The Star Knight

Raymond: "Hey, should you get up and do something?"

Opal: "This is the garbage you made yourself, clean it up yourself."

Raymond was frizzy, cleaning the spaceship desperately, while Opal lay leisurely on the sofa and read the E7 newspaper, and said casually, "Can't you handle an army of 1000 people? Honeymoon, huh?"

Raymond: "..."

Raymond spent a full six hours cleaning up the spaceship. The garbage was stuffed into the decomposition furnace and burned. He was sweating profusely, lying on the sofa with bare shoulders, and said, "Go and sail the ship."

Opal: "E7——set the route, female Luoxing."

When Era-VI took off, Raymond said, "I want to buy a house cleaning robot."

Opal turned over and straddled Raymond's waist, saying, "You are a home robot."

Raymond: "I am your spouse! Your leader! Who was repeating that I am a human like you!"

Opal smiled and untied his belt. Raymond sat up and hugged him, buried his face on his shoulder, and said, "I don't have the strength anymore, I don't want to do it."

Opal said, "Try the one that the wrench said?"

Raymond started to mess with Opal's clothes, turned over and pressed him on the sofa. The two of them tried several times. When they didn't use fantasy heaven, Raymond either penetrated too deep or too shallow, and couldn't grasp the strength of the top. Well, the top of the opal hurts, and there is no pleasure at all. In the end, I have to use it to imagine heaven and continue to play.

There is a direct ship from Liexing to Nvluoxing, and it only takes 36 hours to go to and from the Starry Sky Gate, which is very fast.During this period, Opal and Raymond laughed at each other except for making love, even playing bouncing pool, they had to go to war, and fought with each other.

Thirty-six hours later, Time-VI arrived at the outskirts of the female star, Opal was pillowed on Lei Meng's lap, and Lei Meng was flipping through the mercenary diary.

"Please submit your entry application and sixteen-digit password." The other party sent a message.

"What's the communication code?" Opal stood up and said, "And this thing? We're here for our honeymoon."

Raymond said: "Client: Chairman Ellie of the 'Botanical Research Promotion Association', the local ID is X37007351A."

"The female star is in a special period and does not accept any visitors." The electronic voice in the space station reminded: "Reiterate, your identity is not allowed to enter the female star, and entry is refused."

Opal threatened: "Hey, man, are you a robot or a human? Call a human to speak, or our king will beat you into a discus..."

"Warning, warning, force expulsion in three seconds, one."

It was too late, and then it was too late, hundreds of small robots flew out of the space station, and Raymond shouted: "Get out of the way! What's going on!"

Opal roared: "This robot must have a broken CPU! What is 'one'! Shouldn't it count down to three?!"

The cannon in the era-VI vibrated violently, the defensive cover fell rapidly, and there were more and more attacking fighter jets.

"What to do!" Opal said, "Too many!"

Raymond: "Enter the atmosphere! Take cover!"

Opal turned the spaceship around and rushed into the atmosphere with flames rumbling, followed by nearly a hundred defensive fighters. Raymond rushed to the control position of the turret, set up the scope and turned the muzzle, and a beam of electromagnetic light penetrated the fleet chasing the spaceship .

The combat robots instantly split into two rows and outflanked them. The Times-VI propeller exploded, and with a loud bang, the hull deviated. Opal said: "The protective cover is gone!"

Raymond glanced back and shouted, "Rush into the forest!"

Opal: "The bite is too tight! The turret can't be turned! Damn it, Raymond! Look below!"

Spectacular forest fires ignited on the female star, and the six space stations outside the atmosphere were firing artillery in turn, and tens of millions of hectares of land were turned into a sea of ​​flames.

Mars surged through the sky, and a huge mother tree glowed green in the center of the planet.

"I don't have time to watch it!" Raymond roared, "No matter what, let's take pictures later!"

Opal did not forget to say: "I'm here for honeymoon! Aren't you able to solve everything?!"

Raindrops of light bullets covered the entire spaceship like a long river. Era-VI caught fire, and the console alarmed one after another. The ground was getting closer and closer. Raymond said: "Smooth landing! Open the hatch! Bring your weapons!"

Opal said: "What are you going to do! You will die if you fall!"

Raymond: "Listen to me!"

Opal opened the hatch, the fighter jets gathered again, light bullets shot into the cabin, and swept them out of the cabin, Raymond set up the impact gun and fired a shot out of the cabin, Opal said: "E7! Guard the spaceship! "

Raymond shot four times one after another, buckled the steel cable hook next to the cabin door on his belt, ran up a few steps and rushed out of the spaceship, jumped on top of the fighter jet rushing to the front, and swung the impact gun in a circle.

The winch rotated rapidly, the steel cable was pulled less and less, and explosions sounded one after another outside, Opal was dumbfounded.

Lei Meng shot several times in mid-air, and Era-VI rushed into the female star forest. Leaves, branches and fruits flew in, and there was darkness outside the porthole. Lei Meng pulled the steel cable suddenly, and flew in like a shell. Falling together with Opal, the spaceship fell into darkness, the engine on the left side exploded and emitted black smoke, and fell into the forest.

The fighter jets only chased over the forest and then left.

In the dark cabin, E7 projected a light screen to analyze the surrounding environment. Lei Meng lay in Opal's arms and let out a sigh.

"It seems that you are right." Raymond said, "Something must have happened to the female star."

Opal pushed Raymond away, sat in front of the console, inspected the damage report of the spaceship, and said, "The main energy pool has blown up, and the engine has been destroyed. Our forced landing site is the swamp area of ​​the female star... oh no. "

The spaceship sank slowly, and Raymond said: "E7!"

"It's useless!" Opal said, "Get out of here!"

Opal put the weapon on his back, picked up the backpack, and Raymond grabbed the E7. The two of them rushed out of the back cabin of the spaceship, and slowly sank in the mud. The spaceship was nearly half sunk in the mud. Raymond Every time he pulled out his foot, he sank deeper, and after rushing 20 meters away from the spaceship, Opal had sunk to his waist.

"It's asphalt!" Raymond said, "Don't move! Turn the sword horizontally!"

"Don't be nervous!" Opal hurriedly said, "I have a solution!"

Raymond: "Don't move! It will get deeper and deeper!"

The opal had been submerged in mud up to his chest. He stretched out his hands, took a deep breath, and released the power of faith. The mud under his feet began to surge, and the asphalt lake formed tumbling waves, slowly pushing them to the shore.

Both of them were covered in muddy dark green mud. Raymond tried to take a step and landed.

Opal heaved a sigh of relief, and when he looked back at the center of the asphalt lake, Epoch-VI sank to the point where there was only one top sign left.

Three seconds later, even the logo was gone.

"Can you figure it out with your thoughts?" Raymond asked.

Opal said: "Theoretically yes."

Raymond: "Try."

Opal: "But I don't have enough confidence now..."

Raymond: "..."

"Try to let the E7 remote control spacecraft go into space?" Opal said: "E7."

E7 was stuck to the shore by the asphalt, Opal lifted it up, E7 spun the track rapidly, sprayed a lot of mud, and covered his face, Raymond laughed and staggered, Opal wiped his face in embarrassment , the attempt failed, so he had to follow the forest and start exploring the surrounding environment.

"This is really an unforgettable honeymoon trip." Opal said unhappily.

Lei Meng looked up at the surrounding scenery, and said with a smile: "Don't you think the environment is pretty good?"

The midday sun casts down from the top of the Nvluo forest, the dark environment is full of damp smell, and the burnt gas of the fire floats in the distance, Opal and Raymond find a path through the forest, the ground is covered with decayed leaves, the surrounding The aerial roots of the female dill tree swirled and entangled around them as if they were alive.

"Be careful." Opal said, "This is the female dill tree? What do they want to do?"

Opal stared at the three air roots that stretched out in front of him, full of threats. They seemed to want to strangle Opal's throat, but they were afraid of something about him.

There are aerial roots of trees everywhere, like snakes hanging from the top of the branches.

"The female dill trees will attack people." Lei Meng remained vigilant all the time: "But they didn't repel us. We must find a way to get out of here as soon as possible. What tools are you carrying in your bag?"

"Let me take a look." Opal found an open space and sat down. There are dozens of trees around here, and their aerial roots all extend towards the center, forming an encircling circle, as if the dryads are spying on the two with malicious intentions. A traveler from a foreign land.

Opal: "I began to doubt the legend that this is a resort. The feeling of these trees is too unfriendly."

Raymond: "We're just in the wrong direction for the forced landing... As far as I know, there are three layers on the female planet, and we are currently at the bottom of the entire planet. Maybe other places are still very friendly."

Opal opened the asphalt-stained backpack, which contained a photon knife, some food, and a wrapped gift box.

Raymond looked at the contents of the backpack expressionlessly.

Raymond: "Let me see, what is this?"

Opal: "A gift for Mu Shu... We haven't seen each other for a long time..."

Raymond: "You gave him fantasy paradise?"

Opal: "What's the matter? I like it very much, so there's nothing wrong with giving it to him... Don't tear it apart! I promise it's for one person!"

"What is this?" Raymond took out a palm-sized brown fruit from his backpack.

Opal remembered, he held the fruit with three fingers, stood up slowly, and pointed it towards the air root, and the air root avoided it.

"The fruit of the female dill tree." Opal murmured, "Mushu gave it to me before, no wonder they don't attack us."

Raymond looked up at the tree and said, "It's different from their fruits."

Opal said: "This is the biggest tree in the middle, which belongs to the mother of the daughters."

The aerial roots dispersed and returned to their respective trees quietly. Opal held the fruit and held hands with Raymond, looking for a way to leave the forest.There was an explosion in the distance, and the ground trembled uncontrollably. Raymond signaled Opal to follow him, pulled out his weapon rack, and ran quickly into the depths of the forest.

A group of locals were holding weapons against the fighter jets above the forest, shouting while running, the incendiary bomb fell to the ground and exploded, and more than a dozen wounded were struggling painfully in the sea of ​​flames.

Opal yelled, "Don't fire!"

Lei Meng caught up from behind, pressed Opal, and said loudly: "Be careful!"

The two of them rolled on the ground, and the burning tree fell down. Opal crossed the sword to block the light bullets of the battle robot from the zenith. Raymond mounted the impact gun and went straight up the tree trunk, gasping for breath. Gen swayed in an arc, and fired four bursts in a row. The impact gun shot out a beam of light, which penetrated the fighter jets chasing the locals.

Opal rescued people from the fire, pushed the wounded to roll on the ground to extinguish the flames, four or five fighter jets flying over the forest were shot down by Raymond, and the rest turned around and were recalled.

Opal yelled at one burnt man: "Alive? Hey! Are you okay?"

Raymond put away his weapon and came back, moaning all over the floor.

"Healing is needed," Raymond said. "Find someone sober."

Opal checked one by one, and saw that they were all wearing green camouflage military uniforms, local soldiers?He helped a wounded soldier who was not seriously injured, and asked, "What happened here?"

"You... who are you?" The wounded soldier said with difficulty, "Where did you come from?"

"We are mercenaries, and Miss Ellie is the employer." Lei Meng frowned and said, "The female Luo Xing is fighting?"

The wounded soldier screamed in pain, Opal took off his coat, and pressed his burned and cracked skin, the wounded soldier said: "Ai Li... please, please come... help, I know... after... the back There is a ground patrol boat, 500 meters away from here, on the swamp just west of here... use... this, come here."

The wounded soldier handed over a remote control key, Raymond took it, tapped Opal's earbuds, and said, "I'm going to drive, you are here to protect them and keep in touch at any time."

"Take E7 with you too." Opal said.

Raymond took E7 away, and Opal stepped forward to check the injured one by one, searched through their backpacks, found a water bottle and gave them some water.

"Here... I'll drink some too, thanks... buddy." A wounded soldier struggled to move over, blood oozing from his thigh.

After feeding the water, the groans of wounded soldiers all over the ground became much quieter. Opal's fingerless gloves were stained with blood from their burns. He flipped through the electronic ID of one of the wounded soldiers and checked the projected Personal information on light screen.

The display is as follows:

Name: Yake

Affiliation: Team 47 of the Third Unit of the Nvluo Ground Civilian Peacekeeping Army, the leader of the patrol unit.

Birthplace: Antakri City, Prairie City.

Genetic code: (code to hide stripes)

Opal said, "Are you militiamen?"

Yake miraculously felt much better after drinking the drink in the kettle. He nodded and said, "Yes, the female star is in a civil war. Thank God, you finally came. Did the mercenary king Azeroth ask you to come?"

Opal said: "No, this is an open mission. Let me tell you what happened first. We received a mission to arrest poachers. Why did it change?"

"Fucking poachers!" a militiaman said angrily, "That's from the Imperial Army! The Empire and the Republic have made this a battlefield!"

Opal was puzzled and said: "One person said it. Only one person will tell me the details of the incident."

Yake intermittently began to talk about a series of problems that have occurred on the female star in the past four cosmic months-the female star has been an independent planet recognized by the interstellar community since 1 years ago. With the symbolic meaning of the female mother, both the Empire and the Republic Don't dare to interfere. In the dark age 7000 years ago, the female star was one of the few shelters that was not destroyed by the war. The area covered by technology is very small, and almost all residents adhere to the natural and pure life attitude.

And the special attribute of female dill trees that attack outsiders also makes female dills not prosperous in the tourism industry.But just three years ago, there was a local conflict in the female Luoxing, which was called the Mayflower bloody incident in history...

Opal almost cried when he heard that.

"I am most afraid of historical events such as the November Uprising, the Iris Revolution, etc." Opal was frightened by Lie Xing's history, and said helplessly, "Can we not mention history?"

Raymond came back and assisted Opal to carry the wounded soldiers onto the patrol boat. Some wounded soldiers were able to walk on their own, but their bodies were still horribly burned.

"Healed so quickly?" Raymond asked in surprise.

"Mother's milk." Opal still remembered the method provided by the doctor named He Sai when he treated Raymond. He said casually: "It can increase the activity of cells, continue."

Yake lay on the patrol boat, Raymond drove the airship along the map indicators, Opal stepped on the window of the car, and listened to Yake's introduction of the local situation.

The Mayflower bloody incident was caused by the Republic of the Milky Way proposing to the female star the right to purchase saplings for 120 years, and because the offspring could not survive without the mother of the female rose. form planting.

The Republic paid Nu Luoxing a large amount of money, and at the same time promised to set up a processing factory to assist the female Luoxing to build their own processing lines.As a result, the local political organization, the Female Rose Freedom Organization, split into two factions, and the organization's parliament passed a proposal to prepare to cooperate with the empire—most of these were new immigrants who came to the female star to cultivate after the Dark Ages.

The local councilors left the parliament angrily and returned to the forest, while the new immigrants occupied the outskirts of the forest.The prosperity of the mills of the Republic has led to a proportional increase in unemployment among the natives...

Opal's head was full of black lines, and he didn't get to the point after talking for a long time.

"Talk about poachers." Raymond said.

Yake said: "The workers of the Republic were captured by poachers and taken hostage. The female Luoxing failed to rescue them. Four hundred workers and workshop managers... were all killed. This is the Mayflower bloodshed."

Opal vaguely remembered seeing such a thing on Lie Xing's interstellar news, and he asked, "So the Republic started to interfere?"

Yake said: "At that time, tourists from the empire died, and the ambassador of the Republic and the ambassador of the empire came forward to negotiate.

"The Plant Research Promotion Association has only a few thousand people. They protect the 12 local residents of the female star and take refuge under the canopy of the female mother. The empire instructed a person named Kahn to set up an organization called the 'New Development Engineering Department', People who have seen him say he is the leader of the poachers."

"The people in the engineering department are all poachers. The empire controls all areas except the sea of ​​trees, including the three rift valleys, deserts, and grassland areas. New immigrants have moved there, and the locals stay under the mother tree."

Raymond said: "What kind of counter capital will the Plant Research Promotion Association have?"

Yake replied: "We have the mother of daughters."

Opal: "That's just a tree."

Raymond thought for a while, and said, "The mother of daughters is not just a tree, is there anything else?"

Yake agreed: "No, the mother of Nuluo has her wisdom. She is integrated with this planet. The entire Nuluo planet is her incarnation. What we eat and drink is all her flesh and blood."

Raymond nodded slowly, and Yake said again: "Before humans settled in, all life on the female star was her incarnation. She produced photosynthesis and provided oxygen for this planet. Her branches, leaves and fruits gave birth to the female tree. , animals eat her body and blood, we eat animals, green beasts, sparkling fish and cold-water shrimp, nectar produced by leaf birds, fungi, these are all food."

Raymond glanced at Opal, and the two looked at each other for a moment.

Raymond: "What are you thinking? Any suggestions?"

Opal: "I'm hungry."

Raymond: "..."

The patrol car gradually rose, jumped over the dense forest, and rushed out of the tree top from the upper and lower passages. The tree top was like a dense green net, and the entire sea of ​​female rose trees was endless, rustling in the gentle wind.

This is the second floor of Nuluo's ground. The branches and leaves of towering ancient trees form a flat ground. In the distance is a village with a sentry post. Lei Meng jumped out of the car and asked Opal, "What about now?"

Opal said blankly: "Go and have a look, find something to eat."

Many people ran out of the village, Yake said: "The mercenaries are here! Azeroth sent someone to help us!"

Immediately, some people cheered excitedly, and some even burst into tears. They ran to the patrol car and carried the injured onto the stretcher.

"Who is the mercenary?" A young man stepped forward and said, "Let me introduce myself. I am the person in charge of Vault 74. My name is Alan. How many of you are here?"

Opal assisted the villagers to carry the injured out of the car and sent them to the village for treatment. Raymond said: "My companion and I, our spaceship is stuck in the swamp, can we find something to eat?"

"Smoke and Sword Mercenary Group, Class B, great!" The young man said, "Where are your companions? How many meals are you preparing?"

Raymond said: "Two servings of food and drinking water are enough, just me and him."

Everyone was silent, and after nearly a minute of dead silence, Opal asked in a daze, "What's wrong?"

Raymond frowned and said, "Is there any problem?"

"There are only two of you?" the young man asked in disbelief.

Opal took off his mitts, came over and said, "That's right, there are only two people, what's the problem?"

All the villagers showed disappointed expressions, and they dispersed for a while. The person in charge's face darkened and said, "Are you really joking?"

Lei Meng said seriously: "Yes, two people, first take us to meet the employer, your Chairman Aili, and I will negotiate with her."

The person in charge said coldly: "I will send you to the central living area now."

Opal suddenly frowned, and said, "At least give me something to eat first! Don't you have no shortage of food?"

The person in charge said impatiently: "There will be someone in the central area to entertain you! Why are you in a hurry! Think you are here for vacation!"

Opal got angry, got into the dilapidated car, and set off with the car.

Passing through several human habitats along the way, there are still many blue animals galloping in the sea of ​​trees. The sky darkened, and groups of Pegasus soared in the shade of the trees. Their skin and bodies were almost transparent, and their light blue The veins of blood vessels are faintly visible, and the membranes on the outside of the internal organs are shining with fluorescence.

"Suddenly it got dark?" Opal asked.

The person in charge scoffed.

Lei Meng explained to Opal in a low voice: "Now we have entered the shade of the mother of daughters."

The foliage of the mother of the female dill is extremely luxuriant. It has lived on this planet for nearly [-] million years. All the female dill trees are her descendants. Its canopy covers nearly one-third of the planet. Under the prosperous shade, Here will be eternal night.In the dark night, countless beams of light are thrown into the shaded area, like the holy light of heaven on the other side of the cloud falling obliquely.

The huge pillars with enough hugs of ten people stood up to the sky, propping up the entire night. Opal was still wondering how these stone pillars were built, so Lei Meng explained: "They are the air roots of the mother of daughters."

Tens of thousands of vines climbed up along the air roots, and the flowers on the vines bloomed with light that illuminated the night. As the suspended car gradually deepened, the fluorescent lights lit up after leaving the sunny area.

The car passed through many checkpoints, and finally opened the door in a village inside the central area. Under the protection of the mother tree, the female Luo star established the central city. The atmosphere here is tense, and there is a post every ten steps.

"The front is the temporary command center." The guard said: "No one is allowed to enter."

The person in charge said: "It's the envoy sent by King Azeroth, the fierce star."

The guard said: "The mercenaries are here?"

"The mercenaries are coming!" The guards were agitated, the news spread, and someone ran to the distant building to report, and after a while, a dozen people came out at the speed of running.

Raymond showed the mercenary diary and asked, "Which one is Miss Ellie?"

Everyone was silent, and the leading woman said: "Come in and talk about it."

It seemed that these people were the managers of the central area. People talked a lot, and the women who talked with them began to introduce one by one. Opal was very hungry, and he asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Yes." The woman said, "Hi, my name is Wendy."

Raymond frowned in displeasure. This task was really troublesome. After wandering around for a long time, he still didn't meet his employer, and instead got involved in a civil war without a clue.

"Where's the employer?"

"The employer is my sister." Wendy said, "Do you have any other companions? What did King Azeroth say?"

Opal said: "Nothing was said, we just came here to ask you to cancel the entrustment."

Raymond signaled him to be calm, and said, "Miss, where is your sister now? According to the mercenary code, we are not allowed to get involved in any political disputes between galaxies..."

Wendy brought them into an extremely spacious wooden building hall, which contained rows of circular seats. She breathed a sigh of relief, cut off Raymond's words, and said, "I believe everything can be resolved reasonably, let's first Take the time to get to know each other. Bring something to eat for our guests."

Someone brought something, the top was a steak made of green scorpion meat, served with fried radish flesh tenderly, and a few baked fruit-like breads for dinner.

"The meeting is temporarily cancelled," she said to the others.

Opal hadn't eaten for eighteen hours and was almost starving to death. He found a seat at random and sat down to eat.

Raymond said to Wendy: "Azeroth didn't give us any instructions, everything was assigned through the Mercenary Union Headquarters, this is just a very common task, besides, the entrustment we received did not match the actual content..."

Wendy interrupted hastily: "No, that's not the case."

Raymond said: "Miss, please don't interrupt, I will leave you enough time for you to convince me."

Although Wendy said the meeting was over, none of the people in the hall left. They each found a place to sit or stand, and listened to Raymond's statement.

"First of all: the commission we received was to arrest poachers." Raymond said after a little thought: "But according to the understanding along the way, the problem here is far from being as simple as poachers. The actual content of the commission has nothing to do with mercenaries. The information given by the trade union is too discrepant."

"Secondly: the client is missing." Raymond glanced at the venue and said politely, "If I guessed correctly, she should have disappeared or died?"

No one answered Lei Meng, Lei Meng closed the mercenary diary, and said: "Again: The issue of the female star involves interstellar political disputes, and both the Empire and the Republic are involved in this matter. According to the second article of the code No. There will be no involvement in any civil war, national war, or race war in the process."

Wendy said: "But as far as I know, most of your mercenaries don't have to abide by this rule when they go out on missions..."

Raymond said, "Let me finish."

"Finally." Raymond said: "We are short of manpower. The original purpose was to travel to the female star. As you can see, the spaceship got stuck in the swamp, and I was the only one in the entire mercenary group. My partner was on honeymoon. He won't help..."

Opal: "Hey! Who said that! Did I tell you not to shoot?"

Raymond smiled and said, "Then there are only two of us."

Opal was full, satisfied and full of energy—one felt sleepy when he was full, so he stood up, stretched, sneezed, and lay down on the chair of the most central councilor, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

Everyone: "..."

Raymond: "The entrustment does not match, the employer is missing, political disputes, and lack of manpower. To sum up, I have the right to apply for revocation of this entrustment and submit it to the headquarters of the Liexing Union for arbitration. According to the contract, you should pay us all the losses this time. Compensation, and 20% liquidated damages."

Lei Meng closed the mercenary diary and said, "I'm done talking, what do you want to say?"