Times VI dragged the flames to break through the atmosphere, the emergency lights were lit in the cabin, and the entire spacecraft erupted with high-speed airflow, spinning and falling to the ground.
Black smoke billowed, the airbag was thrown out of the bow, the parachute was opened at the tail, the anti-gravity device alarmed, and the hull glowed blue light in an instant.
Three seconds later, the loud noise was like a sonic boom shock wave, stirring up the entire desert and spreading in a ring.
Opal rested his hands on the driver's seat and couldn't stop breathing, and kicked away the silver pad in front of him.
"Raymond?" Opal said in the dark.
"Yes." Raymond said helplessly.
The door of the spaceship opened, and in front of him was an endless blue sky, dizzyingly blue, and hot sand and gravel stretched far into the distance.
Opal, Raymond and Yinyao stood on the desert, Opal's eyebrows were frowning anxiously in the sun, and all they could see was a smoky horizon.
"Report damage factor, E7," Raymond said.
The E7 projected the degree of damage to the hull, 37%, the energy pool was blown up, and the backup energy pool was also thrown away during the emergency landing.
"What is this place?" Yin Yao said.
"Sphinx." Opal pointed to the light screen above E7's head: "The center point of the endless desert."
After Raymond drank the scented tea, he got up and went into the spaceship to repair the damaged parts. Opal thought about it and asked, "Can it be repaired?"
Raymond didn't answer.
Yin Yao whispered, "Dude, are you angry?"
Opal waved his hand to indicate that it was okay, and went in and said to Raymond, "Fix... No way."
Raymond asked back, "What do you think?"
Robots also have tempers. For some reason, Opal suddenly remembered this sentence and thought it was very funny. Of course, Raymond is not a robot.
Opal stood shyly for a while, Rickett put on his goggles, found the welding machine, and repaired the damaged part of the hull. Opal said: "Let's leave here first and go to the town to find supplies."
Raymond still didn't answer.
Yin Di said outside: "Hey, Raymond, don't be angry, I'm sorry it's my fault, I'll find someone to fix it."
Opal frowned and signaled him to stop talking, Yinyao smiled and went out to wander in the desert.
Opal picked up the laser scanning locator to help Raymond locate the missing parts, and there was a lack of materials for casting. When he was trying to find a way, another loud noise came from outside.
Opal immediately put down the instrument and went out to see, only to see a fiery red meteor streak across the sky, falling towards the middle of the desert not far from them.
"What is that?" Opal asked alertly, "Is it a chaser?"
Yin Yin shook his head blankly.
Opal went back and took the big sword, Yin Yao said in amazement: "You still play this?"
Opal said, "Go and see?"
Yin Yao took out a short stick from his waist, pressed a button, and the short stick unfolded, becoming an electromagnetic stainless steel long stick.
"Wait and watch." Yin Yao said, "Where's your partner?"
Opal looked sideways into the spaceship and said, "Raymond, I'll go out and have a look."
Raymond took off his goggles and frowned suspiciously. The three of them looked up to the sky and saw a team of flying robots chasing a person under the blue sky, rushing towards Times VI.
"It's chasing soldiers." Yin Yao murmured, "But it's not chasing us... No! I know that guy!"
The man shouted: "Hurry up and help! Do you want to die together!"
Before he finished speaking, Opal and Yinyao had already rushed out! The man was chasing the mechs who were shooting frantically, and there was even a mecha! The upper body of the mecha spun rapidly, and the raindrops of shells covered the entire area. The man rolled on the ground with his head on his back. Opal and Yinyao passed him side by side, and Opal raised his sword and jumped up.
The long stick of Yinyao blocked it and shouted: "Get up!"
Opal took advantage of the weapon in front of Yin Yao's chest with a kick, turned a somersault in the air, swung the big sword, and brought out an electric light, which caused a series of explosions of the small robot.
Immediately after, a cannon shot through the sky from behind, piercing the belly of the mecha, Raymond closed the cannon, and the man shouted again: "It's an unmanned combat aircraft!"
The mecha fired tens of thousands of micro-tear gas grenades with a hum, Opal dragged his sword to dodge, and Raymond evaded the rain-like bombs.
All three cannonballs hit its waist, the upper body of the mecha was blasted into two pieces, and fell into the desert. There were explosions one after another, Opal coughed loudly, and finally rushed out of the smoke circle, and everyone was smoked. Both eyes were red.
Raymond pulled up his coat to cover his mouth and nose, and turned to go into the spaceship.
"Cough... cough..." The man straightened up.
Yin Yao coughed like crazy and kept vomiting.
Opal said: "You... you..."
He had a face-to-face with the man and stared at him blankly, his eyes full of tears choked by tear gas.
That is Xun.
In an instant, Lie Xing's past events surfaced together, Xun is no longer what he used to be, and he has grown up.
"Xun?!" Opal said in disbelief.
Xun's eyes were also choked red, he was tanned a lot, and there was a gangster-like temperament between his eyebrows, as if everyone owed him money, he had a very light beard, and the fibrous roots ran along the corners of his mouth. Down to the chin, they are no longer the teenagers they once knew each other.
With tears in her eyes, Xun stared at him for a while, as if he was lost for a moment, and said, "I know you?"
When Opal was about to say something, the earth in the distance shook, and the shock spread from the far horizon to his feet.
"What the hell!" Yin Yao yelled.
In the distance, Raymond shouted: "The robot just woke it up! Opal! Be careful!"
The three of them got up and rushed towards Times VI. The huge creature behind them spurted out the acid, which was like raindrops on the desert. Opal roared, "Can you hide in the spaceship?!"
Xun's shoulders were corroded by the acid, and he screamed in pain. Raymond rushed to Opal from the spaceship dozens of meters away. At that moment, Opal felt a shudder in his heart, and the scene of Raymond being corroded appeared in front of his eyes. The moment they hugged, Opal pushed Raymond to the ground and protected him with his body.
The four fell to the ground, and the giant beast chasing them showed a full picture—a giant acid spray covered with barbs, head and tail indistinguishable, Raymond shouted: "Run towards the spaceship!"
"No!" Xun shouted loudly: "Run towards the open space! This is a desert acid beast! It will create an acid lake!"
They couldn't stop giving in, the desert acid beast spurted another wave of strong acid, encircling the escape range of its prey, and quickly stepped into a pool of strong acid, roaring in pain, Yin Di staggered away with his shoulders on his back, and Raymond shouted. : "Is there no way to kill it?"
Yin Yan said: "You can only run! Once the skin is broken, all the acid will come out!"
Opal was panting, seeing that the acid beast opened its big mouth under the spiny skin, the strong acid rolled in its body, and sprayed the last wave of overwhelming acid towards them.
At that moment, there was no way for Opal to retreat. He pushed forward with both hands, and the power of faith rolled the entire desert, and the sand and stones that covered the sky were lifted up in an instant.
It was pitch black between the sky and the earth, and the sharp sand and dust were swirling. Accompanied by the sunlight penetrating into the flickering light spots after the tornado sandstorm, a spectacular sand wall covering nearly a thousand meters was built, blocking the corrosion of the acid beasts in the sand. The body fluid, and then in the next moment, the acid beast was pressed into the ground by the layer of gravel weighing 10,000 tons.
Opal breathed slowly, looking at his hands in disbelief.
"God..." Yin Yao said, "What happened just now?"
Era VI was also buried in the sandstorm. Raymond looked around and said, "Where's the spaceship?"
Opal: "I'll try to get it out..."
Raymond pondered for a moment, then said, "No, this place can't stay for too long, we have to leave immediately, I'm afraid another pursuer will come."
Half an hour later, the four of them were walking on the desert under the scorching sun, followed by two small navigation robots, limping quickly, leaning on Yin Yu's shoulders.
Xun: "You... you didn't act according to the plan, Yinyao..."
Yinyao said: "You are also... not the commander-in-chief, Xun, I don't need to listen to you... "
Xun said: "You... what did you do to that child? Sid he... is very angry now... "
Yinyao: "Your sweetheart was... cuckolded, and you had to come to save me... "
Xun scolded an extremely unpleasant swear word, twisted Yin Di's collar and overturned him to the ground, pulled out his weapon and shouted, "You bastard!"
Opal turned around and said, "Hey, wait! I said, Xun!"
As soon as Yinyao coughed and got up, he was beaten to the ground with a stick. It was real. Opal could even hear the sound of the electric baton colliding with Yinyao's head, and immediately said: "Don't hit him! You want to kill him. Did you miss him?"
Yin Yao was hit with a stick in the head, and just as he was about to stand up to fight back, he was stabbed again in the stomach, and immediately knelt on the ground and vomited uncontrollably. Seeing this, Opal went up to drag Yinyao away, but Xun desperately beat Yinyao to death.
Opal took out his big sword, and when Xun was about to add the third stick, the big sword slashed straight and quickly avoided it, and then Opal swept him to the ground with a bang.
Xun scolded, and was so mad that he wanted to go to the ground desperately. Opal made another move. The door-like sword slapped Xun's face, and immediately slapped him with nosebleeds, indescribable embarrassment.
Xun swayed to get up, and Opal pushed his big sword against his chest again, pushing him back to the ground, and said, "Dude, I wish you a long life."
Xun's eye sockets were swollen and swollen, and he fought like a pig's head with Yin Di, so he simply lay down in the desert and didn't leave.
"This damn desert, no matter how far you go," Raymond said.
Opal said: "Let me see..."
He walked up to the sand dunes, looked up at the scorching sun overhead, identified the direction, and came over and said, "E7, open the map."
The E7 launched a holographic map, and Opal said, "We should go northeast, there's a small oasis there."
"It's too far," Raymond said. "It will take at least ten days to get there."
Opal said: "No, this is a large-scale oasis irrigation point, I mean here... In a place not marked on the map, there is a small village, about two days away from us, covering an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers... Residential gathering place. Resupply there, find a boat…”
Quickly said: "Are you a Sphinx?"
Opal stared at the light screen and shook his head.
The Sphinx is a desert planet with endless sand seas and forty-seven oases dotted in the middle of the desert. The strange climate has formed highlands with an altitude of 10,000 meters and bottomless canyons. Several rivers flow from the top of the snow. Flowing up and down, irrigating the oases on both sides of the river, the water continued to decrease as it went deeper into the desert, and eventually dried up completely.
Beneath the sand lies an extremely valuable interstellar raw material—ancient oil.
Oil was one of the four main fuels in the human world before the epoch, but in the modern era of the light era, it has become an indispensable additive in industrial and military production.
The Sphinx was originally a green planet full of life. The Astronautical Association once used a computer to deduce what it looked like tens of billions of years ago. The entire planet was covered with green vegetation and lived with countless primitive creatures. At a certain turning point in the long river, the star on which the Sphinx revolved underwent a weak oscillation.
This shock may be generated by the thermonuclear reaction of the planet, or it may be affected by the gravity of other celestial bodies. In short, it changes the orbits of most of the planets in the entire galaxy, including the Sphinx. This caused the temperature on the planet to rise suddenly, and 99% of the plants and animals perished. The crust shifted, and 70 percent of the planet's water escaped until it settled into a new orbit again.
This is undoubtedly the end of the world for the aborigines of the planet, but after the end of the world, the new life that has been saved will be resurrected again.
Some scholars even suspect that there was intelligent life on the ancient Sphinx, and it was these intelligent life that preserved the seeds of plants and animals. If this speculation is confirmed, then the first inhabitants of the Sphinx may be It is the oldest intelligent civilization in the universe, but unfortunately, they did not survive in the end, leaving only a large natural mine buried with 7% of the total oil production in the universe and rich in silica resources.
However, it is not easy to extract oil on the Sphinx, because the day here is too long.
Yinyao said, "Why is it always noon?"
"It's about the same as Fierce Star," Raymond said. "The days are long."
Questions such as "Are you also mercenaries?" have been asked many times by Xun, but Opal was so dazzled that he had no energy to answer him. Thirsty and hunger made him blindly insist on moving forward. Any problem can only be handled by Xun Xun.
"Go into the canyon." Opal said: "Victory immediately."
"I'll carry you." Raymond said.
Opal waved his hand and pointed to Xun, which meant that Xun's foot was disabled, and it was better to take care of him than to take care of me.
Raymond glanced at Xun and said nothing.
Xun lay on the ground, gasping for breath, his feet stink, and the parts below his knees were completely rotten.
Yin Ying's shoulders were charred black.
Opal carried Xun on his back and reluctantly carried him towards the canyon.
"I'll come." Raymond said, he put Xun on his back, walked through the canyon, and a village appeared in front of him.
Opal breathed a sigh of relief, walked for nearly thirty hours, and was so tired that he almost collapsed.
However, the village was heavily guarded, and it was vaguely seen that many soldiers were searching the village with robots.
"Oops." Opal narrowed his eyes.
"Imperial Army." Raymond said, "When did you come?"
"You have to find a way to treat them." Opal said, "I can't hold it anymore. The body fluid of the acid beast is poisonous."
Previously, Xun drove the Future Lord to chase out to save Yinyao, but the spaceship was destroyed by the mecha, and had to abandon the ship in the escape pod to fall, but the empire knew that it was very important. Sphinx.
Raymond said: "I'll find a way."
Opal said: "No, I'll go."
"You've got to stay and look after them, try to strengthen their faith and hold on until I get back," Raymond said.
Opal also thought about it, he might not be able to find a radiation therapy device, and Raymond guarding Xun and Yinyao in the Gobi was not a solution.
Raymond left, Xun's injuries were the worst, he couldn't breathe, his eye sockets were sunken, his cheeks were pale, and the toxins had invaded his body.
"Hello." Xun moved his lips towards Opal.
Opal sat in front of the stone, hugged one knee and looked into the distance, Raymond had become a small black spot.
"Do you occasionally say thank you to die?" Opal said.
Xun said: "Yes, sometimes... Saying thank you to a comrade-in-arms is an insult, I... I know you are a mercenary."
When Opal saw that Yin Yu had fallen into a coma, he couldn't help but wonder how powerful the toxin was? Hope Raymond comes back soon and doesn't die...
Xun said: "No... No. You take this."
He took out a book from his arms, and Opal took it. It was Xun's mercenary diary. It was not the same as before. It seemed to have changed the cover, and he seemed to have seen the cover of this diary somewhere.
"Take it." Xun said, "Yinyao is also dying. You go to Liexing and give it to Rosen... I... I failed his expectations."
Opal: "… "
He knelt down on one knee and opened Xun's mercenary diary, which contained the seventy-three A-level mercenary heads and the joint mercenary king commission signed by Rosen and Urka.
"Urka, Begonia, Wrench..." Xun said, "As long as... as long as Begonia is found, as long as Begonia... As long as Begonia signs... more than half... Wrench can no longer... can no longer collude with the Empire... But I can't find her... I tried my best… "
"The mercenary king commission." Opal panted: "You, Xun... Are you the mercenary king?!"
"I am..." Xun's voice gradually lowered, and when he was dying, he said intermittently: "My name is Xun Azeroth... I want to make up for the mistakes my father... made... I want to... Imperial Dog... Revenge... To... …Coroline… revenge…”
"Xun." Opal trembled, put his hands on his chest, and said, "Xun! You have to live!"
At that moment, Opal's belief force forcibly invaded Xun's mind.
He saw countless scenes passing by intermittently, something seemed to emanate from Xun's spirit, and his soul was like a ball of light, shrouding his body and shaking, and it was like a faint wind, floating to the blue sky.
Opal hugged Xun's broken body and closed his eyes. He trembled and prayed in his heart. In the small world he and Xun were in, the vast stars and the boundless universe emerged. The stars were intertwined, like a cage. , suppressed Xun's soul.