After some time, Opal heard someone calling outside.
"Open the door!" Xun roared angrily, "Are you fucking trying to escape? Coward! Come out! Go and avenge Raymond when you are sad!"
"E7, open the door," Opal said.
The hatch opened, Xun rushed in, grabbed Opal by the collar and threw him to the ground, there was a loud noise in the spaceship, Opal was dirty, smelly, and smelled of sweat, and Xun shouted in his ear. : "Get up! Cheer up! What do you look like!"
"I know." Opal said: "I understand the truth, I understand. I will continue to work hard."
Opal stumbled up and went to the bathroom. Xun had prepared a big speech, but he couldn't say anything for a while.
He stumbles to the shower, and Sid sits in the living room, tidying up for him.
Xun let out a sigh of relief, Opal shaved inside, changed into clean clothes after taking a shower, and Xun said: "You join us? Or we join you? I don't care, or you can apply for a group. "
Opal said, "No, I have my own plans."
Xun frowned at him for a while, and Sid said, "Let's go out for a meal first, get some sunshine, it will be better."
The three walked out of the tarmac. The sun was shining outside. The dark days were over, and Lie Xing regained the sunshine.
Under this pale sunlight, there is always a trace of unspeakable misery and pain. The pain caused by this war may only be gradually smoothed out by waiting time.
Opal wears Raymond's necklace, the pendant is attached to his heart, and he feels the emotional ups and downs on it.
He couldn't even tell if Raymond had really left him, maybe he was still with him.
The labor unions in all cities opened ahead of schedule, the New Year holiday ended, and the City of Souls, which had experienced two baptisms of war, was rebuilt again. They got off the bus at Sunlight City, ordered a lot of food, and said, "How long has it been since you have eaten?"
"Several days," Opal said.
He ate the bread in a big mouth, his face was a little bloody, and Sid asked, "Are you going to continue recruiting?"
Opal filled his mouth with food, glanced at Sid, swallowed it with difficulty, and said, "Keeping the mercenary team, I plan to do some solo missions first, and then recruit them into the team when I find a suitable one."
Xun said: "We plan to follow you and let you be the head of the regiment..."
Opal took a sip of his drink, waved his hand, signaled that there was no need to say any more, and paid the bill with his pockets, saying, "I'll go to the trade union to have a look, this meal is my request."
His mood has completely calmed down. Compared with the surging sadness, he is more like a dead person at this moment. The faith in his heart has been turned into burning embers, and he no longer has the slightest enthusiasm for life.
But there are still many things to do, such as eating, sleeping, making money, at least on the surface to live the same as before.
He went up to the third floor and went to the team window with his ID card to apply for Raymond's pension, and at the same time noted the sacrifice of the team members.
There were a lot of people in line, and a mercenary asked one by one, "Are you recruiting new members? How about you? Are you recruiting new members?"
Opal stared at him, as if seeing his former self.
He asked about Opal, and Opal said, "No, I'm not hiring, I'm here to collect comrades' pensions."
The mercenary insisted: "I can fill his position. Look, I got an A in my recruit course. I used to be a veteran, and I won't hold you back!"
"Come on!" said another team leader: "The future is at your feet, you will find a team, as long as you don't give up."
The recruit said, "But no one's hiring me now!"
Opal said: "Go downstairs to get a few simple single-person commissions, maybe there is a mercenary who wants to find someone to partner with?"
"Okay." The recruit said helplessly.
"I wish you a long life." Opal smiled with tears in his eyes.
The people in the front line left, Opal went to the window, and the clerk said: "I wish you a long life - another one who came to receive pensions, and even the king is not here, don't be too sad, we will get revenge one day. … let me see… "
"My spouse," Opal said. "On the first day of marriage, he died in defense."
The clerk said: "Okay... It's called Raymond, right? The state also gave him a pension, plus all his property before his death, a total of 1.05 million, but this money needs you and his parents. , as well as children... If there is, everyone will share it equally, and Wrench does not recommend that you take pensions to retire."
"I have no intention of being a tortoise," said Opal.
"That's good." The clerk said, "Fill out the form."
Opal entered the reason for claiming on the light screen and said, "I don't know where his hometown is."
"What about immediate family members?" said the clerk.
Opal: "No."
"Ah, really not, then it's all yours." The clerk said: "I wish you a long life, your regiment only has two people? The leader sacrifices, the deputy leader is automatically promoted, and all the permissions of the team are opened for you... "
After Opal received his pension, he walked slowly on the street exposed to the scorching sun, passing the store, and suddenly remembered something.
"Is there the latest dream loom?" Opal said. "The kind that can sleep with the person in memory..."
"Yes!" the boss said: "This model is most bought by people, only 6888 credit points..."
Opal said: "I want the most expensive one."
The boss said: "The luxury model only has a few more tide effects of green mercury, you might as well buy more scene chips..."
Opal said: "I want this, buy it."
The boss said, "Where's the chip?"
Opal said: "I want one, so I can be with him?"
The boss said: "Well, look at the manual, go back and read it carefully before using it, don't indulge..."
Opal bought the dream loom and returned to the spaceship, controlled it to lift off, flew to the universe and stopped, and carefully read the manual of the dream loom.
Before starting the dream weaving machine, connect the nerve patch and try to construct your own fantasy object until the completion degree is 100%, and save it.
Opal entered the virtual spiritual world, stood on the beach, clicked the options on the dream loom, constructed Raymond's body, and tried to recall according to his own memory.
Raymond appeared, standing in front of Opal.
"I love you," said Raymond. "I love you madly."
Opal murmured, "Me too."
Raymond said, "My heart thumps when you laugh."
Opal said, "You have a good smile. I love you, Raymond."
Raymond's eyes were blurred. He didn't know who he was, and he had no feelings at all. Opal exited the dream loom, used the fantasy movement himself, lay on the sofa, felt the bursts of climax, and then set the time again. Enter the programming world of the Dream Weaving Machine.
He chose Raymond's pattern of behavior, doing it frantically with him in a fantasy world.
They spent a long time by the beach, basking in the sun on Lei Meng's copper-colored toned skin, and the scene switched again to the gorgeous big bed in the old castle, and then changed to another scene, kissing recklessly on the grass in the wild, obsessed with opal He touched Raymond's face, his waist, his chest, and his abdominal muscles.
Raymond was sometimes gentle, sometimes violent, hugged him and slammed into bursts, seemingly never tired, Opal rode on him and hugged him tightly.
Time stopped, and Fantasy Movement called the police.
Opal was almost in shock, and when he opened his eyes, he was dripping with sweat, and his belly was a mess, covered with his semen.
He gasped heavily, raised his hand and pressed the set button, the dream loom flashed a red warning light: "Your entertainment time is too long, please adjust your physical condition and try again."
Opal patted impatiently, and finally had to give up, staggering up to take a shower.
He drove the spaceship back to Lie Xing, slept for a while, and his dreams were full of Raymond. When he woke up, he went out to eat and bought some drinks to replenish his energy. When he came back, he took off his clothes, lay down on the sofa, and started the fantasy movement and Dream weaving machine.
"I love you," Raymond said to Opal.
"I love you too." Opal stood by the hot spring and said, "Come on, let's do it."
They hugged each other and tangled beside the water vapor of the hot spring. After an unknown time, the dream loom alarmed again, causing Opal to wake up from the hallucination.
He was about to collapse, and then he replenished his physical strength again and again, and indulged in his dreams again and again. Raymond would only repeat those few words mechanically, without a smile on his handsome face, Opal asked: " Can you laugh? When you laugh, my heart is pounding."
Raymond in the dream couldn't answer him, Opal opened the control panel, reset the behavior mode for the person he imagined, and chose "affectionate".
Raymond's eyes changed and he said, "I love you."
Opal said, "I love you too."
He put his thumb on the corner of Raymond's mouth, trying to make him laugh, but Raymond would get it wrong, and lowered his head to kiss him, Opal's nose was sore, and tears were rolling in his eyes.
Raymond whispered, "Wife, go home."
Opal said, "We're at home, come and have sex."
Until the dream loom alarmed again, Opal was covered in sweat and woke up from the illusion, staring blankly at the ceiling.
He was almost in shock, his eyes were dark and dizzy. He lay down for a long time before he recovered. When he got up, his footsteps were sluggish, and he glanced at the time. It had been a long time since the new year.
Opal opened the hatch, and there was a magnetic storm outside, and it was dark between heaven and earth.
He turned on the food maker, ate something to fill his stomach, and turned on the fantasy movement and dream machine.
"Your accumulated usage time is too long, and you are advised to adjust yourself." The dream loom alarmed again: "This suggestion will remind you every 30 minutes."
Opal pressed a few times and forced his way into the virtual world. Raymond was sitting on a park bench, wearing a trench coat—that was what Opal brought him out of the fashion library and put it on. His hair was cut by Opal. Very short, stubbornly shaved and sexy, sitting in a daze in the U-galaxy tulip garden on Rembrandt's planet.
"Let's have sex in the villa later." Opal took two bottles of scented tea from the shop that no one was looking at, and said, "Drink some?"
"I love you," Raymond said.
"I love you too," Opal said. "I'll feed you, dear."
Opal twisted the lid of the flower tea, took a sip, and fed it to Raymond, lip to lip, and Raymond drank it.
Opal rode on Raymond's lap, kissing his lips passionately every time he drank the herbal tea, until he fed a bottle of herbal tea, his lips stared at his eyes intently.
Raymond said, "I love you."
Opal: "I love you too."
Raymond added: "Your accumulated usage time is too long. It is recommended that you adjust yourself in the real world so as not to indulge in the virtual world."
Opal said nothing, turned off the dream loom, and returned to the quiet spaceship.
The top light of the E7 was still on, Opal stood in front of the console, stared at the bright starry sky outside the porthole, raised his hand to wipe away the tears, shook his head, and cried loudly.
Raymond left him anyway.
Another magnetic storm passed, Opal slept for a full thirty-six hours, and finally got up tiredly, put away the dream loom, put on clean clothes, took a shower, and went to Sunlight City to pick up the task.
His team is not organized and needs to be supplemented to receive team tasks. Many people want to join the Opal team, but he rejects them one by one.
He took a single commission to help a noble lady in the Republic find her runaway son, found him on the Sphinx star, took the boy by the ear, and brought him home.
After he came back, he took a single-player mission on the planet Serling to recover the missing robot. He took almost no time for this mission. He searched in the direction the robot left, and found it quickly.
However, Opal gradually discovered one thing - the power of his belief was gone.
When he used hypnotism to get the runaway teenager to follow him, he found that no matter how hard he tried, it was useless. He could only beat him and tie him to the spaceship.
When looking for the missing robot, the power of belief can no longer radiate out to perceive the world around him, he can't even find the slightest belief, and his heart is empty, just like some ability that has been filled in his heart silently leaves him after waking up. go.
It's like missing a hand. I wanted to pick up something with my left hand, but one day I found that my mind could no longer drive this hand. When I tried harder, I found that it was no longer there.
Opal thought for a long time and had to admit that his belief was dead, and Raymond's departure took away all of Opal's power of belief.
He didn't even know what was the point of accepting the entrustment or completing the entrustment. After getting the payment, he simply said thank you, put the money into his own account, squeezed out the blushing clerk and the mercenary who were arguing, and stood up. In the hall in a daze, then go to squeeze the window to accept the commission.
In the dead of night, Opal will also turn on the dream machine and stand quietly in front of Raymond.
Raymond said, "I love you."
Opal said, "I love you too."
He wrapped his arms around Raymond's neck, leaned in and kissed him, then turned to leave, turning off the dream machine.
Raymond's necklace remained in his heart, and it hadn't glowed since that day.
Opal intends to work hard to carry out the commission, no matter how dangerous it is, until he encounters an unmanageable situation, and then dies in a commission, in a cold place in the universe, and disappears since then.
But none of the tasks he encountered were difficult, and the single-player tasks were very simple, with few commission points and low rewards.
"Brother, do you have any recruits?" a recruit asked, "I'm an F-class."
"No, no one will be accepted." A regiment leader said: "Our regiment is full."
"You won't regret recruiting me." The recruit said, "I have rich combat experience..."
Opal saw the recruit again. He was about the same height as himself, with dark skin, very thin and tough, wearing a field hat and mercenary jackets. The wind and the sun made him look much more mature than Opal. .
Opal recognized the recruit and asked, "You haven't found the regiment yet?"
Seeing the drama, the recruit handed over his mercenary diary and said, "Brother, are you willing to accept me? As long as you give me a chance, I won't disappoint you."
Opal opened his mercenary diary, and when he saw that his name was Cullens, he suddenly had an impression.
"You are the one... I remember." Opal said: "Culence! I saw you outside the tarmac!"
Cullens smiled and said, "I recognized you a long time ago, but you forgot about me. I remember you still have a teammate, what about others?"
"He died in defense," Opal said.
Cullens nodded. "I'm sorry."
The two were silent for a while, and Cullens took out a cigarette and lit it, saying: "After the training of the recruits, I went home for a while, and I heard the bad news here. S... how do you say it?"
Opal nodded and said, "He's a good man."
Cullens said, "Yes."
Opal said: "A lot of people died in that battle. Do you plan to continue to develop in Lie Xing? Now Lie Xing is in an unprecedented downturn. The evaluation of combat power is also much lower, and there are even fewer commissions..."
Cullens said: "The new king has promised to avenge Azeroth, and everything will be all right, won't it?"
Opal pondered for a long time, nodded, closed Cullens' diary, and said, "Try to join me, let's go, let's work together and see."
Cullens smiled and said, "Great, thank you for giving me this opportunity, brother."
Opal went to apply for Cullens to join the group as a member of the probationary period, went to the second floor to fill out the form, and then came down to accept the entrustment.
The sun is shining and it's a new day.
—Volume 3·The King of the Meteorite·End-
Book Three: The Glory of the Republic