The Star Knight

"Here are the gravitational intersections of the six black holes. One step away from the safe area, you will be drawn to a black hole in the hollow space." Colleen said in a deep voice: "Follow me, Opal. "

The moment he took Opal into the spaceship, passing through the metal gate, Opal almost thought he had arrived on a strange planet.

There was torrential rain everywhere, and the sky was overcast with clouds. After pushing the door open, there was a vast, self-contained world.

The gate closed slowly, and Opal looked back and found that it was a castle garden.

Looking up, the sky is overcast with haze. Is this an ecological space created by simulation?

"This is an ancient ruin."

The anklet decomposed again to form a metal umbrella. Colleen held the umbrella handle and poked lightly. The umbrella surface opened, covering him and Opal under the umbrella.

They walked along the garden. The rain in the sky never seemed to stop. The grey gravel road was moist with the smell of earth. Opal turned his head from time to time and said, "Is it a restored ancient ruin?"

"No." Caroline said: "It is a relic of an ancient earth that was completely copied."

As they walked into the depths of the garden, the terrain gradually increased, and a large and a small group of people dressed in black royal robes climbed to the heights, standing on the precipitous cliff, and below the cliff was a turbulent bay.

A wet black wooden sign stood in the rain, with strange words written on it.

"Holgoland." Caroline translated towards Opal.

Opal didn't know what this represented. The sight he saw was too unbelievable, and even made him forget that he was in the ivory tower.

Colleen took him down the cliff to a lighthouse.

There was a night watchman in front of the lighthouse, an old lady wearing a cloak, and said, "Korolin?"

Colleen bowed politely and said, "I brought a few questions to ask the professors."

The old woman looked at Opal in disbelief. Opal wanted to divert her mind to read her thoughts, but was intercepted by Colleen.

"Come in." The old lady turned sideways and let out the small door of the lighthouse, which read a line: Heisenberg had been here.

Korolin said: "I promise that I won't stay in the Ivory Tower this time."

The old lady hummed angrily, tapped on the door with a cane, and the lighthouse opened.

Opal was full of doubts, but he could not open his mouth. After entering the lighthouse, it was dark. Colleen received the umbrella. His pupils adjusted to the darkness and looked at Opal.

Opal: [This is the Ivory Tower?

Caroline: [To be precise, this is part of the ivory tower.

Opal: [Who are we looking for?

Caroline: [Follow me.

Caroline walked to the center of the lighthouse, and a beam of white light fell.

Caroline raised his head, his dark eyebrows and handsome side face were bathed in light, electronically synthesizing a soundtrack: "Department classification retrieval."

Caroline: "Copy technology and chip manufacturing."

Opal: "?"

Electronic synthesis soundtrack: "Research Lab No. 33."

Opal: "!!!"

A circle of bricks and stones against the wall of the lighthouse disintegrated automatically, revealing a spiral staircase. Colleen took Opal down the stairs, and a female voice rang beside them: "Collorin?"

Opal was startled, and when he turned his head, he found that the drifting blue holographic projection outlined the face of a young woman. As they floated down the stairs, they looked like a light ghost.

Caroline said: "This is my disciple Opal."

The holographic projection woman bowed and emitted two rays of light from her eyes, scanning the pupil of Opal. Opal was seen with a hair, and subconsciously wanted to hide behind Caroline. Caroline said: "This is the central computer system of the ivory tower. Her name is Eve."

The woman said, "Identity entry is complete."

Opal said: "You... hello."

"What's the matter?" Eve, flashing blue, said: "What is the status of Adam's memory body?"

"Adam's memory body... is dead." Colleen walked down the stairs and talked to Eve, just like an old friend who hadn't seen him in a long time: "Or... he was nirvana, I think I can say that ."

Eve's figure flickered slightly, and Opal seemed to feel some of her mood swings. Eve said again: "It's been a long time since you and Rector came here. Would you like Adam to come?"

Caroline groaned a little, then said: "No... No, I'm a little afraid of Adam. This is very strange. After all, it's not the real him. Right, this time I brought my new apprentice."

"I don't think Adam will like this heir." Eve said with a smile.

"He doesn't have the right to choose." Collolin said: "Nolan gave me this mission at the beginning. I found it for a long time before I found the True Fire Phoenix, and now half of it is still not completed."

"Humanity is always passing on its mission." Eve said: "Metabolic."

She floated to a door on the spiral staircase, the small door opened, revealing endless blue light jumping, Opal walked in with Caroline, her eyes were not opened until she adjusted to the light , Screaming in surprise.

Caroline smiled, and Eve said, "It's exactly the same as when you first entered the Ivory Tower."

Caroline hummed, released Opal's hand, and walked to the center of the hall.

This is a world composed of crystal lattices. The outer wall of the spherical crystal encloses a small foothold in the center. The surroundings are all dense and dense, with a honeycomb-like hexagonal lattice. The light in the lattice is one after another. Go and stagger each other.

"An outsider is coming again." The voice rang directly in the hall.

"Who is this time? Rector again?"

"You disturbed our research."

"It's nice to have visitors come and see occasionally, teacher, don't always be so irritable."

"Professor Fairstow, when are you going to give me the genetic samples?"

"Ah, Penny, you better suspend the work at hand to see what the child is holding."

Dozens of blue soul lights floated out of the lattice and floated toward the center of the platform.

Opal stepped back in fear and looked around and found that each lattice was a blue container filled with liquid. That was-the sea of ​​time!

Soaked in the sea of ​​time is one human brain after another.

Opal is like falling into a nightmare, saying, "This... yes, what is this?!"

Caroline: [Don’t be excited, this is the laboratory of the Ivory Tower.

The projection rustled, and a blue ghost crossed the platform, flew to another container, and disappeared.

"Professors, would you like to hear from the Knights of the Stars?" Eve stretched out her hand and crossed the front gracefully, and the conversation in the hall briefly became quiet.

Caroline said: "I brought a message about the Replica Legion, which is the product of the dark age. After the resonant technology at Rector's test site No. 2 was started by someone else."

The sound of electric current rustled, and Korolin said: "In order to maintain stability in the goldfish tank universe, I need to find out about this matter, and now I will input the information to you."

Eve said, "Preparing a thinking adapter for you."

A light screen unfolded on the platform, and Caroline pressed his hands against the light screen, and the surroundings suddenly darkened, leaving only the light on the screen reflecting his face.

A pattern first appeared on the light screen, which was a panoramic view of the planet on the experiment field. Then the entire light map quickly left the screen, flew into the air, was fixed, and sent information to all brains soaked in the lattice through the transcriber. .

Then came the huge pit, in which countless Colleen's corpses, metal skeletons, and brain chips lay.

One light picture after another flew out, slowly rotating around the entire hall.

Opal understood, he walked to Caroline's side, and stretched his hand against the light screen.

A photo of Raymond alive was drawn from his thinking activities, and then the past with Raymond flew into the air and entered the ring screen photo.

Caroline completed the whole process, taking a step back, and the hall was quiet.

He asked: "This is the teaching of the ivory tower?"

After a long silence, all the devices outside the lattice lit up at the same time, followed by hundreds of millions of information light symbols flying around, they carried a large amount of content to transfer information between different brain immersion containers, and finally All the light dimmed at the same time.

One of the tens of thousands of crystal lattices lighted up, and the young voice said, "This is not the teaching of the Ivory Tower, but the Ivory Tower discovered the existence of this experimental field earlier than you, because there is a loophole in the resonance technology of Heinrichs. When we discovered this loophole, the dark age was over and we could not make up for it in time."

"This loophole caused at least one replicator to escape the resonance destruction wave."

Opal saw where the sound came from. In the blue-light lattice, a gray brain floated in the solution.

The other lattice turned on, and the female voice said, "Test Eve 2 was discovered by Eve, but I still missed one."

Caroline said, "What does this mean?"

"Generally speaking." An old voice explained: "Rector didn't remove all the replicators in the dark ages. We will call this replicator the escaper. It is the selected security lock in the replicator's army. , Its appearance and genes are specially designed to be distinguished from its other replicas and mixed with humans. In case the copying people are destroyed, this escape will carry the technology about gene replication and the chip itself to establish The new clone empire."

"It found the Ivory Tower No. 2 experiment site and established a research room there."

Colleen frowned: "But the resonance destruction wave cannot miss any replica."

"Possibly." A young girl's voice said: "The first trial plan itself has fatal omissions."

Colleen said: "How did this escaper hide?" Where can it hide?"

The naive little girl said in a voice: "Hiding in the past, the future, or a space of higher dimensions."

Korolin was silent for a moment, and the little girl said, "Wait until everything is over, and then return to the world of goldfish tanks to be safe. Do you understand? Korolin."

Caroline said, "So where might it be hiding?"

All the lattices light up for an instant and exchange information quickly.

The young man’s voice said: “The most likely guess is that the escaped man hid into Logan’s Wheel of Time.”

Opal instantly heard his father's name.

Caroline said, "What the hell happened here?"

"No comment." The little girl said in a voice: "Lack of analysis conditions, Colleen, I think the identity of the escaped person is best understood by yourself. To you and Rector, who did you reveal the last resonance plan to? You and Rector, who else knows the location of Proving Ground 2?"

Caroline's expression was cold, and he did not answer.

"Kyle." Kororin said: "At that time I asked him to send mercenaries to help quell the replica's army's attack on the ACU headquarters... Kyle was actually one of the replicas. I never thought , Chip...now it seems that his chip is hidden in the core of the brain."

After a brief silence, Korolin said: "No wonder Kyle has been missing for a period of time before the trial battle. How did he get into the wheel of time?"

"Perhaps the people on the wheel of time can answer you. But if the hypothesis holds, then the wheel of time must have crashed in the five-dimensional space, or it has been massacred by the escaped people." The young man's voice interjected.

"Yes." Several voices answered unevenly.

Opal suddenly asked, "Why did this escaper make... hundreds of Collins?"

Several lattices light up at the same time, and a voice says: "The motivation is to use the strong body to make a new container to achieve eternal conditions."

Opal tried his best to understand the many intricate information, Collorin muttered: "Yes, he is very interested in the power of my belief, as for eternal life...I did discuss this issue with him, he thought Build a new immortal empire? No wonder, but how can this condition be met?"

"Through their necklaces." The old voice said, "Now show you."

Caroline stepped forward and placed the necklace on the console. Tens of thousands of red lights were cast from all directions. The scene was spectacular, as if there were countless straight lines connected to the necklace pendant in the center of the console.

The red light gathered together, and the necklace glowed extremely magnificently in a flash. Its blue light even suppressed the luster of the sea solution of time. Opal stared at the light, and his soul seemed to be dragged into the endless moment. Endless, vast sea of ​​light.

The blue light suddenly came to an end, and Opal awakened from the shock. The voice of one of the old women said: "This is a magic blue fluorite core mixed with molybdenum elements and processed through a series of complex processes. The magic blue fluorite has The absorption and transmission effects of the conscious wave are like a memory storage, the only difference is that the mother memory in the storage can copy the child memory infinitely, thereby creating multiple identical human souls. Molybdenum can effectively cover it Side effects."

Opal: "!!!"

Opal understood this sentence almost instantaneously.

He remembered a long and long time ago that he had discussed with Raymond on Silent Star and the projected message on the star chart.

At this moment his thinking is directly connected to Caroline-the reproduction of the Phantom Star needs to be inherited by the Phantom Blue Fluorite, and every newborn can directly inherit all the knowledge of the father.In other words, when the Phantom Star faces the imminent death, he will return to the mother stone, extract his own knowledge, breed new individuals, and wait for the blue fluorite to instill the information stored in it. Into the consciousness of the newborn.

The old lady’s voice was plain and stereotyped: “In summary, the fluorite core can store all the memories of a copied person and transmit it to the next body after it dies, so as to achieve the continuity of the inheritance of ideas, which is eliminated The possibility of accidental death only requires the transmission of conscious waves. Even if the body dies, the residual consciousness can be absorbed by the new body."

"What's the problem?" the young man's voice said.

Caroline shook his head slightly blankly.

"I want to escape the identity of the fugitive, you have been able to confirm it." The little girl's voice said politely: "He entered the wheel of time to escape before the resonance wave was emitted, and returned to this after the trial battle ended. In the universe."

Opal suddenly felt something unreasonable.

[They are lying.] Opal said directly in the mind of Caroline with the power of faith.

Caroline’s consciousness was very chaotic, but he still rarely recovered from the shock and recovered his calmness in the shortest time.

Caroline: [How did you find out?

Opal: [Intuition.

Caroline: [Yes, I don’t believe Kyle has this ability, but they didn’t lie. The only difference was that they concealed some details from me... There must be more questions about the No. 2 experiment site itself.

"Adam became suspicious in the near future, and through his and Eve's tracing, he found that he used your genes to create a new copy of the human body. We sent a spaceship and saw that all the semi-finished products have been destroyed, and the escapers have no whereabouts. , So we don’t know what happened on the wheel of time."

"But that's not important anymore. The wheel of time hasn't come back in a long time, maybe it has sunk in the five-dimensional space, so there is no future for the ivory tower, neither of you humans."

Caroline said: "This is the omission of the Stars Church, everything is due to our fault."

"That's not important, it's over." The little girl's voice said, "Go back, don't come back again. Today, the gate of the ivory tower will be closed forever, both for new scholars and star knights."

"Goodbye," Colleen said, "Director Petunia."

The door opened again. When Opal left, he couldn't help turning his head to look at it. Tens of thousands of brains were quietly soaked in the sea of ​​time. The blue light was rising and falling like a tide of clouds.

"Korolin." The sound of an urged man sounded.

Caroline and Opal stopped at the same time.

"Adam, I haven't seen you for a long time." Colleen bowed politely, and a red holographic human figure lit up beside them, like a ghost of a naked man.

"The ivory tower is considering rebuilding the relationship with the Holy See. We must form an alliance with Pope Drummond to face the problems in the near future." Adam said: "Also, we found another thing on the No. 2 laboratory ."

Caroline pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Pope did not make a clear statement. I think this matter is difficult. What is this?"

Colleen picked up a small part handed over by the little robot.

"This is a quantum time regulator, an advanced small intelligent robot part on the wheel of time." Adam said: "I remember you also have one. I guess someone removed this at the time and wanted to install it in the laboratory. On the instrument."

Colleen said: "Yes... the little robot you gave me is missing this part, one will be faster and the other will be slower and slower every day... what is the omen? Maybe I can fix it, but I think it Prove nothing."

Colleen put away the part and gave Adam a strange look.

Adam said: "I think that the No. 2 experiment site may not be the experiment site where Heinris turned on resonance."

Caroling murmured: "I think so too, maybe you should call it the Proving Ground No. 2.5, or the Proving Ground No. -2..."

Adam said: "Good luck, Caroline, goodbye."