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When the five returned to the base, Joel and Guy were taking the ugly pot off the electric stove in the so-called living room. Guy was still holding a bowl-like thing in his hand, probably from the boiling pot. Something was scooped out of the pot, and it was steaming.

"Hey, I came back just in time. The nutritional soup has just been cooked, how is the situation?" Guy raised the bowl in his hand to Tang, who was the first to enter the door, "We suddenly received another warning before, but we haven't reacted yet Well, it was automatically released. Joel and I guess it should be what you did there."

Tang shook his head, nodded again and said, "Yes, that's right, but the three of us didn't solve it."

After he entered the door, he made way to the side, making way for the people behind him.

"Is it the officer's help? That's normal." Guy said as a matter of course.

Tang dryly said: "Half is the officer, and the other half... It's a long story."

While he was talking, Le Pen and Liu had already entered the room, then Chuss, and then...

Guy and Joel stared blankly, looking at the last strange man who entered the room. The man had a handsome face and was tall. He even lowered his head when he entered the door. Lean.

It's just that the color of the eyes is too light, so light that it feels cold and dangerous.

He looked a little lazy, and he didn't intend to introduce himself after entering the room. He just casually scanned the furnishings in the room.When their eyes slipped past Joel and Guy, they stood up straight unconsciously, a little nervous for no reason.

Joel put the pot on the table beside 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 had simply reported his name: "His name is Sae Yang, and he came here to borrow a place to sleep."

Don and the others: "..."

Joel shook the hand holding the earlobe, and there was a tearing pain in the earlobe, so that the baby face twitched, looking a little funny, and he asked in a daze: "Who?"

He wanted to say: Isn't that Sae Young?Same name, same surname?Maybe a different middle name?

However, in the next second, he noticed the black gold armband.

bang-

The bowl in Guy's hand accidentally dropped to the ground, and the hot soup splashed all over his feet.

Saye Young?

Why is Sah Young here?

Damn, shouldn't he be in a space prison? !

Say Yang, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. He looked at Joel and Guy, and commented: "You guys welcome a very special lineup. I can see that you must be very happy."

Guy: "..." Is this person still shameless?

Tang finally gave a dry laugh 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's expressions became even weirder.

After all, they really couldn't imagine that Say Yang would help them one day. To be precise, they never thought that they would have an intersection with someone like Say Yang in this life.

Sae Yang 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, Say Yang raised an eyebrow.

Joel suddenly opened his mouth and tried to speak: "...Thank you?"

Sae Young's raised eyebrows lowered again.

Only then did the other people come to their senses, cleared their throats in embarrassment, and added, "Thank you."

Although they never thought that they would say this word to Say Yang one day, they said it very willingly at the moment. After all, although this is a legendary demon leader, he did help a lot. It is no exaggeration to say that they saved their lives.

The smelly and shameless Mr. Yang never cared much about what other people think, only cared about his own mood.He was in a good mood at the moment, so he was still very comfortable in this neither awkward nor awkward atmosphere. He snorted vaguely and replied casually: "You are much better than your Chief Chu, and Chief Chu often puts the Say thank you after someone gets mad or hits someone hard.”

Chu Si glanced at him, did not refute, but said calmly: "To each other."

Everyone's faces became even more paralyzed: "..."

"Okay." Chus jumped out two words and forcibly ended the suffocating welcome steps. He waved his hands at several people, "What should you do, Guy, are you still planning to let your feet rest on the ground?" How long did you marinate in the nutritional soup?"

Hearing this, Guy yelled as if he had just woken up from a dream, and jumped towards the room, "Joel help clean up, I'll go and apply some medicine."

Le Pen and Liu piled all the discarded materials they brought back to the corner, "Let's get up and melt them all, and build two more rooms, obviously they can't live in now."

"Okay, let's put it first, the module printer is in my room, but it needs to cool down for a while, and it is easy to burn if it is used too often." Joel said and hugged a pile of containers on the table that could barely serve as cups and bowls. , turned his head and asked while distributing the nutritional decoction: "Sir? Do you need some?"

"Come on." Le Pen added, "It's not even dawn, it's better if you keep running, but once you sit down and lie down for a while, it will start to get cold. It's no good if you don't drink some of this." Can't sleep."

This nutritional decoction is an enhanced version of the concentrated nutritional tablets that Chus found earlier. A small piece can be boiled in a pot, but it is time-consuming, and it takes patience to cook it thoroughly.It is no problem to drink a bowl and live for two months.

In addition to the nutrients needed to maintain life, this thing is better than ordinary food because it can keep out the cold for a long time.

The disadvantage is that there are also 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 weak physical fitness are prone to these side effects. As for those from the training camp like Chus, in most cases there is no reaction after eating.

Chu Si took two bowls of soup from Joel, and handed a bowl to Sah Yang.

There were not many people in the living room, so Chus sat down in a sunken chair nearby.Sae Yang looked too lazy to move, and didn't look for a new chair, but simply leaned on the armrest of Chusi's chair.

Chuss: "...you are really thrifty." There are so many empty chairs to sit on.

It was rare for Say Yang not to stop the conversation, but just let out a lazy "hmm".

Truss glanced at him.

Maybe it's because the room doesn't have bright lights like the central castle, the light is dim, maybe it's because Sahel is lowering his gaze, he actually looks a little sleepy.

The occurrence of sleepiness in Sae Yang is too rare. In the eyes of those who know him, he never seems to be tired, and he always looks so lazy but brave, without sleeping all day. This is the case, and it is still the case without sleep for several days and nights.

It seems that he can really stay awake for as long as he needs to stay awake, even whether he sleeps or not depends on his mood.

So in the Central Fort, when Sah Young suddenly said that he needed to sleep, Chus thought he had other plans and just used sleep as an excuse.Now it seems that this is not the case...

Chus felt strange in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He only glanced at Say Young a few times while drinking the soup.

But Say Yang didn't seem to notice it at all. He only drank the bowl of nutritional soup in two or three gulps, then frowned and said, "The taste is really indescribable."

Once there was an expression on his face, the faintly revealing sleepiness was covered up.

Neither Joel nor Le Pen dared to sit down in the chairs, but leaned against the table and stood in a row, raising their heads to suffocate their share, wiping the corners of their mouths. He said with a dry smile, "Yeah, the manufacturing company hasn't thought about improving the taste for so many years, so just, let's take it as medicine."

After finishing speaking, Joel scooped up two more bowls of soup and slipped into the room: "I will save two for that little Mr. Braid and that little girl first."

"Huh? What happened to them?" Chus 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 big wounds, and they are a bit strong. He couldn't hold back the stamina after wiping it on, and fell asleep on the bed with his buttocks pouted, and the little girl fell asleep lying on the bedside too. , I guess I haven't slept well for a few days before." Joel said, then stumbled into the house, and then never came out again.

Tang hurried into the equipment room, not sure if he really wanted to do something, or if he just wanted to get out of the living room.

It took only ten seconds to go back and forth, and only Le Pen was left in the living room without any excuse to escape.

Le Pen moved his lips and cursed silently, intending to turn around and find an opportunity to cut those bastards who were hiding from trouble, then suddenly raised his head and gave Chus a smirk, and said in a seemingly very casual tone: "By the way As you know, sir, there are only five rooms in total, and we haven't been able to vacate one room after a long time of calculation, so we can only wrong you and Mr. Yang, and I'm very sorry for your patience."

She didn't catch her breath, and after she said this quickly, she was afraid that the two of them would react, and quickly rubbed her head: "Oh, I'm so sleepy that my head hurts, sir, Mr. Yang, I'm going back to my room first. "

After speaking, she almost ran back to the room in a hurry.

Tang, who had been in the equipment room for less than a minute, tiptoed out through the small external door, walked around the yard, and entered the room where Joel slept through the separate small door.

The sound of clicking doors sounded one after another, and the doors of those bedrooms were closed almost in the blink of an eye.

Chus: "..."

He was stunned for a second, then smiled angrily, and continued to drink the last sip of soup while still leaning on the sunken chair, before saying: "Thanks to Mr. Yang, I have also become a scourge just like you gone."

Sae Yang stood up and threw the container that looked like a bowl or a cup back on the table, while flexing his neck and bones, he lowered his eyes and said to Chu Si: "You should have been used to this situation for a long time, haven't you? Or... need me to apologize to you to appease you?"

Chus unceremoniously handed him the empty bowl in his hand, "There's no need to apologize."

Saye glanced at the empty bowl stuffed in his hand, then glanced at Chus, raised his eyebrows, and threw the empty bowl back to the table without saying anything.

Chus stood up and went to the bedroom to take a look. The doors of several connected bedrooms were closed, and only the bedroom closest to the living room was still vacant, 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, which is not too narrow, and it will not be crowded for two people to sleep.Tang was supposed to live in this room, and there were backpacks piled up in the corner, as well as some equipment and materials that he dismantled from nowhere, maybe he was trying to assemble something.

That backpack is very familiar to Truss or Sahe. You don’t need to open it to know what it will look like inside. It must contain all kinds of things that are necessary for survival in the wild and emergency, and are indispensable when performing various tasks. handy tool.

In the past, Chus also had this habit. When he was outside, this kind of bag would never be opened, and the things in it would still be put back in place when they were used up, just so that they could be picked up and left in case of emergencies.

Almost everyone who has spent time in training camp will develop this habit, which is a behavioral reflection of constant vigilance.

Except Sae Young.

When he is in a good mood and interested, he will pack a backpack and honestly bring all kinds of things for emergencies.Most of the time, he is too lazy to carry this burden.

Just like when he landed in the black cedar forest before, Sae Yang always carried only a handful of things with him——

For example, Chu Si didn't know whether the single-person jump capsule that was taken out of the prison was thrown away after it was used up, or whether it had been destroyed and discarded.Another example is the oxygen mask, the communicator thrown in his pocket, some portable weapons... just such things, he can still throw them away while walking.

When there is a lack of tools, just pick up some usable things from the surroundings and modify them.

This can be regarded as taking laziness to the extreme, and I am almost dying of laziness.

However, his fate is very hard. No matter how difficult the environment to survive, no matter how dangerous the situation is, he can finally walk out of it, even unscathed in many cases, so strong that it is simply incomprehensible.

So whether it was taking the field courses of the White Eagle Military Academy in the nursing home or simulating extreme missions in the training camp, everyone who got a job with Say Young always had mixed feelings.

They were afraid of Sah Yang's danger, but they had unlimited confidence in his ability.

Saye also came after Chusi, leaning against the door and blocking the bedroom door tightly.

He glanced roughly at the layout, and his eyes fell on the corner of the bed beside the bed. There was also a round chair there, which was padded with cotton material, which could barely be used as a single sofa.

"Whose house is this?" Sae Yang raised his index finger, pointed at the unopened backpacks, piles of equipment, and round chairs one by one, and lazily said: "High vigilance, frizzy and lazy, love to enjoy... Ah, I see, the little fool who stepped on the empty stairs and knelt in front of me."

Chus 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 against the bed and said, "No one will give you a prize for guessing correctly. The bed is here. If you want to sleep, go to sleep."

Say Yang raised his eyebrows: "What? Are you going to give me the bed?"

Chus originally wanted to stop him, but when the words came out, he suddenly thought of the sleepiness that flashed across Sahel's face in the living room just now, swallowed the words back by a ghost, and only said lightly: "I am in the space prison. After sleeping for a while, you are not too sleepy now, you..."

Maybe it was because Saye's expression was weird for a moment, Chu Si paused, and added after thinking about it: "You'd better hurry up, when I'm really sleepy, I don't guarantee that you can lie on the bed well .”

After finishing speaking, he rubbed Say Yang's shoulders and walked out of the bedroom again. After taking two steps, he turned his head and knocked on the door frame again as if remembering something.

Saye, who was walking towards the bed, turned to look at him, "Are you regretting it again?"

Chu Si said: "I'm not going to regret it so quickly, but did you miss something, Mr. Yang who is very polite?"

Say Yang was taken aback for a moment, then let out a long "oh" again: "Thank you?"

Chu calmly accepted: "You're welcome."

Sahe's eyes were bent, and with a playful smile, he touched the back of his waist and threw the Tianyan core board to Chusi: "Connect it to the device here."

Chus casually knocked on the door frame again as an answer, then walked through the living room without looking back, and entered the equipment room.

The door to Say Young's side was never closed. When Chus sat down in the chair in the equipment room, he could still hear a little movement there, but it didn't take long for the movement to disappear.

Although the houses on the base were built with mini-module printers, they are considered quick emergency houses, but the quality is not bad, at least the sound insulation is very good.Once Say Yang's side became quiet, the entire base fell silent, only the oxygen generator embedded in the corner of the wall was still working, making a low "humming" sound.

Chus glanced at the core disk in his hand, and connected it to the central port of the console in the equipment room.

Ding--

Tianyan: "Finally remembered me."

The electronic sound is not too loud, after all, this is not a space prison, there are not so many microphones.But in such a quiet environment, it was still a bit abrupt.Chus frowned slightly, after thinking about it, he stood up and closed the door of the equipment room.

"Can you still receive voice commands normally?" Chus sat down in the chair again, propped his elbows on the armrest and supported his chin, and knocked on the sky eye with the other hand.

He said he wasn't sleepy, but in fact he didn't sleep for long in the space prison. After such a toss, 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 felt a little lazy, and even when Tianyan said such ill-advised words, he just raised his eyebrows and didn't care about it.

This feeling of laziness has not been seen for a long time for Chu Si, because he is a person who can't stop. edge of the load.

It is said that Say Young is an unconnected person, in fact, Chus is the same in a sense.

Before he was 8 years old, 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 no longer find him. to him.

Then he met Jiang Qi, left the orphanage, and the original rope was broken.

Later, Jiang Qi teased him and said: "My son is an adult, and he is so dull after work. What should I do? I need a time propeller. I have to wait five or sixty years to see how you will change. Whatever it is, at least learn something from me." So Chu Si pulled a new rope around his body, thinking that he would live at least five or sixty years safely, so that Jiang Qi could have a look.

As a result, Jiang Qi died.

For a long time, Chu Si never believed that Jiang Qi was really dead, because he did not see the bones.As long as he didn't see the bones with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe that Jiang Qi was dead.So the rope that held him lingered for many years.

He changed the most in those ten years in the nursing home. When he first entered the nursing home, he was gloomy and reticent and self-closing. Skin.

Once this skin is in place, subsequent changes are much easier.Entering the training camp, leaving the training camp, becoming a training officer, entering the security building... He has wrapped himself up into what he is now, thanks to that rope.

It's just that as more and more things became known later, Jiang Qi's death was directly or indirectly confirmed countless times, especially when he watched the last hope being blown to ashes.

He learned to talk nonsense with his eyes open to play word games with others, but he could never fool himself.

So the rope also quietly broke.

He can only keep himself busy, because once he stops, he will find that he is already completely empty.

So the current state of being lazy but not empty even surprised and inexplicable to himself.

Maybe it's because "tracking the impostor" has become a thin rope that implicates him, and the tracking has a clue again, and he doesn't need to go through a lot of trouble and just sit on the sidelines?Maybe it's the faces on the base he hasn't seen in years that bring him back to the way he was in training camp?Maybe... Sah Yang, who has been at odds with him for many years, is standing on the same line with him for the time being?

do not know……

Chus didn't want to think about it now, he propped his chin, intending to enjoy this feeling of laziness.

Ding--

"Remote sync completed."

Tianyan made a sound again, and Chu Si hooked the corner of his mouth, and condescendingly praised it: "Yes, the voice command hasn't been issued yet, and you can already predict it first."

Ding--

"After all, my body is very smart."

Chu Si said "hmm", "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, but Tianyan seems... less and less like a disabled body.

The moment the synchronization was completed, the screen of the device that Chus was facing suddenly switched from the surveillance images around the base to the giant screen star map of the central fort.Of course, it's a scaled down version.

The dots of light representing the positions of the planet fragments are still all over it, quiet but grand.

Because these points of light are not just a simple point on the image, they represent a piece of land, which may have mountains, lakes, cities and towns, troops, or civilians.

Sae Young is right, this is a whole world.

So staring at such a star map, even if its changes are so subtle that the naked eye cannot distinguish it, it will not feel boring and boring.

In the past, Chus would have wanted to make a cup of coffee and sit and enjoy it.

However, he hadn't watched it for a few minutes before 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, and said, "Sir? Why are you here? Didn't you go to sleep?"

Truss changed his posture, resting his elbows on the armrest and clasping his fingers in front of him, looking at them angrily without answering.

But the answer is obvious: You bastards put me in a room with Thay Young and expect me to sleep?

Tang and the others quickly understood, smiled mischievously, rubbed their hands together and entered the equipment room.

"Haven't you guys had a good night's sleep for a long time? You haven't exhausted your energy after two months of tossing? What are you doing here?" Chu Si asked.

Tang glanced at the screen, "Is it really synchronized? Then what, sir, I just remembered something suddenly, I want to come over and try if it works, and go back to sleep after the test."

Le Pen and the others nodded: "Yes, yes, try it, and go back later."

Chu Si was a little curious: "Why are you so excited that you can't stay alone?"

Tang pointed to the screen and said, "Didn't that Mr. Yang say that Barney Fort can be controlled remotely here? Send a signal, but you won't be chased after us, right?"

Chus nodded. This method is a bit similar to that of the person pretending to be him, but it is not the same. After all, the signal sent directly from here has not been edited by the terminal, and it can only be a signal. At most, it can be tested , unable to issue specific instruction information.

"You know our situation. Since entering the training camp, as long as the time limit is not up, you can't have any contact with your family and friends. It's no different from... a dead person." Le Pen scraped a loose lock of bangs to his ear Finally, he said: "The communicators we use are all processed, and we can't send messages to the family, and sneaky ones are not allowed. I have... I haven't been able to go home for 20 years, so I want Tang to try it and give us a few Send a signal over there."

Truss understood what they were going to do, "Where are they going?"

"Civil frozen capsules are registered when they are released. You must know this. Every household in every place has a unique code. Once it is in operation, the core part inside is equivalent to a signal reflector in disguise." Tang explained.

So if they send a signal, as long as the frozen capsules at home are working, the signal will be automatically reflected back.

"Even so, what you can receive is only a reflected signal, without any other content." Chu Si said again.

Le Pen and the others waved their hands, "It's okay, we just take a look, and seeing the signal is enough."

Truss stood up and stepped aside, leaning on the console, making room for them.

Tang squeezed his fingers a little nervously, then stared at the screen and typed a command on the console. At the same time, he did not forget to stop his mouth, "Sky Eye? Is it called Sky Eye? Excuse me, please do me a favor and track down this signal."

They have been unable to go home for more and more years, not more than ten years or more than twenty years, but they know the code of their own frozen capsules well, and obviously they have been paying attention in the dark before.

Maybe I will take a look through the window when the task passes by the door of the house, or I may take the opportunity of crossing the street to pass by a family member or friend.

After all, being alone for more than ten or twenty years is not something ordinary people can bear.

"And this." Le Pen also entered two strings of codes.

Then Liu, Joel, Guy.

It is not immediately possible to receive a response when a signal is sent out, there must be a time lag.

A few people dared not breathe, and stood in front of the screen with nervous faces. The most disturbing task was nothing more than that.

Tang even said worriedly: "My grandmother is a bit old, just in case..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a ding.

Tianyan said in a calm electronic voice: "98163527 received a signal reflection."

Tang heaved a sigh of relief for a moment, and laughed: "That's great."

Ding--

"81727846 received signal reflection."

"61637291 received signal reflection."

……

As several notification sounds sounded one after another, they all relaxed.At any rate, they have grown up for a long time, and they are as excited as a kid who has cheated candy, huddling together and having fun.

"Then... we're going back, sir." Liu greeted Chu Si first, and walked out of the equipment room rubbing the back of his neck.

Then Le Pen, Don, Joel...

When Guy went out, he suddenly remembered something, smiled and turned to Chu Si and said, "By the way, sir, you can also try to send a signal to your home."

Chus was in a daze for a moment, and his fingers casually flicked an end line.

What are you sending?To whom?The only person who could count as his family was long gone.

He has no one to send, and no one will respond.

Chu Si frowned, and when he looked up at the few of them, his expression had returned to normal, "I don't need it."

Those few people were all taken aback, their footsteps stopped in place, and they looked at Chu Si with some embarrassment.

They didn't know a lot about Chus, and they didn't say much. 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 about personal affairs with others without reason, so they don't know that Chu Si's life experience is normal.

A few people were feeling guilty and embarrassed and didn't know what to say. Chu Si had already waved at them and said with a smile: "Let's go, go to bed quickly, it's too noisy for you."

"Sorry, sir..." After Guy finished speaking, he glanced at him to make sure that there was no displeasure on his face, and then walked around the yard with the others to the small door of their respective rooms.

As soon as the door of the equipment room was closed, those footsteps and whispers were shut out, and the whole space was instantly quiet.

Chu Si lowered his eyes and leaned against the stage in silence for a long time.

Ding--

"No new signal has been detected within 3 minutes, and the signal transmitter is about to be closed."

Ding--

"Countdown 10 seconds, 10—9—8—"

Chusi's finger moved suddenly, moved to the number keypad area, and typed a series of numbers key by key.

That string of numbers is not the code for frozen capsules. After all, frozen capsules had not been designed and produced in the years when Jiang Qi was still alive.That was the communication code of Jiang Qi's personal light mecha as a lieutenant general in the army.

After he transferred from the war department of the mecha to the research department, although the mecha was not taken back, it was never used seriously again. Instead, he put it on his wrist as a bracelet and always forgot to wear it.

But he remembered to bring it on the day of the accident, so the bracelet was blown to ashes together with him.

Truss saw the video at that time in the later confidential documents, it was really... completely broken.

That string of communication codes was memorized and didn't come in handy a few times. After all, Jiang Qi could use a communicator.Decades have passed, but he still remembers that string of numbers.

He himself thought he had forgotten.

Ding--

"New signal received, ready to launch."

When the voice of Tianyan appeared again, Chu Si had already sat back in the chair. He stared at the screen and waited for a while, until 5 minutes later, Tianyan opened his mouth again.

Ding--

"There is no response from the search, do you want to continue trying?"

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 sincerely serving you."

Chu Si laughed: "If you talk too much, you will be dismantled. I'm a little sleepy. Close your eyes and rest for a while. You monitor and watch. If there is a situation, remember to call the alarm. The louder the better."

Ding--

"Instructions received."

Truss sat back in his chair and closed his eyes.

As a result, God probably loves to have trouble with him. When he was drowsy and still not fully asleep, a burst of unbearable headache swept over him, and the throbbing pain caused him to frown violently.If it's just a headache, it's fine, but even the stomach began to burn.

He opened his eyes, feeling dry and hot.

Chu Si: "..." After drinking nutritional supplements for so many years, I haven't suffered a few side effects, but this time it happened, I really pick the timing.

Eight hours of side effects, lying here is simply asking for torture.

Whether or not Chus thought about it, he stood up with a livid face, enduring the pain and walking towards the bedroom.

He was very top-heavy when he walked across the living room to the bed.

Saye, who was lying on his side on the bed, didn't move, and he probably wasn't awake yet.Chu Si didn't care too much, pushed him inside, and said vaguely: "Sah, Sah, get out of the way."