Chapter 73

Deep in the crack of the gale, leaving the tuyere, thousands of atomic furnaces glowing red. Ractor stood in front of the cliff. Opal looked at him quietly for a moment. His eyes were red and his eyes were full of tears.

"You're growing up, opal," said ractor

Opal and Lecter hugged each other, buried their faces on his shoulders, and sobbed and let out a long breath.

Ractor sighed. Karen was counting the civilians. Opal walked slowly behind him.

"How many years have we not met?" He said.

"Four years." Opal said, "teacher, I'm twenty years old."

"You've grown up a lot," raikker said

They passed by the bright atomic furnace fire, with ractor in. Opal no longer worried about the safety of civilians. He sighed and said, "I took your advice and went to the land of mercenaries."

Ractor nodded slowly. Opal said, "but I used the power of faith many times."

Ractor looked at the fire and said, "it doesn't matter. The teacher's words are not always right. What have you learned in four years

Opal sat down next to a stone and began to recall many of his experiences in ares since leaving ractor, but did not tell him too much about the replicator and Raymond's life.

Raymond is dead. Take this as their eternal secret.

Opal said, "I feel your faith has turned to ashes."

"I'm too tired," opal said

"But in the ashes, there's a little bit of a flame that's still glowing with residual heat," he said. What you just found out there is your faith. "

He gave a gentle smile, opal wryly, tears rolling in his eyes and shaking his head.

"Teacher, what are you doing here?" Opal didn't mention the last time ractor appeared on the strong star and beat off Colin. He didn't dare to mention Colin in front of him. After all, the king of meteorite was the blood feud of mercenaries and the apprentice of ractor.

"A friend asked me to look at the situation in the sol system." "The galaxy wanted to declare independence and was suppressed by the Republic, but the people were innocent and the army couldn't intervene. That friend had to ask me to help as much as I could," he said

"You can actually take them all at once with dragrays," opal said

"I used to indulge my faith until the day I lost it, and I didn't feel used to it. Although the fire of faith is rekindled again, I want to try to solve the difficulties faced by ordinary people

Opal nodded. Neither of them spoke.

The migrating civilians fell asleep on a cold night, ready to replenish their strength, and set off again tomorrow morning. Carlos came over with food and distributed it to lequet and opal.

Ractor looked at Karen and said, "are you from the glory corps of the Republic?"

Karen nodded, "yes, hello."

With a thoughtful look on his face, ractor continued, "I've seen you, with Cyrus."

With a slightly unnatural look on her face, Karen said, "I don't seem to have met you. May I ask you? "

What is opal's keen sense of what does ractor know about Karen?

"Just a look at it from a distance, why don't you go on with the army?" he said

Karen nodded, uncomfortable in front of ractor, and said, "I'm retired and want to do something of my own."

Opal frowned slightly, and ractor said, "the major of the brilliant Corps will be a mercenary at liexing. It can be seen that the universe is full of infinite possibilities. Has Levi not kept you?"

Karen laughed and said, "no, I have a bad relationship with him. Do you know general levy?"

"I know him, but he doesn't know me," he said

The conversation between the two ended, and Karen didn't seem to want to stay much longer in front of ractor and got up and went to the other side of the canyon.

"Who is he?" Asked opal.

Rhett replied, "Republican, is it he who came to you?"

Opal said, "no, I took the initiative to take him into the league."

"Star Karen, he can be a mercenary..."

"Is he famous?" opal asked

"The Republican side has always been very good about him, but levy doesn't like him very much, he may not be able to get along in the army, and it's obviously good for him to be a mercenary," he said. He was famous for his loyalty and was respected by all the recruits he brought up. I think he is a trustworthy comrade in arms to you

Opal was relieved when he heard ractor's words. He also felt that Karen was not an ordinary person.

Ractor stopped talking about it and asked, "what are your plans for the future, opal. Do you want to take risks with him? "

"No idea." Opal said, "keep honing yourself As an S-level mercenary, fighting for liexing, looking forward to one day... "He did not go on, avoiding the subject of Colin.

Ractor looked into opal's eyes and said, "don't fill your heart with hatred, opal."

Opal did not answer.

"I am a sinner." "It was me who nurtured the king of meteorites," raikker said

"No "No, everyone has to be responsible for themselves, and only themselves can be responsible for themselves," opal whispered, putting his hand on Rex's shoulder. You've done your best, teacher

"I've been criticized more than once by legeson," raikker said. If Nolan were alive, I think he would have discovered the dark character of Caroline earlier than I did

As the topic began, opal stopped worrying about this and asked, "teacher, why did he do this?"

"I don't know." "The truth is, I can't understand what's going on inside of Colin, and I don't understand his motivation for doing all this," he said

"Didn't he ask you any questions before he wanted to be king of meteorites?" opal said

"I may have, but I can't remember what it was," said ractor

Opal said, "well, I'll try to beat him."

Ractor laughed.

"I've seen Nolan's remains." Opal said, "he is a phantom! You never mentioned it to me. "

Ractor frowned and said, "Nolan's legacy? Where did you find it? How do you know of ignanoran's existence? "

Opal said: "a blood red knife, about this long, have you seen it?"

Ractor could not say a word for a long time.

Opal asked, "what is that? It's taken by Colin, in the war that you came here. "

Ractor frowned in a knot and said, "that's the real fire phoenix, Nolan's mecha."

Opal:!! "

Opal did not dare to speak, and ractor looked grave, so they fell into a long silence.

After a long time, opal sat down by the cliff, his legs stretched out, and he fell asleep like a child.

As the sun began to rise, Saul's light fell across the horizon and fell between his eyebrows. Opal opened his eyes and had a new Karen's coat on his body.

Civilians began to set off, and lektor sat all night, following the migration team out of the windy rift and heading north.

Led by Opal and behind the house of carrens, there were 10000 more people this time, and the team of more than 20000 people marched slowly and very hard. Lecter walked in the middle of the line, never saying a word, but with him, opal almost no longer had to worry about danger. He was his patron saint.

"Big brother." A boy came up and said, "my name is aka. I want to ask you something. "

"Aka." Opal said, "what's the matter?"

When acid rain came up in the sky, opal untied his cosmic belt and tied it to aka's waist. He opened the button to form a rain barrier, so that he could not get too much acid rain. He touched his head and asked, "how old are you?"

"Thirteen years old." Akha's eyes were unhealthy red, her lips were dry, her fingers and her skin were cracked. She handed out a small box and said, "this is for you. My mother said thank you for saving us last night."

Opal opened the box and took a look. There was a beautiful diamond ring in it.

He noticed that he was limping a little, his heel had been scratched by a flick, and his old shoes were immersed in a puddle of nitric acid.

"I'll carry you." Opal said, "come up."

"Give this back to mom." Opal handed the box to his shoulder and said, "thank her. I don't want this."

"You came back to save us last night. We were all left behind. If it wasn't for you, we would have been dead now," ACA said

Opal, carrying aka on his back, walked deep and shallow in the muddy water and said, "this is what I should do. What do you want to ask me?"

"Are you a mercenary? I want to be a mercenary. I want to go to liexing, right? "

Opal said, "no, you are too young, at least a few years."

As the rain rustled, the civilian migration team shuttled through the red rain, avoiding the direct hot light from the zenith.

"You want to be a mercenary. If you grow up, you can go to liexing." Opal whispered: "when you get there, ask people, there will be someone to tell you what to do. It's not difficult to follow the guidance of the predecessors, step by step."

"How old do I have to be before I can go?" she said

"When you can afford it," opal replied

"How old were you to be a mercenary?" she said

"When I was sixteen, I was almost seventeen," opal said

"How old are you now?" she asked

Opal said, "twenty years, I have been a mercenary for four years."

"Is there any danger?" she asked

Opal nodded thoughtfully and said, "yes, you will experience many dangers, wars and emergencies, and your comrades in arms will accompany you I almost lost my life several times. If you want to live longer, you'd better not choose this occupation. There are many ways to support your family. You have parents, family members and mercenaries. This profession is for the homeless. Many mercenaries have nothing and are not afraid to lose anything. ""I'll go," Arka said

Opal laughed, recited him a little, and said, "I believe you will succeed."

Another day, 20000 people stopped in front of the refuge base.

When the underground garage opened, a large spaceship with a capacity of 50000 people slowly opened the hatch, and civilians boarded the ship one by one.

"Now." "Let me assist you in extraditing this spacecraft to alpha variate in the constellation asteri, which is the territory of the Vatican, and these civilians will be properly accommodated," he said

Opal nodded.

"What's going to happen next? This civil war was inspired by the Empire? "

Rex didn't answer. After pondering for a moment, he said, "maybe it's beyond my control. The Youth Association has already contacted there. Get ready to leave, ladies and gentlemen. "

When they stopped in the hangar, opal sighed and said, "teacher, it's time to part again."

"Opal, would you like to follow the teacher?" he said

Opal's eyes showed a look of surprise and expectation.

"Old Teacher, you mean You mean... " Opal stammered a little, as if very helpless, back to the child on the B-11.

Carlens avoided the two, walked to the side of the hangar, took out his cigarette and held it in his mouth.

The top of the hangar opened slowly, and the light came in.

"I need to find a way to deal with Colin." Ractor looked up at the purple sky outside the hangar and said, "in the four years since I was separated from you, I have traveled many parts of the universe. I even fell into a cycle of reincarnation, and I went through a day with Colin many times, and I found that I couldn't defeat his faith because I didn't know where his faith came from

"And from the day I had a formal duel with him and finally lost." "I lost all the power of my faith until I landed on B-11 and knew you, and the source of faith came back to my spiritual world bit by bit," rakert said slowly, looking into opal's eyes

"Because of me?" opal said

"Yes, I've regained the feeling that I just met Colin, who was younger than you, only so tall, thousands of years ago when I met him on the planet of SHAX," he said

Racterby made a gesture to opal's waist.

"In the end, when he's in the dark." "My faith was also shaken and shattered in the face of his betrayal," he said. But I met you and gave you the fire of faith, trying to find in you why Colin fell into the dark world I believe we can destroy him one day. "

"I believe, too, what do I need to do?" opal said

"You can tell everything and come to Muse's planet, and I'll teach you as much as I did to Colin," raikker said. Let's fight him again. You're not the opal I just met on B-11, my student. I believe you can do it. "

Opal said, "OK, I will come."

Rick nodded his head and said, "thank you for your help, opal. And I appreciate that you won't hate me because of corolin..."

Opal shook his head and said, "no, you will always be my teacher. There are many things we can't go to You taught me that we can't change the past, but we can decide our future. "

Opal and Lecter salute each other. Opal makes a mercenary salute, while ractor makes a star Knight salute. They say goodbye in front of the garage. The moment the Dragon ray appears, Karen can't help narrowing his eyes, as if shocked.

It flew out of the atmosphere, through the thunder of Sol's star, and split the entire crimson sky into the vast universe.

The spacecraft followed the launch, leaving behind the Dragon ray, and Karens and opal looked up at the zenith.

"Are you going?" Said Karen.

Opal nodded and Karen said, "it's a pity that I've only been with you for such a short time. I think you'll be a good comrade in arms."

"No "It's not a farewell, I'll come back, and when I've settled everything, I'll come back and continue to be a mercenary," opal said

"Let's go back to the spacecraft first," carrens said

They found a small near earth vehicle in the parking garage, drove to the highest speed, and went back to the nodule forest. The rebel camp had been burned down, and the whole forest was burned by the blazing fire. The ground was covered with charred corpses and the smoke was filled with a burning smell of nitrate.

"All dead?" Said Karen.

Opal did not say anything. He boarded the spaceship, put away the diary of the mercenary, and returned to zhaoliexing.

A few days later, when he returned to sunlight city, opal took Karen to the second floor of the union to handle the removal procedures. He transferred the whole team account to Karen, promoted him to the head of the team, and changed himself to leave the league.

As they stood at the gate of the mercenary Union in daylight City, opal looked up. The sun was so familiar and brilliant that it made people cry.

"The spaceship my mother gave me is for you to use." Said opal."Keep it," said Karen

Opal said, "I don't need it. I'm serious. With it, it will be convenient for you to entrust. And time VI is still mine, isn't it? You're just using it for a while. "

"OK." Karen took a deep breath and said, "I'll make good use of it."

"There's still some money in the team account that's reserved for you," opal said. You are an e + mercenary now. You can be promoted to d with a few more commissions. "

"I promise you with the honor of a soldier that I will keep this mercenary regiment and will not recruit new recruits..."

"No, No "You can recruit League members. I mean it seriously. My teacher thinks highly of you. He believes in you, so I also believe you. If the mercenary Corps has not received any commission for more than three years, it will be automatically cancelled by the trade union. I don't know when I will come back. So as long as you trust people, they can be absorbed into the league."

"I see," carrens said

Opal laughed at himself and said, "the smoke and sword mercenary Corps can meet their comrades who love smoking every time. It is also a kind of guidance in the dark."

Carrens took opal's shoulder and walked slowly down the long street, just as Raymond had walked with him.

As the sun set in the Sun City, Karen said, "I'll give you a ride. When will I leave? Are you looking for a friend to say goodbye? "

"No Opal said, "no goodbye, I will come back. Please keep it secret for me, including all I have. "

Karens nodded, and they got into the maglev. The evening wind blew their coats. Karen said with a smile, "you are like Cyrus. When he made a decision, I sent him to the tarmac of silver city... "

"Oh, comrade in arms, I will come back alive." Opal cautioned.

"I'm sorry, I didn't notice the bad luck, but anyway, you've found your goal, which is obviously pretty good."

The corners of opal's mouth slightly pursed, and the sunshine sprinkled on his handsome face. His once tender and longing eyes have turned into mature, refined persistence and expectation.

When they returned to the tarmac, opal began to pack up his things, set the route, and replaced the star map from the pirates. He said, "this star map will be used for you in the future. I have to take back the star map that the teacher gave me. There are still many people who don't understand and want to ask him."

Karen said, opal showed him the warehouse, bedroom, bathroom, and finally plugged in the charger for E7. He said, "this is my mother's little friend. I have to take it away."

"I've always been surprised that this little thing seems very rare. It's different from all robots. Your mother is a scientist?" karrence said

"She Maybe a pilot. " Opal always wanted to know his life experience, but he never had a chance.

"There's no lot number, just like hand assembled, and only a few institutions in the universe have such advanced technology," karrence said

Opal said, "where will it be? Do you know? "

Karen thought about it and said, "maybe Pope delamont in the Vatican has this ability. If you have a chance in the future, you may as well ask him. "

"Forget it." "I won't have the honor to meet that big man," opal said

"Opal, from the first time I saw you, I thought you were going to be a big man," carrens said

Opal said, "thanks for your praise I hope I can do something meaningful. "

Time VI rides southward in the middle of the road in front of the temple.

With the door open, opal stood quietly in the ship and did not go out.

He could see that a long time ago, he was dragging the harvester and carrying Ramon into the temple.

Golden wheat fields, as always, the moonlight flowers after the dawn and dusk line release thousands of lingering light spots flying to the sky.

Karen said, "opal?"

"Nothing." "I think of some of the past," opal said

He stepped out of the ship and said, "Karen, you can come here to see me in the future, but please don't bring anyone here, and please keep it secret for me."

"I will." "By my life," said Karen

Karrence's left hand, wearing a pair of open fingered gloves, reached out from the hatch. Opal stood in the middle of the wheat field and held out his hand to him. After a few steps backward, opal stepped back. The door of era VI was closed, and the advancing flame was sent out. He turned around and flew out of the atmosphere.

With a sack commonly used by miners on his left shoulder, and with E7 behind him, he stood alone on the endless brick road, as if he had recovered himself when he first came out of B-11. He still had nothing and was no longer afraid of losing.

As he walked up the steps, a golden light came through the crack of the door, followed by a dull rumble. The sound of the piano was sonorous and powerful, as if to greet the young star knight.

Many years ago, when the last star knight, Caroline, entered, it opened its main door to opal again."Welcome to the temple of the stars, opal." There's a voice from regison. The piano stops.

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