The two stood silently, not speaking.
Coroline made a questioning look, and Opal woke up from the shock.
"I'm sorry, I... gaffe." Opal laughed self-deprecatingly: "I just don't know why... I feel like... running into an old friend."
Corollin said: "I feel the same, like I've known you for a long time. Look over there."
Cororin pointed to the distance with his hand holding the wine glass, and fireworks flickered under the sky.
"It's beautiful." Opal walked to the platform and stood behind Coroline.
"But good things are short-lived." Coroline said solemnly.
Countless thoughts are surging wildly in Opal's inner memory world, but in the outer memory world, he has only one thought, hugging Cororin's waist tightly and burying his head on his back.
Cororin interrupted Opal's thoughts again: "Tell me about you, Sang brought you here?"
Coroline was as tall as Raymond, half a head taller than Opal, who raised his head slightly and stared at his features. He and Raymond can no longer be described as similar, they are completely the same person, not similar in appearance, but a sign of character and temperament.
Coroline is old, his hair has turned silvery white, and his old face is like when Raymond was old. Opal has never seen Raymond's old appearance, but he can fully imagine that it is Keluo. Lorraine's current appearance is polite, mature, and full of the charm of an old man.
His eyes were gentle and deep, full of wisdom and security, he smiled at Opal, and in front of his smile, Opal's heart jumped wildly again.
"You and Sang are very familiar?" Opal avoided Cororin's gaze unnaturally.
"I can't say I'm very familiar." Coroline took the wine glass handed over by the little robot and handed it to Opal. Opal nodded and said, "Thank you."
"He is one of the seven wise men of the phantom star, the prophet who lived to the present during Prince Igna's rebellion, and he promised three things to the Sanctuary of the Stars." Coroline said: "I ask him to find a man who looks like a man for me. A decent heir."
Opal said: "Wait... You said too many things, I don't understand."
Cororin said solemnly: "Prince Igna's rebellion refers to a certain historical node in the fantasy star, just like the dark age of our human beings. And the Sanctuary of the Stars is the home of the star knights, and I used to be in this organization. One member, I betrayed later, but there is no such thing as leaving the organization in the concept of the phantom people, they only know us as individuals, so what they promised to do for us is still valid."
Opal: "You want to find an heir?"
Coroline said casually: "I don't have much time, and I don't know which day I will die, so someone must take my place and continue the mission that the universe has given me."
Opal was shocked and said, "No... it's not like this, it's impossible, you..."
He looked at Coroline again.
Coroline narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Opal's eyes with doubts. His expression was so familiar, just like a long time ago, when Opal was not happy sometimes, Raymond frowned slightly and looked at him, trying to understand him. cause of anger.
Opal didn't dare to look at him, fearing that his eyes would turn red in the next moment.
"You can do genetic surgery." Opal suddenly said: "Survival surgery, can't you?"
"Genetic surgery can't be done indefinitely. This is the last 50 years of my life," Cololin said.
Opal suddenly laughed and said, "You are lying to me."
"Huh?" Coroline seemed to find it very interesting, and he looked like Raymond who teased Opal every time, which made Opal's heart throb again.
"You are very smart." Coroline put the glass on the tray of the little robot and said, "Why do you know that I am lying to you?"
Opal said: "I guess, I don't think you will die, it's like... hearing a lie, you may not find the loophole in it, but you think it's a lie... or... well, intuition, intuition ."
Cororin said: "I didn't lie to you, I believe that with the laws of the universe, it is impossible for a living body to live endlessly. There will always be something to replace the laws of nature to take your life. The difference is only one Ten thousand years later, it's still in the next second."
Opal said: "Then I believe at least not recently."
He breathed a sigh of relief, and Cororin said, "I hope it won't be in the near future. I still want to find a spouse to spend my life with in the near future. Do you think anyone would like an old man like me?"
Opal smiled and said, "Maybe it's a bit difficult. If you want to find a spouse with similar conditions... I suggest you go for genetic surgery first and become younger."
"That's a good suggestion, go back and rest, I don't think you'd mind spending a few days in New Phoenix," Cololin said.
Opal said, "Then... good night."
Coroline nodded slightly and said, "I wish you a long life."
Opal said: "Also... I wish you a long life."
He bowed to retreat, came out the same way, went back to his bedroom, looked up at the vast starry sky outside the glass floor-to-ceiling windows, and looked at the Milky Way, nine million light-years away, from the grip of the rotating light. It was like a huge vortex on the ceiling. The spiral, extending from the extreme south with a spiral arm with gorgeous starlight, intersects with the pink lion galaxy.
There were tears in his eyes, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was sweet and sad.
It was all perfectly planned by Ledgerson, who knew at first glance that Raymond was a clone of Coroline - and Opal almost understood it all.
He even got the hang of Rector, he got the fuck out of everyone.
Perhaps after Raymond's death, Ledgerson had the idea of letting him go undercover, using his unstoppable emotional shock from the first meeting to attract Coroline's attention.
Coroline is not him.
Opal repeatedly told himself that Coroline was not him, but Coroline's appearance kept appearing in his mind, and Opal was going crazy.
Opal wanted to kill himself, he was lying on the bed tiredly, his past memories of his own were as uncomfortable as being torn apart, his inner and outer spiritual worlds were violently conflicting, what was about to break through Ledgerson's setting? The barriers below rushed out and merged with each other.
He suspected that he would go mad, his thinking was confused, the memory of the Sphinx became blurred, the brilliant colors of the Grip of Rotation suddenly appeared in his mind, and he couldn't even remember who he was or where he was.
Opal took a deep breath and tried his best to force all his thoughts out. Lying down, he couldn't breathe. He realized the sudden danger, and his consciousness was out of control.
He began to retreat along the current time and scene, the restless spiritual world gradually subsided, and gradually pushed forward, from New Phoenix to the spaceship, to the Phantasm, to the outer galaxy... Finally to the Sphinx... Memories successfully connected.
Can't think about Raymond anymore, Opal starts to become confused again when he thinks about Raymond, and the previous feeling came again.
He woke up to one thing: the image of Raymond in the subconscious was overlapping with Coroline, but he couldn't break through the barrier set by Ledgerson. He can no longer connect these two people, he must treat Coroline as Coroline, and stop recalling Raymond, leaving him temporarily.
He didn't think about Raymond, so he gradually calmed down, with the image of Coroline in his mind.
Gradually, he fell asleep.
In the dream, there is an endless sea of flames. Opal is naked, standing on a hot rock, and lava pours in, burning his naked body.
A sea of flames set off an army of lava from the horizon and rushed towards him frantically.
"what-"
Opal roared angrily and pushed his hands in front of him, the earth gradually cooled down, the black cooling rock mountain kept trembling, the whole world split into a bottomless abyss, and the overwhelming magma rushed to the front of the ditch and poured out all of it!
Opal stood beside the rift, panting in horror, looking down to see the endless dark abyss, from which there seemed to be a pair of eyes watching him.
Immediately afterward the darkness leaped out of the abyss and devoured him.
The sun shone in from the floor-to-ceiling windows and shone between Opal's eyebrows. He opened his eyes tiredly, got up to wash up, and went out to have breakfast.
There were not many people in the restaurant. It was past dinner time. After Opal bought food, he saw Alan in the hall and asked, "Do you have any orders from Cororin?"
Alan was talking to another officer, turned to salute him, and said, "Your Majesty may not see you from today."
Opal said, "How long will it take?"
"Maybe three to five days," said the other officer.
Opal nodded and said, "Does he have anything to say to me?"
Allen pondered for a moment, and exchanged glances with the other officer, who shook his head.
Opal left wisely, and he had almost nothing to do for the next few days, calmed down and dazed in the bedroom.
He tried his best not to think about the Raymond in his memory, but completely replaced the two with Coroline's appearance. His thoughts were so strong that he couldn't control himself.
On the third day, when he was having dinner in the dining room, Allen came over to him and said, "Your Majesty has ordered you to see him now if you can't wait."
Opal hurriedly finished his meal and followed Allen out. This time, Allen did not take him to the sky garden, but took him into the central lifting platform, swiped his card, verified his fingerprints, and then retreated.
The platform continues to rise until the thousand and sixth floor, which is the highest point in the entire city of meteorites.
There is only one corridor here, and Opal walked to the door at the end of the corridor, realizing that he had no access card, but as he approached, the door creaked softly and opened automatically.
He went in and the door closed again.
Coroline's voice sounded in Opal's mind: [I decided to accept your suggestion.]Opal turned his head to look for Cororin, and the voice rang again: [Try to say a word in your spiritual world.] Opal: [Your Majesty?]
Cororin: [Very good, you have learned.]
Opal stood in the empty room and communicated with Coroline with consciousness: [Learn what? ] Corolin: [The power of belief, your belief is persistent and pure, with despair and sadness, the manifestation of your spiritual world is an abyss, what is it that makes you pursue with all your strength, but you feel that there is no hope of getting it in this life? ] Opal: [I... I don't understand what you said, Your Majesty, are you willing to let me be your heir? ] Cororin: [I think yes, you passed the test, and I ignited the fire of your faith in your dream. Your spiritual world is in the most bizarre form I have ever seen, and your beliefs are presented in desperate ways.] Opal calmed down and said, "Where are you?"
Coroline: [Behind the door, try to open it with your consciousness.]
Opal condensed his spiritual power, and the door remained motionless.
Coroline: [Imagine I'm behind the door and try again.]
Opal let out a long sigh, and the second door in the room slowly opened.
Coroline: [I know where your beliefs come from.]
The door opened and Opal walked into the room.
There was only a black metal nutrition cabin inside, and the nutrition cabin was filled with the blue sea of time solution. Cororin was naked and suspended in the nutrition cabin.
His features have become young and handsome, with dark eyebrows, a high nose, and warm eyes.
His hair was shortened, like a black flame burning in the nutrition cabin, he was imposing, his complexion showed a healthy bronze color, his chest muscles and abs were well-proportioned and toned, and Opal stared at him blankly, his eyes full of attachment.
Cororin and Opal looked at each other for a long time, Opal sat down, sat in front of the nutrition cabin, looked at Cororin like a child, and said in his mind: [Your Majesty, you are very beautiful. ] Coroline closed his eyes and stopped responding to Opal.
Opal said again: [Can you hear it?]
Coroline: [Guard me here, don't let people break in.]
Opal hummed, frowned slightly, sat and watched him for a while, and then asked: [If this process is interrupted, what will happen?] Coroline's expression seemed to be laughing, but did not answer Opal.
Opal was a little sleepy when he was sitting, and his head couldn't stop drooping. Until the next morning, the first ray of sunlight from the grip of the rotatory light came in from outside the tower, the genetic modification of Cororin was over, and the solution was drawn away. The black nutrient capsule turned into countless black gold fragments and revolved around him, and then turned into a black necklace, which was worn on his naked and clean neck.
He looked down at Opal for a moment, pushed his palms forward gently, and said in a low voice, "I give you a dreamless sleep."
Opal took a breath, trembled slightly, and then breathed steadily and evenly, falling into a peaceful dream.
Cororin bowed forward, picked up Opal, and took him away.