The next day, the sky was clear and the desert was like an undulating piece of khaki silk, stretching to the end of the sky.

"Hey!" Opal was debugging a small minecart. He shouted to Rector who walked out of the door: "Where are you going?"

Rector was wearing a set of Opal's overalls. He was tall and tall. His clean ankles were exposed behind the miner's uniform, and the sleeves were shorter than the wrists.

"I'm going to find a place to stay," Rector said.

Opal put down what he was doing and came over and said, "Do you have money? What can you eat?"

Rector: "No, let's think of another way."

Opal: "You will starve to death in the mountains without food! Don't leave!"

Rector insisted on leaving, so Opal had no choice but to pack up some food, pack a blanket for Rector, and follow him out. The two left the village and walked among the rolling rocky mountains.

Rector glanced at e7.

Opal explained: "My mother made it before she was alive."

Rector said: "Your mother made an emergency landing on this planet?"

Opal nodded, remembering what she told herself before she died - Opal, leave this planet and go to the vast universe to find the meaning of your life.

But he has no money, only a ruined spaceship left by his mother, and those repair tools and materials. Opal asked the merchants who came to Chiyan B11. With his current ability, he can't afford it even if he digs mines for a lifetime.

.This man may have many secrets. His rescue capsule is something he has never seen before. Can he take him out of it?

Why did Rector come here with injuries all over his body? Where was his rescue capsule? Countless questions filled Opal's mind. He remembered that after Rector's body recovered that day, the rescue capsule disappeared silently.

"What is this place?" Rector asked after walking for half a day.

"Red rock bed." Opal said: "The mine has been dug out, and there are many caves in the mountain. How long do you plan to live here?"

The rescue capsule is gone, and Rector doesn’t have a spaceship. Will he have to live here for the rest of his life like Opal’s mother? Opal looked at Rector, who was wearing a miner’s uniform. He looked stronger than any other miner.

, maybe he can be qualified for many jobs.

Rector stood on a cliff and looked down, seeming very satisfied with the place.

"I had a fight with a tough guy near the C47 nebula." Lecter frowned slightly in the rock wind carrying dry sand and dust, and motioned for Opal to follow him: "I lost later, almost

I died in his hands. Thanks to the supernova explosion there, I escaped."

Opal asked, "What is a supernova?"

Rector replied: "The dramatic changes before the end of a star's life, it undergoes a red giant or a white dwarf star, and finally explodes, causing distortion of the surrounding space, and may form a black hole."

Opal was confused and asked: "Where?"

Rector said: "Thirty million light years away from B11, I made a space jump in time and escaped here."

Opal asked: "Where is your spaceship? Is it destroyed?"

Rector pondered for a moment, as if it was difficult to answer, and finally said: "For now, yes."

Opal thought about it, and then he came up with a bold idea and said: "Can you repair the spaceship? I have an abandoned spaceship. I think if I can repair it...wait!"

Lecter walked in the wind and found an abandoned mine. He let out a long breath and seemed to turn a deaf ear to Opal's proposal. He looked at the mine and asked: "Where do you want to go?"

Opal shrugged and said, "I haven't thought about it."

Rector said: "I don't know how to repair the spacecraft."

Opal sighed.

Rector was very satisfied with the place and began to clean up the mine. Opal still remembered what Rector said before going to bed last night.

"What is a slave?" Opal suddenly asked: "You said, if I am a slave, what will happen to the boss of this planet?"

Rector explained: "In this universe, every intelligent life is equal, and they have their own inherent freedom. But a small number of people oppress other people for their own interests and require them to act without any principles.

Serving yourself, work like yours, you have to do it whether you like it or not, you can't leave it, this is slavery."

"It violates the principles of interstellar labor law, but the slave owners of this galaxy are very smart. They do not use violent means to imprison you, but use the isolation of trade, material conditions and the planet itself to restrict all workers."

"The boat tickets are sky-high, and you can only dig mines for him for a lifetime, so you are not free."

Opal understood.

My body is imprisoned, but my heart is free, Opal thought.

Lecter's dark blue eyes stared at him, and his deep pupils seemed to have an air of prying into people's hearts.

"How can I be free?" Opal asked.

Rector said: "Resist, pick up the weapons in your hands to fight, fight, bleed and sacrifice."

Opal said: "I can't fight."

Rector said: "Then you can only be a miner for the rest of your life."

Rector removed the metal supporting the internal mine. He was very strong and easily removed many supports. He took them outside the mine and looked at the materials at hand, as if thinking about how to use them.

Yellow sand was rolling on the ground, and the red rock bed had a desolate atmosphere. His cloth robe was fluttering in the wind filled with yellow sand. Opal said to him: "Can you help me?"

Lecter glanced at him, and Opal said: "I mean teach me how to get out of here. I don't have a usable spaceship, and I don't have any money."

Rector said casually: "When you start thinking about this problem, you are already thinking of ways to help yourself, why not continue it?"

Opal seemed to understand something.

What Lecter said had a huge impact on him, as if a ray of light had been injected into his chaotic consciousness. Opal vaguely felt that he would be an important person who changed his life, and he could not be allowed to leave under any circumstances.

Much later:

"I am a Star Knight." Lecter sat down on a stone and said seriously: "Now I must formally tell you that I need your help, Opal."

Opal was confused: "What is the Star Knight?"

He looked at the man in front of him. He had thick eyebrows and fair skin. He was as tall as a mountain when he sat upright. His nose was straight and his lips were moist. His eyes were like stars in the sky, spotlessly clean.

Rector thought for a while and said, "Help me get out of here."

Opal took the initiative and said: "I can lend you my spaceship, as long as you can drive it."

Lecter shook his head and said: "No, I don't need a spaceship, I just need energy, a lot of energy. Can you try to help me get the rhodolite? About half a million energy units."

Opal was startled and said, "I can't do it!"

Rector said: "Then I will find a solution myself. Please don't tell anyone what I am doing here."

Opal said: "Let me try. Is this the only thing you want?"

Rector thought for a while and said: "I also need drinking water and food. In return, I am willing to teach you something."

Opal was stunned and asked after a moment: "Teach me what?"

Rector said: "It depends on your qualifications. There is no way to promise it now. Do you know how to read? I think your e7 can read information magazines. You should know how to read."

Opal immediately nodded and said: "I know, my mother taught me, I will find a crystal mine for you, I will work hard."

Lecter pointed to the cave and said, "I will recuperate here during this period. You can come to me at any time."

Lecter stayed in the cave, while Opal returned to his cabin. He put e7 on the table and thought for a long time. The bell rang, and the miners came out of the residence and followed the tunnel to work.

Opal was wearing a safety helmet, and the headlight illuminated the flickering underground space.

"You know what?" Opal said to his partner Locke: "We are slaves."

Locke said absently: "Yes, a slave to money and material things."

Opal asked: "Have you ever thought that one day you would be able to leave here?"

Locke replied: "Of course, we will leave after we have saved enough money."

"There is never enough money saved." Someone echoed: "It is said that the prices outside are getting more and more expensive. I don't know who I am working for, who I am working for, and I am so busy that I can't even buy a pass. How can you

What to do? Just keep mining."

"Opal." A tall, thin man came over and asked, "How much money have you saved?"

This man is the captain of their mining team. There are five people in the team, including Opal and Locke. The miners live and die together. Due to accidents such as cave-ins, explosions, etc. in the mine, the entire team is often trapped.

Inside, each team is a special small group, and their feelings are deeper than others.

But not long ago, two old miners suffered from serious underground diseases. They could no longer participate in the cave operations and could only wait outside to pull the ore. The foreman did not reorganize them, so the three remaining miners were

The team was run as five people. So the remaining members of the team were Opal, Locke, and Aman, who was the captain. Opal, who was stronger, was responsible for cutting the minerals, while Locke and Aman loaded and transported them.

Aman has a sister named Anya. She is responsible for making bread for many people and doing some handy work. Aman’s only wish is to buy a boat ticket and send her sister away so that she will no longer follow them to suffer on this planet. After all,

She is already sixteen years old.

"About 150,000 energy units." Opal said without raising his head: "What's wrong?"

Locke asked: "Aman, do you want to raise money to buy a boat ticket?"

Aman said: "I heard from businessmen that many places in the Chiyan Galaxy are hiring waiters. They like to have people order food and serve the dishes. Anya can also sing. I want her to apply for a pass and buy a boat."

Ticket, go find a job on the Crimson Star."

Locke said: "The ferry ticket now costs 800,000, how much do you have?"

Opal said: "You only have 200,000 energy units, Aman."
To be continued...