The Star Knight

Time VI travels through the ancient stars, like a curious traveler in the vast galaxy. The distant stars emit sixteen river-like bands of light, exuding a vast light in the lonely, far-reaching universe.

Broken ice flew from the seventeen clusters of giant ice planets, following a clear trajectory to the giant star in the center, Opal stared up, staring at this magnificent wonder outside the window.

Raymond whistled and sat on the sofa. There were two people beside him, his companions on the boat ride.

Opal Road: "It's so beautiful."

"Huh." Raymond looked up and said, "Spark River stars. These ice crystal belts are estimated to take at least a hundred million years to be completely absorbed by it."

"Prosperity is a diamond star." A man with a cigarette sitting on the sofa playing cards: "I guess IRC's money is not enough, so I often dig diamonds out of the ground and sell them."

His companion was a blond man and said: "You save, now diamonds are no longer valuable in ancient times."

"At least you can also make a point prism, as well as a light-shaking cannon's condenser lens." The man with a smoke said: "Raymond, look at you?"

"Two Ks." Raymond showed the card.

"Three belts and two." said another man.

"Oh—" Raymond and the smoking man fell at the same time.

"Victor." Raymond said: "You are not a good thing."

The winner, called Victor, smiled and put away a small stack of shiny gold coins. Raymond got up and said, "I'll take a shower."

The man with a cigarette shouted, "Otto... what's the name? Child, come and play."

"It's Opal." Raymond said before entering the room. "Don't bully him, otherwise you will be miserable."

Opal turned his head and looked at him. He got out of the swivel chair and took a bottle of female dimethoate. The man with a cigarette narrowed his eyes and said, "Children can't drink."

"Just fruit wine." Opal showed him, and said: "Don't be busy collecting chips, how much does Raymond lose to you? Take it out and put it."

Victor and the dangyan man both laughed, and Opal said: "Is your name Tangcaine?"

Diao Man corrected: "Tangkaen, you can call me Thangka."

Opal nodded, Victor began to deal cards, Thangka took out a gold coin and bounced, said: "I bet this, the commemorative coin of the Lions Autonomous Prefecture, which was established 3,300 years, with the emperor Carters on it. 'S picture, look at..."

Opal said: "Very well, leave it there, it will be mine later."

Victor began to issue a public card, Thangka said: "Thank you for letting us take your boat."

"Oh, you're welcome." Opal received the hand and looked at the bottom card, saying, "That was given by Raymond's father, but you obviously have won the ticket."

The two laughed together.

Thangka asked, "What are you betting on?"

"Bet..." Opal said: "Our two little robots, plus Time VI."

Two people: "..."

Opal: "I never lie, this is for you, you won, we will go through the transfer procedure of the spaceship after we arrive at the destination." Then he put E7 and Xiao Q on the table together, Raymond took a bath, Thangka Road : "Your companion will bet against us with the spaceship."

Raymond hummed and said, "He never lied."

Victor took out all the commemorative coins and said, "Gamble with you."

Thangka was smoking a cigarette, looking at Opal with a bad intention, and finally said: "Interesting, I like it very much."

Victor said: "This is something that adventurers often do, it seems that you are born with the temperament of King's Wharf."

Raymond laughed: "Don't Muri also lose the entire Adventurer Union to the competitors? That's a big gamble. Deal."

Victor was a little nervous and started to deal cards, but Opal was a little absent. He looked at the cards and asked, "What is this?"

"K are all celebrities." Thangka's psychological quality is significantly higher than his companion named Victor, said: "Guess what?"

"Well... I don't know any of them." Opal picked up the red peach K that he hung on the table and looked at it.

"He is Azeroth." Victor said. "It didn't take long before he died."

"What about this?" Opal pointed to a plum J in the community card.

"Li Wei." Thangka said, "The square J is the wind."

"Ah--" Opal nodded slowly.

Raymond said: "I just drew a plum K, guess who?"

Opal Road: "Emperor Carters."

"Oh no." Thangka drew a cigarette, thoughtfully looked at his hole card, glanced at Opal again, and said, "Plum K is Marshal Rotman."

"Who is Box K?" Opal said: "Is the emperor or the pope."

"Do you have a block K?" Raymond asked.

Opal said: "No, I guess the emperor."

"Yes, he is the square K." Victor said softly. "The pope does not allow the emperor to ride on his head. Guess who the pope is?"

"I don't think these vintage cards are like real people." Opal said: "What about J? I guess there is a pope in it."

Thangka smiled slyly, picked up the two JOKERs set aside and flipped.

The big ace is a golden elder with a scepter, and the small ace is a dark knight in armor, calm and rested with a sword in front of him.

"Korolin." Opal murmured.

Several people nodded slowly. Opal seemed to be more interested in this set of cards than the winning card itself. He reached out and turned over, but was restrained by Thangka and said, "It's not over yet."

After Victor dealt the last card, Opal lit up the card and said, "Add a community card to form three K with a pair of J, Full house."

After a tumult, Thangka fell.

Raymond laughed and came to collect the gold coins and touched Opal's head.

It was only three hours before he arrived at King’s Wharf. Raymond packed up the cards and several people chatted in the boat.Thangka won and lost, and after a moment he no longer felt distressed, but shook his head helplessly and went to the refrigerator to get the reserve wine of Opal and Raymond.

"Sphinx's great desert fruit wine." Thangka tweeted: "This stuff is worth a lot of money."

"The last time a farmer gave it to Opal." Raymond said: "He needs a plant that can sing to arrange the farm, and pay attention to the intruder alarm."

"Plants with vocal cords." Victor said: "There are a lot of cities in the carols."

"Yes." Raymond nodded.

Opal sat aside to turn the cards, took out a spade J, and asked, "Who is this?"

"Caesar, the head of the four princes of the Meteorite Legion under Korolin." Raymond said, and picked out Spade K and flung it toward the table, saying, "What about this?"

"Spades are the biggest." Opal said suspiciously. "Is this man so powerful?"

"Yes." Thangka nodded. "There are only four cards related to people in the dark age, this one, this one, this... and this one."

Thangka picks out Spades K, Spades K, and King of Size.

"The four universe cards in the highest order." Thangka said: "Another special game in the game."

Pope Drummond, Caroline, Knight on Spade K, and Azeroth.

"This man is called Horius." Victor glanced at it and said, "The god of the dark ages sacrificed for King's Wharf. To commemorate him, they put him in the universe card."

"What about Azeroth?" Raymond said.

Victor said: "People of the Marvel star adore him. You know that the Big Astronautics Association and the Mercenary Union are the only remaining and oldest free organizations in the universe, so I guess the people who make this deck of cards are also Acknowledge his status."

"What about the Qs?" Opal spread out four Qs one by one, from left to right, spades, hearts, plums, and squares.

"Natasha, Queen of Sphinx, Inni, Queen of Empire, Refina Heinlis, the voice of history, and the little woman, Shia Plant."

Opal flipped the card to the back and glanced to himself, "What do these two women do?"

"Xia is the richest woman in the universe." Raymond said: "The first lady of the Puens Chamber of Commerce. She has four sons and has businesses all over the universe. IRC has their shares, which can be said to be a financial empire."

"I heard she was just a romantic...little woman." Thangka shrugged. "Her nickname is little woman."

"I know this." Opal said: "Plant, Emino, Stegas. The three directors of the Puens Chamber of Commerce."

"The Enmino family is no longer good," Victor said. "Sturgas has done a considerable amount in the mine business. Thanks to the interstellar antitrust law, otherwise all human powers will become theirs sooner or later."

Thangka said: "But I heard that the Enmino family is preparing to come back, and it appeared in the Republic some time ago. I haven't heard of this surname in a long time..."

Opal said: "Is Refina so famous?"

Tangka was smoking a cigarette and vaguely said: "There are many celebrities in her family, many of whom are talented scientists, but she is the last member of this brilliant family. As for whether she has the qualification to be a plum blossom Q , It’s a matter of opinion, maybe it’s not necessarily because her student made this card..."

Raymond said: "I heard that she is now on the star?"

"Well, the star." Victor said.

Several people chatted casually. After watching the poker cards, Opal went to play a small projection palm game machine. This is an atomic pool game. If you win a round, the beautiful man inside will take off a suit.

"Children don't play well with this," Victor said.

"It's okay," Raymond said. "He is fifteen years old, and he will become an adult next month."

Victor looked at Raymond and then the expressionless Opal-he was struggling to take off his smart opponent's vest.

Thangka said, "Are you two fathers and sons?"

"Uncle nephew." Opal said: "He is my uncle."

The two nodded and Raymond said, "At the same time, they are considered lovers."

"Dude, according to the imperial law, you will be arrested, he is not yet an adult." Victor laughed.

Opal said: "We are only in spiritual love."

Raymond smiled and said: "Yes, spiritual love, I have been waiting for him to grow up, and I have been through these four years, and I can get it right away."

Victor: "..."

Thangka: "..."

Opal laughed arrogantly. This was the fourth year after they left Iszul. After departing from the grip of the light, the first stop they arrived at was the King's Wharf of the Light Wheel star system.

King's Wharf was the first landing place for the first time human ancestors entered the Leo galaxy in the early light era. The forerunners briefly settled here, and then dispersed to the entire Leo galaxy and found a new world where they established The administrative center was called Leo Autonomous Prefecture for nearly two hundred years, and then moved toward the lion star. The original capital site was renovated several times and became the headquarters of the Big Astronautics Association. It was opened to the entire universe and became a highly free immigration. port.

This planet is located at the very edge of the Leo Nebula. It has been baptized by countless wars in its nearly 20,000 years of civilization. The lion galaxy Autonomous Prefecture has fought several times with the Milky Way, and the fuse has been ignited on King’s Wharf. At the end of the dark age, the two most inclusive planets, King's Wharf and Martyrs, became the last refuge of the human race.

After the capital injection of the empire and major consortia, it was built more prosperously than the star. Countless spacecrafts took off and landed. It is the largest free port in the empire. Adventurers drove their own spaceships and came to the Da Yuhang Association to negotiate commissions. Find an employer and do business.

What is most different from the star is that it is very free here-almost crazy.King’s Wharf has perfect regulations that have been handed down from the dark ages. Unlike the mercenary union, the Big Aerospace Association has established a system to restrain every adventurer, but has left it to itself. There is no recruit training and no curriculum guidance. All Everyone is free-spirited, and directly contacts the employer according to grade and qualification, and pays a small fee.

Adventurers have never formed a group, and the entire Big Astronautics Association has nearly 2 billion registered members and conducts separate assessments for them.All commissions are individually linked to the person in charge, and the association is not responsible for this.The Adventurer’s Handbook is like a diary for a mercenary. There is no organization or team here. Each registered member’s handbook is a separate book.

Adventurers are also completely different from mercenaries, and each one is like a polite gentleman-at least in King's Wharf.However, once they leave the Big Astronautics Association, they do not know what action they will take, they will also kill, snatch, or steal valuable art from ancient tombs.

As long as the Star Patrol did not find out, they would be able to go unpunished unless they broke the law.The definition of criminal law is very vague, sometimes it is the law of the empire, sometimes it is the law of the republic, and more often it is the local law on many small planets. When encountering this kind of things, the adventurer can only escape as far as possible. There is no protection from criminal behavior.

However, no matter whether it is a murderer or a thief, as long as he hides in the hall of the Big Astronautics Association during the business period, all forces will not be allowed to fight here, because everyone in King’s Wharf believes that the soul of the military god Horius is sleeping here Under the piece of land.

The first sentence on the adventurer’s manual is: [Exploration is the lifelong pursuit of adventurers.

And the first article in the Constitution of the Astronautics Association is also: [please always remember that the mission of the adventurer is not to be born for killing. After the inevitable battle, the military god Horius will always provide you with a sanctuary to protect the soul. .

The assessment levels of the adventurers are similar to the stars, but they are replaced with playing cards like A~10 points, and J, Q, and K levels.

Opal began to feel very unaccustomed to this place, only to feel that it was too loose, no teamwork, no comrades, and no exact attribution relationship, but after familiar with this real neutral territory, suddenly found that it was still very interesting.

The adventurers guard each other's basic courtesy, and do not refuse the inquiry and help of others. Among them, there are quite a few knowledgeable people who know many rumors and anecdotes in the universe. The dirty young man was a sailing genius, or some old gray-haired gentleman had a drink with the boss of the big consortium not long ago.

Adventurers have control over a world out of reach of mercenaries. They avoid unnecessary battles and use their brains more than power. The cover page on the adventurer’s manual reads: Wisdom is your only weapon.

This is diametrically opposed to the rules of mercenaries who believe in fighting. The adventurers are more cunning and more circuitous, and are used to solving problems by using smoothness and means instead of fighting.

The Big Astronautics Association is also a competitor to Mars. However, due to the constraints of the loose organization of adventurers, they cannot make too many difficult commissions, which makes Mars stand invincible on many missions. Adventurers who dare not challenge the missions of mercenaries who are united and coordinated by dozens of people at all times.

They can only explore, find, and discover commissions within their capabilities.After registration, a free person who has passed the crime-free certification will also receive a separate card medal.This card is printed with points and suits, which are similar to the mercenaries' F to SS level, and get promotion points through commissioned evaluation.There are thirteen levels in the entire adventurer system, and each level is divided into spades, hearts and plums, and four small levels of squares.

From level A to level 5, they are called reserve personnel, and from 6 to 10 are certified official adventurers. Adventurers starting with J have entered the advanced exploration field. They have their own specialties and a network of links that are almost all in between. , Occasionally take care of the younger generation, but unlike the mercenaries on the martial stars will pay their lives for their comrades who have never met.

Adventurers are more pursuing retro, art and life. They always seem to intervene leisurely in trouble. When they see the wrong momentum, they withdraw in time. When they have partners who have commissioned, they play cards, gamble and chat on the spaceship.

They are very fond of playing cards and gambling. This seems to be the only tradition of the whole association. Joining the association will first get a set of cards. The back of this set of playing cards is printed with a solution to face emergencies. It is often an ancient saying. Proverbs down.It is undeniable that the famous sayings of ancient philosophers can indeed solve almost all problems in the world.

They also like chatting very often, often covering everything from the characteristics of plants on a certain planet to the entire universe, and then turning to the wife of a senior executive of a genetic company and slapping a certain executive last night.

Opal is not old enough to apply for an adventurer, but Raymond is OK, so Raymond got a qualification certificate and took Opal to take risks. Opal would like to listen to adventurers talk about those strange things, So as long as you meet the adventurers who ask for a free boat on the alien, they will never refuse their request. Among these people are cunning like foxes, serious and pragmatic, old people, young people, all have a common Features-curiosity.

Their curiosity is very strong. Perhaps this is the most basic element of people who join the Da Yuhang Exploration Association. They often produce countless different views after exchanging a question. The whimsy is like the sky and the sky. Go each way, say hello when you meet, and say goodbye when you leave, like you have never established any friendship.

Opal felt that this kind of life was almost everything. His days at King's Wharf often reminded him unconsciously of the star, but the friends there no longer have any memory of him, just like in his last life.

But he still sent an anonymous letter to Xun, detailing many things he thought he should be careful about, although Colleen promised that he wouldn’t go to the star again in the short term, maybe a hundred years, or maybe Two hundred years, but many things are inaccurate.

Living a fresh life every day on King’s Wharf, Opal sometimes wonders, are these people lonely?At least for himself, the process of constantly satisfying curiosity and knowing more cannot completely compensate for the emotional inner loneliness.

But luckily he still has Raymond.

"Welcome back to the star of the light wheel." The female voice in the communication station sounded: "The King's Wharf is fine today."

Raymond: "It's home."

Several people packed things, Victor said: "Two, bye!"

Thangka lazily smoked a cigarette and said, "Goodbye, little one."

Time VI opened the rear cabin in the sun, several adventurers bid farewell to each other, Opal jumped up, grabbed on Raymond's back, let him carry it, and took the train to the association to return the commission.