The Star Knight

The wrench said: "There were many political prisoners of the phantom star here. During the time without date, a certain prince of the phantom star set off a revolution to overthrow the rule of the great lord. However, he failed and finally led a large number of The subjects who followed him were imprisoned in Lonely Star."

Opal understood, so the open rooms inside are all prison cells!

Raymond said: "Now? All the guys inside are dead?"

The wrench said: "Phantom Stars have a very special method of reproduction. They have no sex and a life span of nearly 2 years. Before they die naturally, they can reproduce a single individual and inherit a lot of knowledge from the ontology. But this reproduction process requires In the vicinity of the phantom blue fluorite, a new electric wave life form is bred by the influence of the magnetic field and the mother stone, and after the new individual is born, the main body will die naturally."

Opal: "What if you don't reproduce?"

Wrench: "Who knows? Everyone will die. There is nothing in the universe that will never perish. Even black holes will evaporate... Look at this, there are no prisoners inside."

In the communicator, Lily's voice said: "Honey, you guessed it right again, but I don't think it was a natural death, but a large-scale prison escape."

"Yeah." Wrench said, "I don't want to stay here either, you two, do you want to follow us, or become a hero yourself?"

"Let's act together first." Raymond said: "It depends on the actual situation."

Opal stretched his waist and said, "Honestly speaking, I think that with the A-level mercenary group, we basically have no chance to be heroes."

The wrench said: "This is not necessarily... Prepare everyone to bring some equipment and start working. Lily and the others are in charge of approaching the central area. Our task is to turn on the energy furnace... Igor, you are in charge of staying behind. And the little robot How about taking care of each other?"

Opal: "No problem, E7, you can stay here."

Opal knew quite a few members of the Twelve Nebula Mercenaries, but he couldn't name them. He only knew that the red-haired man was called "Kun". He and Lei Meng walked at the end of the line, with a smiling fat man in front, and a fat man in front of him. A dark-skinned boy, half a head shorter than Opal, was surrounded by a tall and thin boy.

"Kay." The dark-skinned boy said, and introduced the tall and thin young man to Opal: "This is my fiance bridge."

Opal greeted them, and then there was a very talkative middle-aged man, and the wrench said impatiently: "I know, I know."

The first one was a strong man, about the same height as Raymond, but bigger than him, carrying a cross-like weapon. Opal had seen that thing——a photon cutting shield.

The six people seem to have their own strengths.

After entering the interior of the planet, the temperature became slightly warmer. In the endless darkness, Opal glanced at the detector, which showed that the surrounding temperature was 4°C.

"What are you thinking?" Raymond said.

Opal shook his head, Lei Meng came over and put his shoulders on him, Opal shook the lamp towards him, and saw his handsome face in the dark night, and his deep eyes were like bright stars in the quiet universe.

"A prison." Opal whispered, "What treasure do you think there will be?"

"Maybe it's a magnetic field generator." Raymond narrowed his eyes and said, "Or maybe it's a weapon against the Phantom Stars. You don't understand? The Phantom Stars are imprisoned here, and of course there is a device to restrain them. The phantom star people have always been mysterious, they never mentioned themselves to other races, including history, culture..."

Opal understood.

"It's very possible." Opal said, "Because the phantom star fell to Cologne, both the empire and the republic want to get this weapon, so if the two sides go to war, it's tantamount to mastering a certain weakness of the phantom star... "

"You know too much." Wrench said, "It's best not to discuss this too much, or you will be easily silenced by the king..."

The mercenaries climbed along the ropes under the platform, and they had already entered the second floor area. Opal turned on the lights towards the dark wall, showing a line of phantom star characters, and the reflective words seemed to flow slowly under the light source.

In the end, Raymond and Opal slid down the rope.

"Take a break." Wrench looked at the timer and said, "Supplement food and water, we have advanced for eight hours, Lily, are you okay?"

Lily's voice said, "No problem, everything is fine."

"Eat something?" Kun handed the food to Raymond, and Raymond took it, and said to Opal, "Hey, don't run around. Wife, you have always been a road idiot."

He held two small cups and handed one to Opal.

Opal took it, and walked around the familiar corridor while drinking water, looking around.

There is a number in front of each room, and it is undoubtedly a prison room. Some doors are closed, while others are wide open.

"Since they are all radio wave creatures." Opal said, "Why should they be closed with solid objects?"

Raymond said: "Radio waves also have a limit of penetration, like lead and cadmium. You see, when they built this prison, they obviously took double insurance. There may be a magnetic field generator inside Lone Star that traps all prisoners. , plus these sealed blocks."

Opal stood in front of a closed door and said, "Does that mean there will be something inside?"

Raymond said, "What do you think? Open it and see?"

Opal frowned and glanced at Raymond, who smiled and said: "I am controlled by the Phantom Starman, something is hypnotizing me and asked me to open him, uh... There is a family crowded inside, Phantom Starman's father, The phantom star mother, the two phantom star children..."

Opal: "That's not funny at all, have you forgotten how they reproduce?"

Both Raymond and Opal laughed and went back to the camp with their shoulders crossed.

Opal was still thinking, and Raymond didn't speak much. When he came back, he saw an open room.

"Didn't the door of this room be closed just now?" Opal said.

Raymond stopped and said, "How did I remember that it was opened..."

Opal sensed something was wrong, motioned Raymond to stop talking, closed his eyes, and released the power of faith.

Everything around is as usual, and the neat cells are like countless tombstones, lined up into the distance.

"Wrench." Opal still felt something was wrong, and said, "Did you open the door of this room?"

Without lifting the wrench, he said, "Do you think the A-level mercenary group will send out commissions like Xun and Xi De? Our members have never been cheap, are they all here? Report the number."

"exist."

"exist……"

The four regiment members reported their numbers one by one, wrenched and said, "Where's the bridge?"

"Go away." The dark boy said.

The short-range professional strong man holding a shield said: "Relax, you are too nervous, drink some sparkling wine?"

Opal nodded and said, "Thank you."

Wrench was debugging several small path-finding robots. Each robot carried a small detector and turned into a different passageway. The speed was so fast that it flew away without a trace.

Seeing the dark boy staring at him, Opal asked, "Your name is..."

"Kay." The dark boy said: "Kai Banningke, a Sphinx star."

"No wonder." Raymond laughed.

Kai said: "It's very dark, right? The skin of the Sphinx is very dark, and the ultraviolet rays are too strong."

The fat man said, "You guys are from Sunshine City? I heard Lily talk about it..."

"Lily." Wrench said, "Is your side okay? Stars 1 to 10 will meet you in three hours and open the comprehensive map of Lonely Star."

"Everything is fine." Lily's voice replied, "I haven't encountered any enemies yet, and I haven't found those two boys."

As soon as the wrench turned on the communication, the chatterers silently stopped to listen to their conversation.

"Stay vigilant," said Wrench. "They're probably approaching the Central District."

Opal asked: "How many forces are there?"

"Pirates, soldiers of the Republic." Wrench said: "Including our mercenaries, there are at least three forces operating here... We still have three days and six and a half hours. The rest is over and we will continue to act."

Several people stood up one after another, hung the communicator next to the backpack with a wrench, adjusted their baseball caps, and took a step.

The communicator rang.

Inside there was a hysterical scream, followed by several shots.

The wrench immediately took off the communicator.

"Lily!"

"Ah-ah-"

Lily let out a tragic scream, as if she had a nervous breakdown. The scream stopped abruptly, and there was another muffled sound, followed by a long silence.

"Lily?" Wrench's pupils shrank violently, and there was no more sound from there.

"Emergency call." Wrench took out another communicator, and said in a deep voice, "Lily? Tucker? Igor? Are you all there? Stay in command and answer me!"

Another communicator filled with rustling.

"Lily." The voice of the wrench couldn't help shaking: "This is not fun, do you hear me?! Answer me, Lily!"

Opal and Raymond glanced at each other.

The members of the Twelve Nebula Mercenary Group did not speak. After a long time, a man's groan came from the communicator, followed by another gunshot, and the groan was cut off.

The wrench panted sharply, and three seconds later, he made a decision.

"Raymond and Opal assist me, and we continue to the central area." Wrench said: "Kun leads the team! Kai went back to the place where he stayed and sent a long-wave communication to Azeroth! The others followed the instructions of the chip and went to communicate with Lily and the others in advance. Convergence, now, act now!"

Everyone started to run, the gravity of Lonely Star was very small, and the running speed was so fast that Opal didn't even have time to talk, so he and Raymond shot out like arrows, and the wrench slapped a sealed tube, and there were flashes of phosphorescence floating along the dark passage , illuminating the faces of the three of them.

"Wrench, you're running too slowly." Raymond said, "Where are you going?"

"This way." Wrench was a little out of breath, and they ran to a platform. There was no road in front of them, and all the cells were suspended. Raymond leaped out in a big stride, and with a leap, he flew in midair with a guiding light. To the first cell.

"Be careful!" Opal said.

Raymond stood firm on the edge, almost fell, and then turned around with the force of the fall, threw out the rope, and Opal tied it to a ladder on his side.

"Let's go." Opal said.

The wrench leaned over sharply, and blood sprayed Opal's head.

Opal: "!!!"

"Wrench!!" Opal roared.

Opal turned around abruptly, and saw a long knife protruding from the right shoulder of the wrench. Behind him was the young Sphinx boy Kay who was holding the knife. His eyes were empty, and the expression of the wrench immediately changed. Forced Kai back, shouted: "Get out of the way!"

Kai let go of his hand and threw the knife, and did a backflip in mid-air. Opal followed him like a shadow, and slapped his sword at his side. At the same time, his thoughts turned, this is being controlled!

There must be a phantom star who escaped!Where did it come from? !

Opal was panting crazily, the wrench didn't know what to do now, the speed of the person in front of him was very fast, once he dived into the darkness, he disappeared without a trace, Kai disappeared after just two fights.

Opal looked around and shouted, "Raymond!"

Lei Meng stood quietly in the distance like a ghost, and was also controlled? !Who is okay? !Opal dragged the big sword backwards to check the wrench's injury, but Kay suddenly appeared from the side and punched him in the jaw.

Opal snorted, it seemed that this guy's combat power had to be destroyed first, he couldn't help but backed up, not daring to fight Kai directly, and dodged around in the dark, holding the sword in his left hand, and scratching with his right hand towards the distance.Beside the wrench, a light tube filled with guiding fluorescent powder was spinning and flying, and at the same time Opal stepped aside, and Kai appeared!

With a soft sound, the light pipe shattered, powder sprinkled the entire space, and lit up everywhere. Countless fluorescent powders were like fireflies in the dark, lingering and floating towards the abyss below the platform.

Opal finally caught Kai's every move, but he still dragged his sword and could not back down. At the same time, he quickly analyzed his habitual offensive routines for a short time, until Kai kicked him sideways, towards his lower abdomen.

Opal is waiting for this opportunity!

He instantly pulled out the dagger from his waist and swiped it sideways. Kai's left foot was cut off immediately, and he fell heavily to the ground.

Kai didn't make a sound, lying on the ground rolling and convulsing, Opal put away the dagger, closed his eyes, and explored the surrounding area.

total darkness.

What about the phantom star? !

There are no targets to be found at all, no enemies!

Opal had to turn to look at the wrench.

"Wrench?!" Opal said, "Raymond! Are you still alive?! Wake up!"

"Been controlled by... the Phantom Starman..." Wrench said, "Opal... are you alright?"

Opal said: "I am not controlled, what should I do now?"

The wrench covered his injured shoulder, panting: "Keep going, leave Raymond alone... go to the energy furnace... restart Central Energy..."

Opal roared: "Raymond!"

Raymond was still standing in the center of the platform. Opal was too far away from him. He resisted the wrench and remained silent for a while. Finally, he had no choice but to ignore it and said, "Wrench, I'm carrying you on my back. Where are you going? You show the way, where are your team members?" ?do not care?"

Wrench said: "He has... an emergency life-support belt... let's go!"

Opal looked at Lei Meng with his back turned to him from a distance, and resolutely pulled the rope, cut it, swung with a wrench in an arc, and swung to another platform tens of meters down.

The steps are intricate, Opal half-carrying the wrench half-carrying, covered in his blood, the stairs are full of corpses lying in disorder, Opal first paused, and then gasped in disbelief.

"Go on!" yelled the wrench.

Opal: "A soldier or a pirate?"

Wrench: "All of them! They have already killed each other!"

Opal: "You are also here to activate the central energy?"

Wrench: "God knows... I see the way, and it's here!"

Opal walked down quickly, the two of them went down to the bottom, the wrench was panting, the blood stopped, the small belt glowed with healing rays, in front of him was a huge black well with unfathomable depth, the entire well covered an area of ​​nearly ten square kilometers , like a dark pit.

The opal and the wrench are as small as ants, and the light is gathered into a point, manually climbing down the steps along the edge of the black well.

"This is an energy well." The blood on Wrench's face had dried up, and he whispered, "You can do whatever I ask you to do later, and restart the energy core."

Opal's heart was pounding, he said: "What will happen after the energy is turned on?"

The wrench said: "Restore the lighting first, there must be a phantom prisoner who escaped, and an emergency mechanism will be prepared in this prison..."

Inside the energy well is a set of strange reaction furnaces. Wrench stumbled to the console, connected a portable optical computer to the control line, and said, "Opal."

"What." Opal held up the lights, and there was endless long night everywhere, only the vast white light around them, Opal was thinking about Raymond, until they left the platform, Raymond still didn't move, hope He doesn't want to be controlled...is he struggling?Humanoid life forms may have a stronger anti-interference ability than humans, but I hope he persists.

Opal didn't want to fight Raymond.

"Opal." The wrench activated the optical brain, began to analyze the data of the console, and said, "If it's the worst situation later, you can run along the same path you came from, and wait for Azeroth outside Lone Star." .”

"What about you?" Opal said.

"I'll die with Lily." The wrench said, "Go ahead, push up the joystick over there, pull the handle out, and turn it counterclockwise..."

Is everyone under control?Opal stepped forward to operate and immediately woke up. The Twelve Nebula Mercenaries were under the hallucination control. Lily's team came in from another direction. They attacked each other, so gunshots came from the communicator .

Raymond, Kun, the boy named Kay... Most of the others will not be able to escape either.

Opal has the power of faith and will not be controlled by the phantom star, but why is the wrench okay?This is illogical... Opal said: "Wrench."

Wrench glanced at Opal.

"Why aren't you under control?" Opal said suspiciously.

The wrench replied, "I don't know either."

It was too late to say it, but the two raised their heads at the same time, and Opal shouted: "Get out of the way!!"

Within a second, the wrench rolled on the spot, and a strong wind burst out a hundred meters above his head, and Raymond slashed down with an axe!

Opal knelt down on one knee and dragged the big sword to block it. There was a loud noise when the weapons collided, and the deafening echoes of the impact reverberated in the energy well.

"Raymond—!" Opal roared angrily.

Lei Meng's pupils rotated repeatedly, shrinking, spreading, and shrinking again, as if they were taking a crosshair. The two of them separated as soon as they touched, and jumped to the sides. Four electromagnetic light bombs whizzed towards them, and Opal kept his sword in front of him all the time. , flipped the wrist so wonderfully, the light bullet was blocked high into the air, and a dull big explosion occurred at the top a few seconds later!

The three suspended cells lost their balance, and one end fell into the energy well, making a series of loud noises, causing the earth to tremble. Opal hid behind the bunker, closed his eyes, and released the power of faith. trace.

what happened? !Opal couldn't believe all of this, there was no trace of being manipulated on Raymond's body.

The buzzing long cannon gathered energy and dragged out a light trail in the darkness, Lei Meng's figure approached silently, and the moment Opal opened his eyes again, the energy cannon had already reached his chest!

"No—!" Opal growled.

Raymond pulled the trigger, and in an instant a white light pierced Opal's chest. At that last second, Opal finally understood the cause and effect.

The power of belief in the stars was released quickly, and then returned to his body. With a roar and a loud hum, his mind was spinning, and the phantom star who controlled Opal was forcibly expelled from his body.

All the sights in front of him disappeared, and Opal opened his eyes again—he returned to the temporary camp outside the cell.

A group of blue light left with a sharp sound, Opal held the sword in his left hand and pushed forward with his right hand, the belief field of the stars rotated, the dark surroundings were illuminated like day, and thousands of stars turned into shooting stars, chasing the group of blue light!

Lan Guang kept dodging and disappeared quickly, and the wrench shouted: "Opal!"

Opal's belief was interrupted, and he woke up suddenly.

The wrench said: "Are you awake? What's going on?!"

Opal said: "So it was me who was controlled! Damn it!"

In the next second, all the people who stood still seemed to wake up from a big dream. They took a step one after another, shouted loudly, and fell to the ground.

Wrench looked at several people, Raymond was the first to calm down and said, "Have you all hallucinated?"

"Yes, are you okay?" Opal said: "It was like a dream just now, I have already gone to the energy furnace with the wrench, and you fired a cannon at me."

Everyone was sweating profusely, as if they were fished out of the water.

"Yes! Lily!" Opal said, "Hurry up and contact her!"

Wrench: "Their passage is blocked, there is a place they can't get through, and they have to wait for the central energy furnace to be turned on here."

There was chaos in the passage.

Kun: "What just happened? I almost got shot with a wrench!"

Kay: "Where is the bridge! Where is the bridge?"

Raymond: "Wait! Don't talk!"

A few seconds later, the wrench spoke first: "I took a step just now, and all of you are still, and you can't wake up even if you scream. You are planning to go back and inform Azeroth to come to support."

Raymond: "How many Phantom Stars were there just now?"

Opal: "One, already gone."

Raymond: "Are you sure there is only one."

Opal closed his eyes, pressed with one hand, and said, "I'm sure there's only one, yes, I'm sure, I understand."

"The Phantom Star is completely hidden if it doesn't take action." Opal looked into Raymond's eyes and said, "No one can feel its existence. It will only glow when it releases the phantom."

Wrench: "Can you feel them?"

Opal: "Barely, this one came out of nowhere. It seems that it can only create hallucinations and cannot manipulate people to take actual actions."

Opal's brain was still throbbing with pain, and Raymond said, "Continue to go deeper?"

The wrench said: "Go on, Opal, you are responsible for scouting the surroundings, and immediately warn if there are phantom stars."

Opal nodded, and Wrench didn't ask where Opal's ability came from. Maybe he also knew that it was inconvenient for Opal to tell, but since it was the first time, it was easy. They followed the previous path, and this time it was very difficult. Be careful, stop and go, it took more than two hours to reach the platform.

"There is an energy well below." Wrench said, "We have to find a way to get down first."

Opal is always vigilant and doesn't dare to take it lightly. There seems to be only one Phantom Starman, and he doesn't know where he is going. However, this one is very powerful, enough to control them all... No, why is the wrench not controlled?

"Wrench," Opal said.

Wrench was assembling a power flyboard and said, "You better focus, Opal."

Opal: "I can control the situation, I want to ask you something."

The mercenaries followed the ropes to the platform one by one, leaving the wrench on the high place, Raymond and Opal.

The wrench tried to put the flying board in the air, and motioned to Opal to say.

"Why didn't you hallucinate just now?" Opal asked.

The wrench was very puzzled and said, "I don't know, what do you think?"

Opal frowned slightly, and Lei Meng said: "Go ahead, it's not too late to discuss this later."

Wrench stepped on the flyboard and said, "Would you like to try this?"

"No." Raymond said, "You go down first."

The wrench stepped down on the flying board, Lei Meng didn't rush down the rope, standing on a high place and whispered: "What did you find?"

Opal was very confused and couldn't figure it out for a while. After a while, he said: "What appeared in your hallucinatory world just now."

Raymond said: "Like a dream, you turned around and ran, I chased you, went to a place, found Sid and Xun, you let them out, and Xun killed us in the end."

Opal immediately said: "Where?!"

Raymond said: "Do you think the dreams instilled in us by the Phantom Star are real?"

"No, you have to verify it first." Opal said, "There will be a result soon."

"Ramon!" Kun's voice called from below, "you better hurry up!"

"Go down and have a look first." Opal said.

Raymond and Opal got off the platform, and Raymond's voice came from his ears, saying: "73 corpses, 36 are pirates, and 37 are soldiers of the Meteor Corps."

Opal said: "Borrow the flying board of the wrench and fly up. Let's leave the team temporarily."

Then Raymond and Wrench discussed briefly for a while, Raymond stepped on the flying board, Opal jumped up, hugged Raymond's waist from behind, and said, "Go to the place where you saw Sid and Xun in your hallucination. "

Raymond kept a surfing motion and leaned slightly, Opal pushed his buttocks as a prank, and the two walked around the corridor and headed to the other end.

Opal: "Does the hallucination involve your memory?"

Raymond: "No, is it cold? A coat for you?"

Opal shook his head, Raymond looked back at him, their lips touched, Raymond said: "Hold on, and then?"

Opal hugged Raymond's waist tightly, his coat fluttering in the wind, and said: "The illusion that guy created for us just now is all existing fragments based on his own memory. This phantom star has seen the outside of the energy well. I have also seen Sid and Xun's corpse, so we created these illusions."

Raymond said: "I still don't quite understand why it did this, holding us back?"

Opal said, "Did you die in the hallucination?"

Raymond said: "No, you couldn't kill me, but you smashed half of my body to pieces, and I kept asking you what's wrong...to make you sober."

Opal laughed, and Raymond asked again: "What about you? How am I like in your fantasy?"

Opal said: "I was a little bit... well, no, you are still very gentle."

While speaking, Opal suddenly thought of an extremely terrifying thing, and asked again: "Are there any bloodstains on the corpses you saw?"

Raymond: "No."

Opal: "Brain dead?"

Raymond: "Maybe, the wrench was checking when I came up."

Opal murmured: "We almost died just now... just a little bit, so if we die in hallucinations, we will lose all consciousness control."

Raymond remained silent, and Opal thought of another thing, saying: "All hallucinations come from the consciousness and memory of that phantom star."

Raymond hummed, and Opal said, "In my hallucination, the wrench is not controlled."

Raymond said: "In fact, he has not been controlled."

Opal said: "Have you noticed this too? Another point is that the phantom star also thinks that the wrench cannot be controlled. It's not that he missed him, because the wrench is normal in my illusion world, which means that he is in the phantom star's world." In cognition, it is also uncontrollable."

Raymond: "I've always been a little weird, even you are not immune, how can a wrench resist hallucinations?"

Opal couldn't explain clearly, and Lei Meng said again: "It may also mean that the degree to which a person is influenced by the phantom star is inversely proportional to his constitution. Thinking like a wrench is more complicated and consumes a lot of brainpower..."

Opal: "Do you mean that I have strong limbs but a simple mind?"

Raymond laughed loudly, and manipulated the flying board to turn around in the air and land slowly.

"Hush..." Raymond said, "Keep your voice down."

Opal and Raymond lay on the top of a cell and looked down. This is a landing pad, with a small airship parked inside and many guards standing outside.

"Maybe he has acquired immunity after following Azeroth for a long time..." Opal whispered.

Raymond hissed: "You just feel that the wrench has missed the hallucination, you are being controlled, so you are not reconciled..."

Opal gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"

Raymond: "Come here, ready to move."