Chapter 246 Undying Dragon Scales (8800 Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

[The Evil Spirit of the Ocean Current Lord, Tamboursa]

[The protector of the Nine Seas and all waters, the divine soul that desires to restore the Era]

[A divine soul that will continue at all costs]

[Direct consumption greatly increases affinity for all water-based spiritual power, greatly increases deterrence against aquatic life, and greatly increases the effectiveness of water assistance.]

[Spiritual tempering, transforms into an 'Ocean Current Heart' spirit attachment, attached to all equipment and props]

[Forging with special techniques can create the 'Nine Seas · Torrent Scepter' soul weapon]

[Harmonizing with special techniques, after consumption, one can obtain the inheritance of the 'Water God's Power']

[Apart from their own people, everything is just an insignificant detail not worth caring about; this is the unique arrogance of the gods]

[It's just that the arrogant will eventually encounter the more arrogant. Everyone is aware of this. After all, the matter of life is nothing more than a cycle of repeated seizing and being seized.]

[I seize from others, and others will surely seize from me. This is the way of heaven, nothing more. But how can we escape this cycle? No one knows what answer to write on the perfect answer sheet.]

The water god's evil soul surged, and after losing the power of its controller, the out-of-control nuclear heart produced a violent explosion, turning his body into countless droplets.

Watching this explosion, Su Zhou retrieved the evil soul into his soul space. On the way back to Nesser City, Su Zhou thought about many things.

The actions of the Water God and his followers are understandable. In an underdeveloped magical world that probably hasn't even developed inter-world exploration technology, the destruction and rebirth brought about by the changing of eras is indeed a devastating disaster. They are like the Trisolarans in a science fiction novel, facing disaster without even having time to research it, and the progress bar is cleared again and again due to the transition of eras.

There are several ways for them to continue their civilization. One way is to take the revival of the maze as an opportunity, with multiple eras exchanging research data, collecting information, and passing it down from generation to generation. In this way, one day, they will be able to research the truth of the era change.

Another way is to kill each other, fighting for the new era core that emerges at the end of the era change, thereby allowing themselves and their civilization to adapt to the next era.

In fact, the plight of the Tartadis world is even greater than that of the Trisolarans in that science fiction novel. At least the Trisolarans are the same race every time the era changes, so there are no obstacles to communication. However, after the era changes in this world, both the race and the living environment are very different, making it difficult to communicate and exchange information.

And the most feasible way to survive is to obtain the 'Era Core' that those gods talk about, and then become the protagonist of the next era.

However, there is only one Era Core. If one side obtains it, will it let the other side live? If one side obtains it, will the other side not fight for it? Even if the powerful side wants to be kind to others, will the weaker other side not unite and fight secretly? Would they believe in the kindness of the more powerful side? That must be some kind of trap.

No one can know the possibility of multiple camps of gods uniting and betraying each other, and this kind of thing cannot be tested by 'possibility'—especially since the civilizations born in each era change are different races from the previous civilization, and even live in very different environments, making it basically impossible to share the Era Core.

Naturally, no one will hand over their right to survive to others.

The safest way is to eliminate other forces and monopolize the Era Core.

To this end, the gods, as the strongest of civilization, must restore their power as soon as possible, and sacrificing individuals from other forces is one of the methods.

Of course, all of this sounds irrelevant to Su Zhou, who comes from another world. Mutual killing seems to be some kind of natural law in another world, a natural prisoner's dilemma. Without external force, it is almost impossible to break this cycle. Others interfering in this process seems like forcibly depriving the other side of the right to survive. After all, interfering with the other side's self-rescue behavior in order to prevent slaughter is like letting the strong die for the sake of the weak, which is essentially the same kind of wickedness.

But slaughter is wrong—for any reason.

Su Zhou's thinking is as simple as an elementary school student's—since the Water God made the choice to 'slaughter other beings in order to survive,' then they must have been prepared to be killed by other beings, right?

The power of the Demon Lord of Devouring Evil is so simple and straightforward. This is not a supernatural power that kind people can awaken, but a power that is more evil than evil, more demonic than demons.

As for what reason, what survival, in the end it is just one of the instincts of survival, and how can it be more noble than eating, drinking, and making love? If you make a beastly judgment, then you'd better not blame others for treating them like beasts, right?

Civilization is higher than the instinctive desires of beasts. If you can't even transcend this, why bother calling yourself human instead of calling yourself beast?

This is Su Zhou's logic, not black and white, but judging actions rather than intentions—it is certainly possible to do evil for noble reasons, but if others do the same to them, then don't have any sympathy. As the saying goes, do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. Conversely, since you have already inflicted it on others, then it is the cycle of heaven and earth to have others do the same thing, and there should be no opposition.

After all, only reasonable and rational communication is the way of civilization. As for a beast that has killed a human, and people still insist on using reasonable methods to communicate with the beast, this is no longer a matter of logic or not, but of putting a gun to your mouth and waiting for someone to pull the trigger—when facing a beast that has pounced on a human, even the most civilized person can only choose to kill it.

To put it simply—those who kill will be killed, so why can't Su Zhou be the one to do it?

Su Zhou himself was already prepared to die before he took action. He could have been an observer of the cycle, but he just wanted to say no to this cycle. In that case, whether he killed the Water God or the Water God killed him, it was the same, and he would not have any complaints.

After all, in his opinion, death is far less terrible than sitting idly by while others suffer. The former is just the annihilation of the body, while the latter shakes even the soul, and the essence of the self ceases to exist.

As for Su Zhou seeming to be an outsider who is not qualified to take action against the cycle of eras in this world... does qualification need to be given by others? Su Zhou clearly has the power and motivation to save this world, so he can do it.

The worst, the lowest reason—he was already prepared to find the Lord of Silence and save this world. If he hadn't encountered the troubles created by the Water God on the way, Su Zhou would probably be exploring in the gray mist, or wandering in the deepest part of the maze, looking for the Lord of Silence's avatar.

In that case, at the same time as making the initial decision to 'prevent the end of the world,' this world has already been placed under Su Zhou's 'protection.' And now, in this world, someone is slaughtering the people Su Zhou wanted to protect in the first place, then even if this person should also be part of Su Zhou's 'protection,' Su Zhou will take action to strike him down.

It's still the same reason—since they can do this to others, then others can do this to them. Don't use morality and their unavoidable reasons to argue. First of all, they could have used civilized methods to communicate and solve the problem, instead of having to use slaughter. Even if they use the logic of beasts, it is reasonable and justified, but to control violence with violence.

As for qualifications—if an alien has no qualifications to stop the massacre that is happening in the local world, then he is not qualified to save this local world.

Conversely, since Su Zhou had already made the decision that when he heard that the world was going to be destroyed, he planned to defeat the Lord of Silence's avatar in this world and save this world, then he would take care of everything in this world, all of it! Everything in this world is related to him!

The logic is that simple.

"I want to become a kind of heavenly tribulation, Yala."

The voice of a young man transforming into a giant dragon, so huge that it shook the atmosphere, sounded: "A kind of unavoidable disaster and retribution."

"If I am a kind of heavenly tribulation, a kind of disaster, a kind of retribution, that can ensure that evil will be punished, then the gods of this era will not dare to attack each other because they fear the retribution I bring, and will thus communicate peacefully with each other, cooperate with each other, and work together to find a way to get through the end of the era,"

Walking on the road, the scales on Su Zhou's body were slowly recovering, and the Grand Celestial Arcanum Seed was also re-condensing.

His speed was getting faster and faster with the assistance of the wind, even faster than when he was running at full speed in the Transcendent Realm—Su Zhou's speed at this time had reached 270 meters per second. If he continued to accelerate, he could even cruise at subsonic speeds.

And this is the power of the Lord Realm. Su Zhou uses his own power to connect with the power of the Great Source of Heaven and Earth, and the wind assistance seems to have evolved, and a gust of wind can be created with a single thought to reduce air resistance.

And in the midst of the surrounding wind, he muttered to himself: "The prisoner's dilemma cannot be broken by people in the internal space, but if there is an outsider, there is me, there is a 'heavenly tribulation' to constrain as the strongest standard, then everyone does not have to speculate on others with the most malicious thoughts—if they do not have to worry about being harmed by others, then everyone can definitely get along harmoniously, and this kind of situation will never happen again, where the Water God slaughters the Earth people in order to survive, in order to compete with the Wind God."

——If the civilizations of each era are punished when they take actions that attempt to harm other civilizations, or even refuse to cooperate, then even the most xenophobic and worst races and civilizations can only grit their teeth, sit down with other civilizations to negotiate, and work together to face the end of the world, right?

If there is such a power…

Yala did not reply immediately to Su Zhou's 'delusion.' The road was silent, and only the giant dragon's regular breathing could be heard.

Then, there was a long sigh. Su Zhou sighed helplessly: "Why isn't there?"

At this time, the Snake Spirit said leisurely, its tone even carrying a hint of nostalgia: "Why can't there be?"

"Su Zhou, you want to become a heavenly tribulation, so why don't you become one? However, becoming a standard, becoming a heavenly tribulation, requires the most powerful force—isn't it precisely because your strength is too weak that you couldn't stop the Water God from launching the massacre in the first place, that you have fallen into your current troubles?"

"I am not in trouble, Yala."

Shaking his head, Su Zhou said: "I am never troubled. I am just worried about others... In the absence of a strong order to restrain it, evil will only spread wantonly."

"Yala, I am the son of a patrolman. I was born in a patrolman's family and educated in law and order. I originally thought that civilization and law were such a strong order, which could restrain the people within from committing crimes, and that criminals would be punished. This is a set of man-made heavenly tribulations, man-made retributions. It is just not perfect enough, but it will gradually become perfect."

"However, if it rises to the level of civilizations and civilizations, this set of laws and orders will become ineffective. At such a grand level, many people cannot see right and wrong, nor can they judge good and evil—but I am very clear that it is only because there is no strong order, an order that transcends civilization, that is even stronger, to decide what cannot be done, what can be done, what is right, and what is a crime."

Civilization, country, law, an order collective larger than a person, can adjudicate the right and wrong between people.

And an even more powerful existence can adjudicate the right and wrong between civilizations, countries, a race, and even the world and the world.

Thinking of this, Su Zhou looked at Yala with burning eyes. For the first time, he directly asked: "Yala, you great existences, you have the power to act as this order, right? And even you are sealed, does it mean that before you, there was some kind of 'greater order'?"

"If He really exists, then why doesn't He formulate such a set of heavenly tribulations? Why doesn't He perfect this set of orders, so that all our worlds will no longer have the soil for evil to occur?"

If there really is a force that even seals great existences, then if He sets the standard, nearly 100% of the life in the multiverse would not dare to do evil. It's like humans clearly have the power to wantonly harm their fellow humans, just need to punch, can hurt their fellow humans, but in modern society, even if there is a quarrel, not everyone is willing to wave force to solve the problem that way.

This is the power of order and standards. It can stop the spread of evil, so that countless small and trivial evils no longer occur, and some huge evils are reduced——just like in this world, the evil created by the mistrust prisoner's dilemma between the people of water, wind, and earth, if there is such a heavenly tribulation, it will no longer have the soil to appear.

Why isn't there? Clearly this multiverse, there exists power like great existences! This is the greatest doubt of the Demon Lord of Devouring Evil.

"How simple, Su Zhou." The sealed Snake Spirit responded with a chuckle: "What you are asking for is to use the most solid order, the strongest method, to stop the spread of all evil. But, have you discovered that your idea is actually 'hindering the freedom of others to do evil'?"

"If this set of orders is implemented perfectly, in the end, wouldn't it be sealing half the possibilities of civilization?"

"The freedom to do evil?!" Su Zhou looked at Yala with unbelievable eyes. With his way of thinking, he simply couldn't understand that the moment when 'doing evil' could actually be mentioned in the same breath as 'freedom.'

In his view, that part of the possibility of doing evil simply has no need to exist... The part of the Demon Lord of Devouring Evil that belongs to the Demon Lord makes him not feel that this is actually a problem: "This kind of freedom is simply disgusting——and the definition of freedom is that it will not affect the freedom of others! The freedom to do evil cannot be called freedom at all!"

"The multiverse is very vast, Su Zhou. Your thinking is only based on human civilization, or on the thinking mode of human civilization that only stays on the planet and has not moved towards the wider world. You yourself actually know that your own good and evil are just your own good and evil."

Yala calmly patted Su Zhou's neck, where the scales had already regenerated, with her tail: "The definitions of freedom and evil are also the same——you continue to walk forward, and you will eventually encounter situations that can challenge your current thoughts... Unless you are very strong, very strong, so strong that you can set your own good and evil as the iron rules of this multiverse."

"In that case, even if you castrate all the possibilities of sentient life to do evil, even if you use tyranny to implement your self-righteousness, then you are also the highest and best Supreme God."

Saying so, the Snake Spirit smiled, and then drilled back into the groove of Su Zhou's scales, no longer replying.

"Indeed."

Su Zhou couldn't help but sigh.

The transcendent world has infinite possibilities, but it has a unique standard...

"Strength."

If you are not strong enough, then all wills, all desires, whether good or evil, will not have the opportunity to be implemented.

After this battle, Su Zhou has never understood the importance of strength more clearly than at this time.

"I hope the Wind God hasn't started slaughtering yet." He raised his head and looked at the sky, muttering to himself in a somewhat helpless voice: "In that case, I can also have a good communication with Him to see how we can join forces to bring this world back on track."

However, when Su Zhou returned to Nesser City, he found that his true form could not be temporarily restored to human form and could only continue to maintain the form of a large white-scaled, wingless dragon.

After all, most of his true body flesh is composed of the Water God's flesh, and not cultivated by himself. In this way, this huge body cannot be stored in the spirit world space according to the true body cultivation method, and then transformed when needed.

In other words, the current Su Zhou needs to slowly temper and transform his true body flesh into his own power bit by bit before he can return to human form.

This is not a big problem for Su Zhou. It's just a matter of spending ten or twenty days slowly tempering it, but it's a bit frightening for the people of Nesser City. After all, even scaring people with such a powerful alien monster can cause a heart attack—although Su Zhou quickly gained the trust of the people with his own strength, letting everyone understand that this wingless dragon is Su Zhou, he can't live in a house now and can only stay in the square.

"Is that the transformed form of Lord Su Zhou?"

"This true body is a bit strange. It feels a bit like a dragon, but it doesn't have wings..."

"But it has a sense of power!"

Many whispers sounded, and the fear in the words gradually disappeared, and instead there was admiration: "So handsome! These scales, this spine, this caudal fin, this big tail... So handsome!"

Yala in the scales clicked her tongue—she thought that Su Zhou's inexplicable good popularity would become invalid after transforming into an alien true body, but she didn't expect that even after transforming, it would still have the same effect.

As for the fear of ordinary people... what is there to be afraid of? It's not like there are no druids in this world who can transform. Although most of them can only transform into bears, wolves, and owls, they can still turn into beasts, and Su Zhou's transformation is nothing more than being more powerful than druids.

After all, it is a magical world with transcendent power. There will definitely be errors if you compare it with the logic and attempts of the general world. The ordinary people of this world are not surprised by this kind of form transformation.

Moreover, Su Zhou's actions to protect the city, repel the Water God, and make the heavy rain recede were also seen by everyone. They almost worshiped Su Zhou as a god—Su Zhou is back, but that huge whale monster is not. Although Su Zhou didn't say much about it, everyone knew what the result was.

The Water God's believers in the distance have now basically withdrawn, and the crisis of Nesser City's destruction has been resolved in this way. This is even more of a life-saving grace to millions of people in the city.

What's more, Su Zhou has now broken through to the Lord Realm, a near-god powerhouse that has not appeared in thousands of years—no one dares to question such a powerhouse. Whatever his true body looks like is handsome, after all, aesthetics have always been whatever the powerhouse looks like, and not that the powerhouse changes to cater to the aesthetics of others.

But in addition to these exciting things, there is also some bad news.

"Elias is dying?"

After returning to the city, Su Zhou immediately learned such an unpleasant piece of news from the guards of the Grand Duke's Mansion. He frowned, and his huge dragon head looked a bit ferocious: "Didn't the holy water I left behind work?"

After staying in the Tartadis world for so long, Elias is the human he is most familiar with. This gray-eyed youth is young, but he has a lot of order and method in dealing with people, giving Su Zhou the feeling of Shao Qiming when he was young. Whether it is working or dealing with people in peacetime, it gives people a feeling of spring breeze, and he really has a heart willing to pay for the territory.

According to the guards, they originally thought that even the Grand Duke needed to be cultivated, but Elias seemed to be a natural leader, a natural Grand Duke.

Now, Elias has been seriously injured by reversing the elemental magic circle. Tracing the source, this is also the reason why the Water God was defeated by Su Zhou. If that blow had not shot down the Water God, Su Zhou would never have been able to cause so much subsequent damage to the whale, and then defeat it.

"It worked, Lord Su Zhou. The holy water is really effective, otherwise, the Grand Duke would have died long ago."

The guard of the Grand Duke's Mansion knelt on one knee in front of the dragonized Su Zhou. He replied in a deep voice. Even though Su Zhou said 'Don't kneel, I can't even see you if you kneel,' the guard still insisted on saluting out of respect.

While taking Su Zhou to the area where Elias is currently being treated, the guard continued to explain: "The Grand Duke now has chaotic elements in his body, which is an incurable disease. He can only recuperate slowly in an area where the elements are normal, but now that the elemental array has disappeared, the entire Nesser City is no longer protected, and the conversion of elements has begun to stagnate again. Many of our healing magic has lost its effect, and the same is true for healing potions... Apart from asking you for help, we really have no way."

"Stop talking, I'll go see what's going on."

Even Su Zhou didn't dare to guarantee that he could save Elias. After all, even his blood, in the final analysis, needs the other party's trust in him to take effect... How much does Elias actually trust himself? Only Elias himself knows this.

——However, has the conversion of elements become stagnant?

Sensing it slightly, Su Zhou was surprised to find that he didn't seem to feel this way, and he clearly felt this stagnation when he first entered the Tartadis world.

This means that there must have been some changes on him that reduced the negative impact of elemental stagnation.

"Compared to that time, I have only had two changes, one is the successful condensation of the true body, and the other is the achievement of the Lord Realm."

Thinking this way, Su Zhou strode closer to an alchemic workshop full of the smell of magic potions. Elias is now receiving information from alchemists and potion masters there, and Su Zhou's huge dragon body trampled on the water-soaked streets, stamping out huge footprints.

"The Lord Realm should have nothing to do with this. If it weren't for the Five-Colored Spiritual Scales, it would be difficult for my Celestial Circulation to absorb normal spiritual energy, so it can only be the true body."

Temporarily putting this idea down, Su Zhou couldn't enter a two-story small house that wasn't even as high as his knees. He could only gently use his Arcanum Armor to dismantle the roof of the alchemic workshop and look at Elias, who was still in a coma.

Su Zhou, whose mother is a doctor, knew at a glance that something was wrong. You don't need any medical knowledge to know that Elias's situation is very bad now—his shoulder-length, deep blue hair has now turned snow white, and the elements in his body are chaotic like a ball of hemp rope, which cannot be sorted out at all, and all his organs are failing.

The whole person is more like hanging on to a breath with holy water than alive. If it weren't for the power of the holy water, this gray-eyed youth would probably have returned to the sky long ago.

"Soak him in my blood and see what happens." Even Su Zhou could only give such a solution. He sighed and ordered the potion masters and alchemists to find a bathtub, wash it clean, take off Elias's clothes, and put him in it. Su Zhou controlled his body and dripped a few drops of blood from the tip of his huge, sharp dragon claw.

Now, Su Zhou, who is more than 20 meters tall, even a drop of blood is enough to soak a person's whole body. A few drops of blood are enough to fill the bathtub and soak Elias's whole body.

Next, it is up to fate. If you want to heal with Su Zhou's blood, you need to have respect and trust for Su Zhou. This kind of free-thinking power is indeed very in line with Su Zhou's style, and it is useless for others to be anxious.

But unexpectedly, Elias's condition improved quickly.

His trust and respect for Su Zhou even exceeded Su Zhou's own expectations—he himself didn't expect that he would be so trusted by the other party.

But thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem strange. After all, Elias was able to regain Nesser City and become the Grand Duke by relying on his power, and it was Su Zhou who helped him protect the family's foundation and repel the Water God's attack.

In his heart, if Su Zhou is not worthy of respect and trust, then there can never be anyone else who can be worthy of this standard.

Time passed, and by dawn, Elias had largely escaped the danger of death.

"Too powerful!"

"It's simply divine blood!"

"I don't want to say anything too rude. Even divine blood doesn't have this effect!"

"No... impossible, you can't do it, no matter what kind of magic potion, you can't absolutely do it!"

This is simply a miracle. The alchemists and potion masters present gasped in unison and were shocked. They were really very shocked, because no one knew Elias's situation before better than them. Su Zhou was able to save the little Grand Duke in that state. That's not just the level of a panacea, that's simply resurrection from the dead!

Su Zhou, who was tired from fighting the Water God, was resting against a building. Hearing the sound from the alchemic workshop, he woke up and turned his attention to that side.

As a result, he heard even more exclamations of astonishment.

"Look! Dragon scales have grown on the Grand Duke's body!"

"Yes, what is this scale? This gray-white material..."

"Wait, isn't this the same as Lord Su Zhou's body..."

Su Zhou had already arrived above the alchemic workshop.

He lowered his head to look at Elias in the bathtub. At this time, the little Grand Duke was still in a coma, but his complexion was indeed much rosier than at first. His breathing was even, his organs had returned to activity, but his hair was still snow-white.

And Elias's body did grow a layer of fine dragon scales. Su Zhou could see that it was the style of the scales on his body when he was in human form.

It could be seen that the chaotic elements in the other party's body actually had a tendency to recover faintly. Seeing this scene, Su Zhou's eyes suddenly froze: "Is my dragon scale taking effect? That's right, my dragon scales can stabilize the five elements and element types both inside and outside the body. It is precisely by relying on these dragon scales that I can emit powerful breaths that mix three spiritual forces, otherwise, when I launch the breath, I would have been burned to death by my own power."

"Elias's symptoms of elemental disorder are being alleviated by my dragon scales, and it is also these dragon scales that isolate the elemental environment inside and outside his body, so that his injured body, which has lost the protection of the protection array, will not deteriorate due to the stagnation of external elements..."

Thinking of this, Su Zhou couldn't help but be stunned: "Wait."

He thought in shock: "Could it be that my scale can block elemental stagnation to a certain extent?!"

Elemental stagnation is the cause of the era's end, the apocalypse. For some reason, the speed of elemental exchange has become slow, and all kinds of spiritual energy that cannot be smoothly converted with each other will cause various strange delays in the physical world, such as water not being able to boil no matter what, and wind not only not being able to take away heat, but becoming hotter and hotter as it blows... It is precisely because of this that outside the protection array, all life will gradually die.

However, the dragon scales originating from the Five-Colored Spiritual Scales can convert the attributes of the surrounding spiritual energy into some fixed attributes. This delay doesn't matter. Anyway, converting it five seconds later is still conversion. There won't be any elemental disorders that would lead to danger to life, and to a certain extent, it reduces the impact of external elemental stagnation.

However, if it can really slow down the impact of external elemental stagnation on the body, then it is not to say that it can easily survive outside, at least, the person who has this ability will not die so easily. He can slightly hide in an area with more stable elements underground and live normally!

Deeply gazing at Elias, whose body was covered with dragon scales and was obviously invaded by his own bloodline, Su Zhou's eyes were extremely solemn. At this moment, he had countless thoughts flashing in his mind, but in the end, he sighed deeply: "You actually have this effect? The scales, which were originally only used for defense and self-destruction, can actually deal with elemental stagnation."

However, he didn't have time to continue to sigh.

Because the seven alchemists and potion masters present were bowing to Su Zhou. After witnessing the miracle brought by Su Zhou, their tone was extremely fanatical, and they regarded Su Zhou as a god-like existence.

"Undying—Undying—"

They shouted a word, that word, in the Tartadis world, has multiple meanings of 'immortal,' 'undead,' 'savior,' and 'redemption.' It is generally a title used to describe gods, and they are now praising Su Zhou, praising the title of 'Undying Dragon.'

"...Alright."

Although he looked a little impatient, as if he didn't like this kind of praise very much, Su Zhou had a kind of joy in his heart, a kind of joy that seemed to have finally found a clue to break the situation.

"It just so happens that I haven't named you yet."

Raising his hand, Su Zhou looked at his dragon claw. On it, the scales emitting a gray-white light were stably converting the attributes of the elements. The Demon Lord of Devouring Evil revealed, for the first time since defeating the Water God, a smile from the bottom of his heart.

"Let's call you 'Undying Dragon Scale.'"

In the beginning, there was only gray mist between heaven and earth, and only ancient trees and immortal ancient dragons lived in it...

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