The Star Knight

Opal intertwined his fingers, moved his thumbs together, rested his head on the back of the chair, and captured Wendy's thoughts with a slight movement of his mind - two little girls running at the top of the sunny tree sea, and then overwhelming There were fierce battles and loud quarrels, and the female Rosemen attacked each other.

(I must find a way to keep them, they are the only chance to turn around. Request assistance from the God of War through them.) Wendy thought to herself.

Wendy took Raymond's mercenary diary and looked at it for a long time, and said, "You can increase the salary. We can give you whatever you want. Mr. Raymond." She looked at the diary and said, "You and your mercenary diary Since the partner is a B-level mercenary group, they must have corresponding strength."

Raymond didn't interrupt her, and walked to the side of the meeting room and sat down.

Opal said: "This has nothing to do with strength, and Azeroth will not agree to send troops to assist you just because we are on the female star. This is against the system. You'd better give up this idea."

Opal's words hit Wendy's vital point, and everyone in the council was watching him.

Wendy said: "Then let's change it. As long as you are willing to help us solve the problem, this commission will be considered as a successful conclusion, and the task content only needs you..."

"Wendy." An old man interrupted rudely: "What can these two mercenaries do?"

Opal was lying on the swivel chair without opening his eyes. He began to read the thoughts of the people in the venue one by one. Six women and three men were almost all thinking that it was impossible for Opal and Raymond to do this. Personally, how to enter the militant base in the desert area to save people?What's more, more than 400 members of the female parliament who were imprisoned by the rebels were rescued.

When he read about the old man, Opal opened his eyes, and he keenly captured the details of the old man's thinking - how to pass this news on.

This man is a spy.

Opal closed his eyes and said, "It's not just your sister, there are at least several hundred."

A surprised expression appeared on Wendy's face, then she pondered for a moment, and said: "Yes, I want to invite you to the desert area to rescue our captured compatriots. There are my sister and the six female stars from 410. Members of the council. The enemy is about to launch a final attack. According to the patrol team, they are discussing to send all their firepower to take this place in one fell swoop."

Raymond asked, "When will it strike?"

Wendy: "I don't know. It may be a few days later, or it may be tonight. Time is very precious. We must rescue all the hostages as soon as possible. Otherwise, we dare not go to war with the hostages in their hands."

Opal: "After rescuing the hostages, will you have the ability to defeat the enemy?"

Wendy: "Yes."

Opal said: "I don't quite believe it."

Wendy took a deep breath and said, "You don't need to worry about it, I will send you people. You can give as many people as you need. In fact, we were having a meeting before you arrived, and we were talking about this issue."

"We have a hundred soldiers who are fully prepared. They are death squads. They are ready to set off at any time. As long as they can be rescued, everything will be fine. The two can lead them, and after they are rescued, let the defense team cover the retreat .”

"In this way, I think... the difficulty of the previous task entrustment has not changed much compared to the current one. For the actual trouble, I will apply for a fee from the committee. I think I can provide an additional credit of 20 Click Append, and that's it."

Opal read Wendy's thoughts and asked, "Can the hostages play a key role in deciding the war?"

Wendy said again: "Yes, I have no comment on the future plans. If we win this war, we will give the two of them a fruit of the mother of the female rose. You are welcome to come to the female star at any time."

Opal took out a fruit.

Wendy was startled again, and then smiled: "You already have this thing? No wonder, I said."

Another middle-aged woman on the side said: "It is normal for those who can reach the mother tree safely to have fruits. Let's put it this way, if we fail, we guarantee that our guests will not be implicated. After we confirm the surrender, we will Send the two away in time."

Another girl said softly: "I agree with Wendy's proposal. There is also a mercenary, maybe you can invite a few gentlemen to act together, what do you think?"

Opal narrowed his eyes, read this person's heart, and understood her thoughts - what he said earlier showed that they knew a lot, and they obviously came prepared, and it is impossible for those who are prepared to not have the strength to save people.Talking about conditions now is mostly just for money.They seem to be willing to give up money.

And there is a mercenary on the female star?Opal wondered, who is it?Also here to do the mission?

Raymond and Opal are both thinking about it, and Wendy said: "You two can stroll around, have a discussion, have something to eat, you can come to me at any time, I live in the wooden house to the west."

The councilors dispersed, and Opal put his feet down and stood up. Just as he was about to talk to Raymond, Wendy stood at the door and said softly, "Sir."

"My name is Opal." Opal replied.

"Mr. Opal, do you know what the fruit of the mother of dills symbolizes?" Wendy asked.

Raymond looked at her with some puzzlement. Opal thought for a while and said, "The female dill tree will not attack the person who holds the fruit of the mother tree, is that so?"

Wendy nodded, and smiled softly: "Yes, but it's not just that, the female Luo star has its own unique civilization, people outside say that we are primitive people, we have not developed science and technology, and we have never opened up the field of planetary technology. We've been following the natural union of in-laws without even being part of the Grand Interstellar Technological Union."

Opal said: "Besides, you female Luoxing people are also very verbose. You always like to explain the cause and effect of a matter clearly."

Wendy smiled and said: "This is... our habit, um, I'm sorry, I have said too much about irrelevant things, what I want to say is that every female Luo star is born by the mother and raised by the parents. After each child is born, he can get a fruit of the mother of the female... No matter where the child goes in the Star Alliance, this fruit can prove that he is a female. As for drinking the water here, eating here The local people who grew up with the food, they have the breath of the mother planet in their bodies, and they will not be attacked by trees. In fact, they don’t need fruits. The mother of the female dill gives each child a fruit, which is another way for the children to give them half used."

"If the person who gave you the fruit is a girl, it means that she is willing to entrust her whole life to you and enter into a marriage relationship with you." Wendy said: "If it is a boy, it means that she is willing to be with you for the rest of her life." Good brothers, each has the strongest loyalty to this friendship."

"The person I want to give you the fruit may not have mentioned this to you." Wendy smiled and left the venue.

A beam of light at dusk is projected from the hole in the shade of hundreds of meters high, covering the entire garden in sunlight, just like spotlights on the stage. The place outside the sunlight is still quiet at night, forming a spectacular spectacle .

Raymond was sitting at the table outside the restaurant having dinner, Opal was silent, tapped his finger on the table, and asked, "Will you take it?"

Raymond said: "It's not that difficult to save a few people. You don't have to go, just go shopping here. After I rescue them, let's go on vacation here again. What do you think?"

"Forget it." Opal said: "[-] people, can you save them all by yourself?"

Raymond twitched his eyebrows and asked, "Do you believe me or not?"

The corner of Opal's mouth twitched, and Raymond said: "Listen, let's be serious now. We'd better have one person stay behind. I suspect there are spies among them. The news of our arrival has probably been passed on."

Opal was a little surprised. Raymond actually knew the information he obtained through mind reading? !

"How do you know?" Opal asked tentatively.

"I guess." Lei Meng twirled the fork in his finger, carefully picked out the yellow of the leaf bird's egg, and fed it to Opal.

Opal likes to eat delicious and tender egg yolks, he smacked his lips in satisfaction, and found that Raymond was watching his lips, Opal was inexplicable, and sensed Raymond's inner activities - he fed himself egg yolks, wanting to see him licking his lips .

Ramon liked to watch him lick his lips.

Opal generously licked the egg yolk at the corner of his mouth, and raised his eyebrows at him.

Raymond swallowed, his Adam's apple moved slightly.

The two are like big boys who have just begun to fall in love, talking about love in the twilight.

"What are you laughing at?" Raymond recovered and continued to eat his dinner.

"It's nothing." Opal said with a smile, "What do you want?"

Lei Meng said: "We still don't know who the spy is, we have to find out who the spy is first, and then set a trap."

Opal: "There's no need to look for it, the spy is the old man."

Raymond frowned and said, "Oss? You mean the old man with gray hair? I saw the work ID on his chest. His name is Oss."

Opal: "I don't know his name..."

Raymond: "Are you sure? This must not be a wild guess."

Opal said: "If what you're talking about is the same person as I'm talking about..." Opal saw someone out of the corner of his eye, and immediately said: "Look over there, hurry up!"

The two turned their heads at the same time. The old man who spoke in the council was talking to Wendy. They were standing far away. Raymond said, "That's him! Oss, the vice chairman of the Plant Research Promotion Association."

Opal said: "I'm talking about him too."

Raymond: "Give me the evidence, how do you know he is a spy?"

Opal said: "There is no evidence, it's just intuition. Is it okay to answer like this?"

Opal did not dare to tell Lei Meng about the mind reading skills. Once Lei Meng knew that he could read minds, he might feel that there was no interest between the two of them, and it would be a very boring thing.In fact, Opal almost never reads Raymond's heart, he enjoys showing his love more, just like now, if Raymond knows that he can read minds, maybe he won't bother to say a lot.

Raymond asked suspiciously, "Intuition?"

Opal: "Intuition."

Raymond thought for a while, and finally said: "Think of a way to convince Wendy. After the rescue operation starts, I won't take anyone with me. I will leave all 100 people to you. Stay here to hunt and catch all the enemies."

"In this way, when I rescue the person and you catch the opponent's person, the situation of the battle will be completely reversed."

Opal said: "You're just afraid that even Wendy will be taken away, and no one will pay you."

Raymond laughed, pushed the plate away after eating, and said, "I'll go talk to her."

Opal said: "By the way, where is Mu Shu's home, I hope he is still alive."

This village is very small, maybe it was built temporarily, when the waitress came to clear away the dishes, Opal asked, "Is this your political center?"

The waitress smiled and said: "No, this place is called Adosna. In the ancient female star language, it means the city of night and the holy land of the female star. The main administrative city is in the middle of the equatorial rift valley. It is a floating city in the air. After the war It was occupied by rebels. Ellie took us to hide here and seek the shelter of the mother tree."

Opal nodded thoughtfully, and ordered another cup of Yelu drink. The waitress asked, "Which planet are you from? Not a local? Tourist?"

Opal said: "Lie Xing, the hometown of mercenaries, have you heard of it?"

The waitress smiled and said, "Ah, no wonder, you and your companions are mercenaries?"

Opal nodded, and the waitress sat down on the edge of the beam of light, took out a small box, started to do handwork, and said casually: "I heard that Lie Xing is one of the two most beautiful planets for men in the entire universe, is that true? Are the men in your place tall and handsome?"

Opal said: "Is there such a saying? I only know that female stars and sphinxes are rich in beauties."

The waitress said: "Lie Xing and Sengbing Province are rich in beautiful men, which is also recognized. Lie Xing's men are full of masculine charm, like the god of war... Azeroth; the priests of Sengbing Province are also very handsome, and Legerson is A man from the Sengbing Province."

Opal thought about it and found that it was indeed the case. Lie Xing's men were both handsome and tall, and almost without exception they were all beautiful men. Even rough and unkempt men had a wild and unruly beauty.

I have been to many places, and it is true that Lie Xing's men have the highest average score. Needless to say, Sui Yan is such an idiot, Lian Xun, Yin Jian, and even the dumb old Pike who has only worked together once are also very handsome and heroic.

"Nvluo is the land of beauties." Opal said, "You are beautiful too."

"Thank you." With an intoxicating smile on her face, the waitress lowered her head to make a handmade flower, and she said, "I am of mixed race, and my father is not from the local area."

The light of the setting sun gradually faded and turned into a magnificent purple. Opal looked up at the small hole in the treetop of the distant mother of dills, and saw a twinkling star.

The whole planet is darkened, and the star will orbit a huge planet, which will block the light of the star. When it leaves the shadow of the planet, the solar eclipse will pass, and day will come again after 47 hours.

Fireflies were flying in the quiet eclipse night, reflecting Opal's handsome face. He was stunned for a while, and suddenly heard someone say: "Hi, handsome man. I thought you were missing."

"Yindao?" Opal recognized him immediately, Yindao climbed over the garden railing of the restaurant, smiled brightly, came over to pull out the chair and sat down, snapped his fingers, and said, "Give me a cup of green coffee. "

"For my account, let's have some fried geek fruit rings." Opal said, "Why are you here? Are you the mercenary they are talking about?"

Yin Jian said: "I'm here to give Xiaosui's ashes to his two mothers, and I met your captain at Wendy's place, and he asked me to join you temporarily to carry out this commission." He took out a female dill Guo showed it to Opal and said, "Xiaosui gave it to me before he was alive. It is a very precious thing in his life. I have to fulfill his wish to go home."

Opal just remembered this and sighed. He looked at Yinjian and knew that the relationship between him and Suiyan was probably not unusual. Maybe there was some intimacy of lovers in it. He comforted: "It's all over. .”

Yin Jian smiled and said: "It's okay, Xiao Sui's mother is a female Luo star. She said that she felt Xiao Sui when he died, and his soul came back through the universe as early as the same day. Lo's mother took his ashes away."

Opal said: "Take it away? Where are you taking it?"

Silver Shrugged.

The waitress came over with a plate and said with a smile: "What you are holding is just the shell. The fruit of the mother of dills is not edible. Its seeds will peel off automatically and be buried in the soil, giving birth to new trees. They bear fruit The green fruit that grows out is called Nvluoguo."

Opal understood, and Yin Jian said: "Then I think the mother of Nvluo took Xiaosui's soul away, maybe he will become a seed in the next life..."

Opal laughed and said, "It's not bad to be a tree standing in the sun."

Yin Jian said: "At least you don't need to move your nest."

Both of them laughed, and the sadness of losing their comrades in arms was diluted a lot.

Yinjian came earlier than Opal and Raymond, and knew more about the female star than them. Three hundred universes ago, the female star had a coup and the parliament was abolished. There is no doubt that there is an empire behind it. Supported, the members of the former female dill council were watched closely.

It wasn't until Wendy, the chairman of the "Plant Research Promotion Association", exercised a legal provision, and through her sister Ellie, let the local councilors join the association, which effectively protected everyone's safety.

These councilors left the floating city in the middle of the rift valley one after another, and went to the mother of the girl to seek refuge. They encountered a sudden attack on the way and were taken away. More than 400 people including Ellie became hostages of the new engineering department.

They took hostages and demanded the surrender of the Botanical Society.

It was sixteen cosmic days ago when Yinjian came here. Not long after Wendy brought the refugees to settle down, their chances of victory were extremely slim—the empire was too powerful, and they sent armed mechanical guards to protect the expatriates and factories. outside the atmosphere.

But the only republic that has the right to confront the empire has left the female star cleanly, even the factory, as if afraid of getting into such troublesome troubles.

"The Republic doesn't care anymore?" Opal said.

"Maybe it's because of the policy." Raymond came back, brought Wendy over, and sat down at the table.

Wendy said: "The Republic has another political policy. They are unwilling to have friction with the Empire. In other words, they set their sights on other planets."

Opal said: "But you are also a member of the Star Alliance, so no one else will take care of this matter?"

"Who dares to control it?" Yin Jian said, "The only country that can compete with the empire is the Republic."

That's right, Opal is no longer the ignorant boy who left the Chiyan Galaxy. He already knows that the Empire is a huge political machine with [-] planets, and the Republic has [-] registered planets. China's superpower has a huge territory, and if it really wants to start a war, it is definitely beyond the interference of other small countries.

Wendy's original plan was to ask Yin Dong to assist and lead a hundred death-defying team members to carry out the rescue mission. Now that Opal and Raymond have arrived, the plan has changed again.

Wendy said, "Can you give us a private room?"

The waitress said, "Right away, Wendy."

She pressed a button, and huge rotating green leaves spread out underground, separating the space around the tea table to form a bud-like independent private room. The blue fluorescent flowers on the top illuminate the interior of the private room, which looks very romantic.

"I plan to do this." Raymond stuffed an information card into the card slot of the E7, and the E7 began to read the map information.

Raymond turned on the projection of E7 and said: "I did a reconnaissance just now, and Oss is indeed a spy. He sent the news to the outside, and the place where the hostages were actually held was not far from the sea of ​​trees, and it was an abandoned underground fertilizer center. They used this As a stronghold, prepare to launch the final operation... just wait for us to leave with the death squad."

Wendy said, "How did you find out..."

"Guess." Opal said.

Yin Jian smiled, patted Opal's head, and said, "He's very powerful."

Wendy took a deep breath and said, "Fortunately, you found the spy, this time..."

"You're welcome." Opal smiled modestly and said, "Go on, don't waste time."

Both Yinjian and Lei Meng laughed loudly. Lei Meng called up the map of the sea of ​​trees, with complicated twists and turns and uneven terrain. Opal found the red dot on it and said, "Is it here?"

"Yeah." Raymond said, "55 kilometers."

Opal: "Out of the range of the communicator."

Raymond: "Are you talking about earbuds? I guess you can barely receive the signal."

Opal: "What are you going to do?"

Raymond said: "Five hours later, the operation started. The silver fence gathered everyone, evacuated towards the secondary trunk and protected them. There is a shelter 50 meters above us, for your soldiers, 50 people pretended to be ordinary residents, and 50 people lay in ambush on the spot, waiting for the other party to rob people. Opal led them to try to capture them alive, and if they couldn't catch them..."

Opal said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with. What is the origin of the poacher?"

Raymond: "A small number are disguised imperial soldiers, and most are hooligans from other galaxies."

Opal nodded slowly. When the empire dispatched the poachers in disguise, they should have taken into account the interstellar influence, so they should not have dared to send thugs to the female star on a large scale. It is not too difficult to deal with.

The same task was placed a few months ago, and Opal was completely unsure of fighting against members of the regular army.

The interstellar rating of the mercenaries has always been lower than that of the regular army. After all, the imperial army has undergone systematic teaching and perfect training, and its combat quality is higher than that of Lie Xing's miscellaneous soldiers.

However, the war not long ago caused the military strength of the entire Lie Xing to jump to a higher level, and the surviving mercenaries were all ruthless characters who had been on the battlefield and fought their lives.

And the empire has not encountered a large-scale war since 300 years ago, and simulation training alone cannot reach the realm of mercenaries who have fought on the edge of life and death.

The battlefield is the best examination room. Those who fail lose their lives, and those who are strong pass the rigorous assessment. Both Opal and Raymond also got high marks, which is their capital.

Opal: "How many people are there?"

Wendy said: "The rebel army can only have 600 people at most, and they have to send people to stay at the base where the hostages are held, and they can only send 500 people at most."

Opal said: "Are you sure there are only five hundred?"

Wendy nodded and said: "The empire dare not send troops directly, 500 people is already the limit of the poachers. The female Luoxing people who defected to them are our compatriots, no one will attack their own people, let alone come Attack the mother of the female dill."

Raymond said: "500 people are easy to deal with. The local army dare not attack compatriots under the shade of the mother of daughters. This is their belief."

Opal nodded slowly. With five to 600 people, it is not difficult to win more with less under prepared conditions.

After the agreement, Wendy said to Opal: "The friend you are looking for, Mu Shu, has been contacted. He is in another refuge, more than 300 kilometers away from here. We sent him a message in the afternoon, and he heard about your coming. Very happy, but he can't leave the underground shelter, it's dangerous everywhere outside now, if he encounters a poacher, he may be killed on the spot at any time..."

Opal hurriedly said: "Tell him not to come out! I will go to see him after I finish the task."

"I told him for you." Raymond said, "After the commission is over, find him out and have a drink."

Opal said: "Yes, that's it."

The four of them split up to prepare, and Yinlong led the people to evacuate. There was a spiral staircase in the giant air root, and Opal followed up to set up an ambush point. , a middle-aged woman said: "Half of her body has become a fossil."

She was a member of parliament that Opal had met before, and Opal nodded towards her.

"Mother of Daughters..." Opal said, "Can she produce milk?"

The middle-aged woman walked at the end of the crowd holding her skirt, and said to Opal: "44% of the mother's body has been petrified in the long history, and has integrated with this planet. We are about to board her branches, and then Go up to the top of the canopy and you'll see she's still sprouting."

"When these shoots are picked off, her sap will ooze, which is the source of the milk."

People look up at the height of the spiral staircase in the air roots. There are refugees climbing in each hollow air root. The migration team of 14 people is extremely spectacular. They walked for 10 minutes to reach the top of the tree, and there were many people during the process surge up.

The branches extend in all directions, each one is as wide as the streets of Lie Xing, and the intertwined parts of the branches build a platform.

Opal yelled down: "Hey! Raymond!"

Raymond has become a small black dot, waving his hand towards it.