The Star Knight - 22. Chapter Twenty Two

Opal was drinking a drink in a cafe across the street. Raymond pulled a chair and sat down and said, “The magnetic storm is coming soon, so it must be as soon as possible.”

Opal: “Let me see, what task content? Damn, one is poorer than the other, only 14,000 rewards.”

Raymond said: “There is a client allowance, and I finally got it.”

Opal looked at the mission diary: “There are also appearance requirements, God, what mission is this.”

Raymond loosened the knuckles: “Don’t fight, it’s a vacation.”

Task level: D.

Mission content: Escort the constellation Cygnus Empire, the star system “Orchid”, Madame Anta on the planet Rembrandt to the second double star of the South Gate of the Republic of the Milky Way to participate in the galaxy antique charity fundraiser. The client will give you instructions on the next step.

Convergence place: Rembrandt planet, self-provided by the spacecraft.

Client: Mrs. Anta.

Remuneration for tasks: 14,000 interstellar credits, plus appropriate allowances based on actual conditions.

Special note: The mercenary is required to have a mid-to-upper look, a good figure, and a decent conversation.

Opal turned a page and looked at it, and the back was blank.

“Most of the actual content is still a bit troublesome.” Opal said: “Go and buy something, we still have more than 30 hours.”

Raymond got up to settle the accounts between the two and headed towards the commercial street side by side. The magnetic storm was coming soon, and the commercial streets closed their doors one after another, leaving the side doors, planning to close business for a few more hours.

“What do I need to buy?” Raymond said: “Open the list, I can plan the expenses.”

Opal said: “I can go out.”

Raymond: “Equally.”

Opal thought for a while and nodded. First, he bought two miniature communicators and two platinum earrings at the equipment store. After wearing the opal, he looked in the mirror. The first time he wore earrings, it was a bit Feeling nondescript. Mercenaries like to wear a lot of accessories, and some even wear nose rings. The small ear buckles of Opal and Raymond are nothing but a small piece of iron embedded in the ear cartilage.

“Can you hear it?” Opal said.

Raymond was facing the street: “You can hear it.”

The boss said: “This new type of communicator uses cartilage to transmit sound. It will only directly oscillate the eardrum to produce sound. The effective distance is 50 kilometers.”

Opal paid, and the two took the big sword and long-handled axe to the weapon shop for debugging. Raymond waited in the store, and Opal went to the entertainment store to buy chips and music.

“The new fantasy movement of Paradise Company, come here?” The boss is a thin, tall, middle-aged man, and smiles ambiguously: “Don’t forget entertainment and personal life at the same time as the task. With the dream knitting machine, Very good. Two pairs are sold for only fourteen thousand.”

Opal hurriedly said, “No, no, fourteen thousand is too expensive.”

The boss said: “You can get a 20% discount for registered mercenaries, really don’t?”

Opal said: “This stuff is… how to use it?”

The boss said: “Here is the manual, read it for yourself. This is for men.”

Opal opens the button on the packaging box, and a small holographic projection expands. Inside is a tutorial. The product is composed of two components: a metal dolphin and a film glue stick umbrella.

The boss said: “This thing can give you 30 minutes to an hour of continuous experience when you use it. Many mercenaries buy it from us.”

Opal: “!!!”

Opal flushed and turned off the holographic projection.

Raymond’s voice rang in his ears, and said, “Is it all over? I have something to say.”

Opal was taken aback, forgot to wear a communicator, and said hurriedly: “It’s too expensive. I can’t afford it. Just buy games and song discs. I’m leaving. Goodbye.”

The boss smiled and said, “Come back if you save enough money. We also bought the wrench.”

Opal staggers, his face is still too tender, and he always feels a kind of natural shame in that aspect, but he does not know that Paradise’s entertainment products have been sold in chip shops, and they have become a part of human life thousands of years ago.

Opal returned to the weapon shop, Raymond said casually: “What did you buy? Let me see.”

Pool simulation game, Empire War Battleship Simulator II, a musical plant pack that can sing, and the opera prince Ledgerson’s “Light River” concert, a total of three thousand yuan.

They were all used for killing time. Opal sat down, his expression was a little unnatural, and said, “What do you want me to do?”

“Which manufacturer made your weapon?” the weapon shop technician asked: “There is no batch number on the scene, and the workmanship is very exquisite…”

Opal said: “The enlightenment teacher gave it to me.”

“…At least a special weapon developer…”

Both the technician and Opal twitched at the corners of their mouths.

“I don’t dare to debug it casually.” The technician said: “After disassembling, there are many structures inside that I can’t understand, so I put it on again for you.”

Opal took it back and said, “It shouldn’t be broken. If it breaks, you can take it apart.”

Raymond took his long-handled axe on his back, and the two came out. Opal went to buy a lot of food. When he returned to the union, someone came to inform that Opal had interstellar express.

“Express?” Opal was inexplicably: “Who gave it to me?”

After signing for the receipt, he found that it was a box of female Luoguo—Mu Shu had sent it. He immediately laughed and pressed the return post to sign the light-receiving screen, and put the female Luoguo and living supplies on the car. At this time, the sky was covered with clouds. , Thunder and lightning rolled in the clouds.

Raymond said: “Hurry up, get in the car and go.”

Opal’s most feared situation has appeared, and the apron is full of people, and the grand occasion is unprecedented. Someone yelled at the police: “Let us pass right away-I mean-right away -!”

The police said loudly: “Passage is no longer allowed! The exit gate will be closed ahead of schedule today! Azeroth decided!”

“There is a diplomatic mission from the Republic! The tarmac must be closed ahead of time! Don’t lose Liexing’s face! You bastards–! Go to Azeroth if you have something to do–!”

The mercenaries rushed up, all using pushes, and Opal roared: “Hurry up! Otherwise, a magnetic storm is coming!”

There were three black lines on Raymond’s head, and the final pass was washed away. Tens of thousands of mercenaries rushed in and scattered into the tarmac. Everyone was running frantically, racing against time. Raymond said: “This is really a violent planet.”

Opal and Raymond each carried a box and ran to the spacecraft, and greeted the technician under the flame and red-lipped spacecraft next door: “Wrench!”

“Hi.” Wrench holding a cup of coffee, watching a group of small robots routinely overhaul, said: “This is your spaceship? Not bad, Opal, have you found the team?”

With a few opal greetings, the two got on the spaceship, and a magnetic storm came. Nearly a thousand spaceships lifted off and flew into the atmosphere with the lightning rushing from the sky. In an instant, the earth was dark, and the electric light covered the sky like the ocean.

“Warning! Warning!” There was a communication from the ground and the outer atmosphere space station at the same time: “No lift off! The magnetic storm warning has reached level 11! All units please return to the ground immediately, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences.”

Opal couldn’t help but feel a little scared. Being struck by lightning is not a joke. Even if there is an escape pod, the entire spacecraft has to be scrapped and sent back to the furnace. But found that there were more and more spaceships around, this group of mercenaries were actually not afraid of death.

Black, blue, and colorful, the rays of light flickered, shuttled back and forth in the violent thunder, like a school of fish shining upstream in the wave of time, Opal couldn’t help feeling proud in his heart, and roared: “I am coming–!”

“All units pay attention, all units pay attention.” The sound of the wrench not waking up came from the communicator of the previous spacecraft: “I am the wrench, turn off your ground communications.”

Suddenly, the public channel rang louder than thunder.

“Please automatically locate, follow the beauty of the flames and red lips, and the pilot mode is on.” The wrench lazily said: “Let me take you out of the atmosphere, over.”

“The wrench is great–!”

“Oh!”

“I wish you a long life!”

Opal laughed and roared: “Come on with the wrench–!”

Under the black and blue sky, the blazing red lips burst into bright red light, leading thousands of spaceships to spin in the thunder and heavy rain, turning over gracefully.

The spacecraft lined up in two lines, rotating all together, the excitement of the public channel rang into one.

Immediately after that, the fiery red spacecraft suddenly pulled up from the gap of the falling violent thunder, and it was so wonderful that it reached its peak, like a fiery red phoenix, spreading its wings and rushing out of the clouds.

All the spacecraft followed, breaking through the layers of dark clouds, flying out of the atmosphere, and shooting into the vast space.

Opal took off the control communicator, made a punching gesture, and said excitedly: “Yeah! The wrench is great!”

“It’s really a passionate and beautiful thing to live on this planet.” Opal smiled.

“It’s okay.” Raymond commented casually, opened the box, and went back to make his bed.

This time, the two of them had all the necessary facilities, passing through the starry sky gate, and the voyage to Rembrandt was only 36 hours, which was not long. There are a lot more things to do. Opal fills the bottles and cans with cultivation mud, buries the seeds in, and fixes them with glue on the side of the console.

E7 came over with a small kettle and watered the flowers one by one. Opal changed to a new chip-the Prince of Opera Galaxy Concert. In the holographic projection, there was a bright galaxy. Ledgerson was dressed in a military uniform and sang aloud among the stars.

“The sinking sunset released golden lightning…”

“Just among the bright clouds, you float and fly…”

Raymond made the bed, took a shower, sat in the swivel chair in the control room, opened a can of iris wine, and enjoyed it with his legs tilted up.

“Give me a drink.” Opal said: “How does it taste?”

Raymond said: “It’s okay, you should buy more.”

Opal said: “One box is enough to drink, and the task will be ten days at most.”

Raymond gave him the iris wine in his hand, and took another taste of it by himself, putting the red fork on the console, the bath towel on his sturdy shoulders, and the necklace pendant on his chest gleaming faintly.

There was melodious music in the ears of the two, and Raymond said: “You spaceship, the cost is at least one million.”

Opal said: “Yes, but no one wants to buy it. The people who come to the mining star are profiteers and will only lie to her spaceship. I guess she planned to dig some mines for energy a long time ago, and buy enough materials to repair the spaceship. .”

Raymond said: “What happened later?”

Opal said: “Later she died, and she didn’t even explain her last words. Maybe the spaceship has any special meaning to her. E7 was also given to me when she was a child. I asked her where she came from, and she said she made it by herself… …”

E7 heard his name, turned his head, the music was stuck, Raymond patted it casually, and the music rang again.

“I think the possibility is not very high, maybe it exists in the first place, using the mechanical energy of the spacecraft to make such a sophisticated robot? It also has a certain amount of artificial intelligence, although it is very preliminary.” Raymond said: “What is the central processing unit from? Where did you get it?”

Opal said: “I don’t know, it has been there since I am sensible. The teacher said that this kind of spacecraft is a small battleship of the Empire 20 years ago. Now this kind of warship has been discontinued. My mother may have something to do with the Empire. Relationship. Maybe I can still find my dad.”

Raymond said: “When you are on vacation, you can ask.”

Opal suggested: “I’ll take a shower and play pool after washing.”

Raymond smiled and said, “Yes.”

The two played bouncy pool on the spaceship for more than ten hours.

A small projector projects a three-dimensional three-dimensional table. The multi-level table is divided into eighteen layers. There are thousands of balls with different masses and very different sizes. Of course, they are all virtual. Raymond and Opal sit on each side, manipulate the twelve marbles in their hands, and use the firing pin to hit the ball into the hole to trigger a chain reaction, thereby grabbing points.

Sure enough, I was playing with things. It was like going out on vacation. Opal didn’t want to perform the mission anymore. When I arrived on the planet of Rembrandt, there was still a little bit of meaning left. Standing in front of the flowerbed on the ground tarmac, stretching back and waiting for the client.

Raymond connected to the local channel in the spacecraft, dialed the client according to the 16-digit contact number given above, and asked, “Is it Mrs. Anta? We have arrived at the apron.”

Rembrandt asteroid is a vacation star, the whole star is well planted with greenery, there are no factories, only some antique farms, there are not many ground robots, and the transportation basically uses ground rail trains.

The fragrance of the flowers is very good. The U galaxy tulips of various colors bloom very beautifully in the sun. Opal went to the open-air beverage shop on the apron to buy two bottles of nectar tea and asked: “Where can I take the bus?”

Raymond hung up the communication and said, “She will come to us.”

In the distance, the voyage ship passed the mountains slowly and landed on the other side of the tarmac. The planet is very leisurely, the pace of life is very slow, and a sea of flowers is endless.

The two were drinking scented tea in the beverage shop, and the little sister who served the beverage smiled and asked, “Are you soldiers of the Empire?”

“No.” Opal said: “We are mercenaries.”

The waiter nodded and said, “Rembrandt is a healing planet. The nectar tea here is good. You can bring some back to your lover.”

Leimen lazily said: “I have no lover.”

Opal smiled and said, “Neither do I.”

Waiter: “Uh…”

Raymond picked up a pair of sunglasses hanging in front of the beverage store and put on it, and asked, “How does it look?”

Opal pulled over and said, “It’s so bad. It’s like a brown Kodo frog. Let me try it.”

Two handsome big boys began to grab sunglasses, and the last one put them on. Raymond waited impatiently, and the employer finally came.

A middle-aged woman wearing a fluffy long skirt and a top hat got off the sightseeing car, followed by a maid dragging a box.

“Gentlemen.” The middle-aged woman said blankly: “Hello.”

Raymond put his cocked foot down and got up with Opal.

She looked at them from head to toe, and finally said, “Which is the captain?”

Raymond took off his sunglasses and said, “I am.”

“Mr. Raymond.” The middle-aged woman took his mercenary diary and looked down.

Opal frowned and looked at her from the side. She was a bit old. The wrinkles around her eyes were obvious. The corners of her mouth also wore majestic lines. The eyebrows were drawn very deeply. The eyeliner was a little melancholy and gloomy. Her lips were dark brown. The red lipstick can be seen as a beauty when he is young.

“Your name is Opal.” Mrs. Anta said: “D-class and F-class mercenaries, now I have decided to formally entrust you to perform the task. Two people have come and they are reluctant to agree, let’s go.”

Raymond was going to help the maid carry the box, but the maid looked at them with an unreliable look and said vigilantly: “No need.”

Opal made a please gesture and said, “Where is the spaceship?”

Mrs. Anta said indifferently: “There is no spaceship. Take your spaceship. I’ll talk on board.”

Raymond and Opal said in unison: “Take our spaceship?!”

Mrs. Anta said: “I will pay rent and fuel, so I have allowances. Is there a problem?”

Raymond glanced at Opal, Opal shrugged and said: “Let me clean up first, don’t don’t… don’t come in with the box!”

The environment where the two men lived for several days was in a mess. There were clothes and socks on the bed in the bedroom, and the plates and cups had not been cleaned up after eating. Raymond took the empty drink bottle and threw it away. Opal looked helpless and tied the rag under the E7 to mop the floor.

“What are they doing?” Opal said.

“How do I know?” Raymond said: “I still received a female employer’s entrustment for the first time. The last time it was not counted…”

Opal cleaned the console and the living room hastily, and packed up the things in the bedroom. The spaceship was originally small. When four people came in, it seemed a bit crowded. Mrs. Anta glanced around and said nothing. The maid turned on I glanced at the bedroom door and said, “Madam, there are bathrooms and toilets here.”

Mrs. Anta said coldly: “It will be a moment, it will be here soon.”

Opal nodded and sat down in front of the console. Mrs. Anta sat down in the living room. Raymond said, “The details, can you tell me now? I saw that the commission said, go to participate in a charity fundraiser. Can?”

Opal is also puzzled. According to the description on the mission commission, this woman should be very rich. Why doesn’t she have her own spacecraft, so she has to squeeze a boat with them.

Opal opened the star map, set the route, and found that Mrs. Anta was watching his movements, and asked uncomfortably: “Is going to… the South Gate two stars, which are eight thousand and five hundred light-years away?”

“Yes.” Mrs. Anta replied: “Planet’Eternal Day’, trouble you.”

The navigation system automatically sets the route, and Mrs. Anta said again: “By the way, stop at Maluka Star in the Second Outer River System of the South Gate. There are still things to be done. I will count this part of the cost into the allowance.”

Opal set up a turning route, and the spacecraft slowly lifted off and left Rembrandt.

“Mr. Raymond.” Anta said, “The reason for issuing a commission to the nation of mercenaries this time is because I need the aid of the people of Azeroth.”

This opening remark was very formal and rigid. Raymond nodded and did not answer. He got up to drink the iris wine. Opal said politely: “It’s an honor to serve you.”

Mrs. Anta said: “This is how I am going to divorce my husband, but I can’t tell him about this. I need two trustworthy bodyguards who will not be bought to accompany me to Eternal Day. Zhixing went to participate in this charity fundraising meeting, and by the way, I would like to see his new look good, and if possible, I would like to talk to the other party. I don’t want to be humiliated, so I want to find a companion to accompany me.”

Opal: “What is a divorce?”

It is not surprising that Raymond, the commissions are often varied, and he asked: “Why don’t you take your own spaceship or take a long-distance ship?”

Mrs. Anta said: “The transfer of the private spacecraft will make him aware and prepare in advance. The entry and exit records of the long-distance ship will also let him know. To be honest, I claim to the outside world that it was recuperating in Rembrandt. It came out secretly this time.”

Opal got it.

Raymond asked again: “What do we need to do?”

Mrs. Anta said: “I will teach you after arriving in Yongzhou. There is nothing too complicated. Just act as a bodyguard and stand behind me. When necessary, I will come forward to negotiate with some agency personnel. I have only one maid, she Can’t leave me for too long. There is another additional commission. After the task is completed, please bring me a message to Azeroth, telling him that I promised him the appointment letter he submitted the other day.”

Opal and Raymond were both startled. Opal nodded slowly, thinking that she actually knew Azeroth, and seemed to be a remarkable person.