The Star Knight

Time-VI is out of the Ares galaxy, the starry gate is completely destroyed in the flames of war, and the space robot is being re-erected.The outer periphery of the galaxy is full of wreckage after the war. There are no spaceships or coordinates. Everything that is visible has no name, just as it was when it was first formed.

The nearest temporary star gate is a one-way street, which leads to a gas nebula in Beihesan. Opal looked at the bloody mercenary diary and found that their merits had been automatically converted into promotion points at the end of the war. The team was upgraded to B, Opal’s mercenary rank was C, and Raymond’s rank was B.

Raymond destroyed 1,400 meteor fighters and 82 meteor mechs during the battle, and blew up the No. 6 nuclear reactor on the mother ship.

Opal wiped out three meteor mechas in the Battle of Soul Mansion, participated in the mobile commando, assisted in blowing up the nuclear reactor, infiltrated the dark throne of the meteor carrier, and rescued the wrench and the injured S-class mercenary Begonia.

"You are so powerful." Opal remembered the mercenary diary to Raymond, and Raymond never answered.

Opal went to pick up Raymond and placed it carefully on the center swivel chair in front of the console. He took the radiotherapy device and shivered with his hands, covering Raymond's arm with rays.

The red light shone on the skin of his body, and his flesh and blood showed a rotten purple black.

"No effect." Raymond said: "The radiotherapy apparatus does not work for me."

"How do you know?" Opal asked.

Raymond said: "I found a small incision after I was injured and I couldn't recover under regenerative rays."

Opal said: "Try again, don't talk."

Opal's voice trembled, and he said, "I may want to... cut you a small piece of meat."

He used a knife to carefully cut off the carrion on Raymond's arm, and focused on the fracture with radiation, and observed its movement. The exposed new wound did not grow new meat in the radiation, but dripped blood.

Opal cut his own arm with a knife and irradiated his wound with radiation, and it soon healed as before.

"I'm different." Raymond said: "I'm a robot."

Opal said: "No, how can you say that...you are human, just like me."

Raymond listened quietly, Opal whispered: "You are my first friend, we were born and died together, you just... there is an atomic furnace in my heart, I can feel your feelings, You are like me, you are human..."

"You are human." Opal repeated: "There will always be a way, trust me."

He took a long breath and couldn't carry his drowsiness. His hands were covered with Raymond's blood, and he froze for a while. The sedative he had previously played on the martial stars worked. He was very sleepy, lying beside Raymond Whispered: "I'll sleep for a while, just wake up."

Raymond turned his neck hard and looked at Opal, who was buried in the chair. The phalanx moved slightly. Opal buried his face between his arms. The fingers were separated. Holding Raymond's metal phalanx, he gradually fell asleep. .

It was hours after waking up again, and the spaceship twitched slightly when it landed. Opal woke up. He breathed out tiredly, rubbing his red eyes, and saw Raymond staring at the ceiling.

His eyelids were gone, his eyes were exposed in a strange way, and when Opal got up, his eyes turned slightly towards the right, staring at him.

"Are you going to sleep?" Opal said: "Find something and cover your eyes?"

"I don't need to sleep." Raymond replied: "Where is this?"

Opal got up to get his coat and said: "Planet Rembrandt, you have to tell me when your atomic furnace will go out."

Raymond said: "I don't know, I'm not weak now."

Opal carefully peeled off the skin covering his chest and looked at the atomic furnace through the alloy ribs-as he did the first time, the energy showed 100%.It should be able to support for a long time. Opal noticed that there are still many blood vessels connected to the heart, which are slowly beating, and the blood vessels extend to the spine, which is estimated to be connected to the brain.

"I'll go out for a while and come back immediately." Opal said.

Raymond said: "Opal, I have something to tell you."

Opal: "If you come back, let's not stay here too long..."

Raymond: "No, listen to me, listen clearly."

Opal stared blankly at Raymond-he was lying on a reclining swivel chair, and the dim light in the control room shone on his broken face.

Once so handsome, the handsome face left only the skin of the bridge of the nose and the corner of the mouth, half of the left face was shocked and burnt into coke, showing a hollow skull, a dark hole in the left eye, and the nerve tissue in the hole showed rotting The purple-black color is oozing with yellow blood.

"Go to the police now." Raymond said: "Hand me over. Your partner Raymond was dead when the meteorite carrier exploded. It was a robot lying on a chair without a name..."

"No." Opal said: "No, impossible."

Raymond: "You don't understand."

Opal: "It's you who don't understand."

"I will be with you for a long time, for a long time." Opal said: "We will also be mercenaries, take risks together, save money to buy spaceships together, live the life we ​​want together, you will get better. Comrades, I love you."

Opal got off the spaceship, closed the door, and added a safety lock.

The four seasons of Rembrandt are like spring, and the wind is blowing in the rustle of flowers, and the fragrance is coming.

Opal leaned back against the wall, looked up at the sky, closed his eyes, exhaled, and then turned and ran to the station to the nursing home where Refina was.

Thank goodness, Refina hasn't returned to the star yet, but she is already packing up and ready to leave.

"Mrs. Anta!" Opal shouted outside the locked door.

The maid came out to open the door and said, "I thought it would be another gentleman to pick up the lady..."

Opal ran panting and waved his hand: "I'm not responsible for the pick-up, I have several questions to ask her for advice."

The maid looked blank and opened the door. Refina went downstairs in a travel costume. Opal said: "Great, you haven't returned to the star."

"I'm planning to go back and do some help." Refina is still that unsmiling look, said: "What's the matter? Child, your partner? Enya, take some tea to serve."

Opal and Refina were sitting at the tea table in the garden. Opal said: "Raymond was hurt, but I didn't come here for this..."

Refina raised her eyebrows and motioned him to speak straight.

"Artificial robots...you know what I mean." Opal said: "Remains of the dark age."

Refina listened quietly, and Opal saw that she had not opened her mouth and had to say for herself: "If there are remnants... biochemical robots, according to the Star Alliance Treaty, will they be destroyed?"

Refina's eyebrows twisted up alertly, and Opal said again: "Is there any way to make a person keep the life of a robot."

Refina thought about it and said, "You are too young, maybe you don't know what this means, Opal."

"Intelligent biological robots do not have the life widely recognized by Xingmeng as you think, and they are even different from your aerospace small robots. It is neither a smart life like human beings, nor a robot like this... human friends."

Opal added: "But they will think on their own...I heard that they have the same feelings as humans, don't they? Even the inanimate creatures such as Ang Xingren and even Phantom Xingren have the right to survive..."

Refina said: "Whether the Phantom Star is recognized by the Star Alliance does not depend on whether they have a physical form, but because they are separate individuals distinguished from each other, and they have a mother or father."

"But intelligent biological robots are not like this. You know, every life, whether it is cultivated in a nutrition tank or grown through a uterus, has its own mother."

"The mother is the only sign that life has the right to self-survival. The evolution of genes determines the most basic differences between individuals. This difference forms the mark of their difference from each other through intelligent life. Please answer me, Opal, what do you think is Make you different from the same person? Don’t tell me my appearance and figure, these can be transformed by the genetic company to make you another person."

Opal pondered for a moment and replied: "Character."

Refina nodded slowly and said, "Or more generally speaking-the soul. It determines the direction and reaction mode of different people when facing the same thing. What about intelligent biological robots? Are they extracted one or some The human genes are copied in batches and mass-produced... products."

Opal: "..."

Refina said: "Their character and service mode depend on the body. A preset chip is added to the brain to control all possible off-track behaviors. Assuming that my copy person is sitting in front of you at this moment, what would you think? ? Do you think she is me? Or another person with equal rights to survive?"

Opal looked away, looked at the desktop, his heart was shocked, he looked up again: "But when they leave the factory, the moment they form their own thinking, in a sense, it is equivalent to gaining their own soul, after all After they pass the learning process, there will always be a slight difference in the judgment mode..."

Refina said: "You still don't understand what I said. Once this happens, the chips in their brains will be revised and re-controlled in time to adjust their autonomy and bring them back to their pre-defined character. "

Opal: "!!!"

Opal gasped hurriedly. He couldn't believe Refina's explanation at all. What did that mean?He used to judge whether Raymond was a human or an inhuman, and completely collapsed in front of the chip.

Opal frowned: "Why did the intelligent revolution break out?"

"Because the control chips of some of the robots are broken." Refina smiled and replied: "They privately transformed more of the companion's control chips, and gradually made all intelligent biological robots out of the control of the chip. Self-consciousness. The interstellar community cannot bear this consequence, so it has to destroy the unmanufactured robots in batches and recognize the right of survival of the first rebels."

Opal said blankly: "Isn't this good?"

Refina shook her head and said, "But this action angered the first batch of robot rebels. Destroying the replicas was equivalent to destroying themselves. Then the wisdom revolution broke out, and two trillion replicas of tens of thousands of models spread throughout the whole. The universe, then what you know, I remember in detail in the history class-the impact of war is too large, the interstellar community gathers alive and provided samples of humans together to analyze their behavior patterns , Look for weaknesses and break them."

"It was a real hard fight, because some samples were dead, and the intelligent robots were still being copied, becoming a huge army. The interstellar community was completely defeated, and civilization retreated for thousands of years."

"But one day, the war was suddenly reversed with no chance of victory. The reasons for the reversal were varied, and some scholars believed that the Star Knight had ended the trial that came early, and some believed that the lion emperor Carters obtained some mysterious power. s help……"

Opal: "They are all destroyed?"

Refina said: "Yes, there is no one left."

Opal said: "If...I mean suppose I got an intelligent biological robot, then it may come from..."

"It's impossible." Refina cut the iron railroad: "This assumption is not interesting, sir. I have to tell you that no matter how big this universe is, there will be no hiding place for them. All intelligent biological robots are It’s destroyed, I mean—all. Because this type of destruction doesn’t require you to cut off their heads or destroy their atomic furnace by hand.”

"It is a transition resonance technology that kills them. Their chip is restarted within one second and written into suicide mode."

Opal thought quickly, and said: "But I... Raymond and I received a commission and mentioned that someone had seen a biological robot..."

Refina's expression was very alert. She said solemnly and indifferently: "Perhaps someone is actually doing research and development in an unknown place, a research note, or a sample, enough to intoxicate the anti-human behavior. Scientists have built private research institutes. If the facts are as you said, it will be very serious. I suggest that you report it to Azeroth now and apply for Star Alliance support. Believe me, child, this responsibility is very serious, not The mercenaries can afford it."

Opal: "..."

"I'm just guessing." Opal avoided Refina's torch gaze, and she felt uncomfortable, and then said: "I understand...that is, now that there are biological robots, it will be... The new one will not be a remnant of the previous...Thank you, I have to go."

"I wish you a long life." Refina said gracefully.

Opal said: "I'm not saying... uh, that's not true, the possibility is very small. It is pure speculation, please do it for me before things are confirmed..."

"Keep the secret for you," Refina said: "I have lived for many years and know that I should not talk nonsense in uncertain circumstances. Please rest assured. Mr. Raymond did not come?"

Opal made a lie and said, "He... intends to return to his hometown to deal with something."

Refina nodded, and Opal said incoherently: "His father is sick, um, that's it. Goodbye, I wish you health."

Opal walked alone in the flower field of Rembrandt, and someone behind him chased it out, it was Refina's maid Enya.

"Miss asked you to hold this." Enya gave Opal a piece of paper.

Opal: "?"

It was a letter from Refina, Enya said: "Her students are engaged in medical and genetic research on Zampdra star, maybe it can help Mr. Raymond's father. She also asks you to tell Mr. Raymond , Life, death, old age, sickness and death are the natural laws in the universe, please face it calmly."

"Thank you." Opal nodded, Enya saluted him, and Opal solemnly returned to the mercenary ceremony and walked to the station.

While waiting for the bus, he bought two bottles of canned flower tea. He felt that his eyes were black, and he returned to the apron forcibly. When he opened the cabin door, a stench came.

"Raymond!" Opal said nervously.

Before staying on the spaceship, I still couldn't detect it. After returning to the indoor environment, I found that Raymond's body was very rotten.

Many parts of his body had been glued together by blood, and the new blood was still dropping down, and the large intestine, stomach, and bladder embedded under the lower abdomen gave off a foul odor.

Raymond turned his head and looked at Opal.

Opal breathed a sigh of relief, and it wouldn't work like this, too easy to get infected.

He manipulated the spacecraft to take off, set the route, and after a moment of thought, he flew to the Zampdra star in the Orion Nebula.Then I went in to fill some water, took out a tin box containing the goods, and said, "Clean it for you first. I have to take off your clothes and pants... Can I?"

Raymond didn't speak, Opal said: "What are you thinking? I can't throw you down. I can't send you to the Star Alliance Security Center for money, can you cooperate with me?"

Raymond said: "You can't cure me, Opal, I'm grateful for doing so, I don't want to... don't want to..."

Opal casually said: "Don't do this, you make me uncomfortable. It's bad enough, can't you say something else?"

Raymond said, "You might as well let me die."

Opal said: "It's impossible, you won't die."

After a while, Opal opened the folding knife and cut Raymond's coat and military pants. He cut them along the thigh trousers and removed the bloody cloth. He put the iron box under the swivel chair and put Raymond's blood. Collect them for future use.

He had never learned medical care, and even the name of the internal organs was incomplete. He did not dare to disturb Raymond's broken stomach and abdominal cavity. He dipped a soft cloth with sterilizing water and carefully wiped the blood from his body.

"You are the same as me, you are also human." Opal said stubbornly.

Opal covered the Raymond crotch with a piece of cloth, wiped along his belly button, saw his body, thought he would feel it?He will be happy and angry, he is clearly a person exactly like himself.

"I was copied." Raymond finally said, "My brain is different from yours."

"Have you seen your brain?" Opal frowned.

"No, but I know." Raymond said: "I have a lot of metal wires in my brain, and a chip that I don't know what's the use."

Opal said: "Your chip is useless and should be broken."

Raymond did not answer, saying, "Where are we going now?"

"Planet Zampdra." Opal said: "Mrs. Anta wrote this to me, you see."

He took out the paper and showed it to Raymond, saying, "There are her students there. After hearing about your situation, she suggested that I ask Dr. York for help..."

"Are you serious?" Raymond couldn't believe it.

Opal frowned: "Of course, isn't this obvious, she still wants to go to the spaceship to see you... I didn't agree."

Raymond said: "She is willing to save me?"

Opal said: "Yes, but she doesn't know about genetic technology, let's find her students to help."

Raymond said: "Will her students go..."

Opal said: "Don't think so much! No! Believe her!"

Raymond stopped talking and stared at Opal intently with his right eye. Opal was looked a little guilty. He collected the remaining blood and flesh. The temperature in the cabin was too high and the rate of decay was fast. do?

Opal tried to lower the room temperature to four degrees to the cosmic temperature scale, and the surroundings cooled down, maybe this can slow down the rate of Raymond's decay...I hope he can hold it.

"Are you cold?" asked Opal.

"It's not cold." Raymond knew what Opal was doing and said, "You dress more."

Opal went in and took a blanket to cover him, pushed the swivel chair over, and leaned side by side with Raymond, the two lying side by side.Opal opened the porthole, and the beautiful stars shone.

"It's beautiful." Opal murmured: "Look more, you won't want to die, Raymond."

Raymond didn't speak, and Opal said: "We still have so many things to do. The universe is huge and boundless. You haven't been to all the planets yet."

"Well," Raymond said.

Opal said again: "You know, I'm glad now that you are...yes...you are not ordinary, a human like me."

Raymond: "I'm a robot."

Opal looked at him sideways and said, "I mean, you are not as vulnerable as everyone else. I just figured it out today. Otherwise, when the spacecraft explodes, you are already dead, I can only hold Your corpse went back to the martyr for burial. That was the worst. Now I am very satisfied. I think this is very good. I am so happy that at least you can survive."

Raymond was very quiet. Opal took his hand, looked at the starry sky outside, and looked at him again, saying: "If the technology on the Zampdra star can't save you, we have other ways... I have all Think about it."

"For example, my teacher." Opal said deliberately: "I think as long as he asks for help, he must have a way, it is only a matter of time to find him..."

As he spoke, he noticed Raymond trembling a little and said, "Is it cold? I lowered the temperature."

Raymond shook his head. Opal put the blanket on the two of them. He turned his head and leaned on his shoulder. He said, "You are actually quite handsome like this. Well, at least your bones are very beautiful."

Raymond laughed and looked at him with one eye. Opal said: "Be happy, don't be so downcast. Are you hungry? What to eat?"

Raymond shook his head: "Do you think I can eat?"

Opal laughed: "How about drinking some tea?"

Raymond licked his dry lips and said, "Can I drink?"

Opal said: "Try it."

He opened a bottle of flower tea and poured it into Raymond's mouth. It was a little faster. Raymond coughed quickly. There was flower tea in his chest. Opal quickly put away the blanket and took an iron box to leak it. Flower tea.

Raymond sighed comfortably, drinking cold tea from his throat into his stomach, and then leaked from the mouth of the small intestine.

Another decomposition furnace set in the stomach is still operating slowly.

Opal laughed and asked, "How do you feel?"

Raymond said: "Come on, don't do too much this time, it's easy to choke."

Opal stared at him for a moment, and there was an indescribable emotion in his heart. He took a sip of scented tea, leaned over, kissed Raymond's lips, and poured the scented tea into his mouth.

Raymond's throat twitched, and his lips stared at each other.

His bare eyes turned down slightly, looking at Opal's lips, his heart was beating fiercely, the atomic furnace glowed red, and the membrane covering the ventricle made a faint sound.

Opal breathed quickly, flushing on his cheeks and asked, "Did you still drink?"

Raymond's expression was indifferent and numb, but he tried his best to show something. He pulled the corner of his mouth, and Opal drank another scented tea, hugged his neck, kissed his lips intently, and the scented tea passed through Lemmon's throat Dribbled.

At the end of Opal's head up, Raymond raised the left hand of the remaining metal skeleton, put it on his neck, and hugged him gently.

Raymond's lips and tongue were cold and wet, with the smell of flower tea, and Opal's lips were hot and kissed for a long time.On the lips, Opal touched Raymond's forehead, backhanded to his neck, took his hand, and lay down beside him.

The two held hands and looked at the starry sky beyond the porthole side by side.

The Orion Nebula is a blue-violet tulle that unfolds in deep space.

The interstellar dust is like a flying bird in the dark, flying towards the NGC giant star, which emits thousands of beams of light-to the light, to the new hope.