Oman was watching a movie in the dark stone room. It was the last time Opal sent him. He bought a movie projector from a merchant, three holographic movie chips from fifty or sixty years ago, and watched it repeatedly in that small space. .
Many miners are illiterate and can only entertain themselves through images. In fact, in the modern age where information is highly developed, anything can be conveyed through images and sounds, and learning words is the second most important thing. However, the amount of information conveyed by images and sounds is not as fast as words. Often, a simple scene that can be explained in one sentence requires a few minutes to interpret a holographic image.
There is a holographic projection instrument in the corner of the stone room, and the hero and heroine on it hug each other.
"Oh, Andalus..." A vague voice came from the egg-shaped projector.
Aman watched quietly, his voice was very low, and the three girls were chatting in another corner of the cellar, and Anya was among them.
Opal went up and turned off the projector. Oman recovered and said, "Are you back? Opal?"
"Opal!" Anya's eyes lit up, and the girls whispered with surprise in their voices.
"Anya." Opal bowed slightly and greeted her. His eyes were clear, and his skin was a healthy wheat color. He was different from before. Anya smiled and said, "Why are you back?"
"Come back to see you." Opal whispered: "Oman, I have a plan about the future of all of us."
Aman said, "Anya, bring something to eat."
Anya went out to get food, and her female companion smiled and said, "Opal, when are you going to marry Anya?"
Opal's face was a little unnaturally red, he smiled awkwardly, and said: "I..."
Oman didn't talk much about the subject, saying: "What's the plan?"
Locke said, "What on earth did you experience outside? You killed a sand bat?"
Oman was instantly moved and asked, "How did you kill the sand bat?"
Opal sat on the wooden bench, put his hands and fingers together, thought for a while, and said, "The teacher taught me, do you remember, Locke, you saw me picking up a person in the desert."
Opal selectively told Oman about the events of these days, retaining many of his abilities, such as the power of faith and the identity of Recht, and finally revealed his plans in full.
Both Locke and Oman seem to have been greatly impacted.
"Is the outside world really like this?" Locke's voice trembled.
Opal nodded and said, "I see in his chip that many planets are better than B11."
Aman whispered: "I know this too, so I always wanted to send Anya out. She shouldn't suffer here with us, but Opal, have you ever thought about it? We can only mine and do nothing else. How do you support yourself on the Crimson Star? You have to come back in the end."
"That's because we don't have any education!" Opal whispered angrily: "Our parents are slaves, so we are slaves too! This is not allowed in the interstellar human rights law, everyone should have the opportunity to choose . If this plan is successful, I believe we can get the citizenship of the Red Flame Galaxy and start over. Come on, let's fight and fight together."
"You are different." Aman said angrily: "You are already the one who can kill sand bats with your bare hands, what about us? We will be beaten to death by the foreman! Drag it into the mine and say that the landslide is dead, and no one can do anything about it.”
Opal said: "You don't need to confront him head-on. I do all these things. The stronger the ability, the greater the responsibility. I know this very well. Just do me a favor, I need evidence. The mine disaster, and the purchase details of every fair on this planet."
Aman said: "I know that the merchants who deal with us have to pay a large proportion of the share to Black Rock Mining. Last time, one person said that he had leaked."
Opal said: "You already knew, why didn't you tell us?"
Oman shook his head, and Opal said, "Someone must rise up, Oman."
Locke said: "I'm going! What do I need to do? I don't want to stay in this ghost place anymore."
"Thank you, brother." Opal patted Locke on the shoulder, and Locke said, "Aman, what are you waiting for? Join us."
Aman was thinking, and Opal narrowed his eyes, but he felt his thoughts. Aman was afraid that things would be exposed and Anya would be in danger.
"What are you talking about?" Anya came over with bread and water and asked, "Brother?"
Opal took the water and said, "Thank you, Anya."
He stared at Oman, but he thought of something else: mind-sensing? After developing your own spiritual world, can you gain this ability? Rector never mentioned it to him.
She watched them uneasily for a moment, then turned to leave, whispering to her companions, "Let's go outside."
The wooden door closed, and Opal said, "If you're worried about Anya, I'll try to send her away first."
Aman said, "Can you?"
Opal hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and Aman said, "Give me an exact answer."
Opal said: "Yes, I will do it."
Aman said: "I know there is a video, it is a security video that monitors our work every day, and it is in Hicks' office."
Locke asked, "Stolen it out?"
Opal said: "Great! Where are the transaction documents of the trade fair?"
Aman said: "I don't know, but there must be backup files. There is a complete security system in the data room, and it is not easy to enter. Besides, except for the printed receipts, other data are stored in the central control room. How can I get it? come out?"
Opal got up and said, "Steal the chip inside and go."
Locke said: "But what if they find that the chip is missing after they come back?"
Opal said: "Make another copy, I have a message transcriber, you can draw me a map."
Aman said: "I lead the way. I found Hicks last time. The CNC center is a long way from here. It's too cold. You have to prepare materials to keep out the cold."
The three immediately began to prepare. Until this moment, Locke was still dreaming, muttering: "Can we really get out of here? What if we can't do it, and we all die?"
Opal said, "With my life, you will all live."
Aman nodded and said, "Either live together or die together."
"What are you going to do?" Anya asked nervously.
The three put on warm clothes, and Aman said, "Prepare some food, we'll be right back, don't ask any more, Anya."
Opal carried the energy stove and walked to the Oman's house. The door outside was frozen. The moment he opened it with the power of faith, the snow poured in, and the strong wind drowned them in an instant.
After the coldest day of winter, the pale sun began to rise and fall slowly on the horizon, each rise and fall a day passed. The B11 star is no longer snowing, and it is gradually getting warmer. They are walking on the snow field against the cold wind, and there is still a long way to go.
They walked for three days and three nights and entered the boundary of another mining village, where tens of thousands of people lived. It was the largest gathering place for miners on the B-11 star, and the mining sites they occupied were also more abundant. A man who was bending over to bury something stood up and said from a distance, "Who?"
His expression was numb and wary, looking at Oman and the others.
Opal said: "passing, the weather is fine, go out for a walk, what are you doing?"
Aman went over with the lamp, and saw a small pit in the snow. Inside was a child who was cold and dark and naked.
"Bury my little son." The man was blind in one eye and stared at them with his left eye.
"You at least give him a dress," Locke said.
"Cloth is too expensive," the man said. "It's too cold in winter for children to survive. My wife is dying too."
The man introduced himself. His name was Ugo Milder. Opal exchanged names. Ugo said, "Come in and bake the fire. Have you brought any medicine? I can exchange some red spar for you, although it is not much. ."
"We don't have drugs on us," Opal said.
Hugo took them inside, and his wife was lying on the bed coughing, her face flushed and her chest heaving like a bellows.
Aman said, "Why don't you take her into the cellar?"
"Heart and lung fever cough." Opal said: "It's easy to contagious, there shouldn't be such a disease here. How did you get it?"
Hugo nodded and said: "I need anti-inflammatory and bactericidal potions, we don't have them. I bought a pair of shoes for her at the pre-winter sales conference. After wearing them, her toes were rubbed with blood blisters and infected with bacteria. That's it. ."
Opal lifted the blanket over Hugo's wife's feet and glanced at them, her feet were swollen like buckets.
Hugo looked at them with his unblind eye and said, "Then she can only die. I killed her."
He held her hand, his expression was numb and indifferent, but his left eye showed a little warmth.
"Do you know where the warehouse is?" Opal said.
Hugo said, "You want to steal something?"
Opal said: "I'll help you find it... Try my best, I can't guarantee it."
Aman said: "Opal."
Opal waved his hand to signal them to stop talking. If Hugo knew where the warehouse was, there might be more things worth bringing out. Maybe there's also an energy battery, which is very important to Rector.
Hugo said: "I will take you there. There is a director on duty in the data room."
All three were shocked, but Opal thought of a better way.
Opal said: "You follow us, you have to do something first."
Ugo joined them, and Oman set off again, leading them up the hillside, where there was a five-story alloy building embedded in the rock, with the gate locked.
"I can only take it here," Aman said. "There is no key, and when they leave, all the passages are locked."
Opal said: "There must be a way. We can climb in through the vent. Look there, the fourth floor."
Following Opal's point, they saw a vent in the bare alloy wall.
"It's too high, no," Locke said. "It can't be done."
Opal raised his head and said, "I can do it, try it."
Opal took the E7 out of the package, attached it to the alloy wall, and tied the rope to its body, the E7's magnetic track began to turn, and it took the rope and went up the straight wall all the way, in the whole alloy building. It stopped at the highest point, and followed the antenna on the roof three times. Opal tried to straighten the rope, jumped towards the wall, and climbed up with both hands.
It was cold and windy. The four of them lined up and walked slowly on the frozen wall. The vents were welded from the inside to the outside.
"It's too cold..." Aman said behind him. "Is there a way?"
Opal said: "Wait! Hold on!"
He gathered his mental strength and looked for the tiniest connection at the welding seam. There were sixteen special screws in it to cross the ventilation window, and a multi-headed instrument was needed to remove it at the same time.
He distracted himself from his convictions and stared silently at the screws.
One, two, they began to spin slowly clockwise, and with a clatter, the screws tumbled toward the depths of the dark vent.
"There's a security system inside!" Oman said loudly.
Opal immediately used his sword to pry open the ventilation window, slammed into the air vent, stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the distance, sixteen screws flew and fell into his palm.
"Be careful!" Opal said loudly.
The vent is a 60-degree slope, and Opal slid out head and foot, then grabbed at the edge of the exit, grabbed the crossbar of the exit, swayed in an arc, and his body was suspended in the air.
It was dark all around, and the energy-saving green light was gloomy. This was a corridor. There was a camera on the opposite ceiling, which was slowly turning towards Opal.
Opal raised his hand, covered his cloak over the camera, and let go.
Then Oman came first, followed by Locke, and finally One-Eyed Ugo. The three of them slid out of the passage, banging and smashing Opal to the ground.
Opal said, "What's the next step?"
"Go to the central data room and follow me," Oman said.
They passed the escape stairs, Opal stood at the entrance of the stairs, and there were many iron pipes for support.
Hugo said: "I have been trying to find a way to dig in from the outside to help Anna steal the medicine. The underground tunnel is less than five meters away from the building."
"Even if you dig into the foundation wall." Locke couldn't help laughing and crying: "It's impossible to dig through the stones there. What are you thinking?"
"Better than doing nothing," Hugo said.
Opal looked at the map on the wall and had an idea in his heart that he might be able to leave through the tunnel that Hugo dug later.
Aman asked, "What's wrong?"
Opal said: "The warehouse is under the ground of this building."
Aman said: "Yes, so what's the matter?"
Opal shook his head and said, "Nothing.
He headed out and took a look, then immediately turned his head back, signaling everyone not to speak.
The lights were on on the third floor, and a small man walked across the corridor to fetch water. It was as warm as spring and had all the necessary facilities. The office also played a song by Prince Ledgerson of the Opera.
"Have to find a way to lure him away." Opal said, "Oh no..."
Hugo has only one eye, and he can't see the right side. When he turned around, he knocked down a vertical inclined pipe. The moment it fell down the stairs, Opal had no time to save it, and there was a "clang" sound at the quiet entrance of the stairs.
"Dang--"
"Ow-"