Hugo's wife breathed slowly on the curved metal chair, opened her eyes, and muttered something. Anya carefully wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"Anya." Opal whispered: "I have a plan, but it requires your cooperation."
Anya looked up at Opal.
Opal said: "The teacher said that everyone in the territory of the Republic must abide by the principles of interstellar humanitarian rescue. We do not have identity certificates, but we are all human beings like them, and the B11 star is also one of the jurisdictions of the Republic."
Anya listened blankly, and Opal said: "So you will take her to the hospital later, and let the people in the hospital cure her. Although the anti-inflammatory drugs temporarily suppressed her inflammation, her condition is still very serious. On the Crimson Star, life is very important, as long as they go to the hospital, they will not care, and they will call the police later."
"What do you mean by calling the police?" Anya asked.
"Notify the police." Opal explained: "The police..."
"It's the police," Recht corrected.
Opal: "The 'policemen' are people who maintain order, like a foreman, but they maintain order, unlike our order, that will take you away and ask you questions, including how you came to this planet, You just need to answer truthfully and tell them that I brought you in and everything can be resolved."
Anya said, "Is there really such a good thing? What about you?"
Opal nodded, patted her shoulder with his fingerless gloved hand, and said, "I still have things to deal with, and I will come to see you as soon as it is resolved."
Recht stood in the center of the spaceship, a round box suspended and rotated in the air, which was the heart of the universe that Recht used to recharge, which Opal saw a long time ago.
Rickett said: "This is the core operating system of the Dragon Ray, which is responsible for all the instructions most of the time."
Opal asked: "Can we pass immigration?"
Rickett nodded, indicating that there is no need to worry.
Opal stared at Lecter's star chart, and Lecter explained: "I used to have two star charts, and I gave them to you as a souvenir of mine."
Opal said: "I will use it well."
The silver dragon ray traveled through 35,000 AU and appeared outside the Crimson Star's atmospheric space station. Its flat metal body undulates slowly, like a mysterious ancient creature in the ocean. When approaching the space station, its wings are folded and folded, becoming an ellipsoid-shaped space shuttle. The luster on the surface fades, showing black, and There are countless patterns.
The crimson star is surrounded by densely packed space stations, forming a sequence between them, with a distance of thousands of kilometers. As the silver dragon ray approached, four space stations emitted bright arcs at the same time, forming a net to block the further progress of the space shuttle.
The communicator on the spacecraft sounded an electronic sound: "Welcome to Crimson Star, please enter your pass number and submit an entry application."
The indicator light on the front section of the space shuttle lights up with a red dot, and a light is emitted from the top of the blue crystal. In the cluttered electronic sound, sound waves are emitted along with radio waves to pass the authentication.
Rickett did not speak, but his voice sounded in Opal's mind: "Every time you enter a planet, you must fill out an entry declaration form to avoid carrying some prohibited items in the universe. Usually, the administrative star manages this very well. stricter."
Opal nodded slowly, thinking about the declaration form? I didn't see any action from Recht.
Rickett seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and communicated with consciousness: "Dragon Ray has its own wisdom, and has already transmitted the contents of the declaration form to the immigration center through radio waves, including the contents of the spacecraft, as well as the members of the ship and the contents of luggage. ."
Opal thought to himself: what about our identity
Rickett replied consciously: "I didn't make a declaration for you guys."
Opal thought: What should we do then
Recht didn't answer him any more.
"Welcome, Mr. Bai, the technical advisor from the Republic Atomic Pool Club." This time, he asked in a gentle female voice, "Please tell me the purpose of your visit to the Crimson Planet."
"Come and visit an old friend, ID RU301707," Recht said.
The female voice was silent for a while and then replied: "Your friend lives on No. 17th Street in Paradise Fire Courtyard. She has been notified and welcomes your visit. Please abide by the Interstellar Peace Treaty after entering the country. The weather in Crimson Star is very good today. ,Wish you be happy."
Rickett said: "I wish you a good day too."
The annular arc is withdrawn, and the space shuttle enters the atmosphere and descends toward the ground.
"Consultant of the Atomic Pool Club..." Opal asked. "What is it?"
Rickett said lightly: "It's just a convenient travel identity, sounds funny?"
Opal smiled and said, "A little bit."
Rickett smiled and said: "Atomic pool is a kind of entertainment. It uses machines to make atoms in the microscopic world collide with each other to get points."
Opal asked: "Do you like this activity? Did you have a good time?"
Rickett said: "It's barely acceptable."
Opal looked at him suspiciously and said, "But you never taught me that."
Rickett raised his eyebrows and said, "It's easy to be obsessed with entertainment, and it's easy to waste what he should do. I haven't played for a long time."
The spacecraft landed slowly, the heart of the universe lit up, and Rickett immediately signaled him not to speak.
The electronic prompt sounded again in the communicator: "Attention, immigration personnel report for verification."
Recht called out a name and pass code, and said electronically: "Radio scan now."
Lecter made a movement towards the control crystal with one hand, the shell of the silver dragon ray became transparent, Opal seemed to feel a net cover coming up, and then the blue crystal transformed into liquid-like ripples, forming a light cover, Caught Opal, Anya and Hugo's wife.
"It's a deception mechanism," Recht said. "It can fool most radio scans."
Opal said: "Thanks to you, teacher. If I came by myself, it might make things more difficult."
Rickett said: "No, I think if you come in a spaceship, the way may be more direct. You will be intercepted outside the defensive space station, you have no identification, and after you fill out the entry declaration form, you will be caught The attention of the executive star."
Opal said: "So they will listen to my report?"
"Usually this sort of thing gets resolved, but it's not good for the situation on the B-11 if it drags on for too long," Rickett headed.
After a few words, the small flying robot outside had scanned and left, and the silver dragon ray slowly descended towards the airship tarmac and stopped in the open space.
Opal said, "Go down?"
Rickett waved his hand and made another movement. The dragon ray shrank again, the space inside the ship was compressed layer by layer, and then transformed into a small alloy magnetic sports car. Rickett sat in the driver's seat, and Opal sat in the co-pilot seat. , the long car shell reflected the bright sunlight, and carried the four people off the tarmac.
Even the ground car was spared, Recht wrapped his arms around his arms and did not need to drive, and the silver dragon ray left along the dedicated ground traffic lane. Opal leaned in front of the car window, looking curiously at this beautiful world.
The sky is like blue washed by water, the sun shines orange-red in the afternoon, and the sides of the magnetic levitation lane are full of gorgeous flowers.
"This kind of flower is called the Crimson Lady." Rickett said, "Only planets in the Red Flame galaxy have an environment suitable for planting."
Opal said: "It's beautiful, I remember reading in books that its nectar can make wine."
Lecter nodded happily and said, "The Crimson Holy Maiden is also a well-known wine in the Milky Way."
The Dragon Ray sports car slowed down before the third level, and a human in uniform came over, holding a pen-shaped pocket projector, politely waiting by the side of the road.
Opal said, "Still checking?"
Rickett said, "Maybe."
Opal said: "Your car is too perfect and too conspicuous."
"It could have been disguised a bit tattered," Recht said. "It was just to make people feel less confident in their investigations. People in this galaxy... don't seem to eat this."
Opal said, "Am I going to hide?"
"No," Recht said. Bi took off a pair of sunglasses from the front of the sports car and put them on.
The sports car stopped slowly, the side window was lowered, Opal looked outside, and then looked at Lecter, who was still wearing the black sand bat leather cloak. It looks very rustic, but when Rector puts on his sunglasses, he has an alternative, masculine beauty.
"Mr. Bai from the Perseus galaxy of the Interstellar Republic?" The man said, "I need to check your transportation."
Rector looked at him and said casually: "This is a retro silver sports car, and the license plate number has been filled in the declaration form."
The inspector said, "Yes, but this is a routine inspection. It's not because of your car... Could you please adjust the transparency of the windows and let me see... "
Before he could check the back seat, he met Opal's gaze.
He turned on the pocket projector, projected a three-dimensional light screen, and said, "According to your entry declaration, you are only one person, but..."
Knowing that Recht must have a solution, Opal smiled at the prosecutor and said, "Hello."
The inspector frowned, "Who is he?"
Recht took off his sunglasses, looked the inspector in the eyes, and said, "He's my student."
Opal: "… "
The inspector's eyes flickered for a moment, and then he regained his focus, fell on Opal's face, and murmured, "He is your student."
Rickett nodded, and the inspector said to himself, "Yes, he is your student."
Rickett said, "Can I pass?"
The inspector said: "I wish you a pleasant journey on the crimson planet."
The windows came up, and the sports car hit the road and sped away.
Opal said, "What did you do to him just now, teacher?!"
Rickett's handsome mouth showed a narrow smile and said, "Look, the road here is divided into many layers, hey, don't make trouble!"
Opal grabbed Lecter's hand in disbelief, and Lecter raised his arm away and said casually, "That's not what you should know."
Opal said: "Can you control other people's thoughts?"
Rickett nodded, and Opal said, "Is it the power of belief?"
Rector shook his head and looked out the car window thoughtfully.
Leaving the tarmac, all the roads are criss-crossed, full of traffic, and Crimson Star's vehicle roads start from the ground, interlaced layer by layer, one on top of the other, and all the roads together are hundreds of meters high. All roads are floating in the air in the form of light tracks. The maglev sports car only needs to adjust the height to drive on different roads, with different classifications and different destinations.
The ground is the passage for transport vehicles and trains, and the upward is public transportation, large suspended vehicles, and small private vehicles, which are classified and organized.
Opal saw the giant electronic signboard. The silver dragon ray was driving among the endless stream of vehicles. A small round box was suspended in front of the driver's seat, and the whole picture of the crimson galaxy was projected on the round box.
Rickett's finger pointed to one of them, the map zoomed in, and another area was selected—and zoomed in again, until they were where they were.
Opal said: "You have to go to the hospital first."
Rector nodded slowly and said, "What are you going to do?"
Opal said: "Anya, I'm going to put you at the door of the hospital, and then it's up to you."
Anya nodded nervously in the back seat.
Opal said: "Come on, Anya."
The silver dragon ray stopped at the entrance of the hospital's passage. Opal hugged Hugo's dying wife, put her on the metal platform outside the hospital, motioned for Anya to stand beside her, then turned and stepped back, got into the car, and the sports car leaned forward. The body slanted to one side, floated up the driveway, galloped in the other direction, made a circle, and came back from the other side.
Rickett and Opal both watched Anya on the metal platform.
Anya nervously grabbed the edge of her clothes, with a cloth turban wrapped around her head, standing on the platform looking very abrupt.
"Is there anyone?" she cried uneasily. "Help! Help her!"
A robot galloped out of the aisle, beeping to detect Anya and Hugo's wife, who was lying and panting.
More medical robots rushed out, Anya took a step back in fear, the lights of all the robots turned on, a woman ran out of the passage, motioned Anya not to move, knelt on the ground and took out the testing instruments from the tool box on the chest of the robot, and began to give Hugo's wife checks.
Opal said, "Is that human a doctor?"
"Yeah, your plan wasn't perfect, but it worked," Recht said.
It wasn't until the two medical robots stretched out the iron pipes to form a stretcher and sent Hugo's wife to the hospital, and Anya followed him in, that Opal really put down a big rock in his heart.
Opal said, "Everything will be alright, won't it, teacher."
Rickett approvingly said: "The society of the Republic also has a dark side. Although there are many ugly things lurking in it, at least on the surface, many things have a positive side. What's next? Continue your plan? "
Opal took a deep breath and looked out the car window at the projected billboards flashing on both sides of the road.
[Seventy years to complete your dream of traveling around the universe, a new generation of spacecraft with its own jump function.][Gene cultivate your next generation, the latest technology of perfect gene chain. Life medical company, to create the best life for newborns. ] [The new model of environmentally friendly smart home robots will make your home no longer cold and give you an emotional home.]Gorgeous world, bizarre, this planet is full of countless unknowns and novelties, Opal still wants to see it for a while. But he was pressed for time, and every minute and second seemed precious.
"My original idea." Opal said, "I wanted to come here with Anya with chips and evidence for help."
Rector responded casually, parked the car in front of a neon-lit entertainment building, took a card from a drawer in the front of the car, and swiped it on the robot outside.
"Go ahead." Rickett opened a small cover in front of the sports car's console, which showed a progress bar.
Opal continued: "But Hugo entrusted his wife to me, and I changed my plan. Instead of going to contact me myself, it's better for the police to find Anya, and then I turn in the evidence... This robot is really interesting, better than me The E7 is much better." Opal noticed that the robot came with a box wrapped in tinfoil again, and asked, "Teacher, what are you doing?"
Rickett said casually: "It's normal to buy newspapers and dinner, and your plans can't be compared to changes. You need to be flexible. You're doing a good job."
With the window closed, Recht handed Opal a tinfoil bag. When Opal opened it, he found a soft bread with meat sausages in it. Recht said, "Would you like some marmalade?"
Opal took a vial and squeezed it like Rector. It was called a hot dog and he had seen it on a holographic movie.
Rector ate a hot dog, turned on the projector in the car, and the light screen unfolded, filled with instant information, and said, "Don't work again during mealtime, think of something else."
Opal's thoughts have gone tens of thousands of light years away, and he said with a smile: "It tastes so good."
Opal devoured the hot dog, it was delicious, better than anything I had ever eaten on B11, it was almost indescribably delicious.
"Teacher." Opal suddenly thought of another question, and asked while chewing: "Since technology is so advanced, why are there still people in the hospital? Are the police also robots?"
"No." Recht said, "Since the revolution of humanoid life 8,000 years ago, the Republic and the Empire have concluded a contract on intelligent life, and the use of robots must be strictly regulated in any corner of society. After all, human beings can’t give up work completely, in addition to making a living, work itself has more important sustenance.”
Opal remembered, this is the history of the universe mentioned on the chip, but he just read it all by himself, and almost forgot it. Eight thousand years ago, the Empire and Republic produced a large number of robots and put them into use.
However, no matter how high the processing power of the optical brain is, intelligent robots can never have emotions and think spontaneously. This rule was predicted by a great scientist as early as 20,000 years ago - a computer with a speed of 100,000 times, the ability to think independently is not even as good as an earthworm.
Robots cannot have themselves, and scientists have come up with a very bold approach: to imitate human biological cells to synthesize and make a new type of human-like computer with robot strength.
This kind of "human-like life" has gradually taken shape through hundreds of years of research and evolution. They have the physical strength of robots and have a biological brain that is almost identical to that of humans. After the baby-like brain is formed, it learns independently. to gain consciousness and be controlled by the central chip to behave.
This batch of humanoid robots set off an intelligent revolution and were finally destroyed in batches.
"They have no soul," said Opal.
Rickett hummed. After eating the hot dog, he threw the tin foil into the trash can and destroyed it. The trash can was connected to an atomic decomposition furnace, which can convert it into environmentally friendly energy.
Recht said: "Emperor Philoin Kartus has always opposed the widespread application of humanoid intelligence, but he has nothing to do with his nobles."
Opal nodded and said, "They were all destroyed in the end?"
Recht replied: "A new weapon has been developed in the ivory tower, which uses nuclear magnetic resonance to restart the central chip of all biological robots, causing them to kill each other."
This passage was something Opal had never read before, and he asked curiously, "What? Ivory tower?"
"The ivory tower, it is at the junction of the centers of the six black holes, beyond the future horizon, where light can never reach, it can only be reached through the higher-dimensional starry sky gate, where there lives a group of mad scientists, nothing to think about How to destroy the universe." Rector crossed Erlang's legs and absently flipped through the newspapers on the screen with a pocket cursor projector, and the holographic projection was accompanied by a beeping sound.
Opal frowned and asked, "How did you know this?"
"Because I was involved in the war of the Sapiens Revolution, of course, I was on the side of the Republic," Recht said.
Opal said in disbelief, "You defeated them alone?!"
Rickett said: "It's two."
Opal asked: "Who else is there? Your friend? I remember you said that there are three star knights..."
Lecter didn't answer any more, motioned Opal to read the newspaper, and said, "Today's information has been updated simultaneously, Opal, look."
The holographic newspaper turns a page, and the entire planet on the crimson star is covered with an extremely developed information network. You only need to buy a newspaper once, and you can see that all the news that is happening or has happened is constantly updated, every minute, every second. , the news of thousands of magazines is constantly rolling, and now almost all news pages are replaced with the same headlines.
[B-11 star, a dark place where the glory of the Republic cannot shine.]
The accompanying picture is a color photo of Anya, her face is haggard and pale, her eyes are full of tears, as if a silent accusation.
The news story tells how a teenage girl escaped from the B-11 star and brought her seriously ill friend to the Crimson Star to seek medical attention. "The most direct way to understand the political climate and conditions of a planet is to look at their newspapers," Recht said.
Opal said: "Anya's incident has alarmed many people, and action must be taken immediately."
Rickett said: "Take you to the police station? The Planetary Police Station is only responsible for local affairs. You have to go to the Interstellar Police Station headquarters. Dragon Ray, look at the coordinates."
The silver dragon ray started and followed the road to the equator of the crimson star.
Opal snorted and began to think about how to deal with it. Rickett scrolled the newspaper screen down, and Opal saw another news.
[The Mineral Planet annual auction will start three days later, the business war between Black Rock Mining and Horrens Mining Company.] "Wait." Opal said: "Teacher, I have changed my mind."
Rickett stopped the car and saw a huge building in front of him. The front of the office building marked the Galaxy Police Station. Many cars surrounded the police station. Opal asked, "Who are those people?"
"Journalism is a tough profession to deal with," Recht said.
Opal had a bold idea and said, "Horrens Mining Company, a competitor of Black Rock Mining?"
Rickett asked with admiration in his eyes, "Do you want to revise your plan again?"
Opal nodded and said, "I want to go to the Horrens Mining Company with the chip, or they are willing to pay a sum of money to buy this evidence."
Rector asked, "What do you want the money for?"
Opal said, "Give it to Oman, and let him put everyone. If that doesn't work, I've prepared another copy. Teacher, look, here are two copies."
The silver dragon ray turned around and headed for the business district. Many mining and commercial companies were headquartered on the Crimson Star, and Black Rock Wilderness and Horrens Corporation were no exception. The night came, but the dragon ray swept away on the beacon track at a very high speed, like a red cloud chasing the sunset, and gradually, it rushed into the evening time and space again.
Recht stopped the car in the parking lot and said, "Then, you first have to think about how to use the resources at hand."
Opal said, "Teacher, how did you do it?" He followed Lecter, looking into his eyes and waving his palms in front of him.
"You can't do it." Rickett snorted.
"I can do it," Opal insisted.
"No." Recht said sternly: "Now I tell you very seriously, Opal, the power of belief is not for you to steal people's minds and hypnotize people who disagree with you. So It goes against the creed of the Star Knights."
Opal said, "But you just did the same."
Recht said: "I have to do it. I don't want you to do it. If you rely too much on the power of belief, sooner or later you will destroy yourself."
"Just think about it." Recht's voice was heavy and serious, with a threatening meaning: "Once, twice, the enemy was hypnotized by the power of faith, disarmed and surrendered in front of you. If this continues for a long time, you will lose the courage to fight. , once you encounter a firm-willed opponent, or even a special life form that is not affected by the power of belief, you will die at their hands in humiliation."
"The reason why I don't teach you forced hypnotism and mind reading." Rickett said seriously: "Because I don't want to see you become a waste without any will to fight, you must control your spiritual world and cannot rely on it Get what you don't deserve. The result of abusing your beliefs is that your beliefs gradually become worthless and end up in a world of perpetual darkness."
Opal vaguely understood something, but he was very at a loss, but every word of Recht was a dogma that no one could change, and it was firmly engraved in his heart. He replied: "I will Do as you say, teacher."
Rector's face was still very serious, and he nodded slowly.
Opal took a deep breath, took out the chip, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll try it first."
Rickett said: "Go." He raised his hand and touched Opal's head, and said, "I give you courage."
The door opened, and Opal ran out of the parking lot, walked onto the overpass in the fiery red dusk, and walked towards the headquarters of the Horrens Corporation.