The voice of the opera prince Ledgerson was flowing in the capsule, this time he sang another short poem: "I love that transparent flower, I smelled it when I was a child, just when the soul dived, the deep blue the bottom of the water…”
"His songs are so good?" said Opal bored.
Raymond said: "It's a little infectious, and the lyrics themselves are beautiful."
Opal said: "You fool with the name, do you know what is beautiful or not?"
Raymond: "It's better than your 'casual' mercenary group!"
Opal: "Someone still has the name of the mercenary group! You can't register yet!"
Raymond: "Come on, it must have been some unlucky guy who got slapped by the registrar."
Opal went to get some food, opened two cans of iris wine, and the interior of the cabin was not the same as before. Raymond moved the sofa to one side and placed it against the wall. The floor was covered with a thick dark red blanket, and there was a coffee table in the middle. The two of them could eat and chat while sitting on the ground.
The sofa can be used as a place for temporary participants to rest. The blanket is large and occupies nearly half of the control room area. You can sleep on it directly after taking off your boots.
Opal lay on his back on the blanket, turned over and lay on his stomach, feeling very comfortable, like a warm little home.
"How much did it cost?" Opal asked.
Raymond could actually understand these endless words. He lowered his head and studied the mercenary diary, and said, "It didn't cost much, it's all second-hand."
A mercenary diary marked "E+" flew over and smashed it on Opal's head. Opal opened it and lay on the ground to read the details of the commission.
Mission level: C level.
Entrusted content: Assist "Ban" to sneak into the backstage before or after the concert, enter Ledgerson's lounge, confide his love for him, and preferably ask for a kiss.
Contact: Ban.
Contact information: Next to the third trash can at the corner of Gate 16 of the Aquamarine Deep Sea Stage "Aquamarine Throne".
Reward: 22900 credits.
Remarks: Be sure to arrive before the concert, preferably three universe days in advance. If you arrive before March 16, 2010, please bring the purple enchantress Kui directly to Room 31907 on the third floor of the Ocean Heart Hotel.
Opal watched for a while, and said bitterly: "My God, how do I do this kind of commission?"
Raymond: "You don't even have a plan, why do you continue?"
Opal said: "I'm just talking... Forgive me."
Raymond smiled and said, "Wrap it on me."
Opal turned his head and said, "Do you have a solution?"
Raymond thought for a while, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Ledgerson shouldn't hit his fans, as long as we see him, everything will be easy."
Opal: "But he must have many guards..."
Raymond: "Find a way to sneak in. First investigate the terrain clearly, the big deal is to knock out his security guard... Let's talk about it when we get there, take one step at a time."
Opal: "You will cause interstellar disputes."
Raymond: "He didn't dare to provoke Azeroth, didn't he listen to them? A mercenary diary can be eaten anywhere. Even Azeroth asked us to speak, obviously he acquiesced."
It's like a dog fighting a person... The corner of Opal's mouth twitched, he flipped through the mercenary diary, and threw it aside. He took the iris wine, opened the star map, and asked, "Where are the other commissions?"
Raymond told him the name of the planet, and Opal looked it up on the star map.
The first is female Luo Xing:
Star map description:
[The magical kingdom of the forest soul, the locals make a living by selling female radishes, and nature gives them all resources. There is a mother tree in the center of the planet with a shade area of 112.7 square kilometers. Mother of Luo". Female Luoxing is a very rare fragmented planet. The gravitational force generated by the three planetary debris pulls each other and is fixed by the roots of the central female Luo mother. The mother's milk is the most beautiful and most dangerous liquid in the world. It can lead to long-lasting sweet dreams. ] "The mother's milk, magic blue fluorite, poppy, and remote star radio." Opal remembered the drug classification that Gray Wolf said in the training class of the recruits: "What are the other ones?"
Raymond also looked at the introduction in the star map. The sphere above was broken into three pieces, and there was a huge tree with green light in the center - the long view of the female Luoxing.
Raymond thought for a while and said, "It should be something that makes people crazy, addictive, and maybe love."
Opal said: "Then I have to add Ledgerson's singing voice... I always think his songs have a hypnotic effect. Poacher... I think someone has already taken it. Look at the second mission, Stargate... How are you? Memorized it? The memory is really good."
Raymond didn't answer, and the star map turned to locate the second mission they encountered in the Sunlight City Mercenary Guild but didn't accept—exploring the area beyond the limit horizon.
All the stars are far away from them, and there is only a solitary star gate on the three-dimensional star map.
Beyond the limit horizon, there is an endless darkness.
This is a place that light can't reach. From the moment after the big bang, the universe has been expanding without stopping. No one can infer when it will stop, and no one knows the result of stopping. What is it - we are in this universe and we will never be able to peep into its end.
There is a difference in the speed of expansion, just like blowing a blob balloon, the further away from the blob at the air inlet, the faster the blob separates. Twenty billion light-years away from the Milky Way, beyond the established edge, the universe would expand faster than the speed of light.
Therefore, the light of all the stars cannot spread here, and as far as the eye can see, there is only a vast darkness.
"There is actually a star map description." Raymond said: "Has your enlightenment teacher reached places beyond the limit horizon?"
Opal: "Look. I've only read about this in books..."
He clicked on the description, and a line of words popped out.
Star map description:
[This is a very dangerous place, you must stay on the warp spaceship at all times, as long as you take a step away, you will be taken away by the space that diverges faster than the speed of light. A spaceship without a transition function may never come back after leaving.] "Your teacher is very rich." Raymond said.
Opal said: "He lived a long time... not unusual."
Raymond got up, clicked on the light screen, and entered three very complicated spatial coordinates on the map. Opal said, "Do you even remember this?!"
Raymond: "Huh? Good memory, innate, no way."
Both were silent, and in the center of the star map was a star emitting a blazing white light.
"God, he has been here before!" Opal was completely shocked.
Raymond said: "We may have missed a very challenging assignment... Should we go back and take it again?"
Opal said: "No, you have to wait twelve days after the mission is cancelled. Let's see what this is."
Opal pushed his field of vision forward, and in the center of the picture was a solitary star system, surrounded by eight planets in a disk shape, with a bright meteorite belt between the fourth and fifth planets.
"It doesn't seem to be affected by discrete space here." Raymond said: "Is it because of the stars?"
Opal shook his head slowly, clicked on the description in the lower right corner, and there were even words.
[The No. 3 experimental site of the ivory tower uses the black hole force field to make the divergent space form an elliptical trajectory, creating a balanced space, and testing it here. The content is about the evolution of human history. It's really a group of mentally retarded people who don't know the sky and the earth. They have to destroy this place next time.] Neither Opal nor Raymond spoke, which was beyond their knowledge and completely incomprehensible.
Raymond said: "If you want to know what's going on, you can only go to see it on the spot."
Opal: "I hope to have a chance when I go back."
Raymond narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to select the third blue planet in this star system. Opal said, "What does Proving Ground 3 in Ivory Tower mean?"
Raymond shook his head, unable to explain why, there was a bright mark on the blue planet, but there was no annotation.
"Did he mention this to you?" Raymond asked.
Opal shook his head and said, "No, I mentioned the ivory tower once, but I didn't understand it at the time... Of course, I still don't understand it now. Let's go to another place and look at the planet Capgra."
The Red Flame Galaxy shows its full picture, positioned on the Capgra star, with the annotation: [Nitro World, Nitrogen, Ammonia, Nitro Territory. Life forms are very interesting. Nitro life has its own instability and can explode at any time. This characteristic determines that they cannot grow up, and the explosion power is not strong. The local area is rich in orange crystal ore, which has certain industrial value.]Opal moved the star map away, lying on the swivel chair, and Raymond went back to the coffee table to think.
The minds of both of them stayed on the experimental field in District 3.
Raymond suddenly said, "Who is your enlightenment teacher?"
Opal looked at Raymond for a moment and felt that there was no need to hide it from him. After being with each other for so long, it was impossible for him to betray himself, so he said, "He is a star knight."
Raymond: "Star Knight?"
Opal said: "You know the king of meteorites, Cororin, he was also a star knight... The teacher taught me the power of faith, urging... In short, let me not tell anyone, comrade-in-arms, this is my only secret. , please keep it a secret for me." He thought about it, and decided not to tell Raymond about hypnosis and mind reading, lest Raymond suspect that he was voyeuristic.
After hearing this, Raymond didn't seem so shocked, he just said casually: "You obviously haven't learned the slightest bit of his skills."
Opal said: "That's because he didn't train me much at all! And he didn't plan to let me follow him all the time. We only got along for less than two cosmic years."
Raymond smiled, his eyes warm and clear, and said, "You are still very lovable."
Opal added: "Thank you for your compliment, I used to want to follow him, but his mission is to hunt down Cororin and destroy him, and he is not Cororin's opponent, so he won't have too much thought. on me."
Raymond frowned and said, "Why?"
Opal shook his head blankly and said, "Because he also taught Cororin, in short, he lost in the end, that's all."
Opal briefly told Raymond the story of Recht, and Raymond said, "There are three star knights, why didn't he join forces with another one to deal with Coroline?"
Opal was told this and realized something that he hadn't thought about.
"That's right." Opal said to himself, "Is there another one? Maybe the third one is dead, or maybe it's the teacher... Uh, he has his own perseverance or something."
Opal himself felt that this didn't make sense, Raymond just said it casually, and said, "This star map is very precious, and it's a waste to put it here."
"Yes." Opal said: "I hope to buy a better spaceship in the future... Let's follow his footsteps and travel to space..."
Raymond said again: "What about himself? After giving you the star map, you won't need it?"
This sentence Opal reminds me of a very important thing. Rickett gave Opal the star map, so what did he use
"He uses a mecha... he doesn't need a star map... No." Opal was stunned, and he frowned: "The teacher is also using a star map. I remember when I took the Dragon Ray to the Crimson Star, I saw his The star map. And he has always regarded guardianship as a certain mission of the star knights, he said that there must be a reason for the existence of everything... He won't say things like 'to destroy this place'."
At that time, Opal was ignorant. He remembered whatever Recht told him, and never thought about any details. However, after being a mercenary for so long, he became accustomed to thinking in his own way. Problem, I found out a lot of things that Recht had never said before.
Raymond said: "Anyway, this thing is very important."
Opal nodded slowly: "It may also be... The third star knight has died. This is his relic. I remember he seemed to have said that this has extraordinary commemorative significance. Well, if you can meet him in the future, Ask him again."
Raymond hummed, Opal was silent for a moment, and then thought of something that completely shocked him: the previous owner of this star map might be "he" - Cororin, the king of meteorites, the defected darkness Star Knight.
Opal didn't dare to think too much, got up and said, "I'm going to take a bath and come out to play pinball."
"Go." Raymond said.
Opal entered the bedroom and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Raymond looked up at the star map for a long time, then got up and entered a few coordinates in the main control map.
The stars receded, and a desolate planet appeared, surrounded by two asteroids, close together, slowly orbiting the gray planet.
Raymond was short of breath, clicked on the instructions, and looked at the annotations in disbelief:
[Ivory Tower No. 2 Test Site.]
Raymond closed the star map, sat back on the sofa, and was silent for a long time, with an extremely complicated look in his eyes. Opal noticed that he had been a little absent-minded, reminded him several times that day, and finally Raymond said: "I will take a break."
Raymond went in to sleep, and Opal played for a while, then went into the bedroom and turned off the light to sleep.