When Opal walked, his feet were still a little weak, and he felt that he was being fucked too hard. He was dangling like he was drunk. , licked his lips, his expression very seductive.
Raymond unnaturally unbuttoned his jacket, looking at it, as if he wanted to push the opal against the wall and give it another shot.
On New Year's Eve, the shopping street in the central square had not yet been decorated. The two of them had a snack on the roadside with scarves and played with the new billiard machine that the bosses bought from the empire. A group of mercenaries gathered in front of the billiard screen and shouted: "Hey! "
"What a pity!"
"Losing to a rookie!"
Opal laughed, and Raymond took the prize and said, "It is indeed a taboo to underestimate the enemy."
"Come again!" The losers were unconvinced and refused to let them go. Opal said, "I won't play with you."
Raymond said: "My wife said I won't play with you anymore, let's go."
There was laughter on the spot, and Opal took the gold coupon and exchanged it.
A little while before the last night, they wandered around the fair and found Lily with a wrench on the wrench, playing with a two-meter-tall pom.
"I really want to keep one too!" Lily threw herself on the pom.
"I really want to!" Opal also rushed up.
"I think so too!" Raymond laughed and jumped up with him, Bohm turned around and jumped away, the wrench was buying a drink, he was startled, and hurriedly chased after him: "Hey! You want to kill me Where do you take your wife!"
Boom jumped away, Lily jumped down, patted the hair on her clothes, and said with a wrench, "When did you come back?"
Raymond also went over to buy a drink and said, "Three days ago. Urka took something away."
Lily said, "Well, now that we know, are Xun and the others okay?"
Opal replied: "I guess you are taking care of Sid's father, what are your plans?"
Lily and Wrench looked at each other and said, "Will we go together?"
Wrench hesitated a bit, then said, "I think the king meant for me to visit him... including Sid's father, but I still have something else to do, and I can't seem to get away. I'll have to see the night. The venue for the dance party, by the way, help Urka get a dance partner…”
Raymond said: "I will help you convey the greetings."
Lily said, "If it's convenient, please help convey the king's greetings."
Raymond said politely, "Yes."
Opal bought a lot of things with the gold coupons, nutritional supplements and irises, as well as some soft pillows, pom quilt covers, pom caps and other daily necessities, and went to the hospital with Raymond to visit Sid's father.
"Dangdang!" Opal appeared from the door.
Sid was feeding his father by the hospital bed, Xun put his hands in his pockets and stared out the window in a daze.
Sid smiled and said, "Why are you here?"
Raymond said, "Conveying Azeroth's greetings to you... Is your father feeling better?"
Sid was a little flattered and said, "He gave these things too? We didn't really do anything."
Opal: "I trouble you not to think too much, this is what we bought, okay?"
Raymond took out a pom hat and said, "This is for you."
Sid laughed, put on a furry pom hat, and put another one on his father, Raymond, and Opal each brought one. Opal felt that the atmosphere in the ward seemed a little tense... Xun and Sid were arguing
Sid got up and changed his father's quilt and pillow. Opal held a pom velvet cap and buckled it on Xun's head. Xun immediately got angry and said, "Who is playing with you!"
Opal said: "Okay, don't play."
Xun seemed to have a grudge against everyone, maybe he was angry, so Opal didn't bother him, he came back and sat down beside the hospital bed, Raymond put his left ankle on his right knee, and winked at Opal, I mean what happened to that kid
Opal looked at Sid questioningly, and Sid smiled without explaining.
"How is he?" Raymond saw Sid's father watching him.
"I can open my eyes," Sid said. "But he can't communicate with the outside world. His brain has been seriously damaged. The doctor said that his current intelligence is like a three-month-old child."
Raymond nodded slowly, and Opal asked, "Are you going to the dance? You can use a wheelchair to push your father with you. It will be more crowded."
Sid said: "What about Xun, Xun, are you going?"
Quickly ignored him, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, took a bunch of irises, and said, "I'm going out for a walk."
Opal said: "I'll accompany you out." He turned around with the Pom hat in his hand, left the ward, and buckled it on Xun's head.
Xun looked bitter and hated, smoking a cigarette, and his hair was messy, like an angry pheasant.
Opal said: "What's wrong?"
Xun said angrily, "When he came back, he heard his father woke up and stayed with him every step of the way. Am I here to escort him?"
Opal smiled and said, "Isn't this a good thing?"
Xun said: "I want to be with him too!"
Opal said: "Say it well, don't do this."
Xun reluctantly let out a long breath, wearing a pom hat crookedly, the two left the hospital, the robot cleared the snow along the road, and Opal walked behind him without asking him where he was going.
"By the way, Raymond and I are married," Opal said.
"Congratulations, sincere." Xun said: "I may not marry Sid, what is love?"
Opal patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's not necessary, it's all trivial."
Xun said: "Maybe because I don't have a father, I don't understand the importance of a father to him."
Opal thought of what Wrench said - that Xun was Azeroth's illegitimate son, and he didn't know anything? Why did Azeroth hide it from him
The mercenary king may not like this son, or maybe it will damage his reputation... But Opal always felt that Azeroth should not be such a person.
"Where's your father?" Opal said, "I heard that your father passed away. What kind of person is he?"
Xun said indifferently: "He is a very ordinary mercenary, so ordinary that he can't be any more ordinary..."
Xun turned into a remote garden outside Long Street. Opal walked into the gate and looked up. This was a cemetery.
There were scattered people in the cemetery, silent in the middle of the rows of tombstones.
The sky was grey, and Xun threw the flowers in front of the huge monument in the center of the cemetery.
The national emblem of the country of mercenaries is engraved under the monument, and a line of words is written on the base - in memory of all the unnamed victims.
The snow is fine and dense, intertwined in the sky.
Opal said: "You are better than me, I don't even know who my father is."
"That proves that your father may still be alive." Xun said helplessly.
Opal said, "You know your father must be dead? What's his name?"
Xun said, "Ezel, Bing Ezel."
"I guess he must have done something spectacular," Opal said.
Xun said: "Don't console me, I have already confirmed in the trade union that he is a very ordinary E-rank mercenary, not a hero."
Opal frowned slightly, it seemed that Xun really didn't know that his biological father was Azeroth's business.
"He's tall and thin," Xun said. "The skin is a little white, just like me, but he's morbidly white..."
Opal: "Which mercenary group?"
Xun shrugged and said: "Scatterers, I didn't join the regiment, just like many people now... Come to Liexing to eat, some people are lucky, and they are blessed by the god of war in everything they do. Like wrench them."
"And some people are like a splash in the sea. They take on missions, go out on missions, run into danger, and die. When they die on an alien planet, they can't find their bodies. The union cancels their files and issues a death report. He is that kind of person. Bad luck."
When Opal listened to Xun's description, he seemed to really believe that his father was just an ordinary mercenary. There are people on this planet who have built illustrious military exploits and improved themselves, and more people died silently. In the end, there was no companion to help him erect a tombstone.
"Where's your mother?" Opal asked again.
"A wine escort girl on a small planet." Xun said, "I accompany the guests who landed, refueled and overhauled the spacecraft to have a drink, chat, and occasionally go to bed... Died when I was six years old, tell me Let me come to the Ares galaxy to find my father and say that he is a mercenary and that she still loves him to the death, but he never came back to look at her."
"It's a bit like my background," Opal said.
Xun said: "Oh no, I guess what kind of hero your father is, you don't look like..."
Opal: "No, no, my mother is just a miner. But I always think that blood, birth and these things have nothing to do with whether a person can be a hero or not. You see, you are doing well now."
Xun said, "Okay, thank you."
He looked at the monument, Xun's eyes were full of regret, and he seemed to have a bit of disdain. He was also a mercenary. If there are no variables in the future, at least he can do better than his dead father.
"I'm actually a waste." Xun said, "My father is also a waste."
"With all due respect, the principle of measuring a mercenary is not his rank, his ability, or how much property he has." Azeroth's voice sounded from the other side of the monument, and both Opal and Xun were startled. .
He turned the monument, and Opal and Xun saluted together, greeting him.
Azeroth returned the salute, his fists touched them, looked up at the top of the towering monument, and said solemnly: "Each of us is a piece of gravel in the universe, the key is to have a brave, determined and self-reliant person. Heart. Everyone who fights for himself is a hero to Lie Xing."
Xun nodded, and Azeroth said, "I'm sorry, I didn't intend to eavesdrop, I hope you don't mind, I promise I'll keep my mouth shut."
Xun said, "It doesn't matter."
Opal said, "What are you doing here?"
"Paying homage to a friend from a long time ago." Azeroth breathed out slowly and said, "My boyhood partner."
The three of them didn't speak, the snowflakes flew quietly in the night sky, Xun saluted again and said, "I wish you a long life."
Azeroth smiled and said, "I wish you a long life."
Xun and Opal turned and left together.
As night falls, the whole city revels, the city of war spirit lights up the lights that are always bright all night, and the music starts.
The Zhanhun Square is full of people, all the shops in the city are open all night, the colorful lanterns stretch across the sky, and the fireworks illuminate the night sky colorfully.
"Happy New Year, long life!" The mercenaries greeted each other with a smile.
Opal and Raymond played with fireworks for a while, ran across the long street with a smile, and started chasing a group of Pom who were running around, out of breath, and stopped outside the drink shop on the corner.
"I'm going to buy something to drink." Raymond said.
Opal said: "Go."
The remote part of the square was quieter, and the music came from a distance. The two sat on the bench for a while. The bustling street lights turned into colorful circles, and the music was very small and melodious.
Opal stood in the middle of the road, humming a song, and dancing to himself.
Raymond hugged him from behind and taught him to dance.
"Left foot." Raymond smiled. "Now out... right foot. By the way, one, two, three, turn around."
Opal turned around, squinted, the two held hands, and circled in the middle of the road. Opal laughed and thought it was funny.
"What's the point of dancing this kind of dance?" Opal said helplessly: "Following the music, walking around in the middle of the dance floor... a waste of time."
"Some people think it's very romantic." Raymond's smile was handsome and intoxicating: "Don't you think it's very interesting now?"
"Oh come on, I don't understand why people in high society like to dance," Opal said.
Raymond held Opal's hand, turned around, turned to the street lamp, and shook it gently, saying, "This is a slow swing, a style of the Republic. I heard that the local dance of Lie Xing is more unrestrained. more enthusiastic…”
"Huh?" Opal raised his head slightly and stared at Raymond's face, the street lights sprinkled on their short hair, Raymond's hair was very short and energetic, and there was a layer of warm light on his eyebrows, Opal said: " Is this also innate?"
Raymond smiled and said, "Yes, I'm a social etiquette robot. Your teacher didn't teach you this? Little Star Knight, you obviously didn't finish all the courses."
Opal thought about it and said, "He doesn't seem to like entertainment...but I guess he should, just doesn't want to teach me."
Raymond lowered his head and whispered: "Because this process is too ambiguous?"
The two hugged and pressed against the bridge of their noses under the street light. Opal couldn't help kissing Raymond's lips and said, "Well... he shouldn't want to hold me like this..."
Raymond said: "Fortunately he didn't, otherwise he would definitely be tempted by you, so I'm very lucky."
All the street lights in the whole star were turned on, and the snowflakes flew under the light shining on the entire star, like hundreds of billions of gentle feathers.
A traveler wearing a black trench coat and a wide-brimmed round hat walked to a remote part of the square and asked politely, "Guys, how can I get to Baiying Tavern?"
"Bai Ying Tavern!" The drunken mercenary replied, "It closed a long time ago! It closed ten years ago, you haven't come back for a long time!"
Several mercenaries looked at him from head to toe. The old man was carrying an axe and cannon, with a low wide-brimmed hat. His features were old, with wrinkles at the corners of his mouth. That look has lived hundreds of years. Good demeanor and tall, wearing fingerless gloves.
"Senior! I wish you a long life!" A mercenary raised a glass to him.
"Please have a drink at the bar! Happy New Year!" Someone said, "Welcome home!"
The man in the black trench coat said, "I wish you a long life."
One person said: "You can go to the back alley of Zhanhun Building! There are many drinking places there!"
"Thank you." Hei Fengyi said: "No, no, I thought of having a drink at Baiying Tavern... I didn't expect Lie Xing to change so much."
"The better it gets!" the mercenaries laughed.
"Yeah." The man in the black trench coat said, "There will be a period in the future."
He turned a corner, entered the back alley behind the Battle Spirit Building, and walked up the stairs quickly. The two guards who were drinking at the door stood up and said, "What..."
The man in the black trench coat stretched out his left hand and smeared it, and the two fell to the door.
He walked all the way through the central corridor of the God of War Building. After the war, the guards of the fierce star were strengthened a lot, and the door was closed.
"Mercenary, no appointment..." The front desk clerk stood up and said.
The man in the black trench coat raised his hand and said, "Open the door."
The door opens.
The man in the black trench coat entered the central platform, pondered for a moment, and pressed a series of passwords.
"Passed the first-level password verification." The electronic voice said: "Identity confirmation, the central operating technician, please select the floor you are going to."
Electronic voice: "Five hundred floors, the office of the mercenary king Azeroth."
The black windbreaker stopped on the 500th floor and walked through the empty corridor. Sixteen robots sounded the alarm and surrounded them, but they flew to both sides in an instant, breaking through the glass door outside the corridor and crashing into the street.
Only Azeroth and a union president were in the office.
"The heads of the regiments feel that your energy charges are too high..." Azeroth stopped talking and heard the movement outside.
The door opened automatically, and the man in the black trench coat stood outside.
The man in the black trench coat said, "I wish you a long life, Krelaus."
The flow of time seems to have become unusually slow.
Azeroth said: "Having eaten a lost dog, did one defeat make you feel at ease?"
The chairman of the trade union instinctively moved backwards, the man just casually raised his hand and swept, and the chairman lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
Azeroth still sat in his swivel chair, and said solemnly: "Cololin, I wish you a long life, your days are not long."
"According to your words." Coroline said, "Before that, I want to seek justice for Anna's illegitimate son."
Azeroth's pupils shrank slightly, and Cororin turned his head sideways, as if listening to something, and said, "God of War of the Glory Universe, the spiritual pillar of Fierce Star, the mercenary king Krilaus Ben Azeroth, what is it? Make him dare not recognize his son? Why? The king of mercenaries would leave his country privately and go to an asteroid that is insignificant on the star map... Anna's hometown is just a transit station, Wang's real destination is Another asteroid, he landed in Anna's hometown, was in a bad mood, drank a few glasses of wine, but unexpectedly left an illegitimate child..."
Azeroth watched Cororin quietly.
Coroline: "The illegitimate child is just one part of the story. Going back for all the reasons, guess what I... found? It's amazing. Why didn't Clarius dare to recognize his son?"
"Because once there is an extra son, the mercenaries will ask, why did the king go to such a remote asteroid? What did he go there for... When they found out that the late king Kyle Ray had been inscribed on the monument of heroes. There is no instant of death…”
Azeroth stood up and said, "Mad, you will die here today."
Cororin narrowed his eyes and whispered: "If I said that besides me, there is another person named Jimison who also knows about this..."
Azeroth couldn't help trembling slightly, and Cororin said again: "I hear your soul that fell into the abyss crying."
Azeroth said: "You always think you've found my weakness..."
Coroline said: "You have been shaken, Clarius. Based on the feelings that have worked with you, I will give you one last chance, join the Dark Star Alliance, and hand over everything your subordinates have obtained on Silent Star. ."
Azeroth said: "Give up, Cororin, I don't want to listen to your beliefs and ideals, Lie Xing will never be the knife in your hand, and we will decide the outcome in an upright manner, this time I will let you The corpse will always stay in the fierce star."
Coroline: "You're dead, Clarius, your invincibility has been shaken, and you're old. Fighting will only hasten your death."
Azeroth: "You're older than me, Cororin."
"It's just my appearance that's aging." Coroline took off his hat, put his hands behind his back, his feet were slightly apart, and his deep black-blue eyes were filled with sympathy and helplessness: "And what you are aging is your soul."
"Lie Xing will never surrender to you." Azeroth said coldly: "No matter how old I am, I am enough to fight you to the death, Cororin."
Cororin raised his hand and pushed it forward, Azeroth placed one hand on the desk and trembled slightly, unable to press the alarm switch no matter what.
"Your beliefs are no longer impregnable, Clairus." Coroline's voice was hypnotic: "Your fate is like that of your son, and the tragedy is repeating itself."
He stretched out his palm to hold it, and a small box on the desk flew around, landed in his palm, and was firmly grasped by him.
"I took Nolan's relics." Cororin said, "Next, it's your life."
Azeroth's forehead was covered in sweat, his pupils dilated, his whole body trembled in pain, and he let out an angry roar.
"Cololin!"