The Men in Black arrived at the scene shortly. They took a casual look around the place and immediately identified the matter as an in-fight between aliens. These kinds of things were pretty ordinary for them.
They routinely gathered the people together, brainwashed them, erased their memory, and quickly left. Soon, the tension and fear in the crowd dissipated and they resumed their bustling harmony.
Sheyan watched all this from a place not too far away.
After the previous break, followed by watching an intense battle, his mental fatigue had almost fully recovered. He put aside the impatience and uneasiness in him and began to think of his problem from the perspective of a bystander. Like grinding soybeans with a crush-stone mill in olden times, he unhurriedly pushed the mill to slowly squeeze out the essence of the beans one drop at a time.
'Maybe I had been thinking of the problem in a wrong way from the very beginning.'
Sheyan suddenly gained a bit of enlightenment:
