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“Is this all?” Xiaobo asked. “I mean… Is everyone here?” Although he knew there were only six officers on the scene, the small group of men who had gathered in front of the transport lock were disappointing to say the least.
“Yes,” Elliott said. “We are only a small post; an outpost with minimal occupancy.”
Xiaobo nodded understandingly, but couldn’t hide his disappointment.
“Are you going to tell me what’s really going on?” one of the officers in a virtually blackened spacesuit asked. It was abundantly clear that he had pulled victims from burned-down homes.
“I’m definitely going to do that, but not until we get to the docking station,” Xiaobo began. “We now have to get going to get there first.”
“What do you mean?” the same officer asked. “What are we going to do there? And… Why
