Chapter 334 Extra · As I See It (Be careful! There are too many words, and the main plot is not involved for the time being, so be careful!)
In 1550 of the Terra Calendar, the lower jurisdiction of the Oletin Empire-Crete region .
【This war is a holy war dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor! 】
【Rebels who despise the authority of the empire and act recklessly on the land of the empire! 】
【Let us impose sanctions! ! ! 】
[God bless our emperor, we will surely win—
Always be victorious and prosperous! 】
The ruined land is full of ruins, and the ships belonging to the Oletin Empire are floating in the sky. They convey their faith in the emperor through broadcasts.
The only intact place here is a field hospital. The hospital is full of infected out-of-control people, and none of their body parts are intact. People's eyes are too numb, they are eyes that have been destroyed by the war and are lifeless.
Outside the emergency room and intensive care unit of the hospital.
The strong smell of disinfectant lingers in my memory, as well as the presence of many strangers.
Facing the white wall, people put their hands together and prayed to their respective gods. How sincere this prayer was.
The walls of the hospital have listened to more sincere prayers than the church, because life is born in the hospital and also passes away in the hospital.
Intensive care room for out-of-control patients.
The patter of rain was pounding on the outside window. Kellogg was quietly peeling apples with a fruit knife, while his wife Hannah Alice was lying on the bed and looking at the outside in trance. Catching the rain on the ground, her exposed skin was covered with scales. This was already in the later stages of pollution, and her body was beginning to be covered with deformed organs.
"Hannah, come here." Kellogg handed the peeled apple to his wife.
Hannah turned around. She glanced at the apple in her husband's hand, and then at the new scar on his face.
“You went to the supply depot with those people again. There is a dense area of war, you...”
“Hey, I know, I know, come on, eat some apples to calm down. ." Kellogg stuffed the apple into the mouth of his nagging wife, which caused her to be extremely dissatisfied. She glared at her husband angrily, and then took a bite of the apple angrily.
"Is it sweet?" Kellogg asked with a smile.
Looking at her husband's stupid look, Hannah, who was depressed, felt a little more comfortable, and a smile appeared on her sad face unconsciously.
“It’s very sweet.”
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In order to avoid the natural disasters that emerged in the Eastern Continent, I followed my tribe from my homeland and crossed two region, crossed the great plains of the central and western regions and arrived at the Crete region. When we arrived here, the natural disasters stopped spreading.
Along the road, I saw countless people escaping with us, of all colors. We did not have a war with them. The elders of the clan told me that the people who can now walk on the ground of Terra continent generally have inheritance. Ancient experience tells them that killing each other will only aggravate their destruction.
Because natural disasters do not appear regularly, they can ravage Oletin's eastern continent today, and they can ravage the western continent tomorrow.
Historians of Terra once said: Frequent natural disasters liberated the Oletin Empire from the "imprisonment of the land".
In past history, Terra's ancestors transitioned from food gatherers to food producers. And now, because of natural disasters, we are forced to return to the stage of food gatherers. We start wandering, and we are forced to reverse the course of history.
Now, the original civilization system has been destroyed, and people are forced to become nomads. Religion, new humanistic systems, and new ideas have begun to grow wildly in the lower realm of Terra.
The people in the lower world have become more open-minded and tolerant than before, while the floating cities above have become more extreme.
Without enlightenment, people in the lower world will surely die; without totalitarianism, the rule of the sky will collapse.
The original social system has also undergone fundamental changes; the 'celestial beings' who live in the floating city discriminate against the 'gray people' in the lower realms, while the 'out-of-control people' are hated by all human beings.
We quickly negotiated with the people on Crete to divide the living area, and they divided a piece of land with fertile soil to us - only the people in the Eastern Continent still retain the custom of farming, and now People are more inclined to buy cheap synthetic food from Sky City - the patriarch expressed his gratitude to them, and at the same time we signed the "Mutual Aid Agreement" again.
Both parties signing the "Mutual Assistance Agreement", if a natural disaster occurs in the area where one party is located, the other party that is safe must provide it with assistance to the best of its ability, including but not limited to food, land, necessary living supplies, etc.
This may sound incredible, but this is the reason why people in the lower world can still survive.
There is one last clause in the agreement: when the natural disaster in the refuge area ends and natural disaster forecasters predict that there will be no more natural disasters in the area within 2 to 5 years, the evacuees must immediately return to their place of residence.
In the past, when there were no natural disasters, the Eastern Continent had hosted more than a dozen ethnic groups. After the natural disasters were over, these ethnic groups would return to their homeland.
This treaty was established through the painful experience of countless blood and tears. In the first fifty years of the new Yuan calendar (the natural disaster calendar, the second calendar system commonly used in the Oletin Empire), people died of robbery More people live on the land than die from natural disasters. What is ridiculous is that when these perpetrators were cheering for their victory, natural disaster struck.
Natural disasters are as unpredictable as the movements of the three celestial bodies mentioned by scholars.
We settled down in the Crete area, and I continued my carefree life. Every day I was either playing in the mud in the fields or chasing the chickens and ducks raised by my uncles.
At that time, I was in the stage where I was annoyed by people and dogs, and I was often beaten by the elders of the clan.
One day.
"Kellogg, you are almost 8 years old, and you are about to go to school." The clan leader smiled and said to me, who had just finished killing Aunt Jasmine's dog next door.
"Go to school?"
I remember this word. There is also a school in the Eastern Continent, but he was still young at the time and was not old enough to go to school. After reaching school age, natural disasters began to ravage the Eastern Continent and schools disappeared.
"Well, I have completed the admission procedures for you, and you can enroll tomorrow."
"Okay, go to school." I don't object to going to school, because it allows me to come into contact with more people. People and novelty.
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“The six largest floating forces in the Eastern Continent floating in the sky are: Utopia (this is a bad name, because it is made by the Kingdom of Heaven) cities), factories, Tianzhiyuan, Oletin Imperial Academy of Sciences, Edici Machinery, and Peace Initiative Association."
"They should be called floating city clusters rather than floating cities. A new floating city will be expanded in five years, and these expanded floating cities can be separated, so there are actually more than six floating cities.”
On the podium, the teacher was tirelessly telling the students the history of Terra, while I was looking out the window in trance at the huge shadow floating in the sky.
“The floating city cluster still maintains its rule over the ground. Each of us needs to pay tithes to the floating city to which we belong. The ones above only collect thaumaturgy stones as taxes, so... ···”
Ding ding ding——
The bell rang for the end of get out of class, and the children began to become restless, so the teacher had no choice but to announce that the get out of class was over.
Recently, the clan leaders and clan elders have been looking sad, as if it was because of the city that appeared in the sky. It was a floating city belonging to the Oletin Empire, and its name was Sargon.
The school is preparing to hold a special festival celebration recently to celebrate Sargon's appearance in the sky over Crete and to welcome the 'celestial beings'.
The children were all cheering, because children like to be lively, and they are also full of curiosity about the ‘celestial beings’, and I was keenly aware of the adults’ forced smiles.
My clan uncles often leave early and come back late recently. Every time they come back, they are covered in sweat. Every time they come back, they bring glowing stones. And these clan uncles who brought the stones live in the village. In another place far away, the elders warned the children not to approach them.
I once asked the clan elder, why? Why don't we let Uncle Wang and the others come with us? Why do we tell the children in the village that they are monsters?
Because they are cursed, cursed for our sakes.
I still remember the sad expression on the clan elder’s face. In my impression, he was always amiable and always kept a smile on his face. Now, he showed his helpless side in front of me, and I subconsciously reached out my hand and stroked his face just like he used to comfort me when I was crying.
The clan elder was stunned for a moment, then he held my hand firmly with both hands and put my hand on his forehead.
I seemed to see something carving scars on the clan elder’s face. His back seemed to be no longer straight, and something was crushing him.
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“Boom—Boom—Boom—”
"Bah bang bang————"
The gorgeous fireworks illuminated the whole of Crete. At this time, the people of Crete were wearing the most important clothes. Everyone was celebrating. I was picked up by the school. Chosen as the flower girl to welcome the 'Heavenly Being'.
I just need to wave the flag and show an innocent smile in a specific position.
I saw the ‘celestial being’ that day.
What, I thought they had three heads and six arms, but it turns out they are just like us.
This is what I thought at the time. Heavenly beings are just like us, they are all human beings with one mouth and two eyes. They are no more noble than we are.
The heavenly people don't seem to care much about our welcome. They clearly stated the purpose of their trip to the leaders of Crete, without hesitation that this is a public place. Maybe they don't care at all.
I could only vaguely hear words such as 'recruitment', 'assessment', 'introducing talents', and 'preventing the invasion of external forces'.
My task was completed quickly. After welcoming the heavenly beings, the teacher gave everyone a bag of candy and then let us go out to play.
I didn’t follow the crowd to play in the streets. Instead, I ran towards the Crete Mountains, an area he was very familiar with. After he came to Crete, he ran wherever he had nothing to do. Uncle East and Uncle Eston often went up the mountain to look for him. Every time they found him, his butt would hurt for several days.
I planned to go to the highest point of the mountain to see what the inside of the floating city looked like. I climbed up and up, and I met her halfway up the mountain.
It was dusk at this time, and I heard the girl crying on the way up the mountain.
I walked in the direction of the sound. On the high stairs, a girl was sitting on the stairs with her hands on her knees. Her head was buried in her knees, and intermittent crying came from her. came from the edge.
I walked towards her, she seemed to hear my footsteps, the girl raised her head.
Beside the stairs, there are sycamore trees. The leaves on them have fallen off. The dead branches cut the dim sunlight into pieces, and reflected in the gaps between the fragments, is a ribbon of pear blossoms. Yu's little face, the girl's face looked extremely red at this time, and she looked at me with her aggrieved little eyes.
"Hey, are you lost?" I asked the girl with concern.
"...Well, wuwuwu...I, I just separated from my parents for a little while. I thought I could see better scenery when I went up the mountain, wuwuwu..." The girl said intermittently.
I glanced at the shadow on the top of the mountain, then at the girl with crying eyes, sighed helplessly, and stretched out my right hand.
"Come, let me take you down the mountain."
"Okay."
So, I held the girl's hand and started walking down the mountain.
"...Well, what's your name? My name is Hannah Alice."
"Kellogg, well, he has no surname. The patriarch said he is from the Eastern Continent. People don’t need that stuff.”
“Are you very familiar with this area?”
“Well, I come here often.”
"You are from the Eastern Continent, right."
"Yes."
"You..."
The girl is like a lark, chirping at me I was talking in my ears, and I was dealing with it absent-mindedly. I was still regretting that I couldn't see the appearance of the floating city.
"You know there is a poet named Yeats in Dublin. His poetry is very famous in the New World..."
The continent where the Oletin Empire is located is blocked by the huge Tianqing, and the world outside the empire is called the New World (of course, this is for the gray people in the lower world).
“Shh!”
I suddenly stretched out my right hand to cover Hannah’s mouth, and then I took him to hide in the bushes in the mountains. Hannah looked at me nervously, And I motioned for her to be silent.
Ahead, there was a group of people wearing special combat uniforms. I could see the unified logo on their shoulders; it was a double helix spire and holy wings, next to a line of Terran characters, above It says [Heaven·Utopia].
"Remember, this campaign to seize the city has been planned accordingly." The leader with the red epaulettes said to his subordinates.
"Well, we will definitely teach these heavenly beings a lesson."
"Be careful when you act."
"Don't worry, leader."
"You go ahead and act Right."
"Yes."
Except for the leader, the other members of the Tower of Babel quickly left here, while the leader stood there thinking about something.
His right thumb unconsciously pressed on the red handle of the knife hanging on his right side, and he moved the handle back and forth. The blade was pulled out of the scabbard, and then pressed back again with his thumb. He moved the handle of the knife back and forth like this.
I lay down in the bushes and didn’t dare to move. My hand covering Hannah was already sweating. Hannah seemed to have noticed something was wrong, so even though she was extremely scared, , she didn’t dare to make a sound.
“We should be proud of our identity and actively acquire and use the power of the masses.” The leader suddenly said this sentence that I did not understand at the time.
"It seems that I am not a qualified leader." He laughed at himself, finally pressed the knife back, and then turned and left without hesitation.
After confirming that the other party had left, Hannah and I completely collapsed on the ground, fear and fear began to well up in our hearts.
He must have discovered us, but why?
When I was young, I was confused about many things in the world.
After that, I took Hannah down the mountain successfully.
I saw Hannah’s parents. They looked dusty. They must have suffered a lot to find Hannah. Hannah’s mother first scolded Hannah, and then she cried. , just holding Hannah’s head and crying with her.
Hannah's father came specifically to thank me. To be honest, I am a little shy when faced with compliments from adults. From Hannah’s father’s mouth, I learned that they were a wandering group of merchants who planned to settle here in Crete this time.
The next day.
Inside the classroom.
"Students, there is a new person in our class today. Come on, come over and introduce yourself to everyone." The head teacher waved to the door, and the students all turned their curious eyes to that person. A beautiful girl with golden hair.
The eyes of the classmates were attracted by this beautiful elf, especially the boys.
"Hello everyone, my name is Hannah Alice." Hannah waved enthusiastically to everyone present. She seemed to be looking in my direction intentionally or unintentionally, and I pretended not to recognize him.
Children of this age are always prone to making noises. As long as a boy and a girl are together, the children will roar and say who is whose little wife.
Hannah didn’t think so. The teacher asked her to find a seat and sit down. She did not walk towards the empty seat, but walked straight towards me. She came to my seat and said softly to my seatmate:
"I want to sit here, I don't know. Can you change positions?”
“Oh oh oh——”
As I expected, the students in the class started making fuss and screams. The teacher patted the table on the podium to signal the students not to make any noise.
I looked at my classmate with pleading eyes, and he showed me a "I really belong to you" expression, then quickly cleaned up the classmates and left here in a hurry, and Hannah Then he sat down next to me.
"We meet again, Kellogg. We will be at the same table from now on."
"······"
That's it, Hannah and I Became deskmates.
It is in this line that another important thing happened.
Sargon, who was far away in the horizon, suddenly opened his naval cannon. It bombed the Cretan Mountains indiscriminately, and many people were affected. I heard from the tribesmen that the gods were in Chase down members of an organization called [Utopia].
I was curious and asked the clan elder what kind of organization Utopia is.
“Utopia is an organization composed entirely of out-of-control people. They are extremely xenophobic and hate the normal society that once oppressed them. The members of Utopia hope to obtain justice in society in their own way, and even beyond. The treatment of those who are not out of control - this is the empire's declaration for them."
"The ones who are out of control?"
"They are all pitiful people..."
"You will understand later." The clan elder's eyes were full of exhaustion.
It was also on this day that the clan uncles who left early and returned late were taken away by Sargon's angels. From then on, they never came back.
In the years that followed, I began to understand what the clan elder said.
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Time flies so fast that I have been in Crete for almost ten years. During this time, Hannah has always been my deskmate.
She is always by my side, whether it is gym class or after school. Even during holidays, she would come to our village to look for me. The adults in the village always looked at us with ambiguous eyes.
I couldn't stand it at first, but then I gradually got used to her presence.
It was summer at this time, and I was sitting under the shading vine I had built, with an iced watermelon brought from Aunt Huang next to me. At the same time, a worn-out Walkman was playing pure music; this Walkman I bought it from the old market, and I also picked up a lot of tapes when I bought it.
The breeze was caressing me, I crossed my legs, eating watermelon and listening to music.
"Kay - Luo - Ge -"
Just as I was enjoying my comfortable holiday life, a familiar and annoying voice came into my ears from far to near. I turned sideways, Holding the mentality of hiding one's ears and stealing the bell.
Invisible, inaudible.
“Wuhu——Kellogg, cars, cars, cars——”
Unfortunately, some things cannot be avoided. Hannah rushed in on a battery car. I felt When he was in danger, he immediately left his seat and avoided Hannah's impact.
"What are you doing!" I stared at her angrily. At this time, she finally stopped the car, and my watermelon had been in close contact with the ground, and the ground successfully dyed the bright red flesh with a layer of khaki.
"I'm sorry." She stuck out her tongue at me.
“········”
“Don’t be angry, come on, I’ll take you for a ride.”
Hannah patted the empty seat behind her , and handed me a black helmet at the same time. I glanced at her speechlessly, where do you have the confidence to carry me?
"Uncle, why did aunt agree to let you drive a battery car? Didn't this old antique just leave your father to eat ashes?"
"Uh, O(∩_∩)O haha~"
" Okay, I understand." Looking at her appearance, I finally understood that she was secretly expressing her feelings.
“Let’s go for a drive, it’s so boring to stay here during the holidays.” Hannah tried to encourage me.
“Have you done your homework?”
"Does that need to be written?"
"...That's right." Looking at her surprised expression, I didn't know what to say for a moment.
“Where do you want to go?”
“Whatever.”
“It’s casual again. Last holiday, you also said it was casual, and then I will take you to your destination. After that, you complained about it for several months." Seeing her saying it casually, I couldn't help but yell at her.
It was okay if Kellogg didn't say it, but he got angry when he mentioned Hannah. She said angrily to me:
"Where can I take girls to the old market to buy goods? You were pretty good at that time. I was happy and chatting with the vendors in full swing. I was bored to death on the sidelines. "
"I didn't pay for the rabbit rubber band you use to tie your hair. You also like it very much. I see you are carrying it all the time."
"I..., Kellogg, you are an idiot!"
"Why are you swearing!" >
"Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot——"
"Crybaby, crybaby, crybaby——"
We quarreled again, and the tribe was led over, and the adults used kind words Looking at us, the child ran over and sang to us in a singing tune:
"Little wife, little husband, happy enemies show affection!"
"Who shows affection? "Yeah!" Hannah and I yelled at the children in unison.
The children said that the monster was coming, and then the birds and beasts dispersed.
“Go away or not.” Hannah looked at me angrily.
"Let's go." I took the helmet from her hand, then picked up the walkman and put it in my pocket.
"Get out of the way, I'll drive." I rode on the driver's seat of the battery car and squeezed Hannah into the back. She didn't say anything, after all, she also knew her driving level.
"Sit down." I twisted the handle and told Hannah behind me.
"...Hmm." I don't know if it was because the weather was too hot, but Hannah's face suddenly turned red, and she nervously pulled on the hem of my clothes.
I said speechlessly: "What's the use of doing this, hold me tight."
"I got it, why are you yelling!" Hannah rushed like a cat with explosive hair. cried out.
She stretched out her hands coquettishly, her hands slowly extended from both sides of me, and then clasped her hands together. I don’t know why, she seemed very nervous, and I felt her breathing was a little rapid.
"Gone." I didn't pay much attention.
I slowly tightened the handle, the battery car started to pick up speed, and I drove it towards the outside. The wind kissed our cheeks from both sides, and since I was carrying Hannah, I didn’t drive too fast.
“And I still dream of him stepping on the grass,
walking floating in the dew,
letting my joyful song easily penetrate—”
Music sounded from behind me. I don’t know when Hannah reached into my pocket and took away the Walkman inside. She inserted the tape she brought inside.
"It sounds good." Hannah proudly waved the Walkman in her hand behind her.
I looked back at her proud look and couldn't help but want to tease her. I pressed the brake handle on my right hand, the car suddenly stopped, and Hannah's face hit my back.
"Hey - bah, it's all sweat! Mu Mu, what are you doing!" Hannah shouted dissatisfiedly behind her.
"There is sand ahead, so you have to drive slowly." I smiled.
"I think you're looking for a beating." She stretched out her hand to hit me, and I drove again.
"Sit tight."
"Ah, drive slower."
I drove the car and took Hannah towards the field. The sun was shining on our shoulders and the breeze was Brushing our faces, the surrounding golden wheat ears seemed to be following us, swaying their bodies.
Hannah suddenly pulled off the rabbit-shaped rubber band behind her, and her golden hair began to flutter in the wind. A few strands of her hair floated to my shoulders. They exuded an unusually good smell. fragrance.
This is a very beautiful picture, sunshine, breeze, wheat ears, boys and girls...
In this way, I unknowingly drove Hannah out of the village. We didn't know how far we had gone. When I realized that it was time to go back the same way, an accident happened.
"There is something wrong with the display on this car. It clearly shows that there is still 56% of the battery, so why doesn't it leave?" I patted the display screen on the battery car.
“Ah haha——, I remembered, my dad said before that there seems to be a slight error in the display of this car.” Hannah smiled awkwardly at this time.
"That's a little bit!" I laughed angrily.
"What should we do now..." Hannah said with evasive eyes.
"Hate~ push back, I hope people in the village can notice us."
I didn't say anything more about Hannah, and we started pushing the battery car back. It shouldn’t be said that it was us. In fact, I was the only one pushing the car, and Hannah followed me cautiously. She was a little embarrassed now, for fear of being scolded by me.
"Let's play a song and listen."
"Yeah."
This time Hannah played pure music. After the initial embarrassment, she began She changed back to her original state, and she started chirping in my ear again.
"Kellogg, every year the floating city cluster holds a major exam. I heard that this is a system that existed in the old times. As long as we people in the lower world do well in the exam, we can go to the floating city to study. If we are lucky, we can still do it. Obtain the resident qualification."
"Yes."
"Kellogg, with your grades, it should be no problem."
"You too. .”
“So, which city cluster do you want to go to?”
Hannah suddenly asked in a nervous tone, and I started to think.
"I should go to the Edici Federation."
"Edici..." Hannah murmured.
"What about you?" I didn't say the reason, but changed the subject.
“Secret.” Hannah smiled slyly.
"Forget it if you don't want to say it."
"Oh, you are really not curious."
"Not curious!"
"If you call me sister, I will Tell you.”
“Haha.”
We just pushed the car back like this. At this time, the sun had begun to set, and the road conditions began to be unclear. My hands and feet were already feeling sore.
I didn’t hold on. I told Hannah that my physical strength was a little weak. She wanted to be pushed by someone else, but I directly told her that no need. In this situation, we should find a place to stay and wait for rescue. Well, the people in the village and your parents should have noticed something is wrong. The rescue team might be on their way to find us.
So, we came to the stone monument next to the road, I put the car in a conspicuous place, and then I lay flat on the ground without any image.
“Hannah, you’re a scumbag.” I couldn’t help but complain.
"I know I was wrong." Hannah also sat down cross-legged next to me with an embarrassed look on her face, and then she carefully put my head on her lap.
"As compensation, I will be your pillow."
"You have some conscience." I said a little tiredly.
"Why don't you squint for a while? Maybe when you wake up, the rescuers will have already arrived."
"Well..." I actually said it when I lay down. Squint for a while.
“You chat with me for a while, and maybe I’ll fall asleep as we chat.”
"Okay." Hannah said with a smile. She stroked my head like a child. To be honest, it felt a little comfortable.
"Kellogg, what are your plans for the future."
"I don't know, I don't have much ambition."
"Well, where do you want to be in the future? The floating city is still in the lower realm.”
“I’m not sure. I don’t know if I will continue to stay in the lower realm after learning about the floating city. I’m not sure...” Drowsiness started to set in.
"Yeah, me too."
"Hmm..."
"Kellogg..."
"..."I I had closed my sleepy eyes, and Hannah continued to caress my head gently, her tone becoming unusually soft.
“Kellogg, you are a piece of wood.”
"······"
"Kellogg, you are an idiot!"
"······"
Hannah looks like a baby The boy who was also sleeping soundly showed a beautiful smile. She gently rubbed the boy's face with her fingers. After confirming that the boy was really asleep, she blushed and moved her face closer to the boy. The distance between them was so big As long as they are a little closer, their skins will touch each other.
"Kellogg, I like you." The girl said these words softly.
Her lips connected with the boy's.
After a long time, the lips parted.
The girl's face was as red as an apple at this time, and the boy didn't know what sweet dream he had, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
I slept extremely comfortably. After Hannah woke me up, I heard shouts in the distance. I knew the rescuers were coming, so I immediately ran towards the front. Shouting loudly where there is a light source.
“Here it is! Here it is!”
The crowd seemed to hear my shout, they started walking in my direction, and I looked back at Hannah happily.
"Why are you still sitting?"
"Nonsense, you slept comfortably. My legs are numb now. Help me up." Hannah muttered to me. .
"Okay." I smiled and pulled Hannah up from the ground.
Soon, people found us, people from the village. They took us back to the village on their bicycles, and the battery car tied a rope to it and took it back to the village.
Back in the village, Hannah’s parents were already waiting for us. This scene looked a bit familiar.
Hannah’s mother scolded Hannah a lot, and this time I was scolded too. We both became famous in the neighborhood because of this incident.
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Sargon’s shadow once again shrouded Crete, and this time it was accompanied by the news of the new emperor’s accession to the throne, and—— A long war!
The red sky,
Screaming people.
The distant place is no longer the lights of thousands of houses,
but the pain and despair close at hand.
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After the new emperor ascended the throne, he began to rectify the old opposition forces. He had long been dissatisfied with the floating city that wandered outside the city cluster and established its own business. Dissatisfied with life. He asked these wandering floating cities to enter [Constantinople] to swear allegiance to their new emperor, and the warlords of these wandering cities were not fools. They could naturally see that the new emperor was dissatisfied with them.
Those in the Senate also began to denounce the new emperor's 'tyranny', and they contacted the warlords.
Subsequently, the war began with tacit understanding from both sides, and the people in the lower world naturally became victims of the war.
Sargon was one of the floating cities that opposed the rule of the new emperor. They were also very dissatisfied with the barbaric rule of Augustus. They formed a war with Hammurabi, another floating city in Crete. Time alliance to resist the emperor's imperial guards.
The empire's thaumaturges and thaumaturgic devices opened fire wantonly in the sky over Crete, and Sargon and Hammurabi were equally at ease. The flames of war spread throughout Crete, and many of them The men became temporary soldiers for Sargon, or slaves for Hammurabi.
The fighting between the two sides caused EVE particles to spread throughout the Crete area. The proportion of those who were out of control exploded exponentially, and those who were out of control were the cradle of suffering.
Hannah's family became out-of-control losers, so they were kicked out of their original residence by people who had seen out-of-control losers going crazy. People are too scared, and those who lose control look crazy, just like demons.
At this time, I made a decision.
Crete Region-a gathering place for out-of-control people.
"It's okay, come on, drink the medicine." Hannah smiled gently at the horned boy in front of her.
Perhaps the woman in front of him looked too much like an angel. The boy was infected by her gentle aura, so he opened his mouth obediently, while Hannah carefully fed her the medicine.
“You’re so good, what’s your name, kid.”
“Lister, Lister Virgil.”
“Come on, strong Mr. Virgil, Can you drink the medicine yourself?"
"Okay." The young man took the medicine automatically.
As usual, Hannah provides treatment to those who are out of control and helps other people who are out of control to overcome the current difficulties.
Exhausted, she returned to her residence, a small house with a dilapidated appearance. As soon as she put her hand on the doorknob, she noticed that someone had entered her room, and the mark she had made was touched. .
She took out a lady's pistol from her bag, and then slowly opened the door.
“Pa—”
“Long time no see, Hannah!” I held up the fireworks and smiled at Hannah.
Hannah, on the other hand, was holding the pistol and looking at me blankly. Looking at her sluggish look, I couldn't help but laugh and said:
"Can you put the gun down? It would be fun if it went off." ."
"Why are you here? Get out, you know where this is, you are just looking for death! !" Hannah ignored my playful smile and turned to me angrily. roared.
“You’re treating your childhood sweetheart like this after we haven’t seen him for so long?” I continued to smile heartlessly.
“Get out of here quickly.” Hannah came up and tried to push me away.
I turned sideways to avoid Hannah's movement, and then I took out what I had prepared. It was a small square stone, which was emitting fluorescent green light.
"This is——! What are you going to do, Kellogg!!" Hannah, who is out of control, can clearly feel the EVE particles contained in the thaumaturgy stone in his hand.
I didn’t say anything more. I put this highly radioactive thaumaturgy stone into my mouth and swallowed it suddenly.
“You——”
“In this way, we are all out of control, and you don’t have to hide from me anymore.” I walked towards Hannah and opened my arms hands.
My hands held Hannah tightly, I was afraid that she would disappear from my world. Hannah leaned tightly against my chest, her hands kept beating me, and while beating me, she cried and shouted:
"Stupid, stupid, stupid——"
"Hannah..." I gently held her head, then lowered my head and spoke to her seriously.
"What." Hannah raised her face with tears in her eyes.
"Will you marry me?" I said nervously.
Hannah lowered her head first, then stood on her tiptoes, her lips pressed against mine.
We are all immature and we only know how to interact with each other.
After entangled for a long time, we finally separated due to lack of oxygen. Hannah raised her red face and said to me:
"This is mine. Answer.”
*******
This is the third year since Hannah and I got married. The war has not subsided with the passage of time, but has intensified.
War leaves traces of struggle on the bodies of soldiers.
Killing turns to bones,
Despair turns to death.
Gradually,
It reveals its terrifying fangs.
Gradually,
it becomes more powerful.
Decorate the sky with scarlet,
Decorate the palace with bones.
········
Hannah’s parents passed away and were hit by a thaumaturgic blast from the sky during a ground contact battle between Sargon and the Empire. I cried until I fainted. Through my connections, I found some belongings of Hannah's parents on the battlefield, and then made simple arrangements for their funeral.
Hannah's symptoms have also reached an advanced stage. Her whole body is covered in dense scales. She doesn't even look in the mirror anymore because the projection in the mirror scares her.
Those who are out of control are the cradle of suffering.
The war does not stop because of personal suffering, it continues to hang over everyone in Crete.
In the year 209 of the New Era, a great natural disaster broke out, and external forces began to intervene in the empire's war.
External forces such as Edici and the Peace Initiative intervened in the war. They sold large quantities of war weapons to the warlords. They hoped that the empire would continue to maintain a chaotic situation. At the same time, they also began to accommodate a large number of out-of-control people.
The Utopian rebels began to pour into the battlefield in large numbers. In order to save those who were out of control and restore the peaceful situation, they also became the promoters of the war.
The fundamental purpose of most external forces is to obtain a large amount of experimental materials for them to study the theories related to the Out-of-control Man and EVE.
At the same time, the force field radiation in some places on Terra will cause mechanical and numerical control devices to be disturbed and cause loss of control. These places contain very important strategic materials. At this time, a large amount of cheap labor is needed. And those who lose control are naturally cheap labor.
In the year 210 of the New Era, Utopia calls on those who are out of control to unite.
They gathered a large number of out-of-control people and began to resist the oppression of the big forces.
Empires and warlords, foreign forces, utopias...
In the darkness,
endless disasters are quietly born.
Greed confuses people's eyes,
Killing fills people's hearts.
Greed is spreading,
The footsteps of death are gradually approaching.
The killings spread,
The test of human nature gradually becomes clear.
What is purgatory?
What is heaven?
Under the sharp gaze of the true knower,
the last fig leaf has disappeared.
And under that fig leaf,
it is the ugliness and darkness of human nature.
The cold eyes of those in power,
The grief of the combatants,
The situation of being displaced,
Contempt for life,
ignorance of disaster,
mockery of human nature.
Everything,
shows the fragility of human nature,
But it created it.
The war seems to never stop.
********
Field hospital.
After visiting Hannah, I walked out of the intensive care unit, and then went to the rooftop of the hospital. I took out the cigarette from my arms, then shook the cigarette shell, and took it out with my mouth. that one, and then light it.
The depression in his heart was slightly relieved as he puffed on the cigarette. The war in the empire forced the Crete region to be sealed off. He heard that the natural disasters in the Eastern Continent in the Far East had stopped. Unfortunately, they could not get out now. , and the village and tribesmen have already... On the rooftop, I stared blankly at the red setting sun. Under the shining of the setting sun, the shadow in the sky shrouded the hearts of the Cretans, casting a lingering haze on everyone.
·······
"Kellogg, did you hear? Virgil has joined Utopia."
Just when I was returning from collecting supplies from the war zone with the scavengers as usual, Old Jack whispered to me.
"How do you know, who told you." I said with a frown.
It is difficult for me to connect the gentle boy in my memory with a rebel organization like Utopia.
After Utopia was involved in the Crete region, the situation became more complicated and cumbersome. Other floating forces intervened in the war in Crete in the name of destroying Utopia.
“I saw it with my own eyes. He was wearing the uniform of Utopia before, but he didn’t wear a mask.”
"What does that kid want to do!"
"Who knows? Maybe it's just unbearable. Look at our area, many young and strong people have joined Utopia, and there are still old people like me like Severely ill patients like Hannah were not included in the group due to physical reasons, but Kellogg, why are you..." At this point, Old Jack looked at the man in front of him carefully with his drowsy eyes.
"You are different. Although you have the aura of infection like a person who is out of control, your distorted organs are not visible at all, which means that you are internally distorted, and you are still in a stable state. You are Because Hannah is..."
"Okay, Old Jack, needless to say, I don't have these." I interrupted Old Jack, and then took out a bag full of synthetics. The canned food bag was handed to Old Jack.
“These are your supplies, keep them yourself, and don’t tell Hannah about this.”
"Yeah."
After saying goodbye to old Jack, I went to visit Hannah as usual, and Hannah asked me out loud:
"I haven't seen Victoria for a long time. Gil, have you seen him recently?"
"That kid, I just saw him outside. This time he found a large book about Cretan mythology from nowhere. , I have been seeing him fascinated reading in the safe area lately.”
“It’s great. It’s great that someone like Virgil can immerse himself in his own world and enjoy himself even in the middle of a war. ”
"Yeah, sometimes I really envy that silly boy."
Night.
I left the field hospital and walked towards the original village, which had been razed to the ground by the war. The reason why I wanted to go there was because Virgil asked me out.
Today is the day when the red moon shines, and the sky is exceptionally bright red. Under the light of the red moon, the earth seems to be stained with bright red blood spots.
I saw Virgil. He had already put on the uniform of Utopia. There was a knife hanging on his right chest. The style of this knife reminded me unconsciously of what I saw when I was a child. The unsheathed sword of the leader of Utopia.
"Virgil." I called to the boy in front of me.
Virgil turned back to look at me. His eyes had lost the tenderness of the past, and now there were only sorrow and perseverance.
"Uncle Kellogg..." Virgil replied in a dry voice.
“What’s wrong with your throat.”
“It’s okay, it will be fine in a while.”
"Have you cried?"
"·······, no."
"Why did you call me here today?"
"Kay Uncle Loge, this is for you." Virgil threw a tube of special injection medicine to me.
I took the potion that Virgil threw to me and looked down. The LOGO on it had been crossed out, but I could only see a few small Terra characters that remained below.
The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven.
“What is this?”
“This is an inhibitor. We got it from Utopia. I asked for a tube from the leader. You can take this to Han. Sister Na uses it."
"Virgil, you..." I wanted to say something, but looking at the inhibitor in my hand, I swallowed everything I wanted to say.
"Uncle Kellogg, I will never go back again. Virgil is dead." Virgil took out Utopia's exclusive mask, slowly put it on, and then left here without looking back. .
Under the red moon, I watched the young man walking away in silence.
********
In the 212th year of the New Era, the war finally spread to the final pure land. Sargon took the lead in entering the rest area established as a neutral zone. Subsequently, the other three parties led by the empire also blatantly tore up the so-called civilian protection treaty.
The total war started this year, and old Jack died. I heard people said that he was affected after the war broke out. I heard that he was directly covered by the thaumaturgy flow, but May he feel no pain in that moment.
The field hospital was bombed by swarms of Sargons in a wide area the day after the total war broke out. I took Hannah out of the hospital overnight after the war started.
I have successfully obtained two spots on the black ships docked in the Clay Sea area through my own connections.
After entering the New Era, most of the ocean ships in Terra have lost their important status in the past. The disasters contained in the ocean are more terrifying than those on land, and they are even more erratic. indefinite.
These abandoned ships were taken over by some brave and skilled people in the lower world, and these people formed a special logistics company - Sihai.
Sihai almost monopolizes the entire ocean transportation industry in the lower realm. It is said that there is a large floating city cluster behind them, and the black ship is Sihai's special outsourcing service. They lease the ship to more People who are not afraid of death.
Only these people dare to enter the Crete area during the battle in the floating city, trying to make a fortune here. I only obtained these two places after paying countless expensive prices.
Cretan port.
"As usual, you two have to stay at the lowest floor of the ship." The heavily armed ship personnel said to me and Hannah.
"Yeah." I have long been used to discrimination against ordinary people. I took Hannah and followed them silently. They took me to the cabin on the bottom floor. The environment here was dim and the only light source was Gas lamp in center.
There were simply several mats placed on the floor of the cabin, and some people were already sitting on the mats. These people were all out-of-control people.
"Find a vacant seat, the ship will leave soon." The soldier said to us.
"I want to ask, what is our route?" I asked the soldier.
After he looked me up and down, he did not refuse to answer my question. He replied directly:
"After leaving the port of Crete, we will first log in to Ayden for supplies. Supply, then cross the Clay Sea, then cross the Barents Sea and then sail to the New World. Where do you need to disembark? "
****. ****
This is our third day on the ship. The bumpy journey made Hannah vomit and have diarrhea. Her whole face was pale. I took care of her distressedly, and the scales on her body were even more densely covered. .
"Cough cough cough——, Kellogg..." Hannah raised her hand in confusion.
"I'm here." I held her hands tightly.
"I seem to hear something calling me. Can you give me the Walkman? I don't want to hear that voice."
"Okay." I hurriedly found it. He picked up the Walkman, then connected the peripheral device, put it on Hannah's head, and listened to the music. Hannah's expression became much better.
In the following days, Hannah kept wearing her Walkman. She said that the sound got louder and closer. On the most uncomfortable day for her, she held my collar tightly and leaned on my chest. In front of me, he said to me in a pleading tone:
“Kellogg, if I die, you must live on.”
“What are you talking about? Just hold on a little longer. , after arriving on land, I...I will try to get some suppressive drugs, you must hold on."
Hannah just looked at me dreamingly, she smiled and said to me:< br>
"You must live. I can see that there is no god at the end of death. Death is death, so don't praise death and live on." Hannah seemed to have something to say.
Yes, there is no god at the end of death.
This is the true portrayal of the heart of every out-of-control person who wants to live. They just want to live, and they refuse this ugly death, this death that strips away human identity.
After that, Hannah’s scales began to cover her face. At this time, the out-of-control man in the cabin stared at us with fearful eyes, and what I was most worried about happened.
One day during the voyage, the soldiers rushed in rudely.
“Come out.” The heavily armed soldiers pointed their guns at Hannah and me.
"What's going on? Do you want to go back on your word?" I said angrily to them while protecting Hannah behind me.
"We came here after being reported. You should know what happened. She has reached the threshold of losing control. As an out-of-control person, you should have seen them turn into monsters."< br>
I looked around in silence, and none of the "similar" out-of-control people dared to look at me.
"I don't want to say anything more. We will let her die humanely and will never let her feel any pain, so get out of the way." The red laser on the gun stayed on Hannah and I On the forehead.
Damn——
I clenched my fists. In fact, I have a way to quickly deal with them now. My abnormal organ gives me a powerful instantaneous burst ability, but what happens after I deal with them? There are people from the other side outside.
"Kellogg..." Hannah tugged at the corner of my clothes.
I ignored her, I knew what she was going to say and I wouldn't agree.
“I’ll go with her.”
“Kellogg!”
"Hannah, you are right, there is only death at the end of death. But for me, in a world without you, I can't find the meaning of living." I smiled at Hannah.
"Fool." Hannah said, looking at me with tears in her eyes.
We were both taken to the deck, where the soldiers decided to execute us.
"Think carefully, this is the last chance. We are the gray people in the lower world. We are not killing, we are just trying to survive." The soldier from before said to me again.
"What's your name?" I asked the soldier.
This soldier should be a newcomer, and he still sympathizes with the people on this land.
"Dalun."
"Dalun, thank you."
Dalun didn't say anything more, we were taken to the center of the deck, far away The soldiers at the office gave us two tubes of lethal agent, which was said to be made from the saliva of an extraordinary toxin species, the eight-faced spider.
“After we die, our bodies should be thrown into the ocean, although it’s a pity that we can’t be buried together.” I said jokingly to Hannah.
However, Hannah didn’t say a word from the beginning until now. I thought she was scared at first, but now I felt something was wrong. Hannah’s head was always lowered, and her hair blocked her face, so I couldn’t see her clearly. expression.
"Kellogg, stay alive." Hannah said to me in a hoarse tone.
“Hannah, you—”
“Coming.”
“What?”
Just when I was wondering, the whole ship suddenly shook violently, followed by evil singing;
Please stop and listen to our singing!
No ship can sail past the beautiful Siren Island,
unless the helmsman listens to our beautiful song.
Beautiful songs give you happiness and wisdom,
I accompany you on your safe voyage.
“Damn it, this place is still some distance away from the Sea of Asia, why would a siren appear?” Dalun covered his ears and said in pain.
"Could it be..." Dalun reacted and turned his head in the direction of Hannah.
Hannah's whole body was covered with scales. She started singing along with the song, and Dalun shot her without hesitation.
Pa bang bang——
The bullet just rubbed a spark on her surface scales, and at this time, a huge seaspout appeared near the ship. Under the ship, the sea monsters with their bloody mouths attacked the ship.
"MD, we have encountered a one-in-a-million psychic phenomenon. She is the psychic body of the Siren, and this place happens to be not far from the Sea of Asia." Omata Road is unlucky.
"All personnel, enter combat readiness!"
All the soldiers began to shoot at the sirens trying to board the ship, but Hannah had changed at this time, and her eyes became cold. Incomparably, she waved her hand, and a wall of water appeared around her, blocking the bullets.
"Hannah!" I shouted to her sadly. Hannah's expression was briefly confused, and then she turned back to her cold look. She ignored me and just kept waving her hands. Summon powerful water cannons to attack the soldiers.
As Hannah attacked, the Walkman she had been wearing happened to fall next to me, and I saw a line of words on the surface of the Walkman.
【If I become a monster, kill me. 】
I looked at this line of words absentmindedly. At this time, the seaspout had already hit the entire ship. The strange thing is that there is no danger at all in the area where Hannah and I are. The sirens are fighting with the soldiers. The roars, gunshots, curses...
These seem to be far away from us. With an invisible barrier, it blocks all disasters.
Suddenly, a huge strong wind blew by, and a soldier was blown up on the spot, and the tactical knife in his hand fell away.
A tactical knife was inserted between me and Hannah. I watched all this in a daze, while Hannah continued to sing.
“Why——” I knelt on the ground and wailed in pain.
“Why!”
“Why!!!”
“We just want to live, why——”
I roared angrily, powerless,
From the outbreak of the war to now, the feeling of powerlessness has been with me.
After the roar, I stood up from the ground. I unsteadily pulled out the knife in front of me, and then came to Hannah's side. Hannah didn't react at all to my approach.
I don’t know when tears have covered my entire face. I tried to hug Hannah. There was a brief pause in her singing voice, but the pause was only for that moment.
I leaned my head on Hannah's shoulder, and then raised the knife in my hand.
"I love you, Hannah."
呲——
The scales that were strong enough to resist bullets were penetrated by an ordinary tactical knife, and Hannah was not the only one who was penetrated. Including me who wields the sword.
"I - too - love - you"
Hannah stopped singing, a smile appeared on her face, blood dripped on the ground, forming a bloody pool, I His consciousness began to gradually become blurred.
Just let me sleep like this. No matter who it is, please don’t wake me up. I want to sleep like this forever...
My consciousness fell into endless darkness. , I let this darkness swallow me up, I didn't want to open my eyes, I was too tired.
It’s so tiring to live.
“Live!”
Hannah’s voice came from afar, and a ray of light lit up from the dark sky. I subconsciously stretched out my hand to touch the light. .
********
"...Please, don't die...Live, please...Please live...I have seen too many dead people, Why do you want to do this kind of experiment, your Majesty, we will all go to hell, we will all go to hell!"
I stretched out my hand to touch the light, and it seemed like I was being held by a pair of hands. I paused. Those were small hands, probably those of a child. I opened my heavy eyelids.
The strong operating light made my eyes uncomfortable, and in front of the operating light, an unusually handsome young man held my hand and called me in a sad tone.
"Han····Na····"
I asked the boy in front of me in a dry voice.
I'm here.
"Han...Na, where are you..."
I heard Hannah's voice, so I looked around, while the boy remained silent.
Kellogg, I'm here, I'm here.
Hannah comforted me with a gentle voice, and I seemed to feel someone holding me behind me, but there was nothing behind me.
You have to live and find a reason to live. I believe you will find it.
"What are you talking about, Han..." My consciousness began to blur again. I stretched out my hand and waved it helplessly in the air, and then I fell asleep again.
＊＊＊＊＊
“You’re awake.” A majestic voice came from my ear.
I struggled to get up from the operating room, and then I saw the bright purple robe. In the Oletin Empire, only one person was allowed to wear the purple robe.
"You are..." I looked at the other person in disbelief. The words coming out of my throat were so dry that they made me feel a little strange. I subconsciously stretched out my hands.
This is my body...
“You are the only body that has been successfully manufactured by imitating the angelic technology of heaven, and you are a qualified candidate for [Spear of the Sun], [Sparta] is also the most compatible with you.”
The purple-robed emperor looked at the successful experimental subject in front of him and said to him:
"I'm not curious about your past at all. I just ask you, are you willing to fight for the empire."
When I heard this sentence, an unreasonable anger swallowed me up. I stretched out my hand and reached for the emperor's neck.
He did not struggle, but looked at me silently, expressionless.
"Angry, this is good."
I increased the strength in my hands, and the emperor looked at me expressionlessly. My strength could not shake him in the slightest.
"Living with hatred is better than anything else."
"What do you want!!!" I roared and questioned the purple-robed emperor, my eyes filled with bloodshot eyes.
“Peace, stability, unity, and everything I can see.”
“Just for these, just for these...”
“You You don’t have to like me, just like humans don’t like the heat of the sun. I can give you a chance to take revenge on your enemies, a chance to swing your sword at those maggots in the Senate.”
"I will kill you first!!!"
"No, you won't."
Looking at those deep amber eyes, under the gaze of those eyes, I He began to regain his senses, and finally put down his hand feebly.
“I can give you control of [Sparta], give you the opportunity to join the Forbidden Army, you can gain power, you can choose to end the war in your own way, and you can protect the Grays in the lower world... ···”
The purple-robed emperor looked at me condescendingly.
"You can have it all, and all you need to pay is only one thing: loyalty."
****************
Terra Calendar 1590.8.7.
The once magnificent Senate has now become a victim of the war.
Under the flames of the [Five Tyrants], this ancient building suffered devastating damage.
The once stately facade is now shrouded in smoke and dust, and the thick boulder walls have cracked open, revealing numerous cracks and fissures. The tall square base was covered with traces of war, the door had been blasted open, and the wide steps were the remains of ruins.
Once inside the House of Representatives, the tragedy is even more heartbreaking. The great dome had collapsed, its beams and arches shattered like a withered flower.
The majestic dome of the past no longer shines with brilliance, replaced by darkness and death.
The walls of the hall were originally decorated with gorgeous murals and sculptures, but now they have been burned by war and turned into dilapidated ruins. The huge columns had collapsed, no longer supporting the dome, and lay in ruins on the ground.
“How dare you, who loves your country...?”
On the broken steps, wearing an elder's ring, a short-sleeved tunic that reached his knees, and a five-inch (13 centimeters) wide purple stripe on his right shoulder, the elder covered his wound and looked at the whole body in front of him. Covered in black armor, the new commander-in-chief of the imperial imperial army and the commander of the imperial army.
"According to the emperor's order, we must rectify all rebellion."
I stepped on the blood-stained steps to the great elder and raised the [Spear of the Sun God] high.
“Patriot, you know what you are doing...”
Pfft——
"I know, I always know, because I have been witnessing everything."
"We are all going to destruction, but you will go to him one step before us."
I pulled out Spear, he glanced around. All the usually arrogant elders died under the spears of the imperial army. The entire ruins were stained with bright red, and the former [tyrant] was hanging high in the sky.
The imperial troops knelt down on one knee, clenched their right fists on their hearts, and shouted loudly to the sky:
"Glory to Augustus!!!"
"Glory to Oletin!!!"
"Glory to Constantinople!!!"
I didn't kneel down, but I couldn't help but stare. Look to the sky.
The huge Constantinople was guarded by five [tyrants]. The purple-robed emperor held up the [Emperor Staff of Constantinople] in his hand, stepped on the corpses of the rebels and announced to the world:< br>
【All the honor of the empire bows to it! 】
In the sky above [Constantinople], there is a huge beast.
『The beast had ten horns and seven heads, and on the ten horns was ten crowns, and on its heads were blasphemous names. It was shaped like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. 』
I know what the seven heads on that beast are. They are the [Seven Hills] of the Oletin Empire.
I know that the man above has only two choices:
Either lead the empire to destruction, or lead the empire to glory.
I will witness all this.
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