The Star Knight - 32. Chapter Thirty Two

Opal tied a metal buckle to his waist, pulled out two wide-brimmed belts from his waistband, rounded his shoulders, fastened with a click, pressed the button on his waist, and buzzed the warm white light of the defensive cover around his body.

“I’ll go out and have a look.” Opal said.

Raymond said casually: “I wish you a long life and a hundred years.”

Opal got off the bilge of the spaceship, pressed the exit button, the vacuum door closed, the air blew him out of the cabin gently against the current, and the field energy spacesuit threw a beam of light to firmly connect him to the spaceship. Opal turned around in the universe, and his heart was filled with an indescribable feeling.

That was the first time he had personally come into contact with this boundless space. He floated out of the cabin under the effect of weightlessness, slowly rising and sinking, his body swept through the porthole in red light, his legs and slender figure. It’s like a gleaming scaly fish in the dark.

“How do you feel?” Raymond said with his index finger against his ear button.

“It’s okay, it’s a bit cold.” The air around Opal was full of air, and he took a few breaths slowly. The cold was not obvious and did not hinder his actions.

The temperature is normal, and the true cold comes from psychological feelings—in this empty universe, the loneliness and coldness experienced by the soul and body. Raymond connected to another communication channel in the cabin and asked: “What do you want to do?”

Xun’s voice replied, “I’m looking for the remains of the explosion.”

Xi De said: “I have looked for it several times.”

Opal said displeased: “Let you not make trouble!”

Xun said unceremoniously: “I have my own spaceship. What does it have to do with you when I come out? I won’t slap your mission!”

Quickly search in space and observe every piece of cosmic dust. They either reflect the light of the red giant star drifting past him, or stay quietly in mid-air. Metal, ice and rocks are scattered in the space. Po said: “There are at least tens of millions of impurities around, when are you going to find?”

Xun said: “Only a piece of artificial fragments are needed…”

“Don’t mess around.” Raymond and Opal said impatiently at the same time.

Opal said: “If there is an explosion, the high temperature can dissolve all the metal, and the shell will be completely blown up. You don’t have to think about finding anything near here!”

Xun didn’t answer, he drifted away, stubbornly searching for everything he thought was possible.

Opal finally gave up his plan to persuade him. He pressed his ear button and said: “I don’t care, let him find it here slowly and continue our plan.”

Raymond said: “It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work, get him back.”

Opal pondered for a moment, turned on the micro-propulsion system at the back waist, flew to Xun, Xun immediately shouted: “What are you going to do?! Let me go!”

“Don’t fight in space!! You will kill him!” Raymond shouted loudly, making the ears humming in the two of them.

Opal couldn’t help but grabbed Xun by the collar and flew him back. The vacuum cabin was turned on and inflated, and he threw Xun into the control room.

Xun roared: “What does it matter to you!”

Raymond said angrily: “This is our commission? What does it have to do with you?!”

Sid hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them and stared at them quickly and hatefully. Opal took off his belt and put it away on the sofa, saying, “Don’t make any more mess, there is no time to deal with you.”

Raymond said: “Continue to monitor the route.”

Opal stepped forward to open the star map, and quickly got up and was attracted by his star map.

“Where is this made?” Xun said.

Opal said: “It’s your shit, let me behave, otherwise we will throw you on the black ant star.”

Xun said: “You want to murder!”

Opal said: “They are said to be hospitable and will not make you homesick, huh?”

Time-VI led Sid’s future lord spacecraft to advance again, speeding through the interstellar dust.

The composition of the elements on the light screen is erratic. No radioactive elements have been found in the surrounding area. The route is fixed, and I am about to go back to my spacecraft. Opal insists on not allowing them. Raymond threw them into the bedroom and locked the door at random to avoid this. The kid made a mess, and Xun started to slap the door in the room, and shouted: “Sid is my friend! What are you doing! Let me go out! I want to help him too!”

Opal said loudly: “Oh! I am touched by your friendship! E7! Turn off the anti-gravity field in the bedroom!”

Inside, the door claps stopped, and Xun said loudly: “Let me go down!”

It finally stopped, Xun was still cursing in the bedroom, and Opal returned to the console and sat down.

Raymond was still staring at the surrounding elemental analysis, Opal said: “No explosion remains?”

Raymond nodded slowly, Opal said: “There is something strange, it is very likely that it is a forced landing, set the route, and go to Black Ant Star to see.”

Raymond took a long breath, bowed and opened the route setting. The two spacecraft accelerated at the same time and flew to the nearest planet nearby.

There is no space station outside the planet, and there is a beautiful aperture outside the planet. Numerous small meteorites surround the equator to form a halo. They occasionally collide with each other and break into powder, but they cannot be separated under the gravitational force of the planet.

When the two spaceships docked, Opal discussed with Raymond for a while, released Xun, let him take Sid back to the other spaceship, entered the atmosphere of Black Ant, and searched for a suitable place to start landing.

“The coefficient of gravity is 1.5, God.” Opal said: “Is there such a large gravity? Can’t tell.”

Raymond said: “This planet is dense, so be careful when you land.”

The landform appeared on the display screen, and there was a huge blue water band surrounding the entire planet-the only river of Black Ant. It is estimated to be hundreds of kilometers wide. The two poles are covered with snow and ice crowns, emitting many blue lines. A small river flows radioactively towards the big river in the center of the equator.

Sid said in the communicator: “A really beautiful planet, it should be very suitable for human habitation.”

Opal said: “Forget it, gravity is so strong, you stay in the cabin and don’t go out. They don’t have a tarmac… let me see.”

The black ant star’s ground is approaching. Almost all parts of the surface are bare rocky mountains. The mountains are covered with a black moss. The spacecraft wandered around and quickly said in the phone: “Let’s land anywhere.”

Raymond said: “No, you have to find a safe place with cover to make it easier to dock the spacecraft… Is there a landmark building?”

Xun said impatiently: “Just there, thirty-five degrees to your left, I saw a big statue, landing behind…”

Opal followed what Xun expected, and Sid said in the communicator: “It’s easy to get stuck there…”

Xun said: “Don’t worry, I am better at flying a spaceship than you…”

Opal and Raymond really lost to him.

The spacecraft flew to a plateau area, with towering mountains and rivers passing through the gorge next to it. The surface in the middle of the wilderness showed a gray arc-shaped ditch surrounded by a ring, like a huge annual ring.

A stone statue stood in the middle.

“Is it a human statue?” Raymond said.

Xun said: “It’s all moss on it, abandoned place.”

The Future Lord spewed out air currents and slowly lowered to the ground. Opal saw that the stone statue was crumbling and shouted at the same time with Raymond, “Be careful!”

The spacecraft landed with a loud bang, and the stone statue tilted at an angle. Three seconds later, it fell forward with a thud, making a muffled noise, and falling to pieces.

Opal: “…”

Raymond: “…”

Opal: “Can you stop messing around before you figure out the situation!”

Xun said impatiently: “You two are still very tender! There is no experience at all. There is no house and life around here. There is only a human sculpture. Combined with the surrounding gully, you can’t think of any use?”

Opal said: “What’s the use?”

Xun said: “It was built by the predecessors and used as coordinates for the spacecraft! If it breaks, it will be broken. Just make a ground beacon again!”

Time-VI followed behind and landed slowly. The Opal was robbed and made no sound to detect the oxygen content on the planet.

The oxygen concentration is slightly higher than 25%, and the air is very humid. It is indeed a habitable planet. Raymond prepared a translator and came out. The four of them looked around in the wilderness. The sky was gray and the air was moist and smelly. odor.

Raymond was debugging a translator, and a group of black spots under the canyon moved rapidly towards the heights.

Opal said: “Come on! Let me see!”

“Don’t go there!” Raymond said: “Be careful they attack you.”

The black spots climbed up against the rock wall, there were thousands of them crushed in black, and the momentum was very spectacular.

“Bah–” The leading giant black ant grinned at Opal.

Opal: “…”

Raymond pointed the universal translator at it and realized a very serious problem-the language of the Black Ant Star had not been entered by the Star Alliance.

Thousands of ants surrounded them, and one ant grinned fiercely at the opal, screaming, and exposed the pliers. All the ant’s tentacles were moving, as if there were invisible electric waves passing through the group.

Opal: “What are they talking about?”

Raymond: “I don’t know… There is no such language in the translator. Are you sure they are really hospitable?”

Opal: “That’s the teacher’s evaluation, I…still believe him very much.”

Xun was finally quiet, and he said, “They want to attack us.”

Sid said: “Yeah, showing the jaws…what did we do wrong?”

Opal: “Maybe you just misunderstood, the way they say hello is–”

“Bah–” Opal tried to make that weird sound at them.

“Bah! Bah! Bah!” The huge black ants one after another stood one after another.

Raymond: “What’s the matter with the tentacles on the head?”

Opal: “This should say hello…wait.”

All the ants stopped their fast waving tentacles at the same time, and they scattered around. A group of ants actually lifted the two spaceships! It moved out of sight in a while.

Opal looked blank: “Hey! What are you doing!”

Xun: “Help us park? Interesting.”

A small wooden stick was handed to the head of the biggest black ant, and it looked at Leimen, treating him as their leader. Raymond was the tallest and the most outstanding body, he lowered his head slightly.

The group of ants pushed away, and the big black ant drew several patterns on the ground with a branch.

Opal: “What does it mean.”

Raymond: “It… means that the place where we land is their altar.”

Opal: “…”

fast:”……”

Sid: “…”

Raymond: “And also smashed their…the idol.”

Opal: “Xun! I knew there was nothing good with you!”

Xun: “How could I know!”

All the ants came around again in an instant, showing sharp jaws toward the four of them. The leader black ant waved the branches to drive them away, and wrote and painted a line of strange things, on which was a picture with strange symbols.

Raymond: “It said, let us be responsible for repairing the idol and apologize to all the’people’, so that we can have a chance to talk. Otherwise, it will not let us leave this planet easily.”

Opal breathed a sigh of relief, Xun wanted to say something more, but Sid covered his mouth.

“How do you know their words?” Opal screamed.

Raymond: “Look, it painted several rows of ants. Everyone stood neatly and looked at the sculpture as if praying, so I understood that this is their god, or something very important. It puts the neck , Circle around the ankle, referring to the fallen idol over there, meaning let us fix it.”

Opal: “…”

The leader of the black ant waved the branch, and all the ants pulled away completely. The remaining four stood in the middle of the moss plain in the middle of the wilderness, and a cool breeze blew by.

Fifteen minutes later, Opal and Leimeng blankly began to repair the idol that was destroyed by the swift crash. The idol is a human, male, wearing a cloth robe with bare feet under the robe. Based on the proportion of the body, it is estimated that it is about the same height as Raymond. He should be a very handsome, simple man.

Of course, now this sculpture with a severed head and severed hand fell into the moist moss field, which is another matter.

Putting the five-meter-high idol on the pedestal and repairing it is simply an impossible task, especially when the spacecraft is removed by the entire ship. Raymond went to find the ants to borrow the rope. Opal went to chop a tree with a long-handled axe, tied the axe and a big sword crosswise, made a winch, and pulled the idol little by little and put it on.

Sid and Xun hugged their knees and sat watching from a distance.

The gravity of this planet is too great. Opal was out of breath after busy working for a while, and said angrily: “Don’t just look at it!”

Sid said: “I… my physical strength is not good.”

Xi De felt tired just sitting down, and Xun was completely wilted.

“Need adhesive, huh…huh…” Raymond said: “Otherwise it will fall off.”

“Spare me, where’s the adhesive.” Opal gasped, “It would be nice to recover.”

Sid said, “Is it okay to use mud? The mud here is very viscous.”

Sid adjusted some clay and gave it to Xun, Xun bent over the ankle of the idol, and Raymond said, “What kind of occupation did you do in the past?”

Sid said: “Plant cultivator.”

Opal feels a bit strange, why is Xun so honest in front of Sid? The relationship between them seems to have become very good, is it because of the previous reasons? Something must have happened in a place he didn’t find.

Raymond said casually: “Why are you helping Sid so? No money.”

Xun gave him a glance and said, “A mercenary must have money to make a living?”

“Yo-” Opal said with a smile: “Are you also a mercenary?”

Xun didn’t answer, Raymond nodded and said, “Plant cultivator, it sounds very prestigious!”

Sid moved a little to the side and let Xun sit down on his shoulders.

Neither of them commented, and Sid was wearing a swift coat, shivering with the cold.

This planet can’t even see the sun. There is only a white moon with a purple halo on the horizon. There is a dazzling meteorite belt across the sky. The planetary halo reflects the light of stars in the distance.

Opal carried the big head of the idol and pushed it to the pedestal gruntingly. Raymond dropped the rope and hung it up and put it away. Both of them were panting with exhaustion.

“I’m talking about you.” Opal always thought it was incredible: “Why do you have such a good relationship? We are together for dozens of days?”

“What’s your business?” Xun asked alertly.

Sid smiled and said, “It’s just a friend.”

Xun was not happy right away, Sid looked at Xun with a faint smile, and added, “Playing with friends in Fantasy Paradise together.”

Xun couldn’t help laughing.

Opal: “!!!”

Raymond almost dropped the head of the sculpture.

Sid said, “Have you two played that stuff?”

Opal: “You…what did you say? Don’t mention it.”

Xun ridiculed: “You see him like a hillbilly, just like a barbarian, I don’t know which primitive society came from.”

“Hey!” Opal said angrily: “You are a barbarian!”

Raymond said: “I am also a hillbilly, I never play that.”

Opal’s face flushed, and Raymond said again: “Hold the statue well and don’t fall down again.”

Raymond bent and stood on the shoulders of the idol and hung his head up. This required a good sense of balance to prevent the newly glued idol from falling down.

When it was finally finished, Opal took a few steps backwards, looking at the idol, his hair was a bit long, and there was no name on the pedestal.

Opal went to find water to wash his hands and walked away.

Sid discovered one thing-the sculpture’s face, nose bridge, brow bones and lips looked like a person.

“This should be fine.” Raymond stepped back to look at the statue.

Sid raised his head and looked closely. He looked at the statue of God, then at Raymond, and said, “He looks a little like you.”

Raymond: “?”

Raymond frowned, and Sid turned his head and said: “Opal!”

Opal didn’t hear it, and he ran to the edge of the canyon. Xun said, “Yes, the hair is longer, but the facial features are exactly the same. Hey, are you their god?”

Raymond said: “I haven’t been here before, look like?”

Sid looked at Raymond suspiciously, and said, “You just… it was natural to communicate with the ants. I think it’s a bit suspicious.”

Raymond couldn’t laugh or cry: “Don’t be kidding, if I were their god, how could these guys let the gods repair their own idols?”

“That’s right.” Xun said, “Have you really never been here?”

Raymond said impatiently: “Really not!” He packed the ropes and returned. The ants thought Opal was going to escape and escorted him back. A black ant wrote and painted, indicating that they could follow along and talk to the leader. talk.

The ants have no vocal organs, and the only sound is the creak of rubbing their mouthparts. The four walked in the wilderness for a long time. Sid was the first to not move, and quickly carried him across the moss plain. The black ants leading the way led them across the river until they reached a clearing and motioned for them to get in the car. The four were strange. The creature is like a wheel, cushioned under a large wooden board.

Opal looked down curiously, and the wheel creature suddenly moved, protruding something like tentacles against the wooden board. The four of them flicked it, and Raymond grabbed his collar to prevent it from falling off. Everyone sits firmly, and the wheel creatures start to roll, just like this carrying people fast forward. Whenever they cross the mountains, they can row around like a propeller in the water when they are in the water, and carry them across the river.

Finally, I stopped in a forest full of strange plants. A tunnel led to the dark underground, and the wheeled cart rolled in and stopped short of getting deeper.

There are illuminated minerals all around, and the tunnel extends in all directions. Opal said: “This is… an ant’s nest.”

A group of four people looked at the crowded ants crawling around in the empty hall, and they felt a little hairy in their hearts. In another instant, all the black ants dispersed, crawled into various holes, and disappeared without a trace.

A huge black ant stared at them, Opal said: “Is it the one that just let us repair the statue?”

Raymond: “How do I know? They all look exactly the same.”

There is a sand table on the ground, which is used for conversation. Opal said: “It should be possible to talk now.”

Sid said: “You look like their gods, can you get extra points?”

Raymond’s facial expression twitched, and he said to Sid: “In our eyes, they are all the same length. In other words, how do we humans look in their eyes? Of course there is no difference.”

Xun said: “Then according to their logic, as long as the idols have a head and hands, the face is actually superfluous…”

Raymond motioned to everyone to shut up, stop talking, pondered for a moment, took the branch that the ant handed, and began to ask questions to the opponent’s leader on the sand table.

Raymond drew pictures and learned how to express the ants when repairing the idols. He first asked him with a pattern, introduced himself, and explained that they were not hostile. The previous behavior was purely accidental. Then he asked the names of the big ants.

The big black ant leader drew several ants on the sand table. Triangular, circular, and spiral symbols radiated from their tentacles to distinguish them from each other.

“What do you mean?” Opal said.

Raymond pondered for a moment, and replied: “It should mean that they are not distinguished by names like we humans. Everyone has no names. They recognize each other by the smell of their bodies.”

Opal slowly nodded, watching Raymond write and write, and found that Raymond was still very smart. He did have the ability to serve as the leader. He was calm and steady, no more than the high-level mercenaries he had ever seen. The heads of the regiment were inferior. After changing Opal myself, I couldn’t think of many things.

After Raymond finished the painting, he and Opal pressed his left fist on his right shoulder, acting like a mercenary.

The big black ants on the opposite side watched quietly, and the last few ants entangled their tentacles and bowed slightly towards them. The two parties met with gifts and reached a friendly relationship. Raymond expressed his problem with a pattern: [Let’s find a spaceship and a few humans. 】

Based on Sid’s previous description, Raymond drew the spaceship and the symbols of several villains on the sand table, and there was a suitcase next to it.

The big black ant made a cross on the spaceship, saying that he hadn’t seen it before, and circled the box again.

Opal: “!!!”

Sid: “!!!”

Sid: “What! They have seen my father! Where is he!!!”

Raymond said: “Don’t be impulsive! Opal, hold him!”

There was a small commotion among the ants. The leader kept watching them with his compound eyes. Sid said to the leader: “I beg you, tell me where is my father!”

Surrounded by ants watching the excitement, they seemed very curious. They quickly hugged Sid and murmured comfort. Raymond drew an adult leading a villain on the sand table. The villain circled it and pointed to Sid.

“You are so smart!” Opal exclaimed.

Raymond smiled modestly.

The leader understood and nodded slowly.

It drew undulating mountains and rivers on the ground, and the four people held their breath. The big black ant drew a very complicated map, which filled the entire sand table, and finally drew an arch in the upper left corner.

Opal: “???”

He was puzzled, turned his head to look, and walked slowly to the side of the ants. An ant came over and touched him with his tentacles. Opal touched him with his hand.

Raymond said: “Don’t move, I don’t want to cause trouble anymore.”

The ant backed away, and the atmosphere was very harmonious at this moment. The relationship between the two parties was so good that they could be called brothers and sisters. It was really warm and hospitable. The teacher was right. Opal thought, he affectionately took the initiative to take the black ant leader’s smooth carapace back. People and ants watch the sand table together.

The branch of the big black ant returned to the lower right corner of the sand table. It drew a strange, huge monster. The monster looked a bit like an ant, but it had wings and was very large. Finally, it connected the ant with wings. The small box circled, hit a line, and flew directly to the arch-shaped object.

“What does this mean?” Leimen squinted suspiciously.

“This thing.” Opal looked at it for a long time and then said: “Have you gone somewhere with the box?”

Raymond pointed at the pattern, pointed at his head, spread his hands, and made an incomprehensible gesture, like a polite gentleman. The big black ant observed them for a long time, then turned his head and communicated with other ants using antennae for a while. .

Both Opal and Raymond were confused, and said quickly: “Ask it, where is our spaceship.”

“No hurry.” Raymond said: “First, figure things out, there are too many puzzles.”

This time, the ants talked for a long time, for nearly half an hour, and finally reached an agreement. A group of ants stepped out of the way, and the big black ant motioned to everyone to follow them.

Opal and Raymond follow behind the leading ant. When they communicate, they can use their front feet to cock up, but when they are on the way, they move with six feet together. They walk very fast, stop and go, and walk a lot in the underground tunnel. Far away, and finally entered a huge and spectacular space.

The ants surrounded the four of them, and the leader pointed to the scene in the space, which was full of dilapidated egg shells.

Raymond said: “This is their nursery nest.”

Opal nodded slowly, the surroundings glowed with a gleam of minerals, and there was a turbid, dark red film in the center of the nursery nest, which contained living objects, and something slowly beating inside.

Raymond became more confused and asked Opal: “Do you know what it means?”

Opal seemed to touch something vaguely and said: “The one in the middle is their queen……?”

“Queen?” Opal murmured: “Queen! I understand! This has something to do with the queen! That thing is not the queen! The queen flew away! What is that?”

Raymond understood right away, there was no sand table around, he gestured to understand, the big black ant took them back, Opal and Raymond quickly began to talk, and now they all understood.

Sid asked hurriedly, “Where are the people? Where are the others?”

Raymond: “Wait, sort out the information first. The queen took the box and flew up to the mountain. What does the arc mean? Is the plant grown in the box? It might be our understanding.”

Opal: “At least what is currently known is that the spacecraft was not destroyed in the explosion.”

Raymond nodded slowly, and Opal said: “This is not an accident, it is a human factor, and it has something to do with the person with the box. If you find him, you can find Sid’s father.”

Raymond snorted, and they returned to the central sand table. Raymond said, “But I don’t understand. What does it want to show us?”

Several people stopped, and Raymond began to ask the big black ant. The big black ant drew a small ant next to the queen, and then drew a line, circled the queen, and then circled back.

Opal finally got it.

“Evolution!” Sid said, “I learned a little bit of entomology. It must be because their queen is gone, so one of the population is evolving toward the queen!”

Opal also remembered. He had read in the textbooks that this is a natural adjustment mechanism-after the queen dies or disappears, a way for a group to maintain the ability to reproduce itself.

He said solemnly: “So we’d better stop by…find the queen back too.”

Opal took a deep breath and said: “This commission looks very troublesome, but there is no compensation.”

Raymond said: “When is the time, I still think about the reward, I don’t expect these ants to go to the union to entrust what tasks… Forget it, go and see first.”

Raymond motioned to the big black ant to find a spaceship for them, but the big black ant refused to let a few people leave. After smoothing the sand table, he drew a fat thing.

Opal: “?”

Raymond: “…”

Opal: “It’s too hard to communicate with these guys.”

Raymond’s face twitched: “What can I do…”

While talking, a group of ants carried a huge, half-dead bug into the ground.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Xun said: “Does it mean to invite us to dinner?”

The ants came out of the tunnel extending in all directions and flocked to the fat, white insect that was more than ten meters long. Raymond’s handsome face turned green on the spot.

A group of ants gnawed a bug. The scene was really spectacular. There was splashing mucus everywhere, and the skin of the bug was peeled off little by little. Sid turned and vomited in an instant. Raymond couldn’t help avoiding and holding on to the wall. Also began to vomit.

Everyone ran to the corner and didn’t dare to look again. Opal only felt nauseous. Fortunately, the courses in mercenary training and the power of faith helped him successfully defend against nausea.

“I, I… I don’t eat.” Opal said to the big black ant.

Big black ant leader: “?”

Opal drew a little man with long hands and long legs on the sand table, pointed to Raymond, indicating that it was him, with a bulging belly, and said: “He is pregnant and can’t eat bugs.”

Raymond roared angrily: “Don’t talk nonsense!”

Big black ant leader: “???”

Opal began to delay time with the big black ant incoherently, saying: “A child appeared in his stomach, here, look. We don’t eat this, the spacecraft finds it out, and we go, we must bring the queen back to you…bye. ”

A group of ants pulled out the intestines of the insects, dragged them over to offer them to Opal, and dragged them to the ground. The mucus-filled intestines completely and directly penetrated the opal’s endurance limit, and he finally vomited.

After half an hour, Leimen repeatedly insisted to let the big black ants understand that they did not eat these. The ants gushed out of the cave to bring their spaceship back. Everyone was spinning around and exhausted.

The two spaceships were carried by the ants to the clearing outside the forest.

Raymond told the black ant leader that they would go and see. The black ant leader led a group of ants to show the way on the ground, while the four maneuvered two spacecraft into the air, flew at low altitude, and slowly flew to the black line on the ground.

After flying for a long time, the endless moss plain is surrounded by dense ant people, and the scene is extremely magnificent. The black ants spontaneously stepped out of an open area, the spaceship landed, and Opal was stunned when he got out of the spaceship.

In the middle of the wilderness, the ring-shaped building drawn by the ants earlier is a solitary starry sky door.

“Isn’t this equipment that can be installed outside the atmosphere?” Opal said in disbelief: “How can it be placed on a planet?!!!”