Chapter 1028:

That's what they call her, Alena, the Queen of the Silver Star, and she was singing when Roel Hartford walked into the star room.
The settings are the same-blue smoke swirling in dozens of cigarettes, stale alcohol smell and penetrating. This environment is the same as that of the other thousand taverns, which are counterproductive in the continuous conquest of the earth by humans. Only Alena makes this Martian tavern different from other taverns.
She pays tribute to her silence while singing. The quarrel, laughter and loud curses stopped, and there were no other tavern singers except Alanya.
Standing motionless at the door listening, he knew why they called her the "Queen of the Silver Star". She is the queen of these men. Those who listened to them were people without homes, and she sang to them. She sang in the green fields, blue sky, lovers and children. Her voice was so low and deep, like a hoarse sob in the throat, they had to listen nervously.
Rohr glanced at a table, and the drunk space miners with big beards listened to her dream. One of them had a faint burn scar on his face. He turned from his companion and pointed a finger to his eye.
For a moment, Rohr himself was lost in that dream. He thought of the distant earth that he hadn't seen for a long time. The conquering of space suddenly seemed futile. This is just a waste of life and energy, without bringing any happiness. But why should a person live to be happy? He thought that someone like Alanya might bring him happiness. The silver star queen may be happiness.
He suddenly pulled his thoughts out of the dream of Alayana. He is the captain of the Solar Energy Investigation Bureau. His world is the world of vendors, thieves and murderers who haunt the Avenue of Stars. He is a small gear in a great machine, and he knows that he must continue to work hard to prevent the machine from crashing. He doesn't want to know why the machine should keep running.
The song ended, but the silence disappeared suddenly. Then, slowly, the astronaut and gambler turned back to each other, avoiding each other's eyes, until they were sure that they were doing it.
Rohr Hartford moved away from the door and got up between the tables. He didn't come here as a captain. His tousled beard and tattered clothes are like dozens of meteor miners scattered in a tavern room. The miners floating in space due to the occasional yarn of mythical treasures keep moving day by day. But none of them have ever seen such a treasure. They have only heard of it and have always hoped that one day they can strike, which in turn will create a huge new fable of treasure.
Among the meteors, Rohr faltered for only one month. When he was sitting at a table, he leaned his head on his hands until a shy little Martian girl came to take his orders.
Martians are like withered flowers. Rohr thought that the little creature next to him could not be more than twenty years old on her planet, but her skin was like dry old leather. The bones can almost be seen through the flesh. Only her eyes were bright, and they stared at Roll, making him uneasy. All Martians are like that. He thought he was like a deadly enemy, and they looked at him as if they would definitely defeat him in the end.
He shrugged. During the one hundred years of the Land Association, the Martians did not commit any public crimes. Of course, there were conflicts at first, but a century of peace can ensure the continuation of friendly relations.
"Valcoso." Rohr ordered.
The Martian moved away in silence, and Rohr moved his gaze around the room. When he pretended to rest, he kept staring at Alanya. Unbelievably, after spending a year on the stars, he should suddenly discover that she was like this. He has heard the stories of a thousand astronauts. These people vowed to visit the Phantom Tavern and listen to the song. Her voice is soft and beautiful, but she can shock the strongest with that hoarse, almost inaudible voice. Astronaut.
He had thought that she might be a thousand things, but he had never imagined her like this. He even began to doubt the reality of her existence. Now he found her, he didn't know what to do.
She is slender and cute, and she cannot be the mistress of death and insanity sweeping the planets and outposts. Of course, she can't be the temptation to lure men into drugs.
But every clue he got had a clue related to the Queen of Silver Star. Broken-minded miners were talking in the last hours of Alanya, their hoarse voices trying to sing before her death. Because of her, they died of smiles.
However, many of them died because of her.
The SBI has dispersed a hundred agents in various parts of the system. No one takes the yarn of the miners and astronauts of the Mirage Tavern seriously, where a Goldilocks sings and leads them to the dream world, and they will never return.
Except, no one. He knew that somewhere in the story where a thousand dying throats reappeared, there must be the truth, no matter how magical it is. The Mirage Tavern must exist somewhere, even though one astronaut told him that he was visiting it, another said it exists in the swamp city, and others swear that it was on the opposite side of Viglas.
Roll has placed investigators in every location where "Star House" has been reported, but nothing has been learned about it.
Nothing, until he walked through the night streets of Heliopolis and suddenly found that the starry sky house there always seemed to him.
The moment he entered and heard the notes of the song, he knew he had found the Queen of Silver Star.
Roll thought her beauty must be exquisite. It is still the closest thing most men have ever seen to perfection. However, there are some tight lines and sunken marks where her cheeks should have been more rounded. In her eyes, she couldn't attract herself, as long as she saw his eyes suddenly and then stared at him.
He turned his head. And, when he looked again, he swears. It seemed that he was just a blink of an eye, and there was hardly enough time for her to cross the nearest wall, but she was gone. The space miner she had been chatting with also disappeared.
Roel didn't seem to be worried, looking around, searching for walls and side passages that she might have been to. The sound of the gambling room came upstairs. There are rooms with other doubtful uses elsewhere in the building. The passage leads from the main tavern room to other rooms, and no one has said what path Alanya has taken.
Then suddenly, she came back alone. Rohr saw her standing at the door of a hall opposite him. She was about to come to him. The thought of him finally meeting the mysterious Queen of Silver Star has mixed feelings. Her gaze fixed him, guessing, weighing his sensitivity to her charm, which made him the next victim.
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