Want to have an AA love affair? (3): All the confused classmates

Si Qi was 047? !

The citizens of the Empire who clearly understood this went crazy!!

They never thought that the warrior who they had been looking for for so long but had no clues about, whose strength overwhelmed the entire universe and who was crazy and strong in a fight, was actually right in front of them, and so close to them!!

Even this warrior was being ridiculed by the entire network not long ago. He was recognized by everyone as a good-for-nothing, incompetent, materialistic, and weak omega!

Everyone finally awakened because of his coming of age and realized that everything in the past was a misunderstanding. They knew that Si Qi was not as bad as the outside world believed, and that he was actually very powerful.

And then in the next second, this young seedling that everyone had high expectations for, a kind face and was determined to be well taken care of in the future, suddenly transformed again and became the pillar and cosmic-class strongman that everyone had always looked up to and admired!

Confused.

The only way to describe the mood of the people in front of the screen at this moment was: confused!

The classmate who was thrown into a corner of the cockpit by Si Qi couldn’t see the whole picture of the mecha. He said stupidly: “Si Qi, you actually have a mecha, yes… With your family’s financial resources, it’s not surprising that you bought a mecha for protection.”

As he spoke, through the external perspective inside the cockpit, he could easily see the dumbfounded expressions of his teammates thousands of meters below, as well as their constantly opening and closing lips.

“Zero…Si(4)…Qi(7)”

The student subconsciously read it out and asked in confusion: “They are calling you?”

But he always felt like something was not right…

Even if he saw Si Qi summon the mecha, they wouldn’t have such an expression. Rather than being surprised, it was like ecstasy!

As they were talking, the student noticed that the cockpit was unexpectedly spacious. It was not at all like the regular Imperial mechas which were so cramped that they could only fit a control panel. It could even be said to be incredibly spacious!

It was like a room!

Moreover, Si Qi’s operating method was different from the standard mecha on Earth. A deep blue halo was suspended above Si Qi’s head, and it was not connected to the nerves behind his neck.

The mecha moved rapidly under Si Qi’s control. The student subconsciously held his head tightly to resist the impact. In panic, one eye popped out from the gap in his arm and looked at the strange perspective outside the screen. He thought to himself that this was not an operation that a humanoid mecha could perform!

More like a beast!!

What kind of mecha would perform this kind of combat action?

He seemed to have seen it… He must have seen it!

It was in class that the teacher edited a battle video of a certain big shot and used it as teaching material to carefully study and learn with the students…

It was a big guy named 047…

047…

47…

47? !!

The student was shocked and blurted out: “God 7?!”

Si Qi controlled the mecha and cut off the throat of the giant beast. He flew into the sky and used the “little gift” given to him by the girl, that is, the super-powered electromagnetic laser, to instantly clear the flock of birds and beasts with a diameter of nearly 10,000 meters in the sky. He passed through the layer of burnt ashes and came directly to the side of the spaceship, and met the soldiers inside who were almost shocked.

“God 7?! Is it really you, god 7?!”

The student behind him completely forgot that his leg was broken. He sat on the ground with a flushed face and waved his arms wildly, so excited that he almost forgot his current situation.

The communications officer in the spaceship connected the channel link to Si Qi. His voice sounded a little confused and a little excited, and he stammered: “Si Si Si, classmate Si Qi – are you the god 7?!!!”

Si Qi: “It’s me.”

“Hiss——”

A short hissing sound was heard, followed by an “Ahhhh” sound not far away. Chu Feng told his blushing subordinates to shut up and said to Si Qi, “How are you now?”

Si Qi said simply: “Safe.”

Chu Feng felt relieved: “I’m going to pick up the candidates next, you——”

Perhaps understanding Chu Feng’s hesitation, Si Qi asked directly: “Is there anything I can do?”

Chu Feng breathed a sigh of relief, and without being polite to Si Qi, his “netizen” and “collaborator”, he said directly: “The spaceship will send soldiers to pick up the students. You help us stop those beasts.”

Si Qi: “Received.”

After reaching a cooperation, Chu Feng’s subordinates contacted the studio where the adult exam was broadcast live again under Chu Feng’s instructions. The host there looked a little flustered, but his tone was still professional. He asked calmly: “What’s the situation over there?”

The subordinate spoke quickly, “We have preliminarily determined that a psychic beast has controlled the creatures on the planet to attack. This is an emergency, not part of the assessment! The candidate attacked by the beast is a third-year student at the Capital Academy. He just controlled the mecha to destroy the flock of birds to help us solve the landing problem, and he is about to cooperate with us to stop the beast and rescue the trapped students!”

After hearing this, the host and the audience couldn’t wait to ask the question they wanted to ask the most: “Excuse me, is Si Qi the Galaxy Empire-047 on StarWars?”

This question involved privacy, and it shouldn’t be asked at this time in front of everyone in the empire. But in the public eye, with hundreds of millions of eyes watching, what privacy was there?

Now they just wanted to know whether the powerful man from the Empire that everyone was looking for was Si Qi, the senior high school student who “showed his potential” last night!

The subordinate hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, “Yes, it’s him.”

Oh my God——!!

The host’s stunned face showed the words that the audience across the country were thinking at that moment.

There were a hundred questions in his mind, but the host restrained himself and shouted as the audience became more and more excited: “I wish you all the best!”

The subordinate nodded and hung up the call in a hurry. Then he took the manuscript written by another comrade and turned on the communication loudspeaker on the spaceship, and announced to the planet below in an orderly manner: “This is an emergency, not a drill. I repeat, this is an emergency, not a drill! All candidates please be prepared and find the nearest safe place to take shelter. There will be…”

Below, the people who had stopped walking upon hearing the sound looked up. One of the students suddenly pointed at the top of his head excitedly: “Look! Is that God 7?!”

“What? Aaaaah! God 7?! That is the mecha of the god 7!!”

“Why is god 7 here?!”

Several soldiers landed from the spaceship in the sky, and they quickly came to the students and buckled the equipment for landing on the spaceship on several students. Not far from them, Si Qi was clearing out the beasts who were trying to take the students hostage. Both sides silently and quickly carried out their work.

Several students were completely unable to control their excitement. They knew the situation was critical, but they couldn’t help but blush and said to the soldiers in front of them, “Is it god 7? Is it god 7? God 7 is indeed a member of the Legion, right?”

There was no boy who aspired to be an alpha who did not admire 047, just like there was no omega who did not admire Si Qi.

Several soldiers didn’t know how to answer, so they simply chose to remain silent. After installing the equipment for several students, they sent them to the direction of the spaceship.

On the way, a large bird that had been hiding suddenly swooped over. Its wings were more than ten meters long when spread out, easily covering the sky above the students’ heads, leaving only darkness.

The huge and sharp bird beak bit hard at the bodies of several people. The students looked nervous and reflexively drew their weapons to resist.

The next second, a huge and graceful silver-blue sword flew across their eyes, bringing up a strong wind and slamming the giant bird away. It disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The mecha controlled by Si Qi was suspended in the air and looked at the students calmly, then continued to follow the soldiers to the location of the next student team.

Just this one look almost made the students faint with excitement: “Ahhhh!! God 7 is looking at me!! God 7 is looking at me!!!”

The students, who were sitting on the equipment and had to continue flying towards the spaceship, were so excited that their faces flushed, they screamed heartbreakingly, and soon burst into tears of joy.

Seeing this scene, the audience outside the screen couldn’t tell whether they were jealous or helpless. They could only watch silently as batches of students were sent back to the spaceship one after another.

The rescue operation lasted for an hour. Perhaps they realized that the beasts in the assessment planet were no match for Si Qi, who was riding a top-level mecha. The rioting beasts gradually calmed down, looking strangely and silently in the direction of Si Qi. Although they stopped, they showed no intention of giving up, as if they were brewing a bigger conspiracy, which made everyone in front of the screen shudder.

Since the beasts were immobile, Si Qi’s military suppression was no longer that important. The army changed its rescue strategy, deploying soldiers in mechas to various places to disperse and search for the students, while Si Qi returned to the spaceship to wait.

At this moment, quite a few students had gathered in the spaceship. Many of them missed the key opportunity for evolution because of this sudden incident. At this moment, their faces were terribly gloomy and ugly, and they could explode at the slightest trigger. The atmosphere was very depressing.

Students from different colleges followed instructions and stood in line according to their schools, calling out each other’s names to confirm the number of people present.

The students of the Capital College stood together, and many of them subconsciously looked for the whereabouts of “Celebrity Si Qi”. They could tell at a glance that the guy who always stood out was not here, and laughed: “I’m afraid that guy is dead.”

“His teammates are all here, but he is the only one missing. It is very likely that something happened to him.”

After hearing these words, several people in Si Qi’s team had very strange expressions on their faces. The people around them couldn’t tell what their expressions meant for a moment, and continued to talk to themselves. They urgently needed an outlet for their emotions, so they casually said to them as usual: “It must be hard to be in the same team with that kind of stuff. Did you do anything to him behind his back? Don’t show that expression, everyone knows that you are doing good things to eliminate harm for the people!”

“I’d say this assessment was really unlucky. It’s disgusting enough that I was in the same class as that shameless person, and I encountered something that I haven’t encountered in hundreds of years. Do you think Si Bitch brought his bad luck with him?”

“Maybe those beasts went berserk because they smelled the stench of that bastard.”

“Haha! You’re right!”

A group of people laughed knowingly. After hearing this, students from a dozen or so colleges and universities nearby just glanced at it, laughed it off as being quite amusing, and didn’t care at all whether it was right for this group of people to insult another person of the same age with such words.

The omega in Si Qi’s team clenched his fists angrily and was about to speak, but was stopped by the hot-tempered classmate. The other party shook his head, pointed at the live camera that was recording the situation here, and said meaningfully: “Let them talk, and see how long they can laugh.”

The omega was stunned for a moment, then his eyes turned subtle and he laughed, indeed he didn’t intend to stop it.

People around me continued to say, “It’s a shame for us omegas to let someone like Si Bitch become an omega.”

“That’s right. I’m different. I want to do research and join the National Academy of Sciences!”

After hearing this, an omega from the same team as Si Qi said, “So you don’t plan to marry an alpha from a wealthy family in the future, right?”

The omegas who had just spoken were stunned.

Si Qi’s teammate’s omega smiled and said, “It’s normal for omegas to marry alphas or big families nowadays. Since you have such lofty ambitions, you must not marry a rich and powerful person and live an upper-class life. Otherwise, you will become the next ‘materialist’. You must marry an ordinary person or a beta. This way, you can show how noble and selfless you are.”

The omegas around him stared at him blankly, thinking he was crazy. They couldn’t help but frown and asked, “What are you doing? Are you crazy?”

“What nonsense!”

The omega on Si Qi’s team sneered and mocked, “I am indeed crazy. I was crazy before, but now I am finally sober. You all keep saying how bad Si Qi is, but aren’t you actually doing the very things you say you dislike? If you have the ability, don’t marry someone with better conditions than you, and don’t use your omega status to marry an alpha! Then I will believe that you are really as innocent as you say you are.”

“Psycho.” A group of people rolled their eyes and said in disgust, “Your brain is abnormal to take an exam.”

“He and that bitch are on the same team. I’m afraid he might have been infected by him.”

“Oh, no wonder… I was wondering why he looked crazy, and it turns out he’s just like Si Bitch, speaking in a weird way.”

“Ignore him.”

The omega on Si Qi’s team didn’t seem angry after hearing this. He sneered a few times and said to his teammates, “I now understand how Si Qi viewed us in the past.”

The captain’s face was filled with shame: “I…”

The hot-tempered young man said impatiently: “What’s the point of saying this now? You can slowly atone for your sins later!”

Not far from this group of students, a classmate said excitedly: “Did you see it?”

“I see, I see!! Aaaaahhh!!”

The students from the capital city who were brought up by the soldiers in mechas didn’t know what was going on, and asked them in confusion: “What did you see?”

The classmate standing next to him was shaking with excitement: “It’s god 7!! God 7!!”

The student who asked the question earlier was stunned for a moment, then immediately became ecstatic: “god 7? God 7 is here?!”

The words were so loud that they were heard throughout the entire cabin. Instantly, the entire ship was agitated, and a group of children were excitedly discussing what had just happened, dancing with excitement: “I saw god 7 with my own eyes! He saved me from a giant beast!! We were only a few dozen meters apart at the time!!”

“God 7’s mecha is so cool! It’s exactly the same as seen in Star Wars, so beautiful! If I could have a mecha like that, I would die with no regrets!!”

“So god 7 is really a member of the Legion? Otherwise, how could he get here so quickly?”

“I really want to know who god 7 is! I don’t know how old he is or whether he is married. I am an adult and an omega! I will definitely give birth to the most perfect baby with god 7…”

“God 7 is so powerful, there must be many people chasing after him. So what if you are an omega? All the omegas in the empire are eager to marry him! Can god 7 see you?”

Several people in Si Qi’s team stood together silently, watching the crazy and frenzied scene in front of them. They were unexpectedly calm, as calm as a group of bystanders, out of place.

The captain sighed: “If Si Qi saw this, I wonder how he would feel.”

“It must be very complicated.” The omega said calmly: “If it were me, I would never forgive this group of people. Why would I forgive them?”

The grumpy boy stood aside with his head lowered and said nothing.

At this time, several young men standing by the window of the spaceship let out a burst of exclamations. Everyone was moved and looked over at the same time. Suddenly, their faces showed excitement and they shouted happily: “It’s god 7!”

“It’s really him!”

Si Qi sent several students he brought back with him into the cabin. These students remained in a trance and extremely excited state throughout the whole process, with an involuntary silly smile on their lips, and walked in in a daze amid the envious gazes of the people around them.

One of Chu Feng’s men hurried over, rubbing his hands excitedly, looking up at Si Qi, as if he had something to say.

Seeing this, Si Qi walked in amid the excited gazes of his peers, went to the open space that everyone had subconsciously vacated, and disarmed the mecha.

A group of people immediately held their breath, widened their eyes, clenched their fists, and stared in this direction with great excitement.

A weak current of air blew slowly past, and countless blue-white particles naturally dispersed, and the mecha was stored in the storage space in Si Qi’s earrings.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Si Qi stood quietly in the middle of the empty space, his expression calmly unchanged.

At this moment, the whole place was silent.

Everyone recognized Si Qi’s stunningly handsome face and his slender, tall, and flexible figure.

The expressions of the people who were originally excited froze, and their expressions of surprise gradually turned into confusion and anger. They subconsciously looked for the figure of god 7 in the open space, but they only found a student with a broken leg who looked a hundred times more excited than them.

Where was God 7?

Why was god 7 with this shameless bitch?

Did he do something to god 7? !

“Why is it this jerk again!”

A curse filled with disgust was uttered, which quickly triggered more people to curse maliciously.

Si Qi’s originally calm expression gradually turned cold and even depressed. On the other side of the camera, the audience of the entire empire was furious when they saw the change in Si Qi’s expression, and shouted angrily: “It is these beasts who have been framing Si Qi!!”

“Too vicious!!”

“I’m so mad!”

“Is Si Qi bothering you just by standing here? If you hate him so much, why do you let Si Qi save you just now!”

“The moral standards of this class of students are really not good!”

“Marshal Chu, please take Si Qi away quickly. I am so heartbroken!”

The soldier who came to greet Si Qi looked at the endless cursing around them in amazement, totally confused as to how things had turned out like this.

He looked at the boy who was becoming more and more withdrawn and gradually became self-contained. He couldn’t stop the cursing of tens of thousands of people around him. He could only say to Si Qi respectfully, “Please follow me.”

Si Qi nodded and followed the soldier away. One of them rushed over and grabbed Si Qi’s arm, shouting, “Where did you hide god 7?”

“Did you monopolize god 7 by yourself?”

“You shameless thing! You’ve been flirting with others all day, and now you’re trying to seduce god 7. Do you still have any self-respect? How low can you go!”

Si Qi had killed so many beasts, and he was very excited. He was afraid that he might kill someone. Suddenly, he was surrounded by tens of thousands of people and scolded. The fear of the original owner rose up, and then it turned into a fairy tale world. Several completely different emotions collided in Si Qi’s mind, making Si Qi dare not move. In his ears, there were intimate and laughing voices, vicious scolding after translation, and the impatient murderous intent and madness in the depths of his soul.

Si Qi stood still, his body shaking under the confused and anxious gaze of the soldier. He lowered his head, his breathing was disordered, and several people in his team subconsciously wanted to rush out of the crowd to protect Si Qi. As soon as they saw Si Qi’s mental state at the moment, they knew that his situation was very bad.

But someone reacted faster than them. Si Qi’s arm was suddenly grabbed by someone, which made him subconsciously let out a low, sad cry, as if he was resisting or begging. The pitiful sound made the audience outside the camera feel sour in their noses for a moment, and they choked with sadness, completely putting themselves in the boy’s situation.

Chu Feng’s low, angry roar echoed above Si Qi’s head, “Get out of here!”

The noisy scolding stopped instantly, and the group of children looked at Chu Feng in astonishment as he pushed through the crowd and walked out, with fear and unwillingness on their faces.

Si Qi was dazed when he noticed Chu Feng, the man holding him. His subconscious movement of swinging his arm to strangle the man’s throat stopped instantly. His eyes were slightly red and his eyes were moist, which made Chu Feng think that the boy was crying. He protected the trembling boy in his arms with heartache, and said in a hoarse voice, “Don’t be afraid, it’s okay, I’m here.”

Si Qi silently grasped the corner of Chu Feng’s clothes tightly with his hands, and smelled the reassuring scent on the other person, and instantly felt much better. In the eyes of the audience, this was like grasping at the only life-saving straw.

The audience sobbed and screamed: “Si Qi did not flinch in the face of a huge enemy force, and he has always been protecting these people! But these people he protected hurt him the most!”

“I was still confused before, thinking that since Si Qi was scolded so harshly, maybe he really wasn’t clean enough. Now seeing this scene, I finally understand it completely. It’s not Si Qi who is not clean, it’s obviously these people who have dirty hearts!! What did Si Qi do wrong? I don’t understand at all! Who can tell me! Why do they treat this poor child like this!!”

“What kind of horrific mental destruction would cause such a powerful person to show such a fearful reaction? How many things did this group of people do to Si Qi to make him collapse and despair? I don’t even dare to imagine it!!”

Chu Feng’s cold eyes forced back all the students present. They gritted their teeth and watched Si Qi successfully cling to the powerful again, and watched him leave here unharmed amid Chu Feng’s gentle comfort and endless care.

Seeing the two about to leave the cabin, a student who hated Si Qi very much and had recruited others to bully Si Qi more than once in school stood up and questioned Chu Feng: “Marshal! Are you just going to take him away like this in front of everyone?”

Chu Feng patted Si Qi’s back gently, telling him not to be afraid, then turned around and looked at the man expressionlessly.

The other party stood there fearlessly, looking brave and proud like a hero, and said loudly and righteously: “The live camera is right here, why don’t you tell us why you are so biased towards that guy! Do you think you are right to do this?!”

Chu Feng’s tone was extremely cold: “I know exactly what I am doing. Why don’t you tell me why so many of you are surrounding Si Qi?”

The students around couldn’t wait to shout: “He hid god 7! God 7 is the treasure of our empire and the heroe of all of us! But he concealed the whereabouts of god 7 and prevented god 7 from meeting us! He is so selfish, shouldn’t we fight him?!”

Chu Feng sneered and was not in a hurry to correct it. He asked back: “Let’s take a step back and say Si Qi really met 047. What evidence do you have to prove that 047 refused to show up because of Si Qi?”

The group of people were silent for a moment, but then they immediately said, “Isn’t this obvious? Si Qi is best at doing this kind of thing!”

“He has always been good at seducing others, always using his body to gain benefits!”

“God 7 refuses to show up. No matter how you think about it, it’s his fault!”

Chu Feng glanced at his bewildered teammate with a broken leg standing in the crowd and said indifferently, “What about the other person? He was there too.”

The students were stunned for a moment, and then they looked at Si Qi’s teammate who was sitting on the ground, and said in unison: “Not everyone is as shameless as Si Qi!”

“Besides, he’s obviously an alpha!”

Chu Feng said coldly: “Si Qi is also an alpha.”

A group of people sneered with disdain and said subconsciously: “How is it possible? He is obviously an omega!”

Chu Feng said coldly: “So that’s how it is. This is how you slandered Si Qi before.”

Even an alpha was forced to be called an omega, this was not just blindness of the eyes, but blindness of the heart.

He looked at the few students who finally noticed Si Qi’s strong alpha aura, and left a message quietly:

“Si Qi is 047.”

After saying that, he took Si Qi and left the cabin without looking back, using the heavy metal door to block the line of sight and sound between the two sides.

The tens of thousands of people in the cabin were left standing there in silence, and after a moment they shouted angrily: “How is this possible!”

“What a joke!”

“The Marshal is confused!”

Countless people showed sneers and disdain, until the team members in Si Qi’s group said to them with a gloating look: “Si Qi is indeed an alpha, we saw it with our own eyes.”

Many people subconsciously looked at these team members, but saw that these team members sneered and said in a mocking tone: “And Si Qi has a 2s physique and 3s mental strength, a top qualification that is rarely seen in a century.”

This statement caused many people to roll their eyes, and a group of people refuted it in unison, saying that it was impossible. The team members asked: “Why is it impossible? Can you give me a reason? Why can’t Si Qi be an alpha?”

“It clearly says on the Internet—”

“You also know it’s the Internet.” The captain laughed and said, “Nowadays, anyone can leave messages on the Internet. You have also written a lot of messages about Si Qi. You know in your heart whether what you wrote is true or false.”

The irritable boy said disdainfully: “Some of you should have noticed the pressure from Si Qi, right? It’s obvious whether he is an alpha or an omega! Or do you know that Si Qi has never trained in recent years and only wanted to play? How do you know? Where did you know it from? Have you talked to Si Qi? Do you know him?”

Seeing a group of people who simply refused to accept the reality and stared at them with frowned brows and expressions of resistance, a group of team members couldn’t help but laugh and said, “What you know about him and the comments you saw on the Internet are all written by people like you. They are all lies! In fact, Si Qi is an alpha, without a doubt an alpha. And he is also 047 in the Star Wars website, the powerful god 7 you mentioned! Unbelievable, right? But the truth is right in front of you! You clearly saw him coming out of the mecha!”

Seeing the people around him becoming more and more resistant and confused, the captain added fuel to the fire: “By the way, Si Qi evolved in front of the camera last night. I believe the outside world has already figured out whether the slanders against Si Qi are true or false.”

He looked at the people whose expressions suddenly became a little panicked, nodded as if to confirm, and said with a smile: “That’s right! The scene where he released the mecha to expose his identity as the god 7 was also recorded. Coincidentally, what you just said was all recorded by the camera. I guess everyone in the empire is angry for Si Qi now! What do you think they are saying about you now? Do they want to strangle you to death to vent their anger! Maybe you can also feel the verbal criticism that Si Qi has been enduring for so many years, hahahahaha!!”

The omega standing aside sneered and said, “It’s just different from Si Qi. Si Qi is innocent, but you are absolutely not innocent! Everyone saw what you did just now and heard your vicious words! You don’t think you can slander god 7 casually and get away with it without any consequences, right?”

Seeing the people around him getting paler and paler and more and more frightened, the hot-tempered young man sneered: “Nothing has even started yet, and you’re already showing such a useless expression. Si Qi has been enduring even more horrible pressure than you since he was twelve years old, and he hasn’t had a single day of peace!”

“I hope that in your future life, no one will suddenly push you down the stairs, no one will splash cold water on you when you are sleeping, you will not dare to leave the house, and you can only survive by relying on nutrient solution for three meals a day! You will not even dare to talk to others!”

Every sarcastic remark was like a sharp knife, piercing into the hearts of all the students. They covered their faces and screamed in despair, not wanting to be captured by the camera. Those who had previously insulted Si Qi shouted anxiously, “I didn’t! I didn’t!!”

“How could Si Qi be one of god 7? I don’t know! I just heard others say so, so I said a few words about him. I am innocent!”

“I’m not, I really am not… Don’t wrongly accuse me!! Those people on the Internet are just making up nonsense!”

“It was all a misunderstanding! What you saw was not real!!”

The sight of a group of people desperately explaining to the camera was simply ridiculous. The team members couldn’t help but sneer:

“Look at how useless you are. When Si Qi was bullied by you guys, did he get as hysterical as you? He always maintained his elegant demeanor.”

“The torture he endured alone is now shared equally by so many of you. You should feel lucky! However, even if you suffered even one ten-thousandth of the torture Si Qi endured, it would be enough to break you down for a long time. Experience this feeling and use your future life to reflect on the mistakes you made in the past!”

Seeing everyone in the cabin collectively in a state of emotional collapse, several teammates felt extremely happy.

They said to each other: “Let’s go and apologize to Si Qi later!”

“Yeah! Lets go!”