The war was delayed, and the mercenaries began to have nothing to do. Drinking and hanging out every day, going to Lie Xing's lake to eat barbecue, surfing and vacation to pass the day, anyway, the fixed money and promotion points will be credited to their account.
The Dusk Lake outside the Sunset City is huge, as big as the ocean as far as the eye can see. There are many fresh water and strange creatures in the freshwater lake. Opal began to learn to swim under the guidance of Raymond.
"Float up." Raymond said, "My whole body is tense, like a corpse."
Opal took a few sips of water and fluttered in confusion. Raymond half hugged him and took him to the shallow water area.
Opal coughed a few times, both of them were only wearing beach shorts, and on Raymond's chest, the blue necklace was still dripping with water.
Opal noticed that he was wearing this necklace at all times, and asked curiously, "Who gave this to you? Ex-lover?"
Opal picked up the pendant with his fingers and looked over and over.
Raymond said: "Without a lover, you always don't believe it, don't touch it."
Opal squeezed Raymond's fit chest and said, "I'll try again."
Raymond's face was slightly red, and he let go of the palm holding Opal's wrist, motioning him to practice by himself, while he adjusted his beach pants uncomfortably and turned ashore.
When Raymond walked to the shore, Opal stood in the water and gasped slightly. His body was a little hot, and he licked his lips. At that moment, his lower body was hard, and there was a desire to put a certain impulse into practice. .
Raymond always seems to be very serious and never communicates with him about sex. Opal thinks of Sui Yan, and Xun and Sid who have been mixed together for the first time. The mercenaries are always very casual about this kind of thing. Fantasy paradise is used as a kind of entertainment... But Raymond's conditions are really good, although not as handsome and sunny as Sui Yan.
Opal plunged into the water, opened his eyes, and the sun shone through the clear shallow water on the sand beneath his feet.
"Have you learned?" Raymond said.
Opal's skin was dripping down, he lay down on the beach chair beside Raymond, nodded, Raymond was wearing sunglasses, and said, "Learning to swim can deal with many crises. When something happens, just barely drown in the water."
Opal turned his head to look at Raymond, and the two looked at each other for a moment. Raymond bent his foot unnaturally, as if covering something, and said, "What?"
Opal said, "What's the point of your necklace?"
Raymond didn't answer and said, "You like this very much? I'll give it to you, I don't know what it means."
He wanted to untie the necklace with one hand, and Opal hurriedly said, "I'm just curious, I don't want it."
In fact, Opal was just looking at him by looking at the necklace. Raymond had a perfect and well-proportioned figure, and his face was not as handsome as Sui Yan, but he was also a handsome man. He had the toughness and masculinity of mercenaries, and he was not as handsome as Opal's thick eyebrows and big eyes. , but don't have a temperament.
The sweat on his bronze chest reflects the sun, his six-pack abs are hard and sexy, and a few strands of pubic hair that cannot be suppressed by beach pants are exposed under his belly button.
"Go water skiing." Raymond got up and said.
After Opal finished his drink, he followed him on the wave board. With a cry of "yo heh", the two of them dragged out long waves and turned left and right on the lake. Sometimes they passed by, sometimes they chased one after the other. He jumped up in the high-speed rush, made a beautiful circle in the air, and smiled at Opal.
Opal refused to admit defeat, and also learned from him that he stepped on the wave board, jumped into the air, made a circle and a half, and fell into the water with a snap.
Raymond laughed, turned back quickly, took Opal's hand and took him out of the water, shouting: "Hurry up!"
The two of them stepped on a surfboard together. Raymond mentioned the highest speed, and they rushed across the Dusk Lake and rushed to the depths of the endless lake. Opal was unstable several times, and Raymond pulled his arms over with his backhand. , let him hold his waist, Opal's heart almost jumped out of his throat.
Both of them were naked on the upper body and wearing only beach pants on the lower body. Opal's chest was pressed against Raymond's warm back, and the lower body reacted almost immediately. He impulsively wanted to say something, what should he say at such a time
"Raymond!" Opal said loudly.
Raymond turned his head in the wind and smiled: "What?!"
Opal said, "I... ahhh!! Watch out for the tree ahead!"
The next moment, the two of them slammed into a towering tree growing from the bottom of the lake in the middle of the lake, and were hung on the branch of the tree and swayed.
Opal: "Hahahaha!"
Raymond: "… "
"I..." Opal asked, hanging from a branch out of the water, "Raymond, I have an idea, why don't we..."
Raymond's watch beeped.
Opal: "… "
Raymond ignored the communication signal and looked up: "What? You say it first."
Opal's heart was beating wildly, and he said, "Do you want to... play with me in that fantasy, fantasy paradise?"
Raymond's face was a little red, he turned to pick up the surfboard, and said, "I don't know, I haven't touched that one... will I send it to you?"
Opal said: "No, I want to buy one, uh, if you don't like that thing, forget it..."
Raymond said: "Okay, I'm just a little... um..."
Opal said: "If you're embarrassed, I can try it first... When... The passive one below, you choose first, see what you like, whatever you like."
Raymond said: "I don't care, you can buy one and use our money."
In an instant, Opal could almost clearly feel Raymond's emotions - anticipation and excitement.
When Raymond said this, he never looked at Opal. Opal licked his lips and was elated, just like a child who got what he had always dreamed of. Raymond never dared to look at him, and there was still a smudge on his handsome cheeks. Natural red. With one foot on the surfboard, he floated and sank by the lake and said, "Come up."
Opal stood up and took the initiative to hug Raymond's waist. This time the speed was slower, and he slowly galloped out on the lake. Raymond switched on the watch, and there was an electronic female voice inside.
"Notice, from now on, the wartime state will stop, and the entire star will resume normal work order. All registered mercenaries are requested to report back to the head of the group. After the head of the group has sorted out the list, he will immediately register with the branch of the trade union they belong to."
"Ah—" Opal and Raymond said helplessly at the same time.
"We can still take vacations." Raymond said: "It's just to cancel the public holidays."
Opal said: "Forget it, it's been too long, let's go back to the trade union and have a look."
Opal went to change into his trousers and jacket. He was a little distracted.
Raymond was also a little unnatural. It seemed that Opal's invitation just now made the relationship between the two become a lot strange. The ground suspension car was speeding on the road at high speed. Raymond opened the window and played music. Ledgerson's singing sounded all the way. .
Neither of the two said a word. After getting off the bus at the Sunlight City Union Gate, Raymond squeezed the window. In the blink of an eye, the place was full of mercenaries.
The central communication sounded: "All mercenary heads, please go to the window 13 to 49 to complete the formalities. The reward for accepting any urgent orders today will remain unchanged, and the promotion points will be doubled... Reiterating..."
Opal said: "Is there such a good thing?"
"The backlog of commissions is too long!" One person explained to him: "The union is busy letting us finish all the tasks ten weeks ago!"
Opal said: "Is there a task now? Wouldn't it be very profitable? No more wars?"
"Azeroth and the Empire have formed an alliance!" the clerk shouted: "There will be no more wars, everyone will escape! That son of a bitch Cororin will not dare to come! I wish you a long life! It's delivered! Let's all go out on the mission! The magnetic storm is coming!"
"Raymond! Did you get it?!" Opal said.
Raymond squeezed in front of the office window, and without looking back, he stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers. Opal looked down at his mercenary diary, and the entrustment was to assist his employer in investigating an ancient ruin.
"Great!" Opal glanced at the bonus score: 820 points! After doubling it, it is 1600%, which is enough for him to be directly promoted to D rank, and Raymond will easily break through D+ and be promoted to C rank.
"I took E7 to overhaul the spacecraft." Opal said.
Raymond smiled and said, "I'm going to overhaul the weapon and prepare it."
Opal said: "Buy more iris wine..."
Opal returned to the apron, and suddenly remembered that he forgot to buy Fantasy Paradise. He watched E7 detect the spacecraft, and the charging robot came to connect to the atomic furnace interface. It is a bit late to buy it now... Forget it, let's talk about it later.
Raymond came back with their weapons, took Opal by the shoulders, and the two got on the Era-VI, E7 entered and closed the hatch, and the spaceship set off.
Raymond went into the bedroom and looked left and right, took out a box from his backpack, thought for a while, put it in the drawer of the bedside table, thought again, took it out, and put it in the retractable locker on the top of the bed.
"Raymond." Opal asked outside. "What are you doing?"
Raymond: "No... nothing, I was about to take a shower, what's wrong?"
Opal opened the star map, sat on the swivel chair, entered the coordinates according to the mercenary diary, and said, "The mission location is here, the M75 dark open star cluster in the Sagittarius Nebula."
"No specific location?" Raymond asked.
Opal shrugged and said, "There's only one general area, right here."
He circled a dark area and said, "It's an area of space about fifteen astronomical units in length, and the employers asked us to look at all possible planets and take field images and sample analysis. They thought there might be a Remnants of a Silver Age civilization about 14,000 years ago."
Raymond said: "Wait a minute."
Opal: "What?"
Raymond pondered for a moment, and said, "I think it's better to go to Rembrandt first and ask Mrs. Anta to be prepared."
Opal nodded and changed his route to Rembrandt. He had been here once, and he found Lefina easily after connecting to the ground communication.
The sun was shining, and Lefina was drinking herbal tea in the courtyard.
As soon as Leifina saw Opal and Raymond, she said, "Your king said he was going to fight, so he threw me here. Now that he feels safe, let me go back?"
Opal said regretfully: "Maybe someone will pick you up after a while... We're not here for this."
Lefina was dumbfounded and said, "Sit down, I thought it was another trip arranged by Grey Wolf without authorization."
"I have a few small questions that I want to ask you." Raymond opened the mercenary diary, handed it to Lefina politely, and said, "I hope this won't take up too much of your time."
"My duty is to provide you with historical consultation." Lefina picked up the diary and said casually, "It's not a hassle, so I said I should stay at Fierce Star... Let me see, ancient ruins survey? Enya, Get my holographic book."
Enya went back to get something, and Opal took her tea tray and put the snack on the table.
"This is your engagement ring?" Lefina noticed the ring on Opal's hand.
Opal hurriedly said, "No no, he gave it to me, but it wasn't an engagement ring."
"You wear it on your ring finger." Refina said: "According to the etiquette of the ancient earth people, this symbolizes the meaning of marriage..."
Opal took off the ring and said, "Do you know what year this is?"
Lefina took the ring, and Raymond said, "This is a gift from the Black Ants. The wrench says it can send a signal to space."
Lefina looked at the ring in the sunlight, Enya came over with the book and the tube mirror, Leifina pressed a button, and the tube mirror projected a beam of light, which was refracted on the gemstone of the ring, and the light screen scrolled to analyze the data.
"A product of the Secreia Sanctuary civilization." Refina is much younger, but her voice and tone are still serious and rigid: "The neutrino amplitude data shows that the production period is about 13,000 years ago."
Opal and Raymond moved at the same time.
Raymond: "For that long?!"
Opal: "How much can you sell?!"
Raymond: "You want to sell the things I gave you for money?!"
Opal said: "No! Don't be so excited, I'm just curious to ask how much it's worth, this means your love for me! Can I find out how much it weighs?"
Raymond: "… "
Refina burst into laughter and said, "Handmade products have very low artistic value, but they may be useful for research purposes."
Opal: "But the wrench says..."
Lefina said: "It's okay if you are willing to trust Azeroth's royal mechanic."
Opal was silent, and Raymond remembered something, took out another stone, and asked, "What does Sequeria Church Civilization mean?"
Lefina took the ruby, which Azeroth bought from Sid last time for 200,000 yuan. Opal said, "Are you going to sell the heirloom?!"
Raymond said: "Why not?"
Opal: "This represents Azeroth's love for our group!"
Raymond said bitterly, "You are enough!"
Lefina's mouth twitched, Opal put the ring back on her hand, and handed the gem to Raymond.
"Then..." Refina smiled and said, "Let's take a look at the ancient ruins of the M75 dark open nebula."
She opened a book with only two pages, pressed a few buttons on the book, and uneven light was projected from the pages, forming a three-dimensional projection map.
Lefina paused briefly and said, "Who issued this mission?"
"Interstellar Ancient Civilization Exploration Association, Budalang... Ning Zweig Soya Clay... Professor Lokos." Opal stammered to the pile of complicated names.
Raymond gestured with his eyes, and Opal immediately realized that they had made a mistake - leaking the employer's private information to outsiders.
The corners of Opal's mouth twitched slightly, and Raymond signaled him to be at ease with his eyes.
Lefina said: "Gentlemen, I enjoy the privilege assigned to me by Azeroth, and consulting me on all entrustments is not a leak, otherwise how can I provide you with consulting services?"
Raymond smiled embarrassedly and turned to Leifina, "What secrets are there in the M75 nebula?"
Refina was silent for a while, then squinted her eyes and said, "A person once asked me this question. The M75 nebula is a dark open nebula, and many dark areas are not recorded on the star map, but according to the analysis of the Big Astronautical Star Map Agency, this In the past seven hundred years, there have been many changes in the gravitational field. There should be a dark star there, which is gravitationalized by the surrounding celestial bodies and moves along a fixed trajectory, but no one has ever explored it. piece… "
She circled two places in the dark area with her fingers and said: "There is a neutron star in each of them, and they form the intersection of a spherical gravitational field, and anyone's spacecraft will be torn apart by the two gravitational fields if they enter it. Fragments."
Opal: "But I don't understand, since the gravity of these two neutron stars is so strong, why are they not attracted to each other?"
"Because they revolve around each other." Refina said: "Like two wooden barrels facing each other on the edge of a whirlpool, every 10,000 years, they will approach each other for tens of thousands of kilometers... or maybe hundreds of thousands of kilometers, Without data, we have no way of knowing, and the speculation is that they will eventually merge with each other and become a black hole."
Raymond said, "Why isn't this dark star affected by the surrounding planets? You know what I mean, I mean..."
Refina replied: "I guess the dark star is like a pendulum, making simple harmonic vibrations within the gravitational range of two neutron stars, back and forth, with a period of maybe a thousand years, or 10,000 years."
Raymond fell silent, and Leifina said, "It didn't emit any radiation. We can only infer where it is based on the change and angle of gravity. No one can even be sure that it really exists."
Raymond: "I see."
Opal said: "I still don't quite understand."
Raymond said: "Go home and explain to you, don't ask."
Opal: "… "
Raymond got up and said goodbye to Leifina, but suddenly he thought of something and asked, "Who asked you this question?"
Lefina said: "Your companions - the twin brothers. Go back and tell Azeroth that unless he personally invites me this time, I don't want to move any more."
Opal smiled and said, "I will let the gray wolf come to invite you."
Lefina's face flushed with anger, Enya laughed, and Raymond leaned on Opal's shoulders and politely said goodbye to Lefina.
The two returned to the spacecraft. Raymond placed two virtual pinballs in the air and gestured to Opal: "The two neutron stars are slowly approaching, and my fist is where we are going... Look."
Raymond clenched his fist and waved it in the middle of the line connecting the two pinballs, saying: "More than 10,000 years ago, the distance between these two neutron stars may not have been so close, until now, their strong gravitational fields have begun to overlap. Together, it takes more than a thousand years for a dark star to come out. During this short period of time, we can land on the surface of the dark star and start surveying before it enters the gravitational field again."
Opal also understood, he murmured: "Like a treasure trove, open every once in a while?"
Raymond said: "It should be like this, then things will be easier to handle..."
The comm rang while he was talking.
Opal and Raymond said in unison, "E7."
There was a beep, and a drowsy voice sounded from the spacecraft's amplifier, accompanied by the rustling of the communication channel.
"I'm a wrench, please pay attention to all units, complete all the commissions you have at hand and return to the mother star. The Meteorite Legion led by Cororin is attacking, and the fierce star is in a state of war. Please return to the aid as soon as possible."
"What should I do?" Opal asked.
Raymond: "I didn't do the entrustment first, what happened? Suddenly it came again?! E7! Change the route and go home!"
No matter how Opal and Raymond imagined, they never imagined that the war would begin without warning!
The strong star is like when Opal first arrived, it was covered by a magnetic storm and thundercloud. It has become a battlefield. Artillery fire is flying in the galaxy outside Ares, and countless light bullets pass through the dark universe and shoot into the far depths of space. , the six star gates revolved around, erupting majestic energy and electric light, forming a huge teleportation array, the light flashed, every second, the spaceship of mercenaries dragged the thunder light and iridescence of creation out of the five-dimensional space , fly to the star.
Tens of millions of unmanned fighter jets flew out of a space aircraft carrier, and the rays of light flew like raindrops, and arcs burst out between millions of outer space stations, forming an energy shield. Opal was almost unable to identify the position, the surrounding space was shaking in the explosion, and a space station behind them had an earth-shattering explosion.
Times-VI rushed out of the fire and flew to the star, Opal still couldn't help looking back, remembering the thrilling scene.
"Wartime alert, enter your mercenary diary, ID number, voice, fingerprint, and pupil triple verification." The space station outside the atmosphere of Lie Xing sent identification verification information.
Opal and Raymond passed the perimeter defense, and when they returned to the ground, the entire Fierce Star was already boiling.
"Break the fuck up!" The mercenaries roared and ran, and Sunlight City was in chaos.
Opal said: "Where to report! Hey! Where's Azeroth?!"
A mercenary closed the cabin door and said loudly: "Azeroth has not come back! He was dragged by the people of the Empire! Which mercenary group are you from! Come with me!"
"Warning-warning-" Electronic voices were everywhere, and all broadcasts sounded at the same time: "The outer space station defense layer has been destroyed, and the planetary defense war is expected to begin in seventeen hours."
At that moment, all the mercenaries were boiling, and the next second, after a brief silence, everyone left the tarmac at a running speed. The police said loudly: "Get in the car! Take the regiment as a unit and report back to the branch union! Which one is assigned!"
Opal and Raymond were assigned to the City of Sunlight. When they got off the bus, they couldn't even tell where they were. Another mercenary shouted, "Come with us! The mercenary trade union is closed! Go to the wartime information center!"
Tens of thousands of people entered a hall, countless mercenary diaries punched in in front of the self-service information desk to report, light screens flew around, magnetic storms came, the earth was dark, and lightning passed through the sky, Opal said: "Damn, we have to Fighting in a magnetic storm."
"The ground battle hasn't started yet." Raymond stood outside the union, looking up at the gray ceiling.
"Look at the diary!" a mercenary leader who was temporarily assisting shouted: "Boys! There is something you should do! Take your place, go back to your post! Everyone sticks to their duties! Shout to me! We will win!"
"We will win! Brothers! Long life!" The mercenaries each shouted and ran out of the information center. Thousands of levitating vehicles lifted off against the magnetic storm and flew to their respective target locations.
Opal said nervously: "Raymond, what are you going to do?"
Raymond took a deep breath and replied, "Go to the No. 16 mecha apron to report."
Opal: "I'm going to the No. 2 safe area in the City of War Soul, we have to separate?"
The heavy rain fell, and Opal suddenly found that this happened to be the place where they officially met on the first day - the entrance of the Cuckoo Bird Restaurant.
They were strangers a long time ago. Perhaps when they met here that day, Opal never thought that he would one day join the battlefield of this planet.
"Look." Raymond said, "Opal, here."
He opened the mercenary diary and pointed to the bottom line, where it showed the merit value—zero. The note is "Team Merit".
"Although we don't fight in the same place, the merits are exactly the same." Raymond said: "How many enemies I kill, you will automatically count them here. On the contrary, you are also, regardless of each other, the merits are added together, I think , the same is true for the scoring rules of other teams, fighting bloody battles to protect their comrades."
"Yes." Opal nodded.
Opal patted Raymond on the shoulder and said, "My ring is for you."
Raymond said: "No, I have a mecha, you don't have it, you keep it."
The two were silent for a short time, and the all-star broadcast sounded again: "The battle for the defense of the five guards is about to start. All the mecha members, go to the 16th apron to report immediately."
Raymond said: "I'm leaving, you pay attention to safety."
Opal nodded silently, took a step forward, and the two embraced tightly. After separating, Raymond ran to a hover car, while Opal took a special train and went to the City of War Soul, each looking for his own post, in order to protect the planet fight.
—Volume 2 Mercenary Country End —
Volume 2: The King of the Meteorites