The Star Knight - 63. Chapter Sixty Three

Wrench said: “A lot of Phantom Star’s political prisoners were originally held here. In the time without a date, a certain prince of Phantom Star set off a revolution to overthrow the rule of the overlord. However, he failed and finally brought a large number of people with him. His subjects were imprisoned in Jixing.”

Opal understands that, so to speak, the open rooms inside are all prison cells!

Raymond said: “What about now? All the guys inside are dead?”

Wrench said: “The method of reproduction of the phantoms is very special. They have no gender and can live for nearly 20,000 years. Before they die naturally, they can reproduce a single individual and pass on many knowledge of the ontology. But this reproduction process requires In the vicinity of the magic blue fluorite, the influence of the magnetic field and the mother stone is used to nurture a new radio wave life form. After the birth of a new individual, the body naturally dies.”

Opal: “What if you don’t breed?”

Wrench: “Who knows? All will die, nothing in the universe will never die, even black holes will evaporate… Looks like this, there are no prisoners inside.”

In the communicator, Lily’s voice said: “My dear, you guessed it again, but I don’t think it was a natural death, but a massive escape from prison.”

“Yeah.” Wrench said: “I don’t want to stay here, two of you, will you follow us, or be a hero by yourself?”

“Let’s act together first.” Raymond said: “It depends on the actual situation.”

Opal stretched his arms and said, “To be honest, I think there is an A-level mercenary group. There is basically no chance for us to be a hero.”

Wrench said: “This is not necessarily… prepare everyone to bring some equipment and start work. Lily and the others are responsible for approaching the central area. Our task is to turn on the energy furnace… Igor, you are responsible for staying and commanding. And the little robot. How about taking care of each other?”

Opal: “No problem, E7, you can stay here.”

Opal knew many people from the Twelve Nebula Mercenary Corps, but couldn’t name them. He only knew that the red hair was called “Kun”. He and Raymond were at the end of the line. There was a smiling fat man in front of him, and a fat man in front of him. A dark-skinned teenager, half a head shorter than Opal, surrounded by a tall and thin boy.

“Kay.” said the dark-skinned teenager, and introduced the tall and thin young man to Opal: “This is my fiance’s bridge.”

Opal greeted them, and then facing forward was a very long-winded middle-aged man, Wrench said impatiently: “I see, I see.”

The head is a strong man, about the same height as Raymond, but bigger than him, carrying a cross-like weapon on his back, Opal has seen that thing-it is a photon cutting shield.

Six people seem to have their own strengths.

After entering the planet, the temperature became slightly warmer. In the endless darkness, Opal glanced at the probe and showed that the surrounding temperature was 4°C.

“What are you thinking?” Raymond said.

Opal shook his head, Raymond came over and draped his shoulders, Opal dangled the lamp towards him, and saw his handsome face in the dark night, and his deep eyes were like bright stars in the quiet universe.

“A prison.” Opal whispered: “What treasure do you think there will be?”

“Maybe it’s a magnetic field generator.” Leimen squinted, and said, “Or maybe it’s a weapon against the Phantom People. Don’t you understand? It’s about the Phantom People here, and of course there are devices to restrain them. The magic stars have always been mysterious. They never mention themselves to other races, including history, culture…”

Opal got it.

“It’s very likely.” Opal said: “Because the Phantasmal Man fell to Cololin, the Empire and the Republic want this weapon. If the two sides fight a war, it is tantamount to mastering a certain weakness of the Phantasmal Man… ”

“You know too much.” Wrench said: “It is best not to discuss this too much, otherwise it will be easy to be mutilated by Wang…”

The mercenaries were climbing along the ropes under the platform. They had entered the second floor area. Opal lights up towards the dark wall, showing a line of magic star characters, and the reflective wordmark seemed to flow slowly under the light source.

In the end, Raymond and Opal slid down the rope.

“Take a while.” Wrench glanced at the timer and said, “We have been going forward for eight hours, Lily, how are you over there?”

Lily’s voice said, “No problem, everything is normal.”

“Can you eat something?” Kun handed the food to Raymond. Raymond picked it up and said to Opal, “Hey, don’t run around. Wife, you’ve always been crazy.”

He took two small cups and handed one to the opal.

Opal took it, drinking water and walking around the well-known corridor, looking around.

There is a number in front of each room, confirming that it is a prison cell, some with the door closed, and some are wide open.

“Since they are all radio-wave creatures.” Opal said, “Why use solids to close them?”

Raymond said: “Radio waves also have penetrating limits, like lead and cadmium. You see, when they built this prison, they obviously had double insurance. There may be a magnetic field generator inside the silent star that traps all prisoners. , Plus these sealed squares.”

Opal stood in front of a closed door and said, “That means there will be something in it?”

Raymond said: “What do you think? Open it?”

Opal frowned and glanced at Raymond. Raymond smiled and said, “I’m controlled by the magic star. Something is hypnotizing. I asked me to open him, uh… there is a family crowded inside, the magic star father, The magic star mother, two magic star children…”

Opal: “It’s not funny at all, you forget how they breed?”

Both Raymond and Opal laughed and went back to the camp with their shoulders on their shoulders.

Opal was still thinking, and Raymond said very little. When he returned, he saw an open room.

“Isn’t the door of this room closed just now?” Opal said.

Raymond stopped and said: “How do I remember it was opened…”

When Opal sensed something wrong, he signaled Raymond not to speak, closed his eyes, and released the power of faith.

Everything around is as usual, and the neat prison cells are like countless tombstones, lined up into the distance.

“Wrench.” Opal still felt something was wrong, and said, “You opened the door of this room?”

The wrench did not raise his head and said: “Do you think the A-level mercenary group will be commissioned like the two boys Xun and Sid? Our group members are never cheap, are they all there? Report the number.”

“exist.”

“exist……”

The four members reported in turn, and the spanner said: “Where is the bridge?”

“Relieve it,” said the dark boy.

The brawny short-range professional holding a shield said: “Relax, you are too nervous, drink some sparkling wine?”

Opal nodded and said, “Thank you.”

The wrench is debugging several small pathfinder robots. Each robot turns into a different channel with a small detector. The speed is so fast that it will fly out of sight.

Opal saw the dark boy watching him and asked, “Your name is…”

“Kay.” The dark boy said: “Kay Bennink, a sphinx star.”

“No wonder.” Raymond laughed.

Kay said: “It’s very dark, isn’t it? Sphinx people have very dark skin, and the ultraviolet rays are too strong.”

The fat man said: “Are you from Sunshine City? I heard Lily talk about…”

“Lily.” Wrench said: “How is your side? Stars 1 to 10 will meet with you in three hours and open the full map of Ji Xing.”

“Everything is fine.” Lily’s voice replied, “I haven’t encountered an enemy yet, nor have I found those two boys.”

As soon as the wrench opened the communication, the few people chatting quietly fell silent, listening to their responses.

“Be vigilant.” Wrench said: “They are probably close to the central area.”

Opal said: “How many forces are there?”

“Pirates, soldiers of the Republic.” Wrench said: “In addition to our mercenaries, there are at least three forces active here…We have three days and six and a half hours. After the rest, we will continue to act.”

Several people stood up, the spanner hung the communicator next to the backpack, adjusted the baseball cap, and took a step.

The communicator rang.

Inside was a hysterical scream, followed by several gunshots.

The wrench immediately took off the communicator.

“Lily!”

“Ah-ah-”

Lily let out a violent scream, like a nervous breakdown, the scream stopped abruptly, and there was another muffled noise, followed by a long silence.

“Lily?” Wrench’s pupils shrank sharply, and there was no sound anymore.

“Urgent call.” The wrench took out another communicator and said in a deep voice: “Lily? Tucker? Igor? Are you all there? Stay and command, answer me!”

The other communicator was full of rustling.

“Lily.” The wrench’s voice couldn’t help shaking: “This is not fun, can you hear me?! Answer me, Lily!”

Opal and Raymond glanced at each other.

The members of the Twelve Nebula Mercenary Group did not speak. After a long time, there was a man’s groan from the communicator, followed by another gunshot, and the groan was cut off.

The wrench gasped sharply, and three seconds later, he made a decision.

“Raimon and Opal assist me, we continue to the central area.” Wrench said: “Kun led the team! Kay went back to the detention office and sent a long wave to Azeroth! The others followed the chip instructions and went with Lily and the others in advance. Confluence, now, act now!”

Everyone started to run, Jixing’s gravity was very small, and the running speed was very fast. Opal didn’t even have time to talk, so he shot out like Raymond Arrow, the wrench slapped a sealed tube, and flashing phosphorescence floated along the dark passage. , Illuminating the faces of the three.

“Wrench, you are running too slow.” Raymond said, “Where to go?”

“Here.” The wrench panted a little, they ran to a platform, there was no road in front of them, all the cells were suspended, Raymond strode out, leaped, and flew in mid-air with the guiding light. To the first cell.

“Be careful!” Opal said.

Raymond stood firm on the edge, almost fell, and then turned around by the falling force, throwing out the rope, and Opal tied it to a ladder on his side.

“Let’s go.” Opal said.

The wrench leaned forward, and blood sprayed the opal head.

Opal: “!!!”

“Wrench!!” Opal roared.

Opal turned abruptly and saw a long knife revealing its blade from the right shoulder of the spanner. Behind was the young Sphinx Kaye holding the knife. His eyes were hollow, and the face of the spanner immediately changed. Opal drew out the big sword. Forced Kaye back, and shouted: “Get out of the way!”

Kay let go of the knife, a backflip in mid-air, and the opal followed him like a shadow. He slapped his side with a sword, and at the same time, he thought about it. This was controlled!

Some magic star must have escaped! Where did it come from? !

Opal panted frantically, and the wrench was now unconscious. The person in front of him was very fast, and he was silent as soon as he dived into the dark, and Kay was missing in just two fights.

Opal looked around and roared: “Raymond!”

Lei Meng stood quietly in the distance like a ghost, also controlled? ! Who is okay? ! Opal dragged his big sword back to check the wrench’s injuries. Unexpectedly, Kay appeared from the side and punched him in the jaw.

Opal snorted. It seemed that this guy’s combat power had to be abolished first. He couldn’t help backing up, and he didn’t dare to fight Kaye directly, hiding in the dark, holding a sword in his left hand, and grabbing a virtual distance with his right hand. Beside the wrench, a light tube filled with guiding phosphors flew around, and at the same time the opal gave way to the side, and Kay appeared in shape!

With a soft sound, the light pipe shattered, powder filled the entire space and lit up everywhere, and countless phosphors were like fireflies in the dark, lingering around the vast abyss below the platform.

Opal finally caught Kay’s every move, but still dragged his sword to retreat, and at the same time quickly analyzed his habit of attacking routines for a short time, until Kay kicked his foot sideways and kicked his lower abdomen.

Opal is waiting for this opportunity!

He instantly drew the dagger from his waist and swept it horizontally. Kay’s left foot was cut off immediately, and his whole person fell heavily to the ground.

Kaye didn’t make a sound, lying on the ground couldn’t help rolling and convulsing, Opal put away his dagger, closed his eyes, and explored the surrounding area.

Darkness.

Where is the magic star? !

There is no target at all, no enemies!

Opal had to turn around to look at the wrench.

“Wrench?!” Opal said: “Raymond! Are you still alive?! Wake up!”

“Controlled by… Magic Stars…” Wrench said: “Opal… Are you okay?”

Opal said: “I’m not under control, what should I do now?”

The wrench clutched his injured shoulder, and gasped: “Keep walking, leave Raymond alone… Go to the energy furnace… Restart the central energy…”

Opal roared: “Raymond!”

Raymond was still standing in the center of the platform. Opal was too far away from him. He resisted the wrench and stood still for a moment. Finally, he had no choice but to ignore it and said: “Wrench, I am carrying you on my back, where do I go? You show the way, where is your team member? ?do not care?”

Wrench said: “He has… an emergency life-saving belt… Go!”

Opal looked at Raymond with his back to him from a distance, and resolutely pulled the rope, cut the rope, swung out an arc with a wrench, and swung to another platform tens of meters below.

The steps are intricate and intricate. Opal is holding the spanner half-bearing and half-carrying, and his body is covered with his blood. The stairs are full of corpses. Opal first has a meal, and then gasps in disbelief.

“Keep going!” the wrench roared.

Opal: “A soldier or a pirate?”

Wrench: “Both! Have killed each other!”

Opal: “Is it also to open up the central energy?”

Wrench: “God knows… I see the way, right here!”

Opal walked down quickly, the two went down to the bottom, the wrench panting, the blood stopped, the small belt glowed with therapeutic rays, and in front of it was a huge black well that was unfathomable. The entire well covered nearly ten square kilometers. , Like a swarthy pit.

The opal and the wrench are as small as ants, the light is condensed into a single point, and it climbs down manually along the steps of the edge of the black well.

“This is an energy well.” The blood on the wrench’s face has dried up, and he whispered: “I will let you do whatever you want later. Restart the energy core.”

Opal’s heart was pounding, he said: “What will happen after turning on the energy?”

Wrench said: “Resume the lighting first, there must be a magic star prisoner ran out, this prison will prepare an emergency mechanism…”

Inside the energy well is a set of bizarre reaction furnaces. The wrench stumbled to the front of the console, docked a portable optical brain with the control line, and said, “Opal.”

“What.” Opal held the lights, there were endless nights everywhere, only the white light was glowing around them, Opal was thinking about Raymond, until they left the platform, Raymond still did not move, hope He don’t want to be controlled… is he struggling? Humanoid lifeforms may have stronger anti-interference ability than humans, but I hope he will hold on.

Opal doesn’t want to fight Raymond.

“Opal.” The wrench turned on the light brain, began to analyze the console data, and said: “If it is the worst case later, you will run along the same road towards the exit when you came, and go outside Jixing to wait for Azeroth. .”

“How about you?” Opal said.

“I died together with Lily.” Wrench said: “Let’s get started, push up the lever over there, then pull out the handle and turn it counterclockwise…”

Is everyone under control? Opal stepped forward to operate, and immediately awakened, the Twelve Nebula Mercenary Group was under illusion control. Lily’s team came in from another direction. They attacked each other, so gunshots came out from the communicator. .

Raymond, Kun, the boy named Kay…most of the others can’t escape.

Opal has the power of faith and will not be controlled by the magic star, but why is the wrench okay? This is illogical… Opal said: “Wrench.”

Wrench glanced at Opal.

“Why aren’t you under control?” Opal said suspiciously.

The wrench replied: “I don’t know either.”

When it was said that it was too late, the two raised their heads at the same time, and Opal roared: “Dodge!!”

Within one second, the wrench rolled on the spot, a strong wind burst out from a hundred meters above his head, and Raymond slashed straight down with his axe!

Opal knelt on one knee and dragged the sword by one block. The weapon collided with a loud noise, and the deafening impact echoes agitated in the energy well.

“Raymond–!” Opal roared.

Raymond’s pupils repeatedly rotated, contracted, spread, and contracted again, as if taking a crosshair. The two of them moved away as soon as they touched them, and leaped to the sides. Four electromagnetic light flares flew in, and Opal kept the sword in front of him at all times. , With a subtle twist of his wrist, the light bullet was blocked to the sky, and a few seconds later, there was a dull big explosion at the top!

The three suspended cells lost their balance, and one end fell into the energy well, making a series of loud noises, causing the earth to tremble. After opal hid in the bunker, he closed his eyes and released the power of faith. There was no magic star person. Trace.

what happened? ! Opal couldn’t believe all this, and Raymond had no trace of being manipulated.

The buzzing long cannon gathered energy and dragged out a light trail in the darkness, and Raymond’s figure approached silently. The moment Opal opened his eyes, the energy cannon reached his chest!

“No–!” Opal growled.

Raymond pulled the trigger, and a white light pierced Opal’s chest in an instant. At the last second, Opal finally understood the cause and effect.

The power of conviction of the stars was released quickly, and then returned to their own body. With a roar and loud hum, the sky revolved in the mind, and the fantasy star man who controlled the opal was forcibly expelled from his body.

Everything in front of him disappeared, and Opal opened his eyes again-back to the temporary camp outside the prison.

A group of blue light made a sharp sound and left, Opal held the sword in his left hand and pushed his right hand forward, the conviction field of the stars revolved, and the dark surroundings were shining like the day, thousands of stars turned into meteors, chasing the blue light!

The blue light couldn’t help avoiding it, disappearing quickly, and the wrench roared: “Opal!”

Opal’s faith was interrupted and immediately awakened.

Wrench said: “Are you awake? What’s the matter?!”

Opal said: “It turned out to be controlled by me! Damn!”

In the next second, all the people who were standing still awoke from a dream.

The wrench looked at several people, and Raymond was the first to calm down and said: “Have you hallucinated?”

“Yes, are you okay?” Opal said: “I just had a dream. I have gone to the energy furnace with the wrench, and you fired a shot at me.”

Everyone was sweating profusely, as if fished out of the water.

“Yes! Lily!” Opal said: “Hurry up and contact her!”

Wrench: “Their passage is blocked. There is a place where they can’t get through. They have to wait for the central energy furnace to be turned on here.”

There was chaos in the passage.

Kun: “What happened just now? I was almost shot by a wrench!”

Kaye: “What about the bridge! Where is the bridge?”

Raymond: “Wait! Don’t talk!”

A few seconds later, the wrench first opened his mouth and said: “I just took a step, all of you are still there, and you can’t wake up, and are planning to go back and notify Azeroth to come and support.”

Raymond: “How many fantasy stars were there just now?”

Opal: “One, already gone.”

Raymond: “Are you sure there is only one.”

Opal closed his eyes, pressed with one hand, and said: “I’m sure there is only one, yes, I’m sure, I understand.”

“The fantasy star is completely hidden if he doesn’t take any action.” Opal looked at Raymond’s eyes and said: “No one can feel its existence. It will only shine when the illusion is released.”

Wrench: “Can you feel their presence?”

Opal: “Reluctantly, this one did not know where it came from. It seems that it can only create hallucinations and cannot manipulate people to perform actual actions.”

Opal’s brain was still buzzing and painful, Raymond said: “Go deeper?”

Wrench said: “Go ahead, Opal, you are in charge of investigating the surrounding area, as soon as there is a magic star appearing, you will immediately warn you.”

Opal nodded. The wrench didn’t ask where Opal’s ability came from. Maybe it’s inconvenient to say, but since it’s the first time, it’s easy to do. They followed the previous path. This time it’s very Be careful, stop and go, it took more than two hours to get to the platform.

“The following is an energy well.” Wrench said: “You have to find a way to go down first.”

Opal is always vigilant, not daring to take it lightly. There seems to be only one magic star, and I don’t know where to go. However, this one is very powerful, enough to control all of them… No, why is the wrench not controlled?

“Wrench.” Opal said.

The wrench was assembling an energy flyboard and said: “You better concentrate, Opal.”

Opal: “I can control the situation, I want to ask you something.”

The mercenaries followed the ropes to the platform one by one, with wrenches left on the heights, Raymond and Opal.

The wrench put the flying board in the air and motioned to Opal.

“Why didn’t you have hallucinations just now?” Opal asked.

Wrench was very puzzled and said, “I don’t know, what do you think?”

Opal frowned slightly, and Raymond said, “Go ahead, and it won’t be too late to discuss this later.”

The wrench stepped on the flyboard and said, “Do you want to try this?”

“No.” Raymond said: “You go down first.”

The wrench stepped down on the flyboard, Raymond did not rush down the rope, standing on a high place and whispered: “What did you find?”

Opal was very confused and couldn’t figure out his clues for a while. After a while, he said: “What appeared in the world of illusion you just saw.”

Raymond said: “Like a dream, you turned around and ran, I chased you, went to a place, and found Sid and Xun, you let them out, and Xun killed us in the end.”

Opal immediately said: “Where?!”

Raymond said: “Do you think the dreams that the Magic Stars instilled in us are true?”

“No, you have to verify it once.” Opal said: “There will be results soon.”

“Raymond!” Kun’s voice shouted below: “You better hurry up!”

“You go down and have a look.” Opal said.

Raymond and Opal got off the platform, and Raymond’s voice came from their ear buttons, saying: “Seventy-three corpses, thirty-six are pirates, and thirty-seven are soldiers of the Meteorite Legion.”

Opal said: “Bring the spanner’s flyboard and fly up. Let’s leave the team temporarily.”

Next, Raymond and the wrench briefly discussed for a while, Raymond stepped on the flyboard, Opal leaped up, holding Raymond’s waist from behind, and said: “Go to the place where you saw Sid and Xun in the hallucinations. ”

Raymond maintained a surfing motion and leaned slightly, opal pushed his hips mischievously, and the two walked around the corridor and headed to the other end.

Opal: “Does the hallucination involve your memory?”

Raymond: “No, is it cold? Will you wear a coat?”

Opal shook his head, Raymond looked back at him, the two of them touched their lips, Raymond said: “Grab steady, then what?”

Opal hugged Raymond’s waist, his jacket fluttered in the wind, and said, “The illusions that the guy created for us just now are all existing clips compiled from his own memory. This fantasy star has seen the outside of the energy well. I’ve seen Sid and Xun’s body, so these illusions were weaved.”

Raymond said: “I still don’t quite understand why it did this and hold us back?”

Opal said: “Are you dead in a hallucination?”

Raymond said: “No, you all can’t kill me, but I banged me half of my body to a mess, and I repeatedly asked you what’s wrong…make you sober.”

Opal laughed, and Raymond asked again: “What about you? How am I in your illusion?”

Opal said: “I’m almost… well, no, you are still very gentle.”

While talking, Opal suddenly thought of something extremely terrifying, and then asked: “Is there any blood on the corpses you saw?”

Raymond: “No.”

Opal: “Brain death?”

Raymond: “Perhaps, the wrench was checking when I came up.”

Opal murmured: “We almost died just now…just a little bit. It turns out that if we die in hallucinations, we will lose all control of consciousness.”

Raymond was silent, Opal thought of another thing, and said: “All hallucinations come from the consciousness and memory of the fantasy star person.”

Raymond hummed, Opal said: “In my hallucinations, the wrench is not controlled.”

Raymond said: “In fact, he has not been controlled.”

Opal said: “Did you notice this too? Another point is that the magic star also thinks that the wrench cannot be controlled, and it is not that he is missing, because the wrench is normal in my hallucination world, which means that he is in the magic star. In cognition, it is also uncontrollable.”

Raymond: “I’ve always been a little strange, even you are not spared, how can a wrench resist hallucinations?”

Opal didn’t know clearly, and Raymond said again: “It may also be that the degree to which a person is affected by the magic star is inversely proportional to his physique. Thinking like a wrench is more complicated and consumes a lot of brain power…”

Opal: “Do you mean that I have well-developed limbs and a simple mind?”

Raymond laughed, manipulating the flying board to turn around in the air, and slowly landed.

“Shhh…” Raymond said, “Speak down.”

Opal and Raymond were lying on the top of a cell and looking down. This was an apron with a small airship parked inside and many guards standing outside.

“Perhaps he has been immune to Azeroth for a long time…” Opal whispered.

Raymond hissed: “You just don’t think the wrench has an illusion. You are controlled so you are not reconciled…”

Opal gritted his teeth and said: “Yes!”

Raymond: “Come here and get ready to act.”