The Star Knight

The voice of the Prince of the Opera, Rajson, sang in the space capsule, and this time he sang another short poem: "I like that transparent flower very much, I smelled it when I was a child, and when the soul dived, dark blue bottom of the water..."

"His songs are so good?" Opal said boredly.

Raymond said: "It's a bit contagious, and the artistic conception of the lyrics itself is also very beautiful."

Opal said: "You idiot, do you know what is beautiful?"

Raymond: "It's better than your 'casual' mercenary group!"

Opal: "Someone can come up with the name of any mercenary group! You haven't been able to register yet!"

Raymond: "Come on, some unlucky guy must have been punished by the registrar."

Opal went to get some food, opened two cans of iris wine, and the layout of the cabin was different from before.Lei Meng moved the sofa to one side and put it against the wall. A thick dark red blanket was spread on the floor, and a coffee table was placed in the middle. The two of them could eat and chat while sitting on the ground.

The sofa can be used as a resting place for temporary joiners. The blanket is so big that it takes up nearly half of the control room area. You can sleep on it directly after taking off your boots.

Opal lay sprawled on the blanket, turned over on his stomach, feeling very comfortable, like a warm little home.

"How much did it cost?" Opal asked.

Lei Meng could actually understand the endless words. He lowered his head to study the mercenary diary, and said, "It didn't cost much, it's all second-hand."

A mercenary diary marked "E+" flew over and hit Opal on the head. Opal opened it and lay down on the ground to read the commission details.

Task level: C level.

Content of commission: Assist "Ban" to sneak into the backstage before or after the concert, enter Ledgerson's lounge, pour out his love for him, it is best to ask for a kiss.

Contact Person: Ben.

Contact information: Next to the third trash can at the corner outside the door of No. 16 of the Aquamarine Deep Sea Stage "Blue Crystal Throne", the code sign is holding the purple enchantress Kwai.

Reward: 22900 credits.

Remarks: Be sure to arrive before the concert starts, preferably three cosmic days in advance. If you arrive before March 20104, 3, please take the purple enchantress Aoi directly to room 16 on the third floor of the Ocean Heart Hotel.

Opal looked at it for a while, then complained: "My God, what should I do with this kind of entrustment?"

Raymond: "You didn't even have a plan, why did you follow up?"

Opal said: "I'm just talking... please forgive me."

Raymond smiled and said, "Leave it on me."

Opal turned his head and said, "Do you have a solution?"

Raymond thought for a while, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Leggason probably won't hit his fans. As long as we see him, everything will be simple."

Opal: "But he must have many guards..."

Lei Meng: "Let's find a way to sneak in. First investigate the terrain, at worst, knock out his security guards... We'll talk about it when we get there, and we'll take one step at a time."

Opal: "You will cause interstellar disputes like this."

Raymond: "He didn't dare to mess with Azeroth, didn't you hear what they said? A mercenary diary can be eaten anywhere, and even Azeroth asked us to talk, obviously he acquiesced."

It's just a dog's power... The corner of Opal's mouth twitched, he flipped through the mercenary diary, and threw it aside.He took a can of iris flower wine, opened the star map, and asked, "What are the locations of the other commissions?"

Raymond told him the name of the planet, and Opal looked it up on the star map.

The first is the female star:

Star map description:

[In the magical country of the soul of the forest, the locals make a living by selling female dills. Nature has endowed them with all resources. In the center of the planet, there is a mother tree with a shade area of ​​110 square kilometers. The locals call it "the mother of female dills" ".The female star is a very rare fragmented planet. The gravitational force generated by the three pieces of planetary debris pulls each other, and is fixed by the roots of the central female mother.The mother's milk is the most beautiful and dangerous liquid in the world.It will lull you into a long dream. ] "Mother's milk, phantom blue fluorite, poppy, distant star radio." Opal recalled the classification of drugs that Gray Wolf said in the recruit training class: "What are the other ones?"

Lei Meng also looked at the introduction in the star map. It looked like a sphere was broken into three pieces, and there was a huge tree in the center that glowed with green light——Nvluoxing Vision.

Raymond thought for a while, and said, "It should be something that makes people fall into madness and lead to addiction, and maybe love is added."

Opal said: "Then we have to add Legison's singing voice...I always feel that his songs have a hypnotic effect. Poachers...I think someone has already picked it up. Look at the second mission, Starfield Gate... How did you memorize it? Your memory is really good."

Raymond didn't answer, and the star map turned, locating the second mission they encountered in the Sunlight City Mercenary Union but missed - exploring the area beyond the limit horizon.

All the stars are far away from them, and there is only one lonely star gate on the three-dimensional star map.

Beyond the limit field of vision, there is a boundless darkness.

This is a place where light cannot reach. From the moment after the primordial big bang, the universe has been expanding forever. No one can deduce when it will stop, and no one knows the result of the stop. What is it—we are in this universe, so we can never see its ultimate.

There is a difference in the speed of expansion, just like blowing a spotted balloon, the farther away from the spots at the air inlet, the faster the separation speed will be.At a distance of 200 billion light-years away from the Milky Way, beyond the established edge, the expansion of the universe will be faster than the speed of light.

As a result, the light of all the stars cannot be transmitted to this place, and as far as the eye can see, there is only a vast darkness.

"There is actually a star map." Lei Meng said: "Has your first teacher ever reached a place beyond the limit horizon?"

Opal: "Look. I've only read about this in books..."

He clicked on the content of the description, and a line of words popped up.

Star map description:

[This is a very dangerous place, you must stay on the spaceship at all times, as long as you take a step away, you will be taken away by the space that diverges faster than the speed of light.A spaceship without a transition function may never come back after leaving. ] "Your teacher is rich." Raymond said.

Opal said: "He lived a long time...it's not unusual."

Lei Meng got up, bent down and clicked on the light screen, and entered three very complicated spatial coordinates on the map. Opal said: "You even remember this?!"

Raymond: "Huh? Good memory, natural, there is no way."

Both of them fell silent, and in the center of the star map was a star emitting a blazing white light.

"God, he has been here!" Opal was completely shocked.

Raymond said: "We may have missed a very challenging commission...Do you want to go back and take it again?"

Opal said: "No, I have to wait twelve days after the mission is cancelled, let's see what this is."

Opal pushes the field of view forward. In the center of the picture is a solitary star system, surrounded by eight planets in a disk shape, and a bright meteorite belt is distributed between the fourth and fifth planets.

"This place doesn't seem to be affected by discrete space." Raymond said, "Is it because of the stars?"

Opal shook his head slowly, clicked on the explanation in the lower right corner, and there were still words.

[The No. 3 experimental field of the ivory tower uses the black hole force field to make the divergent space form an elliptical trajectory, creating a balanced space, and conduct tests here.The content is about the evolution of human history. It is really a group of mentally retarded people who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth. They will destroy this place next time. 】 Neither Opal nor Raymond spoke, which was beyond their knowledge and completely incomprehensible.

Lei Meng said: "If you want to know what's going on, you can only go to see it."

Opal: "I hope there will be opportunities when I go back."

Raymond narrowed his eyes, raised his hand and clicked on the third blue planet in this star system, Opal said: "What does the No. 3 test site in the ivory tower mean?"

Raymond shook his head, unable to explain why, there was a bright mark on the blue planet, but there was no explanation.

"Has he mentioned this to you?" Raymond asked.

Opal shook his head and said: "No, I mentioned the ivory tower once, and I didn't understand it at the time... Of course, I still don't understand it now. Let's go to another place and look at the planet Capgras."

The Chiyan Galaxy shows its full view, located on Capgra Star, and the annotation is: [Nitro World, Nitrogen, Ammonia, Nitrate Territory.Life forms are very interesting. Nitro life has its own instability and can explode at any time.This characteristic determines that they cannot grow up, and their explosive power is not strong.The area is rich in orange crystal ore, which has certain industrial value. ] Opal moved the star map away and lay down on the swivel chair. Raymond returned to the coffee table to think.

The thoughts of both of them stayed on the No. 3 experimental field.

Lei Meng suddenly said, "Who is your first teacher?"

Opal looked at Raymond for a moment, and felt that there was no need to hide it from him. They had been together for so long, and it was impossible for him to betray him, so he said, "He is a Star Knight."

Raymond: "Star Knight?"

Opal said: "You know Corolin, the king of meteors, he used to be a star knight... The teacher taught me the power of faith, remind... In short, let me not tell anyone, comrade, this is my only one." It’s a secret, please keep it a secret for me.” He thought for a while, but decided not to tell Raymond about the hypnosis and mind reading techniques, lest Raymond suspect him of voyeurism.

After hearing this, Raymond didn't look very shocked, he just said casually, "You obviously haven't learned anything from him."

Opal said: "That's because he hasn't trained me much at all! And he didn't intend to let me follow him all the time. We only got along for less than two cosmic years."

Raymond smiled, with warm and clear eyes, and said, "You are still very likable."

Opal said again: "Thank you for your compliment. I wanted to follow him very much, but his mission is to hunt down and destroy Corolin, and he is not Corin's opponent, so he won't spend too much time thinking about it." on me."

Raymond frowned and said, "Why?"

Opal shook his head blankly, and said, "Because he also taught Corolin, anyway, he lost in the end, that's all."

Opal briefly told Raymond about Rector's story, and Raymond said, "There are three Star Knights, why didn't he join hands with the other one to deal with Cororin?"

When Opal was told this, he realized something that he had never thought about.

"That's right." Opal said to himself, "Isn't there another one? Maybe the third one is already dead, or it could be the teacher... Uh, he has his own insistence or something."

Opal himself felt that this didn't make sense, so Lei Meng just said casually, and said: "This star map is very precious, and it is wasted here."

"Yes." Opal said: "I hope to buy a better spaceship in the future... Let's follow his footsteps and travel into space together..."

Lei Meng said again: "What about him? After I give you the star map, you won't need it?"

With these words, Opal remembered another very important thing. Recter gave Opal the star map, so what would he use it for?

"He uses mecha... he doesn't need a star map... no." Opal was stunned, he frowned and said: "Teacher is also using a star map, I remember when I took the dragon ray to the crimson star, I saw it His star map. And he has always regarded guardianship as a certain mission of Star Knight, he said that the existence of all things must have a reason... he would not say something like 'destroy this place'."

At that time, Opal was ignorant, he remembered what Rector told him, and never thought about any details, but after being a mercenary for so long, he began to get used to thinking in his own way Questions, I discovered many things that Rector hadn't said before.

Raymond said: "No matter what, this thing is very important."

Opal nodded slowly: "It's also possible... No. 3 star knight is dead, this is his relic, I remember he seemed to say that this has extraordinary commemorative significance. Well, if we can meet him in the future , ask him again."

Raymond hummed, Opal was silent for a moment, and then thought of something that shocked him completely: the previous owner of this star map might be "he"—Colorin, the king of meteorites, who defected Dark Star Knight.

Opal didn't dare to think too much, got up and said, "I'm going to take a shower and come out to play pinball."

"Go." Raymond said.

Opal went into the bedroom and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Lei Meng looked up at the star map for a long time, then got up, and entered a few coordinates in the main control map.

The stars receded to reveal a desolate planet, and around it were two asteroids, very close together, slowly orbiting the gray planet.

Raymond was short of breath, clicked on the explanation, and looked at the annotation in disbelief:

[Ivory Tower No. 2 Test Site. 】

Lei Meng closed the star chart, sat back on the sofa, and remained silent for a long time, with extremely complicated expressions in his eyes.On that day, Opal found that he had been a little absent-minded, and reminded him several times, and finally Raymond said, "I'll take a rest."

Raymond went to sleep, and Opal played for a while by himself, then went into the bedroom and turned off the light and fell asleep.