Opal thought of the Prophet on the Crimson Star, and she seemed to do the same.
"Your thoughts aren't in your head?" Opal asked suspiciously. "Where is that?"
"In our world, there's something called an extra dimension, and it's curled up like a tiny, tiny gap in the world that you can't see..."
Opal suddenly understood the meaning of Gleibney's words - he meant: Ledgerson can't read my heart.
With a sly glint in Gleibney's eyes, Opal sat down at the table with his coffee and said, "Three questions, I already have the answers."
There was a knock on the door, and the polite archbishop with glasses came in, carrying a tea tray and a bowl of medicine.
"Ledgerson sings very nicely." After Gleibney said this, he began to drink the medicine.
Opal said, "Tifeng said you invited him..."
Gleibney choked on hearing the name, sprayed the potion all over, and the Archbishop hurriedly rubbed the potion with the Pope in the sound of coughing. Opal didn't expect that the name of Tifeng would provoke such a big reaction from the Pope, and when he stepped forward to help, Gleibini coughed and signaled that he might as well.
"His name is... ah, ah!" Gleibney pointed to the archbishop and said, "Andis."
The archbishop nodded to Opal, and Gleibney said again: "Andis, come over after today's class and take Opal to the Prophet's library."
Andis pushed his glasses and said, "As you order, Your Majesty."
Opal said, "Can I look up what my father has seen?"
Gleibney replied, "Yes, I prepared it for you yesterday. Tell me about your understanding of the three questions from yesterday. Just talk about it."
Opal clasped his fingers, put it in front of his nose, was silent for a moment, and replied that he had already thought about it this morning, but he always felt that the Pope asked these three questions, it seemed that there was some special meaning.
Opal considered it again and again, and then said: "I think it is necessary for the greenhouse problem."
Gleibney said, "Why?"
Opal said: "Sooner or later, there will be a monkey that goes to explore the area outside the greenhouse. History forms a fixed trajectory in mutation. It's not this one, it's that one, it's a necessity, a kind of... The law that dominates the entire monkey race in the world, like Azeroth, like Kelley, like the former Kartus... Forgive me, Your Majesty, I only know these few people."
"Well, but that's Igna's idea," Gleibney said. "Coroline is said to have inherited his legacy, but it didn't go well. But that's not your answer, change it."
Opal was a little surprised that Gleibney would say this, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed, after a long silence, Opal spoke again.
"Monkeys don't know what's outside the greenhouse, they just have a little world in which they live, and it's like... what my heart thinks is good, it's appropriate, satisfying, as long as it's the status quo , and identify with this status quo, and gain yourself.”
"Living in this world forever is what the monkeys are all about. Even if you don't have any contact with the world outside the greenhouse from life to death, as long as you are happy, everything doesn't matter." Opal said with a smile: "Do you think What, Your Majesty?"
"This is Recht's idea." Gleibney said, "It's not your answer either."
Opal got the expected answer, and he suddenly understood a lot of things.
"I think." Opal said again: "A soul without self is not a living soul. A soul that repeats itself day after day is not a living soul, and a soul that is unaware of its existence is not a living soul. Eat every day, Sleeping, mining, walking, losing yourself in these cycles means losing your soul."
Gleibney said, "What made you think of this?"
Opal said: "When I was on the B-11 before, the arrival of Mr. Recht was like seeing a new world. I was the monkey in the greenhouse and finally knew what the universe was like."
"This analogy is inappropriate." Gleibini said: "But it is barely acceptable. You have also been a miner... No, why do I think your lies have been exposed... Opal?"
Opal: "!!!"
"Rickett found you?" Gleibney laughed. "So what?"
Opal: "No... not what you think, eh, it's complicated."
Gleibney was very funny: "Cololin told this long ago, just to tease you, go on."
Opal, with black lines all over his head, walked aside, sat on a thick stack of books, and said, "When I went to the Church of the Stars for the first time, I saw a sentence left by Nolan: Freedom is the power of the mind. I couldn't help but wonder, what does one have to do to be truly free?"
Gleibney: "What is true freedom?"
Opal said: "I haven't figured it out yet, what do you think, Your Majesty?"
"I don't understand either, but at least for this moment, you and I are free," Gleibney said.
Opal said: "And I think, the first question, in fact, even if the monkeys don't know any information about the outside world, they will eventually evolve different individuals and start to think 'what is the outside world like?'' Greenhouse Is there anything else outside the canopy?', 'Why are we here?' 'What else is there besides this?'. In fact, there is no need to think about this, and animals never think about it. But humans It’s different, since humans have evolved the ability to think about problems other than survival, this ability must have its place where it needs to be used, so the roof of the greenhouse will be opened sooner or later.”
"Very well, you passed." Gleibney said: "Now I recognize you, Opal, the final judgment will come, you have surpassed Recht and Coroline, I am very satisfied with you..."
With his long legs crossed, Opal held a cup in one hand and leaned his elbow on the bookshelf in the other, smiled and said, "No no, I'm just talking casually, really. I don't have such a firm belief as the teacher, I Sometimes I don't even know what to do..."
Gleibney got up and said, "Have you ever thought about what made you think like this?"
Opal said: "Myself, my life on the B11... and... Speaking of Glebney, ah, sorry, I should call your majesty..."
Gleibney smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, we can be good brothers, or how about I call you dad, so that Recht and Coroline will have to call you... Senior? Uncle? Now you are my dad."
Opal didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Mr. Lecter picked me up just by accident. I think if it wasn't me, if he fell on another planet, there would be another Apa, John or something else... standing In front of you... uh, I mean... it was just a coincidence that I became a disciple of Mr. Lecter and Mr. Corollin..."
"There is nothing accidental." Gleibney walked slowly to the door of the study and said, "Everything is inevitable according to the guidance of fate, Coroline has already learned about your background, because your mother left in an accident. The Wheel of Time, launched into our universe, rushed out of space along a forced energy tunnel, and crashed into B-11."
Opal frowned and looked at Gleibney, the Pope turned his head slightly, and said, "And the second time, Coroline briefly sent Recht into the fifth dimension, also following the trail left by your mother. Trajectory, out of space outside your homeland, and fall on the ore star."
Opal: "… "
Opal was in absolute shock for a moment, but the next sentence directly made his mind go blank.
"You are unique in all parallel universes." Gleibney said, "Because you were born in five-dimensional space, the only..."
The Pope snapped his fingers, the door of the study slowly opened, and a person stood outside the door.
His face was very haggard, as if he hadn't slept for a long time. The moment Opal saw him, he couldn't hold the coffee and poured it all over himself.
He just glanced at Opal, then turned his attention to Pope Drummond.
Yet in just that brief glance, Opal discovered that the man in front of him knew him, each other, not one-sided, confirming many things - past, present, and in Opal's life a very important memory.
Because the person standing outside the door is the wrench.
"Your Majesty Drummond." Wrench gave a mercenary salute and bowed: "I bring the blessing of the strong star, and wish you a long life."
Gleibini changed his face faster than turning a book, and said coldly: "Unfortunately, I'm tired of living, so saying that is undoubtedly cursing me."
Wrench: "… "
Opal: "… "
Opal didn't have time to think about why the wrench appeared here. His first thought was: the wrench must have something important to say, and he had to help him out immediately.
"Your Majesty." Opal said: "This sentence is not what you think, it is a greeting between mercenaries, for example..."
He jumped off the stack of books and stepped up to the wrench.
The wrench smiled at him, as if the old friends were reunited again. Opal gave a mercenary salute and said in unison with the wrench: "Comrade in arms, I wish you a long life."
They both pressed their left fists to their right shoulders, bowed, and lightly touched their fists.
Opal turned around and said: "The mercenaries use this etiquette to bless each other and hope that the other party will be comfortable."
Wrench nodded slowly, Gleibney said: "So you are a group, Opal, today's class is suspended, you can go out and have sex..."
Opal: "… "
"It's done." Gleibney said blankly.
Opal patted the wrench on the back to show encouragement, and took the door to leave.
The moment the door was closed, Opal and Raymond stuck to the door at the same time, listening to the sound inside.
Opal noticed the profile of Raymond's face and asked in a low voice, "Does Wrench still know you?"
The sides of the two were close to the door, and they were very close. Raymond moved his lips, touched Opal's lips, and kissed. He looked at Opal's deep eyes and whispered: "Know, we We just talked for a long time."
Opal kissed him back and asked, "What did you say?"
Raymond said: "The Fierce Star coup d'etat, he came to seek interstellar assistance..."
The man behind him coughed.
Opal and Raymond turned their heads together and saw the bishop named Andis holding a book in his left hand and pushing his spectacles in his right hand.
"Your Majesty said you have an order?" Andis said politely.
Opal remembered and said, "Yes, please take me to the prophet's library, I need to consult some materials."
Andis made a gesture of invitation and said, "Please come with me."
Andis led the way and led them out of the Hall of Stars. Opal suddenly remembered the name here. The Pope's palace is a star, and Cororin's palace is called "Meteor", which are obviously two tit-for-tat camps. The stars are the gods of the universe, and Coroline is responsible for extinguishing the stars. How did these two guys get along
Why would Collin do this
Opal suddenly remembered a question that he hadn't thought about for a long time. He wanted to extinguish all the stars in the universe and make all interstellar civilizations around Iszur.
The first thing is obviously impossible. There are too many stars, and he can't do it in his entire life.
But if the second thing is said, maybe it can be done.
"What did the Pope say today?" Raymond asked, "Have the three questions been answered?"
Andis led the way for the two in front and never looked back. Opal suspects that the Pope is being watched, so before the watcher is found, he can't say anything casually. One of his reasons for coming here is to help the Pope, but Gleibney didn't say anything. Only give some plausible answers, or is he using these to imply himself
Opal said, "Do you want to know how he interprets it?"
Raymond nodded and said, "I'm more curious about the second question."
"We only said the first one," Opal said.
Opal briefly told Raymond his answer, and Raymond nodded thoughtfully and said, "What did he say last? Say it again."
Opal said: "He said he agreed with me, what's wrong?"
Raymond shook his head, and Andis took them to a gate and said, "Here, this is the Prophet's library."
Raymond opened the door for Opal, and the vast starlight was swirling and cast, and there was a bookshelf beside them, looking up, there was no end, looking sideways, it spanned the whole world, like one side extending into the distance. The wall, Opal entered the library, turned around and took a few steps back, and found that the door was just a small lattice at the bottom of the bookshelf.
"Wall without end." Opal said.
Andis pushed his glasses and replied, "The Prophet's Library is annular, but it's just too big, so you can't see its arc."
Opal took out a book and glanced at it, and found that it was a vintage paper book.
With the vast sea of knowledge and records, Opal could not help but feel dizzy when faced with this towering bookshelf.