Journey from Konoha
Chapter 318
Chapter 318
At the beginning, Hei ignored the mirror man, and kept trying to break free, but after a while, Hei Jue, who could not get any results, slowly froze, and started to raise his head, staring blankly at the mirror man , without saying a word, with a dull face.
Gradually, Hei Jue's dull eyes faded away, replaced by a touch of despair that was so thick that it couldn't be dispelled - it accepted its fate.
"why?"
Hei Jue has always wanted to ask this question, why is the mirror man so wary of it?Even if you know about it, a weak guy like him is not worthy of a person like Kagami who is at the top of the ninja world to lower his gaze. Just like Madara in the distance, with time As time goes by, I don't care about Heijue anymore.
The mirror man slightly increased his strength.
"I gave you time to say your last words, not to ask me questions."
The mirror person is talking clichés, and Heijue's words. About Kaguya, the mirror person knows less, because when I read the original book, Kaguya didn't show anything about her until the later stage, and suddenly such an ultimate The big villain, and a villain with little foreshadowing, and when playing Kaguya in the original book at that time, there are many memories interspersed, so the mirror man has very little knowledge of Kaguya's ability.
On the contrary, Madara, when Madara appeared in the original book, really had the aura of the ultimate big boss, which is much stronger than Kaguya, so Madara left a deep impression on the mirror person, and Madara's ability , Mirror people are more understanding.
As for Hui Ye, the mirror person didn't know much about it at first, and with the passage of time, his memory was also blurred, and he didn't know anything. For this reason, the mirror person wanted to see if Hei Jue would reveal something to him before he died. related news.
"It will come back to life."
Heijue suddenly spoke as if he heard the mirror man's voice.
"Mom will definitely be resurrected. From the moment the infinite monthly reading is opened, my mother has already awakened! Awakened in Madara's body! All I have to do is to guide my mother's power to devour Madara! After the infinite monthly reading is opened, my mother There is almost no help for resurrection, in other words, even without me, mother will be resurrected sooner or later! She has already awakened! Her consciousness is still peeking at all of this in Madara!!"
Mirror Man's face darkened in an instant, he did get Kaguya's information, but it was obviously not good information.
"If it is true as you said, Kaguya will be resurrected eventually, then why are you rushing to act now? If you don't act and hide yourself wholeheartedly, maybe it will take me some time to find you. In other words, Your actions don't match your words!"
Hei Jue said that Hui Ye can be resurrected without it, but if that is the case, Hei Jue can just wait for Hui Ye to resurrect quietly, why take risks?
Hei Jue sneered, looked at the reincarnation eye in the mirror man's eyes and said.
"Huh, Yuyi (Sage of the Six Paths) has two sons, one named Indra and the other named Asura. You Uchiha are the descendants of Indra, that is, the descendants of your mother! If you don't have these eyes, how can you Is it possible to find me? Even if you find me, you will never be able to catch me! Without me, my mother will be resurrected, but that must be after you find me. The eyes that killed me before you were resurrected are the power left by your mother! You can use this power to kill me now, but after a while, this power of yours will eventually be returned to your mother!"
The palm of the mirror man suddenly increased his strength, directly pinching Hei Jue's head and deforming it. Since the mirror man has a yin and yang escape in his hand, this kind of injury is real, and it is not immune to the liquid body.
"The strength that Hui Ye left me? No, what she left me is at best a seed that may not germinate. It is myself who cultivated this seed into a towering tree with my own hands. Watch it!"
Purple light flows in the mirror man's reincarnation eyes.
"This power is not given by anyone!"
Hei was unmoved, and smiled coldly.
"No matter what you say, this power must be returned to my mother in the end. You are just struggling before death."
The mirror man looked at Heijue coldly.
"It seems that you have nothing to say, so let's go."
Immediately, the mirror man mercilessly crushed Heijue's head!
Afterwards, the mirror man pulled Annihilation to him.
In order to prevent the resurrection scene after Hei Jue, Jingren decided to help Hei Jue "dispose" of the bones.
Concentrate some natural energy and send it to Annihilation, and then bombard it!
Because it was condensed by the mirror people, the explosion was not violent and the sound was not loud, but the bombardment of Annihilation was all the force of yin and yang, and it was absolutely impossible for Hei to survive.
Avoiding the explosion, Kagōto watched the battle between Madara and Naruto Sasuke in the distance, frowning.
Kaguya will eventually come back to life
The news revealed by Heijue to the mirror person, the mirror person does not know whether it is true or not, and has no way of confirming it.
If it is true, then the mirror man should immediately help Naruto and Sasuke, kill Madara as soon as possible, and prevent the possibility of Kaguya's resurrection. It's much better to be an enemy at night. If you are an enemy with Naruto and others, if you can't fight, you can discuss it. If you can't negotiate, you can run away. In short, there are many choices, and it is basically impossible for accidents.
But with Kaguya as an enemy, the mirror man doesn't believe that a stupid person like Kaguya in the original book would negotiate with him, and Kaguya is powerful, possesses space ninjutsu, and can't even run. Basically, as long as he can't beat him, he can Can only wait to die.
Which one is better, the mirror person can still tell the difference.
And if Hei Ze's words are false, then Kagami should not participate in the battle for the time being, and wait until Madara and Naruto Sasuke are both injured, and then go to "fisherman's profit", this is undoubtedly the best choice.
The question now is, do mirror people believe what Hei Jue said before his death?
If you believe it, kill Madara as soon as possible to prevent Kaguya from resurrecting.
If you don't believe it, just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and prepare to "fisherman's profit".
Lowering his head, the mirror man began to think.
After a while, the mirror man raised his head and looked at the red moon in the sky.
"Ah"
The mirror person still chooses to be safe, he doesn't want Kaguya to come out to disrupt the situation again, in the mirror person's plan, the appearance of a six-spotted spot is enough for the mirror person to have a headache, like Kaguya, who is not in the plan, should completely Eliminate the possibility of her appearing.
"Only a situation under control is a good situation."
Kagami smiled, and stepped forward, ready to help Naruto and Sasuke kill Madara.
But at this moment, the mirror man saw something.
— Annihilation!
A flash of inspiration flashed through the mind of the mirror man.
Yes, annihilation!
With annihilation here, why should I choose between the two?
Of course, all of them!
The ability of annihilation, simply put, is that the longer the power is stored, the greater the power. After the power is fully charged, the mirror man estimates that it is not a problem to kill a six-spotted spot in seconds.
The disadvantage is that if the power storage time is not enough, the effect of annihilation may not be as great as that of a big fireball. The big fireball can at least block the vision, but the time of annihilation is not enough to store power. Almost none, it's really not as good as Hao Fireball.
And the annihilation charge is easily interrupted.
However, the current situation seems to be the right time for Annihilation to play!
If Kaguya is resurrected, what is the ability of Mirror Man that can cause the most damage to Kaguya?In theory, it must be annihilation!
Because the upper limit of annihilation is too high, as long as enough time is given, it will not be a problem to fight Remnant Huiye.
Therefore, if the mirror man starts to condense energy for Annihilation from this moment, then no matter whether Kaguya is resurrected or not, the mirror man can control the situation through the terrifying upper limit of Annihilation.
As long as no one disturbs the mirror man and let the mirror man go all out to cast spells for half an hour, then the mirror man basically has the absolute right to seriously injure anyone.
Whether it is Rokudo Madara, or Rokudo Naruto, Sasuke, or even Kaguya, it is impossible to be safe and sound in the face of Annihilation, which has condensed energy for half an hour, or even to be only slightly injured. At the very least, a serious injury must be there. of.
Moreover, because Annihilation's attack is the power of yin and yang, the injuries caused by Annihilation can't be recovered by people below the six realms, and even if the people above the six realms can recover, it will take a lot of effort.
Unlike Bamenkai, Madara was seriously injured by Bamenkai, but he recovered quickly. That's because although taijutsu can hurt Madara, compared with the power of yin and yang, taijutsu lacks a "erasing ninjutsu" ", so Madara can recover easily, but if Madara was seriously injured by Annihilation, the recovery can be recovered, but it consumes a lot of Chakra.
Basically, if you are hit by annihilation that has been concentrated for more than half an hour, you will either die or lose your combat effectiveness. These are the two options.
Therefore, the mirror man can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, while helping Annihilation to condense energy. In this way, no matter what accident happens later, as long as Annihilation is shot down, the accident will be gone.
After retreating several hundred meters, the mirror man moved Annihilation in front of him, then turned on the fairy mode, began to absorb natural energy, and poured it into Annihilation non-stop!
As long as there is energy injected into Annihilation, it can always maintain the energy in the body, but once there is no continuous injection of energy, Annihilation can only emit the energy in the body or store it in the space within the body.
The Mirror Man intends to inject energy into Annihilation all the time, so there is no need to worry about the overflow of Annihilation energy.
Suddenly, on the battlefield, the wind direction changed!
If there is nothing, the wind seems to blow to the place where the mirror man is.
Because too much natural energy is absorbed, it even causes abnormal phenomena of some elements in nature.
After all, the essence of natural energy is the energy of this world. Back then, Ten Tails used natural energy to cause thunderstorms and tsunamis. Now the mirror man absorbs a large amount of natural energy, which of course also caused some forces in the natural world to stir.
Naruto was the first to perceive it, and he immediately looked to where the mirror man was.
"he"
This is also an invisible shortcoming of Annihilation. Annihilation requires a lot of energy. For this reason, when helping Annihilation to condense energy, it will inevitably make a lot of noise. People within a few kilometers can clearly perceive it. Therefore, use Annihilation to sneak attack It is not feasible for others to go this way.
Spotted Heart opened his mouth with lingering fear.
"Is it that trick again? Hey, Naruto, Sasuke, don't you plan to send one of you to stop that guy?"
So far, Madara has survived two shots of annihilation. The first shot cost eight Dao-seeking jades to block, and the second shot was not blocked by the Dao-seeking jade, so he could only block it with his body.
I won't talk about the first shot, after all, Madara blocked it and didn't suffer any injuries, but the second shot really made Madara's memory fresh, half of his body was blown away!
And it is extremely difficult to recover. Fortunately, the second annihilation, the time for the mirror man to condense is relatively short, and the yin and yang power from the bombardment is not much, so Madara generally recovered without much effort.
But the feeling of being difficult to recover really made Madara feel a little lingering.
Now the mirror man is obviously starting to condense and annihilate again. If the mirror man is given enough time, then Madara feels that this time it may really be over for him.
Therefore, Madara wanted to stop Kagami very much, but now that Naruto and Sasuke joined forces to beat him, he really couldn't stop Kagami, so he could only confuse Naruto and Sasuke to take one of them to stop Kagami.
Naruto looked at Sasuke and asked.
"Sasuke?"
Sasuke shook his head.
"Need not!"
Sasuke knew that the mirror man's goal was the nine-tailed beasts, and the nine-tailed beasts were currently in Madara's body, so it was impossible for Madara and the mirror man to stay peaceful forever. The mirror man's attack was probably aimed at Spotted.
Before, Itachi also told Sasuke what he thought of Kagami just after his resurrection.
——"Sasuke, that guy is a person with a strong desire to control. He should like the situation to be under his control all the time. Therefore, the current Madara's strength is too strong, and it is definitely beyond the existence of that guy's control. You and When Naruto deals with Madara, he doesn’t need to be too guarded against that guy. According to my guess, if that guy chooses between you and Madara, he will probably choose to get rid of Madara first, and get rid of factors that are beyond his control. So, you and Madara That guy should be able to join hands intentionally or unintentionally to kill Madara first! But be careful, he can't stop attacking you at all, so beware of that guy, but before Madara dies, you don't need to be too guarded against him .”
This is Itachi's suggestion to Sasuke. Although Sasuke on the surface looks like "I just listen to it, not necessarily implement it", in fact, Sasuke basically obeys Itachi's words.
In fact, Itachi’s evaluation of Kagami is also correct. The annihilation of Kagami has always been aimed at Madara. Hi Kaguya.
So, don't even think about it, even if you want to kill, you must kill Madara first!
So, the situation was settled like this.
Madara and Naruto Sasuke fought non-stop. While fighting, Madara also persuaded Naruto Sasuke to stop Kagami, but Naruto Sasuke ignored Madara at all and kept attacking Madara.
Madara was entangled, helpless, Naruto and Sasuke ignored Kagami.
As for the mirror man, he leisurely condenses the energy of annihilation.
This time, maybe we can see the annihilation of ten times the energy!
If it's really at that level, Kaguya can't kill him, right?
(End of this chapter)
At the beginning, Hei ignored the mirror man, and kept trying to break free, but after a while, Hei Jue, who could not get any results, slowly froze, and started to raise his head, staring blankly at the mirror man , without saying a word, with a dull face.
Gradually, Hei Jue's dull eyes faded away, replaced by a touch of despair that was so thick that it couldn't be dispelled - it accepted its fate.
"why?"
Hei Jue has always wanted to ask this question, why is the mirror man so wary of it?Even if you know about it, a weak guy like him is not worthy of a person like Kagami who is at the top of the ninja world to lower his gaze. Just like Madara in the distance, with time As time goes by, I don't care about Heijue anymore.
The mirror man slightly increased his strength.
"I gave you time to say your last words, not to ask me questions."
The mirror person is talking clichés, and Heijue's words. About Kaguya, the mirror person knows less, because when I read the original book, Kaguya didn't show anything about her until the later stage, and suddenly such an ultimate The big villain, and a villain with little foreshadowing, and when playing Kaguya in the original book at that time, there are many memories interspersed, so the mirror man has very little knowledge of Kaguya's ability.
On the contrary, Madara, when Madara appeared in the original book, really had the aura of the ultimate big boss, which is much stronger than Kaguya, so Madara left a deep impression on the mirror person, and Madara's ability , Mirror people are more understanding.
As for Hui Ye, the mirror person didn't know much about it at first, and with the passage of time, his memory was also blurred, and he didn't know anything. For this reason, the mirror person wanted to see if Hei Jue would reveal something to him before he died. related news.
"It will come back to life."
Heijue suddenly spoke as if he heard the mirror man's voice.
"Mom will definitely be resurrected. From the moment the infinite monthly reading is opened, my mother has already awakened! Awakened in Madara's body! All I have to do is to guide my mother's power to devour Madara! After the infinite monthly reading is opened, my mother There is almost no help for resurrection, in other words, even without me, mother will be resurrected sooner or later! She has already awakened! Her consciousness is still peeking at all of this in Madara!!"
Mirror Man's face darkened in an instant, he did get Kaguya's information, but it was obviously not good information.
"If it is true as you said, Kaguya will be resurrected eventually, then why are you rushing to act now? If you don't act and hide yourself wholeheartedly, maybe it will take me some time to find you. In other words, Your actions don't match your words!"
Hei Jue said that Hui Ye can be resurrected without it, but if that is the case, Hei Jue can just wait for Hui Ye to resurrect quietly, why take risks?
Hei Jue sneered, looked at the reincarnation eye in the mirror man's eyes and said.
"Huh, Yuyi (Sage of the Six Paths) has two sons, one named Indra and the other named Asura. You Uchiha are the descendants of Indra, that is, the descendants of your mother! If you don't have these eyes, how can you Is it possible to find me? Even if you find me, you will never be able to catch me! Without me, my mother will be resurrected, but that must be after you find me. The eyes that killed me before you were resurrected are the power left by your mother! You can use this power to kill me now, but after a while, this power of yours will eventually be returned to your mother!"
The palm of the mirror man suddenly increased his strength, directly pinching Hei Jue's head and deforming it. Since the mirror man has a yin and yang escape in his hand, this kind of injury is real, and it is not immune to the liquid body.
"The strength that Hui Ye left me? No, what she left me is at best a seed that may not germinate. It is myself who cultivated this seed into a towering tree with my own hands. Watch it!"
Purple light flows in the mirror man's reincarnation eyes.
"This power is not given by anyone!"
Hei was unmoved, and smiled coldly.
"No matter what you say, this power must be returned to my mother in the end. You are just struggling before death."
The mirror man looked at Heijue coldly.
"It seems that you have nothing to say, so let's go."
Immediately, the mirror man mercilessly crushed Heijue's head!
Afterwards, the mirror man pulled Annihilation to him.
In order to prevent the resurrection scene after Hei Jue, Jingren decided to help Hei Jue "dispose" of the bones.
Concentrate some natural energy and send it to Annihilation, and then bombard it!
Because it was condensed by the mirror people, the explosion was not violent and the sound was not loud, but the bombardment of Annihilation was all the force of yin and yang, and it was absolutely impossible for Hei to survive.
Avoiding the explosion, Kagōto watched the battle between Madara and Naruto Sasuke in the distance, frowning.
Kaguya will eventually come back to life
The news revealed by Heijue to the mirror person, the mirror person does not know whether it is true or not, and has no way of confirming it.
If it is true, then the mirror man should immediately help Naruto and Sasuke, kill Madara as soon as possible, and prevent the possibility of Kaguya's resurrection. It's much better to be an enemy at night. If you are an enemy with Naruto and others, if you can't fight, you can discuss it. If you can't negotiate, you can run away. In short, there are many choices, and it is basically impossible for accidents.
But with Kaguya as an enemy, the mirror man doesn't believe that a stupid person like Kaguya in the original book would negotiate with him, and Kaguya is powerful, possesses space ninjutsu, and can't even run. Basically, as long as he can't beat him, he can Can only wait to die.
Which one is better, the mirror person can still tell the difference.
And if Hei Ze's words are false, then Kagami should not participate in the battle for the time being, and wait until Madara and Naruto Sasuke are both injured, and then go to "fisherman's profit", this is undoubtedly the best choice.
The question now is, do mirror people believe what Hei Jue said before his death?
If you believe it, kill Madara as soon as possible to prevent Kaguya from resurrecting.
If you don't believe it, just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and prepare to "fisherman's profit".
Lowering his head, the mirror man began to think.
After a while, the mirror man raised his head and looked at the red moon in the sky.
"Ah"
The mirror person still chooses to be safe, he doesn't want Kaguya to come out to disrupt the situation again, in the mirror person's plan, the appearance of a six-spotted spot is enough for the mirror person to have a headache, like Kaguya, who is not in the plan, should completely Eliminate the possibility of her appearing.
"Only a situation under control is a good situation."
Kagami smiled, and stepped forward, ready to help Naruto and Sasuke kill Madara.
But at this moment, the mirror man saw something.
— Annihilation!
A flash of inspiration flashed through the mind of the mirror man.
Yes, annihilation!
With annihilation here, why should I choose between the two?
Of course, all of them!
The ability of annihilation, simply put, is that the longer the power is stored, the greater the power. After the power is fully charged, the mirror man estimates that it is not a problem to kill a six-spotted spot in seconds.
The disadvantage is that if the power storage time is not enough, the effect of annihilation may not be as great as that of a big fireball. The big fireball can at least block the vision, but the time of annihilation is not enough to store power. Almost none, it's really not as good as Hao Fireball.
And the annihilation charge is easily interrupted.
However, the current situation seems to be the right time for Annihilation to play!
If Kaguya is resurrected, what is the ability of Mirror Man that can cause the most damage to Kaguya?In theory, it must be annihilation!
Because the upper limit of annihilation is too high, as long as enough time is given, it will not be a problem to fight Remnant Huiye.
Therefore, if the mirror man starts to condense energy for Annihilation from this moment, then no matter whether Kaguya is resurrected or not, the mirror man can control the situation through the terrifying upper limit of Annihilation.
As long as no one disturbs the mirror man and let the mirror man go all out to cast spells for half an hour, then the mirror man basically has the absolute right to seriously injure anyone.
Whether it is Rokudo Madara, or Rokudo Naruto, Sasuke, or even Kaguya, it is impossible to be safe and sound in the face of Annihilation, which has condensed energy for half an hour, or even to be only slightly injured. At the very least, a serious injury must be there. of.
Moreover, because Annihilation's attack is the power of yin and yang, the injuries caused by Annihilation can't be recovered by people below the six realms, and even if the people above the six realms can recover, it will take a lot of effort.
Unlike Bamenkai, Madara was seriously injured by Bamenkai, but he recovered quickly. That's because although taijutsu can hurt Madara, compared with the power of yin and yang, taijutsu lacks a "erasing ninjutsu" ", so Madara can recover easily, but if Madara was seriously injured by Annihilation, the recovery can be recovered, but it consumes a lot of Chakra.
Basically, if you are hit by annihilation that has been concentrated for more than half an hour, you will either die or lose your combat effectiveness. These are the two options.
Therefore, the mirror man can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, while helping Annihilation to condense energy. In this way, no matter what accident happens later, as long as Annihilation is shot down, the accident will be gone.
After retreating several hundred meters, the mirror man moved Annihilation in front of him, then turned on the fairy mode, began to absorb natural energy, and poured it into Annihilation non-stop!
As long as there is energy injected into Annihilation, it can always maintain the energy in the body, but once there is no continuous injection of energy, Annihilation can only emit the energy in the body or store it in the space within the body.
The Mirror Man intends to inject energy into Annihilation all the time, so there is no need to worry about the overflow of Annihilation energy.
Suddenly, on the battlefield, the wind direction changed!
If there is nothing, the wind seems to blow to the place where the mirror man is.
Because too much natural energy is absorbed, it even causes abnormal phenomena of some elements in nature.
After all, the essence of natural energy is the energy of this world. Back then, Ten Tails used natural energy to cause thunderstorms and tsunamis. Now the mirror man absorbs a large amount of natural energy, which of course also caused some forces in the natural world to stir.
Naruto was the first to perceive it, and he immediately looked to where the mirror man was.
"he"
This is also an invisible shortcoming of Annihilation. Annihilation requires a lot of energy. For this reason, when helping Annihilation to condense energy, it will inevitably make a lot of noise. People within a few kilometers can clearly perceive it. Therefore, use Annihilation to sneak attack It is not feasible for others to go this way.
Spotted Heart opened his mouth with lingering fear.
"Is it that trick again? Hey, Naruto, Sasuke, don't you plan to send one of you to stop that guy?"
So far, Madara has survived two shots of annihilation. The first shot cost eight Dao-seeking jades to block, and the second shot was not blocked by the Dao-seeking jade, so he could only block it with his body.
I won't talk about the first shot, after all, Madara blocked it and didn't suffer any injuries, but the second shot really made Madara's memory fresh, half of his body was blown away!
And it is extremely difficult to recover. Fortunately, the second annihilation, the time for the mirror man to condense is relatively short, and the yin and yang power from the bombardment is not much, so Madara generally recovered without much effort.
But the feeling of being difficult to recover really made Madara feel a little lingering.
Now the mirror man is obviously starting to condense and annihilate again. If the mirror man is given enough time, then Madara feels that this time it may really be over for him.
Therefore, Madara wanted to stop Kagami very much, but now that Naruto and Sasuke joined forces to beat him, he really couldn't stop Kagami, so he could only confuse Naruto and Sasuke to take one of them to stop Kagami.
Naruto looked at Sasuke and asked.
"Sasuke?"
Sasuke shook his head.
"Need not!"
Sasuke knew that the mirror man's goal was the nine-tailed beasts, and the nine-tailed beasts were currently in Madara's body, so it was impossible for Madara and the mirror man to stay peaceful forever. The mirror man's attack was probably aimed at Spotted.
Before, Itachi also told Sasuke what he thought of Kagami just after his resurrection.
——"Sasuke, that guy is a person with a strong desire to control. He should like the situation to be under his control all the time. Therefore, the current Madara's strength is too strong, and it is definitely beyond the existence of that guy's control. You and When Naruto deals with Madara, he doesn’t need to be too guarded against that guy. According to my guess, if that guy chooses between you and Madara, he will probably choose to get rid of Madara first, and get rid of factors that are beyond his control. So, you and Madara That guy should be able to join hands intentionally or unintentionally to kill Madara first! But be careful, he can't stop attacking you at all, so beware of that guy, but before Madara dies, you don't need to be too guarded against him .”
This is Itachi's suggestion to Sasuke. Although Sasuke on the surface looks like "I just listen to it, not necessarily implement it", in fact, Sasuke basically obeys Itachi's words.
In fact, Itachi’s evaluation of Kagami is also correct. The annihilation of Kagami has always been aimed at Madara. Hi Kaguya.
So, don't even think about it, even if you want to kill, you must kill Madara first!
So, the situation was settled like this.
Madara and Naruto Sasuke fought non-stop. While fighting, Madara also persuaded Naruto Sasuke to stop Kagami, but Naruto Sasuke ignored Madara at all and kept attacking Madara.
Madara was entangled, helpless, Naruto and Sasuke ignored Kagami.
As for the mirror man, he leisurely condenses the energy of annihilation.
This time, maybe we can see the annihilation of ten times the energy!
If it's really at that level, Kaguya can't kill him, right?
(End of this chapter)
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