Ledgerson didn't know where he went, but Rickett was alone in the hall.
Rector said, "Opal, I don't want you to go to Cororin's side."
"I love you, teacher," said Opal, "I love you like my father, though I don't have a father, but I think it's that feeling, you gave me a second life; I love you like love My comrades fighting alongside me, please respect my decision."
Rector stared at Opal for a long time.
"He's got a quality that Corollin doesn't have," Ledgerson said. "He's going to make it."
"Then you may be alone from now on, and there's no other way we can help you," Recht said.
Opal nodded and asked again, "What do I need to do? Is it enough to gain his trust?"
Ledgerson said: "We will arrange it, sit down."
The three sat on the ground, and Ledgerson said: "What you need to do is not only to gain his trust, but to read his heart."
"From the long-term relationship, analyze his words and deeds, explore his past, and find the source of his beliefs." Ledgerson said: "Phoenix, the army, these are trivial things. As long as you know where his beliefs come from, We can beat him completely."
Rickett said: "His belief is too strong, or he is too persistent, we don't even know why he is so persistent, he believes that what he is doing is right, and driven by this belief, he has almost nothing. No, none of us can beat him."
Opal said: "What if what he did was really right?"
Recht said: "Then you will be shaken first, and your beliefs will be completely suppressed by him."
"He can't be a match for Cororin," Ledgerson said.
Opal said: "I'm just afraid, when I learn what he's done, I'll be shaken..."
Ledgerson said: "Then we lose completely."
Opal said: "Is there any way to strengthen my will, or hypnotize me, so that I will never be affected by him."
"Yeah, I'll carve out a mental realm for you, seal all your memories in it, and he can't use mind-reading to find out what you don't want him to know," Ledgerson said.
Opal breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then I have a certain degree of certainty that I will succeed."
What he was most afraid of was not that Coroline would read his heart and find out that he was an undercover agent, but that he would unknowingly agree with Cororin's actions and become the same person as him.
"You don't have to do much, just remember what he did when he was with you, what he said, what he told you to do, you can choose to obey him, it's all yours anyway," Recht said. I intend to do it.”
"We'll exchange information with you in due course," Ledgerson said. "Lie down, Opal."
Opal lay on the cold floor and closed his eyes, Ledgerson's voice said in his ear: "Now I will modify your memory, from this moment on, your memory will no longer be anything but yourself. People can see, including Rector. But I have to read your past first."
Opal said, "I have nothing to hide, come on."
It was a very strange feeling, like falling asleep and awake, as if he knew he was sleeping.
Ledgerson: [Need to erase your pain?]
[no no! ] Opal immediately said: [Let me keep it.]
Ledgerson: [Are you sure you want to keep it? But I think you will definitely hate me in the future. Rickett doesn't know about your lover yet, do you need to tell him?]Opal: [Don't tell him, everything is over.]
Ledgerson: [There is no past, the past is in the future, and this is just about to begin.] Opal: [What did you say? Can you be more clear?]
Ledgerson: [Aha, it's okay to take it as a secret for me and you, you'll find out soon.]Opal: [What do you mean? Wait, Ledgerson!]
Opal's thoughts couldn't keep up with Ledgerson's speed, and all of a sudden, countless pictures were forced in, the rough mining town, the quarrel in the hall, being scolded by people with blurred faces, and leaving the unknown person with a list angrily. planet.
Kidnapping inside a pirate ship, a revolt, a massacre, a bloody ship with corpses of pirates lying in the control room. In front of black passengers, the spaceship landed on another planet...
The beautiful girl on the sphinx got married, lifted his veil, he turned and left, the wind was blowing, and he was walking alone on a desert planet.
He killed a group of robbers, took a few children on the spaceship, sent them to safety, and came to a new planet...
Opal: [This is not my memory!]
Ledgerson: [Of course I know, this is a memory for Coroline.]
Opal was half asleep to hear Rector and Ledgerson talking.
"What made you sure that Coroline would let him stay?" Rector said.
Ledgerson said: "Cololin will definitely want him. He has no father. However, unlike Coroline, he does not have the inferiority complex in Coroline’s soul.”
"He was honed by Lie Xing, and Coroline was the one who was eliminated." Ledgerson murmured: "In Opal's subconscious, all people are equal, there is no status or inferiority, and no Grades, some are just sincerity and blood."
"The break between Corolin and Azeroth is precisely because of this..."
Opal gradually fell asleep and fell into a long sleep.
In the dream he was back in the crimson rift of B-11, and at that moment a few years ago, he attached a bracelet he had bought at a high price from a merchant to Recht's strong wrist and said, "Thank you, teacher. , for you, you taught me a lot."
Rickett's voice sounded in his ear: "No, Opal, this is not enough, wake up, the time is up, you must kill him, sword, we have no choice."
Opal opened his eyes and found himself lying on an unfamiliar bed—with the scorching sunlight pouring in from the window, Rickett stood in his bedroom, looking carefully at the picture on the bed.
"Old... teacher?" Opal sat up, got out of bed, his head hit the short ceiling, and he hurriedly exclaimed in pain.
Rector turned to look at him and said, "Opal, try to think about your old memories, whatever it is, don't say it."
Thinking about one thing? Opal was a little dazed, pondering for a while, recalling Raymond, who smiled at him in the hall of the mercenary union.
Ledgerson's voice sounded all around: "It's done, he can think in the dream world. This thinking process will not cause any changes to the environment in the dream world, which means that I have built a double heart for him."
Opal understands almost as soon as he hears it. People cannot think independently in a dream. The dream itself is the expression of thought activities. No matter what you think in the dream, it will affect the surrounding environment in the dream.
In other words, now he is in a dream
Rector said, "Come with me, Opal."
He opened the door, and Opal got up and went out with him. In front of him was a noisy street, with houses built of granite on both sides of the road.
It's a bazaar, but Opal has never been seen.
"What is this place?" Opal asked.
"Sphinx." Recht said, "Kema Street, this is the identity that Ledgerson set for you, a lone ranger in the downtown area, you have never been here."
Opal said: "But if Corolin wants to trace my background one day, won't it reveal flaws?"
"He's going to modify the memories of all the people you're connected to," Recht said. "You can think of your current situation as living two different lives—a past life, and this one, and everyone's memories will be affected by it. You change."
"That is to say." Opal said: "Even my mercenary partners will forget me."
Rector said, "Yes, can you accept the harsh reality?"
Opal looked at the street in front of him and said, "Yes."
Ledgerson said, "It's up to you next, Rector."
"Opal, try to unleash the power of your beliefs," Recht said.
Opal didn't even need to concentrate, just a little thought, the day above his head turned into night, and the stars cast a brilliant light.
Rickett said: "This is the world of your outer memory. I will now completely seal up the power of your belief, suppress the fire of your belief, and hide it in your inner memory until Coroline once again Ignite the belief in your external memory, and these two beliefs can be manipulated and merged by yourself."
Opal nodded, the sea roared and swamped them, and there was only boundless sea water in the spiritual world, and the stars in the sky were dim and disappeared one by one.
Opal opened his eyes for the second time and returned to the temple again.
This time he was lying on the icy floor with a splitting headache. Rickett guarded him and said, "You have to learn to control your two-layered spiritual world, when to think in the outer memory world and when in the inner world. Think in the world of memory."
"I..." Opal said, "That sounds a bit difficult."
Ledgerson said: "It's not difficult, it's very easy, I have established a series of conditioned reflex mechanisms for him, using the image of Cororin to achieve the opening conditions, as long as it is in front of Cororin, all the content related to leaks will be automatically It is generated in the inner memory world, but Corolin will not be idle and bored and keep reading his inner activities. Moreover, he cannot unconditionally read your memory, only when you appear in his field of vision , the power of belief can directly act on your consciousness. Once you are far enough away from him, if he wants to know your heart, he can only rely on the dream method he is best at."
Rickett said: "Then what about dreams?"
"Opal can think in a dream," Ledgerson said. "It can also dream in a dream, so that he can avoid Corollin's dream prying eyes."
Opal didn't quite understand it, but he understood a few words and asked, "Will he find out that I still have a thing about the world of thinking?"
"Probably not," Recht said. "He had absolutely no idea that Ledgerson had the ability to modify his memory."
Ledgerson hummed and said, "He thought I was just brainwashing the audience. In fact, that's Rector's forte."
Opal let out a long sigh and Rickett said: "It will take you a few days to get used to it, it will be messy at first, but it will slowly get better and you will be the only one in the universe. One, no one can spy on your true inner world."
"Go to sleep," Ledgerson said.
Opal walked a little wobbly, the vision in front of him was blurred and clear, and everything he saw seemed to be remembered in a region deeper in the soul.
He stumbled back to the bedroom, fell on the bed and fell asleep on his stomach.
In the hall of the temple, Ledgerson said: "Teacher, just for a moment, I think I know the real you."
Recht did not speak.
Ledgerson whispered, "You're cruel, teacher, and he's willing to take the pain because of his love for you."
"I'm not going to let him down," Recht said.
Ledgerson: "But I'm curious, how did you do it? Not only did you break through my blockade, but you also entered his original instinct and buried such a sentence in the subconscious. Can you influence a person's instinct?"
Rickett said: "I do my best, but I can only plant this sentence, I hope that the seeds of this belief will never be opened by him. Ledgerson, sometimes I think, what we have done, what is there to do? What's the point?"
"Will the Church of the Stars still exist in 100 million years?" Rickett looked up at the ancient gods on the altar, and said solemnly: "At that time, what kind of pattern will the universe take on? Lan is right, humans will never get out of this cannibalistic circle."
Ledgersen got up and left the temple. In the Sanctuary of Stars, there was only a sigh from Rector in front of Nolan's phoenix sculpture.
The day Opal walked out of the temple, Ledgerson prepared some luggage for him.
Opal put on his fingerless gloves and picked the items in turn.
A gemstone ring, a palm-sized black puppet, an iron candy box, and glass marbles.
According to the memories Ledgerson had instilled in him, these were the thank-you gifts from the children he had rescued.
"You made up this memory entirely?" Opal asked.
Ledgerson said: "No, this is another victim. He was a ranger in the Sphinx desert. He died at the hands of the Meteorite Legion."
Opal seems to feel a sense of loneliness through these memories - it is a calm sense of loneliness, not strong, but like the yellow sand and wind in the sky, and like the endless satin desert and dazzling sky, they are always there. .
"You can't take the sword with you." Rickett interrupted his thinking and said, "You can bring these two light guns to the grip of the light."
"I'm not very good at using..." Opal took the light gun, holding one in each hand, the two light guns whirling between his fingers, and then he was dexterously grasped by his fingers.
His eyes were full of surprise.
Ledgerson said lightly: "In the memory weaved for you, there is also the use of such retro firearms. Corolin has become dull, he no longer guesses the enemy's thoughts through behavior, but is used to reading directly. The other person's heart. You won't reveal your secrets."
"It's good news, maybe fatal to him," Opal said.
Rickett said: "Yes, he can only read the enemy's thinking activities, but he can never read the opponent's brief flash of intuition."
"I'm leaving now." Opal said: "Is it the Iszur galaxy? How do I get in and become his subordinate? I'll be directly loyal to him? I'm afraid he will be suspicious of my sudden appearance. ."
Lecter handed Opal a small card and replied: "This is your new ID card, it has been arranged, he will not doubt it, because this is the last card left in our hand, Star Knight and The Phantoms made an ancient contract, which Cororin used not long ago to ask an elder among the Phantoms to find a suitable heir for him. But he did not know that this elder was our ally. Eke Lorraine's understanding and cognition of the phantom people, he will not suspect that the phantom people are deceiving him..."
Opal: "Will he trace our origins?"
Lecter: "These are all wrapped up on our body. After sending you away, Ledgerson and I will split up to modify your traces of existence. After all, after you left the Scarlet Flame Galaxy, the only place you have lived is the country of mercenaries. , Ledgerson is going to execute it now, including modifying the memory of someone you know."
"It's not that hard to erase records about you, unless Coroline has a heart to think about every detail...but I don't think he's going to waste his time on that."
Opal: "My ID card was made for me by Kadir from Horrens Mining."
Rickett nodded and said, "I know them, that's also a very old family. Before Cororin betrayed the church, Kadir's father had a brief relationship with him. This is all on me."
Opal nodded.
"I'll give you a ride, Opal."
Rickett led the Opal to the masonry road that surrounded the asteroid, and a rusted spaceship was waiting for them in the middle of the masonry road.
"Today, the history of the past has disappeared, not many people know you, so your name is still called Opal." Recht said: "You don't have a last name, you don't know who your father is, your mother named you After you were born, you died in a mining accident on VO-703, the mining jurisdiction of the Sphinx star. Sphinx is your second hometown. You grabbed a gun from a pirate ship and got it from an old pirate. There you learn to use it, and in the end you kill the old pirate—it's all there in your memory."
"Now a phantom has found you." Rickett brought Opal to the spaceship, where there was a swirling mass of gas, the nucleus in the center glowed, Opal was silent for a moment, and then said: "Hello."
The phantom man did not answer, and Rector said: "It is called Master San among humans. All Corolin's cronies were killed in the battle of the fierce star invasion. He desperately needs his men. So he entrusted the wise men of the phantom to find him for him. The right person, you will be one of the apprentice candidates recommended by Master San to Cororin."
San: "Hello, human."
Opal gave it a star knight salute.
The whirlwind made a rustling sound, and a pale green light flickered slightly in the center of the whirlpool.
Ledgerson saluted it with Rector.
"This is the third thing I promised to the Church of the Stars." Sang's voice sounded in the minds of the two of them: "It's also the last thing."
Rector said politely, "Yes."
Sang: "From the moment you sent your disciple to New Phoenix, the Grip of Light, my agreement with the Sanctuary of the Stars was lifted as scheduled."
"Thank you so much for your assistance, it's all up to you," Recht said.
Sang: "Come on, kid."
Opal and Lecter hugged tightly, his eyes flushed, and he said, "Teacher, will we meet again."
"Yes, trust me, Opal, I'll find a way to get in touch with you when the time is right," Recht said.
Opal was relieved, slung a cloth bag on one shoulder, and stepped back into the spaceship.
He couldn't help but stretched out his hand again and held Rector together until he had to stand up, their fingers parted and Rector stepped back and said, "Opal, I'm so proud of you."
Opal stared at him blankly, the hatch closed slowly, Rector gave Opal a star knight salute, the spaceship lifted off flat, the airflow swept the entire wheat field, and turned around and left the little prince planet of Muse.