The Star Knight

The last wave of trade ships before winter landed on star B11. Hundreds of thousands of miners came out of every cave and village on the planet and headed for the central rift valley.The merchants from Chiyan star set up a protective shield on the top of the canyon that spans thousands of miles. The changing color and light are like a safe haven, which can effectively avoid sandstorms and electromagnetic interference on the B11 star.

The foremen held thick sheets in their hands, which registered the energy units accumulated by the miners, and those who called their names came to get a receipt, and with it, they could enter the market and trade with the merchants.

Opal quickly ran down the rift valley, took his list, and checked the data on it.

"Hey! This is wrong!" Opal said angrily, "I have at least 15 energy units, why are so many deducted!"

Several other foremen came over and shouted: "What's the problem! Hey! It's you, over there!"

Opal took half a step back, the foreman looked at him coldly, Opal hurriedly put away the list, and a small disturbance was subsided just like that, Opal suppressed his anger in his heart, turned and entered the market.

"What happened?" Recter stood at an inconspicuous place on the edge of the market, his head and face covered by the cap of the cloak, but this handsome man was still tall and outstanding, and many miners looked at him in surprise.

Opal said: "They used the excuse of ore precision to deduct a full [-] energy units from me!"

Reket nodded, and walked into the market side by side with him, crowded with people everywhere, Opal's anger has not completely subsided, thinking over and over in his heart, why?This year it was deducted even more than last year... 15 energy units may have been enough to supply Rector's spaceship, but so much was deducted for no reason.

"Opal." Rector said suddenly.

Opal: "?"

Rechter said: "Forbearance, to fight and fight, you need to become stronger."

Opal was silent, and after a long time he nodded and sighed.

In the bustling market, the miners had thick necks and bargained with the merchants for a few energy units.The merchants have the best fabrics, decorations and some ornamental artificial gemstones and eating utensils that are said to come from the Chiyan galaxy.

These are cheap, lowest-end wholesale products on the trading planet.However, after passing through the Star Gate, on this mineral planet with nothing, it is easy enough to sell at a sky-high price and earn the money that the miners earned after a year of hard work with their blood, sweat and lives.

"You can't lose a penny!" The businessman yelled loudly, "Look, this is the plant flower wine from Green Mercury!"

He jingled the bottle and said angrily: "This bottle alone is worth [-] energy units! Even the bottle and the wine are only sold to you for [-]! What else can I do? This is the wine drunk by the nobles of the empire!"

A group of businessmen around them looked at these ignorant miners mockingly, and Locke asked a companion, "Do you want to drink? Buy a bottle and try it."

"Drink this in winter, and you can smell the plant aroma of Green Mercury!" The businessman said: "There is a label on it, look after it, a bottle costs a thousand, and you can't lose a penny."

Rector said: "It's just the cheapest green grass beer in the Green Water Galaxy. Drinking a bottle in the bar only costs three credits. They changed the bottle and put a label printed by themselves."

Opal asked: "What are credit points?"

Rector replied: "One credit point was equal to one energy unit 1000 years ago. Since the collapse of the Interstellar Trade Federation energy community, energy units have become more valuable than before. In recent years, it has been raised to about six credit points for one energy unit. unit price."

Opal said: "I was cheated, I'm going to remind them."

"Lock! Let me tell you!" Opal squeezed through the crowd, but Locke and his partner each bought a few bottles of wine and asked, "Opal, would you like some?"

Opal said helplessly: "Oh, it's nothing, I just want to tell you that this wine tastes good."

"I heard that this year's pass and ticket have increased to 80 energy units." Locke said, "How much have you saved?"

Opal scratched his head, waved his hand and said, "I won't buy a boat ticket."

Rector no longer knows where he went, Opal walked slowly along the market, the winter here is very cold, he needs to buy an energy battery to ensure that he will not be frozen, and also buy some [-]D electronic magazines to use through the long winter.Maybe some video games—Marauder II and Tombs of Ancient Civilizations, which are said to be very old, but very fun and very expensive.

A game console needs [-] energy points, and game chips need [-] energy points each.

"This is the latest release this year, interstellar love!" Seeing that the business came, the boss hurriedly said: "Buy one, the dewy one, you are satisfied!"

Opal took the chip introduction sheet and looked over it over and over again. When it was the coldest time, he would be frozen if he took a step outside. Rector had to move back from the cave and live with him.

But Rector knows a lot of things, and it’s good to have an evening chat by the fire in the cold winter, and this money can be saved. Opal thought for a long time, but decided not to buy it.

"Anya!" Opal called out to a girl from afar.

The girl named Anya turned her head with a smile, with a bright smile on her face, like flowers blooming in the dark canyon.

"What are you buying?" Opal said.

Anya said, "This gemstone...is really beautiful, but it needs [-] energy points."

Opal looked down for a while. There were many girls gathered in front of the stall. They were all miners' daughters. Mine work.

"It's really beautiful." Opal thought that Rector had a bracelet, and his bracelet was also very beautiful.

"Opal." The dark-skinned girl teased, "Are you going to give it to Anya?"

After choosing Opal for a while, the girls joked about it one after another. Opal blushed a little from the teasing, and said unnaturally, "We...uh, nothing."

Anya burst out laughing, like a shy kitten, and said, "Don't bully him, he doesn't know anything."

About love, Opal still knows a little bit. He also had the hazy feelings in his youth, but he didn't have any object.Mother and father had him because of love, this is the rule of life reproduction in the universe.The old people said that when the time comes, life will blossom and bear fruit, and reproduce offspring, maybe he will have such a day.

In fact, there are many families of miners who have lived on this planet for generations and developed mines here 100 years ago, and their descendants are also miners.

Opal picked one and planned to give it to Rector in the future, because he will leave sooner or later, so keep it as a souvenir.

He suddenly felt that it was not good to just buy this one, so he took the initiative and said, "I'll give you one too, Anya, what do you like?"

Anya smiled and said, "Then thank you."

Opal and Anya bought a metal bracelet. Opal put it away and wandered around the market for a while. There were more and more people. Anya didn't know where he went, and Rector couldn't find it. Opal was ready to buy Supplies needed for the winter - a little wine, something with sugar, flour, meat and vitamin pills, energy batteries.

He paused in front of the gem booth for a while, silently counting the total cost.

"Don't buy this." Rector came back at some point.

Opal said, "What?"

Rector said: "These are not gems, they are mass-produced cheap synthetics."

Opal was stunned, just now he bought a bracelet, Rector would probably not want it, so he smiled and said, "Are you drinking?"

Rector said, "I don't drink the wine here, don't waste it."

Opal said, "What about electronic holographic games?"

Rector looked at where he was pointing, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Don't want this. Ask him if he has a textbook on the basics of the universe."

Opal went over to ask, and the boss said, "Yes, this, do you want to read a book? Do you want to watch a movie? There is a projector and a few chips here, all made in the Republic... and a collection of Ledgerson's concerts."

"Don't want those." Rector's voice suddenly sounded in Opal's mind: "Just the textbooks."

Opal's heart was shocked, Rector's voice echoed in his mind again, saying: "Don't look back, do as I say."

Opal said: "Just the textbook."

The boss said: "Not only for sale, who do you want me to sell the projector to? They are all matched. A total of [-] energy points."

Opal shouted: "Eighteen thousand?!"

The boss said: "No bargaining." After that, he went to introduce another miner nonchalantly: "This is the ball of the Prince of Opera! The [-] compilation! Buy one? But it is more beautiful than a woman."

Opal turned around.

Rector said: "I bought it, and I don't want the projector or the opera. I asked him if he has a newspaper? I want the latest one, the newspaper on the crimson star."

Opal frowned and asked: "Why? This is a supporting drama, so don't want it for nothing."

Rickett insisted: "No."

Opal went back and bought everything bundled with the textbook, shouting, "Oman!"

Aman is not far away, Opal said: "Let me lend you this one, it's a movie."

Opal gave the film and opera to Oman, and he left the textbook chip. Rector took it, looked down, and said: "Second-hand goods, a bit old, but barely usable. Go back and put it in the E7 projector. use."

Opal asked, "Why not Ledgerson's opera?"

Rickett said casually: "Leggerson is not a good thing, it doesn't make sense, it will attract you to indulge in his singing, and you will know later. Please follow me now, I need your help."

"Why can you speak in my head? This is... what ability?"

"Don't ask too much, you will know later..."

Opal and Rector stood not far from a booth, and Rector ordered: "Go and ask the price, he has two small dark matter batteries."

Opal went over and asked, "Boss, how do you sell this?"

The boss said: "Don't touch it randomly, each 15-point energy unit contains the equivalent of [-] points of dark matter energy."

Rector's voice sounded in Opal's mind: "Have a bargain, ask him if he can sell two [-] yuan."

Opal: "..."

"Two for [-]?" Opal said, "It's not worth that much money."

The boss said: "Are you kidding! There are a total of 30 energy points here! Don't buy it and get out!"

Reckert said: "This kind of battery is very unstable."

Opal said: "This kind of battery is very unstable."

The boss said: "It can be used no matter how unstable it is, do you understand?"

Rector said via voice transmission: "I bought it from a pirate, am I right?"

Opal repeated Rector's words once, and the boss' face changed. Opal followed Rector's instructions and said: "Dark matter batteries are regulated, and these two are old, let me guess... ...should have been dismantled from a warship by the interstellar pirates."

The boss said: "But he also charged me 12 for the two batteries!"

Opal repeated Rector's words and said: "You can't take it back to Chiyan Planet. Look at the manufacturer's batch number. This should be a warship that sank in the Helix Nebula not long ago. I heard that the explosion of the spacecraft is being investigated there. If you return to Chiyan Galaxy, you will be arrested, why bother?"

The boss looked at Opal suspiciously, and Opal said again: "A pirate named Yiluo sold it to you?"

The boss's face turned blue immediately, and he said in a trembling voice, "How do you know?"

Opal licked his lips and did not speak. Rector seemed to be thinking, and Opal said: "How about it, the two are sold to me for [-] at the original price you bought back. You have nothing to do with this matter. I I believe you don't want to get into unnecessary trouble."

The boss was silent for a moment, and Opal said again: "It will be dangerous for you to go back with this battery."

The boss asked: "What do you need dark matter energy for?"

Opal said: "Don't worry about it, think about it, I will come back later."

Opal turned to leave, but the boss hurriedly said: "Don't think about it, let's sell you."

Opal took a deep breath, and Rector's voice said: "Handle it carefully, it is easy to explode, it is a dangerous product."

Opal bought two batteries with [-] energy points, handed them to Rector, and asked, "Who is Yiluo? Do you know him?"

Rechter said: "I don't know, I just peeked into his mind and saw the name."

Opal asked: "Can you know what other people are thinking?"

Rector: "Only under certain circumstances."

Opal: "What's going on?"

Rector: "I can feel it directly when I'm especially afraid, nervous, happy, anxious, and when the emotions are strong. He was already very troubled, because he couldn't take these two batteries away, so he could only shoot on B11 star. This It was a bad deal, but lucky for us."

Opal suddenly remembered something and said, "Oops!"

Rector stared at him, Opal said: "I spent all my money on batteries, we haven't prepared supplies for the winter yet!"

Rector sneered, Opal said: "What should I do?"

Rector said: "Go back and pack your things and live in the cave."

Opal said, "But what we don't eat will starve to death."

Rector said: "There will be a way, trust me."

Opal thought it through, and Recter felt very reliable. Since he said so, he should have figured out a solution, so he went back to pack his things. That night, a giant merchant ship was launched into the sky, illuminating the dark winter night on Mine Star Like the day, he took the foremen and merchants to leave this barren land and go to other planets for the winter.

"I heard that Old Crowe and his son bought a boat ticket for 80 energy units." The miners talked one after another: "I can't see how he usually saves so much!"

Locke said: "Where can 80 go? It's not about immigrating to another planet and continuing to mine and work, don't even think about it."

"Don't buy it now." Several miners talked and said: "It will be more expensive in a few years, hey, Opal!"

Opal packed a bag and came out of the house, packed his own supplies, hugged the little robot E7, greeted the workers, and said, "I'm going to live in the cave in the west for a few days."

Locke said: "You are crazy! You will be frozen to death!"

Opal said: "No, it's too cold and I will come back."

Locke said: "Don't go! I'm preparing for the winter, let me see, you haven't bought food? How do you want to live?"

Opal walked backwards, smiling as he walked, "I can do it, trust me." Then he pointed at Locke, took E7 out of the village, and disappeared on the horizon.

The wind picked up, Opal walked forward with difficulty against the sandstorm, and a hurricane blew up on the crimson rock bed that obscured his vision. He shouted loudly: "Teacher——! Teacher!"

Opal's voice was faint and inaudible, but Rector heard it. He stretched out his hand and carried Opal into a cave.

Opal coughed loudly, two simple beds were laid out in the cave, the shells of the two dark energy batteries were disassembled, and the energy had been used up.

"Used up?" Opal asked in surprise.

Rake nodded and said, "How many days are there enough food and water?"

Opal said, "Less than ten days."

Rector pondered for a moment and asked, "How many days will the sandstorm last?"

Opal said: "It should be sunny tomorrow."

Reckert said, "Rest, I promise you won't die of starvation or cold this winter."

Opal sat down beside the bed in the cave, and Rector inserted the chip into the projector on E7's head.

"You can read now," Rector said.

E7 projected a light screen, and Opal began to teach himself the elementary content of the Interstellar United School.

This process took five days.After reading the textbooks, Opal found that the chip was a bit old, and his mother taught him a little about the basic mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry in it.The amount of information is too much and too wide, and he can hardly remember anything after reading it.

Five days later, Rector changed a chip and said: "This is some information records and knowledge of Star Knight. I need you to swear to me that you will never mention to anyone what you have known during this time, as well as my name." , my identity."

Opal said: "I promise."

Rector didn't speak any more, and turned on E7.

This time the projector did not deploy the light screen, but the chip scattered two beams of light in the light of the projection device, and began to scan Opal's pupils.

With the sound of beeps, countless information and memories were injected into his mind, the star map of the universe, the knowledge of atoms and molecules, energy propulsion, the principle of spaceship navigation, the generation of black holes and the explosion of stars... thousands of pieces of information Made him dizzy.

After an unknown amount of time, Opal stumbled out, leaning on the rock and vomiting loudly.Accepting so much at once, but forcing it into his memory, made his brain feel a strong sense of rejection.

There was a tinkling sound, Rector was hitting a piece of steel, which was an abandoned mine support he picked up from nowhere.

"Take a break when you're tired," Rector said.

Opal asked, "Is what it says true?"

Rector nodded, Opal said: "Can I use this knowledge to repair my mother's spaceship?"

Rechter said: "The content in it is just the basic principles. I suggest that you hire a technician in the future, and you can learn from it. The world of knowledge has no boundaries. It is impossible for one person to understand everything. Give up some areas appropriately. It can make you more specialized in your own path."

Opal recalled the principle of the spaceship, and there were indeed too many things he didn’t understand, but the computer inside had auxiliary maintenance functions, and according to what he had seen before, the mother’s spaceship had a problem with a large atomic furnace, and her star Figure...she doesn't have a navigation system!Has the star map been stolen?Or is it broken, and that's why it's stranded on this planet?

Opal thought of the star map that Rector gave him, can it be used?

He got up immediately, Rector said: "Sit down, there will be a chance later."

Opal walked back and forth in the cave, so excited that he couldn't describe it in words. It was already dark, and the wind that ravaged the world was still howling outside the cave.Still wanting to know more, he sat back to put on his glasses.

Rechter knocked on the iron plate without raising his head, and said: "Forcing information indoctrination is not very effective. You lack a process of mastering and comprehending, so you can avoid chewing too much. You'd better spend more time thinking now."

Opal said: "Thank you, teacher."

Rector smiled and nodded, Opal asked again: "What are you doing?"

Reckert said, "Forge weapons."

Opal watched his movements. Rector was shirtless and turned on the high-temperature flame on the atomic furnace. The scorching heat made him sweat profusely, and the sweat on his muscles gave him a majestic beauty.

"The core of the weapon... where did you get it?" Opal looked at the complicated machine in surprise. Was it all handmade by Rector?Not too possible?

Was it dismantled from his spaceship?But where is his spaceship?Even the rescue capsule is gone... Recalling the first time I saw Rector, he only had a bracelet on his body and nothing else.

Rector said: "You will know later."

Opal has become accustomed to this answer, so he stopped asking, and lay on the blanket thinking. Too much knowledge these days has brought an indescribable impact on his thoughts, and his soul seemed to have the deepest tremor .

It is as if a person finally opened his eyes and saw the vast world and the boundless universe.