The Star Knight

There are more than 3,000 stars in the Republic of the Milky Way. In addition to more than a thousand planets around the source of the flood, there are more than 2,000 administrative star provinces scattered in other galaxies.The source of floodlight is the most artificially modified planet in the universe. Since the Galactic Republic moved its administrative center here in 17007, the entire planet began to undergo remodeling.

After thousands of years, the source of floodlights has been transformed into a metal planet similar to a comprehensive fortress, with a reconstruction degree of 37%. This degree has caused protests and condemnations from many member countries of the Star Alliance. , The express statement does not allow excessive transformation of the planet, so as not to cause the collapse of the environment and planetary gravity system.

However, the fruits of the Republic have been preserved, the commercial star Uther United System, the residence star Andoranka, the agricultural and resource planet Sebis... more than a thousand various planets are under the reign of the Republic, surrounded by floodlights The giant stars of the galaxy where the source lies orbit, echo each other, but are independent of each other.

After entering this star system, no visa application is required to travel between the planets.

Due to the particularity of its position, the source of the floodlight is covered by 74 million metal plates of Verdant color. They are interlaced with each other to form a corresponding number of platforms. Each platform is an independent area. The magnetic field is staggered every hour and changes its position once.

As soon as Opal got off the spacecraft, he was attracted to the sky, the ground, the maglev cars and small robots coming and going from countless streams, and the light tracks of the maglev car were glowing everywhere. They were interlaced layer by layer, and they were facing the sky.

The ground can move on its own. Caroline took him to a directional board marked "passage", input the identity code and destination, and then automatically set a transparent board around it to become a closed room, and the ground popped up the sofa.

"Welcome to the source of floodlights." The female voice said: "Number of passengers: 2. Waiting in line, there are forty-one seconds before you enter the traffic team."

Caroline sat down on the sofa, his arms domineeringly on the back of the sofa, motioned to opal to come over and sit.

Opal looked out curiously and said, "There is no car here?"

Colleen Road: "Maglev vehicles have special tracks, just above our heads, I will find someone to borrow a car, now try their public transportation first, take you everywhere to see and experience the life of civilians."

Opal sat down next to Caroline and learned that he wanted to put his arms on the back of the sofa, but his hands were short and short, so he couldn’t get it up a few times. He had to put his arms on Caroline’s shoulders and turned to look A glance at him.

Caroline stared at Opal, seeming to laugh at the eyes of his child.

Opal: "What are we going to do?"

Caroline: [If I were you, I wouldn’t say in the public passage room with listeners that it would subvert their national government.

Opal laughed and asked in his mind: [Is the monitoring very tight here?

During the exchange, the countdown on the glass house was reset to zero, the outside scenery changed, and the two pieces of Verdant metal plates supporting the high-rise buildings rotated in dislocation.

The glass room moves forward slowly, getting faster and faster. It shuttles through a pipe. The back wall changes to a milky white background, and the front wall shows a floor-to-ceiling light screen to play entertainment programs.

Caroline adjusted the playback method to a hologram, and then back to the plane. Opal rubbed his eyes and said, "The three-dimensional look dizzy."

"I think so too." Caroline nodded approvingly and changed a few stations, which contained a riot from a small planet a few months ago.

"Come to an unfamiliar place." Colleen said towards Opal: "If you want to know the planet, you can first look at the local news."

Opal said: "I don't believe you didn't do enough homework before you came."

Colleen said, "Of course, this is for you."

Opal watched the news for a while, and began to be distracted. The things on it were not of interest at all. The glass house would stop for a while and wait in line for other rooms to pass.

Caroline knew that he could not understand, so he patiently explained to him.

Caroline said: "Their government adopted the joint parliamentary system of the Star Community 10,000 years ago."

Opal saw someone talking on the news, surrounded by circular seats, and some people were arguing loudly, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Korolin said: "In listening to the budget, all planets in the entire Republic have their own parliamentarians. Each parliamentarian represents one or more joint planets and participates in the decision-making meeting of the central government. The planet pays taxes, and these taxes are concentrated Together, it will be used for public resource construction, military expenditure, etc."

Opal asked: "So what are they arguing about?"

Caroline: "How should I spend the money?"

Opal asked again: "How should I spend?"

Caroline shrugged.

Opal listened for a while, roughly understood, and said, "I'm arguing about military spending."

Korolin said, "The name of the person who is making the report is Bordeaux. He represents some forces, demanding an increase in military spending for the next year, and launching the Pantheon."

Opal: "What is the goddess floodlight?"

Caroline: "A very large aircraft carrier with enough weapons to destroy a galaxy."

Opal: "Why enable it?"

Caroline: "I want to attack the Meteor Empire."

Opal: "..."

Colleen said with a sloppy leg: "The king of the Meteorite Empire is a big bad guy, so he must be annihilated... Let me think about it, it should be a guy named Caroline."

Opal said worriedly: "Really?"

As Opal glanced at Caroline, Caroline changed his platform and shook his feet, saying: "The representatives of the surrounding galaxies requested additional funding to meet the upcoming joint military with the Empire. Action, and the representatives of the central galaxy of the Milky Way think it is not necessary, why do you think this is the case?"

Caroline looked at Opal, which made Opal a little nervous. After thinking for a while, he said, "Should it be... haven't hit them yet?"

Caroline nodded and said: "The central planetary system of the Milky Way is less threatened by the Meteor Empire. So they want to save money."

"This is one of the factors." Caroline changed from station to station, and said: "Secondly, if a war is launched, part of the republic's rights must be transferred to the military to change the current situation. Again and again, some galaxies do not want to interact with the Meteor Empire In the war, it involved their respective positions and issues left over from history. Some people are still doing business privately with the forces of Caroline, and they will lose a lot of money in fighting."

Opal: "Some people are afraid of losing and being retaliated by Colleen."

Caroline yelled, and continued to change channels, saying: "Currently, I prefer to use economic sanctions to make Caroline suffer a little. Block all foreign trade including female stars..."

[They didn’t take action when I invaded the Mars.Colloring used the power of faith to say in Opal’s mind: [Once missed, there will be no more chance.

Opal: [Right Star?I seem to hear from you.

Caroline: [The mercenaries are very united, and they do not abide by the dogma. They fought and succeeded in fighting.Fortunately, I have solved this planet.

Opal: [Do you rule it?

Caroline: [No, but soon, everything is under my control.

Opal did not ask any more. The two stared at the light screen, which was an advertisement for Fantasy Paradise.

Opal: "What is this?"

Caroline: "Fantasy movements, things for love, use with people you like."

Opal: "Do you have someone you like?"

Caroline nodded and looked at Opal like a gentleman. Before Opal asked for an exit, Caroline smiled and said, "You can invite me when you grow up. Is this the answer you expect? My apprentice."

Opal's mouth twitched, and neither of them continued the topic.

Opal: "What is this?"

Caroline: "Holiday machine, connect your thoughts to the terminal, you can go on vacation in a virtual world."

Opal: "What about this?"

Caroline: "A service that breeds offspring, using genes to find matching spouses."

Opal: "What about this?"

Caroline: "Sixteen types of deformable assembled household service robots can be turned into sofas, tables, bathrooms...etc."

Opal: "It looks bulky."

A huge cabinet on the screen followed the people awkwardly.

Caroline: "It can also be used as a private car."

Opal: "This...oh I get it, it's a drink."

Colleen laughed: "Conceptual advertising, after drinking it, I will feel very happy, but I think this drink is really difficult to drink."

"what about this?"

"Real estate advertising, you can buy a small planet with 14 million credit points, including simple decoration..."

"Why did it just cost fifty thousand?"

"That's the virtual world, this is the real world, it's different."

"..."

Opal is a little confused. Colleen said casually: "In fact, it is the same. Many people would rather stay on the planets of the republic's jurisdiction around the grip of the optical rotation. Every day, except eating and sleeping, they will connect to the Internet and buy an online planet. Plant flowers on top and collect vegetables. You can save a lot of money."

Opal nodded, and the voice in the glass room reminded: "You have arrived at the destination Happy Street."

Caroline held one hand in his pocket, and the other hand held Opal down. The lights on this street flickered. It was at night, and the entire block was well planned. The layout of each store was similar, and the door was lit with warm neon lights.

"Dine first." Caroline went to a restaurant and sat down with Opal: "This is a poor area. Take you around, and then go to the rich area tomorrow."

Opal looked curiously, the restaurant was as bright as the day, the desert landscape on the surrounding glass wall was changing, and the sunset in the distance reflected the silky sand and the blue sky.

Caroline pressed a button, and the glass wall withdrew the desert scenery, showing the scene outside the street.

Pedestrians in the street wear clothes in a similar style, only the difference in color and subtle places, everyone's expressions are the same-numb and cold.

Opal began to find it a bit uncomfortable. The people in the restaurant also ate their own meals. Occasionally, there was a quiet conversation or two.

The robot waiter came and Colleen pressed his finger on a small screen, with a beep.

Opal also learned that he pressed his finger.

"Don't you need to order?" Opal was a little confused.

Caroline waved his hand, leaned back on the chair, and embraced his arms, waiting.

A few minutes later, the robot served two large glasses of milky drinks. Opal tried to stir it with a straw. Caroline motioned for him to drink, and Opal drank a little.

"Is there no other diet?" Opal waited a long time and found that there was no new food.

"It's gone." With a smile in his eyes, Collorin drank a straw and finished drinking the liquid in the cup.

Opal drank again and said, "What is this?"

Caroline pressed a button beside the table and called the robot. Opal retrieved it from the robot's information library.

"We just pressed our fingers." Korolin explained: "The robot detects the nutrients that are missing from your body through a small amount of sweat secretion, and prepares this drink, vitamins, proteins, amino acids, cellulose and so on for everyone... …Adjust the food in the most suitable ratio and let you eat it."

Opal said: "This... feels really good, it will not be malnourished, and it will not be too full to cause obesity."

Caroline hummed and said, "Everything is just fine. Live a healthy life and live longer."

The robot came again. This time it was dietary feedback. The two pressed their fingerprints. The robot again served drinks based on the customer's absorption.

Opal: "Do they only eat this kind of thing every day? Nothing else?"

Caroline said: "Of course there is. After you go home, you can connect your mind to the Internet to enjoy a variety of foods on the Internet. In the virtual world, overeating will not make you fat or diarrhea."

Opal felt that this model really subverted his worldview.

"It saves natural resources, environmental protection, and health." Collorin smiled and said, "It meets everyone's needs."

Opal: "It feels a little...not real."

Caroline: "True, 100% true."

Opal: "I mean all in the virtual world..."

Caroline: "Is your nerve center directly stimulated by taste senses, isn't it all the same?"

Opal: "It's different."

Caroline: "Same."

Opal: "Not the same!"

Caroline: "Same."

Opal: "Oh, the same."

The two walked out after eating and walked on the road. Most of the people living in the happiness zone are poor. They use the same long memory cloth and wear relatively simple clothing styles. There are almost no people in the block park. Only Caroline and Ou Sit on the bench.

In the distance, the huge Versailles swatch moved again and moved a steel building standing in the night to block the moon.Opal noticed that everyone here seems to be different from other people.

The residents of the Republic seem to have shorter hands and feet, a slightly fatter figure, and a shorter neck?The gap between the eyes is also slightly narrow.

Opal looked at the people who had hurriedly walked outside the street, yawned, and said, "Where are you going now?"

Caroline: "Practice."

Do you want to kill?Opal tensed involuntarily.

Colleen glanced at him a bit strangely and said, "No, how come there is such an idea? There are many people here, practicing what I taught you."

Caroline said in the world of consciousness: [Read the hearts of passers-by and see what you can get.

Opal narrowed his eyes, trying to exude the power of faith.

Caroline: [Your beliefs do not have a fixed characteristic. Now is the time to acquire spiritual characteristics.

Opal: [What are the spiritual characteristics?

Caroline: [Mental characteristics are the manifestation of the power of faith in each of the different star knights. For example, my teacher Rector, his spiritual characteristic is hypnosis.My spiritual characteristic is dream control.

Opal: [What is mine?

Caroline: [I don’t know, it needs to be excavated.

Opal: [Is there any other form?

Caroline: [Ledgerson’s memory influence and modification...]

Opal: [Isn’t Legisson the one who sang?It turns out that singing is his part-time job?

Caroline: [I think the Star Knight is a part-time job for him. You know that a person is always half-hearted, so it’s easy to do nothing... try yours now.

Opal took a deep breath, and Caroline said in his consciousness: [Don’t be too nervous, you’re about to pee.

Opal: "..."

Caroline made a concession gesture, beckoning him to start, Opal's heart thumped, and his belief spread out following Caroline's guidance.

Caroline: [What is that woman thinking?

Opal: [She is thinking about going home quickly and falling in love with... beautiful man Li Wei.Who is Li Wei?

Caroline: [Is a republic general.

Opal: [Her love is a general?

Caroline: [Just in the dream machine, Li Wei was angry at this kind of situation that was polished in other people's thoughts, but he couldn't stop the public opinion from imposing on him. Continue, the man over there What do you want?

Opal: [Thinking that his little planet still lacks a sum of money to build...defense nets.

[Well, that’s a game in the virtual world.Collorin got up, and Opal followed. They walked along the long street, with maglev cars flashing above their heads, and countless people passed by. Opal began to read each person's inner world one after another.

There was a man sitting in the glass window numbly watching them, Opal said: "Teacher, that man wants to play fantasy movements with me."

Caroline nodded and said, "Your child's image is imaginative...you need to protect yourself."

Opal read another person's thoughts again, that person wanted to hang him under the lamp stand, stripped off his clothes and whipped.

unacceptable!] Opal couldn't help but be angry, the man in the restaurant couldn't help but splashed his drink.

Caroline frowned slightly, stretched out a hand, and calmed his restless emotions. Some passers-by were thinking about how to get more money. Others were upset about their work. repeat.

"Everyone has their own mind." Collorin said: "I seem to see your mental characteristics."

Opal nodded, and when he saw a person, he couldn't help but read his heart, and almost all the negative emotions he got.

"It can be seen that the people here are not all happy." Caroline whispered: "Next we will change a place, the gathering place of the rich will be slightly better."

They got on the bus and walked to another block, where there was a large neon square, surrounded by many shops. Opal looked at the display and decoration through the window, and a gentleman tried on the clothes in the store.

Caroline: [Try to invade his mind and see what you can do.

Opal reads his heart: [He is a tourist and wants to buy a handmade dress here and return to his hometown to show off to his companions.

Colleen: [Well, yes, but this dress is too expensive, almost equivalent to his three-month salary, can you help him make a decision?

Opal said silently in his heart: buy it, buy it.

The customer was a little hesitant, called the sales robot, pulled out the card, and pressed a few times on the light screen.

Caroline: [Let him not to swipe.

Opal meditation: Do not buy, do not buy.

The customer put away the card.

Caroline: [Very good, Opal.You are a genius.

Opal relaxed, turned to look at Colleen, and suddenly felt Caroline's joy, which was direct and strong, and immediately infected Opal.

try again.Colleen said: [Let him take the clothes and run.

Opal's lips trembled slightly, and Caroline said again: [Listen to me.

Opal released the power of faith. The customer hesitated for a moment, and suddenly ran out of the store. The robot inside immediately sounded the alarm, and the security robot outside the store came and dropped him to the ground.

The chaos attracted many customers and tourists, who turned their heads and looked at the store indifferently.

very good!] Caroline directly used consciousness in Opal's mind: [Now, we leave here.

Opal followed Caroline through the commercial square. He felt Caroline very excited and asked: [What is this like?

Caroline: [Behavior Control... Your mental characteristics are very useful. You can directly affect his heart and control his actions without talking to people.This spiritual feature is stronger than my teacher, and I am very satisfied with it, Opal.

Opal sighed and laughed. He didn't know what this meant, but he could feel that Caroline was very satisfied with him, so he was also very happy.

Colleen glanced at him with a smile, and said nothing.

When the night of the source of floodlight came, Caroline took Opal to a hotel. There were many strange and non-human intelligent life bodies in the lobby, and a blue skin with fins and gills. Lying in a large tank filled with sea water, he spoke to a round object beside him.

[That's the water blue star.] Caroline put his hand on Opal’s shoulder: [Don’t look at it, the other is Lin Fengxing, you can’t read the thoughts of these living bodies now.

Opal is planning to control the water blue star to stand up from the fish tank, and then stopped when he heard the words, asking in his mind: [Why?

Caroline: [Their thinking activities are different from those of human beings. The water-blue star people are evolved from human beings, but Lin Fengxing people do not present their thoughts in the form of pictures. I will teach you how to read them later. Come here.

Opal and Caroline crossed the ID cards at the reception, and the names of the two appeared on the light screen.

Caroline: [Now I am a relationship with your uncle and nephew. My name is Klin Enmino, and your name is Evan Enmino.

Opal: [Okay, I know.

The two entered the vertical tube-shaped channel, and there were countless branches in the channel, and the two sides were honeycomb-like personal rest rooms. Opal watched the tenants slide into the small channel curiously, into the small space like a capsule, and looked around the probe. And found that each rest room can only accommodate one person.

Opal: [This is the hotel?

Caroline: [Well, the source of the floodlights is a lot of gold. This kind of room requires 600 credits for one night.

Opal: [What do they do after they go in?Like a...]

Caroline: [Like a coffin?There is an Internet system that comes with the Republic, which can connect to the Internet and find entertainment items to play.

Opal: [Are we either?

Caroline: [No, all languages ​​and behaviors on the Internet are monitored by the central system, we don’t live in that kind of room.

The lifting platform stopped at the highest level, and the female voice said: "Welcome Mr. Enmino from the Irish Star."

Colleen opened the door with his fingerprints, and the two entered the room. This is a very spacious large suite. Opal finally reached a place where it felt more normal, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"You can talk at will here." Caroline went to the wine cabinet to get a drink and said to Opal: "Vintage VIP suites for alien visitors. The Republic Government does not set up monitoring facilities here."

Opal said: "This planet is so strange, like a dead city."

Colleen went to the bathroom with a drink. After a while, there was a sound of water. Opal heard his pissing sound and couldn’t help but think about it. This was the first time he lived with Caroline in such a small space, as if I met a different person.

"The development of Internet technology." Caroline undressed in the mirror in the bathroom, said: "The soul has become accustomed to abandon the flesh, and the spirit is free to swim in the virtual world."

Opal thinks of the inhabitants of the source of floodlight, and their food and shelter are almost all rationed in the most reasonable ratio.So they also live in these small capsule-shaped spaces?

"Yes." There was a loud sound of water in the bathroom, and Caroline's thick voice said, "Come in and wash the teacher's clothes, and then take a set of memory cloth and choose the clothes that fit me."

Opal went into the bathroom and stood on tiptoe to remove the clothes from the shelf. From the reflection of the mirror, Colleen saw the hazy, red/naked male body in the vortex suspended water stream-bronze skin, clean and strong ankles, Slender legs, beautiful buttocks and back muscles, broad shoulders, necks covered with drops of water.

As perfect as Raymond.

Colleen looked back and said, "Go choose clothes."

Opal's face was flushed, and he nodded, knowing that his mind must be exposed to Caroline's mind reading all the time. He knew what Caroline wanted, and simply thought about it.

He ran back to the living room, pulled up a chair and put a pillow on it, and sat on the chair with his feet hanging, opened the projection screen, and set the style of the long memory cloth.

"Choose a dress for a formal occasion." Caroline said.

Opal chose a silver-white imitation moonlight fabric, and Caroline said again: "Underwear."

Opal chose underwear, and retrieved the body proportion information from Caroline's identity card. After a while, the robot made a formal silver-gray dress.

The sound of the water in the bathroom stopped, and Caroline walked out of the bathroom with naked body. Opal immediately froze, daring to look back at Caroline. Caroline put on his vest and underwear and said, "Humans are also evolving. You see The citizens of the Republic are the evolved shapes that have long entered the virtual fantasy world."

Opal said: "So their hands and feet are shorter?"

Caroline nodded, put a bottle of snowmelt on the coffee table, and shook towards Opal. Opal took his dress and said, "Wear now?"

Colleen waved his hand: "Tomorrow, I will go out when the sun comes out."

Opal yawned again. He felt that he was always sleepy and hungry, or that the child's body was not used to it. He always had questions that he couldn't finish asking, and he was a little tired of asking. The newly entered environment was too strange, and the strangeness made him a little scared. Fortunately, Caroline was here, and he felt like his only life-saving straw.

He lay on the sofa, pillowed on Carolyn's thighs, and felt his skin was warm. He wanted to climb up and hug him, but he didn't dare.

Caroline held out his hand while drinking, patting him on the back comfortably.

Boring, Opal thought.

He dared not think about anything, especially those who wanted to do something right.

"You want to think about anything you want," Carolyn smiled.

Opal felt even more boring, but Caroline said: "On this planet, as long as you use brain waves to connect to the galaxy's Internet for activities and entertainment, the entire process is monitored by the government, but many people don't know it and are too lazy Just know."

Opal said: "Is this the evolution of human civilization and society?"

Caroline nodded approvingly and said, "Why did you ask this question?"

Opal was a little bit at a loss, Collolin explained: "The Republic is actually using mind-reading, they monitor the thinking of every citizen through the virtual spiritual network, and make them inseparable from this illusory spiritual world, so all People's psychological activities are under the control of the government, and they inadvertently promote the slow evolution of the whole society towards'common knowledge'."

"What is common knowledge?" asked Opal.

"Together." Korolin sipped Xueshanjiu and said, "That is the social form of Phantom Stars. You know my thoughts, and I know your thoughts. Every Phantom Star can know the thinking activities of other individuals. Absolute honesty, no fraud, no communication misunderstandings caused by language, and they will not be framed and competing with each other."

"The upright differences, the upright confrontation, there is no right or wrong, no need to persuade anyone, each becomes an independent existence, does not depend on other individuals and social relations to survive..."

Opal is shocked.

Opal frowned: "Is this really good?"

Colleen said: "What do you say? Maybe humans will become like this in the future. When the soul is free from the body and becomes a free and free brain wave individual in the universe, think about it. If one day in the future, everyone All become illusions and have the ability to read the hearts of others. How will this society become?"

Opal said: "Yeah... it will be messy, teacher!"

Caroline: "Are you sure you will mess around?"

Opal has become chaotic, and Kolorin once again said: "The Phantom Man does not need water, land, air and diet, no shelter, nor material conditions. Many cognitive differences do not have absolute judgment criteria, no A unified concept needs to be formed because it is not necessary."

Opal thought for a long time and said, "So what about love? Family, love, friendship and other things that make people feel good."

Colleen said: "Nolan believes that the Phantom Star no longer has feelings, and emotions have inevitably faded in the evolution process, but I think there are."

Opal: "What else do they mean by living?"

Caroline: "Pursue the truth of the universe and find the meaning of your existence."

Opal thought for a while and said: "I think there should be feelings too, because creatures have evolved to have feelings and desires..."

Caroline nodded and smiled, saying, "Are you smart, do single-celled creatures have feelings? No, so the evolutionary history of humans and all living things has gradually transitioned from survival reactions to emotional needs. I once carefully and Nolan Discussed this issue in detail, he thought I was right, when he was born, the phantom star race has completed the last step of evolution from biological to spiritual life, the history is obliterated, he has evolved through human beings for thousands of years. Observe history to confirm their fork."

Opal's thinking was chaotic, and he asked, "They... are spiritual beings still human?"

Colleen took a sip of wine and said: "What do you say?"

Opal said again: "I don't seem to be the same with the Phantom Man I know."

Caroline said: "That's just a small batch. About their origin, I will explain it to you later when I have time."

Opal asked: "Is this what the Phantom Star told you?"

Colleen nodded and said, "It was Nolan who told me that he was the founder of the Star Knights, who built the Church of Sekeria and brought the mecha in the high-dimensional universe."

Opal said: "What is their world like?"

Colleen shrugged: "There is no detailed description, but the only thing that can be known is that they walked into an evolutionary dead end, and finally died a lot. Nolan's father took the magic blue fluorite and the entire race to a low-dimensional jump and came to us. world."

Opal said: "Why perished?"

Caroline said: "You can't understand it now, I will tell you slowly in the future, first look at it with your eyes, know the universe, I will tell you my inferences and conclusions, try to question, just like this , You say'no, teacher, what's wrong here', which is good, the teacher's saying is not necessarily right, one day you will understand and form your own belief."

The two turned to look at the night view of the Republic outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. From here, they could see the bright lights of the city, but they were not very popular. Opal yawned again and fell asleep on Kolorin's thigh.

Colleen drank the wine alone for a while, and carried him into the room on the big bed, the lights went out, and the room was silent.