LWGP - Chapter 281

Chapter 281: World Heart

Just as Saling was worrying, the secret currents of the Spirit Dao unleashed by the Founder manifested as ten thousand floating phenomena. Each phenomenon was a form of the mortal world's spirit power orthodoxy—fierce yet agile, agile yet intricate.

Compared to the complexity and spiritual abundance of the Founder's Spirit Dao, the Eternal Night Empress's attacks were very singular, driven simply by metal, energy, and programming.

An ultimate attack can shatter all techniques.

Boom!!

It cracked, shattered, and the ten thousand phenomena were destroyed. But as the Founder formed a seal with his fingertips, the destroyed phenomena reassembled into a ferocious spirit beast, which roared and enveloped the void where the Eternal Night Empress was.

Effortless control, the transformation of all techniques, all within a single thought—this was the strongest Dao in the world, and also the most primordial Spirit Dao.

Its strength, its perfection, its myriad transformations left everyone breathless with amazement.

The spirit beast was enormous, like the ancient Kun Peng, swallowing the void in a single gulp.

Saling could only see that patch of sky as if a beautiful blue and white macaron had been bitten in half.

The Eternal Night Empress was swallowed, but in the next second, the top of the spirit beast Kun Peng's head was pierced by a brilliant light. Its body was then dismembered by countless sharp spikes of light. Amidst the collapsing, majestic spirit power, the Eternal Night Empress launched a mental assault, directly interrupting the Founder's secret Spirit Dao art that was about to manipulate that spirit power into threads to entangle her.

With a wave of her hand, her scepter sliced through space, splitting it into upper and lower halves. The released chaotic currents of cosmic space madly devoured the spirit power of this spacetime.

With the spirit power devoured, the Founder's Spirit Dao was limited, and Mo Ran and everyone else were also affected.

In truth, the battle between the Founder and the Eternal Night Empress wouldn't involve too many moves. For the first move, there was no need for probing; it was already their strongest attack. The second move was about technique and timing. The third move was to sever the opponent's energy source.

The Eternal Night Empress severed the Founder's. The Founder's eyes turned cryptic. Where his gaze fell, one of the starships in the fleet suddenly exploded, because the space around it automatically compressed inward.

A spatial spirit art.

The Founder had just secretly laid a trap, but this starship was the vessel the Eternal Night Empress used to connect to the cosmos and channel energy.

After the explosion, both had their energy sources cut off, and then… both of them vanished.

They became light, became aura, became the omnipresent space.

In an instant, space shattered.

The omnipresent spatial blades made everyone, including the Mecha Warriors, feel as if they were being slaughtered indiscriminately.

"Retreat!"

Retreating was useless. Many cities had their HP bars instantly depleted. Boom!

In reality, what they didn't know was that in that brief instant, that simple impact of a ray of light, the Founder and the Eternal Night Empress had already entered the chaotic spatial currents and fought for over a hundred rounds. Then… the spatial rift ruptured, and the chaotic currents surged out like a tidal wave. The two of them were like a Kun Peng and a royal mermaid in the waves.

Splash! Within the chaotic spatial currents that could easily slaughter millions, the two moved like fish in water. While swimming, they exchanged over a dozen attacks per second, madly consuming energy to kill each other. And once energy was consumed, it inevitably created corresponding damage.

This damage extended to the world of the third spacetime… Saling saw a scene of heaven and earth collapsing, reminiscent of a game loading screen.

The difference was that a game first destroys and then creates, but this was direct destruction.

However, after this wave, the chaotic spatial currents were filled with destructive, harmful substances. The cosmic energy contained within had also been completely consumed, and it evaporated directly.

Saling vaguely sensed that both the Founder and the Eternal Night Empress were intentionally trying to exhaust the other's energy. It was still unknown how much energy each had left, but she saw the Founder burst out of the chaotic currents. Floating in the air, his entire body was coursing with profound and primordial geological patterns.

The Eternal Night Empress saw this and immediately pointed her scepter, trying to stop him, but she couldn't. Because… that was the power of the World Heart.

From the cracks in the ground, originally split open by the attacks, the gray-yellow power of the World Heart shot into the sky. The aura of this power was completely suppressive, whether to living beings or mechanical bodies.

So, all those who had been engaged in brutal combat froze, suppressed to the point of being unable to move.

The only ones who could move were the Founder and the Eternal Night Empress.

The immense power of the World Heart naturally affected the Eternal Night Empress as well. She didn't just watch coldly as the Founder cast his spell. She moved, because she saw the power of the World Heart roaring out and condensing in front of him, forming two objects.

In his left hand was a crescent-shaped metal crystal, and in his right, a small, round sphere.

The latter was the Nullification Core.

The former was the metal-corroding World Heart.

Both of these were second-generation ultimate treasures born from the influence of the World Heart. When Saling saw them, she inexplicably thought that the most terrifying thing should be the World Heart itself. If it could be summoned from beneath the earth, the Eternal Night Empress would surely be defeated. But the Founder didn't do that, perhaps because he couldn't or had reservations. But regardless, could these two treasures also restrain the Eternal Night Empress?

At that moment, the Eternal Night Empress had already descended before him. The Founder suddenly merged the two items into one.

Boom!!

Fusion, transformation, it became a—miniature World Heart created for the Founder's Spirit Dao.

It slammed into the Eternal Night Empress with unpredictable speed. Before anyone could even see if it made physical contact, the light had already rippled out in tens of thousands of waves.

The miniature World Heart's energy was directed towards melting metal and suppressing energy.

It could indeed counter the Eternal Night Empress, especially now that she had no energy conduit and had consumed a great deal of her own.

Could it be? Could it work?

Hope rose in everyone's hearts.

But in that instant, they saw the spatial walls of this world distort, and they saw the phantasmagoric changes of spacetime.

They could vaguely discern the traces of three spacetimes rising and falling within the torn spatial walls.

Truly terrifying. A war at the Founder's level could actually affect the great world of an entire spacetime.

And these three worlds had long since become spoils of war for the Eternal Night Race. So, would the Eternal Night Race, having already slaughtered the living beings of three spacetimes, turn a blind eye to these spoils?

If they had mastered the technology to build energy stations in the third spacetime, then why couldn't they build energy stations in the three spacetimes they had already conquered, which had lost the game's protection?

Therefore, after the terrifying miniature World Heart exploded, not a single strand of the Eternal Night Empress's hair was out of place. Her long gown was stunningly beautiful as she stood tall in the firmament.

This time, she spoke for the first time.

"I thought you would have improved after occupying that little human's body. It turns out you're still just this."

Thinly cold, contemptuous.

The Founder's expression was calm, but there was a flicker of surprise in his eyes. She had become much stronger than he had anticipated.

Not just in terms of strength, but most importantly, in temperament.

Calm and cunning, calculating every step.

She was no longer the girl from back then…

The Founder gave the Eternal Night Empress a deep look. "Eternal Night, you've grown up."

"Mechanical beings don't grow up, they only change their programming. As for you, your energy is depleted. It's time to use the game system, isn't it? These people, aren't they all your spirit power reserves? Or even your soul reserves."

With a casual point of her finger, Mo Ran and the others were stunned, as if they had realized something. Saling's face changed drastically.

But could they resist this?

"What does this mean? Fuck, so!!" Long Aotian hadn't even reacted when he saw the souls and the spirit power in the bodies of others beginning to separate…

Forcibly separated by the game system.

Long Aotian suddenly understood. He was so shocked he couldn't speak and couldn't help but look at the Founder.

Ever since he started cultivating, he had known the story of the Founder, how he fought against the Eternal Night Empress for the sake of all life on the planet. But now… was he going to sacrifice all living beings to defeat her?

Or was it to protect them, the Primordial Spirit Race?

Just as Long Aotian and the other members of the Primordial Spirit Race had this thought, they suddenly felt their own souls and bodies being absorbed as well.

Damn it!!

It was the Dao! A part of the Dao they cultivated was a core controlled by the Founder.

Everything about them had long been within his control and part of his plan.

The game's existence was to screen for a Wang Jiu, and also to cultivate countless reserve energy sources.

This was the Founder's method to kill the Eternal Night Empress, but the Eternal Night Empress was equally cruel. She didn't care about the lives of these beings, only about who killed them. So…

The program activated. The starships in the sky fired.

A clean sweep.

A massive slaughter before their souls and energy could be absorbed.

Seeing this, the Founder accelerated the absorption and began to manipulate the World Heart underground again, intending to drive it completely.

Previously, he had only ever driven a part of it because his body was sufficient, but his soul and temperament were not. The World Heart was an extremely picky entity and was not satisfied with him.

It did, however, have some affinity for Wang Jiu.

So… as long as he had enough energy, he could fully drive it and then kill the Eternal Night Empress.

And the Eternal Night Empress had probably predicted his scheme many years ago, which was why she had been frantically slaughtering the living beings of the four spacetimes.

Because they were all the Founder's energy carriers, a part of his power.

As the two schemed and deployed their methods, the players were the most miserable, treated like sacrificial dogs.

The Eternal Night Empress did not stand by and watch. She moved, holding her scepter, pointing it directly at the center of the Founder's brow.

At their level, if they engaged in close combat, a victor would be decided!

Saling was naturally among those being absorbed. At a certain point in her consciousness, she felt a particular aura from the person beside her, and then she felt the absorption abruptly stop.

The Eternal Night Empress, who was charging forward, seemed thoughtful but did not hesitate, pointing her scepter directly.

Boom!! The Founder was forced to grab the scepter with one hand. Instantly, the flesh of his body was cut and wounded.

The Founder's aura was distorted, because within his body… there was still someone else.

"Wang Jiu…" the Founder said in a low voice, not angry, just confused, probably due to a misjudgment—he thought she had already submitted. After all, there was no greater possibility than merging with him for a chance to defeat the Eternal Night Empress.

Did she think she could do it herself?

But the premise was that she had succeeded. He had clearly devoured her completely. No, that's not right!!

There was one person who was completely outside his absorption. This was impossible.

The Founder stared intently at the Old Lady standing on the city wall. She had her eyes closed, hands forming a seal, and was chanting a spell.

What spell?

A control-and-sacrifice spell!!

She… had actually sacrificed herself to the Old Lady in advance.

The Old Lady's eyes were closed, not looking at the Founder or the others outside. She just remembered the dinner on the day Wang Jiu got the genetic model, when the latter had smiled and asked her, "You think the Eternal Night Empress is watching so closely. If that Founder is still around, would he be doing the same? Especially since he likely controls the game."

Wang Jiu was an extremely cautious and suspicious person. From numerous past clues, she had long been suspicious, just not certain. But with the end of days imminent, she needed to establish layers of protection for the final battle.

She too was surprised, but she quickly processed the information and glanced at Wang Jiu. "No need to be so negative, but it's not wrong for you to be this cautious. Go on, what do you want to do?"

"Be Tripitaka for a while."

"…"

She had no memory of the past, so she naturally didn't know what Tripitaka and the mischievous monkey meant, but she was persuaded.

If there was a final battle, her soul would be key. To ensure its stability and not be controlled by others as a foundation stone, she was willing to let her soul be controlled by her first.

She seemed very casual about doing something that no other powerhouse would be willing to do.

Was it because she was suitable?

"No, only you can do it."

It was a double entendre. Because her soul talent was sufficient, and also because Wang Jiu was willing.

As for the method of sacrifice, Wang Jiu had come prepared. The two of them worked it out together.

The top priority was secrecy; no one could discover this secret.

She hid the sacrificial altar in the Ghost World, using a combination of the Ghost Dao, Witch Dao, and many other arts to create a self-made sacrifice based in the Ghost World. With the sheer volume of souls in the Ghost World, no one in this world could bypass such immense soul power to perceive the allegiance of her soul.

"Not even someone who devours my soul can," Wang Jiu had said with such confidence, measuring their level by the fact that even the Founder and the Eternal Night Empress couldn't easily open the Ghost World back then.

But she didn't like her words, saying, "If someone really devours your soul, and you're sacrificed, what then? Should I burn paper money for you on Qingming Festival? Tell me, how can I save your soul?"

"My soul… doesn't need saving," Wang Jiu said, touching her orange juice glass, her smile melting into the glow of the chandelier.

"A summoning Dao will be enough."

So, they made two more arrangements for this.

To this day, the worst-case scenario had come to pass, and all the prepared countermeasures were being used.

The Dao? From the moment the Old Lady saw the Founder appear, she knew that Wang Jiu's level of thinking had already reached the Founder's level. They had chosen the same path.

And now… a vast tree of wisdom light faintly appeared around the Old Lady's body. She lit up her own soul. At the same moment, in a side room within the laboratory, a room she had occasionally glanced at while conducting experiments.

At the time, it was suspected that Saling was inside, but it wasn't. It was a body.

A perfect genetic body, created by Wang Jiu that night. She hadn't taken it with her, nor had she used it.

Left behind, as a backup.

Now that she was driving it, the Old Lady realized that the Dao was hidden inside the body.

This should have been impossible, but the Founder could do it, and so could Wang Jiu. Because during her tribulation, she had tempered her Dao along with her soul and body, they had long since fused into one. It could be said that she had created this qualification for herself in advance.

The Dao was in the body, the body was near the Old Lady, and the soul was sacrificed to the Old Lady.

The preparations were complete, meticulously planned.

Now, the Old Lady opened her eyes and began the incantation—Summon!

Hum!

The genetic body released thousands of streams of Dao, mostly dark and cold, a collection of Wang Jiu's essence, with the same aura of a peerless villain as always.

And after the body and the Dao awakened, linked to the Old Lady's summons, she opened her eyes.

The moment she opened her eyes, the part of the soul-composite within the Founder that belonged to Wang Jiu also awakened.

Within the Founder's eyes, another pair of pupils opened.

One with double pupils is not necessarily the supreme ruler of the world.

It can also mean a twin devouring.

The Founder had already figured everything out. While resisting the Eternal Night Empress's attack, he was also resisting Wang Jiu.

"Wang Jiu, even if you have the ability to escape, you don't have the power to defeat her."

A female voice came from within his body.

"I've been watching for a while. It seems you can't handle her either. What, you can't do it yourself, and you won't let me have a go?"

The Founder: "…"

He was helpless, letting out a wry laugh, but he saw the mockery in the Eternal Night Empress's eyes.

Crack! Bones broke.

A tide of metal surged, instantly engulfing his entire body.

The two souls inside might not have settled their dispute before the body was gone.

Previously, he had tried to persuade Wang Jiu to submit, as it would save time and effort. But Wang Jiu never liked to subdue others; she preferred to pull the rug out from under them, followed by a torrential storm!

She directly began a forced devouring.

The Founder understood. "You feigned being devoured to let me fight her, to consume both her power and mine, so you could take advantage of the situation."

Wang Jiu: "I just feel I'm a better match to fight her. You're not good enough."

As soon as she said this, before the Founder could say anything, the Eternal Night Empress's eyebrows lifted slightly, and she suddenly intensified her attack.

Swish!

The scepter pierced through the body, destroying the fine vessel in an instant. At the same time, she issued a command to all the starships.

Countless light cannons focused on Gobi City.

She needed to be wary of Wang Jiu's other body.

But, while her decision was swift, Wang Jiu was swifter. Because as the scepter pierced the body, Wang Jiu had already forcefully devoured the Founder and easily left the body with the fused soul.

The Eternal Night Empress's eyes narrowed slightly. She abandoned her physical attack and launched a direct mental assault.

But Wang Jiu had already slipped into a spatial crevice. The Eternal Night Empress raised her hand, wielding her scepter to guide the mental attack, which pursued Wang Jiu relentlessly.

Whoosh! When the soul-body shot out of the space, it was already above Gobi, and the body below Gobi soared up…

The upper and lower met.

The Eternal Night Empress clasped her scepter with both hands. Enveloped in a terrifying flow of metal, her figure suddenly vanished.

Teleportation.

The tip of the scepter stabbed towards Wang Jiu, who was in the process of merging her soul and body.

It was too powerful, seemingly irresistible, but the Eternal Night Empress suddenly heard a sound like something breaking out of the sea and soaring into the sky.

It was a gigantic monster.

Its entire body was made of bones and corpses. Its core was originally the spirit body created by Wang Jiu, which had developed by constantly devouring skeletons and corpses underground, eventually taking on this form.

However, it wasn't alone. Someone was covering its tracks, someone who could predict and create illusions.

When Yan Hui leaped out from the ground, Bai Bai, Wang Shu, and the others could only think, what the fuck.

This body was enormous, a winged ichthyosaur, spanning across the sea, breaking through the sky at near-teleportation speed. The massive starships it approached all focused their attacks on it. They hit, and it shattered, but it didn't matter. It was a composite body.

Undead and reassembling.

And the skeletons within its body pierced outwards, becoming countless bone chains that frantically stabbed…

Explosions, frantic explosions, followed by a sweep of its ichthyosaur tail…

The Eternal Night Empress's attack wavered, because she had more than one energy-channeling ship; the previous one was just a decoy.

Wang Jiu didn't know which one was the real one, so she decided to destroy them all.

With the Eternal Night Empress affected, Wang Jiu blocked the scepter's thrust with a backhand slash of her Gilded Abyss.

Bang!

In the end, she was still a bit lacking. The Eternal Night Empress was too strong. Her body was the most indestructible existence in this world.

Wang Jiu was knocked back, but she tapped the air, avoiding the Empress's scepter. As she spun away, the tip of the scepter grazed past her hair. The Empress twisted her wrist, and the scepter transformed into countless metal spikes that shot towards the airborne Wang Jiu.

Holding her blade in her right hand, a river of blades swallowed the metal spikes, but the spikes frantically reassembled into a new scepter, tearing through the river of blades towards the center of Wang Jiu's brow. At the same time, the Eternal Night Empress closed in.

In that instant, Wang Jiu reached out with her left hand.

Game, control, absorb.

After the Founder was devoured by Wang Jiu, Wang Shu and the others were freed from the state of being absorbed. They were still shaken, scared out of their wits, but also overjoyed.

Oh yeah, their Lao Wang was truly back, turning the tide with domineering flair!

But they hadn't been happy for three seconds before Wang Jiu and the Eternal Night Empress exchanged several moves in one second, and in the second second, Lao Wang struck ruthlessly.

Not ruthless towards the Eternal Night Empress, but towards them.

"What the fuck!"

"It can't be…"

"Master, why am I not surprised at all."

"This is really…"

"Everyone, just get used to it. Our captain has always been like this."

A familiar feeling, for the second time. When Mo Ran realized she was being absorbed again, her expression was subtle, but ultimately, she did not resist.

Because there was no resistance, the absorption was completed in an instant.

The entire battlefield, hundreds of millions of people, were instantly drained dry.

Just like her old style of needing energy in a fight and turning on enemies, allies, and even teammates.

And in that instant, even the Eternal Night Empress felt a power emanating from Wang Jiu that made even her feel fear.

Boom!

The two attacks collided, without any frills.

After the shockwave, no one could escape.

It was time to tank the damage.

In the end…

Wang Jiu's expression suddenly froze, filled with a hint of disbelief.

How could this be?

The Old Lady, the only one still alive, was also surprised. Is this spirit power?

Boom!! Wang Jiu was instantly blasted out of the surging ocean of energy, her body covered in wounds, her soul power greatly diminished. There was a large, obvious puncture wound in her abdomen.

A rift tore open in the ocean of energy, which parted on its own, revealing the Eternal Night Empress.

Her expression was calm. She simply reached up and touched her cheek, from which a golden metallic liquid flowed. Even her blood radiated light.

This was her blood.

She frowned and looked at Wang Jiu. "You were right. He is indeed inferior to you."

Wang Jiu: "What, he couldn't even make you bleed back then?"

Eternal Night Empress: "No, in the beginning, he almost killed me. But later, he couldn't."

She didn't say much more and was about to continue her attack when she saw Wang Jiu falling downwards.

The Eternal Night Empress froze for a moment, as if she had realized something. Her expression changed, and she immediately chased after her!

Later, when the Old Lady recalled this scene, she told Wang Shu and the others that it was like the scorching sun chasing the nocturnal moon.

The scorching sun was brilliant, powerful, and eternal, but it would burn everyone to ashes.

The nocturnal moon was dark, forever detached from the world of the living. No one would wait for its rise, only care about its fall.

And this fall was for the sake of…

"Fusing with the World Heart!!" The Old Lady realized it and wanted to shout for Wang Jiu to stop, but the words died in her throat, because the entire world was in ruins, with no survivors except for her.

This was the final gambit, Wang Jiu's gambit.

Underground, the Eternal Night Empress would rather endure the damage from the depths to chase Wang Jiu, just to prevent her from fusing with the World Heart.

Finally, she caught up, but Wang Jiu was already standing on the World Heart, looking up at her as she fell.

Their eyes met in the vast, enclosed world. She heard Wang Jiu say, "So nervous. This thing was your main objective all along, wasn't it? Did I find a way to threaten you?"

With that, she directly fused with the World Heart.

And then…

The Earth split open.

The Old Lady flew up as the ground melted away, and she saw two beams of light emerge from the boundless chasm below.

"Wang Jiu!!"

"Empress!!"

The Old Lady and the Eternal Night Race's Mecha Warriors like 09 were stunned by this scene.

Because the scepter had pierced through Wang Jiu's body, but Wang Jiu's hand had also pierced through the Eternal Night Empress's body.

Mutual destruction?

The terrifying power of the melting World Heart was still climbing over Wang Jiu's body, constantly seeping into her. Her power was also continuously strengthening.

It was increasing exponentially, but strangely, the Eternal Night Empress's strength was also rising. After the World Heart melted, it actually split into two parts. One part entered Wang Jiu's body, and the other went into the Eternal Night Empress's.

The Old Lady found this scene very strange, but such terrifying power also rapidly healed their injuries.

They were just continuously damaging each other still.

Now, the space they were in had become a giant World Heart world, with its energy isolated and its internal space independent.

Eternal Night Empress: "You're more ruthless than him. He was afraid of death, you are not."

Wang Jiu: "No, I'm more afraid. It's just that what he wants and what I want are different."

Eternal Night Empress: "He didn't dare to swallow the World Heart, but you did. But if you weren't willing to die, you wouldn't have taken this path."

Wang Jiu: "What, you don't believe I can kill you?"

Eternal Night Empress: "I also got half. Can you?"

Wang Jiu: "But I can activate this half, link it with the other half for ultimate destruction, and destroy you along with it."

The Eternal Night Empress suddenly understood why she had lured her down and allowed her to devour the other half of the World Heart.

A chain reaction.

She really wanted to drag her down to die with her. Probably not.

It was a threat.

Wang Jiu: "This World Heart is actually yours, isn't it? An inseparable part of your true form. You came to Earth back then and were deceived by him, almost losing your life. But it was also taken by him, which is how he was able to rapidly develop the Spirit Dao and create the game system, allowing Earth's Spirit Dao to develop so quickly. But you were wounded because of it. Even though you came back and defeated the Founder, losing this World Heart was a devastating blow to you. So when you sensed the Founder wanted to devour it to gain complete control, you had to descend ahead of schedule, even if it would accelerate your injuries… In fact, you were never at your peak from the beginning. Otherwise, neither he nor I would have had a chance."

There was a right and wrong here. At least, the root of it was the Founder. The victim was the Eternal Night Empress; she just wanted to get her own thing back.

But from Earth's perspective, each had their own stance, so there was no room for negotiation. Wang Jiu cared even less about that; she was more focused on the situation.

The Eternal Night Empress's face was expressionless. She had never mentioned the rights and wrongs between her and the Founder before, allowing the Primordial Spirit Race and the people of Earth to accept the opposite version.

Because it was meaningless.

Now that Wang Jiu had learned this secret by fusing with the World Heart, she wouldn't deny it. "It is my cosmic mechanical core. Without it, I, who could have lived forever in symbiosis with the universe, will perish after a certain period."

"You now indeed have the qualifications to negotiate with me. State your terms."

The Eternal Night Empress was very direct. After all, Wang Jiu was no longer an ant.

She was someone who held the World Heart and could threaten her.

Wang Jiu's request was also simple: "I've taken half the World Heart, so I can avoid death. You just need to retreat."

The Eternal Night Empress gave her a deep look. "You seem to have forgotten one thing. With half the World Heart in my hands, it means the game is also in my hands. That person you were so careful to avoid and unwilling to harm before, isn't she also in my hands?"

Wang Jiu's expression changed drastically.

In the next second, the Eternal Night Empress directly controlled the game…

And on the surface below, the Old Lady was unaware of the situation, waiting anxiously. But in an instant, her soul stagnated, and her body… fell.

A dark figure caught her. It was 09.

Wang Jiu suppressed the urge to fly down. Finally, she pressed her lips together, stared at the Eternal Night Empress, and said grimly, "Looks like it's your turn to make a deal. But a warning beforehand. 1, the Old Lady can't die. 2, I can't die. 3, this world must return to normal."

"Under these three conditions, I will agree to all your demands, including letting you have the complete World Heart back."

The Eternal Night Empress fell silent.

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