[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

This Remanth man has a very strange name, pronounced like "Zecamori".He called the human child "Xin Zang", not "Picard".

"Why did you trust us so easily?" Wolfe asked as they descended the steep steps.

"Because you're human," Zecamori said. "Wherever you take him, it's better than here. Better than staying here and being whipped eighteen hours a day."

"You care about that kid?" Bucky asked.

"Like we care about each other," Zecamory replied. "That's how it is here. If you don't get help from others, you die soon. The Romulans don't care."

"Usually, this kind of act of uniting and helping each other in the face of disaster is considered friendly and noble." Data asked in confusion, "It's hard for me to understand, if you are an intelligent race with noble character, why would the Romulans will enslave you in this way for a long time. Such behavior is considered uncivilized and immoral."

Zecamori laughed sarcastically.Wolfe whispered disgustedly from behind: "Maybe it's not long before you've learned about human emotions, but it's not the first day you've learned about the nasty behavior of intelligent races. Especially the Romulans."

Data looked like he wanted to ask something more, but finally just shrugged.Just then, Zecamori, who was walking in the front, let out a low gasp: below them, two Romulan guards were climbing up.

The stairs were extremely narrow, and even if they were invisible, they would not be able to pass by without being noticed, and they would not be able to retreat in time.Kelly waved her wand, and everyone immediately floated lightly.Zecamory was caught off guard and let out a half-cry.Although he quickly suppressed the second half of the sound, the two Romulan guards had already caught the sound, and their steps immediately accelerated.In less than five seconds, the two arrived at the place where the sound came from - but there was no one there.The two looked around suspiciously, but they couldn't see half of them.

Just below their feet, five illusory transparent figures were suspended in mid-air.Kelly cast a Feather Curse on everyone, and then jumped straight down, using magic to make everyone slowly fall to the next floor.Hearing the footsteps above her head gradually receding, she asked in a low voice, "How many floors are there?"

"Six floors."

Kelly nodded, but did not lift the spell, and let everyone continue to fall down like feathers.After counting six floors, they landed lightly on the 47th floor. Zecamori led them into a fork and walked into a place where the minecart could be passed.

The road here is much wider, and the width can accommodate two ordinary cars passing in parallel, but the number of people in the passage has also increased significantly.In the middle is a platform that connects up and down like an elevator. On the platform is a large box that is as tall as a person.The box was surrounded by an assembly line, and all around the assembly line were densely packed laborers from the Remans tribe—they picked out ores from other boxes and placed them on the assembly line according to their types and sizes.On average, every five people corresponds to one Romulan guard, and from time to time they take out the whip or stick in their hand and beat those people.

It was relatively bright here, and the Illusion Curse was not so effective. The five people hid in a corner of the tunnel, carefully observing the situation inside.Among the grim-looking Remanth, a small, skinny human boy stood out—unfortunately, he also seemed to attract the attention of the Romulan guards, and received the most whippings.Every time the whip came, the Remans people on his left and right would stop him with their bodies.Kelly felt that Wolff's hands had been tightly clenched into fists, so she had to draw out one hand to hold him down, signaling him not to be impulsive.

They watched quietly for 10 minutes.However, the main body of the tunnel was filled with transport machinery and assembly lines, and the space available for people's activities was already narrow. There was almost no way for them to get closer without alarming the Romulan guards. Ten minutes later, Bucky made a gesture, and the five returned to a safer position.Wolf started by asking, "How soon did it take them to find out you ran away?"

"Not long," Zecamori replied, "but here, running away alone is tantamount to suicide, and they don't care about it at all. They just think I stumbled and fell and died or something."

"What if we kill all the Romulans there?"

"Shots will quickly attract guards."

"Silently killed?" Kelly asked.

Zecamori thought for a while: "One hour."

"If we only count the task of taking Captain Picard's clones out during this period of time, it will be quite sufficient. But once we take him away, what will happen to you?" Data asked.

"A lot of people die here a day," Zecamori said. "As long as you don't kill the Romulans, they don't care."

There was a moment of silence.There was a look of embarrassment on everyone's face: it was impossible for them to take away so many Remans people, but if they only took away the Xiao Ke/Lone people and left these people here, there was no doubt that they would face a huge disaster. What a happy ending.In the end, Wolfe came to a conclusion: "There's nothing to be solved by embarrassing here. I suggest we call first."

"Okay." Kelly said, gripping her wand tightly, "Let's go."

She broke into the tunnel first, and a large-scale silent spell shrouded it.Bucky, Wolfe, and Data who followed immediately fired with stun gears. In less than three seconds, seven or eight Romulan soldiers in the tunnel lay down on the ground.The rest of the miners watched them in disbelief as Zekamori stepped out from behind them and spoke a long message aloud to them in another language.Kelly and Bucky hadn't injected the translator yet and couldn't understand what he was saying. Data whispered the translation for them: "He explained that we are humans from the outside world, and came to rescue Xin Zang."

The little human boy came out hesitantly: "Are you looking for me?" He asked in English, the language seemed a bit unfamiliar, but the pronunciation was standard.

"Yes." Wolf replied.The kid looked about twelve or thirteen years old, dirty and thin, but if you looked carefully, you could still catch the similarities between him and Captain Picard.

"What about them?" Xin Zang asked hopefully, "Can you take them with you?"

Bucky stepped forward, knelt down in front of him, and looked straight at him: "To be honest, it will be very difficult." He said softly, "We can take you away secretly, but there is no way to take so many people away." Take people away without attracting attention. We have no way to house everyone. But after all, we don't know this planet well, what are your plans? Is there any possible way?"

"We can revolt." A Remansi man next to Xinzang said in a low voice.

"That's hitting a rock with an egg!" Wolfe objected, "You have no chance of winning!"

"We don't need to completely suppress this mine," the man said. "There are small Romulan transport planes parked about two kilometers north of the mine. If we can get there and grab the transport plane, we may be able to shake them off and head northwest. Karimo in the Ministry. Karimo has a mining spaceship, which has not yet been built. If we are lucky and fast, we can grab that spaceship and escape directly at warp speed."

"Have any of you mastered the art of piloting a starship?" Data asked.The Remans people in the cave looked at each other in blank dismay.The previous man shook his head: "Sooner or later, it's better than being tortured to death here."

"Then I'll go with you too!" Xin Zang screamed, and rushed to embrace the leader of the Remans, "Let me go with you! I won't leave you and run away!"

"They're humans. Haven't you always wondered what humans are like?"

Xin Zang looked back at them hesitantly, his eyes especially focused on Kelly and Bucky. "Come on, I admire your courage and loyalty to stay here, but you can't help them or anything." Kelly persuaded him softly, "If you really want to liberate the Remanth people, an uprising is not enough Yes—you need far more knowledge, vision and heart than this. If you stay here, you can save a few people at most; but if you leave, you may use the knowledge you have learned to save more lives.”

"Go quickly." The Remansi man gave Xiao Xinzang a push.

"Go." "Go, kid!" "Go quickly if you have the chance?" The other Remans people chimed in.Xin Zang pursed his lips, and finally walked to Kelly's side without turning his head.He looked up and asked, "You'll help them escape, right?"

"We'll do our best," Wolfe said.Xin Zang reluctantly nodded.Kelly gestured to the comatose Romulan soldiers on the ground: "You know how to use their weapons? Who has the best headshot?"

The leader of Remans ordered a few people to come forward and get their guns.A group of people walked out of the mine in a mighty way. Kelly walked in the front to clear the way, and a few soldiers with weapons rushed to other places, probably to call other people.Gradually, people kept coming from the tunnels in all directions to join their team.But within a few minutes, they had reached less than the fortieth floor, when suddenly the alarm bell rang out in the cave, and the originally dim lighting was immediately replaced by red light.

"Go this way!" Leader Remans waved his hand, leading them into a side road.Kelly waved her magic wand and conjured up many phantoms running around on each floor, intending to distract the attention of the Romulan soldiers.Of course, these phantoms could also lead other scattered Remanth miners to go astray, and there was nothing she could do about them.The leader of Remans led them to an elevator for transporting ore, and quickly entered something on the screen, but the elevator was no longer able to operate.Kelly waved her wand, using magic to forcibly lift it up a bit: "Come up quickly!"

The crowd crowded onto the huge platform in a chaotic manner, rising slowly.While maintaining the operation of the elevator, Kelly maintained a huge protective shield, but to her surprise, there were not many Romulan soldiers waiting to attack them on the first floor, and there were only a few entrances on the top floor of the elevator. People were guarding, and were quickly wiped out by the crowd swarming up.It took a moment for her to realize that the Romulan soldiers had obviously thought that the only people who could run the lifts were the Romulans, and that the rebel miners couldn't use them—which was actually true, just missing her magic.

However, although there are no guards at the entrance of the elevator, the entrance and exit of the mine have been tightly sealed.Even Kelly quickly noticed the difficulty. The Romulan's weapons were too advanced after all. When turned to the maximum power, her magic barrier couldn't stop her at all.She could only dodge while attacking instead of defending. Even so, when they rushed out of the mine, there were less than forty Remans left.

The lights outside were already bright, sirens were roaring, and several patrol spaceships in the sky opened fire in their direction.Kelly didn't even bother to stop their attacks, she just used her magic wand to push the collapsed earth and rocks aside, and concealed everyone's figure.

"This way!" the leader of Remans shouted, leading some people to run in the direction of the transport plane, while the other people stayed where they were and opened fire to resist.Half of those transport planes have already been lifted into the air, and half of the pilots have not had time to enter.The Romulan patrol spaceship was confused by the artillery fire and the disillusionment spell that resisted in situ, and did not notice that they were divided into a team to grab the transport ship.When they noticed, several of them had already lifted off, and with a whoosh, they flew away into the distance.