The Star Knight - 14. Chapter Fourteen

The soft voice of the prince of opera flows in the cabin of Times-IV, reminding Opal of the big flame-like flowers on the Crimson Star.

Although it is only a small battleship, the space inside is very spacious for one person. The journey from B-11 to Hydra is like an ordinary spacecraft that does not have its own transition function. The star gate is like countless in the universe Platform, it also takes a certain amount of time to get to the platform-about five days.

There is a self-sustaining water converter in the cabin. Inside is a dormant blue-green algae produced by Aquastar. The energy is burned to produce water and exhaust gas emitted in space. The water supplies the green algae to grow.

There is a light energy harvesting board on the outer shell of the spacecraft, which is enough to collect the light that they disperse in space from all stars. Through simple photosynthesis, the cyanobacteria box absorbs the carbon dioxide exhaled by the cabin members to grow and reproduce rapidly. Each growth cycle is 12 hours, and finally it is put into a food maker to be decomposed, processed, and finished products are produced.

There are a lot of suspended ice in the gloomy space. Whenever an ice meteorite approaches, the spacecraft will automatically collect it, filter and store it into the water. The carbon dioxide that a person exhales is enough to form the blue algae needed to supply him. In other words, even if the spacecraft runs out of energy, the passengers can live forever without starving to death.

Of course, the feeling of floating in the vast universe for decades or hundreds of years is absolutely uncomfortable. But if this accident happens, the radio wave communicator can also be used to send a rescue signal. The long interstellar journey is boring, and Opal regrets that he did not buy some small game chips to kill time.

He half-layed on the swivel chair in front of the console, looking at the starry sky outside the porthole. From this angle, the Chiyan star was like a burning fireball, and the star Er it emitted was like countless tentacles, the longest being thousands of Thousands of kilometers away.

Opal stared boredly at E7. The small robot fell down under the power of his belief, and made a tumble on the console, but it was able to immediately restore balance and stand up. The crawler moved left and right along the smooth alloy console. .

E7, like the era VI small battleship, is a relic left to him by his mother.

When I was a child, my mother went to mine, but there was no one to take care of Opal, so she removed some parts from the spacecraft and made this little robot for him. E7 has accompanied him throughout his childhood, possessing elementary intelligence, and the structure inside is very delicate. Opal was so big that it was only taken apart once, and that time was two years after his mother was killed. The battery in the E7 was damp, and I didn’t dare to move after disassembling the Opal. I couldn’t understand the circuit and the intricate chips, so I could only leave it temporarily.

After a few days, E7 miraculously recovered, as if to prove that his mother did not abandon him.

Opal thought that maybe the control center of the E7 was assembled with the intelligent computer chip on the spacecraft. No wonder the Times-VI spacecraft has no intelligence at all.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Everything in the entire cabin floated in the power of his faith, and fell back with a clatter.

The smell of opal: “E7, go and turn off the gravity system.”

So he floated lightly, flying around in the cabin.

“Love is a tear of a lover…” The voice of the opera prince Ledgerson echoed in the cabin. This was the most famous song in his concert. The lyrics were created by an ancient poet before the Guangxi era.

“Even if you shut me in a walnut, I am still the king of the infinite starry sky…”

Opal can sing when he hears it, suspended in the control cabin with his eyes closed.

“Close to the starry sky gate, prepare for a jump, enter the starry sky gate gravitational field countdown, sixty, fifty-nine…”

Opal hurriedly turned on the gravity system, and with a bang, a ball of water and a cup hit his head.

“E7!” Opal said: “Ready to jump! This is your first time!”

Opal sat on the swivel chair, fastened his seat belt, took a deep breath, his heart banged, and a huge, circular golden ancient relic appeared outside the cabin.

White light glowed around the giant metal ring, the solar metal plate was opened, and the spacecraft slowed down and was enveloped by a layer of white light.

The starry sky gate separates the inner and outer rings, and the electric current rushes randomly. Opal held his breath and heard the navigation electronic voice saying: “Successful docking, data transmission.”

The white light around the starry sky gate dimmed, and then rolled over a layer of red flashing lights, and the electronic voice said: “Successfully positioned, countdown to the transition, ten, nine, eight…”

Opal said to himself: “Go through it? What if it’s a space carrier? This door doesn’t look big.”

The six arcs immediately following the star gate enveloped the era-VI battleship, and the spaceship disappeared in space with a buzzing sound.

“Ah -” Opal couldn’t help shouting, the starry sky outside the shipboard turned into dense light, faster and faster, this is the junction of five-dimensional space and four-dimensional space? ! As if being pulled into a line by the powerful force of hyperspace, he returned to normal in an instant, sitting on the chair and panting repeatedly.

The constellation Hydra 14 million light-years away, in the quiet universe, space seems to have collapsed, the starry sky door is lit up with white light, matter is like ripples rushing out of the water, and there is a buzzing sound, and the entire spacecraft takes a leap. The arc of energy broke through the space fault.

“Successful transition.” Times-VI’s cold voice said: “Speed up the voyage.”

The energy thruster of the spacecraft erupted, dragging the tail flame with a boom, and flew towards the Ares Galaxy.

“Arrived?” Opal asked with lingering fear: “Is this here?”

He unfastened his seat belt, walked to the stern, saw the starry sky door gradually leaving in the distance, and breathed a sigh of relief. Stretched, opened the partition. There is half a ton of rhodolite spar in the small warehouse—about 20,000 energy units.

Reckett said that energy units are no longer in circulation as old currency, and interstellar credit points are a new currency. It regulates inflation and material regulation through the cosmic economic summit. Of course, this is limited to the relationship between the empire and the republic. Interstellar credit points are not only used as cash expenditures, but can also apply for monetary overdrafts based on a person’s property and social value. When all galaxies are in danger of inflation, Union Bank will reduce the overdraft limit.

In addition, some planets still stubbornly use their old currencies, but in most star regions, the Union Bank branch will provide the exchange function between credit points and the planet’s currency.

Opal intends to open an account, find a place to sell these ores, go around in the mercenary kingdom, familiarize themselves with the environment, and temper themselves. The God of War galaxy is completely unfamiliar, but he is not afraid at all, but is full of vision and excitement for the future.

The spacecraft decelerated again and passed through the outer space station of the galaxy. The space station here is different from the scarlet planet. The suspended alloy magnetic rods were released without any light or arc. The six magnetic rods locked the spacecraft.

“The weather is fine.” The lazy man’s voice said, “Please stop your steps and fill out the entry application form for the Ares Galaxy.”

“You… hello.” Opal left the B-11 star for five days and didn’t speak to anyone. He was very excited.

“Hello.” The man said: “This is Andre, the space inspector of the outer galaxy.”

…

“Fill in your entry application form.” Andre reminded.

Opal recovered, and hurriedly turned on the navigation station, the light screen slowly emerged, transmitting the personal information he had prepared long ago.

Andre said: “Mr. Opal from the Chiyan galaxy, his identity is the ore consultant of Hollens Mining Co., Ltd., and his star status is…Crimson Star. What’s the point of the Ares galaxy?”

Opal said: “Uh… I want to come and see.”

Andre said: “Traveling?”

Opal said: “Get a job by the way.”

Andre said: “Part-time job? Your job looks good…”

Opal said: “Occasionally I do something else, I want to be a mercenary.”

Andre seemed a little strange, and finally said: “Please pay attention to your words and deeds in the mercenary country, welcome to the Ares galaxy. The Horrens company does not have a branch in this galaxy, and the main star is in need of talents in minerals.”

“After entering the country, you can pick up the travel guide at the exit of the apron. I wish you a pleasant time in Ares.”

“Thank you.” Opal said politely.

The space station’s gravitational field was withdrawn. After three hours of voyage, the spacecraft entered the range of the gravitational field of the fiery star. The fiery star appeared mottled dark blue from space. Another space station flew up, and a grumpy voice resounded in the radio wave communication: “Hey! ”

Opal knew that this was the second level of the planet, and said hurriedly: “Hello.”

“This unlucky ghost weather.” The communicator said: “Under the inspection, did you bring any contraband? Boy. Warn you, it’s best to throw away the drugs and dark energy batteries right away.”

Opal said: “No.” He started the information transmission and sent the transport list over the wireless interface. The space station released countless gleaming silver iron pieces, spinning around the spacecraft.

“Red vein spar?” said suspiciously in the communicator: “What the hell is this?”

Opal said: “A kind of energy mineral.”

Communicator: “What do you bring to Liexing?”

Opal said: “I don’t have… the money, I plan to change it for some money.”

“Ah.” sneered in the communicator: “No one will want it. Take care of your belongings. If it causes an explosion, you will be unscrewed.”

Opal said blankly: “Okay, I get it.”

The communicator said: “I wish you a pleasant journey and don’t be smashed by today’s lightning.”

Opal: “…”

The metal pieces evacuated, Opal passed the second level and entered the atmosphere of the Lie Star, getting closer and closer. He finally discovered that the dark blue seen in space was not the landform of the Lie Star, but the thick dark clouds that wrapped the planet!

He passed through the clouds that reflected the light of the stars of the distant God of War, and rushed into the dark night sky with thunder and lightning. The spacecraft opened the protective layer and approached the tarmac.

Thunder and heavy rain covered the entire planet, and every lightning bolt stretched across tens of millions of miles. The sky was white and light. The tiny spacecraft trembled in this thunderstorm. Opal was attracted by the sight and looked out.

The transparent apron shell on the ground opens.

The radio waves rustled and blurred, the spacecraft entered the apron space, the outer shell closed, and the inner shell opened.

The ground robot flashed lights to guide the parking position, the wet era-VI battleship stopped in the corner, the door opened, the Opal unloaded the star map, locked the door, put the star map in a backpack, carried E7 in one hand, and carried it on his back. With the big sword Reckett left him, he walked out of the parking lot, took a deep breath, and smiled.

“Hey, do you need to scrub the spaceship?” A young boy came over and asked enthusiastically: “We have the best service for coating and waxing your spaceship! Come on, sir, your spaceship is so beautiful! Ah, silver mottled, It’s almost like a gleaming seven-color scaly fish, how much did it cost to buy it?”

Opal hurriedly said: “Hello, my name is Opal. The spaceship is left to me by my mother.”

“Hello!” The boy said, “My name is’Xun’.”

Opal greeted him, and the small robots that Xun brought around came up, graciously waxing the spacecraft, and Xun put on Opal’s shoulders, and smiled: “Your mother has a good taste and a sense of the times.”

Opal smiled and said: “Its name is the era, let me see, can I take your car?”

Xun said, “Of course, are you here to travel? Or to make a living? The Mercenary Kingdom welcomes every self-reliant Star Alliance member. There is gold everywhere here…get in the car.”

This is Opal alone set foot on a strange planet.

Everything in front of you is full of unknown and attractive. The robots here are completely different from the ones on the Scarlet Star. They are all like discs, sticking to the ground and flying around, and you will step on them if you are not careful.

The apron is also much shabby, in tatters, and there are many containers stacked in the corners.

Opal boarded the Xun car and passed by countless weird spaceships. No two spaceships here are the same, all with exaggerated decorations and particle spray paint patterns. There is also a bright red one parked near the ground entry and exit. A giant spaceship with naked women painted on it.

Xun said: “This is the special spaceship’flaming lips’ of the Twelve Nebulas.”

Opal looked stunned and jumped off the ground car, the sound overwhelmed him.

The waiting hall was full of noisy and yelling passengers. There were people yelling everywhere. Opal was so dizzy that he was so dizzy that he asked, “Xun, where is the newspaper? I want to exchange some currency. What happened here? ?”

“The newspaper has a self-service machine in the west lounge to enter it for you. You only need one credit or Liexing coins. The renewal is three yuan per month. The weather is really hell today, and the electromagnetic storm will probably last for ten hours. Liexing’s gravity is a standard factor of 1.2. Don’t run around and be careful of broken bones!”

Xun took the opal, pushed away the noisy people in front of him, and said loudly: “Change the money to the United Bank IRC! Okay, your spacecraft is wiped out, please accept it!”

Xun took out a pocket-sized holographic projector, took the opal to the corner with few people, and pressed the button to project his spacecraft.

The other robot stayed on the tarmac, with the camera facing the opal spacecraft, transmitting images.

“Are you satisfied?” Xun gave Opal a glance and took out another small machine in his pocket. It was a credit card machine, and smiled heartily: “I only charge you three thousand credits, and I wish you a long life!”

Opal: “…”

fast:”……”

The two were silent for a while, and Opal said: “I want to collect the money? Why didn’t you say it earlier?”

Xun’s face changed immediately, and he screamed: “Do you think it was to wipe the spaceship for you?! Isn’t it a problem with your brain? Have you been radiated?”

Opal: “…”

The stranded guests who were arguing around the information desk were noticed by Xun’s voice, turning their heads to look at them curiously.

Opal said: “I don’t have any money, and I don’t even have a card. You can wait a moment…”

That sentence immediately clicked on the bucket, and everyone around laughed loudly, and quickly said angrily: “Do you want to repay the bill?! Hey! Hand over your card! This is not…”

Opal said: “You come with me and give you money later.”

Xun said: “Nothing to wait, I’m very busy! Pay the bill now…” He grabbed Opal with his hand, and wanted to flip his backpack. Someone around was whistling, with an expression of watching the show.

Opal said: “I really don’t have money… What do you want to do! Don’t mess around!”

There was a very important star map in the backpack. As soon as he moved his hand, Opal immediately blocked him. The young man was very strong. The two immediately scrambled together. The onlookers gave up an open space and snorted loudly.

“What are you doing!” An orderly police officer came over and shouted: “This ghost weather is bad enough! Asshole! Don’t fight here! Go to the Ministry of Public Security!”

Xun immediately raised his hands and backed away, and said, “I’m going to go to the police! This kid is going to be wrong!”

Opal had nothing to say. There were people everywhere. The police officer kicked them all and was snatched away by the angry crowd, blushing and arguing everywhere.

“Wait!” Opal said.

Xun embraced his arms and looked at Opal.

Opal raised his hand and pressed it, impulsively several times, and wanted to gather it in front of him, control his consciousness, and said that he didn’t need any money. In the end, this idea was dispelled.

“I need to change money.” Opal said: “The currency where I live is different from yours. Come with me and go back to my spacecraft.”

So the two returned to the apron. The gravity of this planet is very big. Opal felt a little uncomfortable just after moving with Xun. It felt that the people on this planet were very savage, even more savage than the miners on the B-11.

Opal opened the rear compartment unloading door, showed Xun Xun the rhodolite, and asked: “Do you know the energy point? The ore that flowed through before is very pure, about 100 to 120 points per kilogram. Energy point, there are a total of 520 kilograms…”

Xun immediately straightened his eyes, and said after three seconds of silence: “Give it to me! You will not be charged for the money for wiping the spaceship!”

Opal said coldly: “What are you kidding me?” He finally understood that the guy in front of him was cheating him, and said: “You take me to change, and you will be given more money then. Don’t force me to do it, you are not mine. opponent.”

Quickly looked at him from head to toe, Opal took out a box of ore and threw it onto the car, making a loud noise and saying, “Let’s go.”

Opal can lift a box of nearly 30 kilograms with one hand, and it is still on a planet where the gravity exceeds 20% of the standard coefficient. Knowing that he is not his opponent, he has to take him in the car and say: “I will take you.”

Opal cocked his legs and said: “Don’t take me to private transactions. It must be an official exchange point.”

Xun had no choice but to take him and the ore to the apron office of the Union Bank IRC, and the opal went to exchange it. Unexpectedly good luck, the separate window here also collects all equivalent energy exchanges from all over the universe. .

Opal handed over the ore to purify energy. The ore in the large atomic furnace behind the service window was crushed into powder, and the energy points slowly increased.

Opal said: “Hello, all planets have IRC?”

The clerk did not know the gender. He was a strange creature with six eyes. He said in a hoarse voice: “Aha, yes, sir, but only in the apron branch of each planet will this kind of energy exchange be established. Coin Window, you know, too many people come to Liexing to entrust missions, we always have to face all kinds of strange guests. Of course, your ore is also very rare, if I guess correctly, you should be from the Chiyan galaxy. ”

Opal nodded and said: “Yes, only the Chiyan galaxy is produced.”

The clerk said: “The exchange here can only be cashed out according to the energy value. It is a pity that you should be able to sell at a good price in the Republic Galaxy. Are you sure you want to redeem it all?”

Opal said: “Change it.” He asked again: “What happened outside?”

“The magnetic lightning storm, the passenger train is stranded, it’s a coincidence that you are stuck.” The clerk said: “You have to come so many times every month, like the mood of beauties… Please press your fingerprint here, and IRC will be here. A 4% handling fee is drawn from your energy cash, please rate my service evaluation…”

Opal immediately commented on him that he was very satisfied. After receiving a thin card handed out in the window, the clerk said: “Your red vein crystal ore is 31.53 kilograms, and a total of 3,300 is drawn. Energy points, according to today’s market, are equivalent to fifteen thousand four hundred interstellar credit points, which can be exchanged for Lie Star Coins at the window next door. This is a temporary card that can be used with your fingerprints. Good luck.”

Opal dizzyly went to the next window to exchange for Lie Star Coins. An alien lady in front of her in a scarf with a slime animal carcass yelled impatiently, even arguing in the bank.

Opal handed in the ID card, opened an account, and then handed over the temporary information card, bound the account to its own ID card, set up fingerprint extraction, created a new password, and paid the service fee, all After finishing it, it was like having fought a battle. He came over to Xun who was sitting in the hall and said: “Now I have money, pay the bill.”

Immediately he opened his eyebrows and smiled, handed out the credit card machine, Opal swiped the card, paid him one hundred Lie Star Coins, and said, “Thank you.”

“Did you send the beggar!” Xun said angrily: “Hundred Yuan Lie Star Coin? You forgot what you said before…”

Opal is not stupid either, and he said: “You only need one yuan to buy a newspaper, and you can charge me three thousand for rubbing a spaceship?”

Xun said, “You hillbilly in a remote galaxy! You don’t know that the cost of wiping the spacecraft costs one thousand! You wait here, I want to call the police!”

Opal said: “Please, I wish you a long life.”

Xun roared: “Just wait and see!”

Going quickly, Opal let out a long breath.

However, when he quickly walked to another group of people who were standing outside the bank, Opal immediately felt that something was wrong, and most of them were about to make trouble again. These people were called by him when he exchanged money just now?

“Wait!” Opal said, “I take back what I said, and I decided to pay you three thousand as a reward for taking me to the bank.”

He quickly turned around and said, “Count you acquaintance…”

Opal took Xun’s shoulders, turned his back to the group, looked into his eyes, used the power of faith, and said: “You received three thousand.”

Quickly exploded and said: “You only gave me a hundred!”

Opal said viciously: “You received three thousand! Remember me, you received three thousand!”

Xun was startled first, and then his eyes disappeared for a moment. He nodded and said, “I…I received three thousand? Isn’t it right? I received so much?”

Opal insisted: “Yes, I just gave you three thousand.”

Nodding slowly, with a thoughtful look.

Opal said politely: “Goodbye.” Immediately he shook hands with him and left the apron.