The Star Knight

Chapter 72

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When they arrived at CT-U7, a thunderstorm broke through the atmosphere, as if it split the sky in half, and the orange-gold sun shrouded in the clouds, dyeing the clouds in the atmosphere blood red.

There is no outer space station or land pad on this planet, only a huge city shrouded in a hemispherical air filter, and there are patrolling Republic airships everywhere.

"Inform your identities—"

There was still radio communication over there, and there were dense light bombs flying in the distance, and the thunder and lightning were connected together, jumping between the branches of the root-nodding plants standing in the sky, the patrol airship had a big explosion on board, and the Times-VI began to call the police.

"What's the matter!" Opal switched the manual control mode between vibrations.

"What am I going to do!" Cullen exclaimed.

Opal: "Go control the turret!"

Cullens revolved the manual turret and fired a burst of shots. There were explosions everywhere. Opal was startled.

"Hurry up!" Cullens shouted.

Cullens clears a way, the Opal rotates the disc, Times-VI swept into the sky with a round of light bullets, and then slashed down obliquely, like a swimming fish rushing into the deep sea, the red sky is bright and dark. , every time it flew through the light hole in the clouds, the water droplets on the Times-VI evaporated in the sunlight, shuttled through the dark cloud area and fell into the pouring rain.

Opal sent a communication to his employer according to the instructions of the mercenary diary, and the call was connected almost at the same time, saying, "Is it a mercenary?! Don't enter the city, it has been occupied by the Republic army!"

Opal roared: "What's going on! It's a war! Why didn't you make it clear on the commission!"

Cullens pressed the fire button and said, "Guide the way!"

"Follow us! Follow the civilian spaceship!" there was a loud voice.

The four civilian spaceships led the way, swept across the plain with Era-VI, and rushed into a large forest of nodule plants. There were thousands of light energy cannons in a row outside the forest. Once the spaceship passed, the defensive formation immediately fired at the same time. The beam of light shot into the sky, and the Republic drone fell with thunder and fire.

The large fighter chasing teams stepped up to avoid them and returned home.

Era-VI rushed into the forest, knocked down quite a few trees, and got stuck in the canopy of a towering tree with a bang.

Opal: "Where's the employer?! You are cheating!"

"Open the hatch!" the communication channel said: "We are running out of time! Please hurry up!"

Cullens looked at Opal inquiringly, and Opal said, "Put on the space suit and open the hatch."

Cullens went to get the belt, and the two opened the hatch. A middle-aged man outside said loudly, "Hurry up! Hurry up!"

Opal said: "I want to see your leader, what the hell is going on?"

"Civil war!" said the man loudly, "the situation is about to break out, and the fight has already started when you received the entrustment!"

Opal said: "That's enough..."

As soon as I took a step outside, I smelled the pungent smell of ammonia. The sky was raining with colorless acid rain. Opal opened his protective suit, and the forest was full of people.

"Everything is quiet!" Someone shouted anxiously: "The mercenaries have arrived! I'll send everyone to a safe place immediately! Protect the children! We can leave smoothly!"

Opal has been a mercenary for so long, and this is the first time he has encountered a situation where riding a tiger is difficult. The situation in front of him seems to be more critical than the female Luo Xing. There are more than 10,000 people in the forest. The flyboard carried them away from the tree and landed beside a swamp.

A light screen filter was erected in the middle of the swamp, and there were many people arguing around, talking anxiously.

"Jox!" The middle-aged man said loudly, "The mercenaries are here!"

"Great!" A young man came over and said, "How many people came?"

Opal: "… "

Jox: "Only two people?! This is a C-level commission, shouldn't it be a B-level mercenary group?"

Opal said: "Yes, I thought so too, I applied to cancel the mission."

Jox: "There's no time! Hundreds of thousands are in a hurry! I'll give you more money!"

Opal: "It's not about money... I'm going to ask the union to arbitrate!"

Jox looked at Opal silently, Opal said: "You are cheating! Mercenaries cannot participate in any political disputes..."

"Look, come with me, look." Jox pushed the opal to the edge of the swamp, and in the distance was a disturbed crowd, endless as far as the eye could see, standing in the acid rain and waiting silently.

"Save so many people." Jocks said, "You can save tens of thousands of lives just by nodding your head. Everyone will thank you, bless you, remember you for a lifetime, and bless you in all corners of the universe. , such a good opportunity, I am willing to do it without paying me, but unfortunately I can't leave."

Opal sighed and looked at the bare tree branches in the acid rain, and Jox added: "It's true that there is a civil war here, but rescuing civilians does not violate your code of interfering in the internal affairs of the country, as long as they are sent to safety The place where the commission is completed. Because the situation is only tense when the task is commissioned, and the war has not yet started, the union promises that I can issue this strategic transfer commission. "

"When you leave here, I will deliver the certificate of entrustment together, which will take effect 48 hours later. At that time, the union should no longer find me, and the remuneration and rating points can only be paid in one lump sum according to the previous promise."

Opal said: "You are very good at taking advantage of commissions."

"Because I used to be a mercenary too," Jox said.

Jox stepped back and gave Opal a mercenary salute. Cullens standing at the bottom of the slope and Opal on the top of the slope moved at the same time.

"I'm sorry I didn't go back during the Fierce Star Guard War." Jox said: "Because the Sol galaxy is going to be free from the Republic's jurisdiction and we want to be independent, I really can't go away."

Cullens said, "What about now?"

"We're going to lose," Choques said. "The Republic's firepower is too strong to move everyone away."

"You can't let them go! Jocks!"

A middle-aged man in a military uniform ran up below and scolded: "Our soldiers' families are all here, who would be willing to fight after all gone?!"

Jox shouted at him: "Recognize the situation, Simon!"

The middle-aged man named Simon said: "No! Let the mercenaries go back! Don't take this risk!"

"The people of the Eastern Battle Base are already on their way, and the people here must go too!"

"Wait!" Opal said, "You still have a group of people?"

Joks said: "The people from CT-U2 and U3 are all here. They were transferred the day before yesterday. At the East Battle Base, a samurai promised to cover the retreat of more than 10,000 people there. You need to join him..."

Simon said: "Jox! Your order is invalid! Now your secretary-general has been dismissed!"

After a long silence, Opal said, "I need to discuss with my deputy head."

Jocks said, "Give you five minutes, and I'm sure you'll accept this commission."

Jocks turned and jumped down the slope and ran towards the swamp, and Simon chased him away.

Cullens walked to the top of the slope and looked at the tens of thousands of people in the wilderness. Opal confronted him and asked inquiringly, "Are you willing to take this commission?"

"The Sol system has always been reluctant to be ruled by the Republic," Cullens said. "The environment here is too bad."

Opal said: "You are also a retired soldier of the Republic, and I respect your opinion."

Cullens took off his hat, thought for a while, and said, "Rescue civilians does not violate the Galaxy Sovereignty Covenant, after all, they are all innocent."

Opal said, "What if you need to fight your former comrade?"

Cullens: "It's hard to say, it's really hard to say."

Opal said: "Then forget it..." He glanced at the wilderness.

Cullens drank a cigarette and was silent for two minutes, and finally said: "Come on, don't face it now, I will face the same thing in the future, I have to pass myself."

The two trotted downhill to find Jox.

"They came from the Western Front." Jox said: "This is our last chance. As soon as the people leave, the death squad will go to Hongwu City to distract their attention. This is the battle that Mr. Bai has planned for us. The plan, he believes that as long as the central command system is paralyzed, the war situation will change..."

"You trust him too much, Jox," said an old woman.

"We have no choice," Jox said.

Jox is negotiating a course of action with a group of rebels.

Opal pushed away the people in front of him, and Joks glanced at them and said, "Have you made up your mind?"

Opal said, "Prepare to retreat."

Several people looked at Opal in distrust, and someone said, "Is this the helper you invited from Lie Xing?"

"Our morale will become even lower!" Simon said. "The civilians can't be let go, or how will this battle be fought?"

Jocks said: "Don't fight! We are finished! Simon! You don't die in this battle, and you will be brought to court martial on the charge of secession when you return to the Star of Glory!"

Deadly quiet, Simon stared at Jox, and left resolutely after a moment.

Everyone's eyes were full of sadness, and Joks opened another light screen and said, "Now hand over the roadmap to you."

Opal: "Where's the mecha? Isn't it about mecha?"

Joks said: "The mecha is in the underground warehouse in the south. I'll take you there later..."

"Simon!" someone shouted immediately.

A pale green mecha erupted into flames, hovered in the air, and charged towards the south.

Everyone chased out, and Jox cursed: "Simon! You bastard!"

Opal stopped behind him, Cullens looked up, and everyone was silent.

"He went to bomb the communication center in Hongwu City." A woman said: "May he succeed."

Jox punched the table and roared, "He drove the mecha away!"

"Don't get excited." Opal said: "Are there any mechas?"

Several people shook their heads.

Jox was silent for a while, and said: "I'm sorry, the mecha was driven away by our partners, but as long as you are careful along the way, you will not encounter battles. You pass through the dry underground riverbed here, and the exit is two miles away from here. The edge of the red sand plain five kilometers away."

"Go west all the way to the gust of wind." Jox marked a Y-shaped valley on the map and said: "The other samurai will wait for you in the valley with the people from the West Battle Base, and the two sides will meet. Then turn to the north, there is a refuge base, there is a spaceship in the base, here is the list of personnel, these people will drive the spaceship, and they must be protected."

Opal nodded, and Jox said, "I wish you a long life, mercenary."

"I wish you a long life, too," said Opal.

Tens of thousands of civilians followed Opal and Cullens on their journey. There were too many people. They retreated along the backwoods of the forest into dry underground riverbeds. The dark crypts were crawling with bizarre slime snails, their shells glowing. with colorful brilliant light. Opal turned on the communicator and asked Cullens, "How are you over there?"

Another wave of thunder from Sol came from the zenith, and there was a rustling in the communication, and Calence's voice could barely be heard.

"It's business as usual."

Opal walked silently at the front with a big sword on his back. An hour and three minutes later, they entered the red sand plain. There was a full 45 kilometers to go. The plain was full of nitrogen-fixing moss, and beams of light fell from the clouds. mottled charred areas.

The civilian migration team walked around the beam of light and looked up at the sky from time to time. This was a very dangerous planet. The luminosity of the blue giant star is too high and too hot, and the clouds block some of the light, but as long as there is a little sunlight leaking from the ground, it is enough to burn all living things to coke.

"Captain." Cullens said in the communication: "My old, weak, sick and disabled need rest."

Opal said: "It's too dangerous here, it's an open area, can you still hold on?"

"No, we're only halfway there," Cullens said. "We're only about eight hours away from the wind break. If we don't rest now, we won't be able to keep up later."

The walking time was longer than expected by Opal, and the wounded soldiers and old people behind slowed down the progress, so they had to rest in place first.

"Be vigilant." Opal said, "rest in place for fifteen minutes."

The civilians sat down.

"Are you okay?" Opal said, "You, how about you?"

After walking for eight hours, the direct sunlight gradually shifted, the intensity of ultraviolet rays had weakened, and the blue giant star Sol slanted a warm light from the horizon.

It's hot.

Opal was sweating profusely from the setting sun, and a burgundy scar appeared on the bridge of Ying Ting's nose. He put on sunglasses and checked the resting people one by one.

Someone gave him water to drink, and the water also had a pungent smell.

"How do you feel?" Cullens came over.

"It sucks, try it." Opal handed him the kettle, and Cullens took a sip, smacking his lips, his expression very painful.

"It's like drinking urine," Cullens said.

Opal: "Have you ever drank urine?"

Cullens said: "Of course, when recruits, they often drink during field survival training."

Opal was completely speechless and said, "This planet is like a giant urinal."

The pungent smell of ammonia is indeed like a place full of urine. The sunset gradually sinks, the earth is plunged into darkness, and occasionally a tangled thunderbolt crosses the sky and splits the sky in half.

"Don't light it!" Opal said loudly: "Put away all the lighting!"

Cullens counted the points at the end of the line and said, "Follow the one in front of you!"

"Someone is left behind." Cullens said in the communication: "What should I do?"

Opal said: "How many people?"

Cullens said: "Twelve adults and four children are missing. Among them is the pilot of the spaceship."

Opal thought about it for a while and said, "First bring people into the gust of wind."

The wind swept across the entire plain, and the temperature was getting colder and colder, approaching the -10-degree cosmic temperature scale. The migration team had walked for fifteen hours, hungry, cold and tired.

"Hold on," Opal exclaimed. "We'll be safe in no time."

The roaring wind blows towards his face, like countless knives scraping through his naked skin.

Opal: "Karens, come and bring them into the valley, I'll find someone."

Cullens: "How do you find such a dark place?"

When he was talking, the crowd panicked, and then they shouted. In the dark night in the distance, there were several beams of light searching along the ground. Opal said: "Don't mess up! It's just a patrol plane!"

The first Republic patrol plane found the tail of the migrating team on the plain, and fired all the way. Then the whole team exploded. Opal said: "Don't push! Speed up!"

Cullens roared: "Run into the gust of wind!"

Opal said: "Karens! You go to the front!"

The six patrol planes launched artillery fire together, chasing the crowd and starting to shoot. Opal rushed out to block the flying light bullets with his sword, and covered everyone's retreat under the hail of bullets.

The gust of wind blew, he rolled on the ground one after another, turned on the electromagnetic traction on the big sword, and the sword broke through the air, and the small figure's hand glowed with a galloping electric dragon, like a roaring whip, which completely blew up the patrol plane. !

"Opal! Be careful!" Cullens shouted in the communication.

A patrol plane rushed towards the ground, firing at the Opal with full firepower. There was a loud bang on the cliff of the gust of wind in the distance. The spiral light cannon flew over thousands of meters, and instantly penetrated the patrol plane!

Opal rolled three times in a row, hid behind the stone, and looked into the distance. One person stood on the stone, and his arm-fired cannon gathered energy.

Opal: "Who is it?!"

Cullens: "I!!"

Opal shouted: "Don't shoot! You will lead the fighters into the canyon!"

The explosion, the fireball attracted more patrol planes in an instant, and another flying team joined the battle. Opal carried his big sword and ran wildly on the pitch-black plain. As the chase got closer, Opal rolled on the spot, and then swept out diagonally, avoiding the light bullet.

A few hundred meters away, someone came running, it was a civilian who was left behind.

"Don't run this way!" Opal roared anxiously.

A woman screamed loudly, ran with the child in her arms, and then fell on the ground. The patrol plane found the group of people, and the light bullets came, with the sound of explosions, broken flesh, and broken limbs flying.

Everyone screamed and ran in fear. Ten patrol planes abandoned Opal and began to chase and kill the running civilians. Opal's pupils shrank slightly, and another person was caught up by the light bullet, his body exploded, and his head flew into the sky.

At that moment, the blood in Opal's whole body seemed to solidify.

"Ah—" Opal roared like a mad tiger. He pushed his hands to the sky, and the tangled thunder swept across the sky, making a loud noise, illuminating the ground.

The leading fighter plane deflected suddenly, the light bullet hit the escort plane, and then the third patrol plane rushed in, and the three unmanned fighter planes collided in one place.

The power of faith is back.

Opal stared blankly at his hands, and there was another explosion. He realized that there was no more time!

Three of the seven patrol planes came to deal with him. Opal strode across the plain, drew his sword in his left hand, and turned his right hand toward the sky while running, and the two patrol planes crashed!

The civilians who were running for their lives were about to be overtaken by the light bullets again. Opal pushed flat with his palm and shouted, "Avoid!"

Several civilians were pushed away by a force, and the five drones turned their heads at the same time and flew towards Opal. Opal threw a big sword with both hands, and the big sword spun into the sky with an electromagnetic glow. Turn it into a silver plate and cut a fighter in half!

The earth-shattering explosion, more and more fighter planes, thousands of annihilation aircraft rushed from all directions, strafing the entire plain, Opal was unavoidable, simply stood in the middle of the plain, bowed his head, and waited for the artillery fire from the zenith. .

Finally dying... Hope Cullens can successfully complete the mission.

The next moment, the hurricane rolled out of the gust of wind seemed to stop briefly.

A majestic force of faith swept in like a tide, and a shield of white light was unfolded around Opal.

"Teacher!" Opal yelled.

Rickett stood at the top of the gust of wind and pushed forward with his left hand. The silver bracelet on his wrist disintegrated and turned into thousands of metal blades like snowflakes.

Each metal blade swept across the fighter plane and divided them in two, the sky was full of brilliant fireballs and explosions, reflected in the opal's dark pupils, like the vast fireworks of a prosperous world blooming one after another.

The power of belief is like a gust of wind, like an angry sea, like a blizzard under the thunder, drowning the entire red sand plain in an instant.