Opal's time passed very slowly, until Coroline's footsteps sounded, and the anklet collided lightly with his metal shoes.
He turned and sat on the throne, lost in long contemplation, without telling Opal the result.
"He exists," Opal said. "He exists, doesn't he? Tell me."
Opal stalked his neck, tears welling in his eyes, tears full of joy, the impending punishment was insignificant, and the news seemed to bring him back to life in a short free time.
Freedom is the power of the mind.
At that moment, Opal understood the words in the Temple of the Stars, his body was imprisoned, but only at this moment, his soul was free.
He stopped panicking and tried to invade Cororin's mind with faith.
"I'm not sure." Coroline's belief blocked Opal's thoughts from the barrier, and said coldly: "Continue to tell your story, it's almost dawn, Opal."
Opal: "There is no other content. This is the end of the story. When I arrived at the grip of light, there was not much that I loved in this life. The only relatives are the teachers."
"Which teacher?" Coroline said solemnly.
Opal smiled and said, "You still lose."
Dawn shone into the grip of the swirl, and the crystal-transparent palace reflected the splendid splendor of the sun, then drowned out its flowing light, restoring the building's icy exterior.
Coroline rose in the last light, and the palace was dark at dawn.
He walked past Opal and said, "Come with me, I have to figure this out."
Opal turned and walked behind him. Coroline entered the corridor, returned to the room, and sorted out his black royal robe. Opal went to fetch the metal boat shoes, knelt down on one knee, and waited for him to put it on.
Coroline looked at the scene in the mirror, then looked down at him again.
Opal whispered: "Thank you for letting me confirm the truth, teacher, this is far more important than my own life, and I am grateful to you for it."
Cororin said solemnly: "You know better than my teacher, and thank you for everything you have done for me, Opal, I am also grateful to you. I believe that in addition to your love for Raymond, you have also been sincere. You have loved me as a teacher. You should be glad that you have put down your hatred now. At this moment, your belief is still pure and not corrupted by darkness. "
Cororin put on his boat shoes and said, "Take your weapons and wait for me at the fountain, I will still be your teacher until you are imprisoned in Iszur, but this time don't play any tricks. , my patience is limited."
Opal went to get his own weapon, changed into the black clothes of the same style as Cororin, and stood in the sky garden waiting for him.
Cororin directly called Caesar outside the Hanging Garden and ordered a few things, generally about the content of the post-war work.
Caesar listened in silence, then nodded and retired.
In the early morning sun, the gluttonous food disintegrated, recombined, appeared, and opened the hatch.
Cororin took Opal aboard, the black spaceship galloped away from the Iszur galaxy, and Opal stood in front of the porthole, staring at the star ignited by Cororin himself.
"Transition target, Ivory Tower No. 2 Proving Ground." The voice of gluttonous sounded.
The spaceship appeared on the lonely, icy planet in an instant, and landed slowly.
"Proving Ground No. 2." Coroline stepped down from the empty surface and said, "Is it like this?"
Opal chased out of the spaceship and followed Cororin on the planet.
Coroline entered the laboratory, looking at all this in disbelief, Opal turned and left, running down the abandoned pit.
The bodies of hundreds of replicants had rotted into bones, and only the metal skeletons that remained reflected the moonlight in the sky.
"Who made this?" Coroline murmured, "Isn't the No. 2 test site where the nuclear magnetic destruction signal was originally launched?"
Opal knelt at the bottom of the huge pit of corpses, picked up one of the rotting clones, and said, "I don't know."
"I don't know..." Opal muttered to himself.
He touched the destroyed replicator, as if he saw Raymond.
The grief spread, and the entire planet was blanketed in a flash of icy coldness.
Cororin said: "Does he have any relics left? Let me see."
Opal said: "Yes, there is a necklace, but it is not on me."
Coroline said, "Where?"
Opal: "Can't you read it yourself?"
Coroline: "Your memory world is blocked by Ledgerson, I can't read it!"
Opal: "It should be in the Church of the Stars, are you afraid it will be a trap?"
Cororin directly used the power of faith to grab Opal. Opal was thrown into the cabin with the body of the replicant, and the rotten replicator was mercilessly dragged out of Opal's arms and thrown out of the cabin. .
Opal said loudly: "Let me keep it!"
At that moment, he was directly pushed against the wall by a force, and almost at the same moment, he could clearly feel the anger that Cororin couldn't contain.
However, Opal was more daring. He subconsciously drew his sword, resisted Coroline and released his own beliefs. The field of stars was overwhelming, and he brazenly invaded Coroline's mind and intercepted his thoughts at this moment - knowing that he was in When I saw my clone, my mood was very complicated, and I even lost my usual composure.
Opal held a big sword against Coroline's neck and said, "You are afraid."
"A little." Coroline regained his composure, with a bit of jest and appreciation in his eyes.
In this brief absence, he was almost completely suppressed by Opal.
Opal was just a little bit short of breaking through Coroline's belief suppression, but he didn't realize it at all, and his only instincts and impulses were based on his own pure purpose.
He just wants a replica, take it back, and remember it as Raymond's corpse, or bury it in the fierce star, or hold it and accept the imprisonment and punishment of the upcoming Cororin.
"It's been a long time since I felt this emotion," Coroline said. "Good job, Opal, but do you want to continue now?"
Opal retracted his sword and said, "Give me a corpse, something I miss a little bit."
Coroline didn't answer, and Opal moved a replica corpse back into the gluttonous cabin.
Cororin acquiesced to this move, closed the hatch, and set the jump route.
The spaceship jumped again and entered the planet of the Muse. The wheat field was endless. When it landed, it was decomposed into metal fragments, wrapped in the wind and flew to the sanctuary. The door opened automatically, and the gluttonous flew back to the sanctuary. Archetype, standing silently.
Cororin walked along the masonry road outside the Sanctuary of the Stars, and as he climbed the stairs, Opal heard the echo of the church organ—someone.
He slammed, Ledgerson inside
The light of the morning and evening line on the skylight fell, enveloping a person in front of the organ.
It was a girl: Jasmine.
The organ sound came to an abrupt end, and the moment Jasmine got up, she flew into the sky, accompanied by a scream.
"Let her go!" Opal yelled angrily.
The power of belief of the starry sky swept the wind, and collided with the power of lava of Cororin in the sanctuary. Jasmine’s power of belief was the wind domain! Opal tried his best to use Jasmine's power to fight against Coroline, but the two sides only touched, and Coroline withdrew his faith.
"You rebellious boy." Coroline said coldly, "This is the second time you have offended me today."
Opal shouted: "I'm not afraid of you! Don't hurt her! Or kill me now!"
Jasmine fell heavily from the altar, and Opal hurried over to look at her.
She gasped and said, "Who are you?"
Opal said in her mind: [Don't move, he won't kill you.]
Jasmine struggled to get up and pushed Opal away.
Coroline said lightly: "Go back and tell Ledgerson that I'm coming to kill him immediately, because he violated the bottom line that I can't tolerate. Let him finish his singing before he dies, maybe in a few days. "
Opal breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Coroline wouldn't kill Jasmine after saying so.
Coroline turned around and entered the corridor, Opal chased after him, and saw Coroline standing at the door of his room, as if waiting for something, and seemed to recall many things.
At that moment his thoughts were soft, too soft to be defensive, Opal read many fragmentary memories, a long, long time ago, he ran in from the corridor, pushed open the door, woke Rickett up, ran out and squatted again Debug the food maker and make a breakfast.
"You live in this room?" said Coroline.
"Only lived for a while," said Opal.
Cororin raised his hand and the door opened. He stared at everything he was familiar with in the room, but did not go in.
Opal went in, he opened the drawer and found what he had left: E7 finally waited for its owner in the drawer, turned on the light, and the camera turned on Opal, as if he found himself in the wrong person, and the light dimmed in disappointment .
"E7," Opal said.
E7 recognized the frequency of the sound, and immediately turned on the light excitedly, groaning, came out along the drawer, and fell to the ground with a bang. Opal was about to reach out and put it away, but E7 got up by himself. It circles the opal happily, with the camera always facing it.
Opal said, "E7, I'm back."
"Di Di Di—" E7 made an uninterrupted sound.
Even Coroline smiled.
Opal's body has become a lot smaller. He picked up E7, just like holding his only companion on the B-11 when he was a child. The top light of E7 flashed for a while, as if he had found a clip in the memory, and projected a tap dance. The actors on the screen are singing.
"It's the same model Nolan gave me. What is it doing?"
Opal smiled and said: "E7 thought I was still a child. When I was a child, my mother entered the mine. She was with me at home, so she broadcast this to me..."
Coroline looked at it for a while and said, "What else? Bring something."
Opal took out an iron box and opened it, which contained Raymond's necklace, two mercenary diaries, the mercenary's ID card, and Sid's family heirloom.
Coroline frowned slightly when he saw the ruby. Opal noticed something and said, "Do you know how this is used?"
Coroline didn't answer, and then said, "Let's go."
Opal hugged E7 and handed the tin box to Cororin, but Cororin refused and said, "These are your things, I won't take them for myself, you can go to prison with the heart of nirvana. go."
"What is the heart of Nirvana? Is this?" Opal said, "You take it first."
Jasmine didn't know where she had gone, and Coroline didn't care about her. When she returned to the hall, she stood under the altar and looked up.
Stone sculptures of phoenixes and saber-toothed tigers stood icy, and the positions of dragon rays and star foxes were empty.
Opal said: "Are these changes made by ancient gods?"
Cororin replied: "No, they are already dead, and the corpses are in a corner of the universe. This is the tombstone of the true fire phoenix and saber-toothed tiger."
"I haven't been back for a long time." Cororin's voice echoed in the empty sanctuary: "Tao, do you want to stay for a while longer?"
The gluttonous eyes lit up, then disintegrated into pieces, and rushed out of the sanctuary wrapped in Cororin and Opal, the door closed tightly after they left, as if nothing had happened.
The black spaceship floated in the vast space, and Coroline held Raymond's necklace in his palm, looking at the light above his head.
Opal sat in the corner, turned on the E7's projector, and recalled every photo of himself with Raymond. Turning one by one, with the rustling of the pages, Cororin sat on the console with his bipod on his bipod and sat in the swivel chair. After a while, he was attracted to Opal and looked at the photos with him.
Opal looked at Raymond's comical facial features holding his breath in the water, bubbles floated from the corners of his mouth, and his hair floated in the water like black flames.
The sky light was cast from the top of the blue crystal throne, and Opal closed his eyes and hugged Raymond's waist tightly.
"Water Blue Star." Cororin said.
"Yes." Opal turned his head with a smile, saw Coroline's profile, unconsciously and habitually regarded him as Raymond, and said, "You kissed me for the first time in that mission."
Coroline put down the necklace, got up and walked over, stepping on the cold ground with bare feet, kneeling on one knee, his expression indifferent and calm.
"You've got the wrong person," Cororin said. "It wasn't me."
Only then did Opal realize that he had a cognitive dislocation.
I don't know why, he said stubbornly: "But it can also be said that it is you, gluttonous said, that is you."
Coroline turned the picture forward and stopped at the moment Opal and Raymond were kissing in the water, and Opal added another sentence, saying, "No, that's not you. That's my Raymond, he's just mine. Robot, I don't think he's you either."
Coroline didn't answer him. After a long silence, Opal regarded Coroline's existence as air, and quickly flipped through all the electronic photos of him and Raymond. He felt that Coroline was a little annoying beside him.
"I'm going to sleep," Opal said. "It's very sleepy."
He climbs into bed and goes to bed, and Coroline takes the E7 aside and starts watching the clip between Opal and Raymond, rustling of page turns accompanying Opal into sleep.
When he woke up again, Opal was so hungry that his heart was on his back, and after washing up, he asked, "Are you eating?"
Cororin stared at the starry sky outside the porthole, and in front of him were two mercenary diaries and Raymond's necklace.
"Did you find something wrong?" Opal asked again. He no longer regards Coroline as Coroline, or in other words, his image in his mind is no longer the same as before, but to be serious, Opal does not know that Coroline is to him now It's nothing, it's just very complicated.
Coroline replied, "No, let's make something to eat."
Opal went to open the food maker, and he felt that the power of Coroline's belief enveloped every inch of space in the spaceship, as if there were a pair of eyes staring at him all the time.
After breakfast, Coroline stood in front of the obsidian.
"Calculate the overlap coefficient of the gravitational field of the black hole." Cororin said: "Create a special route and send positioning radio waves."
The hoarse voice replied: "Password is required."
Cororin reported a series of numbers, and the gluttonous voice sounded again: "Passenger identity."
Coroline moved the light screen, pressed a few places, and said, "Response: Refuse to jump."
Cororin frowned and said, "The reason for the request."
Gluttonous: "The other party does not allow anyone other than the Knights of the Stars to visit."
Coroline pondered for a moment and said, "Tell them that Opal is the new apprentice of the Knights of the Stars."
Gluttonous: "Inherited identity."
Coroline: "True fire phoenix."
After a series of noisy radio waves, the central navigation obsidian lit up, and a woman's voice came.
"Cololin? What's the matter? Where's Rickett? Tell us your purpose."
"There's a little question to be consulted, about the legacy of the dark ages," Cololin said.
The woman's voice said: "It is allowed to enter, but the attitude of the professors is not very good, Coroline, you better know. Last time, because of your misoperation, the white light wheel was destroyed by your misoperation. Adam still hides it from Lake for you. special."
Cororin said: "That was Nolan's desperate mistake. I reminded him, and I have no way to convince a phantom person."
The communication was cut off over there, and Cororin said: "Prepare to jump."
The voice of gluttonous said: "Pass the pass code, calculate the gravitational field effect, can jump the space feedback, need to shrink the spaceship volume..."
The whole spaceship kept shrinking. Cororin stretched out his hand and looked at Opal. Opal slowly came over. Cororin hugged him around him, and gluttonously gathered it into an egg-shaped elliptical shuttle. of obsidian shines.
"Start the jump, jump destination, ivory tower."
That is the most unique way of transition that Opal has ever encountered. Their bodies seem to be decomposed into atoms and molecules, and they merge with each other in the sea of matter. They can no longer tell who is who. The next moment, accompanied by a light buzzing sound , everything is back to normal.
"The transition is successful." The gluttonous decomposed automatically, turned into an anklet and returned to Cororin, and Opal looked around in surprise.
It was a huge spaceship, and they were standing at the very edge of the spaceship, with a huge metal door on the side of the ship, and several steps extending from the front of the door leading to their feet.
They were standing on the edge of the door, and Opal turned his head to see the darkness behind him. He was startled and almost fell.
Coroline pulled him and said, "Be careful."
"What's out there?" Opal asked.
"There is nothing outside." Cororin replied: "There is no time and no space, it is a static area."