Opal glanced at a few more people standing in the distance, and he recognized one of them - Tifeng.
He was wearing a military uniform, sitting in a wheelchair, resting his elbows on the armrests in the purple night, looking at the convoy thoughtfully.
[Let me try it. ] Opal turned the maglev car and left the queue. This action immediately aroused the vigilance of all the interrogating soldiers.
Cororin: [Kidn him as a hostage? It's not a good idea, Levi will go crazy.] "Stop!" Soldiers with live ammunition surrounded them from all directions, holding the most advanced weapons of the Republic.
[No kidnapping. ] Opal has no time to think too much, removes the car window, probes out and shouts: "Hi! Principal!"
When Tifeng heard his voice, Opal closed the door and came out, and said to Tifeng, "We're going home."
Sure enough, Tifeng motioned the soldiers to back away, and the hover car drove over. Coroline put his elbows on the window, looked out sideways, and smiled.
"The capital doesn't seem to be peaceful," Coroline said calmly.
Tifengyundanfeng smiled lightly and said, "I want to have a cup of tea with you."
Coroline's body blocked his crippled hand, stretched out his intact hand, touched Opal's head, and said, "This kid didn't cause you any trouble."
Tifeng said: "No, I promise this little riot will pass soon, or stay here for a few more days?"
Coroline waved his hand, and Opal lay on the window and asked, "What happened? Did anyone rebel?"
Tifeng replied: "Who knows? It is said to be the Knights of the Stars."
"Star Knight?" Opal frowned and said, "Isn't this something that only exists in legends?"
Tifeng said: "This is all I know, maybe the Cykrian Templar civilization will intervene in the interstellar forces again after the Dark Ages..."
In just a short while, Opal had finished sharing the content with Cororin's mind, and Cororin gave the best response after pondering for a while.
Cororin: "Let's talk about it later, Opal, Principal Tifeng is busy with official business, don't take up too much of his time."
Opal hurriedly took out the chip he borrowed from Tifeng and handed it out. Tifeng said, "You keep it, I believe you will come back after a while."
Opal asked again, "Where's Li Wei?"
Tifeng smiled, shrugged, and Opal said, "Why don't you come to my house to play."
Tifeng's rare face flushed, and he said, "I'll take it as a formal invitation."
Opal said: "Oh of course, I miss you for a long time, you are more handsome than Ledgerson... My uncle is missing a lover... "
"You are too rude, Opal." Coroline reprimanded, poked his head with his finger, and said to Tifeng, "But you are welcome to come to our house anytime."
Ti Fengle said, "Okay."
Cororin turned his head and glanced at the team. The vacancies when they left had been filled by new cars, and now they had to go back to the queue again. Cororin said, "Let's go."
Opal used his thinking to influence Tifeng's consciousness, and said silently: let us go through the special safe passage, don't let us queue up again, I came here specially to say goodbye to you...
Cororin turned the suspension car, and he said as expected: "Mr. Enmeno, you can pass this way, it will be faster."
Opal blew a kiss on the wind before closing the window, the gate slowly rose, and Cororin drove into the tarmac.
"Phew—" Opal leaned on the seat, still feeling his heart pounding.
Coroline: "You're a genius, and now I don't regret leaving you at all."
When he was talking, Coroline turned to look at Opal, saw Opal come up, and touched his head.
"No big or small." Cororin smiled, his handsome face flushed slightly, but he didn't reprimand him.
Opal was very happy - he finally came in handy, the bold move just now was just subconscious.
"Go to the IRC now and rent a ship from them," Cororin said. "The Punes Chamber of Commerce has VIP service in IRC branches on every planet, and they want a big ship."
Opal did as he was told, entered the IRC with Cororin's ID card, and got the permission to start a sightseeing ship.
The capital apron is as big as a city, with maglev vehicles passing through the aisles. This day seems to be affected by a terrorist attack. The Republic has blocked all information channels, but almost everyone is chatting and busy leaving the source of floodlight.
Opal drove the car directly into the belly of the spacecraft, the hatch cover slowly closed, and four fiery lights fell like holy light.
Opal: "Where to go?"
Cororin: "Go from the A7701 star gate, set the route according to what I said, and soon, we will be safe."
Opal jumped on the electromagnetic platform and went to the central control room to enter the route, which was an asteroid system in a remote area.
The spaceship slowly lifted off and flew towards the gate of the starry sky. Opal ran back again. The entire maglev car was full of Cororin's blood. The power of the ray medical instrument was too low, and the severed limb had not recovered. The blood from the hematopoietic mechanism poured out endlessly from his severed arm and abdominal cavity.
"Find a medical instrument." Cororin took a deep breath, his voice trembling a little.
Opal keenly felt Coroline's consciousness - it hurts.
He found the medical instrument that came with the spacecraft, put it together with the original household facilities, and turned on the power to the maximum. Cororin lay in the maglev car and couldn't stop shaking.
Opal pushed forward with one hand and entered Cororin's mind with the power of faith, helping him resist the pain.
"You didn't show it just now." Opal gasped, "I thought you didn't hurt."
Cororin whispered: "It was forcibly suppressed by the power of my belief, and it won't last long."
With warning lights on all around, Opal looked up and said, "If you want to jump, stop the spaceship first? I'm afraid that the jump will be unstable..."
"No, continue."
The spaceship began to count down, and the wound on Cororin's abdomen slowly healed. In an instant, they turned into countless white lines and passed through the fifth dimension. Cororin screamed in pain, and then Opal's belief invaded his spiritual world. , and gently pulled him into his arms.
At that moment, Opal's pupils were slightly dilated, and he saw a scene many years ago in Cororin's memory.
The gluttonous and the dragon ray were pulled into the bottomless dazzling vortex by the tangled electric light. The dragon ray was the closest to the edge. It turned over with difficulty and tried to rush out several times.
"Teacher—" Coroline roared desperately in the sea of flashing electric lights: "I'm not dead yet—don't leave me—"
The silver dragon ray rushed out of the edge of the vortex and shot towards the vast universe.
The world of stars passed by the porthole, Opal was startled suddenly, and then he couldn't stop panting. Coroline was full of sweat on his forehead, and the two leaned against each other, panting tiredly.
Opal looked at Cororin in disbelief, Cororin was silent for a moment, with an unspeakable meaning in his eyes, he stared at Opal for a long time, raised his remaining arm, and touched his head.
"It's all in the past." Coroline said solemnly.
"That's why you wanted to kill him?" Opal asked.
Corolin said: "No, I don't hate him, I love every brother and comrade-in-arms of mine, the teacher is not my enemy, that cry is just from my survival instinct... In fact, if the teacher came to save me at that time , is the thing I regret the most, and from that day on, I know that there is more to do in the future."
Opal said: "What is that... what place?"
Cororin smiled and replied: "The big battle in the dark age, the magneto-optical traps created by the clone army, must leave the gravitational area before they can launch resonance waves to destroy their brain chips, thirteen magneto-optical trap machines. Ambushed at the spot where our transition appeared and dragged us in. The teacher has a variable frequency radio transmitter, he must protect the future of mankind, and his choice is correct."
"If he doesn't run, both of us will die together, all previous efforts will be in vain, and the dark age will not end."
Opal touched Coroline's face and asked, "How did you escape later?"
Cororin: "Luck, the enemy didn't expect it. They gathered too much energy, causing a cross-vacuum area in the center of the vortex, which protected me from a disaster."
Opal's eyes were red, and he coughed a few times.
The power of Coroline's belief radiates out like a warm flame, igniting the call for the future from the depths of Opal's heart.
The baffle of the isolation cabin was slowly pulled away, the maglev car rose, and gently stayed in front of the central control room. Opal and Cororin sat in the car, staring at the vast stars outside the porthole.
"Don't go back to Iszur." Cororin read Opal's heart: "Richter and Ledjason must be near the grip of the light, guarding the star gate waiting for us to jump, and they will fall to them as soon as we go back. in hand."
Opal said: "What is the current destination?"
Cororin replied: "The family business of Enmenor, a holiday asteroid."
Opal asked, "Has the gluttonous been caught by them?"
Cororin nodded and said, "Too many things have happened, I have to figure out a clue first. There must be a spy buried in Iszur, and this spy must be found first, otherwise it will be very dangerous."
Three days later, the spaceship landed on a sparsely populated asteroid. This planet had no space defense facilities and was surrounded by thirteen metal satellites. The maglev vehicle flew out of the spaceship parked in the dark green wilderness and drove towards the equator. A private villa surrounded by forest.
Coroline's body was gradually repairing, and Opal took him into the villa and parked the car in the garage.
"This is a retro manor of the Enmenor family." Cororin said: "We are going to stay here for a while, and I need to recover."
"Need to send a communication to Iszur?" Opal asked.
Coroline pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, no, every detail now is related to whether it will fail completely. Recht and Ledgerson have mastered a certain weakness of mine. Before finding this weakness, We cannot act rashly."
Opal nodded cautiously, he closed the door of the villa, and shouted: "Light!"
There was no movement inside, the rays of the setting sun poured in dust from the dilapidated windows, and Opal shouted again: "Turn on the lights!"
Coroline laughed.
Opal found that there are no household robots here, and the structure of the house is very strange. What is the principle
"It's a vintage manor," Cororin said. "I've already told you."
Opal said: "I know it's retro, but..."
"Everything needs to be done by hand," says Coroline. "There are no domestic robots and no energy."
Opal: "… "
Cororin: "The last Patriarch of Enmenor used to live here. If I remember correctly, he should still be on the second floor."
Opal went up the stairs, and a moment later came a terrifying scream.
Coroline shook his head with a smile, and Opal ran down and said, "What is that! The one on the bed is..."
"He's transformed himself into a robot, but I've destroyed it," Corolin said.
With lingering fears, Opal went upstairs again, dragged a broken, skeletonized robot down, and threw it out the window. Behind the villa was a cliff, and the sound of falling and falling was far away.
"What is this?" Opal looked at a gadget.
"Photo frame," said Cororin. "The thing that put pictures before the Light Era, it's an improved work of art."
Opal said: "What about the next one?"
"That's called a fireplace," said Corolin. "It's used to make a fire."
Opal: "Is it a fire? Will it be cold at night?"
Coroline: "Well. You need to do everything yourself, you can try cooking with a bunch of antiques. There's a manual wheelchair in the utility room, go and get it out."
Opal rolled out a wheelchair. He saw that Tifeng had used it and knew that it was for people with limited mobility. He opened the folding wheelchair and got Coroline on it.
"From now on, you can no longer use the power of belief." Cororin sat in a wheelchair, sighed, and said, "Use your hands and feet to solve all the problems."
Opal said: "Oh it's not realistic, I'm too young..."
"This is practice." Cororin smiled: "Let's start, just think it's for the teacher."
If Cororin simply said the previous sentence, Opal might refute a few words, but with the addition of what he did for Cororin, Opal suddenly felt that it would be good to try.
He has been using the power of belief since the day he became a student of Cororin, and now he no longer uses objects to float and move, and things seem to be complicated several times at a time.
It's a bit tricky to live in this place without the assistance of a home robot and without energy.
He first fixed the medical device on the armrest of the sofa, then pushed Coroline to the fireplace, turned on the medical device, and said, "What am I going to do?"
"Do what you want, do you have no opinion?" Coroline asked back, although it was a reproachful sentence, but there was no tone of reproach, just like saying to a child: "If you want to play, just go and play by yourself. "Same.
Opal was entertained. After walking around the villa, he found a lot of novel gadgets. He brought them one by one and asked Cororin how to use it. Opal brought an iron rod over, and Cororin directly instilled in him the prototype of this thing—a radio component.
There are too many strange things. If you sell them all, they might sell for a lot of money. Opal put the things away and went out to look through the side door.
Coroline: [It's a little cold outside, wear my coat.]
Opal put on a Cororin coat with long sleeves, and walked down the mountain path comically. Below the cliff was an endless forest. The setting sun was sinking from the other side of the plain, and the forest seemed to be lurking. What a dark ghost.
This planet is a private property. It has no location recorded on the big space star map. No one will come in the vast sea of stars. The villa is still well preserved after thousands of years. The natural environment of the planet is on its own, with vegetation covering a lot of places. There is a path paved with stones in the forest, with fluorescent flowers on both sides, and I don’t know where it leads.
Fluorescent flowers are female Luoxing's characteristic plants, and they are also planted here, most of which are transplanted.
It was getting dark, and the temperature difference between day and night was very large. Opal picked some dry wood, and an unknown small animal ran past him, opened its bloody mouth at him, and made an unpleasant neigh.
Opal immediately retreated up the mountain road vigilantly, but the small animals did not catch up.
"Teacher, in the forest..."
Cororin said in the dark hall: "The barking dogs don't bite. What you see are blue lake beasts. They have no ability to hurt themselves. They can only rely on barking and bluffing to scare away the enemy."
Opal nodded, put the wood in the fireplace, and started a fire.
The room warms up.
The energy of the medical instrument ran out, and Opal wanted to go back to the spaceship to find a way, but Cororin stopped him.
"There is no suitable energy source," Coroline said. "Wait for it to heal naturally."
Opal sensed that Coroline's injury didn't seem to heal, but his arm had grown out, and the wound in his abdomen had healed, but he wasn't as strong as before.
"Because my faith has become very weak." Coroline stared at the flames beating in the fireplace and said, "Richter and Ledgerson's actions have directly defeated me, and it takes time to reflect and recover. "
Opal narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly.
Throughout the long night, Coroline sat in his wheelchair and meditated, and the opal invaded his mind. This move was not rejected by Coroline. He read Coroline's thoughts freely, knowing that he was filtering one by one. A long, long list, from the top decision-making members of the Meteor Empire all the way to the Guards, to the information gathering department, recall their actions and analyze their possible motives to find the one lurking in the Meteor Empire spy.
Opal was a little scared and a little worried, but Cororin didn't doubt himself at all, which also made him feel very guilty.
"I think." Opal said: "Maybe no one will betray you."
Cororin nodded and said: "This is the most likely. I suspect they just guessed that I would go to the grip of the light rotation. After all, with Ledgerson's ability, to set up such a game does not require an internal response."
"But their beliefs are too strong." Coroline murmured, "It's strong enough to overwhelm me, so I think there must be some loophole I didn't notice... You go to sleep, Opal, It's late."
Will Rector contact him? Opal went to get a blanket, laid a floor at Cororin's feet, and lay in front of the fireplace thinking. At this time, Cororin didn't notice what he was thinking, and Opal also limited his thinking activities. In the inner memory world, conjecture all possibilities.
In the battle of the source of floodlight, Recht completely gained the upper hand. If he activated his consciousness at this time, he would be able to trace their whereabouts immediately, and he could jump over and kill Cororin directly. However, once Coroline discovered the exposed target, the first thing he did was to kill Opal himself.
Maybe that's why Rickett didn't do it.
Can Corolin, who has lost his gluttony, still be able to fight against Recht
"Of course." Coroline's voice came from overhead, and he stared motionless at the fire in the fireplace.
Opal unknowingly forgot to control his thinking, and the fleeting thoughts in the outer world of thinking were actually read! He couldn't help but shudder.
"I don't mind your concerns, I know you're afraid I'll get hurt or get hit again," Corolin said.
Opal knew that Cororin just felt his sad mood and didn't read his true thoughts. When he calmed down, a complicated meaning surged in his heart.
"No, not dangerous," Cororin explained, reading Opal's thoughts, "what would you do if you were Rector? Try to speculate on the actions of our enemies..."
Opal said: "He first found the gluttonous food, and found that there was no one in it, and then found that he lost you... and lost us."
"Well." Coroline said casually as if he was playing a reasoning game with Opal: "At this time, his first thought was to come back to us, but of course I can't be stupid enough to stay in the source of floodlight. Wait for him to catch so he has to come back and trace our escape route, but they can't make it public, they can only investigate in secret. That's why I choose IRC ships, he can't access the ship rental records in the Punes Chamber of Commerce , the bank is the most confidential place, all the dignitaries in the universe deposit money and trade in it, he can only know that you have rented a spaceship through the mind reading of the clerk."
Opal said: "So they can't find us now."
Coroline said: "Unless they slowly search from planet to planet, it is impossible to find where we are, so the safest way is to wait for us to deliver to the door ourselves."
"They must feel that the victory is in their hands, they will wait for us to jump back in Iszur, and they think that I am no different from an ordinary person without food. And now, the teacher wants to teach you a very important lesson, and you may not be able to do it now. Understood, even my teacher, Rector, couldn't understand it."
"What is it?" Opal whispered.
"What kind of belief is weak, and what kind of belief is considered strong?" Coroline said: "When you feel that your enemy has been completely suppressed and can no longer fight back, it happens to be the most dangerous time for you."
Opal vaguely understood something.
"You understand, it's good." Coroline was very satisfied with Opal. This appreciation is directly shared with Opal, which filled his heart with the excitement of Opal.
Cororin said: "The real strong man, the fire of faith will never be extinguished due to setbacks. It is waiting to be reborn in the ashes. As long as the time comes, it will ignite a more vigorous fire. The morning star Cullens understands this, He said 'the next night after the full moon will definitely go dark', and the gluttonous food has been recovered by them. On the surface, Recht and Ledgerson have taken the initiative, but they have formed an excessive reliance on the Taikoo machine soldiers. If they guessed correctly, they thought it would solve us…”
When Opal heard the word "we", his heart moved.
Cororin continued indifferently: "... There is only a matter of time, and Ledgerson will definitely underestimate the enemy and lead to a crushing defeat."
Opal said, "What should we do now?"
Cororin said solemnly: "Sleep, wait, wait for the best time."