Chapter.8 Oh Bloody, Boom Bladda (4)
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“It’s romantic. “A man who appears out of nowhere, deals with a threatening man, and then proposes.”
“romance? Yes, it may look that way to other people, but it didn’t to me. I was desperate. “Because I knew that the moment she let go, I would fall from that world full of colorful emotions back into the dark and quiet world of sociopaths.”
But she accepted his heart. Give your heart and receive it back with your heart. For Ian, who was experiencing the exchange of emotions as naturally as breathing between people for the first time, it felt like a miracle.
“There was a rumor about Raptor. The earnest confession of warmonger Ashfield! What did it feel like? People were whispering, but I didn’t feel bad. No, rather, I felt like I wanted to come out and shout. That’s right! That woman accepted my heart!… I wanted the whole world to know. Molly She was a masterpiece and an orchestra to me as a blind and deaf person! It made me see the world through different eyes! “When I was next to her, I could see the world through her eyes.”
The professor looked at Ian, who was waving his arms and explaining about his dead wife. That guy’s smiling face and his crying face. I have seen many expressions that fluctuate between hope and despair, but this is the first time I have seen such a dreamy expression. Even though he knew better than anyone else that the story would be filled with only pain at the end, he was filled with happiness just imagining that moment.
I remember making a date plan the day before the first date by desperately trying to think of what the women I had insensitively met a long time ago wanted.
I remember talking about what pattern would be good for a tie at a strategy meeting until my subordinates complained.
On a day when she seemed tired, I remembered her bedroom, which had created the most efficient and perfect resting environment, and thoughtlessly said something like ‘Why don’t you rest at my house?’ and her face turned bright red like a tomato.
On the other hand, I remember having to be nursed by her due to difficulty breathing when she came out of the shower with the intention of really ‘resting’.
spring. Memories of the day when she lifted up her white cotton yarn and promised a future under the cheers of her only friend Gustav and her old subordinates.
winter. His daughter Leonie was miraculously born on a day without a sandstorm or blizzard. Leonie Desmont. His wife was sobbing happily.
As each memory passed by, like soap bubbles reflected in the sunlight, Ian’s face began to become moist.
Dreamlike. These days are truly like a dream.
Memories of those days were like a river, once I started thinking about them I couldn’t stop. Even though I know that there is a sea of pain at the end.
“It was the happiest time of my life. Being with her allowed me to be Ian, not the hollow bombshell Ashfield. But the more I became a person around her, the more painful and weak I became.”
Teuddeuddeuk-
woowoo.
Ashes flew from the end of the burned out cigar. Living as a person. In exchange for that happiness, Ian had to face his past. From the perspective of human Ian, not Ashfield.
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The Raptor Society was barbaric, but barbarism had its own rules.
The basic organization is the same as that used in the military, with a platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander above the soldier rank, and above that is the pack leader Swarm Alpha.
The creation of a unique class called Pack Leader and Swarm Alpha was due to the strong insistence of Gustav Al Harb, the most powerful person in the Raptor Society.
‘If water stagnates, it will rot and people in high positions will become lazy. The leader of the raptors must always maintain a spirit as blue as a freshly sharpened blade. In that sense, the highest rank, Pack Leader Swarm Alpha, will be separated from the existing rank system and have a separate promotion system.’
The conditions are simple. It was the same as the essence of Raptor.
kill and steal
If you kill the pack leader, the pack leader can become the swarm alpha if you kill the swarm alpha. You can challenge them head on or try to assassinate them. All means except poisoning are permitted. It was a ridiculous rule that could have led to the collapse of the group itself, but surprisingly, it was not very common for the swarm alpha and pack leader to be replaced.
‘Because everything is allowed. If you challenge them head-on, they will never be able to win with a battalion commander-level force if you drive out the top skilled soldiers called Swarm Alpha’s personal guard and the assigned tanks and armored fighting vehicles. If you recruit the Noisy Pack and run the radar in 3rd shift, most surprise attacks and sniping using explosives will be resolved.’
In the end, if you want to become Swarm Alpha, the easiest way is to create a force equal to that of Swarm Alpha and take on the challenge. Of course, the challenge itself did not happen that often. Having the title of Swarm Alpha in itself is proof that you have built the strongest force. There is no fool here who would risk his life in a fight at a disadvantage unless he reveals his weakness. As evidence, there have only been about four challenges to the upper ranks since the Raptor Society was created, and even then, there was only a challenge to the pack leader and not a single challenge to the Swarm Alpha. Until Ian got married.
In the approximately 1 year and 6 months since starting a family, Swarm Alpha Ian Desmont has faced two challenges. Although he killed them all, he lost quite a few of the SS that were by his side.
Today I was facing my third challenge.
“I’m sorry Ashfield.”
“….carter. “I thought we crossed quite a few lines with you.”
“You were a completely different person then than you are now. There is nothing more foolish than being on a ship that is sure to sink. Didn’t you always tell us? “Only when you let go of your emotions can you see the right path.”
“Hehehe, we just did what we learned, Mr. Ashfield. I want to remember only the good side of me, so don’t struggle and just go along hehehehe…”
“Sol… Carter Ashley. “Have you all betrayed me?”
Ian also felt that he had become weak. Every time I returned home to meet Molly’s bright smile and see Leonie in her arms, I couldn’t help but think that the people he had burned with his hands in the past also had families who would welcome them like this.
At some point, Ian stopped murdering all of his prisoners. It was revealed that one of the escaped prisoners was a spy for Dom.
Bold strategies were not used as often as before. Although he was still a great commander, the SS who remembered him from the past could not help but feel that he was ‘incompletely immature.’
The result was the reality that the SS troops who had arrived here with him were now standing side by side with the enemy, facing him.
“Tsk! Babies with no guts! “How many times has Master Ashfield saved you all? Are you going to shrivel up and spit out your balls just because some of the people next to you are dead?”
“Kenichi, are you really planning on staying there? “Do you know how highly Tycho values you?”
“Fuck you, Carter! “Shorty, if you’re going to suck that human’s ass, I’ll just leave here!”
Tycho Brahe. I hated Ian so much that I ended up here. The nameless pack leader and the ridiculously large number of people in that faction are probably all members of his line. Five tanks and combat vehicles that Swarm Alpha can personally move. The traitorous SS. Compared to that, here are only a few SS and a combat vehicle. Even so, except for Kenichi and a few members of the SS, they are only unskilled soldiers who are too young to receive recruitment offers.
Now that the Noisy Pack has all left, the reason he chose a formal challenge rather than assassination may have been to mock his fall by making it a spectacle.
“Still, out of respect for the founding members who created the Raptor Society, the player will give in! Let’s start first, Ashfield! I don’t know if I’ll ever fire a shot before dinner! Doesn’t that gunshot sound like the start of an execution? Wahahahaha!”
“I have to shoot. If I don’t want to lose my wife and children who left first, don’t I have to go at least one step faster!”
The voice of a fat man who was once part of his personal guard came through the speakers amidst the taunting communication of an unknown pack leader on an enemy tank.
“Puhuhuh! Isn’t this something you learned from Ashfield? Don’t leave regrets behind. It was a beautiful wife and daughter. “It seems like you were aware of it and hid it, but why did someone who only knew how to explode do something so useless?”
“…..”
“You will have to comfort him when we meet later. I sent them the worst people I know! You are a double bitch who ruined the respectable Mr. Ashfield, so you are right! I told you to treat me to a full course meal like you would a Dom’s subordinate! Fuhahahaha!”
Wood clatter!
The plastic receiver couldn’t withstand Ian’s grip and broke. The slower you back up, the more the distance between you and your opponent closes. The traitorous guys went over to the other side and the position changed a lot, but this is enough. I couldn’t delay any longer.
Ian picked up the broken receiver full of static.
“Well… I learned it.”
“I’m sorry, but even if you cry and beg, I can’t save you! “Puhuhuh!”
“okay. “It will be difficult to save you now that you have come this far.”
Ian took out a small switch and a detonator from his pocket.
“Two challenges. Dozens of kidnapping and assassination attempts were made against his wife and child. I guess he couldn’t bear to see his weaknesses clearly revealed before his eyes. Because raptors are such creatures. Because that’s how the group was created.”
However, before his title as Swarm Alpha, before the formation of the SS, he was a man named Ian Desmont. A man who started out as a mercenary for a foreign country and took on the nickname Ashfield.
I may have become weak, but I have never become a fool.
“Let me teach you one last thing.”
“Pretending that you have the damn time….”
“Don’t carelessly step into the battlefield prepared by the enemy.”
Take it!
When I pressed the switch in my left hand, a blue screen so familiar to Raptor soldiers appeared. A high-power shield captured from a dark-colored enemy executive. And the detonator in his right hand is hundreds of high explosive bombs that Ian, whose power was reduced after the previous two battles, had buried in advance to somehow reduce the casualties on this side.
The explosive power would be enough to destroy an enemy force or blow away a combat vehicle that barely relied on a single shield.
‘Originally, I prepared to be the first to attract the attention of the enemy and disappear along with the enemy, leaving a way for the remaining ones to survive…’ “
It’s funny. “I ended up killing you guys with the item I prepared to save you guys.”
“what? “What is that…!”
Kuuuk-
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The person on the other end of the speaker could not finish his sentence. A huge explosion occurred in a secluded wasteland.
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Ji Ik- Tak! Ji Ik-
Even though I was completely devastated, I was still able to move. This may be because the enemy’s equipment, which increased more than expected, became a wall blocking the power of the explosion.
Winter is the season when nests stop moving and endure the cold with the heat of their internal combustion engines. There is no better time to get out. I looked into the shelter in advance, located in a place that no one knew about. A place where our family of three can live comfortably. Just go over this hill and you will see a house. If only we could get over this hill….
“Ahhhh….”
Ian couldn’t believe what he saw with his eyes. I didn’t want to believe it. It must all be an illusion. The impact of the explosion shook my brain and I was seeing nothing. A nightmare that is almost like a mirage that will disappear like smoke once you stir it with this hand!
Each time I took a step closer, instead of disappearing, it became clearer.
On the wall dividing the shelter from the outside, there is a long bar erected in front of the word ‘traitor’ in dark red.
The dress she had given as a gift was fluttering in the wind. She was crucified like a criminal.
“Mo moli… honey!!!”
He threw down his cane and ran limping towards her.
Tuk!
Someone tripped on his foot.
“You’re so sweet, my friend.”
The voice was familiar, but I didn’t have time to turn my head towards it. In terrible pain, Ian crawled forward. I saw it clearly. It was only a moment, but it definitely moved! He raised his head! still alive Both her and the daughter in the swaddle wrapped around her! Still alive-
Click-
Quaaaaaaang!
glare. And explosion. Everything came into view clearly. Flames exploding from inside the shelter. The wall collapsed, engulfed in deflagration as if inflated, and his wife in front of it was engulfed in flames…!
“Aaaah!!!!”
thud!
“Aaaah! Argh! Aaaaa!!!”
thud! Boom boom!
has disappeared. His wife and children were hanging bleeding on the shelter and the pillar in front of it!
Ian fell and hit the ground with both hands endlessly, two or three times. No matter how much I cried or how much I shook my fist until my fingers broke, this burning pain did not go away. His world was losing color. As if everything that was his was turned into ashes and disappeared.
“You look tough, Ashfield. “It’s really, really sad.”
Jump, jump, jump.
The man who had stepped forward stepped forward.
“Gustave… Raptor!”
“I can’t believe I lost you, who I thought was the most capable tool in my life, so vainly.”
“You… why! You don’t gain anything by killing me!”
“Oh no. I think my judgment may have been clouded. Think about it carefully. I really don’t want to kill you. Rather, he was a person who liked it because he had a big weakness, so he thought he could wield it a little too much? The problem is that you have gained too much status in the Raptors. So much so that people on the outside think of your face when they think of raptors.”
Ting –
The bullet flicked up with his thumb was playfully sucked into Gustave’s hand.
“The Raptor Society must be a symbol of violence and fear. So far, you have played that role very well. A crazy explosion maniac who turns everything, including children and adults, into ashes. But now? Look at yourself now. There are only two people. Two people! The number is less than the number you’ve killed so far, but you’re just crying and screaming that they’re dead! If someone sees this broken look, they’ll think, ‘Ah, that Iron-Blooded Desmont also has that kind of human side! ‘Raptor is also a place where people live!’ “Wouldn’t it bring back warm thoughts?”
Ian thought. Why did he think of this man from the past as a friend?
Gustave Al Harb. This man could laugh, cry, and communicate like a normal person, but on the inside, he was the same as Ian from the past. Cold blood flowed. It’s not that he doesn’t have feelings, but he doesn’t share his feelings.
“So… this is how it happened. Raptor must continue to reign as the embodiment of fear. Let’s not think too badly about it. There’s something people say when they break up. ‘Let’s only remember the good things.’ Let’s go like that too. Clean when people still think of you as destruction incarnate. I hope you like the funeral. In the wasteland, it is a virtue to put a lead bullet into the head of a dying relative. For you, who were a special friend of mine, I designed it to combine two elements that Ian Desmont loved throughout his life. A blast with my loving family. “It’s just to your taste, right?”
Slam!
The muzzle of a gun was drawn over the head of the kneeling man.
“I’m heartbroken too. I thought it was just a passing feeling, but I can’t believe you were so broken. Shorty It’s a good thing I turned the wheel this way as soon as I heard that he had failed. It was a bit surprising! I heard your wife is a pretty good fighter, right? Even though I was completely devastated, I managed to catch half of the guys who came first. With all my praise, I rounded them all up, captured her myself, and nailed her to the cross. She was an attractive woman, but she was an evil woman who made her friend like this. “You must be punished.”
Ian slowly crawled towards him. The moaning and crying had already stopped. In my head, I just picture the scene where she, so fragile, fights against the Raptor soldiers until they are completely destroyed, and Gustave, who watches it, arranges the soldiers like toys and drags her away to nail her. Every time I thought about it, my limbs were stiffening and my body felt warm.
“Crime… and punishment….”
“That’s right. Desmont: How many people have you killed so far? Who is innocent? A thousand people? Two thousand people? “You probably didn’t expect to close your eyes in a warm bed with people’s blessings.”
“Hehehehehe… That’s right. That is indeed true…. Hehehe….”
Ian crawled to Gustave’s feet and clung to his arms with his blood-covered body. The muzzle of the gun is positioned right in front of his temple, as if he is asking to be killed.
“I had a dream, Gustave… that maybe I could live by her side… as a human being…”
“It was the worst mistake of your life.”
“Hehehehehehe! That’s right… I had no conscience dreaming of a peaceful life after killing over 1,000 people… It was right for me to die this miserably.” Ian’s head
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which had been swaying, rested against the muzzle of the gun. I could tell instinctively that she had disappeared completely. Because the colorful colors that colored his world were distorting into gray again.
“It is right for sinners to die.”
Just one. One color remained without disappearing. gules. The whole world was dyed red. Just like her red one-piece dress.
Ian’s weak grip clung to Gustave’s shoulder as if it would break like a rake. There was a small safety pin hanging on that finger.
“You… crazy bastard!”
“It is right for sinners to die miserably!”
Ian used the last of his strength to sink his teeth into the back of the guy’s neck.
The gun aimed at his head spewed fire
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There was a small explosion on the burning hill.
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Squeak-
Squeak-
“Ah, are you awake? I was thinking of just burying it. “You’re a friend with a tougher name than I thought.”
When Ian came to his senses, what he saw was a place full of cheap incandescent lights that were creaking and shaking, and bloody green cloth surgical tools.
“Uh uhh….”
“Ah, don’t say that. The part where the implant was placed in the upper jawbone is still a bit loose. “I can’t talk about it because I haven’t connected the subordinate anyway.”
Drurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The man who was selecting the bloody tools loaded onto the silver cart grumbled and picked up one of them.
“I got scabies out of luck. I’m just about to retire and start a new life, but suddenly, from a block over, there’s an explosion, gunshots, and a bunch of black-faced Raptors. I hid around and looked around to see what was going on. “You were going to die with the guy in that coat, weren’t you?”
“…Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.”
Ian turned his gaze to the mirror hanging to his left. In the broken mirror, there was a man with a hanging tongue and all sorts of prosthetics where his jaw had been blown off. It took him a while to recognize that it was his face.
“I was watching from a tree over there on the side of the hill. Because of your sudden movement, Magnum, who was aiming for your head, got his jaw blown off. The guy in the coat must have had a reactive shield or something, because there was a flash of blue light right before the grenade exploded. Thanks to this, the explosive power was completely reduced. It’s because of her that you survived with a few broken ribs and a few splinters. That coat looks more injured than you, but it’s still alive. Those reptiles came in full force and took him away in the car. “When I saw that everyone had left, I brought you here.”
“Uuuuuuuu….”
“Me? I don’t know why I worked so hard. Tsk tsk tsk! Let’s stop killing people and start a new life. Let’s realize our lost dream of becoming a doctor! Is it because the moment I did that, a half-corpse gasping for breath appeared before my eyes? I just did it because I wanted to. “It doesn’t mean anything.”
Woojin tightened the prosthesis of the man whose jaw was blown off a little more. There were no valuable items like anesthetic, so I just used it as usual, but the man was staring at something blankly, like a person with no sense.
“Oh this? I cleaned up the house while you were sleeping. I tried to see if there was anything useful, but it burned and exploded and all kinds of shit happened, so all I could get was a few pieces of iron. That was the least useful item among them. “Is this something from you?”
Ian’s hand grabbed the soot-filled piece of metal on the tray.
It wasn’t his thing. On the day of the first kidnapping attempt, Ian gave this to her, who absolutely hated guns, using all kinds of rhetoric.
‘I don’t like it!’
‘Molly. I’m not asking you to kill someone. “It’s just a threat to protect you?”
‘It contains live ammunition!’
‘This… is like some kind of decoration! Now look! They even engraved our names on it! It looks like a toy…’
‘Aaaah! I hate it more! No, there are so many good things in the world, but we only focus on things like guns!’
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Even so, I wanted her to have something to defend herself with. A toy-like pistol specially chosen for her. A derringer with Ian and Molly’s initials IM engraved on the handle.
click!
I pulled the trigger toward the clearly exposed palate. An empty ball split the air. I confirmed that there was a bullet in it…?
“Tsk tsk tsk. I tried to save him, but he committed suicide. You are an ungrateful bastard. It’s an empty bullet. “The owner pulled out the gunpowder from the two bullets inside.”
At the man’s words, Ian opened the derringer’s chamber. The copper-colored shell with the back open contained pieces of paper instead of gunpowder.
[Think twice!]
A small note and a capsule-type hemostatic agent instead of gunpowder.
It was her handwriting. Think one more time. What on earth? Pulling the trigger?
“No! Shut up! Hehehehe! Hehehe! Ugh! “Hehe!”
I couldn’t breathe. The sight of her carefully touching the gun he had given her as if it were poisonous, then pulling out the bullet and dispensing gunpowder, was clearly depicted as if I had seen it with my own eyes. This world was so funny that I couldn’t bear it.
An empty bullet with his name and her name engraved on it. styptic. Her message was clear. Think twice before killing the person in front of you. I will do my best to save it. Just like she did everything for the dying person in the ward.
“…Call me when you calm down. “I hung a bell next to it.”
“Hehehehe! Hmm! Hahaha! Hmm!”
Inside the shelter of the small basin where the raptor left that day, a roar of laughter, not knowing whether it was laughing or crying, constantly erupted. Ian laughed until he collapsed from exhaustion. When Ian came to his senses again, he decided to follow her words. Woojin said Gustave survived. So I still have a reason to live. When I die, I will think about all the mistakes I made with my own hands once more after I have eliminated the Raptor Society.
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Sweet.
Ian opened the derringer on the table. One bullet containing a small note and a hemostatic agent, and one new bullet with his name engraved on it.
“That’s how I survived. I wanted to die a lot, but my wife’s will held me back every time. I’ve been going with old man Woojin ever since. My old man opened a hospital in District 43, and I settled there too. As she said, there are a lot of good things in the world. Now… I think I’ve overcome it. “The pain doesn’t go away, but we’ve piled a lot of other things on top of it.”
“Snap!”
“It wasn’t a very nice story to hear, was it? I became sentimental about this without realizing it…”
“Paeeng!”
“…What are you doing?”
“Uuuuuu! “You’re so sad…keheuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
“It’s okay! Because you are a very cool guy! “I’m sure my sister-in-law will see you in heaven… Ugh!”
The hall was already filled with tears. Bex, who had been sobbing for a while, fell asleep with dried tear stains, and Ezel, who had barely been able to hold on to a loud wail, burst out at the end.
“Hehehe. I should have done it in moderation. Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Now, let’s get organized and go in. Hey Corduroy!”
“Huhhhhh-! “New new owner- huh-uh-!”
“What kind of machine… They are in bad condition, so please take care of them. “I’m going in.”
“The order was perfect. Sleep comfortably!”
Ian shook his head, left behind the sea of tears and entered the shelter. In one hand, he was holding a derringer carefully.
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Chijik- Chijijik-
[EZ-007. Good reception. Answer EZ-007]
“Ugh! Bo headquarters. This is Ezel. Good reception, boom!”
[check. Let’s see in detail how the operation is progressing-]
“Whoop! Director Mong… let’s… let’s erase that.”
[What… Hey, this is on the record! Don’t call my name!]
Ralph’s embarrassed voice came out from the other end of the phone.
The purpose of leaving the administration and joining the after-party of three people in the chaos. Ezel was their friend, but Ralph and what he discovered were too shocking to just go out for a drink.
“So let’s erase that record! Confirmed results! Metal Joe – Ian! The kindest and most pitiful person in the world! “Because… he’s a man!”
[hey! You shouldn’t say something like that! Swarm Alpha! He is the highest ranking Raptor executive! A mysterious man whose traces could not be found in the dome where he also went missing! Do you know how surprised I was when I pulled the communication records from that armored vehicle! This is information that can be used to bomb the BDSM shelter right now!]
Of course, among the armored vehicles captured by Dom was the armored vehicle with which Ian communicated with Sol Amarr.
When you capture enemy equipment, the first thing to do is, of course, to extract the enemy information remaining in the equipment. Ralph acted as usual, heard the conversation between Ian and Sol, and was about to run to the president when he was caught by Ezel.
‘Let go, dude! ‘This is not something that can be covered up with friendship!’
‘No, is there any proof that he and this guy are the same guy? What are you talking about, bluffing! It could be a bluff! ‘That’s what Professor Park uses a lot!’
‘Look at the conversation! There is more solid evidence than this….’
‘Then I’ll find out! I’m going to go and have a drink, so let’s talk about our true feelings and make a decision!’
That’s how Ezel joined the three people’s drinking party. In order to capture all of the past in a small tape recorder and determine whether Ian is friend or foe.
Chizzik – Ian
‘s calm voice, which Ezel had secretly recorded, came through the communicator. The life of a man whose pronunciation was slightly impaired due to drunkenness.
[…..]
“The man called Ian Desmont Ashfield died that day. “The only one left here is Metal Joe, who likes to drink, smoke, and laugh strangely.”
[….Fuck. [Because nothing that gets involved with you ends neatly.]
Ralph sighed heavily.
[….Good job. You too, go in and sleep.]
“Please, Manager Monclar.”
At Ezel’s words, Ralph’s forehead on the other end of the phone frowned even more. A favor. A favor from Ezel Raiden, who is the incarnation of My Way, the youngest member of the Inspection Department and who has achieved the incredible feat of having the most essays.
Crispy!
[….Pay me back big later, Ezel.]
A piece of the data chip fell from Ralph’s grasp.
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