Ledgerson's singing flowed in the cabin, and Raymond spread out the Adventurer's Handbook on the coffee table, summarizing the information they had obtained during their trip to the star.
The current commission mode of the Star Knights Adventure Brigade has skipped the stage that most adventurers have to go through. Just like senior adventurers, they directly obtain all kinds of information from the universe, and then bring them back to the Great Astronautical Association for summary.
"Alex failed," Opal said. "How will it affect the future?"
"Don't be too happy." Raymond said: "I guess he has a backer."
Rickett opened E7, and, while flipping through the news of the month at King's Wharf, did not interrupt the conversation between the two, Opal added: "On the way before I came, I met Justin, the empire's war failed, and now it is up to him to clean up It's a mess. I see what he means, the Baroque camp is going to take advantage of Alex's new defeat and want to annex the Big Astronautical Association."
Raymond said, "So what? He told us not to interfere?"
Opal glanced at Rector, knowing that he and Justin had worked together briefly, but that didn't necessarily mean that Rector was completely baroque.
Rector still didn't speak.
"Yes, he told us not to interfere, what do you think?" Opal said. "I guess you really don't want to interfere."
"Oh yes." Raymond said helplessly: "You know I'm lazy. If the Great Astronautical Association is annexed by the Empire, the adventurers are still the same. What's the difference to us?"
"Oh you always do." Opal said: "Indeed, it doesn't make any difference if the star is annexed by the empire, and it doesn't make any difference if the republic is annexed by the empire... After all, the empire won't kill and eat people in these galaxies. Even if the entire universe is swallowed up by Cororin it doesn't make a difference..."
Raymond said: "In fact, this is the case. Look at his secret alliance. The female Luoxing, Sphinx and Shui Lan have little influence. Ledgerson is going to the female Luoxing for a concert. "
Rector happened to turn to the newspaper to promote Ledgerson's new concert, and turned over without looking at it.
Opal said: "Of course it will have an impact. If the mercenary king is still a wrench and submits to the empire with Huairou's policy, in the end it will only be annexed by the empire little by little, and there will be no more strong stars. Only the big space under the jurisdiction of the empire. Associations and mercenary unions."
"It's not bad, is it?" Raymond said: "I think you humans will eventually all gather together. Just like before the Era of Light, everyone had only one government, and human beings had only one collective name, Earth people. "
The two were relatively silent for a moment, and Raymond suddenly remembered something and said, "Teacher, Corolin asked us to guard the Great Astronautical Association."
"What?" Rickett finally asked.
Raymond said: "He asked me and Opal... to check a piece of information to keep the Great Astronautical Association. Don't let the Empire annex it."
Opal said: "What information?"
Raymond said: "He stayed in the Big Astronautical Association a long time ago."
Opal asked, "Is he still an adventurer? About what?"
Raymond: "I haven't seen it yet, how do I know?"
Opal: "What level of adventurer is he?"
Raymond: "I don't know."
Opal: "Why do you do this?"
Raymond: "I don't know."
With an expression of no comment, Raymond pointed to his head, indicating that you should just read it, I really don't know. Opal scratched his head and had to put this matter aside for the time being.
[What else did Coroline say? ] Rickett used the power of belief to ask: [Did you mention replicants?]Opal: [Teacher, Raymond already knows.]
Rickett had nothing to do, and as soon as his thoughts moved, Opal could read it, and Rector still didn't want to discuss this matter too much in front of Raymond. And most importantly—
—He wanted to protect them and didn't want Opal and Raymond to get too involved in the matter.
Opal: [I heard from Xun that Kyle Lei on Lie Xing is still a second clone, where is the main body? And Cororin took away Kyle's stump, and he might be able to crack something with this.]Recter: [I'm going to leave for a while, you and Raymond go back to King's Wharf, don't meddle in the army of clones, this is not something you can handle. ] Opal suddenly said: "Teacher, you can actually give us the task."
Raymond was a little strange and asked, "What commission?"
Opal said: "The entrustment to hunt down the body of Kyle."
Rector frowned and said, "Opal."
Opal said: "Me and Raymond hope to solve this by ourselves."
Rickett said, "No, I'm clear, no."
Opal: "Teacher, I know what you mean, but I also believe in Raymond..."
Raymond remained silent all the time, Rector said: "No, Opal, the next thing is very complicated, I suspect that at the end of the dark age, after the Intelligence Legion got the information of the final battle, it still retained some of its strength, it turns out that we The dilemma to face is not as simple as it is now. I have to go to Ledgerson and convince him."
"Don't go!" Raymond and Opal said almost simultaneously.
"That's what I've been thinking about for a few days. Listen to me," Recht said.
"First off, Kyle Ray has more than one base, three I guess..."
"Four," Raymond said. "You only destroyed one of them."
Lake nodded and said: "We don't know where the rest of the bases are now, but it is certain that at least one of the bases contains the black boxes left by the Replicant Legion for the revival before the Dark Ages, and Weapons, ships and munitions."
Raymond said: "I don't understand, how can they know that they will be destroyed by humans?"
Opal said: "Kelley. At that time, everyone didn't know that Kellley was a clone. Coroline told him the final plan and asked him to help. When Kelley heard it, he ran away. Azera S took over the entire Fierce Star while he was away. After he came back, he set a trap to arrest him, and Kyle Ray's plan was interrupted for a while. Until Jimison and Coralline found him."
Rickett thought for a while, and said, "There were many, many individuals who also penetrated into human society at that time. Ledgerson's adoptive father, Irang, was one of them. The ivory tower told us that after Kyle got the news, he fled in. Five-dimensional space, hiding for a while aboard my father's Wheel of Time."
Rickett nodded and said: "So now, the Wisdom Legion is preparing a new revival plan somewhere we don't know. This time may be as long as a thousand years, or it may only be a short month. We lack intelligence. The only breakthrough is Ledgerson. I'm going to talk to him in person."
Opal said: "This is too dangerous, what will you do if Ledgerson turns his face?"
"It's not dangerous, Ledgerson's beliefs have been weakened, he's hesitating, and he doesn't even know if what he's doing is right or wrong," Recht said. "It's just an obsession he's had over the years."
"What obsession?" Raymond asked.
"Resurrect his father," Recht said.
The three did not speak, and Opal said, "Teacher, let's go with you."
"Stay in the Big Astronautical Association." Recht said: "This is my order, and Cororin is also investigating this matter. In any case, I have to solve it before him. Otherwise, there will be unpredictable results. "
"I don't think he's necessarily going to... I don't think he's going to put the Clone Legion in Iszur," Opal said.
Recht took a deep breath and said, "I hope, at this time, I would rather believe him with you."
After a short silence, Opal and Raymond exchanged glances. Opal said that he needed to fight for it again, while Raymond indicated that it was okay with his eyes.
Opal used the power of conviction to cut into Rector's mind and read a fragment that made him feel a little overwhelmed for a moment.
Rickett was thinking about the fact that Cororin made Raymond, and he regretted that he should not have accepted Raymond as a clone.
His heart is very contradictory, and his love and indifference to Opal allows Raymond to exist, but in his daily life with them, Recht can't feel much rejection towards Raymond.
But Raymond is still alive, which means that Recht took a tacit acquiescence to the position that Cororin made and used replicators. Cororin may gradually change his mind from Raymond's actions, thinking that there is a replica of his own. Not so unacceptable. Thus, after destroying Kyle Lei, he took over the clone army.
That's what worries Recht the most.
Rector sensed that Opal was reading his mind, closed his heart, and glanced at Opal at the same time.
"Opal?" Raymond asked.
Opal shook his head and said, "It's nothing, teacher, when are you going to find Ledgerson?"
"After arriving at King's Wharf," Rector said.
His voice sounded in Opal's mind: [I didn't intend to make up for this mistake, Opal, you can rest assured. This is just a manifestation of my shaking of belief. People always question themselves and reflect. It is just a fragment of my reflection. Sometimes, I am not sure whether my thoughts are correct or not.]Opal hummed and replied: [Raymond likes you very much, teacher. But you don't seem to… don't think of him very much as a human being. Including Coroline too. ] Rickett said: [There is no way, this is a concept formed when I was a child. I can accept him on the surface, but I can't deceive myself or you in my heart, but when everything is over, I will try my best to adapt, Teachers also have something to learn.]Time VI arrived at King's Wharf. Opal noticed that a space station had been added to the outer atmosphere. After accessing the Adventurer's Manual, the inspector of the space station said, "Yo, just came back from Lie Star? Isn't that destroyed over there?"
Opal said: "It's okay, we fought a happy battle."
"The mercenaries are not easy." The inspector said, "Even the Saintess Fortress has been left in the God of War galaxy. This time, Queen Inni will slap the Marshal severely, the weather is fine, I wish you good luck— "
The spacecraft entered the tarmac, and Rickett said goodbye to them on the tarmac, saying, "I'll be back as soon as possible."
Opal said: "If you want to fight..."
Rickett said: "No, I can't fight. Once I have to fight, I will ask you for help."
Opal said: "You promise me, teacher."
"I promise," Recht said.
The dragon ray rolled up the metal whirlwind on the ground, flew into the sky and disappeared.
"I'm not very concerned," Recht said.
Opal looked at him and said, "Teacher is the strongest in my heart. I think he is better than both Cororin and Ledgerson."
Raymond said, "Maybe, but I always think he's getting old."
Opal said: "You like the teacher very much."
Raymond smiled and said: "Besides you, I don't have any family, it feels good to have a family..."
While speaking, an imperial soldier said: "You two, I just saw what you used?"
Opal and Raymond stopped at the same time, and the imperial soldier showed his ID and said, "The Imperial Government Intelligence Officer of the White Falcon Star. The gentleman who was with you just now..."
Opal immediately remembered that when he was on Jin Yaoxing not long ago, Recht and himself took violent means to break through, and they were targeted. This group of imperial people really persevered...
"Can you explain what kind of instrument that is?" said the soldier.
Raymond raised his eyes and glanced around, and Opal said in his mind: [The troublemaker is here, fight or run? ] Raymond replied: [There are a lot of plain clothes around, I suggest not to be rough.]
Opal followed his gaze and found that there were many more people on the tarmac, some shopping, some chatting, not like ordinary adventurers or tourists.
"This is the latest product." Opal took out his sunglasses and put them on. With a flick of his wrist, Phoenix immediately transformed into a weapon form, and the imperial soldier took a step back.
"It's called a star spin machine." Opal said casually: "It's specially designed for the phantom people to move things from the high-dimensional universe to the low-dimensional universe... Of course, transitions between different parallel universes can also be realized. Do you know parallel universes? ? In another universe not far from us, you are being beaten all over by us, and there is another universe next door..."
"Adventurer Opal, you and Lecter violated the Imperial Security Law on Jin Yaoxing, and you are now under arrest. From this moment on, every word you say will be used as the basis for sentencing..."
Raymond and Opal said in unison, "Run!"
The two turned around at the same time, and the soldier said loudly, "Catch them!"
The plainclothes in the entire apron were all dispatched. The King's Wharf is under the jurisdiction of the Great Astronautical Association. The Empire cannot use combat security aircraft here. The plainclothes can only be chased by hand. Opal and Raymond ran out of the apron hall and knocked over the egg The cart of cake and ice cream, one of the opals drifted in the run, turned around, pushed forward with both hands, egg ice cream covered the sky and flew towards the pursuers.
"Yoha—" The adventurers on both sides cheered.
"I'm optimistic about you!" Someone was still whistling at them, taking off their hats.
The pursuers fell into a ball, and the police came.
"Who told you to arrest people here!" the policeman scolded angrily.
"Your power of belief is getting better and better!" Raymond said.
Opal shouted: "Let's give and give!"
The two of them knocked over many things along the way, and rushed out of the pass. The security alarm sounded in the apron. Raymond wrapped Opal's waist in one hand and turned directly out of the pass through the pass.
The plainclothes outside the apron had been waiting for a long time, and rushed up from all directions at once. Opal was almost certain that the Imperial Army would not be able to get the slightest benefit here. As long as they could escape, the Empire would have nothing to do with them.
The two of them lay on one side at the same time, flew out of the battle group along the smooth ground, got up and ran out of the apron.
In the autumn of King's Wharf, there are blood-red maple leaves everywhere. The moment it jumped out of the tarmac, Phoenix was transformed into a red Tariqlin-style retro roadster in the eyes of thousands of adventurers. Opal and Raymond turned in. At the door of the car, the adventurers shouted and took out their cameras to take pictures.
"Boy! Where did your car come from! Is it for sale!" a woman shouted at them.
Raymond put on his sunglasses and whistled at her. The plainclothes behind him chased after him. Phoenix lifted off, erupting purple propelling flames, and with an extremely handsome buzzing sound, he disappeared from everyone's sight.
The red open-top sports car joined the endless running track, and more suspension cars chased after him. Opal said, "God, why are all the plain clothes on the King's Wharf?"
One person drove over in a hover car and shouted, "Go to the association... They are here to watch over you for a few days..."
Before the words were finished, the man was thrown away by Phoenix. Opal didn't even have time to see his face clearly, but judging from the voice, he could vaguely recognize the young adventurer named Ares.
"Go to the Society, Phoenix."
The red sports car entered the main road, and the suspension cars were even rushing in front of them. It seemed that they would stop them from the Big Astronautical Association at all costs, because once they entered the association, all laws would be invalid on this safe island, and adventurers only need to obey the king The adventurer's rules of the dock can ignore any arrest warrant under the protection of Horius' heroic soul.
Although there are only ten short hours, when the night club closes, he will be kicked out, but these ten or so hours are enough to go through countless procedures of exoneration. The premise is that the network is strong enough to face aliens. Friends of the forces send out a distress signal.
In the worst case, you can submit an application to the association for a free lawyer.
Opal made a big move in Jin Yaoxing before, and even Recht was dragged into the water, but the most helpless thing about the empire is that they have no evidence.
Rickett entered the palace without swiping his ID card, which made the empire unable to produce any strong evidence, and Rotman was unable to call up the video in Queen Inni's palace, only the two people from the outer palace all the way to the apron. , and the record is only Dragon Ray, not Phoenix.
When Phoenix took off, he created chaos in the form of a spaceship. Now as long as Phoenix doesn't appear in spaceship mode, the Empire can't catch people!
Raymond said: "Too many! Find a way to get in!"
Opal: "You can't fire here! Otherwise, it will violate the rules of the association!"
After rushing to the square outside the main entrance of the Great Astronautical Association, there were two large rows of hundreds of suspension cars around in an instant, all of which were squeezed towards the center. Phoenix rolled over and brushed through the gaps of the three suspension cars.
"Phoenix! What are you doing—" Opal yelled.
"Be careful!" Raymond bowed and protected Opal's head. The two curled up together. Phoenix collided with the airtight suspension car array head-on, and then disintegrated into pieces in mid-air. Opal and Raymond Using inertia to skim through the gap between the two suspended cars, Raymond propped his hand in front of the car, Opal stepped on the front cover of the car, and the two took advantage of their strength to leap. The sports car took them into the car, drilled into the fountain, flew out from the other end with a clatter, and rushed directly into the Big Astronautical Association.
With a loud bang, Phoenix flew three cleaning robots and a commissioned register, turned them into pieces and returned to Opal's hands, converging into rings.
Opal and Raymond slipped on the ground and then got up.
Outside the hovering cars scattered, all the adventurers in the entire hall of the association were watching them.
Opal sighed, and the two turned to face the square outside.
A hover car stopped outside the square, and the Imperial officer who had stopped them on the tarmac got off and said, "I'm going to arrest you!"
Opal said, "Oh no."
Raymond: "Keep running? Go to the second floor?"
Opal took a step back and said, "Whoever said that if he joined the association, everything would be fine!"
The adventurers roared, "Run! Go to the second floor and see the chairman, you will be safe!"
Opal was about to turn around and run, but Raymond was still hesitant. The officer stepped into the hall of the association and said, "According to imperial law, you are detained."
Immediately, the alarm sounded loudly in the association, and all the guard robots were dispatched. Opal wanted to summon Phoenix and run directly, but all the robots went towards the officer.
"What are you doing! Wait!" The officer was about to leave the association, but found that there were robots all around.
"Colonel Gris of the Imperial White Falcon Star Intelligence Department." A middle-aged man walked out of the crowd, took off his hat and salutes him, and said politely: "You violated the law of the King's Wharf, mobilized your armed forces privately, and cooperated with the big aerospace company. There is a conflict between the adventurers of the association, please be investigated locally."
Gris: "..."
Opal recognized the man, it was Vice Chairman Sen, and he was relieved immediately.
"Guard robot, take him down." Sen Yun said lightly.
"You will regret it!" Gris roared abruptly: "They have seriously violated the Imperial Security Law! They are simply a group of lawless..."
"It is true that their situation is also serious, and I will punish them on the spot," Sen said.
"Oh don't do that." Opal frowned.
"You guys." Sen said, "Driving at speed, knocking over a snack truck outside the tarmac, the situation is very bad, and I am fined 2,000 credit points. Pay now, if you don't have the money, you can apply for a loan."
The adventurers all laughed and dispersed.
Raymond smiled, took out his ID card and went to the robot beside Sen to pay the fine. Opal didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He went to buy a drink. Sen said, "Opal, come to the King's Conference Room in half an hour."
Opal said, "The chairman is back?"
"He's talking to Brigadier General Figg... about some small things." Sen held his hat lightly, winked at Opal, and said, "There's another lady named Winry who wants to catch up with the chairman. I guess he might I can't see you on time, you know, according to the chairman's memory and time, delaying to see him every time for three hours should be just right."
Opal immediately understood that something was going to happen at King's Wharf recently, and the empire's plans had already been spread here. Douglas is not Xun, and King's Wharf is not a fierce star. The combat power of the Great Astronautical Association is far beyond his imagination. A litter of foxes, whether it is Rotman or Justin, should not be an opponent of the Bureau.
He bought a bottle of drink, unscrewed it, and spread it out on the sofa. There are many desert sunflowers planted in the lounge on the first floor. The sun in autumn is comfortable and beautiful. Scattered adventurers walk around the hall and chat with each other with a smile.
Opal suddenly found that the Great Astronautical Association also felt like a home, like a quiet manor without disturbing each other. If Lie Xing is a hot-blooded fighting arena, then the Great Astronautical Association is a leisurely salon. The two have different styles, but they are full of hopes for the future and expectations for adventure.
The pace of life of adventurers is not fast, loose, and they will take off their hats to say hello when they meet. Opal began to feel that he also needed such a peaked cap or a geological survey hat, or a cylinder hat, so that colleagues can pretend to say when they meet. "The weather is nice".
After coming to King's Wharf for four years, the battle of the fierce stars has not been resolved. Opal always has a natural sense of resistance to the Great Astronautical Association, as if he is afraid of being assimilated by adventurers and losing his memories and his home star.
However, after the third Star War, Opal finally let go of everything. He felt that no matter where he was, the blood of the star was flowing on his body - not only the star, but also Iszur, the king. The piers, the spirits of these places had been etched into his soul, and he was ready to formally integrate into his new life.
"Hey, wife." Opal said, "What are you doing?"
"Check the information." Raymond said: "You are the wife. You just escaped from your husband's powerful embrace, and are you changing your title again?"
Opal laughed and said, "Let me see?"
Raymond said: "To check a legacy document, you need... Gene lock, go to the local data room."
Opal said: "Wait a minute, I also want to see... see..."
Just now Sen seemed to have something to say but didn't say it. Opal guessed that the two names might have some meaning in it.
He recalled what Sen said, inputting names into the information network, there were hundreds of millions of names in rows, and Opal selected the "high-level empire" for secondary screening.
Fige Iliot: Brigadier General of the Imperial Seventh Army Corps, born in Huanfengxing, in charge of the outer space defense system of the Imperial Gold Star System, graduated from Changkong Academy...
"Born from Cyclone," Raymond said.
Opal always felt that this surname seemed to have been heard by someone, and Raymond thought about it and said, "Justin introduced himself once, and his surname is Elliott."
Opal said: "Understood, Iliot must be his mother's surname, so this Brigadier General Feige is from his mother's uncle's family!"
"It's possible," Raymond said. "The Baroque faction."
Opal entered another name: Winry.
Secondary screening, matching person names:
Wenli Rotman: Director of the Imperial White Falcon Star Intelligence Department, born in the White Falcon Star, a female major general.
"People from the Phoenix faction are also waiting to negotiate with Chairman Douglas," Opal said.
Raymond said: "I guess Alex's loss at Fierce Star gave the Big Astronautical Association the initiative."
Opal nodded and said: "It's possible... I guess what Douglas would like to say in a while. In the style of the Great Astronautical Association, if you don't pick the two factions to fight at King's Wharf, it's really an adventurer."
Raymond said with a smile: "Maybe it's really possible..."
The two took out the Adventurer's Manual, and when they were about to leave, there was another chaos at the entrance of the hall.
A hover car rushed into the hall of the association, and the adventurers stopped to watch. A cleaning robot in the hover car shoveled it to the ground and dragged it five meters away. A teenager jumped out of the car and yelled nervously. Said: "Who can save me! Help!"
The two imperial troops chased to the door, and the adventurers laughed and stood still, as if they were waiting for a good show.
A soldier was hesitating, and an adventurer said to the boy: "You are finished! The chairman has reached a treaty with Brigadier General Feige, and now the rules of the safe island do not take effect..."
"No! No!" the boy said, "I didn't do anything!"
Opal said to him: "Hurry up, Horius guards me, hurry up, you'll be fine if you shout!"
Opal's bad idea caused another burst of laughter.
"You committed the crime of stealing!" The soldier heard this and chased after the Great Astronautical Association. The alarm sounded again, and countless security robots came over and surrounded him.
"According to the safety island treaty." The guard robot said: "Any regime's arrest warrant will not take effect here. If you are not certified as an adventurer, please go through the side door and leave immediately. You will be detained within three seconds."
The soldier had no choice but to back out, and the young man heaved a sigh of relief, took off his hat, saluted the adventurers around him, and trotted to deliver the entrustment.
"It's the sixth time this month." Someone said.
"It seems that Douglas can't deal with those guys in the Empire." Another adventurer said.
Another gloated: "I'd like to see how they deal with Douglas..."
The audience dispersed, and Opal saw the teenager's attire and remembered something.
"Hey, Raymond, let's go buy a set of clothes to change." Opal put his elbows on Raymond's shoulders, and followed him to the other side of the hall.
Raymond said: "What? Are you going to dress more elegantly?"
Opal shrugged, and the two walked through the commercial street under the transparent roof. This is the comprehensive market of the Great Astronautical Association. The prices are from high to low. The snack bar, the equipment store, and the item store are like a mixed supermarket. Occasionally there are strange items from all over the universe for sale here, of course, there are not many profiteers.
Opal bought two sets of memory cloth dresses at the clothing store - dress coats are too formal, cylinder hats are liked by old men, and older adventurers like black ones. Opal chose a white shirt, a brown vest, a tie, and a coat for himself, put on leather shoes, and put on the plaid cap on the top hat rack, which was completely different from the previous mercenary dress.
"How about my suit?" Raymond changed into a dark red suit with a small vest inside, which made him tall and handsome.
Opal and Raymond are not very good at choosing clothes. According to the dress that Mrs. Anta chose for them a long time ago, it seems that this looks more suitable. Raymond took a pipe from the next shelf and held it in his mouth, vaguely. Said, "So what?"
"Like a detective." Opal laughed. He took off his pipe, put on a dark red hat and put it on Raymond. After looking at it for a moment, he said, "That's good."
They settled the bills, walked around the market, and from this moment on, truly became part of the Big Astronautical Society.