In front of the Meteorite Building, the moment Cororin jumped off the mecha, the gluttonous food disintegrated again, turning into an anklet and wrapping around his strong ankle.
Soldiers in the hall came and went, and when they saw him, they bowed and saluted.
The four generals followed behind him, and Andore said, "Where's His Majesty's new apprentice? That kid did a good job..."
Allen gestured not to ask more questions with his eyes, and Andore frowned slightly.
Cororin led the four people into the elevator platform. The King of the Meteor Stars held his right wrist in his left hand and stood in the center thoughtfully. The four generals stood still.
The tallest man at the head had five stars on his shoulder emblem. He stroked his hair and said with a smile, "Your Majesty accepts an apprentice? I haven't seen it before."
Ishorn stretched out his hand and said, "There is only such a tall, very smart boy."
Coroline interrupted the conversation and said, "Caesar, you have gray hair, and it's time for genetic surgery."
Caesar smiled helplessly, and Andore said, "I heard that he has a crush on a beautiful girl from Luo Xing."
Cororin jokingly said: "So this is the real purpose of letting me enter the female Luoxing all the time?"
Everyone laughed, and Caesar said, "Andorei introduced it to me, Andorei, what do you think of Ellie?"
Ithone squeaked and whistled.
Andore said, "Have you successfully tamed that fierce horse?"
Caesar smiled to himself, put on the military cap, and said, "Almost, she is like an iceberg, I always don't know what a woman is thinking."
Cororin said to them, "Caesar is clearly in love. How about giving him a break and letting him train horses?"
Several people booed, and Allen laughed, "It's not fair, he just finished his vacation."
Caesar said: "I am on duty on the female star."
Ithone quipped: "You're just going to pick up girls and be on duty by the way."
Cororin smiled and said: "There has been no war recently, you can all have a vacation."
Ithone smiled and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't take the initiative to fight others, of course there will be no war."
Cororin said sternly: "I still have to fight, but it's not recently. If you want to take a vacation, you can ask for leave. I won't participate in the post-war meeting, so I'll pack up the things I need to do."
The elevator stopped on the 500th floor, and the four generals saluted Cororin, exited the elevator, and went to the hall. Cororin continued to ascend, returned to the sky garden on the top floor, and entered the palace.
He sat on the throne for a full night, until dawn came, and sat until dusk, stern, resolute, and his handsome face was like a sculpture.
The army was sweeping the field, and the third day dawned.
A ray of morning light fell into the cell, and Opal leaned against the wall of the cell, with his legs bent and one hand on his knee in a daze.
It's all over, Recht's plan is completely broken, and his identity is discovered.
But for some reason, vaguely, he felt a sense of letting go of everything and feeling relieved.
Opal sighed, he was really fortunate to taste this, the only person in the universe.
If he grew up by Rector's side, followed him, and fulfilled his beliefs, perhaps he would never forgive Corolin in his entire life. In the end, he fought vigorously and died.
Or was born in the Meteorite Empire, and shared weal and woe with this land. Naturally, he will regard Recht and the Republic as his life's revenge, follow Corolin, become the sword in his hand, the knife of aggression, in the process of building his empire. a force.
What will Corolin do next? Will it kill him? It's okay to kill him, a hundred times over...
Opal sighed.
"You have sighed for the one hundred and seventeenth time," said a familiar voice next door to the prison.
Opal frowned immediately, the voice awakened his memory, but it was very vague.
"Who are you?"
"Opal?" The man said, "Why are you here? No, why is your voice so tender? I'm Jimison!"
Opal: "!!"
As soon as Jimison spoke, Opal immediately remembered.
"Why are you here?!" Opal said.
"You're getting smaller?" Jimison moved from the next cell to the railing, where there was a gap where the two could just see each other.
Jimison has red hair, still wearing a suit jacket, Opal said: "How long have you been here?"
Jimison: "When did you come?"
Opal: "… "
Jimison: "Don't worry, I'll ask first, you answer."
Jimison: "When did you come?"
Opal: "A year ago, I came undercover. My teacher had a plan, but he failed, so I got caught."
Jimison was silent for a long time, and Opal asked him, "How about you? Why are you here?"
"My story is very simple," Jimison said. "Just before Jamie died, we got a map of a treasure on two neutron stars..."
Opal remembered, these things are as old as the memories of a previous life.
"No wonder." Opal recalled some of the original details with difficulty, and said, "I said why I didn't see you, it turned out to be captured by the people of the Meteorite Legion."
Jimison smiled bitterly: "Azeroth is also dead. We are all losers, three losers, plus your teacher. A bunch of useless people, Lie Xing is about to die."
Opal had to admit that they were all losers in front of Cororin.
"He hasn't seen you?" Opal asked.
Jimison: "I saw it when I first caught me, a tall old man with white hair..."
Opal said, "Do you think his face is familiar?"
Jimison said, "No, what's wrong?"
Opal didn't answer, the two sighed at the same time, and couldn't help laughing together.
Opal leaned back and forth and said, "You were infected by me."
"You've always liked to have fun while you're at it," Jimison said.
Opal breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I am myself again. These days, I always feel that I am... very painful. I am about to become two people. I am always worried in front of Coroline. It is not a good feeling... "
Jimison said: "You have such a big hatred for him? Why did you listen to your teacher and be an undercover agent?"
Opal said: "I'm for..." He thought of Raymond, but at that moment, Cororin's face appeared unstoppably in his mind. The association of this conditioned reflex was very painful. He couldn't remember his lover at all. The next time I miss my lover to ease the pain, I can't help but think of the enemy who looks exactly the same.
Opal said: "For Lie Xing."
Jimison smiled.
Opal said: "To tell the truth, whether it is success or failure, it is much easier after knowing the result. I am too tired, I am not suitable for this job at all, it will be much easier when I die..."
Jimison said: "You don't have to think like that. Jamie and I have been together since we were kids and we've never been apart. After losing Jamie, I've been thinking a lot these days. Take Ramon, Ramon. Died to protect Lie Xing and sacrificed in a vigorous battle, in the eyes of our mercenaries, it is an affirmation of the value of life."
"That's different, that's aggression," Opal said.
Jimison sneered and said: "The invasion of mercenaries is still less? Suppress planetary rebellion, take employers to open up wasteland, kill local people, or if you see something good, everyone grabs it, you are a mercenary, so you don't think it's unreasonable. , everyone also thinks that good things should be given to those with force, and everyone takes it for granted.”
"The Twelve Nebula Mercenary Corps often takes this kind of mission, taking advantage of the laws of the Star Alliance, and, you haven't seen Kyle when he was still there, he was even more mad than Zeros, the last two factions Each had their own opinions, and they fought indiscriminately, and in the end Azeroth won, and he…”
Opal said: "Cololin said he was locked up forever, why didn't he kill him? It's strange."
"Ah, yes." Jimison nodded sympathetically and said, "You also think you should kill him to avoid leaking. You see, we all think so. This is the logic of Lie Xing, kill when it's time to kill, If you kill a lot of people, you can't avoid being killed, either by bad guys or monsters, and occasionally in the wrong team and being killed by good guys, and being eaten and digested by strange things... I don't know Kyle Ray What do you think now, but I think the former king might have his hands and feet chopped off, and now he's embarrassed and funny. All those who swore to follow him died in vain."
Opal didn't know whether to laugh or cry, the hatred and blood in the past came out of Jimison's mouth so plainly.
Opal said, "If you say that, why are you here for revenge?"
Jimison said: "I am persistent, if Jamie is not the other half of my life, just a comrade-in-arms, maybe I will not care, ordinary comrades-in-arms have not yet made me pay the rest of my life, bet on revenge, but The one who died was Jamison, so I had to kill Coroline because he took half of my soul...either he died or I died."
Opal said: "Then I also have a reason to kill him."
Jimison said: "Wait, I guess he won't kill you. He has lived for thousands of years and has always been very patient."
Opal hummed, what could he do if he was not executed
More importantly, he came to avenge his loved ones.
He leaned his back against the wall and talked to Jimison about the past of the star. That's all he can say. In his life, this memory is the only one that he regards as a treasure, happy, happy, more than what Jimison knows. He is more, the two talked about the office, about the noisy hall, the tasks with the wrong goods, and the mercenary group that was tricked by the employer...
"Hahahaha-" Opal laughed until tears came out.
Jimison laughed breathlessly and said, "...you know about that guy in Urka..."
Opal said, "What are those two monsters doing?"
Jimison said: "I will describe it to you once... The scene at that time is... In a dwelling, a tentacled man put his tentacles into the hole on the top of another tentacled man..."
Opal: "Hahahaha - why the hell!"
Jimison: "Urka doesn't know how to walk away, stand outside the houses and watch...and take pictures of them..."
Opal: "… "
Jimison: "The two tentacled people called the police, and then yelled hooligans! hooligans! It's okay to look at this kind of thing, how can you take pictures! In the end, Ulkata... He was accused of spying on the mating of alien races, and was arrested. Three months in jail..."
Opal rolled on the ground with laughter, the two laughed together, and suddenly Jimison stopped laughing alertly and said, "Shh..."
Opal's crisp childish voice was still laughing, and a moment later he heard footsteps too.
He barely suppressed the laughter, the two stopped talking, and sat quietly against the same wall, back to back.
A strong male voice said, "So optimistic?"
Andore's voice said: "I found him and the mercenaries, the soldiers are more able to talk."
The jailer came to open the laser cell door, and Opal looked up and saw that Andore had brought another man with five stars on his shoulder badge, the highest-ranking officer he had ever seen in New Phoenix.
He was wearing a military cap with slightly gray hair under the cap. He was about the same size as Andore, and he was the oldest. He had crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, like an approachable uncle.
"This is Caesar," Andore said.
Caesar smiled: "Hello, Opal."
Opal nodded slightly and got up, thinking he was here to take him away, but saw Caesar in prison. The jailer did not close the door, and Andore came in to set up the table and chairs and sat down beside him.
Caesar nodded at him.
Opal read Caesar's heart and knew that he was simply looking at himself, because he was an apprentice of Cororin, chatting and expressing his concern, for no other purpose.
"Is this the husk of the Mother of Nude?" Opal noticed that Caesar's hand was tied with a bracelet.
Caesar smiled: "Have you seen it too?"
He took off the bracelet and handed it to Opal. Opal looked at it for a while and returned the bracelet to him, saying, "Well, every female Luoxing can get one at birth, and the locals will give this shell to their lover. ."
Andore said: "There is such a rule? I haven't heard of you."
Caesar laughed, put on the bracelet, nodded, and said, "Yes, Ellie's sister told me too."
"Ellie?" Opal seemed to remember the name.
"Chairman of the Female Luoxing United Council." Caesar smiled: "A strong woman, have you heard of her?"
"Ah..." Opal remembered, but he replied, "Maybe I've heard it before. I also heard that the mother of the girl Luo likes boys. Have you ever climbed the top of a tree?"
Caesar laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "No, the old man has no energy to climb trees, unlike you young people."
Opal sighed. The light outside this prison was just right. It was built on the edge of the Meteorite Building, with a height of more than 300 stories. If you want to escape from the prison, you can't escape anywhere. Using the power of faith, he controlled Caesar and Andore. Take it away? I was afraid that Cororin would find out just after taking a step, but now, he doesn't want to go anywhere.
Andore got up, looked around the cell to see the environment, and said, "The equipment is okay. It should be a private prison set up by His Majesty. Who is the person next door?"
Caesar said: "A mercenary, who was captured by Zarke last time."
Jimison had been silently listening to their conversation without speaking.
"Are you older than the teacher?" Opal asked.
"No." Caesar said: "He is the oldest, just like our elder brother, among the seven generals, except for the three who sacrificed, my qualifications are already the first to follow him, Andore, Ithone, Ah Lun is my junior, why did His Majesty lock you up? Is it convenient for you to talk about it? Do you need me to explain to you what you are inconvenient to say?"
Andorei glanced at Caesar inquiringly, and Opal captured what they were thinking in this brief moment, and said, "I made a mistake and made the teacher angry, don't go and intercede for me."
Both Caesar and Andore laughed.
"You just know what you have in mind." Caesar said: "Actually, I just heard that you are here, so I came to see you. Your Majesty may just be in a bad mood for a while and won't particularly embarrass you."
Andore said: "He has his own principles, and he won't take anger on you because of small things. Since you know how to think so, you need to review it yourself for a period of time."
Caesar nodded and said, "Young man, understandable."
"During this time, you need to self-reflect, think more, and it's always good," Andore said.
Opal knew what they were thinking, and they all thought that Cororin had temporarily detained him to give him a chance. He didn't explain his situation anymore. Maintaining the current relationship with Caesar and Andore would make it easier for him. accept.
Opal said, "I see."
Caesar took out a bottle of wine, put it on the table, and said, "We'll see you again in a while."
Opal said: "I wish you good luck in love."
Caesar couldn't help but smile again, and even Andore laughed, and Opal said, "Love can make you much younger, you should go for genetic surgery."
"Yes." Caesar left the cell and said, "His Majesty's side has not been injected with fresh blood for a long time. Compared with the group of Aurora Falcons, I prefer you."
Andore said: "Young people always have a vigor that our old men can't match."
The two generals left side by side.
Opal rotated the bottle on the table, unscrewed the bottle cap of Nuluo Liquor, and asked, "Liquor, fine wine, Jimison, would you like to try it?"
Jimison said, "Come on, who are those guys?"
Opal: "Two of Coroline's four generals..."
Jimison put his mouth to the fence, Opal held the bottle with difficulty in both hands to give him a drink, he drank some more, came and went, the two emptied a bottle of wine, and Opal tapped the bottle. , singing loudly in prison.
It was night outside, and the stars were twinkling in the clear sky, and Jimison began to get drunk, yowling like a coyote, and Opal sang aloud the nursery rhyme his mother had sung to him before on the B-11.
"Nice!" Jimison applauded wildly.
Opal said: "Come on, come on! It's your turn!"
The two entertained themselves like lunatics, bumping back and forth, Jimison lifted his breath and sang loudly: "Blood and fighting spirit are condensed in our hearts..."
Opal: "Change one for another, don't come to the national anthem! Tired of listening to it!"
Jimison: "You have one!"
Opal: "Sing to you... My mother sings... Hiccup, the past is gone, I can't see the future..."
Jimison: "No... it doesn't sound good!"
The sound of footsteps came again, Opal's face flushed from drinking, and the child's drunken eyes were hazy, and asked, "Is there any more wine? More?"
"Someone wants to see you." said the leading officer.
Opal's body is too small. In the past, it was not so easy to get drunk when drinking Nuro fruit wine. However, what Caesar brought was not ordinary. Half a bottle of old wine was digested by the body of a ten-year-old child. The alcohol concentration Enough to make him dazed and dangling while walking.
"I wish you a long life—" Jimison leaned against the fence and said helplessly, "See you in the next life—"
"You too, comrade--" Opal said, "don't miss me..."
The officer took Opal out, stood on the lift, and finally stopped outside the sky garden, and made a gesture of invitation with one hand, signaling him to go in by himself.
"Your Majesty has something to ask you," said the officer.
Opal staggered into the sky garden a step, the fresh night wind blew, making him awake.
What does Coroline want to ask him? Opal's heart was pounding. He didn't expect that he would face this inescapable interrogation so soon. He turned around subconsciously and wanted to go back to the prison, but he thought it was impossible.
He walked to the edge of the platform, and wondered if it would be over if he jumped down... But after thinking about it, what should come will always come.
He dragged his weary footsteps to the main entrance of the palace. In the darkness, the ceiling on the top of the palace was swirling with natural starlight.
The outer wall of the entire palace became transparent, as if it was made of crystal, and the light was refracted on the pillars, walls, and ceiling, like another star lake full of brilliance and dreams.
Coroline sat on his throne, looking at the opal.
Opal stood in the center of the hall, and at that moment he suddenly felt that he was very small, so insignificant.
Coroline said: "Looking at your short-lived, rare, fleeting sincerity and affection for me, I give you a chance to reform, let go of your past, and from today, follow me By my side, everything will be forgiven.”
Opal stood alone in the hall, smelled of alcohol, looked at him blankly, and gave his answer after a long time.
"No," he said. "You're not Raymond, I'm still Opal, and I won't give in."