The Star Knight

The war was delayed, and the mercenaries began to have nothing to do.Drinking and hanging out every day, going to Lie Xing's lake to eat barbecue, and going on a surfing vacation to pass the day, anyway, the fixed money and promotion points will be transferred to their account.

The Twilight Lake outside the Sunset City is very big, as big as an ocean as far as the eye can see.There are many fresh water and strange creatures in the freshwater lake. Opal began to learn to swim under Raymond's teaching.

"Float." Raymond said: "The whole body is tense, like a corpse."

Opal took a few sips of water and fluttered around in a panic. Raymond half-carried him and brought him to the shallow water area.

Opal coughed a few times, both of them were only wearing beach shorts, and the blue necklace on Raymond's chest was still dripping.

Opal noticed that he always wore this necklace, and asked curiously: "Who gave this to you? Ex-lover?"

Opal picked up the pendant with his fingers and looked over and over.

Raymond said: "Without a lover, you always don't believe it, don't touch it."

Opal casually squeezed Raymond Jianmei's chest, and said, "I'll try again."

Raymond's face was slightly red, and he let go of the palm holding Opal's wrist, signaling him to practice by himself, while he straightened his beach shorts uncomfortably and turned to go ashore.

When Raymond walked to the shore, Opal stood in the water panting slightly, his body was a little hot, and he licked his lips. At that moment, his lower body was hard, and there was a desire to put a certain impulse into practice .

Raymond seems to always be very serious, and never communicates with him about sex. Opal thinks of Sui Yan, and Xun and Sid who got together when they first met. Mercenaries are always very casual about this kind of thing. Fantasizing about Paradise is a kind of entertainment...but Lei Meng's conditions are really good, although he is not as handsome and sunny as Sui Yan.

Opal plunged into the water, opened his eyes, and the sun shines on the sand under his feet through the clear shallow water.

"Have you learned?" Raymond said.

Opal's skin was dripping with water. He lay down on the beach chair next to Raymond and nodded. Raymond was wearing sunglasses and said, "Learning to swim can deal with many crises. You can't swim fast enough. As long as there is an emergency When something happens, just try not to drown in the water."

Opal looked sideways at Lei Meng, and the two looked at each other for a moment, Lei Meng bent his foot unnaturally, as if covering something, and said, "What?"

Opal said, "Does your necklace have any meaning?"

Raymond didn't answer, and said, "You like this very much? Give it to you. I don't know what the point is."

He wanted to untie the necklace with one hand, Opal hurriedly said: "Just curious, I don't want it."

In fact, Opal just took the opportunity to look at him by looking at the necklace. Raymond's figure is perfect and well-proportioned, his face is not as handsome as Sui Yan, but he is also a handsome man. He has the toughness and masculinity of mercenaries, but he is not as handsome as Opal's thick eyebrows and big eyes. , but don't have a temperament.

The sun reflected the sweat on his bronzed chest, his six-pack was hard and sexy, and a few strands of pubic hair that couldn't be suppressed by beach pants showed below his navel.

"Go water skiing." Raymond got up and said.

After finishing his drink, Opal followed him onto the breaker board. With a yell, the two dragged out long waves, turned left and right on the lake, sometimes passed each other, and sometimes chased after each other. Jumping up in a high-speed dash, he made a beautiful circle in the air, and smiled at Opal.

Opal refused to admit defeat, and imitated him by stepping on the split board, jumped into the air, spun around and a half, and fell into the water with a snap.

Raymond laughed loudly, turned back quickly, took Opal's hand to lead him out of the water, and shouted, "Hurry up!"

The two of them stepped on the same surfboard, and they were lifted to the highest speed by Raymond. They rushed across the Twilight Lake and rushed to the depths of the boundless lake. Opal was unable to stand still several times, and Raymond pulled his arms back. , let him hug his waist, Opal's heart almost jumped out of his throat.

Both of them were naked on the upper body, and only wore beach shorts on the lower body. Opal's chest was pressed against Raymond's warm back. The lower body reacted almost immediately. He wanted to say something impulsively. How should he say it at this time?

"Raymond!" Opal shouted.

Raymond turned his head in the wind and said with a smile, "What?!"

Opal said: "I... ahhh!! Be careful of the tree in front—!"

The next moment, the two of them bumped into a towering tree growing from the bottom of the lake in the middle of the lake, and were hung on the branches of the tree for a while.

Opal: "Hahahaha!"

Raymond: "..."

"I..." Opal was hung on a branch away from the water, and asked: "Raymond, I have an idea, why don't we..."

Raymond's watch beeped.

Opal: "..."

Lei Meng ignored the communication signal, raised his head and said, "What? You go first."

Opal's heart was beating wildly, and he said, "Do you want to play with me... in that fantasy, fantasy paradise?"

Raymond's face was a little red, he turned to pick up the surfboard, and said, "I don't know, I haven't touched that one...will I give it to you?"

Opal said: "No, I want to buy one, uh, if you don't like it, forget it..."

Raymond said, "Okay, I'm just a little...well..."

Opal said: "If you're embarrassed, I can try... to be... the passive one below. Anyway, you choose first, and see what you like. You can do whatever you want."

Raymond said, "It doesn't matter to me either, you can go and buy one with our money."

For a moment, Opal could almost clearly feel Raymond's emotions—expectation and excitement.

When Lei Meng said this, he didn't look at Opal. Opal licked his lips, exulting, like a child who got something he had always dreamed of. Lei Meng never dared to look at him. Natural red.He stepped on the surfboard, floated and sank by the lake, and said, "Come up."

Opal stood up and took the initiative to hug Lei Meng's waist. This time, the speed was a little slower, and he drove out slowly on the lake. Lei Meng connected to the watch, and an electronic female voice came from inside.

"Notice, at this moment, the state of war will stop, and the whole planet will resume normal work order. All registered mercenaries are requested to report back to the head of the regiment. After the head sorts out the list, he will immediately register with the branch of the trade union he belongs to."

"Ah—" Opal and Raymond said helplessly at the same time.

"We can still take vacations." Raymond said, "It's just to sell public vacations."

Opal said: "Forget it, I have rested for too long, let's go back to the trade union and have a look."

Opal went to change into a jacket with trousers, he was a little distracted, his crotch was so high, he wished he could go back to the spaceship right now... No, it’s still important to get down to business.

Raymond was also a little unnatural. It seemed that Opal's invitation just now made the relationship between the two of them a lot weirder. The ground suspension vehicle was speeding along the road, Raymond opened the window and played music, and Ledgerson's singing sounded all the way .

Neither of them spoke. After getting off the car at the entrance of the trade union in Sunlight City, Lei Meng went to squeeze the window. In the blink of an eye, the place was full of mercenaries again, and there was a sea of ​​people, even more than before the war.

The central communication sounded: "All mercenary captains please go to windows 13 to 49 to go through the formalities. The rewards for receiving any emergency commissions today will remain the same, and the promotion points will be doubled...I reiterate..."

Opal said: "Is there such a good thing?"

"The commission backlog is too long!" One person explained to him: "The trade union is busy asking us to finish all the tasks from ten weeks ago!"

Opal said: "Should we get the mission now? Wouldn't it be very profitable? No more wars?"

"Azeroth has formed an alliance with the Empire!" The clerk yelled: "There is no war, everyone escaped! That son of a bitch in Corolin dare not come! I wish you a long life! Bonus points! Send it! Let’s all go out on missions! The magnetic storm is coming soon!”

"Raymond! Have you received it?!" Opal said.

Raymond squeezed in front of the office window, and snapped his fingers without looking back. Opal looked down at his mercenary diary. The content of the commission was to assist the employer in investigating an ancient ruins.

"Great!" Opal glanced at the reward points: 820 points!After doubling, it is [-] points, which is enough for him to be directly promoted to D-level, and Lei Meng will easily break through D+ and be promoted to C-level.

"I'll take E7 to overhaul the spaceship." Opal said.

Raymond smiled and said, "I'm going to overhaul the weapon and prepare it."

Opal said: "Buy more iris wine..."

Opal returned to the tarmac and suddenly remembered that he forgot to buy Fantasy Paradise. He watched E7 inspecting the spaceship, and the charging robot came to connect the atomic furnace interface. It is a bit late to buy now... Forget it, let’s talk about it later.

Raymond came back with their weapons and held Opal's shoulders. They boarded Time-VI, E7 entered and closed the hatch, and the spaceship set off.

Raymond went into the bedroom and looked around, took out a box from his backpack, thought for a while, put it in the drawer of the bedside table, thought again, took it out, and put it in the retractable locker on top of the bed.

"Raymond." Opal asked outside: "What are you doing?"

Raymond: "No...it's nothing, I just want to take a shower, what's the matter?"

Opal opened the star map, sat on the swivel chair, entered the coordinates according to the mercenary diary, and said: "The mission location is here, the M75 dark open star cluster in the Sagittarius Nebula."

"No specific location?" Raymond said.

Opal shrugged and said: "There is only a general area, and it is here."

He circled a dark area and said: "It is a space area with a length of about fifteen astronomical units. The employer asked us to check all possible planets and conduct on-the-spot imaging and sample analysis. They thought there might be a About 4000 years ago, the remains of the civilization of the Silver Age."

Raymond said, "Wait a minute."

Opal: "What?"

Lei Meng pondered for a moment, and said, "I think it's okay to go to Rembrandt Star first and ask Mrs. Anta to be prepared."

Opal nodded, and changed his route to Rembrandt Star. He had already been here once, connected to the ground communication, and found Refina easily.

The sun was shining brightly, and Refina was drinking scented tea in the courtyard.

When Refina saw Opal and Lei Meng, she said, "Your king said he was going to fight, so he threw me here. Now that he feels safe, let me go back?"

Opal said regretfully: "Perhaps someone will come to pick you up after a while... Actually, we didn't come here for this."

Refina didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Sit down, I thought it was another itinerary arranged by Gray Wolf without authorization."

"I have a few questions to ask you." Raymond opened the mercenary diary, politely handed it to Refina, and said, "I hope this won't take up too much of your time."

"My duty is to provide you with historical consultation." Refina picked up the diary and said casually: "It's not troublesome, so I said I should stay in Liexing... Let me see, ancient ruins survey? Enya , bring my holographic book."

Enya went back to get things, Opal took her tea tray and put the snacks on the table.

"Is this your engagement ring?" Refina noticed the ring on Opal's hand.

Opal hurriedly said, "No, no, he gave it to me, but it's not an engagement ring."

"You wear it on your ring finger." Refina said, "According to the etiquette of people on the ancient earth, this symbolizes the meaning of marriage..."

Opal took off the ring and said, "Do you know what year this is from?"

Refina took the ring, and Raymond said: "This is a gift from the Black Ant Planet, and the wrench said it can send signals to space."

Refina looked at the ring facing the sun, Enya came over with a book and a tube mirror, Refina pressed a button, the tube mirror projected a light, refracted on the gemstone of the ring, and the light screen scrolled to analyze the data.

"The product of the civilization period of the Sekeria Temple." Refina was much younger, but her voice and tone were still serious and rigid: "The neutrino amplitude data shows that the production period is about 3000 years from now."

Opal and Raymond were moved at the same time.

Raymond: "How long?!"

Opal: "How much can it be sold for?!"

Raymond: "You want to sell the things I gave you?!"

Opal said: "No! Don't be so excited, I'm just curious to ask how much it is worth. This represents your love for me! Can't I know how much it is?"

Raymond: "..."

Refina burst out laughing, and said: "Handmade products, the artistic value is very low, but it may be useful for research."

Opal: "But the wrench said..."

Refina said: "It doesn't matter if you are willing to trust Azeroth's royal mechanic."

Opal fell silent. Raymond thought of something, took out another stone, and asked, "What does the civilization of the Sekeria Temple mean?"

Refina took the ruby, which was what Azeroth bought from Sid for 20 last time. Opal said, "You want to sell the heirloom?!"

Raymond said, "Why not?"

Opal: "This represents Azeroth's love for our regiment!"

Raymond cried bitterly: "You are enough!"

The corner of Refina's mouth twitched, Opal put the ring back on her finger, and handed the gem to Ramon.

"Then..." Refina smiled and said, "Let's take a look at the ancient ruins of the dark open nebula of M75."

She opened a book with only two pages, and pressed a few buttons on the book, and the pages projected uneven light, forming a three-dimensional projection map.

Refina paused for a moment and said, "Who issued this mission?"

"Interstellar Ancient Civilization Exploration Association, Budalang...Ning Zweig Sawyer Clay...Professor Locus." Opal stuttered at the pile of complicated names.

Raymond gestured with his eyes, and Opal immediately realized that they had made a mistake—disclosed the employer’s private information to outsiders.

The corner of Opal's mouth twitched slightly, and Lei Meng signaled him to feel relieved with his eyes.

Refina said: "Gentlemen, I enjoy the privilege assigned to me by Azeroth. Consulting me on all entrustments is not a leak. Otherwise, how can I provide you with consulting services?"

Raymond smiled awkwardly, turned to Refina and said, "What secrets are there in the M75 nebula?"

Refina was quiet for a while, narrowed her eyes and said, "Someone once asked me this question. The M75 nebula is a dark open nebula, and many dark areas are not recorded on the star map, but according to the analysis of the Great Aerospace Star Atlas Agency, this In the past 700 years, there have been many changes in the gravitational field in this place. There should be a dark star there, which is attracted by the gravity of the surrounding celestial bodies and moves along a fixed trajectory, but no one has ever explored it. Because in this area, with this area ..."

She circled two places in the dark area with her fingers, and said: "There is a neutron star in each of these places, and they form a spherical intersection of gravitational fields. Anyone who enters a spaceship will be torn apart by the two gravitational fields." Fragments."

Opal: "But I don't understand, since the gravitational force of these two neutron stars is so strong, why aren't they attracted together?"

"Because they revolve around each other." Refina said, "It's like two wooden barrels facing each other on the edge of a whirlpool. Every 1 years, they will approach each other tens of thousands of kilometers...or maybe hundreds of thousands of kilometers. , without data, we have no way of knowing, and it is speculated that they will eventually merge with each other and become a black hole."

Raymond said: "Why is this dark star not affected by the surrounding planets? You know what I mean, I mean..."

Refina replied: "I guess the dark star is like a pendulum, making simple harmonic vibrations within the gravitational range of the two neutron stars, back and forth, and the cycle may be 1000 years, or 1 years."

Raymond fell silent, and Refina said: "It hasn't emitted any radiation. We can only guess its location based on the change and angle of gravity. No one can even be sure that it really exists."

Raymond: "I see."

Opal said: "I still don't quite understand."

Raymond said: "Go home and explain to you, don't ask."

Opal: "..."

Raymond got up to say goodbye to Refina, and suddenly thought of something again, and asked, "Who asked you this question?"

Refina said: "Your counterparts—the pair of twin brothers. Go back and tell Azeroth that I don't want to move this time unless he invites him in person."

Opal laughed and said, "I'll let Gray Wolf invite you."

An angry flush appeared on Refina's face, Enya laughed, Raymond took Opal's shoulders, and said goodbye to Refina politely.

The two returned to the spaceship, and Raymond placed two virtual pinballs in the air, and signaled to Opal: "These two neutron stars are slowly approaching, my fist is where we are going...you see. "

Raymond waved his fist at the midpoint of the line connecting the two pinballs, and said: "More than 1 years ago, the distance between these two neutron stars may not have been so close. Until now, their strong gravitational fields have begun to overlap. Together, it takes more than 1000 years for the dark star to come out once. In this short period of time, we can land on the surface of the dark star and start surveying before it enters the gravitational field again."

Opal also understood, he murmured: "It's like a treasure house, opened every once in a while?"

Raymond said: "It should be like this, this way things will be easier..."

While talking, the phone rang.

Opal and Raymond said in unison: "E7."

There was a beep, and a drowsy voice sounded from the spacecraft's loudspeaker, accompanied by the rustling of the communication channel.

"I'm a wrench. Please pay attention to all units. Complete all the commissions you have at hand and return to the home planet. The Meteor Corps led by Kolorin is coming, and Lie Xing has entered a state of war. Please return to help as soon as possible."

"What to do?" Opal asked.

Raymond: "Don't do the commission yet, what's the matter? It came again suddenly?! E7! Change the route and go home!"

No matter how Opal and Raymond imagined it, they never imagined that the war would start without warning!

Lie Xing is like when Opal arrived for the first time, it was covered by a magnetic storm and thunderclouds. This place has become a battlefield. Cannon fire is flying in the outer galaxy of Ares. Countless light bullets pass through the dark universe and shoot into the distant depths of space. , the six star gates revolved around, bursting out majestic energy and lightning, forming a huge teleportation array, the light flashed, and every second, mercenary spaceships rushed out of the five-dimensional space dragging the thunder and iridescence of creation , Fly to Lie Xing.

Tens of millions of unmanned combat aircraft fly out from a space carrier, and the rays of light fly like raindrops, and millions of outer space stations are connected by electric arcs, forming an energy shield.Opal was almost unable to recognize its position, the surrounding space was shaking in the explosion, and a space station behind them had an earth-shattering explosion.

Epoch-VI rushed out of the flames and flew towards the stars. Opal still couldn't help looking back, remembering the thrilling scene.

"Wartime security, enter your mercenary diary, ID number, voice, fingerprint, and pupil triple verification." The space station outside Lie Xing's atmosphere sent an identity verification message.

Opal and Raymond passed the outer defense, and when they returned to the ground, the entire Liexing was already boiling.

"Fuck it!" the mercenaries yelled and ran, and Sunshine City was in chaos.

Opal said: "Where to report! Hey! Where's Azeroth?!"

A mercenary closed the hatch and said loudly: "Azeroth hasn't returned yet! He was held back by the people of the empire—! Which mercenary group are you from! Come with me!"

"Warning—warning—" electronic voices were everywhere, and all broadcasts sounded at the same time: "The defense layer of the outer space station has been destroyed, and the planetary defense battle is expected to begin in seventeen hours."

At that moment, all the mercenaries were boiling, and the next second, after a brief silence, everyone left the tarmac at a running speed.The policeman shouted: "Get in the car! Take the regiment as a unit, and report to the branch union! Which one is assigned to—!"

Opal and Raymond were assigned to the City of Sunlight. When they got off the bus, they couldn't even tell where they were. Another mercenary shouted, "Come with us! The door to the mercenary union is closed! Go to the Wartime Information Center!"

Tens of thousands of people entered a hall, and countless mercenary diaries clocked in and reported in front of the self-service information desk. Light screens flew around, a magnetic storm came, the earth was dark, and lightning passed through the sky. It’s a war in a magnetic storm.”

"The ground battle hasn't started yet." Raymond stood outside the trade union, looking up at the gray zenith.

"Look at the diary!" A mercenary captain who temporarily assisted shouted: "Boys! There is something you should do! Take your place and return to your posts! Everyone stick to their duties! Shout out to me! We Will win!"

"We will win! Brothers! Long live!" The mercenaries shouted and ran out of the information center. Thousands of hovering vehicles lifted off against the magnetic storm and flew to their respective target locations.

Opal asked nervously, "Raymond, what are you going to do?"

Raymond took a deep breath and replied, "Go to the No. 16 mech apron to report."

Opal: "I'm going to the No. 2 safe area of ​​the city of souls, shall we separate?"

The heavy rain began to fall, and Opal suddenly discovered that this was the place where they officially met on the first day - the entrance of the Cuckoo Restaurant.

A long time ago, they were all strangers from outside. Perhaps when they met here that day, Opal never thought that he would one day join the battlefield of this planet.

"Look." Raymond said, "Opal, here."

He opened the mercenary diary and pointed to the bottom line, where it showed meritorious value - zero.The note is "Team Merit".

"Although we didn't fight in the same place, our merits are exactly the same." Raymond said, "How many enemies I kill, you here will also automatically count. On the contrary, you are the same, regardless of each other, the merits are all added together, I think , The scoring rules of other teams are also the same, fighting bloody battles to protect their comrades."

"Yes." Opal nodded.

Opal patted Raymond on the shoulder and said, "I give you my ring."

Raymond said: "No, I have an armor, you don't have one, you keep it."

The two were silent for a short time, and the all-star broadcast sounded again: "The defense of Zhanwei Wu is about to start, and all mecha players should go to the 16th apron immediately to report."

Raymond said: "I'm leaving, you pay attention to safety."

Opal nodded silently, took a step forward, and the two embraced tightly. After separating, Raymond ran to a suspension vehicle, while Opal boarded a special train and headed to the City of War Souls. Each of them looked for their own positions. and fight.

——Volume [-]. Mercenary Kingdom·End——

Volume Two: The King of the Meteor