Chapter Seventy-Three: The End of the Leaf

The scene that happened in the demon jīng forest in the summer of the fifth year of the magic calendar must be described with twists and turns, no, it is a twist and turn, the night clan jīng's attack plan designed by the three-ring moon for several months was unexpectedly destroyed by two teenagers who appeared in the demon jīng forest without warning.

When the five dark dragons soared in the sky of the Jīng Spirit Water Realm, Shui Wuxian clearly knew that he would never have a chance to turn the tables again. At this time, if it is unwise to kill anyone, not to mention whether there is really a desire to fight for the world and need to retain some names of benevolence and righteousness, just if it really angers these humans and jīng spirits who have the same hatred in front of him, it is estimated that the night jīng spirit will not retreat smoothly.

The night jīng spirit has been coveting the demon jīng forest for millions of years, but unfortunately, due to the prohibition of magic, it has not been allowed to get it.

Now that there is no magic ban, the territory of the forest jīng spirit is already in a semi-open state for humans - although, the wish of the water without a trace to completely own the demon jīng forest or even conquer the forest jīng spirit has not been realized, but, at least the current demon jīng forest has opened its door to the night jīng spirit again, and, in this forest, due to the dark magic possessed by the night jīng spirit, they are even more like the masters of this forest than the forest jīng spirits, from this point of view, the night jīng spirit battle completely controls the future。

If the forest jīng spirits wanted to unleash such a huge magical forbidden realm in the forest again, not to mention whether they could find so many great mages and mages, those extremely awkward ancient jīng spirit spells might have been lost long ago.

Shui Wuxian is a person with great ambitions, but by no means a greedy person, to be able to achieve such good results, but also to get a high-quality hostage, one hit missed, the eagle soared thousands of miles.

"Retreat!" squeezed out a word from Shui Wuji's mouth.

The two nights of the jīng spirit warrior opened the gate of the begging tower on the golden tree with all their might, and all the humans and jīng spirits on the edge of the jīng spirit water realm were stunned.

The black sè and gray mist gushed out from the begging tower, and then, a low voice came from the bottomless black sè entrance, like some resentful woman crying in the middle of the night—the strange sound instantly poured into everyone's underlying nerves. The black demon jīng who was in front of the begging tower felt a cold breath piercing into the bone marrow, and even many jīng spirits couldn't help but shiver.

The crying suddenly increased. Choking, grief, helplessness, grievances, resentment......

Judging from the different tones, it took at least a thousand creatures to cry for such a long time. In the midst of the cry, there was some kind of powerful life in the depths of the low sigh.

The first few nights of the night jīng spirit subconsciously retreated backwards.

Jīng's stature is extremely long, and his agility is far superior to that of other races, even if he runs wildly on the road with bells tied all over his body, he seems to be a tiptoe in the eyes of humans. Now, it was such a very careful back-off movement, and the sound of the herbs being overwhelmed seemed to alarm something.

The sighing in the tower suddenly stopped, and all the cries stopped in an instant, as if a creature that had been alarmed was holding its breath and quietly listening to the sounds outside.

The scene in front of him was extremely strange, a group of pure black sè jīng spirits were silent in front of a cloud of black and gray mist, and the two sides looked at each other like this.

Amy saw something in the distance, and the current night jīng spirit seemed to be very ignorant of these situations in front of her, and even a little scared, in the case of Lord Amy's gloating xìng ge, of course, this kind of opportunity is not only to push people down the well, but also to pick up large stones and desperately push a few pieces down - otherwise it would not be Amy.

"Water has no ......" Amy's words just said two words, and the remaining word was immediately swallowed into her stomach, Amy had already judged that behind such a cloud of mist, maybe there was some monster, at this time she only needed to make a little sound, otherwise maybe it was herself who was unlucky. Hehe, that's probably what the idiom of concise and concise means.

The fog of the black sè seemed to be alive, and suddenly paused for a moment, and then suddenly stretched out a blood-red arm dripping with blood in the direction of the sound, and after the sound suddenly disappeared, the arm touched the night jīng spirit who was blocking the road and did not dare to move, * The sharp five claws grew out in front of the same arm, and grabbed the unlucky night jīng spirit hard, and in the dance, he touched the second night jīng spirit, and slammed the second one in the black sè fog* Firmly grasped the hope and dodged the poor night jīng spirit.

The Night Clan was extremely surprised, there was no such thing in any written record, several jīng spirit elders released small offensive magic with a gesture, one of the elders seemed to want to release magic above the 5th order, but unfortunately, just a few syllables came out of his lips, and the entire human body was captured by the third* that suddenly poked out of the black mist.

The night jīng spirit's reaction was quite fast, and no one made a single sound, and among the hundreds of night jīng spirits, there were at least more than 70 extremely sharp archers and dozens of mages above the great magician, and the arrow rain and the attacking magic of each sè attacked towards the black mist one after another. Even a dragon would have died under such an attack.

However, the mist of the black sè seemed to have nothing happening, but it poked out more *, and even the dripping blood and the rotten soup of the black sè swept wantonly in front of the gate, and more night jīng spirits were grabbed by * and waved in the air, and several jīng spirit warriors who were swept in the air pulled out the crescent moon waist knife, and the dark sè's scimitar instantly erupted with several black sè lightning slashing towards the arm-like *, but unfortunately, there was no blur of flesh and blood that the jīng spirits expected- The weapons used by the night jīng spirit people are all the best left over from the ages, and any one of them will cause a storm in human society, and such weapons cannot hurt monsters, which is enough to make the jīng spirits who know smack their tongues.

Elder Jīng's eyes fell on the ice crossbow in Shui Wuji's hand, Shui Wuxian of course understood what the clansmen meant, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he never thought that the only escape channel would be like this...... The cold light flickered the crossbow bolt again, and the white light slammed into the black mist, and the mist seemed to be blown by the wind, and it slammed towards the gate of the begging tower, but it quickly returned to its original state.

The faces of all the night jīng spirits became extremely ugly, and the ice crossbow seemed to have no effect, which was beyond the imagination of the jīng spirits.

Shui Wuxian silently drew out the Blood Demon Sword, and under the setting sun, the Blood Demon Sword once again emitted a blood-red glow. The black mist seemed to feel a strange light, and the waving arm suddenly stopped.

The night jīng spirit sword lightly held its back behind him, like a keen cheetah pounced on it, the long sword suddenly half stabbed and half slashed out, the red sè light was sheng, * seemed to be very frightened, let go of the warrior elephant in his hand and shrank back, however, the agility of the night jīng spirit has exceeded the imagination of the unknown creature, the blood demon sword suddenly stretched out a sword light up to two feet in a breath, the black sèjīng spirit's wrist trembled, the slashing thorn turned into a chop, the red sè's light suddenly dimmed, and a stream of black sè juice from the severed * The front end spewed shè, and the creatures in the begging tower seemed to be unable to believe what happened in an instant, and suddenly there was a miserable roar in Huang Sè's begging tower.

In the black mist, more * suddenly appeared, ignoring the long sword that flickered in the cold light of the night jīng, and desperately wrapped around the waist, retreat, arms, and neck of the water without a trace...... In front of this monster with more limbs than an octopus, Shui Wuji didn't even have to let out a loud cry before he was completely dragged into the black mist of black sè.

The night jīng spirit saw that the leader was dragged down, and the jīng spirits rushed up and tried their best to cut it, but there was no at all, more * stretched out from the black mist, and then the black mist seemed to be swept by the wind and swept through the crowd of night jīng spirits, and more jīng spirits were swept into the whirlpool without even making a sound.

The black mist vortex grew larger and larger, and finally swirled in front of the humans and the forest spirits, as if to confirm that there were no creatures in front of the begging tower, and the black mist roared back, and when the last one* returned to the begging tower, it even slammed into the gate of the begging tower.

When the giant gate closed again, most of the jīng spirits and humans still couldn't believe what had just happened.

In an exclamation, King Jīng fell to the ground.

The mercenaries looked at the jīng spirits in disarray, most of them were no longer worried about whether they could get out of this forest, after all, in the conflict just now, the mercenaries had always stood on the side of the forest jīng spirits.

Amy, Yi Hailan and a few mercenaries came to the side of the jīng spirits, at this time, the jīng spirit queen gradually woke up, tears instantly welled up, and her mouth murmured: "Bao'er, Bao'er......"

"Your Majesty, I don't think Shui Wuxian will dare to hurt your daughter, let's work together, I believe it will not be difficult to save your child. Yi Hailan stepped forward and bowed slightly, her eyes flashing with sincerity: "The ...... just now It's a strange animal that doesn't hurt anyone or the jīng spirit, so it should be ......" His Excellency said the last few words of the Demon Shuai himself, and he was also very unconfident.

"Alas......" Several elders around the queen unexpectedly let out a low sigh, causing the god of despair that all humans could not understand to emerge from the eyes of every jīng spirit, and one of the oldest jīng spirits whispered to Amy and Yi Hailan.

There are many secrets in this world, and the Golden Tree guarded by the jīng spirits and the Begging Tower on the Golden Tree are one of them: this Begging Tower is different from all other Begging Towers, and in the known world, all Begging Towers are the ultimate manifestation of a natural force, the source of this natural power in the world of the creator gods. However, there are two forces in the begging tower in front of me, one is the power of life: the wood system, and the other is the power of destruction: the gold system. Or, to put it more clearly in the more technical terms of the jīng spirits: these two forces have merged to form a new force—chaos.

In the process of guarding the forest jīng spirits, no less than 10 jīng spirit grand magisters have entered a begging tower, and once three great mages have entered the joint trick - only two jīng spirits who walked out of this begging tower alive were seriously injured, and they died without even being able to say a word.

Known begging towers, after the general magician enters, the jīng spirit of the begging tower immediately forces the person to enter to form his own realm, and if there is no jīng divine power above the great magician, the magicians will collapse due to the lack of jīng divine power and eventually lead to death. And this begging tower, it is said that there is no high-ranking jīng spirit envoy stationed at all, let alone jīng divine power and domain, everything is unknown.

After the creation god opened the world, he collected all the anger or species left by the powerful species in the previous world and the other world, if these anger qi is not cleaned up, it will form a certain regional demon in the future, and finally in order to settle these anger, the creation god cast this chaotic begging tower, and enclosed all the anger and life in it, using the wood magic of the main life of the demon jīng forest and the gold magic destroyed by the golden tree master to imprison these anger. This power is somewhere between destruction and life, but more in the direction of darkness. After sealing the gate of the Begging Tower, let the God of Light seal these beings and the power attached to them with the power of the white sun, and under the sun, these lives will be continuously harmed, so that these beings will not leave the Begging Tower.

Other species that break into the Beggar Tower will be bewitched and even attacked by these aura, and most of what they see inside is supposed to be illusory, but no one can "see" through what is in front of them. To make matters worse, it is said that when these abusive spirits and species merge, they can even form new species - new species with millions of years of life, which will be caught in the aura, attacking unintentional intruders, and thus ......

The forest jīng spirits did not continue to speak, and the implication was already clear.

"Then ......" Amy asked with some hesitation, "Will they escape through other passages, and will they be in danger after entering?"

The elders shook their heads slightly: "It's hard to say, according to the writings left by the ancestors, the space in the Begging Tower can't be judged by the space of the normal world, everything inside is illusory, a meter long distance, if the authorities can't see through it, they may not be able to leave for a year." The danger inside is even more difficult to say, it completely depends on the mentality of the entrant himself, the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wise, and the slightest flaw in the soul may be a catastrophe inside. ”

"Oh......" A hint of joy twitched in the corners ......of Amy's eyes, "Does that mean that Ling Bao'er may not be in danger at all when she enters this begging tower?"

Amy's words were not finished, but the eyes of all the jīng spirits lit up: how could they not think of this.

Several jīng spirit elders beside the queen immediately bowed slightly to the queen: "Your Majesty, we are going to rescue the princess, please ask Her Majesty for permission." ”

"Your Majesty, although I am an outsider, I also want to join this expedition, hoping to do something for the Jīng Ling clan. Yi Hailan stepped forward and saluted slightly.

"Your Excellency, it is impossible for you to enter, the Chaos Begging Tower is different from other Begging Towers, in this Begging Tower, if there is no magic jīng spirit to protect it, it is very likely to be attacked by the chaos jīng spirit inside. Thank you very much for your kindness. The queen said to Yi Hailan with a reluctant smile.

"Your Majesty, I am a magician, if Her Majesty is interested, you can hire me, and I am willing to contribute some of my modest efforts to the Jīng Spirit Kingdom. "From Elder Jīng's description just now, Amy has figured out an extremely crucial point. Perhaps, going on this trip by yourself will be of the greatest help to the Jīng Spirit Kingdom, so that the entire Jīng Spirit Kingdom will owe itself a favor, and a breakthrough will be made in the relationship with Ying.

Judging from the performance of the monster just now, Amy also knew how dangerous it would be to travel this time, but, from Amy's point of view, it was a gamble, and if it could be won, then it was almost certain that Queen Jīng would use all kinds of ways to persuade Ying to return to her side - after all, in this incident, Qingxin played an extremely disgraceful role, and even used Ying's favorite little brother. It is impossible for Ying's xìng to be accustomed to what his father is doing. This can be extremely large. If you lose and lose the taste of Ying's life, the teenager has already experienced it in the past few days, and he doesn't want to taste it anymore, losing is death, and death is better than continuing to live under the pressure of now.

Now that I know the taste of sorrow, yù said that it was still resting, and yù said that it was still resting, but it was cool and autumn. People who have never lost the purest girl in their hearts cannot understand the desolate heart of the young man's stoic face at this time.

Before the young man's words fell, several jīng spirit elders showed joy on their faces--jīng spirit elders already knew that the leader of the little mercenary group could release magic in the jīng spirit realm, and the last time they dealt with him, the young man's magic level was only defined as a second-level magician, but judging from his performance, he had surpassed the first-level magician and advanced to the great magician realm, and such a magical power could undoubtedly beg that the tower would also have considerable attack power.

In the Chaos Begging Tower, the wood magic jīng spirit is restrained by the gold magic jīng spirit from the natural genus xìng, even the jīng spirit demon master is difficult to be alone, the young man in front of him is actually good at ice magic and sword magic, and the subordinate xìng complements the chaos begging tower. In terms of pure martial arts, the young man in front of him has a strength that cannot be matched by the jīng spirits, and according to the results of the last dealing, the elder who is good at martial arts cannot even be low-grade, which is also extremely rare. What's more, the boy actually has a blue meteorite giant sword, one of the three famous weapons of creation, in his hand, and in skirmishes, such a warrior is much more effective than a magician.

"Okay, okay......" Before the queen could speak, several magisters agreed in unison.

"It's just ......" Amy changed her words: "I'm a little mercenary, very poor, and I have to support a large family behind my back, it's not easy to drag my family and bring my family, according to the rules of mercenaries, to complete the task, this ...... Generally to ......"

One of the several elders immediately realized, and a magister in a red robe raised his right hand and rubbed his fingers rustling to ask Amy, "Do you want this ......?"

Amy had no idea that the gesture she had invented would spread to the almost isolated village of Jīng in just a few years...... No matter what kind of wicked person faces this situation, he will have the feeling of sweating under his armpits, and he can't help but murmur clearly: "This...... Elder...... Still is...... Still a little mistaken about what I meant. Mercenaries always ask for some compensation, but it's a great honor that this time the employer turned out to be a noble and kind jīng spirit, so we don't want to use such a cheesy item as money......"

"What do you mean?" said Queen Jīng.

"I want to be able to marry a jīng spirit girl as my wife, and I hope you can agree and help persuade that girl. "Many people say that Amy's face is extremely thick and tenacious--I can't imagine that Amy's face will show crimson sè when she makes such a simple request.

The faces of many jīng spirit elders and jīng spirit queens suddenly became ugly, and Amy felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly explained: "I promise to marry only one girl I know?

"Could it be...... Is this your only condition?" Her Majesty's words became rusty.

"yes, nothing else. Amy restrained her smile and said with a resolute face.

"......" The queen let out a long sigh: "Your Excellency the mercenary leader, I can only agree to this condition for you, but...... I really ask you to ......" said the Queen, her eyes were red and tears fell: "Please take good care of her, she has not received a father's love since she was a child and ......" Her Majesty could hardly say a word.

Jīng Lingwang's words, Amy's tears almost burst out of her eyes, about a year ago today, at the edge of the forest not far from here, the beloved girl's eyes were swollen from crying, lying in her arms and telling her past: Ying's childhood is really pitiful, it is better to have such a father, and the mother has left the father, and the younger brother is so young, that he even has to run around with his younger brother on his back......

"Rest assured, Your Majesty, I swear in the name of the God of Creation that I will love her for the rest of my life, and I will never turn back on this life, this life. Seeing that Queen Jīng Ling agreed to help, and a boulder in her heart fell to the ground, Amy's face showed a smile again.

In order to ensure the best fighting condition, Amy took off the bag behind her back and threw it on the ground, rearranged the belt and waist tie behind her body, and suddenly remembered her companions not far away: "By the way, Your Majesty, what about how many brothers I have on my side? We are all being used by bad people, I wonder if Her Majesty can let them go?"

"Okay, you can decide, let them go. The jīng spirit queen had already been wrapped up by the maid, and without any hesitation, she immediately agreed with Amy's opinion, but her words showed infinite loss: "The demon jīng forest that has lost the limit of magic has no secrets to speak of. ”

Several knights and warriors obviously saw what had just happened, and walked over sadly, several majestic knights and warriors all showed embarrassed expressions, the two gray mercenary groups with the lowest status in the mercenary group actually hired the head of the A-level mercenary group and the demon marshal of one of the three major forces in the continental hegemony, and it was a big joke in the mercenary world to say it. In front of Jīng Ling, White also did not show hostility towards Yi Hailan.

Ye Weicai stepped forward and nodded slightly: "Your Excellency Amy, Your Excellency the Demon Shuai, I have admired the two big names for a long time, but I didn't expect the two Your Excellencies to join a small group like ours incognito, which really makes us ashamed." However, I would also like to thank both of you for helping us. ”

"The mercenary family of the world, you're welcome. Amy patted Ye Weicai's broad shoulder: "In a moment, please ask Her Majesty to arrange for Jīng Ling to take you away, by the way, do you want to make money?" Amy asked in a low voice.

The former knight didn't understand what Amy meant, and was stunned for a moment: "Earn money? How to earn it?" I have been a mercenary for a long time, and I am quite sensitive to money.

"Hehe......" Although he is about to break into the tiger's den in Longtan, I don't know if he can come out alive. But after coming up with the best way to make money, Amy still showed a wicked smile on her face: "Tell you two ways, you can take jīng spirit to find other mercenaries, and tell them when you meet, you can help everyone out, and it's not very ruthless to charge a few gold coins per person, ......right?" Go and rip off the clothes from the corpses of those dark jīng spirits, and then sell this experience to the bards, remember, you go separately, find different bars to sell to different poets, you must remember one thing, everyone must not say the same, so that the poems they sing will be biased, and the most direct result is that there will be poets who will continue to come to you to verify this...... You could have asked for more money. The contents of those corpses can also be sold to them, and should be worth more. ”

The mercenaries' faces all showed the god of the mountains - Lord Amy, who is widely known as the "golden brain" in the mercenary world, is indeed worth a thousand gold, and originally thought that the rise of the small mercenary group was because of the two super dragon knights, but now it seems that it is no wonder that Amy's ranking first in the mercenary group, such a means of making money, is breathtaking, breathtaking.

"Then ......" Ye Weicai's face still showed a hint of worry, "How will we meet in the end?"

"No, no, of course not. Amy's face showed crimson, of course she didn't need to show it if she could find her beloved, thinking so in her heart, she still had to say some high-sounding words in her mouth: "You don't need to give me money, by the way, if you don't have a place to go, don't be an underground mercenary, go directly to the small mercenary group." Amy casually took out an ice whistle that was only available in the Frozen Continent: "You take this thing and go directly to the small mercenary group to find Daqingshan, and join the small mercenary group." Your strength is so strong, maybe you will have to rely on a few of you to work hard together in the future. ”

Several knights' faces flushed slightly, coming out of the army, it was not that there was no mercenary group to join, but they looked down on those mercenary groups who looked like farmers and claimed to have more than 200 people, and the captain's martial arts skills were even inferior to the squad leaders of the regular army. The mercenary groups above level B are unwilling to recruit mercenaries from unknown sources, let alone give positions corresponding to martial arts, so they have to stay among the underground mercenaries.

Wild Wisp took the ice whistle and shook his head slightly: "Let's wait for you outside the forest......

The mercenary is like this, he is even more worried about his brother than his lover, Amy shook the hand of the wild wisp hard, and her tone was a little low: "A few of the partners who fell in the previous battle...... Everyone should have their home address, let one go to the small mercenary group early, and give their family some money through the system of the small mercenary group...... I'm sorry I didn't take care of ...... just now."

All the mercenaries are speechless, this is how they end up being mercenaries, only the strong can live, but the sad thing is that no matter how good the mercenary is strong, he will eventually fall in the process of completing the task.

"Alright, I'm in...... Everyone's blessings for me!" it was Amy who broke the ice first.

"Brother Amy......" Yi Hailan hid to the side, seeing that Amy was about to enter the Begging Tower, she hesitated and seemed to want to say something.

Seeing that Yi Hailan wanted to speak, Amy reversed her enthusiasm just now, and her tone suddenly changed to vicious: "You kid, don't be so spittering, first, I'm not going to die, so now we are not parting with life and death......; Hehe, don't think you'll know me next time, if you and your ugly soldiers dare to offend the tiger power of the little mercenary group, tell you, blonde boy, see you and hit you once. Remember, the wind still owes us a lot of debts, and the dragon tent people still ......"

Yi Hailan listened, and bean-sized sweat droplets appeared on her forehead and back: Is this still the one who called His Excellency Amy just now?

Amy's words were not finished: "I saw you this time, I had more questions to ask you, but it was too late, in short, you remember one thing: you were released from that god's broken prison by our little mercenary group, and you owe us too much......"

Of course, Yi Hailan still remembers the Azure Holy Realm, if there was no small mercenary group, maybe he would still be guarding the meteorite giant sword that is becoming more and more dangerous day by day, not to mention the magic marshal who came out today and even became a famous demon.

Facing Amy, who was fierce and unreasonable in front of her, "This ...... This ......" His Excellency Yi Hailan's politeness also had to politely and hurriedly interrupt the other party's words: "I just want to say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!" Before the words fell, His Excellency Demon Shuai hurriedly ran out of the forest like a lost dog panicked like a fish caught in a net, not afraid of getting lost in the demon jīng forest. The five dark dragon knights in the sky didn't know what had just happened, and when they saw that the boss was actually run away by a down-and-out middle-aged man, they didn't dare to offend this person, so they hurriedly chased after him.

"It's really annoying......" Amy cursed in a voice she heard as she walked towards the Begging Tower: "Nǎinǎi, I won't scold you a few words, seeing that you really want to enter the Begging Tower with me like this, isn't my mother born my life." ”

The forest jīng spirit side is also ready, a magister and a great magician and two jīng spirit warriors stand in front of the begging tower, the mage can think of the defensive xìng magic continuously released on himself and his companions, some magic shields must be released by the caster himself, including two mages armed with bows and arrows and scimitars, the warrior also sang in a low voice - in the forest jīng spirit, any jīng spirit will have some necessary defensive xìng and auxiliary xìng magic。

When the jīng spirit demon master saw Amy coming, he immediately walked over and introduced himself: "Your Excellency, the leader of the mercenary group, my name is Qinghua, this great magician is Qingyue, these two warriors are twin brothers, the most famous warrior in our clan, the elder brother is called Hong Han Alei, and the younger brother is called Hong Han Yoyun. "In the jīng spirit world, the names of male xìng are arranged in a sequence, the previous generation of jīng spirit is named after the green character, while the current generation of jīng spirit is named after Hong, and the name of female xìngjīng spirit does not follow this order.

It can be seen that the jīng spirits attach great importance to this matter, and the people who participated are all jīng spirit elders. On one side was the Jīng Spirit Queen, although her face was extremely bad, for the sake of her daughter, Her Majesty still stood aside: "Amy, the Jīng Spirit Clan has not really experienced war for hundreds of years, especially this kind of small-scale expedition, we have experienced too little. This is your strength, and please be in charge of the overall situation in it, please. These elders are the hardest working for the entire jīng spirit clan, so you have to take care of them more. ”

Amy was a little dizzy, how could she listen to the words of the spirit queen, as if she was not a mercenary but like an employer. However, how can people under the eaves not bow their heads, in order to get the beloved girl, the teenager had to nod again and again.

Two jīng spirit warriors walked up to the Begging Tower and opened the heavy gate again with all their might.

To the surprise of all humans and Jīng, there was no sound coming from the open door this time, let alone the strange hundred-legged monster that he had just seen.

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