The Star Knight - 29. Chapter Twenty Nine

The first mission established by the Smoke and Sword Mercenary Corps only had four thousand credits, and it had to spend seven days miserably on the planet Musu. The new starry sky gate established a perfect node. There are thousands of breeding planets. Belongs to the wasteland between the stars.

Originally, it would take three cosmic years for the Musu galaxy to determine its true ownership. At that time, the Republic will make an administrative plan. However, the property owners who bought these planets can’t wait any longer and began to send a large number of robots to reclaim it.

It’s very cold here. The temperature difference between day and night is close to the 40-degree cosmic temperature scale. Most of the places are desolate, but the land is very fertile. Phosphorus, iron and ammonia are rich in trace elements. The area is planted with musu flowers.

Raymond bargained with the employer, hoping to get some additional rewards for the task, but the employer was so stingy that he didn’t take this set at all.

“I bought the right to use it for 20 years.” The employer yelled, “It’s only 18 million! You want me four thousand?!”

Raymond was helpless and had to come back depressed. The two squatted on the edge of the farm, guarding the greenhouse as scarecrows.

The greenhouse covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers, and you have to drive from one end to the other.

The coefficient of gravity is only 0.7, Opal can’t help but eager to try, jumping around in the flower field, feeling the thrill of flying into the air.

“Oh -” Opal’s long legs leaped five meters in the field of the greenhouse like a hurdle, and he touched the roof of the greenhouse.

“Stop playing!” Raymond said angrily.

The opal bounced around, like an unfettered spring, and it ran out of sight in a while.

At night, Opal came back with his nose, and Raymond borrowed a portable atomic stove from his employer. The two of them laid a simple nest and watched by the greenhouse. Even if there was a greenhouse blocked, the wind was blowing from nowhere. Then, the temperature plummeted to more than ten degrees below zero.

“Eat.” Raymond divided a bit of meat, sprinkled it with sunshine pepper, and poured a small glass of Sagittarius volcano for Opal.

Opal said: “How to watch at night?”

Raymond sat cross-legged on the ground, and said to himself: “You sleep, I’ll be on duty at night.”

Opal was eating barbecue and looked up at the house outside the greenhouse in the distance. It was brightly lit with bright yellow light. The employer’s family was eating—it was a comfortable and warm nest.

Opal glanced at Raymond, and Raymond said: “What?”

Opal waved his hand, raised an evil curiosity, turned his head, and radiated the power of faith. First, he retreated when touched, and then secretly spied Raymond’s thinking. What is Raymond thinking? It would be harmless to read the mind once in a while.

Opal’s mind-reading uses very, very little, not as good as hypnotism. This is the first time that he has used the eight scriptures of his seriousness. He read Raymond’s thinking and felt a strange fluctuation. It was a few fragmentary fragments, glowing in the dark, gradually advancing… clearer, clearer.

Two moons? The scene Raymond was thinking about was a dark blue sky with two moons on it, the ground was gray, and there were many dead bodies buried on the ground, like a ruin.

Opal couldn’t help looking up, and across the greenhouse roof, he saw three moons in the sky.

Raymond then raised his head and said, “The moonlight is very beautiful.”

Opal grumbled and analyzed the scene that Raymond was thinking about. That should be the place where he stayed in the past. He didn’t dare to ask. After a while, Raymond was thinking about a different picture-it was a warm place with a burning fireplace, just like the employer’s house, Raymond was lying on the sofa, oh Moor sitting on the carpet and reading.

Hey? I actually appeared in his mind, Opal was a bit funny.

After eating, Raymond packed up his things and said, “Let’s sleep a while.”

Outside the greenhouse, the night wind was bitter, like a wild beast roaring restlessly in the dark, Opal and Raymond leaned together to sleep against the glowing atomic furnace, Raymond squinted, and Opal looked at the gems in his hand at the firelight in the furnace.

“Don’t look at it.” Raymond said: “Even if it’s worth two hundred thousand, can you still sell it?”

“Yes.” Opal said: “Each group has a souvenir. I don’t know what Azeroth gave Wrench to their group.”

Raymond said: “I’ve heard that some clusters are a cup, and when the twelve star clusters were established, they got a sword.”

Opal said: “Or when our group grows in the future, recruit more comrades, this gem can also become a family heirloom.”

Raymond said: “Forget it, this is enough for now.”

Opal put away the gems, shrugged, and noticed one thing. He had never seen Raymond go to bed…or rather, he had never seen him asleep.

His thoughts diverged endlessly, and Opal thought of what Rosen said when he handed over the gems to him, and the first commission Azeroth received when he became a quasi-F-rank mercenary.

What is the spirit and feelings of mercenaries?

Money seems to have become a secondary factor. Opal has vaguely felt something. The idea of mercenaries is actually similar to that of Star Knights. They are busy coming and going in the vast universe, ostensibly to earn employers’ compensation, but in fact they are At the moment of completing the commission, there is more than money in return for hard work…

Opal fell asleep in a daze, and felt Raymond put his coat under his head, let him lie down, and got up to patrol the flower field.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Raymond wore a white vest and mercenary trousers, his boots stepped through the moist flower mud, and a red dot was looming in the darkness. Musuhua exudes phosphorous light spots. Leimen thought about it and laughed. He ran a few steps, leaped silently, jumped several meters, flew to the top of the greenhouse, and touched the ceiling casually.

Opal snored, and suddenly choked in the quiet night, feeling something approaching from all directions towards the center of the flower field.

He opened his eyes and was underground!

“Raymond?” Opal raised his hand and pressed the silver buckle on the auricle, and said.

Raymond landed, stopped, pressed his ears, and said, “What?”

The two were silent for a while, Xixi Suosuo’s voice gradually became clear, Opal said: “There are enemies!”

Raymond turned around and started to run, Opal grabbed the two weapons leaning against the wall, got up and ran towards Raymond! A roar sounded under the moon, and an earthworm-like giant alien creature suddenly emerged from the ground, spinning towards Raymond and swallowing it down!

Raymond jumped and crossed with Opal in mid-air. Opal threw a long-handled axe, and Raymond held it, and the two took advantage of the force to spin and land at the same time.

Opal: “You support, I block the front!”

Raymond: “I am a heavy weapon, ahead of me!”

Opal: “I am a shield-type combat power, ahead of me!”

Raymond: “Don’t be long-winded! Come here!”

The two were still fighting for the forward position, and the giant earthworm let out a piercing roar and thrust its head forward.

“Get out of the way!”

Raymond pushed the Opal away, and the two swept out at an angle. The earthworm was hitting their previous footing and got into the mud.

Opal said: “Teached by the teacher! A big sword can attack and defend! You are responsible for supporting!”

Raymond frantically said: “What can I say later! Come here again!”

With two loud bangs, the opal swooped and rolled in the mud, got up, looked at the raised ground and cut it down with a sword, and then there was a sharp and sour grinding sound, which was more than ten meters long. The worm convulsed painfully, slapped on the ground, spilling fluorescent mucus, and the opal was hit and swept away without warning. It was pitch black all around, another man yelling angrily at the entrance of the greenhouse, the employer came out.

A few light bullets flew around, and Raymond shouted: “Don’t shoot!”

There was an explosion, loud noise, and the cracking sound of the greenhouse shed. Opal struggled to get up, staring at the stars.

Raymond carried the Opal up: “It’s okay.”

The lights in the greenhouse were turned on, and the outside wind was blowing in. When Opal saw Raymond’s arm being rubbed by the light bullet, it exploded in an instant, and shouted, “What are you coming out to join in the fun!”

He rushed over and grabbed his employer’s collar and pushed him to the ground. Raymond looked around, picked up the axe, the woman screamed, and there was chaos outside the greenhouse.

Raymond said: “Don’t hit your employer! Calm down!”

Opal is still very angry, pointing at the employer with a gun, and coldly said: “You will remember it for me.”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” The employer’s daughter said: “My father didn’t mean it…Let me see, is it hurt? We have medical X-ray equipment.”

The employer’s wife came out with a first aid kit, and Raymond waved his hand to indicate that it was OK, simply bandaged it, took the coat and put it on. Standing in the middle of the flower field with Opal, looking at the tail of the earthworm that was chopped off by the axe.

The nearly two-meter-long worm tail wriggled on the ground, Opal said: “There are no eyes, and the digestive juice is corrosive. This kind of creature should rely on ground vibration sensors to determine the enemy’s position.”

Raymond nodded and said, “Think of a way to catch this thing.”

In the middle of the night, the two shivered from the cold and shrank together in the chaotic flower field.

The next morning, at dawn, the workers came out to mend the hole in the greenhouse. The employer’s eyes were red and his face was very ugly. They came out and said, “Your task is over.”

“What?” Opal and Raymond said in unison.

The employer said: “Go back now, the commission is over.”

Opal frowned: “What do you mean?”

Raymond motioned to Opal to take a moment to rest and said: “We had no choice but to do what happened last night… We will definitely be able to solve this problem today.”

The employer yelled: “I didn’t hire you to eat for nothing! I made a mess of my flower field. The thing hasn’t been caught yet, and the greenhouse is broken like this! I’m looking for a complaint from your superior!”

Opal took a deep breath, thought about it, stared into his eyes, and said, “Are you sure?”

employer:”……”

“Hold on.” Raymond said: “Let me negotiate.”

He took out the diary of the mercenary and said to the employer: “Sir, you’d better take a look at this first. Regarding the rating of the task entrusted this time, what does D stand for? It means that you don’t need to hire a high-level mercenary group. As long as you spend a small amount of four thousand credits, ask two people to watch the night in shifts, and you can leave when the time is up, so in principle of entrustment, you conceal some facts from the union.”

Opal said: “Don’t talk to him, let me come.”

“What do you want to do!” the employer furiously said: “Want to make money and kill you!”

“No, no.” Raymond pulled Opal aside and whispered in his ear: “You go help them make up the greenhouse.”

Opal said in disbelief: “Why would I do this?”

Raymond said: “Because I am the head of the regiment.”

Opal: “You’d better think of some other reason, the second article of the Mercenary Code, don’t succumb to the power, and don’t use the identity of the leader to suppress me.”

Raymond frowned: “Observe.”

Opal arrogantly glanced at the employer in the distance, then took the big sword back behind him, and went to repair the greenhouse.

When Raymond went back to negotiate with his employer, Opal climbed up with an annoyed look to help the workers.

Raymond said to the employer: “You have fired us now, that big guy will come again in a few days, maybe more, you can’t help it. And when we go back, we will report the details of the task to the union, you see, mercenary diary It’s all written on this page. They will send someone to investigate, and finally deduct 50% of your commission as a penalty for breach of contract. From then on, you have been on the blacklist of the Mercenary City, and no one will pick it up again. Your mission is over, why bother?”

The employer said: “You don’t have this ability at all! I…”

“There is this ability.” Raymond said: “Last night was purely an accident of incomplete information collection, and you were also responsible for it. Because you didn’t tell us what’s going on here. Now that it is clear, we will help you solve it.”

“Look.” Raymond said again: “My people have patched up your greenhouse. Think about it for yourself, whether to fire us now and be blacklisted in the country of mercenaries, or continue to cooperate.”

The employer glanced at the opal in the distance, and went home angrily.

Opal came out of the greenhouse from the ladder, the sun came out, the ground was very warm, and the temperature in the greenhouse rose a lot. He looked at the wasteland in the distance with a thoughtful look.

When Raymond came over, the two exchanged glances, and they understood each other.

“What are you thinking about?” Raymond said.

Opal’s answer: “You can use the terrain outside to lay a trap.”

Raymond said: “I want to dig a hole and take a look along the area where it drilled out yesterday.”

Opal: “Oh, please spare me, I really don’t want to burrow in the ground anymore.”

Raymond laughed and said, “Then you have the final say.”

Opal was carrying a big sword, looked around, and said, “I need a lasso, like the one used by the little green people on the Kodo star to control the beast…what is it called?”

Raymond asked in confusion: “What?”

Opal drew the shape of a rope on the ground. In the following time, the two began to work, knotting a noose with the long rope left in the scaffolding. Time slowly passed, and this time the giant burrower did not reappear.

Raymond asked: “Where did you learn this?”

Opal said: “The teacher taught me. He taught me before. When dealing with large dangerous creatures without wisdom, you can try to weaken its combat power from the aspects of control, fighting, and restraint, and finally end the battle with one more blow.”

Raymond nodded, and Opal said: “Where did you learn to negotiate with people?”

Raymond tied the rope without lifting his head, and his fingers twisted the steel bars with great strength, even Opal couldn’t match him.

“If it is inborn, do you believe it?” Raymond said.

“But when I first saw you.” Opal said a little confused: “You are not like this at all.”

Raymond said: “That’s because I’m too unfamiliar with the environment. Be careful. I don’t know whether the humans around me are kind or malicious. Some planets are very dangerous.”

He looked up at Opal and smiled. Opal stared at his handsome eyebrows and found that compared to the first time they met, the alert look in Raymond’s eyes was gone, instead, it was a familiar look.

As if seen in Reckett’s eyes.

Raymond said: “I didn’t like to deal with people before…”

Opal said: “What about now?”

Raymond said: “It’s okay, make do.”

Both of them laughed, and the voice of the girl behind them said: “Two gentlemen.”

Raymond turned his head, his smile was handsome and full of sunshine. The girl was startled, and handed them a basket full of food, and smiled: “I’m very sorry about my father’s affairs.”

Opal waved his hand and said: “It’s okay.”

Raymond said: “None of us cares about it.”

The opal’s lasso was ready, he got up to try, rushed forward a few steps out of the plain, leaped to the sky in the sun, and when he turned around, he shook off the steel rope and shook out a shining rope trail. The head fell down, and then somersaulted sideways on the ground, bouncing back and forth like juggling.

Raymond laughed and sat down by the greenhouse.

The employer’s daughter hugged her knees, tidied her skirt, and sat beside him. She laughed and chatted with him for a few words, until her father rushed out angrily to find someone, and then went home.

“Do you want to marry her?” Opal rolled up the tightrope and asked when he came back.

“Perhaps.” Raymond put a musu berry into his mouth, looked at him provocatively, the juice splashed: “What do you always care about?”

Opal picked up a few berries and suddenly stuffed it into Raymond’s mouth desperately. The two of them shoved and played like big kids.

They pulled intricate threads in the greenhouse, like a spider web shrouded in a flower field.

After the sixth day, everything was unremarkable, the flower field was repaired, and the burrowing earthworms did not appear again. Opal and Raymond were sitting in the corner of the greenhouse. Opal was holding a big sword. Raymond was bent on one leg, with a long-handled axe on his shoulder, dozing under the gleam of the new moon.

“Maybe I won’t come again.” Raymond said.

Opal said: “Wait, be patient.”

Raymond: “Unexpectedly, impulsive people like you will have patience.”

Opal: “I have always been patient with battles, but I owe patience to people.”

Raymond nodded, Opal said: “Man, what did you do before?”

Raymond was silent, Opal said casually: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to say it, I’m just curious.”

Opal did a very cheap thing while talking. While talking about it, it didn’t matter, while releasing his mental power, he secretly read Raymond’s thoughts.

At the same time, in Opal’s heart, he still apologized to poor master Reckett, who was still teaching him this skill, but had never used it where it should be.

He read the same scene again-two moons, a deserted abandoned planet factory, and the ground is covered with corpses.

The faces of the corpses were Raymond’s faces. One Raymond was standing, and hundreds of his corpses were all over his feet, looking like a big pit where the corpses were buried.

Nightmare? Opal squinted his eyes and tried his best to explore his spiritual world in Raymond’s thinking activities. What does this mean? He remembered what Reckett once said, the self in the soul is dead, and after destroying countless selves, a new life is ushered in…

“You will know later.” Raymond said.

The scene that Opal read has changed again, returning to the union of the country of mercenaries, that is Raymond’s perspective-Opal stood in the noisy hall, pulled his shoulders, and said something to him .

Opal began to recall what he said at that time, “I have a spaceship”?

“Opal.” Raymond said: “Did you hear it?”

There was a faint vibration on the ground, very weak, but they felt it at the same time. Opal immediately grabbed the lasso and signaled Raymond to do it. The two gestured, Raymond took the lasso, flew up and jumped on. The rope net at the top of the greenhouse bounces between ropes.

Opal pressed the light switch and the whole greenhouse lit up.

The ground shaking kept approaching, Opal ran to the center of the flower field quickly, every stepping on it was thick and heavy, he ran fast with a big sword on his back, until the giant earthworm got out of the mud!

The roar sounded in the quiet night, the burrower rushed out of the ground and hit the rope net, Opal yelled: “Be careful!”

The rope net vibrated, and Raymond almost fell off. Opal avoided the big pipe-shaped mouth that was thrown down by the head. Yu Qianjun rolled and avoided it. Raymond chased after the rope net above his head. He made a wrong step, hanging upside down, with his feet upside down. Twisted the rope firmly and flicked the lasso in the air.

The arc light flew away, the head of the giant earthworm was sheathed, and the mouthparts with fangs were immediately fastened. The earthworms rolled all over the floor, crushing five or six flower stands sideways, and Raymond said, “It’s you!”

Opal was smashed to pieces, the alloy rope swept past in front of him, and he subconsciously reached out to grab it, and was taken into the air in an instant. Giant earthworms smashed around, and finally slammed into the greenhouse. Transparent debris flying all over the sky rushed out of the greenhouse!

Opal roared: “Hurry up! This thing is harder to grasp than you think!”

Opal held his left hand in front of him, bowed to block the debris and flower mud that hit his face, and was taken out of the greenhouse like an arrow. When he was in mid-air, he pulled the alloy rope backhand and shouted: “Where do you want to run!” “Then kicked the giant earthworm on the head.

With a hysterical roar, the giant earthworm twitched and rolled, protruding from left to right on the plain, arched and rolled all over, trying to throw the opal off, like a crazy beast, it rushed to the ground several times, but its mouthparts were firmly lassoed Trapped, neither can swallow the soil to dig a hole, nor can it spray out the digestive juice to injure the enemy.

When it was too late, Raymond chased out the greenhouse, his mechanical long-handled axe glowed with golden brilliance in the moonlight, drew an arc, and slashed it towards the ground.

Opal lifted the rein, the giant earthworm turned, the tail was chopped by Raymond and cut into two pieces.

“Good job–!” Opal roared.

The giant earthworm went mad at once, and the digestive juice was sprayed out from the break. Raymond and Opal shouted at the same time: “You are careful!”

It dragged the fluorescent green acid and sprinkled it all the way. Every time Opal lifted the rein, a green acid was sprinkled. Raymond avoided the acid and raised the long-handled axe with one hand.

The nearly two-meter-long mechanical weapon flashed with electric lights, and the long handle gracefully circled his fingers and cut it down again.

It retreated with one blow. Leimen dragged an axe with both hands to avoid it. The burrower was painfully convulsed in the acid, rushing all the way, blindly rushing out of the wasteland, and the two axe heads had already chopped down nearly five meters in length.

“Chop… small pieces… point!” Opal yelled out of the bumps, grabbing the rein, and kicking it again.

The burrower rushed farther and farther and hit the wireless tower on the side of the farm. Opal was hit with a big bag on his head. The cloud and the fog were taken to fly, Raymond tried his best to rush, The man raised the mechanical axe high in the air, and the roar was another fierce axe!

The burrower chopped off another half of its length, and the remaining two or three meters of head was completely exhausted. Opal drew out the big sword behind it, leaped back and shot with a sword, and nailed its remaining head to the ground.

At that moment, the burrower’s bald hair made a terrifying roar, which lasted for five seconds, spraying out countless digestive acid, and it collapsed like a rag pocket.

Opal touched the big bag on his head, leaned on the tower to gasp, was turned around and vomited.

“Good job.” Raymond said: “I wish you a long life and a hundred years—”

Opal made a fist and touched him, turned around to look at the greenhouse, and it was messy again.

The next day the employer was going crazy. Opal collected the neat four pieces of earthworm corpses, 2.5 meters, 2.5 meters, 3 meters, and 2 meters, neatly chopped into four sections by Raymond’s axe, and placed them in front of the greenhouse.

“This skin can be given to you.” Raymond said.

The employer yelled irritably, “What’s the use of I want this!”

“Don’t do that, buddy.” Opal said regretfully, “Being kind and making money, right? Come on, sign your fingerprints.”

Raymond said: “You just commissioned us to drive away or kill all the local creatures that invaded the greenhouse, but you didn’t ask us to keep the greenhouse intact.”

The employer stared at them fiercely, and said, “You guys show me!”

Opal smiled and said, “Pretty.”

Raymond smiled modestly, closed the diary of the mercenary, and went back to the spaceship with Opal to hand over the task.

But when they returned to the union, neither of them laughed.

“How many times have I told you not to offend the employer——!” The union clerk said: “Otherwise, points will be deducted! Points deducted!! We have already been complained! You are simply the shame of Nikko!”

Opal yelled: “Can you figure it out, please! This commission is inherently problematic…”

The clerk said: “Since there is a problem, why don’t you apply for institutional arbitration first…”

Opal roared: “I was frozen in that ghost place for six days and six nights! I almost died in the belly of a coelenterate…”

Clerk: “It’s none of our business! Points deducted!”