Chapter 72 second quarter

Pelorat's originally expressionless long face revealed an unprecedented astonishment and bewilderment.He asked hesitantly, "Are you human?" The girl's eyebrows raised and her lips pursed immediately.Judging from her reaction, it was impossible to judge whether she heard an unfamiliar language and did not understand what the other party said, or whether she understood the sentence but did not know how to answer it. She stretched her right hand to the left and pulled it, and the whole space suit was immediately untied, as if it was only held by a row of hinges, she stepped out, and the space suit stood in place for a while, letting out a soft sigh like a human voice , and finally collapsed into a ball.

Once the bloated spacesuit is removed, the girl looks younger.She was wearing a loose, translucent dress, with a tunic that just reached her knees, and a few inner layers that were barely visible. Her breasts were small, her waist was very thin, and her buttocks were round and full.The faintly visible thighs look quite strong, and the curve of the calf is very slender from the knee to the beautiful ankle.She has shoulder-length black hair, black eyes are big and bright, and her full lips are slightly tilted to one side. She looked down at herself, and then said, "Do I not look human?" This sentence proved that she knew the other person's language perfectly.

The Galaxy standard language she spoke was a bit blunt, as if deliberately trying to pronounce every word accurately. Pelorat nodded, and said with a slight smile: "I absolutely cannot deny this, you are 100% human, and you are a pleasing human being." The young woman stretched her arms out, as if inviting them to take a closer look. "I hope so, gentlemen, many men love this body." "I'd rather live to love it," said Pelorat, a little surprised, wondering why he had become so glib. "Well said," said the girl solemnly, "once I possess this body, all sighs of lovesickness turn into admiration of ecstasy."

Then she laughed, and Pelorat laughed too. Hearing these few words of conversation, Trevize couldn't help wrinkling his forehead.He suddenly asked fiercely: "How old are you?" After being yelled at by him like this, the girl seemed a little timid. "Twenty-three—two gentlemen." "What are you doing here? What is your purpose here?" "I'm here to escort you to Gaia." Her galactic standard language suddenly became a little irregular, as if she pronounced some single vowels into diphthongs. "Are you a girl escorting us?" The girl immediately showed a serious expression, as if she was in charge of her own affairs."I, like everyone else, am Gaia, and running the space station is my current role," she said.

"Your current duty? Are you alone on the space station?" "I'm enough alone." Her tone was full of pride. "So it's empty now?" "I'm no longer on it, gentlemen, but it's not empty, it's still there." "It? What do you mean?" "I mean the space station. It's Gaia. It doesn't need me to hold your ship." "So what are you doing in the space station?" "That's my current role." Pelorat tugged on Trevize's sleeve, but was thrown away, but he still didn't give up. "Glenn," he advised Trevize in a voice close to a whisper, "don't yell at her, she's just a girl, let me handle this matter."

Trevize shook his head angrily, but Pelorat had already said, "Young lady, what's your name?" The girl suddenly smiled brightly, as if responding to Pelorat's gentle tone.She replied, "Precious." "Precious?" said Pelorat. "It's a very nice name. It must be your full name." "Of course not, what good is a short name, you run into people with the same name everywhere, it's impossible to tell who's who, and men can't figure out which is the body to die for - my full name is Baoqisnubi Yarella." "That's a mouthful."

"What? How can seven or eight characters be a mouthful? Some of my friends have names as long as fifteen characters, and I've never been able to make up my mind what to call them. Since I was fifteen, I've been using the name Baoqisi." Name, my mother used to call me 'Nubi', don't know if you can imagine that kind of thing." "In Galactic Standard Language, 'Baoqisi' means 'Supreme Joy' or 'Extreme Joy'." Pelorat said. "It's the same meaning in Gaia's language. It's not too different from Galactic Standard Language, and 'Supreme Joy' is exactly the impression I want to give to others."

"My name is Janov Pelorat." "I know, and the other gentleman—this loud voice—is called Glenn Trevize, and we heard it from Sachel." Trevize immediately narrowed his eyes and asked, "How did you hear that?" Bao Qisi turned to look at him, and said in a calm tone: "It's not me, it's Gaia who heard it." "Miss Bliss," said Pelorat, "may I have a private word with my companion?" "Of course, but you should know that we still have business to do." "I won't delay long," said Pelorat, jerking Trevize by the elbow and dragging him into the next room.

After the two moved away from Bliss, Trevize asked in a low voice, "What's the point? I'm sure she can still hear us, and probably have a way of reading our minds, the damn thing." "Whether she can hear it or not, we need a little sense of isolation for the time being. Listen, brother, stop bullying her, we have nothing to do now, and it is definitely not the way to vent her anger. She is just a girl who is responsible for sending messages. We can't help it either. Actually, as long as she's on this ship, we're probably in no danger; if they're going to destroy the Farstar, they won't let her here. If you've been acting like a villain, They'll probably remove her and destroy the spaceship—with the two of us in it, of course."

"I don't like being pushed around," Trevize said angrily. "Who likes that anyway? But a fierce attitude won't help, it will only make you a villain at the mercy of others. Oh, my dear brother, I didn't mean to be so cruel to you, if I was too hard on you, You must forgive me too, but no matter what, you don’t need to take your anger out on that girl.” "Janov, she is old enough to be your youngest daughter." Pelorat immediately said seriously: "So we should be more pleasant to her. I don't understand what your words mean." Trevize thought for a while, and the haze on his face immediately disappeared. "Very well, you're right, I was wrong. But it's too contemptuous of them to send a little girl. At least some officer should be sent, so we can feel some weight. Just a little girl." ? And keep saying this is what Gaia meant?"

"She may be referring to some leader whose title is Gaia, or the council of this planet. We will find out the truth sooner or later, but maybe not directly." "Guys love her body!" Trevize said. "Bah! Because she has a big ass!" "No one wants you to love it to death, Grant." Pelorat persuaded. "Well! It's no harm in letting her laugh at herself; I think it's amusing and friendly myself." The two found Bao Qisi standing next to the computer, bending over and looking at the components of the computer.Her hands were always behind her back, as if she was afraid of accidentally touching something. As they ducked through the low hatch, Bliss picked it up. "It's a really amazing spaceship," she said. "At least half of these things I have no idea, but if you want to give me a gift, of course there is no better than this. It's beautiful, Dwarfs my spaceship." A strong curiosity suddenly appeared on her face. "Are you really from the base?" "How did you hear about the base?" Pelorat asked back. "What we learned in school, mostly because of mules." "Why the mule, Bliss?" "He used to be part of us, first... which word can you use as an abbreviation for your name, sir?" Pelorat said, "'Jan' or 'Bae' is fine, which one do you prefer?" "He used to be one of us, Pei," Bao Qisi smiled like an old friend, "He was born in Gaia, but no one seems to know the exact location." Trevize interjected, "I think he must be Gaia's hero, Bliss, Si?" His manner suddenly became overly friendly, almost a little too eager. As Trevize said, he gave Pelorat a wink, which meant to reassure him.Then he added: "You can call me 'Choi'." "Oh, no," she denied immediately. "He's a criminal who left Gaia without permission and no one should do that. No one knows how he slipped away, he just slipped away anyway. I guess that's why he didn't end well —the base finally beat him." "Second Base?" Trevize asked. "Is there another one? I'm sure if I thought about it I should know, but I'm not interested in history, really. My thinking is that I'm only interested in what Gaia thinks is most useful ...if I pay no attention to history, it's because there are enough historians out there, or because I'm not a natural fit. I'm probably training as a space technician, which I've been assigned all the time, and I seem to like it too. It's a matter of course, if I don't like it..." She spoke faster and faster, barely breathing, and Trevize managed to break in a sentence: "Who the hell is Gaia?" Baoqisi showed a puzzled expression. "Gaia is Gaia—please, Bae Choi, let's get down to business, we need to land quickly." "Aren't we landing now?" "Yeah, but it's too slow. Gaia thinks that if you let this ship reach its potential, it will go much faster than it does now. Are you willing to do that?" "We can do it," Trevize replied sullenly, "However, if I were to regain control of this spaceship, wouldn't it be very likely that I would immediately fly away in the opposite direction?" Baoqisi laughed out loud. "You are so interesting. Of course you can't go in the direction Gaia doesn't want you to go in; but in the direction Gaia wants you to go in, you can go faster than now. Do you understand?" "I get it," Trevize said. "I'm also trying to keep my sense of humor in check. Where should I land?" "You don't have to worry about that, just descend and you'll land in the right spot. Gaia will make sure you do that." Pelorat said: "And you will stay with us all the time, Bliss, to make sure we are treated well?" "I'm confident I can still do that, and let's see, my usual service charge — I mean this kind of service — can be charged directly to my debit card." "And what about the other services?" Baoqisi giggled. "You're such a shameless old man." Pelorat immediately dared not speak any more.