The Star Knight

The war was delayed, and the mercenaries began to do nothing.Drinking and hanging out every day, going to the lake of Lixing star for barbecue, surfing and spending time, anyway, fixed money and promotion points will be hit into their accounts.

The twilight lake outside the sunset city is very large, and it is as big as the ocean. The lake waves are rolling, and the film fades on the shore.There are many fresh and strange creatures in the freshwater lake. Opal began to learn swimming under Raymond's teaching.

"Floating." Raymond said: "The whole body is tight, like a corpse."

Opal drank a few sips of water and fluttered uncomfortably. Raymond held him halfway and took him to the shallow water.

Opal coughed a few times, and both were wearing only beach pants, and the blue necklace was still dripping with water on Raymond's chest.

Opal noticed that he was wearing this necklace at all times and asked curiously: "Who gave you this? Ex-lover?"

Opal lifted the pendant with his finger and looked over and over.

Raymond said: "There is no lover, you always don't believe it, don't touch it."

Opal patted Raymond’s bodybuilder’s chest and said, “I’ll try again.”

Raymond's face was reddish, and he loosened the palm that held Opal's wrist, signaling him to practice, while he uncomfortably sorted his beach pants and turned ashore.

As Raymond walked to the shore, Opal gasped in the water, his body a little hot, and he licked his lips. At that moment, he was a little impulsive, and he had a desire to put an impulse into practice.

Raymond always seemed very serious. He never talked to him about certain things. Opal thought of Suiyan, and Xun and Sid, who were mixed together at the first meeting. The mercenaries were always very casual about this kind of thing. Think of fantasy paradise as an entertainment... but Raymond's conditions are really good, although not as handsome as Sun Yan.

A man of Opal plunged into the water, opened his eyes, and the sun shone through the clear shallow water on the sand under his feet.

"Learned?" Raymond said.

Opal's skin dripped upside down and lay on the beach chair beside Raymond, nodding. Raymond was wearing sunglasses and said, "Learning to swim can cope with many crises. You can't swim fast enough. When the situation occurs, you can barely drown in the water."

Opal looked sideways at Raymond. The two looked at each other for a moment. Raymond bent his foot unnaturally, as if hiding something, and said, "How?"

Opal said: "Does your necklace make any sense?"

Raymond didn't answer, saying, "Do you like this? Give it to you, I don't know what it means."

He wanted to undo the necklace with one hand, and Opal hurriedly said: "Just ask curiously, don't want it."

Opal actually just looked at him by looking at the necklace. Raymond's figure was perfect and well-proportioned, his face was not as handsome as Suiyan, but he was also a handsome man. , But don't have a temperament.

The sweat on his bronze chest refracted the sun, the six abdominal muscles were hard and sexy, and a few strands of hair under the abdominal muscles could not be suppressed by the beach pants.

"Go water skiing." Raymond stood up.

After drinking the drink, Opal followed him on the sub-wave board. With a yell, the two dragged out a long wave, turned around on the lake, sometimes passed by, and chased one after the other, Raymond Leaping in a high-speed rush, beautifully made a circle in the air, and smiled stupidly at Opal.

Opal refused to accept the defeat, and also learned that he stepped on the wave board, jumped into the air, turned a circle and a half, and fell into the water with a snap.

Raymond laughed, turned around and took Opal's hand to take him out of the water, shouting: "Hurry!"

The two stepped on a surfboard and were raised to the highest speed by Raymond. They rushed across the twilight lake to the depths of the endless lake. Opal stood unstable several times, and Raymond pulled his arms over his backhand. , Let him hug his waist, Opal's heart jumped out of his throat.

Both were topless, wearing beach pants, and opal's chest against Raymond's warm back. Almost immediately, he had a strange thought. He wanted to say something impulsively, how should he say this time?

"Raymond!" Opal shouted.

Raymond turned his head in the wind and smiled, "What?"

Opal said: "I... ah ah!!! Be careful of the tree in front--!"

At the next moment, the two of them hit the towering big tree growing out of the bottom of the lake and slammed it on the branch.

Opal: "Ha ha ha ha!"

Raymond: "..."

"I..." Opal was hung on a branch away from the water and asked: "Raymond, I have an idea. It's better than us tonight..."

Raymond's watch tickled.

Opal: "..."

Raymond ignored the communication signal and looked up: "What? You talk first."

Opal's heart thumped and said, "Do you want to join me... to play that fantasy, fantasy heaven."

Raymond's face was a little bit red, and he turned to pick a surfboard, saying, "I won't, I haven't touched that... Will you give it to you?"

Opal said: "No, I want to buy one, um, if you don't like that stuff, then..."

Raymond said: "Yes, I'm just a little...mm..."

Opal said: "If you're embarrassed, I can try first... when... the passive one, you choose first, anyway, see what you like, whatever you want."

Raymond said: "It doesn't matter to me, go buy one and use our money."

In a flash, Opal almost felt Raymond's emotions—expectation and excitement.

When Raymond said this, he never looked at Opal. Opal licked his lips and his heart was blooming, just like the child got what he had always dreamed of. Raymond never dared to look at him. Natural red.He stepped on a surfboard and floated on the lake, saying, "Come up."

Opal stood up and took the initiative to hold Raymond's waist. This time the speed was slower. He slowly ran out on the lake. Raymond turned on the watch and an electronic female voice came out.

"Notice that the state of wartime has stopped at this moment, and All Stars has returned to normal work order. All registered mercenaries are invited to report back to the head of the regiment. After the head of the regiment sorts out the list, he will immediately register with his affiliated branch.

"Ah--" Opal and Raymond said helplessly at the same time.

"We can also take a vacation." Raymond said: "It's just to cancel the official vacation."

Opal said: "Forget it, too long rest, go back to the union to see."

Opal went to put on his trousers coat, quite a bit of a horse, and wished to go back to the spaceship now... No, it still matters.

Raymond is also a bit unnatural. It seems that the invitation by Opal has just made the relationship between the two a lot stranger. The ground suspension car is flying at high speed on the road, Raymond driving the window, playing music, and Ledgerson’s singing all the way. .

Both of them did not speak. After getting off at the entrance of the union in Sun City, Raymond went to squeeze the window. The blink of an eye was full of mercenaries, and there were more people than ever before the war.

The Central Communications sounded: "All mercenary commanders please go to the 13th to 49th windows to go through the formalities. Today, any emergency entrustment will be paid unchanged, and the promotion points will be doubled... reiterate..."

Opal Road: "There is such a good thing?"

"The entrusted backlog is too long!" One person explained to him: "The union is busy letting us finish all the tasks ten weeks ago!"

Opal said: "Do you have the task now? Isn't it profitable? No war?"

"Azeroth and the empire are allied!" the clerk shouted: "No war, everyone escaped! Kolorin's bitch is afraid to come! I wish you a long life! Points plus bonus Sent! Let's all go out to the mission! The magnetic storm is coming!"

"Raymond! Did you receive it?!" Opal said.

Raymond squeezed in front of the office window and reached out his fingers without looking back. Opal looked down at his mercenary diary, and the commission was to assist the employer to investigate an ancient ruin.

"Great!" Opal glanced at the reward score: 820 points!After doubling, it is 1,600 points, which is enough to allow him to directly upgrade to D-level, and Raymond will easily break through D+ and upgrade to C-level.

"I took E7 to repair the spaceship." Opal said.

Raymond laughed: "I'll go overhauling the weapons and getting ready."

Opal Road: "Buy more iris wine..."

Opal returned to the apron and suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to buy Fantasy Paradise. He watched the E7 detect the spacecraft and charged the robot to come to dock the Atomic Furnace interface. It is a little late to buy it now... forget it.

Raymond came back with the weapons of the two men, wrapped around Opal's shoulders, and the two men entered the era-VI, E7 entered and closed the hatch, and the spacecraft departed.

Raymond looked around in the bedroom, took a box from his backpack, thought for a while, put it in the bedside table drawer, and thought about it again, took it out and put it in a telescopic locker on the top of the bed.

"Raymond." Opal asked outside. "What are you doing?"

Raymond: "No... nothing, just want to take a shower, what's wrong?"

Opal opened the star map, sat on a swivel chair, entered coordinates against the mercenary diary, and said: "The mission location is here, the M75 dark evacuated star cluster in the Sagittarius Nebula."

"No specific location?" Raymond said.

Opal shrugged and said, "There is only a rough area, right here."

He circled a dark area and said, "It is a space area with a length of about 15 astronomical units. The employer asked us to view all possible planets and conduct field imaging and sample analysis. They think there might be a About 14,000 years ago, the remains of civilization in the Silver Age."

Raymond said: "Wait."

Opal: "How?"

Raymond pondered for a moment and said, "I think it's okay to go to Rembrandt first and ask Mrs. Anta to be prepared."

Opal nodded and changed his route to Rembrandt. He has already been here once. After connecting to the ground communication, he easily found Refina.

The sun is shining brightly, and Refina drinks tea in the garden.

When Refina saw Opal and Raymond, she said, "Your king is going to fight, so he threw me here. Now that I feel safe, let me go back?"

Opal said regretfully: "Maybe someone will come to pick you up after a while... we are not here for this."

Refina couldn't help crying and said, "Sit down, I thought it was the gray wolf's schedule for me without permission."

"There are a few minor questions I would like to ask you." Raymond opened the mercenary diary and handed it to Refina politely. "I hope this will not take up too much of your time."

"My duty is to provide you with historical advice." Refina picked up her diary and casually said: "This is not troublesome, so I said that I should stay in the martial stars... Let me see, ancient ruins survey? Enya , Bring my holographic books."

Enya went back to get things, and Opal took her tea tray and put the snacks on the table.

"This is your engagement ring?" Refina noticed the ring on Opal's hand.

Opal busy said: "No, he gave it to me, but not the engagement ring."

"You wear it on the ring finger." Refina said: "According to the etiquette of the ancient earth people, this symbolizes the meaning of marriage..."

Opal took off the ring and said, "Do you know what age this is?"

Refina took the ring, and Raymond said: "This is a gift from the Black Ant, and the wrench says it can send a signal to space."

Refina looked at the ring against the sun. Enya came with a book and a tube lens. Refinea pressed a button. The tube lens projected a light, which was refracted on the ring's gem, and the light screen rolled to analyze the data.

"The product of the secular civilization of Secilia." Refina is much younger, but her voice and tone are still serious and rigid: "The neutrino amplitude data shows that the production period is about 13,000 years away."

Opal and Raymond moved at the same time.

Raymond: "For so long?"

Opal: "How much can I sell?"

Raymond: "Do you want to sell me what I gave you?"

Opal said: "No! Don't be so excited, I was curious to ask how much it was worth. This represents your love for me! Can I understand how much weight is not enough?"

Raymond: "..."

Refina burst into laughter and said, "Handmade products have very low artistic value, but may have research purposes."

Opal: "But the wrench says..."

Refina said: "You are willing to believe in Azeroth's royal mechanics, it doesn't matter."

Opal said nothing, and Raymond remembered something. He took out a stone and asked, "What does Sekerian Civilization mean?"

Refina took the ruby, which was the last thing Azeroth bought from Sid for 200,000. Opal said: "You want to sell the heirloom?!"

Raymond said: "What's wrong?"

Opal: "This represents Azeroth's love for our team!"

Raymond cried, "You're enough!"

Refina's mouth twitched, Opal put the ring back on her hand, and gave the gem to Raymond.

"So..." Refina smiled and said, "Let's take a look at the ancient ruins of the M75 dark evacuated nebula."

She opened a book with only two pages and pressed a few buttons on the book. The pages projected uneven light to form a three-dimensional projection.

Refina paused briefly, saying, "Who posted this task?"

"The Association for the Exploration of Interstellar Ancient Civilizations, Budalang...Ning Zweig Soya Klein...Professor Lokos." Opal whispered to the pile of complicated names.

Raymond signaled with his eyes that Opal immediately realized that they had made a mistake-leaking the employer's private information to outsiders.

The corners of Opal's mouth twitched slightly, and Raymond showed his peace of mind with his eyes.

Refina said: "Gentlemen, I enjoy the privileges assigned to me by Azeroth. It is not a leak to consult me ​​about all entrustments, otherwise how can I provide you with consulting services?"

Raymond smiled embarrassingly, then turned his head to Refina and said, "What's the secret in the M75 Nebula?"

After a quiet moment, Refinea narrowed her eyes and said, "A person once asked me this question. The M75 nebula is a dark evacuated nebula. Many dark areas are not recorded on the star map, but according to the analysis of the Daewoo Aeronautical Star Chart, this In the past seven hundred years, the place has produced many changes in the gravitational field. There should be a dark star, which is attracted by the surrounding celestial bodies, and moves along a fixed trajectory, but no one has ever explored it. Piece……"

She circled two places in the dark area with her fingers, saying: "There is a neutron star in each of these two places, and they form an intersection of spherical gravitational fields. Anyone's spacecraft will be torn by two gravitational fields as long as they enter. Fragment."

Opal: "But I don't understand, since the gravity of these two neutron stars is so powerful, why are they not attracted together?"

"Because they rotate around each other," Refina said: "It's like two wooden barrels facing each other in a vortex. Every 10,000 years, they will be close to each other by tens of thousands of kilometers... maybe hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Without data, we have no way of knowing that it is speculated that they will eventually merge with each other and become a black hole."

Raymond said: "Why won't this dark star be affected by the surrounding planet? You know what I mean, I mean..."

Refina replied: "I guess the dark star is like a pendulum, making simple harmonic vibrations within the gravitational range of two neutron stars, back and forth, the period may be one thousand years, or ten thousand years."

Raymond calmed down, Refina said: "It hasn't emitted any radiation, we can only guess its position based on the change and angle of gravity, and no one can even be sure that it really exists."

Raymond: "I see."

Opal said: "I still don't quite understand."

Raymond said: "Go home and explain to you, don't ask."

Opal: "..."

Raymond got up to say goodbye to Refina, and suddenly thought of something, and asked: "Who asked you this question?"

Refina said: "Your colleagues-the twin brothers. Go back and tell Azeroth, this time unless he comes in person, I don't want to move."

Opal laughed: "I will let the gray wolf come to invite you."

An angry blush appeared on Refina's face, Enya smiled, and Raymond put Opal on the shoulder, and politely said goodbye to Refina.

The two returned to the spacecraft. Raymond put two virtual pinballs in the air and signaled to Opal: "These two neutron stars are slowly approaching. My fist is where we are going... You see. "

Raymond clenched his fists in the middle of the line between the two pinballs and said, "More than 10,000 years ago, the distance between these two neutron stars may not be so close. Until now, their strong gravitational fields have begun to overlap. Together, each time the dark star comes out, it will take more than a thousand years. In this short time, we can land on the surface of the dark star, and start surveying before it has entered the gravitational field again."

Opal also understood, he murmured: "Like a treasure trove, opened every once in a while?"

Raymond said: "It should be like this, so things can be handled easily..."

The communication rang while talking.

Opal and Raymond shared the same voice: "E7."

With a beep, there was a drowsy sound in the spacecraft's loudspeaker, accompanied by the rustling of the communication channel.

"I am a wrench. Please note that all units will complete all the commissions you have at hand and return to the parent star. The Meteorite Legion led by Caroline will commit the crime. The star enters the state of war. Please return quickly."

"What should I do?" Opal said.

Raymond: "If you don't do the commissioning first, what's going on? Suddenly it's coming again! E7! Change the route and go home!"

Even if Opal and Raymond envisioned it, they never imagined that the war had no warning, so it started!

Like the first time Opal arrived, the star was covered by a magnetic storm thundercloud. It has become a battlefield. Artillery fire flew across the Ares star system, and countless light bombs passed through the deep dark universe and shot into the far deep space. , The six starry gates revolve around, bursting out of majestic energy and electro-optics, forming a huge teleportation array, the light bursts, and every second a mercenary spacecraft drags the genesis of thunder and rainbow out of the five-dimensional space , Flying towards the star.

Tens of millions of unmanned fighter planes flew out of a space carrier. The light flew like raindrops, and an arc was burst between millions of peripheral space stations to form an energy shield.Opal almost had no way of recognizing its position. The surrounding space oscillated in an explosion, and a space station stood behind them with a tremendous explosion.

Time-VI burst out of the fire and flew towards the star, Opal still couldn't look back, remember that thrilling scene.

"Wartime security, enter your mercenary diary, identity number, voice, fingerprint, and pupil triple verification." The space station outside the atmosphere of the star sent identity verification information.

Opal and Raymond passed the perimeter defense, and when they returned to the ground, the entire star was boiling.

"Fuck the fuck!" The mercenaries ran and roared, and Sun City was in chaos.

Opal said: "Where to report! Hello! Azeroth?"

A mercenary closed the hatch and shouted: "Azeroth has not returned yet! He has been dragged by the empire--! Which mercenary group are you! Come with me!"

"Warning-warning -" Electronic sounds are everywhere, and all broadcasts sound at the same time: "The outer space station's defensive layer is destroyed, and it is expected that the planetary defense war will begin seventeen hours later."

At that moment all the mercenaries were boiling, and the next second, after a short silence, everyone came out of the apron at the speed of running.The policeman shouted: "All get on the train! Take the regiment as the unit and report back to the branch union! Which one is assigned to which--"

Opal and Raymond were divided into the City of Sunlight. When they got off the bus, they couldn't even tell where they were. Another mercenary shouted, "Come with us! The mercenary union door is closed! Go to the wartime information center!"

Tens of thousands of people entered a hall. Numerous mercenary diaries punched and reported in front of the self-service information desk. Light screens flew around. Magnetic storms came. The ground was dark. Lightning passed through the sky. Opal Road: "Rely, be in War in magnetic storms."

"The ground battle hasn't started yet." Raymond stood outside the union and looked up at the dim zenith.

"Look at the diary!" a temporary assisted mercenary commander shouted: "Boys! There is something you should do! Get in place and return to your post! Everyone sticks to their duties! Call me! We Will win!"

"We will win! Brothers! Long life!" The mercenaries shouted and ran out of the information center. Thousands of suspended vehicles were lifted off against the magnetic storm and flew to their respective target locations.

Opal said nervously: "Raymond, what are you going to do?"

Raymond took a deep breath and replied: "Go to the apron of Mech 16 to report."

Opal: "I'm going to the security zone 2 of the City of War Souls, do we have to separate?"

The heavy rain came and went underground, and Opal suddenly found that this was exactly the place they officially met on the first day-the door of the Cuckoo Restaurant.

A long time ago, they were all strange foreigners. Perhaps when meeting here that day, Opal never thought that he would one day join the battlefield of this planet.

"Look." Raymond said: "Opal, here."

He opened the mercenary diary and pointed to the bottom line, where the merit value was shown-zero.The note is "Team Merit".

"Although we are not fighting in the same place, the merits are exactly the same." Raymond said: "How many enemies I kill, you will automatically calculate here. Conversely, you too, without distinction, all the merits are added together, I think The same is true of the scoring rules of other teams, fighting hard to protect their comrades."

"Yes." Opal nodded.

Opal slapped Raymond on the shoulder and said, "My ring is for you."

Raymond said: "No, I have armor, you don't have it, you keep it."

The two were quiet for a short time, and the All-Star broadcast rang again: "The Battle of the Five Guards is about to start. All mech players immediately report to the 16th apron."

Raymond said: "I'm gone, you pay attention to safety."

Opal nodded silently, stepped forward, the two hugged tightly, and after separation, Raymond ran to a suspended car, and Opal took a special train to the City of War Soul, each looking for his own position to protect the planet And fight.

——Volume II•The Kingdom of Mercenaries•End——