Wrench said: "There were originally many political prisoners of Huanxing detained here. During the time without date, a certain prince of Huanxing set off a revolution to overthrow the rule of the great lord, but he failed, and finally brought a large number of The subjects who followed him were imprisoned in Silent Star."
Opal understood, so the open rooms inside were all prison cells!
Raymond said, "What about now? All the guys inside are dead?"
Wrench said: "The reproduction method of the phantoms is very special. They have no sex and live up to nearly 20,000 years. Before they die naturally, they can reproduce a single individual and pass on a lot of knowledge of the body. But this reproduction process requires In the vicinity of the magic blue fluorite, the influence of the magnetic field and the mother stone is used to breed a new radio wave life form, and after the new individual is born, the body will die naturally."
Opal: "What if it doesn't breed?"
Wrench: "Who knows? Everything will die, nothing in the universe will never die, even black holes will evaporate... It looks like there are no prisoners in it."
In the communicator, Lily's voice said: "Dear, you guessed it right again, but I don't think it was a natural death, but a mass escape."
"Yeah." Wrench said, "I don't want to stay here either, you two, follow us, or be a hero yourself?"
"Let's act together first." Raymond said: "It depends on the actual situation."
Opal stretched his back and said, "To be honest, I think there is basically no chance for us to be heroes with the A-level mercenary group."
Wrench said: "This is not necessarily... Prepare everyone to bring some equipment and start working. Lily and the others are responsible for approaching the central area, and our task is to open the energy furnace... Igor, you are responsible for staying behind and commanding. Take care of each other with the little robot. How's it going?"
Opal: "No problem, E7, you stay here."
Opal knew quite a few people from the Twelve Nebula Mercenary Corps, but he couldn't name them. He only knew that the red hair was called "Kun". He and Raymond walked at the end of the team. In front of them was a smiling fat man. A dark-skinned boy, half a head shorter than Opal, surrounded by a tall, thin boy.
"Kay," said the dark-skinned teenager, introducing the tall, thin young man to Opal: "This is my fiance bridge."
Opal greeted them, and then a very long-winded middle-aged man stepped forward. Wrench said impatiently: "I know, I know."
The head is a strong man, about the same height as Raymond, but bigger than him, carrying a cross-like weapon, which Opal has seen before - a photon cutting shield.
Six people seem to have their own strengths.
After entering the interior of the planet, the temperature was slightly warmer. In the endless darkness, Opal glanced at the detector and showed that the surrounding temperature was 4°C.
"What are you thinking?" Raymond said.
Opal shook his head, Raymond came over and put his shoulders on him, Opal shook the lamp towards him, and saw his handsome face in the dark night, his deep eyes were like the bright stars in the quiet universe.
"A prison," Opal whispered. "What treasure do you think there will be?"
"Maybe it's a magnetic field generator." Raymond narrowed his eyes and said, "Or a weapon to deal with the phantoms. You don't understand? Here are the phantoms, and of course there are devices to restrain them. Phantom people have always been mysterious, they never mentioned themselves to other races, including history, culture…”
Opal understands.
"It's very possible." Opal said: "Because the Phantoms fell to Cororin, the Empire and the Republic want to get this weapon, so if the two sides fight, it is tantamount to mastering a certain weakness of the Phantoms..."
"You guys know too much." Wrench said, "It's best not to discuss this too much, otherwise it's easy to be silenced by Wang..."
The mercenaries climbed along the ropes under the platform. They had already entered the second floor area. Opal turned on the lights towards the dark wall, displaying a line of phantom characters. The reflective wordmarks seemed to flow slowly under the light source.
Finally, Raymond and Opal slid down the rope.
"Take a break." Wrench glanced at the timer and said, "Replenish food and water, we've moved forward for eight hours, Lily, how are you there?"
Lily's voice said, "No problem, everything is fine."
"Do you want something to eat?" Kun handed the food to Raymond, who took it and said to Opal, "Hey, don't run around. Wife, you've always been a lunatic."
He took two small glasses and handed one to Opal.
Opal took it and walked around the well-understood corridor while drinking water, looking around.
Each room has a number in front of it, confirming that it is a prison cell. Some doors are closed, while others are wide open.
"Since they are all radio creatures." Opal said: "Why are they closed with solids?"
Raymond said: "Electrical waves also have a penetration limit, like lead and cadmium. You see, when they built this prison, they obviously had double insurance. There may be a magnetic field generator inside the still star that traps all the prisoners. , plus these sealed cubes."
Opal stood in front of a closed door and said, "So there's something in here?"
Raymond said, "What do you think? Open it up?"
Opal frowned and glanced at Raymond, Raymond smiled and said, "I'm being controlled by the phantom people, something is hypnotizing me to let me open him, uh... There's a family crowded inside, the phantom man's father, the phantom star. Star mother, two phantom children…”
Opal: "It's not funny at all, you forget how they reproduce?"
Raymond and Opal both laughed and went back to camp with their shoulders folded.
Opal was still thinking, and Raymond said very little, and when he came back, he saw an open room.
"Isn't the door of this room closed just now?" Opal said.
Raymond stopped and said, "How do I remember it was open..."
Opal sensed something was wrong, motioned Raymond to stop talking, closed his eyes, and released the power of belief.
Everything was as usual around, and the neat cells were like countless tombstones, lined up into the distance.
"Wrench." Opal still felt something was wrong and said, "You opened the door to this room?"
The wrench didn't lift his head and said, "Do you think the A-level mercenary group will be commissioned like the two boys Xun and Sid? Our group members have never been cheap, are they all there? Report the number."
"exist."
"exist… "
The four members reported the numbers in turn, and said with a wrench, "Where's the bridge?"
"Go away," said the dark-skinned boy.
The short-range professional strong man holding the shield said: "Take it easy, you are too nervous, drink some sparkling wine?"
Opal nodded and said, "Thank you."
The wrench is debugging several small path-finding robots. Each robot is turned into a different channel with a small detector. The speed is so fast that it will fly out of sight.
Seeing that the dark boy was looking at him, Opal asked, "What's your name..."
"Kay." The dark boy said: "Kay Banning, Sphinx star."
"No wonder." Raymond laughed.
Kai said: "It's very dark, right? The skin of the Sphinx is very dark, and the ultraviolet rays are too strong."
The fat man said: "You are from Sunlight City? I heard Lily say..."
"Lily." Wrench said, "How are you over there? Opportunities 1 to 10 of the stars will join you in three hours and open the comprehensive map of Silent Star."
"Everything is fine." Lily's voice replied: "So far, no enemy has been encountered, and no two boys have been found."
As soon as the wrench opened the communication, several people chatting silently fell silent to listen to their answers.
"Stay vigilant," Wrench said. "They're probably approaching the Central District."
Opal said: "How many forces are there?"
"Pirates, soldiers of the Republic." Wrench said: "In addition to our mercenaries, there are at least three forces operating here... We have three days and six and a half hours left, the rest is over, and we continue to operate."
Several people stood up one after another, the wrench hung the communicator beside the backpack, adjusted the baseball cap, and took a step.
The communicator rang.
Inside was a hysterical scream, followed by several gunshots.
The wrench immediately took off the communicator.
"Lily!"
"Ah-ah-"
Lily let out a tragic scream, like a nervous breakdown, and the scream stopped abruptly, followed by another muffled sound, followed by a long silence.
"Lily?" The wrench's pupils contracted violently, and there was no sound from there.
"Emergency call." Wrench took out another communicator and said solemnly: "Lily? Tucker? Igor? Are you all there? Stay behind the commander, answer me!"
Another communicator was full of rustling noises.
"Lily." The wrench's voice kept shaking: "This is not fun, do you hear it?! Answer me, Lily!"
Opal and Raymond looked at each other.
The members of the Twelve Nebula Mercenary Group did not speak. After a long time, a man's moan came from the communicator, followed by a gunshot, and the moan was cut off.
Wrench gasped sharply, and after three seconds, he made a decision.
"Raymond and Opal help me, we continue to the central area." Wrench said: "Kun leads the team! Kai went back to the place where he stayed and sent a long wave communication to Azeroth! The others followed the chip's instructions and went to Lily and the others ahead of time. Confluence, now, act now!"
Everyone began to run, Jixing had very little gravity, and the running speed was very fast. Opal didn't even have time to talk, so he shot out like a Raymond arrow, and the wrench slammed open a sealed tube, and flickering phosphorescence floated along the dark passage. , illuminated the faces of the three.
"Wrench, you're running too slowly," Raymond said. "Where are you going?"
"This way." Wrench was slightly out of breath. They ran to a platform. There was no road in front of them. All the cells were suspended. to the first cell.
"Be careful!" Opal said.
Raymond stood firm on the edge, nearly fell, then turned around with the force of the fall, and threw the rope, which Opal tied to a ladder on his side.
"Let's go." Opal said.
The wrench lurched sharply, and blood sprayed Opal's head.
Opal: "!!!"
"Wrench!!" Opal roared.
Opal turned around abruptly, and saw a long knife protruding from the right shoulder of the wrench. Behind him was the young Sphinx Kai who was holding the knife. His eyes were empty, and the face of the wrench changed immediately. Opal took out the big sword, Forcing Kai back, he shouted, "Get out of the way!"
Kay let go of the knife and flipped back in midair. Opal chased after him like a shadow, and slapped his sword to his side. At the same time, his mind was spinning. This was under control!
Some phantoms must have escaped! Where did it come from? !
Opal gasped frantically, and the wrench was now dead and alive. The person in front of him was very fast. As soon as he sneaked into the darkness, he was silent. After just two fights, Kai disappeared.
Opal looked around and shouted, "Raymond!"
Raymond stood quietly in the distance like a ghost, and was also controlled? ! who's okay? ! Opal dragged his sword back to check the wrench's injury, and Kay suddenly appeared from the side and punched him in the jaw.
Opal snorted, it seemed that he had to abolish this guy's fighting power first, he couldn't stop backing away, he didn't dare to fight directly with Kay, he was dodging around in the dark, holding the sword in his left hand, and grabbing at the distance with his right hand. Beside the wrench, a light tube filled with guiding phosphors spun and flew, and at the same time, Opal gave way to the side, and Kai appeared!
With a light sound, the light pipe shattered, powder sprinkled all over the space, and the whole place lit up. Countless fluorescent powders were like fireflies in the dark, lingering around the abyss floating under the platform.
Opal finally caught Kay's every move, but he still dragged his sword and couldn't give in. At the same time, he quickly analyzed his habit of attacking routine in a short time, until Kay kicked him sideways and kicked his lower abdomen.
Opal is waiting for this opportunity!
He instantly drew the dagger from his waist and swept it sideways. Kai's left foot was chopped off immediately, and he fell heavily to the ground.
Kai didn't make a sound, lay on the ground rolling and spasming, Opal put away his dagger, closed his eyes, and explored the surrounding area.
total darkness.
What about the phantom people? !
No targets to be found at all, no enemies!
Opal had to turn to look at the wrench.
"Wrench?!" Opal said: "Raymond! Are you still alive?! Wake up!"
"Controlled by... phantom people..." Wrench said: "Opal... Are you okay?"
Opal said: "I am not controlled, what should I do now?"
The wrench clutched the injured shoulder and panted, "Keep walking, don't worry about Raymond... Go to the energy furnace... Restart the central energy..."
Opal shouted: "Raymond!"
Raymond was still standing in the center of the platform, Opal was too far away from him, resisted the wrench for a moment, and finally had to ignore it and said, "Wrench, I'm carrying you, where are you going? You show the way, where are your team members? ?do not care?"
Wrench said: "He has... an emergency life support belt... go!"
Opal looked at Raymond with his back to him from a distance, and resolutely pulled the rope, cut the rope, swung an arc with a wrench, and swayed to another platform dozens of meters below.
The stairs were intricate and complicated. Opal held the wrench half-carried and half-carried. His body was covered in his blood. The stairs were full of corpses.
"Keep going!" Wrench yelled.
Opal: "A soldier or a pirate?"
Wrench: "All! They have killed each other!"
Opal: "Is it also here to turn on the central energy?"
Wrench: "God knows... I see the way, right here!"
Opal stepped down quickly, the two of them went down to the bottom, the wrench was panting, the bleeding stopped, the small belt glowed with healing rays, and in front of him was an unfathomable huge black well, the whole well covering nearly ten square kilometers , like a dark pit.
The opal and the wrench were as small as ants, the light was condensed into a single point, and they manually climbed down the stairs along the edge of the black well.
"This is an energy well." The blood on the wrench's face has dried up, and he whispered, "You can do whatever I ask you to do later, restart the energy core."
Opal's heart was pounding, and he said, "What happens when the energy is turned on?"
The wrench said: "Restore the lighting first, there must be a phantom prisoner running out, and emergency mechanisms will be prepared in this prison..."
Inside the energy well is a set of strange reactors. The wrench stumbled to the front of the console, connected a portable optical brain to the control line, and said, "Opal."
"What." Opal held up the lights, there was an endless night everywhere, only a white light glowed around them, Opal was thinking about Raymond, until they left the platform, Raymond still didn't move, hope He doesn't want to be controlled... is he struggling? Humanoid lifeforms may have stronger anti-interference ability than humans, I hope he persists.
Opal didn't want to fight Raymond.
"Opal." The wrench activated the optical brain, began to analyze the data on the console, and said: "If it is the worst situation later, you can run along the same road towards the exit when you came, and wait outside Silent Star to wait for Azeroth. ."
"What about you?" Opal said.
"I'll die with Lily," said the wrench. "Go ahead, push the lever over there, then pull the handle out and turn it counterclockwise..."
Is everyone under control? Opal stepped forward to operate and woke up immediately. The twelve nebula mercenaries were all under illusion control. Lily's team came in from another direction. They attacked each other, so gunshots came from the communicator. .
Raymond, Kun, the boy named Kai... Most of the others couldn't escape.
Opal has the power of belief and will not be controlled by the phantom people, but why is the wrench okay? It's illogical... Opal said: "Wrench."
Wrench glanced at Opal.
"Why aren't you being controlled?" Opal asked suspiciously.
Wrench replied, "I don't know either."
It was too late to speak, and the two looked up at the same time, and Opal roared: "Get out of the way!!"
Within a second, the wrench rolled on the spot, and a strong wind burst from a hundred meters above his head, and Raymond slashed straight down with his axe!
Opal knelt down on one knee, dragged his sword over the block, and the weapon collided with a loud noise, and the deafening impact echoes burst into the energy well.
"Raymond!" Opal roared.
Raymond's pupils rotated, contracted, expanded, and contracted again, as if he was taking the crosshairs. The two of them left at the touch of a button, and jumped away from each other. Four electromagnetic light bombs flew towards him. Opal kept his sword in front of him at all times. , Flicking his wrist so wonderfully, the light bomb was blocked high in the sky, and a dull explosion occurred at the top a few seconds later!
The three suspended cells lost their balance, and one end fell into the energy well, making a series of loud noises, causing the earth to vibrate. After hiding in the bunker, Opal closed his eyes and released the power of belief. trace.
what happened? ! Opal couldn't believe all this, and there was no trace of manipulation on Raymond's body at all.
The buzzing long cannon gathered energy to draw a light trail in the darkness, Raymond's figure was approaching silently, and the moment Opal opened his eyes again, the energy cannon had reached his chest!
"No!" Opal growled.
Raymond pulled the trigger, and in an instant, a white light penetrated Opal's chest. At the last second, Opal finally understood the cause and effect.
The power of belief of the stars was quickly released, and then returned to his body, with a roar and a loud buzzing sound, his mind was spinning, and the phantom who controlled Opal was forcibly expelled from his body.
All the sights in front of him disappeared, and Opal opened his eyes again - back to the makeshift camp outside the prison.
A group of blue light left with a sharp sound. Opal held the sword in his left hand and pushed forward with his right hand. The belief field of the stars revolved. The dark surroundings were illuminated like daytime. Thousands of stars turned into meteors, chasing the blue light!
The blue light couldn't help dodging, quickly disappeared, and the wrench roared: "Opal!"
Opal's belief was interrupted and he woke up immediately.
Wrench said: "Are you awake? What's going on?!"
Opal said: "It turned out that it was me who was controlled! Damn it!"
In the next second, all the people who stood still were like waking up from a big dream, they took a step, shouted, and fell to the ground.
The wrench looked at the number of people, and Raymond was the first to calm down and said, "Have you been hallucinating?"
"Yes, are you alright?" Opal said: "I just had a dream, I went to the energy furnace with the wrench, and you fired a shot at me."
Everyone was sweating profusely, as if they were pulled out of the water.
"Yes! Lily!" Opal said: "Hurry up and contact her!"
Wrench: "Their passage is blocked, and there is a place where they can't get through. They have to wait for the central energy furnace to be turned on here."
There was chaos in the passage.
Kun: "What just happened? I almost got shot by a wrench!"
Kai: "Where's the bridge! Where is the bridge?"
Raymond: "Wait! Don't talk!"
After a few seconds, the wrench said first: "I just took a step, all of you are still not moving, you can't wake up when you call, and you are planning to go back and notify Azeroth to come to support."
Raymond: "How many phantoms were there just now?"
Opal: "One, has gone."
Raymond: "You're sure there's only one."
Opal closed his eyes, pressed one hand, and said, "I'm sure there is only one, yes, I'm sure, I understand."
"Illusory people are completely hidden if they don't take action." Opal looked into Raymond's eyes and said, "No one can feel its existence. It will only shine when the illusion is released."
Wrench: "Can you feel them?"
Opal: "It's barely possible. This one ran out of nowhere. It seems that it can only create hallucinations and cannot manipulate people into actual actions."
Opal's brain was still buzzing with pain, and Raymond said, "Go deeper?"
The wrench said: "Go ahead, Opal, you are responsible for scouting the surrounding area, and you will be warned as soon as a phantom appears."
Opal nodded, and the wrench didn't ask where Opal's ability came from. Maybe he knew that Opal was inconvenient to say, but since it was the first time, it was easy to do. They followed the previous path. This time it was very difficult. Be careful, stop and go, it took more than two hours to come to the platform.
"There's an energy well below." Wrench said, "We have to figure out a way to go down first."
Opal is always vigilant and does not dare to take it lightly. It seems that there is only one Phantom Man, and he has no idea where to go. However, this one is very powerful and is enough to control them all... No, why is the wrench not controlled
"Wrench," Opal said.
Wrench is assembling an energy flyboard and says, "You'd better focus, Opal."
Opal: "I can control the situation, I want to ask you something."
The mercenaries followed the ropes to the platform in turn, and the wrench was left on the top, Raymond and Opal.
The wrench tried to place the flyboard in the air, motioning to Opal.
"Why didn't you hallucinate just now?" Opal asked.
Wrench was very puzzled and said, "I don't know, what do you think?"
Opal frowned slightly, and Raymond said, "Go ahead and discuss this later."
The wrench stepped on the flyboard and said, "Do you want to try this?"
"No." Raymond said: "You go down first."
The wrench stepped on the flying board and went down. Raymond didn't rush to get off the rope. He stood at a high place and whispered: "What did you find?"
Opal was very confused, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while. After a while, he said: "What did you show in the hallucination world just now?"
Raymond said, "Like a dream, you turned around and ran, I chased you, went to a place, found Sid and Xun, you let them out, and Xun killed us."
Opal immediately said: "Where?!"
Raymond said, "Do you think the dreams that the phantoms have instilled in us are true?"
"No, you have to verify it first." Opal said, "There will be results soon."
"Raymond!" Kun's voice shouted from below: "You guys better hurry up!"
"You go down and have a look first," Opal said.
Raymond and Opal got off the platform, and Raymond's voice came from the ear buttons, saying: "Seventy-three corpses, thirty-six are pirates, and thirty-seven are soldiers of the Meteor Legion."
Opal said: "Borrow the wrench's flying board and fly it up. Let's leave the team temporarily."
Raymond and Wrench briefly discussed for a while, Raymond stepped on the flying board, Opal jumped up, hugged Raymond's waist from behind, and said, "Go to the place where you saw Sid and Xun in the hallucination. "
Raymond maintained a surfing motion and leaned slightly, Opal pushed his hips mischievously, and the two walked around the corridor and went to the other end.
Opal: "Does the hallucination involve your memory?"
Raymond: "No, is it cold? A coat for you?"
Opal shook his head, Raymond glanced back at him, the two touched their lips, and Raymond said, "Hold firmly, then what?"
Opal hugged Raymond's waist tightly, his coat fluttered in the wind, and said, "The hallucinations that guy just created for us are all existing fragments compiled from his own memory. This phantom has seen outside the energy well. I have seen Sid and Xun before, so I created these illusions."
Raymond said: "I still don't quite understand why it does this, holding us back?"
Opal said, "Did you die in a hallucination?"
Raymond said: "No, you can't kill me, but I smashed half of my body into a smash, and I repeatedly asked you what's wrong... Let you wake up a bit."
Opal laughed, and Raymond asked again, "How about you? How am I in your fantasy?"
Opal said, "I almost... well, no, you're still very gentle."
While speaking, Opal suddenly thought of an extremely terrifying thing, and asked, "Are there any bloodstains on the bodies you saw?"
Raymond: "No."
Opal: "Brain dead?"
Raymond: "Maybe, the wrench was checking when I came up."
Opal murmured: "We almost died just now... Just a little bit. It turns out that if we die in hallucinations, we will lose all control of consciousness."
Raymond was silent, and Opal thought of another thing and said, "All the hallucinations come from the consciousness and memory of that phantom star."
Raymond hummed, and Opal said, "In my hallucination, the wrench is not controlled."
Raymond said: "In fact, he has never been controlled."
Opal said: "Have you noticed this too? Another point is that the phantom people also think that the wrench can't be controlled, it's not that they missed him, because the wrench is normal in my illusion world, which means that he is in the phantom people's world. In cognition, it is also uncontrollable.”
Raymond: "I've always been a little weird, even you can't be spared, how can a wrench resist hallucinations?"
Opal couldn't explain it clearly, and Raymond said again: "It may also mean that the degree of influence a person is affected by the phantom is inversely proportional to his physique. Thinking like a wrench is more complicated and consumes a lot of brain power..."
Opal: "Do you mean that I have developed limbs and a simple mind?"
Raymond laughed, and controlled the flying board to spin around in the air, landing slowly.
"Shh..." Raymond said, "be quieter."
Opal and Raymond were lying on top of a cell, looking down. This was a tarmac with a small airship parked inside and many guards standing outside.
"Maybe he's been immune to Azeroth for a long time..." Opal whispered.
Raymond hissed: "You just feel that the wrench is not in the hallucination, you are controlled so you are not reconciled..."
Opal gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"
Raymond: "Come here and prepare for action."