The Star Knight

When Opal was walking, his feet were still a little weak, feeling that he had been fucked too hard, dangling around like drunk, his handsome face was slightly red, his shirt was unbuttoned, and his body was still a little hot , licked his lips, his expression was very attractive.

Raymond unnaturally unbuttoned his coat, and looked at it, as if he wanted to push Opal to the wall for another shot.

On New Year's Eve, the shopping street in the Central Plaza had not yet been decorated. The two wore scarves and ate a snack on the side of the road, playing with the new-style pool machines that the bosses bought from the Empire. A group of mercenaries gathered in front of the pool screen and shouted: "Hey— —!”

"What a pity!"

"Losing to a rookie!"

Opal laughed loudly, and Raymond took the prize and said, "It's really taboo to underestimate the enemy."

"Come again!" The loser was unconvinced and refused to let them go, Opal said: "I won't play with you anymore."

Lei Meng said: "My wife said she won't play with you, let's go."

Laughing on the spot, Opal took the gold coupon and went to exchange it for things.

A little while before the final night, they wandered around the fair and found Wrench holding Lily, playing with a two-meter pom.

"I really want to raise one too!" Lily threw herself on that Pom.

"I really want to too—!" Opal also rushed forward.

"I want to too!" Raymond jumped up with him with a smile. Pom turned around and hopped away. Spanner was buying a drink. He was startled, and hurriedly chased after him: "Hey! You want to kill me?" Where are you taking my wife!"

Pom jumped away, Lily jumped down, patted the hair on the clothes, and wrenched: "When did you come back?"

Raymond also went to buy drinks and said, "Three days ago. Urka took the things away."

Lily said: "Well, I got it, how are Xun and the others?"

Opal replied: "I guess he is taking care of Sid's father, what are your plans?"

Lily and Wrench looked at each other and said, "Shall we go together?"

The wrench hesitated a little, and then said: "I think the king means that he wants me to visit him... including Sid's father, but I have other things to do, and it seems that I can't go away. I have to go and see The venue of the dance tonight, by the way, help Urka find a dance partner..."

Raymond said: "I will convey my greetings to you."

Lily said: "If it's convenient, please also pass on Wang's greetings."

Raymond said politely: "Yes."

Opal bought a lot of things with the gold coupons, nutrition and irises, as well as some soft pillows, bom quilt covers, bom hats and other daily necessities, and went to the hospital with Raymond to visit Sid's father.

"Dangdang!" Opal appeared from outside the door.

Sid was feeding his father by the hospital bed, with Xun's hands in his pockets, staring out the window in a daze.

Sid smiled and said, "Why are you here?"

Raymond said: "Convey Azeroth's regards to you... Is your father better?"

Sid was a little flattered, and said, "He sent these things too? We didn't really do anything."

Opal: "I trouble you not to think too much, this is what we bought?"

Raymond took out a pom hat and said, "This is for you."

Sid laughed, put on a furry pom hat, and put another one on for his father. Raymond and Opal each took one. Opal felt that the atmosphere in the ward seemed a little tense... Xun and Sid were arguing ?

Sid got up to change the quilt and pillow for his father. Opal took a pom cap and put it on Xun's head. Xun immediately got angry and said, "Who is playing with you!"

Opal said: "Alright, don't play."

Xun looked like he had a grudge against everyone, maybe he was angry, so Opal didn't provoke him, and came back and sat down beside the hospital bed, Lei Meng rested his left ankle on his right knee, and winked at Opal, I mean what happened to that kid?

Opal looked at Sid questioningly, Sid smiled and did not explain.

"How is he?" Raymond saw Sid's father watching him.

"I can open my eyes," Sid said, "but he can't communicate with the outside world, and his brain has suffered serious damage. The doctor said that his current intelligence is like that of a three-month-old child."

Raymond nodded slowly, and Opal asked: "Are you going to the dance? You can use a wheelchair to push your father to go together. There are more people."

Xi De said: "I want to ask Xun, Xun, do you want to go?"

Xun ignored him, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, took a bunch of irises, and said, "I'm going out for a walk."

Opal said: "Let me go out with you." He walked out of the ward with the pom hat in his hand, and put it on Xun's head.

Xun looked bitter and bitter, with a cigarette in his mouth and messy hair, like an angry pheasant.

Opal asked, "What's wrong?"

Xun said unhappily: "When he came back, he heard his father woke up and stayed with him every step of the way. Am I here to be an escort?"

Opal smiled and said, "Isn't this a good thing?"

Xun said: "I also want to be with him!"

Opal said: "Speak well, there is no need to do this."

Xun let out a long breath helplessly, wearing the pom hat crookedly, the two left the hospital, the robot cleared the snow along the road, and Opal followed him without asking him where he was going.

"By the way, Raymond and I are married." Opal said.

"Congratulations, from the bottom of my heart." Xun said, "I might not marry Sid anymore, just do what you love."

Opal patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's not necessary, it's all trivial."

Xun said: "Maybe because I don't have a father, I don't understand the importance of a father to him."

Opal thought of what Wrench said - Xun is Azeroth's illegitimate son, he doesn't know anything?Why is Azeroth hiding from him?

The mercenary king may not like this son, or it may damage his reputation... But Opal always feels that Azeroth should not be such a person.

"Where's your father?" Opal said, "I heard that your father passed away. What kind of person is he?"

Xun said indifferently: "He is a very ordinary mercenary, so ordinary that he couldn't be more ordinary..."

Turning quickly into a remote garden outside the long street, Opal looked up before entering the gate, it was a cemetery.

There were scattered people in the cemetery, silent in the middle of rows of tombstones.

The sky was gloomy, and Xun threw the flowers in front of the huge monument in the middle of the cemetery.

Under the monument is engraved the national emblem of the country of mercenaries, and a line of words is written on the base - commemorating all the nameless victims.

The light snow is fine and dense, intertwined in the sky.

Opal said: "You are better than me, I don't even know who my father is."

"That proves that your father might still be alive." Xun said helplessly.

Opal said: "You know your father must be dead? What's his name?"

Xun said: "Aizel, Bin Ezel."

Opal said: "I guess he must have done something spectacular."

Xun said: "Don't comfort me, the trade union has already confirmed that he is a very ordinary E-rank mercenary, not a hero."

Opal frowned slightly, it seemed that Xun really didn't know that Azeroth was his biological father.

"He is tall and thin." Xun said, "The skin is a little fair, just like mine, but he is sickly white..."

Opal: "Which mercenary group?"

Xun shrugged and said: "Scattered soldiers, did not join the regiment, just like many people now... come to Lie Xing to make a living, some people are lucky, they are blessed by the God of War in everything they do, and they get along well. Like wrench them."

"And some people are like a splash in the sea. They receive missions, go out missions, run into danger, and die. Died on an alien planet, the body can't be found, the trade union cancels the file, and a death report is issued. He is that kind of person. Bad luck."

Listening to Xun's description, Opal seemed to really believe that his father was just an ordinary mercenary.There are people on this planet who have made great military exploits and improved themselves, and more people have died silently. In the end, there is no companion to help him erect a tombstone.

"Where's your mother?" Opal asked again.

"A hostess on a small planet." Xun said: "accompany the guests who landed in other places, refuel and overhaul the spacecraft to drink a glass of wine, chat, and occasionally have a bed... died when I was six years old, tell I asked me to come to the God of War galaxy to find my father, saying that he was a mercenary and that she loved him until death, but he never came back to look at her."

Opal said: "It's a bit similar to my life experience."

Xun said: "Oh no, I guess your father is some kind of hero, you don't look like..."

Opal: "No, no, my mother is just a miner. But I always think that bloodline, origin, etc., have no necessary connection with whether a person can be a hero. You see, you are doing well now."

Xun said: "Okay, thank you."

He looked at the monument, and Xun's eyes were full of regret, and seemed to be a little disdainful. He is also a mercenary. If there is no change in the future, at least he can do better than his dead father.

"I'm actually a waste." Xun said: "My father is also a waste."

"With all due respect, the principle of measuring a mercenary is not his level, his ability, and how much property he has." Azeroth's voice sounded from the other side of the monument, and both Opal and Xun were startled .

He turned the monument, and Opal saluted with Xun, greeting him.

Azeroth returned the salute, touched them with his fist, looked up at the top of the towering monument, and said in a deep voice: "Each of us is a grain of sand in the universe, the key lies in having a brave, resolute and self-reliant individual. Heart. For Lie Xing, everyone who fights for himself is a hero."

Quickly nodded, Azeroth said: "I'm sorry, I didn't intend to eavesdrop, I hope you don't mind, I promise I will keep my mouth shut."

Xun said, "It doesn't matter."

Opal said, "What are you doing here?"

"To pay homage to a friend from long ago." Azeroth breathed out slowly, and said, "A partner from childhood."

None of the three spoke, snowflakes were flying quietly in the night sky, Xun saluted again and said, "I wish you a long life."

Azeroth smiled and said, "I wish you a long life."

Xun and Opal turned and left together.

As night falls, the whole city revels. The city of Soul of War lights up the lights all night long, and the music plays. The mercenaries will spend 36 hours of long night here, waiting for the first dawn in the sky.

The Battle Soul Square is crowded with people, all the shops in the city are open all night, colorful lights stretch across the sky, and the fireworks illuminate the night sky colorfully.

"Happy New Year, long life!" The mercenaries greeted each other with smiles.

Opal and Raymond played with fireworks for a while, laughed and ran across the strip, and started chasing a group of Booms running around. Out of breath, they stopped outside the corner drink shop.

"I'm going to buy something to drink." Raymond said.

Opal said: "Go."

The remote part of the square became quieter, and the music came from afar. The two sat on the bench for a while, the bustling street lights turned into colorful circles of light, and the music was very small and melodious.

Opal stood in the middle of the road, humming a song, gesticulating and dancing on his own.

Raymond hugged him from behind and taught him to dance.

"Left foot." Raymond said with a smile: "Now... right foot. By the way, one, two, three, turn around."

Opal turned around, squinted his eyes, the two held hands, and turned around in the middle of the road, Opal laughed out loud, thinking it was very funny.

"What's the point of dancing this kind of dance." Opal said helplessly, "Walking around in the middle of the dance floor following the music...wasting time."

"Some people think it's very romantic." Raymond's handsome and intoxicating smile: "Don't you think it's very interesting now?"

Opal said: "Oh, forget it, I don't understand why people in the upper class like to dance."

Raymond held Opal's hand, turned it around, turned it under the street lamp, shook it lightly, and said: "This kind of slow shake belongs to the style of the Republic. I heard that the local dance in Lie Xing is more bold and unrestrained. more enthusiastic..."

"Huh?" Opal raised his head slightly, staring at Raymond's face. The street lamps sprinkled on their short hair. Raymond's hair was very short and energetic, and there was a layer of warm light on his eyebrows. Opal said: " Is this also innate?"

Raymond smiled and said, "Yes, I'm a social etiquette robot. Your teacher didn't teach you this? Little Star Knight, you obviously haven't completed all the courses."

Opal thought for a while and said, "He doesn't look like entertaining... But I guess he should, he just doesn't want to teach me."

Lei Meng lowered his head and whispered, "Is it because this process is too ambiguous?"

The two hugged each other, touching the bridge of their noses under the street lamp, Opal couldn't help but kissed Lei Meng's lips, and said, "Well...he probably doesn't want to hug me like this..."

Raymond said: "Fortunately, he didn't, otherwise he would definitely fall in love with you, so I'm very glad."

All the street lights in the whole star were turned on, and the snowflakes fluttered under the light shining on the whole star, like hundreds of billions of gentle feathers, and the battle spirit square was brightly lit, as if it were daytime.

A traveler wearing a black windbreaker and a wide-brimmed round hat slantingly walked to a remote part of the square and asked politely, "Guys, how can I get to Baiying Tavern?"

"Baiying Tavern!" The drunken mercenary replied, "It's closed a long time ago! It was closed ten years ago. You haven't been back for a long time!"

Several mercenaries looked at him from head to toe. This old man was carrying an ax and cannon, and the brim of his wide-brimmed hat was pressed down very low. That look has lived for hundreds of years.Good manners, tall, and wearing mitts.

"Senior! I wish you a long life!" A mercenary raised his glass to him.

"Please have a drink! Happy New Year!" Someone said: "Welcome home!"

The man in the black windbreaker said: "I wish you a long life."

One person said: "You can go to the back alley of the Zhanhun Building! There are many drinking places there!"

"Thank you." Hei Fengyi said: "No, no, I wanted to have a glass of wine at Baiying Tavern... I didn't expect Lie Xing to change so much."

"The better and better!" The mercenaries laughed.

"Yes." The man in the black windbreaker said, "There will be a period later."

He made a detour, entered the back alley behind the War Soul Building, and quickly walked up the steps. The two guards who were drinking in the door got up and said, "What..."

The man in the black windbreaker stretched out his left hand and made a gesture, and the two fell at the door.

He walked all the way through the central corridor of the God of War Building. The security here has been strengthened a lot after the Star Wars, and the gates are closed.

"Mercenary, there is no appointment..." the front desk clerk got up and said.

The man in the black windbreaker raised his hand and said, "Open the door."

The door opens.

The man in the black windbreaker entered the central platform, pondered for a moment, and pressed a series of passwords.

"Level [-] password verification passed." The electronic voice said: "Identity confirmation, central operation technician, please select the floor you want to go to."

Electronic voice: "Five hundredth floor, the office of Mercenary King Azeroth."

The black windbreaker stopped on the [-]th floor, walked through the empty corridor, and sixteen robots sounded an alarm to surround them, but flew to both sides in an instant, broke through the glass door outside the corridor, and fell to the street.

Only Azeroth and a union president were in the office.

"The leaders feel that your energy charges are too high..." Azeroth stopped talking and heard the movement outside.

The door opened automatically, and the man in the black windbreaker stood outside.

The man in the black windbreaker said: "I wish you a long life, Krelaus."

The flow of time seems to have become extremely slow.

Azeroth said: "You lost a lost dog, didn't a single defeat make you feel better?"

The chairman of the trade union instinctively backed away, but the man just raised his hand casually, and the chairman lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Azeroth was still sitting on his swivel chair, and said in a deep voice, "Colorin, I also wish you a long life, your days are not long."

"Accept your precious words." Corolin said, "Before that, I want to seek justice for Anna's illegitimate son."

Azeroth's pupils contracted slightly, and Cologne turned his head sideways, as if listening to something, and said, "The god of war who glorifies the universe, the spiritual pillar of Lie Xing, the mercenary king Krillaus ben Azeroth, what is it?" What made him afraid to recognize his son? Why? The king of mercenaries would leave his country in private and go to an insignificant asteroid on the star map... Anna's hometown is just a transit station, the king's real destination It's another asteroid, he landed in Anna's hometown, he was in a bad mood, drank a few glasses of wine, and unexpectedly left behind an illegitimate child..."

Azeroth watched Cororin quietly.

Corolin: "The illegitimate child is just a part of it. Going back through all the reasons, guess what I... found? This is really surprising. Why doesn't Krillaus dare to recognize his son?"

"Because once there is an extra son, the mercenaries will ask, why did the king go to such a remote asteroid? What did he do there... When they found out that the former king Kyle who had been engraved on the hero's tablet The moment Lei didn't die..."

Azeroth got up and said, "Crazy, you will die here today."

Cologne narrowed her eyes and said in a low voice, "If I say that besides me, there is another person named Jimison who also knows about this..."

Azeroth trembled uncontrollably, and Cologne said again: "I heard your soul that fell into the abyss cry."

Azeroth said: "You always thought you found my weakness..."

Corolin said: "You have been shaken, Krillaus. For the sake of working with you, I will give you one last chance to join the Dark Star Alliance and hand over all the things your subordinates obtained on Lone Star .”

Azeroth said: "Give it up, Corolin, I don't want to hear your beliefs or ideals anymore. Lie Xing will never be a knife in your hand. Let's fight for the victory in an upright manner. This time I will let you The corpse will remain in Liexing forever."

Cologne: "You are dead, Krillaus, your belief in invincibility has been shaken, and you are old. Fighting will only hasten your death."

Azeroth: "You're older than me, Cororin."

"It's only my appearance that I'm aging." Cologne took off his hat, put his hands behind his back, his feet were slightly apart, and his deep black blue eyes were full of sympathy and helplessness: "And what you're aging is your soul."

"Lie Xing will never surrender to you." Azeroth said coldly: "No matter how old I am, I am enough to fight you to the death, Corolin."

Cologne raised his hand and pushed forward, while Azeroth shivered slightly with one hand on the desk, unable to press the alarm switch no matter what.

"Your belief is no longer impregnable, Krillaus." Cologne's voice was hypnotic: "Your fate is like your son's fate, and the tragedy is constantly repeating itself."

He stretched out his palm to hold it, and a small box on the desk spun and flew towards him, landed in his palm, and was tightly held by him.

"I took Nolan's relics away." Corolin said, "The next step is your life."

Azeroth's forehead was covered with sweat, his pupils dilated, his whole body trembled in pain, and then let out an angry roar.

"Colorin—!"