Chapter 182: The way the local tyrant fights

Yun Duo shook his head slightly: "Actually, there is a simple truth that you can figure out if you think about it - trading is far cheaper than confrontation. The former will benefit oneself, and the latter, it is possible that nothing but hatred can be obtained. ”

Of course, the monks may not be able to understand this truth. Because most of the monks have been taught since childhood to conquer and completely control the right to speak, similar to "under the whole world, it is not the king's land", and it is only right to completely heal the other party under their own jurisdiction, and compromise and dealing, in the eyes of everyone, are a sign of weakness.

They cannot be accused of not having a concept of cost, and in their education there is no concept of "fighting cost" at all.

For the clouds: those monsters are indeed enemies, but ...... Well, if they win, they can of course deprive the loser of everything, but until there is no victory, they will continue to pay the cost. If your side loses in the end, the cost you pay is an invincible pit.

Trading is different, regardless of victory or defeat, even during the confrontation, you can continue to benefit.

......

How to set up a camp, this work cloud did not interfere too much. At sunset, Ding Ling took the auxiliary staff of the team to start the construction of the camp, while Liu Ziqing was responsible for planning the future mundane town.

The initial temporary camp was not large, because the construction work was carried out at night, so the camp that night was not a permanent residence for everyone. Ding Ling's personality is not greedy, and the fortress built covers an area of not large, with five edges, and the length of each side is only more than 60 meters, which is just the width of two houses.

The bastion is six stories high, which means that each side wall can house two monks on each floor. The six-storey side wall houses the dwellings of twelve monks, and the five side walls together house seventy-two monks. The rest of the monks were in the center of the bastion – these people happened to be employees of the two workshops.

Because it was night, the fortress was only made by the monks casting earth-based spells, causing the mound to form a wall on the ground, and then hardening it slightly. This work week has been long with Wen Si. Already very experienced. In a few moments, the shape of the fortress was completed, and the five sharp edges and corners that stretched out were then laid out to form a defensive circle, and the monks began to choose their rooms. Set up a defensive post and prepare to go into a state of rest.

Liu Ziqing was still wandering around the city wall, observing the surrounding terrain with the help of night, and muttered: "Living near the water, the original Sando town should be built by the water, but it ...... I wonder if the nearby monsters are fast?"

He actually said this to the clouds. Yun Duo stood on the north wall of the fortress, looking at the main peak of the Moyun Ridge Mountain Range, Su Zhi stood behind him with low eyebrows, as if waiting for Yun Duo to return to the room to rest, but Su Zhi's gaze peeked out from time to time - her gaze always looked at the location where the Xianyuan Array was found in the past.

The twilight was vast, and everyone didn't have the heart to set up a more advanced protective array, Ding Ling roughly completed the arrangement of the sentry and said hello to the clouds from afar. Seeing that Yun Duo motioned for him to take care of himself, he pulled Liu Ziqing away.

"Our city. It will be beautiful in the future", seeing that everyone was gone, Su Zhi said in a low voice.

Immediately after, Su Zhi added softly: "The last time we came, we found a lapis lazuli vein. Lapis lazuli is something that mortals can mine, and we can use lapis lazuli to make wall tiles. Build a blue city...... Ah, green meadows, long white clouds, under the towering giant trees, a natural blue city. The whole city is lapis lazuli and it's so beautiful. ”

Moyunling contains more than 20 kinds of metal deposits, and stone resources are very rich. Lapis lazuli is just one of them, this vein is a kind of copper ore, and lapis lazuli has always been regarded as jade in the mortal world, but it is not a high-grade jade.

In the Xiuzhen realm, lapis lazuli is considered to be a gold-based ore. This ore can conduct aura, especially for thunder-based spells. But in the same way, this kind of jade, which is not very valued in the mortal world, is not regarded as a treasure in the cultivation realm, but at most as an auxiliary material for arranging the formation. However, because of its ability to transmit aura, monks often use it to forge array plates.

"If you like, then we've decided—", Yun Duo stared intently at the peak in the distance, and replied, "Using simple smelting, lapis lazuli ore can be condensed into each other, this ore is as blue as the sky under the sun, and it can quickly conduct gold and lightning spells, it is the best material for setting up a defensive circle, I can carve on it......"

The light around the clouds jumped, and Jin Cheng quietly came out, and she followed the clouds' gaze to the peaks of Moyunling. After pausing for a while, Jin Cheng whispered: "That Qingyun Dapeng has exceeded the fifth order, and my divine sense can't feel it, but it's there, and I sense the powerful pressure on the top of the high mountain. ”

After pausing for a while, Jin Cheng chuckled and said, "I feel that there are a lot of secrets on this mountain, I just checked it quickly, and found that there are at least three places on this hillside that cannot be penetrated by divine consciousness, it seems to be a defensive magic circle, and there seems to be something hidden in the magic circle...... Are you really going to build a city here?"

Yun Duo nodded: "I can't hide it from you - I'd rather get along with the demon beast than stay with the Warlord, and here...... Ha, you get the idea. ”

Jin Cheng chuckled and replied to the question: "At the height of Moyun Ridge, about a thousand meters or so from the top of the mountain, there is a thick fog shrouded in it, and the divine sense is completely undetectable. Beyond the dense fog area, the eye can see the high mountain top, but the divine sense cannot pass through the dense fog area. ”

As he spoke, Jin Cheng suddenly asked a question similar to Mount Kilimanjaro: "Giggles, you say, what is Qingyun Dapeng doing on such a high peak?"

But then, suddenly, the philosophical Jincheng asked a question that was almost a joke: "You say, we can't see the Qingyun Dapeng, can it see us, what will it think when it sees us ants busy?"

Su Zhi behind him interjected quietly: "We have been here before, and we have stayed on this mountain peak for a while. At that time, we knew that there was a large peng on the top of the mountain, but we didn't know its species, so we called it Moyunpeng. Listening to the words of Jin Teng Ancestor, it seems to be a Qingyun Dapeng...... Well, when we came. The mountain is quiet, there is not a single monster activity, only a few bees, and man-eating ants. ”

Jin Cheng immediately followed: "This time is different, we build a city under his nose, do you think it will watch us do whatever it wants? We're here to bring food to it?"

Yun Duo shook his head lightly, and said to himself: "I feel it, I felt it last time I came to Moyunling, I feel that it has been watching us, watching our every move, I want to talk to him." ”

Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to say something, Su Zhi took a step forward with low eyebrows and a low voice, "I'll go with you." ”

Jin Cheng hurriedly interjected: "That's not good. I know this Moyun Dapeng, its body is very fast, it is said that when it was in the fourth order, it was so fast that people couldn't catch its shadow, and now it is the fifth order, it is estimated that even the Great Monk of the Yuan Hou does not dare to challenge it easily - this guy's speed is too fast. The Monk Tsukiki was a dish in front of it. ”

What Jin Cheng wants to say is: If Yun Duo is sure to let this Qingyun Dapeng see him, Su Zhi will be a burden to Yun Duo in the past. Because this guy's body is as fast as lightning, even if Yun Duo manages to prevent the surprise attack of Qingyun Dapeng, anyone around him is Yun Duo's weakness.

When Su Zhi heard Jin Cheng's words, she raised her eyebrows and repeated in a surprised whisper that Jin Cheng had just said: "When this Dapeng is at the fourth order, his body is as fast as lightning. Ah, when it was at the fourth order, it must have happened a hundred years ago, how did you know that?

Yun Duo immediately waved his hand and changed the topic weakly: "Okay." Don't pursue the details, I'll go over tomorrow to visit this Qingyun Dapeng, Su Zhi, don't go, I have a way to get out of front of it, but others ......"

Su Zhi stared at Jin Cheng with blank eyes, she thought about it again and again, took a step back, lowered her eyes, and said firmly: "No, I'll go up with Gongzi, Gongzi, since Qingyunpeng is thousands of miles away, I am no different from being under the mountain and on the mountain-Childe rest assured, Su Zhi will never be a drag on you." ”

Jin Cheng saw Su Zhi retract the gaze that was staring at her, she chuckled and reminded meaningfully: "That's right-little girl, you shouldn't know, don't ask." Don't think about it, don't ask too much. ”

Su Zhi finally couldn't hold it back, she rolled her eyes, and muttered quietly: "Didn't you say that you are a machine spirit, where did you get this spiritual wisdom, where did your memory come from?"

Jin Cheng could only laugh.

When the morning dawned, the auxiliary staff of the team led by Ding Ling went out, and Su Zhi immediately threw Ding Ling a jade slip, turned around and left without saying anything. Ding Ling looked at the jade slip and found that it was a map of the Moyunling mineral deposits, and one of the mining sites was flashing with light spots, and a few words were marked on it: lapis lazuli.

Ding Ling's eyes rolled and he muttered to himself: "Lapis lazuli mine, oh, good thing." ”

For monks, it was not difficult to mine lapis lazuli ore, because this ore was not considered hard in jade. Ding Ling calculated for a while, and found that the mine was a little far away from this fortress, and he was hesitating, when the jade slip in his hand turned on a light again, and the voice of the clouds immediately came: "This fortress should be regarded as a residential area, and our official camp is set up in the place where the lights are lit - where there are spiritual veins." ”

Ding Ling's eyes lit up, he looked down, and found that Yun Duoxuan's camp was not far from the lapis lazuli vein, and immediately agreed: "Master, no problem, I will send someone to survey the mine site immediately." ”

"It's still like the right one, the makeshift camp doesn't have to be too big, and everyone can be housed...... You do it first, I'll go out. With that, the clouds walked towards the top of the mountain.

The threat of Qingyun Dapeng has not been eliminated, and the clouds do not dare to place the "mail" express line array for the time being, and the work of continuing to relocate the people will also be temporarily suspended. The entire Seventh Sentai didn't even dare to disperse and survey the surrounding terrain and veins. And what everyone will do next, we can only wait for the clouds to return.

Ding Ling watched as Yun Duo and Su Zhi walked into the depths of Moyun Ridge one after the other...... In fact, at this time, Jin Cheng was with her, but as a ghost cultivator, Jin Cheng didn't like to expose herself to the sun, she learned to hide in the Spiral Heaven Secret Realm like Manzhu......

The last time I came to Moyunling, Yunduo found that the vegetation of the Moyunling mountain range was very lush, but there were no big animals near the mountain range. Due to the lack of herbivores, the wild grass here grows up to half a man's height, and there are many kinds of plants and trees. Halfway up the mountainside, the flowers are blooming, and the butterflies are busy, which is refreshing.

Along the way, the clouds see the distribution of vegetation for plants here. Countless development plans suddenly popped up in his mind, and in his opinion, these are all money, and every variety of plants and trees can develop an industrial chain.

Over a mountain beam, the bushes suddenly began to rise low, and the wind was strong halfway up the mountain. The climate is slightly cold, the grass and trees are hidden in the cracks of the stones, and the large pieces of concealment are exposed, so that the surroundings show a cold taste.

A faint mist drifted in front of the clouds, and at this mountain height, the clouds and mist were as palpable as cotton wool, and they seemed to be able to grasp them in their hands. But because of the cold climate, although the air is humid, there is no lack of moisture at all. The vegetation is sparse.

Thin ice has begun to condense on the rocks.

Yun Duo waved his hand, waving away a cloud of mist, his body paused slightly, and he made a gesture at Su Zhi with his backhand, and stepped into a cloud of mist.

Su Zhi stopped in place, she pouted. With no outsiders in front of her, her eyes regained their agility and she looked around at the terrain. A relaxed face.

At this time, the clouds seem to enter a valley. The peach blossoms in the valley are in full bloom, brilliant and delicate, and the fragrance is wafting, and you feel warm and lazy in it. A stream meanders among the peach trees, and the petals float on the water, giving the whole stream a pink color.

Walk in the tiger tooth forest. A horizontal peach tree trembled on its branches, and several huge peaches on it grew very upright, and the peach color was bright, and the head was the size of a football in shape, and the shape was unconventional. A touch of red on the peel. Looks like seductive red lips.

With the death of the peach, the rich fruity fragrance wraps around the tip of the nose of the cloud, which is very tempting...... So the cloud sinned, he took it without telling him, and reached out to pick the peach, and the peach on the branch moved, as if trying to avoid the cloud's hand, but the cloud's hand did not go in a straight line, and his fingers drew a mysterious trick in the air, and then his fingers landed firmly on the peach.

A giggle came to Yun Duo's ears, and Yun Duo plucked the peach with a slight effort in his hand, and with a flip of his hand, the peach disappeared into the air—the peach had been sealed and sent steadily by him into the devouring space of the Pixiu Pearl.

When his hand was empty, the cloud turned his head to look at the place where the laughter came from, and noticed that the giggling sound on the other side paused and became a little stiff.

I saw three women standing not far away, and the woman at the head was indescribably beautiful...... Well, the beauty of an average woman is just seductive, this woman's beauty is a bit thrilling, and her figure is even more slender. Her cheeks are blushing, her eyes are flowing, her gestures are indescribably charming, and her voice is tactful and indescribably romantic.

The woman was followed by two maids, about eleven or twelve years of age, with a somewhat sluggish expression, standing there like a log with blank eyes. The two maids held a flask on their left hand, and a plate on their right. The flask is full of aroma, and four fist-sized peaches are placed on the plate, and the peach is stacked on the plate to two layers high, and the peach placed at the top is beautifully shaped, the flesh is almost translucent, crystal clear, almost like a work of art.

"Xianggong, the slave is justified here. Xianggong, this place is sparsely populated, is there a foreigner coming in, Xianggong and please sit inside, and tell the concubine about the outside world, can you?"

The clouds didn't move, and he smiled at the woman opposite: "Don't be sloppy, there is a Yimu Ecstasy Array around." In the mountains, in the deep valleys, there will be weak women to survive. It's not easy for a woman like you to appear here, and a person like me can break in, and you think I'm just a simple passerby?"

The smile on the woman's face on the other side gradually retracted, and after a while, her face changed again, and she looked at Yun Duo with an ignorant and curious look: "Xianggong, what are you talking about? Slave ......"

Yun Duo waved his hand: "This peach blossom fragrance is very strong, but if you want me to lose my mind, this fragrance is far from enough." Okay, don't pretend, I'm busy, I'm here to visit the owner, I don't want to cause trouble along the way, but ...... Outsiders don't even want to provoke me. ”

The woman on the opposite side burst into laughter, her smile blooming like a peach blossom. She waved her sleeves, and the peach forest in front of the clouds suddenly dissipated, and at this time, the situation of the entire valley appeared in front of the clouds—not far behind the clouds, Su Zhi was only a few steps away, pouting, whistling casually.

The clouds stood at the entrance of the valley, and when they looked over, there was a hot spring in the depths of the valley, which flowed out into a stream, and the water of the stream seemed to be very hot. As you pass along the way, the water is steaming everywhere.

Countless peach trees line the banks of the meandering stream, most of them very large, some of them blooming with flowers, and the falling petals stain the stream red.

Some peach trees bear fruit, and those peaches are in good shape. Each peach can be used as a model for advertising when taken out individually. The flesh of some peaches is close to translucent, and it looks like a crystal of water wrapped in the skin......

The delicate woman made another blessing to the clouds, and then, with a flip of her palm, said: "The slave family is a peach Sanniang, I am willing to ask the prime minister to take out the peach just now and return it to me." ”

Yun Duo shook his head: "Impossible, that's my gift to break the formation, it's my trophy." ”

Tao Sanniang took a deep breath. Anger loomed on his face. Her hand is still stretched in the air, the wrist looks very white and tender, and the knuckles of the five fingers are rounded and beautifully shaped, like the fingers of a female pianist, and the slender knuckles can be used as a hand model.

Yun Duo couldn't help but praise: "What a beautiful pair of hands." ”

The look on Tao Sanniang's face changed, she continued to stretch out her hand, and begged complainingly: "If you like it, Xianggong likes it." The slave used these little hands to rub his feet for the prince to relieve his fatigue, but. Until then, Peaches returned to me. ”

Su Zhi interjected coldly on the side: "He is a seventh-level formation mage, fiddling with the formation in front of him, aren't you dying?"

Tao Sanniang immediately put on a poignant expression, and lay pitifully in front of the clouds' feet, her voice full of trills: "Xianggong." The slave family is offended, can you please give me back the peaches just now?"

Su Zhi continued to interject coldly on the side: "Impossible, he is just a Pixiu, how can he return the things that are in his hands? You might as well go over and grab it—you might as well go over and grab it. ”

Tao Sanniang continued to maintain a pitiful demeanor, indescribably delicate: "My sister thinks I'm stupid, and I get close to a seventh-level formation mage to grab food...... Sister, why don't you help me, as long as you are willing to help me snatch the peaches back, I will give you a few grass and tree spirit beads ......."

Su Zhi rolled her eyes and replied, "As long as Gongzi has a peach in his hand, how many herbs and trees spirit beads does he want, do you dare not give it?"

Tao Sanniang had tears in her eyes, and bowed down to the clouds: "Childe, the slave knows that he has offended you, return the peach to me, okay?"

Yun Duo waved his hand: "I still have to hurry." ”

Tao Sanniang bit her lower lip weakly, her body moved slightly, flashed to the side of the road, the cloud raised her feet without hesitation, and in two or three steps, she had already walked to the hot spring she had just seen. He looked down at the hot springs, paused in his footsteps, and with a flick of his body, his body had passed through the valley to the other side of the mountain.

It is a road that continues up the hill and the surrounding scenery has returned to normal. Nearby is the state of the alpine grasslands, but the vegetation is very sparse, with the occasional low shrub, which is mostly spice plants and precious alpine medicinal herbs.

The main peak of Moyunling, with a height of more than 9,000 meters, is covered with snow that is difficult to melt all year round. In the summer, the scorching sun melts a small amount of snow, forming mountain glaciers in the vicinity – a dangerous place for ordinary people to walk, but for the immortals, such a road is like a smooth road.

Looking up at the foot of the mountain, I only saw that the peak was surrounded by mist all the year round, and it was difficult for my divine sense to penetrate. But when I arrived at the position of the clouds at this moment, I found that this fog, which was difficult for the divine sense to penetrate, was just a scarf-shaped cloud belt, which was like a scarf around the peak, but the highest peak of the mountain jumped out of the fog, and the image was very clear in the sun.

Jumping over the mist belt, I saw that the shape of the highest part of the mountain, like the hieroglyph "mountain", was divided into three interconnected and superimposed peaks, the main peak was black in color, and the black earth was exposed, and there was not a single snow on the soil, but a few tall trees grew - this is the so-called eagle wing.

However, there is still a slight amount of snow on the two side peaks on the left and right peaks, and the tops of the left and right peaks are half black and half white.

Coming here, Su Zhi didn't need to explain to the clouds, and automatically replied: "I'll stay here." ”

Yun Duo didn't look back, he nodded lightly as he slipped into the fog, and said as he walked, "Be careful yourself...... Well, when it comes to this, it's useless to be careful. ”

The mist ring like a scarf is actually a defensive array, but this defensive circle has no effect on the clouds, he walked through the place shrouded in the magic circle, and then turned around, he saw Su Zhi standing at the bottom of the mountain, standing on the periphery of the mist belt, at this time. The gazes of the two people had already skipped over the misty belt in the middle, intertwined with each other.

There was no worry in Su Zhi's eyes, and Yun Duo's gaze was calm.

At this moment, although the gazes of the two could penetrate the surrounding mist belt, the divine consciousness of the two could not pass through, and they could only pass through this ribbon of mist. They exchanged a safe signal with each other's eyes.

At this moment, a black shadow swept over the corner of the cloud's eyes, and the muscles on the cloud's face twitched, and then, the cloud seemed to burst out of a fireworks, red, orange, yellow and green, all kinds of colors burst out from the cloud, and those rays of light jumped very fast, just for a moment. The position where the cloud stood had turned into a large spot of light—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple all fused together to become an absolute white glow.

When the light faded, there was a huge stone beside the cloud.

The stone was two people tall as a cloud, but not so wide and narrow that the whole stone was shaped like a pillar.

"Toothpick?" Yun Duo walked around the stone pillar unhurriedly, and he patted the stone pillar with his hand, guessing the material of the stone pillar.

As a result, the stone pillar disappeared in place. In the blink of an eye, the clouds had taken the stone pillar into their devouring space.

From the summit came a clear howl, similar to the whistle of an eagle's flute. The voice was full of anger, as if to say, "Give me back?"

Yun Duo smiled and shook his head: "How can I return the things that come to my hands to others?"

As soon as the words fell, the clouds burst out with colorful light again.

The light came too quickly, too densely, in the blink of an eye. The cloud turned into a sun again.

When the light faded, there was a big stone next to the clouds...... Well, the stone is not in a regular shape, for the clouds. The stone was as big as a small mountain, and now it was half-sunk into the ground, revealing only a third of the space, and much taller than the size of a cloud—a third of it was already the size of an elephant.

There are some deep ravines on this stone, those ravines are very round and smooth, and even faintly have some oily luster, like a turning tool out of the general, there are strong traces of human processing. If you look closely, there seems to be lubricant left in the glossy ravine, well, some fine cuticles......

"Claw-grinding?" the cloud patted the stone with his hand, and the boulder disappeared in place, revealing a deep pit full of clouds and two people.

Su Zhi, who was standing at the foot of the mountain, saw the light bursting from the clouds through the mist belt, because the distance was too far, she didn't feel the shaking of the ground caused by the falling of the stone pillars and stones, and she didn't seem to feel the shock of the shaking of the mountains when she felt the clouds on the mountain.

After putting away the stone, the cloud didn't care, and continued to walk up alone.

A clear eagle roar erupted from the top of the mountain again, the sound was full of unwillingness, and then, the clouds erupted one after another, densely bursting out of various lights, and at the same time, the gravel smashed down like a meteor shower, and in the rain of gravel, the clouds continued to burst out of light, but he unswervingly continued to move forward.

The rain of gravel continued for a moment, and then suddenly stopped, by which time the clouds had already gone seven or eight hundred meters. From Su Zhi's position, the clouds were already approaching the tip of the peak, and looking up from the position of the clouds, he could already see several huge towering ancient trees on the peak.

These towering trees grow on a large platform, wide enough to be used as a large military airfield. At the end of the platform is a tall cavern, the mouth of which is about seventy or eighty meters high.

At the mouth of the cave at a height of seventy or eighty meters, a huge eagle is irritable with its claws to pull the stones on the ground, its claws are very sharp, and the rocks at the mouth of the cave are like tofu under his claws......

Yun Duo stepped on the giant platform with both feet, and his human body walked to the edge of the platform, against the backdrop of the towering ancient trees, as small as ants, not even as big as the fluctuating stones in the eagle's talons, but this mole was not afraid at all, he spoke calmly, as if telling others that he had eaten a fritter for breakfast: "I came up." ”

The eagle at the entrance of the cave suddenly jumped into the air, its wings flapped, and the stones on the platform rolled down the platform in the wind with its wings flapping. The bitter wind swept down to the clouds, and the clouds still danced brightly.

In the flickering light, the clouds stood steadily, as if the wind around them did not exist.

The eagle fell again, tilted its head curiously to look at the clouds, it muttered, and at this moment, a divine sense was transmitted to the clouds' mind: "How many spirit runes do you have on you?"

The cloud's answer was natural: "Endless." ”

I have a rune factory with me, and there is more than one rune factory, and the runes they produce can be used by me at any time, and as long as the materials on my body are not exhausted, the runes I have are endless.

The eagle continued to ask with his divine sense, "I hit you with a stone just now, how many spirit runes do you consume each time for defense?"

Yun Duo shrugged his shoulders and replied lightly: "It depends on the situation, sometimes, five or six thousand are consumed at a time, and tens of thousands of spirit runes are consumed at a time. ”

The eagle tilted his head and thought about it, then suddenly broke off a rock with one claw, then held the rock in his hand, and squinted at the clouds: "I don't believe you still have a spirit rune on you, or I'll smash you again?"

Yun Duo had absolute confidence on his face: "Okay, you try again." ”

The eagle frantically threw the rock in its talon aside: "How is it possible? How can you have so many spirit runes on you, huh?"

Although I don't know how humans make spirit runes, I have heard that a foundation building monk can make more than 100 spirit runes a day, and the spiritual energy will be exhausted. I smashed a stone just now, and the spirit runes consumed on your body will take at least more than 100 monks to make for a day.

Even if all the monks in the whole continent are helping you make spirit runes, it won't be enough for you to waste like this...... Who are you, what are you here for, what do you want to do?"

Yun Duo stood on the edge of the platform, he didn't mean to move on, he smiled on his face, and replied: "I know you're looking at me, the first time I came to this mountain, I already felt you, and I also know that you are already the fifth order, maybe even the sixth order."

Sixth-order demon beasts, food no longer means anything to him, so we are not your food.

Since we are no longer food, can we negotiate and let us obtain the right to live in Moyunling...... I'm not greedy, I just want the right of residence. (To be continued......)