Global Sky Online

Sitting at the table, "Family", Kane didn't say a word, but remained silent. Lena wanted to open her mouth to say, but didn't know where to go.

Looking at this weird atmosphere, Rick said to Cohen, "Brother Cohen, it's been a long time coming back, and I'm going to spit with saliva!"

Rake remembered that in the movie, Cohen drank water and started to vomit blood. It is possible that Cohen returned this time could not swallow the normal water of the earth. His body had not evolved well and could not stand swallowing water to digest it.

Fortunately for Lake, this Kane returned was unconscious, or else Kane must have shot him.

Kane, who was sitting opposite him, should have entered the central area of ​​the strobe tower, a new life form copied by the special environment.

The original Lina's husband, Kane, was already in the flashlight tower, and could not bear the torture and mental breakdown, which caused the white phosphorus incendiary to commit suicide.

Of course, Rick couldn't tell Lina now. After Rick finished speaking, Lena stared at Rick again.

Seeing that he was always glared, Rick still said that Cohen was still unresponsive, and it was estimated that only Cohen's ex-wife Lena could speak out. Rick kicked Lena with his foot under the table

"Kane, where have you been this year! Why did you come back, I was wrong." At this time, Lena, who had already put on her coat, felt that his foot had been kicked by Rick, and quickly moved his foot back, Asked her husband with shame.

"I don't remember!" Kane replied loudly.

"Kane, why did you come back to this house? Are you very angry and ready to ignore me! If you hit me, you can scold me, please, Cohen, don't do that!" Lena was a little emotional Talking.

But after listening to Lina's words, Cohen still had the expression of Nuna, "I don't remember how to go home, and I came back based on the position of the home in my heart." Kane finished watching the position where Rick was sitting, He did not show anger.

"Just come back! I'm still family," Rake said.

Even if Rick was talking, Cohen wasn't angry.

Rick patted Lena's shoulder lightly and motioned for her to come over.

Rick got up and walked away with Lena a few meters from this table.

Rick whispered, "Lina, don't you feel a little bit wrong?" Rick tried to remind his cheating mistress.

"It's weird that this situation can be right. You have been hit by your husband! You are brave enough to dare to talk without running! I told you that Kane is a special soldier. If he gets angry in a while, I will stop you. Can't live. You should hurry away! I told you to dress faster before, but you didn't listen and complained to you! Now that Kane has finally come back, he has been stimulated. If something goes wrong with him, I can't spare you! "Lina complained quietly to Rick.

After Lena turned and looked at the table, Kane picked up the glass and just drank the white water. She even started to spit out blood, and her face became hard to look. "Ah, Kane, what are you doing?" Hematemesis, what's wrong with you! ".

Lena looked at Rick anxiously, and hurried to the table to see Cohen's condition.

Rick felt unable to communicate happily with this mistress.

"Telephone, get my phone over! Cohen, don't scare me!" Lina shouted at Rick.

Lex turned upstairs and helped Lina take the cell phone off the bed in the bedroom upstairs. Lina then quickly dialed the hospital phone.

Rick didn't leave. He was worried that he couldn't get into the X area of ​​the flash tower. Now he can take this opportunity to be taken away by the military with this vomiting Cohen.

Rick thought that he would then be brought into a secret military base built next to the flash tower as a suspected infection.

Lena was at the table, holding Cohen, who was vomiting blood, and she was a little panicked.

Rick chose silence, helped him to take a bathroom towel, and passed it to Lena to wipe the blood.

Fortunately, the ambulance arrived quickly, and Rick then helped Lena, who had a relationship with her, lifted her ex-husband Kane, who was still vomiting blood, onto a stretcher.

Lena sat in the back seat of the ambulance and looked at her husband Kane in anxiety, and Rick followed.

"What are you doing up here, let me go!" Lena yelled at Rick.

"I follow, Brother Kane, if something goes wrong, I can help! And he is in this state, and there are many helpers next to him." Rake argued, without any move to get out of the car.

"You get me off." Lena still yelled at Rick, but Rick was unmoved and rested on the ambulance.

The ambulanceman closed the door without seeing that Lake was getting out.

Then the driver of the ambulance hurriedly drove towards the hospital. The patient Kane, the state of vomiting blood looked very serious, and the driver of the ambulance did not want to delay time.

The ambulance had already started, and Lena looked at Rick angrily, knowing that she couldn't drive away the bastard.

Lina regretted it. She should paint the bedroom herself tonight, but she believed the **** who helped her paint the room, and painted with him again, and went to bed.

Lina didn't expect that she thought she was dead and left her husband, Kane, who had been missing for a year, just at this time.

Lina was worried about this, and when he cured her husband, it was estimated that she would be divorced by her husband Kane. Thinking about it, Lina cried.

"What a cry, he can't die!" Rick persuaded.

"If I divorce Kane, I'll end up with you." Lena said angrily at Rick.

"Rest assured, Brother Kane won't divorce you, does it, Brother Kane!" Rick smiled and patted Kane on the stretcher's shoulder.

"Coo coo!" Cain Meng spit it out with Rick, and spit out a lot of blood.

"What are you doing, don't touch him!" Lena pushed away Rick directly, protecting her husband Kane.

Reck smiled helplessly, leaning on a chair in the back of the ambulance, waiting for the arrival of the soldier at the military secret base.

The ambulance was driving fast on the road at night. After driving for more than ten minutes, it suddenly braked suddenly, and Kane in the back compartment was shaken and spit a few more blood.

Lina frowned, preparing to look through the ambulance window.

The rear door of the ambulance was quickly opened.

Lena and Rick saw more than a dozen soldiers in white protective isolation suits appearing, and several black vehicles were blocking the ambulance.

Lake knew that he had finally waited for the secret base of the military.

The doctor who followed the car did not dare to look at the situation.

Lena and Rick were pulled out of the car, and on the stretcher, Kane was directly loaded into a special isolation bag by soldiers wearing white protective clothing and isolation clothing, and quickly picked up the black vehicle parked next to the ambulance.

"What are you doing, let go of my husband, you--" Lena was about to break free of the soldier who was dragging her, but the soldier wearing the white protective isolator put a needle directly on her thigh. Lina was unconscious in an instant.

A soldier dragging Lake also took a needle from his hand.

"Don't bother me, I'll be honest, I won't be noisy!" Lake tried to communicate with the soldier wearing a white protective suit.

But the soldier ignored Rick's words and gave him a shot in the thigh.

After being pierced, Rick felt that he was gradually losing consciousness and was very sleepy.

The total physical value of Rick's body, after entering the copy world, took out 200 points to separate it as an immune property.

Rake's physical state attributes in this copy of the world are not much higher than ordinary untrained adults.

There is also no resistance brought by high attributes. After being punctured, Rick also quickly comatose.

When Wake woke up again, he and Lena were found lying on two metal single beds.

The **** clothes that Kane had vomited on his body were also changed to a sick suit like a patient ship in a hospital.

Lena in the bed next to her was also put on a hospital uniform, and now both were locked up in a metal room with simple household items.

"What happened? Kane." Just sober Lina tried to get down from her lying on the metal bed, but felt a little confused, she had no strength, and almost didn't stand still.

Fortunately, Rick responded quickly and helped, before he fell.

"Don't touch me!" Lena shouted at Rick freely.

Rex let go.

"Slap!" Lina fell to the ground without standing, her long legs split and her bottom fell to the ground.

"What are you doing!" Lena glared at Rick.

"You keep me from touching you!"

"I asked you to get dressed and leave quickly. Why didn't you listen? Kane, what happened to him? Why are we here?" Lina asked Rick, and she was holding the metal railing, so she couldn't stand easily. Get up and sit back on her single metal bed.

"I don't know, I remember a group of people wearing white protective isolation suits, stopped our ambulance, took Kane, and stunned us. Maybe Kane got an infectious disease. We are now It was also isolated. "Rick said, choosing to let this Lina not have a general understanding with her first, after all, as a person who is Lina's" friend ", she should not collapse too soon.

A "pseudo" couple, staring at each other in this metal hut, Lina is now chaotic inside, unable to tell what she has, she is now regretful that she is going to die and live, looking at the thunder beside her Grams, just get angry.

Rick looked at Lena, whose expression was constantly changing, and returned her with a smile.

Rick estimated that this Lina, stimulated by her husband Kane on the spot, would take some time to fade.

However, from time to time, women did not understand what Lina was thinking.

Fortunately, the door of the metal house was opened a few minutes later, and a middle-aged woman in black overalls walked in.

"Where is this? Who are you? Why lock us up, Kane, I'm looking for a lawyer!" Lina said in a very strong voice immediately after seeing someone coming in.

Rick chose silence by the side. He has all watched the classic sci-fi movie Oblivion, knowing where he is, far away from the flashing area of ​​the lighthouse in Blackwater National Park, a secret military base specially established to handle this special event .

There's nothing to ask at all. Lake knows that what he needs to do now is to find an opportunity to join the eleventh five-person women's exploration team going to the flash tower. After obtaining the status of the military team, the military can provide guns and ammunition, food supplies and maps. It can be said that at this stage, it is best to enter the identity of the X area where the flash is located.

"My name is Wintry, and I'm a doctor of psychology. Here, Lina, you can't find a lawyer, and no lawyer will come. I want to ask, your husband, Kane, when did you come home, he Say how to go home? What did he say to you after he returned? Did he contact you in the past year? "Ventries asked Lena in a bland tone.

"How is my husband Kane? I want to see him! He came back tonight and said nothing. He couldn't remember how to go home. In the year he disappeared, I found everything I could find. His teammates and superiors, but no one told me the truth. Until now I don't even know what secret task Kane has performed. "Lena said.

This Venturi looked at Rick sitting on the metal bed again.

"Holy Lord Two, what were you doing when Kane appeared tonight, did he say anything to you?" Ventress asked Rick.

After listening, Lick looked at Lina next to her. "I'm helping Lina to paint the walls of her bedroom. She wants to paint the pink walls of her bedroom. When I met Frank Kane frankly, he looked very expressionistic. Calm and said nothing. "

When this middle-aged woman Venturis heard Rick's words, he looked at Rick and Lena with strange eyes.

The military has already checked in to Lena's place, and what Reich said is only half the match.

Venturis has learned from the reports of the personnel who inspected Lina's residence that Lord No. 2 and Lina were ready, and Kane should be considered Lina's ex-husband.

However, due to Lina's face, Ventress did not continue to ask more about this question.

After all, Kane had been on a mission for a year without any news, and even their military uniforms thought that Kane had died in Zone X. His wife, Lena, was no big deal if he wanted to go to His Holiness No. 2.

But Kane suddenly appeared tonight, to the surprise of all. Kane was the only one of the ten investigative teams sent in the past three years to come back alive. His appearance was of great significance.

"Lina, please remember that your husband, Kane, told you the task he was about to perform a year ago before he performed the task? Did he say anything special to you before performing this task? ? "Wintry continued to ask Lena.

"No, my husband ’s mission will not be revealed to me, and I will not ask more. After all, I was a soldier before, and I know the confidentiality regulations in this regard. But I remember Kane was told to perform the mission one year ago. At that time, he was very nervous, more nervous than before before performing the task. What happened to Kane? Take me to see him! Where is this? I have answered your question, now you should answer my question, text Ms. Trace. "Lena uttered.

"Lina, after you rest for another half an hour, after the sedative effect, I will take you to see your husband Kane and learn about the situation here and here. Be prepared for it. The situation here is very Special. Do you want to go to see No.2, if you choose to go there, for the sake of confidentiality, you will not be allowed to leave this military base in the last half year or so. If No.2, you choose not to know about it. If it's true, you can be quarantined for another week, and you can go home after confirming your health! "Venturis said to Rick and Lina.

"I'm going with me. I'm with Lena. I'm afraid that the blow here will be too big for Lena. She can't stand it alone. With me by her side, she can feel better." Rick found himself Excuse me.

"I don't need you to accompany me, it's even more uncomfortable for you to be with me!" Lina said.

However, what exactly did Lina think in her mind, Rake didn't know. Rake estimated that Lina was trying to make herself stay. .

After half an hour, Rick and Lina have restored their control of the body. The sedatives of the two have almost weakened, and they can walk slowly.

Following the middle-aged woman, Venturis, they left the metal house and walked on the metal aisle. When Lina walked around, she approached Rick unconsciously.

A few minutes later, Ventress took Rick and Lena to a glass-isolated room. Through the glass, you could see Cain lying on the bed with a tube and instruments in his body.

"Kane now has multiple organ failures, and with massive bleeding in the body, the treatment effect is not optimistic. We can only try to delay his condition as much as possible." Ventriz said to the two.

"How can this happen, what task did Kane perform, and disappeared for a year before returning, and then fell ill?" Lina questioned Ventris beside her.

"Come with me, don't be surprised, let you see the truth, but after reading this truth, you can only stay here temporarily and not leave, do you think about it?" Venturis said.

"Go and see. Even if you can go home without knowing the truth, you won't be able to sleep," Rake said.

Lina also nodded.

Venturis began to take two people and continued to move forward. After opening a metal door, it was a large research laboratory. Many staff members in white scientific uniforms were doing the work here, like a secret experiment. The room is the same.

Lina was a PhD in biology, and did not respond much to such a laboratory.

"What are you working on, a special virus that infected my husband Kane?" Lena looked at Venturis.

Rick was silently saying "ex-husband!" In his heart.

"Is it a virus? We don't know yet. The truth is behind another metal door in the front of this laboratory. Push that metal door and you have no way out." Venturis said, and after that, Waiting for the reaction of Rick and Lena.

When Lina hesitated, she moved forward and walked towards the metal door in front of the laboratory, and Rick followed without hesitation.

Lake knew that only by choosing to join here could he more easily complete his task of destroying the flash tower.

Otherwise, as an ordinary civilian, especially his physical attribute value, it has weakened many times. It is difficult to approach the flash X area where the military has been martialized, let alone sneak in to destroy the lighthouse to complete the task.

Rick and Lina walked through the long laboratory area. The scientific researchers working around them didn't bother Rick and Lina's two outsiders. They were both busy with their research.

Rick and Lina stood in front of the metal gate. Rick was very interesting. He passed his hand to Lina, ready to let her hold it, and relieved Lina's feeling of fear.

However, Lina didn't accept Rick's affair at all, and she just let go of Rick's hand and stared at Rick.

Rick laughed and didn't care. After all, Lina had just watched her 'ex-husband' lying on the bed in the isolation room like a hedgehog, and some small emotions were normal. .

As Lina lifted her hand and opened the metal door, a strange world shrouded in bright white light shone in front of Rick and Lina.

After Rick saw it, he has experienced several worlds of online replica worlds, and now they are somewhat attracted by the magical sight in front of them, not to mention the aboriginal female biological doctor Dr. Lina in this world.

Rick and Lena could not help walking forward, then stood on the metal terrace extending outward from the experimental base and looked into the distance.

The bright white irregular cover directly covers the distant sky and ground, and colorful light appears inside the cover. The ground nearest to their laboratory is a large bath, but the environment on this bath is different from any bath on the earth.

Some dead trees in it have grown up in strange forms, and the trees have become like crystals.

Yuzawa's floor was also densely packed with many weird moss-like fluffs.

"What's this? What's happening here?" Even Lena, who was from Dr. Biology, couldn't help exclaiming when she saw the scene in front of her.

If it hadn't been for her just coming out of the laboratory and walking up the metal terrace, she would have thought that she had arrived on an alien planet.

Ventress also came over the metal door behind the two, and she looked up at the weird environment in front of her and said, "Flash, we call it like that now. Three years ago, a meteorite fell in black water. A lighthouse in the National Park. Later, this kind of thing appeared. The military used the leak of toxic chemical dyes as an excuse to let the people in the nearby area move away and martially isolated the area. Initially, the flash just covered the lighthouse. Over time, the flash area is getting larger and larger, and the speed of expansion is also getting faster and faster. It is called area X. Our isolated ecological forbidden area has been expanding continuously for the past three years. If we do n’t want to do anything anymore, Prevent the expansion of the flash X area, it will not take a few months, the area where our military laboratory is located will also be shrouded in it. At that time, this flash X area will become larger and larger, gradually covering all major cities, or even the entire Earth."

"My husband Kane, was you sent into this flash area just a year ago?" Lena asked Ventris beside her.

"Ex-husband!" Rick thought silently.

"Yes, he is the tenth team to be sent to the flash area to investigate the situation inside the lighthouse. He is also the only team member alive to come out of the flash area. We want to know what he found and whether he has reached the flash X area. The central lighthouse, what exactly is there? Now all the shrouded areas have been isolated and no creatures have come out of this area. Even birds flying in the sky have entered this area and have never flown out again. "Wen Tracy responded to Lena.

"Since it is a lighthouse, I have never tried to approach it from a maritime battleship, or from an airborne aircraft. Would you like to bombard it directly with a missile? Regardless of what it is, it is constantly expanding, directly blasting flashlight towers and turning it into It won't be necessary to level the ground. "Lake tried to suggest to Wintry.

After hearing this, Venturi shook his head helplessly, "Every electronic device that enters the flashing X area is like a sinking sea, sending no information back. We have also tried the routes approaching from the sea, but that is a dead end The entering ship will sink to the bottom of the sea. The missile cannot locate the lighthouse in the flash area. The previously launched missiles are far away from the flash tower. It seems that there is some mysterious power, which is protecting the lighthouse .According to my analysis, only from the land, can there be hope to approach the flash tower. After passing through the bath, through the woods, walking along the beach, it is finally possible to reach the mysterious flash tower. "

Hearing this, it is estimated that the special refraction environment in the flash area made the missile lose its target.

I just don't know the main gun of the Titan space battleship's long-range strike, and I can't use it by positioning myself at a short distance.

However, Rick analyzed it. It should not be a problem. Since Zhutian Online has identified him when he called the summon ship ’s main gun card item, as long as he has assigned the coordinates to the main gun battleship of the Titan family, and it is correct. It can be used in the world of science and technology and involving the universe.

When you approach the interior of the flash tower at a close distance, even if the flash has refraction or other characteristics, it can be designated to hit the coordinate target if it is seen by your own golden eyes.

And this annihilation of the copy world, which belongs to the science and technology category, involves the copy of the universe, and the use limit of the summon card is fully satisfied.

It was also because of the summoning card of the main battleship of the space warship that Rake dared to enter this annihilated copy world.

Although the summoning card of the Titan's main gun has a small attack radius, it is a little bit pitiful, and its radius is only three meters. However, Rick felt that since the main guns of the Titan space warships were attacked, the power should not be weakened, and the essence was concentrated.

As long as you locate the exact coordinates of the meteorite that first fell into this lighthouse, if you can't hit it once, you will come again twice. Anyway, the summon card can be used three times, which is a waste. If conditions permit, he can also throw some white phosphorus burning grenades on the side.

Rick is now confident about the task of destroying the flash tower.

"You wear less. Go back first. If you want to see it, you can come here any day!" Ventress said to two people in sick clothes, Rick and Lina.

Lina nodded.

Rick understood the meaning of the middle-aged woman Venturi's words, which means that you have now seen the military's secret flash area incident. You cannot leave this military laboratory base in a short time.

Rick and Lena were again sent by Wintrys to the previous room with two single metal beds.

"The sedative dose in your body has not completely dissipated. You may feel vomiting and nausea today, but it does n’t matter. It ’s a normal reaction. I will send someone to bring you food and clothes later. As for your identity here, I need Under the application of a superior, you are temporarily wronged today that you cannot leave this room without me. "Middle-aged woman Venturi explained to the two.

"Well, no problem, I'll get more food when I get food. I was a bit hungry for a night before," Rake said.

Venturis listened to Rake's words, but did not expect that Rake would adapt to the mysterious events in the Flash X area so quickly, and the professor of this university was too bearable.

"Dr. No.2, you are a professor of archaeology in your university. I do n’t know the appearance of the flash X area and the abnormal area phenomenon caused by your meteorite. Do you have any opinion? I want to hear from you Insight. "Ventress asked Rick.

Rick also learned after hearing that he was an archaeology professor! Before, Rick only knew that he had replaced Lina's lover Dan, but what Dan taught in college, Rick was not clear.

Hearing Wentzis's inquiry, this newly-acclaimed Archeology professor's identity, Rick flickered after thinking about it: "Do you know how dinosaurs became extinct! There is a theory of dinosaur extinction speculation that it was during the dinosaur period. Because a large number of meteorites fell on the earth's surface, causing a drastic change in the surface environment and extinct the dinosaurs. I was not quite sure about the doctrine of this meteorite extinct dinosaurs, but today after looking at this flash X area, I have to believe that the dinosaurs were really Meteorites have become extinct. I feel that the current human civilization will be extinct if the meteorites in this lighthouse are not handled properly. I happen to have studied some materials about the theory that dinosaurs were extinct by meteorites. If I want to be able to observe meteorites up close with my own eyes If so, maybe I can think of a way to destroy it or solve this anomalous flash area. "

Venturis nodded earnestly after hearing Rake's words, "You judge and analyze the meteorite threat that fell into the Blackwater National Park Lighthouse, and I will add it to my report later."

Venturis stayed in the room for a few more minutes, comforted Lena, and left.

When Venturis left, she also locked the metal door of the room from the outside. As she said before, Rick and Lena's current status has not been reported. Today, without her company, she cannot be in Walk around the military experimental base.

Rick and Lena each sat back on their little iron beds.

"Lina, do you think the iron bed is smaller than the big bed in your house? Or we can put the two little iron beds together to form a big bed, and you can sleep more comfortably tonight "Lake said,

But Lina returned to Rick with a blank eye and said, "No, I used to sleep on a single bed when I was a soldier. It ’s customary to sleep on a single iron bed. If you are not used to it, you will find Wentzies for it. You change rooms! "

"Ventries is not good when she first arrives. She looks very busy. He still has to find a way to save the world and destroy this flash X area. I can actually sleep in a single iron bed. When I was in school, I slept. This, "Rick replied.

Rick didn't want to change rooms to sleep. At this base, he could barely look good, and now Lina.

Moreover, the female lead in the original film of Lina will be the eleventh group of candidates to enter the Flash X area, just follow her. See when she applies to join the eleventh batch of sent-in investigation teams in the Flash X area, and she will also apply to join, so that she will be more likely to be paid.

If she lived apart, Rick knew what he knew about Lina now. Lina would definitely not tell herself that she would join the expedition to send the death squad. She would leave herself alone and not let her live and die together.

The two stayed in the room, and Lena slept directly on her little iron bed, and Lake didn't know whether she actually slept or slept.

Simply Lake was also lying on his small metal bed, thinking about the next main task.

Now that his physical attributes have weakened, fortunately, his skills are still there, and his previous ability to control firearms is also available. If you give yourself a gun and enough ammunition, Rake is not less confident than the special forces here.

It is estimated that in a few weeks, the eleventh exploration of the flash X area will begin.

Rick thought it would be unreliable to send a five-man girl to a death squad led by a female psychiatrist who had cancer.

These five-member women's squads could all start internally in case of an accident, which is not conducive to the completion of this dangerous exploration mission.

Once in the flash area, Rake knew that he had entered the countdown to life and had to reach and destroy the flash tower within 200 days of the normal time of this copy of the world.

Otherwise, your immune attribute value will be depleted, and your body will be infected by the flash area. Even if you are infected for one day, the threat is not great. Zhu Tian Online will not let you leave this copy of the world according to the task settings he posted. .

Rick felt that he now has two strategies that he can execute after entering the flash area. UU Reading at www.uukanshu.com

The first plan is to follow the five-member women's team by himself. After entering the flash area, he left the team alone and went to the flash tower alone. The advantage is that you can move faster by yourself, and you don't have to worry about the drag of the five-member women's team. The only danger is that you should always guard against those mutant creatures. You must carry the unknown risks by yourself.

The second plan is to follow the five-member women's team to the lighthouse in the flashing area. On the road, they cooperate with the vigil to take turns, whether it is a vigil, or facing the infected mutant creatures or the dangers that the heavens add to the flashing area online. If you and the five-member women team face each other, you can be relatively safe.

After thinking about it for a while, Rick still chose the second solution. After all, his attributes are now reduced. How much will the mutant biological strength in the flash area be strengthened by the heavens online now?

And finally, in the movie, the heroine Lina can find the white phosphorus grenade left by her ex-husband and burn the flash tower.

Rick felt like he was taking action with Lena, and maybe good luck, at least auspicious.

Later, the metal room door was opened, and the two soldiers gave Rick and Lena a new set of clothes, two big boxes of lunch, and two bottles of mineral water.

After the two soldiers lowered their things, they turned away and locked the door.

Rick and Lena, sitting on their cots with lunch, began to eat.

After eating, Rick replaced the uniform. When Rake changed his clothes, Lina didn't see it.

After changing his clothes, Rick looked at Lena. She didn't choose to change her clothes now, but put the clothes next to her bed. She seemed to be ready to change after waking up tomorrow.

"Tomorrow myself as early as possible," Lake thought.

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