How to keep a human in captivity

Chapter 29

"The purpose of the war, Captain," the Vulcan said. "We can draw logical conclusions from that."

If you don't know what the purpose of a war is, then you will never see the end of the war.

Obviously, the end of Khan's war is very clear, let better people rule this world, this universe.

In order to achieve this goal, he must resort to all means.

The consequences that this will cause may not be acceptable to the current human beings.

Unless, of course, you can change Khan's mind.

change his purpose.

At one time, this seemed impossible.

However, now, perhaps things have turned a corner.

"It's not all Khan's subordinates who are with him. At least, we didn't find the ID serial numbers of that little man and another black man."

"You mean, Khan will not step on his friend's corpse to achieve his goal?"

"Captain, this analogy is inappropriate." The Wanken man said, "In addition, the doctor's report has come out, and the tricorder shows that these two friends, whose ID numbers are completely unknown, have a person who is suitable for long-term living in the ocean. body in the ocean. Apart from their lack of gills, their physical data suggests that they were born to live in the ocean."

""The Daughter of the Sea"? I don't want to make up fairy tales from now on. Living in the ocean, are they mermaids?"

"This is a very interesting conjecture, Captain." The Vulcan raised his eyebrows, "However, I want to say that after eliminating all impossible conjectures, the remaining one, no matter how absurd, is logic The only possibility in the world. It’s just that we still lack effective proof.”

"That's easy," said our captain. "We can prove it now."

"Would you like some tea?" The Asian youth in front of Arthur once again offered a gentle invitation.

"Oh." Arthur felt that he really needed some time to digest everything he had just learned, and he took the cup of tea, "Thank you."

"This is brewed with a unique plant on Vega [-]." Sulu, the navigator of the Enterprise, is not only an excellent helmsman, but also a botanist, but the latter is often called Overlooked, "Tastes a bit like honey tea, doesn't it?"

"Uh..." Arthur replied vaguely, "the taste is very special."

"Maybe as a surviving human being on the earth." Sulu, who seemed harmless to humans and animals, continued to say, "Would you prefer Baji tea?"

"Excuseme?" Arthur struggled to hold back a shocked expression of what the hell are you talking about.

"PIAJI" Sulu repeated with a straight face.

Arthur didn't know what expression to show for a moment, and he replied conservatively: "No, I hate that thing." In this way, the other party probably won't continue to ask himself the taste of this inexplicable thing, right?

But Sulu smiled, it was a kind of uneasy smile, as if he had seen through you, but, in fact, Sulu said: "There has never been any PIAJI tea on earth, and you are not a super human .”

The expression on Arthur's face froze.

Humans are too cunning creatures for mermaids.

Oh, you know, if you cut Sulu down the middle, you'll find that his core is black.

In this regard, Comrade Su Lu, who expressed his certainty of victory, spoke happily.

"Now, let's talk about your identity?"

Ford and others feel that their current situation is a bit delicate.

First of all, they still haven't found a way to leave the simple cell, and they have to admit that the light hissing in the air is really not very friendly.

Second, they discovered that they had a reinforced glass door.

Well, now the space is completely sealed.

Again, they discovered that the room was flooding!

A minute later, the water had overflowed Ford's ankle.

"Oh!" It was still Navejit who complained first this time, "I hate this!"

Both Ford and Betty looked very calm on the surface.

Of course, obviously they don't necessarily like what will happen next, soaking in water is too bad for human beings, as for Ford, please forgive me, this is not the sea water he is familiar with, so he still can't grow own tail and gills.

Finally, when the water level in the room reached their chest height, the room was powered off.

Darkness returns.

It all sucks.

It was the voice of two superhumans and a mermaid in the room.

And right now, our Captain and First Officer on the Enterprise are watching them through a screen, with Dr. McCoy babbling behind them.

"Soak our guest with water, and then they'll show us his gills." The doctor scolded the first mate next to him, "That's the craziest idea I've ever heard, and I'm amazed at your stubbornness." Vulcan heads would agree to this!"

The Vulcan didn't make a sound, but our Captain Kirk said, "Old Bones, don't be so nervous, relax. We won't drown them."

"Oh, of course, we kindly stopped the water injection and turned off the light source just right to give them the illusion that the water level never stopped rising, and they would drown in their illusion Well, that's great! It's a damn perfect idea!"

"Old Bones, what if he is really a mermaid?"

"He may also be a descendant of humans who survived on the previous earth! If the land is really uninhabitable, maybe their ancestors fled to the ocean!"

"Ocean?" The Vulcan suddenly said, "Lieutenant Chekov, I think we need to slightly adjust the composition of the seawater we are injecting."

"Okay, sir." The Russian boy replied cheerfully, with a soft Russian accent.

Our captain temporarily stopped arguing with the medical officer, and he asked his first officer: "What did you think?"

"Earth has been changing since humans left, Captain." The Vulcan replied rigorously, "I think we must completely simulate the oceans of the Earth at this stage, not the seawater composition in textbooks as we know it. "

Our captain glanced at the doctor, who shrugged. "He's right."

"Do it."

Captain Kirk gave his order.

The entire bridge team began to work nervously. At this time, Sulu's connection came in.

"Captain, I have discovered something."

"Wait a minute, Sulu," our captain replied, "We are doing a test on merfolk."

"I don't think there is any need for testing, Captain," Sulu said. "They are indeed merfolk."

"……How did you know?"

"He told me." Sulu, the future captain of the Excelsior, replied calmly and rationally.

"..."

Our Captain Kirk suddenly felt a sense of frustration, but then, he was completely shocked by the huge shock.

"Oh, this is really..."

Our captain, the captain's mate, the medical officer, and everyone on the bridge crew were almost holding their breath to see what they found - the tail, the scales, the tail fin, the gills.

Even if they had conjectures and mental preparations, the impact was still huge.

God, that's really a mermaid!

"God! Is that really a mermaid?"

"What a strange color he is."

"Black fish, I think."

"But he's still beautiful."

There was amazement in the bridge group, and then Sulu found his own sense of existence again.

"captain?"

"Well." Our Captain Kirk regained his sanity in time, "Good job, Sulu."

Ford opened his eyes in the dark, and he smelled the familiar smell of sea water.

Then he started to flick his fish tail happily, oh, it changed back!

And gills!

The light has returned to this room, and the sea is receding.

Betty was tossing her hair, which was sticky and uncomfortable, but gradually, her movements stopped.

She stared at Ford intently.

A strange silence spread in this space.

"Oh!" Navejit was still the one who broke the silence, even though he was so shocked that he couldn't breathe, "I never really believed that you are a mermaid."

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