Opal put his fingers in, his thumb moved, and the back of his head rested on the back of the chair. With a little movement, he caught Wendy's thoughts - two little girls running at the top of the sunny sea of trees, and then the overwhelming The fire of war and loud quarrel, the mutual attack between the female Luoxing people.
(I must find a way to keep them, they are the only chance. Ask the god of war through them for help.) Wendy thought to herself.
Wendy took Raymond's mercenary diary and read it for a long time, then said, "You can increase the salary. We can give you anything you want. Mr. Raymond." She stared at the diary and said, "You and your Since the partner is a B-level mercenary group, it must also have corresponding strength."
Raymond did not interrupt her, walked to the side of the conference hall and sat down.
Opal said: "This has nothing to do with strength, and Azeroth will not agree to send troops to assist you just because we are on the female star. This is against the system, you better get rid of this idea."
Opal's words hit Wendy's heart, and everyone in the council was watching him.
Wendy said: "Then let's change the way. As long as you are willing to help us solve the problem, the commission will be successfully completed. The content of the task is as long as you..."
"Wendy." An old man interrupted rudely: "What can these two mercenaries do?"
Opal was lying on the swivel chair and never opened his eyes. He began to read the thoughts of the people in the arena one by one. Six women and three men, almost all of them thought that Opal and Raymond could not do this. Personally, how to enter the militant base in the desert area to save people? Not to mention the rescue of more than 400 female members of the Council of Women who were imprisoned by the rebels.
When he read the old man, Opal opened his eyes, and he keenly captured the details of the old man's thinking - how to transmit this news.
This man is a spy.
Opal closed his eyes and said, "It's not just your sister, there are at least a few hundred."
Wendy's face showed a surprised expression, and then she pondered for a while, and said, "Yes, I want to invite you to go to the desert area and rescue our captured compatriots, including my sister and four hundred and sixteen people. Female Luoxing Council member. The enemy is about to launch the final attack. According to the patrol team, they are discussing to send all the firepower to take this place in one fell swoop."
Raymond asked, "When is it coming?"
Wendy: "I don't know. It may be a few days later, or it may be tonight. Time is very precious. We must rescue all the hostages as soon as possible. Otherwise, the hostages are in their hands, and we dare not start a war."
Opal: "After you rescue the hostages, you will have the ability to defeat the enemy?"
Wendy: "Yes."
Opal said: "I don't quite believe it."
Wendy took a deep breath and said, "You don't have to worry about it, I'll send it to you. You can give as many people as you need. In fact, we were having a meeting before you arrived, and that's what we're talking about."
"We have a hundred soldiers who have made adequate preparations. They are all death squads and can set off at any time. As long as they can be rescued, everything will be easy. The two of them can lead them. After the people are rescued, let the defense team cover the retreat. ."
"In this way, I think... Compared with the current task, the difficulty of the previous task has not changed much. For the actual trouble, I will apply for a fee to the committee. I think I can provide an additional credit of 200,000 yuan. Click add and that's it."
Opal read Wendy's thoughts and said, "Can the hostages play a key role in deciding the war?"
Wendy added: "Yes, I have no comment on the plan after that. If we win this war, we will give two fruits from the mother of Nuo Luo. You are welcome to come to Nuo Xing at any time."
Opal took out a fruit.
Wendy was startled again, and then smiled: "You already have this? No wonder, I said."
Another middle-aged woman on the side said: "It is normal for those who can safely reach the mother tree to have fruits. Let's put it this way, if we fail, we will ensure that our guests will not be implicated. After the surrender is confirmed, we will Send the two away in time."
Another girl said softly, "I agree with Wendy's proposal. There is also a mercenary, maybe I can ask a few gentlemen to act together, what do you think?"
Opal narrowed his eyes, read the person's heart, and understood her thoughts - his previous remarks showed that they knew a lot, obviously they came prepared, and those who were prepared could not have the strength to save people. Now negotiating conditions, mostly just for money. They seem to be willing to pay for the money.
And there is a mercenary on the girl Luoxing? Opal wondered, who is he? Also for a mission
Both Raymond and Opal were thinking about it. Wendy said, "The two of you can stroll around the neighborhood, discuss it, have something to eat, and come to me anytime. I live in the wooden house on the west side."
The councilors dispersed, Opal put down his feet and stood up. Just when he was about to speak to Raymond, Wendy stood at the door and said softly, "Sir."
"My name is Opal," Opal replied.
"Mr. Opal, do you know what the fruit of the mother of female Luo symbolizes?" Wendy asked.
Raymond looked at her a little puzzled, Opal thought for a while, and said, "The female dill tree will not attack the person who holds the fruit of the mother tree, is that so?"
Wendy nodded and smiled softly: "Yes, but not only that, female Luoxing has its own unique civilization, outsiders say that we are primitive people, we have not developed science and technology, and never open up the field of planetary technology, Even without joining the Great Interstellar Technology Alliance, we have always followed the in-laws of natural union."
Opal said: "And your female Luo Xing's people are also very long-winded. You always like to explain the cause and effect of a thing clearly."
Wendy said with a smile, "This is... our habit, um, sorry, there are too many unrelated things. What I want to say is that every female Luoxing is born by her mother, and her parents jointly nurture, and each female Luoxing is born. After the child is born, he can get a fruit of the mother of female Luo... No matter where this child goes to the Covenant, this fruit can prove that he is a female Luoren. For drinking the water here, eating the food here The local people who grew up have the breath of the mother star in their bodies, and they will not be attacked by trees. In fact, they do not need fruit. The mother of the female Luo gives each child a fruit, which is for the children to give to their other half. ."
"If the person who gave you the fruit is a girl, it means that she is willing to entrust her whole life to you and enter into a marriage relationship with you." Wendy said: "If it is a boy, it means that he is willing to do a lifetime with you. Good brothers, each other has the strongest loyalty to this friendship."
"The person I want to give you the fruit may not have mentioned this to you." Wendy smiled and left the venue.
A beam of light at dusk is projected from a hole in the shade of a tree that is hundreds of meters high, shrouding the entire garden in sunlight, just like a spotlight on a stage. The place beyond the range of sunlight is still quiet at night, forming a spectacular spectacle. .
Raymond sat at the table outside the restaurant to eat dinner, Opal was silent, tapped his fingers on the table, and asked, "Are you going?"
Raymond said: "It's not too difficult to save a few people. You don't have to go there. Go shopping here. I'll come back after I'm rescued. Let's go on vacation here again. What do you think?"
"Forget it." Opal said: "Can you save all four hundred people?"
Raymond's eyebrows moved, and he asked, "Don't believe me, make a bet?"
The corner of Opal's mouth twitched, and Raymond said, "Listen, let's be serious now, we'd better have someone stay behind. I suspect that there are spies among them. Most of the news of our coming has been passed on."
Opal was a little surprised. Raymond actually knew the information he obtained through mind reading? !
"How did you know?" Opal asked tentatively.
"I guess." Raymond twirled the fork in his finger and carefully scratched out the yolk of the leaf bird's egg, picking it up and feeding it to Opal.
Opal likes to eat tender egg yolks very much. He smacking his lips with satisfaction, and found that Raymond was watching his lips. Opal was inexplicable and sensed Raymond's inner activity - he fed himself egg yolks to see how he licked his lips.
Raymond liked to watch him lick his lips.
Opal generously licked the egg yolk at the corner of his mouth and raised his eyebrows at him.
Raymond swallowed, his Adam's apple moved slightly.
The two are like big boys who have just begun to fall in love, talking about love in the twilight.
"What are you laughing at?" Raymond returned to his senses and continued to eat his dinner.
"Nothing." Opal said with a smile: "What do you want?"
Raymond said: "I don't know who the spy is yet. We have to find this spy first and set up a trap."
Opal: "Don't look for it, the spy is the old man."
Raymond frowned and said, "Os? Are you talking about the gray-haired old man? I saw the work card on his chest, and his name is Os."
Opal: "I don't know what his name is..."
Raymond: "Are you sure? This must not be guesswork."
Opal said: "If you are talking about the same person as me..." Opal saw someone out of the corner of his eye, and immediately said: "Look over there, hurry up!"
The two turned their heads at the same time. The old man who had spoken in the council was talking to Wendy. They were standing far away. Raymond said, "It's him! Os, the vice chairman of the Plant Research Promotion Association."
Opal said: "I'm talking about him too."
Raymond: "Give me evidence, how do you know he's a spy?"
Opal said: "There is no evidence, it is intuition, can you answer like this?"
Opal dared not tell Raymond about mind-reading. Once Raymond knew that he could read minds, he might feel that there was no more interest between the two, which was a very boring thing. In fact, Opal almost never reads Raymond's heart. He prefers the love that is revealed to the outside world. As it is now, if Raymond knew that he could read his mind, he might be too lazy to say a lot.
Raymond asked suspiciously, "Intuition?"
Opal: "Intuition."
Raymond thought for a while, and finally said: "Find a way to convince Wendy that after the rescue operation begins, I won't bring anyone with me, I will hand over a hundred people to you, stay here to hunt, and be sure to catch all the enemies. "
"In this way, when I save the person back, you also grab the opponent's person in your hand, and the battle situation will be completely reversed."
Opal said, "You're just afraid that even Wendy will be taken away, and no one will pay her."
Raymond laughed, pushed the plate after eating, and said, "I'll go talk to her."
Opal said: "By the way, where is Mu Shu's home, I hope he is still alive."
This village is very small, maybe it was built temporarily. The waitress came to clear the dishes, and Opal asked, "Is this your political center?"
The waitress smiled and said, "No, it's called Adosna. In the ancient female Luoxing language, it is the city of night, and it is the holy place of female Luoxing. The main administrative city is in the center of the equatorial rift, and it is a floating city in the sky. After the war It was occupied by the rebels. Ellie took us here to seek refuge in the mother tree."
Opal nodded thoughtfully, and ordered a cup of Yelu drink. The waitress said, "Which planet are you from? Not a local? Tourist?"
Opal said: "Lie Xing, the hometown of mercenaries, have you heard of it?"
The waitress smiled and said, "Oh, no wonder you and your companions are both mercenaries?"
Opal nodded, and the waitress sat down on the edge of the beam of light, took out a small box, and began to make crafts, casually said: "I heard that Lie Xing is one of the two most beautiful planets for men in the entire universe, is that so? Are all the men in you tall and handsome?"
Opal said: "Is there such a saying? I only know that female Luoxing and Sphinx are rich in beautiful women."
The waitress said: "The province of Lie Xing and the Monks and Soldiers is rich in beautiful men, which is also recognized. The men of Lie Xing are full of masculine charm, like the god of war... Azeroth; the priests of the Monk Soldiers are also very handsome, and Lejason is the Monk Soldier. A man from the province."
Opal thought about it and found that it was indeed the case. Lie Xing's men were both handsome and tall. Almost without exception, they were all beautiful men. Even rude and unscrupulous men had a wild and unruly beauty.
Having been to many places, it is true that the men of Lie Xing have the highest average score. Needless to say, Sui Yan is a shrewd person. Lian Xun and Yin Yan, and even the dumb old Pike who have only worked together once are also very handsome and heroic.
"Nu Luo is the land of beautiful women." Opal said, "You are also very beautiful."
"Thank you." With an intoxicating smile on her face, the waitress bowed her head to make a handmade flower, which was fragrant. She said, "I am a mixed race, and my father is not a local."
The light of the setting sun gradually faded and turned into a magnificent purple. Opal looked up at the small hole in the tree canopy of the distant mother of the female dill, and saw a twinkling star.
The whole planet darkened, and the female Luoxing would go around a huge planet that would block the light of the star. After forty-seven hours, when it left the shadow of the planet and the sun eclipsed, the day would come again.
Fireflies were flying in the quiet eclipse night, reflecting Opal's handsome face. He was stunned for a while, and suddenly heard someone say, "Hi, beautiful man. I thought you were missing."
"Yinyao?" Opal recognized him immediately, Yinyao climbed over the garden railing of the restaurant, smiled brightly, came over and pulled out the chair to sit down, snapped his fingers, and said, "Give me a cup of green coffee. "
"For my account, let's make some more fried geeks." Opal said: "Why are you here? Are you the mercenary they said?"
Yinyao said, "I'm here to give Xiao Sui's ashes to his two mothers. I met your head at Wendy's. He asked me to join you temporarily to do this commission." He took out a female radish Guo showed it to Opal and said, "This is what Xiao Sui gave me before his death. It is a very precious thing in his life. I have to fulfill his wish to go home."
Opal just remembered this and sighed. He looked at Yinyao and knew that the relationship between him and Suiyan was probably not unusual, and maybe there was more or less intimacy between lovers. He comforted: "It's all over. ."
Yin Yu said with a smile: "It's okay, Xiao Sui's mother is a female Luo Xing, she said that when Xiao Sui died, she felt it, and his soul came back through the universe as early as that day. She opened the urn a few days ago, and the female Luo's mother took his ashes away."
Opal said: "Take it away? Take it to where?"
Silver shrugged.
The waitress came over with a plate and said with a smile: "What you have in your hands is only the shell, the fruit of the mother of female dill cannot be eaten, its seeds will automatically peel off and bury in the soil, giving birth to new trees. The green fruits that come out are called female radishes."
Opal understood, Yinyao said: "Then I think the mother of Nuluo took Xiao Sui's soul, maybe he will become a seed in the next life..."
Opal smiled and said, "It's not bad to be a tree, standing in the sun."
Yin Yan said: "At least you don't need to move the nest."
Both of them laughed, and the sadness of losing their comrade-in-arms was diluted a lot.
Yin Di came earlier than Opal and Raymond, and knew a little more about Nu Luo Xing than them. Three hundred universes ago, Nu Luo Xing had a coup d'etat and the parliament was revoked. There is no doubt that there is an empire behind this. With support, the members of the original Nuro Council were watched closely.
It was not until Wendy, the chairman of the "Plant Research Promotion Association", exercised a legal provision, through her sister Ellie, to bring local MPs to join the association, which effectively protected the safety of everyone.
These congressmen left the floating city in the middle of the rift valley one after another and went to the mother of Nuluo to seek shelter. They were suddenly attacked on the way, and a lot of them were kidnapped. More than 400 people, including Ellie, became the hostages of the new development engineering department.
They took hostages and demanded the surrender of the Plant Research Promotion Association.
It was sixteen universes ago when Yin Di came here. Not long after Wendy brought the refugees to settle down, their chances of victory were extremely slim - the power of the empire was too strong, and armed machinery was sent to guard the city on the grounds of protecting the expatriates and factories. outside the atmosphere.
The only republic that has the right to fight against the empire left Nuo Luoxing cleanly, not even the factory, as if they were afraid of getting into such thorny trouble.
"The Republic doesn't matter?" Opal said.
"Maybe it's because of policy." Raymond came back, he brought Wendy over, and sat down at the table.
Wendy said: "The Republic has a different political policy, they don't want to have friction with the Empire, or they have their eyes on other planets."
Opal said: "But you are also a member of the Star Alliance, so no one else will take care of this matter?"
"Who dares to care?" Yinyao said: "The only country that can compete with the empire is the republic."
Also, Opal is no longer the ignorant teenager who left the Chiyan Galaxy. He already knows that the Empire is a huge political machine with 7,000 planets, and the Republic has 3,300 registered planets. China's superpower has a huge territory, and if it really wants to start a war, it is definitely not something that other small countries can interfere.
Originally, Wendy's plan was to ask Yin Ying to assist and lead a hundred death squads to carry out a rescue mission. Now that Opal and Raymond are here, the plan has changed again.
Wendy said, "Can you give us a private room?"
The waitress said, "Right now, Wendy."
She pressed a button and unfolded the huge rotating green leaves underground, dividing the space around the tea table to form a bud-like independent private room. The blue fluorescent flowers on the top illuminated the interior of the private room, making it very romantic.
"I plan to do this." Raymond put an information card into the card slot of the E7, and the E7 began to read the map information.
Raymond turned on the projection of E7 and said: "I just conducted a reconnaissance, and Os is indeed a spy. He passed the news to the outside world. The place where the hostages are actually held is not far from the sea of trees, which is an abandoned underground fertilizer center. They used this As a stronghold, prepare to launch the final action... just wait until we leave with the death squad."
Wendy said, "How did you find out..."
"Guess." Opal said.
Yin Yao smiled, patted Opal's head, and said, "He is very powerful."
Wendy took a deep breath and said, "Fortunately you found the spy, this time..."
"You're welcome." Opal smiled modestly and said, "Go ahead, don't waste your time."
Yin Di and Lei Meng both laughed. Lei Meng called out the map of the sea of trees. The map was twisted and complex, and the terrain was uneven. Opal found the red dot on it and said, "It's here?"
"Yeah," Raymond said. "Fifty-five kilometers."
Opal: "Out of contactor range."
Raymond: "Did you say ear buckle? It is estimated that you can barely receive the signal."
Opal: "What are you going to do?"
Raymond said: "Five hours later, when the operation began, Yindao gathered everyone, evacuated and protected them towards the secondary trunk. There is also a shelter fifty meters above us, for your warriors. , Fifty people disguised as ordinary residents, and fifty people ambush on the spot, waiting for the other party to rob people. Opal will lead them to try to catch them alive, and if they can't catch them..."
Opal said: "I'm afraid that it will be difficult to deal with. What is the origin of the poacher?"
Raymond: "A few are Imperial soldiers in disguise, and most are rogues from other galaxies."
Opal nodded slowly. When the empire dispatched disguised poachers, considering the interstellar influence, they should not dare to send thugs to the female Luoxing on a large scale. It is expected that it is not too difficult to deal with.
The same task was placed a few months ago, and Opal was not sure about fighting against members of the regular army.
The interstellar rating of mercenaries has always been inferior to that of the regular army. After all, the imperial army has undergone systematic teaching and perfect training, and its combat quality is not a little bit higher than that of Lie Xing's motley crew.
However, the war not long ago made the military evaluation of the entire Fierce Star jump to a higher level.
The empire has not encountered a large-scale war since three hundred years ago, and simulation training alone cannot reach the realm of mercenaries who have fought on the edge of life and death.
The battlefield is the best test room. Those who fail to pass the test will lose their lives. Those who have the strength have passed the severe test. Both Opal and Raymond have achieved high scores. This is their capital.
Opal: "How many people are there?"
Wendy said: "The rebel army has only 600 people at most, and they have to send people to stay at the base where the hostages are held. At most, they can only send 500 people."
Opal said: "Are you sure there are only five hundred?"
Wendy nodded and said, "The empire does not dare to send troops directly, five hundred people are already the limit for poachers. The female Luoxing people who defected to them are our compatriots, and no one will attack their own people, let alone. Come and attack the mother of female Luo."
Raymond said: "Five hundred people are easy to solve. The local army does not dare to attack the compatriots in the shade of the mother of the female Luo. This is their belief."
Opal nodded slowly, five to six hundred people, and it is not difficult to win more with less if you are prepared.
After the negotiation, Wendy said to Opal: "The friend you are looking for has already contacted Mu Shu, he is in another shelter, more than 300 kilometers away from here, we sent him a communication in the afternoon, and he heard you coming. Things are very happy, but he can't leave the underground shelter, it is very dangerous outside now, and if he encounters a poacher, he may be killed on the spot at any time..."
Opal hurriedly said: "Don't let him come out! I will see him after I finish the task."
"I told him for you." Raymond said, "After the commission is over, find him out for a get-together and have a drink."
Opal said: "Yes, that's it."
The four of them split up to prepare, Yinyao led the people to evacuate, there was a spiral staircase in the giant air root, and Opal went up to set up an ambush point. The air root of Nuluo’s mother was hard, and he didn’t know what material it was, so he knocked on the wall. , a middle-aged woman said: "Half of her body has become a fossil."
She was a congressman that Opal had met before, and Opal nodded to her.
"Mother of Nuo..." Opal said, "She will produce milk?"
The middle-aged woman carried her skirt, walked at the end of the crowd, and said to Opal: "44% of the mother's body has been petrified in the long history and integrated with this planet. We are about to climb on her branches, and then Go up to the top of the canopy and you'll see she's still growing."
"When these shoots are plucked, they ooze her sap, which is where the milk comes from."
People look up at the heights of the spiral staircase in the air roots. There are refugees climbing in each hollow air root. The migration process of 140,000 people is extremely spectacular. They walked for ten minutes to reach the top of the tree. People flock.
The branches extend in all directions, each of which is as spacious as the streets of the strong stars, and the interlaced parts of the branches even build a platform.
Opal shouted down: "Hey! Raymond!"
Raymond has become a small black dot, waving upwards.