Sid smiled, and the eyes of Opal and Raymond followed Xun's figure until he disappeared.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Lei Meng said vaguely, "Don't hang out with him."

Sid said, "Shun is not what you think."

Opal couldn't help laughing, thinking it was very funny, Sid said: "Xun is a good man."

Opal shook his head with a helpless smile, and Raymond didn't bother to discredit him. The food was served, and Opal ate while listening to Sid's plight. In the task details, see the second line and return the task directly.

Each employer can choose their entrustment method, usually there are two categories: open and closed, open entrustment faces all mercenaries, and you can check the details of the mission before proceeding to determine whether to accept it or not.

The closed entrustment can only be viewed after receiving it, so as to facilitate the confidentiality of the employer's identity.

There is also a type of encrypted entrustment, which is negotiated by the employer and the trade union, and then communicates with the mercenary privately, and all responsibilities are borne by oneself.

"You should have chosen a closed entrustment," Raymond said.

Opal: "Isn't this obviously deceiving people? Mercenaries are not fools. The task of finding people plus a closed entrustment is still B-level, and no one will touch it."

"Yes." Raymond said.

Sid said, "My mission is to find my father."

Both Opal and Raymond fell silent, and Sid said: "I... don't even know if he is dead, he is my only relative. The Republic issued his death certificate, and there is also a suicide note drawn up a long time ago , but I feel that he is not dead yet..."

Raymond said, "Forget about it."

"No." Opal said, "Go ahead."

Sid sighed and began to tell his story before he came to the Ares Galaxy.He was born in the central galaxy living area of ​​the Republic, just like countless teenagers, he began to receive education at the Interstellar United School at the age of six, graduated at the age of ten, and participated in professional training. Employed at the age of 16, twenty years old this year—two years older than Opal.

His father was a staff member of the Spark Express Company, a private company with only a few spaceships and little capital, delivering goods between galaxies.Occasionally, I also contract for the transportation of goods in some remote areas, and privately do some small business of tax evasion with the locals.

Three years ago, Sid's father was sent to the Owl Nebula of M97 in Ursa Major with a guest and his package to the designated destination.As a result, there was a big explosion at the edge of the nebula, and the entire spaceship was blown to nothing. The guests and five staff members on board were all killed.

The Republic sent police to investigate. The situation at that time was very complicated. The M97 nebula showed some kind of instability, or a chain reaction of a supernova erupted, causing the remote force field and space to be distorted.This is an unpredictable and catastrophic factor. Therefore, the Spark Express Company obtained an insurance to compensate the spacecraft and life, and reorganized a new flight team after distributing it.

Sid spent a full year in litigation with the company, and finally he was exhausted. After receiving the insurance compensation, he bought a spaceship and went to the M97 Nebula to find his father. It took another two years and finally returned without success. .

The Republic no longer cares about this matter, and the identities of the victims have long been included in the archives.But Sid still stubbornly moved between the planets, looking for the whereabouts of his father.In his words, even if he is dead, he must find a relic as proof, otherwise he will never be at ease in this life.

However, how could it be so easy to find a piece of debris that could prove his father's death in the vast universe?Once the spaceship explodes, the energy of the atomic furnace is enough to turn everything into molecules and atoms. Even if the power of the explosion only shatters it, the resistance in space is extremely small, and the spherical impact ejection except the center point is enough to give the remaining solid matter a Extremely fast, throwing them away into the boundless darkness.

As long as these substances do not change their trajectory due to the impact, they will always follow the initial speed and advance endlessly in the vacuum environment. One year is enough for it to fly tens of millions of kilometers and search in the spherical area near the explosion point. Impossible to get anything.

Sid didn't hide anything, and told the whole story about the difficulty of the mission. This is simply the most difficult type of mercenary mission - to find the drifting victims.According to the standard rating, this entrustment will at least be marked as A-level, and the reward points will be 1.But because of Sid's remuneration—the A-level teamwork task does not have 80 yuan, and there will be no team leader to take it.

Sid only has 20, so he downgrades the task.

A reward of 20, 1 points, looking for a person who was issued a death certificate by the Republic, the only reason to prove that he is alive is Sid's wishful thinking "I believe he is not dead".

No one would look at such an entrustment.

Opal glanced at Lei Meng, and Lei Meng immediately understood what he meant, frowned and said: "You are crazy! We can't get the mission rating alone, our team is still E-level..."

Opal said: "Our strength is more than E-level, and he can make special designations, and the reward is 1 points..."

Lei Meng said: "According to the mercenary charter, lowering the entrustment level will reduce points. If we accept it, in addition to the 20 commission, the reward will only be 240 points! Do you understand?"

Opal disagreed, neither of them spoke, and Raymond said to Sid, "We can't do it."

Opal suddenly said: "Wait, listen again, there is no loss, right? Sid, what makes you think your father is still alive?"

Sid shook his head, didn't want to say any more, and said, "Thank you."

Opal said: "No, no, after finishing speaking, maybe we can give you some help?"

"You talk, I'm leaving." Raymond said angrily, then got up and left.

Opal sat on the chair, raised his palm, grabbed Raymond's fingers, and said, "Hey, comrade, don't do this."

Lei Meng's big hand was warm and comfortable. The two of them held each other lightly, and Lei Meng unnaturally shook off Opal's hand, and went to the front desk to check out without saying a word. Meng ordered a few cups of coffee and came back.

"E7, is there any news recently?" Raymond sat down and asked.

E7 beeped and projected a holographic newspaper. Raymond pulled up a chair and sat with his back to them, smoking a cigarette and reading the newspaper carelessly.

Opal motioned to Sid, Sid thought for a while, and said, "My mother died long before I was born."

Opal understood, nodded and said: "You are not conceived by the mother."

"Well," Sid said, "she eloped with my dad. Dad never mentioned her. I think she must be rich, but it doesn't matter anymore."

Opal: "What does this have to do with your father's life?"

Sid said: "I was genetically implanted. Dad left a little bit of my mother's blood, took out the chromosomes, put them together with his, and bred me. But my mother's genes have been destroyed by radiation, and there are only a few cells left in the cells." Most of the missing part is made up with my father's genes, so... I am like my father's clone."

The rustling of Raymond's newspapers stopped.

Opal said: "So?"

Sid said: "When I was young, I was different from other people. As soon as I left the newborn trough, I was taken home by my father to raise him. He grew up with me almost every day. I... Maybe this is hard to believe. , but I just know he's alive, it's kind of... like belief."

The electronic sound of flipping the newspaper rang again.

Sid stood up and said, "I know there will always be someone willing to help me, thank you, goodbye."