The Star Knight - 9. Chapter nine

Opal: “Teacher!”

He parked the car at the entrance of the canyon, stopped when he ran out, and stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded.

E7 still dragged the rope to follow behind Opal. Opal’s eyes were full of admiration and envy, and he couldn’t even believe what he saw.

An upright humanoid machine stands in the canyon, almost as high as the mountain, its silver shell gleaming in the sunlight. Just standing motionless can give people an indescribable sense of oppression. The streamlined silver alloy shell reflects the splendid brilliance, just like a huge warrior armor.

It is a full fifty meters high, holding a mirror-like shield in his left hand, and holding a 30-meter-long giant sword in his right. There is a strange barrel on the back of the arm. The joints, the elbows on the arms, the head…the fit is perfect. The eyes under the eyebrows showed a magnificent indigo blue, like two sapphires in the vast snow.

It also has two long metal wings behind its shoulders, just like the thin wings of a sand bat spreading out, making a metal rubbing sound when it is instantly retracted, dragging it to the ground.

“What is this?” Opal said.

“My mount.” Reckett said indifferently.

Opal said: “Mount?! Is this… a spaceship? Teacher? This is your spaceship?!”

Reckett said: “As a knight, of course you should have armor and mounts. They are one.”

Opal approached slowly, and Reckett said: “This is an ancient armor, and many people call it the Primordial Pilot. My name is the Silver Dragon Ray.”

Opal looked up and saw the silver brilliance flowing on the mecha. It was like a huge idol, which made people feel unconsciously trembling.

Opal asked: “I can understand the silver, why is it called the Dragon Ray?”

“You will know how things are going on with you in the future?” Reckett said.

The silver mecha moved, and it bowed and stretched out a hand, Reckett jumped up, his palm raised, Opal recovered and said, “I have got the chip.”

Reckett said: “Yes, what do you plan to do next? Transcribe a copy?”

Reckett slowly rose, until a round box flew out in a spinning motion on top of the mecha and fell into his hand. The light in the mecha’s eyes dimmed.

Opal said: “Where did you hide it before? I found enough energy.”

Reckett said: “I always wear it on my hand.”

Opal: “…”

Opal went to unload the battery and charge it into the round box. Reckett said: “Enough. Twenty percent can go through interstellar space and jump at designated locations.”

Opal said: “Fill it in, give it to it, it’s really…it’s just… teacher, I don’t know how to describe it.”

“The masterpiece of the creator.” Reckett smiled, took off the round box, gently pushed his palm, the heart of the universe rotated and flew to the forehead of the silver mecha, embedded in the energy pool.

Opal looked up and murmured: “Teacher, how do you control it?”

Reckett said: “Consciousness, it is not an ordinary mech. Special Archaic fighters have their own souls. There are many types of interstellar fighters, which are controlled by brain waves and controlled by optical brain programs in the cabin. .”

Opal said: “Are there many mechas like this in the universe?”

Reckett said: “Some fighters are mass-produced, but the ancient armor of the Taikoo fighter class is unique. According to the current knowledge, there are no more than three in the universe.”

Opal said: “Are you all in the hands of the Star Knights? How many people are there in the Star Knights?”

Reckett said lightly: “A long time ago there were three people, now there are only two left.”

Opal looked up at the pilot, and it also looked down at him. Opal could almost clearly feel that it was conscious.

Reckett said: “Their lives are even longer than human beings. They are the products of ancient civilizations before the emergence of humans. The empires believed that they were left behind by the true gods in the ancient universe after the explosion, and even more people believed that, They are true gods.”

Opal asked: “How did you find it?”

Reckett said: “The Silver Dragon Ray was unearthed from an ancient ruin in the marginal universe, a fault in space eleven thousand years ago. The first to control it was another celestial knight. He is dead, but The beliefs of the Star Knights and ancient armors are still passed down.”

Opal asked: “Can I touch it? Will it be angry?”

Reckett said: “Of course you can, don’t charge money, just touch it.”

Opal touched it cautiously, the silver soldier bowed, made a metallic noise, knelt on one knee, and spread his huge palm in front of him.

Opal went up and stood on its palm.

The sheet metal on the chest of the soldier opened up, revealing a small space capsule.

Opal looked inside, thinking that if it weren’t for Reckett, perhaps he would never be able to touch it in his life, let alone manipulate such a mecha. He stared at it in awe for a long time, as if he felt its mood swings.

Reckett said: “The dragon rays thank you for the energy you collected for him. A long time ago, when we landed in the desert, it saw you running away, thinking you would sell it or take it for yourself, but you took it with you. The energy battery came back. It was very touched. I think it is not easy for you.”

Opal smiled and said: “It turns out it’s your rescue capsule! What I said! It’s so perfect, it’s an honor to be able to do something for it.”

This is Opal’s heartfelt emotion, facing the silver soldier, like facing an omnipotent god.

Reckett said: “Do you want a Taikoo fighter? Try to walk in and operate it.”

Opal immediately said: “No, no, I… I don’t have this idea at all.” His expression was a little sad. No matter how hard he tried, he seemed to never be able to catch up with Reckett, and he was even less worthy. Owning a masterpiece of the creator, just thinking about it makes me feel ashamed.

Reckett slowly ascended in the air, turned and sat in the small operation cabin, then the soldier backhand pressed on his chest, Opal screamed, was also stuffed in and hit Reckett.

The operating cabin was closed, and the surroundings plunged into long darkness.

Reckett asked him to turn away and separate his hands, like a magician who manipulates all the stars in the universe. All the darkness has disappeared. The ancient silver and white runes circled around them, and an endless plain appeared in front of them. Snowfield.

Opal said: “Teacher…”

Reckett said: “Grasp it firmly.”

Opal subconsciously grabbed it, but didn’t know what to grab. Then the mecha leaned over, his knees bent slightly, and a majestic flame erupted from under his feet. Reckett’s body was pressed down, and the two of them were narrowly here. The bodies in the space capsule were tightly close together, following the silver soldier rushing to the luminous universe.

“Teacher!” Opal exclaimed excitedly.

“Be quiet, the old man’s ears are very fragile.” Reckett laughed, with his left hand removed, and his right hand pressed flat. There were bright stars in front of him, and then he turned around in the space capsule, his consciousness seemed to be fully synchronized with the silver mecha. , With that action, the mecha turned around, and in a short moment it had left the atmosphere of B11.

“This is just the battle mode of the Silver Dragon Ray.” Reckett said: “All Primordial fighters have many modes. The rescue capsule you see is only a small part of its transformation. As long as the energy is sufficient, it can use it. Its own molecular memory characteristics replicate any element in the universe and merge with each other to form the strongest alloy.”

Opal said: “It’s the ones who helped me repair the spacecraft! Can they replicate themselves?”

“Those alloys have no soul.” Reckett said softly, “Well, I don’t think they can be copied anymore, but they are part of dragon rays, maybe it can feel it.”

Immediately after Reckett leaned forward again, the mecha turned his head up and down, Opal was driven by inertia, lying in Reckett’s arms, Reckett held him in his arms, hands gently from his waist As soon as he lifted it up, the mecha expelled high-speed flames, passing thousands of miles of the dark universe, and the stars were fleeting in front of them.

“Leave the Chiyan Galaxy.” Reckett said: “Prepare for a space transition, count down, three, two, one.”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh), his body seemed to turn into a ray of light. The triplet galaxies of, they present a triangular structure and stand on top of each other. It is like a triangle constructed with three astrolabes.

“Where is this?!” Opal asked.

“The Leo Nebula 19 million light-years away from B-11.” Reckett made a casual movement, raising his hand, holding his five fingers lightly, and holding the shield in the left hand of the silver mecha in space, and drawing a sword in his right hand. An arc of light was drawn on his side, disintegrating all the oncoming meteorites.

Recht: “The realm of the empire.”

Opal said: “But you didn’t go through the starry sky door!”

Reckett said: “Dragon rays have the ability to break through space and do not need to find a teleportation point. Now many new spacecraft have preliminary functions. They are ready to make another space leap, counting down, three, two, one.”

Opal once again turned into a light and appeared among the hundreds of billions of stars. Reckett passed his hands under the ribs to hug him, and raised him in front of them. Opal rested on Reckett’s shoulders. A quickly backed away, and the angle of view became farther and farther, revealing the full picture of the galaxy.

Opal said: “Where is this place?”

“Republic Star Field.” Reckett said, “This place is called the Milky Way.”

The starry silver disk is like a huge vortex, shining with silver brilliance. It has two spiral arms, like a silver disk, facing the opal vertically.

Reckett leaned over slightly, holding the opal in his left hand, and the mecha quietly turned ninety degrees in the air.

“It’s beautiful,” Opal murmured.

Reckett did not speak, and the two quietly admired the whole picture of the Milky Way.

Opal said: “How big is it?”

Reckett said: “Fifty thousand light-years, look there.” As he raised his hand, the mecha stretched out a huge arm.

Reckett made a fist with his five fingers, reversed, and the barrel on the arm of the mecha fired a shot into the universe.

The star-like powder gathered into a beam of light, surrounded by a cluster of silver-white energy that flew into space like a comet, dragging a shining trail into the boundless depths of the universe.

“That location is where humanity originated.” Reckett said: “On one of its spiral arms, there is a solar system called the solar system, which contains only one star and eight planets.”

“That was a long time ago.” Opal said: “I remember that the chip you showed me mentioned ancient human history.”

“Yes.” Reck said with a characteristic head: “Ancient humans called the time effect produced by light walking 300,000 kilometers in a vacuum as one second. Sixty seconds is one minute, and then it can be deduced to one hour, one day, one second. Year. It takes three hundred and sixty-five days for the parent star to revolve around its star. This has become a common reference standard in many galaxies. Therefore, the cosmic year is a fixed value, which corresponds to the earliest unit of length’light-year’.”

Opal said: “Is it the same as the temperature scale of the universe?”

Reckett said: “Almost all units are, as long as it is a civilization derived from the solar system, the unit of measurement and text are almost uniform, and prepare for a spatial transition, three, two, one.”

Opal saw the star B-11 again, the desolate planet showed a rusty iron color, and the mecha slowly descended into the atmosphere and returned to their original canyon.

The silver mecha decomposed into shiny metal pieces in the air and spun rapidly. The metal pieces got smaller and smaller. They fit into each other and wrapped them around Reckett’s wrists. Reckett held the opal slowly to the ground and placed him in the snow. In the ground.

Opal’s expression is very melancholy, shock and confusion filled his heart, he is back, this planet is simply a drop in the vast universe, looking up at the stars above, everything seems so insignificant and so small.

Reckett did not speak any more, leaving Opal to stand. He inspected the chip that Opal brought back to the sun, put it in the information transcriber, the rotating stereo projection appeared, and dense information tables spread out.

Reckett looked at the stereoscopic projection interestingly and said: “The head of the sub-department of the Black Rock Mining Company seems to be involved in smuggling. Opal, you may have caught a big fish for the Chiyan Galaxy.”

“Ah! Yes!” Opal finally recovered, ran to Reckett, put his hands on his knees, bowed and looked at the information with him, and asked: “Why do you say that?”

Reckett said: “The 30 million energy units stored in Rhodochrosite were sold to Harley Fucker, who is a notorious interstellar pirate in the Magellanic Cloud. The Republic has a headache. I did not expect the minerals of Crimson Planet. The company is still doing business with him in private.”

Opal said: “Can this be used as a bargaining chip?”

Reckett said: “Maybe it can.”

Opal told Reckett about their experience in detail, and finally said: “I intend to divide it into two parts. The first part is the information stored in the chip, and the second part is the mine disaster four years ago. The corpses of 10,000 miners. It was buried underground, we have evidence.”

Reckett nodded slowly, and Opal said, “I have to repair the spaceship right away, I hope it can be repaired.”

Reckett said: “You are running out of time, Opal, if I were the head of Black Rock Mining, I would send the spacecraft over now to find out what’s going on.”

Opal frowned: “How much time do I have?”

Reckett said: “Here is far from the nearest starry sky gate. You can’t take a shortcut. From Crimson Star to B11, after passing through the newly established starry sky gate, it will theoretically take five to seven days. It also takes a lot of time. energy.”

Opal was taken aback, and then he thought about it carefully, and said, “I don’t think they should be driving an ordinary spacecraft, and they are already on the way out, otherwise if they break through the space directly, won’t they be here? But now Everything is normal.”

Reckett said: “Indeed, you are very smart.”

Opal said: “Then I have the shortest five days, so I have to hurry up.”

Reckett said: “You forgot, when you pass through the starry sky gate and arrive at Crimson Star, they have already arrived here, and there is enough time to destroy all the evidence.”

Opal was stunned.

“Opal!” Oman’s voice came from outside the canyon.

A minecart stopped at the entrance of the canyon and Opal said, “I am here!”

Reckett got up, Anya and Aman ran out of the car, Opal said, “Where are Locke and them?”

Aman said: “Locke is in the village and is persuading everyone to find a place to hide first. We are afraid that the foremen will come back early when they receive the alarm.”

“Opal.” Hugo got out of the car holding his wife and said, “I beg you for one thing.”

Opal said: “Is she better?”

Ugo stared at Opal with one of his eyes, and said sincerely: “She is better, but the injection of anti-inflammatory drugs will not make her completely better, she is still feverish, I would like to ask you to take her to the Scarlet Planet to find a place Heal, as long as I can heal her, let me do anything for you.”

Reckett stepped forward, everyone’s eyes rested on him.

“Hearts, lungs, and cough.” Reckert said: “This is caused by a streptococcal bacteria carried on the comet. How can I get this disease?”

Opal said: “There is no time to explain…”

Reckett said: “No need to explain, let me see, these are your friends?”

Opal nodded, and Aman said: “I have heard of you, you are Opal’s teacher.”

Anya carried a suitcase and looked at Reckett awkwardly. Opal was about to talk about his spacecraft, but Reckett said: “Let’s go, let’s go now, time is running out.”

Opal said: “How do you go? Teacher, you…”

Reckett said: “Thank you for everything you have done for me, Opal. Maybe the next thing is too difficult to handle by yourself. You have done a good job. Now, please accept my help. I will Do my best for you.”

Opal was quiet, with tears in his eyes, Reckett smiled and touched his head.

Reckett’s bracelet glowed with silver dazzling light, and it turned into thousands of metal fragments to cover the sky and surrounded them. The silver mecha changed its appearance and became a flat, wide pterosaur covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters. Ray, like a flat manta ray in the abyss of the sea, flapping its silver wings lightly in the sky, dragging out its shiny long tail.

“Come up.” Reckett’s voice sounded in the spaceship.

The looped transmission ladder fell, Opal took Hugo’s wife and said, “You stay here.”

Ugo said, “I wish you good luck and leave it to you.”

“We are saved.” Aman raised his head to look at the silver dragonray, and muttered to himself with excitement: “Saved! Opal, everything is up to you.”

Opal hugged Hugo’s wife aboard the Dragon Ray spacecraft, Anya with tears in her eyes, hugged and said goodbye to Oman.

The interior of the spacecraft is extremely spacious, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, without any navigational equipment, only an indigo blue crystal is slowly rotating in the center.

The star map of the Chiyan galaxy is reflected on the crystal, with hundreds of planets revolving in an orderly manner around the central star.

“Crimson Star.” Reckett said lightly: “After leaving the atmosphere, prepare for a space leap.”

The crimson star in the star chart lit up, and the metal dragon ray swept out of the red rock bed, flew over the miners’ village, and then turned into a light to cut through the atmosphere and flew towards the Chi Yan galaxy.