The Star Knight - 44. Chapter Forty Four

The war was delayed, and the mercenaries began to do nothing. Drinking and wandering every day, going to the lake of Liexing for barbecue, surfing vacation to pass the day, anyway, the fixed money and promotion points will be credited to their account.

The Twilight Lake outside the city of sunset is so big that it is as big as the ocean as far as the eye can see. There are many fresh and strange creatures in the freshwater lake. Opal started to learn to swim under the instruction of Raymond.

“Float.” Raymond said: “The whole body is taut, like a corpse.”

Opal drank a few sips of water and fluttered in embarrassment. Raymond half-held him and took him to the shallow water area.

Opal coughed a few times, both of them were wearing only beach shorts, and the blue necklace was dripping with water on Raymond’s chest.

Opal noticed that he was wearing this necklace anytime, and asked curiously: “Who gave this to you? Former lover?”

Opal picked up the pendant with his fingers and looked at it over and over.

Raymond said: “Without a lover, you always don’t believe it, don’t touch it.”

Opal patted Raymond’s chest and said, “I will try again.”

Raymond’s face was reddened, and he let go of the palm holding the opal wrist and motioned him to practice, while he uncomfortably sorted out his beach pants and turned to shore.

When Raymond walked to the shore, Opal stood in the water and gasped slightly. His body was a little hot, and he licked his lips. At that moment, he was a little impulsive, with a desire to put an impulse into practice.

Raymond always seems to be very serious. He never talks to him about certain aspects. Opal thinks of Suiyan, and Xun and Sid, who are mixed up when they first meet. The mercenaries are always very casual about this kind of things. Think of fantasy paradise as a kind of entertainment… But Raymond’s conditions are really good, although he is not as handsome and sunny as Suiyan.

A fierce opal plunged into the water, opened his eyes, and the sun shone through the clear shallow water on the sand under his feet.

“Learned?” Raymond said.

Opal’s skin dripped water upside down, lying on the beach chair next to Raymond, and nodded. Raymond wore sunglasses and said: “Learning to swim can cope with many crises. When a situation arises, just barely drown in the water.”

Opal looked sideways at Raymond. The two looked at each other for a moment. Raymond bent his foot unnaturally, as if hiding something, and said, “What?”

Opal said: “Does your necklace have any meaning?”

Raymond didn’t answer, saying: “You like this very much? Give it to you, I don’t know the meaning.”

He wanted to untie the necklace, Opal hurriedly said, “I just ask, I don’t want it.”

Opal was actually looking at him by looking at the necklace. Raymond was perfectly well-proportioned and his face was not as handsome as Suiyan, but he was also a handsome man. He had the toughness and masculinity of mercenaries, not as handsome as Opal with big eyebrows and big eyes. , But don’t have a temperament.

The sweat on his bronze chest reflects the sun, his six-pack abs are hard and sexy, and a few strands of hair that the beach pants can’t hold are exposed under his abs.

“Go water skiing.” Raymond got up and said.

Opal finished his drink, followed him on the wave breaker, and yelled “yo he”, and the two dragged out long waves, turning left and right on the lake, sometimes passing by, sometimes chasing one after another, Raymond He jumped up in a high-speed rush, drew a beautiful circle in the air, and smiled at Opal stinky.

Opal refused to admit defeat, and learned how he stepped on the wave board, jumped into the air, turned around and fell into the water with a snap.

Raymond laughed, turned back hurriedly, took Opal’s hand to take him out of the water, and shouted: “Hold on!”

The two of them stepped on a surfboard and were mentioned as the highest speed by Raymond. They rushed across the dusk lake and rushed to the depths of the endless lake. Opal could not stand steady several times, and Raymond backhanded him with his arms. , Let him hold his waist, Opal’s heart jumped out of his throat.

Both of them were topless, wearing beach pants on the bottom, Opal’s chest was against Raymond’s warm back, and almost immediately felt strange thoughts. He wanted to say something impulsively. What should I say at this time?

“Raymond!” Opal said loudly.

Raymond turned his head in the wind and smiled: “What?!”

Opal said: “I…ahhhhhhhhh!!! Be careful of the tree in front–!”

The next moment, the two of them slammed into a towering tree growing from the bottom of the lake in the middle of the lake, and they were hung on the branches of the tree and swayed.

Opal: “Hahahaha!”

Raymond: “…”

“I…” the opal was hung on a branch out of the water and asked: “Raymond, I have an idea, why don’t we…”

Raymond’s watch beeped beepingly.

Opal: “…”

Raymond ignored the communication signal and raised his head and said, “What? You say it first.”

Opal’s heart pounded wildly and said: “Do you want to play with me… play that fantasy, fantasy paradise?”

Raymond’s face was a little red, turned around to pick up the surfboard, and said, “I won’t, I haven’t touched that… will I give it to you?”

Opal said: “No, I want to buy one, uh, if you don’t like that thing, forget it…”

Raymond said: “Yes, I’m just a bit…well…”

Opal said: “If you are embarrassed, I can try first…be… the passive one, anyway, you choose first, depending on what you like, whatever you like.”

Raymond said: “It doesn’t matter to me, you go buy one, use our money.”

For a moment, Opal almost clearly felt Raymond’s emotions-anticipation and excitement.

When Raymond said this, he never looked at Opal. Opal licked his lips and was exasperated. It was like a child got what he had always dreamed of. Raymond never dared to look at him, and there was nothing on his handsome cheeks. Natural red. He stepped on the surfboard, floated and sinked by the lake, and said, “Come up.”

Opal stood up and took the initiative to hold Raymond’s waist. This time the speed was a little slower, and he slowly went out on the lake. Raymond switched on the watch, and there was an electronic female voice.

“Notice, at this moment, the state has stopped during the war, and the normal working order of the whole star is restored. All registered mercenaries are requested to report back to the group leader. After the group leader sorts out the list, immediately register with the branch of the trade union to which they belong.”

“Ah—” Opal and Raymond said helplessly at the same time.

“We can also take vacations.” Raymond said: “It’s just to cancel public holidays.”

Opal said: “Forget it, I have rested for too long, go back to the trade union and have a look.”

Opal went to change into his trousers and jacket, quite a bit contemplative, wishing to go back to the spaceship now… No, it’s still a matter of business.

Raymond is also a bit unnatural. It seems that the invitation of Opal just made the relationship between the two people a lot stranger. The ground suspension car was speeding on the road at high speed. Raymond drove the window and played music. Ledgerson’s singing sounded all the way. .

Neither of them spoke. After getting off the car at the entrance of Sunlight City Trade Union, Raymond went to squeeze the window. In the blink of an eye, there were all mercenaries, and there were more people than in the pre-war period.

The central communication sounded: “All mercenary group leaders, please go to the 13th to 49th window to complete the formalities. Any emergency commission received today will remain unchanged, and the promotion points will be doubled… I repeat…”

Opal said: “Is there such a good thing?”

“The backlog of commissions is too long!” One person explained to him: “The union is busy making us finish all the tasks ten weeks ago!”

Opal said: “Can you get the task now? That’s a lot of money? Don’t fight anymore?”

“Azeroth has formed an alliance with the empire!” the clerk shouted: “Stop fighting, everyone has escaped! The bitch of Coralin dare not come! I wish you a long life! The bonus points are added. Gave it! Let’s all go out! The magnetic storm is coming soon!”

“Raymond! Have you received it?!” Opal said.

Raymond squeezed in front of the service window, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers without looking back, Opal looked down at his mercenary diary, and the content was to assist the employer in investigating an ancient ruin.

“Great!” Opal glanced at the reward score: 820 points! After doubling, it is 1,600 points, which is enough to make him directly promote to D-level, while Raymond will easily break through D+ and be promoted to C-level.

“I’ll take E7 to repair the spacecraft.” Opal said.

Raymond smiled and said, “I’m going to overhaul the weapon and prepare it.”

Opal said: “Buy more iris wine…”

Opal returned to the tarmac and suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to buy Fantasy Paradise. He watched E7 inspecting the spacecraft and the charging robot came to dock the atomic furnace interface. It is a bit late to buy it now… Forget it, let’s talk about it later.

Raymond returned with the weapons of the two and took the shoulders of the Opal. The two went to Times-VI, E7 entered and closed the hatch, and the spacecraft set off.

Raymond went into the bedroom and looked around, took out a box from his backpack, thought for a while, put it in the drawer of the bedside table, thought about it again, took it out and put it in the retractable locker on the top of the bed.

“Raymond.” Opal asked outside: “What are you doing?”

Raymond: “No…nothing, just about to take a bath, what’s the matter?”

Opal opened the star map, sat in a swivel chair, entered the coordinates according to the mercenary diary, and said: “The mission location is here, the M75 dark open star cluster in the Sagittarius Nebula.”

“No specific location?” Raymond said.

Opal shrugged and said, “There is only a rough area, right here.”

He circled a dark area and said: “It is a space area with a length of about fifteen astronomical units. The employer asked us to look at all possible planets, and carry out on-site imaging and sample analysis. They thought there might be a space there. About 14,000 years ago, the remains of civilization in the Silver Age.”

Raymond said: “Wait a minute.”

Opal: “How?”

Raymond pondered for a moment, and said, “I think it’s okay to go to Rembrandt first and ask Mrs. Anta to be prepared.”

Opal nodded and changed his route to Rembrandt. He has been here once, connected to ground communications, and found Refina easily.

The sun was shining, and Lefina was drinking scented tea in the courtyard.

When Refina saw Opal and Raymond, he said: “Your king said that he is about to fight, so he threw me here. Now that he feels safe, let me go back again?”

Opal regretfully said: “Maybe someone will come to pick you up after a while… We actually didn’t come for this.”

Refina couldn’t laugh or cry, and said: “Sit down, I thought it was the gray wolf who arranged the itinerary for me without authorization.”

“I have a few small questions I want to ask you.” Raymond opened the mercenary diary and politely handed it to Refina, and said: “I hope this will not take up too much of your time.”

“My duty is to provide you with historical consultation.” Refina picked up the diary and said casually: “It’s not troublesome, so I said I should stay at Liexing…Let me see, ancient ruins survey? Enya , Bring my holographic book.”

Enya went back to get things, Opal took her tea tray and put the snacks on the table.

“This is your engagement ring?” Refina noticed the ring on Opal’s hand.

Opal hurriedly said: “No, no, he gave it to me, but it’s not an engagement ring.”

“You wear it on the ring finger.” Refina said: “According to the etiquette of the ancient earth people, this symbolizes the meaning of marriage…”

Opal took off the ring and said, “Do you know what age this thing is?”

Refina took the ring, and Raymond said, “This is a gift from the Black Ants. The wrench said it can send a signal to space.”

Refina looked at the ring at the sun, Enya came over with a book and tube lens, and Refina pressed a button. The tube lens projected a beam of light, which was refracted on the ring’s gems, and the light screen scrolled to analyze the data.

“The product of the civilization of Sekeria Temple.” Refina is much younger, but her voice and tone are still serious and rigid: “The neutrino amplitude data shows that the production period is about 13,000 years away.”

Opal and Raymond moved at the same time.

Raymond: “Has it been so long?!”

Opal: “How much can you sell?!”

Raymond: “Do you want to sell the things I gave you?!”

Opal said: “No! Don’t be so excited, I was curious to ask how much it is worth, which represents your love for me! Can I understand the weight of it?”

Raymond: “…”

Refina burst into laughter, and said: “Handmade products are of low artistic value, but they may be used for research purposes.”

Opal: “But Wrench said…”

Refina said, “It doesn’t matter if you are willing to trust Azeroth’s imperial mechanic.”

Opal didn’t say a word, Raymond remembered something, took out a stone, and asked: “What does the Sekeria Temple civilization mean?”

Refina took the ruby, which was what Azeroth bought from Sid last time for 200,000 yuan. Opal said, “You want to sell the heirloom?!”

Raymond said: “Why not?”

Opal: “This represents Azeroth’s love for our team!”

Raymond cried out: “You have enough!”

The corners of Refina’s mouth twitched, Opal put the ring back on her hand, and gave the gem to Raymond.

“So…” Refina smiled and said, “Let’s take a look at the ancient ruins of the M75 dark open nebula.”

She opened a two-page book, pressed a few buttons on the book, and jagged light was projected from the pages to form a three-dimensional projection map.

Refina paused for a moment, and said: “Who released this task?”

“Interstellar Ancient Civilization Exploration Association, Budalang…Ning Zweig Saoya Clay…Professor Lokos.” Opal squatted at the group of complicated names.

Raymond gestured with his eyes, and Opal immediately realized that they had made a mistake-leaking the employer’s private information to outsiders.

The corners of Opal’s mouth twitched slightly, and Raymond motioned his peace of mind with his eyes.

Refina said: “Gentlemen, I have the privileges assigned to me by Azeroth. It is not a leak to consult me about all commissions, otherwise how can I provide you with consulting services?”

Raymond smiled awkwardly, turned away and said to Lefina: “What’s the secret in the M75 Nebula?”

Refina was quiet for a while, narrowed her eyes and said: “Someone once asked me this question. The M75 nebula is a dark open nebula. Many dark areas are not recorded on the star chart. In the past seven hundred years, the place has undergone many gravitational field changes. There should be a dark star, which is moved along a fixed trajectory under the gravitational force of the surrounding celestial bodies, but no one has ever explored it. Because in this area, and this Piece……”

She circled two places in the dark area with her fingers, and said: “There is a neutron star in each of these two places. They form the intersection of a spherical gravitational field. Anyone’s spacecraft will be pulled into the two gravitational fields as long as they enter. Fragments.”

Opal: “But I don’t understand. Since these two neutron stars have such a strong gravitational force, why are they not attracted to each other?”

“Because they revolve around each other.” Refina said: “It’s like two wooden barrels facing each other on the edge of a whirlpool. Every 10,000 years, they will be close to each other tens of thousands of kilometers… or maybe hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Without the data, we have no way of knowing. The speculation is that they will eventually merge with each other and become a black hole.”

Raymond said, “Why isn’t this dark star affected by the surrounding planets? You know what I mean, I mean…”

Refina replied: “I guess the dark star is like a pendulum, moving in a simple harmonic motion within the gravitational range of two neutron stars, back and forth, the cycle may be a thousand years, or 10,000 years.”

Lei Meng calmed down, and Lefina said: “It has not emitted any radiation. We can only guess where it is based on the change and angle of gravity, and no one can even be sure that it really exists.”

Raymond: “I understand.”

Opal said: “I still don’t quite understand.”

Raymond said: “Go home and explain to you, don’t ask.”

Opal: “…”

Raymond got up to say goodbye to Refina, and suddenly thought of something, and asked: “Who ever asked you this question?”

Refina said: “Your fellow-the twin brothers. Go back and tell Azeroth that unless he personally invites him this time, I don’t want to move anymore.”

Opal smiled and said: “I will let the gray wolf come to invite you.”

An angry blush appeared on Refina’s face, Enya laughed, and Raymond put on Opal’s shoulders and bid farewell to Refina politely.

The two returned to the spacecraft. Raymond placed two virtual pinballs in the air and motioned to Opal: “The two neutron stars are slowly approaching. My fist is where we are going… Look. ”

Raymond made a fist and waved at the midpoint between the two pinballs, and said: “More than 10,000 years ago, the distance between the two neutron stars may not have been so close. Until now, their strong gravitational fields have begun to overlap. Together, every time a dark star comes out, it takes more than a thousand years. In this short time, we can land on the surface of the dark star and start surveying before it enters the gravitational field again.”

Opal also understood, he murmured: “It’s like a treasure house, opened every once in a while?”

Raymond said: “It should be like this, so things will be easier to handle…”

The communication rang while speaking.

Opal and Raymond said in unison: “E7.”

With a beep, a drowsy voice sounded from the spacecraft’s PA device, accompanied by the rustling of the communication channel.

“I am a wrench. Please pay attention to all units. Speed up to complete all your entrustment and return to the home star. The meteorite army led by Kolorin has attacked. The fierce star has entered a state of war. Please return to help as soon as possible.”

“What to do?” Opal said.

Raymond: “If the entrustment is not done yet, what’s the matter? It’s coming again suddenly?! E7! Change the route and go home!”

No matter how Opal and Raymond imagined it, it would never have been possible that the war would start without warning!

The scorching star is like when Opal first arrived, it was covered by a magnetic storm and thunderclouds. It has become a battlefield. Artillery is flying in the galaxy beyond Ares, and countless light bombs pass through the dark universe and shoot into the distant depths of space. , The six starry sky doors revolve around, bursting out majestic energy and electric light, forming a huge teleportation array, bursting with light, every second, mercenary spacecraft dragging the creation thunder and iridescent out of the five-dimensional space , Fly to Liexing.

Tens of millions of unmanned combat aircraft flew from a space carrier, flying like raindrops, and arc docking between millions of peripheral space stations formed an energy shield. Opal could hardly recognize the position, the surrounding space was trembling in the explosion, and a space station behind them had an earth-shattering explosion.

Times-VI rushed out of the flames and flew to the fierce stars. Opal still couldn’t help but look back and remember the thrilling scene.

“Wartime guard, enter your mercenary diary, identity number, voice, fingerprint, and pupil triple verification.” The space station outside the atmosphere of Liexing sent identity verification information.

Opal and Raymond had passed the perimeter defense, and when they returned to the ground, the entire fiery star had already boiled.

“Blow up the fuck!” The mercenaries roared and ran, and Sunlight City was in chaos.

Opal said: “Where to report! Hey! Where is Azeroth?!”

A mercenary closed the hatch and said loudly, “Azeroth has not yet returned! I was dragged by the people of the Empire——! Which mercenary group are you from! Come with me!”

“Warning—Warning—” Electronic sounds were everywhere, and all broadcasts sounded at the same time: “The outer space station defensive layer was destroyed. It is expected that the planetary defense war will begin in 17 hours.”

At that moment, all the mercenaries were boiling, and in the next second, after a brief silence, everyone ran out of the apron at a running speed. The police said loudly: “All get in the car! Take the regiment as a unit and report back to the branch union! Which one is assigned to–!”

Opal and Raymond were assigned to the City of Sunlight. When they got off the car, they couldn’t tell where they were. Another mercenary shouted: “Come with us! The mercenary union is closed! Go to the wartime information center!”

Tens of thousands of people entered a hall, countless mercenary diaries clocked in and reported in front of the self-service information desk, light screens flew around, magnetic storms came, the earth was dark, lightning passed through the sky, Opal said: “Damn, want to be in Fighting in magnetic storm weather.”

“The ground battle hasn’t started yet.” Raymond stood outside the union, looking up at the gloomy zenith.

“Look at the diary!” A mercenary leader who temporarily assisted shouted: “Boys! There is something you should do! Take your place and return to your post! Everyone sticks to their duties! Call me! We! Will win!”

“We will win! Brothers! Longevity!” The mercenaries yelled each and ran out of the information center. Thousands of floating vehicles lifted into the air on top of a magnetic storm and flew to their respective target locations.

Opal said nervously: “Raymond, what are you going to do?”

Raymond took a deep breath and replied: “Report to Mech 16 apron.”

Opal: “I’m going to the No. 2 Security Zone in the City of Souls of War, shall we separate?”

It rained heavily, and Opal suddenly discovered that this was the place they had officially met on the first day-the entrance of the Cuckoo Restaurant.

A long time ago, they were all strangers. Perhaps when they met here that day, Opal never thought that one day he would join the battlefield of this planet.

“Look.” Raymond said: “Opal, here.”

He opened the diary of the mercenary and pointed to the bottom line, where the merit value-zero was displayed. The remarks are “Team Merit.”

“Although we don’t fight in the same place, the merits are exactly the same.” Raymond said: “How many enemies I kill, you will automatically calculate here. On the contrary, you are also, regardless of each other, the merits are added together, I think , The scoring rules of other teams are also the same, fighting blood to protect their comrades in arms.”

“Yes.” Opal nodded.

Opal patted Raymond on the shoulder and said, “I give you my ring.”

Raymond said: “No, I am armored, you don’t have one, you keep it.”

The two remained silent for a short period of time, and the all-star broadcast once again sounded: “The defense battle of Guard 5 is about to start. All mech players will immediately go to the 16th apron to report.”

Raymond said: “I’m leaving, you pay attention to safety.”

Opal nodded silently and took a step forward. The two hugged tightly. After separating, Raymond ran to a floating car. Opal boarded a special train to the City of Souls of War, each looking for his own job in order to protect the planet. Fight.

——Volume 2•The Kingdom of Mercenary•End——