The Star Knight

The two stood quietly without speaking.

Corolin made a questioning look, and Opal Fang woke up from the shock.

"I'm sorry, I... lost my composure." Opal laughed self-deprecatingly: "I don't know why just now... It feels like... running into an old friend."

Corollin said: "I feel the same way, as if I've known you for a long time. Look over there."

Cologne pointed to the distance with the hand holding the wine glass, and the fireworks flickered under the sky.

"It's beautiful." Opal walked to the platform and stood behind Corolin.

"But good things are short-lived." Corolin said in a deep voice.

Countless thoughts surged wildly in Opal's inner memory world, but in the outer memory world, he only had one thought, tightly hugging Corolin's waist, and buried his head on his back.

Corolin interrupted Opal's thoughts again: "Tell me about you, did San bring you here?"

Corolin was as tall as Raymond, half a head taller than Opal. Opal raised his head slightly and stared at his appearance.He and Raymond can no longer be described by their similarities. They are exactly the same person. It is not a similarity in appearance, but a sign of personality and temperament.

Corolin is old, his hair has turned silver-white, and his old face is like when Raymond was old. Opal has never seen Raymond's old appearance, but he can fully imagine it, that is Ke Luolin. Lorraine's current appearance is polite, mature, and full of the charm of an old man.

His eyes were gentle and deep, full of wisdom and sense of security, he smiled at Opal, in front of his smile, Opal's heart beat wildly again.

"Are you familiar with Sang?" Opal unnaturally avoided Corolin's gaze.

"It's not very familiar." Cologne took the wine glass from the little robot and handed it to Opal. Opal nodded and said, "Thank you."

"He is one of the seven wise men of the phantom star, a prophet who has lived until now during Prince Igna's rebellion, and he promised three things to the Temple of the Stars." Corollin said: "I ask him to find me a man who looks A decent heir."

Opal said: "Wait... You said too many things, I can't understand."

Cologne said in a deep voice: "The period of Prince Igna's rebellion refers to a certain historical point of the Phantom Star, just like the dark age of our mankind. The Temple of the Stars is the home of the Knights of the Stars, and I used to be a member of this organization I was a member, and I later betrayed, but the concept of the phantom star people has no such thing as breaking away from the organization, they only know us as individuals, so what they promised to do for us is still valid."

Opal: "You want to find an heir?"

Corollin said casually: "I don't have much time, and I don't know when I will die, so someone must take over from me and continue the mission entrusted to me by the universe."

Opal was shocked, and said, "No...it's not like this, it's impossible, you..."

He looked at Coroline again.

Corolin narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Opal's eyes with doubts. His brows looked so familiar, just like a long time ago, when Opal was not very happy sometimes, Raymond looked at him with a slight frown, trying to understand him reason to be angry.

Opal didn't dare to look at him, for fear that his eyes would turn red in the next moment.

"You can do genetic surgery." Opal suddenly said: "Survival surgery, can't it?"

"Genetic surgery can't go on indefinitely, and this is the last 50 years of my life," Collin said.

Opal suddenly laughed and said, "You're lying to me."

"Huh?" Corolin seemed to find it very interesting, and his expression was very similar to Raymond who played with Opal every time, which made Opal's heart throb again.

"You're very smart." Cologne put the wine glass on the tray of the little robot and said, "How do you know I'm lying to you?"

Opal said: "I guess, I don't think you will die, just like... hearing a lie, you may not be able to find the loopholes in it, but you will think it is a lie... or... well, yes Intuition, intuition."

Corollin said: "I didn't lie to you. I believe that according to the laws of the universe, it is impossible for a living body to live indefinitely. There will always be something that replaces the laws of nature and comes to take your life. The only difference is that it is 1 Ten thousand years later, it will still be in the next second."

Opal said: "Then I believe at least not in the near future."

He breathed a sigh of relief, and Cologne said: "I hope it won't be in the near future. I still want to find a spouse to spend my life with me in the near future. Do you think anyone will fall in love with an old man like me?"

Opal smiled and said, "Maybe it's a bit difficult. If you want to find a spouse with comparable conditions... I suggest you go for a genetic surgery first to become younger."

"That's good advice, go back and rest, I don't think you'd mind spending a few days in New Phoenix," Corolin said.

Opal said, "Then... good night."

Corolin nodded slightly and said, "I wish you a long life."

Opal said: "Also... I wish you a long life."

He bowed to leave, came out the same way, returned to his bedroom, looked up at the vast starry sky outside the glass floor-to-ceiling windows, and looked at the Milky Way galaxy 900 million light-years away from the grip of light, which was like a huge vortex on the zenith , extending from the extreme south with brilliant starlight spiral arms, and meeting with the pink Lion Galaxy.

There were tears in his eyes and a sweet and sad smile on his lips.

All of this was a perfect plan laid out by Legerson. When he saw Raymond at the first glance, he knew that he was a clone of Corolin - Opal almost understood it all.

He even hid it from Rector, hid it from everyone.

Perhaps after Raymond's death, Legerson had the idea of ​​letting him be an undercover agent, using his unstoppable emotional shock at the first meeting to attract Corolin's attention.

Coroline was not him.

Opal repeatedly told himself that Cologne was not him, but the appearance of Cologne kept appearing in his mind, and Opal was going crazy.

Opal wanted to kill himself, he was lying on the bed exhausted, his past memories felt as if they were being torn apart, his inner and outer spiritual worlds were in violent conflict, something was about to break through Legerson's design The barriers below rushed out and merged with each other.

He suspected that he would go crazy, his thinking was in chaos, the memory of the Sphinx became blurred, and the brilliant colors of the Grip of Light suddenly appeared in his mind, and he couldn't even remember who he was and where he was.

Opal took a deep breath and tried his best to force out all his thoughts. He could not lie down and gasp for breath. He realized the sudden danger and his consciousness lost control.

He began to retreat along the current time and scene, the restless spiritual world gradually calmed down, and gradually pushed forward, from New Phoenix to the spaceship, then to the phantom star, to the outer reaches of the galaxy... and finally to the Sphinx star... ...Memories are connected smoothly.

Can't think of Raymond anymore, Opal starts to become confused when he thinks of Raymond, and the previous feeling came back.

He realized one thing: the image of Raymond in his subconscious was overlapping with that of Corolin, but he couldn't break through the barrier set by Ledgerson.He could no longer connect these two people, he had to treat Coronne as Coronne, and no longer recalled Raymond, leaving him temporarily.

He didn't think about Raymond, so he gradually calmed down, and the image of Corolin was in his mind.

Gradually, he fell asleep.

In the dream, there is a boundless sea of ​​flames, Opal is naked, standing on the hot rock, lava rushes in, burning his naked body.

A sea of ​​flames lifted lava like thousands of horses from the horizon, rushing towards him crazily.

"what--"

Opal roared angrily, and pushed his hands forward, the earth gradually cooled down, the black cooling rocks trembled uncontrollably, the whole world split into a bottomless abyss, and the overwhelming magma rushed to the front of the ditch, pouring it all down!

Opal stood beside the rift, panting in horror. He looked down and saw the endless dark abyss, and there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching him in the abyss.

Then darkness leaped out of the abyss and devoured him.

The sun came in from the floor-to-ceiling windows and shone on Opal's eyebrows and eyes. He opened his eyes tiredly, got up to wash up, and went out to have breakfast.

There were not many people in the restaurant, and it was already past the meal time. After buying food, Opal saw Alan in the hall and asked, "Does Corolin have any orders?"

Allen, who was talking to another officer, turned to salute him and said, "Your Majesty may not see you from today onwards."

Opal said, "How long will it take?"

"Maybe three to five days," said the other officer.

Opal nodded and said, "Does he have nothing to say to me?"

Allen pondered for a moment, then exchanged glances with the other officer, who shook his head.

Opal left knowingly, and he had almost nothing to do in the next few days, so he calmed down and was in a daze in the bedroom.

He tried hard not to think about Raymond in his memory, but completely replaced these two people with Corolin's appearance. His thoughts were so strong that he couldn't control himself.

On the third day, when he was having dinner in the restaurant, Allen came over to him and said, "Your Majesty has ordered, if you can't wait, you can go see him now."

After finishing his meal hastily, Opal followed Allen out. This time, Allen did not take him to the sky garden, but took him into the central lifting platform, swiped his card, verified his fingerprints, and then retreated.

The platform continued to rise until the [-]th floor, which was the highest point in the entire Meteor City.

There was only one corridor here, and Opal walked to the door at the end of the corridor, realizing that he didn't have an access card, but as he approached, the door creaked and opened automatically.

He went in and the door closed again.

Corolin's voice sounded in Opal's mind: 【I decided to take your suggestion. ] Opal turned to look for Corolin, the voice sounded again: 【Try to say a word in your spiritual world. ] Opal: [Your Majesty? 】

Corollin: [Very well, you have learned it. 】

Opal stood in the empty room, communicating with Corolin with consciousness: 【Learn what? 】Colorin:【The power of belief, your belief is persistent and pure, with despair and sadness, your spiritual world is manifested as an abyss, what makes you pursue it with all your strength, but you feel that there is no hope for it in this life? ] Opal: [I... I don't understand what you're talking about, Your Majesty, are you willing to let me be your heir? 】Colorin:【I think so, you passed the test, and I ignited your belief in your dream.Your spiritual world is in the most bizarre form I have ever seen, and your beliefs manifest themselves in desperate ways. ] Opal fell silent, and said, "Where are you?"

Corolin: [Behind the door, try to open it with your consciousness. 】

Opal condensed his mental strength, and the gate remained motionless.

Coroline: [Imagine I'm behind the door, try again. 】

Opal let out a long breath, and the second door in the room slowly opened.

Coronne: 【I know where your belief comes from. 】

The door opened, and Opal walked into the room.

Inside there is only a black metal nutrition cabin, which is filled with the blue sea of ​​time solution, and Cologne is completely naked, suspended in the nutrition cabin.

His appearance has become young and handsome, with thick black eyebrows, a high nose, and warm eyes.

His hair has become shorter, like a black flame burning in the nutrition cabin, his body is strong, his complexion is a healthy bronze color, his chest muscles and abdominal muscles are well-proportioned and fit, Opal stared at him blankly, his eyes full of attachment.

Corolin and Opal stared at each other for a long time, Opal sat down in front of the nutrition cabin, looked at Coron like a child, and said in his mind: 【Your Majesty, you look good. 】Colorin closed her eyes and stopped responding to Opal.

Opal said again: [Can you hear me? 】

Corolin: 【Guard me here, don't let anyone break in. 】

Opal hummed, frowned slightly, sat looking at him for a while, and then asked: 【What will happen if this process is interrupted? 】Colorin seemed to be smiling, and did not answer Opal.

Opal was a little sleepy while sitting, and his head kept drooping until the next morning, when the first ray of sunlight from the Grip of Light came in from outside the tower, and the genetic modification of Corollin was completed, and the solution was pumped away. The black nutrition cabin turned into countless black gold fragments that revolved around him, and then transformed into a black necklace, which was worn on his naked and clean neck.

He looked down at Opal for a moment, gently pushed his palm forward, and said in a low voice, "I will grant you a dreamless sleep."

Opal choked for breath, trembled slightly, and then breathed steadily and evenly, falling into a peaceful dream.

Corolin bowed forward, picked up Opal, and led him away.