Chapter 258: Backtracking, Emptiness and Sequence

Ren Zheng looked at Yu Cang, but found that the expression on Yu Cang's rhythmic body had not changed, and he always had a calm smile.

His expression couldn't help but become more serious.

"Yu Cang" Ren Zheng opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

"Hey, there's no need to say anything unnecessary." Yu Cang waved his hand, "I'm not that noble. If it weren't for the imminent crisis of wild beasts, I would naturally not disclose the entry into the Starry Sky Sight so early. method."

"Okay, I understand." Ren Zheng took a deep breath, "Xiaocang, since you have no problem, the association plans to hold a town-only event in Jieying Campus in a week. At the academic summit Xiao Cang participated in, there were many die-hards in the town who believed that the resonance method could sense everything.

“Although the Star Vision can observe the rhythm of all attributes, it is now condensed. After all, there are still only a few people in the Rhythm Body, and the advantage of observing deep rhythms in the Star Sky Sight cannot be fully reflected. In addition, there may be more dangers lurking in the Star Sky Sight, so some towns may not be willing to promote Star Sky. sight range.

“Many of them have high social status. If they interfere with them, the speed of our promotion will also be affected. Therefore, the purpose of this summit is to showcase the advantages of Star Vision and let them There is no reason to hinder the progress of promotion."

Yu Cang has a complete body of rhythm innately, and he also has a consciousness beast under his command. Now he has obtained a princess. It can be said that the vision of the starry sky has completely changed. It has become Yu Cang's back garden, and his understanding of the Starry Sky Vision has even surpassed some civilizations that have been operating in the Starry Sky Vision for a long time.

Yu Cang can be sure that the Star Sight is safe and usable, but others don’t know.

Even Ren Zheng will still feel very small when he enters the field of vision of the starry sky. The starry sky above his head is vast, but it is also unknown everywhere. Every place where the rhythm flows around him will be filled with spiritual energy. The world brings great pressure, and people dare not devote all their efforts to comprehend the knowledge in it.

If Ren Zheng hadn’t believed in Yu Cang’s judgment, he would never have dared to rely so much on Star Vision now. You know, whether it was storing his knowledge in the Jieying Library or in Star Vision There are hidden risks in the rhythmic body that condenses itself.

I didn’t see that before the Jie Ying appeared, the researchers called by Yu Cang were all determined to explore the starry sky.

And after condensing the body of rhythm, Ren Zheng also discovered many problems.

For example, Yu Cang said that the Rhythmic Body can observe deeper things by playing with the rhythm. But Ren Zheng only found out after trying it himself that this is not that simple.

Plugging the rhythm will produce rhythmic sounds. The sounds produced by ordinary rhythms are fine, but the sounds produced by individual rhythms are harmful

Yu Cang himself has a complete rhythmic system. The body is very stable in the field of vision of the stars. The priority of immunity against this kind of sound is quite high, but others cannot.

Ren Zheng reasonably speculates that if he accidentally encounters rhythms like "broken" and "shock" with his rhythmic body, the rhythmic sound produced may even directly shock people to death

These are things that Yu Cang has not discovered before. After all, Yu Cang is too high. Yu Cang directly jumped over these necessary early stages.

Fortunately, Jieying campus is safe. The rhythm here is solidified to a certain extent, and the sound of rhythm will not be easily emitted.

For such a dangerous and unknown place, if you want to directly promote it to the whole country, many people will definitely disagree.

Their doubts are also reasonable. There is nothing to say about this. After all, Yu Cang can ensure that the information he got from Jie Ying and the princess is accurate, but other people will not think so. They will think There is a possibility of Yu Cang being deceived, and they may feel that Yu Cang is a young man who has achieved success, and his work must be a little unsteady.

Many of these people are high-ranking people. They are not willing to promote Star Vision, so the promotion speed of Star Vision will definitely be greatly reduced. In this regard, the association is not very good. method, after all, associations are also made up of people.

Moreover, the most important thing is that now only Gudu University has a bounded shadow campus that has the ability to protect others from learning Star Vision. Once Star Vision is promoted, Gudu University’s status will be unprecedented. peak.

In this way, some people will be unhappy, and if some people are unhappy, some people will cause mischief.

If this plot is really followed, then the promotion speed of Star Vision will undoubtedly become very slow, and there will be a lot of troublesome things. In that case, it is better to let Yu Cang himself first Let’s talk about it when we grow up.

So this Star Vision Summit came into being.

After Yu Cang went to the Divine Capital, two Zhenguo holding myths were already standing behind him. For some reason, the Zhenguo holding the "Tianmen" in the Imperial Capital also expressed his willingness to Support Yu Cang in opening up the starry sky.

A total of three Zhenguo holding myths are willing to help, and Yu Cang’s influence is not weak. Under this premise, as long as Yu Cang shows the starry sky vision relative to traditional resonance at this summit, If the association continues to secretly hammer on the absolute advantages of the method, then at least the preliminary work of promoting Star Vision will definitely be carried out smoothly.

In addition, the association has many deeper considerations, but that is not what Yu Cang needs to worry about.

After Yu Cang thought for a moment, he understood that the purpose of this summit was indeed necessary.

He is also a person who is afraid of trouble, but if he can end these subsequent troubles with a pleasant show-off, he will be happy.

"Okay." Yu Cang nodded, "I understand, I will cooperate."

"Then Xiao Cang, please think more about it during this time. Ren Zheng said, "There is no need to put too much pressure on. Zhenguo is no different from ordinary people. As long as I am here, they will not dare to cause trouble."

Yu Cang smiled and said, "Don't worry."

After all, before Yu Cang went to the divine capital, his vision of the starry sky could only be limited to the ancient capital. Who would have thought of Yu Cang. I went to the capital of gods and directly took out something like "the path to the world of consciousness".

"Well," Yu Cang showed a mysterious smile, "I'll think about it again, don't worry, the weight will definitely be enough."

"Oh" Ren Zheng realized something, " Did you discover something new?"

"So be it."

Ren Zheng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head helplessly, "I don't worry about your job. I just have to wait until the time comes to watch your performance."

Separating from Ren Zheng and the others, Yu Cang arrived outside the Jieying campus.

He raised his head and his eyes slowly swept across the endless stars above his head.

The princess brought him new news.

Now he already knows that the sky full of stars above his head is very likely to be silent and lifeless

"I don't know how many civilizations are still alive." Yu Cang Sighed.

There must be other civilizations that have restrained Huang. Otherwise, if there was only one blue star in the entire starry sky, the current situation would not be so stable.

Huh

The huge body slowly swam by, and Jie Ying swam to Yu Cang's side. The stars and rivers in the body seemed to contain a profound world.

"Sir Scholar." Jie Ying bowed his head slightly.

"Yes." Yu Cang withdrew his gaze.

I agreed to Jie Ying at first, and as soon as I returned to the ancient capital, I started looking for a way to let Jie Ying participate in the battle.

Now, it’s time.

If you can really perfect the summoning method you envisioned, then there will be a lot more interesting things at the summit in a week.

Yu Cang smiled lightly.

However.

Yu Cang waved his hand and opened the entry database.

I originally wanted to try to complete this summoning method by myself. After all, there are all technical difficulties involved. I now have corresponding solutions. But now I only have seven days, so I still rely a little on the entry records. Yi bar.

"Jie Ying, let me enter your body."

"Yes, Master Scholar"

Jie Ying's body contains countless rhythms. This is what he has absorbed along the way.

These rhythms are extremely complex, like a world. Now that Yu Cang is in the state of Rhythm Body, it is not difficult to enter the "world" in Jie Ying's body.

Yu Cang stretched out his hand and gently touched Jie Ying’s forehead, which was as broad as the earth. Jie Ying then relaxed his mind and did not resist, only to see waves like water waves.Lines rippled on the surface of Jie Ying's skin, and the next second, Yu Cang "fell" into them.

In the changing light and shadow, Yu Cang opened his eyes.

He will look around, with a hint of wonder in his eyes.

The scenery in the world inside Jieying is also great.

There are magnificent blues and purples everywhere. Among them, the starlight is pulled into lines, flowing slowly like the Milky Way. Unknown energy flows around the body. There is no distinction between heaven and earth. Being in it, It's like being in ancient chaos.

After admiring it for a moment, Yu Cang calmed down and began to think.

The rhythm in Jie Ying's body is too complex and difficult to be reflected in a certain soul card. Only this limitation seems to have completely blocked the use of soul cards to summon Jie Ying. possibility.

But if you just think this way, it would be a bit too contemptuous of the soul card system.

The corners of Yu Cang’s mouth raised slightly.

Sometimes, we might as well change our thinking, and things will suddenly become clearer.

But even with that idea, I am afraid that there is no way to completely summon the world shadow for the time being.

It doesn’t matter, just take your time. Even for synchronization and fusion, didn't it take a long time for perfection to get to where it is now?

Thinking like this, Yu Cang turned his head slightly, and his eyes slowly swept through the rhythms in Jie Ying's body, his eyes searching.

Although there is no way to summon the complete boundary shadow, you can summon part of it first. There are many rhythms in Jieying's body that are suitable for combat. Some of these rhythms can be taken out individually and made into soul cards.

However, the process of taking it out separately depends on the level of the card maker.

Yu Cang's eyes swept across the front of his eyes. While he was thinking, he suddenly saw an unusual area.

"Yes, this is it." Yu Cang's eyes flashed with doubts.

At this time, Jie Ying's voice came from far away, "Sir scholar, this is what the two consciousness insects in the ice city have done these days. I stayed behind before going to the city of gods. Record the rhythm of these pictures, and go get these pictures as soon as you come back."

"Oh" Yu Cang was stunned for a moment before he remembered.

It seems that this is indeed what he asked Jie Ying to do.

In the Ice City, there were two discerning bugs that showed different potential from other bugs. Although they were intelligent, they did not hunt other discerning insects or subdue their subordinates. They would rather live on their own. starving.

It seems to be called Kong Hexu

Thinking of this, a look of curiosity flashed in Yu Cang's eyes.

In this case, let’s take a look at this picture first.

Ice City, on a certain street.

"Kong" stopped and looked back.

Behind her, Sora was surrounded by several senseless insects, and it seemed that he could no longer run away.

But Sora is very calm, a few feetWaving his limbs left and right, he relied on his superb combat skills to deal with several worms.

These awareness bugs have no intelligence and no plan for attacking. It is very easy for Sora to deal with them.

But looking further into the distance, dozens of consciousness insects were already encircling him. Sora was alone after all. If he was caught in the encirclement, he probably wouldn't be able to escape anyway. dropped.

But he obviously didn't have the mind to think about that now. He just said loudly, "Xu, just run away and don't worry about me."

Yu Cang was stunned.

As soon as he came up, let him watch such a tragic drama

There won’t be anything bloody going on next

Yu Cang’s guess is not come true.

Because Xu turned around decisively and ran away without a trace of hesitation, and there was no emotional fluctuation on his expression, as if what he was selling at this moment was not a teammate, but just some cannon fodder.

""Yu Cang was silent.

To be honest, when he saw the two bugs loving each other in Ice City, he thought they had such a deep relationship.

Shaked his head.

Although he was sad, he didn't say anything. Xu's decision was indeed correct, and staying with Xu wouldn't change anything, it would just give him one more head.

Surrounded by so many consciousness bugs, Sora would soon die tragically and be eaten apart

However, what surprised him was that these consciousness bugs After eating all of Kong's limbs, he did not continue, but slowly retreated.

Although a few of the insects clearly didn’t want to give up the food so easily, they still turned around reluctantly.

The swarm of consciousness insects separated like a tide, and a road extended from it. At the end, a consciousness insect several times larger than the other consciousness insects appeared there.

"Kong" the huge consciousness insect walked slowly, with a sense of oppression as he walked, "We met again, how is it, how do you think about it"

""Kong was silent For a moment, no words were spoken.

"What, what do you mean?" Shi Chong came forward and said in a cruel tone, "Song, I have already given you a chance, otherwise, you thought you could successfully take advantage of me last time. Can you escape?"

Song remained silent.

The vision bug seemed to be getting more energetic, and kept circling around Sora, its tone became more and more irritable, "Song, I really can't understand why you don't want to join me, look at you little kid. My arms and legs have been hungry for a long time. As long as you join me."

Stab it

The tyrannical insect suddenly stretched out its legs and directly pierced a standing Shichong, who was in the front, held it in front of him.

"Look, I can feed you this knowledge insect right away."

Looking at this scene, Sora's eyes revealed undisguised disgust.

The one killed by the violent consciousness insect was the one who fought the hardest for it just now. However, he didn’t even know thatThis idiot had something in mind and killed it casually.

As for behaving like this, looking at the expressions of the discerning insects next to them, they didn’t feel anything was wrong at all.

Oh, what a pathetic race.

What is even more tragic is that his body is exactly the same.

Kong didn’t want to say anything. Faced with the body of the insect that was brought to him, he just moved his head and expressed his attitude with actions.

"Damn it, why are you so stupid?"

The violent consciousness insect became angry, and with a flick of his legs, he threw the corpse of the consciousness insect into the group of consciousness insects. They gathered together and rushed to the corpses of the same kind, hoping to get a hot bite.

“Don’t you know that the supreme scholar has been watching us?” The violent worm came close to Sora’s face, “Only by fighting non-stop can we possibly please the scholar, we Don’t you want to leave when you have the chance to leave this hellish place?

“If you are willing to stick to your principle of not eating insects, fine, it’s up to you, but you have to leave here first, otherwise you’ll starve to death. , there’s nothing left.”

Kong still didn’t speak.

He only felt that whenever he spoke in the face of this kind of intellectual insect, it would be an insult to his own intelligence.< /p>

Yu Cang

What

Who is the "Supreme Scholar"

Doesn't it refer to himself

Yu Cang slapped his forehead.

Don’t just add some weird settings to people.

But speaking of it, this worm named Kong is actually real. It's very principled and unlike acting.

Judging from the information obtained from the princess, it is simply impossible for Shi Zhong to endure the desire to absorb rhythm. < /p>

Yu Cang rubbed his chin.

Could it be that Kong and Xu had had some adventure? Otherwise, how could they have gained willpower beyond their own race?

While Yu Cang was thinking, the violent consciousness insect had taken Kong to a secret place

There were not many consciousness insects under it, and he was the only one with the wisdom insect. In case he encountered others. The worm force will definitely die violently.

That’s why it is eager to conquer Kong Yuxu.

Kong’s combat power is too strong.

Judging from their size, they must have been hungry for a long time, but they can still maintain such excellent combat power and can definitely become their own good helpers

In fact, if they hadn’t eaten Kong first with his subordinates, The tyrannical worm would never dare to approach Sora at such a close distance, because it could not defeat Sora on its own.

After returning to a small stronghold it found, the tyrannical worm took Sora to a small base. In the room.

"Tell me how you will join me. "The tyrannical worm said.

Kong didn't say anything.

Seeing this, the tyrannical worm suddenly raised his bodyZi seemed to be furious, but then, he didn't know what he thought of, and gradually shrank back.

"Hmm, if you have the ability, just keep silent." The violent insect-seeing worm used its legs to adjust its tentacles, "By the way, by the way. Your mistress is called Xu, right? Shichong has already gone to look for her, hum, Kong, if the order is found when I am not present, it is hard for me to imagine what will happen to her, so you'd better give me an answer before then, do you understand?"

Hearing this, there was finally a wave of emotion in Sora's eyes.

He raised his head and looked at the violent consciousness insect in front of him.

After a while, he suddenly smiled contemptuously.

The violent sense insect was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows angrily, "What are you laughing at?"

"With just those few sense insects of yours, you want to catch Xu," Kong said in a tone of voice Full of disdain.

"You" the violent consciousness insect could no longer hold back and rushed forward, "I will kill you now"

"Not now, next time." Empty His expression returned to calmness, and a coldness flashed across his eyes, "It's best that you always have cannon fodder around you who is willing to die for you."

Ka

The tyrannical worm will kill all of them. The limbs suddenly closed together, but with a sound like glass breaking, Sora's body turned into a mirror and shattered before the violent consciousness insect pounced, and then disappeared.

"What's Sora? Where's Sora?" The tyrannical worm immediately panicked and rushed left and right in the room, but Sora had long since disappeared.

In anger, it rushed out of the door and killed a consciousness insect with a wave of its legs, and then leaned over to eat it.

After calming down, the violent consciousness insect recalled the scene just now, and felt a sudden cold air rising from the soles of his feet.

Sora is threatening it

Damn it, damn it

In another hidden little house.

The house is not big, but at this moment, it is full of corpses.

Countless corpses of worms were lying here, dozens of them at all. Outside the house, corpses were piled up along the roadside until far away.

In the center of the corpse, a small insect was licking its sharp feet.

She is the preface.

She killed all the insects that came to hunt her, and now she is taking a nap and waiting.

Not long after.

Some mirror-like traces suddenly appeared in the space in front of the preface, and then, a telepathic insect without legs fell from it to the ground.

Seeing this, a hint of joy appeared in Xu's eyes, "Song, you are back."

She rushed forward and held Kong's body in her arms with her legs. Okay, Sora, we are safe again. Sora, I killed all the bugs that came to chase me, and I kept my oath. Not one of them ate me. Am I awesome?"

" Okay, Xu is the best." Sora's eyes softened a lot, but his tone was still the same.But he was a little helpless, "Okay, Xu, hurry up and look back at me."

"Okay."

Xu took a few steps back, and then a light flashed in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, something magical happened. Kong’s broken body began to be repaired continuously, and countless severed limbs appeared from strange places and were connected to Kong’s body

In the blink of an eye, Kong returned to his original state

"Song." Xu was a little distressed, "I was fighting while walking, and accidentally attracted these worms to our stronghold. What should we do?"

"It doesn't matter." Kong stood up, "This place is exposed, just find a new anchor point"

"This is" Yu Cang's eyes suddenly widened.

What did he see?

The treatment technique was wrong. This was not a method of recovery at all. This was time regression

Yu Cang couldn't help but take a breath of air.

It’s not simple. These two insects are really not simple.

If he read it correctly, both Kong and Shou have a unique ability to look back. The difference is that Sequence can look back in time, while Kong can look back in space.

Kong should A certain anchor point is set in the small house in advance, so that the target can return to the anchor point in space.

The ability of space and time? This is amazing.

The soul cards related to space are basically epic level and above, while the soul cards related to time are even rarer. Although in terms of quality, there are some soul cards ranging from mythical to ordinary. Involving, but almost all of them are made accidentally, with no rules at all.

What did these two consciousness insects eat to be able to master this kind of power?

Looking at these two very principled consciousness insects, Yu Cang suddenly felt I can't help but feel the love for talents.

Soon, Yu Cang finished watching all the screen playbacks.

In the past few days, Kong and Xu had been having a very miserable time. But they are really principled and never eat any insects. In addition, the ice city froze nearby Rhythm, causing their strength to become weaker and weaker during the battle.

Although the sequence can go back in time and theoretically return to a state where you are not hungry, this ability itself is consumed.

After turning off the screen, Yu Cang appeared in the starry sky with a thought.

"Jie Ying, wait a moment, I'll go meet these two interesting little guys first."

"Okay, Master Scholar"

As soon as his vision flashed, Yu Cang had already disappeared into the ice city.

Looking at Kong and Xu, they seemed to have encountered a little trouble.

It is still the violent consciousness insect. During this time, the number of consciousness insects it controls has increased a lot. At this time, it has surrounded Kong and Sequence.

"Haha, how about you, can you escape from my limbs this time?" The violent insect laughed loudly, but suddenly became angry again, "Damn it, five times I let you fullI have escaped five times, ho ho ho, but this time, it is the last time. I have found the secret of your ability."

The tyrannical beast is full of confidence.

On the other side, Surrounded by countless consciousness insects, Sora was somewhat silent.

It was right.

This time, the location surrounded by the violent consciousness insects was right in front of the space anchor point he had set up. .

In other words, even if he activates his ability, he can only teleport in place and cannot escape.

"Ugly thing, what are you so arrogant about?" Xu said angrily. , "You stupid, fat loser, if you have the ability, let's challenge you"

"Humph, I don't want it. "The tyrannical worm shook his head, "Two idiots can fight in a group, why should we fight alone? Stupid idiots, you guys like this will never be favored by the supreme scholar. I thought I was wrong about worms. Today, you will die. Stay here. When I see the scholar in the future, I will occasionally think of you. After all, you are also a difficult opponent. "

"Wait. "Song suddenly said, "I promise to join you."

"I'm not stupid." The tyrannical insect looked stupid, "You must have joined in disguise, and then looked for an opportunity to kill me, huh, you Do you think I will be fooled a second time?"

Fortunately, his own abilities are life-saving, otherwise the last time would have been over

"I promise this time. "

Hearing this, the tyrannical insect was stunned and thought seriously for a moment.

Then he became furious, "Do you think I'm stupid? Didn't you promise it last time?"

Kong shook his head.

What a pity.

The violent consciousness insect lost its patience. It waved its legs and wanted to command the swarm of consciousness insects to eliminate these two.

At this time, a voice suddenly fell in the air. ”

Click

In an instant, the dense swarms of insects crawling all over the streets turned into ice sculptures in the blink of an eye

There was no room for struggle.

In the cold weather, the power of frozen entries has received a terrifying bonus.

With one frozen entry implanted, only the remaining ones on the field can move.

This is because Yu Cang did not freeze them.

Yu Cang stepped out of hiding. Falling on the ground, above his head, Jie Ying's huge body emerged outside the bubble world, and the earth-shattering whale cry suddenly resounded throughout the ice city. In an instant, all the insects, whether they were fighting or eating, Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and crawled to the ground.

Of course, this included the three in front of them.

The tyrannical beast no longer had that unruly look. He lay trembling on the ground.

Kong and Xu were in the same state. Xu even looked at Yu Cang with a hint of curiosity, but soon, he was also held down by Kong. Lying on the ground.

"Sir, scholar," the tyrannical scholar spoke tremblingly, his eyes did not dare to raise, but there was a hint of hope, "I, I am my hunter, have I won your favor?"

Yu Cang looked at the fat insect and shook his head.

He didn't say anything, just raised his finger slightly.

"Field."

Buzz

A layer of invisible space unfolded before our eyes. The expansion process crushed countless ice sculpture insects until three All the wisdom insects were enveloped in it.

"Since you want to fight so much, then I'll do what you want." Yu Cang's face showed no expression, "Let's duel, I'm watching."

Hearing this, he was violent Shi Chong's eyes suddenly turned red.

The rumors are true

Sir Scholar, he has indeed been watching them. The most courageous insect-seeker who fights in the ice city can join the command of Mr Scholar

Great

Now, let him

Hmm

The consciousness of the tyrannical insect stays in this second.

While he was still thinking about these things in his mind, Sora's figure was already passing by like a ghost, and its legs cut through its head, as if it was just a simple cut. got a piece of paper.

Kong stood still, and turned to look at the head of the violent consciousness insect that was still flying in the air, his eyes cold.

"It's a pity. This time, no consciousness insect can restore your life."

Last time, the violent consciousness insect recovered from his attack by devouring other consciousness insects. life was saved.

This time, it won’t happen.

Kong raised his head, his eyes calmed down, and he glanced at Yu Cang.

He didn’t say anything, he just came to Xu silently and lowered his head.

"Song, you are so awesome." Xu's eyes were full of excitement, "That's great, that fat insect can no longer bully us."

Looking at Xu, Sora His eyes softened a lot.

How silly.

She hasn’t realized anything yet.

Thinking like this, Kong carefully read the preface from head to toe, as if he wanted to remember every detail of her. After a long time, he withdrew his gaze and lowered his head.

"Hey" Xu looked left and right, "Song, what are you doing?"

"Xu, kill me."

" "Eh?" Xu was startled, "Why did Xu kill Kong?"

"This is the arena, the scholar is waiting for us to decide the winner. Xu, don't keep the scholar waiting." "

Kong finished speaking calmly, but Xu was already stunned.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Kong moved his mouth and said, "When you go to the scholar's place in the future, don't always be willful. Remember to be obedient. I know that you swore because of me. That’s why I made an oath. You and I have worked hard to endure your appetite for so long. In the future, you can eat whatever you want. No one will care about you. As long as youListen obediently to the scholar, wait, Xu, come back."

Kong was in a hurry.

He clearly saw it.

Xu jumped up high without any hesitation. , the sharp feet have stabbed Yu Cang

You will die soon

Yu Cang has a strange expression

Wait. p>What kind of development is this?

He just watched the show for a while, how could he become a villain?

Who knows, family members. >That Sora, I kindly gave you a chance to take revenge with my own hands. I thought you would understand what I meant.

I didn’t expect that, instead of thanking myself,

Instead.

Yu Cang slapped his forehead

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