The Star Knight

Opal caught a glimpse of a few more people standing in the distance, and he keenly recognized one of them—Tifeng.

He was wearing a military uniform, sitting in a wheelchair, resting his elbows on the armrests in the fuchsia night, looking thoughtfully at the convoy.

[Let me try it. ] Opal turned the maglev vehicle and left the queue. This action immediately aroused the vigilance of all the interrogating soldiers.

Corolin: 【Kidnapping him as a hostage?This is not a good idea, Levi will go crazy. ] "Stop!" Soldiers with live ammunition surrounded them from all directions, holding the most advanced weapons of the Republic.

[No kidnapping. ] Opal had no time to think too much, closed the car window, put his head out and shouted: "Hi! Principal!"

Tifeng heard his voice, Opal closed the car door and came out, and said to Tifeng: "We are going home."

Sure enough, Tifeng signaled the soldiers to back away, and the hover car drove past. Cologne rested his elbows on the car window, looked sideways, and smiled.

"The capital doesn't seem to be peaceful." Corolin said calmly.

Ti Fengyun smiled lightly and said, "I still want to have a cup of tea with you."

Corolin's body blocked his crippled hand, stretched out his good hand to touch Opal's head, and said, "This kid didn't cause you any trouble, did he?"

Tifeng said: "No, I promise this little disturbance will pass soon, or stay for a few more days?"

Corolin waved his hand, and Opal leaned against the car window and asked, "What happened? Has anyone rebelled?"

Tifeng replied: "Who knows? It is said to be Star Knight."

"Star Knight?" Opal frowned and said, "Isn't this something that only exists in legends?"

Tifeng said: "This is all I know, maybe the Sekeria Temple civilization will once again intervene in the interstellar forces after the dark age..."

In just a short moment, Opal had finished sharing the content of his mind with Cologne. After a moment of pondering, Cologne made the best response.

Corolin: "Let's talk about it later, Opal, Principal Tifeng is busy with work, so don't take up too much of his time."

Opal hurriedly took out the chip he borrowed from Tifeng and handed it out, Tifeng said, "Keep it and watch, I believe you will come back after a while."

Opal asked again: "Where is Li Wei?"

Tifeng smiled and shrugged, Opal said: "Why don't you come to my house to play."

Ti Feng's rare face flushed, and he said, "I will take it as a formal invitation."

Opal said: "Of course, I have missed you for a long time, you are more handsome than Legison... My uncle is short of a lover..."

"You are too rude, Opal." Cologne reprimanded, poked his head with his fingers, and said to Tifeng: "But you are welcome to come to our house to play anytime."

Tifeng was overjoyed and said: "Okay."

Corolin turned his head and glanced at the team. The vacancy when they left had been filled by a new car, and now they had to go back to line up again. Corolin said, "Let's go."

Opal influenced Tifeng's consciousness with his thinking, and said silently: Let us go through the special safe passage, don't let us queue up again, and come here to say goodbye to you...

Corolin turned the suspension car, and Tifeng said as expected: "Mr. Enmino, please pass this way, it will be faster."

Before closing the car window, Opal blew a kiss to Tifeng, the gate slowly lifted, and Cologne drove the car onto the tarmac.

"Huh—" Opal leaned back on the seat, still feeling his heart pounding.

Corolin: "You are simply a genius, and now I don't regret keeping you in the first place."

While speaking, Cologne turned her head to look at Opal, and saw Opal approaching him and patted his head.

"It's not big or small." Cologne smiled, his handsome face flushed slightly, but he didn't reprimand him.

Opal was very happy - he finally came in handy, the bold action just now was just subconscious.

"Go to the IRC now and rent a spaceship from them." Corollin said, "The Poons Chamber of Commerce has VIP service in the IRC branch of each planet, and I want a large spaceship."

Opal did as he said, entered the IRC with Corolin's ID card, and obtained the authorization to start a sightseeing spaceship.

The apron of the capital is as big as a city, and maglev vehicles pass through the aisles. This day seems to be affected by terrorist attacks. The Republic blocked all news channels, but almost everyone is whispering, busy leaving the source of floodlight.

Opal drove the car directly into the belly of the spaceship, the tailgate was slowly closed, and four hot lights fell down like holy lights.

Opal: "Where are you going?"

Cologne: "Go through the star gate A7701, set the route according to what I said, and soon, we will be safe."

Opal jumped onto the electromagnetic platform and went to the central control room to enter the route, which was an asteroid system in a remote area.

The spaceship lifted off slowly and flew towards the Star Gate.Opal ran back again, the entire magnetic levitation car was full of Cologne's blood, the power of the radiation medical equipment was too low, the severed limb had not recovered, and the blood produced by the hematopoietic mechanism gushed out continuously from his severed arm and abdominal cavity.

"Look for a medical instrument." Cologne took a deep breath, her voice trembling a little.

Opal keenly sensed Cologne's consciousness—it hurts.

He found the medical equipment that came with the spaceship, and put it together with the original household facilities. The power was turned on to the maximum, and Cologne lay trembling in the maglev vehicle.

Opal pushed forward with one hand, using the power of faith to enter Corolin's thinking space, helping him resist the pain.

"You didn't show it just now." Opal gasped and said, "I thought you weren't in pain."

Corolin said in a low voice: "It was forcibly suppressed by the power of my belief, and it won't last long."

The warning lights were on all around, and Opal looked up and said, "Should I stop the spaceship first if I want to jump? I'm afraid that the jump will be unstable if I get hurt..."

Corinne said, "No, continue."

The spaceship began to count down, and the wound on Cologne's abdomen slowly healed. In an instant, they turned into countless white lines and passed through the fifth-dimensional space. Cologne screamed in pain, and then Opal's belief invaded his spiritual world , and gently hugged him into her arms.

At that moment, Opal's pupils were slightly dilated, and he saw a scene many years ago in Corolin's memory.

Tao and Longyu were dragged into the bottomless vortex of glare by the tangled lightning. Longyu was the closest to the edge. It turned over with difficulty and tried several times to rush out.

"Teacher—" Cologne yelled desperately in the sea of ​​flashing lights, "I'm not dead—don't leave me—"

The shining silver dragon ray rushed out of the edge of the vortex and shot towards the vast universe.

The world of stars passed by outside the porthole, Opal was startled suddenly, and then he couldn't help panting, and Cologne's forehead was covered with sweat, and the two leaned together, panting exhaustedly.

Opal looked at Cologne in disbelief, and Cologne was silent for a moment, with unspeakable meaning in his eyes, staring at Opal for a long time, raised his remaining arm, and patted his head.

"It's all a thing of the past." Cologne said in a deep voice.

"Is that why you want to kill him?" Opal asked.

Corollin said: "No, I don't hate him, I love every one of my brothers and comrades-in-arms, the teacher is not my enemy, that cry is just from my survival instinct... In fact, if the teacher came to save me at that time It was the thing that made me regret the most, and from that day on, I realized that there are more things to do in the future."

Opal said: "What is that... where is it?"

Cologne smiled, and replied: "In the decisive battle of the dark age, the magneto-optical traps created by the replicant army have to leave the gravitational zone to emit resonance waves to destroy their brain chips. Thirteen magneto-optic trap machines Ambushed at the place where our leap appeared and dragged us in. The teacher brought a variable frequency radio wave transmitter, he must preserve the future of mankind, and his choice was correct."

"If he doesn't run, both of us will die together. All previous efforts will be in vain, and the dark age will not end."

Opal touched Corolin's face and asked, "How did you escape later?"

Corolin: "Luck, the enemy didn't expect it. They gathered too much energy, which caused a cross-vacuum area in the center of the vortex, and the Taoist protected me from a catastrophe."

Opal's eyes were red, and he barely coughed a few times.

Corolin's power of faith radiated like a warm flame, igniting Opal's inner calling for the future.

The baffle of the isolation compartment was slowly pulled away, and the maglev vehicle was lifted up, gently stopping in front of the central control room. Opal and Corolin sat in the car, watching the vast stars outside the porthole.

"Don't go back to Iszur." Corolin read Opal's heart: "Recter and Rajason must be near the Grip of Light, guarding the star gate and waiting for us to jump, and they will fall to them as soon as we go back." hand."

Opal said: "What is the current destination?"

Corollin replied, "Enminor's family business, a vacation asteroid."

Opal asked, "Is Tao already caught by them?"

Cologne nodded and said, "Too many things have happened. I have to figure out a clue first. There must be a spy planted on Iszur. I have to find out this spy first, otherwise it will be very dangerous."

Three days later, the spacecraft landed on an unpopulated asteroid. This planet has no space defense facilities and is surrounded by thirteen metal satellites. The maglev vehicle flew out of the spacecraft parked in the dark green field and drove towards the equator. A private villa surrounded by forest.

Corolin's body was gradually recovering, Opal carried him into the villa and parked the car in the garage.

"This is a vintage manor of the Enmino family." Corolin said, "We're going to stay here for a while, and I need to recuperate."

"Do you need to send a communication to Iszul?" Opal asked.

Corolin pondered for a while, then shook his head and said: "No, no, every detail now is related to whether it will fail completely. Rector and Legerson have mastered a certain weakness of mine. Before finding out this weakness, We cannot act rashly."

Opal nodded cautiously, he closed the door of the villa, and shouted: "Light!"

There was no movement inside, the rays of the setting sun poured in dust from the dilapidated window, Opal shouted again: "Turn on the light!"

Coroline laughed.

Opal found that there are no domestic robots here, and the structure of the house is very strange. What is the principle?

"This is a vintage manor." Corolin said, "I told you so."

Opal said: "I know it's retro, but..."

"It's all about being hands-on," says Corolin. "There are no domestic robots, and there's no energy."

Opal: "..."

Corolin: "The last patriarch of Enmino used to live here. If I remember correctly, he should still be on the second floor."

Opal went up the stairs, and after a while there was a terrified cry.

Corolin shook her head slightly, Opal ran down and said, "What is that! The one on the bed is yes yes yes..."

"He turned himself into a robot, but I destroyed it," Collin said.

Opal went upstairs again with lingering fear, dragged down a broken robot with skeletons, and threw it out of the window. There was a cliff behind the villa, and the scattered sounds fell far away.

"What is this?" Opal looked at it holding a gadget.

"Photo frame." Cologne said: "The things that put photos before the Light Era, improved works of art."

Opal asked, "What about the ones below?"

Corinne said, "That's called a fireplace, and it's used when lighting a fire."

Opal: "Is it a fire? Will it be cold at night?"

Corollin: "Well. Everything needs to be done by yourself. You can try to use a bunch of antiques to cook and eat. There is a manual wheelchair in the utility room, go get it out."

Opal rolled out a wheelchair. He saw that Tifeng had used it, and knew that it was for people with limited mobility. He opened the folding wheelchair and put Coron on it.

"From now on, you can no longer use the power of faith." Cologne sat on the wheelchair, exhaled, and said, "Use your hands and feet to solve all the problems."

Opal said: "Oh, this is unrealistic, I'm too young..."

"This is practice." Corolin said with a smile in his eyes, "Let's start, just think of it as doing it for the teacher."

If Kolorin simply said the previous sentence, Opal might have refuted a few more words, but adding what he did for Kolorin, Opal suddenly felt that it would be good to try.

He has been using the power of faith since the day he became a student of Corolin, and now he no longer uses objects to float and move, and things seem to be several times more complicated at once.

Living in this place is a bit tricky without the assistance of domestic robots and without energy.

He first fixed the medical instrument on the armrest of the sofa, then pushed Coroline to the edge of the fireplace, turned on the medical instrument, and said, "What am I going to do?"

"Do whatever you want, don't you have any ideas?" Corolin asked back, although it was a reproachful sentence, but there was no tone of reproach, just like saying to a child: "If you want to play, go play by yourself. "Same.

Opal was happy. After walking around the villa, he found a lot of novelty gadgets. He took them one by one and asked Kololin how to use them. At the beginning, Kololin would answer him with words, and then gradually changed to answer with thinking. Opal came over with an iron rod, and Corolin directly instilled in him the prototype of this thing—it was a radio part.

There are too many strange things, and if you sell them all, you might be able to sell them for a lot of money. Opal put the things away and went out to look at them through the side door.

Corolin: [It's a bit cold outside, wear my coat. 】

Opal put on a Cologne coat with long sleeves, and walked down the mountain road comically. Under the cliff, there is an endless forest. What dark ghosts.

This planet is a private property, its location is not recorded on the space map, no one will come to the vast sea of ​​stars, and the villa has been well preserved after thousands of years.The natural environment of the planet fends for itself, vegetation covers a lot of places, there is a path paved with stones in the forest, and there are fluorescent flowers on both sides, no one knows where it leads.

Fluorescent lantern flower is the characteristic plant of female rose star, and it is actually planted here, most of which are transplanted.

It was gradually getting dark, and the temperature difference between day and night was huge. Opal picked up some dry wood, and an unknown animal ran past him, opened its bloody mouth at him, and neighed nasty.

Opal immediately backed up the mountain road vigilantly, but the little animal did not catch up.

"Teacher, in the forest..."

Cologne said in the dark hall: "A barking dog doesn't bite people. What you see are blue lake beasts. They have no ability to harm themselves. They can only rely on barking and bluff to scare away the enemy."

Opal nodded, put the wood in the fireplace, and started a fire.

The hall warmed up.

The energy of the medical device was exhausted, and Opal wanted to go back to the spaceship to find a solution, but Cologne stopped him.

"There is no suitable source of energy," Corolin said. "Wait for nature to heal."

Opal felt that Corolin's injury didn't seem to be fully healed yet, but his arm had grown out, and the cut in his abdomen had healed, but he was not as strong as before.

"Because my power of faith has become very weak." Corolin looked at the flames dancing in the fireplace, and said, "The actions of Rector and Legason directly defeated me, and I need time to reflect and recover. "

Opal narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly.

Throughout the long night, Cologne sat in his wheelchair brooding, opals intruding into his mind, a move that was not repelled by Cologne, who was free to read Corollin's thoughts, knowing that he was filtering them one by one A very long list, from the high-level decision-making members of the Meteorite Empire to the Guards, and then to the information collection department, recall their actions, and analyze their possible motives to find out who is lurking in the Meteorite Empire spy.

Opal was a little scared and worried, but Corolin didn't doubt himself at all, which made him very guilty.

"I think." Opal said, "Maybe no one betrayed you."

Cologne nodded and said: "This is the most likely possibility. I suspect they just guessed that I would go to the Grip of Light. After all, with Legerson's ability, he doesn't need an internal response to set up such a situation."

"But their beliefs are too strong." Cologne murmured, "It's strong enough to suppress me, so I think there must be a loophole in it that I haven't noticed... You go to sleep first, Opal , it's late."

Will Rector contact him?Opal went to get a blanket, laid a bed at Cologne's feet, and lay down in front of the fireplace thinking. At this time, Cologne didn't notice what was going on in his heart, and Opal also limited his thinking activities. In the world of inner memory, guess what is possible.

In the battle against the source of the floodlight, Rector completely gained the upper hand. If he activates the consciousness induction at this time, he can immediately track down their whereabouts, and he can directly jump over and kill Coron.However, once Corolin found out that the target was exposed, the first thing he did was to kill Opal himself.

Maybe that's why Rector didn't do it.

Can Corolin, who has lost Tao, be able to fight against Rector?

"Of course." Cologne's voice came from above his head, and he stared at the flames in the fireplace without moving.

Opal unknowingly forgot to control his thinking, and the fleeting thoughts in the outer thinking world were actually read!He couldn't help but shudder.

Corollin said: "I don't mind your worries, I know you are afraid that I will get hurt or be hit again."

Opal knew that Corolin only felt his sad emotions, and didn't read his exact thoughts, so when he calmed down, a complicated feeling surged in his heart.

"No, it's not dangerous." Cologne read Opal's thoughts and explained: "If you were Rector, what would you do? Try to guess the behavior of our enemies..."

Opal said: "He first found Tao, and found no one inside, and then he realized that he lost you... lost us."

"Hmm." Cologne casually said as if he was playing a reasoning game with Opal: "At this time, his first thought was to come back to us, but of course I can't be so stupid as to stay at the source of floodlight Waiting for him to catch, so he has to come back and track our escape route, but they can't say anything, they can only investigate secretly. That's why I chose the IRC spaceship, he can't access the spaceship rental records in the Poons Chamber of Commerce , The bank is the place with the highest secrecy, where all the dignitaries in the universe save money and trade, he can only know that you have rented a spaceship through the mind reading skills of the clerk."

Opal said: "So they can't find us now."

Ke Luolin said: "Unless they search planet by planet slowly, it is impossible to find where we are, so the safest way is-wait for us to deliver it to our door."

"They must feel that they have the chance to win, and they will wait for us to jump back in Iszur, and think that I am no different from an ordinary person without gluttons. Now, the teacher wants to teach you an important lesson, and you may not be able to do it right now. Understand, even my teacher Rector can't understand this truth."

"What is it?" Opal whispered.

"What kind of belief is weak and what kind of belief is strong?" Corollin said: "When you feel that your enemy has been completely suppressed and can no longer fight back, it happens to be the most dangerous time for you."

Opal vaguely understood something.

"You understand, that's good." Corolin was very satisfied with Opal, this kind of appreciation directly shared with Opal, which made Opal full of excitement.

Corollin said: "For a real strong man, the fire of faith will never be extinguished by setbacks. It waits for rebirth in the ashes. As long as the time comes, it will ignite a more vigorous fire. The morning star Cullens understands this. He said, "The next night after the full moon is bound to go dark." The gluttons have been recovered by them. On the surface, Rector and Legerson have taken the initiative, but they have formed an excessive reliance on the ancient mechs. If there is no wrong guess, they think they can solve us..."

When Opal heard the word "we", he couldn't help but feel moved.

Cologne continued indifferently: "...It's only a matter of time, Legison will definitely underestimate the enemy because of this, and lead to a crushing defeat."

Opal said, "What should we do now?"

Cologne said in a deep voice: "Sleep, wait, wait for the best time."