The Star Knight

In front of the Meteor Building, the moment Corolin jumped off the mech, Tao disintegrated again and turned into an anklet to wrap around his strong ankle.

The soldiers in the hall came and went, and when they saw him, they all bowed and saluted, and then went about their own business, winning a battle was as common as eating a meal.

Four generals followed behind him, and Andorei said, "Where's His Majesty's new apprentice? That kid has done a good job..."

Allen signaled not to ask more questions with his eyes, and Andore frowned slightly.

Corolin led the four people into the lifting platform. The Meteor King held his right wrist with his left hand and stood thoughtfully in the middle, while the four generals stood still.

The tallest brawny man at the head had five stars on his shoulder emblem. He stroked his hair and said with a smile, "Your Majesty has accepted an apprentice? I haven't seen it yet."

Isohn stretched out his hand and said, "Only such a tall, very smart kid."

Corolin interrupted the conversation and said, "Caesar, you have gray hair, you should have genetic surgery."

Caesar smiled helplessly, and Andorei said, "I heard that he has a crush on a beautiful girl from the female Luo Xing."

Corolin joked: "So that's the real purpose of getting me into the female star?"

Everyone laughed, and Caesar said, "Andore introduced me to me. Andore, what do you think of Ellie?"

Isohn yelled and whistled.

Andorei said, "Did you tame that fierce horse?"

Caesar smiled to himself, put on his military cap, and said, "It's almost like, she's like an iceberg. I always don't know what women are thinking inside."

Coroline said to them: "Caesar is obviously in love, how about letting him take a vacation and let him train horses?"

Several people booed, and Allen laughed: "It's not fair, he just finished his vacation."

Caesar said: "I'm on duty on the female star."

Isohn joked, "You're just going to pick up girls, and you're on duty by the way."

Corolin said with a smile: "There has been no war recently, you can all take a vacation."

Isso En said with a smile: "If His Majesty doesn't take the initiative to fight others, of course there will be no war."

Corolin said sternly: "We still have to fight, but it's not in the near future. If you want to take a vacation, you can ask for it. I won't attend the post-war meeting, and I will clean up the things that need to be done."

The lift platform stopped at the [-]th floor, and the four generals saluted Coron, exited the lift platform, and headed to the hall. Coron continued to rise, returned to the sky garden on the top floor, and entered the palace.

He sat on the throne for a full night, until dawn, and sat until dusk, cold, resolute, and handsome, like a sculpture.

The army was sweeping the battlefield, and the dawn of the third day came.

A ray of morning light fell into the cell, and Opal leaned against the wall of the cell, with his legs bent, one hand on his knee, in a daze.

Everything was over, Rector's plan was completely shattered, and his identity was discovered.

But for some reason, vaguely, he had the feeling of letting go of everything and feeling relieved.

Opal sighed, he was really lucky to have this taste, the only one in the universe.

If he had grown up by Rector's side since he was a child, followed him, and fulfilled his beliefs, perhaps he would never forgive Corolin no matter what in his life.In the end, he fought vigorously and died.

Or if he was born in the Meteorite Empire and shares honor and disgrace with this land, he will naturally regard Recter and the Republic as his lifelong enemy, follow Cororin, and become the sword in his hand, the knife of aggression, and appear in the process of building his empire. a force.

What's next for Cologne?Will it kill him?It's okay to kill him, once and for all...

Opal sighed.

"You have sighed for the 110th and seventh time." A familiar voice said from the next door to the prison.

Opal immediately frowned, the voice awakened his memory, but it was very vague.

"who are you?"

"Opal?" The man said, "Why are you here? No, why is your voice so tender? I'm Jimison!"

Opal: "!!"

As soon as Jimison spoke, Opal immediately remembered.

"Why are you here?!" Opal said.

"Are you getting smaller?" Jimison leaned over to the railing from the next cell, and there was a gap where the two could see each other.

Jimison had red hair and was still wearing a suit jacket. Opal said, "How long have you been here?"

Jimison: "When did you come?"

Opal: "..."

Jimison: "Don't worry, I'll ask first, you answer."

Jimison: "When did you come?"

Opal: "A year ago, I came to work as an undercover agent. My teacher hatched a plan, but he failed, so I was arrested."

Jimison was silent for a long time, and Opal asked him, "What about you? Why are you here?"

"My story is very simple." Jimison said: "Before Jamie died, we got a star map about a treasure on two neutron stars..."

Opal remembered, these things are as old as the memories of the previous life.

"No wonder." Opal recalled some details back then with difficulty, and said, "I said why I didn't see you. It turned out that you were captured by the Meteor Corps."

Jimison smiled bitterly: "Azeroth is dead too, we are all losers, three losers, plus your teacher. A bunch of useless, Lie Xing is almost finished."

Opal had to admit that they were all losers in front of Coron.

"He hasn't seen you?" Opal asked.

Jimison: "I saw it when I first caught me, a tall old man with white hair..."

Opal said, "Do you think he looks familiar?"

Jimison said, "No, what's the matter?"

Opal didn't answer, the two sighed at the same time, and couldn't help laughing together.

Opal leaned forward and back together happily, and said, "You have been infected by me."

Jimison said: "You still like to have fun in the bitterness."

Opal breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I'm myself again now. These days, I always feel that I'm... very painful, and I'm about to become two people, and I'm always on tenterhooks in front of Corolin. It's not a good feeling..."

Jimison said: "You have so much hatred for him? Why do you listen to your teacher's words and come undercover?"

Opal said: "I'm for..." He thought of Raymond, but at that moment, Corolin's face appeared in his mind unstoppably. This kind of conditioned reflex association was very painful, and he couldn't remember his lover at all. Every time I want to think about my lover to alleviate the pain, I can't help but think of the enemy who looks exactly the same.

Opal said: "For Lie Xing."

Jimison smiled.

Opal said: "To be honest, it doesn't matter if you succeed or you fail. After knowing the result, I feel a lot easier. I'm too tired. I'm not suitable for this job at all. It will be much easier to die..."

Jimison said: "You don't have to think this way. Jamie and I have been together since we were young and have never been separated. After losing Jamie, I have thought a lot these days. Let's talk about Raymond, Raymond Died to protect Lie Xing, sacrificed in a vigorous battle, in the eyes of our mercenaries, it is an affirmation of the value of life."

Opal said, "That's different, that's aggression."

Jimison sneered and said: "The mercenary invasion is less? Suppress the planetary rebellion, take the employer to open up wasteland, kill the locals, or just see something good, and everyone grabs it. You are a mercenary, so I don't think it's unreasonable." , Everyone also thinks that good things should be given to those with force, and everyone takes it for granted."

"The Twelve Nebula Mercenaries often take on this kind of mission, taking advantage of the loopholes in the laws of the Star Alliance, and, have you ever seen that when Kyle Lei was still around, he was even more insane than Zelas, the last two factions They insisted on their own opinions and killed indiscriminately. In the end, Azeroth won and put him..."

Opal said: "Colorin said, lock him up forever, why didn't he kill him? It's strange."

"Ah, yes." Jimison nodded sympathetically, and said, "You also think that you should kill him to avoid leaking words. You see, we all think so. This is Lie Xing's logic. Kill when you should. If you kill too many people, you will always be killed, either by bad guys or by monsters, and occasionally you will be killed by good guys on the wrong team, or eaten and digested by strange things... I don’t know Kyle What does Lei think now, but I think the former king might have had his hands and feet cut off, and now he is embarrassed and funny. Those who swore to follow him all died in vain."

Opal couldn't laugh or cry, the former hatred and blood just came out of Jimison's mouth so plainly.

Opal said: "Since you say that, why did you come to revenge?"

Jimison said: "I am persistent. If Jamie is not my other half of life, but just a comrade-in-arms, maybe I won't care about it. Ordinary comrades-in-arms have not yet made me spend the rest of my life on revenge, but The man who died was Jamieson, so I had to kill Cologne, because he took half my soul... either he died or I died."

Opal said: "Then I also have a reason to kill him."

Jimison said: "Wait, I guess he won't execute you. He has lived for thousands of years and has always been very patient."

Opal hummed, so what if he is not executed?

More importantly, he came to avenge the one he loved.

He leaned against the wall, and chatted with Jimison about Lie Xing's past. He only had these things to say. In his life, only this memory made him treasure, happy, happy, and Jimison knew better than that. He was more, the two talked about the office, the noisy hall, the wrong version of the mission, and the mercenary group that was cheated by the employer...

"Hahahaha——" Opal laughed until tears came out.

Jimison laughed out of breath and said, "...you know that guy Urka..."

Opal said, "What are those two monsters doing?"

Jimison said: "Let me describe it to you...the scene at that time was...in a residential house, a tentacle man inserted its tentacles into the hole on top of another tentacle man's head..."

Opal: "Hahahaha——why!"

Jimison: "Urka didn't know how to go away, stood outside the houses and watched...and took pictures of them..."

Opal: "..."

Jimison: "The two tentacles called the police, and then shouted hooligans! Hooligans! This kind of thing is fine, how can you take pictures! In the end, Urkata... He was charged with spying on the mating of alien races. , was imprisoned for three months..."

Opal was rolling on the ground laughing, and the two laughed loudly together, suddenly Jimison stopped laughing alertly and said, "Shh..."

Opal's crisp childish voice was still laughing, and he heard it after a while—footsteps.

He barely suppressed the laughter, and the two stopped talking, and sat quietly with their backs against the same wall.

A thick male voice said, "So optimistic?"

Andore's voice said: "I found that he can talk better with mercenaries and soldiers."

The jailer came to open the laser cell door. Opal looked up and saw that Andore had brought another man with five stars on his shoulder badge. This was the highest-ranked officer he had seen in New Phoenix.

He was wearing a military cap, with graying hair protruding from under it. He was about as burly as Andore, and he was the oldest. There were not too obvious crow's feet in the corners of his eyes, like an approachable uncle.

"This is Caesar," Andore said.

Caesar smiled and said, "Hello, Opal."

Opal nodded slightly and stood up, thinking that he was here to take him away, but saw Kaiser enter the prison.The jailer didn't close the cell door either, and Andore came in and set up a table and chair, and sat down beside him.

Caesar nodded at him.

Opal read Caesar's heart and knew that he was simply looking at himself, because he was an apprentice of Coronne, chatting and showing his care, and had no other purpose.

"Is this the husk of the mother of daughters?" Opal noticed a bracelet on Kaisa's hand.

Caesar smiled and said, "Have you seen it too?"

He untied the bracelet and handed it to Opal. Opal looked at the bracelet for a while and returned it to him, saying: "Well, every female star can get one at birth, and the locals will give this shell to their lovers." .”

Andore said: "There is such a rule? I haven't heard you say it."

Caesar laughed, put on the bracelet, nodded, and said, "Yes, Ellie's sister also told me."

"Ai Li?" Opal seemed to remember the name.

"The chairperson of the female star union council." Caesar smiled and said, "A strong woman, have you heard of her?"

"Ah..." Opal remembered, but he replied: "Maybe I have heard of it. I also heard that the mother of daughters likes boys very much. Have you ever gone to the top of a tree?"

Caesar laughed at himself and said, "No, the old man doesn't have the energy to climb trees, unlike you young people."

Opal hummed, the light outside this prison is just right, it is built on the edge of the Meteor Building, it is more than 300 floors high, there is nowhere to escape if you want to escape from prison, use the power of faith to control Caesar and Andorei take away?He was afraid that Corolin would find out as soon as he took a step, but now, he didn't want to go anywhere.

Andore got up, looked around the cell, and said, "The equipment is not bad. It should be a private prison set up by His Majesty. Who is imprisoned next door?"

Caesar said, "A mercenary, that kid Zarke was caught last time."

Jimison has been listening to their conversation quietly, without speaking.

"Are you guys older than the teacher?" Opal asked.

"No." Caesar said: "He is the oldest, just like our elder brother. Among the seven generals, except for the three who died, my qualifications are already the first to follow him. Lundu is my junior, why did His Majesty lock you up? Is it convenient to talk about it? Do you need me to explain to you what you are not convenient to say?"

Andorei glanced at Kaiser inquiringly. Opal captured what they were thinking in this brief moment and said, "I made a mistake and made the teacher angry. Don't plead for me."

Caesar and Andore both laughed.

"As long as you know it in your heart." Caesar said: "Actually, I just heard that you are here, so I came to see you. Maybe your majesty is just in a bad mood for a while, so I won't make things difficult for you."

Andore said: "He has his own principles, and he won't take his anger out on you for small things. Since you know that you think so, you need to reflect on yourself for a while."

Kaiser nodded and said, "Young man, I can understand."

Andore said: "During this time, you need to reflect on yourself and think about it, which is always good."

Opal knew what they were thinking, and they all thought that Corolin temporarily took him into custody to give him a chance, and he didn't explain his situation anymore. It would be easier for him to maintain the current relationship with Caesar and Andore. accept.

Opal said, "I see."

Caesar took out a bottle of wine, put it on the table, and said, "We will come to see you again in a while."

Opal said: "I wish you a smooth relationship."

Kaiser couldn't help smiling again, and even Andore laughed, Opal said: "Love can make people look younger, you should have a genetic surgery."

"Yes." Caesar left the cell and said, "It's been a long time since His Majesty's side has been injected with fresh blood. I like you more than the group of people like Aurora Falcon."

Andorei said: "Young people always have a vigor that our old men can't match."

The two generals left side by side.

Opal turned the wine bottle on the table, unscrewed the bottle cap of the girl's spirits, and asked, "Spirits, fine wines, Jimison, would you like to try them?"

Jimison said, "Come on, who are those two guys?"

Opal: "Two of the four generals under Corolin..."

Jimison moved his mouth to the fence, Opal held the bottle with both hands to drink for him, and drank some more himself, back and forth, the two drank a bottle of wine, Opal knocked on the bottle , singing loudly in the prison.

It was night outside, and the galaxy was twinkling in the clear sky. Jimison started to get drunk and howled like a coyote. Opal sang loudly the nursery rhymes his mother sang to him on B-11.

"Sounds good!" Jimison applauded wildly.

Opal said: "Come one, come one! It's your turn!"

The two entertained themselves like madmen, bumping back and forth, and Jimison cheered up and sang loudly: "The blood and fighting spirit are condensed in our hearts..."

Opal: "Change one for another, don't come to the national anthem! Tired of hearing it!"

Jimison: "You have one!"

Opal: "Sing you... my mother's song... Hiccup, the past is gone, and the future is invisible..."

Jimison: "No...it doesn't sound good!"

The sound of footsteps came again, Opal's face was flushed from drinking, and the child's drunken eyes were hazy, asking: "Is there any more wine? Have some more?"

"Someone wants to see you." The leading officer said.

Opal's body is too small, and he didn't get drunk so easily when he drank female fruit wine in the past. However, what Caesar brought was not ordinary goods. Half a bottle of old wine was digested by the body of a ten-year-old child. Enough to make him dazed and dangle as he walks.

"I wish you a long life—" Jimison leaned against the fence and said helplessly, "See you in the next life—"

"You too, comrade-in-arms—" Opal said, "Don't miss me..."

The officer took Opal out, stood on the lifting board, and finally stopped outside the hanging garden, and made a gesture of invitation with one hand, signaling him to go in by himself.

"Your Majesty has something to ask you," said the officer.

Opal staggered a step into the hanging garden, and the fresh night wind blew him awake.

What was Coroline going to ask him?Opal's heart was pounding, he didn't expect that he would face this inescapable interrogation so soon, he subconsciously turned around, wanting to go back to the prison, but thought it was impossible.

He walked to the edge of the platform, thinking that if he jumped down, it would be all over... But then he thought, what should come will always come.

He dragged his weary steps to the main entrance of the palace. In the darkness, the ceiling of the palace was filled with natural starlight.

The outer wall of the entire palace became transparent, as if it were made of crystal, and the light refracted on the pillars, walls, and ceiling, like another star lake full of glow and dreams.

Coroline sat on his throne, looking at Opal.

Opal stood in the middle of the hall, at that moment he suddenly felt that he was very small, so insignificant.

Corollin said: "Looking at your short, rare, and fleeting sincerity and affection for me, I will give you a chance to reform, let go of your past, and follow me from today on. By my side, let everything go."

Opal stood alone in the hall, reeking of alcohol, staring at him blankly, and gave his answer after a long time.

"No." He said, "You are not Raymond, I am still Opal, and I will not give in."