The Star Knight - 40. Chapter Forty

Aquastar is one of the registered members of the Star Alliance, in the jurisdiction of the Republic, but maintains its own independence. It revolves around a white dwarf star with a period of 2.5 cosmic years, and the time of rotation is very short, only 13 cosmic hours.

The name of the star system is μ-27. The white dwarf is called “Chandra Saikar”. When it evolved from a red giant to a white dwarf, all the surrounding planets had escaped.

At some time billions of years ago, a comet carrying a large amount of solid water flew from the depths of the universe towards Chandra Sika. Its fate would eventually be swallowed by the white dwarf, but at this moment, Another comet flew to the star system from a more distant place.

The two comets collided in the gravitational field of Chandra Sika. This is a very small probability collision that occurred in the 20 billion years after the formation of the universe. If you want to describe it with specific numbers, this probability will be after the decimal point. Add ninety-three zeros.

After the two comets collided, they merged together, changing their respective trajectories and orbiting the white dwarf star.

In that distant past, if someone can observe with their own eyes, they will be amazed at the mystery and mystery of the universe.

The two comets and ice cubes become the only planet in this star system-Aqua Blue. Its revolution distance is just close enough, so close that the large amount of ice carried on the comet melts at the temperature of the white dwarf, and gives birth to the strangeness in the water. Life form.

And this revolution distance is just far enough so that the water will not melt and escape under the high heat of the white dwarf. It just happened to be a thin water film covering the core.

Aquamarine is the only planet in the universe whose surface is completely covered by water. The outer layer is surrounded by an atmosphere created by cyanobacteria photosynthesis, with an oxygen content of 30.5%.

The high temperature and low luminosity of the white dwarfs make the light here is not strong, but it is like summer all year round. The gravitational force of the stars produces strange tides, and a peak of one hundred meters high, formed by a sea of water, always faces Chandra Saikar in the center of the star system and moves around the equator, with a period of exactly one year.

Aquastar is like a drop of water that envelops the core. In 10337 of the Light Era, humans discovered this place and established the Star Gate. When the first pioneers landed on the water blue star, they were shocked by the magnificence and wonder of this water world. They built hundreds of space stations around this big water ball, using the heat energy of the white dwarf star as the first energy source, and then from the sea water. Extract tritium for production.

Humans have created thousands of floating islands on the water blue star, cultivated green algae unique to the planet, provided them to the empire and the Republic, and equipped them on every spacecraft.

Aquastar’s ocean technology is unique in the universe. The Republic and the Empire once wanted to annex it, but the leaders of this planet resolutely rejected the proposal of complete ownership. Human immigrants have formed their own political system. After a referendum, they are unwilling to belong to it. Any regime.

【Here is the most expansive and endless sea. Human immigrants have performed a small operation in their genes. After tens of thousands of years, they have gills in their respiratory organs, and skin cells have become suitable for survival in the sea. 】

Opal has a very complicated feeling towards the star map, like reading a person’s diary. Although there are only a few lines, it seems to follow him and walk through these planets with him.

After entering the country, all alien tourists received a wristband at the space station. Opal said: “No way, you want to go into the water?”

Raymond immersed himself in examining the wristband, buckled it on his sturdy wrist, and raised it indifferently towards the opal, saying, “It’s weird that the deposit is paid?”

There are too many people entering the country. Opal and Raymond are involuntarily crowded out by the crowd, leaving the vast sea outside the high-altitude apron thousands of miles above the sea.

“God…” Opal saw such a magnificent sight for the first time. He hadn’t seen this vast ocean personally since he was a child. When standing on the edge of the tarmac and looking at the boundless sea level, the first thought was to think of Reckett’s spiritual world-the endless sea.

The sky and the sea in front of him were all colored, birds chirping, and there were countless strange blue bubbles floating in the sky under the sky with scattered white clouds.

Bubbles are like huge floating islands, covered with blue-green plants. Birds sometimes settle in the vegetation and follow the floating islands slowly.

“What’s that?” Opal said.

“A unique creature of the Aqua Blue Star.” Lehman looked down at the travel regulations and said: “The flying jellyfish maintains life through the transparent lighting cells in the body.” Opal noticed that a flying jellyfish was passing by more than ten meters away. A cyclone erupted from the bottom of the house, propping up a huge body.

“Let’s go.” Raymond checked their wristbands.

“Have you been here?” Opal asked.

Raymond nodded and said, “When I first became a mercenary, my first task was to find someone here… Let me think about it, I have to rent a blue flying shuttle.”

Opal’s eyes always followed the strange creatures on the sea, and when he heard that word, he suddenly said: “Water blue flying shuttle?!”

“Water blue flying shuttle!!” Opal said.

“Yes, water blue flying shuttle.” Raymond said.

Opal: “Water Blue Flying Shuttle!!!”

Raymond: “What are you so excited for! Are you crazy?”

Opal opened E7 almost incoherently and said, “Is that this? You look at it?”

“Yes, yes.” Raymond said with a dubious laugh: “Is it weird? Small sightseeing for two people, three-purpose flying boat for water, land and air… This is an advertisement from thirty years ago, E7! Turn off your projection! This is very shameful! ”

Opal is about to faint. The dream of once on the B-11 star, staying in that narrow, dark small room, my lifelong wish is to sit on this shuttle and fly in the endless sea.

At that time, he was amazed that there was such a place in the holographic projection advertisement of E7! ! How can there be so much water in any place in the world! !

Later, his mother told him it was called “Ocean”, so Opal wrote it down. He never thought that he would take this kind of transportation one day in his life.

Opal walked into the secondary apron, and in front of it was a huge platform covering an area of nearly 1,000 square kilometers. There were tens of millions of blue water shuttles parked on it. The outer shell was shining with bright sunlight, and every second there were countless. The sightseeing boat landed, and there were more sailings.

His eyes reflected the magnificent scenery.

Opal: “…”

Raymond said seriously: “Deputy commander, you need to calm down. Oh, sorry, he’s okay, just too excited.”

It took a long time for Opal to calm down the excitement in his heart. Raymond took Opal to rent a car. When Opal opened his mouth, Raymond immediately said: “Don’t talk, keep quiet.”

The people around all looked at Opal with the gaze of a hillbilly. Raymond bought two bottles of deep-sea sparkling wine and algae cheese, rented a two-person blue water shuttle, and drove a white wave on the sea. .

The water blue flying shuttle has another very romantic nickname on this planet-the love of the sea breeze.

At the beginning, it was specially designed for couples. The cabin can accommodate two people, and all the necessary facilities are in place. The driver and the co-pilot are stuck together. The opal is turned sideways and leaning on Raymond honestly. Shoulders.

With a smile at the corner of Raymond’s mouth, he pressed a button and put one hand on Opal’s shoulder.

The cabin window opened, the Aqua Blue Speed Shuttle slowed down, the sea breeze with water vapor blew, and the love of the sea breeze rose again. Opal yelled “Yoo-ha-” and yelled frantically by the window.

Raymond: “…”

Raymond adjusted the height, and Fraxel suddenly turned left, slamming the opal lying on the side of the window, and fell into Raymond’s arms.

“Hey hey hey! What are you going to do!” yelled Opal.

Raymond changed its course, and the shuttle slowly descended to the surface of the sea, but did not sink into the water.

Opal said: “What? Looking for an employer now?”

“Nothing.” Raymond said with a smile: “There is still a lot of time. I will take you for a drive. Isn’t it the first time you come here?”

The skylight of Love of Sea Breeze lowered and turned into a small boat.

Opal lay horizontally in the cockpit, resting on Raymond’s thighs, looking at the clear blue sky and large white clouds above his head, he sighed comfortably, and stepped his feet on the ship’s gunwale for a long time.

Raymond put his arm behind his head, adjusted the back of the seat, and whistled in a leisurely manner.

A few seabirds flew over and stopped at the bow.

“I will retire later.” Opal said: “You can live here.”

Raymond smiled and said: “Why are you so fond of the new and tired of the old? Last time, I said that I wanted to go to Rembrandt for retirement.”

Opal said: “Rembrandt is a trivial comparison with Aquastar!”

Raymond said: “There is also the green Mercury. The three most beautiful planets in the universe, blue water, green water, and female Luoxing.”

Opal squinted his eyes, the sun shining on him, and he was lazy, and the transparent sea mother passed by the zenith above them, and a gentle breeze blew.

The waves rustled and neither of them spoke. After a long time, Opal fell asleep.

The transparent window of Sea Breeze’s Love was closed, and the surroundings gradually dimmed. Opal slept very comfortably. I don’t know how long it took. Raymond said, “Hey, work.”

Opal became confused, stretched out, and the surrounding scene has changed. There are large clusters of luminous objects covering the top of the head in the deep blue sea bottom, like stars shining brightly in the sky. With the shimmering fish swimming by, Opal realized that he had entered the sea and lowered his head to adjust his wristband.

A thin layer of white light appeared around the two of them. This is a light force field oxygen suit specially made by Aqua Blue Star, which will not hinder movement and is very convenient. The seawater is filtered by the outer conversion function, and oxygen enters the protective compartment about one centimeter away from the body to provide breathing.

“Get off.” Raymond said: “Try to get used to it.”

Opal tried to walk a few steps on the submarine tarmac, only to find that the sound he heard was very distinctive. Water is the sound-conducting medium. Compared with air, human voices have become very strange. The light force field diving suit will automatically adjust the buoyancy and water resistance, which is similar to that on the ground, like a planet with very little gravity.

Opal said: “It’s really interesting.”

Raymond opened the diary of the mercenary, projected a projection, and the light screen was rippling in the water, and said: “Go to the Ocean Heart Hotel to find an employer…buy a bunch of purple enchantresses. Don’t run around, come back. Come here and follow the street signs. .”

Opal walked forward along the avenue of broken shells paved on the bottom of the sea. His pupils reflected luminous objects suspended in the air. They found that they were fluorescent plants, some slowly floating up, and some sinking from the sea. Collect sunlight from a distance of ten meters from the surface of the sea and then sink to bring light to the bottom of the sea.

Raymond motioned to Opal to take the blue shuttle and drove the car to the side of the platform. There was a huge pipe with a brilliant light sealed at the opening. The two of them drove in. The sea rushed back and returned to the dry area.

“Who are those?” Opal said.

Outside the pipe, a group of indigo-blue humanoids with webbed hands and feet quickly swam past. A female smiled and waved with them, swimming away like a sea monster.

The Aqua Shuttle stopped in the central hangar. Lei Meng got off the car and put the mechanical axe back on his back. He said, “I am a native of Aqua Blue Star. If I want to wander around the ocean floor, I still have a lot of time, so I go to the employer first.”

The construction of submarine pipelines for tourists to enjoy in all directions extends in all directions. After all, many alien visitors do not like to soak in the sea for a long time, and most of them choose to enter the dry area to rest. Almost all the places are transparent. Every time you walk you can see the beautiful bottom of the sea, the corals are thriving, and the manta rays spread over their heads with six-meter-long wings.

Opal bought a bunch of purple enchantress, and soon discovered something was wrong: “You hold this flower…”

Lei Meng said blankly: “No, you take it, this is the command of the regiment leader.”

Opal said: “That’s enough!”

The purple enchantress waved its kelp-like leaves and looked very irritable after leaving the water. She kept stretching out the sucker-like stamens to attract the opal’s face. Opal repeatedly took the flower disc from her face uncomfortably. Pull off the neck.

Raymond went to the door of the hotel room where his employer was staying and rang the doorbell, and the little robot opened the door.

A young man said: “You are finally here! My mercenary! Very good, very good! Come so early!”

Raymond said: “Hello, Mr. Ban, we are the Smoke and Sword Mercenary Corps, first check your identity…”

Opal was still fighting with the purple enchantress, his nose was sucked, and the stamens sprayed out red mucus, which looked like a nosebleed on his face.

“I knew you would come!” Class said: “Please help me, to meet the little Jiejie I am thinking about…”

Raymond: “…”

Opal stepped on the purple enchantress behind them, trying to get its sucker to leave his thigh.

Ben: “His smile is like a dream. You know I know him. Every night I meet him in the dream machine of fantasy movement… He is like my family…”

Raymond: “…”

Opal finally solved the Purple Enchantress, he angrily threw it to the wall, making a funny splash of liquid.

“Love is a puff of smoke from a sigh, lingering and flickering, time flies, twelve beautiful plants, please come and kiss me…”

Raymond: “Ah, do you have a topographic map?”

Ben: “I believe he loves me deeply, too, what do you think?”

Opal: “When will the concert start?”

Raymond: “Tomorrow night, when there will be a lot of people, we have to start the investigation in advance.”

Opal: “Mr. Employer, please calm down…”

Ban: “Do you know love?”

Opal: “He shouldn’t kiss you!”

Ban: “You don’t know what □□ is at all!”

Raymond: “…”

Opal: “…”

Raymond said: “We will do our best, but we cannot guarantee that we can get everything you want. The best case is… Let you be alone with him for a short period of time, and you have to figure out the rest on your own. .”

Ban walked around in the room, murmured with excitement: “Even if you don’t come, I will make every effort to meet him. He will definitely meet me, and I know he will…”

Raymond and Opal closed the door and came out with a black line.

“Let’s investigate the backstage and lounge of the Azurite Throne first.” Raymond pondered for a moment: “Looking for a possible route to advance. At that time, we have three tickets, including the restroom, the electronic dressing room and the changing room. Compare his program list. , Try to solve this problem before the opera starts.”

They took the speed car in the pipeline. Aquastar has developed tourism industry. There are sealed pipelines everywhere on the seabed, leading to the Aquamarine Throne in the middle of the sea. Only after Opal realized that Ledgerson’s pomp was really underestimated.

Before the performance started, the ring theater was already tightly guarded. Each planet’s key players had special seats. The theater occupies an area of nearly 800,000 square meters and is divided into sixteen floors, with suspended seats ranging from special to seventeen. arrangement. Outside every three or four steps, there are three-purpose super guard robots guarded by water, land, and air.

Opal and Raymond stood outside the safe area eating fresh fish and hot dogs, while looking at the entire venue, there were tourists everywhere, and many people took pictures outside the poster. Household robots, humans, and intelligent life from various planets were in the venue. There was a long queue outside.

“Can E7 solve the security system?” Raymond said.

Opal: “I think it’s a bit mysterious…If the wrench can do this step, you don’t need to be a mercenary.”

E7 dimpled and approached the side door under the direction of Opal, and looked like a little trouble in front of the super guard robot. The other side lights up a red light to warn it to go back.

E7 murmured a radio wave, was electrocuted by the big robot, and ran away in smoke.

Opal said: “No.”

“Go in from above?” Raymond motioned to him to look at the top of his head. The Azurite Throne was fifty meters high, with the top protruding out of the sea level, and the skylight should be in contact with the sea air.

Opal said: “There should be guards too…”

Really difficult, Raymond said: “Then I have to tomorrow…”

Opal suddenly said: “No, I have a way. Put it on me.”

He noticed that several robots were installing projection brackets outside the theater, and asked Raymond to take E7 to gate 5 to prepare. He stooped and hid behind a pile of iron boxes, looking at the 30-meter-high diagonally opposite. place.

The engineering robot will install twelve new projectors there to project a giant holographic advertisement before the concert opens tomorrow. The metal-dissolving liquid ray machine is floating in the air and emits a cast-film acoustic resonance toward the welding place.

“What do you want to do?” Raymond’s voice came from the ear buttons.

Opal did not answer, the distance was so far, he was not too sure.

He took a deep breath, pushed his hands forward obliquely, his left and right palms facing each other, closed his eyes, and twisted towards a high place.

The metal welding machine hovering in the air turned lightly, and the ray swept towards a guard robot guarding in front of Gate 4. It immediately turned into a pool of molten iron, crackling and rushing, and then the battery exploded, blowing its partner out with a bang.

At that moment, it alarmed the machine guards at several nearby doors. The surrounding robots gathered there. The E7 sprinted to the theater door 5 against the ground, found the control panel next to the safe passageway, stabbed the data cable in, and cracked it after a while. With an independent safety door lock.

Opal’s figure swept away, and the two flashed into the safe passage behind the robot.

It was pitch black inside, E7 released the illuminating light, Opal said: “Here!”

The two of them hid in the innermost slit, and Raymond and Opal’s bodies were close to each other, and they did not dare to make a sound of anger. Outside, a patrol robot swept the lights around, passing through the passage.

After the robot, Opal and Raymond came out. Raymond stood inside the deep passage, looking at the red light screen floating on the wall. That is the map for emergency evacuation in case of danger.

“Go here, hurry!” Raymond said, “Go around on the left, and the exit is the side entrance of the twelfth-class seat.”

The two ran fast, with very light steps, and after a short breath, there was a dead end at the end.

Raymond stepped forward to push the door, locked it, and motionless.

“Go from above!” Opal said: “There are vents.”

Raymond used a long-handled mechanical axe to stab the skylight of the passage. The two climbed a long distance one after another, and saw a light shining from below.

“It’s locked from the outside.” Raymond said: “Can E7 be opened?”

Opal put E7 behind the lattice window, and E7 stretched out a bunch of tools to go around the vent to unscrew the safety screw. The moment the last screw was sucked away by the magnetic knife, Raymond immediately reached out and grabbed the metal window. Opal One turned over and landed on the auditorium with a soft noise.

Then Raymond stretched out his foot and stepped on the back of the opal, causing him to fall again.

Opal: “!”

Raymond made a “hush” motion and pulled him up. The two stood in the theater and realized that they had really underestimated the area of the venue.

Surrounded by rows of seats, covering an area of 800,000 square meters, the sky light on the top of the Kyanite Throne showered with white light everywhere, like a holy place.

They stood in the middle of the seats and became two small black spots.

There was a human voice, it was Ledgerson’s voice.

Ledgerson: “…At that time, the water polo will spread out layer by layer, and the resonance of the chest cavity will pass through the air and finally enter the water. I promise this is an unforgettable experience…”

Woman’s voice: “Dear prince, I really didn’t expect you to be willing to try this gill…”

Ledgerson: “Aha, it’s just a small operation to get this kind of unforgettable opportunity. I personally think it’s worth it… Jasmine?”

The girl’s voice said, “You should take a little more rest. It will take more than ten hours to get used to it after the operation.”

Opal poked his head out and looked around. The people on the stage were all black spots, and they couldn’t see who was who, but the voice was very clear, as if echoing in his ears.

“Go down?” Opal asked.

Raymond couldn’t make up his mind, and said, “Here.”

The two leaned back behind the seats, using the backrests to cover them all the way, and got a little closer. The center of the stage was still talking, as if there were many people discussing tomorrow’s concert.

“God.” Opal whispered: “It seems they are all amazing guys.”

Raymond was obviously also a little nervous. The people in the center of the stage saw it clearly. There were a dozen people in total, and the most conspicuous was naturally the opera prince Ledgerson. His dress is not exaggerated at all-a slim white shirt, a beautiful waistline, a pair of casual trousers, and his brilliant blonde hair is like a golden fire in heaven in the sun.

The second is a…woman in a military uniform. Perhaps a female is more suitable to describe her. Her hair is very long and her skin is blue. She should be a water blue star.

Ledgerson: “Rou, what do you think?”

The blue banshee thought for a while and smiled: “I promise they will think this is very novel…”

Raymond whispered: “She is the leader of Aqua Blue Star, Admiral Rou, who is said to be a strong man no less than Azeroth.”

Opal remembered the spanner’s teaching. It seemed to be mentioned a long time ago that she owns one of the top mechas in the universe.

“Where is that little girl?” Opal motioned to Raymond to look at the girl standing next to Ledgerson in the center of the stage.

The girl wore a slim white dress and her hair was soft brown, as if she had a good relationship with Ledgerson.

Raymond shook his head blankly, and Opal said: “I heard Ledgerson just called him Jasmine. Hey, look at that man.”

On the edge of the stage, a man sat not too far from them.

He had three earrings pierced in his ears, his hair stood up like a thorn, and his face looked careless. With a cigarette in his mouth, he carried a big sword behind his back.

The big sword and Opal’s weapons are very similar. This is the first time Opal has seen a person using the same type of weapon.

Raymond said: “Who is he? Do you know him?”

Opal shook his head: “Although his great sword is similar to mine, he is offensive. Both edges are sharp. I am defensive… One edge is a sharp edge, and a blunt edge is used for defense and attack…”

There was a voice coming from behind, and Raymond immediately said: “Hide, hurry up.”

They both turned over and hid under the audience at the same time. A robot scanned the seats line by line. On the stage, Ledgerson was still talking to Rou, but the girl named Jasmine next to him found something, and walked off the stage toward the robot and work. Staff came.

“What’s the matter?” Jasmine asked.

The person in charge said: “There is a little accident outside, I am afraid that someone will come in and overheard.”

The man jumped off the stage, smoking a cigarette, and following Jasmine, the three of them stopped on the aisle beside the auditorium where Opal and Raymond were hiding.

Man: “Go back and leave it to us here.”

Jasmine said: “Who is’us’ with you.”

Ledgerson said, “What’s the matter, Ulka?”

The man named Ulka shrugged, the person in charge left, Jasmine glanced at him and turned back to the stage. The prince of the opera and Admiral Rou continued to talk, and Ulka was foolish, stepping on the front seat, and sitting down in the line where Opal and Raymond were hiding.

The two turned their heads and saw Ulka’s boots stepping on the ground, shaking indifferently.

Opal: “…”

Opal made a fighting gesture, moved his eyebrows, and pointed to the outside, motioning me to draw him away. You took the opportunity to run away. Raymond shook his palm, motioning not to mess around.

Opal thought for a while, closed his eyes, radiated the power of faith, and tried to influence the person sitting on top of his head… let him get up and leave.

He didn’t know if this method had any effect. He just concentrated his mind and repeated silently in his heart, Ulka, get up, walk away, and leave here.

Ulka moved restlessly, and Ledgerson’s voice in the distance stopped abruptly and broke off abruptly, for a brief moment of embarrassment.

Ledgerson said, “Oh, dear Rou, I think I might have to go back to rest… for a while.”

Rou: “Are you uncomfortable?”

Ledgerson: “It’s okay, it’s just…”

Rou: “I will ask the doctor to visit you.”

Ledgerson glanced at Ulka in the stands and said casually: “Then, thank you very much, and look forward to everything going smoothly tomorrow.”

The people on the stage dispersed. Jasmine followed Ledgerson and left. Urka’s foot shaking stopped. Half a minute later, Urka said, “Come out, where did the thief come from?”

A hand stretched out from under the seat, Ulka turned around in an instant, a sword hit the ground, Raymond turned out silently, the mechanical axe swung away from behind, Ulka swung his big sword, When, when hitting Mars twice, Opal immediately joined the battle group, Ulka had already expected that with one hand, the mechanical sword split into two immediately!

Ulka’s left-handed mother sword resisted Raymond’s mechanical axe, and the right-handed child sword swept away, and slammed into the opal. The force was surprisingly strong. Holding a large sword in each hand was like a fan. Inattentive, with ease.

Raymond said: “Run!”

Opal and Raymond fought and retreated, but Ulka collected the weapon, dangling cigarette, and smiled.

More than ten super guard robots surrounded them, focusing rays shot from all directions, all set on Opal and Raymond, as long as they shot, they would have to be blasted into pieces.