The Star Knight

"Hey, brother, wake up."

"Ah——" Opal yelled in pain, feeling tens of thousands of needles pricking his skin all over his body, his eyes were full of tears, and he was lying on the hospital bed panting in pain.

A mercenary immediately said: "Don't catch it! Don't catch it!"

Opal stretched out his hand and scratched his chest a few times, the skin burst immediately, and blood gushed out, soaking the bed sheet.

"Hurry up and bring the ray therapy device!" The mercenary shouted, "It's bleeding!"

Opal's hands were trembling with difficulty, and he tried his best not to scratch the newly healed skin on his body. He closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time. Two mercenaries used radiation medical equipment to heal him and gave him some medicine , said: "Take some sedatives and rest for a while."

"How's the situation outside?" Opasa said in a loud voice.

"Colorin escaped." The mercenary said, "An opponent who was comparable to him appeared and beat him away. The king died, and the gray wolf also died. Many people died this time."

Opal was about to get up, but the mercenary hurriedly said, "Take a break."

Opal said: "I... want to find my comrades in arms."

The mercenary said: "Rest here for a while, your injury is not completely healed, so you can't move around."

"Come and help!" Someone shouted, "There are new wounded soldiers coming!"

Opal said, "Where's my earbuds?"

The mercenary got up to help, and said, "Maybe it was taken off during the treatment, I'll go find it for you." He motioned for him to rest here.

Opal lay quietly on the bed, his naked body was covered by a white sheet, the outside of the window was dusty, and the sky and the earth seemed to be full of dust and light, blocking the sun.

There are many mercenaries around crying in pain, crying heart-piercingly, making the sound of being on the verge of collapse, crying everywhere, they are mourning the death of Azeroth.

Opal was silent for a moment, trembling uncontrollably, tears streaming down his eyes, and then weeping hoarsely and silently.

Azeroth was dead, and it was the most painful defeat the Burning Stars had ever suffered, and they lost almost everything.

Now Opal's only hope is that Raymond is still alive, otherwise he...he doesn't know how to face such a shock.

Another mercenary came over and said, "You can't find your things."

Opal nodded and said, "Can you help me find a suit? I have to go to the central square."

There was chaos in the hospital, and finally someone gave him a set of blood-stained clothes. Opal didn't know whose it was, so he had to put it on first. Broken skin.

He just put on a pair of blood-stained trousers, put on a coat, put on his boots and staggered out.

The world was gloomy, the snow had stopped, and there were ruined and collapsed houses along the way. He stopped on the Battle Soul Square, and everyone was crying as far as he could see.

"Ah—" A mercenary knelt on the square stained with Azeroth's blood, wept loudly, bowed down, and rested his head on the brick floor, trembling.

Opal wiped away his tears and said, "Has anyone seen Raymond?"

All around were faces with ashes on their faces, all shaking their heads, Opal said: "We are all from the mecha team." "You survived!" A mercenary said: "The king died, and the gray wolf also died. gone."

"I know." Opal replied with tears in his voice, "I... my comrade-in-arms may also be dead."

People were crying everywhere. Opal went to the information desk exhaustedly. The clerk, with red eyes and tears all over his face, said, "I can't find it... I really can't find it."

Opal said: "Mecha team, Raymond."

The clerk said: "Team EUT3027, is the captain AE? T1——T5 machines, all killed."

"No...no." Opal said, "You should check again."

"Dead in battle." The clerk said: "More than 1 heroes died in the mecha team. They are all dead. Go back and live well for him."

Opal's mind went blank, he stood on the edge of the square, and let out a heart-piercing cry towards the sky.

He wasn't ready yet... Raymond didn't die, no... Opal had known since the day he was a mercenary that he would die one day, but he wasn't ready to live alone.

Death is seen very lightly among the mercenaries, and it has been tacitly regarded as just a farewell to life, the landslide of the mine, the danger on other planets when the task is entrusted... Opal has seen a lot since he was a child, He is always ready to face death.

A vigorous departure is not terrible, and all these are acceptable to him, but he cannot accept such a parting anyway. He didn't even have time to say anything to Raymond... There was no last word, and there was no heroic parting from each other.

If he had known this earlier, he would not have pressed the escape button in the mech.

"Opal!" Xun said loudly, "You're still alive, that's great!"

Sid and Xun hugged him with red eyes, and Opal said, "Raymond is dead."

He was like a helpless child, kneeling in the middle of the square and crying loudly. Raymond just left him without a word of farewell, and was smashed to pieces under the gunfire of Coronne.

Opal cried for a long time, his whole body was shaking, the skin that had just healed after the burn was cracked again, and his whole body was covered with blood, he really wanted to die like this, what's the point of living?

However, the dead are gone, and the living are still cruelly abandoned in this world.

They sat in the square, the rain started, the sky and the earth were full of thick dust and ash, Azeroth's blood was still on the steps.

After sitting for nearly ten hours, Opal calmed down a bit, and quickly came over with an energy drink for him.

Sid said: "Opal, why don't we join your mercenary group together in the future..."

Quickly glanced at Sid, signaling him not to say too much now.

Opal nodded and said, "Thank you for your kindness. I think Raymond is still alive, maybe not dead."

Sid said, "Opal, you..."

Xun said, "Why don't you go and ask again."

Opal said, "I want to walk by myself."

Xun said, "Put this on."

Opal took his windbreaker and put it on. His steps were a little unsteady, and he walked through the Battle Soul Square. The garden was destroyed and a mess. Several Pom were homeless, shivering in the rain.

Opal looked around and suddenly felt that this place was so strange, he didn't even have the strength to walk, he just wanted to bury himself on this planet and become one with the earth.

His beliefs collapsed, and his soul seemed to be burned out in the flames of war, leaving nothing in his life.

Many mercenaries were identifying the relics, most of which were memorials left by the victims. Many teams even sacrificed the entire regiment, and the items had to be temporarily collected by the mercenary union.

Opal said, "It's from the Smoke and Sword Mercenary Corps."

The clerk was looking for relics, and in a pile of mercenary diaries, something was emitting a faint blue light.

"It's that one!" Opal immediately said, "The one on your right! Give it to me!"

Passed Raymond's mercenary diary from behind the window, Opal opened it in disbelief, and inside was Raymond's necklace, the pendant was still shining just now, what's going on?Now it doesn't glow anymore? !

"Raymond, are you there?" Opal said, "Is that you? Answer me!"

The mercenaries around looked at Opal and thought he was insane for a while.

"Come here for some water?" Someone said, "Brother, take a break."

"No, no." Opal said, "I'm fine, I'm fine."

He took out the necklace, put away the mercenary diary, and said, "Raymond? Can you hear me?"

He stared at Raymond's necklace intently. The pendant was very ordinary, just like what he had always seen, without any change.

Opal held his breath and stared at it motionlessly, as if a century had passed, his thinking was interrupted by what the mercenary beside him said.

"Are you okay?" someone asked.

Opal shook his head, walked out of the square clutching the necklace, found a place to sit down, put his fist in front of him, and whispered, "Raymond, are you still alive? Or are you dead?"

What he expected didn't happen, and the next thing he stood motionless in the fine raindrops, staring at the necklace, expecting it to shine again.

He was like a sculpture, sitting in the rain for nearly ten hours, his whole body was drenched by the light rain, and the inside and outside were covered with icy cold water.

The battle between Corolin and Rector caused smoke and dust in the atmosphere of Lie Xing. The rain became heavier and heavier, and the haze would not know when it would dissipate. The whole Lie Xing fell into the most confused and desperate moment in history. Not knowing where to go next, pain enveloped the country of mercenaries.

The future is dark, only the rain that will never end.

"Opal, I found you." Yin Dong came over and sat down with his shoulders.

Opal shivered from the cold in the rain and said, "Are you okay."

His voice was hoarse, his eyes were red.

Yin Jian said: "Do you want to sleep for a while, come here."

He took the opal to the shelter of the eaves. The hall was very empty. It turned out to be the enrollment point of the recruit academy. The wall collapsed nearly half, revealing the gray central square in the distance.

Yin Jian took off his coat and asked Opal to change into it. Wearing his drenched clothes, he went to find an atomic furnace and lit a fire. A few mercenaries came to warm up the fire outside, and everyone remained silent. chat.

"Where are your members?" Opal asked.

"Dead." Yin Jian said: "They are all dead. When the incident happened, I was gambling in the entertainment area. The boss led other people to fight. I missed it. When I came back, Coronne had already taken off."

Opal nodded, leaning against Yin Jian, a mercenary who was warming the fire said, "Why is he so strong? He has committed so many evil deeds. Is there no one in the universe who can sanction him?"

"Who is that person who appeared later?" Another person said: "Do you know? The silver mecha, why don't we ask him to avenge the king."

Opal said: "He can't do it either, he was defeated by Corolin once."

Everyone was silent, and someone said: "Sooner or later he will perish."

"It's hard to say." A tall mercenary said to these people: "Even the king died under his hands. I can't see any hope."

"Someone will make him pay with his own blood." Yin Jian said, "Live on. I hope we can all live until the day when we see Cologne perish with our own eyes."

Opal said: "Hope is very slim, very slim..."

He was almost sure what Corolin had come here for, other than assassinating Azeroth, it was more likely for Nolan's knife.

If the knife is an ancient mecha, then Corolin has two mechas in his hand.

Legerson said that there are five star knights in total, and Cororin has two mechas. If the other three join forces, they may be able to defeat him, but they have not joined forces, and I am afraid they will not fight together corolla.

Moreover, the saber-toothed tiger is dead, and now Rector and Legerson alone may no longer be Corolin's opponents.

Then Corolin's power will only grow stronger and stronger, he is invincible, not even Rector can defeat him.

"What about Lie Xing's future?" Someone asked.

Another mercenary replied: "I don't know, the boss is having a meeting with the S-rank mercenaries, and I heard that Haitang is back."

"I saw Haitang's mech." Yin Jian said, "It's just behind the tarmac. She, Urka, Wrench, and Rosen are having a meeting."

Opal let out a long breath wearily, leaned into Yin Jian's arms, and said, "Raymond said to me when he got on the mecha, 'You will survive, I will protect you'."

Yin Jian said: "I know that death always comes suddenly. You can get a chance to say goodbye. God is kind to you. Many people always separate suddenly without any warning. Do you still remember A Sui?"

Opal hummed, and Yin Jian said: "I was drinking with him before the Star Wars. After drinking, I played fantasy music all night. When I woke up in the morning, I was sleeping. He first went to the mech team to report. After I woke up, he had already left, and later died in the Battle Soul Square... That's it, this is the farewell."

"My mother is too." A mercenary who was warming up the fire said: "I left home to become a mercenary, and when I went home for vacation, I had a fight with her. After a few weeks, someone notified me to go home to receive the inheritance, because She was shot by my dad. Sometimes you don't know when it will be the last time, and every parting may be a farewell."

"What happened next?" Opal asked.

"Later, I wanted to kill my father." The mercenary said expressionlessly.

"You really should kill him." Yin Jian said.

The mercenary shrugged and said, "But the police of the Republic took the lead and locked him up. Now he is squatting in prison, living a good life with food and drink. Good people always end badly, but bad people live long lives. "

"Wait until he gets out of prison." The other mercenaries said, "I'll avenge you and kill him to pay for your mother's life."

"Count me in." Yin Jian said.

Opal said: "I'm also counted, anyway, it's not very interesting to live, let's go to jail together."

"Okay." The mercenary said, "I've been imprisoned for 80 years. After I get out, remember to live well. I'll avenge my mother later."

"it is good."

"no problem."

Several people have promised.

Opal was really tired. He stared at the red light of the atomic furnace in the hall for a while, and then fell asleep. The red light turned into blue light. In the dream, Raymond hugged him and whispered: "When you smile, my heart Just bang bang."

He went back to the time when Raymond's limbs were broken on the spaceship, the day he kissed Raymond, and his atomic furnace heart glowed with blue light and heaved violently.

What a wonderful day it was.

"Wake up!" Yin Jian said, "Wake up, everyone!"

The sleeping mercenaries opened their eyes one after another, thinking that the attack was coming again, they picked up their weapons and ran out of the hall.

Opal said: "What's the matter?"

The mercenaries came out of the broken buildings one after another, the rain stopped, 36 hours of daylight passed, and as the evening approached, the setting sun in the sky dyed the clouds as red as blood.

The light of dusk enveloped the entire City of Soul of War, reflected on the floor tiles of Soul of War Square.

The gate of the War Soul Building opened, and Rosen, Haitang, and Urka walked out.

The wrench followed closely behind him, and behind him were the heads of nearly a hundred A-level mercenary regiments. Quiet.

"In the past 36 hours." Wrench said with an emotionless voice: "We suffered the most serious setback. The mercenary king Azeroth died, and the S-level mercenary Gray Wolf died heroically. At the same time, the dead There are tens of thousands of comrades in arms."

Cries rang out in the square, and the sound of wrenches echoed in every corner of Lie Xing.

"According to the resolutions of the S-level mercenaries and the A-level mercenary captains, I, Inlecco Khakis, was elected as the sixth mercenary king to inherit Azeroth's behest and lead you to continue fighting. "

There was a silence.

Wrench: "I promise that one day in the future, I will avenge all of you and let Cologne pay for all the crimes he committed. It will be the only meaning of my life from now on."

"Now, please entrust me with your trust. At the same time, send away Azeroth with the highest respect, and send away our great king. His heroic soul will remain in Liexing forever, protecting our existence and our growth. "

"He will witness again! Our resurgence in blood and war!"

"This is the most difficult and painful period for us! The long night of Lie Xing is coming, we have nothing to rely on, internal and external troubles, but I implore everyone not to be afraid, not to flee, not to abandon Lie Xing, please give your life in return!"

"The mother planet will bestow endless glory on every citizen. We are all mercenaries, born to fight, and die to fight!"

Spanner bowed and saluted as a mercenary, then stood still, clenched his fists and stretched out, his voice was low and sad.

"Fearless courage will be passed on in our lives."

Three S-level mercenaries clenched their fists, followed by 140 nine mercenary captains who had been promoted since the Battle of Stars, bowed to the wrench, and stretched out their fists.

Then there was a tide of mercenaries in the square clenching their fists. In the solemn and silent square, countless mercenaries had red eyes, tears in their eyes, and stretched out their fists.

The wrench said in a deep voice: "The battle will never end, every comrade in arms, the God of War is with you."

Three hours later, everyone on the entire planet went to Sunset City to attend Azeroth's funeral.

In the first coffin lay Azeroth, his double S-rank mercenary diary on his chest.

Inside the second coffin was a diary of an S-rank mercenary, symbolizing the dead gray wolf.

Then came all the mercenaries holding the mercenary diaries of their sacrificed comrades. The blazing flames of the high-energy incinerator shot straight into the sky, surrounded by swirling tornadoes. They put the mercenary diaries into the wind wall, and the strong wind swept the diaries into the center of the pillar of fire. Burned out, the ashes rushed to the sky and scattered to the earth.

Their souls are fused with the entire Liexing, and they will stay on the planet where countless bloods have been shed forever.

everything is over.

Opal kept Raymond's mercenary diary. He returned to the tarmac and sat quietly facing the long darkness, staring at Raymond's pendant.

Since it returned to Opal's hands, it hasn't glowed again. In the long dark night, only the indicator light of E7 is on. Opal whispered in the night: "E7."

E7 beeped over, and Opal said, "Now you are the only one left with me."

Opal was lying on the sofa, neither eating nor drinking, not wanting to do anything, just lying quietly, when he closed his eyes, he thought of Raymond, he seemed to be still there, and would come out of the room at some point, Take a can of coffee, sit in front of the swivel chair in the center console, put your feet on the console, and drink coffee by yourself.

Or wait for Opal to fall asleep, come and hug him, the two of them sleep in the soft blanket, Raymond's arms are safe and comfortable.