The Star Knight - 20. Chapter Twenty

Task level: D level.

Commissioned content: Assisting the temporary developers of Kvez to explore the surrounding areas to successfully establish a breeding farm. They must arrive within ten cosmic days.

The airwave communication in the atmosphere of KTV is unblocked, the contact channel is A77U07E, and the ground sign is the red apron. The content of the specific task is discussed in detail.

Person in charge: Miss “Cloud”.

Remuneration: 18,000 credits.

Opal Road: “New Development Zone?”

Raymond didn’t answer. Opal looked at the simple diary page over and over again. Raymond had applied for sharing between the two, and it had all appeared in Opal’s diary.

“You only need to pay me three thousand.” Opal said: “There is no need to set up a temporary team to share tasks with me.”

If it is to apply for assistance from the side, as long as Raymond reissues the Opal tariff, if it is replaced by joint completion, half of the remuneration will be directly credited to the Opal card.

“I said, money is not a problem.” Raymond said coldly: “You just don’t get in the way.”

“Okay.” Opal said helplessly, sitting in his chair to listen to music, and forgot to buy game chips and movie content. Be sure to remember next time, otherwise the journey will be too boring.

“Did you bring the ground equipment?” Opal asked.

Raymond was silent.

Opal also said: “Since there are people developing over there, the atmosphere should be habitable. There may be many dangers in developing planets in such remote areas. There are small solar cannons on my spacecraft…”

Raymond still did not answer.

Opal listened to the music of the opera prince and hummed carelessly. For more than 100 hours, it was too boring. He drove to the fastest speed. After three and a half hours, he left the God of War galaxy and passed through the Star Gate.

Times-VI: “Successfully positioned, Pegasus star cloud.”

The spacecraft rushed out of another starry sky gate, and the real journey began now. The journey from the starry sky gate to Kweiqi was too far away, seven days and sixteen hours.

“Do you think his songs are good?” Opal said.

Raymond did not answer, sitting silently on the side of the control room in a daze.

Opal opened the star chart and began to browse those galaxies. Each planet has a few brief introductions, including atmospheric composition, size, gravitational coefficient, and creatures on the planet. When Opal is bored, he will look at star maps while imagining the landforms and characteristics of these planets.

Most of them are dead stars without life. Planets suitable for activity are like finding a needle in a haystack. Choose one in a hundred million. If so, the base of stars is too large. Perhaps no one has ever been to all planets.

Raymond suddenly said: “This star map was also left to you by your mother?”

Opal said: “No.”

Raymond: “Who gave it to you?”

Opal thought for a while and said: “Why do you like to go it alone and don’t want to join the team?”

Raymond raised his eyebrows: “What does this have to do with you?”

Opal smiled. From the side, his smile has a kind of unruly handsome, and said: “That’s right, who gave me my star map, and what does it have to do with you?”

Raymond said: “I don’t like working with people.”

Opal said: “Why?”

Raymond said: “It’s your turn.”

Opal said: “The enlightenment teacher gave it to me, now it’s your turn, why?”

Raymond: “Not why.”

Opal: “…”

Raymond said: “This star map is not mass-produced. Its previous owner has been to many places. The following comments may have been written by him. The star maps of the Empire and the Republic will not include local conditions.”

Opal click to open the description of CVV, there is a line of words on it.

[Credit: In a place that has not been cultivated, the organisms on the planet contain a small amount of potassium permanganate, which is not suitable for human habitation. Risk: low. 】

Opal nodded thoughtfully, and Raymond said: “I’ve been to so many places, your enlightenment teacher may be an adventurer.”

Opal said: “It’s possible, the journey is boring, don’t you want to talk about something? Tell me about the past, you say one, I say one.”

Raymond got up, leaned the long-handled axe in the corner, and asked, “Where is the bedroom? I’m going to sleep.”

“Cut–” Opal said, “Push the door on the left hand side and go in. There is a bathroom.”

Raymond entered the bedroom. There were two beds in it, one messy, piled with opal quilts and pillows and dirty clothes. He sat down in front of the other bed and opened the bathroom to take a look. The facilities were all available.

He lay on the bed for a while, Opal also came in, Raymond frowned and said: “This is the only bedroom on the spacecraft?”

Opal said: “Originally there were two, and the other was converted into a warehouse by me.”

Raymond didn’t seem to want to live in the same room with Opal. He wanted to leave but didn’t know where he was going. Opal said, “There is a laundry washing machine inside, which can be used.”

Opal went into the bathroom to take a shower. After washing, he threw his clothes in the washing machine and came out with a bath towel. His short hair was wet and a lot longer, and he sat on the side of the bed in a daze with a fit chest with water.

“Do you want to read the newspaper?” Opal said: “The projector on the E7 head can read the newspaper. There is no real-time update after leaving the Ares Galaxy, but there is still a lot of interesting news in it. There are also elementary school textbooks.”

Raymond stopped talking again, and Opal thought he was a boring fellow.

Opal was lying on the bed with a quilt between his crotch, with one foot bent, and suddenly wanted to use the power of faith to read Raymond’s thoughts. What was this guy thinking in his mind? However, it was just a thought that dispelled the idea, so that he disrespectful to his partner, and it is also bad for himself-what if he is scolding me in his heart? Knowing is better than not knowing.

He closed his eyes and began to meditate, his thoughts diverging into the boundless, boundless space.

The spacecraft passes through space in the melody of the opera prince. The ice cubes reflect the light of stars in the universe. Each star glows with a different luster, as if watching the opal spacecraft pass by.

His soul was floating in space, completely honest, with a sense of clarity that was watched by thousands of people. Opal tried to ask them what to order, but the planet did not respond, and finally gathered the light one by one.

With his mental strength retracted, Opal opened his eyes. Eight hours have passed.

He slept dry and tongue, touched his dry lips, wrapped a bath towel and sighed, got up and went out, sitting in front of the console in the cab, with long toned legs crossed, resting on the console, with arms resting on the console. Behind his head, he leaned on his chair and stared at the starry sky outside the porthole. Think of Reckett who left him.

Opal released the power of faith, and the big sword erected by the wall floated. He squinted, the big sword circled in the air, and the whistling sound sounded. He recalled the primitive, cozy feeling of a dead soul floating in space, and said casually: “E7, turn off the gravity device.”

E7 input a string of commands dizzyingly, and the opal floated up and hovered quietly in the spaceship in a lying position. An unspeakable emotion stirred in his heart and could not be resolved—a young man was called a desire. He has never touched that aspect, nor has he ever released the hot, long suppressed desire in his heart.

When he was fourteen years old, he soiled the sheets because of a dream. The content of the dream turned out to be in the arms of his mother, which embarrassed him and felt guilty. Since then, he has subconsciously avoided thinking about it.

Until he met Reckett, that dim cognition and admiration for Reckett inspired a certain yearning in his heart.

Opal licked his lips and closed his eyes. Lying in a weightless environment, he seemed to lose control of his whole body. The feeling of special souls merging with each other, there is more and more to rush out from the bottom of my heart.

He said: “E7, turn on gravity.”

As soon as E7 turned on gravity, Opal slammed down immediately, then jumped back into the chair barefoot, flushed and tidied himself.

“What the hell are you doing!” Raymond slept in the bedroom and woke up immediately after being hit like this.

Opal froze immediately, sat with his back to Raymond, covered his body with a bath towel and said: “I… it’s okay, just testing the gravity system.”

“You…” Raymond was speechless, turned around and entered the room, Opal immediately got up, wrapped the bath towel, which was full of strange smell, blushing and went through the bedroom to get the clothes to put on.

The faint special smell even Lei Meng smelled, Lei Meng couldn’t help his mouth twitching slightly, changed a place, and sat in the spacecraft cabin.

Opal took a bath again, feeling a kind of pleasure and comfort after the release of the body and mind. After putting on his clothes, he was still barefoot, walking around in the cabin, turning on the green algae machine to prepare food.

I came out in a hurry this time, and I didn’t even add drinks and Liexing’s food, so I must remember it next time. Opal pushed the plate to Raymond and said, “Eat.”

Opal left the B-11 in the wind and sun. After these days, the complexion has become much paler, and he looks very handsome with thick eyebrows, and he still feels very upright when he is not talking.

Raymond’s eyebrows are sharp, his skin is darker than that of Opal, his face is thinner, his complexion is bronze, he wears a combat jacket with a white shirt underneath, and his trousers are tied in Zhongbang leather boots, which mercenaries like. In his standard attire, there is also a platinum necklace hanging on his neck, which looks very beautiful against the skin of his bronze chest.

His hair is shorter than Opal, his eyes are deep and alert and watchful, he took the plate, and inside was a steak made of synthetic protein after the decomposition of two green algae, and a fake egg.

Raymond looked at the fried egg, Opal’s heart moved, and he didn’t look up: “Don’t think about that just now, I assure you, the egg was not fried with that thing…”

Raymond: “…”

Opal plugged in the E7, Raymond finished eating in twos and threes, and sat in a daze.

Opal was also sitting in a daze. These more than a hundred hours were too hard to get through. Eating, sleeping, Opal reading the newspaper, Raymond sat motionless thinking about things.

When he finally saw the Crow galaxy, Opal finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when he remembered that he had to go through such a long journey on the return journey, he almost cried.

The color of Krystal appears to be a lavender, Opal turns on the contact device: “Call, call, call Krystal on the ground.”

There was a rustle in the communicator and no signal was received. Opal called several times in succession. The spacecraft circled the Kweiqi circle and circle, but there was no answer.

“Landing towards the ground.” Raymond put one hand on the console and leaned over to look at the holographic map. Opal felt the warm breath of his words in his ears, and suddenly became a little uncomfortable and nodded.

Raymond got up to organize his weapons and equipment, Opal said: “There is no ground command…”

Raymond said: “If it doesn’t work, let me come.”

Opal said: “I have learned to drive a spaceship, taught by a wrench, and prepare for an emergency landing.”

The spacecraft rushed towards the land with flames rubbing against the atmosphere. The fire burst out all over the sky, and the voice of Times-VI sounded: “Warning, prepare for an emergency landing. Analysis of the elements of the landing planet. The main component of the surface is potassium permanganate, atmospheric composition. The oxygen content is 33%…”

“Oxygen is too high.” Opal said.

Times-VI navigation system: “The coefficient of gravity is 1.07. The target location is close, and the estimated location is longitude 43…”

“Gravity is just right.” Raymond said: “Go down and open the rear hatch.”

“God.” Opal said: “Come and see!”

Raymond glanced back at the big screen and was stunned.

In the ground scene shown, there are densely packed with monsters of the planet, three floors inside and three floors outside, surrounding a courtyard-like building.

“Hurry up!” Opal regained his senses and said loudly. He said that he fastened his seat belt, and the spacecraft turned its jet and ejected flames toward the ground with a loud bang and landed steadily.

Raymond frowned, Opal said: “Switch the ground navigation mode! Track the target directly ahead, open the weapon panel!”

The spacecraft lifted off again, the seats on both sides of the console turned out, Opal said: “E7! You are responsible for controlling it to go to that house! Raymond, we will operate a solar cannon alone!”

Raymond and Opal were sitting side by side. Thousands of Kweiqi ground monsters swarmed, but they were blown away by the heat wave raised by the jet. Times-VI flew slowly against the ground, and the photogun blasted mercilessly along the runway!

Purple blood flying across the sky, the runway was swept by dense light bombs full of biological debris, mud-like flesh and blood spread all over the floor, opal pressed high-speed energy, buzzing white light gathered in the muzzle, followed by button one Loosening, a thunder light ran through the entire runway, rolling up an energy shock wave, and nearly half of the courtyard was destroyed by the loud noise.

The spacecraft chased the scattered alien monsters and fired a circle. The tide-like monsters retreated. The Opal finally saw the appearance of the group of invaders-all arthropods, insect-like four-legged swiftly fleeing, and the body was It was covered with long hairs, and occasionally a few stopped and looked up to the sky before being broken into pieces by the shotgun.

The monsters all ran away, leaving purple blood on the ground, and the spacecraft rumbled and stopped in front of the courtyard.

This is an undeveloped farm. The building materials were piled up scattered, and many were removed by the invaders. Raymond stepped off the spaceship, and the soles of his boots were stained with a thick layer of mud.

“Contact the union?” Raymond said: “This task is too complicated.”

Opal said in the cabin: “I can’t get in touch. The communication channel of the Crow System hasn’t opened yet. It’s too far here.”

The two stood side by side at the door of the building. The situation in front of them was very serious. I don’t know how many people were here, maybe they were all killed by the local monsters… No, Opal thought of one thing, the monsters besieged the building. Objects indicate that there are still survivors inside.

“Go in and see?” Opal said.

Raymond said: “You stay on the spacecraft to meet you.”

Opal signaled that it was okay, then turned around and said: “E7, close the hatch.”

E7 beeps, the door of the spacecraft is closed, and Opal said again: “Reconnaissance the situation outside and call the police at any time.”

The building is a three-story fully enclosed small building. Raymond cut open the alloy gate with one axe and looked up. Opal held a big sword in his hand. There was no one on the second floor.

Half a broken monster was sandwiched between the vents, and a man’s corpse was lying on the ground.

“Raymond.” Opal said.

Raymond came up the stairs, glanced at the man, and chopped down the vent duct with an axe with his backhand.

Opal used a sword to put the disconnected monsters together and said: “The feet are sharp, I don’t know if it is a smart life.”

Raymond nodded slowly, and Opal asked: “Is there anyone down there?”

Raymond shook his head, and the two looked at the blood-stained holographic projector at the desk on the third floor. There were several analysis reports on the report, which contained the species analysis of this planet.

This creature was named Crow Quadruped. Opal put away the information, took off the chip, and said, “Maybe there is a cellar. Check it.”

Raymond stood at the door, his tall figure blocked the sunlight, and the sky outside was purple-red-there is a lot of potassium permanganate in the atmosphere. The main component of the Crow star is methane. The blue light penetrates the atmosphere and superimposes them. An almost dreamy scene. Opal checked the corner of the wall and said, “In my hometown, the workers hid in the cellar during the winter.”

Raymond said: “No need to check, if there is a cellar, the only switch will be on the third floor.”

Opal was startled first and then came to understand that the previous person might have been attacked by turning on some switch, so the opening of the cellar was on the third floor.

Raymond returned to the third floor, and a moment later, the ground banged and opened a secret door.

Opal said: “There is someone inside!”

Opal jumped down from the shallow cellar, and Raymond picked up an emergency light source. There were boxes stacked in the underground warehouse, and the little girl’s cry came from between the boxes.

“You…” Opal said: “Don’t cry, are you okay?”

“Woo…Woo…”

Opal hugged her out and comforted: “It’s okay, don’t cry.”

The little girl didn’t know how long she was kept underneath, her voice was hoarse, she looked only ten years old, and Raymond carried the lamp to shine again.

Opal said: “Don’t cry, listen, what’s your name? Where are your parents?”

Little girl: “Sah… Sally, my mother went to find water in the afternoon and didn’t come back…”

Opal was quiet for a moment, thinking about the corpse on the third floor, what he understood, whispered: “Sally, where is your mother going to find water?”

“Where is my father?” The little girl was startled with her red eyes.

“He…” Opal thought for a while and said: “He escaped and asked us for help, so we came to save your mother. Your mother’s name is Yunduo, isn’t it?”

“Yes…Yes, why didn’t he come back?” Sally asked.

Opal couldn’t answer, thought for a while, and said: “He is hurt, let us take you away.”

Sally nodded, Opal asked: “Raymond, what are you doing?”

Raymond rummaged in the cellar. There were three weapons in the box-long-range spray guns and two shotguns. He threw one to Opal and said, “You are responsible for protecting her.”

Opal had never brought a child, and said to Raymond, “Wait. I said…Where are you going?”

Raymond pinned the gun to his belt and hurried upstairs. Opal chased him up. Raymond pulled out another chip. The two watched quietly—this is a garden planting site called Uzi Company.

Sally’s father and Sally’s mother, Yunduo, are a foreign researcher. They plan to establish a new planting field in Kvei through surveys. Raymond quickly flipped through the data and called up the topographic map of Kvei.

Most areas are shrouded in shadows and belong to unexplored areas. The satellite map shows the surrounding danger: “Extremely low.”

“Where did so many ghosts come from?” Opal said.

“It may be underground.” Raymond said casually: “Where did your mother go? I have to find her now.”

Sally stood at the top of the stairs and said, “Here.”

She pointed to a place on the map, and Raymond took a deep breath and said, “The mission has changed. I decided to continue. You drive the spacecraft and take her back to the union headquarters, and you will pick me up when you are settled.”

“It takes three hundred hours one time and one time.” Opal said: “Are you sure?”

Raymond hurried downstairs, Opal chased him behind, and said: “Let her stay on the spaceship, E7 will take care of her.”

Raymond said coldly: “No, don’t make trouble…”

When the two were talking, there was a hysterical scream from the third floor. Opal was shocked and rushed to the third floor to see Sally’s face pale and trembling frantically at her father’s corpse.

Oops, I forgot to look at her for a while, Opal immediately picked her up and hugged her downstairs, Raymond said: “I’m leaving.”

Opal said: “I can’t throw you here! E7! Open the hatch!”

Raymond said: “Then wait for me.”

The sound of starting vehicles behind the building sounded, and Raymond drove a tillage truck to leave.

The hatch opened, Opal took the screaming Sally into the cabin and whispered: “Sally, listen to me…”

Sally shivered like chaff, her pupils dilated, which reminded Opal of his reaction when she heard his mother died many years ago.

“Sally?” Opal looked into her eyes and whispered: “Don’t cry, don’t cry…Your father is not dead…”

He said to her hypnotically, “Your parents are still alive, they just went to find water.”

Opal’s palm has distinct knuckles, long fingers, and its fingertips are warm and beautiful. Sally grabbed his middle two fingers in a daze. Opal said: “You can play with E7 here, can you?”

Sally nodded, Opal wiped her tears and said: “Brother will be back soon, don’t leave here.”

“Okay.” Sally said timidly.

“E7.” Opal hooked his finger, E7 came over, and the holographic projection above his head played a group of animals running on the grassland and turned on music. Sally laughed, Opal smiled. It was a show he stayed at home alone when he was a child and played with him on E7.

He touched Sally’s face, made a meal of food and drink in the Chlorella machine, took her into the bedroom, and said, “If you’re tired, you can sleep here for a while.”

Sally looked up and said, “Where are my parents?”

Opal stared into her eyes and said, “They’re still alive, believe me, look for it now. The bathroom is there. If you are hungry, eat something first. E7, you know.”

E7 beeping beepingly, Opal went out and put on the voice-activated safety lock on the console. After leaving the spacecraft, the cabin door was slowly closed.

Raymond had already left, Opal stood for a while, not in a hurry to chase him, first went to pick up the dead monster for inspection, went up to the third floor, turned over Sally’s father’s body, and inspected the wound.

Crow’s four-legged beast’s mouthpart is a slit. It kills people with its sharp feet like an axe, and uses its mouthparts to suck the juice of its prey. It looks less than a meter when it stands up.

In other words, to defend the calf part, Opal went out to patrol and found that there were corpses around the building. It should be the staff who assisted the Yunduo couple.

He moved the bodies of the five staff members together and put them away, standing and thinking – as expected, their calves were neatly cut off.

Opal found the attack method of Crow’s quadrupeds, and looked left and right, but couldn’t find their weaknesses, so he had to give up. He also found a farming car behind the building, and when he was about to get on the car, he always felt that he had overlooked something.

what exactly is it? Environment, time, cause, result…Using the four-element analysis taught by Reckett, Yun Duo left in the afternoon, that is, twelve hours ago. During this period, the center of the farm was attacked by a monster… What is the reason? Opal remembered the spectacular scene when he first arrived here-tens of thousands of Crow quadrupeds surrounded a three-story building. What were they looking for?

Opal got off the car and returned to the building, entered the cellar, and checked the three metal boxes in several boxes. The metal boxes were locked and the code lock could not be opened. The label indicated that they were flowers produced in the Republic.

When Opal turned his head, he suddenly found a bag with an open mouth. He bent over and picked it up and found it was a fertilizer bag.

Is this thing that attracted the quadrupeds?

It seems that half of the previous fertilization has been used, and there are a total of four packs in the cellar. Opal put them all in the car, tied the seal of one of the bags, inserted the chip into the card reader on the car, opened the holographic location map, and chased Raymond’s car.