Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Warp War I
Hundreds of figures, more than half of them all have S-level aura, and the remaining half are all infinitely close to the A-level peak of S-class, these auras are mixed together, even if they haven't done anything specifically, they have already rolled up a suffocating wave of qi, and the originally turbid aura in the deep space base has also become a boundless wave at this moment, slapping everything around.
In this tsunami of breath, Xiao Ming stood in it, towering and motionless, his eyes swept over hundreds of figures, and the golden angel Lingwu on his body began to slowly transform from the form of photon armor, and finally became the most commonly used combat form - it was a close-fitting golden light armor, the golden armor flashed with mysterious brilliance, with supreme power, and behind the golden armor, there was a pair of yellow wings that were folded.
The six moon wheels quickly condensed from behind, and finally formed a huge ring suspended behind Xiao Ming, and the Yajiao spear took shape in his hand, reflecting the faint cold light.
In front of hundreds of powerhouses, in the depths of that breath tsunami, Xiao Ming was like an invincible god of war, looking at everything in front of him coldly.
Each of the hundreds of figures who came out of the platform on the ground had chaotic eyes, full of black and white shadows, their aura powerful and tyrannical, without reason, only an indescribable madness.
These people's powerful aura has no root and no source, Xiao Ming can see at a glance that these people are all strong people, they have powerful power, but they don't have a soul to match, but the people standing behind them seem to have their own way - forcibly take away the wisdom of these people, and let the latter become a battle puppet of the unwise.
"Master, there are a large number of specially equipped nanobots in the bodies of these people, these robots cannot be directly controlled, they are all half-corpses, and they don't seem to have any special abilities!"
Jelly scanned these spawn powerhouses. Got a startling conclusion.
Xiao Ming didn't seem surprised: "Are these nanobots all in metal mode? have they replaced the bones, nerves and other parts of these spawners?"
"Yes, master!, is that man's ability?" Jelly also reacted at this time.
"Yes, that man's ability is to control mechanical golems, anything with a metal component. At the same time, both humanoid and humanoid can become puppets under that control. I guess that's the first greeting that person gave us!" Xiao Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"These people are already puppets, they have no intelligence, even if their souls are erased, they can still fight. Master, I'm afraid the Soul Slaying Technique has no effect!" Jelly continued to scan the surrounding spawning powerhouses, trying to find the opponent's weaknesses.
"That man doesn't leave such a glaring weakness. For my understanding, that person is not much worse than Tifa!" Xiao Ming sighed lightly, and then perked up: "But." These puppets can't stop me!"
"Of course, the master is the strongest!" Jelly roared proudly: "And when it comes to controlling puppets, I'm not weak at all!"
With the soft whistling of jelly, Xiao Ming's spatial bracelet suddenly opened, and a huge amount of silver glittering fluid matter poured out of it, and then one figure after another appeared from these substances.
These figures are only rudimentary human forms, with heads and torsos. There are limbs, but there are no facial features and no details. On their surface, the silvery fluid was still wriggling and churning.
These are the armies of primal matter that Jelly can control after multiple upgrades. A being that is smaller and more powerful than a nanomachine swarm. Because it is already at the atomic level, it is quite difficult to completely destroy these things, and with the powerful computing power of jelly, these primordial substances can devour and assimilate any object above the atomic level, and it doesn't really make much difference whether they have a body or not.
If the previous jelly could only control these primordial mass armies for a short time. But after getting the ghost energy generator technology, Jelly built a ghost energy reactor in Xiao Ming's space bracelet, although it is only a miniature model, but because of the particularity and high level of ghost energy, the endurance of jelly after this ghost energy reactor is greatly improved.
In the midst of this whole process. Those who gave birth to the strong didn't have any reaction, they seemed to be waiting for Xiao Ming to prepare, and after the army of primordial matter was formed, these strong people suddenly moved.
These powerful spawn forces seem to have been selected, and their abilities are an encyclopedia of human abilities, with almost every major HSS documented ability being found here.
At the forefront are those who are strengthened in terms of strength, speed, defense, and regeneration, and the second wave is those who incarnate in various forms, or metal people, diamond people, fire people, ice people, and then all kinds of beasts, and even two plant people.
Behind these strikers are neatly arranged elemental abilities, water, fire, light, light, and darkness. Colorful ability attacks mixed in mid-air, and then rolled towards Xiao Ming in the form of elemental effects, ignoring the accidental damage of his own people in front of him.
The calm at the beginning was just waiting for Xiao Ming to get ready, and after being ready, the war was such a lore.
A piece of primordial matter surging to form a barrier reflecting the ghostly light appeared above Xiao Ming's head, and a zero-energy shield emerged, blocking all those powerful elemental impacts, for energy attacks, zero-energy shields have a very powerful effect, and their essence is to create a space with energy exhaustion, when the energy attack comes into contact with the shield, it will be completely absorbed into the energy exhaustion space.
When this absorbed energy is reversed, it will be reversed into new energy that generates energy depleted space.
This is a shield specifically for energy attacks, and theoretically, if there is no super energy impact that instantly breaks through the shield, this zero-energy shield is invincible against energy.
Obviously, the attacks of these spawning powerhouses could not break the zero-energy shield under the jelly cloth in one go, and the zero-energy shield that would be shattered by the super sniper cannon was not so easy to break now. On the one hand, because jelly has made great progress compared to that time, and with the power of the ghost energy reactor, jelly is full of stamina.
On the other hand, this is a pure energy attack, which is not the same as the original energy plus physical attack. And finally, although these spawning powerhouses have been exempted from the weakness of being directly killed by the Soul Killing Technique because they have become puppets, there is only one person who controls them behind the scenes.
No matter how much energy a person has. Divided into more than a hundred parts, it also seems that there is a bit of more than enough strength, so even if it is an elemental effect attack, it is only according to the most basic distribution, and it cannot achieve the strongest effect at all.
The "instant" in the upper limit of the Zero Energy Shield's defense against "instantaneous" impact is calculated by the "Planck's constant" of jelly's computational reaction time.
So it seems to be a connected attack. In Jelly's opinion, it was actually an impact in super slow motion, and she had enough time to allocate the energy reasonably to ensure the strength of the Zero Energy Shield.
The energy attack in mid-air was blocked, and Xiao Ming himself rushed towards the S-class spawning powerhouses who rushed over.
A total of sixty-two of the spawning powerhouses are S-rank, and forty of them are melee types, even if they are all spawning powerhouses, even if their strength has decreased after becoming puppets, but so many spawning powerhouses. It has already reached the level of qualitative change caused by digital change, even with Xiao Ming's ability, in the face of these huge number of strong people, he has to raise the spirit of 120,000 points.
Otherwise, it is not impossible to fall here.
No matter how twisted and contradictory the person behind the scenes is, at this moment, that person appeared with the mood of killing Xiao Ming 100%.
A water-based S-class Inhuman rushed halfway to completely hydrate his body, fell to the ground with a thud, and then quickly turned into a large curtain of water with a special blue color. rushed towards Xiao Ming, as if he wanted to drown Xiao Ming in the water.
But not wait for him to come closer. The flame thunder that jumped out of Xiao Ming's body had already turned into a trumpet demon dragon, and with a dragon roar, he killed directly.
Xiao Ming rarely used these special energy magic dragons, but in fact, these guys had already become his killer weapon, whether it was when he fought Li Xiu in the original timeline, or when he fought with Hydra when he traveled through time and space. These energy demon dragons with a rudimentary self soul are one of Xiao Ming's best helpers.
The last of the four recipes of the Soul Sutra is the soul refining recipe for creating souls, although Xiao Ming only understands a surface until now, but this skin is enough for him to create this magical energy magic dragon.
The energy demon dragon and the water inhumans fought together. Compared to the energy level, the S-level water Inhumans are naturally stronger than the Energy Demon Dragon, but the body of the Energy Demon Dragon is composed of a special existence such as Flame Thunder, which has a restraint effect on any existence other than time and space - especially tangible things, and the restraint is more obvious.
Therefore, the water alien was pressed and beaten by the energy demon dragon, and he was defeated for a while.
Another quagmire-like Inhuman next to him rushed over to help, seemingly believing that his way of existence was not afraid of the black and white flame thunder on the energy demon dragon, but he soon proved himself to be a tragedy as well.
However, Inhumans are indeed more resistant to Flame Thunder than others, because after transforming into Inhuman form, they are not strictly critical. Especially the water people, the mire people, the fire people, and the angry people, even if their heads are cut off, they are not fatally injured.
As long as their mental power is not depleted, as long as they can maintain their inhuman state, they are almost immortal.
It is precisely because of this state that their resistance to flame thunder is far stronger than that of other abilities, no matter where the flame thunder burns them, they can cut off that part by breaking the wrist of a strong man, and then quickly replenish their bodies through other means, and then fight with the energy demon dragon.
As S-rank, even if they are born, their spiritual power has at least reached the standard, which gives them a strong ability to sustain combat.
After two fire men and one angry man joined the battle group, the energy demon dragon was completely suppressed, no matter how powerful the flame thunder was, it was too late to burn all these guys to death in one breath, and as long as there was a period of breath to breathe, these aliens could recover quickly.
Behind them, there are elemental abilities that use their abilities to summon various elements to replenish these inhumans.
The Energy Demon Dragon is not without weaknesses, at least after its intelligence becomes more and more perfect, and its self becomes more and more mature, Xiao Ming can no longer summon the Energy Demon Dragon as before. Although the combat power of the Energy Demon Dragon has increased by I don't know how many times compared to when it only had a little bit of basic instinct wisdom at the beginning, but in the face of the suppression of the five S-ranks, it can only fight and retreat.
Xiao Ming didn't care about the situation over there after providing the Energy Demon Dragon with two flame and thunder energies, and he was fighting with the five enhancers.
Two power lines, one defense system. One speed system, one regeneration system, this is simply the standard configuration of the whole system of strengthening people, eighty percent of the human enhancement class of abilities are of these four categories, of which in addition to the speed system is the least, the other three series can be said to be the most among the major ability groups.
Popularization also means popularity. It means that the system is mature. The army's standard weaponry is never the most advanced, but it is always the most mature and the most complete system.
The Enhancement Four Series is an ability that began to appear at the beginning of the 800-year era of human abilities, and after being repeatedly studied for 800 years, its corresponding tactics, techniques, and martial arts can be said to be the most comprehensive. Moreover, strengthening the four systems is also the development of the four systems of transforming people, which means that these four systems can also learn from the experience of transforming people.
The most popular. It also means the most mature.
Therefore, although these five people are popular abilities, these five people can be said to be the most skilled in controlling the people behind the scenes, and they are also the five most powerful among the strong ones.
What's even more ironic is that the martial arts used by these five people have a lot of shadows of Xiao Ming's ancient martial arts, Xiao Ming knows what is going on, so he is not surprised, but the combat effectiveness of these five people is indeed difficult.
The two power-giving powerhouses are one holding a giant sword like a door panel. One is holding a long knife, and both of them have wide open and close moves. The delicacy of testing martial arts with Xiao Ming at all is completely a frame of breaking ten with one force. And the spawning powerhouse of that defense system is holding a super heavy shield with a thickness of one meter, and does not participate in the attack at all, but only wholeheartedly helps the defense of the two power systems.
That heavy shield obviously used special high-tech technology, and even the Yajiao Gun couldn't penetrate it with one shot, and no matter what traces Xiao Ming left on it. In the blink of an eye, this thing will recover quickly, and I don't know if it's the ability of the defensive ability that comes into play, or if the shield itself has that ability.
If it really can't be stopped, the regeneration system will run to be a meat shield by itself, and the S-level regeneration ability is simply a little strong who can't be killed. And this guy has apparently undergone a certain degree of insect modification through the G virus, and may even have genetically extracted Hydra's immortality.
Its regeneration ability is so strong that it can actually withstand the incineration and regeneration of flame thunder - this guy's regeneration speed can catch up with the standard incineration speed of flame thunder. Such a powerful regenerative ability has not yet fully mutated, so Xiao Ming has to sigh that the technology of the association is really crazy.
In the end, the speed system can no longer see the figure at all, Xiao Ming can only sense the other party's position in the search technique, this guy has very few shots, but every shot is extremely insidious and deadly, Xiao Ming was attacked by him once, leaving a shallow wound on his face.
Although this wound was very shallow, it also made Jelly furious, and now he is directing the moon wheel that has turned into one hundred and eight pieces to chase this guy all over the sky. But this guy's speed is too fast, although the jelly can surround the other party in a general range, but there is really no way to take the other party for a while.
Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Warp Battle (I)
Hundreds of figures, more than half of them all have S-level aura, and the remaining half are all infinitely close to the A-level peak of S-class, these auras are mixed together, even if they haven't done anything specifically, they have already rolled up a suffocating wave of qi, and the originally turbid aura in the deep space base has also become a boundless wave at this moment, slapping everything around.
In this tsunami of breath, Xiao Ming stood in it, towering and motionless, his eyes swept over hundreds of figures, and the golden angel Lingwu on his body began to slowly transform from the form of photon armor, and finally became the most commonly used combat form - it was a close-fitting golden light armor, the golden armor flashed with mysterious brilliance, with supreme power, and behind the golden armor, there was a pair of yellow wings that were folded.
The six moon wheels quickly condensed from behind, and finally formed a huge ring suspended behind Xiao Ming, and the Yajiao spear took shape in his hand, reflecting the faint cold light.
In front of hundreds of powerhouses, in the depths of that breath tsunami, Xiao Ming was like an invincible god of war, looking at everything in front of him coldly.
Each of the hundreds of figures who came out of the platform on the ground had chaotic eyes, full of black and white shadows, their aura powerful and tyrannical, without reason, only an indescribable madness.
These people's powerful aura has no roots and no source, and Xiao Ming can see at a glance that these people are all strong people. They have great power, but they don't have souls to match, but the people behind them seem to have their own way - forcibly taking away the minds of these people and turning them into unintelligent battle puppets.
"Master, these people have a large number of specially equipped nanobots in their bodies. These robots can't be directly controlled, they're all half-corpses, and they don't seem to have any special abilities!"
Jelly scanned these spawning powerhouses and came to a startling conclusion.
Xiao Ming didn't seem surprised: "Are these nanobots all in metal mode? have they replaced the bones, nerves and other parts of these spawners?"
"Yes, master!, is that man's ability?" Jelly also reacted at this time.
"Yes, that man's ability is to control mechanical golems, anything with a metal component. At the same time, both humanoid and humanoid can become puppets under that control. I guess that's the first greeting that person gave us!" Xiao Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"These people are already puppets, they have no intelligence, even if their souls are erased, they can still fight. Master, I'm afraid the Soul Slaying Technique has no effect!" Jelly continued to scan the surrounding spawning powerhouses, trying to find the opponent's weaknesses.
"That man doesn't leave such a glaring weakness. For my understanding, that person is not much worse than Tifa!" Xiao Ming sighed lightly. Then he perked up: "However, these puppets can't stop me!"
"Of course. The master is the strongest!" Jelly roared proudly: "And when it comes to controlling the puppets, I'm not weak at all!"
With the soft whistling of jelly, Xiao Ming's spatial bracelet suddenly opened, and a huge amount of silver glittering fluid matter poured out of it, and then one figure after another appeared from these substances.
These figures are only rudimentary humanoids, with heads. There were torsos, limbs, but no features or any detail, and on their surfaces, the silvery fluid was still wriggling and churning.
These are the armies of primal matter that Jelly can control after multiple upgrades. A being that is smaller and more powerful than a nanomachine swarm. Because it's already atomic. Therefore, it is quite difficult to completely destroy these things, under the powerful computing power of jelly, these primordial substances can devour and assimilate any object above the atomic level, and it does not make much difference whether they have a body or not.
If the previous jelly could only control these primordial material armies for a short time, but after obtaining the ghost energy generator technology, Jelly built a ghost energy reactor in Xiao Ming's space bracelet, although it is only a miniature model, but because of the particularity and high level of ghost energy, the endurance of jelly after this ghost energy reactor is greatly improved.
In this whole process, those who gave birth to the strong did not have any reaction, they seemed to be waiting for Xiao Ming to prepare, and after the primordial material army was formed, these strong people suddenly moved.
These powerful spawn forces seem to have been selected, and their abilities are an encyclopedia of human abilities, with almost every major HSS documented ability being found here.
At the forefront are those who are strengthened in terms of strength, speed, defense, and regeneration, and the second wave is those who incarnate in various forms, or metal people, diamond people, fire people, ice people, and then all kinds of beasts, and even two plant people.
Behind these strikers are neatly arranged elemental abilities, water, fire, light, light, and darkness. Colorful ability attacks mixed in mid-air, and then rolled towards Xiao Ming in the form of elemental effects, ignoring the accidental damage of his own people in front of him.
The calm at the beginning was just waiting for Xiao Ming to get ready, and after being ready, the war was such a lore.
A piece of primordial matter surging to form a barrier reflecting the ghostly light appeared above Xiao Ming's head, and a zero-energy shield emerged, blocking all those powerful elemental impacts, for energy attacks, zero-energy shields have a very powerful effect, and their essence is to create a space with energy exhaustion, when the energy attack comes into contact with the shield, it will be completely absorbed into the energy exhaustion space.
When this absorbed energy is reversed, it will be reversed into new energy that generates energy depleted space.
This is a shield specifically for energy attacks, and theoretically, if there is no super energy impact that instantly breaks through the shield, this zero-energy shield is invincible against energy.
Obviously, the attacks of these spawning powerhouses could not break the zero-energy shield under the jelly cloth in one go, and the zero-energy shield that would be shattered by the super sniper cannon was not so easy to break now. On the one hand, it is because jelly has come a long way compared to that time. Coupled with the power of the ghost energy reactor, the jelly is full of stamina.
On the other hand, this is a pure energy attack, which is not the same as the original energy plus physical attack. And finally, although these spawning powerhouses have been exempted from the weakness of being directly killed by the Soul Killing Technique because they have become puppets, there is only one person who controls them behind the scenes.
No matter how much energy a person has, it is divided into more than a hundred parts. It also seems that there is some more than enough and not enough power, so even if it is an elemental effect attack, it is only according to the most basic distribution, and it cannot achieve the strongest effect at all.
The "instant" in the upper limit of the Zero Energy Shield's defense against "instantaneous" impact is calculated by the "Planck's constant" of jelly's computational reaction time.
So what seemed to be a continuous attack, in Jelly's opinion, was actually an impact in super slow motion, and she had enough time to allocate the energy reasonably to ensure the sturdiness of the Zero Energy Shield.
The energy attack in mid-air is blocked. Xiao Ming himself rushed towards those S-class spawning powerhouses who rushed over.
A total of sixty-two of the spawning powerhouses are S-level, and forty of them are melee types, even if they are all spawning powerhouses, even if their strength has decreased after becoming puppets, but so many spawning powerhouses have already reached the level of quantitative changes causing qualitative changes, even with Xiao Ming's ability, in the face of these huge number of spawning powerhouses. I also had to cheer up the spirit of 120,000 points.
Otherwise, it is not impossible to fall here.
No matter how twisted and contradictory the person behind the scenes is, at this moment. That person appeared with the mood of killing Xiao Ming 100 percent.
A water system S-class alien rushed halfway to completely hydrate his body, fell to the ground with a bang, and then quickly turned into a large curtain of water with a special blue color, surging towards Xiao Ming, as if he wanted to drown Xiao Ming in the water.
But before he could get closer, the flame thunder that jumped out of Xiao Ming's body had already turned into a trumpet demon dragon. A dragon roared, and he went straight away.
Xiao Ming rarely used these special energy magic dragons, but in fact, these guys had already become his killer weapon, whether it was when he fought Li Xiu in the original timeline, or when he fought with Hydra when he traveled through time and space. These energy demon dragons with a rudimentary self soul are one of Xiao Ming's best helpers.
The last of the four recipes of the Soul Sutra is the soul refining recipe for creating souls, although Xiao Ming only understands a surface until now, but this skin is enough for him to create this magical energy magic dragon.
The energy demon dragon and the water type Inhuman fought together, compared to the energy level, the S-level water type Inhuman was naturally stronger than the energy demon dragon, but the body of the energy demon dragon was composed of a special existence like flame thunder, and it had a restraint effect on any existence other than time and space - especially tangible things, and the restraint was more obvious.
Therefore, the water alien was pressed and beaten by the energy demon dragon, and he was defeated for a while.
Another quagmire-like Inhuman next to him rushed over to help, seemingly believing that his way of existence was not afraid of the black and white flame thunder on the energy demon dragon, but he soon proved himself to be a tragedy as well.
However, Inhumans are indeed more resistant to Flame Thunder than others, because after transforming into Inhuman form, they are not strictly critical. Especially the water people, the mire people, the fire people, and the angry people, even if their heads are cut off, they are not fatally injured.
As long as their mental power is not depleted, as long as they can maintain their inhuman state, they are almost immortal.
It is precisely because of this state that their resistance to flame thunder is far stronger than that of other abilities, no matter where the flame thunder burns them, they can cut off that part by breaking the wrist of a strong man, and then quickly replenish their bodies through other means, and then fight with the energy demon dragon.
As S-rank, even if they are born, their spiritual power has at least reached the standard, which gives them a strong ability to sustain combat.
After two fire men and one angry man joined the battle group, the energy demon dragon was completely suppressed, no matter how powerful the flame thunder was, it was too late to burn all these guys to death in one breath, and as long as there was a period of breath to breathe, these aliens could recover quickly.
Behind them, there are elemental abilities that use their abilities to summon various elements to replenish these inhumans.
The Energy Demon Dragon is not without weaknesses, at least after its intelligence becomes more and more perfect, and its self becomes more and more mature, Xiao Ming can no longer summon the Energy Demon Dragon as before. Although the combat power of the Energy Demon Dragon has increased by I don't know how many times compared to when it only had a little bit of basic instinct wisdom at the beginning, but in the face of the suppression of the five S-ranks, it can only fight and retreat.
Xiao Ming didn't care about the situation over there after providing the Energy Demon Dragon with two flame and thunder energies, and he was fighting with the five enhancers.
Two power systems, one defense, one speed, and one regeneration, this is simply the standard configuration of the entire system of strengthening people, and eighty percent of the human enhancement ability is in these four categories, of which in addition to the speed system is the least, the other three systems can be said to be the most among the major ability groups.
Popularization also means popularization, which means that the system is mature. The army's standard weaponry is never the most advanced, but it is always the most mature and the most complete system.
The Enhancement Four Series is an ability that began to appear at the beginning of the 800-year era of human abilities, and after being repeatedly studied for 800 years, its corresponding tactics, techniques, and martial arts can be said to be the most comprehensive. Moreover, strengthening the four systems is also the development of the four systems of transforming people, which means that these four systems can also learn from the experience of transforming people.
The most popular also means the most mature.
Therefore, although these five people are popular abilities, these five people can be said to be the most skilled in controlling the people behind the scenes, and they are also the five most powerful among the strong ones.
What's even more ironic is that the martial arts used by these five people have a lot of shadows of Xiao Ming's ancient martial arts, Xiao Ming knows what is going on, so he is not surprised, but the combat effectiveness of these five people is indeed difficult.
One of the two power-generating powerhouses is holding a giant sword like a door panel, and the other is holding a long knife, and the moves of both of them are wide open and closed, and they don't compete with Xiao Ming at all about the delicacy of martial arts, and it is completely a frame that breaks through ten meetings with one force. And the spawning powerhouse of that defense system is holding a super heavy shield with a thickness of one meter, and does not participate in the attack at all, but only wholeheartedly helps the defense of the two power systems.
The heavy shield obviously used special high-tech technology, and even the Yajiao Gun couldn't penetrate it in one shot, and no matter what traces Xiao Ming left on it, this thing would quickly recover in the blink of an eye, and I don't know if it was the ability of the defensive ability to play a role, or if the heavy shield itself had such an ability.
If it really can't be stopped, the regenerative one will run to be a meat shield by himself, and the S-level regeneration ability is simply a small strong that can't be killed, and this guy has obviously undergone a certain degree of insect transformation through the G virus, and may even have genetically extracted Hydra's immortal ability.
Its regeneration ability is so strong that it can actually withstand the incineration and regeneration of flame thunder - this guy's regeneration speed can catch up with the standard incineration speed of flame thunder. Such a powerful regenerative ability has not yet fully mutated, so Xiao Ming has to sigh that the technology of the association is really crazy.
In the end, the speed system can no longer see the figure at all, Xiao Ming can only sense the other party's position in the search technique, this guy has very few shots, but every shot is extremely insidious and deadly, Xiao Ming was attacked by him once, leaving a shallow wound on his face.
Although this wound was very shallow, it also made Jelly furious, and now he is directing the moon wheel that has turned into one hundred and eight pieces to chase this guy all over the sky. But this guy's speed is too fast, although the jelly can surround the other party in a general range, but there is really no way to take the other party for a while. (To be continued.) )