The Star Knight

"Martin..." Rector groaned slightly and said, "It's a very complicated place. I can't characterize it. I believe that even previous mercenary kings can't tell what the planet means."

Opal had a messy hair, yawned, and followed Rector through an alley. At two o'clock in the afternoon, he just woke up and was confused when he came to Rector.

This is the most crowded place on Dandelion Square. Rector took him to a simple lunch. The two crowded the crowd and finally left the noisy central area.

Rector wears sunglasses, and today is wearing a costume that looks a bit like a technician's uniform, and has a number plate "13" on his shoulder.

Opal said: "I think it has extraordinary meaning for me and for Caroline."

Rector said: "The star is a big dye tank. There is no position of justice and evil on this planet. Kyle's reign was very crazy. When Azeroth succeeded, the mercenary unions tended to be disordered and chaotic. Do you understand what the teacher said, Opal?"

Opal has known Rector for so long, but from time to time he still feels a bit puzzling, he said: "I can understand roughly, you mean, the things the mercenaries do are not necessarily all good or not all bad. of."

Rick nodded characteristically and said, "Chaos, it is the middle ground between light and darkness. The strong get wealth and prestige, the weak die silently and become bones. Have you ever thought about what makes countless people ignore Dangerous to life, go to Lixing to pursue their life value?"

Opal said: "I think it's blood, just like the mercenary's charter, it is born for fighting and died for fighting, maybe."

Rick nodded characteristically and took Opal into the hall, saying: "I didn't approve of Caroling to go to the star at that time, because the test of a person there was too difficult, like a sentimental organization. Everyone is in it, and if they feel its warmth, they will do their best to spontaneously seek benefits for this organization. No one can tell whether they are right or wrong... Here is the place."

Opal followed up a small bar, Rector said: "This is my little apprentice Opal, Nini, Opal's expenses are all charged to my account."

Opal greeted the people next to him, and when someone saw Rector, he clamored loudly and said, "What did you do to him! Rector! I don't see that you are still interested in children!"

Opal's complexion became unsightly. Rector ignored them and took Opal into the basement. Several people were operating the bumper in front of the large virtual light screen machine. A man said: "Rector, again Want to challenge?"

Rector put on special gloves and said, "Open a new game, alternating magnetic field, one iron, one uranium, one polonium."

Several people sat back in position, and someone followed to watch the game. Rector indifferently said: "Just teach the disciples, practice."

"Rector, do you want to take this kid as a partner?" The man sitting opposite laughed.

Rector smiled, seeming not to be irritated, and signaled Opal to come over. Opal then sat down with a drink and whispered: "He is not your opponent, is it, teacher."

"Of course not." Rector whispered: "As long as I want to win, the entire empire is not my opponent."

Opal lowered his voice excitedly: "Really? What about the Republic?"

Rector put on blue polarized monocular glasses and put another lens on Opal. He said: "There may be so few unknown masters. See clearly. First of all, we must arrange the formation. "

Tens of thousands of light balls corresponding to atoms rolled out with the music. Opal said: "I will, I will! I have also played in the game console!"

Every time Opal plays the atomic billiards in the game console, the system automatically arranges the formation and sends it up. Unexpectedly, this retro-style underground stadium actually requires players to line up. He noticed that there is a light screen beside the two. The screen is full of various formations. When it was brought to watch, Rector said: "You don't need to watch, just look at the teacher's method."

The moment Opal raised his head, Rector exuded the power of conviction and directly connected with his thoughts. It was an extremely strange experience. Rector realized from subconscious awareness of superficial thinking that all actions were completely open to Opal. Their thoughts and memories are completely compatible with each other at this moment, just like the moment when Rector ignited the fire of his faith on the B11 star, their soul was completely honest.

He saw a fog deep in Rector’s consciousness, full of guilt, pain and remorse, all kinds of negative emotions entangled in one place, Opal directly felt that Rector once owed and disturbed him, he wanted to try To say something, it was really okay to tell Rector, but before he even spoke, he felt his consciousness turned into a ray of light, dispersing the fog.

"Look at it, Opal." Rector's look remained the same, as if nothing had happened. Opal returned to his mind and followed Rector's consciousness to start arranging the atomic billiard formation.

The rules of this game are not complicated. The two sides first arrange the formation in a virtual quasi-static state, and use the micro-connection mode to launch a part of their atoms into the platform of the field.

These atoms are displayed as many light balls in the field, each light ball corresponds to an atom, and the score can be obtained by hitting the scorer.However, the atoms are moving at all times. They are slowed down to the extent visible to the human eye under the influence of an energy device, but still maintain the motion characteristics of collision with each other, bringing out unpredictable trajectories.

The game venue will also add a magnetic field to it, adding more fun.

Opal’s atomic billiard game is just a virtual scene created by a computer chip. Now when we encounter this kind of game using real atoms, we finally feel the reason why it is attractive.

"Are you ready?" Rector said: "Let's get started, invest in..."

Opal held his breath and Lectra opened the bumper.

"...In the world of atomic billiards."

The words fell, Rector loosened it, and with a clatter, all the atoms were unbound!Like the numerous stars that burst out at the time of creation, they shot into the center of the field with a flash of light.

Opal couldn't help but exclaimed, Rector raised his eyebrows, smiled and began to rotate the manipulator, two large rotating rods driven hundreds of small magnetic jujube wheels to start, there were flashes of atomic light balls everywhere, left at hand The marbles entered the groove one after another and were fired out one after another. The scoreboard climbed rapidly. Opal was dazzled, sometimes staring nervously at Rector’s points, and sometimes attracted by flying billiards.

Every moment, the crashed bullets were cleared from the platform, and Rector's score climbed slowly. However, he had more bullets than his opponents, and the gap was widening.

The other party realized Rector's tactics, and changed from hard-court grab points to evasion. Rector suddenly released the last batch of bullets at hand.

These billiards were overwhelming and completely suppressed the opponents on the field.

However, the opponent has formed an advantage in points. Rector was far behind from the beginning. Time passed by one minute and one second. Opal almost thought he was going to lose. After all, he was behind more than 1.6 million points, but the atom was not The torrent of order seems to follow some kind of strange law, running a little bit along the established path, as if the previously dropped points are only in preparation, they gradually become orderly from disorderly, until the last twelve seconds , Rector's points really overtake!

The person on the opposite side looked at it all as if he didn’t believe it. The system began to count down. Three, two, one. The bright light flashed, illuminating the eyes of Rector and his opponent. At the last moment, all the balls were all At rest, the jingling on the scoreboard, calculating the remaining points of the remaining balls in the field, Rector won by 800,000 points.

"It's so handsome!" Opel couldn't help shouting.

Rector took the Opal cup and took a sip, saying, "Now understand?"

Opal said: "Let me try it? I want to play this, it's too exciting! Teacher, let's fight each other."

The loser said: "Even if you win me, you won't win the master Alex invited."

Rector packed his chips and said, "What won't win, don't you play this just to win? Rivaldo, you lose not strength but realm."

Opal couldn't help laughing, and the loser was choked with white words by Rector and got up and left.

That afternoon, Rector first turned on a constant magnetic field and taught Opal some of the first-level tactics. Opal learned quite quickly as soon as he got started. It took him an afternoon to understand all the rules.

"Are you going to the game, teacher?" Opal said.

Rector leaned against the edge of a table, drinking coffee thoughtfully, and nodded.

Opal asked: "Do you still need a partner?"

Rector said: "I need a partner, but I don't think you are, Opal."

Opal is like a deflated ball, Rector smiled and patted his head, said: "But you have learned very fast, so to speak, the teacher is proficient because of playing atomic billiards for thousands of years, if Learning with you may not be better than you."

Opal yelled, Rector said: "Your entry is similar to that of Xiaoke, and it took about three hours."

Opal said: "Who taught you this? Nolan too?"

Rector was lost in contemplation and said, "For too long, I have forgotten that person's appearance. He is an old man. He is very old and very old. He knew him on the Yaketu star at that time. The planet has also changed..."

Footsteps sounded upstairs, and one entered the private room directly, Opal said: "Raymond!"

Raymond said: "How is it going?"

Opal said: "How do you know we are here?"

Rector threw Raymond a cup of coffee, and Raymond said restrainedly: "Thank you."

Rector said: "Don't be too polite, how are the tempers of those ladies?"

Opal understood that Rector and Baroque knew each other and should have known Raymond's work schedule.

Raymond smiled awkwardly and sat down in the corner, saying, "Nothing too embarrassing, Opal, have you eaten? Are you hungry?"

Opal used to sit next to Raymond, Raymond put him in his arms, Opal said: "Let's eat together at night, are you going to the banquet?"

Raymond nodded, looking at the time, and said, "Go to Baihua Manor before eight o'clock. Has your atomic billiard made any progress?"

It was five o'clock, and Opal looked excited at his opponent and said, "Let's try it out? It's all real material."

Raymond said: "I don't know much, come on. You can point us."

Rector went to find someone to start. Opal and Raymond played a billiard ball. Following the afternoon with Rector, the result was easy to get rid of Raymond's score of more than 100,000. Raymond smiled and shook his head.

"His technique is better than yours." Rector said: "But did not form his own routine, Raymond, do you want to learn to learn the formal competition to pass?"

Opal saw that this was just an opportunity to promote familiarity between the two, and hurriedly urged: "Follow the school, hurry."

Raymond was not entangled. After sitting down, Rector stood behind him and said, "Have you played before?"

Raymond nodded: "Playing with Opal several times."

Rector said: "I mean, you have innate memories of it."

Raymond thought for a while and said, "Yes, it's a very familiar feeling, and I will play it when I get started, but I don't know how to play to play well."

Opal hugged Raymond's waist behind his back and put his head on his shoulder to watch him hit. Rector pointed beside them. Opal had already learned it once. He was surprised to find that Raymond actually learned better than him. Faster!

what is this!

Opal was angry, he said: "Teacher! The words you just comforted me are fake!"

Raymond frowned: "What?"

[His genes carry Colleen's physical memory.] Rector said directly in Opal’s mind: [Collorin’s atomic pool is already at the master level.

"Oh." Opal said.

Raymond: "?"

Opal said: "So what level are you? Teacher?"

Raymond: "?"

Rector smiled and did not answer him.

Raymond played for nearly ten games and wanted to play again, but Rector said: "Go to dinner and talk about Opal's commission."

Opal remembered his hidden mission, Raymond said: "Exactly, I also have a few questions to ask you."

Rector took them out of the tavern and went to eat on the first floor of another restaurant. The environment was very good. Ledgerson’s opera was playing. Opal sat down and began to prepare his message. Kert is more suitable for inquiring information, and it is strange to say that since he saw Rector, he ate his food, used his, and asked him to help. These trivial matters were not embarrassing at all.

On the contrary, Raymond was a little uncomfortable. At first, he would thank Rector three times, but gradually, he also let go.

The three ordered, and Raymond said: "I want to investigate the conflict between the two princes of Carters first."

Rector said: "It is nothing more than those contradictions. In the final analysis, human contradictions are always inseparable from interests. Everyone is pursuing their own interests, but in the process of pursuing this interest, it is inevitable to involve more people. The position is not like the common people, who will win, the impact on the empire will be profound, including the Republic, the Mars, and even the Meteor Empire, all forces are concerned about this."

Opal said: "But the news hasn't spread yet, has it?"

Rector nodded slowly, and then said: "In fact, if you didn't say so, I wouldn't think about this matter. After all, Cartes has not been the first time in the past few hundred years that there have been rumours of the Legislative Reserve. "

Opal wondered: "But haven't all been established yet?"

Raymond put away the adventurer's manual and narrowed his eyes slightly, saying: "If it is true, then we may be able to buy fake news."

Rector said: "Most of this rumor has considerable credibility. After all, the interstellar situation has become more unstable after the defeat of Li Wei. The Republic is declining year by year. It is an indisputable fact that the national strength of the empire is becoming stronger. I I used to think that a system like the empire could not last long, but... forget it, not mentioning it for the time being, it is too complicated, and involves the history of the empire itself, the location of the starry sky, resources and other conditions."

Raymond asked: "Who do you want to become the crown prince?"

Rector said: "I am not involved in politics."

Opal said: "So change the way, teacher, who do you think will become the crown prince?"

"Many people think that Alex is more favored." Rector said: "But I think he lacks leadership skills, his artist temperament is too obvious, a painter, singer, genius in the creative industry can ignore the others Evaluation, but as an emperor, this is not the case. So I think Alex is not suitable for governing the planet, even in the constitutional monarchy today, the Prime Minister helps with all government affairs..."

"What is the prime minister's mission?" Opal puzzled.

Rector said: "The emperor commanded the army and formulated a survival strategy. The prime minister was loyal to the people. As a representative of the people, he put pressure on the royal family. The House of Representatives fights for the interests of civilians and noble lords. This kind of management is very complicated. I don’t know. I’ll give you the chip and read it carefully.”

Opal said: "That is to say, the emperor actually does not matter."

Rector said: "He is in charge, but he has to hand over some unsuccessful things to the Prime Minister. Once something threatens his regime, Carters will definitely take action."

Raymond said: "I have to go to work, you continue to talk."

Rector said: "You haven't eaten yet."

Raymond laughed: "I don't have a high demand for eating, just enough energy. You can eat more opal, see you at night."

"Come on." Opal took his hand, Raymond thought of something, turned around, and bowed his head to kiss Opal's lips.

He was still a little embarrassed to do this in front of Rector. He dared not look at him again and left the restaurant directly.

Opal's face was also a bit red. He said: "Uh... teacher, let's continue."

Rector couldn't help but say, "You are a happy child."

Opal nodded and said, "Raymond is fine. There is nothing to eat and no money to spend. I have been working hard to make money."

Rector fell into a long meditation. After a long, long time, he said: "Cartes has not expressed his position, maybe he is trying to test his two sons. The relationship between Ledgerson and Alex is really good. It is better to say that he prefers his empire than that of his student. Carters admired him after listening to his opera. He once intended to hire Ledgerson as Alex’s court teacher, and Ledgerson also I love Alex very much. I had the idea of ​​training Alex as his student..."

"Which student?" Opal asked curiously: "Students of Star Fox or students of singing?"

Rector said: "Perhaps both, but his desire to perform is not strong, so Ledgerson chose Jasmine who also likes the stage. She is the daughter of the pirate and runs away from home because of his obsession with singing."

Opal suddenly found that following Rector was also very good. At least there are a lot of gossip. Rector always knows what he has never heard of. When he is thinking about this, when he thinks about it, Rector noticed it. , Said: "Now it's my turn to ask you. Occasionally, you have to properly satisfy the teacher's curiosity. Has Caroline ever commented on this matter in front of you?"

Opal thought about it, shook his head, and said, "It seems not, let me think about it..."

The robot waiter eats on the side, and Rake is characterized by things that Opal has not eaten, but it smells very tender, like a steak with meat mixed with fish. Opal cuts the steak with a knife and said: " He said that the pope and the emperor had a little problem in principle. I think it might be about this... wait, teacher."

Rector also realized that the two were relatively silent for a long time, and their thoughts were directly connected. Rector read the fragments in Opal's memory, and the knife and fork in his hand shook gently.

"According to what he got," Opal said: "The pope did not want Alex to be the crown prince. He and the emperor and the Rotman family had a disagreement. Is that true? So that means..."

Rector said in a deep voice: "According to your inference, this is indeed the case. No wonder I always feel that the pope is guarding against Ledgerson, and the kid has been lying to me. In this way, Drummond has reached an agreement with Caroline. Now."