The Star Knight

Time-VI lifted off the apron, Opal stood in front of the console to set the route, staring at the starry sky outside the window. From this angle, you can see the hot God of War star, it is like a huge fireball, exuding endless Light and heat.

The Ares star has reached the end of its life. It has existed for nearly 17 billion years, and will consume all its light and heat after 200 million years.Due to its own mass, it will collapse at the end of its life and form a black hole, pulling all the planets in the galaxy, and this area will completely disappear in the universe.Even light can no longer detect its existence.

The Great Astronautics Association issued the life expectancy of Ares stars in 20073.If converted into human lifespan, the rest of its life is just over a year.

But the lifespan of stars is too long. From the birth of mankind, the 14,000-year civilization in the ancient earth period plus the light era civilization is only 30,000 years, 200 million years...Scientists don’t even believe in humans. History can last so long.

"This is an escort mission." Opal said while setting the route: "You can look at the diary first."

Karen opened the mercenary diary and sat on the sofa. Opal moved the pillow away, which was used by Raymond before. He took their common memorial without a word and put it in the room. go with.

However, when he entered the bedroom, he faced another bed, and thought that since Karens was here, he temporarily joined the mercenary group. Although it is only a trial period, if they perform well, they are also long-term partners. They can’t keep Raymond’s relics. All received cleanly.

He took the things out again and put them back where they were.

Karens glanced up at him, did not speak, and continued to read the diary.

"The territory of the Republic of the Milky Way." Karens said: "Class C mission."

Opal murmured, sat down on the carpet, and looked at the details of the mission. Before he took the mission, he had planned it a little bit-the escort mission was not difficult.

Task level: C.

Task content: The Large Magellanic Cloud Nebula Sol system, the planets CT-U2, CT-U3, CT-U7 guard, assist the Youth Advancement Association to handle the relocation, the location of the relocation is undecided, all the members must be placed (about 22,000 people) Only then can the delegation be ended.

Meeting point: CT-U7.

Client: Jokes, Secretary General of the Young Progressive Association.

Task reward: 180,000 interstellar credit points, including food and accommodation.

Remarks: There may be a small amount of battle on the destination planet, and the young aggressive will provide small imperial combat mechs.

"A moving mission." Karens said: "It may be necessary to fight, not to say what type of battle, nor to mention what kind of enemy will be encountered."

Opal doesn’t care: “It’s all about commissions. Employers always like to be confused and try to confuse certain concepts in order to save money. I guess the destination planet is a newly reclaimed wasteland. The local may be a little beast or something. ."

Karens nodded: "It is possible that I have never issued this type of commission. Is this the habit of employers?"

Opal: "Really, nearly 70% of the commissions have a little concealing nature, and you will gradually become familiar with them in the future."

Karens took the task seriously and said, "If there is concealment, what do you think will be?"

Opal said: "In my experience, it should be fighting this piece."

Karens nodded and said, "It would be nice if there was more complete information."

Opal: "You used to be a soldier of the Republic, have you been to the Saul Galaxy?"

Karens laughed: "Never, we are all closed training and we are not allowed to go out to play casually. And I am not an exploratory arm. I belong to the ground guard and have no experience in galaxy exploration.

Opal got up to open the star chart and said, "That's boring enough."

Karens hummed and said, "So I yearn for the spirit of adventure and want to be a mercenary."

Opal enters the location of the Sol star and examines the note.

Everything about the star map was recalled by him-is this really the star map used by Caroline?

Opal is very calm, if it is as he expected, what is this?

His sorrow for Raymond's departure has been gradually replaced by his obsession with revenge. Wrench said "we will revenge someday", and all mercenaries understand that this bloody deep hatred will never be resolved, and many people from the second After the assassination battle, the only meaning of being alive is revenge.

Raymond was just one of many people killed by Colleen. The lives of Colleen died in the hundreds of millions. The King of Meteorites didn’t even know the identity of this deceased. Names-including Suiyan, including Yinyang’s The regimental commander, including the mercenaries who died in his two operations, each of them had their own name. However, in the eyes of Korolin, only a few small stones were placed on the road of his great achievement.

Not even small stones are counted as dust in the universe at best.

Opal is looking forward to one day to revenge Raymond and Azeroth personally, and at the moment when the long sword pierced Collorin’s chest, he whispered to tell him that there is a semi-robot that is not even human, in order to stop him They destroyed their homes and gave their lives.

But before that, there is still a long way to go.

He opened the note.

Thunder in Ancient Myth □□ Word: Sol.This was the place where ancient earth immigrants were missing after exploring the outer planets. The intersection of the four pulsed planets’ magnetic fields. These magnetic fields caused the Sol star to generate lightning that is as much as tens of billions of kilometers. Thor will release countless lightnings, bathing the surrounding planets in thunderstorms.

[The star’s first layer of gravity is directly covered by lightning, there is no complete planet in this area, and there is only a halo-like powder meteorite belt]

The panorama on the star chart is an orange star, and next to it is a square chart table. Opal glanced at the lower left corner and said, "What does Hero Chart mean?"

Karens got up and walked to the star chart, his eyes filled with surprise.

"Hertzpron-Russell spectrogram." Karens explained: "To show the temperature and light of the star, Sol is a blue giant star, which means that it is very young, and the blue giant star is a high-quality main sequence. One of the stars."

Opal Road: "But it's not blue."

Karen said: "Well... I don't know why this is. Maybe the Big Aerospace Association has its own standards."

Around the star is a shining band of meteorites, like a halo around the star. The ring is empty, which is a very rare phenomenon.

Thousands of planets surround the halo, revolving around the star of Saul.

[The four distant pulsating planets released magnetic fields, which interfered with the rotation of ancient Thor to cause these lightnings. The thunderbolt released by Thor has been completely weakened after passing through the light belt. The lightning can span dozens of astronomical units, which is almost It is the miracle of the Creator.This star is very young, equivalent to a baby among the hundreds of billions of stars inhabitants. Perhaps because of this, it is always moody and likes to thunder from time to time, smashing all the planets close to it.

[Sixteen habitable planets are occasionally disturbed by electrical energy from the universe. Lightning passes through the atmosphere and ionizes nitrogen to form small amounts of nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ammonia.

"Almost all of these planets are nitrogen-fixing plants," Karens said. "There are also nitrogen-fixing bacteria...it may rain nitric acid and ammonia. I have heard that the Sol system is a good place to produce nitrogen energy equipment. "

Opal nodded slowly, and Karen said again: "Good star chart, how much can you buy it back?"

Opal: "My friend sent me another picture from the pirate... Actually I want to use this one more."

He took away the star map that Rector sent him, and inserted the star map that was robbed from the pirate ship in the Silent Star. This star map was produced by Da Aerospace. It only had coordinates and images, without any explanation.

"Forget it, use this." Opal changed the star chart that Rector gave him, and sat down at the coffee table.

Karens smiled and said nothing.

It takes three cosmic days from the star to the Saul galaxy. Opal is always silent, sitting in front of the console, watching the starry sky outside the window.

Opal remained silent for a whole day, and still sat the next day, not speaking.

Karen said: "Let's chat, comrades, what can you teach me? I think you are quite strong, I believe I did not follow the wrong person."

Opal said: "No, I'm still stunned. Don't put too much hope on me. In fact, I am too weak to protect even my closest people."

Karens smiled and said, "Your little robot is pretty good."

Opal said: "My mother gave it to me, it is very smart, E7."

E7 flashed with lights, beeping a few times, Karen said: "Can I see you? E7?"

E7 took a picture of Karen, Karen said: "My family is in the Silver Grey Galaxy in the Republic."

"Sounds good." Opal said: "Who else at home? Why didn't you stay in the Republic after you retired? As far as I know, the Republic treats retired soldiers well."

Karens said: "Well, but that's limited to individuals and spouses... I have dads and moms in my family... In fact, they are not my blood relatives, do you know the battle of Kenjira?

Opal shook his head, Karens said: "Kenchira is a small planet."

Opal said: "What happened there?"

Karens said: "When I was serving in the ground forces of the ground silver galaxy, I took a boy, about the same age as you, a very beautiful boy."

Opal said: "I bet he died later."

Karens nodded with a smile, and said, "It is indeed true. He is one of my favorite students. He is very clever... It is the right kind of cleverness, not the arrogant and dignified cleverness. He dares to resist the power in the army. , But he has a way to get out of it every time. He taught me a lot of things. I sincerely admire him."

Opal said: "Actually, Martyr's thinking is the same. Mercenaries believe that they are born equal, no one discriminates against the weak, and no one prides themselves on the seniors, and uses the ranks to oppress the newcomers."

Karens said: "Yes, he behaves like a mercenary. He insists on what he thinks is right and is brave. I think it is a waste of talent to keep him on the ground, so I applied to send him to the exploration team. Go inside."

Opal can almost guess what happened. Sure enough, Karens said: "Later he sacrificed while performing a mission, but saved the entire team, I am proud of him."

Opal said: "For many people, they may think'If I don't send him to the exploration team, he won't die'... about this."

Karens said: "But I don't think everyone has their own pursuit to live. He hopes to explore this universe, not to live longer and safer, and stay in the ground forces for a lifetime. You know, the value of life is not the quantity of time, but the quality, so I never blame myself for his sacrifice."

Opal murmured: "You are right, my teacher once said this."

Opal remembers what Rector said about the life of the mayfly, the absolute length of time does not make much sense. The key is whether a person lives for himself and does what he wants.

"He burned his life." Karens said with a smile: "After compressing his soul, it shines brightly, which is more meaningful than many lives in this universe. His one minute is equal to many people. For a lifetime."

Opal nodded slowly, Karens said: “But his family can’t understand it, and a considerable part of the Republic still respects the idea of ​​the ancient earth...They think that people are social people, parents have the responsibility of parents, children have children Everyone does not live for themselves. From the moment they are born, they need to face their responsibilities, devoting their lives to their loved ones, friends, and the country."

Opal said: "Not right or wrong."

"Well..." Karens said: "In the final analysis, it's still a balance between giving and getting, or a balance between the rights and obligations of life's autonomy."

"Some people think that the soul is their own, while others think that people who pursue their lives purely are selfish. In this society, parents live for their children, and children do their best to meet the expectations of parents and others, even the cultivation of the country. Your own responsibility, so living alone in the world also needs to reassure parents, friends, relatives, happiness, and pride."

"In many star regions of the Republic, this idea is still in the mainstream, and the interstellar community is also split because of this difference in ideas."

"So after I retired, I started to take care of his family, expecting them to understand that his life was very valuable. His brother also served in the army and had no time to take care of his family. His father and his brother broke up, his My brother was ashamed of having such a father, because his father was drunk. His father needed a lot of money, so I was only able to work as a mercenary, walk around and increase my knowledge."

Opal asked: "I don't know who my father is, my mother has died, I think if I want to be a mercenary, she should also support me, but I can understand what you said, you and Is he a lover?"

Karens said: "I was there for a while, but his brother was very repellent, or can be said to hate me."

Opal asked again: "How about your own parents?"

Karens said: “I haven’t been in contact since I was born. The Republic needs newborns, so my parents I never met donated sperm and eggs, and they were paired in the stock. I was born in the cultivation cabin and raised by the government. At the age of seven, he joined the army at Tifeng Military Academy when he was seven years old, and was a major when he retired."

Opal looked at Karenth. He was almost as tall as himself. His eyes were deep, thin and capable, as explosive as a cheetah.

He is not handsome, but he has a different style, self-discipline, resoluteness, courage, and perseverance-that is a soldier's unique, loyal and decisive character. What is more rare is that he is not humble or overbearing. As the head of the team, he is also a partner. He is not proud of his former major rank, nor does he particularly cater to him because of his status as a C-class mercenary.

Opal said: "I think you are very good, very sensible, and honored to fight alongside you, comrade."

Karens smiled and said, "Tell me about you."

Opal recalled for a moment and said, "My hometown is a mineral planet, but I'm sorry, some things I can't say too clearly..."

He picked some of his experiences and briefly told Karen. Karens did not have a thorough understanding. After listening, he said: "It is very interesting. I began to yearn for the life of a mercenary."

"I was the same at the beginning." Opal said: "I am full of longing and yearning until the day my comrades sacrificed. In fact, before I met you, I had planned to go it alone, I always thought not clear, Why are there many people who like to put bills, go forward and retreat with their comrades, and complete the commission together, isn’t it a very happy thing?"

Opal: "After Raymond left me, I realized the mood of many people. They don't like to cooperate with others, but they can't afford to lose and lose. Imagine that a partner who gets along with him sacrifices one day, It feels like forcibly cutting away your soul, and it will never come back."

Karens said: "You will come out, believe me."

Opal glanced at him and said, "But what if we encounter the same situation again? For example, if I and you are fighting with each other in blood, you will sacrifice one day in the future."

Karens laughed, and Opal said: "So I am alone, and must suffer this kind of pain again."

Karens said, "I'm not the same as the friend you used to be."

Opal said: "It is indeed not equivalent, because he is my lover, and you are a comrade-in-arm, but the process of losing friends is also not easy..."

Karens said: "Thank you for accepting me. I believe you seriously accepted me as your fighting partner. Do you listen to Ledgerson's song?"

Opal said: "Occasionally listen, why?"

Karens said: "He sang a song to the effect that life itself is a cycle of gain, loss, experience, and forgetting."

Opal's pupil reflected the magnificent starry sky outside the porthole.

Karens again said: "All things will leave you on a certain day, only your heart is true. Those with a family will lose their families, and those with love will eventually lose their love. What do you have, It will eventually face the day of losing it. Losing and gaining are always in the shadows. People have nothing but themselves...everything else is a landscape."

Opal nodded, Karens said: "You will come out slowly, and you have more important things to do."

"What's the matter." Opal said.

Karens: "I don't know what you can do, you have to decide for yourself, burn your life, whether it can be done, live, wait until the end of life towards nature, and one day will meet your lover ."

They didn't talk anymore that day, Opal fell into a long meditation, and finally he finally found what he wanted to do-one day, he would get rid of Caroline.

Whether it is done by himself, or to show his own strength in solving the influence of the Meteor Legion, he has this responsibility.