Chapter 516: Exploding Hammer Zhihong (7,000-word chapter)
The "Five Wheels of Fire Technique" performed by Master Tianhuo is indeed powerful. Although the power of the aftermath is gradually weakening, the entire secret realm Still full of scorching energy.
However, this kind of aftermath energy is not enough in front of the strange world.
Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian both braved the aftermath and rushed forward.
I don’t know how far it rushed, but the aftermath seemed to be getting weaker and weaker.
The vision gradually became clearer.
Directly ahead, Yang Shan was facing an exceptionally handsome man.
The Blood Roar Knife was placed across the man's throat.
The man even had the time to turn his head and look at Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian:
"What do you ants think? Do you really think that I am in poor condition and will take advantage of this opportunity?"
Xiao Aotian didn't know why the celestial demon phoenix named Zhi Hong turned into a human form, but he had already drawn out his giant ruler, rushed forward, and aimed a chop at the head.
“Fuck you, uncle, you ant, your bastard’s beak is so smelly!”
Boom!
The dull sound is enough to prove how powerful Xiao Aotian is.
But the giant ruler stopped on Zhi Hong's head and could not move even half an inch.
Xiao Aotian's eyes widened:
"I'll wipe it!"
Zhi Hong sneered:
"Calling you an ant, I really look down on you, your strength is still Not as big as an ant!"
Su Yitang was relatively calm. She did not approach rashly, but tried to use sonic fighting skills to carry out long-range attacks.
But just when Su Yitang put his hand on Feng Ge Qin and was about to play a song, Zhi Hong appeared in front of Su Yitang in an instant:
"Who asked you to play the piano in front of me? Give it to me Die!”
At the critical moment, Yang Shan reached with his sword.
The Blood Roar Knife collided head-on with Zhi Hong's hand.
The hand was harder than black iron, and sparks were created when it collided with the Blood Roar Knife.
However, Yang Shan also used his strength to retreat and pulled Su Yitang away.
"Xiaotang, be careful, look at its panel status."
Su Yitang then discovered that there were two more lines of special status on Zhihong's panel.
1. The demonic power is lost - within three days, Zhihong can no longer use the demonic power.
2. Blood coagulation - Zhi Hong transforms into a human form, and his attack, defense, and speed are reduced, but he can temporarily suppress his own injuries and restore his own energy and blood.
I have to say that Lord Tianhuo's most powerful trick was really powerful. Not only did it consume all Zhihong's demonic power, it also caused Zhihong to be seriously injured and had to use the "blood coagulation" trick.
Now Zhi Hong has an eighth-level panel, but he is unable to use any fighting skills, including other bloodline secret skills.
Master Yao, Master Tianhuo, including Hun Dan and others, have all left the secret realm.
In other words, if this battle in the secret realm is regarded as a "plot", then the plot has now reached the final stage.
The baton is completely handed over to the players.
Who will win the bodhi body in this secret realm? It depends on whether Yang Shan, Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian, the three top players, can defeat Zhi Hong, who has been weakened repeatedly!
Zhi Hong's current health bar is roughly 90% left.
Zhi Hong’s attack, defense, and speed are still a mystery.
Yang Shan sent a message in the big boss concentration camp:
"@苏伊素,@小AO天, if you are not absolutely sure, don't use fighting skills that require more than one second. This burning Hong’s AI is definitely not low and I won’t give you a chance!”
Su Yitang: "Understood!"
Xiao Aotian: "Understood!"
Ye Suifeng: "Fuck! You three, what are you doing?"
>Lucky Poison Hand: "Who is Zhi Hong? Is there such a person in Dou Po?"
Yu Feifei: "Come on, idol! Come on, Miss Su! You can definitely do it!"
Yi Qingyang: "You can't use fighting skills that last more than one second? What NPC can put so much pressure on three top leaders?" Tianpeng, your boss probably doesn’t have time to reply now. Come on, let’s explain.”
Chao Bafang: “What are you explaining? I don’t know anything.”
Jinshan. Damn: "Aren't you a key employee of Yang Laodi's company?"
Chao Bafang: "I am just a little trash now, and Sister Tang is the key employee."
Zhu Tianpeng: "When I take down Yaoyue, I will immediately go to work on Yi Shui! I also want to be the backbone!"
Ye Suifeng: "You have said this in four or five versions. "It's like a joke."
In the virtual conference room of the R&D department's intranet in the Tianyao company building, Xiao Yan pushed the keyboard with both hands and stretched subconsciously:
"Done!" ”
The thirty-six key R&D personnel of Tiangang also stopped their work almost at the same time.
The backbone Lao Wang asked in a low voice:
"Boss Xiao, those three players have made a mess of the main plot of this version, and we have to give them the boss guide. Is that appropriate?"
Xiao Yan took out a cigar from nowhere, and a wisp of pure lotus demon fire emerged from his fingers, and lit the cigar:
"How about you take the entire R&D department and change the underlying logic?"< br>
Old Wang shook his head like a rattle:
"Forget it, forget it."
The infrastructure of the game Doupo is also closely related to the operation of AI Nuwa.
The game system runs on its own, and all the R&D department can do now is keep adding content to it.
If you want to dismantle the framework and rebuild it, it is no different than making a new game.
After the Baojiajiao system is online, Tianyao Company is now making a lot of money. To rebuild the underlying framework, all members of the R&D department will have to work overtime, and the virtual time of 6:1 will be extended, which will make a lot of money. Ten years and eight years.
Who can withstand this?
Xiao Yan: "If the main line is gone, it will be gone. Just work overtime and add more main lines to come out."
Old Wang: "Then why do you have to weaken Zhi Hong? What if those three A player really killed Zhi Hong."
"Weakened? Who told you it was weakened?"
Xiao Yan knocked on the table:
"Do you understand the value of the players on the Tianbang list? We can't see their character information. Do you dare to guarantee that Zhi Hong, who is still alive, can kill all three of them with a big move? If there is only one left, Zhi Hong will be killed on the spot. You have to burp!”
Xiao Yan put down the cigar and continued:
“Relatively speaking, it is the best time to let Zhihong enter the coagulation state and restore his blood volume to 90%. The situation is good."
"No matter how strong those three players are, they are still Dou Zong, and their panel attacks are limited. We must trust the control of AI Nuwa! It is impossible for Zhihong to give those three players a chance to use their ultimate attack."
“Just fight in close quarters and be tough! I don’t believe that anyone’s close combat skills at this stage are really so outrageous. How can they fight for a long time without making mistakes?”
Lao Wang hesitated and said:
“Well, what if Zhi Hong’s blood volume is really wiped out?”
Xiao Yan: “Then consider them powerful!”
Lao Wang: "Huh?"
Xiao Yan: "Oh shit! If the three of them can handle Zhi Hong, then they have to respect the fruits of the player's labor!"
Lao Wang: "But the saliva of Bodhi's incarnation is just that. That Zhihong is a celestial demon phoenix with ninth-grade bloodline."
"Everyone has won, so we have to be generous. Before this version goes online, I What do you say? There is no need to suppress output. As long as the players are able to rush, we will work overtime to come up with more content!"
Xiao Yan stood up and said seriously:
"Everyone is here! Everyone, please listen carefully. Doupo is what it is today not only because of our top-notch technology, but also because we make players comfortable and players are willing to spend money! In the multiple-choice question of overtime and wronging players, we can only Choose to work overtime!”
“Now, let’s say the slogan of our R&D department again”
Xiao Yan raised his fist and shouted:
"Don't be afraid of difficulties! Just work overtime when you have classes!"
All the thirty-six core members stood up and shouted enthusiastically:
" Kneel down and lick the player, worth billions!”
Xiao Yan waved his hand:
"Keep working! Secretary Lin, let's go and test Guan Bao's acquaintance with me!"
Yang Shan, Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian in the game naturally don't know why they are three players. Tianyao Company's R&D department has all employees working overtime again.
They are now concentrating on dealing with Zhi Hong and do not dare to relax at all.
The eighth-level desolate beast is still too strong.
Even if Zhi Hong can't even use his demon power now, he still poses a huge threat simply by relying on his fists and kicks.
Xiao Aotian, who has the highest health among the three, does not have more than 100,000 health points.
Zhihong’s blood volume is estimated to be in eight figures!
However, it is worth mentioning that Zhi Hong's "normal attack" does not seem to be too high.
At the very least, Yang Shan used the booby traps as a panel boost, and combined with Ba Dao's seven-level sword power to parry with Zhi Hong's fist, Yang Shan's HP deduction was basically only a few points or a dozen points. .
But after Xiao Aotian took a hard punch from Zhi Hong, he started shouting:
"Damn it! My body protection value suddenly lost 100,000 points!"
Xiao Aotian's meridian attributes and the strength of his techniques are far inferior to Yang Shan's. His full limit of body protection Qi can provide The body protection value is only 480,000.
And Yang Shan is 650,000.
But one punch directly shattered Xiao Aotian's 100,000 points of body protection, which was a bit exaggerated.
Su Yitang reminded:
"The current state of Zhi Hong is weird. It may be that his normal attacks have several times extra damage to the body protection value!"
Xiao Aotian: "In other words, if he is touched a few times, he will be gone. ? "
Without the fault tolerance of the body protection value, Xiao Aotian's body would basically turn into white light after two or three punches by Zhi Hong.
The cost of triggering a duel parry is very low, but the damage to the body protection value is multiplied several times.
Combined with the situation that once any of the three of them prepares to use a fighting skill that requires a long time to be activated, Zhi Hong will come to interfere immediately.
Yang Shan finally understood Zhihong's current strategy -
Melee combat!
You can only attack close to him, gradually wearing away Zhihong's health!
Yang Shan immediately sent a message to Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian.
We can't let Zhi Hong hear it, lest this guy finds out in advance, any countermeasures he comes up with will only make things more difficult.
Xiao Aotian: "Melee combat, right? I, King Yantian, am afraid of melee combat? Before I left the Jiama Empire, I went to the Warcraft Mountains to find the Amethyst Winged Lion King for special training!"
Yang Shan: "What? Special training? "
Xiao Aotian: "Tell the Amethyst Winged Lion King to break his defense, and then let him send a large number of monsters to chase me, and when I fight back, I only use normal attacks!"
< br>Yang Shan: "What happens next?"
Xiao Aotian: "Don't worry about what happens next. Anyway, I'm very strong in melee combat."
Yang Shan: "I didn't see it. Look, you got hit again!"
The three of them fought with Zhi Hong purely in close combat for three minutes.
Xiao Aotian was hit twice and Su Yitang was hit once.
Yang Shan was not hit once, and hit Zhihong six times in total, one of which was at the throat, but it failed to trigger the weak point attack.
Xiao Aotian explained shamefully: "I'm just slower, Miss Su, the wind is gone, here comes one!"
Su Yitang: "Speak earlier next time, I won't be able to take care of you!"
Su Yitang looked solemn.
The intensity of the fight against Zhi Hong was too high.
If you relax a little bit and Zhi Hong seizes the opportunity to use a "Lightning Five Continuous Whip" or something like that, the protective aura will definitely be shattered.
The fault tolerance rate is really too low.
Su Yitang couldn't help but asked: "Boss, is this the only way to spend it?"
Yang Shan: "Well, this Zhihong is a Dou Zun after all, and he is also a monster with stronger panel values. Can he find a way to conquer it? That’s pretty good.”
Su Yitang: “Boss, have you ever calculated how long it will take us to kill Zhi Hong?”
Yang Shan: “No, in actual combat, The situation is different every second. I can't calculate how much blood we can consume every minute."
Xiao Aotian: "Damn it, we really rely on scraping! "Hold on for that long?"
Yang Shan: "There's no way to calculate this!"
Xiao Aotian: "Then it just depends on performance and luck?"
Yang Shan: "This is how to defeat the boss."
Su Yitang: "Well, why don't you feel nervous at all?"
Xiao Aotian: "Why are you nervous?"
Su Yitang's tone was a little cute:
"Huh? Aren't you nervous about defeating the boss?"
Xiao Aotian: "I only get nervous when the boss's health bar is almost gone. How can I be nervous as soon as I start fighting?" I’m nervous, but I’m not a novice.”
Su Yitang: “Well, I’m so nervous. I’m afraid we won’t be able to kill Zhi Hong. His blood is so thick that I didn’t even see it drop! ”
Yang Shan replied very experiencedly:
"The boss of the leapfrog strategy is like this, you know scraping, right? Anyway, the blood volume is here, just scrape slowly."
Su Yitang: "Then if we haven't finished scraping the blood, our fighting spirit will be exhausted. It’s over, or was there any mistake in the process?”
Yang Shan: “Then admit it, it was just a gamble that we came here, and it’s normal to lose.”
Su Yitang: "Well, I don't want to lose. The senior Tianluan who gave me the Qingluan egg before he died was probably killed by Zhi Hong and his companions. I want to avenge her. "
Yang Shan: "Then just work harder. "
Su Yitang is the only player in the field who uses "long-range normal attack".
Just flick it on the Feng Ge Qin and it will create a wind gang. This allowed Su Yitang to keep a relatively safe distance.
But Zhi Hong, perhaps annoyed by Su Yitang, actually abandoned Yang Shan and Xiao Aotian and rushed towards Su Yitang.
Yang Shan quickly used "Three Thousand Thunder Movements" and rushed to Su Yitang's side before Zhi Hong. He held Su Yitang's waist with his left hand and held the Blood Roar Knife in his right hand to block Zhi Hong.
Zhihong's coagulation state also weakened his speed.
Slightly faster than Xiao Aotian who had blessed Qinggu Youfeng, but not as fast as Yang Shan and Su Yitang.
This gives Yang Shan more room to maneuver.
However, the speed gap is limited, and Yang Shan cannot establish a victory simply by relying on his speed advantage.
It would be okay if I could always use "Three Thousand Thunders".
But the fighting spirit's battery life couldn't keep up at all, and speed alone wasn't enough. Ordinary attacks were really too limited in the damage they could do to Zhi Hong.
Yang Shan grabbed Su Yitang's waist and quickly retreated. This scene made Xiao Aotian sour.
You are so ambiguous at this time, right?
Forget about being sour, Xiao Aotian still has to swing a giant ruler to buy time for Yang Shan and Su Yitang.
Xiao Aotian gritted his teeth:
"Damn! I'm really impressed by this dog food that can even be stuffed into my mouth!"
Yang Shan: "How about you also train a secretary?"
Xiao Aotian: "Train a vase It’s useful! Miss Su, how much will Yang Shan pay you? I’ll give you double it. Can you come to our guild?”
Su Yitang: “One hundred and twenty-five million.”< br>
Xiao Aotian: "Excuse me!"
Zhi Hong, who was killing everyone, was still complacent because he still maintained a clear advantage with one against three.
Little did he know that the three players it was facing behind the scenes were still chatting via voice transmission!
There is no way. For players, if the strategy fails, they will drop the level.
For NPCs, if they can’t stop players, they have to do it.
The mentality of both sides is not on the same level at all.
Zhi Hong is very fast, but his actual combat experience does not seem to be very strong.
At least for Yang Shan, with his current swordsmanship skills, as long as he doesn't relax, Zhi Hong should not be able to touch him.
The pressure on Xiao Aotian and Su Yitang is much greater.
Fortunately, Yang Shan was able to withstand the main pressure.
But Zhihong still didn't give them much chance to breathe.
Even Yang Shan didn't find any opportunity to use the "Bad Sword-Seven Kills".
The sound of metal colliding in the secret realm has never stopped.
Time passes minute by minute.
Twenty minutes later, Xiao Aotian, whose protective aura had been shattered, was punched in the chest by Zhi Hong.
More than 90,000 points of vitality and blood were lost in an instant!
Xiao Aotian simply sprayed Zhi Hong's face with the blood from his mouth, and then raised his giant ruler:
"I can't do it anymore, this is my last blow! I leave it to you!"
Xiao Aotian's struggle seemed to be useless, and the giant ruler was knocked away by Zhi Hong's fist.
Su Yitang used Qinggu Youfeng to rescue Xiao Aotian, but a flaw was revealed.
Zhi Hongqi stepped forward, punching and kicking, but Su Yitang's body-protecting Qi could not hold on.
Zhi Hong was about to deal with Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian together, but suddenly his expression froze and he quickly turned around:
"You ant, do you think I'm stupid?"
Just when Su Yi was The moment Tang was in crisis, Yang Shan began to accumulate fighting spirit.
Zhi Hong's perception ability is too strong. Yang Shan's power has only increased slightly, and Zhi Hong can detect it.
However, Yang Shan does not expect "Bad Sword - Seven Kills" to turn defeat into victory.
He was just trying to attract Zhihong's attention and provide Su Yitang with space to escape.
Zhi Hong's interference made it impossible for Yang Shan to continue to accumulate fighting spirit, so he could only use his sword power to accumulate and attack Zhi Hong.
Seeing that Zhi Hong still had 40% of his health bar left and that he had less than a thousand points of fighting spirit left, Yang Shan felt helpless.
But there is no way, even with the endurance of Hai Xinyan and Fei Ling Cloak, Yang Shan is almost reaching his limit.
Yang Shan had agreed with Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian that if it was impossible to do anything, he would run away if he could.
Try to minimize losses.
Yang Shan was going to buy Su Yitang time to escape first, and then use "Three Thousand Thunders" continuously.
Zhi Hong’s current state cannot catch up with him using his body skills!
As for Xiao Aotian.
May you be blessed!
I can’t care about that much anymore!
As a boss, you are willing to take risks to buy time for your employees to escape!
This is entirely because Yang Shan is indeed a good boss with a conscience.
It’s definitely not because Su Yitang said that if she successfully escaped, she could wear black stockings and give Yang Shan a squeeze on her shoulders and legs!
The humble employees worked hard not to lose the three-star rating.
As for whether Yang Shan will die in the hands of Zhi Hong.
Can Su Yitang not understand her boss?
Unless Zhihong is relieved of the coagulation state, once "Three Thousand Thunder Movements" is opened, Zhihong will only deserve to eat ashes!
The upright Xiao Aotian has almost exhausted his fighting spirit and cannot use "Three Thousand Thunders" at all.
Xiao Aotian was still several hundred feet away from the exit, and Su Yitang was already standing in front of the exit.
Su Yitang originally wanted to say to Yang Shan, "Boss, I'll wait for you outside"!
But she suddenly felt something passing in front of her.
But what it was, Su Yitang didn’t see it at all.
Su Yitang panicked all of a sudden and couldn't care less. He quickly turned around and shouted softly:
"Boss! Boss! Leave quickly, there is a situation! There is a situation!"< br>
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
The strange fluctuation just now was definitely not her illusion.
Su Yitang has to go and help Yang Shan, at least give Yang Shan some green valley breeze.
Seeing Su Yitang flying over and shouting, Yang Shan was a little confused for a moment:
"Is there a situation? What else is going on?"
"Ant, are you still in the mood to look elsewhere?"
Zhi Hong's angry fist hit Yang Shan hard on the back.
After fighting Zhi Hong for so long, Yang Shan didn’t get hit at all.
The body protection value is only about 100,000 points, and it will be broken immediately after this punch.
In 0.5 seconds, Yang Shan's "Three Thousand Thunder Movements" had been activated, but just as he was about to run away, he found that his left hand seemed to be locked.
Zhi Hong grabbed Yang Shan's arm tightly, his handsome face full of ferociousness:
"Want to run? You run away and I try!"
Zhi Hong looked like this, giving Yang Shan a A feeling of being abandoned by a scumbag, and clinging to him to demand an explanation.
Yang Shan waved his knife in disgust.
There was a flash of cold light and a puff.
Yang Shan's left arm was cut off by himself!
"Idiot, are you the only one who still wants to keep me?"
The next moment, Yang Shan's eyes were dazzled, and he saw a purple-haired girl staring at her with big watery eyes. Looking at him.
Yang Shan subconsciously wanted to ask, "Girl, who are you?"
But the other person seemed a little familiar.
"Your hand"
The purple-haired girl's eyes were filled with tears:
"Wait for me, I will avenge you!"
The purple-haired girl disappeared instantly In front of Yang Shan.
"If you dare to cut Yang Shan's hand, I will beat you to death! I must beat you to death today!"
have to!
As soon as these words came out, Yang Shan knew who the purple-haired girl was without even using the detection function.
The princess of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan—Zi Yan!
Unexpectedly, after breaking through the Douzong, she also grew into a big girl!
Yang Shan turned around and saw Zi Yan’s left hand tightly grabbing Zhi Hong’s throat and pushing him to the ground. Then she clenched her right fist and punched Zhi Hong one after another. on the forehead.
Su Yitang had already flown to Yang Shan, and when she saw the purple-haired girl who was beating Zhihong violently, Su Yitang was dumbfounded:
"Oh my God, has Senior Zi Yan grown so big?"< br>
Xiao Aotian also rushed over. Seeing such a rude Zi Yan, Xiao Aotian's legs were shaking:
"Damn! Senior Zi Yan? Is she so beautiful?"
< br>Zi Yan didn't have time to pay attention to Su Yitang and Xiao Aotian now, so she raised her fist and hit Zhi Hong's head!
"Who are you! Let me go! Let me go!"
Don't worry about Zhi Hong now.
Because the moment Zi Yan appeared, he felt a sense of despair deep in his heart.
This despair seems to come from blood!
What could make the Heavenly Demon Phoenix, a ninth-grade bloodline level, feel despair from the depths of his bloodline?
Zhihong wanted to struggle, but he found that with such a strong physique, he couldn't move away from Ziyan's hand!
Zhi Hong was scared and wanted to beg for mercy:
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute!"
Zi Yan was furious:
"Wait a minute Shit! If I say I’ll beat you to death, I’ll beat you to death!”
Yang Shan: "Hey, little Zi Yan, why don't you let me hack him to death?" (I want to hit him last!)
Zi Yan then stopped, looked back at Yang Shan, and then said:
"If you kill him, his bloodline essence will be scattered. In my bloodline memory, there is a way to get his bloodline essence, but you have to do it before he is dead."
Yang Shan Smiling:
“That business, I’ll leave it to you.”
Zi Yan nodded solemnly.
Seeing Zi Yan raise her fist again, Zhi Hong cried:
“Wait a minute, please wait a minute!”
Zi Yan also kindly gave Zhi Hong Explained:
"It's useless to say please. If you dare to chop Yang Shan's hand, I won't beat you to death. I'm sorry for him."
Zhi Hong hurriedly explained:
“I didn’t chop it! I didn’t chop it, he did it himself!”
“I don’t care, it was you who chopped it!”
“Ah ah, help me”
Su Yitang poked Yang Shan’s shoulder with her finger and whispered:
"Boss, did you teach Senior Zi Yan?"
Yang Shan: "What to teach?"
Su Yitang: "Senior Zi Yan likes it just like you. Lock her throat and push her to the ground. You use a knife to chop, but she uses her fists."
Yang Shan: "Yes, I use a knife, and she uses fists. This is obviously different. I didn't teach it. .”
“Tsk, I don’t believe it!”
Xiaotang began to secretly wonder, is this move especially useful when crushing the game?
“How about I try it next time?”
Zhi Hong’s handsome face is now as swollen as a pig, saliva mixed with blood drips from the corner of his mouth, and his body twitches from time to time. It was obvious that he was not far from death.
Zi Yan still maintained the chokehold, put her right thumb into her mouth and bit it, then squeezed out a few drops of blood and dripped it on Zhi Hong's head.
At this moment, Zhi Hong finally remembered something:
"You! You! You are."
Before Zhi Hong finished speaking, ripples in space suddenly appeared around him.
Zi Yan lowered her voice:
"Blood Refining!"
In the blink of an eye, the space around Zhihong seemed to be compressed, and along with its body, They were squeezed into walnut-sized, green and red beads.
Zi Yan held the green and red blood bead, subconsciously licked her lips, then suppressed her desire to swallow the bead, turned around, and handed it to Yang Shan.
Zi Yan complained:
“I told you not to wait for me! Humph!”
Seeing that Yang Shan did not respond, Zi Yan stuffed the green and red blood beads directly into Yang Shan He put his hands on his hands, then put his hands on his hips, tilted his neck, and pouted his mouth.
Xiao Ziyan is very angry now!
Xiao Aotian's eyes lit up.
Zi Yan's temper can really be described as "perverse". At the moment, Zi Yan is losing her temper as if she has a princess disease.
How to deal with the first affection?
Xiao Aotian quickly opened the video. He wanted to record this precious actual combat scene and go back to study it frame by frame.
Under Xiao Aotian's expectant eyes, Yang Shan took two steps forward and faced Zi Yan.
He stretched out his hand, gently pinched Zi Yan's delicate cheek, and laughed softly:
"You are a big girl, why are you still acting like a child?"
(End of this chapter) )