When the five returned to the base, Joel and Guy were in the so-called living room removing the ugly pot from the dual-purpose electric stove, and Guy was holding a bowl-like thing in his hand, which was estimated to be from the boiling water. Something was scooped out of the pot, steaming hot.
"Hey, I came back just in time, the nutrient decoction has just been cooked, how is the situation?" Guy rushed to the first Tang, raising the bowl in his hand, "We suddenly received another warning before, but we haven't responded yet. Well, it's automatically released. Joel and I guess it's what you guys did over there."
Tang shook his head and nodded again: "Yeah, that's right, but it wasn't the three of us who solved it."
After he entered the door, he gave way to the side, making way for the few people behind him.
"Is it the boss's favor? That's normal." Guy said as a matter of course.
Tang said dryly: "Half the officer, and the other half... that's a long story."
When he was talking, Le Pen and Liu were already standing in the room, then Chu Si, and then...
Guy and Joel were stunned for a moment, looking at the last strange man who entered the house. The man was handsome and tall. He even lowered his head when he entered the door. Refined.
It's just that the color of the eyes is too light, so light that there is a cold and dangerous feeling.
He looked a little lazy, and he had no intention of introducing himself after entering the room, and just casually surveyed the furnishings in the room. When their eyes slid past Joel and Guy, the two of them stood up straight and were inexplicably nervous.
Joel put the pot on the table next to him, pinched his earlobe with his hot fingers, and asked, "Uh, who is this?"
Tang cleared his throat, "Cough, you may have heard of..."
Chu Si has simply reported his name: "His name is Sae Yang, come here to borrow a place to sleep."
Tang and the others: "..."
Joel's hand holding the earlobe shook, causing a tearing pain in the earlobe, so that the baby face twitched, looking a bit funny, he asked in a daze: "Who??"
He wanted to say: Not that Saw Young? Same name, right? Maybe the middle name is different
However, in the next second, he noticed the black gold armband.
bang-
The bowl in Guy's hand accidentally fell to the ground, and the hot soup splashed all over his feet.
Sae Young
Why is Sae Young here
Hell, shouldn't he be in a space prison? !
Sae Yang, who had not spoken for a long time, finally opened his mouth. He looked at Joel and Guy and commented: "The battle you welcome is quite special. It can be seen that you must be overjoyed."
Guy: "..." Is this person shameless
Tang finally laughed dryly and said, "Then what, the warning that has bothered us for a long time is Sa... Well, Mr. Yang and Chief Chu solved it together."
After saying this, Joel and Guy looked even weirder.
After all, they couldn't imagine that Sae Yang would help them one day. To be precise, they never thought that they would have an intersection with someone like Sae Yang in this life.
Sae Young looked at them very calmly, and they looked back very stiffly.
After the two sides looked at each other in silence for more than ten seconds, Sae Yang raised one eyebrow.
Joel suddenly opened his mouth and tried to speak: "...Thank you?"
Sae Young's raised eyebrows were lowered again.
Only then did the other people react, they cleared their throats embarrassingly, and added, "Thank you."
Although they never thought that one day they would say this word to Sae Yang, but now they are very willing to say it, after all, although this is a legendary demon leader, he did help a lot, It is no exaggeration to say that it saved their lives.
The shameless Mr. Yang never cared much about what other people thought, just whether he was in a good mood or not. He was in a good mood at this time, so he was still very comfortable in this neither awkward nor embarrassing atmosphere, he hummed vaguely, and replied casually: "You guys are much better than your Chief Chu, Chief Chu is always trying to put Say thank you after someone is half-pissed or shot someone else."
Chu Si glanced at him, did not refute, only said calmly: "each other."
Everyone's faces became even more paralyzed: "..."
"Okay." Chu Si jumped out two words and forcibly ended the suffocating welcome step. He waved at a few people, "What to do, Guy, you still plan to let your feet How long do you marinate in the nutrient decoction?"
Hearing this, Guy woke up like a dream and screamed, shrank his feet and jumped to the side of the room, "Joel, help me clean up, I'll go apply some medicine."
Le Pen and Liu piled all the discarded materials they brought back to the corner.
"Okay, let's leave it for now. The modular printer is in my house, but it needs to be cooled for a while. It's easy to burn when used too often." Joel said, bringing over a bunch of containers that could barely serve as cups and bowls on the table. , while distributing the nutritional decoction, he turned his head and asked, "Sir? Do you need some?"
"Let's have some." Le Pen added, "It's not very bright today, it's better if you keep running, but once you sit down for a while, it will start to get cold, and it's not at all if you don't drink this. to sleep."
This kind of nutrient decoction is an enhanced version of the concentrated nutritional tablet that Chu Si found earlier. A small piece can be boiled in a pot, but it takes more time, and it takes patience to cook it thoroughly. Drink a bowl of it and live for two months.
In addition to the nutrients needed to maintain life, this thing is better than ordinary food in that it can keep out the cold for a long time.
The downside is that there are some side effects.
Similar to concentrated nutrition tablets, people with a small probability may experience stomach pain, headache and low-grade fever within 8 hours, and gradually improve after 8 hours.
Generally speaking, people with relatively weak physical fitness are prone to these side effects. As for the ones from Chu Si and the others in the training camp, most of them have no reaction after eating.
Chu Si took two bowls of decoction from Joel and handed a bowl to Sae Yang.
There were not many people in the living room, and Chu Si sat down in a sunken chair nearby. Sae Young looked too lazy to move, and did not find a new chair, but simply sat on the arm of Chu Si's chair.
Chu Si: "...you really save." So many empty chairs do not sit.
It was rare for Sae Yang to not stop the words again, but just made a lazy "um".
Chus glanced at him.
Maybe it's because there are no bright lights like the central castle in this room, and the light is dim, or maybe it's because Sae is looking down, he actually looks a little sleepy.
Drowsiness occurs too rarely in Sae Yang. In the eyes of those who know him, he never seems to be tired. He always looks like a lazy but fierce person who doesn't sleep all day. It's like this, even after a few days and nights without sleep.
It seems that he can stay awake for as long as he needs to stay awake for as long as he needs, and whether he sleeps or not depends on his mood.
So when Sae Young suddenly said he needed to sleep in the central castle before, Chu Si thought he had other plans and just used sleep as an excuse. Now it doesn't seem like that is the case...
Chu Si felt strange in his heart, but his face didn't show it. He only glanced at Sae Yang a few times while drinking the soup.
However, Sae Yang didn't seem to notice at all. He only drank the bowl of nutritional decoction in three or two mouthfuls, then frowned and said "tsk", "The taste is really indescribable."
Once there was an expression on his face, the faint hint of sleepiness was concealed.
Joel and Le Pen didn't dare to come and sit in the chairs, but stood in a row leaning against the table, looking up and suffocating their share, wiping the corners of their mouths He smiled dryly: "Yes, the manufacturing company has never thought about improving the taste for so many years, so, just take it as a medicine."
After finishing speaking, Joel scooped two more bowls of decoction and slipped into the room: "I'll leave two for that Mr. Braid and that little girl first."
"Huh? What happened to them?" Chu Si then remembered that he hadn't seen Jin and the little mop when he entered the door.
"Most of the medicines we carry are used to heal major wounds, and the effect is a bit strong. After he wiped it, he couldn't hold back his stamina. He pouted his butt on the bed and fell asleep, and the little girl fell asleep beside the bed. , I guess I haven't slept for a few days before." Joel said, and then went into the room and never came out again.
Tang hurried into the equipment room, not sure if he really wanted to do something, or just to not stay in the living room.
It took less than ten seconds to go back and forth, and Le Pen was the only one left in the living room who did not find an excuse to escape.
Le Pen moved his lips and scolded silently, intending to turn around to find a chance to cut those bastards who were hiding, and then suddenly raised his head at Chu Si with a smirk on his face, and said in a seemingly inadvertent tone: "By the way. As you know, sir, there are only five rooms in total here, and we haven't been able to vacate one room for a long time, so we can only aggrieve you and Mr. Yang in one room, and I'm very sorry for your patience."
She didn't catch her breath, and after she said these words quickly, she was afraid that the two of them would react, so she quickly rubbed her head: "Oh, I'm so sleepy that my head hurts, sir, Mr. Yang, I'll go back to the room first. "
After speaking, she almost ran back to the room in a flash.
Tang, who had been in the equipment room for less than a minute, tiptoed out through the small door to the outside, walked around the courtyard, and entered the room where Joel slept through a separate small door.
The clack of the door slammed one after another, and the doors of the bedrooms were all closed in the blink of an eye.
Chus: "..."
He was stunned for a second, then laughed angrily, still leaning on the sunken chair and drank the last sip of the decoction, then said: "Thanks to Mr. Yang, I have become a beast like you. already."
Sae Young stood up and threw the bowl in his hand, which was not like a cup or a cup, and threw it back to the table. He moved his neck and muscles while drooping his eyes and said to Chu Si: "You should be used to this situation long ago, right? Or? Or… need me to apologize to you to reassure you?"
Chu Si unceremoniously stuffed him the empty bowl in his hand, "There's no need to apologize."
Sae glanced at the empty bowl stuffed in his hand, glanced at Chu Si again, raised his eyebrows, and threw the empty bowl back to the table without saying anything.
Chu Si stood up and walked over to the bedroom to take a look. Several connected bedroom doors were closed, and only the bedroom closest to the living room was still empty, which was obviously reserved for them.
After all, the materials are limited, and the structure of the bedroom is extremely simple. There is only one bed against the wall. This room was originally supposed to be where Tang lived. There were backpacks stacked in the corner, and some equipment and materials that were dismantled from somewhere. Maybe he wanted to try to assemble something.
The backpack is very familiar to Chus or Sae. You don't need to open it to know what it will look like. It must contain all kinds of necessary things for field survival and emergency, and it is indispensable when performing various tasks. of handy tools.
Chu Si also had this habit. When he was outside, the bag would never be disassembled, and the contents inside would be put back in place when they were used up.
Almost everyone who has been in training camp will develop this habit, which is a behavioral reflection of constant vigilance.
Except for Sae Young.
When he is in a good mood and interested, he will pack out a backpack, and honestly bring various things in case of emergency. More often, he is too lazy to carry this burden on his back.
Just like when he landed in the black cedar forest before, Sae Young always had a handful of things with him—
For example, the single-person transition capsule that came out of the prison, and whether it was thrown away by him when it was used up, or whether it was destroyed and abandoned, Chu Si did not know. Another example is the oxygen mask, the communicator that he threw into his pocket, some portable weapons... Just these things, he can still throw them while walking.
When you are short of tools, you can easily pluck out a few useful things from the surrounding area to remodel.
This can be considered to be the ultimate in laziness, and being lazy is about to die.
But his life is very tough, no matter how difficult the environment to survive, no matter how dangerous the situation, he can come out well in the end, and even many times he is unscathed, and his strength is simply incomprehensible.
Therefore, whether it was in the sanatorium to follow the field courses of the White Eagle Military Academy or to simulate extreme missions in the training camp, those who were assigned to Sae Young always had mixed feelings.
They were afraid of Sae Young's danger, and they had unlimited trust in his abilities.
Sae came over behind Chu Si, leaned against the door, and blocked the bedroom door tightly.
He glanced roughly at the arrangement, and his eyes fell on the corner of the bed, where there was a round chair, which was upholstered with a cotton material, which could barely be used as a single sofa.
"Whose house is this?" Sae Yang raised his index finger, passing the backpack that had never been dismantled, the piles of equipment, and the round chair, and said lazily: "High vigilance, frizzy and lazy, loves to enjoy... ah , I know, that little fool who stepped on the empty stairs and knelt in front of me."
Chu Si was not surprised that he guessed right, after all, it was not the first time he had seen it. He stepped aside, raised his chin on the bed and said, "No one will give you a prize if you guess right. The bed is here, go to sleep if you want to."
Sae Yang raised his eyebrows: "What? Are you going to give me the bed?"
Chu Si originally wanted to stop him, but when the words came out, he suddenly thought of the drowsiness that flashed on Sae's face in the living room just now. I slept for a while, it's not too sleepy now, you... "
Perhaps Sae's expression was a little weird for a moment, Chu Si's voice paused, and after thinking about it, he added: "You'd better hurry up, when I'm really sleepy, I can't guarantee that you can still lie on the bed properly. ."
After saying that, he wiped Sae Yang's shoulder and walked out of the bedroom again. Just two steps away, he turned his head and knocked on the door frame as he remembered something.
Sae, who was walking towards the bed, turned to look at him, "Do you regret it again?"
Chu Si said: "I'm not going to regret it so quickly, but have you missed something, Mr. Yang, who is very polite?"
Sae Yang was stunned for a moment, and then gave a long "Oh": "Thank you?"
Chu Stan accepted: "You're welcome."
Sae's eyes curled up, with a playful smile, he touched the back of his waist, and threw the Sky Eye Core Disc towards Chu Si: "Connect it to the device here."
Chu Si casually knocked on the door frame again as an answer, then passed through the living room without looking back, and entered the equipment room.
The door on Sae Young's side was still open. When Chu Si sat down in the chair in the equipment room, he could still hear a faint movement over there, but it didn't take long for the movement to disappear.
Although the house at the base was built with a mini modular printer, it was regarded as an instant emergency house, but the quality was not bad, at least the sound insulation was good. Once Sae Yang's side was quiet, the entire base was quiet, only the oxygen generating port embedded in the corner was still working, making a low "humming" sound.
Chu Si glanced at the core disk in his hand and connected it to the central port on the console in the equipment room.
Ding-
Tianyan: "I finally remembered me."
The electronic sound is not too loud. After all, this is not a space prison, and there are not so many microphones. But in such a quiet environment, it is still a bit abrupt. Chu Si frowned slightly, and after thinking about it, he stood up and closed the door of the equipment room.
"Can you still receive voice commands normally now?" Chu Si sat down in the chair again, resting his elbow on the armrest to support his chin, and tapped the sky with his other hand.
It is said that he is not sleepy, but in fact, he didn't sleep for long in the space prison. After all this tossing, he also felt a little tired.
Ding-
"If you can't accept voice commands, are you talking to a ghost now?"
Once he sat down, Chu Si was a little lazy. Even if Tianyan said such a rude thing, he just raised his eyebrows and didn't care about it.
For Chu Si, this kind of laziness has been a long time coming, because he is a person who can't stop. Whether it is in the training camp before or after work, he likes to put himself in a super position. load edge.
It is said that Sae Young is an unrelated person, in fact, Chu Si is the same in a sense.
Before the age of 8, there was a rope on his body, and the only reason to support him to live well was that rope-he wanted to leave the orphanage, stay far away, until the orphanage could no longer bind him and could never find him again. he.
Then he met Jiang Qi and left the orphanage, and the original rope was broken.
Later, Jiang Qi teased him and said, "My son will become an adult and work, but he is so boring and doesn't like to talk. What should I do? It's good to have time to boost it. I'll have to wait for fifty or sixty years to see what you will do. What will it become, learn something from me." So Chu Si pulled a new rope, thinking that he would live at least fifty or sixty years in peace, so that Jiang Qi could see it.
As a result, Jiang Qi died.
For a long time, Chu Si never believed that Jiang Qi was really dead, because he didn't see the bones. As long as he didn't see the corpse with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe that Jiang Qi was dead. So the rope that held him lingered on for many years.
His ten years in the sanatorium were the biggest changes. When he first entered the sanatorium, he was sullen and self-closed. By the time he left the sanatorium, the thorns all over his body had already gathered up, and he was covered with a layer of hard bones. pouch.
Once you have this skin, subsequent changes are much easier. Entering the training camp, leaving the training camp, becoming a training officer, entering the security building... Little by little, he wrapped himself into what he is now, and that rope contributed greatly.
It's just that as more and more things were learned later, Jiang Qi's death was directly or indirectly confirmed countless times, especially when he watched the last hope was blown to dust.
He has learned to lie with his eyes open to play word games with others, but he can never fool himself.
So the rope also quietly broke.
He could only keep his feet off the ground, because once he stopped, he would find that he was already empty.
So at the moment, this lazy but not empty state is even a little surprised and inexplicable to him.
Maybe it's because "tracking the impostor" has become a string that implicates him, and the tracking has a clue, and he doesn't need to spend a lot of time, just sit back and wait? Maybe it was the faces in the base that he hadn't seen for many years that brought him back to the state he was in training camp? Maybe... Is it that Sae Young, who has been in opposition for many years, is temporarily on the same line with him
do not know…
Chu Si didn't want to think about it now. He propped his chin and planned to enjoy this feeling of laziness.
Ding-
"Remote sync completed."
Tianyan made a sound again, Chu Si hooked the corner of his mouth, and praised it condescendingly: "Yes, the voice command has not been sent yet, you can already preemptively predict it."
Ding-
"After all, my body is very smart."
Chu Si said "um", "It's a pity that you are disabled now."
Sky Eye: "..."
In fact, this is quite strange, and I don't know if it's an illusion. The eyes of the sky seem to be... less and less like a disabled body.
At the moment when the synchronization was completed, the screen of the device that Chu Si was facing in front of him suddenly switched from the surveillance image around the base to the giant star map of the central castle. Of course, it's a scaled down version.
The dots of light representing the position of the planetary fragments are still covered with it, quiet but grand.
Because these light spots are not just a simple point on the image, they represent a piece of land, there may be mountains and lakes, there may be cities and towns, there may be troops, and there may be civilians.
Sae Young is right, it's a whole world.
So staring at such a star map, even if its changes are so subtle that the naked eye can't tell, will not feel bored and boring.
If it was in the past, Chu Si would just like to make a cup of coffee and sit and enjoy it.
However, before he could look at it for a few minutes, the small door of the equipment room facing the yard was pushed open.
Chu Si was stunned and saw Tang and Le Pen standing outside the door, saying, "Sir? Why are you here? Didn't you go to bed?"
Chu Si changed his position, resting his elbows on the armrests, clasped his fingers in front of him, looked at them angrily, and didn't answer.
But the answer was obvious: you rascals stuffed me into a room with Sae Young, expecting me to sleep
Tang and the others quickly realized it, smiled embarrassingly, and rubbed their hands into the equipment room.
"Didn't you guys have a good night's sleep for a long time? You haven't run out of energy after tossing for two months? What are you doing here?" Chu Si asked.
Tang glanced at the screen, "Is it really synchronized? So what, sir, I just suddenly remembered something. I wanted to come over and try it out. I'll go back to sleep after the test."
Le Pen and the others nodded: "Yes, yes, try and go back later."
Chu Si was a little curious: "Why are you so excited that you can't stay one by one?"
Tang pointed to the screen and said: "Didn't that Mr. Yang say that Barney Fort can be remotely controlled here? The signal range that Barney Fort can use is far beyond what we usually use, which means that it can be used to give some places. Send a signal, but you won't be chased after us, right?"
Chu Si nodded. This method is somewhat similar to the one who pretended to be him, but it is not exactly the same. After all, the signal sent directly from here has not been edited by the end, and it can only be a signal. , unable to issue specific instruction information.
"You know our situation. Since we entered training camp, as long as the deadline is not up, we can't have any contact with family and friends, and it's no different from... dead people." Le Pen scraped a loose lock of bangs behind his ear. , said: "The communicators we use are all processed, and we can't send messages to our homes, even sneaky ones. I have... I haven't been able to go home for 20 years, so I want Tang to try it out and give us a few homes. Send a signal over there."
Chu Si understood what they were going to do, "Where to send it?"
"Civil frozen capsules are registered when they are released. You must know this. Every household in each place has a unique code. Once it is in operation, the core part inside is equivalent to a disguised signal reflector." Tang explained.
So if they send the signal, as long as the freezer capsules at home are functioning, it will automatically reflect the signal back.
"Even so, what you can receive is just a reflected signal, without any other content." Chu Si said again.
Le Pen and the others waved their hands, "It's okay, we just have a look, it's enough to see the signal."
Chu Si stood up and stepped aside, leaned on the console, and gave them a few positions.
Tang squeezed his fingers nervously, then stared at the screen and typed a command on the console, while still keeping his mouth shut, "Tianyan? It's called Tianyan? Please help me track this signal."
The years that these people have not been able to go home are getting longer and longer, either more than ten years or more than twenty years, but they know the coding of their own frozen capsules very well, and obviously they have paid close attention to them in the dark before.
Maybe take a look through the window while the task passes by the door, maybe take the opportunity to cross the street and pass a family and friend.
After all, being alone for ten or twenty years is not something ordinary people can endure.
"And this." Le Pen also lost two strings of codes.
Then Liu, Joel, Guy.
When the signal is sent out, it is not possible to receive a response immediately, and there must be a time lag.
A few people didn't dare to breathe, and stood in front of the screen with nervous expressions, and the most uneasy task was nothing more than that.
Tang even said worriedly: "My grandmother is a little old, in case..."
Before the words were finished, a ding sound was heard.
Tianyan said in a calm electronic voice: "98163527 received the signal reflection."
Tang let out a sigh of relief in an instant, hehe laughed: "That's great."
Ding-
"81727846 received signal reflection."
"61637291 received signal reflection."
…
They all relaxed as several notifications sounded. After all, he has been an adult for a long time, and he is as excited as a kid who cheated on candy, squeezing and laughing.
"Then... we went back sir." Liu first greeted Chu Si, rubbed the back of his neck and walked outside the equipment room.
Then Le Pen, Don, Joel…
When Guy went out, he suddenly remembered something, turned back to Chu Si with a smile and said, "By the way, sir, you can also try sending a signal to the family."
Chu Si was stunned for a moment, and his fingers randomly moved an end line.
What's going on? Who to send it to? The only person who could count as his family was long gone.
He has no one to post and no one to respond to.
Chu Si frowned, and when he looked up at them, his expression had returned to normal, "I don't need it."
Those few were stunned for a moment, their footsteps stopped in place, and looked at Chu Si with some embarrassment.
They said a lot about Chu Si, not much, and they basically stayed at the amount of information they heard from the training camp. Chu Si himself is not a person who likes to talk to people, and he will not talk to people about private matters for no reason, so they do not know that Chu Si's background is normal.
Several people were looking guilty and embarrassed and didn't know what to say. Chu Si had already waved at them and laughed: "Let's go, go to sleep, it's too noisy for you."
"Sorry sir..." Guy finished speaking, glanced at him, made sure there was no unpleasant expression on his face, and then walked around the yard with a few others to the small doors of their respective rooms.
As soon as the door of the equipment room was closed, those footsteps and whispers were shut out, and the entire space was instantly silent.
Chu Si lowered his eyes and leaned against the stage for a long time in silence.
Ding-
"No new signal was detected for three minutes, and the signal transmitter is about to shut down."
Ding-
"Countdown to 10 seconds, 10-9-8-"
Chu Si's fingers moved suddenly, moved to the number key area, and typed a series of numbers key by key.
That string of numbers is not a code for frozen capsules. After all, in the years when Jiang Qi was still alive, frozen capsules had not been designed and produced. That is the communication code of Jiang Qi's personal light mecha as a lieutenant general of the military.
After he transferred from the mecha warhead to the research department, although the mecha was not taken back, it was never used seriously, but was buckled on his wrist as a bracelet, and he always forgot to wear it.
But he remembered to bring it on the day of the accident, so the bracelet was blown to ashes with him.
Chu Si saw the video at that time in a later confidential document, and it was really... completely broken.
That string of communication codes was not used a few times when I memorized it back then. After all, I could use a communicator to find Jiang Qi. Decades have passed, and he still remembers that string of numbers.
He himself thought he had forgotten.
Ding-
"Received a new signal, ready to launch."
When the voice of Tianyan reappeared, Chu Si had already sat back in the chair. He stared at the screen and waited for a while, until five minutes later, Tianyan opened his mouth again.
Ding-
"No echo was found in the search, do you continue to try?"
Chu Si raised his eyes and said, "Forget it, don't try, that's it."
Ding-
"You seem to be in a low mood, and the smart Sky Eye system is here to serve you sincerely."
Chu Si laughed: "If you talk too much, it will be dismantled. I'm a little sleepy, close your eyes and rest for a while, you can monitor and keep an eye on it, remember to raise the alarm if there is a situation, the louder the better."
Ding-
"Instructions received."
Chu Si leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes.
In the end, God probably loved him and couldn't get along with him. When he was in a daze and hadn't completely fallen asleep, a severe headache swept through him, and the pain caused him to frown suddenly. If it's just a headache, that's all, but even the stomach starts to burn.
He opened his eyes, feeling dry and hot.
Chu Si: "..." After drinking the nutritional supplements for so many years, I haven't suffered a few side effects, but this time it happened, and I really pick the time.
Eight hours of side effects, nesting here is simply asking for torture.
Chu Si didn't even think about it, he stood up with a livid face, and walked towards the bedroom despite the pain.
By the time he walked across the living room to the bed, he was very top-heavy.
Sae, who was lying on the side of the bed, didn't move, probably still awake. Chu Si didn't care too much, he pushed him inside, and said vaguely: "Sae, Sae, you step aside."