Chapter 11 Chapter Six

Seldon looked up to see a young man standing before him, looking down at him with mocking contempt.Beside the man was another young man, maybe a little younger.Both were tall and appeared to be very strong. They were dressed, Seldon judged, in the most avant-garde fashion on Trantor—bold contrasting colours, wide-brimmed belts with embellishments, round hats with full brims, and a bright pink ribbon that The ends extend all the way to the nape of the neck. In Seldon's eyes, this attire was really interesting, and he couldn't help smiling. The young man in front of him bellowed, "What are you grinning about, Sloppy?"

Seldon ignored the attitude of the other party, and replied kindly: "Please forgive me for laughing just now, I was just admiring your clothes." "My attire? How? What are you wearing yourself? Do you call this dreadful rag a garment?" He reached out and touched the collar of Seldon's coat with a finger.Compared with the other party's pleasing color tone, Seldon thought, his clothes were too heavy and unseemly. Seldon said, "I'm afraid our extraterrestrial clothes are like that. It's the only style I have." He unconsciously noticed that the other two or three people who were originally sitting in the small park were getting up and leaving.It was as if they anticipated trouble and were unwilling to hang around any longer.Seldon wondered if his new friend, Hummin, was on the run, too, but he didn't think it wise to look away from the young man in front of him.He moved his body back, leaning slightly against the back of the chair.

The young man said, "Are you an alien?" "That's right, that's why you're wearing this outfit." "So? What kind of vocabulary is this? Alien vocabulary?" "I mean, that's why you think my clothes are weird, I'm a tourist." "What planet did it come from?" "Helicon." The young man's eyebrows were crowded together. "Never heard of it." "It's not a big planet.," "Why don't you go back there?" "I want to go back, I will leave tomorrow." "Hurry up! Go now!"

The young man looked at his companion, and Seldon followed his gaze, catching a glimpse of Hummin.He didn't leave, but the entire park was empty, and only he, Hummin, and the two young men were left. Seldon said, "I was going to walk around today." "No, you don't want to do that. You go back now." Seldon smiled slightly: "Sorry, I can't do it." The young man said to his companion, "Do you like his clothes, Mabi?" Ma Bi said for the first time: "I don't like it, it's disgusting, it's disgusting." "He can't be allowed to run around and make everybody sick, Mabi. It's bad for the health of the public."

"No, absolutely not, Allen," Mabi said. Ai Lian grinned: "Okay, you heard what Ma Bi said." At this time Hummin finally said: "Listen, you two, Ai Lian, Ma Niu, whatever your name is. You've had enough fun, why don't you accept it when you're good?" Ailian's lower body was slightly leaning towards Seldon, but now he straightened his body and then turned around. "Who are you?" "None of your business," Hummin replied sharply. "Are you from Trantor?" Allen asked. "It's none of your business." Ellen frowned and said, "You dress like a Trantorian. We're not interested in you, so don't ask for trouble."

"I'm going to stay, which means there are two of us. Two-on-two doesn't sound like your style of play, why don't you find some friends to deal with the two of us?" Seldon said, "I really think you should get out of here soon, Hummin. I appreciate your trying to protect me, but I don't want you to come to harm." "These people are not dangerous, Seldon, but minions worth half a credit." The word "slave!" seemed to piss Eren off, so it occurred to Seldon that it must mean more insulting in Trantor than in Helicon. "Listen, Mabi." Allen growled, "You deal with another fucking minion, and I'll strip this Seldon naked. He's the one we're looking for, let's—"

His hands jerked down, trying to grab Seldon's lapel and lift him up.Seldon immediately instinctively reached out and pushed, and his chair fell backwards at the same time.Then, grabbing the hands that were reaching out to him, he lifted a foot, just as the chair fell. Alan seemed to fly over Seldon's head, circling in the air, and finally landed behind Seldon.He hit the ground neck and back first, with a loud bang. When the chair fell down, Seldon turned around in time, stood up quickly, and glared at the fallen Ellen.Then he turned his head sharply and looked at Ma Bi who was beside him.

Ai Lian lay motionless on the ground, his facial muscles writhing in pain.Both his thumbs were severely sprained, his groin was piercingly painful, and his spine was severely damaged. Hummin's left arm hooked Mabi's neck from behind, and his right arm pulled the opponent's right arm back to a painful angle.Ma Bi tried desperately to catch his breath, his face flushed.A pocket knife lay on the ground nearby, its edge gleaming with a small radium-laser trim. Hummin let go of his hand a little and said in a tone of genuine concern, "You hurt that guy badly." Seldon said, "Maybe. If he'd landed any more, his neck would have broken."

Hummin said, "What kind of mathematician are you?" "Helican mathematician." He stooped to pick up the knife, "It's horrible, and it can be deadly." Hummin said, "Ordinary sharp blades are enough to deal with this kind of thing, and there is no need to install a power source at all-but let's let these two go. I don't believe they want to continue fighting." He let go of Mabi.Ma Bi rubbed his shoulders first, then his neck, panting for breath, and glared at the two of them fiercely. Hummin said sharply, "You two better go now, or we'll present evidence and charge you with injury and attempted murder. You'll be traced from this knife."

Under the watchful eyes of Seldon and Quan Ming, Ma Bi dragged Ai Lian up and staggered away with the help of the latter who couldn't straighten up. They looked back once or twice, but Seldon and Hummin just looked at them blankly. Seldon held out his hand. "How can I thank you for helping me, a stranger, deal with the attacks of two men? I really doubt that I can deal with them." Hummin held up a hand in a gesture of disapproval. "I'm not afraid of them. They're just minions who make trouble in the streets. All I need to do is put my hands on them—and, of course, you too."

"Your grab was terrible." Seldon recalled the situation just now. Hummin shrugged. "You're not simple—" Then, in the same tone, he said, "Come on, we'd better get out of here, we're wasting time." Seldon said, "Why must we leave? Are you afraid those two will come back?" "They dare not come back in their lives. However, some of the 'warriors' who have just scurried away from the park to avoid an unpleasant scene may have informed the police." "Very well, we know the names of the two little rascals, and we can describe their appearance in detail." "Describe what they look like? What reason does the police have for arresting them?" "They committed willful injury..." "Don't be stupid, we don't even have a scrape, but they are destined to lie in the hospital for a few days, especially that Ellen. It will be the two of us who will be sued." "But this is impossible, those who witnessed the incident..." "No one will be summoned. Seldon, put this in your head—those two came for you, specifically for you. They were told that you were wearing a Helicon costume, and Be sure to describe you accurately, and maybe show them your hologram. I suspect it was the same people who controlled the police who sent them, so let's not stay here any longer." Hummin grabbed Seldon by the upper arm and hurriedly pulled him away.Seldon found it impossible to break free, like a child in the hands of a hasty nurse.I had no choice but to follow him obediently. They rushed into an arcade, and before Seldon's eyes had adjusted to the darker light, there was the rumble of a ground vehicle. "Here they come," Hummin whispered. "Come on, Seldon." They jumped up a moving corridor and disappeared into the crowd.