The Star Knight

Before the winter, the last wave of merchant ships landed on the B11 star. Hundreds of thousands of miners came out of every cave and village on the planet to the Central Rift.Merchants from Chiyan Star put up a protective cover at the top of the thousands of miles of canyon. The color change is like a haven, which can effectively prevent electromagnetic interference on the sandstorm and B11 star.

The foremen held a thick list in their hands, on which the energy units accumulated by the miners were registered. When the name was called, the foreman came and received a document. Holding it, he could enter the market and trade with merchants.

Opal quickly ran down the Rift Valley, took his list, and examined the data above.

"Hey! That's wrong!" Opal said angrily, "I have at least 150,000 energy units, why did I buckle so much!"

Several other foremen came over and shouted, "What's the problem! Hey! It's you, over there!"

Opal stepped back half a step, the foreman looked at him coldly, Opal quickly collected his orders, and a small-scale riot was calmed down. Opal suppressed his anger in his heart and turned to enter the market.

"What happened?" Rector stood in an inconspicuous place on the edge of the market. The cloak hat covered his head and face, but the handsome man was still tall and outstanding, and many miners looked at him in surprise.

Opal said: "They used the excuse of ore precision to fully deduct my 30,000 energy units!"

Rick nodded in character, walked into the market side by side with him, crowded with people everywhere, Opal's anger had not completely calmed down, and his heart was turning over and over, why?This year has more deductions than last year... 150,000 energy units, perhaps enough to supply Rector’s spacecraft, was inexplicably detained so much.

"Op." Rector suddenly said.

Opal: "?"

Rector said: "Forbearance, to fight and fight, you need to become stronger."

Opal was silent, and after a long time he nodded and sighed.

In the bustling market, the miners bargained with the merchants over their necks, fighting for a few energy units.The merchants claim to have the best fabrics, ornaments, ornamental artificial gems, and eating utensils from the Red Flame Galaxy.

These are cheap, low-end wholesale products on the trade planet.However, through the starry sky gate, on this mineral planet with nothing, it is easy enough to sell astronomical prices, and earn the money earned by the miners after a year of hard work and hard work.

"A penny can't be less!" The businessman shouted loudly: "Look, this is a plant flower wine from Green Mercury!"

He jingled the bottle and said angrily: "This bottle alone is worth 700 energy units! Even the bottle with wine only sells you a thousand! What else? This is the wine that the imperial nobles drink!"

A group of businessmen around looked at the ignorant miners sarcastically. Locke asked a companion: "Do you want to drink? Buy a bottle and try it."

"Drink this in winter, and you can smell the plant aroma of Green Mercury!" said the merchant: "There is a label on it. Look, a bottle of one thousand, a penny cannot be less."

Rector said: "That's just the cheapest green beer in the Green Water galaxy. Drink a bottle in the bar for three credits. They changed the bottle and affixed their own printed label."

Opal asked: "What are the credit points?"

Rector replied: "A credit point equal to one energy unit a thousand years ago. Since the collapse of the Star Trade Alliance Energy Community, the energy unit has become more valuable than ever. In recent years, it has been raised to about six credit points for one. The price of energy units."

Opal said: "I've been cheated. I'm going to remind them."

"Locke! I tell you!" Opal squeezed through the crowd, but Locke bought a few bottles of wine with his partner, and asked, "Opal, can I get some?"

Opal said helplessly: "Oh, nothing, I just want to tell you this wine tastes good."

"I heard that this year's pass and ferry ticket rose to 800,000 energy units." Lock said: "How much have you saved?"

Opal scratched his head and waved his hand: "I won't buy a ticket."

Rector no longer knows where to go. Opal walks slowly along the market. The winter here is very cold. He wants to buy an energy battery to ensure that he will not be frozen. He also needs to buy a three-dimensional electronic magazine for Spend a long winter.Perhaps some video games-Marauder II and the exploration of ancient civilization tombs, these games are said to be very old, but very fun and very expensive.

A gaming machine requires eight thousand energy points, and gaming chips each have two thousand.

"This is the latest out of this year, the interstellar love is formed!" The boss came to the business and was busy and said: "Buy one, dew point, you are satisfied!"

Opal took a chip introduction and looked over and over. When it was the coldest, when he stepped outside, he would be frozen. Rector could only move back from the cave and live with him.

But Rector knows a lot of things, and the night talk in the fireplace in winter is not bad. This money can be saved. After a long time, Opal decided not to buy it.

"Any!" Opal called to a girl from afar.

The girl named Anya turned her head back with a smile, a smile on her face, like a blooming flower in a dark canyon.

"What are you buying?" Opal said.

Anya said: "This gem... is really beautiful, but it needs 400 energy points."

Opal looked down for a while, and there were many girls gathered in front of the stall. They were all the daughters of the miners. Mine work.

"It's really beautiful." Opal thought Rector had a bracelet, and his bracelet was also beautiful.

"Op." the dark-skinned girl teased: "Are you going to give Anya?"

Opal chose for a while, and the girls joked, and Opal was teased a little blushing, and said unnaturally: "We... uh, nothing."

Anya pouted, laughing like a shy kitten, saying, "Don't bully him, he knows nothing."

About love, Opal still knows a little bit. He also germinated the hazy feelings of his childhood, but there was no object.Mother and father have him because of love, this is the rule of life reproduction in the universe.The old people have said that when the time is up, life will bear fruit and produce offspring, maybe he will have such a day.

In fact, there are many families of miners, who have lived on this planet for generations. They have developed minerals here since a hundred years ago, and their children and grandchildren are also miners.

Opal picked one and planned to give it to Rector in the future, because he will leave sooner or later.

Suddenly he felt that it was a little bit bad to buy this one, so he took the initiative to say: "I will also give you one, Anya, what do you like?"

Anya smiled and said, "Thank you then."

Opal and An Jacob bought a metal bracelet. Opal put it away and lingered in the market for a while. There were more and more people. Anya didn't know where to go. Rector didn't find it. Opal was ready to purchase. Materials needed for winter-wine can come a little, things with sugar, flour, meat and vitamin pills, energy batteries.

He stayed in front of the gem booth for a while, silently counting how much it would cost.

"Don't buy this." Rector didn't know when to return.

Opal said: "What?"

Rector said: "These are not gems, they are all cheap synthetics produced in mass."

Opal broke out in his heart before he bought a bracelet himself, and Rector would probably not want it, so he smiled and said, "Are you drinking?"

Rector said: "I don't drink the wine here, don't waste it."

Opal said: "What about electronic holographic games?"

Rector looked at what he was pointing at, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Don't do this. You ask him if there are any basic textbooks for the universe."

Opal asked in the past, and the boss said: "Yes, this, do you want to read? Are you watching a movie? There are projectors, a few chips, all made in the Republic... and a concert collection of Ledgerson."

"Don't want those." Rector's voice suddenly sounded in Opal's mind: "Just textbooks."

Opal was shocked, and Rector's voice echoed in his head again, saying: "Don't look back, do what I said."

Opal said: "Just textbooks."

The boss said: "Not only do you sell it, who do you want me to sell the projector to? It's all supporting. There are 18,000 energy points in total."

Opal shouted: "18,000?"

The boss said, "No bargain." Bi said carelessly to another miner: "This is the prom of the opera prince! A compilation of the 1935! Buy it? But it is prettier than a woman."

Opal turned around.

Rector said: "Buy it, don't need the projector and opera. Ask him if he has a newspaper? Want the latest newspaper on Scarlet Star."

Opal frowned and asked, "Why? This is a supporting play, don't do it in vain."

Rector insisted: "No."

Opal went back and bought everything that was bundled with the textbook and shouted, "Oman!"

Oman is not far away, Opal said: "Let me see it, there is a movie."

Opal gave the movie and opera to Oman, he left the textbook chip, Rector took it, looked down, said: "Second-hand goods, a bit old, but barely usable. Go back and put it in the E7 projector. use."

Opal asked: "Why not Ledgerson's opera?"

Rector casually said: "Ledgerson is not a good thing, meaningless, will attract you to indulge in his singing, you will know later. Please follow me now, I need your help."

"Why can you speak in my head? What is this ability?"

"Don't ask much, you will know later..."

Opal and Rector stood not far from a stall, and Rector ordered: "In the past, he had two small dark matter batteries."

Opal asked in the past: "Boss, how to sell this."

The boss said: "Don't touch it randomly. Every 100,000 energy units have the same dark matter energy as 150,000."

Rector's voice sounded in Opal's mind: "Bad price, ask him if two 80,000 sells or not."

Opal: "..."

"Is two 80,000 sold?" Opal said: "It's not worth so much."

The boss said: "What a joke! There are a total of 300,000 points of energy here! Don't buy it!"

Rector said: "This kind of battery is very unstable."

Opal said: "This battery is very unstable."

The boss said: "It can be used even if it is unstable. Do you understand?"

Rector said: "I bought it from a pirate, am I right?"

Opal repeated Rector’s words once, and then the boss’s face changed, and Opal followed the instructions of Rector: “Dark matter batteries are regulated, and these two are old, let me guess... …It should have been removed from a warship by the Star Pirates.”

The boss said: "But these two batteries also charged me 120,000!"

Opal repeats Rector’s words and says: “You can’t take back to Chiyan Planet, look at the manufacturer’s batch number, this should be the warship that sank in the spiral nebula not long ago. I heard that the spacecraft explosion accident is being investigated there. When you go back to Chiyan galaxy, you will be arrested. Why?"

The boss looked at Opal suspiciously, and Opal said again: "A pirate named Ilo sold it to you?"

The boss immediately turned blue and shivered: "How do you know?"

Opal licked his lips and did not speak. Rector seemed to be thinking. "Oh, so, the two will be sold to me at the original price you bought back. You have nothing to do with this matter. I I believe you do not want to cause unnecessary trouble."

The boss was silent for a moment, and Opal said, "You will be in danger if you go back with this battery."

The boss asked: "What do you want dark matter energy to do?"

Opal said: "Don't worry, think about it, I will come back later."

Opal turned to go, and the boss was busy: "No need to think about it, sell you."

Opal took a deep breath, and Rector's voice said: "Handle with care, it is easy to explode, this is a dangerous product."

Opal bought two batteries with 100,000 energy points and handed them to Rector, asking: "Who is Ilo? Do you know him?"

Rector said: "I don't know, I just spied on his thoughts and saw the name."

Opal asked: "Can you know what other people are thinking?"

Rector: "Only in certain circumstances."

Opal: "What's the situation?"

Rector: "I can feel it directly when I'm particularly scared, nervous, happy, anxious, and emotionally strong. He was already troubled because he couldn't take these two batteries away, and he only shot on the B11 star. It was a wrong deal, but it was very lucky for us."

Opal suddenly remembered one thing and said, "Oops!"

Rector stared at him, and Opal said: "I spent all my money on batteries. We haven't prepared anything for the winter!"

When Rector shouted, Opal said, "What should I do?"

Rector said: "Go back and pack your things and live in the cave."

Opal said: "But we will starve to death if we don't eat."

Rector said: "There will be a way, trust me."

Opal figured it out, and Rector felt very reliable. Since he said that, he should have figured out a solution, so he went back to pack things. That night, a giant merchant ship lifted off into the sky, and the dark winter night on the mine star Just like the day, take the foreman and the merchants to leave this barren land and go to other planets to spend the winter.

"I heard that Old Crowe and his son bought a ticket for 800,000 energy units."

Locke said: "Where can 800,000 go? It is not another planet immigration, continue to mine and work, don't think about it."

"Do not buy it now." Several miners said one after another: "It will be more expensive in a few years, hey, Opal!"

Opal packed up a bag and came out of the house, loaded with his own supplies, holding the small robot E7, greeted the workers and said, "I will go to the cave in the west for a few days."

Locke said: "You are crazy! You will be frozen to death!"

Opal said: "No, I will come back too cold."

Locke said: "Don't go! It's winter ready, let me see, you didn't buy anything? How do you want to live?"

Opal walked backwards and smiled as he walked: "I have a way, believe me." He pointed at Locke and left E7 with his village, disappearing on the horizon.

When the wind blew, Opal walked hard against the sandstorm, and the red rock bed set off a hurricane that obscured his sight. He shouted, "Teacher-teacher!"

Opal's voice was subtle and inaudible, but Rector heard it, and he reached out and hugged Opal into a cave.

Opal coughed loudly, two rough beds were laid in the cave, the two dark energy battery shells were disassembled, and the energy was used up.

"Used up?" Opal asked.

Rick nodded characteristically and said, "How long is food and water?"

Opal said: "less than ten days."

Rector pondered for a moment and asked, "How many days will the sandstorm pass?"

Opal said: "It should be sunny tomorrow."

Rector said: "Relax, I promise you will not starve or die coldly this winter."

Opal sat down next to the bed in the cave, and Rector inserted the chip in the projector on the E7's head.

"You can read now." Rector said.

E7 projected a light screen, and Opal began to learn the elementary content of the Interstellar School.

This process took five days.After reading the textbook, Opal's textbook is a bit old. The simple knowledge of basic mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry in it. His mother had taught him a little before his death.The amount of information is too much and too wide, he can hardly remember anything after reading it.

Five days later, Rector changed a chip and said: "This is some information records and knowledge of the Star Knight. I need you to swear to me that I will never mention to anyone what you know during this time and my name. , My identity."

Opal Road: "I promise."

Rector didn't speak anymore and opened E7.

This time the projector did not expand the light screen, but the chip scattered two rays of light in the light of the projection device and began to scan the pupil of Opal.

A beeping sound, innumerable information and memories were injected into his mind, the cosmic star map, the knowledge of atoms and molecules, the energy thruster, the navigation principle of the spacecraft, the generation of black holes and the explosion of stars... tens of millions of information It made him dizzy and dizzy.

I don't know how long after that, Opal stumbled out and vomited loudly against the rock.After accepting so much at once, it was still forced into his memory, which caused a strong sense of rejection in his brain.

Dinging sounded, Rector was hitting a piece of steel that was an abandoned mine pit support he had nowhere to pick up.

"Take a break when you are tired," Rector said.

Opal said: "Is it true?"

Rick nodded characteristically, Opal said: "Can I use this knowledge to repair my mother's spaceship?"

Rector said: "The content inside is just basic principles. I suggest that you hire a technician in the future. You can learn from it. The world of knowledge has no borders. It is impossible for a person to understand everything. Give up some fields appropriately. Can make you more specialized on your own path."

Opal recalled the principle of the spaceship. There are indeed too many things that he does not understand, but the computer inside has auxiliary maintenance functions, and according to what I have seen before, the mother’s spacecraft is a problem with the large atomic furnace, plus her star. Picture...She has no navigation system!Was the star chart stolen?It is still broken, so it will be stranded on this planet?

Opal thought of the star chart that Rector gave him, could it be used?

He got up immediately, Rector said: "Sit down, there will be opportunities in the future."

Opal was walking around in the cave, so excited that he could not describe it in words. The sky was completely dark, and the wind that ravaged the world was still roaring outside the cave.He also wanted to know more and sat back to wear glasses.

Rector beat the iron piece without looking up, saying: "Forcible information infusion has little effect. You lack a process of integration and communication. To avoid chewing too much, you should spend more time thinking now."

Opal said: "Thank you, teacher."

Rector smiled and nodded, and Opal asked again: "What are you doing?"

Rector said: "Build weapons."

Opal watched his movements, and Rector hit his shirtless, unscrewing the high-temperature flame on the atomic furnace, the heat made him sweat, and his muscles were covered with sweat.

"The core of the weapon... where did it come from?" Opal looked at the complicated machine with surprise, all made by Rector by hand?Not too possible?

Was it removed from his spaceship?But where is his spaceship?Even the rescue cabin is gone... Recalling the first time I saw Rector, he only had a bracelet on his body and nothing else.

Rector said: "You will know later."

Opal has become accustomed to this answer, so he stopped asking and lying on the blanket to think, these days too much knowledge has brought an indescribable impact on his thoughts, his soul seems to have the deepest tremor .

It was like a man finally opened his eyes and saw the vast world and the boundless universe.