"It seems that Recht's influence on you." Cororin said solemnly: "It is deeper and more thorough than I imagined."
Opal murmured: "I only followed him for a few years."
"Well." Cororin said: "Then you should perform this task for the honor of the fierce star and the life of your comrades. I admire heroes. There are few heroes in this universe. Now I put Your statement is your last rejection to the King of Meteor Stars."
Opal nodded, and Coroline said, "I respect your wishes, Opal, so I will punish your sins."
Opal said: "Kill me? Tell me, how do you want me to die?"
Coroline raised his eyebrows and said, "I promised Recht not to kill you."
With a drunken blush on Opal's face, he said indifferently, "Then lock me up for a lifetime?"
Cororin said: "I've been thinking about it, and I can only think of the best way. Do you want to hear how I plan to execute you?"
Opal: "Say."
Coroline rested his elbows on the armrest of the throne, crossed Erlang's legs, and the black and gold anklets reflected the starlight on his ankles.
"I'll build you the strongest cage," Cororin said. "Separate with gluttonous memory armor, like a box. Pour into the sea of time, soak you in this box, and it'll mend forever. Your body, don't let you grow old, die... and send you to Iszur, no, to Iszur."
Opal listened quietly.
"Send to the stars." Coroline looked into Opal's eyes and said, "That was the first star I ignited with my own hands, and you will sink in the tide of hydrogen and helium fusion, and stay in that cage. middle… "
"But stars die eventually," Opal said.
"Well." Coroline nodded and said, "I imprison you for 20 billion years, until Iszur's lifespan ends, collapses, becomes a black hole, and compresses you into a black hole. There is no time or space in a black hole... "
Opal said, "There is no time."
"So you can't be called dead." Cororin said: "The moment you reach the critical point, time will stand still at the last moment. You are not in the past, and you will not leave the present and go to the future. That is true Eternal existence. Your brain waves are inactive, and your soul has no way of escaping. It exists forever, but it doesn’t exist…”
The long years of 20 billion years are almost unimaginable for Opal.
They looked at each other so quietly, and Opal said, "Okay, farewell, Your Majesty."
He unleashed the power of belief, which was very weak, but more than firm, gently touched the realm of Coroline's thinking, but was ruthlessly blocked by him.
Coroline said indifferently: "You betrayed me, Opal, do you know how I feel at this moment?"
Opal: "I don't know, but I know this is the moment when you betrayed our teacher, his mood now."
Coroline let out a long sigh, raised his right hand, and calmed down, saying, "You haven't woken up yet? You must confess to me."
Opal said: "No, no, each of us insists on what we think is right."
Coroline closed his fingers, and Opal was immediately subjected to a majestic force. The pressure weighing more than 1000 kilograms was placed on him, causing him to kneel on one knee.
Opal said: "You can suppress me with your beliefs, but you can't make me say it. Even if you hypnotize me in a dream, that's not what I really want to say."
Coroline's pupils shrunk slightly, Opal laughed, and said without fear: "Yes, the current me is the most real me."
Coroline withdrew the power of belief, narrowed his eyes, and Opal murmured: "Without the power of belief, I can also know what you are thinking. Do you want to see my real spiritual world?"
Opal releases all its beliefs and builds the spiritual realm.
Coroline was stunned. In front of them, the collision of beliefs was the raging fire and lava on the one hand, and the vast, dark night and countless twinkling stars on the other.
Opal's ten-year-old body stood under the swirling starry sky, and the starlight reflected his tender face.
"Teacher." Opal said, "Do you want to hear about my real past?"
"Go ahead," said Coroline, "before dawn."
"I was born on a mineral planet called B-11, and you know who my father was," Opal said.
Opal begins to recount his past, the starry sky is flickering, he speaks from the first day Rickett arrived at the B-11, Coroline remains silent, Opal let go of his spiritual realm, until he stops briefly , said: "Did you know that there was once a clone of you, his name was Raymond."
"He was born without a name, and just saw a label and named himself."
"He doesn't have a past and doesn't believe he has a future."
"He just follows the memory inherent in your genes, and is driven by the subconscious to come to Lie Xing, unconsciously walking your old path..."
"He wants to do genetic surgery on me, so that I can live longer, be with him, and live a lifetime..."
Opal said: "But he died under your hands in the end. Like our other comrades in arms, you don't even know their names. You only used a light cannon to turn them into ashes and dust..."
Coroline murmured: "So it is, Opal. Everything has finally been explained. At first I just thought that you were sent by Ledgerson, a spy selected from the strong star, after all, you behaved too badly for me. Common sense, I have spent a lot of time on you, just want to expel his influence on your memory... Later I learned that you are an undercover agent sent by Rickett, but I didn't expect that there is such a relationship. Replicants? I think this is Just a joke by Ledgerson, Opal."
"I've never made any clones of myself. How crazy do you think a person must be to take the initiative to copy himself?"
Opal was startled for a moment.
Coroline smiled and said: "So you were deceived by Ledgerson again. He deceived everyone by creating a false memory for you. And my poor little apprentice, there are no replicators at all, nor There is no B-11 star, no Raymond as you said... It's all just a false memory he weaves in your mind, he carefully prepared an unforgettable love for you, and wrote the most useful ending for it. Then, He pushed you in front of me."
"You didn't make him?!" Opal said loudly: "This is impossible! Raymond is real!! He is not a fabricated memory!"
Coroline smiled helplessly: "Forget it, Opal, you think you have experienced an unforgettable life, but in fact, they are just a tragic and tearful script written by Ledgerson."
"He doesn't know what means to abduct you to the Sanctuary of the Stars, erase all your memories before that, and then insert a new life he created for you, so the moment you wake up, you believe It's all true. Why is Recht being lukewarm to you? It's very simple, because he didn't know you at all before you got these memories, and you're not his apprentice, but Ledgerson chose, Another spy after the Aurora Falcon. Everything is fake, you've been deceived."
"It can't be... it can't be!" Opal felt dizzy for a moment, as if he had grasped a key point, and said, "No! I'm pretty sure Raymond once existed! Everyone who knew him remembered him. !!all… "
Suddenly Opal remembered something.
When he came undercover, Ledgerson said that he would revise the memories of all those who had a relationship with Opal so as not to reveal the truth, that is to say, about Raymond...
Coroline said: "What else do you think? Opal."
Opal couldn't stop trembling, and Coroline said, "Before executing you, I was still your teacher, and you are still my most beloved disciple, Opal, if you have any problems, you might as well ask the teacher for help, maybe I can solve it for you. ?"
Opal said in a trembling voice: "Ledgerson did modify all his memories, no one can prove it, but I don't believe... Raymond's existence is not fake. Raymond he... "
Corolin said: "Impossible, he doesn't have such great ability, and how does he know who has seen Raymond? Obviously, that guy Ledgerson never understands what love is, he only loves himself. He is simple, Cut corners and depict an emotional object for you in the memory world without any sincerity. According to what you just said, that thing called Raymond is an empty shell. I don’t know why he fell in love with you, let alone why you Falling in love with him comes from the fact that people who make up memories are lazy, but I think you are too eager for love. You have been lonely since you were a child, and a little bit of affection for you can make you respond crazy. Ledger Sen made up a flawed emotional scene, and you really fell in love with this imaginary lover... Maybe, I also played a role?"
"No, no," Opal murmured.
Coroline said coldly again: "Rector's influence on you is to make you preconceived, and you become as stubborn as him, so that you turn a blind eye to the care you show for me and the sacrifices you make..."
Opal said: "Impossible, at least give me one proof before I can believe it."
Coroline said casually: "Ledgerson modified everyone's memory? I'm afraid not necessarily. I believe there are a few guys he can't move. Do you want evidence? I'll give it to you."
"First of all." Corollin said: "Wrench has already succeeded the mercenary king. It is estimated that it will be difficult for Ledgerson to directly influence him."
"Yeah!" Opal said. "Ledgerson can't get close to the wrench."
"Not necessarily." Cororin looked at Opal's eyes with a smile in his eyes, and said, "I killed even Azeroth, and it is not impossible to enter the Meteorite Building, except for a wrench. , and one more person…”
"Culence!" Opal said, "Culence, the morning star! He has also met Raymond. Although it was only a one-on-one relationship, he also heard me say about Raymond."
Coroline narrowed his eyes, was silent for a moment, his expression was a little strange, as if he had thought of something.
Then he whispered, "Is this buying your time? Don't play tricks in front of me, you know I can't get Cullens in front of me, and I can't read his mind, but I want to take the time to be I can verify this, but before that, I will send you to the stars first."
"No... I at least have to figure this out before I die." Opal said, "Teacher, don't do this."
Coroline's tone was calm, and he said: "Then I should lock you up first, so that you will never know the answer to this question. This will be enough to punish you, and prepare to go, Opal, to meet your death and immortality. "
Opal gasped for breath, and thought of one more thing: "Otherwise, the place we have been to, the ivory tower No. 2 experimental site, will also leave traces, you will know when you go and see."
When Opal said this, his heart was filled with a sudden panic, what if there was really nothing on that planet? "
Cororin said: "I don't plan to run this far. Maybe Rickett and Ledgerson are laying traps there, waiting for me to throw themselves in the net. Is this your serial plan?"
Opal: "… "
Coroline said coldly: "Beg for mercy, and repent to me. Otherwise, you will never get the answer, or in fact, you already know it very well in your heart."
Opal was silent for a while and said, "Don't do this, teacher."
After a long silence, Coroline let out a long sigh.
Coroline said: "The fire of your faith has been completely extinguished. I pity you. For the sake of you who once relied on me wholeheartedly, now I think that there may be another person - locked in my private prison, the Sunshine Twins. One of Jimison, has he seen your fantasy lover? According to what you said, he should have seen it in the South Gate Galaxy. I remember that they killed my captain, Black Eagle, on the Star of Eternal Sun."
"Jimison!" Opal said, "Yes! He's still here!"
Opal finally found his lifeline.
There was sympathy in Coroline's eyes. He didn't know whether he was sympathizing with Opal or himself. He said: "According to your description, your commissions at the time overlapped. And Ledgerson didn't have the ability to run to mine. site to change the prisoner's memory."
Opal said: "Ask him, he must remember Raymond, Raymond and they have met more than once... Yes! Ask him! Let him come over."
Coroline got up and said, "Are you sure you want him to come over? I guess Jimmison is mostly thinking of dying with me. To prevent your comrades from splattering blood on the spot, I think it's better for me to go see him, Opal. , do you want to come together?"
Opal looked at Coroline, and there was a fear in his heart. It was unprecedented. The fear of the strongest shaking of faith seemed to question everything about him, his soul and his life, his past. with his future.
"You are afraid in your heart." Cororin smiled and said, "Then just stay here, the teacher will definitely give you a clear answer."
He left the sky garden and went to the prison, leaving Opal alone in the hall.