The Star Knight

Legerson didn't know where he went, but Rector stood alone in the hall.

Rector said: "Opal, I don't want you to go to Corolin's side."

"I love you, teacher." Opal said: "I love you like I love my father, although I don't have a father, but I think that's the feeling, you gave me a second life; I love you like love Comrades who fought side by side with me, please respect my decision."

Rector stared at Opal for a long time.

"He has qualities that Corolin doesn't have," Legerson said. "He's going to be successful."

Rector said, "Then you may be alone from now on, and there is no other way we can help you."

Opal nodded, and asked again: "What do I need to do? Just gain his trust?"

Legison said: "We will arrange it, sit down."

The three sat on the ground, and Legerson said: "What you need to do is not only to gain his trust, but to understand his heart."

"From the long time of getting along, analyze his words and deeds, find out his past, and find the source of his beliefs." Legison said: "Phoenix, the army, these are trivial things. As long as you know where his beliefs come from, We can completely defeat him."

Rector said: "His belief is too strong, or he is too persistent. We don't even know why he is so persistent. He firmly believes that what he is doing is right. Driven by this belief, he has almost nothing. No, none of us can beat him."

Opal said: "What if what he did was really right?"

Rector said: "Then you will be shaken first, and your beliefs will be completely suppressed by him."

"There's no way he's a match for Cororin," Legerson said.

Opal said: "I'm just afraid that when I know what he has done, I will also be shaken..."

Legison said: "Then we will lose completely."

Opal said: "Is there any way to strengthen my will, or hypnotize me, so that I will never be affected by him."

Legison said: "Yes, I will open up a spiritual realm for you, and seal all your memories in it. He can't use mind reading to detect things you don't want him to know."

Opal breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then I'm sure I can succeed."

What he was most afraid of was not that Cologne read his mind and found out that he was an undercover agent, but that he would unknowingly agree with Cologne's actions and become the same person as him.

Rector said: "You don't need to do too many things, you just need to remember his behavior when he gets along with you, what he said, what he asked you to do, you can choose to obey him, anyway, everything is according to your Intent to do it."

"We will exchange information with you in due course," Legison said, "Lie down, Opal."

Opal lay on the cold floor, closed his eyes, Legison's voice said in his ear: "Now I am going to modify your memory. From this moment on, your memory will have nothing but yourself. People can see it, including Rector. But I have to read your past first."

Opal said: "I have nothing to hide, come on."

It was a very strange feeling, like falling asleep, but also like awake, he seemed to know that he was sleeping.

Lejason: [Do you need to erase your pain? 】

【no no! 】Opal immediately said: 【Let me keep it. 】

Lejason: 【Are you sure you want to keep it?But I think you will hate me later.Rector doesn't know about your lover yet, do you need to tell him? 】Opal: 【Don't tell him, everything is over. 】

Lejason: [There is no past, the past is in the future, and all this is just about to begin. ] Opal: [What did you say?Can you be more clear? 】

Lejason: [Aha, it’s okay to keep it as a secret between me and you, you will find out soon. ] Opal: [What do you mean?Wait, Legerson! 】

Opal's thoughts couldn't keep up with Legerson's speed, and suddenly countless pictures were forced in, such as the rough mining town, the quarrel in the hall, being scolded by people with blurred faces, and angrily leaving the unknown man with a list. planet.

Kidnapping in the pirate ship, a resistance, massacre, bloody spaceship, the corpses of the pirates lying in the control room.In front of him was a crowd of passengers, and the spaceship landed on another planet...

The beautiful girl on the Sphinx got married and raised her veil, and he turned and left, walking alone on a desert planet in the wind and sand.

He killed a group of robbers, took a few children on the spaceship, sent them to a safe place, and came to a new planet...

Opal: 【This is not my memory! 】

Lejason: [Of course I know, this is a memory for Corolin. 】

Opal heard the conversation between Rector and Legison while he was half asleep.

"What makes you so sure that Coroline will let him stay?" Rector said.

Lejason said: "Colorin will definitely want him. He has no father, which is exactly the same as Corolin. His character is also very similar to that of Corolin when he was a child. He has Corolin's persistence and rebellion, and he has the same attitude towards all existence. doubts, but unlike Corolin, he does not have the inferiority complex deep in Corolin's soul."

"He was honed by Lie Xing, and Corolin was the one who was eliminated." Legison murmured: "In Opal's subconscious, all people are equal, there is no status, no Grades, there are only sincerity and passion.”

"The break between Corolin and Azeroth is precisely because of this..."

Opal gradually fell asleep, falling into a long sleep.

In the dream, he returned to the Crimson Rift of B-11. At that moment a few years ago, he tied a bracelet bought at a high price from merchants to Rector's strong wrist, and said, "Thank you, teacher , for you, you have taught me many things."

Rector's voice rang in his ears: "No, Opal, this is not enough, wake up, the time is up, you must kill him, draw the sword, we have no choice."

Opal opened his eyes, and found himself lying on a strange bed—the scorching sun was pouring out of the window, Rector stood in his bedroom, looking at the photo on the bed seriously.

"Old...teacher?" Opal sat up, got out of bed, hit his head against the short ceiling, and cried out in pain.

Rector turned to look at him and said, "Opal, try to think about your past memories, whatever it is, don't say it."

thinking about one thing?Opal was a little dazed, pondered for a while, and recalled Raymond, who smiled at him in the hall of the mercenary union.

Legerson's voice sounded from all around: "It's done, he can think in the dream, and this thinking process will not cause any changes to the environment in the dream world, which means that I have built a double heart for him."

Opal understood it almost immediately. People cannot think independently in dreams. Dreams themselves are the manifestation of thinking activities. No matter what you think in a dream, it will affect the surrounding environment in the dream.

In other words, now he is in a dream?

Rector said, "Come with me, Opal."

He pushed open the door, and Opal got up to go out with him. In front of him was a noisy street, with houses built of granite on both sides of the road.

It's a fair, but opals have never been seen.

"What is this place?" Opal asked.

"Sphinx." Rector said: "Kerma Street, this is the identity set up by Legerson for you. A lone ranger in the downtown area. You have never been here before."

Opal said: "But if Corolin wants to track down my life one day, won't there be flaws?"

Rechter said: "He will modify the memories of everyone connected to you. You can think of your current situation as living two different lives-the previous life and this life. Everyone's memory will be changed. Change because of you."

"That is to say." Opal said: "Even my mercenary partners will forget me."

Rector said: "Yes, can you accept this cruel reality?"

Opal looked at the street in front of him and said, "Yes."

Legerson said, "It's up to you, Rickett."

Rector said: "Opal, try to release the power of your belief."

Opal didn't even need to concentrate, just a little thought, the day above his head turned into night, and the stars cast brilliant light.

Rector said: "This is the world of your external memory. Now I want to completely seal up the power of your belief, suppress the fire of your belief, and hide it in your internal memory until Cologne comes back again." Ignite a belief in your external memory, and the two beliefs can be manipulated and merged by yourself."

Opal nodded, the sea roared in and drowned them, only the boundless sea water remained in the spiritual world, and the stars in the sky were dim, disappearing one by one.

Opal opened his eyes for the second time, and returned to the temple again.

This time he was lying on the cold floor with a splitting headache. Rector stood by his side and said, "You have to learn to control your two layers of mental world, when to think in the outer memory world, and when to think in the inner memory world." Think in the memory world."

"I..." Opal said, "This sounds a bit difficult."

Legerson said: "It's not difficult, it's very easy. I established a series of conditioned reflex mechanisms for him, and used the image of Corolin to achieve the opening conditions. As long as he is in front of Corolin, all the content related to leaks will be automatically revealed." Produced in the world of inner memory, but Cologne will not be idle and read his inner activities continuously. Moreover, he cannot read your memory unconditionally, only when you appear in his field of vision , the power of faith can directly act on your consciousness. Once you are far enough away from him, if he wants to perceive your heart, he can only rely on the dream method he is best at."

Rector said: "Then what about the dream?"

"Opal can think in dreams." Lejason said: "It can also dream in dreams, so that it can avoid the prying eyes of Corollin's dreams."

Opal didn't quite understand, but he understood a few words and asked, "Will he find out that I still have a thinking world?"

"Probably not." Rector said, "He has absolutely no idea that Legerson has the ability to modify memories."

Legison hummed and said, "He thought I would only brainwash the audience, but in fact this is Rector's strong point."

Opal let out a long breath, Rector said: "You need to spend a few days to get used to all this, it will be chaotic at first, but everything will gradually get better, and you will be the only one in the universe One, no one can pry into your true inner world."

"Go to bed," Legerson said.

Opal was a little wobbly when he walked, and the vision in front of him became blurred and then became clearer. Everything he saw seemed to be recorded in a certain area deeper in his soul.

He stumbled back to the bedroom, fell on the bed, and fell asleep on his stomach.

In the hall of the temple, Legison said: "Teacher, for a moment just now, I felt that I knew the real you."

Rickett didn't speak.

Legison said in a low voice: "You are cruel, teacher. He is willing to bear these pains because of his love for you."

"I won't let him down," Rickett said.

Legison: "But I'm curious, how did you do it? Not only broke through my blockade, but also entered his primitive instinct, and buried such a sentence in his subconscious. Can you influence a person's instinct?"

Rector said: "I tried my best, but I can only bury this sentence, hoping that this seed of belief will never be opened by him. Legison, sometimes I think, what is the purpose of all we have done? What's the point?"

"Will the Temple of the Stars still exist in [-] million years?" Rector looked up at the ancient gods on the altar, and said in a deep voice: "At that time, what will the universe look like? Nuo Lan is right, human beings will never be able to escape from this circle of cannibalism."

Legerson got up and left the temple. In the Cathedral of the Stars, only Rector's sigh was left in memory in front of Nolan's phoenix sculpture.

On the day Opal walked out of the temple, Legison prepared some luggage for him.

Opal put on mitts and rummaged through these things one by one.

Gemstone rings, black dolls with big palms, iron sugar boxes, glass marbles.

According to the memories Legerson had instilled in him, these were gifts from the children he had rescued.

"Is this memory completely fabricated by you?" Opal asked.

Legison said: "No, this is another victim. He was a ranger in the Sphinx desert. He died under the hands of the Meteor Corps."

Through these memories, Opal seems to feel a sense of loneliness—it is a kind of calm loneliness, not strong, but like the yellow sand and wind all over the sky, and like the endless satin-like desert and dazzling sky, they are always there. exist.

"You can't take the sword with you." Rector interrupted his thinking, and said, "You can take these two light bullet guns to the Grip of Light."

"I'm not very good at using it..." Opal took the light bullet gun, holding one in each hand, the two light bullet guns whizzed between his fingers, and then they were held by his fingers deftly.

His eyes were full of surprise.

Legison said indifferently: "In the memory weaved for you, there is also the use of this kind of retro firearms. Corolin is already slow, he no longer guesses the enemy's thoughts through behavior, but is used to reading directly The heart of the other party. You will not reveal your secrets."

Opal said: "This is good news, it may be fatal for him."

Rector said: "Yes, he can only read the enemy's thinking activities, but he will never be able to read the opponent's short-lived intuition."

"I'm leaving now." Opal said: "Is it the Iszur galaxy? How do I get in and become his subordinate? Directly serve him? I'm afraid he will have doubts about my sudden appearance .”

Rector handed Opal a small card, and replied: "This is your new identity card, it has been arranged, and he won't doubt it, because this is the last card left in our hands. The Phantom Stars made an ancient contract, and Cologne used this contract not long ago, and asked an elder among the Phantom Stars to find a suitable successor for him. But he didn't know that this elder was once our ally. With Lorraine's understanding and cognition of the phantom star, he will not suspect that the phantom star is deceiving him..."

Opal: "Will he track down our background?"

Rector: "All of these are covered by us. After sending you away, Legison and I will separately modify the traces of your existence. After all, after you left the Scarlet Flame Galaxy, the only place you have lived is the country of mercenaries. , Lejason is going to execute it now, including modifying the memories of people you know."

"It's not too difficult to erase the records related to you, unless Corolin has the heart to think about every detail... But I don't think he will waste his time on this."

Opal: "My ID card was issued by Kadir of Hollens Mining for me."

Rector nodded and said: "I know them, that is also a very old family. Before Corolin betrayed the church, Kadir's father had a brief relationship with him, and this is on me."

Opal nodded.

"I'll give you a ride, Opal."

Rector took Opal to the masonry road around the asteroid, and in the middle of the masonry road was a rusty spaceship waiting for them.

"Today, the history of the past has disappeared, and not many people know you, so your name is still Opal." Rector said: "You don't have a surname, you don't know who your father is, your mother gave you After you were born, you died in a mining accident on VO-703, the mining area of ​​the Sphinx star. Sphinx is your second home. You snatched the gun from the pirate ship and bought it from an old pirate. Learn to use it there, and finally you killed the old pirate—these are all in your memory."

"Now a phantom star has found you." Rector brought Opal to the front of the spaceship, where there was a swirl of gas, and the core in the center was glowing. Opal was silent for a moment, and then said: "Hello."

The phantom star didn't answer, and Rector said: "Its name in humans is Master Sang. All of Corolin's confidantes were killed in the fierce star invasion. The right candidate, you will be one of the apprentice candidates recommended by Master Sang to Corolin."

Sang: "Hello, human."

Opal gave a Star Knight salute to it.

The whirlwind made a rustling sound, and a light green light flickered slightly in the center of the whirlpool.

Legison saluted it together with Rector.

"This is the third thing I promised to the Temple of the Stars." Sang's voice sounded in the minds of the two: "It is also the last thing."

Rector said politely, "Yes."

Sang: "From the moment I send your disciple to New Phoenix in the Grip of Light, my agreement with the Temple of the Stars will be terminated as scheduled."

Rechter said: "Thank you very much for your assistance to us, everything will be left to you."

Sang: "Let's go, kid."

Opal and Rector hugged tightly, his eyes were flushed, and he said, "Teacher, will we meet again?"

Rector said: "Yes, believe me, Opal, I will find a way to contact you when the time is right."

Feeling relieved, Opal walked backwards onto the spaceship with a cloth bag hanging on one shoulder.

He couldn't help stretching out his hand again, holding Recter together until he had to stand up, and the fingers of the two separated. Recter took a few steps back and said, "Opal, I'm proud of you."

Opal stared at him blankly, the cabin door was slowly closed, Recter saluted the star knight to Opal, the spaceship lifted off on flat ground, the air flow swept the entire wheat field, and turned around to leave the little prince planet of Muse.