Chapter 5 Initial Test of Magic Power
Su Ziyi pinched a large handful of water celery with great satisfaction.
By the time he had destroyed all the water celery beside the ditch, Bian Qing and his children had already gone down to the ground. Su Ziyi stood up and relaxed his waist and looked over, but could only see a blurry back.
Su Ziyi turned around, looked at the slope Bian Qing pointed at before, and decided to climb up.
The slope was not very high, but it was enough for Su Ziyi to take in a considerable part of Luoshan Village. This is not a wealthy village. Not to mention the wealthy families, there are not even red brick houses or blue brick houses. Basically, they are all mud brick houses like theirs. And facing a large field down the slope, I don't know what's going on. There are only a few people scattered in the large field, and there are very few crops planted.
Standing on the top of the slope, the breeze blowing, carrying the fragrance of spring flowers, made Su Ziyi feel much better. Even seeing such a dilapidated scene, he was not so depressed.
He walked down the slope, searching for shepherd's purse in the weeds. He had bought this kind of wild vegetables before, and it was not difficult to identify them, so in a short while he had picked a lot of them. This made him satisfied. When he thought that there were only three people at home, no matter how much he picked, it would be a waste, so he finally gave up.
But when he was walking down with a handful of shepherd's purse, a strange fragrance suddenly wafted into his nose.
His nose twitched and he took two sharp breaths before he recognized the smell of toon! This made him a little happy. Although some people don't like the taste, he still likes it, especially the scrambled eggs with Chinese toon. The taste is fragrant and tender, and it tastes very comfortable! When he thought of this, he immediately walked towards the direction of the fragrance. After a few steps, he saw a Chinese toon tree that was about the same height as him. It didn't grow much, and it only had some semi-open leaves on its tips. .
He didn't pick too many toon. He just picked a small handful at random and happily took them away. But when he returned to the ditch, selected the wild vegetables and washed them in the water, he suddenly thought - there seemed to be no chickens or eggs in that bare-walled house, right?
He tried to think back and realized that indeed during the half month as a patient, he had not been exposed to any meat or fish, not even egg droplets. Before, because I had just arrived in this world, I was not a fan of meat and fish, so I didn't feel much about it. At most, I thought the food was too bland and tasteless. And now -
looking at the handful of toon in his hand, Su Ziyi could neither take it nor throw it away.
So when Bian Qing came back with Su Yulang, he saw a somewhat unhappy Su Ziyi. "What's wrong with you?" Bian Qing really doesn't want to see Su Ziyi in a bad mood now, because it may mean that Su Ziyi has become the same as before, and then their father and son's life will be miserable again.
"It's nothing -" Su Ziyi couldn't show any interest, so he raised his hand and threw away the toon in his hand.
As soon as Bian Qing saw it, he knew what he was thinking. His eyes darkened, and he reached out and touched the top of Su Yulang's head: "Then go home first." He would not bring up the topic of eggs, because That's just looking for trouble for yourself. And now, if he could, he would stay as far away from Su Ziyi as he really wanted.
Su Ziyi nodded, and walked ahead holding the vegetables he picked, without letting Bian Qing help. This made Bian Qing, who had already stepped forward to get the food, stunned, and then he took Su Yulang's hand and followed Su Ziyi. Su Ziyi, who was walking in front, naturally did not see Bian Qing's twinkling eyes.
As soon as he got home, Bian Qing got into the kitchen to make dinner, while Su Ziyi sat in the evening sun and stared blankly.
As he was walking on the road, he suddenly remembered that this world was different from the earth! In this world, one can cultivate and use spiritual energy. But before, he followed the thinking of ordinary people on earth, so he has always been in a deadlock. But now, he thought about it, thinking about the power he could use, he couldn't help but take a deep breath - -
Maybe, it is still very simple to have enough food and clothing in this world.
He looked down at his hands on his knees, then closed his eyes, found the relevant memory of the original owner in his mind, and then started to circulate the aura according to the memory. Perhaps it was because the souls of the two people were fused, Su Ziyi could clearly feel that a soft external force was penetrating into his tendons bit by bit, and then traveling along the tendons and meridians throughout his body.
And after such a little Zhou Tian walked down, Su Ziyi obviously felt that his body felt much lighter. This made him feel that he was really stupid before. If he had done this within half a month, these injuries would have been cured long ago.
He followed his mental method to concentrate the spiritual energy in his body on the palm of his right hand. He saw a faint red and green light beating and rolling around the palm of his right hand. Looking at this scene, Su Ziyi's heart was ups and downs, and he stared at it for a long time. After a while, Su Yulang, who was playing with stones, looked at him like he was crazy. His whole body trembled and he looked up to the sky and laughed.
His appearance frightened Su Yulang. The child threw the pebbles in his hands, ran to the kitchen, hugged Bian Qing's legs and said muffledly: "Emma, father is a little strange." After laughing, Su Ziyi felt relaxed all over
. After Bian Qing called him, he picked up the stool and walked to the kitchen. There is no way, this family is so poor, they even have a few stools. And when he sat down at the table and looked at the oily vegetable porridge, he was no longer as bored as before. He took a sip of vegetable porridge and asked Bian Qing without raising his head: "I'm standing on the slope today. There are no people in the fields, where have all the people in the village gone?"
This is not to blame Su Ziyi for being ignorant, but to blame the Su Ziyi from before. Originally, after Su Ziyi came to Luoshan Village, he either stayed at home or went to the town to work as a moneymaker with those prodigal sons. As for the business and the things around him, he didn't care and didn't listen.
If you asked him what he knew, he only knew which brothel had the most famous girls and which had the best wine.
When Su Ziyi asked, Bian Qing's expression became more complicated, but his tone remained calm: "There is a new mine in the town next door, which produces some spiritual stones, so everyone in the village goes there. I'm working on the side." In fact, the money provided by the mine was not bad, and Bian Qing was also very tempted, but as soon as he thought about Su Yulang, he gave up the idea completely.
Su Ziyi was impressed by Bian Qing's mention. He remembered that one of the original owner's friends in the town, named Peng, once mentioned this mine and told some gossip he heard from somewhere, saying that complete spiritual stones could be produced there! He even encouraged others to go there and steal things.
The original owner was naturally disdainful, and although the others were usually very messy, they were actually not very courageous. Naturally, the matter was passed over happily, and no one had heard it.
"That land won't be planted?"
"There are still some people with spiritual roots in the village. It's easy for monks to deal with these fields, so if you don't rely on the fields for a living, it doesn't matter if you cultivate them later." As soon as he saw Su Ziyi After drinking half of the bowl of porridge, he put it down and Bian Qing frowned.
"Is farming unprofitable?" Su Ziyi was actually very confused after hearing this. It stands to reason that since this world has spiritual energy, there must be some spiritual plants that can be planted, and these plants are beneficial to spiritual practice. If they are sold, they should be quite profitable. "Can't you plant spiritual plants?"
"You can't plant them." Withdrawing his gaze, Bian Qing shook his head: "Although some people in the village have spiritual roots, they don't have the mental skills to cultivate like the family monks in Chucheng City, so their strength They can't control the spiritual power in their bodies at will, let alone use the spiritual power to cultivate spiritual plants. They can only grow some ordinary crops to make a living." "Although they are not very strong and cannot use spiritual power, the spiritual power in their bodies still exists
. The spiritual energy has indeed made them stronger, so it is better to go to the mine to work, that will make more money." Speaking of this, Bian Qing thought of himself. If he had the mental skills to cultivate like Su Ziyi, he would also be able to make more money. It won't be as miserable as it is now.
So, Bian Qing’s third level of Qi training can only be used as a decoration?
Su Ziyi raised his eyebrows, placed his chopsticks on the bowl, tapped his right index finger on the table, and raised his eyebrows gently. For a moment, his whole temperament was infinitely closer to his previous self, although his appearance was completely different. This change in temperament easily caught the attention of the sensitive Bian Qing.
"What about the ordinary monks who practice mental skills? What do they usually do?"
"I don't know about that." Bian Qing shook his head with some regret: "Generally speaking, only families that have inherited it from a long time ago there will be cultivation methods. And such families are often wealthy, and the wealth they have accumulated is far beyond what I can imagine. Naturally, they will not worry about their livelihood ." So now I can only follow Bian Qi farming? Su Ziyi was a little unwilling to do this.
"Then people in the village have no other means of making a living?"
"In the past, during the off-season, some skilled people chose to hunt in the outer reaches of the mountains -" Bian Qing narrowed his gaze: "People with skills There are too few, and there are very few people who have the courage to go into business. Therefore, in the entire Luoshan Village, only Dr. Li relies on his medical skills to make a living, and the others can only work hard. "Hunting?
Hearing this, Su Ziyi subconsciously ran through the delicacies he had eaten before, and his throat squirmed a few times. "Is it difficult?" he asked restrainedly. He felt that his body was almost healed now, and he still had cultivation and skills. If he wanted to improve his food, hunting might be a good choice.
The next day, Su Ziyi woke up as soon as it dawned.
He held up his hands and sat down from the bed. Fortunately, he was sleeping on the edge of the bed. As long as he was gentle with his hands and feet, it would not affect Bian Qing and Su Yulang who were sleeping inside.
Although he knew that Bian Qing was a Shuang'er, Shuang'er looked no different from a man in appearance, except for the drop-shaped red mole in the middle of his forehead. Therefore, from the perspective of Su Ziyi, whose concept has not completely changed, Bian Qing is actually the same old man, but his frame is smaller than his own. What's the problem if two men sleep with a child together?
Therefore, he sleeps without any burden and the quality of his sleep is super good.
"Are you really planning to go to the mountain?" Just as Su Ziyi opened the door, Bian Qing woke up behind him. He put his elbows on the bed and asked very soberly. "Yeah." Su Ziyi turned around and said, "I'll just walk around outside. It's spring now, and the animals are a little more manic. I'm worried about encountering big things when I go deeper." After saying that, he stepped back and went out: "Before dinner, I I'll be back." After saying that, he closed the door.
Entering the kitchen, Su Ziyi flicked his fingers, and a small fireball landed on the firewood in the stove. This is a new trick he has learned, and it is quite convenient. Then he put water in the pot and put a bowl of brown rice in it. When the rice grains were tumbling until they were half cooked, he put in the remaining vegetable leaves from yesterday and a little salt.
When the sky got brighter, the porridge was cooked. After Su Ziyi drank a few sips of the bowl, he left a small fire in the stove to warm the porridge, then picked up the only hatchet at home and headed towards the mountain a few miles away. Go.
The terrain of Luoshan Village is probably similar to that of the central and southern regions of China in the past. The number of mountains is pretty good, so Su Ziyi didn't walk for long. With his spiritual agility, he reached the foot of the mountain in less than a cup of tea. He looked up and looked into the woods. The trees were very lush, and even all kinds of weeds and shrubs were densely filling every open space. From this look, he knew that no one was coming.
This is also true. For the people in Luoshan Village, one is the lack of strength, and the other is the lack of skills. Going into the mountains to find prey will most likely return empty-handed. It is better to go to the next town to smash rocks for a day, and at least make a profit. Meat money.
Taking a deep breath, Su Ziyi held the hatchet in his hand, and picked up a wooden stick picked up everywhere with his other hand, pushed aside the obstructing shrubs, and patted the grass to avoid disgusting insects. Or snake. He didn't know if he went in deep enough, so until Su Ziyi walked for a long time, he didn't encounter anything. He saw some mushrooms, but he couldn't identify them, so he didn't dare to pick them.
After resting in place for a while, Su Ziyi continued to walk deeper.
On the other side, when Bian Qing got up and washed up with Su Yulang, he suddenly felt sour when he saw the warm porridge in the pot. Su Yulang tugged at his clothes and asked with a troubled expression: "What's the matter, Eminem? Is the porridge not cooked yet?" "No, no." Bian Qing smiled at Su Yulang and took it. Bowl, he quickly filled a bowl of porridge for both of them.
The porridge is warm, salty and delicious when you drink it in your mouth.
"Emma, today's porridge is delicious." Su Yulang, who was sitting next to his hand, couldn't wait to take a sip of the porridge, smiled at Bian Qing with satisfaction, and then continued to eat. And looking at the child struggling with the bowl of thin porridge, Bian Qing felt that he had become extremely fragile recently and wanted to cry more and more often.
Yesterday, when he heard Su Ziyi ask him if it was difficult to go hunting in the mountains , he had ten thousand thoughts in his mind. He really wanted to say that it was not difficult. He wanted the other party to go deep into the mountains and forests, encounter some big prey, and end up losing his life there. In that way, he and Su Yulang would be freed. But when his eyes met Su Ziyi's and saw that there was no disgust in the other person's eyes, only seriousness, he silently extinguished all these thoughts.
"If you want to go in, don't go too far inside. I heard Doctor Li say that there are monsters in the mountains." Outside the house, the sun had set, and its remaining rays shone into this dilapidated house. In the light where he could not feel the temperature, Bian Qing heard himself say this.
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Chapter 6 A little test of skills
Su Ziyi didn't know most of the things in the mountains.
Looking around, he found that although the mountains looked lush and green, there was very little to eat. I also found some thorny shrubs with bright red wild berries on a few steep lands with sparse trees. Su Ziyi picked a few and tasted them. They were a little sweet and quite delicious.
It's delicious, but it doesn't matter whether you're full or not.
So, Su Ziyi marked the edge of the bushes and decided to pick some and take them home if he really didn't find anything good.
Although the trees grow more prosperously as you go further in, and there are fewer weeds and shrubs under the trees, because the moisture in the mountains is too heavy and the sunlight outside is not strong enough, Su Ziyi's shoes and trousers are still inevitably covered in thick layers of The fallen leaves were wet, which made him a little irritated, especially after walking for more than half an hour without even seeing a living thing, he felt discouraged.
"This shouldn't be the case." Su Ziyi stopped and muttered to himself.
According to Bian Qing, there are no hunters in the village, and the people in the village are busy with work in the mines. Unless they need to collect firewood, they rarely go into the mountains. Therefore, there should be a lot of prey in the mountains. After all, it is not like the modern times that have experienced wars, famines and leap-forward industrial changes. It has a very well-preserved ecological environment, and the living environment of animals is very good.
With doubts, Su Ziyi continued to move forward patiently. Although he was very impatient, he would always work hard after making up his mind.
The sun gradually rose, and the water vapor in the mountain forest evaporated, forming a thick layer of clouds and mist over the forest, which looked spectacular. After trekking for another hour, Su Ziyi finally found some clues in the mountain - it was some fresh animal excrement, and the fallen leaves next to it were a little messy, as if they had been kicked away by someone.
Su Ziyi knelt down, pulled a twig from the nearby bush, and poked it around to make sure that the feces was not wet due to moisture, but was fresh feces without any dryness inside. The feces particles were not large, which made Su Ziyi feel more at ease, because it showed that the animal might not be very big.
Su Ziyi stood up, looked at the leaves that had been kicked into a mess by this naughty animal, and followed the traces.
I don't know whether it was because of the lack of natural enemies or because he was stupid, but Su Ziyi could see many fresh traces along the way, sometimes a few newly broken shrub branches, sometimes some exposed paw prints on the yellow mud. ——This allowed Su Ziyi to roughly determine that the other party should be a bird.
But looking at the size of the paw prints, Su Ziyi couldn't help but wonder. Did the chickens here also mutate due to spiritual energy? This paw print looks at least three times larger than a chicken paw print on Earth!
This little doubt could not dissuade him from moving forward. He continued walking in, but he was more careful.
In this way, Su Ziyi searched all the way, and finally at a small pool on the mountainside, Su Ziyi finally got a glimpse of the other party's true appearance. As he had guessed before, this thing looked very much like a bird. If he wanted to make a comparison, Su Ziyi could only think of seeing guinea fowl in the zoo before. Both have smooth gray feathers dotted with white dots, but the white dots on the one in front of me look more dazzling. The chicken head is no longer red and blue, replaced by a very textured black like velvet.
Moreover, he is so big.
Looking at the chicken, which was five times as big as the guinea fowl, Su Ziyi felt a little headache. Especially when he saw the dead rabbit next to the chicken that had been eaten with only some internal organs left, his head hurt even more - the chickens in this world actually eat meat, or they are rabbits. This simply refreshed his perspective. .
He visually measured the height of the guinea fowl, and found to his dismay that it was almost up to his thigh! Coupled with the plump figure and the sharp and long beak, Su Ziyi can guarantee that if he rushes forward like this now, the end will not be much better than that rabbit.
When he thought of this, his movements became softer, and even his breathing became lighter, for fear that the chicken would find him and start a pecking attack.
So, to go up or not up, that is the question.
While Su Ziyi was still struggling, the guinea fowl, which was
full
and had its feathers cleaned, was already planning to leave. It didn't even want the rabbit that was almost eaten by it. It just threw it aside, screamed "clucking", and dived into the bushes on the other side.
Su Ziyi didn't need to choose this time, his feet automatically led him to catch up. He held the hatchet tightly in his right hand, his whole body tense, and his spiritual power was always running according to the path of his mind. This was the first time that he faced such a living creature with the intention of killing the opponent. He was very nervous and even worried that he would not be able to cast the spell later.
He doesn't know many spells. The only ones that are useful in this situation are fireball and metamorphosis. The former is the small spell he uses when making porridge in the morning, and the latter uses the wood spirit power in his body to create a short period of time. It stimulates the growth of plants within the body, but it does not last long, only for two breaths, and then the plants will return to their original state.
Such a weak spell seems very useless, but it is very valuable in a place like Luoshan Village.
After all, spells need to be supported by mental skills. Without mental skills to use spiritual power, it can easily lead to out-of-control spiritual power, leading to obsession and even death on the spot! Therefore, the spiritual power they possess only makes them healthier and live longer than ordinary people.
Therefore, the greatest wealth that Su Ziyi possessed was not the 100 taels of silver, but the mental method that only the children of the Su family could practice.
The Su family's mental cultivation method is called "Changchun Jue", which is a mental method that has been handed down since the establishment of the Su family. Without comparison, Su Ziyi didn't know whether this mental method was good or not, but judging from the fact that Su Linyu, the Su family's most promising candidate to enter the Golden Elixir stage, also practiced this mental method, this mental method still had great potential.
Whenever the mental method is activated, Su Ziyi can feel that the spiritual energy around him becomes more active, and he absorbs the spiritual energy faster. With a thought in his mind, he guided the spiritual energy to his feet by forcing the spiritual energy to his fingertips to release the spell, which made his steps become more brisk and his speed nearly doubled.
This also made it easier for him to catch up with the guinea fowl.
Standing carefully in the dark, Su Ziyi looked at the guinea fowl that was destroying them in amazement. He saw the other party find a mouse from a hidden corner, pecked the other party to death with his beak very quickly, and then frantically pecked at the mouse's corpse like pecking at rice. One bite was a piece of meat, which made Su Ziyi feel Muscle pain.
And now, Su Ziyi also knew the reason why there were almost no living creatures in the mountains.
I guess it was caused by this overbearing chicken.
This made Su Ziyi raise the level of danger of this chicken to a higher level. He quietly followed the chicken who had had another meal, trying to find a better place to take action. He hoped that that place would not only allow him to fight better, but also provide him with favorable help if he ran away if he was defeated.
And this time, we have to wait until we reach the nest of the guinea fowl. From the perspective of nest building, this chicken seems to be no different from ordinary chickens. It just built a nest in a relatively dry bush, using branches, grass and leaves. What surprised Su Ziyi was that there were four or five huge eggs in the rather large nest!
Looking at the chicken hatching on the egg, Su Ziyi took a deep breath. He knew that he couldn't wait any longer, otherwise he wouldn't know how long he would have to wait for that so-called opportunity.
He gestured at the position of the chicken and felt that even if he could hit the opponent with a small fireball, it would be difficult to kill with one hit. Once the opponent resisted, it would be very difficult to hit a running living creature with a fireball. Got it! So it is definitely not possible to output the output here.
He looked up and looked around, and finally chose a stronger tree, and then jumped onto the shortest branch with the help of his spiritual energy. This movement was not small, and it immediately woke up the guinea fowl, which was taking a nap with its eyes closed. Its two small eyes revealed a sharp murderous aura, making it easy for people to think that it was a spiritual animal.
It locked onto Su Ziyi immediately, but it did not leave the nest because behind it were its eggs and it had to protect them. So it just chose to stay in the nest, lowering its body and making warning sounds in its throat. This made Su Ziyi a little dissatisfied. The branch height was enough, but not long enough. If the chicken didn't come over, there was nothing he could do.
So, he slowly moved towards the branch and stopped at a position where he could reach the other
party
. Then he inserted the hatchet into the belt behind him, held the branch with one hand, and shot a small fireball towards the guinea fowl with the other hand!
Although the fireball is small, it is extremely hot. Almost as soon as the fireball approached, the guinea fowl immediately dodged with a "coo" sound, and it was indeed as flexible as Su Ziyi had feared. Su Ziyi, who had a plan in mind, moved back because the chicken was already irritated by him and was running towards him like crazy!
Su Ziyi, on the other hand, occupied the advantageous position of the branch and fired small fireballs at the chicken. His accuracy was not very good. Even if the chicken was swaying angrily under him, he could only hit it two or three times out of ten times. This could not cause decisive damage to the chicken, but instead angered the other party even more. Zhang When he opened his mouth, a purple thunderbolt spurted out!
Su Ziyi was horrified. He subconsciously turned around to hide, but because his legs were placed on a branch and it was difficult to move, he was directly hit by the thunderbolt! In an instant, Su Ziyi felt that half of himself was numb, and he couldn't even feel the right leg that was hit. He couldn't help but secretly hate that he was still too careless.
At this moment, Su Ziyi lost his balance and fell directly from the branch of a tree about two meters high. A good layer of skin was scratched off the palm of his right hand. But because of the paralysis, he couldn't feel the pain, but his eyes could still see, and then he saw the chicken charging towards him menacingly! This time, Su Ziyi had already used all his strength to reluctantly turn his body sideways to avoid the long and pointed beak.
The next attack came in an instant. Su Ziyi cruelly gave up the right side of his body. When the opponent pecked his right arm, he suddenly stretched out his left hand and pinched the opponent's long and thin neck, and used his whole body. Press down with all your strength! Don't you want to peck? Then I'll let you have a good time! Never think about looking up again!
At this time, Su Ziyi was completely carried away by his emotions. He forgot that he was no longer an ordinary person, and he could concentrate his spiritual energy on the right side of his body to buffer this wave of attacks. But now he is still thinking like an ordinary person, and eventually he gets hurt.
At this time, veins appeared on his left hand, and his facial features became ferocious due to exertion. Because this chicken has a small head and a big body, and the muscles on its neck are not as strong as those on other parts, Su Ziyi was able to hold its life gate in an instant, not to mention that Su Ziyi had a fourth level of Qi training, and all the muscles on his palms The strength it possesses makes it almost impossible to move its little head, and its throat is so pinched that it can't make a sound.
Just when Su Ziyi was about to snap the opponent's neck, the feeling of his previously paralyzed body slowly recovered. The scraped skin was in burning pain, and the right upper arm that was almost pierced by the beak was in unimaginable pain! Disturbed by the pain, Su Ziyi's mind was inevitably a little confused. With a little effort, the other party broke free.
As soon as the opponent's neck was released, Su Ziyi realized that something was wrong. He endured the severe pain and rolled on the spot, avoiding the opponent's attack. Even though some small branches under his body pricked his whole body with severe pain, he was no longer distracted, but stared at the opponent. .
And the wave of attacks just now actually consumed the chicken's physical strength greatly. It watched with some dejection as Su Ziyi dodged its beak, and then opened its mouth under Su Ziyi's somewhat desperate eyes. It tried hard to send out a purple thunderbolt, but its neck was trembling from the suffocation and nothing came out.
Su Ziyi's eyes moved, and he knew that his chance had come!
He quickly glanced around, and then his eyes lit up. When the chicken was about to catch up, he quickly crawled a few steps on the ground, then held the Millipedia vine that could be seen everywhere in the forest with his bloody right hand, and used the "Transformation Technique" on it. In an instant, the Millipedia vine grew. He had to be fast and follow Su Ziyi's idea to stop the chasing chicken!
While the thin vine was knotting the chicken's legs, Su Ziyi flicked a small fireball from the fingertips of his left hand to the opponent's chest, causing the opponent to fall to the ground and whine. Then, just as the transformation technique was about to fade away, he used his left hand to backhand He picked up the hatchet behind his back, pointed it at the long and slender neck, and raised the knife with his hand!
Suddenly, the miserable wailing stopped abruptly, and lying among a pile of fallen leaves and broken twigs was a chicken with its head separated.
Su Ziyi, who was already half-blooded, didn't come back to his senses when he saw this scene, until the intense pain in his right hand woke him up. He looked at the huge chicken in a daze, and then looked at his right arm that was in so much pain that he suddenly raised his head and laughed!
He won!
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