The Star Knight

Opal tied a metal buckle around his waist, pulled out two wide side straps from the belt, looped around his shoulders, clicked on the waist, pressed the button around his waist, and buzzed around the warm white light of the defensive cover.

"I'll go and see." Opal said.

Raymond casually said: "I wish you a long life."

Opal lowered the bottom of the spacecraft, pressed the exit button, the vacuum door was closed, and the air blew him out of the cabin lightly against the current. The field spacesuit cast a light and firmly attached him to the spacecraft.Opal turned around in the universe, and his heart was filled with an unspeakable feeling.

That was the first time he had personally touched this endless space, drifting out of the cabin under the weightlessness, slowly floating and sinking, his body flew out the porthole in red light, his legs and slender figure Like a scaly fish glowing in the dark.

"How does it feel?" Raymond said with his index finger against his ear.

"It's okay, it's a little cold." The air around Opal was filled with air. He took a few breaths slowly. The cold was not too obvious and did not hinder his movement.

The temperature is normal, and the real cold comes from psychological feelings-in this empty universe, the loneliness and coldness that the soul cuts into the body.Raymond connected to another communication channel in the cabin and asked, "What the hell do you want to do?"

Xun's voice replied: "I'm looking for the wreckage of the explosion."

Sid said: "I have looked for it several times."

Opal said unpleasantly: "Let you not come to chaos!"

Xun said unkindly: "I have my own spaceship, how does it matter to you when I come out? It doesn't ruin your mission!"

Quickly searching in space, observing every piece of cosmic dust, they either refracted the light of the red giant star passing by him, or quietly stayed in mid-air, metal, ice and rocks sparsely distributed in space, Europe Mooring: "There are at least tens of millions of impurities around. When will you find it?"

Xundao: "Only one artificial piece is needed..."

"Don't mess around," Raymond and Opal said impatiently.

Opal said: "If it goes through an explosion, high temperature will dissolve all the metals and the shell will be completely blown away. You don't have to deliberately find anything near here!"

Xun didn't answer, he gradually drifted away, stubbornly looking for everything he thought was possible.

Opal finally gave up his intention to persuade him. He pressed the ear button and said, "I don't care anymore. Let him find it slowly here and continue our plan."

Raymond said: "Whether it's OK or not, get him back."

Opal pondered for a moment, turned on the mini propulsion system at the waist, flew to Xun, and immediately shouted: "What are you doing?! Let me go!"

"Don't fight in space! You will kill him!" Raymond screamed, and the two buzzed in their ears.

Opal couldn't help but say that he grabbed Xun's collar, grabbed him and flew back, the vacuum chamber opened to inflate, and he threw Xun in the control room.

Quickly shouted: "This is your business!"

Raymond said angrily: "This is our commission? What is it about you?!"

Sid hurried forward to persuade him, staring at them quickly with hatred, Opal took off his belt and put it away, and threw it on the sofa, saying, "Don't mess up, you have no time to deal with you."

Raymond said: "Continue to monitor the route."

Opal stepped forward to open the star chart, and as soon as he got up, he was attracted by his star chart.

"Where is this made?" Xundao said.

Opal said: "Close your fart, give me a rule, otherwise we will throw you on the black ant star."

Xundao: "You want to murder!"

Opal said: "They are said to be hospitable and will not make you homesick, eh?"

Time-VI drove Sid's future lord spaceship to advance again, speeding through the interstellar dust.

The composition of the elements on the light screen jumped indefinitely. No radioactive elements have been found around. The route is fixed. The ship is about to go back to his spaceship. Opal insists on it. Raymond threw them into the bedroom and locked the door to avoid this. The boy added chaos, Xun started to pat the door in the room, and shouted: "Side is my friend! What are you doing! Let me go out! I want to help him too!"

Opal said loudly: "Oh! I am touched by your friendship! E7! Turn off the anti-gravity field in the bedroom!"

The sound of the door inside stopped, and quickly shouted: "Let me go down!"

Finally stopped, Xun was still flouting in the bedroom, Opal returned to the console and sat down.

Raymond was still staring at the surrounding elemental analysis, Opal said: "No remnants of the explosion?"

Raymond nodded slowly, Opal said: "It's awkward, it's probably a forced landing, set the route, go to Black Ant Star to see it."

Raymond let out a long breath, bowed to open the route setting, and the two spacecrafts accelerated at the same time, flying to the nearest planet near here.

There is no space station outside the planet. There is also a beautiful aperture outside the planet. Numerous small meteorites surround the equator to form an aura. They occasionally collide with each other and break into powder, but they cannot escape under the gravity of the planet.

The two spacecrafts docked, and Opal and Raymond discussed for a moment, let Xun out, let him take Sid back to another spaceship, enter the atmosphere of Black Ant Star, find a suitable place to start landing.

"Gravity coefficient 1.5, God." Opal said: "There is such a large gravity? Can't see it."

Raymond said: "This planet is very dense. Land carefully."

The landform appears on the display, with a huge blue water band surrounding the entire planet-the only river of Black Ant Star, estimated to be hundreds of kilometers wide, and the poles are covered with ice and snow crowns, emitting many blue lines. A small river flows radioactively toward the large river in the central equator.

Sid said in the communicator: "A really beautiful planet should be very suitable for human habitation."

Opal said: "Forget it, gravity is so strong, you stay in the cabin and don't go out. They don't have a apron... let me see."

The black ant star's ground is approaching, and almost everywhere on the surface is a bare rock mountain. The mountain is covered with a kind of black moss. The spacecraft wanders around. Xun said in the phone: "Just find a place to land."

Raymond said: "No, you have to find a safe place with shelter to facilitate the docking of the spaceship... is there a landmark?"

Xun impatiently said: "Just be there, you see a big statue in the direction of 35 degrees on your left hand side, and landed behind..."

Opal followed Xun's expectations, and Sid said in the communicator: "It's easy to get stuck there..."

Xundao: "Don't care, I will drive the spaceship better than you..."

Opal and Raymond really lost to him.

The spacecraft flew to a plateau area, next to the towering mountains and the river passing through the gorge. The surface of the middle of the wilderness showed a ring of gray curved grooves, like a huge annual ring.

A stone statue stood in the middle.

"Is it a human statue?" Raymond said.

Xun said: "It's all moss. Let's discard it."

In the future, the Lord Lord spouted a stream of air and slowly lowered it to the ground. Opal saw the stone statue crumbling and shouted with Raymond: "Be careful!"

The blasting spaceship landed, and the stone figure was tilted at an angle. Three seconds later, a thud thumped forward, making a muffled sound and falling apart.

Opal: "..."

Raymond: "..."

Opal: "Can you not mess up before you figure out the situation!"

Xun impatiently said: "The two of you are still very tender! There is no experience at all, there is no house and no life here, only a human sculpture, combined with the surrounding gully, you can't think of any use?"

Opal Road: "What's the use?"

Xun Dao: "It was built by the predecessors and used as a spaceship coordinate! If it breaks, it will break. Just make another ground beacon!"

Time-VI followed behind and landed slowly. Opal was robbed and did not speak out to detect the oxygen content on the planet.

The oxygen concentration is slightly higher than 25%, and the air is very humid. It is indeed a livable planet. Raymond prepared an interpreter. The four people looked around in the wilderness. The sky was gray and the air was humid and smelling. odor.

Raymond was debugging a translator, and a group of black dots under the canyon moved towards the high speed.

Opal said: "Come! Let me see!"

"Don't go!" Raymond said: "Be careful they attack you."

The black spot climbed up against the rock wall, and there were thousands of black pressure on it, which was very spectacular.

A giant black ant headed by "Bah--" grinned toward Opal.

Opal: "..."

Raymond pointed the universal translator to it and realized that a very serious problem-Black Ant Star's language was not entered by Star Alliance.

Thousands of ants surrounded them, and one ant grinned viciously at Opal. With a bang, the pliers were exposed, and all the tentacles of the ants were moving, as if there were invisible radio waves passing through this group.

Opal: "What are they talking about?"

Raymond: "I don't know... there is no such language in the translator. Are you sure they are really hospitable?"

Opal: "That's the teacher's evaluation, I... still believe him."

Xun finally became quiet, he said: "They want to attack us."

Sid said: "Yes, showing the jaws in our mouth...what did we do wrong?"

Opal: "Maybe you just misunderstood, the way they say hello is -"

"Bah--" Opal tried to make that strange sound towards them.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!" One giant black ant standing up and down one after another, the crowd became turbulent, his eyes turned crimson, staring closely at Opal.

Raymond: "What about the antennae on the head?"

Opal: "This should be saying hi... wait."

All the ants stopped their fast-waving antennas at the same time, and they were scattered, and a group of ants actually lifted the two spaceships!After a while, it moved away.

Opal looked blank: "Hey! What are you doing!"

Xun: "Do you want to park us? Interesting."

A small wooden stick was placed in the hands of the largest black ant headed, and it looked at Raymond, treating him as their head.Raymond had the tallest body and the most outstanding figure. He lowered his head slightly.

The ants pushed away, and the big black ant drew several patterns on the ground with branches.

Opal: "What does it mean."

Raymond: "It... means that the place where we landed is their altar."

Opal: "..."

fast:"……"

Sid: "..."

Raymond: "And they broke their... idols."

Opal: "Xun! I knew I was bad with you!"

Xun: "How could I know!"

All the ants came around in an instant and exposed sharp pliers towards the four people. The black ant waved the branches and drove them away, and wrote a line of strange things. The pictures were accompanied by strange symbols.

Raymond: "It said, let us take charge of repairing the idol and apologize to all the'people' so that we both have the opportunity to talk. Otherwise we will not be allowed to leave this planet easily."

Opal was relieved, and Xun still wanted to say something, but Sid covered his mouth.

"How do you understand their writing?" Opal whispered.

Raymond: "Look, it draws several rows of ants. Everyone is standing neatly, all facing this sculpture, like praying, so I understand that this is their god, or something very important. It puts the neck , The ankle is circled, pointing to the fallen statue over there, meaning let us fix it."

Opal: "..."

The chief black ants waved the branches, and all the ants pulled away with a single pull, leaving four people standing in the middle of the wilderness of the moss plain, and a cool wind blew through.

Fifteen minutes later, Opal and Raymond began expressionlessly repairing the slain god.The idol is a human, male, wearing a cloth robe with bare feet under the robe. According to the proportion of the figure, it is presumed to be almost as high as Raymond.It should be a very handsome, plain man.

Of course, this sculpture with a broken head and a broken hand now falls into the moist mossy ground, which is another matter.

It is an impossible task to put the five-meter-high idol on the pedestal and fix it, especially if the spaceship is moved by the entire ship.Raymond went to the ants to borrow the rope, and Opal went to cut down a tree with a long-handled axe. The axe was tied to the sword with a cross, made a winch, and pulled the idol a little bit, and put it up.

Sid and Xun held their knees and sat from afar to see.

The gravity of this planet is too great, and after a few days of opal, Opal was exhausted and panting, and he said angrily: "Don't just watch it!"

Sid said: "I... my physical strength is not good."

Sid felt tired just sitting down, and Xun also completely limped.

"Need adhesive, call... call..." Raymond said: "Otherwise it will fall."

"Forgive me, where's the adhesive." Opal gasped: "It's good to recover."

Sid said, "Is it possible to use mud? The mud here is very viscous."

Sid transferred some clay to Xun, and Xun bowed on the ankle of the idol to make up. Raymond said: "What kind of occupation did you do?"

Sid Road: "Plant Breeder."

Opal felt a little strange, why was Xun so honest in front of Sid?The relationship between them seems to be very good, is it because of the previous reason?Something must have happened where he didn't find it.

Raymond casually said: "Why do you help Sid so much? There is no money to make."

Quickly glanced at him and said, "The mercenaries have to earn money to survive?"

"Yo---" Opal said with a smile: "Are you a mercenary?"

Xun didn't answer, and Raymond nodded: "Plant breeder, it sounds very majestic!"

Sid moved a little to the side, let Xun sit down on his shoulders,

Neither of them commented. Sid wore Xun's jacket and shivered a little bit cold.

This planet can't even see the sun, there is only a white moon with a purple halo on the horizon, a dazzling meteorite belt traverses the zenith, and the planetary halo reflects the light of stars in the distance.

Opal moved the big head of the idol and pushed it gruntingly to the pedestal. Raymond hung down the rope and hung it up to put it away. Both were panting.

"I said you guys." Opal always felt very incredible: "How come the relationship is so good? All together for dozens of days?"

"It's your business." Xun asked alertly.

Sid laughed: "It's just a friend."

Xun soon became unhappy, and Sid looked at Xun with a smile, and added a sentence, saying: "Good friends playing Fantasy Paradise together."

Xun could not help laughing.

Opal: "!!!"

Raymond almost fell the sculpture's head.

Sid said, "Have you two never played that thing?"

Opal: "You... what are you talking about? Don't mention this."

Xun laughed and said: "You see him as a country gangster, like a barbarian, I don't know which primitive society came out."

"Hello!" Opal said angrily: "You are a barbarian!"

Raymond said: "I am also a countryman, and I never play that."

Opal flushed, and Raymond said again: "Help the statue, don't fall down again."

Raymond bowed and stood on the shoulder of the idol to hang his head. This requires a good sense of balance so that the newly bonded idol does not fall down.

Finally completed, Opal walked backwards a few steps, looking at the idol, his hair was slightly longer, and there was no name on the pedestal.

Opal went to find water to wash his hands and walked away.

Sid found one thing-the face of the sculpture, the bridge of the nose, the brow bone and the lips, looks like a person.

"This should work." Raymond stepped back and looked at the idol.

Sid looked up. He looked at the idol and then at Raymond, saying, "He looks a bit like you."

Raymond: "?"

Raymond frowned, and Sid turned back: "Opal!"

Opal didn’t hear, and he ran to the edge of the canyon, and said quickly: “Yes, the hair is longer, but the facial features are exactly the same. Hello, are you their god?”

Raymond said: "I haven't been here, look like?"

Sid looked at Raymond suspiciously and said, "You just... it's natural to communicate with the ants, I think it's a bit suspicious."

Lei Meng couldn't help crying: "Don't joke, if I were their god, how could these guys let God repair their own idol?"

"That's right." Xun said, "Have you never been here?"

Raymond impatiently said: "Really not!" He packed up the rope and returned it. The ants thought that Opal was going to flee and escorted him back. A black ant wrote and painted, indicating that they could follow and talk to the leader. talk.

The ants have no vocal organs, and the only sound is the noise of the mouthparts.The four of them walked for a long time in the wilderness. Sid couldn't move at first. He quickly carried him and drove through the moss plain. The leading black ants led them across the river again, until they were on an open field, signaling them to get in the car. Four strange The creature is like a wheel, under a large wooden board.

Opal looked down curiously, the wheel creature suddenly moved in one fell swoop, stretched out its tentacles against the wooden board, four people bounced, and Raymond grabbed his collar to avoid falling.Everyone sits firmly, the wheel creatures start to roll, so they carry people forward quickly, every mountain crosses the mountain, when they go into the water, they can paddle in the water like a propeller, carrying them across the river.

Finally, it stopped in a forest full of exotic plants, a tunnel led to the dark ground, and the wheeled car rolled in. It stopped without going deep.

Surrounded by illuminated minerals, the tunnels extend in all directions, and Opal Road: "This is... an ant's den."

A group of four people looked at the dense ants who were drilling in the empty hall, and they all felt a little hairy in their hearts.In another instant, all the black ants had dispersed, crawled into various holes, and disappeared.

A giant black ant tiger stared at them, Opal said: "Is it the one that just made us fix the gods?"

Raymond: "How do I know? They all look exactly the same."

There is a sand table on the ground that is used for conversation. Opal said: "It should be possible to talk now."

Sid said: "You look like their god, can you add points?"

Raymond's facial expression twitched, and he said to Sid: "In our eyes, they are all the same length. In other words, what about humans in their eyes? Of course there is no difference."

Xun said: "According to their logic, the gods need only have heads and hands, but their faces are actually superfluous..."

Raymond instructed everyone to shut up and stop talking. After a moment of contemplation, he took the branch from the ants and began to ask questions to the other party's leader on the sand table.

Raymond painted pictures and learned how to express the ants while repairing the idols. He asked first with patterns and introduced himself to show that they had no hostility. The previous behavior was purely accidental, and then asked the names of the other big ants.

The big black ant leader drew a few ants on the sand table. The triangular, circular, and spiral symbols diverged from their antennae to distinguish them from each other.

"What do you mean?" Opal said.

Raymond slightly pondered and replied: "It should mean that they are not distinguished by names like our human beings. Everyone has no name and recognizes each other by the smell on their bodies."

Opal nodded slowly, watching Raymond write and write, and found that Raymond was still very smart. He did have the ability to serve as the head of the team. He was calm and steady, no more than the senior mercenaries he had ever seen. The heads of the regiment were inferior.After switching to Opal, I couldn't think of many things.

After Raymond finished the painting, he pressed the left fist on the right shoulder with Opal, and performed a mercenary courtesy.

The large black ants on the opposite side watched quietly, and the last few ants entangled their tentacles, bowing slightly towards them.The two parties saw the ceremony and reached a friendly relationship. Raymond expressed his question with a pattern: [We come to find a spaceship and a few humans.

According to the previous description of Sid, Raymond drew the spaceship on the sand table, as well as the symbols of several villains, and a suitcase next to it.

The big black ant put a fork on the spaceship, indicating that he hadn't seen it, and circled the box again.

Opal: "!!!"

Sid: "!!!"

Sid: "What! They have seen my dad! Where is he!!"

Raymond said: "Don't be impulsive! Opal, hold him!"

There was a small disturbance in the ants. The leader kept watching them with his compound eyes. Sid said to the leader: "I beg you, tell me where my father is!"

Surrounded by lively ants, they seemed to be very curious. They hugged Xi De and whispered comfortably. Raymond drew an adult on the sand table and led a villain. The villain circled out and pointed to Xi De.

"You are so smart!" Opal exclaimed.

Raymond smiled modestly.

The leader understood, and nodded slowly.

It draws rolling hills and rivers on the ground. The four people held their breath. The black ant drew a very complicated map, which had been filled with the entire sand table. Finally, an arch was drawn in the upper left corner.

Opal: "?????"

Confused, he turned his head and looked slowly, and walked slowly to the ants. An ant came and touched him with his tentacles, and Opal touched it with his hand.

Raymond said: "Don't make trouble, I don't want to cause trouble anymore."

The ants retreated, and the atmosphere was very harmonious at the moment. The relationship between the two parties was already so good that they could be called brothers and brothers. Sure enough, they were very hospitable. The teacher was right-Opal thought, he took the initiative to ride the smooth carapace back of the black ant leader. People and ants watch the sand table together.

The branch of the big black ant returned to the lower right corner of the sand table. It painted a strange, huge monster. The monster is a bit like an ant, but it has wings and a large volume. Finally, the winged ant is connected. The small box circled a line and flew directly towards the arched object.

"What does this mean?" Raymond narrowed his eyes in confusion.

"This thing." Opal Duan said after a long time: "Going somewhere with the box?"

Raymond pointed at the pattern, then at his own head, spread his hands, and made an incomprehensible movement. Like a polite gentleman, the big black ant observed them for a long time, turning his head to communicate with other ants for a moment. .

Opal and Raymond are both confused, and quickly said: "Ask it, where is our spaceship."

"Not in a hurry." Raymond said: "First make things clear, there are too many puzzles."

The ants talked for quite a long time this time, for nearly half an hour, and finally reached an agreement.A group of ants gave way, and the big black ants signaled everyone to follow them.

Opal and Raymond followed the leading ants. When they communicated, they could use their front feet to tilt, but when they were on the road, they started with six feet together. They walked quickly, stopped and walked, and walked in the underground tunnel. Far away, and finally enter a huge space that is extremely spectacular.

The ants surrounded the four of them. The leader pointed to the scene in the space, which was full of broken eggshells.

Raymond said: "This is their nursery."

Opal nodded slowly, and there was a shimmer of minerals around him. There was a muddy, dark red film in the center of the nursery nest, which contained living objects, and what was slowly pulsating in it.

Raymond became more and more confused and asked Opal: "Do you know what it means?"

Opal seemed to feel something vaguely and said, "The queen is their queen...?"

"Queen?" Opal murmured: "Queen! I see! This matter has something to do with the queen! That is not the queen! The queen flew away! What is that?"

Raymond immediately understood that there was no sand table around him. He motioned to understand it. The big black ant led them back, and Opal and Raymond quickly started talking. This all understood.

Sid asked hurriedly: "Where are the people? Where are the others?"

Raymond: "Wait, sort out the information first. The queen took the box and flew to the mountain. What does the arc mean? Is it a plant grown in the box? We may have misunderstood."

Opal: "At least for now, the spacecraft has not been destroyed in the explosion."

Raymond nodded slowly, and Opal said again: "This is not an accident, it is a human factor, and it is related to the person with the box. If you find him, you can find Sid's father."

Raymond hummed, and they returned to the central sand table, Raymond said: "But I don't understand, what does it want to show us?"

After several people stopped, Raymond began to ask the big black ant. The big black ant drew a small ant next to the queen, then pulled out a line, circled towards the queen, and circled back again.

Opal finally understood.

"Evolution!" Sid said: "I've learned a little entomology, it must be because their queens are gone, so one of the populations evolved towards the queens!"

Opal also remembered that he read in the textbook that this is a natural adjustment mechanism-a method for a group to maintain its ability to reproduce itself after the queen dies or disappears.

He said in a deep voice: "So it's best for us to stop by... to get back the queen."

Opal took a deep breath and said, "This commission looks very troublesome, but it is not paid."

Raymond said: "When is it, and I'm still thinking about remuneration, I don't expect these ants to go to the union to entrust the task... forget it, let's take a look first."

Raymond instructed the big black ant to find a spaceship for them, but the big black ant did not let a few people leave. After smoothing the sand table, he painted a fat thing.

Opal: "?"

Raymond: "..."

Opal: "It's too hard to communicate with these guys."

Raymond twitched: "What can I do..."

While talking, a group of ants carried a huge, half-dead bug into the ground.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Xundao: "Would it mean that we were invited to dinner?"

The ants came out of the well-connected tunnel and rushed to the fat white worm more than ten meters long. Raymond's handsome face turned green on the spot.

A group of ants gnawed a worm, the scene was so spectacular, there were splashes of mucus everywhere, the worm skin was pulled off a little bit, Sid turned around and vomited, and Raymond couldn't help but hide, leaning on the wall Also began to vomit.

Everyone ran to the corner and dared not look at it again. Opal only felt a nausea. Fortunately, the courses in the mercenary training and the power of faith effectively helped him successfully defend against nausea.

"I, I...I don't eat." Opal said towards the big black ant.

Chief Black Ant: "?"

Opal drew a small man with long hands and long legs on the sand table, pointing to Raymond, indicating that this was him, and his belly was protruding, saying: "He is pregnant and can't eat bugs."

Raymond shouted angrily: "Don't talk nonsense!"

Chief Black Ant: "???"

Opal began to delay time with the big black ant in an incoherent manner, saying: "A child appeared in the belly, well, you see. We don't eat this, the spaceship finds out, and left, we must bring the queen to you... goodbye. "

A group of ants pulled out the belly of the worm, dragged it over and dedicated it to Opal, and dragged it on the ground. The intestines with mucus thoroughly and directly penetrated the tolerance limit of Opal, and he finally vomited.

Half an hour later, Raymond repeatedly insisted that the big black ants understand that they wouldn’t eat them. The ants poured out of the cave to take their spaceship back, and everyone was spinning and exhausted.

The two spaceships were divided and cooperated by the ants and carried to the open space outside the forest.

Raymond said to the black ant leader that they were going to see. The black ant led a group of ants to guide the ground, and the four maneuvered two spacecraft into the air, flying at low altitude, and slowly flew to the ground black line.

After flying for a long time, the endless moss plain was surrounded by dense ants, the scene was extremely spectacular.The black ants spontaneously gave way to an open field, the spaceship landed, and Opal froze when he walked out of the spaceship.

In the middle of the wilderness, the ring-shaped building previously drawn by the ants is a solitary starry sky door.

"Isn't this a device that can be installed outside the atmosphere?" Opal has difficulty channeling: "How could it be placed on a planet?!!!"