Opal: "Teacher!"
He parked the car at the entrance of the canyon, stopped when he ran out, and stared at the scene in front of him with astonishment.
E7 also dragged the rope and followed behind Opal. Opal's eyes were full of admiration and envy, and he couldn't even believe what he saw.
A towering humanoid machine stood in the canyon, almost as high as the mountains, its silver shell gleaming in the sunlight. Just standing still, gave people an indescribable sense of oppression. The streamlined silver alloy shell reflects splendid brilliance, like a huge warrior armor.
It was fifty meters tall, with a mirror-like shield in his left hand, a thirty-meter-long giant sword in his right, a strange gun barrel on the back of his arm, and the armor and boot covers of his feet seemed to be movable. The joints, the elbows on the arms, the head... the fit is almost seamless. The eyes under the eyebrows were a magnificent indigo blue, like two sapphires in the vast snow.
There are also two long metal wings behind its shoulders, like the thin wings of a sand bat, when they are instantly folded, they make a metal friction sound and drag to the ground.
"What is this?" Opal said.
"My mount." Rickett's casual voice came.
Opal said: "A mount?! Is this... a spaceship? Teacher? This is your spaceship?!"
"As a knight, of course, there should be armor and a mount," Recht said. "They are one."
Opal approached slowly, and Lecter added: "This is an ancient armor, and many people call it an ancient machine soldier. My name is Silver Dragon Ray."
Opal looked up, and the silver brilliance circulated on the mecha. It was like a huge statue, which made people feel unconsciously trembling.
Opal asked: "I can understand silver, why is it called a dragon ray?"
"You'll find out later, how's your business going?" Recter said.
The silver mecha moved, it bowed and stretched out a hand, Recht jumped up, raised his palm, Opal recovered and said, "I've got the chip."
Rector said, "Yes, what are you going to do next? Transcribe it?"
Rickett slowly rose until the top of the mecha, a round box spun and flew out and landed in his hand. The light in the mecha's eyes dimmed.
Opal said, "Where did you hide it before? I found enough energy."
"I wear it on my hands all the time," Recht said.
Opal: "… "
Opal went to remove the battery and charged it into the round box. Rickett said: "Enough, 20% can pass through interstellar space and make a designated jump."
Opal said: "Put it all in, give it all, it's really... it's just... Teacher, I don't know how to describe it."
"The Creator's masterpiece." Recht smiled, took off the round box, and pushed his palm lightly. The heart of the universe swirled and flew to the forehead of the silver mecha, embedded in the energy pool.
Opal looked up and murmured, "Teacher, how did you control it?"
Recht said: "Consciousness, it is not an ordinary mecha. The special ancient mecha soldiers have their own souls. There are many types of fighter armors in the interstellar space, which are controlled by brain waves and those controlled by optical brain programs in the cabin. ."
Opal said, "Is there a lot of mechs like this in the universe?"
"Some fighter jets are mass-produced, but the ancient armor of the ancient mechatronics is unique, and as far as we know, there are no more than three in the universe," Recht said.
Opal said: "Is it all in the hands of your Star Knights? How many Star Knights are there?"
Rickett said lightly: "There were three people a long time ago, and now there are only two left."
Opal looked up at the soldier, and it also looked down at him, and Opal could almost clearly feel that it was conscious.
Recht said: "Their lives are even longer than humans, and they are the products left over from ancient civilizations before the emergence of humans. The imperial people believe that they are left by the true gods in the ancient universe after the Great Explosion, and some people believe that, They are true gods."
Opal asked, "How did you find it?"
Rickett said: "The silver dragon ray, eleven thousand years ago, was unearthed from an ancient ruin in the fault of space on the edge of the universe. The first to ride it was another star knight, he was dead, but The beliefs and ancient armor of the Star Knights are still alive and well."
Opal asked, "Can I touch it? Will it get angry?"
Rickett said, "Of course you can, you don't charge any money, just touch it."
Opal touched it carefully, and the silver mechanic bowed down, made a metallic sound, knelt down on one knee, and spread his huge palm in front of him.
Opal stepped up and stood on its palm.
The metal sheets on the soldier's chest were opened layer by layer, revealing a small space capsule.
Opal looked inside, thinking that if it weren't for Rector, maybe he would never be able to touch it, let alone control such a mech. He stared at it for a long time with awe, as if feeling its mood swings.
Rickett said: "Dragon Ray thank you for the energy you collected for him. Long ago, when we landed in the desert, it saw you running away and thought you would sell it or keep it for yourself, but you brought it with you. What came back is the energy battery, which is very touching. I think it is a very difficult thing for you."
Opal smiled and said, "So it's your life capsule! I say! It's so perfect, it's an honor to do something for it."
This is Opal's heartfelt sigh, facing the silver machine soldier, like facing an omnipotent god.
Rickett said, "Do you want a primeval mecha? Try walking in and operating it."
Opal immediately said: "No, no, I... I don't have this idea at all." His expression was a little sad, no matter how hard he tried, it seemed that he would never be able to catch up with Rickett's in case, and he was so small that he didn't deserve it. A masterpiece of the creator, just thinking about it makes me feel ashamed.
Rickett rose slowly in the air, turned and sat in the small operating compartment, and then the mechanic backhanded and pressed his chest.
The cabin was closed, and the surroundings were plunged into long darkness.
Lecter turned him towards the outside, his hands apart, like a magician who controls all the stars in the universe, all the darkness disappeared, the ancient silver-white runes circled around them, and in front of them appeared an endless plain and snow.
Opal said: "Teacher..."
Rickett said: "Grab it firmly."
Opal grabbed subconsciously, but he didn't know what to grab. Then the mecha leaned over, his knees slightly bent, and a majestic flame erupted from his feet. Rickett's body was pressed down, and the two of them were in this narrow space. The bodies in the space capsule were close together, and the silver mechanic rushed to the universe of light.
"Teacher!" Opal shouted excitedly.
"Be quiet, the old man's ears are very fragile." Rickett laughed, withdrew his left hand and pressed his right hand flat, and bright stars appeared in front of him, and then turned around in the space capsule, his consciousness seemed to be completely synchronized with the silver mecha , With that action, the mecha turned around and left the atmosphere of B11 in a short time.
"This is just the fighting mode of the silver dragon rays." Recht said: "All the ancient mechas have many modes. The rescue capsule you see is only a small part of its illusion. As long as there is enough energy, it can use Its own molecular memory properties replicate any element in the universe and fuse with each other to form the strongest alloys."
Opal said: "It's the ones who helped me repair the spaceship! Can they still replicate themselves?"
"Those alloys don't have souls," Rector said softly. "Well, I don't think they can be duplicated, but they're part of the Dragon Ray, and maybe it can feel it."
Immediately after that, Recht leaned over again, the mecha turned head to foot, Opal was driven by inertia, and the whole person lay in Rector's arms, Recht hugged him easily, his hands gently from his waist. As soon as it was lifted, the mecha erupted with high-speed flames, passing through the dark universe of thousands of miles, and the stars were fleeting in front of him.
"Leave the Scarlet Flame Galaxy." Rickett said, "Prepare for a space transition, count down, three, two, one."
"Ah ah—" Opal couldn't help shouting loudly. His body seemed to turn into a ray of light, and he plunged into the vast unknown field in an instant, and then returned to its original state in an instant. In front of him was a red, blue, and yellow triple Galaxies, which take on a triangular structure, are built on top of each other. It is like a triangle formed by three astrolabes.
"What place is this?!" Opal asked.
"The Leo Nebula is 19 million light-years away from the B-11 star." Rickett made a casual gesture, raised his hand, and held his fingers lightly. The silver mecha held a shield in his left and a sword in his right. An arc of light was drawn on his side, disintegrating all the meteorites flying in the face.
Rector: "The realm of the Empire."
Opal said, "But you didn't go through the Stargate!"
Rickett said: "Dragon rays have the ability to break through space and do not need to find teleportation points. Now many new types of spaceships also have preliminary functions. Ready to make space transitions again, countdown, three, two, one."
Opal turned into a ray of light again, appearing among the hundreds of billions of stars, Rickett held him under his ribs with both hands, and raised him in front of the two of them. A swiftly backed away, zooming in farther and farther, revealing the full picture of the galaxy.
Opal said, "What is this place?"
"Republic of Stars," Recht said. "This place is called the Milky Way."
The silver disk of stars is like a huge vortex, shining with silver brilliance. It has two spiral arms, like a silver disk, facing the opal vertically.
Lecter leaned over slightly, holding the Opal in his left hand, and the mecha quietly turned ninety degrees in the air.
"It's beautiful," Opal murmured.
Rickett did not speak, and the two quietly admired the whole view of the Milky Way.
Opal said, "How big is it?"
Rickett said, "Fifty thousand light years, look there." He raised his hand, and the mecha stretched out a huge arm.
Recht clenched his fists with five fingers, turned it around, and the gun barrel on the arm of the mecha fired a shot into the universe.
The star-like powder gathered into a beam, surrounded by a group of silver-white energy, flying into space like a comet, dragging out a shining trace, and throwing it into the boundless depths of the universe.
"That location is where humanity originated," Recht said. "On one of its spiral arms, there is a star system called the solar system, which has only one star and eight planets."
"That was a long time ago." Opal said, "I remember that the chip you showed me mentioned the history of ancient humans."
"Yes." Rickett nodded and said, "Ancient humans called the time effect of light traveling 300,000 kilometers in a vacuum as one second. Sixty seconds is one minute, and it can be deduced to one hour, one day, one second. Years. It takes three hundred and sixty-five days for the parent star to revolve around its star, which has become a common reference standard in many galaxies, so the cosmic year is a fixed value, which corresponds to the earliest unit of length, 'light-year'."
Opal said: "Is the temperature scale of the universe too?"
Recht said: "Almost all units are. As long as it is a civilization derived from the solar system, the unit of measurement and text are almost the same. Prepare for space transition, three, two, one."
Opal saw the B-11 star again, the desolate planet showing the color of rust and iron, the mechs descending slowly into the atmosphere, back to their original canyon.
The silver mecha disintegrated into shiny metal pieces in the air and spun rapidly. The metal pieces became smaller and smaller. They fit into each other and wrapped around Recht's wrist. Recht hugged the opal and slowly landed, placing him on the snow. in the ground.
Opal's expression was very melancholy, shock and confusion filled his heart, and he came back again. This planet is simply a drop in the ocean in the vast universe. When looking up at the stars above his head, everything seemed so insignificant, so insignificant.
Recht didn't speak any more, and let Opal stand. He looked at the chip Opal brought back to the sun, put it into the information transcriber, the rotating stereo projection appeared, and the dense information table was spread out.
Lecter looked at the stereoscopic projection with interest and said, "The head of the sub-department of Black Rock Mining Company seems to be involved in smuggling. Opal, you might have caught a big fish for the Chiyan Galaxy."
"Ah! That's right!" Opal finally came to his senses, ran to Lecter, put his hands on his knees, bowed to read the information with him, and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"The 30 million units of energy stored in rhodolites were sold to Harley Falkter, a notorious interstellar pirate in the Magellanic Cloud," Recht said. "The Republic was very troubled, not expecting the minerals from the Crimson Planet. The company is still doing business with him privately."
Opal said: "Can this be used as a bargaining chip?"
"Probably so," Recht said.
Opal told Lecter about their experience in detail, and finally said: "I plan to divide it into two parts, the first part is the information stored in the chip, and the second part is the mine disaster four years ago, the bodies of 10,000 miners. It's still buried in the ground, and we have evidence."
Rickett nodded slowly, and Opal said, "I have to repair the spaceship immediately, I hope it can be repaired."
Rickett said: "You don't have much time at your disposal, Opal, if I were the person in charge of Black Rock Mining, I would send the spaceship now to find out what's going on."
Opal frowned, "How much time do I have?"
Rickett said: "It's very far from the nearest star gate, so you can't take a shortcut. From Crimson Star to B11, it will theoretically take five to seven days to pass through the newly established star gate, which also requires a lot of time. energy."
Opal was startled, then thought carefully, and said, "I don't think so, they should be driving ordinary spaceships, and they are already on their way to departure, otherwise if they directly break through the space, wouldn't they already be here? But now Everything is still normal."
"Indeed, you're very smart," Rector said.
Opal said: "Then I still have a minimum of five days, and I have to hurry up."
"You forget, when you go through the Stargate to the Crimson Star, they're here too, and there's enough time to destroy all the evidence," Recht said.
Opal was stunned.
"Opal!" Oman's voice came from outside the canyon.
A minecart stopped at the entrance to the canyon, and Opal said, "Here I am!"
Rickett got up, Anya and Aman ran out of the car, and Opal said, "Where are Locke and the others?"
Aman said: "Rock is in the village and is convincing everyone to find a place to hide first. We are afraid that the foreman will come back early after receiving the alarm here."
"Opal." Hugo got out of the car with his wife in his arms and said, "I ask you one thing."
Opal said, "Is she better?"
Hugo stared at Opal with one of his eyes, and said sincerely: "She is better, but the injection of anti-inflammatory drugs can't make her completely better, she is still feverish, I want you to take her to the crimson planet to find a place Heal, as long as she can be cured, let me do anything for you."
Rickett stepped forward, and everyone's eyes were on him.
"Heart and lung fever," Recht said. "It's caused by a streptococcal bacterium carried on a comet. How can you get this disease?"
Opal said: "There is no time to explain..."
Rector said, "No need to explain, let me see, these are your friends?"
Opal nodded, and Aman said, "I heard about you, you are Opal's teacher."
Anya was carrying a suitcase and looked at Lecter crampedly. Opal was about to talk about his spaceship, but Lecter said, "Let's go, let's go now, time is running out."
Opal said: "How to go? Teacher, you..."
Rickett said: "Thank you for everything you have done for me, Opal, the next thing may be too difficult for you to handle by yourself, you have done a good job, now, please accept my help, I will Do my best for you."
Opal fell silent, his eyes filled with tears, and Rector smiled and touched his head.
Recht's bracelet glowed with a dazzling silver light, turning into tens of millions of metal fragments, covering the sky and surrounding them. Rays, like flat manta rays in the abyss of the sea, flutter their silver wings lightly high in the sky and drag their long, shiny tails.
"Come up." Rickett's voice sounded in the spaceship.
The circular transport ladder fell, and Opal took Hugo's wife and said, "You stay here."
Hugo said, "Good luck, it's up to you."
"We are saved." Aman looked up at the silver dragon ray, and muttered to himself excitedly: "Saved! Opal, everything will be left to you."
Opal hugged Hugo's wife and boarded the Dragon Ray spacecraft. With tears in her eyes, Anya hugged and said goodbye to Oman.
The interior of the spaceship is extremely spacious, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, without any navigation instruments, only an indigo crystal is slowly rotating in the center.
The star map of the Chiyan Galaxy is reflected on the crystal, and hundreds of planets revolve around the central star in an orderly manner.
"The Crimson Star." Rickett said lightly: "After leaving the atmosphere, prepare for the space transition."
The crimson star in the star map lit up, and the metal dragon ray swept out of the crimson rock bed, flew over the miners' village, and then turned into a light that cut through the atmosphere and flew towards the Scarlet Flame Galaxy.